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Question from jessaluce - Anne's body at burial
I am curious to find more detailed information about Anne Boleyn's burial. Other traitors executed at the Tower had their heads put on display and bodies were customarily buried naked as the executioner had rights to the clothing.
What exactly was the state of Anne's body when it was buried? What became of her other belongings after her death?
[ed. note - some discussion of Anne's possessions have been covered in the posts below.]
https://queryblog.tudorhistory.org/2008/08/question-from-barbara-exhibited-items.html
https://queryblog.tudorhistory.org/2008/06/question-from-christen-anne-boleyns.html
https://queryblog.tudorhistory.org/2006/12/question-from-tudorfan-annes-b-necklace.html
All I know is she was buried in an arrow chest with her head on her stomach. she gave her stuff to lady lee, 1 of her ladies in waiting
The displaying of the heads of traitors after their execution was indeed customary, but was usually limited to male heads. Women's heads were only rarely displayed, and never royal female heads.
I am not sure where you read that executioners had the "right" to the clothing of those they executed. I have never heard that, nor have I encountered any evidence to suggest that it was the case in England in the Tudor period. The condemned did usually pay their executioner out of their own pocket, as well as forgive the executioner in advance for his actions. But most condemned prisoners gave away immediately before their death whatever possessions they may have had with them while in the Tower. All other goods and possessions became the property of the Crown. Most went to their graves wearing the clothes in which they were executed, as I understand it. Only in rare instances was the clothing preserved, an example being the shirt worn by Charles I at his execution in 1649.
I've actually heard that the executioner's had a right to the clothing as well.. I'll have to do a quick look to see where I read that.
Royal female heads were never displayed...
Could that be because public opinion had turned in Anne's direction, and Henry felt he'd really be pushing the matter if she was put on view?
Londoners were grumbling already, and to have a crowned queen, a mother no less, and a woman whom they saw as innocent treated in such a fashion may well have brought Henry more attention than he could have handled.
In Katherine Howard's case, there didn't seem to be that much of an outcry when she was executed. But then Henry didn't like wearing his 'horns' and putting his shame into public view wouldn't have been his style.
Margaret, Countess of Salisbury...from some accounts read of her execution, there wouldn't have been much left to display...poor lady!
Anne was beheaded on Tower Green on the 19th of may 1536.The lady Anne was brought from her place of stay at the tower wearing a gown of grey and crimson damask to the execution site their she said her speech, paid the executioner and was executed by a french executioner known as the Swordsman of calais being because she was beheaded with a sword not an axe as was the tradition normally.
Anne's head was held up in display for all to see but was never put on a pole and would never had of been because of her status and because she was female they only tended to display male decapitated heads on poles above the Tower never the female ones.
The act of being beheaded was reserved only for people of royal or noble birth.Anne's body was buried in an arrow chest and then buried in the chaple that is ajacent to the tower which is called the chapel of st Peter ad vinucla in the ground.
Her belongings were given to lady Lee one of her lady's in waiting.
The majority of those exacuted at the Tower of london where executed at Tower hill and were male.Only a minority were rxecuted at Tower Green.
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Eric Ives comments in his biography of Anne Boleyn that the clothes were removed after her death.
Yes, Ives does mention Anne's being taken at her burial. Not by the French headsman but by the Tower authorities. Apparently there was a custom where the higher-ups left gifts of clothing (expensive of course) to the Tower as part of a 'fee'. I think Thomas More gave away his cloak.
However, there is no mention in contemporary accounts of Anne's death that this so-called custom was followed. She was however, given money for her almoner to distribute at her excution.
Also, there is no proof that Lady Lee or anybody close to Anne followed her to the scaffold. This was mainly an invention of romance writers or based on some unfounded tradition. The 4 ladies were presumably the same matrons who attended Anne throughout her imprisonment.
Same goes for 'Mrs. Orchard' who supposedly served Anne. Alison Weir, for one, mentions her in her 6 wives book. In fact, no such person ever existed.
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Analicia Chaves is an American Instagram sensation and model with more than 2 million followers. Adding to this, she is also an actress who appeared in many music videos and international magazines. Besides for being a model, she is also known for her relationships with high profile names of the music and football industry like Axel Witsel.
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The music of Eric Sawyer receives frequent performances on both coasts, including at New York's Weill and Merkin concert halls and at Tanglewood, as well as in England, France, and Germany. Many of his larger works connect to American historical subjects, though he also has a substantial output of abstract instrumental music. Sawyer's first opera Our American Cousin, telling the story of Lincoln's assassination at Ford's Theater through the eyes of the actors and audience, was premiered in 2008 by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and released on the BMOP/sound label. Premiered in 2013 Fantasy Concerto: Concord Conversations was composed for the renowned piano trio Triple Helix and the Concord Orchestra, and based on transcendentalist writings . A chamber music collection String Works and the cantata The Humble Heart, based on texts of the American Shakers, is available on CD from Albany Records. Mr. Sawyer has received the Joseph Bearns Prize, awards from the Tanglewood Music Center and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a recent prize from the Ravinia Festival for his piano trio Lincoln's Two Americas. He is on the music faculty at Amherst College.
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Harley Erdman is a dramaturg, playwright, and translator, as well as Professor of
Theater at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In addition to The Garden of Martyrs, he wrote the libretto for Paula Kimper's opera The Captivation of Eunice Williams (2004), a piece also inspired by local history. His commissioned work as a translator of contemporary Latin American theater includes work from Mexico, Nicaragua, and Chile. He has translated Spanish Golden Age plays by Calderón, Lope de Vega and Tirso de Molina, two of which were recently published by Aris & Phillips. He is currently working on a collection of translations of plays by 17th-century Spanish women, and co-editing an anthology of essays on theatrical adaptation, to be published next year. He is a winner of the Association for Hispanic Classic Theater's Translation Prize, the author of the monograph Staging the Jew (1997), and the winner of the Kahn Award for outstanding scholarship from the American Society for Theatre Research. Other creative collaborations include work in puppetry, musical theater, and verbatim theater. Other plays and adaptations include Galloping by Gaslight (1991) and The Outcast In (1993), produced with his theater company Troupe Texas, and Marta the Divine (2009) and Suitors (2013), produced at the University of Massachusetts. Currently, he is working on an original historically based screwball comedy set in the Northampton Academy of Music in the 1940s, to be performed here in 2014.
Michael C. White
Michael C. White is the author of six novels, including The Garden of Martyrs, from which the opera is adapted. His latest is Beautiful Assassin (2010). Others include Soul Catcher, A Booksense selection; A Brother's Blood, which was a New York Times Book Review Notable Book and a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers nominee; and The Blind Side of the Heart, an Alternate Book-of-the-Month Club selection; A Dream of Wolves, which received starred reviews from Booklist and Publisher's Weekly. A collection of his short stories, Marked Men, was published by the University of Missouri Press.
He has also published over 45 short stories in national magazines and journals, and has won the Advocate Newspapers Fiction Award and been nominated for both a National Magazine Award and a Pushcart. He was the founding editor of the yearly fiction anthology American Fiction, and was the editor of Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose. He teaches fiction writing workshops and literature courses at Fairfield University, and is the Program Director of Fairfield University's MFA in Creative Writing.
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The Iron Cross (German: [1] Eisernes Kreuz (help·info)) is a cross symbol typically in black with a white or silver outline that originated after 1219 when the Kingdom of Jerusalem granted the Teutonic Order the right to combine the Teutonic Black Cross placed above a silver Cross of Jerusalem.[1]
The military decoration called the Iron Cross which existed in the Kingdom of Prussia, and later in the German Empire and Third Reich, was established by King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia and first awarded on 10 March 1813 in Breslau, during the Napoleonic Wars. The recommissioned Iron Cross was also awarded during the Franco-Prussian War, World War I, and World War II. The Iron Cross was normally a military decoration only, though there were instances of it being awarded to civilians for performing military functions. Two examples of this were civilian test pilots Hanna Reitsch and Melitta Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg, who were awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class and 2nd Class respectively for their actions as pilots during World War II.
The Iron Cross was used as the symbol of the German Army from 1871 to March/April 1918, when it was replaced by a simpler Greek cross. In 1956, the Iron Cross resumed its German military usage, as it became the symbol of the Bundeswehr, the modern German armed forces. The traditional design is black and this design is used on armored vehicles and aircraft. A newer design in blue and silver is used as the emblem in other contexts.
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Projections suggest that rising renewable energy demands in the UAE will create thousands of new jobs in the next two years.
Figures suggest that the demand for solar power energy in the UAE will increase in the next two years. Projections from IRENA (International Renewable Energy Agency) indicate that this demand will create 1,000 new jobs in the Emirates in the next two years.
IRENA says the Middle Eastern Country's renewable energy industry is already growing; it expanded 18% from 2013 and 2014, and it expects this growth to continue. Meanwhile, MESIA (the Middle East Solar Industry Association) announced that its operations in the UAE will create 1,000 jobs in the next two years. MESIA's founder, Vahid Fotuhi, said that these positions should come from larger projects, such as the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park in Dubai, as well as small, residential rooftop solar applications.
A range of upcoming commercial projects in this sector e.g. Shams Dubai, will also create roles in a variety of the UAE's other job markets. This includes construction, procurement, operations, financing, manufacturing and development. Shams Dubai is a DEWA (Dubai Electrical and Water Authority) pilot programme. Not only will it set up regulations for installing solar energy in UAE commercial buildings that are connected to the grid, it's also designed to encourage businesses throughout the Emirates to install solar panels.
According to IRENA, the solar photovoltaic initiative is the largest renewable energy employer in the world, comprising nearly 2.5 million of the planet's 7.5 million renewable energy jobs. IRENA's deputy director of knowledge, policy and finance has argued that regionally, an estimated120,000 jobs could be created every year if the UAE meets its renewable energy targets.
This is because twice as many roles are created by PVC than by the coal, gas or oil industries. As an industry, conventional energy production has matured. It doesn't have as many new developments as PVC and other renewable sources, especially considering the fact that energy conservation is now an investment priority across the world.
These PVC products' manufacturers, as well as their designers, have projected impressive growth volumes for the near future, and the value chain is set to expand significantly. As these manufacturers grow and their production rises, Dubai in particular will need to meticulously examine its power supply and strategize accordingly. DEWA will be required to implement resources in order to meet this heightened demand.
If we consider the financial resources of the UAE, the solar energy market look set to transition from a neo-natal stage to full maturity, recording impressive growth volumes in the process. As this process occurs, the project volume of job growth in this sector will lose momentum, as the firms settle into taking care of business.


