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Dana Massing: Anshe Hesed to dedicate new faith home
The Reform Jewish congregation moved to its new site in 2018 but was waiting for the completion of its new Ark.
For many members of Erie's Temple Anshe Hesed, this weekend will bring what congregation President Edie Joseph calls "a once-in-a-lifetime event."
The area's Reform Jewish congregation will dedicate its new temple building in services Friday and Saturday that aren't open to the public.
The building on Old Zuck Road in Millcreek Township is the third temple built for Anshe Hesed, which began with the Jewish Burial Society in 1846. The congregation incorporated in 1862 and its first temple was constructed in Erie in 1882 on West Eighth Street near Myrtle Street. In 1930, a new temple went up at West 10th and Liberty streets. The congregation, recognizing it was growing too small for that big space, left it this past summer for a smaller temple built on land purchased in 2014 on Old Zuck. The property at 930 Liberty St. is still for sale.
Joseph told me she "absolutely loves" the new site, which is surrounded by grass and trees rather than buildings. She said there's a sense of calm and peace there and worshipers can see the changing of the seasons and hear the birds. Not too long ago, as she was leaving the temple, a turkey ran in front of her.
She believes most members are happy with their new temple even though it was hard leaving the old building and its history.
Although Anshe Hesed's families have been using the new building since July, leaders held off on the dedication until the new Ark, which holds the Torahs, was in place, Joseph said.
"It took quite some time to complete," she said. "It's absolutely gorgeous. It was worth the wait."
On hand to see it this weekend will be one of the congregation's former rabbis, John Bush, and its newly appointed rabbi, Rob Morais, who is due to start July 1.
"It's a very exciting time for us," Joseph said, adding that many individuals put much time and love into the construction and furnishing of the new temple and won't see another built in their lifetime.
She said there's a term in Herbrew, "l'dor v'dor," which means "from generation to generation."
"This temple was built with the idea our future generations will always have a home in Erie," Joseph said.
Erie Times-News staff writers share their views from behind the scenes, stories and bylines. Dana Massing can be reached at 870-1729. Send email to dana.massing@timesnews.com.

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Hans Eworth (ou Ewouts) (vers 1520 – 1574) est un peintre flamand actif en Angleterre au milieu du . Parmi d'autres flamands en exil, il a fait carrière à Londres sous les Tudor en peignant autant des sujets allégoriques que des portraits de la gentry et de la noblesse anglaise. On lui attribue actuellement environ 40 peintures parmi lesquelles les portraits des souveraines Marie  et d'Élisabeth . Eworth exécuta également certaines commandes pour l'Office of the Revels d'Élisabeth dans les années 1570.

Biographie
On ne connait rien de la jeunesse ou de l'apprentissage d'Hans Eworth. « Jan Euworts » est inscrit dans les registres de la guilde de Saint-Luc d'Anvers en 1540. « Jan et Nicolas Ewouts, peintre et marchand » sont exilés d'Anvers pour hérésie en 1544, les historiens pensent généralement qu'il s'agit d'Hans Eworth.
Dès 1545, Eworth réside à Londres, peu de temps après la mort d'Holbein. Il apparaît fréquemment dans les registres londoniens (sous différentes orthographes) à partir de 1549.

Œuvres
Les premières œuvres d'Eworth conservées datent des environs de 1549 à 1550. Parmi elles figure le Portrait allégorique de John Luttrell avec la déesse Pax, commémorant les exploits militaires de Luttrell et le traité de Boulogne (ou traité d'Outreau, ) qui apporta la paix entre l'Angleterre, l'Écosse et la France à la suite des longues guerres connues sous le nom de Rough Wooing. L'œuvre signée du monogramme « HE » a été donnée par Lord Lee of Farnham à l'Institut Courtauld en 1932.

La Tate Britain conserve un Portrait d'une dame inconnue, (v. 1565-1568, huile sur panneau de chêne, ), qui pourrait avoir été peint pour une jeune mariée.

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Bibliographie
  van Claerbergen, Ernst Vegelin, The Portrait of Sir John Luttrell : A Tudor Mystery, Londres, Jistlynn Ltd., 2000.
  Cooper, Tanya, A Guide to Tudor & Jacobean Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, Londres, 2008.
  « Hans Eworth », dans The Concise Grove Dictionary of Art, Oxford University Press, Inc., 2002.
  Hearn, Karen (éd.), Dynasties : Painting in Tudor and Jacobean England 1530-1630, New York, Rizzoli, 1995.

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 Artistes de la cour des Tudor
 Renaissance nordique, Renaissance flamande

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Peintre néerlandais du XVIe siècle
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Neil Young appreciation thread
By cody78, December 23, 2016 in Gibson Acoustic
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Despite the fact I've studied and listened to many styles of music over the years, from classical and jazz to metal and bluegrass, I always find myself coming back to Neil's records. I first discovered his music in the year 2000 when I was 16 years old having seen the well known BBC concert version of Heart of Gold and was hooked from then on. Over the years I bought every record he ever put out (yes, even Trans and Everybody's Rockin' which I find equally as enjoyable as his more well known albums). For me, On the Beach and Zuma are probably my favourites, but I also love his later classics such as Chrome Dreams II and Le Noise.
So, I felt he deserved a thread to say 'thanks Neil for all the great albums and songs' by probably my favourite artist of all time
Here's a rare version of Southern Pacific originally from Re-Ac-Tor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4KZlxmbX98
and a super rare acoustic version of LA from Time Fades Away
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He's always been an inspiration to me, too. He's more of a Martin guy than a Gibson guy when it comes to acoustics, though.
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Location- Cooperstown
Yep...he's the man. Good tribute choice. Thanks. I'll be picking away at Neil songs for the rest of the evening starting with this one.
NY my all time etc..etc...etc....
Check out his live concert Massey Theater, The early works with Crazy Horse in " Year of the Horse " and " WELD " lice dvd concert and you will fall into the realms of Neil....
Check out the country laden album/cd " Stars and Bars " I like ZUMA as well. Ragged Glory.....man I can go on here. Anyways something to start you off with. Glad I am not the only NY fan here.
This one is a classic why? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7HiSB9Nc0o
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LocationRabbit Hash Ky
Thought I was the only one who enjoyed, On The Beach!
j45nick 460
LocationSouth Florida
Oh yes! Yes indeed!
