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NY Times Interview & Portrait
We have a new great interview of Saoirse and she talks about Brooklyn, Ireland and moving away from her home. Also, be sure to check out the beautiful portrait in our gallery.
It's a mystery to Saoirse Ronan why she's one of the few Irish actresses to burst onto the world's stage in the last 50 years or so.
Irish actors are another story: They've been coming up in droves. Colin Farrell, Michael Fassbender (who is half German, but was raised in Ireland from the age of 2), Pierce Brosnan, Liam Neeson, Cillian Murphy, Stephen Rea and Gabriel Byrne are just some of the Emerald Isle's menfolk to find Hollywood success. A few Irish actresses have, too, albeit to a lesser extent — among them Sinead Cusack, Fionnula Flanagan, Fiona Shaw and Brenda Fricker, who won an Academy Award for her role in "My Left Foot" (1989). But at least in the United States, none are exactly household names. The last Irish actress to really make a splash in the United States was Maureen O'Hara, who recently turned 95.
"I think a lot of it comes down to luck; I think a lot of it comes down to timing," Ms. Ronan, who is 21, said recently over breakfast at the Crosby Street Hotel in SoHo. "I don't know why some of the male actors moved ahead while we didn't."
Ms. Ronan's might not be a household name quite yet, but that's partly because Americans remain largely incapable of pronouncing it (it's "SEER-sha"). She was the young baker with the Mexico-shaped birthmark in "The Grand Budapest Hotel," the luminous teenage assassin in "Hanna," the slain girl who narrates the "The Lovely Bones," and the tweenage aristocrat who set the plot in motion in "Atonement," a performance that earned Ms. Ronan an Oscar nomination at the age of 13.
Her visibility will probably get another lift from the new film "Brooklyn," opening Nov. 4, a critical hit on the festival circuit that has been described as "stunning," "wondrous" and "lovely." Ms. Ronan's emotionally nuanced performance has been repeatedly singled out for plaudits, and largely solidifies her transition from ascendant child star to actress to watch.
"She was in the very best sense of the word the obvious choice," said John Crowley, the film's director. "She's sort of like a lightning bolt, and kind of from another time in a weird way."
Adapted by Nick Hornby from the best-selling novel by Colm Toibin, "Brooklyn" tells the story of a young Irishwoman, Eilis ("AY-lish") Lacey in the 1950s caught between a new life and love in New York, and a paramour back home (played by Domhnall Gleeson, whose first name, while we're at it, is pronounced "DOUGH-nel"). After setting off a bidding war among distributors at Sundance, the film charmed audiences at the New York Film Festival, where Ms. Ronan could bear to watch only the final five minutes, sobbing all the while (or, as she put it, "in bits"). Now there is chatter that Ms. Ronan and possibly the film might gain Academy Award nominations.
"It's so personal — it's my mam's story and my dad's story, and it was what I had gone through when I moved away," Ms. Ronan said. "The journey she makes is what I'm still going through."
With her milky skin, smattering of freckles, disarming brogue and quick wit, Ms. Ronan comes across as every bit the Irish country girl she is, an impression she only enhanced by ordering tea and porridge for breakfast.
Ms. Ronan was born in New York to struggling Irish immigrants, who were initially in the States illegally. Her mother, Monica, worked as a nanny, while her father, Paul, picked up often unsavory odd jobs, including one at a construction site that left him with permanent tinnitus, despite his effort to protect his ears by plugging them with cigarette butts. Then Mr. Ronan began working as an actor, and the family moved back to Ireland when Saoirse was 3, settling in County Carlow, in Ireland's southeast, near a rural one-pub village.
Growing up amid her father's actor friends, Ms. Ronan developed a yen for the craft. After a few appearances on Irish television, she was cast in her first feature when she was 10, across from Michelle Pfeiffer in "I Could Never Be Your Woman" (2007), and soon after in "Atonement."
The Oscar nomination rocketed her to fame, and Ms. Ronan guesses that appearing in American and British films also helped her leapfrog ahead while other Irish actresses struggled to gain ground. Most of the now famous Irish actors have done the same, moving away to get work and camouflaging their accents.
"We all have to pretend we're from somewhere else," Ms. Ronan said. Still, she added, she often looks at some of her actress friends from home and agonizes about why they're not where she is (though she did acknowledge that one likely contributing factor was the overall dearth of female roles). "I don't know what it is, because we've got this amazing spirit, as you know," she said. "We're full of the fight, the Irish women."
"Brooklyn" represents the first time Ms. Ronan is playing a lead role as an Irishwoman, which she said upped the pressure to play the part exactly right. She had long been looking for "a good Irish project," she said, that told a fresh tale. "So many things have been done about the RA," Ms. Ronan said, using the Irish slang for the Irish Republican Army. "Certain moments of history are always focused on."
Mr. Crowley, the director, said that "Brooklyn" traced one of Ireland's biggest untold stories — mass emigration midcentury — and that by focusing on Eilis's struggles and wrenching choices, the film brings alive a much more sweeping tale. The 1950s was considered one of Ireland's toughest decades since the famine, and about 15 percent of the country's population was forced by economic hardship to move abroad.