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Colorado legislators sketch out year's bills
Local | December 23, 2005
Doyle Murphy
With the holiday season nearing its end, state politicians are just beginning with their wish lists for the new year.
The Colorado legislative session begins a week from Wednesday, and the series of deadlines for legislators to introduce bills will continue through the month. Budget money gathered from excess tax revenue, now that Referendum
C has passed, will be available. Immigration issues continue to simmer and traditional issues such as education, land use and transportation will probably figure heavily in the proposed bills.
University of Northern Colorado political science professor Steve Mazurana said Coloradans could expect to see bills addressing all these issues during the session and a few other major pushes for legislation. Lawmakers will also work for bills to draw industry, especially high-tech companies, to the state, Mazurana predicted.
While Greeley and the surrounding area is the fastest-growing in the nation and Douglas County continues to be an extremely wealthy county, cities such as Austin, Texas, and Berkeley, Calif., still draw more high-tech companies.
"I think all communities are concerned about whether they can draw those types of jobs," Mazurana said.
Sen. Dave Owen, R-Greeley, plans to sponsor a bill he said would do just that. The bill would give telecommunications companies a tax break on equipment in hopes they would create more jobs and extend broadband services through rural communities in the state.
On immigration issues, Mazurana said at least a few legislators will probably propose bills modeled after Arizona legislation that limits the amount of services illegal immigrants could receive from the state. Many of these services focus on health care, which Mazurana figured would be another flash point this session.
Sen. Shawn Mitchell, R-Broomfield, agreed health care and health care coverage would play a major role in the legislature this session. He predicted health care would be one of the issues politicians up for re-election would latch onto to attract attention. Election-year bills always include some headline-hungry politicians, Mitchell said, but that's nothing new.
"There's always some politics in politics, especially in an election year," said Mitchell, whose district includes southwestern Weld County.
Neither Mitchell or Mazurana thought there would be a strong aftertaste of divisions caused by the November vote on Referendums C and D. Representatives Dale Hall, R-Greeley, and Kevin Lundberg, R-Berthoud, have both proposed bills to create rainy-day funds to avoid budget shortfalls Referendum C sought to address, but Mazurana said the referendums probably won't be much of an issue except among candidates for governor.