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My all-time Neil Young favourite song since its vinyl release in 1973, sadly never released on CD although time still keeps on fading away :unsure:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVn8jvddl64
Here's an hour that isn't wasted:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1qH8z_qCbo
Awesome, Nick. My evening's fully booked now.
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A fair idea for a thread. Young has been up on these pages pretty frequently over years. For more than 1 reason.
Such a fine acoustic player and singersongwriter and and and and plus plus plus, , , , most of us know how the list continues.
He had his sunburst J-200 for ages. Guess since plus/minus 1970 - I heard it live as early as 1975.
But only recently did I read that he brings a secret 1950's J-50 with him on the road for the hotel-rooms.
Bet this guitar is something we'ld like to see and hear here.
I could speak for hours about Young and have delivered the story about when I met him as a fan more than once. Will spare you this time.
Times Fades Away* is a highly interesting album from the so called ditch-trilogy (the 2 others are On The Beach and Tonight's The Night).
I like them all and one of my overall favorites is Ambulance Blues from Beach.
So why not take that hippie low-furniture oldie in the re-mastered version now -
1973 ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4zAZuB6jBk
, , , and then continue with a tune from one of his deepest lows - the mid-80 where he almost went under, , , as a recording artist anyway.
1986 ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djxTc7NCTk0
Actually still like this techno-monster (haven't heard it for 20 years or something) - but definitely prefer the other real Neil.
And Sir, , , long may you promise to run
*the artist himself find this record nervous and can't really cope with it
Keep adding lads! Didn't realized we have so many NY fans here.
I grew up where he went to school back in Winnipeg, Manitoba - Canada.
My high school ( St. John's High ) was always having tournaments where he used to go to ( Kelvin High ) , Although the Guess Who singer did go to my high school ( Burton Cummings )There was always a musical fanfare where they held concerts and charity events.
Seen Neil countless times over the years. Last one was with the Promise of the Real ( Willy Nelson's sons band )
He is a true Canadian icon, though he still resides in his California Ranch with old Chevy's all line up half buried as a driveway to his digs...
A very unique person that's doesn't believe/like commercialism.
They are really good.
Sad to say I haven't seen them, , , yet.
They bring N.Y. safe back to quintessential mother-territory. And he likes it there. .
Oh, 1 remarkable detail about the '86 techno-track.
Listen to the outro and you'll hear Young distort his vox in a way he almost never does. In fact a rather unique feature in his entire oeuvre right there.
Nothing can replace CRAZY HORSE imho!! They are ONE !!!
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Until I started learning some NY songs from a fugitive friend of mine, I thought I had invented the Em chord.... Love his stuf - drop D baby.
Of course I dig them as well.
The things that the Horse isn't just 1 creature. There are many or has been a whole span of horses over the years.
Yes, they have a general trademark, but they tried so many nuances through the 5 decades spent together.
What happened in the later phase was that Young wanted to make them play as simplistic as possible so he could stick out from a neutral basis.
Almost like the brush-strokes on a mono-chrome canvas. This worked good'n'strong and only a set of cartboard-ears would mistake them for a plain bar-band. But they were rustic no doubt.
Ever listened to their own LP's ? , , , again something different. .
The new band re-introduces the detail, subtle nuance and shimmer from the golden era and they really know what they're doin.
This brings a finer classic touch - and the White Falcon - forward in Neil as well.
A thing I personally longed to hear, , , not least live. Also though I saw a semi electric gig with full line-up not that far back.
(The incarnation w. B. Keith, Rick Rosas and Anthony Crawford).
cody's 2 clips in post 1 btw are splendid ^ glad to hear them
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Count me in as another HUGE fan of N.Y.
I would put Ragged Glory and Live at Massey Hall in my top ten albums of all time.
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I always loved NY, even through my rock, blues, etc years. Acoustic and vocal!
I will go through some of the attached videos with interest when I have a minute or two. I have the Rymill live concert - sensational sound repro as well as a little bit of talent.
I would have thought of NY with Martin Acoustics, D45, D18, D28 long before any Gibson acoustics though.
BluesKing777.
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he has a prius.. hes saving the world..
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Not sure if it's been mentioned but Time Fades Away is available for download at iTunes and for streaming at Spotify. It's not a CD, of course, or even an LP, but it's a way of hearing/owning/renting the music.
We can't talk 'bout Young and Crazy Horse without zooming in on this jewel.
Most of you remember it, , , some of you in other versions with more commercial artists.
But here it is in its original beauty and soul.
Written by guitarist Danny Written (to the left).
Though its too sad for X-mas you can look the story about him up if information is needed.
1972 ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR3Al4hPKYs
Don't think it has been played here before. Glad to be the one who fixed that. .
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Just came home from a gig, and I'm trying to get to sleep... anyways, we of course got to play Old Man, but one guy made the request that we play Powderfinger. Mike and I never played it. We knew it by heart though, from our younger days. And yeah we played it and remembered every chord and word.
Edited... ok now I am up. I wanted to add that Neil Young was a major part of my musical life growing up. My high school band played Like a Hurricane. I wore out Rust Never Sleeps on my turntable. The one note guitar solo in Cinnamon Girl fascinated me, and to me it just meant "confidence" and "self assurance". I loved it. After all I was a pimply teen without those attributes.... who wanted to appeal to girls in the worst way. Think about it... you have to have serious balls and machismo to play a one note solo like that... anyways, it's funny how the mind not only remembers events, but also feelings and auras.
And yes... someone please start a NY cover thread... I'd love to watch thirty of yours.
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To this day I still think Neil Young in Brisbane in 1989 touring the Freedom album is probably the best concert I've been to. A long acoustic set and then even longer overdrive drenched electric set with stuff like Cocaine Eyes and Rockin in the Free World just as heavy as. One of my favourite performers and I too have attended to vocal duties on Powderfinger and Like a Hurricane at gigs (maybe others too). One of the greats for sure.
Maybe worth starting a thread for members performing their choice of NY covers - after all, If you play a guitar and are of a certain age you've probably all got a favourite to perform for our entertainment.
