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Summer Lovin'
By Jim Keoghan
In Everton NewsEverton Opinion
God bless the summer, the time of year when all of football's happy outcomes remain deliriously possible. Is there any part of the football calendar more imbued with hope than right now?
Even the most hardened of Evertonian pessimists, the kind who will write our season off when Keane under-hits a backpass ten minutes into the opening game of the season, cannot fail to succumb to the sunny optimism of the summer.
These months have a near miraculous quality. In May, you approach the season's end weary, tired of football and all its predictability. The campaign has chipped away at your reserves of hope. You're ready for a breather; a break from Everton being 'Everton'.
But the close season does something to you. Not long after the campaign's conclusion you are resurrected. Like Lazarus rolling back the stone, you emerge anew. And this reborn self is barely recognisable from the world weary wreck of just a few days ago. Sunshine and optimism are abound as you approach the season to come.
All rumours are considered entirely plausible. The players that arrive will be transformative. The deficiencies of the last campaign will be addressed. This year will be different. This is the season when it all comes good.
Reason is a fickle friend to us Evertonians today. In the summer, we are caught up in a whirlwind of unfounded optimism and reckless hope. In June, an assault on the higher reaches of the table seems possible. We ask ourselves if this will be the season when silverware finally comes home and find the answer to be: why not? We imagine foundations for greatness getting laid, dynasties being built, the restoration of former fortunes claimed.
By the winter, when the nights have drawn in, the mercury plummeting, and the cold reality of a hard campaign is laid bare, we'll spin in the opposite direction. We fall into unreasoned despair, a catastrophising spiral that sees the spectre of relegation and long repressed memories of Mike Walker haunt our restless nights. In January, we'll be telling Silva to fuck off, raging as Everton exit the FA Cup to Morecambe and start to wonder what moves faster, Yerry Mina or an arctic glacier.
The winter is all about suffering, the summer a heady rush of unabandoned excitement. I am old enough to have witnessed my fair share of summers. And strangely, no matter how old I am and no matter how rich or poor Everton are, I still fall victim to the same sense of reasonless hope.
I can remember us, back in the late 1980s, being part of the hunting pack when that year's hottest prospect would come on the market (and occasionally landing our quarry). I can remember us being linked with Jurgen Klinsman in 1994 and ending up with Vinny Samways. And I can remember the years of penury under David Moyes, when the arrival of a second tier Argentinian centre forward counted as a marquee signing. Through it all, that sense of boundless, unjustified hope has always been with me.
Well, nearly always. Even the sunny outlook of the summer was no match for Walter Smith, a manager for whom the phrase 'Winter Is Coming' fitted perfectly. Under our very own Night King, it felt as though it was always January.
But Walter was a blip, an aberration. Either side of his dark reign, I have always let the summer take me. And that's no different today. In my head I know the seeds of pessimism are there, seeds that might well flourish and blossom as the season progresses. The league is getting harder and harder to thrive in, Everton remain a side that struggles to sustain form over a campaign, and the faint whiff that Silva might be little more than a Portuguese Pardew, a manager forever on a roller-coaster of contrasting bouts of good form and bad, still hangs in the air. I know all of this but despite it all, my sense of hope wins out
Right now I can only see the positive. I look at a Director of Football who brought in Digne, Gomes and Richarlison and wonder with excitement what will come next. I think of the side as it was towards the end of last season and imagine what added potency new arrivals will provide. I think of how bad we have been in recent campaigns and still ended up in the top eight, considering how little improvement would be needed to challenge the top four.
Will this be the summer when the club finally turns a corner? Right now I'll say of course it is. Although I said the same a few years ago when the club brought in Klassen, Sandro and Vlasic. That's the problem with the summer, critical reasoning deserts you.
But we should enjoy it nonetheless. The odds are stacked against Everton, as they are for so many clubs. Come May 2020, you know that surprises will be thin on the ground. The league and the cups have become predictable to the point of tedium. The most exciting league in the world is only exciting for supporters of a select few, and for those journalists and pundits who remain forever fixated on the 'glamour' of the top six.
But right now, before a ball has been kicked, we can kid ourselves that anything is possible. Us Blues probably suffer from an excess of pessimism more than any other group of fans in the top flight. So, let's hear it for the summer, the one time of the year when Evertonians don't behave like Evertonians.
Jim Keoghan
Jim Keoghan is the author of Everton's Greatest Games: the Toffees 50 Finest Moments and High's Lows and Bakayokos: the story of Everton in the 1990s.


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Socceroos beat New Zealand 2-0
Jason Cummings' World Cup "dream" remains alive after he scored on his Socceroos debut as a host of Australia's future stars combined to beat New Zealand 2-0 at Eden Park on Sunday.
Scotsman Cummings, who qualifies to play for Australia via his mother's heritage, was among six players given Socceroos debut by national coach Graham Arnold
And Arnold would have been impressed with what he saw, particularly in the second half when the Australians stepped up a gear after a sluggish opening 45 minutes to make it back-to-back wins over the All Whites following last Thursday night's 1-0 victory at Suncorp Stadium.
Keen for a host of fringe players to put their cases forward for selection in his World Cup squad, Arnold fielded an entirely different starting side to the 11 that started in the first game of the series.
Defender Harrison Delbridge was the only debutant to start the match, however Arnold gave five more players – attackers Cummings and Garang Kuol, midfielders Cameron Devlin and Keanu Baccus, and right back Ryan Strain – their Socceroos debut.
And they didn't disappoint, with Central Coast teenager Kuol's power and pace evident in the build-up to his Mariners teammate Cummings' goal, which came from the penalty spot after his goal-bound strike hit the arm of New Zealand left back Liberato Cacace.
"He caused a bit of a ruckus out there with the opposition – he's a great kid," Arnold said of Cummings.
"It's fantastic. He hit the shot (that led) to the handball, so it would have gone in anyway, so that's probably why he thought he should take the penalty because he deserved to score a goal."
Cummings said he was "absolutely buzzing".
"I was just wanting to get on the pitch," the 27-year-old former Dundee forward told Channel 10.
"I got a good 30 minutes. The ball fell to me, and I caught it well. It was going in and the boy handballed it, so I was fuming.
"I thought 'I've got to step up and take this (penalty)'. Fair play to the lads and (teammate) Riley (McGree). They asked me if I wanted to take it, and I said 'of course'.
"It's a striker's dream … to step up, take a penalty and put it in the back of the net, not a problem."
Cummings said it was also his "dream" to be part of the Socceroos' World Cup squad.
"All I need to do now is go back with the Mariners, work hard, do well there, score goals and you never know." he said.
Cummings' 80th-minute spot kick sealed Australia's win after fellow striker Mitch Duke gave the Socceroos the lead in the 54th minute.
Japan-based Duke's powerful header was a reward for Australia's good start to the second half.
Midfielder Connor Metcalfe was the provider with a dangerous cross that Duke met with authority to score his eighth goal for the national team.
The Socceroos should have led 1-0 at half-time after some unselfish play from Duke presented Marco Tilio with a gilt-edged opportunity in the 44th minute.
Giving up his own chance to shoot, Duke squared a ball into the path of the unmarked Tilio, who seemed certain to score from just outside the six-yard box.
However, the Melbourne City attacker was far too casual as he failed to even hit the target with his fluffed shot.
The All Whites' hopes of finding the back of the net suffered a blow in the 32nd minute when star striker Chris Wood was forced off with a rib injury.
The 30-year-old marksman, who plies his trade for English Premier League club Newcastle United, had earlier come off second best in a heavy bump with Socceroos defender Thomas Deng, who was making just his second appearance for the national team and his first since his debut in 2018.
Wood tried to battle on but eventually succumbed to the injury, and was replaced by Wellington Phoenix youngster Ben Waine.
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Earlier this month I introduced you to the Target Room Essentials line which includes necessary basics for every room in your house.
I shared a handful of my personal favorites with you but this time I want to show you an even more personal take on one of their pieces.
This foldable desk attracted me because it collapses completely flat quickly, great for small spaces or even for moving. Pair this table with a foldable chair & you have a setting that is just as quick to pack away as it was to set up.
Beyond being convertible, I saw a lot of potential in this piece to be more than a desk but possibly a vanity or entry table, even a sofa table. And two of these side by side could also make for a clean line of shelf space wherever you put it.
Below I share my own styling & photos of the table in 3 different scenarios.
This is especially great if you want your own personal space to work, draw, read, and write to-do lists (as I often do!). I used these linen storage boxes as a sort of moveable filing cabinet and layered some woven rugs underneath for pattern and texture. Work spaces should be inspiring but they should not be so attention getting that it causes distraction, so a consistent palette of blacks, grey and natural browns add enough personality without compromising focus and efficiency.
A plant that if possibly modeling for some sketches or in the process of finding a new home. A few inspiring images on the wall with an artist's stool in a deep shade of green all elevate a basic table to something more refined and purposeful.
Once again this is nice when you want a space all to yourself. For me, with two small kids and a husband, our family shares everything, our daughter even sleeps in our room! To have an area designated just to me, to take my make up off at night or to keep my perfumes and lotions away from the everyone else's is like a small luxury.
Here you can hang a few necklaces, keep your brushes, moisturizers or favorite fashion magazines nearby. Play around with seating for something small and easy to push under the overhanging ledge or possibly an upholstered piece with more cushion. I keep it simple yet again with a round mirror, my componibili which doubles as storage/seating and a group of favorite simple beauty products.
It isn't specifically an example a sofa table but the idea of a console table that can be used either behind a sofa or in a hallway, sort of the same piece in my mind. This can be a purely decorative area and display a collection of glass pieces or favorite framed artwork. You could also hang some knobs nearby for hats and jackets, and a rug for protecting the floor from heavy traffic. I used an armchair for collecting personal odds & ends but also for the wood color that softens the thin black lines.
I hope you enjoyed my take on a basic yet ultra versatile item!
This is such a lovely piece! My desk at the moment is just a plain IKEA black with silver legs, but this one just looks so much nicer! I hope they have it in their Canadian stores (though I doubt it, they're sadly awful).
Love all the styling and all the pieces! The best, Carol.
Love the styling, especially the vanity option!
And example how beauty does not have to cost much and is not reserved only for high end brands! Great work!
Absolutely brilliant! My favorite was the sofa table.
You are amazing, Jennifer!! I love your eye. I have been looking for a good entry table for over a year now. Maybe this is it.