"Everybody feels they know the emigration story, because they know of the vast numbers that actually left, but it actually hasn't been done that much, and certainly never from a female perspective," Mr. Crowley said. "And they're very sad stories. They tended to be individuals going off on their own, and it was quite a shameful chapter for a while, that Ireland's biggest exports were the brightest and best of its young people."
About a year passed between Ms. Ronan's casting and the beginning of production. Mr. Crowley said he soon noticed a difference in his star when she arrived on set. "I didn't know myself she was going to turn up with the level of emotional depth that she did," he said. In the intervening time, Ms. Ronan had gone through many of the things Eilis had: She had moved away, to London, found an apartment, and, Mr. Crowley said, gotten "really knocked sideways" by homesickness. She had asked Mr. Crowley, who is from Cork but has lived in London for 18 years, whether homesickness eased. He replied that it did but that she would never quite be the same.
"You're not from the country you're living in, however great that is," he recalled telling her. "When you go home you're no longer from that place either. And people view you differently, and you view them differently, and it's all different. And you can't tell why."
Ms. Ronan said things got even more intense for her when the production moved to Ireland (it also filmed in London and Montreal), specifically to Enniscorthy, Mr. Toibin's hometown, not far from where Ms. Ronan grew up. She found the parallels between her life and Eilis's — nostalgia for childhood, estrangement from home — overwhelming. Sometimes between takes, she would slip behind a building, close her eyes and rest her head against a wall, because her nerves felt so raw. "When work and home collide in such a huge way, you don't know what to do with it," she said.
Heeding Mr. Toibin's request, Mr. Crowley also carefully filled many of the other parts in the film with Irish actors; among them some of the young women in Eilis's Brooklyn boardinghouse and, perhaps most notably, Brid Brennan, who is basically Ireland's Meryl Streep, as Nettles Kelly, Eilis's razor-tongued boss. (Ms. Brennan and Mr. Toibin had, as it happens, briefly been roommates in Dublin in the late '70s.)
Looking ahead, Ms. Ronan will soon be returning to New York; she's been cast in a spring 2016 Broadway production of "The Crucible."
"No pressure," she said wryly, "just a little American classic."
She thinks she will live in the city for a while, first in the West Village and then perhaps in Brooklyn. She's still getting used to living away from Ireland and her parents and has slowly come to understand, she said, what being in one's 20s is about: realizing that you can't go back to childhood, that you have to keep moving forward.
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Ladislav Vankovič (9. července 1953 Bardejov – 25. prosince 2020 Praha) byl slovenský fotbalový útočník a trenér. Jeho otec Ladislav Vankovič st. a mladší bratr Vladimír Vankovič byli také prvoligoví fotbalisté.

Fotbalová kariéra
V československé lize hrál za Tatran Prešov, Bohemians Praha a Lokomotívu Košice. Nastoupil ve 101 ligových utkáních a dal 18 gólů. V nižších soutěžích hrál i za Duklu Banská Bystrica, VTJ Tachov, TJ VP Frýdek-Místek a Slavoj Trebišov.

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Literatura
 Jindřich Horák, Lubomír Král: Encyklopedie našeho fotbalu – Libri 1997
 Radovan Jelínek, Miloslav Jenšík a kol.: Atlas českého fotbalu – Radovan Jelínek 2006
 Ľubomír Dávid, Ladislav Grünner, Juraj Hrivnák, Jozef Kšiňan, Jindřich Pejchar: Futbal 81/82 – ročenka
 Ľubomír Dávid, Ladislav Grünner, Juraj Hrivnák, Jozef Kšiňan, Jindřich Pejchar: Futbal 82/83 – ročenka
 Ľubomír Dávid, Juraj Hrivnák, Jozef Kšiňan, Slavomír Ondrejička a Jindřich Pejchar: Futbal 83/84 – ročenka
 Ľubomír Dávid, Juraj Hrivnák, Jozef Kšiňan, Slavomír Ondrejička a Jindřich Pejchar: Futbal 84/85 – ročenka
 Ľubomír Dávid, Juraj Hrivnák, Jozef Kšiňan, Slavomír Ondrejička a Stanislav Sigmund: Futbal 85/86 – ročenka
 Ľubomír Dávid, Juraj Hrivnák, Jozef Kšiňan, Slavomír Ondrejička a Stanislav Sigmund: Futbal – Ročenka 87/88 – Šport 1989
 Gól, 6/1977

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 Ladislav Vankovič spomína na časy, keď futbal bol sviatkom
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 FC Lokomotiva Košice
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Ora et labora (łac. módl się i pracuj) – dewiza św. Benedykta z Nursji, który w 529 r. założył zakon benedyktynów, najstarszy katolicki zakon mniszy.

Jest to motto reguły zakonu benedyktynów, natomiast hasłem przewodnim jest Ordo et pax (Ład i pokój).

Formuła módl się i pracuj jest streszczeniem postawy zakonnika wobec Boga i świata. Mnisi ślubują stałość, posłuszeństwo i ubóstwo.

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 Encyklopedia katolicka, t.2, Lublin 1976.

