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Walt Whitman has often been called "the poet of democracy, America's Bard." We'll visit with Jean Huets in Richmond to discuss With Walt Whitman, Himself. Her book celebrates the 200th anniversary year of Whitman's birth by taking you into his world and times through words and pictures.
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- Welcome. I'm Rose Martin,
and we are Write Around The Corner
in Richmond with Jean Huets.
Now Jean's book is Walt Whitman: Himself .
And he's often called the Poet of Democracy
and America's Bard.
I have to tell you, his work lives all over the world.
And celebrating the 200th anniversary of his birth,
Jean has written a beautifully, visually attractive book.
And we're going to talk all about it,
about this famous man and a famous American writer.
Welcome to Write Around the Corner !
- Thank you!
- It's exciting to have you
and I'm excited to learn about the book,
and we'll talk about it in just a second.
But when I was reading that you pretty much--
you grew up in Germany,
and you called half of the East Coast your home state,
how did we end up here in your beautiful home in Richmond?
- Well, I went to school at Virginia Commonwealth University
and after I graduated,
I moved up to New York for a while, New York City.
And that's where I learned about publishing,
I had a job in publishing.
And then, I married a Richmond boy and came back,
and here we are.
- Well, thank you so much
for having us here in your home to talk about your work
and to talk about this amazing writer.
And outside of Walt Whitman,
I was reading that you also have a fascination
with some books dealing with tarot,
and we'll talk about those a little later too,
and the art that goes along with that.
How did you come up with tarot and Walt Whitman
in terms of interest levels to write about?
- Quite by different paths.
With tarot, my first job when I moved up to New York
was at an occult publisher
which was then called Samuel Weiser.
I think now it's Red Wheel;
and they published books on tarot.
And from there I worked with U.S. Game Systems,
who is probably the largest publisher
of tarot cards in the world,
and I worked with Stuart R. Kaplan,
who is one of the world's experts on tarot.
And I'm more, not so much into the fortune telling,
which is what people usually think of with tarot,
but more into the artwork,
and the history, and the symbolism of the cards.
- Mm-hmm. Oh, how fascinating.
And you've talked about starting out in publishing
and you working for a publisher,
and now you are co-founder of your own publishing company!
- Yes! I'm co-founder of Circling Rivers,
and we publish poetry and literary non-fiction.
- It's similar to Walt Whitman, right?
He started out in publishing,
but he worked for what, 15 different papers,
and got fired for doing things, right?
- Yeah, he was a real job-skipper
and he also was very opinionated.
And one controversial issue before the Civil War
was Free Soil.
And Free Soil meant basically non-slave states.
And Walt Whitman did not support new states
entering the union as slave states.
And some of the papers he worked for
were more ambivalent about that.
And I think he just, aside from that,
he just seemed like kind of a free-thinking guy
and wasn't very good at settling down
and doing what the boss said.
- Right. So he decided that--
actually he's self-published initially too, right?
And I heard that he was actually a really tough reviewer.
So if he decided to review a piece
and he didn't like it, that there were no holds barred.
- Yeah. He had his opinions, definitely.
He was a bit on the outside,
as far as the literary world went.
His education, he only had about five years or so
of formal education.
But he was actually very educated
in that he read tons.
He went to every cultural occasion he could find,
you know, from art museums to, or art exhibitions to opera.
And so, he had-- I think some of his being an outsider
had an effect on the way he saw literature
by his contemporaries.
- Mm-hmm. Well, and I read he actually left school at 11.
And then he had a brief teaching career
at the age of around 17.
That's not a big time span to leave school at 11,
do some publishing at 15,
and then be teaching for a short time at 17.
- Yeah. He left publishing
partly because there was a huge fire in New York
and it hit the publishing sector,
like, literally destroyed it.
So he went back to Long Island.
He hated teaching. He hated it with a passion.
He wrote pretty scathing letters about it to his friends.
And then, when he moved back to New York,
he got into publishing again.
He started out as a printer,
as a what you would call a compositor,
which is literally setting the type.
You know, taking the little pieces of type
and putting it in the composing stick.
And then, it was sort of a natural move
to being an editor,
which was a path that a lot of editors took.
They'd start as a printer and then move to editing.
So that was his career in publishing.
- So true or false.
His younger siblings were named after presidents.
Three of them, right? - Mm-hmm.
- Okay, true or false. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a fan.
- Yes. ROSE: Okay.
And that he didn't believe
that Shakespeare even wrote his own plays?
- Yeah, he did get into that controversy.
- And he was real tough on Shakespeare, right?
And another one was that right before his death in 1889,
a local cemetery owner propositioned him
to write a piece, a poem about the cemetery
in trade that he could use the poem
to do publishing for his cemetery and promoting for it,
and in turn, he was going to give him a free burial plot.
- He did not get a free burial plot in exchange.
ROSE: Okay.
- He paid for his burial plot.
And in fact, his friends gave him the money for,
I can't remember exactly what it was,
but it was for a practical reason.
ROSE: Mm-hmm.
- They did not intend him to buy the tomb
that he has at Camden,
and some of them were a little dusted up over it,
but that's what he did.
As far as Shakespeare goes,
I want to say Walt Whitman loved the works of Shakespeare.
He could recite them by heart.
And he did so throughout his life.
There's one point in his memoir
where he talks about running naked
up and down Coney Island Beach, if you can picture that today...
[Rose laughs]
JEAN: ...with no one but the seagulls around
to hear him reciting Shakespeare and Homer.
And he did the same when he lived in Washington D.C.
during and after the Civil War.
He would go for walks with his friend, Pete Doyle,
and Pete remembered him reciting Shakespeare by heart,
as they walked in the moonlight around Washington, D.C.
- What were some of your early literary influences?
- Ah, you know, I always think ofCharlotte's Web
as my favorite childhood book. ROSE: Mm-hmm.
- I'm not sure if that's a proper literary influence,
- Well, what were you? Seven, eight, six?
JEAN: Yeah, I was in grammar school...
- It's okay, it's proper!
- Yeah, yeah, definitely.
I just read a lot and I still do.
I read literary stuff and I read schlocky romances.
I'm a very eclectic reader.
As far as literary influences,
I mean, it would be Walt Whitman in my,
you know, later on in life.
There are so many.
I just can't really pin any down.
- And what was it like growing up?
Did you grow up in a literary family?
Was that love of reading and writing
something that was instilled early with you?
- Yeah, definitely.
My parents and my older siblings,
I was the youngest of four children,
so there was always somebody to read to me,
even before I learned to read.
And I remember, one of my early memories, actually,
is really craving the ability to read,
and looking at books and looking at the letters
and wishing that they would unveil themselves to me.
So I just always loved reading.
We always had books around the house.
I don't think, you know,
I wouldn't call my parents highly literary;
they were more readers of popular books and so forth.
But we had the children's classics,
Little Women ,Tom Sawyer .
Just-- they always made sure we had good books around.
- Well, and that's so important.
We know what an impact that has, right?
- Yes, yes.
- For kids to be able to have someone read to them
or to have books available, and that's so important.
- Yeah. - Well...
- And they took us to-- excuse me,
but they took us to libraries too.
I just want to put a plug in for libraries...
ROSE: Yay!
- ...because, you know, not everyone can just go
and buy a book, you know, whenever it strikes them.
- Exactly!
- And they took us to libraries.
They would just leave us for the afternoon,
and we would spend the afternoon just browsing,
reading any old thing we wanted to.
- Getting lost in stories.
Everything from science fiction to Beverly Cleary,
or whatever, whatever was there.
- Well, and families have such a big influence
on our formative years and even as we get older.
I mean, I still will call my mom, right,
and want to have that family influence.
With Walt, what was that relationship like
with his family?
I know his mom was Quaker, right?
And so there was a Quaker influence with him there.
And then, some of the siblings there,
it was quite a big family. - Yeah.
- So, what was that dynamic like?
- His mother, he called his mother illiterate,
but what he meant was she wasn't really educated.
She didn't have-- she could read though.
She definitely could read.
She read his work, she read newspapers.
Not a lot is known of his father,
in terms of what his education was.
He was a carpenter by trade.
He was a farmer for a while, then he'd go and do carpentry.
He sort of bounced back and forth,
but mainly, he was a carpenter.
His siblings, of his siblings,
his sister, Hannah, was the most educated
in the formal sense.
And I guess I also would put his brother, Jeffy,
in there too, his younger brother,
who was actually an engineer.
He became an engineer in St. Louis.
But they weren't...
He didn't find his family supportive.
- How come?
- I don't know, because when I read their letters,
they seem, at least Jeffy, and his mother, and Hannah,