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The people behind DiS launch theQuietus.com
by Sean Adams July 10th, 2008
Hello. The people behind DrownedinSound.com are very pleased, proud and excited to announce the full launch of theQuietus.com, a new music site with a cast of contributors that reads like the greatest hits of modern music journalism.
Is it for you? "If you don't actually believe that Jack Peñate is the best thing since Nirvana but you're still not ready to slump into yet another feature on _Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, then we could be the thing you're waiting for,"_ says Quietus editor John Doran.
Earlier this year we started trying to get beyond our frustrations with the mainstream music press and that yearning for the kind of personality-driven writing that once violently engaged the reader. E-mails were fired off, a blog was formed and theQuietus.com spent the first half of the year pulling together an impressive cast of journalists.
Contributors include: legendary ex-NME scribe Steven Wells; esteemed travel and music writer Andrew Mueller; author and musician Chris Roberts; Gold Blade frontman and writer John Robb; Independent On Sunday _music critic and author Simon Price; ex-enfant terrible Taylor Parkes; the Editor of _Terrorizer Joe Stannard; the Editor of_ Plan B_ Louis Pattison; the Reviews Editor of The Wire, Derek Walmsley; Mr Popjustice Peter Robinson; and arguably the best music writer of the last 20 years, Simon Reynolds. As well as the sites editor John Doran, who has contributed to The Wire_, Stool Pigeon, Plan B, Metal Hammer _and DrownedinSound.com, and many more national magazine titles and newspapers.
With the emphasis first and foremost on quality writing, recent features have included The Rebirth of Disco (Simon Price); Glastonbury: Aryan Folk Festival (Swells); The Cult of Chris Needham (Taylor Parkes), Ringo P. Stacey's interview with Public Enemy and Tommy Udo's startling North Of Purgatory: A Coma Diary.
A concise reviewing policy sees only the very best of the latest releases covered with astute assessments on albums from artists as diverse as Donna Summer and Wild Beasts to My Bloody Valentine and U2 currently on site.
The site will also be offering fantastic, exclusive audio/visual content such as the podcast preview of Supersonic festival, a gallery of Steve Gullick's photography and a film about British Sea Power playing live in the Natural History Museum.
You can also expect a wealth of guest writers including Jarvis Cocker on the seminal Sheffield post-punk unit Artery and Aidan Moffat's sex advice column.
Does this all sound familiar? You may remember the site received considerable media attention worldwide after hosting a preview of the forthcoming Metallica album only to asked to remove it by the band's management. After the site refused Metallica themselves responded, apologising for their management's actions and published a link to the 'offending' article themselves. The outcome to all this? theQuietus.com has secured an exclusive interview with Metallica about their new album and their relationship with the internet.
Anyway, that's enough of our press release-like babble. Take a moment and check the site out and we hope you like it.
http://www.theQuietus.com
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Fairy Scapegoats: A History of the Persecution of Changeling Children
Distraught over a sick or disabled child, parents would torture — sometimes even kill — what they believed to be a malevolent stand-in for a stolen baby.
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Fairies were dangerous. Not to believe in them was dangerous. Not to respect them or take them seriously was dangerous — hence all the carefully euphemistic or indirect names one used in speaking of them, from "the Gentry" to "the Good People," "Themselves," "the fair folk" and "the people of peace" through to the charming Welsh phrase bendith û mamme, or "such as have deserved their mother's blessing." Fairies stole your children. They made you or your animals sick, sometimes unto death. They could draw the life, or essence, out of anything, from milk or butter through to people. Their powers, as we have seen, were almost limitless, not only demonic but even godlike in scale and scope.
While ordinary people still believed this less than a century ago, the educated had also believed it in the era of the witch persecutions. Witches did these kinds of thing, and fairies or fairyland were quite often referenced in their trials. Although Joan of Arc was tried as a heretic, rather than a witch, the latter association naturally clung to such an unusual woman, and it is notable that in 1431 her interrogators took an interest in the "fairy tree" around which Joan had played in her childhood in Domrémy. In the Protestant camp, Calvin later emphasized how "the Devil works strange illusions by fairies and satyrs." In early modern Sicily one distinct type of witch was the female "fairy doctor," the phrase donna di fuori ("woman from outside") meaning either "fairy" or "fairy doctor." Here Inquisitors encouraged people, including suspected witches, to equate fairy and witch beliefs. In 1587 they were especially interested in one Laura di Pavia, a poor fisherman's wife who claimed to have flown to fairyland in Benevento, Kingdom of Naples.
In many cases, educated witch-believers saw fairies and fairyland as sources of dark power for witches. Lizanne Henderson lists 38 Scottish witch trials (1572—1716) featuring references to fairy beliefs, including that of Isobel Strathaquin (Aberdeen, 1597), accused of using skills which she "learnt . . . of an elf-man who lay with her." At the 1616 trial of Katherine Caray the accused spoke of meeting not only "a great number of fairy men" on the Caithness hills at sunset, but "a master man" — a figure which in this context could have been seen as "the King of the Fairies" or "the Prince of Darkness." After a Scottish girl, Christian Shaw, suffered hysterical fits in 1696, the ensuing trial featured a veritable cauldron of lurid evidence, from a mysterious black man with cold hands through to the eating of "a piece of unchristened child's liver," and a charm of blood and stones used by one Margaret Fulton, a reputed witch whose "husband had brought her back from the fairies."
Like witches, fairies were powerful, uncanny and unpredictable. And like witches, or vampires, or any of the world's numerous magical figures, fairies were scapegoats. They could be blamed for almost anything.
One particular case of demonized fairies is so intriguing that it merits a little space to itself. Its protagonist was Ann Jefferies, a maidservant of the Pitt family at St Teath, Cornwall. In 1645, aged nineteen, Ann was "one day knitting in an arbour in our garden" when "there came over the garden hedge to her six persons of a small stature, all clothed in green, which she called fairies: upon which she was so frighted, that she fell into a kind of a convulsion-fit." So related the bookseller and printer Moses Pitt fifty years later, having been six at the time of Ann's encounter.
What followed looks in many ways like the career of a fairy doctor. Ann seemed to suffer some kind of neurosis about food and allegedly took none from the family for several months, claiming that the fairies themselves fed her. Ann presently cured Mrs Pitt's leg after a bad fall merely by stroking it, and soon became so famous that numerous people flocked to the house for cures from as far south as Land's End, and as far north as London. All cures seemed to be done purely by touch, without medicines. Ann showed psychic ability, knowing of her visitors before they arrived. Moses himself never saw the fairies but his mother and sister both did.
This case is already interesting for the way that it echoes those of other fairy doctors, despite the Pitt family (and other affluent patients from London) having no concept of such figures. The element of danger initially seems brief, being limited to Ann's fear at the first encounter. But presently local ministers began to insist that the fairies were "evil spirits" and that the whole affair was "a delusion of the Devil." A warrant appeared; Pitt's family and Ann were questioned by local authorities; and magistrate John Tregeagle had Ann locked up — first in Bodmin Jail, and next in his own house, where he kept her without food. Although witchcraft was not explicitly mentioned, it is hard not to suspect that this was on people's minds. The instability of the Civil War may have further aggravated such fears: the female prophet Anna Trapnel had sparked controversy in January 1645, and Sarah Wight had a similar effect in the weeks after February 1647.
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Like witches, fairies were powerful, uncanny and unpredictable. And like witches, or vampires, or any of the world's numerous magical figures, fairies were scapegoats. They could be blamed for almost anything, from human deaths through to mass famine. In one sense, the fairy as scapegoat was potentially a good thing. For fairies, real or not, could not be harmed. Women taken for witches certainly could be, and were — and after official persecution ended there were hundreds of serious vigilante assaults on them throughout Britain, right through to the end of the nineteenth century. In reality, however, fairy scapegoats did produce a great deal of human suffering. The problem, here, was what people did to real human beings who were believed to be fairy changelings.
In August 1909 an old woman of Donegal, Annie McIntire, applied for a pension. She told the Pension Committee that although "she did not know the number of her years," she "remembered being stolen by the 'wee people' (fairies) on Halloween Night, 1839." Was she certain of this?
"Yes, by good luck my brother happened to be coming home from Carndonagh that night, and heard the fairies singing and saw them dancing round me in the wood at Carrowkeel. He had a book with him, and he threw it in among them. They then ran away." The applicant added that the people celebrated the event by great feasting and drinking. The committee decided to grant her a pension.
Whatever actually happened that Halloween night, McIntire clearly believed her version until the end of her days. So, too, would many of those around her, young or old. For everyone knew that fairies stole children.
More broadly, fairies again resembled vampires or witches in that all three, very basically, attacked life. The latter pair could suck out your blood, soul or breath, or extract the essence from food. Much later, that iconic Other of our own times, the alien abductor, updated this basic assault with clinical probings or the removal of human eggs or sperm. In the pre-scientific cultures of the fairy or the witch, however, the most potent emblem of life was simply one's own baby or child.
One ironic result of this was that, for most of history, no child was delighted by fairies. Old people in Cornwall told Evans-Wentz:
if we as children did anything wrong, the old folks would say to us, "The piskies will carry you away if you do that again." . . . In Tintagel I used to sit round the fire at night and hear old women tell so much about piskies and ghosts that I was then afraid to go out of doors after darkness had fallen.
At Cwmcastellfach farm in Wales a seventy-year-old man told Evans-Wentz that "in his childhood days a great dread of the fairies occupied the heart of every child. They were considered to be evil spirits who visited our world at night." Even in the less typically fairy-haunted flats of Norfolk, young children growing up around the First World War were told, "if naughty . . . that the 'hightie sprite' was at the bottom of the garden and would get them." On the whole, this distinctive East Anglian spirit evoked far less terror than Celtic fairies. There again, one 1980s informant recalled it as "a black bat-like figure, man-size, hovering silently in the twilight, waiting to snatch away disobedient children." While many boys and girls were being enchanted by Rose Fyleman's "fairies at the bottom of our garden," others still feared vampiric kidnappers at the bottom of theirs.