Whether we like it or not we receive an endless stream of unsolicited advice or images related to success. Success sells: it has the appearance of competence, mastery, cleverness, and daring. Successful people are "doers," who are oft described as "killing it." (One wonders what or who is being killed). Rarely is this sort of success defined, and when it is, one usually hears something vague about achieving your goals.
Typical understandings of success usually come down to plaques on the wall and triumphant photos on Facebook. But maybe this is all misguided. Perhaps there are better interpretations of success or just better ways to evaluate our lives.
The problem with a simplistic model of achievement is its superficiality.
Why is it so great to get the corner office, the next promotion, or the next lifetime achievement award? This kind of question is often met with blank stares or euphemisms about expanding opportunities and new responsibilities. This sort of language is part and parcel of contemporary business speak, resumes, and the newest self-help business book, but it is hardly convincing or deeply thought out.
The truth is that the path of modern careerism and American "success" is a way of life that is shallow and ultimately trivial. And this is evinced by the inability of success-proponents to explain or justify their goals.
Consider the following question: what goals should I select? Given that one only has so much time, energy, and resources, one cannot achieve every goal. And in fact some goals may be incompatible during the same period. For example, hiking the Appalachian Trail and starting business school. There is nothing inherently wrong or unfair about the situation; it is just the nature of things. On the goal-oriented approach to success how do we adjudicate between competing goals? Furthermore, should we think that accomplishing just any goal is to be considered praiseworthy? Probably not, but the goal-oriented approach to success has no basis for dealing with these difficulties and as such begins to show its inherent weakness.
We need something beyond goals and success. We need to think in terms of values.
It is easiest to speak of value as a verb rather than a noun. In this sense, valuing is among the most important things we do. To value is to esteem, respect, and love; it is to estimate an objective as worthy of time and energy. In many ways, what we value, defines our character and our lives. As Augustine famously said, my love is my weight, for we have a natural tendency towards the beloved. Considered in this way, values are logically and psychologically superior to mere goals and speak to a better way of thinking about life. After all, what do achievements really matter unless the underlying work or product is valued? Goals only make sense against the backdrop of value. So what if we chose a different path? What if we developed a value-centered approach to life? What would that look like?
In constructing a value-centered model of success we can be greatly assisted by one of Aristotle's primary insights into human psychology. Aristotle observed that we always pursue objectives that we perceive to be desirable in some way or another. Some we see as desirable for pleasure, others are useful, but then some we desire for their own sake. We really value those things that we esteem and love for themselves regardless of pleasure or use. Persistently making this simple distinction can go a long way towards clarifying our values.
Although values differ, it is probably worth considering the advice of the great philosophers. Aristotle recommends friendship and contemplation. Plato speaks of wisdom and self-examination. Epictetus recommends piety and familial duty and Epicurus emphasizes simplicity. Augustine counsels humility and repentance before God. If one were to follow this wise path marked out for us by the great philosophers, he would create pattern of life, habits, and relationships which evinced wisdom, contemplation, family, and piety. Whether one adopts these values or others, value-centered living is about creating an ethos and character to your life; it is about investing your life with a rhyme and rhythm that resonates with meaning, purpose, and enduring significance.
Does choosing values over goals mean that we will produce less good?
Probably not. To be sure, value-based living is less likely to produce those measurable outcomes that so fascinate the managerial class, but such outcomes are hardly the only or even most important things in life. A life committed to faith, family, and learning or similar values, when lived with consistency and commitment will inevitably yield fruit for ourselves and for others — children, wisdom, friendship, piety, etc. This is what it means to create a life that has character, beauty, and enduring significance.
A man can achieve all the goals he wants, and look back on a life devoid of enduring meaning. Indeed without convictions goals are meaningless and leave the "high achiever" only to look for the next goal. This is an endless chase with no victory at the end. Only frustration.
Meaning, purpose, and enduring significance are created not by achievements, but convictions and commitments. In the end, it is not about what we have achieved; the weight of a man's life is measured by the nobility of his character, the ideals he esteems, and the ones that he loves.