were definitely supportive.
George, his brother, George Washington,
as you pointed out named after our president,
he was, he thought that Walt Whitman
kind of wasted his talent by writing poetry.
It just wasn't practical enough.
His brother ended up being a plumber.
- And he just didn't really find it a good way
to spend your time.
- Hmm. You know, I was fascinated
with the impact that he had on his family
if something went wrong.
Didn't he go back and have to commit
one of his siblings to the hospital
because they became ill.
And they relied on him, right?
- Yes. ROSE: So they relied on him
even if he wasn't physically present to take care of things.
- Yeah. He was definitely,
his father died in 1855, I believe it was, and he...
Even before that,
he had already kind of become the head of the family,
the male head of the family beside from his mother.
And he had, there were some really dysfunctional situations
in his family.
And his older brother, he was the second oldest,
and his older brother Jesse,
was committed to what they called the lunatic asylum
for apparently he was violent.
And different family members had different theories about why.
And he had another brother who was a very severe alcoholic
and he died, and he caused a lot of disruption in the family.
So yeah, when something went wrong,
the letters went to Walt wherever he was;
help, help, help...
And he would go up and try to help out
and straighten things out.
- Well, and that seems like
that was part of his personality;
that he could be crass when he was reviewing a book
or he was judgmental and opinionated,
but there was a tender side. - Yes.
- He really tried to like meld
the inner and outer part of himself.
He didn't want people to be cruel.
He wanted to show kindness.
So how did, how do you think his work balanced
that personality that he had,
and then the message that he wanted to share
with the world?
- His work?
I would say his spiritual autobiography
isLeaves of Grass .
He worked on it from, you know, at least his early 30s
to the end of his life.
He did several editions, always revising.
And you could say he madeLeaves of Grass,
but alsoLeaves of Grass made him,
because in it, he expressed his ideals
and he didn't always live up to his ideals,
and people will point out,
especially in his editorial pieces,
that he could be racist or sexist.
- Mm-hmm.
- But his ideals were really clear inLeaves of Grass
and he did do his best to become the person
that he projects inLeaves of Grass .
- Well, and reading about him,
it was just fascinating to hear some of the things he did.
And talking about Leaves of Grass ,
there were originally what, 12 or 14 poems,
12 or 14, in the original edition,
and then it grew to 300, right?
- Yeah. It grew quite a bit over the years.
ROSE: And so, the iterations that he changed...
And so, the references to father and mother,
those really seem to change throughout the editions, right?
- Yeah. There's a poem inLeaves of Grass
that's now called "I Sing the Body Electric".
That wasn't the original title of it.
In fact, they didn't have titles originally but...
And he mentions the mother and the father,
and then it sort of slowly fades away,
and I don't know why he did that.
- Was that partly because
he was so affected by his mother's death?
- He was definitely very, very affected
by his mother's death.
He said it was the worst thing that ever happened to him.
ROSE: Hmm.
- He was very attached to his mother.
He considered that he got his best qualities from her.
- Hmm.
JEAN: And there is controversy
over what his relationship was like with his father.
Some people say it was terrible, and that his father was abusive.
And some people say, including his brother George,
said Walt and our dad got along fine.
- Well, and there are no,
he doesn't have any direct descendants, right?
Right? - That's correct.
Any that are known.
He claimed to have six children.
- But, to be honest, I doubt it.
- Well, and his sexual orientation
has come into play over the years also, right?
- Yes.
- And it's something that you touch about on the book.
What he was thinking about,
how he was acting for the time period,
and that had to be something that was intriguing for people
who are reading his work, or for at the time period,
judging because of where society was during that time.
- Yes, yeah.
He presented himself not as gay.
But he did, but by our eyes, he did present.
You know, looking at him today, it's like, oh, come on.
You know, he presented himself as being gay,
but he always sort of pulled back
from coming right out and saying it.
And of course, you know, we can understand why.
It wouldn't do very much good, you know,
to admit that at that time.
I think he wanted to be for everyone,
and maybe not only was he being a bit self-protective,
maybe he didn't want to be pinned down
as one thing or another.
- Mm-hmm. I can see that.
- I think he was very, you know, spacious,
in the way he wanted to present himself.
ROSE: Well, and a couple examples of that
were in your book where you talked about
how he went to the hospital during the Civil War
to visit with the injured, or the infirmed,
as a way to just be out of the spotlight,
which he was so great at self-promoting,
but when it came to that tender time
of taking care of someone else,
that that was really important to him.
- Yes, yes. He considered the Civil War,
he called the Civil War the hub of his book,
meaningLeaves of Grass .
And later in life, he said,
"I couldn't have written Leaves of Grass
without the Civil War," you know.
And later, one of his friends was like, oh, well,
he was confused about the time period
because we know that the first edition was in 1855.
But really, he wasn't confused.
He knew exactly what he meant
and that was you have to see it more as a wheel
than a straight linear line.
- And with the Civil War at the hub of his book.
And of course, he did add a lot more after the war.
He sort of thought his literary endeavor was over for a while
because the war was so stupendous
that he didn't really think he had anything to say
that could, you know, rise to the import of the war.
- But he wrote a couple of little volumes of poems,
chapbooks, I guess you could call them.
Drum-Taps, andSequel to Drum-Taps ,
that were obviously about the war.
And then he folded them intoLeaves of Grass,
and then he started writing again,
and added more and more.
- So, your book that celebrates
the 200th anniversary of the year of his birth,
is beautiful.
JEAN: Oh, thank you! ROSE: And the fact
that you've done it almost like a magazine layout
with quotes and photos and paintings.
How did that process come together?
JEAN: The hardest part of it
was doing the research for the images,
because what I wanted to do was to try to really get
only images that Walt himself would have seen,
like embedding ourselves with Walt Whitman.
So it's, I didn't want to use anything anachronistic,
although I did, sometimes, interpretively.
There are some paintings, for example,
that are after Walt Whitman's time,
but they show pretty much the way Long Island was
when he was a kid.
You know, there aren't any buildings
or you know, technology in the pictures.
There's one of Montauk Lighthouse
that actually the lighthouse had changed
since Walt was in Log Island.
But on the whole, I wanted it
just so we could feel like we're in his life
and walking in his shoes,
or at least walking with him as he was walking around.
ROSE: And that comes across because it's not a biography,
it's not a story that will take you in that direction
as a historical story, but exactly like you say,
it's like we're walking with him,
meeting the people that he met,
dealing with some of the struggles
that he dealt with.
The everyday life from family events
to places he visited,
to stories that he wanted to share.
So really takes us a peek inside him and his world,
and also the things that were important to him.
I had no idea that, you know,
he had such a high esteem for the women's rights movement.
Or the time that he felt like, you know,
we need to all have a safe voice.
We all need to have a fair voice in the world.
So there was this righteous component to him also.
- Yeah, yeah.
- And he lived a very simple life, didn't he?
- He lived a very simple life.
It's kind of amazing how he, well, you know,
I was at his birthplace this last weekend,
which is in Huntington, Long Island,
and anyone who's into Whitman should go and see it.
It's a wonderful place.
It's an oasis in a very, you know, highly developed area.
And ten people lived in this pretty small house.
But people just kind of endured a lot of things
that Americans would,
you know, many Americans would find uncomfortable.
When he lived in D.C.,
he lived in a garret with just a room,
a rented room in a garret, and he would move around,
I guess for, you know, who knows why;
and... just imagine living in a garret...
- Right! And owning very few possessions, right?
JEAN: Yes, yeah.
- Just take a hunk of meat with his knife
and his sugar bowl was a brown paper bag...
- Yeah! ROSE: It was just very simple.
But yet you also have pictures in the book
and references to the fact that he was kind of messy too,
with stacks of papers and books and things everywhere.
Like that creative mind was everywhere.
So a simple life.
Hmm. What do you think his message was for the world?
- His message for the world, I think is--
I think what draws people overall to Walt Whitman is,
he said, "You deserve as much respect as I do,
and as the President does."
And as the highest person and the lowest person
deserve equal respect.
And that, I think is what is so important for us to know.
That I'm no better than you are, you're no better than I am.
And then, we can really be with each other.
- That's a beautiful message.
Would you be willing to share some of your work with us?
- Yeah, of course!
- You can kind of set it up,
and tell us what you're going to be sharing.
- Yeah. Since this, you know, the title of the book being
With Walt Whitman Himself n the 19th Century, in America .