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Pakistan's legislation on infant formula milk manufactures
Monday, 18 February 2013, 12:08 pm
Article: Amir Murtaza
Pakistan's important legislation to restrict infant formula milk manufactures
by Amir Murtaza
The year 2013 brings fresh hopes for the children of Pakistan's Sindh province as Members of the Provincial Assembly have passed into law the "Sindh Protection of Breastfeeding and Child Nutrition Bill 2013". The immensely important law suggests adequate and appropriate nutrition for infants and children by promoting and protecting breastfeeding in the province of Sindh.
It is knowledgeable to recall that Pakistan is among the 118 countries of the world who had voted in favor of adopting the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes during the World Health Assembly in May 1981. However, after elapsing a longtime, in 2002 the country had introduced the Protection of Breast-Feeding and Child Nutrition Ordinance. The Ordinance in Chapter III Under (2) states that, "No person shall in any manner assert that any designated product is a substitute for mother's milk, or that it is equivalent to or comparable with or superior to mother's milk." The Protection of Breast-Feeding and Child Nutrition Ordinance 2002 also stressed on formation of a National Board to monitor the implementation of the said Ordinance.
Right after the devolution plan, two provinces, Punjab and Balochistan have also introduced legislation on breastfeeding and child nutrition in line with the Protection of Breast-Feeding and Child Nutrition Ordinance 2002. The recent introduction of laws on protection of breastfeeding and child nutrition in Sindh makes it clear that now in major areas of the country no commercial milk formula maker or their distributor can assert that their product is a substitute, equivalent or superior to mother's milk.
It is a fact that breastfeeding plays a very significant role in child survival, growth and development. Dr. Samina Ahsan, a local pediatrician, informed that, "Breast milk is absolutely the best for infants and children as it contains all the vitamins and nutrients, necessary for them." She said that breast milk also contains all essential substances that are required to protect the babes from illness and added that, "Breastfeeding is really good for mother's health as well."
Several studies, conducted in Pakistan and other parts of the world, on the benefits of breastfeeding clearly showed that children who are exclusively breastfed have a far lower risk of getting sick or died during the first twelve months of their life than children who weren't breastfed.
Despite clear and recognized benefits of breastfeeding over bottle-feeding the World Health Organization's Global Data Bank on Breastfeeding - which presently covers 94 countries and 65% of the world's infant population - estimates that only 35% of them are exclusively breastfed between 0-4 months of age. It is important to mention that "Exclusive" breastfeeding is defined as no other food or drink, not even water, except breast milk for at least 4 and if possible 6 months of life, but allows the infant to receive drops and syrups (vitamins, minerals and medicines)".
Pakistan is experiencing a high number of infant mortality rate; however, available data indicates that only 36% of the infants receive exclusive breastfeeding in the country. Artificial feeding or bottle feeding has become one of the biggest public health problems in Pakistan. Despite of the fact that bottle feeding enhances the chances of serious illness of the infants, it is an irony that a large number of mothers in Pakistan opt formula milk.
The most common cause among mothers not to feed their infants is the perception of their feeble health and insufficient milk. Additionally, working mothers find it difficult to breastfeed their babies, due to lack of available space at their workplace.
Bushra is a house wife and right after the birth of her first baby boy the local doctor advised her to use a specific brand of baby formula milk. "My mother and mother-in-law both stressed on me to breastfeed the child; however, a local pediatrician told me that due to pregnancy I have become quite weak therefore I should artificially feed my baby," Bushra said and added that the doctor also prescribed the same baby formula milk to some other mothers of new born babies.
Health professionals opined that in some health conditions the use formula milk is suitable; however, in normal health conditions baby formula should be avoided in better interest of the child and mother.
The newly passed Sindh Protection of Breastfeeding and Child Nutrition Bill 2013 have also put obligation on the manufactures of Infant/baby formula milk to publish on its tin or packet in bold characters that "Mother's milk is best for your baby and helps in preventing diarrhoea and other illness."
Infant/baby formula milk manufacturing is a multi-billion dollar industry and the quantum of their trade is increasing rapidly. No one can deny the fact that sale of one tin or packet of baby formula milk deprives a child to the most suitable food, the breast milk.
The introduction of specific legislation on breastfeeding and child nutrition is a praiseworthy step in right direction. However, the provincial governments should take immediate actions for strict implementation of the law. Monitoring committees should be formed, without any further delay.
Additionally, the government should take notice of the manufacturers of infant/baby formula milk who are using unethical tactics and influencing the health practitioners, merely to enhance the sale of their products and maximize their profit on the cost of the health of innocent children.
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Archive for the tag "Nirac de Bayanne"
Which man fathered the first Beaufort….?
Here is the scene. The mother with her newly born child, her ladies, the air of relief and happiness. But presumably she is a faithful wife, and her delighted husband will soon be summoned to see his new offspring. No doubt he hopes for a son.
But what if she isn't a faithful wife, and the sire of her baby isn't her late husband. What's more, the father is a royal prince?
The following article must be viewed against the 14th-century background of the Hundred Years War, the reigns of Edward III and Richard II, the plague and the convoluted private life of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster . . . forebear of Margaret Beaufort, and therefore of Henry VII and the Tudors.