Writing in 1960, the Dutch scholar Jacoba Hooykaas found child-stealing fairy or elf types were feared in Britain, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Moravia, Greece, Lithuania, Bohemia and Hungary, with a modern-day variant in Bali. In Celtic territories, fairies stole babies and children — especially boys, and especially those with blue eyes and fair hair — leaving fairy substitutes in their place. Having identified such a switch, people did everything they could to make the fairies reverse it. To the end of the nineteenth century, and probably later, such children were ritually abused by their own parents to this end. Immersed in rivers or placed at the margin of coastal tides, stood on hot coals or hung over fires, exposed in freezing weather, bathed in poisonous foxglove essence, beaten, threatened and subjected to forms of exorcism, these babies and children sometimes survived, sometimes not. Ironically, part of the logic of this treatment was the sense that the fairies cared enough about their offspring to rescue them from such abuses and restore one's child in the process. Even as they tormented these supposed changelings, parents were projecting their own familial love onto fairyland.
Certain of these conditions only manifested some time after birth. This, surely, was the smoking fairy gun: you had known your own baby, and this, now, was not him.
Let us imagine a large rural family in which an initially normal, healthy new baby presently begins to seem suspect. He cries almost incessantly, fails to grow, walk or talk, has oddly wizened features and is constantly hungry. At one very basic level, a child continually crying and demanding food, and unable to work like its six- or seven-year- old peers, is a liability in such circumstances. But these problems almost certainly took second place to the real and frightening belief that it was not yours, and that your child had been stolen. Hard as it now is to credit, parents in such cases very probably felt just as distraught as the modern mothers and fathers making television appeals about their missing or abducted children.
While it was clear to educated Victorians that many changelings were disabled children, much more precise clinical parallels were detailed in 1988 by the interdisciplinary scholar Susan Schoon Eberly. The case given above would fit especially well with a genetic disorder affecting metabolism, phenylketonuria (pku). This and other similar conditions predominate among male children of Irish and English descent. Even brief references from fairy believers give clues to these disorders, talking of children like "old men," perhaps suffering from progeria. Obvious physical deformity, such as the oversized heads of hydrocephalus, or "water on the brain," would be singled out; yet so too might the pretty, blue-eyed, snubnosed, "elfin" children afflicted with Williams syndrome. Here, as in every magical culture the world over, it was never a good idea to stand out. Eberly also adds that certain of these conditions only manifested some time after birth. This, surely, was the smoking fairy gun: you had known your own baby, and this, now, was not him. All of this painstaking detective work can, in one sense, be collapsed into three letters: "oaf," a word broadly cognate with "elf," once meant not a clumsy or stupid person, but, literally, a changeling.
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Plain and axiomatic as the real medical causes now seem to us, the majority view, from the ancient Romans to the Edwardian Celts, was intensely superstitious. When Martin Luther recommended drowning a changeling, it was because the child's appearance showed it to have no soul. In the seventeenth century, even the most rational Christians used "changeling" as a loose synonym for the mentally disabled, with dramatist Elkanah Settle echoing Luther when he talked, in 1694, of "some coarse half-souled fairy changeling." The relatively enlightened physician and philosopher John Locke probably did not believe in fairies, yet did speculate at great length on the souls of the mentally disabled, and whether or not they should be classed as a different species.
With these kinds of attitudes lodged at the heart of Christian and proto-scientific elites in the early modern period, what could changelings expect from true fairy believers? In all households, there were routine precautions aimed to prevent child theft. A very common one involved putting fire tongs over a cradle, because of the fairies' well-known antipathy to iron. As in McIntire's case, books also had power over them, and religious ones especially — hence the placing of a Bible or prayer book under a child's pillow. In Ireland into the 1930s, babies were not believed safe from fairies until they (the babies) had sneezed, so that many infants had pepper thrust under their noses minutes after birth. In Connemara at the same time people still dressed boys and girls alike in red flannel petticoats until the age of twelve, a disguise used to trick those fairies who liked to steal boys in particular.
If such measures failed, the changeling met with violence — this often being advised or performed by the local fairy doctor. In some cases, such rituals were used on actual sick children thought to be "fairy-struck" — though, as we will see, they too could be seen as in danger of abduction. Carole Silver cites changelings killed by foxglove baths in Wales in 1857, and in Donegal in the 1870s and 1890s. Eberly tells of a Scottish case, in Caerlaverock, where the ceaselessly yelling and ill-tempered baby was thrown onto hot coals. In 1952 the Australian-born classical scholar Gilbert Murray (1866—1957) recalled how,
in Ireland, in my own lifetime, a child, who was for some reason reputed to be a changeling, was beaten and burned with irons, the mother being locked out of the room while the invading fairy was exorcised, though unfortunately the child died in the process.
This killing does not seem to have been prosecuted, and many of those which escaped public or legal notice must now have been lost to us. This was nearly the case after the tragic death of a nine-year-old boy, son of Kilkenny labourer Patrick Kearns. Late at night on April 7, 1856, a police patrol met the Kearnses taking their son's body to an unused burial ground, and insisted on examining him. Thus, instead of an unknown secret burial, there came to light the tale of how the child, confined to bed for three weeks past, was judged to be suffering from a "fairy-blast." Although he was not himself a changeling, it was said that he was "being gradually carried off by the fairies"; if he had died naturally it may have been believed that They had taken him. Versions of this affair vary. But it seems that a man called Thomas Donovan, assisted by Patrick Murphy, attempted a ritual test, giving the boy water and getting him to cough. When the boy could not cough, he was dragged violently out of the house and around the yard, strangled and badly beaten. He died early the next morning from his injuries.
Even as they tormented these supposed changelings, parents were projecting their own familial love onto fairyland.
Some accounts have Donovan as the "fairy doctor" making the initial diagnosis; others mention an unnamed "wise woman" as doing so. Although one report has Patrick Kearns apparently trying to rescue his son from Donovan, the versions which claim the parents to have agreed with the procedure, even after the boy's death, match other known cases better. Interestingly, during the trial, the judge briefly mentioned delusions about fairies, emphasizing that these could in no way absolve Donovan (Murphy having by now fled to America). A qc, meanwhile, could see no motive for the crime, and wrongly inferred that perhaps there had been some delusion about the boy being "possessed by the Devil." This already shows the gulf between educated and popular perceptions of fairies. Moreover, we also learn that the Kearnses resorted to the fairy rituals despite their son having previously been under the care of two licensed doctors — one of whom confirmed after autopsy that the boy, though killed by Donovan, would have died of a tumor and water on the brain within a week. Donovan was sentenced to a year's hard labor. A few years before, the parents of six-year-old Mary Anne Kelly, allegedly "in a dying state" for six months prior to September 1850, turned from the dispensary physician to a Roscrea "fairy doctress" named Bridget Peters. Peters seems at one point to have declared Mary Anne "fairy struck," and at another that the child was a fairy. She gave the girl verbena and foxglove, and ordered that she be exposed naked outdoors for three nights on a shovel. This was done, despite Mary Anne's cries being audible in the house. On the third night she died.
Here again fairy ritual took on demonic overtones. One report claimed that a prayer had to be said over the girl "in the name of the devil," and several carried the headline "Witchcraft." In this instance the mother, Mary Kelly, seems to have been unusually complicit (and was initially tried along with Peters). If uneducated, the Kellys were by no means desperately poor. A key witness in the trial was their servant, Mary Maher, who was sacked after refusing to put Mary Anne out on the shovel, and who may have been the only reason the crime came to light. Mary Kelly seems ultimately to have been acquitted. Peters, described as "respectable looking" and evidently literate, was found guilty.
Cases such as these now seem so extraordinary as to be almost unreal to us. Eberly has argued convincingly that modern-day responses of parents to disabled children still sometimes mingle anger and guilt, and that such emotions could well have fed into the violence directed at changelings. Silver has suggested that one benefit of the changeling belief was the way it shifted blame for the child's condition into a thoroughly separate, supernatural realm, beyond human control. With these points in mind, it bears emphasizing that Mary Anne had from birth been blind, brain-damaged and partially paralyzed. Having said all this, we need to grasp that such modern rationalizations were largely alien from the fairy cultures in which changelings suffered or died. Most parents really, unshakably believed that this was a dangerous, uncanny fairy creature, and very possibly feared it too.
In some cases, this level of terror was also apparent in the "fairy child." In April 1840 James Mahony, a man living on the country estate of Charles Riall, at Heywood, County Tipperary, was influenced by his neighbors into the belief that his son, John (aged six or seven), was a fairy. This was partly due to a curvature of the spine which had kept the boy in bed two years, and partly to his being a suspiciously "intellectual child." On the night of Tuesday, 14 April, Mahony, with the connivance of neighbors, held the near-naked boy over a hot shovel, threatening to put him on it, and dragged him halfway to the water pump, proposing to drown him under it if he did not reveal the whereabouts of Mahony's true son. John seems to have become so terrified by this that he presently "told them that he was a fairy, and that he would send back the real John Mahony the next evening, if they gave him that night's lodging" — even going so far as to specify that the real John was in a farmer's house, wearing corduroys and a green cap. Next morning, John was found dead in his bed. Although a doctor decided that this had resulted from the boy's spinal condition, this fatality looks as though it may have been caused by sheer terror. We have seen that voodoo death can occur in such cases in around one to three days, while vagal inhibition can kill in seconds or minutes, when shock affects the vagus nerve, the autonomic nervous system, and ultimately the heart. We have to wonder, here, if John's parents ever doubted the child's terrified "confession." Did they remain convinced that they had actually killed a fairy?