One of my most memorable university experiences was to assume a handicap for one week. The class was the Psychology of the Handicapped. Some students chose to be wheelchair bound; others were dependent on crutches. I chose to have a severe speech impediment.
Prior to starting our experiment, we were to write about our expectations. At the end of the week's experiment, we wrote a second paper in which we contrasted our expectations with the realities that we experienced. I found that I talked less, much less. I was more tentative about talking at all, and I was very careful when approaching a stranger. I always looked for a sympathetic face – the face of a person who would have patience with me – who would work hard to understand my garbled speech.
Several of my classmates chose to be blind. They discovered that deprived of sight, their other senses were heightened. Not to the point of compensation, but heightened. Typically, we don't think too much about our senses until we lose one.
It is curious to me that so many people have complained about the newest silent movie, The Artist. Most complaints center round the fact that although there is a musical score and a sound track, you read the dialogue rather than hear it.
To me, the charm of The Artist is that I really focused on the acting, the writing and the music. The absence of spoken dialogue focused my attention and heightened my appreciation of what was there. I scarcely missed what wasn't there.
Which brings me to a London restaurant that I plan to visit next time I'm in the city. Dans le Noir is a French restaurant on Clerkenwell Green. What makes it special is that the diners eat in total darkness.
From reception, one of the 11 blind guides leads you into a totally dark room. Your hand is on the shoulder of the person in front of you, and elephant-like, trunk-to-tail, you follow your guide. Once seated, you must stay in your place; otherwise, you might trip one of the blind guides. Should you need to leave, you are directed to call your guide by name.
Deprived of sight, your total attention is on your food. The man with the napkin tied under his jowls, the woman with the false eyelash on her cheek, the waiter with the unzipped fly, your dining partner with lettuce on his lower lip… none of these things will distract you because you will never see them.
I have seldom, if ever, "lived in the moment." But here… in the dark… with designer food in my mouth…I think that I could capture that elusive New Age state. The past and the future would fade away. It would be all about the food.
"How impaired we are by our vision." I love that thought. Dependent as we are on our vision, we don't realize that our dependency is at the expense of our other senses.
If you were to choose a handicap for a week, what would it be? What preconceived notions would you take to the exercise?
We tend to think of physical handicaps, but mental illness is most certainly a handicap. If you have not had personal experience with mental illness, you know someone who has. Use this knowledge as a resource and develop a character who is handicapped by his illness.
With the 2012 Olympics coming to London and all tickets sold, the Olympic committee has gone to great lengths to promote the Para Olympics which began in Britain in 1948 as a way of integrating/honoring the WW II vets. Watching the athletic prowess of these handicapped athletes really makes you consider the word "handicapped." Perhaps using the word "handicapped" is handicapping in itself. Read up on the Paralympics and put your research to use in a short piece.
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We could start small, say, eat chocolate in the dark on Valentine's Day?