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Out On The Weekend, Harvest, Heart Of Gold, Needle and the damage done, old man, old laughing lady, harvest moon, from hank to hendrix....and on and on....all get a regular blast from my D18, J45 or D35. He truly is a trailblazer who does things his way. Anyone interested should check out the biography Shakey..its fantastic
Wow! Thanks everyone for all the great replies; I was hoping it would go this way where everyone posts videos, story's and thoughts about Mr. Young. Keep 'em coming
Couple of things for your interest...
Smurfbird, like you say Time Fades Away is available for streaming & mp3 download, but thought you might like to know you can also get a copy of it on vinyl reissue now. I picked mine up in November and the sound is fantastic. I already had a used copy of the original 1973 vinyl, but was excited to see it being reissued. There is some good stuff on the 'Journey Through the Past' soundtrack too and while it was included as the original film format for Archives 1, it has sadly never been reissued on CD/ LP or even to stream or download.
E-minor7, yes, it's worth hearing Crazy Horse's solo output and 'I Don't want to Talk About It' in the original form is still the finest version of the song which many people haven't even heard. I thought Rod Stewart killed the song, as did the others who covered it, but Danny Whitten could have been one of the great songwriters had he lived. The first album is a classic. Crazy Moon from 1978 is also worth listening to as it has some excellent material, as does 'Loose' and 'At Crooked Lake'...
Neil did write some excellent songs in the 80's. I think it was more to do with instrumentation and presentation as to why it didn't always please many fans. This unreleased version of Sample and Hold below shows what a great tune it really was. One of my favourites in fact.
PS, Re; Landing on Water, I always liked Weight of the World, Pressure and Drifter, but must admit that 'Violent Side' is pretty awful!
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Horrors for Hodgson
"Three Lions on a Shirt,
Jules Rimet Still Gleaming,
Thirty Years of Hurt,
Never Stopped Me Dreaming."
Thirty years of hurt? I'm guessing a majority of English football fans would give their right arms for it only to be thirty years at this moment. You must have been living on the moon if you don't know the biggest sports story of the week. I don't suppose any of you missed it, but for those that did, England crashed out of the Euros in the last 16 to the minnows of Iceland. Tiny Iceland. One of the incredible statistics being bandied about is that apparently the Scandinavian island has a population equivalent to Leicester. The 2011 census estimated Leicester's population as approximately 330, 000. In terms of population, this allegedly makes the midlands town the eighth biggest city in England. You could say the result was like Premier League Champions Leicester City beating England's national team. But it's not. The majority of Leicester's players don't hail from the city, and the club's owners are free to sign players from all over the world. To use a better analogy, then, this was like a Belfast team defeating England's superstars, with the side being comprised only of Belfast born players. Although rather glib, such statistics help put Iceland's achievement in some kind of context. I've been to Iceland. It's a beautiful country full of wonderful, natural sights, but they wouldn't be known as one of international football's superpowers.
I remember when Terry Venables was England manager. English press and supporters absolutely loved him. Venables was regarded as a tactical genius, a coaching guru who could inspire any team to consistent levels of achievement. He used to talk about the "Christmas Tree" formation. Or maybe it was the "Diamond" formation? I don't know. To be honest, I kinda switch off when football people make the game out to be overly technical or complicated. Football is one of the simplest games imaginable. I just don't get it when fellas make it sound like rocket science or existentialist philosophy. Nevertheless, whatever Venables had, it worked. The former Spurs manager successfully got his charges to the semi-finals of Euro '96, the first major tournament held in Blighty since Bobby Moore lifted the Jules Rimet trophy. 1966 and all that. English football was carried along on a wave of popular euphoria until the inevitable moment when Gareth Southgate missed the penalty to send the rival Germans into the final in England's stead. Oh well. At least, he got a Pizza Hut advert out of it. My point is this. Even the oracle that was Venables couldn't get the perpetual under achievers over the line. What chance does anyone else have? I saw a documentary about Euro '96 recently which revealed that Venables is now running a hotel in Spain. I imagine he's not coming back any time soon.
From the outside, it seems that one of the biggest problems facing English football is a lack of self-awareness. Post-1966, the English have always had a superiority complex when it comes to football. And indeed most other major sports too! They think they should always be contenders. The prevailing attitude even creeps into sports like tennis where the English have no reason (based on history or climate) to consider themselves one of the game's superpowers. Therefore, there's usually a massive disconnection between expectation and achievement. It's almost inherent, built into the English psyche. Before I get inundated with responses from beleaguered English friends, I'm not talking about the average English punter here. I understand that expectation among English football fans, for example, has been consistently low for many years. Year after year of penalty shoot-out elimination and knockout heartache does that to you. I'm talking about the media. The English press just can't help themselves. Despite protestations to the contrary, they will always champion their boys as potential winners. It's the same old story. For sure, they'll mercilessly slate Hodgson's boys for the latest underachievement, but as soon as his successor musters a couple of wins, they'll talk England up as football giants again. It's inevitable.
It's a curious phenomenon. And it's a syndrome we see at close hand from this side of the Irish Sea. Despite having our own televisual and media outlets, us Irish spend a disproportionate amount of time watching English t.v. and reading English papers. Therefore, we're in an excellent position to assess the English propensity to talk up their sports stars. Sure, all countries do it, but the English are masters at hyping their sports men and women. One of the reasons we're fascinated by such hyperbole in Ireland is that it's so different from our own experience and reaction. In Ireland, we're instinctively modest about our sporting prospects. Even on the rare occasions our sportsmen actually deliver, we scarcely believe it. It doesn't seem real. We're programmed to accept mediocrity and disappointment as par for the course. Any success we achieve, therefore, is welcomed as an unexpected delight. And once the euphoria dissipates, we eagerly resume our natural role as underdogs and challengers.
From the outside, certainly, it seems the English media view their sports teams and individuals differently. Maybe it's a relic of empire, but the English appear to have an ingrained propensity to expect success. And such expectation doesn't always correlate with the ability of the individuals and teams concerned. The consequence? The English public is almost guaranteed to experience disappointment. When the only yardstick of success is actually winning the competition, you're setting your teams up for constant failure. The only way to break this perpetual cycle is to lower expectations.The English football manager's job is a poisoned chalice. Regardless of remuneration, who'd want an impossible job? I could be wrong, but I don't think there'll be a queue of top managers wanting to succeed the unfortunate Roy Hodgson.