Similarly, Westropp remembered from his boyhood, in 1869, "a very old woman, Kate Molony," from Maryfort, County Clare, who, many years before, being anxious about her daughter's failing health, "went to a 'wise woman,' who assured her that the child was 'changed.' She spoke of this on her return, and unfortunately the patient was old enough to understand the fearful decision. The poor child turned over on the bed with a groan, and was a little later found to be dead." This sounds unmistakably like vagal inhibition. If so, the child must have died either because of her sheer terror of her own fairy status (in which she apparently believed) or because of the ensuing tortures which she knew this diagnosis would bring.
Such dangers were not entirely confined to the uneducated inhabitants of the Celtic countryside. Writing around 1865 about the fairies of Cornwall, Robert Hunt had recently heard from a friend of how, "the other day . . . an Irishwoman . . . was brought before the magistrates, in New York, for causing the death of a child by making it stand on hot coals, to try if it were her own truly-begotten child, or a changeling." Meanwhile, Westropp's family — affluent landowners at Patrickswell, Limerick, since the sixteenth century — had a much closer brush with changeling superstitions than the one recalled above. For Westropp's "second sister, whose delicacy, when an infant, excited remark, was, about 1842, taken out by a servant to be exposed on a shovel on the doorstep at Carnelly. The angry and hasty intervention of another servant saved the child, but the would be 'exposer' was convinced" of the rightness of her attempt to "'get back the child' from the fairies."
This incident partly echoes the 1884 case of three-year-old Philip Dillon of Clonmel, severely burned after two neighbors put him to a changeling test in his mother's absence. In such contexts, "changelings" were at risk from others besides their parents, with these people very possibly acting "for the good of the community." It is easy to forget, looking back from a thoroughly medicalized world, how profoundly extra-scientific these people's lives were. The disabilities and illnesses of these children perhaps seemed just as fundamentally wrong. Changeling beliefs therefore offered two important benefits. First, they allowed people to shift from being helpless victims to active combatants of the perceived problem. Second, and probably more importantly, they gave an otherwise frighteningly arbitrary condition a meaning — a known and accepted place within a shared framework of explanation.
Immersed in rivers or placed at the margin of coastal tides, stood on hot coals or hung over fires, exposed in freezing weather, bathed in poisonous foxglove essence, beaten, threatened and subjected to forms of exorcism, these babies and children sometimes survived, sometimes not.
Yet, if this helps us make some sense of the majority of popular changeling cases, it fails to shed any light on the abuse suffered by Walter Trevelyan of Penzance. On Monday, July 10, 1843, local magistrates and residents heard of how the upper-middle-class Trevelyans had routinely tortured Walter, now aged two years and nine months, for at least a year at their grand Georgian house, The Orchard. Servants and visitors testified that Walter had been kept without food or water for hours, had been left outside in a tree during winter, been made to lie face down on the gravel walk, kicked over a slope in his baby carriage by his father, and tied upside down in a tree until he was black in the face. After the miseries of the day Walter was put to bed on a mattress filled with corks, lest he should gain any comfort in the few exhausted hours of night.
Some of this was specifically ordered by Mrs Trevelyan, and all of it seems to have been the sole responsibility of Walter's parents. Indeed, although the hearing was catalyzed by local vicar Reverend Le Grice, all of the evidence was supplied by working-class servants or visitors, with gardener Francis Dale stating that Walter's cries were so heart-rending as to force him to move away to another part of the garden, where he could not hear them.
Was all this really inspired by the belief that Walter had been "changed by the nurse"? Simon Young, to whom I am indebted for answering various queries on the original newspaper reports of the case, thinks not. He suspects that this phrase refers not to fairy changelings, but to the belief that a child's nurse might change her affluent charge with her own baby, so that the latter could have the benefits of an elite upbringing. He adds that servants may have heard the parents remark facetiously that they thought the naughty Walter to have been "changed at nurse" (that is, so naughty that he could not be their natural child). They then took this literally, as partial explanation for the cruelties inflicted on him.
For educated parents to act on fairy beliefs in this way would be very unusual. We can further add that not all of the abuse looks precisely ritual — as, for example, John Trevelyan kicking Walter over the slope. But much of it, though different from popular habits in detail, does seem to fit the same broad logic: treat the child so badly that its fairy parents will reverse the switch. Ultimately, this case seems to me too unclear to permit a decisive judgement on its origins. One reason for this is that, bizarrely, the Trevelyans themselves seem to have given no evidence at the hearing. We therefore have not a word from them on why Walter was treated in this way. The impression that local magistrates essentially connived to spare the powerful family is grimly reinforced by the final verdict: "we are unanimous in the opinion that the child has been most cruelly and shamefully treated, but there is not sufficient evidence to connect Mr Trevelyan with the ill-usage, for us to send the case to a higher tribunal." If ever there was an instance of the Victorian elite shamefully closing ranks, then clearly this was it.
If we accept, hypothetically, that the parents' cruelty was purely mundane, we are left with some curious ironies. Was it worse for people like the Trevelyans to torture their child than for fairy believers to do so, actuated by supernatural terrors? I would say yes. Second, we have the reaction of the household servants. It is not quite clear if they understood Walter to have been a human changeling or a fairy one. Given the popular fairy beliefs then prevalent in Cornwall, the latter notion would be plausible. In this case, we would have to assume that the mundane sadism of upper-middle-class parents was so appalling to ordinary people as to persuade them that it must have a supernatural origin.
Whatever Walter suffered in adult life (and fighting in the Afghan War, as he later did, was probably a walk in the park by comparison with childhood), we can assume that he did not find people around him looking askance and muttering "changeling" whenever he passed by. But this was the fate of a handful of mentally or physically disabled adults — people who were held by their neighbors, even parents, literally to be "fairies" throughout their lives. John Rhys heard in the late nineteenth century of a woman called Nani Fach at Llanover, Wales, supposed to be one of the fairies' offspring, and also, more specifically, of a farmer's son called Elis Bach at Nant Gwrtheyrn, northwest Wales. All of the large Bach family were quite ordinary, save for Elis, whose legs were
so short that his body seemed only a few inches from the ground when he walked. His voice was also small and squeaky. However, he was very sharp, and could find his way among the rocks pretty well when he went in quest of his father's sheep and goats . . . Everybody believed Elis to have been a changeling.
Meanwhile, in Yorkshire in 1884 Mr J. Cocksedge recalled how, as a child, he had often looked in wonder at hat-maker Fanny Bradley, the tiniest woman he had ever seen. Fanny's brother Tom was of similar stature, and it was said that when they
were infants their mother took them with her to a field adjoining Almscliff Crag, where she had occasion to go to shear or reap some corn . . . While this woman was busy at work these fairies came and stole her children. When she found that her children had gone she cried and was so much troubled that the fairies brought them back, and placed them where they found them. And they said that that was the reason Fanny and her brother were so little.
Other writers, including a niece or nephew of Fanny, stated that she was so small as to have once stood in a man's pocket when measuring him for a hat. Whatever the exact size of Fanny and Tom, their quasi-changeling status (the fairies did something to them, before handing them back) seems to have been reinforced by the fact that they and one other Bradley child had this appearance, while all the others were quite normal. We can only guess how such people made it into adulthood at all. Perhaps their parents were too kind-hearted to subject them to potentially fatal changeling tests; perhaps they underwent them but survived. Such cases also raise the question of when parents stopped trying to get their real child back, and what it felt like to accept that you would live with a fairy for the rest of your life.
Richard Sugg is lecturer in Renaissance Literature at the University of Durham. He is the author of several books, including John Donne and The Smoke of the Soul.
Reprinted with permission from Fairies: A Dangerous History by Richard Sugg, published by Reaktion Books Ltd. © 2018 by Richard Sugg. All rights reserved.
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Suppose that one of your employees slipped and fell after his scheduled shift. He had already clocked out, but the fall occurred on company property. You may be wondering if the accident is covered by workers' compensation.
It depends. Under West Virginia's workers' compensation laws, an injury that occurs on the employer's premises after working hours may be compensable, but it will determine on what the employee was doing at the time of injury, where on the employer's premises the injury occurred, and how long it had been since the employee had clocked out.
Simply because an injury occurred on the employer's premises does not necessarily mean that it is compensable. Workers' compensation may cover injuries sustained by an employee while going to or coming from work, if those injuries are sustained in the "zone of employment." The zone of employment means more than just the employer's property — it must have some proximate relation to the work in which the employee is engaged. There is no hard-and-fast rule to determine whether a particular off-duty injury is compensable; each case must be decided by its own facts and circumstances.
Some of the facts and circumstances to consider are: What was the employee doing at the time of injury? If the employee was socializing with friends, the injury probably won't be compensable. But if the employee was walking out of the facility to go home, it might be. Where did the injury occur? If it was somewhere that the employee normally would be while going to or coming from work, such as a locker room or parking lot, the injury will probably be compensable. On the other hand, if the employee was eating in a cafeteria before going home, the injury might not be compensable. And, under normal circumstances, an employee's use of a public highway going to or coming from work is not considered to be in the course of employment. How long had it been since the employee clocked out? If the injury occurred shortly after clocking out, within a reasonable time for the employee to still be on the employer's premises on the way home, it might be compensable. However, if the injury happened quite some time after the employee finished work, when there was no valid reason for the employee to still be on the premises, it might not be compensable.
If the injury is not covered by workers' compensation, then the employer might be liable for any negligence in a civil suit. Because these situations are so fact-dependent, you should consult your legal counsel and discuss the particulars to decide on the best course of action.