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Knight Fights
Discussion in 'General Martial Arts Talk' started by Steve, Feb 25, 2019.
Steve Mostly Harmless
Whose watching this show? Anyone on here know some of the participants? Anyone compete in similar venues? Looks like a blast.
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CB Jones Senior Master
My son likes it.
Just because of the melee of it all.
lklawson Senior Master
Huber Heights, OH
There is almost nothing about it which is historically accurate. It's just a bunch of people bashing at each other.
Peace favor your sword,
lklawson said: ↑
Curious if someone with skill could do well .
Rat Black Belt
Oh god i read that as knife fights, that definitely changed the tone of this thread in my head.
And i have not, if it ever shows itself on my TV i might give a episode a watch. I personally prefer more realistic depictions of weapon fighting how ever.
If you haven't seen it, it's on the History Channel in the USA, and they offer full episodes online, with some caveats. The format of the show is three stages, where they progressively thin the group. In the first stage, there are 6 fighters in a free for all melee. Following this round, two of the competitors are eliminated. The remaining four are teamed up, and they do a two-on-two, team round. The winning team advances to a final "duel" round, where one is declared the winner. That person then advances to the end of the season show where all of the winners from each individual episode compete to be the grand champion.
The rules are pretty straightforward. All weapons are blunted. No stabbing is allowed, and no hitting an opponent who is down. I think they also prohibit groin shots, but I'm not sure about that. Otherwise, they just sort of go for it.
They don't seem very skilled to me, but as a lay person, it's hard to really tell. Some questions do come to mind. If they aren't skilled, how would a skilled competitor fare? Why aren't there any skilled competitors on the show? What do you guys think of the format?
pgsmith Master of Arts
Steve said: ↑
They don't seem very skilled to me, but as a lay person, it's hard to really tell. Some questions do come to mind. If they aren't skilled, how would a skilled competitor fare?
The big question there is "skilled at what?"
I can't see the video from work, but from the pictures it looks like SCA heavy fighting except with blunt steel instead of rattan. I imagine the "experts" performing in the show are probably SCA fighters.
If you are talking about experienced HEMA practitioners, they probably wouldn't fare well since they practice actual historical fighting, and there's nothing historical about people in full plate armor standing around whaling on each other, although I have heard that this was occasionally done at festivals as entertainment.
pgsmith said: ↑
Just to recap, all I've seen so far is are a few very general statements that there is almost nothing historically accurate about it, and that they're just bashing each other. So, if you put a guy in plate (or chain or whatever) and give them their choice of weapon (big, small, two handed or one, shield or not), why wouldn't a skilled person do well? 'Skilled at what?' is a great question. So???
To be clear, this is a competition, so I think your last line is a little funny. Let's presume this is sport. At the very least, it's sport today. If they did it at festivals as entertainment... great. Are you guys suggesting that there is no room for skill in this?
I dunno....seems like the way they fight would be pretty characteristic of real medievil combat. With that much heavy armor....its just a full on melee fight.
It looks like it takes lots of strength, stamina, and toughness. It's a rough.
CB Jones said: ↑
Totally. The guys who don't get completely gassed seem to do very well. But there were strikes that seemed to be felt through the plate, particularly to the legs.
The standing grappling seemed to be helpful. I've seen many trips, and even a few hip tosses. Also a lot of reversals due to just solid footwork and body awareness.
Strategy seems to be a component, as well. Guys who don't get wrapped up, but instead get behind someone who's tied up, and then pounds them from the back, seem to do well.
kempodisciple MT Moderator Staff Member
So...cardio is important in a fight? who knew?
A few of the fights.....just big straight right hands with the gauntlets or the weapon's hand guards seem pretty effective
drop bear Sr. Grandmaster
There is as usual with this a different sort of skilled.
drop bear said: ↑
Totally. Like what?
Not suggesting they aren't skilled. My eldest son does SCA heavy combat, and he has had to train pretty hard to get good at it. That's why I was asking the question "skilled at what?" Many people look at this and say "look, historical fighting!" but it isn't. The only time you had fighting such as that was at festivals when they held tournaments to entertain the gentry, so not much time and effort was expended in learning to hit each other in full plate. Traditionally, full plate was worn by mounted knights, and so most of their training involved mounted fighting.
It's the same thing in Japanese sword arts. Not much training in full armor because that was mounted combat.
It would be entirely possible to have someone skilled in full armored hand to hand combat, if that was what they trained for and practiced. This is what the SCA heavy combat fighters do. You could also have someone from the professional jousting tournament circles come in and probably clean up, but they would probably make more money with less chance of injury in their own tournament circle, so I don't imagine there would be that much incentive.
What exactly is it that makes you think these fighters aren't trained or skilled?
I think we're misunderstanding each other. I don't have an opinion about whether they are skilled or not. I don't have any frame of reference. I'm truly just asking the question, and reacting to what folks are saying.
You said, "skilled at what?" That's a great question, and I don't think it's intended to be rhetorical. I'd like to know, as well. Are these guys skilled? If so, at what? And if not, is there room for skill in this?
@lklawson said they were just a bunch of dudes bashing each other. So, I'm really interested in him elaborating on the subject. I know he and others around here have some HEMA experience.
To be clear, I think the show is fun. I don't think it's intended to be taken too seriously, but the guys looks strong and relatively fit (well, most of them), and the kit they use is pretty cool. I can see some technique, but whether that is polished or not is hard to say. Is this similar to early dog brothers gatherings or early MMA, where the skill level was lower overall because no one really had experience, or is it just phony bologna schlock?
Either way, I think it's an interesting experiment.
Quite often at full contact fighting looks different and has different elements that will work that is not evident in drills.
Hand trapping for example while technically very skillful almost doesn't work at speed. And certainly not as well as big gumby style striking.
Dan kelly is a good example of an effective striker who doesn't look technical.
Dude. Have you seen the show? They're wearing plate or chain mail and wielding two handed axes, and such.
Their armor isn't right. The weapons aren't right (no edges or points). The techniques they use are optimized for armor that is heavier than historically accurate in the wrong spots and constructed differently as well as optimized for not allowing for weapons which can cut or thrust into vulnerable areas. The <cough> grappling isn't optimized for armored combat (breaking joints, immobilizing for a thrust into vulnerable areas). There's some other stuff too, but you get the idea.
What they are doing seems to be "skillful" enough for their environment. But their environment is not the same as historic armored combat, or even historic armored dueling. It's a little bit like the difference between Kendo and an actual fight, but even further apart.
Yes. But same concept. What is technically technical may not technically work at speed.


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Q: Class definition in header file and including string This is my current collection of headers :
 #include "Header1.h"
 #include "BedAndMatress.h"
 #include "Sofa.h"
 #include "Table.h"
 #include iostream
 #include fstream
 #include iomanip
 #include string
 #include cmath
 #include vector

using namespace std;

int main()

the includes and the namespace std bit are in both my main file and my 'function definitions.cpp' file. However, the compiler is throwing up some errors:
  e:\computing\coursework2\programme.cpp(2) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include
 file: 'BedAndMatress.h': No such file or directory

Originally I had the definition of all my classes in the Header1.h file but it was moaning about unexpected end of file and class definitions so i decided to separate them. The file is included in the project and all the others seem to be working so I'm not sure whats going on. I also created a new header file that was just called Bed but it had the same error so i changed it thinkin there may already be a standard file with that name (long shot apparently) is there a maximum number of header files?
Also, in the class definitions some of the member objects are meant to be strings...
#ifndef CLASS_Bed
#define CLASS_Bed
//////BED
class Bed:public Item
{
string frame;
string frameColour;
string mattress;

public:

int Bed(int count);
int Bed(int count, int number, string name, string frm, string fclr, string mtres);
void count();
void printDetails();
}
#endif

but its not recognising the type specifier.
error C2501: 'string' : missing storage-class or type specifiers

should I include string? I read somewhere that this can cause issues so if thats not the solution how should i proceed?
Ta muchly
Hx

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should I include string? I read somewhere that this can cause issues so if thats not the solution how should i proceed?