As a post-script to my last blog, I notice that Boris Johnson has withdrawn from the race to be prime minister following the latest bout of infighting within the Tory party. I know there are more global issues at work, but given the belief that one of the primary drivers of the Brexit campaign was giving Boris a shot at his lifelong dream, doesn't the Leave victory seem a little hollow now he's backed down? The Boris-supporting leavers have campaigned for something that's proved ultimately futile, a quest for professional aggrandisement that hasn't even worked. For this-amongst other reasons-, we're in a period of grave uncertainty? It's a funny old world!
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5 Misconceptions About Witch Trials
October is a delightful month: with its crisp weather, fall foliage, ripened fruit, the World Series, and of course Christmas decorations everywhere as part of the ubiquitous War On Christmas. But lest we forget, there is another holiday that used to take precedence in October. No, besides Columbus Day. And while it's fun to attend "haunted attractions" and see all the black and orange, and the trick-or-treaters in costume, we mustn't lose sight of the very grim history behind those caricatures of pointy-hatted witches. Accusations of "devil worship" have cost many people their lives in horrible ways in the past; and they have even been leveled against innocent individuals in our own supposedly more enlightened age.
The kind of misinformation that led to those horrors persists today. And there are even widespread misconceptions about the history of the whole bloody mess of accusing and trying "witches". So while we're waiting for a more substantial blog post to pop out of the oven, let's briefly look at some of the most common misconceptions about witch trials:
1. Millions of people were tried as witches in Europe
As you may be aware, hyperbole is often involved when people look back on sensationalist events and trends of the past. The number of gunfights in the American West, for instance, has been greatly exaggerated — after all, they make good cinema and pulp fiction. And though the Crusades were undeniably bloody, the tally of victims has greatly expanded in the retelling. The same is true of witch trials. Historians estimate the actual number of persons executed as witches in Europe to be somewhere between 40,000 and 100,000. (The actual number of documented executions for witchcraft is about 12,000). Some estimates run as high as 200,000. Those are certainly horrifying numbers, but a far cry from "millions".
2. Witch trials were very common in the Middle Ages
They were actually quite rare. While the "Dark Ages" (which weren't quite as dark as many people suppose — but that's another discussion) were notoriously brutal toward (suspected) offenders of all stripes, alleged witches were generally not among them. The "golden age" of witch trials didn't really begin until the Fifteenth Century (about the time of Joan of Arc), which was well past the generally agreed upon imaginary demarcation point between Medieval and Renaissance. The last known witch trial in Europe was in Poland in 1783. In America, the last known trial was 1833 in Tennessee.
During the Middle Ages, however, people certainly were tortured and horrifically executed for the offense of "heresy", which might be thought of as witchcraft in another robe — both involve doing/ believing/ thinking things that conflict with official religious doctrine. Indeed, Pope John XII officially decreed that the two go hand in hand — that witchcraft, in effect, is a form of heresy. That was not until the early Fourteenth Century, which was at the tail end of the Medieval era, but still it is likely because of this identification between heresy and witchcraft that many people today have such a grim and distorted view of persecution for "witchcraft" in the Middle Ages.
3. The church was behind it
Not necessarily. It's complicated. During the Middle Ages, church authorities tended to look upon witchcraft as superstitious nonsense. In fact, in the year 906 the church actually declared it heresy to believe in witchcraft. It did a total about face in 1484, however, when Pope Innocent VIII decreed it heretical not to believe in witches.
What religion has always done, however, is provide the ideological framework within which such persecution took place. Fundamentalist zealots can point to several biblical passages that condemn witches (e.g. Deuteronomy 18: 11-12) and apparently even call for their murder. (Exodus 22: 18 : "Do not allow a sorceress to live.")
4. Burning people at the stake meant setting them on fire
Usually nothing so merciful as that, alas. What would happen quite often is that the victim would be tied to a stake within a ring of fire and slowly roasted alive. The lucky ones might die of smoke inhalation. Incidentally, even individuals who were already dead could be "executed" by burning. The body of John Wycliffe was exhumed and burned 30 years after his death.
5. Suspected witches were burned at the stake in America
Never happened. The preferred method of execution on this side of the pond was by hanging. In Salem, 19 people were hanged and one was pressed to death with stones.
The myths and lore surrounding historical events like witch trials are a boon to the imagination, and to galvanizing emotional response to certain ideals. They are a convenient shorthand for the collective memory; we speak of "Salem witch trials", even though trials also took place in Andover and Ipswich, and in fact the whole witch mania actually got started in Salem Village, which is now called Danvers. Referring to all of them as just "Salem witch trials" is all well and good in pop culture — just as it's fun to read Longfellow's poem about Paul Revere even though it's mostly bullshit, and Revere is mostly just famous because his name rhymes with so many words. But when it comes to having a serious discussion about history, there's no substitute for getting the facts straight.
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Very interesting. I learned a thing or two from this.
Let's face it, most Americans can't tell you the difference between the Middle Ages & the Renaissance.
Peter W Johnson says:
This is a great informative post which clears up many falsehoods which have been routinely circulated about those accused of Witchcraft. And I did actually think it happened more often in the Middle ages.
So when we hear about the "spanish Inquisition," which became the brunt of bizarre humor on the Monty Python show, did that humor concern itself primarilly with the terror spread by the Church in Spain and portugal? Please don't laugh if I am too uninformed and naive–I don't think the answers to questions like that are often widely known. But if so, didn't the Spanish Inquisition also take place near the beginning of the renaissance? I know that many scientists were accused of blasphemy (or something like it) and were sometimes tortured in very cruel and sadistics ways to force them to publicly disavow any facts that challenged false and fundamentalist views in the Bible. Apparently, during these centuries there was nothing even close to the cruelty that took place at the hands of the Catholic Church and its ruthless connections to Kings and politicians of those times. Instead, the hate crimes and persecution of "heretics" compares very well with the cruelty and violence which took place during many genocidal attacks which happened during the 20th century!
The gory facts about how one was "burned at the stake:" is especially gruesome and represents the length that human beings will go to hurt and kill their own species when motivated by superstitions and fear. Still, Jesus taught nothing like this and denounced violence in all its forms. So rather than condemning all religious faiths or the people in them, I feel way more comfortable condemning the very human actors among them who sought to spread horrific atrocities in the name of Christ!