Walt said... oh, I'll read something from his essay,
A Backwards Glance Over Traveled Roads,
and then I'll go to another part.
"Leaves of Grass indeed.
"I cannot too often reiterate,
"has mainly been the outcropping
"of my own emotional and other personal nature.
"An attempt from first to last to put a person, a human being,
"myself in the latter half of the 19th century in America,
freely, fully, and truly on record."
So that's what he said about, you know,
when I mentioned earlier as a spiritual autobiography.
So, I'll read the section of the book calledOne Nation ,
and it starts again with a quote.
This quote is from the introduction
to the 1855Leaves of Grass , which is the first edition.
"The Americans of all nations in any time upon the earth
"have probably the fullest poetical nature.
The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem."
So that's the end of the quote.
IfLeaves of Grass has another hero besides Walt himself,
"it is the United States of America.
"Walt's prose and poetry are framed by the United States,
"filled in by the United States, animated by its land,
"its features and resources, its politics, and its people.
"While he looks to future readers,
"its present is the earthy, robust,
"sometimes grotesque life of 19th century America
"with its violent convulsions of war and expansion,
"exuberant national egoism,
"boisterous innovations,
"tumult and pain, and joy.
"Walt's life began in the Jacksonian era,
"stretched through the Civil War and Reconstruction,
"and ended in the Gilded Age.
"Not yet one hundred years as a country,
"Walt's America was still, is still creating itself,
"making and remaking its legends,
"its history, its story.
"Walt reveled in its pioneer rawness,
"its brass innovation unfettered by feudalism,
"its creative spark
"unshadowed by cultural convention.
"Nothing overseas, he believed,
"could possibly measure up to anything American.
"Like the peoples who left the old world
"to find new opportunity in America,
"Walt found, demanded,
"new opportunity for poetry in America.
"He deliberately discarded old forms,
"illusions, and tropes,
"and consciously shed the overburden of the past.
"Nineteenth century America
"was pulling away from her own past, too.
"Slave-supported agriculture and manufacturing,
"artisan labor,
"a seemingly unlimited frontier,
"and she was moving toward her future.
"Ethnic diversity, abolition,
"wage labor and manufacturing,
"and American settlers.
"Governments, schools, and churches
"occupying the land from coast to coast.
The process nearly tore the nation apart forever."
- I can see why he's called the Poet of Democracy, right?
- Yeah, yeah. - Absolutely.
- He was very much into what America had to offer,
its potential. - And so insightful, right,
about that potential,
and about each person realizing their full potential.
- Inspiring the next generation
and the next generation to try to reach that.
- Yeah.
- It's a wonderful message to share.
And thank you so much
for putting this beautiful book together...
JEAN: Oh, thank you!
ROSE: ...that people can walk with Walt
in a way that we haven't been able to do before.
I feel like I know him so much better.
- Oh, good! Thanks.
- So, thank you again for inviting us here to your home.
And I'd like to especially thank Jean Huets
for inviting us here to her home in Richmond
and sharing her beautiful book about Walt Whitman himself.
Please check us out online.
Learn more about our conversation with Jean,
about Walt Whitman,
and some of the other work that she's been doing.
Tell all of your friends about us!
I'm Rose Martin,
and I'll see you next time Write Around The Corner .
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As always, flexibility is a core principle for keeping holiday travel costs and hassles to a minimum. The flights closest to Christmas and the weekend between Christmas and New Year's are when the crowds and costs will be at the highest. Try a Thursday to Thursday trip to buck that trend or, better yet, catch a Christmas or New Year's Eve flight for a more affordable and pleasant experience. You may even get a free celebratory drink from the airline.
Obviously, booking an inexpensive flight is a goal anytime you travel, but, especially around the holidays, pay attention to connection details as well. It's better to have a long layover than to risk rushing through an overcrowded airport to your next flight. If you don't make the connection, it's long odds there will be a seat on the next plane. And, with winter weather in the mix, it's good to pad your connection time even more if your travel involves any locations that have the potential for snow and ice. The best holiday gift to give yourself might be a direct flight. Our gift to you is some extra advice: avoid the last flight of the day on a connecting flight so you don't end up sleeping in the airport if something goes awry.
Folks eager to get away for a beach vacation should look for the deal rather than the destination. Instead of Miami this Christmas, how about a beach town on the Gulf like Fort Myers or Sarasota? The bottom line: do your homework.
If you can't book a non-stop flight, book a connecting flight with a long layover. This gives you time to get through the airport and deal with any unexpected travel delays. If you have an extra-long layover and the airport is in close proximity to the city, like Las Vegas or Atlanta, use the time to see the sites.
While you may always fly out of the closest airport to you, compare fares between your preferred airport and nearby airports. Other airports in the area may offer cheaper fares. They may also have flights operated by low-cost carriers that don't service your preferred airport. Depending on the fare difference, you might end up saving money even if you need to rent a car to get to and from the alternative airport. Flying into or out of alternative airports near your destination (for example, Long Beach instead of Los Angeles or Manchester, NH instead of Boston) could be a potentially money-saving move. Check out our Airport Affordability Index to find the most affordable airports in the U.S.
While sitting in the airport on Christmas Day may not sound glamorous, it can help you score a cheaper ticket. Since demand for flight tickets on the actual holiday is lower than the days before and after, tickets may be offered for less. Another bonus? You'll find smaller crowds, too. Many times the lowest fares go to travelers willing to fly on the holiday itself.
Plus, the cheer can be felt 35,000 feet in the air for flexible fliers, as some airlines are particularly festive. Lufthansa in Christmases past has cooked traditional German meals and decked cabins with wreaths and decorations so passengers – and flight crews – can share in the celebration.
Airlines are charging more and more fees these days, for everything from legroom upgrades to checked bags. If you're looking to travel on the cheap, avoid common fees by traveling with a carry-on only, booking your seat in the main cabin and bringing your own snacks.
Blackout dates from airlines and people who plan months and months in advance have combined to make sure that there are virtually no seats left in the holiday season for a reasonable number of points. Unless you've been banking points for years and have no bigger plans for them or are a Super Elite flier, this is one of those times when spending cash is a better long-term investment.
If a hotel stay is in the mix for your Yuletide travel, don't overlook the cost savings of "flights+hotels" search. With peak prices on both airfare and hotel rooms, you will want to get the best collective deal possible, and most online sites offer packaged pricing when you book lodging at the same time as your flight (some even include car rental costs, too).
New York is simply spectacular during the holiday season, and Christmas travel deals to New York are easy to spot if you book flights early to Newark, LaGuardia or JFK airports. Once you've settled in at your hotel, stroll down Madison and Fifth avenues and take in the illuminous window displays at iconic department stores like Macy's, Saks and Barneys. After window shopping, lace up your skates at the Ice Skating Rink at Rockefeller Center and pirouette – or cling to the wall for dear life – under the soft glow of the Rockefeller Christmas Tree. If the rink's too crowded – as it tends to be around Christmas – walk a few blocks south to the rink at Bryant Park, then shop at the surrounding holiday market. Save money with our 20 things to do in New York for under $5.
Typically travelers get the most bang for their buck on Christmas travel deals if they bundle flights, accommodations and even activities into a single package. Travel sites like yours truly offer handpicked deals consistently, especially to island destinations. Consider the Caribbean this Christmas if you're interested in white sand rather than snow. The Bahamas, Barbados and Puerto Rico all offer up sun, sand, and a taste of Caribbean culture. For something quaint, consider a lesser-known island like Saint Croix, part of the U.S. Virgin Islands, as home base. Book a boat trip for snorkeling or scuba diving around Buck Island before shopping and dining in Christiansted, the island's largest town. Obviously 'large' is a relative term; Christiansted has a population of 3,000. Take our quiz to determine which Caribbean island you should visit.
Prague is an absolutely enchanting city year-round, but especially during the holidays. Christmas markets set up shop in Old Town and Wenceslas squares, offering toasty retreats like spiced wine and Czech beer. The magical town center is everything you'd imagine Christmases past in Europe to be: bustling and carol-filled. Within the market, children get the chance to take in a puppet show or paint ornaments. After stocking up on stocking stuffers, snap photos of Prague Castle – the largest ancient castle in the world – and the world-famous Astronomical Clock.
For more tips on holiday travel, check out our Holiday season travel survival guide.