Just when did Gaunt (b. 6 March 1340 – d. 3 February 1399) become the lover of his children's married governess, Katherine, Lady Swynford (b. 1349/50, d. 10 May 1403)? And was he first the lover of her sister, Philippa, who was married to Geoffrey Chaucer? In fact, were all the children born to Chaucer and Philippa actually Gaunt's offspring? (See John Gardner, The Life and Times of Chaucer (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, INC., 1977), 158-162.)
I do not place much faith in this claim about Gaunt and Philippa, but if it were true, it raises an interesting point. Here is an extract from The Duchesses of Lancaster: an examination of English noblewomen's exercise of power and influence during the fourteenth century, a thesis by Amanda Elizabeth Sanders.
". . . Gaunt and Katherine confessed to having an affair during his marriage with Constance and that he was godfather to her eldest daughter with Hugh Swynford, which was seen as incest . . ."
Why was it considered incest? Because in the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 it was recorded that anyone's wife, or sexual partner, is related to her sisters in the first degree, which is incest. It was considered incest up to the fourth degrees of affinity. (See Harry Rothwell, English Historical Documents, 1189-1327," in Love, Sex, and Marriage in the Middle Ages: A Sourcebook, ed. Conor McCarthy, (London: Routledge, 2004), 68-69.) Gaunt, being Philippa's lover first and godfather to Katherine's daughter Blanche Swynford, would have been considered to commit incest with Katherine, because she was within the degrees of affinity.
Well, I think I follow all that. My education stopped at GCE 'O' level in 1960, and I did not take history or religious education. A vital part of Henry VII's ancestry was that his mother, Margaret Beaufort, could claim descent from John of Gaunt, and therefore Edward III . . . but it just might be that Gaunt had nothing whatsoever to do with John Beaufort's conception, except to later claim fatherhood. (Note for those who do not know: Beaufort is the name granted to all of the children of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford.)
Disregarding any possible incest, the point of interest for me is that Gaunt and Katherine confessed to being lovers during his marriage to Constance of Castile. Call me Doubting Thomas, but I think it more likely they were lovers before that marriage, a conclusion I have reached while in pursuit of the all-important dates for the start of the affair with Katherine.
These matters are of great consequence to Ricardians (and Tudorites) because the parentage of Gaunt and Katherine's eldest son, John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, can be called into question due to his actual date of birth not being known. The event is generally stated to be 'circa 1373', and anything 'circa' in mediaeval terms can stretch quite a way in either direction. Certainly to the middle of 1372, which is the date I believe.
To explain why, it is necessary to tell something of Katherine Swynford's marriage to Sir Hugh Swynford (1340-September 1371), a fairly lowly knight of Kettlethorpe in Lincolnshire, whose only claim to distinction, apart from the identity of his wife, was being "small, stocky and known by his fellows as 'the battling Saxon ram'!" He was a fierce and shrewd warrior, and clever battle tactician, with a beautiful but unfaithful wife from a lowly background in Hainault. But Katherine Swynford had been raised in the household of Queen Philippa, also from Hainault, and had the formal education and knowledge of court that made her ideal to become the governess of the queen's grandchildren, Gaunt's brood by his first duchess, Blanche of Lancaster.
In 1369, while Gaunt was away fighting the war on the continent, Katherine was called to Bolingbroke to spend Christmas with Blanche. But she arrived to find the duchess dying of the plague. Katherine took care of her, and managed to find a priest to administer the Last Rites. Katherine's loving attentions were appreciated, and on his return to England, Gaunt invited her to come south to London to attend Blanche's funeral. When she eventually went home to Kettlethorpe, he had rewarded her 'for the care shown to the late Duchess and for the Lancastrian children after their mother's death'. She had been granted her own blazon, consisting of three Catherine wheels, which Gaunt had designed, bestowed and registered himself. She also received, as a pension, 'all issues from, and profits from his towns of Waddington and Wellingere to be paid yearly'.
Lavish rewards indeed! If I were Hugh, I'd be highly suspicious about the nature of the attentions Katherine had paid. And to whom! But there is no proof that anything had yet gone on between Katherine and the duke. Just a very strong hint, in my opinion.
There aren't any known contemporary portraits of Gaunt and Katherine, so (to give a flavour) here is a rather romanticised view, taken from the cover of an edition of Anya Seton's excellent novel, Katherine. Fiction maybe, but Katherine was very lovely, and Gaunt was indeed a royal prince.
Next, Hugh went to France to fight in a company led by Sir Robert Kindles, from whom Gaunt would take over command. In 1371 Hugh was seriously wounded and taken to Bordeaux in Gaunt's train. The duke found him suitable lodgings and instructed his own personal physician, Brother William Appleton, to care for him. A certain Nirac de Bayanne, the duke's servant (and Hugh's enemy of old) is mentioned at this juncture, although he had actually entered the story a little earlier because he (and therefore Gaunt?) figured quite considerably in Swynford affairs.
From http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ancestorsearch&id=I920
" . . . May 1367 . . . when the registers note that John of Gaunt appointed his servitor, Nirac de Bayanne, as Steward over Kettlethorpe until Hugh could be sent home. They also record that he stood sponsor to Blanchette, Hugh and Katherine's daughter born in May 1367 and ordered for her the silver and gilt cup as a baptismal gift . . ."