You should include <string>. You probably read that it's not ok to put using namespace std; in the header, which is true. But there's nothing wrong with including a header if you need it. You'll need to qualify the uses of string though:
#ifndef CLASS_Bed
#define CLASS_Bed
//////BED
#include <string>
class Bed:public Item
{
std::string frame;
std::string frameColour;
std::string mattress;

public:

int Bed(int count);
int Bed(int count, int number, std::string name, std::string frm, std::string fclr, std::string mtres);
void count();
void printDetails();
};     //<-- note semi-colon here
#endif

A: The problem is that you are missing a semicolon after the closing brace in your class definition.

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Originally I had the definition of all my classes in the Header1.h
  file but it was moaning about unexpected end of file and class
  definitions so i decided to separate them.

This is because you forgot to put a semicolon after the class definition
class Bed:public Item
{
 ...
}; //notice the semicolon

#endif

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Originally I had the definition of all my classes in the Header1.h file but it was moaning about unexpected end of file and class definitions so i decided to separate them.

That probably means you'd missed out a closing bracket (), ], } or >) somewhere; the compiler will give that error if it reaches the end of a file without all the brackets closes. However, it's a good idea to put classes in separate headers anyway.

fatal error C1083: Cannot open include
   file: 'BedAndMatress.h': No such file or directory

That says that it can't find the file called "BedAndMatress.h". Do you have a file with that name? Is it in the same directory as the source file that includes it? If not, are you specifying the directory in the include path? Is the filename spelt exactly like that, with that capitalisation?

error C2501: 'string' : missing storage-class or type specifiers

First, you need to include <string> to get the definition. Then you need to use its full name std::string. You might be tempted to put using namespace std; in the header file, but that's a bad idea - dumping names in the global namespace could break other files that include the header. It's not a great idea to do that in a source file either, but at least there the damage only affects your own code.
You're also missing a ; at the end of the class definition.

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Emerson acquires Bristol Babcock
Acquisition for $121 million from FKI plc of Loughborough, England, expands portfolio of measurement and control products, technologies, and services for process industries worldwide. With annual revenues of about $80 million, the new unit's products and technologies include remote terminal units, flow computers, transmitters, and distributed process controllers...
• Acquisition expands portfolio of measurement and control products, technologies, and services for process industries worldwide.
ST. LOUIS, March 17, 2006 -- Emerson today announced it has acquired Bristol Babcock from FKI plc of Loughborough, England, for $121 million. To be renamed Bristol, it becomes part of Emerson Process Management and adds industry-leading measurement and control products, technologies, and services for oil, gas, power, water, and wastewater industries worldwide.
With headquarters in Watertown, CT, Bristol Babcock has annual revenue of about $80 million. Its products and technologies include remote terminal units, flow computers, transmitters, and distributed process controllers. It has manufacturing facilities and offices in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada with additional offices in Mexico, the Middle East, Australia, and China.
"Bristol will extend the Emerson product portfolio and leadership in flow measurement products and services, enabling us to offer an even broader range of value, performance and reliability to our customers," said John Berra, president, Emerson Process Management. "In addition, the Bristol Babcock management team demonstrates excellent leadership, innovation, dedication to quality and strong company performance�qualities that fit well with Emerson."
The acquisition complements the Emerson business unit's established measurement brands that include Rosemount®, Micro Motion®, Daniel®, and Mobrey®.
"This is excellent news for our company and our customers," said Jack Kelly, president of Bristol Babcock. "Emerson Process Management's market leadership in the process industry worldwide will allow us to provide a broader range of solutions, enable us to grow our business faster, and contribute to the success of other Emerson businesses as well."
Bristol Babcock (www.bristolbabcock.com) is a worldwide leader in the supply and commissioning of products, services, and engineered systems to the oil, gas, process control, power, water, and wastewater industries.
Emerson Process Management (www.emersonprocess.com) is a leader in helping business automate their production, processing and distribution in the chemical, oil and gas, refining, pulp and paper, power, food and beverage, pharmaceutical and other industries. The company combines superior products and technology with industry-specific-engineering, consulting, project management and maintenance services. Inclusive of the acquisition, Emerson brands include PlantWeb®, Bristol®, Fisher®, Micro Motion®, Rosemount, Mobrey, Daniel, DeltaV™, Ovation®, and AMS™ Suite.
Emerson (www.gotoemerson.com), based in St. Louis, is a global leader in bringing technology and engineering together to provide innovative solutions to customers through its network power, process management, industrial automation, climate technologies, and appliance and tools businesses. Sales in fiscal 2005 were $17.3 billion. PlantWeb, Fisher, Micro Motion, Rosemount, DeltaV, Ovation and AMS are marks of Emerson Process Management.
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Making use of a set of dumbbell exercises can be a great way to maintain overall fitness and build strength. Dumbbells are convenient for many people because they can be stored at home and used for exercises without having to go to the gym.
The seated dumbbell shoulder press is a great exercise to consider doing with your dumbbells at home. It requires minimal equipment and provides a good workout for a number of different muscle types and groups. Additionally, it is less likely to cause injury than a similar procedure with a longer barbell or with other tools. Finally, you can modify the exercise itself to make it more or less difficult, depending upon your abilities and how much you wish to push yourself.
The exercise of the seated dumbbell shoulder press is quite easy to execute. All that will be required of you is a set of matching dumbbells and a chair or another surface to sit up against with a back to it. The back of the chair should be at 90 degrees or, if possible, should be slightly less than 90 degrees so that it forces you to sit forward just slightly. Hold the dumbbells in both hands with your palms facing upward. For the relaxed part of the exercise, the dumbbells should be just above your shoulders and to either side of your head, with your elbows bent. To execute the exercise, push the dumbbells up while not adjusting your hand position at all. Do not lock the elbows, but bring your hands up only so far that your arms are not quite straight. Do not tap the edges of the dumbbells together. Slowly lower the dumbbells back to the original position and repeat.
There are a number of benefits of this procedure. First, it works a wide variety of muscle groups. The shoulders, the biceps, the triceps and other upper body and upper arm muscle groups can all be worked properly through this exercise. Be sure to begin with a moderate weight, though, so to be sure that you don't cause yourself any injury or other problems as you work out.
If you're concerned about safety, be sure that you don't overexert yourself. Consider having a spotter to sit or stand behind you and to be sure that you don't drop the dumbbells while they're over your head. Otherwise, don't bring he dumbbells directly over your body at all; this way, if you do drop them, you'll avoid hitting yourself.
Be sure to keep your pinkies higher than your thumbs as you hold the dumbbells. This will help to ensure that you keep control over the weights and that you don't accidentally hit them with each other. For ways to modify the exercise, use increasingly heavy weights or adjust the speed at which you raise and lower the dumbbells.