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The Eskimo Baby (German:Das Eskimobaby) is a 1918 German silent comedy film directed by Heinz Schall and starring Asta Nielsen.

Cast
 Asta Nielsen as Eskimo Ivigtut
 Freddy Wingardh as Knud Prätorius

References

Bibliography
 Annette Kuhn. The Women's Companion to International Film. University of California Press, 1990.

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1918 films
Films of the German Empire
Films directed by Heinz Schall
German silent feature films
German black-and-white films
1918 comedy films
German comedy films
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Responsible Thailand Awards
4 reasons you need to visit Isaan, Thailand's North-East
Journey to Thailand's north-east region to uncover sacred temples, world-class wildlife and waterfalls, and some of the most breathtaking sunset views in South-East Asia...
Isaan is the Thai name for the bulge of north-east Thailand which borders – and has historical and cultural connections with – Laos and Cambodia. In this respect, Isaan is claimed as the heartland of the Thai kingdom. Nevertheless, the region hosts only a fraction of the tourists received by Bangkok, the beaches of the south, or Chiang Mai and the forests of the north-west. Which is exactly why exploring this region is so refreshing. Here are some of Isaan's highlights.
1: The landscapes along the Mekong River and Nong Khai are breathtaking
Nong Khai at sundown (Dreamstime)
Sit on the water-worn stone steps that descend into the wide, languidly-flowing Mekong and it becomes obvious why the great river is such a powerful draw. Nong Khai stands on the river's south bank, looking across to Laos. As dusk falls the currents turn pink and rusty in almost impossibly romantic scenes. In the far distance, near the opposite side, you might spot a string of rice barges poled by silhouetted pin-figures and easing along in slow motion.
Currents of trade flow across the Thai-Laos Friendship Bridge, a couple of kilometres upstream from Nong Khai. The city was once part of the Vientiane kingdom and many travellers make a day visit to Vientiane city, the capital of modern Laos, just 25 kilometres away. For others, Nong Khai is the place to start exploring Isaan and a culture evolved from Thai, Lao and Khmer roots.
2: It showcases awe-inspiring archaeological wonders
Prasat Hin Phimai (Dreamstime)
Travellers attentive to the past find Isaan rich in ancient history. Extremely ancient, in the case of Ban Chiang, a UNESCO World Heritage Site now recognised as one of the foremost archaeological sites anywhere in South-East Asia despite having only been discovered in 1966. That was the year when a young anthropology student accidentally stumbled on the rim of a buried jar. It turned out to be one of literally millions of pieces of pottery and other artefacts, the oldest dating back to 3600 BC.
Archaeologists from all over the world descended on this neglected backwater as the pre-history of the region was re-appraised. Near the area where archaeological digs continue to unearth treasures from civilisations spanning thousands of years, stands the Ban Chiang National Museum displaying finds ranging from primitive metal tools to fine-worked ornaments and pottery painted in a burnt-ochre swirling design not, hitherto, found anywhere else.
Further south, near the Cambodian border, the past is etched on the landscape in the form of 1,000-year-old Khmer ruins. A climax comes in the 11th-century temple of Phimai, which pre-dates parts of the renowned Angkor temple complex in Cambodia, with which it was joined by road at the height of the Khmer empire. Wander among the eerie, carved sandstone figures, monolithic lintels and the towering main shrine. In one of the greatest ancient monuments in South-East Asia, you might find that your only fellow visitors are a few Buddhist monks floating about like saffron-robed spectres.
3: It's home to a world-class national park and Thailand's first
Haew Suwat Waterfall in Khao Yai National Park (Dreamstime)
Khao Yai, a wild area of forested mountains down in the south of Isaan region was, in 1962, chosen as Thailand's first national park. Nowadays, it is rated by many as one of the great national parks of the world. The allure is partly the stunning scenery, partly the astonishingly diverse wildlife.
Khao Rom, the highest peak in the park, rises to 1351 metres while towards the horizon limestone hills are draped in vegetation like tresses of dark green hair. There are trails under the forest canopy to thunderous waterfalls cascading into cool clear pools. (Fans of the 2000 film The Beach might recognise the sublimely beautiful Nam Tok Haew Suwat falls).
Wild elephants sometimes wander across roads through the park, or from the seclusion of observation towers you can watch them drinking at salt licks. Gibbons swing in the branches and loops of liana; there are deer, crocodiles, pythons and more than 300 bird species including several rare hornbills. And, it is whispered sotto voce, perhaps 25-30 tigers though their location is secret and sightings are vanishingly rare.
4: It has a maze of treasure trails that wait to be explored
Silk making Thailand (Dreamstime)
Even people for whom ceramics and handicrafts are of only passing interest, find themselves captivated by the exquisite creations produced by local communities in out-of-the-way towns and villages across Isaan.
The plantations of silkworm-sustaining mulberry trees spread out across Khon Kaen province are an example. At villages such as Chonnabot, women sit weaving in the shade of wooden huts raised on stilts, the click of shuttles on looms beating metronomic rhythms as they weave mat-mii. This is a technique, originally Loatian but highly prized in Thailand, of making exquisite multi-coloured silk cloth from threads which have previously been tie-dyed.
Another example is Dan Kwian, a village on a narrows of Mekong tributary the River Mun has been the source of a singular style of rough-textured pottery for centuries. It is made of fired clay from the banks of the river, and is for sale in a dazzling variety of styles – each workshop and stall offering something different.
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My recent blog post on the work-life balance myth – it's work life harmony you need – has raised a few questions and a few doubters.
They don't believe it's possible and don't know where to start. Maybe you feel the same?
Harmony is just making an agreement, well actually a commitment, with yourself.
The commitment is that once you have finished focusing on one area of your life, you will then focus on another that was previously taking a rest.
An example is that once you've finished at the gym, focused on your health, you will spend time with your kids, focused on your family. It's that simple.
But the not so easy part is the discipline required to actually follow through with your commitments.
So here's a guide to actually get harmony in your life – I call it the Harmony Review.
It takes 10 minutes and focuses on what you need and want to do. You'll want to write this down to start but will then be able to do in your mind.
Look at all areas of your life: health, family, and friends, work/business, me time, fun time, spiritual, community etc.