I also thought that, way more innocent setters were hung as witches than only 19. But that's all for now. Thanks for another informative article which reveals the facts behind such glarilng misconceptions!
"more innocent setters."No not Irish Setters either.I must have meant to use the word, "settlers?"


How Do We Measure Up as a Church Making Disciples?
The start of November is Reformation day on November 1, then All Saints Sunday on November 6. Reformation Sunday is about a change in church ideology, in reforming old church ideas and concepts, and looking at how we measure ourselves in staying true to the Scriptures and the Gospel of Christ! All Saints Sunday is about all the Saints of the church who have gone before us all. We someday will all be counted as the saints of the church in faith of our Lord Jesus Christ. So that got me thinking on how do we measure a church's health: Are we making Saints for the future?
You know those of us who do computer work; we have a love/hate relationship with data. Even as big data shapes almost all our online experiences, we're not so sure how we feel about data "stuff" in the life of the church.
Yes, we count worship services, offerings, worship attendance, small group ministries, baptisms and confirmations. But deep down inside, we resist measuring ourselves. I suspect it's because we fear we can't measure up. Maybe some of you folks have seen me wear my measuring tape suspenders when I go to Prison Ministry. Because, after all, NONE OF US measure up!
I get it. Measuring ourselves is hard. I experience that every time I step on the scale. If my weight is high, I'm bummed. Paradoxically, my response is to want to eat more. On the other hand, if it's low, I take it as license to indulge. I'm stuck either way. Data shmata.
Jesus said, "You shall know me by my fruits." What fruits are we as a church producing? In the United Methodist Church, we proclaim that we are making disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world. That sounds like a Mission Statement, doesn't it?
There's only one way to know if we are accomplishing our vision or not. We have to measure ourselves. I know what your're thinking: data shmata. Who cares about the numbers? You can't measure what churches do. You can't measure the growth of a soul or the impact of a sermon. I say if we're not willing to measure ourselves, we're not serious about our vision.
For instance, can you imagine Michael Phelps, the Olympic swimmer, practicing without a timer? OR Simone Biles, who is four-time Olympic gold medalist and the first African American to win the world all-around gymnastics title, which she did in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016, executing moves without a judge? Is it even conceivable that Usain Bolt would, well bolt, without clocking his speed? They count on that information to guide their performance.
The next few weeks are coming up to Thanksgiving. With many family blessings, I don't want to be a sad-sack, for we have a church with many positive aspects of a congregation, but what about the Saints of the future? Who is going to fill the pews of the future?
That is our calling now as Disciples of Christ....to go out and make Disciples in all the nations, and just around the corner from where we live, to tell them of the Love of God, That's Jesus, That's the Holy Spirit. To tell them that the blessings they reap are Blessings from our Holy Father, Son and Holy Spirit!
That is one way of going out to all the world, to make Disciples of all nations, telling them of the Love of Jesus Christ. That should be your story to all the world and just around the corner of your own world.....that Jesus Christ saves. That is the Good News for all to hear in all seasons of the year!


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New York Series: Paul Simon 'Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard'
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By Ryan Randazzo	 On Mar 29, 2018
When pop icon Paul Simon split from the famous folk duo Simon and Garfunkel in 1970, the future was foggy for the young singer. He briefly stepped away from the hectic pop world to figure out where he wanted to go next with his musical career. For two years he spent his time teaching songwriting classes at New York University, travelling around the country to record demos and searching for inspiration in genres of music with which he was not very familiar. After some much needed soul searching, in January 1972, Simon released his first solo album in the US, Paul Simon. The album looks at many of the issues Simon was going through at the time, ranging from his fading adolescence to increased drug use.
The second single off the album, "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard," is inspired Simon's whimsical childhood in Queens, and was written as a vague, yet playful, reflection of growing up during an era of change. Over the course of his childhood in Kew Garden Hills in Queens, NY, Simon saw his small Jewish community grow into a more diverse neighborhood featuring many different cultures and ethnicities. Many believe the name "Julio" (then controversial for a white artist to write a song featuring a Latino name) is used in this song to highlight the increasing diversity in Queens, and the obscure use of Brazilian percussion techniques often used in samba music only further support this theory.
In addition to Simon's own neighborhood changing during the '60s, the entire country was going through an intense shift which furthered the gap between the political left and right. When asked what the crime committed in the song that made mama pajama so distraught was, Simon was very vague with his answer. In a 1972 interview he said:
"I have no idea what it is. Something sexual is what I imagine, but when I say 'something,' I never bothered to figure out what it was. Didn't make any difference to me. I like the line about the radical priest–I think that's funny to have in a song."
While the crime may in fact be something sexual, many fans theorize that it could also be referencing something illegal pertaining to drugs, political activism, or is somehow racially motivated. With the influx of political movements occurring during the 1960s, any one of those theories could essentially be accurate with regards to the story. All we know from the narrator is that the crime committed was illegal at the time, and controversial to the point where a radical priest questions its morality on a national level. Because of their actions, the narrator and Julio will never view the world on such a small scale again and must say goodbye to local heroes, such as Rosie the Queen of Corona (Corona Park is close to where Simon grew up in Queens), and they are also forced to say goodbye to their adolescent bubble.
Since the release of "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard," the Kew Garden Hills neighborhood Simon grew up in has seen many different changes in terms of demographics. It is still an ethnically diverse neighborhood with Jewish roots which has seen a recent influx of Korean immigrants inhabiting the neighborhood. As many things change, some things will always stay the same, such as the ambiguity of this song. If Simon were to rewrite the song today, it might even be titled "Me and Do-Won Down by the Schoolyard."
'Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard' Lyrics:
The mama pajama rolled out of bed
And she ran to the police station
When the papa found out he began to shout
And he started the investigation
It's against the law
It was against the law
What the mama saw
The mama looked down and spit on the ground
Every time my name gets mentioned
The papa said, "oy, if I get that boy
I'm gonna stick him in the house of detention"
Well I'm on my way
I don't know where I'm going
I'm taking my time
But I don't know where
Seein' me and Julio
Down by the schoolyard
Whoa, in a couple days they come and take me away
But the press let the story leak
And when the radical priest
Come to get me released
We was all on the cover of Newsweek
And I'm on my way
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Google Sees State-Sponsored Hackers Ramping Up Coronavirus Attacks
Julia Carroll
In the 21st century, one can't even have a pandemic in peace.