Hugh and Nirac did not get on at all, and I imagine Hugh resented the man's presence on his land and in his house. Especially when Katherine was there and gave birth to their daughter.
Now we come forward to Bordeaux again, September 1371, and Hugh recovering from his wounds (or from dysentery, or both, according to opinion). Katherine arrived to be among the English ladies of Gaunt's forthcoming second duchess, the Infanta Costanza (Constance) of Castile. Gaunt had sent that same Nirac de Bayanne to be Katherine's escort, and was apparently highly annoyed when she went straight to tend her ailing husband.
The following has been gathered (not word for word) from http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ancestorsearch&id=I920.
. . . Less than a week after Katherine's arrival, Hugh was dead. His death surprised everyone as he had been making a good recovery. [It was thought he had been poisoned by the hate-filled Nirac de Bayanne, either from personal dislike or on the duke's instruction.] Katherine seemed to have been genuinely shocked and upset by her husband's passing. Aided by Brother William, she arranged for Hugh's body to be returned to England and Kettlethorpe for burial. Unusually, she returned to court in Bordeaux, rather than accompany the body home. Hugh was buried, and faded into obscurity, leaving Katherine free to enter into a liaison with John [Gaunt] . . .
. . . Nirac was posthumously implicated in Hugh's death. He is reputed to have confessed to poisoning Hugh, and on his deathbed repeatedly stated that neither John nor Katherine was aware of what he had done. (Hmmm. Maybe she didn't, but I'd hazard Gaunt knew full well. Hugh was an inconvenience with a husband's rights, and Katherine had just miffed the duke by putting her husband first. Were those conjugal rights being enjoyed? Might ducal jealousy have raised its head?) . . .
. . . It is known that John and Katherine disappeared for several weeks prior to his second marriage (which took place on 21st September 1371 near Bordeaux). She returned to England and was obviously pregnant because (in the summer of 1372?) she gave birth to John, later John Beaufort. It was assumed that John was Hugh's posthumous child, but when Henry (My note: second Beaufort son) was born to [Gaunt] and Katherine, they acknowledged John as theirs . . .
Back to my narrative. So, September 1371 was a vital month in this story. Hugh probably died in about the first week, and Gaunt married Constance of Castile on 21st. Between the death and marriage, Gaunt and Katherine disappeared together . . . and they were not intent upon needlepoint, I'll warrant. Katherine was not pretending to be a grieving widow, nor was Gaunt being much of a bridegroom. Given this conduct, I strongly suspect them of hanky-panky while poor old Hugh lingered.
When Gaunt returned to England not long after his wedding, he did not bring his new duchess with him. Going straight to the Savoy, he spent Christmas with his children by Blanche of Lancaster . . . and their widowed, pregnant governess was there too. If tongues did not wag into a thunderous racket, I would be absolutely amazed!
How intriguing is the whole scenario, because if it was thought Katherine's child could be Hugh's posthumous offspring, then presumably everyone in Bordeaux believed he had recovered enough to be capable of siring it! Maybe he would have survived had fate, or Nirac de Bayanne, not intervened.
So . . . was Hugh the real father of John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset? He was still alive for the likely period of the earl's conception. Might Katherine have warmed her husband's bed and Gaunt's during the same week? Should John Beaufort have actually been named John Swynford? His date of birth is unknown, and is given as 'circa 1373', which certainly could have encompassed the middle of 1372, which is nine months or so from September 1371.
And on top of all this, we have the interesting point mentioned at the very beginning. If Gaunt had been the lover of Philippa Chaucer before he tumbled into bed with Katherine, the latter relationship would have been regarded as incestuous, as well as adulterous. Their Beaufort children were subsequently legitimised, and specifically excluded from any claim to the throne, but I can't imagine that, according to the then rules, they could be freed from the stigma of incest. Could the Pope have done that? I don't know. (An aside: Presumably this means that Henry VIII's activities with the Boleyn sisters was incestuous too?)
Oh, to get to the truth of it all, for the possibility exists that Margaret Beaufort, the scheming mother of the first Tudor king, might have only been the granddaughter of the obscure Kettlethorpe knight, Sir Hugh Swynford, not any offspring of Gaunt.
But there was more scandal, because when it came to blood descent, the man she took as her first husband, Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond, father of Henry VII, was most likely not a Tudor at all, but a Beaufort/Swynford by a son of the same John who had been conceived in Bordeaux in September 1371!
How could this be? Well, according to entirely different and equally salacious whispers, Edmund Tudor's father wasn't Owen Tudor (the supposed second husband of Queen Catherine of Valois, widow of Henry V) but was sired by one Edmund Beaufort, third son of the Bordeaux John Beaufort/Swynford. Catherine of Valois was widely rumoured to have had an affair with this Edmund Beaufort, who would not/could not marry her, but got her with child anyway. Catherine swiftly married Owen Tudor, maybe for love, maybe for protection. (Note: It cannot be proved that they actually did marry, but tradition has it they did.) The baby was born a Tudor, but naming him Edmund certainly fanned the rumours.