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Robert zvaný Angličan (německy Robert von England; † 17. října 1240 Olomouc) byl olomoucký biskup v letech 1201–1240, převor cisterciáckého kláštera na Zelené hoře u Nepomuku v západních Čechách, český královský kaplan. Podle tradice pokládán za Angličana z Hertfordshire, pravděpodobněji však pocházel odněkud z Porýní, které mělo k Anglii vazby.

Život
V mládí prošel studiem na pařížské universitě a po příchodu do Čech se stal cisterciáckým mnichem v klášteře řádu Zelená hora u Nepomuku, kde byl později i jeho převorem. Stal se velkým příznivcem českého krále Přemysla Otakara I., v jeho službách se stal obratným diplomatem. Za svou věrnost získal Robert úřad královského kaplana. V roce 1198 zastupoval českého krále ve sporu s papežskou kurii ve věci rozvodu Přemysla Otakara I. s Adlétou Míšeňskou. Za své služby byl českým králem po zásluze odměněn, byl jmenován olomouckým biskupem. Český král si vážil jeho loajality, v době nepřítomnosti krále byl pověřen jeho zastupováním jako místodržící na Moravě.

Dne 10. května 1204 zachvátil olomouckou katedrálu požár, který zničil i vnitřní vybavení. Biskup Robert dal okamžitě zahájit obnovu biskupského kostela a ambitu. Získal pro katedrálu i mnoho velmi cenných relikvií. Nechal si v Olomouci postavit palác (dnes částečně zachovalý) s výzdobou románských okenních oblouků. Dal vystavět kamenný hrad v Pustiměři, který byl spolu s dříve postavenou rotundou významným místem Moravy. Ve své závěti činí jistý odkaz pustiměřské románské rotundě.

Biskup Robert dobře vycházel i s královým bratrem moravským markrabětem Vladislavem Jindřichem. Biskupovo sepětí s pražským dvorem i královskou kanceláří vyneslo olomoucké diecézi důležité výsady. V roce 1206 zaručil Přemysl Otakar I. olomoucké kapitule i právo svobodné volby biskupa.

Biskup Robert se účastnil IV. lateránského koncilu v Římě, ale jeho ideje ho neovlivnily. Byl zaměřen racionalisticky a světských požitků se zcela nezříkal. Blízké kontakty s králem určovaly Robertův postoj k tehdy probíhajícímu boji církve o vymanění se z područí světské moci.

K výzvám kurie zůstával chladným, nikdy nepodpořil pražského biskupa Ondřeje a vždy stál na straně krále. Stal se dokonce předmětem kritiky samotného papeže, když poté, co pražský biskup Ondřej vyhlásil roku 1210 nad celou diecézí interdikt a opustil zemi, celebroval biskup Robert v katedrále sv. Víta v Praze slavnostní bohoslužby.

V roce 1205 se spolupodílel na založení prvního moravského cisterciáckého kláštera, a to na Velehradě, jehož vlastním donátorem byl moravský markrabě Vladislav Jindřich. Roku 1207 založil při sv. Petru v Olomouci klášter augustiniánek a nadal ho majetkem. Jako cisterciácký mnich byl velký propagátor tohoto řádu v českých zemích.

Roku 1219 byl opatem premonstrátského kláštera v Želivě Vilémem obviněn z vraždy a páchání smilstva s jeptiškami. Papež jmenoval vyšetřovací komisi, jež se ale pravděpodobně postavila za biskupa Roberta, protože zůstal ve svém úřadu.

Když roku 1225 Heilvida (Heilwidis) ze Znojma založila klášter Vallis Sanctae Mariae v Oslavanech, účast biskupa Roberta při založení dokládá listina třebíčského opata Lukáše, král Přemysl Otakar I. pak potvrdil založení kláštera dne 26.6.1225.

V roce 1228 se konalo slavnostní vysvěcení kostelů obou zmíněných klášterů, 7.11. oslavanského a 27.11. velehradského. Na obou místech byl světitelem biskup Robert a slavnostních událostí se zúčastnili jak král Přemysl Otakar I. a královna Konstancie, tak čerstvý moravský markrabí Přemysl.

Dne 31.10.1234 připojil biskup Robert svou pečeť k listině markraběte Přemysla ohledně kláštera Porta coeli a někdy v létě 1239 daroval tomuto klášteru patronátní právo ke kostelu sv. Václava v Tišnově.

V roce 1240 Robert těžce onemocněl a rozhodl se ke dni 17. ledna 1240 na úřad Olomouckého biskupa rezignovat. Je možné, že tato rezignace nebyla dobrovolná. Nasvědčoval by tomuto postup papeže, který rezignaci urychleně přijal a navíc nařídil hradišťskému opatovi a doubravnickému proboštovi, aby biskupa k odstoupení i donutili, kdyby se rozhodl jinak. Důvody k takovému jednání lze hledat v Robertově podpoře panovníka, ve finančních nepořádcích, jež zjistila v olomoucké kapitule vizitace mohučského arcibiskupa Sigfrieda III. von Eppsteina, nebo také v biskupově vystupování proti hlásání stigmat sv. Františka.

Biskup Robert zemřel uprostřed zmatků kolem jeho úřadu 17.10.1240 a byl pohřben na vlastní přání v bazilice velehradského kláštera. Jeho mramorový náhrobek se nacházel před oltářem sv. Kříže.

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Reference

Literatura
 Milan M. Buben, Encyklopedie českých a moravských sídelních biskupů, Logik s.r.o. Praha, 2000
 Aleš Flídr, PORTA COELI, diplomová práce

Externí odkazy
 Životopis Roberta na www.e-stredovek.cz

Robert
Cisterciáci
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Zakladatelé klášterů
Pohřbení na Velehradě
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Even as mobile device use and BYOD have approached the mainstream, concerns about the security of all those devices and the integrity of the data they access and create continues to weigh of the minds of IT decision makers, according to a recent study.
The survey conducted by the non-profit research firm Association for Information and Image Management and Palo Alto, Calif.-based mobile file sharing specialist Accellion Inc. indicates just 18 percent of business organizations are confident that their mobile policies are compliant with corporate policy and government regulation. More than half (51 percent harbor significant doubts about their company's mobile content management processes.
Those trepidations are causing hesitation and resistance in the implementation of systems for sharing critical business data on mobile devices. 63 percent of those polled say they want to eliminate or limit VPN use in their organizations and 91 percent have put strict limitations on which sites or folders are accessible to end users on mobile devices.
Just 14 percent of organizations surveyed have a corporate app store, with another 14 percent in the process of developing one.
According to Skokowski, the growing chasm between what mobile workers want and what IT departments can secure is causing friction for organizations in all industries. The survey of 284 IT decision makers un the U.S. and Europe found that only 30 percent of organizations have an approved BYOD policy in place, while 68 percent say they feel mobile information access is essential somewhat important.
While confusion and chaos still reigns in the corporate mobile space, there is progress being made. 51 percent of large organizations say they now have a mobile device management solution in place. The number is predictably lower in smaller shops where only 24 percent are taking advantage of MDM tools.
Still, the telling figure from the report for channel partners is that 90 percent of those surveyed say they are concerned or extremely concerned about the security and integrity of their mobile file sharing efforts, demonstrating the clear need for organizations to adopt well developed mobile content access policies and functionality.