Then for each, see if any area has something important or urgent for you to focus on (this also includes focusing on an area that's not had much love recently because it will bite you in the arse if you continue to neglect it and possibly sabotage another area).
To do this ask yourself these 3 questions scoring them 1-10 where 10 needs your immediate attention and 1 needs none at all.
Is there something important to do if so how important?
Is there something urgent to do and how urgent?
Has this area been resting for a while?
Those areas with the highest scores will be your need.
For each area focus on what you feel you want to focus on and what you want to do. It's important to feel not think.
Ask yourself these 2 questions scoring them 1-10 where 10 needs your immediate attention and 1 needs none at all.
What areas do I feel I want to focus on?
How strong is my feeling?
Those areas with the highest scores will be your want.
Focus your attention where you said you would and agree with yourself that you will focus on the other areas when the need or want appears.
You can do this monthly, weekly or daily. Whatever works for you.
Let me know in the comments below how this works for you.


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Lori Morris, Redefining Luxury Living with 200 Russell Hill, the hottest residence in Toronto
Homes + Interiors LIFESTYLE
Natalie King 3 years ago
Working with renowned developer Simon Hirsh, Toronto-based international design powerhouse Lori Morris is bringing her vision to life with a twenty-two suite sanctuary in Toronto's Forest Hill. Set to open its doors in Fall 2018, each suite in 200 Russell Hill will set a new standard for urban living, showcasing sophisticated, functional and stunning interiors featuring signature LMD touches.
We, at Upscale Living Magazine, asked Lori about this endeavor and about transforming clients' dreams into reality.
What was your vision for 200 Russell Hill?
My vision was to design unique spaces that are not just pleasing to the eye, but also functional. The atmosphere we created is luxury hotel-inspired living that has the intimacy and attention-to-detail of a private residential space. I went for a "sexy lounge" style, which is very French, sophisticated, and layered with intricate details. To create this feeling, I decided to use the black and white color palette with accents of black lacquer, metal brass detailing and deco-inspired furniture and finishes. Very LMD and very timeless. With this project, I had the freedom to design a space that brings together traditional and modern elements. Within each suite buyers will be able to choose between a modern and traditional classic kitchen. Both options are stunning and layered with luxurious custom details.
What was your inspiration behind 200 Russell Hill?
I was inspired by the stunning location in Toronto's Forest Hill area. Its tranquility was perfect for a French-inspired urban residence. The new 200 Russell Hill will be overlooking the Nordheimer Ravine with a gorgeous unobstructed view that transports you out of the city. This feeling is also transitioned into the suites. Spacious, sophisticated and deco-inspired, all units at 200 Russell Hill will set a new standard for urban luxury living. I love having the freedom to translate the client's personality into a space and exceed expectations.
What about the design of the amenities in the residence?
Julie Ballard, Creative Director at the House of LMD and I worked together to design beyond the residences, detailing the stunning amenity spaces. For example, we created a wine lounge, where residents could relax in a private atmosphere and not feel like they are in a condo lobby.
The foyer was designed to emphasize an art deco façade with high polished floors and brass detailing, while showing off incredible views of the park. And all these elements transition into the suites. LMD at its best.
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#ifndef s11n_net_s11n_PHOENIX_HPP_INCLUDED
#define s11n_net_s11n_PHOENIX_HPP_INCLUDED 1
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// phoenix.hpp
// phoenix<> provides "context singletons" with "phoenixing" capabilities.
//
// Author: stephan beal <stephan@s11n.net>
// License: Public Domain
// CVS Revision: $Revision: 1.4 $
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

#include <stdlib.h> // atexit()
#include <iostream> // cout/cerr

#ifndef phoenix_DEBUG
// enable debuggering to see when phoenixes are (re)created.
#    define phoenix_DEBUG 0
#endif

#if phoenix_DEBUG
#    include <typeinfo>
#    define phoenix_CERR std::cerr << __FILE__ << ":" << std::dec << __LINE__ << " : " \
	<< "phoenix<"<<typeid((base_type *)NULL).name()<<" , " \
	<< typeid((context_type *)NULL).name()<<"> "
#else
#    define phoenix_CERR if(0) std::cerr
#endif // phoenix_DEBUG

namespace s11n { namespace Detail {

        /**
           Internal helper class to provide a default no-op
           initializer for phoenixed objects.

           See the phoenix<> class.
        */
        struct no_op_phoenix_initializer
        {
                /** Does nothing: This class is called no_op for a reason ;) */
                template <typename T>
                void operator()( T & ) { return; }
        };

        /**

	The phoenix class acts as a wrapper for adding "phoenixing"
	behaviour to arbitrary shared objects, as covered in detail in
	Alexandrescu's "Modern C++ Design".

	phoenix is a class for holding singleton-style instances of
	BaseType objects. Rather than requiring that BaseType be a
	Singleton type, phoenix subclasses BaseType to add the
	phoenix-like capabilities. Phoenixing makes the shared
	object post-main() safe, in terms of object destruction
	order.

           Parameterized on:

           - BaseType: must be struct or class type and must be
           default-constructable. i have no clue what is supposed to
           happen if BaseType's dtor is not virtual. That said,
           phoenix has been successfully demonstrated with a BaseType
           of std::map, which has no virtual dtor.

           - ContextType: These objects are only singletons within the
           given ContextType.  That is, phoenix<T,X>::instance()
           will return a different object than phoenix<T,Y>
           will.

           - InitializerType: must be a unary functor accepting a
           BaseType &. It's return value is ignored. The default
           functor does nothing.  The InitializerType is called when a
           to-be-phoenixed object is initially created and whenever it
           is phoenixed. This is intended to be used, e.g., for
           re-populating a phoenixed shared object.
           TODO: investigate the implications of a predicate
           initializer, which would return false if the object could
           not be initialized.

           Whether or not BaseType is technically a singleton depends
           on entirely BaseType itself. This class is more often used
           to provide easy access to context-dependent shared objects,
           rather than pure singletons. The phoenix class itself is a
           true Singleton, but each combination of template arguments
           provides a different Singleton *type*, so the end effect is
           "context singletons."