So, Margaret was Beauchamp on her mother's side, but either Beaufort or Swynford on her father's. Edmund Tudor was half Valois, and either Beaufort or half Swynford, but most likely not Tudor. Poor old Henry, all that playing upon his Welshness, and even naming his son and heir Arthur, when all the time there was most likely no proud descent from great Welsh heroes, both mythical and real, and certainly no link to Camelot. Or to Gaunt and Edward III. I would love to have seen the faces of Margaret and Henry had they discovered all this to be true.
Posted by viscountessw in genealogy and tagged adultery, Arthurian legend, Blanche of Lancaster, Bordeaux, Catherine de Roet, Catherine of Valois, dysentery, Edmund "Tudor", Edward III, Fourth Lateran Council, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henry IV, Henry VII, Hundred Years War, incest, John Earl of Somerset, John of Gaunt, Margaret Beaufort, Nirac de Bayanne, Owen Tudor, Phillipa de Roet, Richard II, Sir Hugh Swynford, Sir Robert Kindles


At birth, my three and one-half year had a mild hypospadias. I read somewhere that exposure to dioxin may cause hypospadias. At age two and one-half, he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. I have since read that exposure to dioxin may contribute to that as well. For eight years before he was born and for two years after his birth, I worked in a major environmental laboratory. I also have psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. The psoriasis started before I worked in the lab, and psoriatic arthritis developed while I worked there. Should I be looking for any connections? Could exposure "kick start" the autoimmune processes to begin?
The idea of linking hypospadias to psoriasis via a dioxin-induced autoimmunity is an intriguing one, but I don't think that it is valid. You are quite right, of course, in saying that fetal exposure to dioxin can lead to developmental anomalies in the urogenital system including hypospadias. That's in laboratory rats though, and I can find no reports of this in man, although the population at risk in the U.S. must be very small. it would be interesting if this were recorded in the Vietnamese medical literature. However, dioxin can lead to diabetes in man although it is based on hyperinsulinemia and hypothyroid and therefore more like type 2 diabetes than the kind your son has.
I don't know if your son is actually known to have type 1A (autoimmune) diabetes. That is to say if he had a positive antibody test at the time of diagnosis. It is by far the most common form in Caucasian families in the U.S. A positive test would of course quite rule out any link to dioxin, but it would probably be too late to do the test now if it was not done initially.
You are also right in supposing that psoriasis has both a specific genetic component and a basis in an abnormal immune response. I am no expert in this, but it seems to have a different mechanism to that in type 1A diabetes, and, unlike Dermatitis Herpetiformis, for example, it is not one of the conditions linked to diabetes and other autoimmune based conditions like hypothyroidism and celiac disease in the hyperimmune polyendocrine syndromes.
Two reports that might interest you and which any good local librarian can get for you are by Ortonne, JP in Br.J.Dermatol 54:1,1999 on psoriasis, and by Gray, AL in Toxicol.Ind.Health. 14:159,1998. on dioxin effects.


The high quality of asbestos training courses in the UK reflects the serious consequences of being exposed to the substance and the many asbestos containing materials still present in our buildings.
UKATA online training courses enable workers to identify the material, understand the risks of it being disturbed, and know why they should call in specialist contractors to deal with its removal.
An HSE asbestos certificate is provided at the end of each course, which demonstrates compliance with their requirements, and shows a strong commitment to health and safety on the part of each candidate.
According to the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), 80% of schools in this country still harbour asbestos. Add to that the number of commercial and residential buildings constructed prior to 2000 when asbestos was banned in the UK, and the seriousness of this issue can be appreciated.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), more than 300,000 people in the European Union are expected to lose their lives to Mesothelioma by 2030. This aggressive type of cancer attacks the lining of the lungs and has been attributed to asbestos exposure.
A joint conference being held by the EESC and the Committee of the Regions (CoR) to discuss the problem, follows on from the EESC's 'Opinion on Asbestos' which was released earlier this year.
This report highlighted the need for asbestos awareness in the workplace, and called for insurance companies and compensation firms to simplify their approach to the proof needed by victims.
In many cases, exposure to asbestos took place several decades earlier, when the dangers were either not fully understood or they were ignored by employers. Because of the intervening decades, it can be difficult for victims and their families to prove that the illness has been caused by asbestos, and to find former co-workers who could corroborate what happened.
Asbestos containing materials include many household items such as lagging for pipe work, old central heating boilers, even ceiling tiles and floor coverings. In commercial buildings, insulation boarding was widely used for partition walls. If this is punctured or otherwise damaged, the fibres are released into the air presenting significant danger to anyone in the vicinity.
Asbestos poses a particular danger to tradespeople such as plumbers, electricians and heating engineers. Those working in the construction industry or on the renovation and refurbishment of older houses could easily come across the substance whilst carrying out their work.
Asbestos training courses are quick and easy to complete. They arm workers with the knowledge needed to avoid the danger, and keep those around them safe. Once released, asbestos dust can spread quickly to other parts of a building, which is why it is imperative to call in specialist contractors to deal with the problem.


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De 77e editie van de wielerklassieker Milaan-San Remo werd gereden op 15 maart 1986. De wedstrijd werd gewonnen door Seán Kelly die aan de finish in de sprint sneller was dan Greg LeMond en Mario Beccia.