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I just read the 10 chapters in one sitting. That was amazing.
This is amazing… Somewhat of a copout with the females being human-formed kemonomimis, but obviously nobody would read it if they weren't (no complaints here).
I didn't know about NicoNico Manga… wow, complete with scrolling comments, very interesting way to read manga.
This seems like a Japanese version of Gulliver's Travels to me. I found the original story to be rather pointless though, so I'm not sure if I'll like this title.


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Food and Drink, Other Neighborhoods, Volunteering and Giving
Dine out in SE Seattle to help your community
April 22, 2013 Wendi Dunlap	2 Comments
This Thursday, April 25, Lifelong AIDS Alliance's Dining Out For Life returns to raise money to fight illness and hunger in our community. During the event, when you dine at a participating restaurant on Beacon Hill or elsewhere, a portion of your bill will be donated to Lifelong.
Restaurants in the Beacon Hill/Columbia City/Mount Baker neighborhoods that are participating include:
Baja Bistro
Bananas Grill
Bar del Corso
Columbia City Ale House
Geraldine's Counter
Mioposto
Rookies Sports Bar and Grill
Safari Njema Restaurant
St. Dames
Tutta Bella Pizzeria
Besides the benefit of contributing to your community, if you dine at one of these establishments you'll also be entered to win two domestic airline tickets from Alaska Airlines. Tweet photos of yourself participating, and you'll have a chance to win a Dining Out For Life prize package.
See the restaurant locations in this interactive map:
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Meetings, Urban Planning
Process, participation, and progress: a neighborhood planning primer
March 2, 2010 Melissa Jonas	2 Comments
Many Beacon Hill neighbors took part in a planning meeting last March. Photo by Jason.
While many people pay a great deal of attention to national politics, relatively few participate (or are even aware) of events happening in their own neighborhood—until issues percolate into the media. Recent events in Southeast Seattle might have caused some neighbors to wonder how the neighborhood planning process works, and what is actually in the North Beacon Hill Neighborhood Plan. Here's a quick introduction to planning in our neighborhood.
What is a Neighborhood Council? Â Why should I get involved?
North Beacon Hill is fortunate to have an engaged neighborhood council and to be part of a dynamic, functional district council. The North Beacon Hill Council describes their role as follows:
"NBHC is one of the the major community groups that represents North Beacon Hill to city, county and state agencies. It is the major political body of the neighborhood that works to improve the living conditions of our neighborhood… We work to empower our neighbors to implement the improvements to the neighborhood that they envision, we work to inform our neighbors of issues that will affect our standard of living, and we work to create a sense of community for our neighborhood."
If you can make it to one meeting, you're a voting member of the North Beacon Hill Council.  Attend a meeting to familiarize yourself with the issues and people involved.  If you can't make it regularly, stay connected and attend when you're able or when an issue motivates you.  It's even possible to vote by proxy.  We have the Beacon Hill Blog, the BAN mailing list, and the North Beacon Hill Council website as resources.   Get involved!
Who represents neighborhoods?
There are important connections between neighborhood councils, district councils, and City Council.  Seattle elects City Council members "at large"—all council members represent all residents. To ensure that residents of all neighborhoods have representation on the community level, Seattle has neighborhood councils—groups that meet in the community and are composed of residents, business owners, and other interested parties.  Residents and members of the councils elect board members.  Council Boards interact with the City and other levels of government, representing the community. The neighborhood councils also elect representatives to a district council. Seattle has 13 district councils. North and South Beacon Hill are part of the Greater Duwamish District Council. District Council representatives participate in the City Neighborhood Council.
The North Beacon Hill Neighborhood Council and the Greater Duwamish District Council are a key way for our community to engage with City Council members, the Mayor's office, and other elected officials. They also advocate for our community to receive funds for sidewalks, crosswalks, greater police engagement, and more.
NBHC meets the first Thursday of every month at the Beacon Hill Library, 2821 Beacon Avenue South. The next meeting is March 4 at 7:00 pm.
What are neighborhood plans? Who develops them?
There has been active debate recently around the three identical appeals filed to oppose Neighborhood Plan Updates in North Beacon Hill, North Rainier (a.k.a. Mount Baker Station), and Othello. The appeals themselves are intended to address concerns about the environmental impact of development in the area. The appellants and their supporters are also concerned about the process the Department of Planning and Development (DPD) used to create the updates. This is a separate, but very important issue.
Continue reading Process, participation, and progress: a neighborhood planning primer →
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BH in the News, Urban Planning
The Stranger weighs in on SE Seattle appeals
February 25, 2010 Wendi Dunlap	24 Comments
Organizers set up tables at the Festival Street opening last December in front of El Centro's empty south lot. Photo by Jason.
Cienna Madrid at The Stranger has written a story about the recent appeals filed against the North Beacon Hill, Othello, and North Rainier (Mount Baker) neighborhood plan updates. The article discusses El Centro de la Raza's plans to develop the land just south of their building, plans which are—for now—on hold. State law allows neighborhood plans to be amended only once a year. Whether the appeals are upheld or not won't be determined until it is too late to meet the deadline for this year, so the appeals are automatically forcing a one-year delay to any plan changes.
Madrid interviewed Estela Ortega from El Centro, Bill LaBorde of Transportation Choices Coalition, City Councilmember Sally Clark and David Goldberg of the Department of Planning and Development, and also attempted to speak with North Beacon appellant Frederica Merrell and the appellants from the other Southeast Seattle neighborhoods—for the most part, however, the petitioners aren't talking. (The exception is Jenna Walden of the Othello group, who suggests that the reason for her group's appeal is that it is a protest against marginalization of neighborhood groups.)
The resulting article pulls no punches; it concludes, "…Merrell and her cohorts appear to be more concerned with winning than pursuing the best interests of their neighborhoods and the city."
Responses from The Stranger's readers on the website have been mixed.
The article is here. Seattle Transit Blog also posted about the Stranger article.
(ed. note—Frederica Merrell occasionally contributes opinion articles to the Beacon Hill Blog.)
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Crime notes: Smash-and-grabs and a bank robbery
February 22, 2010 Jason	3 Comments
V - Vehicle break-ins, B - Burglaries, R - Robberies, S - Shots fired
Rosie Kirby writes, hoping someone might have seen something of interest today near her home that was burgled today:
We live on the corner of 13th and Hill St. in North Beacon Hill. Our house was broken into with what looks like possibly some sort of crowbar or having kicked in the door somewhere between 7:10 a.m. and 4 p.m. today, 2/22/10. Our neighbor (these are town homes) reports that she heard the door open and shutting around 1:00 p.m. but did not think to look and see if anything was going on. Luckily, not too much was stolen; however, we would appreciate any information or if anyone saw any suspicious activity. The burglar may have left with the laptops, money, and miscellaneous in a brown QFC paper bag. We had one hanging in the kitchen for recycling and they dumped the contents onto the couch.
If you may have any information that could help track down the thieves or recovery their stolen property, please call Rosie at 701-610-4555 or Seth at 206-914-0557 or email rak711@hotmail.com.
Recent selected BHNW-logged scanner activity:
2/15 7:15pm near 29th and Hudson — Gunshots
2/16 3:45pm near Beacon and McClellan — Bank robbery*
2/17 6:15pm near 21st and Columbia Drive — Burglary/casing
2/17 8:30pm near Beacon and Monroe — iPod robbery**
2/18 1:30pm near Spokane and Columbian Way — Burglary
2/18 8:00pm near 28th and Columbian Way — Gunshots
* Oddly, there are no additional details currently to be found about this bank robbery than what's in the scanner logs at bhnw.org and CDNews.