Since January, the outbreak of COVID-19 led to news of phishing and scamming going on in the tech underworld. Although most of them were blamed on criminals and fraudsters, Google has found out that even governments have been involved in it. By employing State-Sponsored hackers, these governments have been actively trying to use COVID-19 as a perfect cover-up for their reconnaissance and espionage activities.
TAG or Google's Threat Analysis Group have already published their reports on how they have caught 2 of the main State-Sponsored groups who have been phishing government employees over mails. Their mails always have a cover-up of some pandemic offer for fast food, which when clicked leads to the employee giving up their google credentials. While Google has blocked most of these sites or labeled them as malicious malware, there is still a long way to go.
"Hackers frequently look at crises as an opportunity, and COVID-19 is no different," TAG director Shane Huntley wrote in a blog post about the findings. "Across Google products, we're seeing bad actors use COVID-related themes to create urgency so that people respond to phishing attacks and scams.… TAG has specifically identified over a dozen government-backed attacker groups using COVID-19 themes as a lure for phishing and malware attempts—trying to get their targets to click malicious links and download files."
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John Coleman, longtime weatherman on KUSI Channel 9/51, has announced his retirement.
John Coleman, a TV weatherman for more than 60 years, including the last 20 at KUSI Channel 9/51, has decided to retire.
The station planned to announce Coleman's decision on its 6 p.m. news Thursday, at which time it would air a retrospective of his career.


Carnegie Equipment constructed a new 16,000 SF showroom and office facility, and converted their existing building to warehouse space. Keller Engineers was responsible for site-civil design and permitting, including layout, grading, stormwater management erosions and sedimentation control, utility coordination, landscaping plan, and highway occupancy permits for the driveways.
The site contained approximately 300' of paved frontage which had to be revised to create two distinct driveway entrances to comply with PennDOT's standards.
Because finished floor elevation (FFE) is below the base flood elevation, the existing building is located inside a floodplain; therefore, the new addition could not be structurally connected to the existing building. The new building was designed to float along the face of the existing building.
Stormwater discharge was originally proposed to cross 6th Avenue and discharge to a stream culvert; however, a 36" diameter bore pipe under the road would have been needed. During the design process, the basin discharge pipe was re-routed through the neighboring Penelec substation property, which required an easement through the First Energy corporate office.
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Some small nursing homes here are downsizing or winding up after finding it hard to keep up with tighter enforcement when stricter standards kicked in last month.
At least five nursing homes, The Sunday Times understands, have reduced their bed capacity or plan to shut down for good soon.
Nursing homes were given a one-year grace period to adapt to enhanced standards that specify more clearly what these care facilities are expected to provide, as part of licensing conditions. To prepare themselves for the new rules, most of the 72 nursing homes here signed up for mock audits by the Agency for Integrated Care to see if they matched up in areas such as patient care.
Following the checks, some nursing homes have been told by the authorities to house fewer residents so as to meet new requirements.
Soo's Nursing Home, which has been providing nursing care services since 1985, was told by the authorities last year to gradually reduce its 24 beds to 18. It has decided to call it a day as it lacks the facilities needed to meet the mark. The Sunday Times understands there are plans for another nursing home in the north to close down soon.
Small nursing homes are struggling and how long they can survive is a big question mark. Getting in an architect to cater for fire safety design and equipment can easily set us back by $20,000 each time.
MR PATRICK TAN, who runs Our Lady of Lourdes Nursing Home, on rising costs that come with complying with the regulations.
The operators of small nursing homes, including those with 30 beds or fewer, are calling for more funding support and flexibility from the authorities as they cope with rising costs that come with complying with the regulations.
"Small nursing homes are struggling and how long they can survive is a big question mark. Getting in an architect to cater for fire safety design and equipment can easily set us back by $20,000 each time," said Mr Patrick Tan who runs Our Lady of Lourdes Nursing Home in Toh Drive, in Loyang. It was told to reduce its 19 beds to 16.
"There seems to be fewer than 10 nursing homes with under 30 beds left and it will be a sad thing if they close down because people will no longer have the choice of living in small homes which provide quality, personalised care instead of those huge homes with hundreds of beds," he added.
Moonlight Home For The Aged and Handicapped in Yio Chu Kang Road said it has raised its fees by 10 per cent since February this year, amid rising operational costs. It was told to reduce its 26 beds to 16.
"Our priority is to take care of our elderly residents and we will do what we can to stay afloat instead of shutting down and sending them elsewhere," said Mr Nicholas Ong, who runs Moonlight.
The squeeze on smaller nursing homes comes even as the Ministry of Health (MOH) ramps up nursing home capacity to meet an anticipated increase in demand for nursing care, given the rapidly ageing population. It targets to have 17,000 beds by 2020, up from 12, 000 beds as of the end of last year.
Several mega nursing homes, such as an 11-storey, 342-bed home in Chai Chee run by NTUC Health Co-operative and a 290-bed home in Hougang run by Thye Hua Kwan Moral Society, are expected to be ready this year.
Small operators worry about being gradually phased out as potential big players such as the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) join the sector. NTUC announced its entry into the sector in 2014 and said then that it is prepared to invest in another five homes in the next three to five years.
"Smaller nursing homes should be allowed to co-exist with large ones, but we are having a tough time because we are unnecessarily marked down for aspects under the new standards," said Dr Belinda Wee from Good Shepherd Loft in Bukit Timah. It has 33 beds now.
Dr Wee said she complied with the new rule to engage a registered pharmacist once every six months for review, by arranging for two such visits last year. But the home was later still found to be in breach of 11 medication management issues, such as failing to ensure that the expiry date of tablets is listed on the metal foil. Dr Wee said this happened as some supplies from the hospitals came without the dates.
"I was also told to have a food safety officer on site but we cater food instead of cooking so that doesn't make sense," she added.