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Er kwamen 233 wielrenners aan de start, waarvan er 112 de finish zouden halen.

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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is hosting the Western Balkans Investment Summit on Monday, with the leaders of Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia all in attendance. The EU enlargement commissioner, Oliver Varhelyi, will also address the summit.
Important though the EBRD is – it's the largest institutional investor in the region, having provided more than 15 billion euros ($17 billion) in funds to date – sometimes a summit is just a summit. But in light of the war in Ukraine, and the amount of attention the West is paying these countries, it reveals the fragility of the region.
On Feb. 24 – the day the EBRD announced the summit, and the day the invasion in Ukraine started – the European Union Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina (EUFOR) said it increased the number of peacekeepers in the country (some 500 soldiers comprising four companies) as a "precautionary measure" – less as a direct response to Ukraine and more as a way to get ahead of destabilized international security. Rumors about an additional deployment of troops at short notice abound, often citing unnamed EU officials.
Bosnia isn't the only country in the region hosting peacekeeping forces. In Kosovo, the NATO-led Kosovo Force (KFOR) includes roughly 4,000 troops. They were last on alert in September 2021 when tensions rose between Serbia and Kosovo. Last week, there were fears of renewed tensions after Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced his country would not impose sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine – because Moscow did not sanction Belgrade in 1990 and has supported Serbia's territorial integrity by not recognizing Kosovo's independence. On Sunday, Kosovo asked the United States to establish a permanent military base in the country and speed up its integration into NATO after confirming it too will impose sanctions against Russia.
The Balkans are famously unstable. Bosnia, for example, consists of two autonomous entities: the Serb-majority Republika Srpska and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, populated mainly by Bosniaks and Croats. Its government was structured by the Dayton Agreement in 1995, the idea being that it would be the best way for three embittered ethnicities to share power after the war. But bad blood persists, and little progress has since been made. With the economy going from bad to worse, the only thing the Croats, the Bosniaks and the Serbs living in the country seem to have in common is migrating to Western Europe where they can hope for a decent living. They blame politicians for not doing much for the stability of the country.
They may have a point; politicians rarely speak about socio-economic problems, preferring instead to cast blame and stoke their nationalist and separatist bases. In fact, EUFOR's decision to deploy more troops comes only a few weeks after renewed ethnic tensions, thanks largely to calls from Milorad Dodik, the Serb member of the tripartite presidency, for an independent Republika Srpska.
The Serb Republic isn't the only concern. Croat political parties have threatened to boycott elections in October if the electoral law isn't amended to increase Croats' presence in national institutions. On Feb. 19, the Croatian National Assembly, an umbrella organization that represents most Bosnian Croat political parties, threatened to launch legal procedures to create its own entity if its conditions are not met.
On Feb. 22, just after the EU discussed the situation in Bosnia, Croatia called for the next EU summit in March to discuss the political impasse in the country. The problem is that discussing doesn't really solve the matter. Instead, the opponents of the West are taking all such summits as good excuses to increase their own rhetoric. Just as the EU foreign ministers were discussing the situation in Bosnia, Dodik accused the U.S. and the Europeans of favoring Bosnia's Muslim majority, the Bosniaks, in a way that destabilizes the country in the long run.
Which is why the war in Ukraine matters here. Russia is hugely influential in the Balkans, and Moscow has made similar comments as Dodik for years. Dodik has a good working relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the Russian Embassy in Sarajevo has repeatedly said Russia would "react" if Bosnia ever took steps to join NATO. (Relatedly, this is why Kosovo's recent request to join NATO is so consequential.) More important, Russia is Bosnia's biggest investor, and the country relies exclusively on Russia for its natural gas. Not to mention the years of strategic partnership between Russia and Republika Srpska that involved everything from helping Dodik politically to regular training of the republic's security forces. In December 2021, Russia even promised to support Bosnian Serbs in their disputes over power-sharing in the country.
The conflict in Ukraine began with Russia recognizing the independence of the two separatist republics. A renewed crisis in the Balkans could start with Dodik thinking it's time for Russia to recognize the independence of Republika Srpska. He has expressed support for the Russian invasion and said he is dissatisfied with Bosnia's decision to cosign the EU statement condemning it. It's certainly possible that he is stoking tensions to help carry him through elections, which he is wont to do, but considering the economic and political fragility of Bosnia, political chatter can turn into something much more violent.
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UK's national synchrotron facility reports £2.6 billion impact
An updated report reveals that the UK's national synchrotron facility, Diamond Light Source, has had a £2.6 billion impact on UK science and economy since 2007.
Aerial view of Diamond Light Source on the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory science campus. Credit: Diamond Light Source
The impact is rooted in the delivery of almost 12,000 journal papers on findings from research carried out at Diamond.
The UK taxpayer contributes only £2.45 annually towards Diamond's world-changing science, less than the cost of a cup of coffee.
Tackling the world's biggest scientific challenges
Diamond Light Source is a vast 561 metre ring-shaped facility. It harnesses the power of electrons to produce an intense beam of light that can be used to study atoms and molecules in incredibly fine detail.
The new figures on its impact are updates to the 2021 study by Technopolis, measuring Diamond's scientific, technological, societal, and economic benefits.