** The time doesn't quite match up, but the location and crime description sounds like "Robbery On Metro Bus on Beacon Hill Last Night" at SeattleCrime.com.
April Jahns reported a Saturday-night smash-and-grab on the mailing list and followed up with video:
Some punk smashed the passenger side window of our minivan last night. We got it on video – it's pretty grainy, though. When Ryan is done converting and snipping and whatever else he has to do to the footage I'll post it on youtube and send a link to the listserv. The person had to rifle around for a minute before finding a grocery bag (hid well out of sight) to find my stash of Valentine's Day candy conversation hearts. Maybe he'll get a cavity as his punishment.
We did call the police and since we have the video an officer came out and he dusted the van for prints and will pick up a copy of the video tomorrow. He couldn't stress enough how important it is for us to call when we see someone suspicious walking around – it enables the officers to talk to fishy looking people. He said the report allows them to pull suspicious looking people over to talk to them. Of course, this happened at 5:10 am – if I had seen him walking by my house I would have seen him breaking into my car. A
car around the corner from us was broken into as well. The officer said there have been lots of prowls in this area (I'm at 16th & Bayview) and they have been patrolling but the commission of the crime is so fast that its hard to catch them in the act.
Mike Rosen wrote about another smash-and-grab Sunday night on the BAN list:
We live on the 1300 block of 13th Avenue South, close to Atlantic. Around 2 am the car alarm on our Honda went off. (I am sure some of you heard it.) One of us went down to check. No signs of break in. This morning I left for work and noticed the Eclipse that was parked behind the Honda had had its driver's window shattered. I called 911 to report it, and they said that the owner must call it in. I left a note for the car's owner. My older Subaru had not been broken into.
Update: While preparing this entry, there was a report of a man shot near the Mount Baker light rail station. From the SPD Blotter:
On February 22nd at approximately 7:11 p.m. officers on patrol heard shots fired near the light rail tracks at MLK Way South and South Winthrop Street. Officers searched further and discovered an adult male victim (possibly in his 30's) who had sustained a through and through gunshot wound to the arm. The victim was transported to Harborview Medical Center for treatment.
Officers are currently interviewing additional persons who were in the area at the time of the shooting. A possible suspect vehicle was seen fleeing the area. That vehicle is described as a green Chevy Impala with shiny chrome rims. There is no suspect description available at this time. Officers continue to actively investigate this incident. Gang Unit detectives have been notified and will be conducting the follow up investigation.
SeattleCrime.com has been updating with additional information.
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North Beacon plan update appeal is one of three
February 12, 2010 Wendi Dunlap	1 Comment
Frederica Merrell's appeal filed recently against the Determination of Nonsignificance (DNS) of the North Beacon Hill neighborhood plan update (also discussed here and here) is not unique. The Beacon Hill Blog has been made aware that Merrell's appeal is one of three nearly-identical appeals filed on January 29 by residents in each of the Southeast Seattle neighborhoods that recently went through a neighborhood plan update: Othello, North Rainier (Mount Baker), and North Beacon Hill. (Read the Othello appeal here, the North Rainier appeal here, and the North Beacon appeal here.) The appeals are nearly word-for-word identical, with only a few minor differences (such as the sections describing each distinct neighborhood and the appellants' connection with them).
The Othello appeal was filed by Ron Momoda, Patricia Paschal, and Jenna Walden. The North Rainier appeal was filed by Pat Murakami and Barbara Marino. Most are well-known neighborhood activists in Southeast Seattle, and several were active last year in speaking out against House Bill 1490 and Senate Bill 5687, which would have created incentives and requirements for transit-oriented development and density near light rail stations.
The three appeals all request the same thing: that DPD's Determination of Non-Significance (DNS) for each neighborhood's plan update be vacated, and that DPD be required to take other actions including additional community notification, review, and validation, and environmental impact analyses.
The North Beacon appeal has been the subject of some heated controversy in the comments sections of the BHB posts linked above, with some commenters suggesting that the appeals are specifically intended to cause the entire update process to be scrapped, or that they were filed in order to block any upzoning or increased density, while some others say the update plan was flawed from the start, and that appeals such as this are a necessary and important part of the process of making this update work for North Beacon Hill.
El Centro de la Raza, who have had plans to develop their property just north of Lander Street, have filed their own motion to intervene and dismiss Merrell's appeal.
The recently published Neighborhood Plan updates (the North Beacon one is here) were developed through a process that began in Fall 2008 and continued through 2009 with community meetings and open houses in March, May, and September.
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Beacon Bits, Getting Around edition: shuttling to Seafair, making light rail work, and who is riding Link?
This crowd of folks was in Mount Baker watching the Seafair hydroplane races in 1965. Plan to do the same this year? Light rail can get you there. Photo courtesy of Seattle Municipal Archives.
Going to Seafair festivities this weekend? Forget your car, and take Link light rail! Take the light rail to the Othello Station and catch a free Seafair Express Shuttle to the front gate, or go to the Columbia City Station and walk approximately one mile to the main gate.
Roger Valdez of Beacon Hill writes in Sightline Daily about the long path to geting light rail in Seattle, and suggests steps the city will need to take to make it work in the long run, including smart land use policies that enhance and create transit demand by creating denser communities, and establishment of policies that will encourage and support transit ridership.
City Councilman Bruce Harrell reports his involvement in securing federal funds for lighting, pedestrian, and transit improvements at the Mount Baker light rail station and the Rainier Avenue South and South Jackson Street areas. The Rainier project will provide buses with "queue jumps" and traffic signal priority, as well as adding 15 bus bulbs. These changes will allow buses to save time by bypassing traffic and avoiding merges into heavy traffic. The Mount Baker project will involve lighting which will link the station with Franklin High School, and provide safer crossing for pedestrians on Rainier Avenue and MLK.
Nina Shapiro in the Seattle Weekly discusses issues of cultural disparity on Link light rail: is the train just "stuff white people like?" However, her article currently contains one big error — she suggests that riders of bus routes such as the #42 avoid Link because transfers from Link to the bus are not free. This is not true. Link tickets allow you to transfer to a bus for free. If #42 riders are avoiding Link for that reason, it is because of a misunderstanding of the fare system, and perhaps because Sound Transit/Metro haven't yet done the best possible job of communicating how it works.
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Going places on light rail: Mount Baker station
Cheesesteaks are a very short walk away from the elevated Mount Baker Station. Photo by Jason
The Mount Baker Station is located just west of Rainier Avenue South, and just south of South McClellan Street. Had it been built 40-some years ago at that site, it might have been called Stadium Station; the former site of Sick's Stadium, home of the American League Seattle Pilots in 1969 (not to mention the Seattle Rainiers for 40 years), is just across the street. It's now Lowe's, and there is a small historical display there. (Here's a video on YouTube that shows the stadium in its heyday, and later in its decrepitude, before it was demolished in the 1970s. And here's an old documentary about the Pilots, in two parts, with more footage of the stadium and 1960s Seattle.) Sick's wasn't just known for baseball, either — Elvis and Jimi Hendrix, among others, played concerts there.
Thirty years after the stadium's demise, the area is a relatively automobile-focused district containing fast food and big stores like Lowe's, Rite Aid, and QFC, mostly surrounded by large parking lots, with cars speeding by on Rainier Avenue. It's not a pedestrian-friendly environment, but the intent is that the new station, and the potential transit-friendly development it will attract, will improve that.