           This is another attempt to solve the classic
           Keyboard-Console-Log problem, as discussed at length in
           Modern C++ Design. It relies on sane behaviour in
           the C library's atexit() function, which, as is shown in
           MC++D, is not the case on all systems. That said, the
           phoenix-specific behaviours are undefined on those systems,
           which is only to say that it might not be post-main() safe.

           Caveats:

           i am not 100% clear on all of the implications of this
           implementation's approach... my gut tells me i'm missing
           some significant bits. i mean, it can't have been
           this straightforward to solve ;). The very nature of the
           Phoenix Singleton problem makes it difficult to reliably
           test in real-world applications. That said, i have seen a
           objects be successfully phoenixed and atexit()ed, so it is
           known to at least "basically" work.

           There's a paper about "context singletons", this class,
           and some of it's implications, at:

           http://s11n.net/papers/

           [Much later: i've gotten more re-use out of this class than
           probably any other single class i've ever written.]
        */
        template <
                typename BaseType,
                typename ContextType = BaseType,
                typename InitializerType = no_op_phoenix_initializer
        >
        struct phoenix : public BaseType
        {
                /**
                   context_type is unused by this class, but might be useful
                   for type identification at some point.
                */
                typedef ContextType context_type;
                /**
                   The BaseType parameterized type.
                 */
                typedef BaseType base_type;

                /**
                   The functor type used to initialize this phoenixed object.
                */
                typedef InitializerType initializer_type;

                /**
                   Returns a shared instance of this object.

                   The instance() method will always return the same
                   address, though it is potentially possible
                   (post-main()) that the actual object living at that
                   address is different from previous calls.

                   It is never a good idea to hold on to the returned
                   reference for the life of an object, as that bypasses
                   the phoenixing capabilities.

                   If you ever delete it you're on you're own. That's
                   a Bad Idea.
                 */
                static base_type & instance()
                {
                        static this_type meyers;
                        static bool donethat = false;
                        if( this_type::m_destroyed )
                        {
                                phoenix_CERR << "Phoenixing!" << std::endl;
                                donethat = false;
                                new( &meyers ) this_type;
                                atexit( this_type::do_atexit );
                        }
                        if( !donethat )
                        {
                                phoenix_CERR << "initializing instance" << std::endl;
                                donethat = true;
                                initializer_type()( meyers );
                        }
                        phoenix_CERR << "instance() == " <<std::hex<<&meyers<<std::endl;
                        return meyers;
                }

        private:

                /** A convenience typedef. */
                typedef phoenix<base_type,context_type,initializer_type> this_type;

                static bool m_destroyed;

                phoenix()
                {
                        phoenix_CERR << "phoenix() @" << std::hex<< this << std::endl;
                        m_destroyed = false;
                }

                virtual ~phoenix() throw()
                {
                        phoenix_CERR << "~phoenix() @" << std::hex<< this << std::endl;
                        m_destroyed = true;
                }
                /**
                   Destroys the shared object via a manual call to it's dtor.
                 */
                static void do_atexit()
                {
                        if( m_destroyed ) return;
                        phoenix_CERR << "::do_atexit() @ " << std::hex << &instance() << std::endl;
                        static_cast<this_type &>(instance()).~phoenix(); // will eventually trigger the BaseType dtor
                }

        };
        template <typename T, typename C, typename I> bool phoenix<T,C,I>::m_destroyed = false;

} } // namespace

#undef phoenix_DEBUG
#undef phoenix_CERR
#endif // s11n_net_s11n_PHOENIX_HPP_INCLUDED


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James Jacobs gives background on Pathfinder Chronicles, and the goods on Legacy of Fire, Paizo's fourth Pathfinder Adventure Path.
Learn about Jason and the Bulmahnauts, Golarion's genies, the City of Brass and Golarion's Dark Continent. We also talk about the unique advantages of the Pathfinder Subscription.
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Join Season Zero and help Paizo playtest the Society system, and learn about what's coming in Season One. Where to start, download a copy of the Guide to Pathfinder Society Organized Play (FREE).
Josh spills the beans about a surprise con Paizo may be running next summer. FrostiCon?
And if you're an aspiring freelancer, you'll learn what you need to know in order to submit to Paizo's Open Calls.
Jason Bulmahn gives us an update on the Pathfinder RPG. It's amazing how much support the Paizo community is giving during the RPG playtest. The sheer volume of input is astonishing - hats off to Jason for staying on top of it all.
Find out what's going to be in the final version of this massive (550 page!) tome.
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Sending you thank you pastor gifts on right occasion is important for you and your pastor; from last article you know two occasions are appropriate for pastor.
Now I would like still share other occasions to give thank you pastor gifts with you.
Thanksgiving offers a perfect opportunity to express gratitude for friends and family gathered for a Thanksgiving feast. It is also good time to give your thank you gifts to your pastor.
Lay Thanksgiving party favors at each place setting for added expressions that say, "I'm grateful for you on this year devoted to gratitude." Give your pastor gifts to warm their hearts and their homes. Let a little go a long way.
Select Thanksgiving party favors that exude the holiday sensibility. With such an array of holiday-related favors, your only challenge will be choosing the favors you like best.
Coming up with Thanksgiving Gifts for Pastor, for every member of a church congregation can get pricey, as congregations can range from 80 to 200 people.
You want each gift to be appropriate and fair, yet you most likely to want to end up spending an exorbitant amount of money. It's easy to pick out one gift that you can buy in bulk that will modestly act as a token of the Christmas season for each congregation member.
Baking something special for the congregation is an undemanding and unfussy way to extend your appreciation and warm Christmas blessings to the congregation.
You can bake Christmas cookies, such as cookies in the shape of an angel and tell the congregation that for Christmas you've made them each a guardian angel cookie.


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The book of Horsemanship. by Duarte I of Portugal
First full translation of an important treatise on chivalric horsemanship.
The medieval military engineer. From the Roman Empire to the Sixteenth Century
Sheds light on the skills and techniques of the medieval military engineer, over a thousand year sweep.
the Medieval Clothier
A clear and accessibly written guide to the medieval cloth-making trade in England.
A history of the early and late medieval siege
Vol 1: c. 450-1200, Vol 2: 1200-1500.
Public participation in Archaeology
This book presents a contemporary snapshot of public participation in archaeology.
Shoes and Pattens
A full chronology of shoe fashion in England between the 12th and 15th centuries.
Anglo-Norman Castles
For the first time togather some of the most significant articles in castle studies, with contributions from experts in history, archaeology and historic buildings.
Archery and the Crossbow Guilds in Medieval Flanders
1300-1500 First full study devoted to the archery and crossbow guilds which grew up in Flanders in the Middle Ages.
Knives and Scabbards
A seminal study on the wide variety of knives, leather scabbards, shears and scissors from the city of London from the mid 12th to mid 15th centuries.
The Medieval Cook
From the chefs in the great medieval courts and aristocratic households catering for huge feasts, to the poor peasant wife
Textiles and Clothing, c.1150-1450
This highly readable account will be of wide general interest; with new insights into the fashions, clothing and textile industries of medieval England
Swords of the Viking Age
Sixty swords made and used in northern Europe during the Viking age, between the mid eighth and the mid eleventh centuries.
The Continental Saxons from the Migration Period to the Tenth Century
An Ethnographic Perspective.
Presenting the Romans
Interpreting the Frontiers of the Roman Empire world Heritage Site
A Companion to the Anglo-Norman World
A major contribution to an understanding of the hundred years that witnessed great change and major developments in English and Norman government and society.
The Artillery of the Dukes of Burgundy 1363-1477
A major new exploration of the history and development of gunpowder weapons in the 15th century based on the artillery of the Dukes of Burgundy.
Commercial Activity, Markets and Entrepreneurs in the Middle Ages
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The Furie of the Ordnance
Artillery in the English Civil Wars (zeventiende eeuw)
The Art of Swordmanship
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The Medieval Traveller
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Companion to Medieval arms and Armour
Arms and armour in Europe developed dramatically during the thousand years from the fifth to the fifteenth century. This book covers the entire period.
A History of the Late Medieval Siege, 1200-1500
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The Art of Cookery in the Middle Ages
Research in original manuscript sources makes this a fascinating and authoritative study where little hard fact had previously existed. With more than 40 recipes from several countries.
The Archaeology of Disease
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Running time 110 minutes
Five years, eight months, 12 days and counting — that's how long Debbie Ocean has been devising the biggest heist of her life. She knows what it's going to take — a team of the best people in the field, starting with her partner-in-crime Lou Miller. Together, they recruit a crew of specialists, including jeweler Amita, street con Constance, suburban mum Tammy, hacker Nine Ball, and fashion designer Rose. Their target — a necklace that's worth more than $150 million.