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Q: Is it possible to open Adobe Illustrator files from last close? Say you have three files open in Adobe Illustrator, but you exit out of the program. Is there a way that you can have those three files opened back up when you open up Illustrator again? Similar to how most text editor programs are set up -- so when you open up the program again all your last stayed-open files are there.
Also, does anyone know what the terminology for this saving-behavior is? State-saving? Googling to find the answer is difficult within the sea of Illustrator 'saving files' questions.

A: No, Illustrator does not have built-in persistent files capability. Here's a question on Graphic Design looking for the same feature. It does happens when the program crashes, then the recovery dialog will open up anything that was auto-saved. But I wouldn't recommend purposefully crashing Illustrator just to accomplish this.
If you're interested in a slightly less automated solution, you might be able to write a script to save your current list of opened documents and re-load it later. The API gives access to Application.documents and Application.open(). But that would still require some manual labor of running the script each time you need to save or re-load the document list.

Application.documents - Read-only. The documents in the application.
Application.open(file [, documentColorSpace] [, options]) - Opens the specified document file.


1982 and Van Morrison is onstage in Belfast, chasing his rapture across 'Summertime In England'. A roll call of the poets, the mystics, the romantics and the lightning catchers. More than eight minutes, and not a bit of it surplus. He's calling out to Coleridge and Wordsworth, Blake, Whitman and Beckett. On saxophone there's Pee Wee Ellis, sometime James Brown associate and he's matching the singer's fever, blowing with abandon. As is his wont, Van revises his lyrics from the recorded version, sending more names into the ether.
And then he's off again, citing RS Thomas and DH Lawrence as the song makes a squalling case for feeling and sensation: it ain't why, it just is.
You might have supposed that Van and Seamus Heaney were connected. The most prolific writers on the island. The pair of them deep into their sense of place, their local resonances, the names and the townlands, the squelch and the smell of it. Like Kavanagh before them they could find the epic in the commonplace, the small-town Homers. While the poet would find amazement in a water diviner, Van channeled his magic through the transistor radio and the wavelength.
Yet there's little evidence of Morrison and Heaney sharing much. In 2006, Van spoke to Paul Sexton at The Independent.
"There's poets who do that, and there's the other kind of poetry they call the romantics, which comes from a different place of being in touch with nature, so that's kind of where I'm coming from. If there's any sort of lineage in this, it's people like that. Or in Ireland – Patrick Kavanagh, or Joseph Campbell, these kind of lyricists.
So no apparent affinity, then. If you're looking for Irish musicians relating to Heaney, you might be better looking to Neil Hannon, who responded wryly with 'Death Of A Supernaturalist'. Or Gary Lightbody, whose Myspace signature once used the closing lines of 'Digging'.
Which is coincidentally where this blog sourced its name. On hearing of Heaney's passing, Lightbody wrote on his tumblr site about his English teacher, Mark McKee and his introduction to the aforementioned poem.
"You drive into a meaning made of trees.
Rave on Mister Heaney. May you run through and under without let.