Diamond Light Source is funded as a joint venture between:
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Wellcome Trust, UK's largest provider of non-governmental funding for scientific research
14,000-strong global user community
Isabelle Boscaro-Clarke, Head of Impact at Diamond, yesterday said:
Diamond's mission is to keep the UK at the forefront of scientific research.
We do this by providing our users, in academia and industry, access to our state-of-the-art facilities enabling them to fulfill their research goals across a wide variety of scientific disciplines. The figures speak for themselves.
They demonstrate the huge array of benefits the facility has delivered, and the leading science being achieved by our 14,000-strong global user community, who are tackling some of the most challenging scientific questions of the 21st century.
Ground-breaking scientific achievements
Diamond is one of the most advanced scientific facilities in the world, and its pioneering capabilities are helping to keep the UK at the forefront of scientific research.
To date, Diamond has enabled ground-breaking scientific achievements, including:
time-critical data and resources for improved public understanding of COVID-19
research of a plastic-degrading enzyme
new synthetic vaccine against the foot-and-mouth disease virus
thermal energy storage solutions to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and domestic fuel bills
improving the lifetime of engineering components like turbine blades by studying residual stress profiles
characterisation of energy materials and catalysts for sustainable technologies
The updated numbers on impact illustrate how Diamond continues to act as an agent of change, addressing challenges such as:
Science and innovation play a significant role in our economy
Minister for Science and Investment Security Nusrat Ghani yesterday said:
It comes as no surprise to see evidence like this of the significant role science and innovation play in our economy.
Diamond should be hugely proud of the leading research work they are doing with the scientific community, delivering real-world innovations from plastic degrading enzymes to synthetic vaccines against the foot-and-mouth disease virus.
The fact this work is also contributing an economic boost of over two-and-a-half billion pounds to the UK illustrates just how important the science and research sector is to our country's growth and prosperity, and the benefits we continue to see from persevering with our ambitions to remain a science superpower.
Professor Mark Thomson, STFC Executive Chair, yesterday said:
Diamond Light Source is yet again proving itself to be a powerful asset in our world-leading science campus at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.
Its exceptional capabilities allow scientists in the UK to carry out impactful research across a vast range of disciplines for the good of society.
This report demonstrates the vitally important role of research infrastructure to the UK economy, as Diamond and our other national facilities continue to provide a catalysis for economic growth.
Some of the highlights from the updated report include:
Highlights include:
almost 12,000 scientific articles published by Diamond's users and scientists, resulting in a cumulative impact of £947 million
£589 million in direct benefits to individual users each year through access to beamtime and support
£924 million in value through Diamond's contributions to structures deposited in the world's Protein Data Bank
collectively valued at £10.2 billion (in 2018 prices). Although the exact criticality of Diamond in each case is unknown, estimates suggest its contribution could be worth at least £103 million
an estimated £51.3 million valuation for the software and applications produced at Diamond
£8.8 million in training provided through Diamond based on 19,191 days of training across 7,668 attendees in the past 5 years and commercial rates for similar courses
Wider societal benefits
over 80,000 visitors reached to date through a programme of engagement supporting the UK skills' agenda in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)
increased awareness of the value of STEM subjects to everyday lives through many news articles and outreach activities
Read the full 2021 study: socio-economic impact study of Diamond Light Source.
Channel website: http://www.stfc.ac.uk/
Original article link: https://www.ukri.org/news/uks-national-synchrotron-facility-reports-2-6-billion-impact/
230 megaelectron volt milestone will target tumours at any depth
230 million electron volt success marks the start of a new era for the proton therapy.
UK contributes to a breakthrough in nuclear fusion energy
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have achieved the 'holy grail' of fusion research.
Importance of apprentices celebrated in STFC annual awards
STFC has celebrated the successes of their latest cohort of engineering, technical and scientific apprentices at their annual awards ceremony.
UK-led robotic sky scanner reveals its first galactic fingerprint
A major telescope upgrade has peered through to the distant Universe to reveal the spectra of a pair of galaxies 280 million light years away from Earth.
Webb reveals details of 'messy death' of a dying star
Images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) offer new insights into the death of stars.
Construction begins on the 'ear' that will listen to the Universe
The construction of 2 next-generation radio astronomy telescopes from the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) has begun on-site in Australia and South Africa.
UKRI receives government funding in new Earth Observation science
UKRI supported projects in the Earth Observation sector will receive over £38 million as part of a £200m investment to protect UK talent and industry in this field.
UKRI to launch AI CDT call
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) will soon launch a new opportunity for Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs) in artificial intelligence (AI).
More than £20 million awarded for UK theoretical physics
The UK theoretical physics community has been awarded more than £20 million to expand and test theories of how the Universe works.


This paper discusses and evaluates Franz AllegroGraph, a semantic graph database focused on generating sophisticated semantic knowledge graphs, initially from your existing data. The graph database itself is an RDF-based quad store (in other words, a triple store where all the triples are named) with property graph support. It is OLTP-enabled and fully ACID compliant, with immediate consistency. It can be used for analytics, is secure, and supports the requirements for various government security standards, including HIPAA. It is available both on-premises and in the cloud.