East of the station rises the imposing neoclassical façade of Franklin High School, which opened in 1912 and was renovated in the late 1980s.
Northeast of Lowe's on MLK, between South Walker and South Bayview streets, you'll find the Martin Luther King Junior Memorial Park, a tiered, grassy amphitheatre-like space containing a reflecting pool and a 30-foot-tall granite sculpture by Robert Kelly, inspired by King's "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech.
There is good eating to be found near the station, even if you have to dodge a few cars to find it. Thai Recipe is located in the same strip mall as Domino's on McClellan, and it is the only Thai restaurant we know of that even borders on North Beacon Hill. The very friendly staff serves good, reliable, and tasty Thai food, available for take out or to eat in the small dining room.
Perhaps your current craving is for a cheesesteak sandwich instead. If so, there's The Original Philly's, almost in the shadow of Mount Baker station at the intersection of Rainier and McClellan.
The art at this station includes chandeliers on the underside of the guideway, made from recycled "cobra head" street lights (Sky Within by Sheila Klein), and painted glass forming splashes of color on the glass face of the station (Rain, Steam and Speed and Seattle Sunrise, both by Guy Kemper);
If you continue on the train toward downtown from Mount Baker, you will then turn west and enter the Beacon Hill tunnel. Here's a video taken by Oran Viriyincy to give you a taste of what it's like to ride the train from Mount Baker into the tunnel.
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Rainier Grocery Outlet to close
November 16, 2008 Jason	2 Comments
We stopped in at the Rainier Grocery Outlet this evening and saw that entire rows of shelving were gone, the freezers were half-full, and a lot less "stuff" was in the store. I asked the checker if they were closing or just remodeling. He said they're closing November 26th.
We haven't been able to get more details yet, but we're wondering if the store is a casualty of the lengthy construction of the Mount Baker light rail station that has made access to the store more difficult for the last few years. The building and property are owned by the University of Washington, with their laundry facilities next door.
Some time between March 31st, 2007 and June 19th of this year, Steve Christman took over from Steve and Debbi Mullen, operators of the Madrona Grocery Outlet. The Mullens stated in 2007 that, while the store had taken a 20 to 30 percent hit in business due to light rail construction, they hoped to tough it out until the rail station opened, running the Rainier store at "zero profit" until then and "didn't want the store to close." Looks like that plan didn't pan out.
If your bargain-hunting regularly brings you to Grocery Outlet, you might want to get down there soon.
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Getting Around, Urban Planning
Light rail = increased home values on North Beacon?
Will this train soon bring higher housing values to the Hill? Photo by The Lebers.
According to the Denver Post, homes near light rail stations on the new Southeast line there have increased in value by nearly 4 percent since the line opened, even while homes in the rest of the Denver market declined by an average of 7.5 percent. The closer the home is to the station, the more the value increased, with those less than half a mile from the station increasing by an average of 17.6 percent.
The article mentions a similar effect in other markets, with single-family home values showing increases ranging from 2 percent in San Diego to a blistering 32 percent in St. Louis. The article also suggests that it is not just station location that causes the biggest increases, but transit-oriented development (TOD) that adds to the attractiveness of the area. North Beacon and Mount Baker (Rainier and McClellan) will have their stations soon, but will the TOD follow? Will we see a similar increase in housing value here on Beacon Hill? The Othello and Columbia City stations are already seeing some development, but there hasn't been much up on top of the Hill or at the foot of McClellan.
Thanks to Seattlest!
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Dermatology > General Dermatology
No Clear Winner Among Antibiotics for Early Lyme Skin Disease
— Meta-analysis finds little difference in efficacy, adverse effects
by Ashley Lyles, Staff Writer, MedPage Today October 4, 2018
When treating early cutaneous Lyme borreliosis, longer duration and higher dose didn't improve the response to antibiotics, nor did any specific agent emerge as most effective in a network meta-analysis.
Comparing 21 different antibiotic agents, doses, and durations, there were no significant differences in treatment response. Treatment-related adverse outcomes were considered mild to moderate, reported Christine Schmucker, PhD, of the University of Freiburg, Germany, and colleagues in JAMA Dermatology.
After treatment initiation, treatment failures were uncommon at both 2 months (4%) and 12 months (2%), the investigators found.
The studies included in the meta-analysis were conducted in the United States and various European countries. "Despite differences in the spectrum of pathogens that may be present in different regions and given the extended study period of more than 25 years, the results were generally consistent across the trials, suggesting good applicability of the evidence in countries with high risk of borreliosis," wrote Schmucker and coauthors.
However, the "certainty of evidence was categorized as low and very low mostly because of imprecision, indirectness, and study limitations (high risk of bias) of the included studies," the authors noted.
The low certainty of the evidence indicates the paper "would probably only be reliable as a guideline," commented Herbert Allen, MD, of Drexel University in Philadelphia, who was not involved in the study.
The 19 studies included in the meta-analysis evaluated 2,532 patients (age range 37 to 56 years and 36% to 60% female), with outcomes assessed at 2 months and 12 months. Antibiotics used included doxycycline, cefuroxime axetil, ceftriaxone, amoxicillin, azithromycin, penicillin V, and minocycline.
Looking at overall response to treatment, more than 80% of the patients showed a response. At 2-month follow-up or less after treatment initiation, 84% had a response; at 12 months or more after treatment initiation, 80% responded.
Pooled effect sizes from the analysis did not point to any significant differences in treatment response by antibiotic agent -- for example, amoxicillin versus doxycycline (OR 1.26, 95% CI 0.41-3.87) -- or by duration, such as with 200 mg/d of doxycycline for 3 weeks versus 2 weeks (OR 1.28, 95% CI 0.49-3.34).
Adverse events were categorized as mild or moderate for 31% of patients. Penicillin V had the lowest odds of an adverse even, but neither it nor any of the other drugs were significantly different in comparison to doxycycline.
Skin-related adverse events -- photosensitivity, photodermatitis, or urticaria -- occurred in 3% of patients. The only significant difference across antibiotics in terms of skin reactions was a lower risk with cefuroxime axetil in comparison to doxycycline (OR 1.18, 95% CI 0.07-0.52).
GI tract adverse event risk was statistically similar across the antibiotics, irrespective of dose or duration, compared with doxycycline. Likewise, risk of Jarisch-Herxheimer-like reactions was similar across the antibiotics compared with doxycycline.
Hematologic adverse events, like thrombocytopenia, occurred in 1% of patients, but few comparisons were available.
When it came to evaluating patients, "my biggest concern with this piece was that the authors were not measuring the long-term outcomes," Allen emphasized.
"Given the fact that syphilis and Lyme are so closely related, the early lesion -- erythema migrans -- would resolve with no treatment (or with the host of antibiotics evaluated), just as the syphilitic chancre resolves without treatment. Therefore, as regards long-term outcome, measuring early responses to treatment may be falsely reassuring," Allen said.
Looking ahead, "rigorously conducted studies with adequate sample size are needed to identify possible smaller differences in comparative effectiveness and to rule out relevant drug-related safety issues," the investigators concluded.
Schmucker and Allen did not report any relevant conflicts of interest.
The study was funded by the German Dermatological Society, the German Paul-Erlich Society, and the German Society of Pediatric Infectious Diseases.
Source Reference: Torbahn G, et al ""Efficacy and safety of antibiotic therapy in early cutaneous lyme borreliosis a network meta-analysis," JAMA Dermatology 2018; DOI: 10.1001/jamadermatol.2018.3186.