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Cisco Launches Portfolio of Solutions to Boost Business Resiliency for the Workforce and Workplace Technology and Expertise Combine to Support Customer's Journey to the "Next Norma
• Business leaders looking to IT to meet today's social distancing requirements in the workplace
• New solutions to maintain seamless and secure productivity for a remote workforce
• New offerings to support Healthcare and Education as they transform to new business models
Al Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1 July 1, 2020 – At CiscoLive! Digital, the virtual event attended by over 100,000 customers, partners and members of the public, Cisco announced a new portfolio of solutions focused on business resiliency. In this uncertain world, keeping businesses up and running has become a major focus for business leaders. According to CFO's surveyed in the fifth PwC COVID-19 CFO Pulse Survey, organizations' highest focus is on changing workplace safety measures and requirements (87%) as they transition back to the workplace. In addition, close to half of all CFO's say their companies will make remote work a permanent option for roles that allow it. Cisco's new portfolio addresses both these key challenges head-on; the need to enable a secure remote workforce and the requirement to support a trusted workplace.
As organizations grappled with their initial response to the pandemic, many embraced solutions focused on business continuity, working with Cisco Customer Experience (CX) and Cisco partners to keep their organization running and productive, at speed and scale. In the next phase of response to the pandemic and in preparation for future events, CIOs, IT and operations leaders are focused on implementing an IT environment that will adapt and learn from the lessons of the past few months. A majority (72%) of CFO respondents to the PwC survey expected greater resilience and agility to be byproducts of the pandemic experience, along with 49% saying their technology investments they are making during this time will position them better for the long term.
"Over the past several months we've seen major disruption to many industries and organizations at a pace like never before. Businesses that once mapped digital strategy in one to three-year periods have been required to scale their initiatives essentially overnight." Said Chuck Robbins, Chairman and CEO, Cisco. "Cisco's new business resiliency portfolio will help customers reevaluate their business strategies and implement solutions more quickly and easily than ever before."
Developed from Cisco's experience of supporting thousands of customers through the COVID-19 pandemic to date, the business resiliency portfolio offers industry solutions including healthcare and education, simpler consumption models and services to accelerate impact for customers. The portfolio will continue to expand to cover areas such as social distancing in the workplace, effective virtual employee engagement at scale and pop-up connected clinics. Highlights of the new portfolio are listed below:
Healthcare and Education organizations found their operations immediately disrupted during this pandemic. With Cisco's support, within days, many were able to turn on distance learning, or to transition to virtual administration and ramp telehealth visits quickly. Cisco continues to support their resiliency and transformation. New solutions for these industries include:
• Distance learning – secure collaboration technology and expertise to keep the 1.2 billion children and young people currently learning outside of their usual environment, connected and learning worldwide. This solution is being used by organizations such as Babson College in Boston MA.
• Temporary Connected Field Hospital – a packaged IT infrastructure kit that can be set up and operational in 5 days or less to support hospital surges or to provide a temporary facility. The solution includes wireless networking technology to access data, voice and video, integrated network security and deployment guidance and support. This solution was developed based on Cisco and our partners experience supporting temporary hospitals such as the NHS Nightingale field hospital in the U.K. and at University of Maryland Medical System in the U.S.
"Babson College's trusted relationship with Cisco - leveraging its networking equipment as well as its safe and reliable Webex and Teams platforms - enabled us to quickly transition all 650 courses plus 100% of our students, faculty, and staff to fully online." Said Dr. Phil Knutel, Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Babson College.
"As businesses around the world experience a major disruption, Cisco's contribution to digital transformation is now more significant than ever. We aim to continue providing businesses with more intuitive solutions to help businesses cope with rapid, major infrastructure changes, security issues and the evolution of software and applications." said Reem Asaad, Vice President, Cisco Middle East and Africa.
Secure Remote Workforce Solutions
Customers turned to Cisco during the pandemic to enable workforce productivity with secure, scalable, solutions. These are now available as packaged solutions to support organizations as they discover more about what enhancements are needed to their initial approach, including:
• Remote Contact Center - technology and deployment services that enable contact center agents to work from home using either cloud solutions or provide secure remote access to their existing on-premise technology
• Flexible Remote Access – expertise and technology to enable employees to access the network, collaboration endpoints, and business applications. The portfolio offers a variety of products and services to meet customer needs, including those that opt for hardware, software, or bring-your-own device solutions.
• Secure Remote Worker – enable security for remote access at scale with tools to analyze current VPN capacity, determine an implementation plan with Cisco Security technology, and work on planning, design, and configuration of a VPN network to help securely manage remote employee access.
Trusted Workplace Solutions
Organizations are grappling with their journey to the next normal, including how to facilitate a safe "return to office", and power new business models and modes of work that support requirements for employee and customer safety. Cisco will support this transition with solutions such as:
• Virtual Visitation for Correctional Facilities –secure video collaboration software and hardware that integrates with inmate management systems and allows for virtual visitations with family, counsellors, health providers and attorneys. Cisco can enable upgrades to supporting infrastructure such as datacenters and networking equipment, security, and training/onboarding for users. Virtual visitation allows institutions to improve wellbeing, increase access and reduce risk.
• Remote Office Connectivity– Extend a corporate network to adjacent and remote locations that meet user demands for more bandwidth, faster connectivity, and higher security. Services and technology help customers design, build, and operate a Wireless LAN solution that gives users secure access to business applications with a secure and reliable wireless experience.
• Social Density Monitoring and Insights– Expertise and technology to support social distancing in the workplace. Built on Cisco's DNA Spaces and leveraging wireless infrastructure, this solution will provide behavioral insights from across locations, allowing organizations to make decisions to promote workplace safety. Available from July.
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Posted on : Wednesday, July 1, 2020 5:17:00 PM UAE local time (GMT+4)
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House gutted by fire in Sydney's west
By 9News Staff
Two people have escaped an intense housefire in Sydney's west this morning.
Emergency services were called to the property on Fowler Road, Merrylands West just after 5am today and found the top floor of the two-storey house alight.
A fire completely engulfed the second storey of a home in Sydney's west early this morning. (9News)
Emergency services had to evacuate two neighbouring homes after a fierce blaze in Merrylands West this morning. (9News)
"There was a lot of difficulty gaining access to the first floor because the staircase had collapsed so we had to pull crews out and go a defensive strategy," NSW Fire and Rescue's Joe Zaouk told 9News.
Two neighbouring houses also had to be evacuated as Fire and Rescue tackled the blaze.
Both occupants of the affected house have been accounted for and monitored for smoke inhalation.
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