Mr Andrew Soo from Soo's Nursing Home in Bukit Timah said he is closing the home in the next few months partly as it does not have space for facilities such as a holding room, isolation room and sluice or disposal room. "I was informed only in October last year that I need those facilities," said Mr Soo.
MOH said it expects most nursing homes to meet the enhanced standards. Nursing homes will face a shorter licensing period, such as six months, if they do not meet the requirements. Persistent non-compliance may lead to the licence being taken away.
In the last two years, MOH has tried to help nursing homes understand and implement the new standards with briefings, for example.
"Nursing homes that face challenges are those that are observed to need improvements in a number of areas - including important areas such as medication management, which directly impacts patient safety," said the MOH spokesman, who added that the ministry hopes to work with them to develop plans to meet the licensing requirements.
"Even as we ramp up capacity, we want to build a vibrant and diverse sector, which includes small operators who can provide more personalised care, to cater to the varied needs of our seniors," she said.
Mr Soo hopes that small nursing homes will still be around in future.
"Small homes provide a homely environment that is hard to replicate and the quality of care can be more closely monitored."


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Aviation Sans Frontières is foremost an independent humanitarian air operator, managing the local air transport niche through the use of small aircraft. Our expertise is based on the very real needs of emergency aid and development stakeholders, thus our organisation builds bridges between the world of aviation transport and humanitarian aid.
These two worlds coexist within humanitarian air transport services, but their operational logistics do not always convert. The priority of one party (profitable operation of an aircraft) is not always in sync with the other (providing aid where it is required). ASF stands out for its capacity to be a meeting point of interests, a hub between the two.
The hub of aviation experts within our organisation possess jointly more than 100,000 hours of flying to some of the most difficult areas to operate.
Our organisation's aviation expertise has followed the trend in the humanitarian air transport sector, which has become increasingly complex in recent years due to significant advances in terms of air regulation and aviation technology regulation imposed for air safety.
Aviation expertise is now on the path to full professionalisation since the emergence of institutional funding for humanitarian aid transport, bringing with it the requirement made for humanitarian air operators to have an Air Operator's Certificate (AOC), the statues of an airline.
The hub of permanent staff at the organisation's headquarters possess an accumulated 50 years of experience in emergency and development aid.
Since its creation, the organisation has been managed by staff with extensive experience in emergency aid and development. This reflects the wish of the founding pilots to strictly condition the implementation of aviation solutions on the humanitarian purposes of the projects, an approach that has seen the missions be carried out in around 15 crisis countries since 1983.
This approach based on the humanitarian assessment of NGO needs has become professionalised with the emergence of institutional funding for humanitarian air transport, in particular through the Framework Partnership Agreement with the European Commission Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Office (ECHO) signed by ASF Belgium and ASF France.
The borders no longer exist between the phases of emergency, rehabilitation then development in response to a crisis. These phases are integrated into a global approach.
For ASF, the first level of accountability of a humanitarian project is to assess the local resources (human, natural and physical) on which the organisation can rely in order to implement the most appropriate response to a crisis. This approach contributes not only to remaining consistent with the efforts agreed by donors and funders in the long term, but also to ensure the most favourable cost-effectiveness ratio possible in the implementation of a project.
Aviation Sans Frontières has internal expertise in sustainable development. This allows us to document all its actions and terms of prevention and intervention. Lastly, the developmental approach coupled with the search for effective solutions offering the best cost-effectiveness ratio results in pragmatic solutions: practical, sensible and adapted to the context.
Management models and humanitarian standards exist for all aid sectors except air transport. Aviation Sans Frontières is focused on defining them.
Based on our expertise and experience, Aviation Sans Frontières is naturally focused on creating focal points in which the world of air transport and humanitarian aid share an interest and common values, the same "reference frame". ASF is therefore pioneering and leading the concept of "Humanitarian Aviation Project Management".
Under this concept, the air transport service, or any other form of aviation response to a situation of need, must be managed under the form of a project in the framework of humanitarian values or a "reference frame" that defines the efficiency indicators and a quality system in order to assess relevance, feasibility, efficiency and good intervention management.
This requires application of the project cycle management tool and the logic framework approach commonly used in the humanitarian and development sectors while conducting air transport programmes. Needs must be identified until the impact is assessed in order to justify the quality of the intervention and the merits of investment through a framework of accountability.


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On April 13th, the House Ways and Means (HWMs) Committee, chaired by Rep. Brian Dempsey (D-Haverhill), released its FY 2017 state budget, the next step in the legislative process after the release of the Governor's budget, House 2, in late February.
HWMs provides around $209.626 million combined for home care, care management and Enhanced Home Care programs. This is the same total provided the consolidated line items in House 2. The HMWs committee chose not to consolidate the ECOP program (9110-1500) into the home care line items, but keeps the 3 programs separate, as they were in FY 16.
Compared to FY 16 appropriation levels, the basic home care and care management accounts have lost $4,861,112 (1630 lost $3,109,894 and 1633 lost $1,751,218). But, the ECOP program gained $4,089,795, so the net loss is around $771,317.
The Administration's language in 1630 account that would "transfer" funds whenever a home care client joined a Senior Care Organization, was deleted. Outside section 39 in the Governor's budget, which gave the Executive Branch unilateral power to "restructure" $15.4 billion in MassHealth programs, also was rejected by HWMs. The Administration was planning on "passively enrolling" elders into the SCO plan, but without the "restructuring" language, the SCO law in force says the program must be voluntary.
The HWMs budget also cut nutrition funds by $746,941, which would cause a loss of roughly 100,000 meals on wheels. The Naturally Occurring Retirement Community (NORC) program lost its $642,000 in the FY 16 budget, and EOEA's Explorer Lab data project was not funded.
Mass Home Care's request for an income eligibility increase to 300% of the federal poverty level was not funded, and a request to increase the rate for the Enhanced Community Options Program was also not funded.
Representative Chris Walsh of Framingham filed an amendment raising the rate for the enhanced community options program. Walsh's amendment would equalize the rates for two separate home care management rates (ECOP and Choices) that essentially have the same scope of care management services. The projected cost of this rate equalization for FY 17 is $5.01 million based on projected caseload.