To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 3 April to Question 237126 on Innovate UK: Grants, what proportion of Innovate UK grant funding has been awarded to (a) SMEs and (b) large companies since 2004 in each sector.
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Save the Hundertwasser Gallery in Whangarei
I am seeking people to support a letter to the Whangarei District Councillors that are attempting to kill of the Hundertwasser Art Gallery Project in a council meeting tomorrow. Please read this description and details are below.
A long planned (and debated) gallery designed by the late international Artist Hundertwasser is in danger of being dumped by the Whangarei District Council after some Councillors have put forward a proposal to remove it from the annual plan. Their logic in doing this is that people have not been consulted about the project, yet they are trying to remove it from a document that will go for public consultation.
This is a project that offers huge financial and cultural opportunity for Whangarei, it has been supported by the last two mayoral candidates, the two sitting northland MPs Phil Heatley and Shane Jones (from both sides of the house) support the project. Financial analysis of the project by Deloitte supports the councils position. A recent poll run by the local newspaper shows significant popular support for the project. And yet at a council meeting tomorrow a number of Councillors will attempt to vote this project out of the plan.
The total cost of the project is $13 million, of this the council has agreed to fund $8 million and a further $5 million will be raised seperately. $2 million of this amount has already being raised for the project.
One Councillor has stated that this money would be better spent on roads. To give a comparison the Wellsford to Puhoi road project is estimated to cost $760 million dollars, and the recently finished Te Matau a Pohe bridge cost $32 million dollars.
Another Councillor is worried this project will leave the WDC in a similar state to the Kaipara Council after that council misinvested in a sewerage project. The original budget for that project was $35 million and the total cost became $60 million. This is a small project compared to this and the construction of an art gallery is very predictable compared to a major sewerage system.
Spending $8 million on an Cultural project that will make Whangarei an international destination is a prudent decision and the current motion to cancel the project is unwise.
More about the project can be read here: http://www.wdc.govt.nz/FacilitiesandRecreation/Town-Basin/Pages/Hundertwasser-Art-Centre.aspx
If you would like your name attached to a letter that I am sending to the council to reject the motion being put forward by the Councillors: "That the Hundertwasser project not be included in this year's annual plan and that staff be instructed to remove all reference to the Hundertwasser project in forthcoming workshops and annual plan drafts." as being undemocratic and unwise can you please email me barnaby@projectfreerange.com tonight.
I will send the email first thing in the morning. Can you please include your name and any fancy sounds positions you might hold. Also be great if you could say whether you grew up or had a connection to Whangarei.
Posted on August 27, 2013 March 25, 2014
Voices for Equity in the Profession.
It is the last week to provide feedback to a set of important gender equity guidelines being developed in Australia for the architecture profession.
The commentary and resources published by Parlour and their researchers are formidable, and their conference Transform earlier this year was the most engaging I had been to in a long time. Parlour is probably the most important and articulate voice in the profession right now, and they want to talk to you.
It's immediately clear that a great deal of care, experience, and intelligence has gone into these guidelines. I believe Neph Wake and Naomi Stead are to thank for the hard yards in producing these documents (please correct me if I'm wrong), which is yet another significant outcome of the parent project 'Equity and Diversity in the Australian Architecture Profession: Women, Work and Leadership' funded by the Australian Research Council through the Linkage Projects scheme, made so much more accessible thanks to Parlour, edited by the "effective" Justine Clark. (This wonderfully cryptic and completely deserved title was recently used to introduce Justine).
They explain:
The Parlour Guides to Equitable Practice are being developed to help architectural workplaces facilitate change towards a more equitable profession. Aimed both at employers and employees, the guidelines will address the specificities of small, medium, large and regional practice. They will provide hints and tips, and guides to thinking on a range of issues relevant to the architecture profession in Australia today.
As tailored as these are for the culture of the architecture profession, these really have relevance to all workplaces, so if these issues ring true, regardless of your professional penchant, I'd recommend a good sit down with these.
The ten Draft Guidelines address:
1. Pay equity: Moving towards equal pay between women and men in architecture.
2. Leadership: How to promote and support women to senior roles in architecture.
3. Recruitment: Equitable recruitment and hiring diverse talent in architecture.
4. Mentorship: Mentors, sponsors and career champions in architecture.
5. Negotiation: Negotiating flexible working conditions in architecture.
6. Long hours: Challenging the long-hours culture in architecture.
7. Part-time: Meaningful part-time work in architecture.
8. Flexibility: Making flexible patterns work in architecture.
9. Career break: Returning from parental leave and other career breaks in architecture.
10. Registration: Supporting women who choose to register in as architects.
11… Parlour also offers suggestions for other areas they haven't already addressed.
If you can, these drafted guidelines should be devoured at length, they are highly addictive and very readable. Even if you take a crack at two or three of the issues close to you heart, it's worth offering your contribution this way as the online form below allows specific feedback to each individual theme, so every bit counts.
You can download the Draft Guidelines here, and link to the feedback form on that page. Following consultation, the finalised Parlour Guides to Equitable Practice will be published later this year.
www.archiparlour.org
Hollow Men
I've been sneaking round looking at other tricksterish behaviour, or counter to tricksterish behaviour, and stumbled across this great quote on the website of The Hollow Men.
"The secret to success is sincerity and conviction – once you can fake that you've got it made"
Peter Keenan, Political advisor and speech writer.
NZ Politics. I can't help but be amazed by how badly the reconfiguration of Aucklands Council system is being managed. Ultimately it is probably a good idea, but the speed and manner in which Hide and Key are facillitating this process is terrible and abusive of their power. I just don't understand why Key is letting such bad publicity affect his government so early. My prediction number one is that he has done a deal with Hide to let them have their way with Auckland if they shut up about Climate Change and let National return to some middle ground on this. Notably Hide and the other Act MPs have stopped going to the select committee meetings about the current climate change review.
I am also really suprised with how quiet and obidient the Maori Party is being about the removal of Maori Representation from the new Greater Auckland Council. I can only think that they too have been promised something big to keep them quiet and this would have to be the repeal of the Seabed and Foreshore Legislation. This would be classic Key, he gets to make seemingly pro-environmental and pr0-maori gestures which in reality are weak and don't change the reality of the alternative agenda they are quietly running behind the scenes.
A long, slow descent into hell
I'm currently living in Sri Lanka at the moment, and witnessing the continuation of this beautiful islands tragic history. Colombo is a virtual police state now controlled by what is effectively a military dictatorship.
Any sane analysis of the recent history here makes taking sides a senseless exercise. Much like the Bush/Bin Laden relationship, this is a game played by violent boys upon people of various ethnic backgrounds. Given the complete banning of journalists anywhere near the current warzone and the state control of the media here it is of little use trying to work what is actually going on at the moment. It seems truth reveals itself in historical glimpses. The tigers may be a doomed force now, but a whole generation has been born and raised in this conflict. They have lived lifes of forced migrations, refugee camps, propaganda as education, and life looking down the barrel of guns from both behind and infront.
I had a moment of horror a few nights ago when I was taken aside by a young soldier in standard procedure when roads are completely cleared to make way for fast moving convoys of vips. As the noisy collection of bikes, army trucks and black tinted SUVs emerged around the corner this friendly young soldier with gun pointing nonchalantly in my direction casually removed the safety from his gun. So for a few sweaty moments I had my first experience of a fully loaded automatic weapon being pointed at me with no safety on. As soon as the convoy passed the soldier put the safety back, smiled and let us be on our way.
With only limited ability to make sense of current events it falls to artists and writers to create meaning and hope. I point you to a well written piece in The Guardian by Sri Lankin novelist Romesh Gunesekera.
" The other night, in London's Nehru Centre, I heard the Bengali poet Sunil Gangopadhyay recite a powerful poem against the warped beliefs we use to excuse our sometimes atrocious behaviour. It made me think: what should I believe in now? What can I believe in? What must I believe in?
So, here is a list to start with:
– I must believe that the fighting will be over tomorrow and there will be no more killing, indiscriminate or discriminate.
– I must believe that those who have the power will ensure that future generations will not be brought to this point of suffering again.
– I must believe that everyone believes murder is wrong.
– I must believe that aid will flow into the country and that it will go wholly and directly to those who have suffered most.
– I must believe that money for war will be converted into money for peace and reconstruction, wherever it may come from.
– I must believe that a military victory will not lead to triumphant jingoism.
– I must believe that all those who have been trained only to fight will be found gainful civilian employment.
– I must believe that the ambitions of the military will not grow ever larger.
– I must believe that a just and democratic society nurtures and protects all its people and treats them equally.
– I must believe that dissent will not be punished.
– I must believe that the press and media will be free and fair and brave.
– I must believe that journalists will not be intimidated.
– I must believe that good will is stronger than ill will.
– I must believe that good leaders are honourable people who will always place the interests of their people before the interests of themselves.
– I must believe that the young will learn from the mistakes of the elders.
– I must believe that we will not be fooled again, wherever we are and whoever we are.
– I must believe in the human capacity for compassion and reconciliation.
– I must believe all wrongs will be righted.
– I must believe that in words we will find what in fury we cannot.
But must I also believe – as leaders on all sides seem to – that the end justifies the means? Does it, really?"


At OsNosh our food recycling and community kitchen mission is simple: to cook FREE or pay as you feel community meals for everyone who is hungry, struggling or just in need of some company.
Using food that is donated or would otherwise be wasted, our weekly meal is an inclusive, warm and friendly environment where all are welcome. We cook out of the magnificent kitchen at Oswestry's Holy Trinity Church, and are supporte by many local food producers and businesses.
So come to OsNosh, and enjoy seriously good food, and get involved with the whole joy of cooking a simple and healthy meal.
... or pay as you feel. Service starts at 12.30 and all are welcome.
Come by Holy Trinity Church in Oswestry every Thursday from 12.30pm. All you need to bring is yourself, and we'll keep those bellies full with an exciting and ever-changing menu.
With real experience in large-scale events catering, we're the perfect choice – check our some of our previous events here.
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If you eat at our weekly community kitchen cooks. If you have booked us for an event to be remembered. We produce exceptional food, from donated or waste food. For everyone.
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