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Why should we believe that Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican?
A Republican-produces billboard that presents an questionable characterization of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
● If Dr. King was a Republican, why did he assert, in 1964, that he wasn't "inextricably bound" to the Republican party?
● If Dr. King was a Republican, why did cite his desire to not "sacrifice [his] soul" as a reason for turning the Republican Party down when it offered him a significant amount of money to rally black voters in advance of the 1956 election?
● If Dr. King was a Republican, why, in a 1958 letter, did he assure Representative Adam Clayton Powell (who was seeking re-election as a Democrat) that he had his "wholehearted support"?
● If Dr. King was a Republican, why did he say the below about that year's Republican Convention?
● If Dr. King was a Republican, why did react (in what seems to be an unfavorable way) to Dixiecrats' and Republicans' continual efforts to defeat civil rights legislation by asserting that "This coalition of southern Dixiecrats and right wing reactionary northern Republicans defeats every bill and every move towards liberal legislation in the area of civil rights"?
● Why should one believe, even, that Dr. King was a conservative when he asserted the below?
Given the historical evidence which strongly suggests otherwise, is there really any reasonable basis for believing Republicans' and Conservatives' claim that Dr. King was "one of them"?
You might also ask: When was the last time the Republican's had a major leader with the integrity and intelligence of Dwight Eisenhower.
WHY did the Republican Party become the refuge of faith-based ideologues and fantasists who reject science ?


Discussion in 'Windows, Linux & Others on the Mac' started by Joshd1723, Jul 6, 2009.
You've probably all seen this before but I partitioned my hard drive using boot camp and I cant get back into my mac OS from windows 7. I DID NOT install boot camp onto my windows partition, atleast I dont think I did and now I'm not sure if there is a way to get back. Please help.
restart your computer and hold the option key... read the instructions for bootcamp next time.
Let me first just say. Its windows lol.
Its Windows fault that he didnt hold option during startup or install the bootcamp files?


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Dolphins slaughter spark embassy protest
Protesters are set march on the Japanese Embassy to demand the country halts the 'brutal and inhumane' slaughter of thousands of dolphins.
It comes after horrific footage taken by animal rights activists was broadcast across the world, showing Japanese hunters trapping a terrified pod of dolphins in a cove before netting their victims and cutting their throats out with large knives.
These gentle, intelligent mammals can be seen thrashing about in agony in a blood-red sea, some taking up to 10 minutes to die from their wounds.
Around 20,000 dolphins and porpoises will be butchered by fishermen off the coast of Japan in the next six months, if the Japanese Government does not ban the 400-year-old hunting tradition.
This savage practise is now largely bankrolled by 50 Japanese aquariums, which will pay up to


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Is the cyborg the future of humankind?
swissnex India continues its 'Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Robotics Lecture series' with Dr. Daniela Cerqui at IIT Varanasi (BHU) technical festival Technex 2015.
February 28, 2015 from 4:30 am to 11:30 am
Background Picture: Prof. Kevin Warwick, University of Reading, Cybernetics Department.
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swissnex India is pleased to announce the presence of Dr. Daniela Cerqui, senior lecturer at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland at the IIT Varanasi (BHU) technical festival Technex 2015
Talk at IIT Varanasi (BHU) on 28th February
Title: Is the cyborg the future of humankind? An anthropological approach
Technology is never neutral. There are social values embedded in it, as every technological device is the result of a design and building process through which social values are transmitted. The talk will focus on information technologies and show that they are deeply rooted in certain western values. It will be based on a case study: the research carried out by Prof Kevin Warwick at the University of Reading (UK). His work consists of the merging of humans and machines, which appears as the last step in reducing the delay in information access in a society obsessed with the idea of gaining time.
Profile: Dr. Daniela Cerqui
Dr Daniela Cerqui is a social and cultural anthropologist interested in the relationship between technology and society (and, more fundamentally, humankind). She is a senior lecturer at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) where she is involved in teaching and research on emerging and cenverging technologies (biotechnologies, nanotechnologies, information technologies and cognitive sciences).


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The Internet Is Undermining America's Power
The U.S. has incomparable resources, but it may never be as strong as it is in cyberspace as it is today. Cyber power may be a particularly ephemeral form of power. China is developing new competing technologies. India, Europe, and other friends hold different visions of how to manage the Internet and protect privacy. The gap between the interests of American technology companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon and Washington is growing. The global, open Internet, a wellspring of U.S. economic, political, and military power, is fragmenting as Beijing, Moscow, Tehran and many others are assert cyber sovereignty.
Some of this loss of power is unavoidable, the result of demographics as the center of gravity for Internet users shifts rapidly from the developed to the developing world. China now has close to 670 million Internet users; India has more than 350 million and will pass 500 million in 2017. (In comparison, the U.S. currently has more than 300 million Internet users.) Some of the diminishment of power stems from the logic of international politics, from competitors that seek to balance U.S. power. And some of it is self-inflicted. The documents revealed by the NSA contractor Edward Snowden suggest the U.S. pursued massive amounts of data in service of defending itself from terrorist attacks but at the expense of other diplomatic, economic and national security interests.
Policymakers and politicians have been slow to understand the threat. This myopia is partly the result of American Internet exceptionalism, a sense that the U.S. has a unique, beneficent role in cyberspace. This was not an outlandish view, given the U.S.' history in creating the Internet and overseeing its global expansion. But this exceptionalism not only led to an exaggerated sense of U.S. power and influence but also blinded decision makers as to how other countries defined their own interests and interpreted U.S. actions.
It also left policymakers ill-prepared for the technology communities' reaction to the Snowden disclosures. As story after story emerged alleging that the NSA undermined encryption, hacked into cables carrying the data of U.S. companies, placed implants and beacons in servers and routers, and generally weakened Internet security, Washington struggled to find its feet. Most of the national security justifications offered for the intelligence agency's actions, such as breaking up terrorist plots, seemed unsubstantiated or rang hollow. Policymakers failed to comprehend the depth of Silicon Valley's anger.
The challenges of cyberspace are both familiar—other states will pursue policies that limit U.S. power and influence—and unconventional—criminals and terrorist hackers may exploit unexpected and unknown vulnerabilities in networks to wreak damage and destruction. Policymakers, military officials, and diplomates will lose their sense of strategic stability, predictability, and control while gaining new tools of coercion and a wider legitimacy for digital policy.
In order to address the challenges, the U.S. must at least accomplish three things: enhance cybersecurity defense at home, create a working truce between the government and the private sector, and build a coalition of like-minded countries in the international sphere. Washington will have to funnel new money to research, development and innovation in cybersecurity; forge agreements with the private sector on the sharing of data; and, with its friends in Europe and Asia, clearly define what behaviors are acceptable in cyberspace and how it plans to respond if lines are crossed. The U.S. will have to be more limited in its ambitions but more assertive in their pursuit. While it should continue to promote and espouse the virtues of an open, global, and secure Internet, the U.S. must prepare for a more likely future—a highly contested, nationally divided cyberspace.
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House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo said transgender advocates and their allies will need to "build understanding about transgender people and fight deceptive and hateful claims" in order to defeat a ballot measure this fall.
Evoking memories of California voters repealing gay marriage through Proposition 8 a decade ago, transgender advocates are encouraging their allies not to be complacent this November when transgender rights are tested on the Massachusetts ballot.
"No one thought that California would vote to revoke marriage equality. But they did," said Kasey Suffredini, co-chair of the Freedom for All Massachusetts campaign.
Coordinators kicked off their campaign on Thursday, announcing that they have enlisted more than 1,000 partners in their coalition defending transgender rights from repeal. They include Harvard Pilgrim, Google and Eastern Bank, as well as sports teams — the Bruins, Red Sox, Celtics, Patriots, and Revolution.
On the opposing side is the Keep MA Safe campaign, led by some of the same forces that fought the legalization of gay marriage in Massachusetts more than a decade ago. The referendum they got onto the ballot in November asks voters to repeal the state's 2016 law protecting transgender people from discrimination in public accommodations. And that makes Massachusetts ground zero in the latest round of the nation's culture wars.
Suffredini noted that the coalition might also have to battle some ballot confusion in November, letting their allies know which way to vote on the somewhat counterintuitive question.
A "yes" vote preserves transgender antidiscrimination protections.
A "no" vote is a vote to repeal them.
And that's not the only confusion around the issue. Even DeLeo, who was lauded for championing the original antidiscrimination bill in the House, bungled his pronouns at the campaign kickoff.