Representative Paul Brodeur of Melrose: filed an amendment identical to language that House Ways & Means inserted into the most recent supplemental budget. It calls for EOEA to conduct a study the caseload and costs of expanding home care income eligibility to 275% and 300% of the federal poverty level. It also permits the Administration to file for a 1915i state plan amendment that would bring in roughly $19 million in new federal revenues to the Commonwealth to help pay for any future home care expansion.
Representative Tom Sannicandro of Ashland filed an amendment that requires Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) who provide long term services and supports (LTSS) to give their members a benefit called "conflict free care coordination (CFCC)." This is currently a benefit found in the Senior Care Options (SCO) program, the One Care program, and the Home Care program. The CFCC helps assess what a member needs for care—but does not provide that care, and thus has no 'conflict' to over-assess what people need, or to refer to their owned services. This is an important consumer protection, because the CFCC is not owned by the ACO, but is described by CMS as an "independent agent" for the consumer. The CFCC's goal is to help the member live in the least restrictive setting. The conflict free assessment is part of the federal CMS final rule for home and community based services. It is also a benefit that the state promised CMS it would implement as part of the Balancing Incentive Payment (BIP) program, which brought in more than $230 million in federal matching funds.
Representative Chris Markey of Dartmouth filed an amendment that restores funding back to the FY 16 appropriation level for the line item which pays for the operations and staffing at the 26 Aging Services Access Points (ASAPs). These staff are mostly frontline care managers and RNs. A 2015 independent salary study of 1,305 ASAP care managers and RNs concluded that workers in the home care system are being paid "below market rate salaries." The care management turnover rate is 20% per year. This account stood at $39.87 million in FY 2008, and has been frozen at $35.5 million for 7 years. This amendment restores the ASAP funding to where it was in FY 16, which is the same level it was funded at in FY 2011. This funded is needed to mitigate the "low salary/high turnover" syndrome that causes employees to leave the elder services field.
Representative Paul Donato of Medford filed an amendment to add $871,886 to the state elderly nutrition program. Elder meals are provided at more than 400 congregate meal sites in Massachusetts and through home-delivered meals to senior citizens (age 60 or older) and people with a disability under age 60 who live in housing where congregate meals for elders are served. Home delivered meals are provided to older individuals who are homebound due to illness, disability, or geographic isolation. Services are targeted to those in greatest social and economic need with particular attention to low income individuals, minority individuals, those in rural communities, those with limited English proficiency and those at risk of institutional care. Nutrition programs for the elderly are recognized as having a significant impact on health and well-being. The malnourished generate bills $2,000 to $10,000 higher per hospital stay than others do. The journal Clinical Nutrition found a threefold increase in medical costs among the malnourished. Based on the current average meals cost of $7.43 per meal, this amendment would restore 117,347 meals in FY 17.
Representative Jennifer Benson of Lunenberg filed an amendment, which has twice made it to a conference committee, that would add spouses to the list of family members who can be paid as a caregiver at home. 17 other states and the Veterans Administration allow spouses to be paid as caregivers, to help the elderly and disabled live independently at home. The Adult Foster Care program, and the Personal Care Attendant program allow family members to be caregivers. But these same programs do not allow "spouses" to count as caregivers. As a result, many disabled individuals are denied care from the person closest to them, whom they trust the most. Many consumers do not want to turn to children—or strangers—to provide their care. According to the most thorough study of spouses as caregivers in the nation, researchers in California reported that using spouses as caregivers is cheaper than using strangers or other relatives, because a spouse does not have to be paid for existing home maintenance chores, like cooking and cleaning, which they perform already. The remaining personal care costs of bathing, dressing, and toileting are cheaper to provide with spouses. Veterans in Massachusetts can already get spousal care. Programs like PCA further reduce MassHealth costs by preventing costlier nursing facility patient days.
Source: Al Norman, Executive Director of Mass. Home Care, a non-profit that represents a statewide network of agencies that offer community-based supports for older adults, caregivers, and younger people living with disabilities.
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The Renegade – Dead at 33 from self inflicted gun shot wound. photo: wwe.com
The Renegade Death – Suicide
1965-1999 (age 33)
Known to friends as Rick and to fans as The Renegade, Wilson had a short career in World Championship Wrestling. The Renegade was most known as the WCW's attempt (perhaps tongue in cheek) at creating their own version of the WWF's Ultimate Warrior. The gimmick was essentially a carbon copy of Warrior, including The Renegade's mannerisms and high energy entrance to the ring.
The End of a Career Starts The Renegade Death Story
The Renegade made his first appearance with the WCW in 1995 and quickly intrigued fans, as many people speculated that he was secretly The Ultimate Warrior. When it was finally revealed that The Renegade was not the mysterious wrestler, fans seemed to sadly lose interest in him. Even in the story line of WCW, The Renegade was being abandoned, as after his defeat in a November 1995 edition of Nitro, his then manager Jimmy Hart turned his back on him. The event would be the start of what would become a 6 month break from professional wrestling for Richard Wilson.
4 years before his death: The Renegade makes short work of Jake Steele on a 1995 episode of WCW Saturday Night.
When he returned to WCW in July 1996, the Renegade no longer wore his face paint and usual costume. This only seemed to turn fans away even more. Ultimately, WCW was unable to spur interest in The Renegade. The company chose to part ways with Richard Wilson, releasing him from his contract at the end of 1998.
The Death of The Renegade
Not much is known about the specific events leading up to the conclusion of The Renegade death story; however, it is clear that Richard Williams ultimately decided not to continue to pursue his wrestling career. After his WCW contract was terminated, Wilson chose to simply retire.
The former professional wrestler stayed out of the spotlight and kept to himself. Reportedly, he was devastated by the fact that he was not able to become a big name in the world of wrestling. He began to suffer from depression, and by February 1999, it seemed that he had spiraled out of control. On the 23rd of that month, The Renegade chose to end his own life. He died by suicide due to a gunshot wound to the head. He was only 33 years old at the time of his death.
Arn Anderson shoots on Renegade's suicide
Fans Look Beyond The Renegade Death Story
It seems that despair over his lack of a strong fan base led to The Renegade's decision to kill himself. Sadly, it seems that the wrestler was loved more than he knew. Today, fans continue to mourn his loss, posting dedications and memorials to him on tribute websites. Most prefer to recall the times that they enjoyed watching him in the ring rather than to dwell on the sad circumstances surrounding his untimely death.
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