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Same Sex Marriage in Ancient Rome
by JoHarrington
Gay marriage is not a modern idea. Throughout the height of the Roman Empire, it was not only commonplace, but sometimes mandatory.
When Antinous died, the whole Roman Empire sank into official mourning. Medallions were struck in his likeness. The city of Antinopolis in Egypt was named after him. He was venerated as a God, with statues placed in public and private shrines alike. Temples were raised in his honor.
He had been the 19 year old lover of the Emperor Hadrian. He drowned in the Nile around 130 CE.
There was no scandal in the relationship. Many Roman men took male lovers, and some married them. It was just one of the spectrum of unions available until Christianity made it one man, one woman.
Antoninous - Lover of the Emperor Hadrian
Mark Anthony: Before Cleopatra, There was Curio
Even the prudish Cicero had to get involved in this one, as there were dowry debts to settle.
We only know bits and pieces about Curio the Younger, but a picture begins to form from them all.
He built the first amphitheater in Rome, ostentatiously to honor his father, a famous orator.
Curio's character was said to be flamboyant, reckless and licentious. He ran up greater debts than he could possibly afford to pay, then persuaded high ranking men to pay them off for him.
Then he married twice. Once to Fulvia, an aristocratic Roman lady, with whom he had no children, though she did bring a step-daughter with her. And once to Mark Anthony, of Antony and Cleopatra fame.
Anthony was only a youth at the time and he was affectionately known as Antinous. Curio the Younger so introduced him to the high life, that the young man quickly ran up a lot of drinking debts. Curio the Elder immediately banned him from the house, in fear that his own son would be left to pick up the tab.
Enter Cicero. The straight-laced statesman was a friend of the family, and also a lawyer. Though he didn't approve of the relationship between Anthony and Curio the Younger, he did have some words to say on legal matters.
The fact was that Anthony had been playing the field, until the men were 'united in a stable and permanent marriage'. (Philippic 2.18.45) In doing so, according to Roman law, the 'bride' was owed a dowry payable by the groom's family. It was Curio the Younger who acted 'just as if he had given (Anthony) a matron's stola'.
Curio the Elder just gave up and paid Mark Anthony's drinking debts. In doing so, he merely accepted the marriage.
The whole episode is notable for the complete lack of surprise felt by anyone that two men were effectively spouses in Rome, around 50 BCE. It also demonstrates the degrees of marriage available during the early Roman Empire.
Curio the Younger was married to Fulvia throughout his union with Mark Anthony. After Curio was killed, while fighting in one of Caesar's campaigns, Anthony merely took Fulvia as his wife.
Books about Same Sex Unions in Ancient Rome
Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
Both highly praised and intensely controversial, this brilliant book produces dramatic evidence that at one time the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches not only sanctioned u...
Roman Homosexuality: Second Edition
Ten years after its original publication, Roman Homosexuality remains the definitive statement of this interesting but often misunderstood aspect of Roman culture. Learned yet a...
Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents
The most important primary texts on homosexuality in ancient Greece and Rome are translated into modern, explicit English and collected together for the first time in this compr...
When Nero Married Sporus
Hadrian might have been the Roman Emperor in the most celebrated gay relationship, but he was by no means the first.
The nuptials were celebrated in extravagant festivals in both Rome and Greece. The Emperor Nero arrived at the ceremony in full military garb. His husband Sporus did not.
Sporus (pictured left) was only a teenager at the time. He arrived for his wedding in a veil and all the accoutrements of a Roman bride. He received a dowry, and he was 'given away' by a family friend.
As he left the ceremony on a litter, he was wearing the dress of an Empress. All Romans were instructed to refer to him as the Empress, with all honors and titles therein.
But this was no poster boy for sane and safe gay marriage. As soon as Nero took him home, he had Sporus's testicles removed. It was noted by contemporaries that Sporus had a likeness to Nero's first (and female) Empress Sabrina. That marriage ended when the Emperor kicked her to death, while she was pregnant. Even more troubling was the fact that Nero began to call Sporus by her name.
However, many observed that Sporus was a calming influence upon the notoriously psychopathic Nero. His excesses seemed to taper off. But that didn't stop Nero being hounded by a senate uprising within eighteen months of the marriage. The result being that Nero committed ritual suicide rather than being taken alive for public execution.
The problem wasn't the gay marriage. (Nor was it even the burning of Christians to provide a light source, nor the murder of his mother, nor anything else for which we might question today.) It was because he'd raised the taxes too high for the liking of the senate.
Documentary about Hadrian and Antinous
The discussion of the cult of Antinous begins at 5 mins. It shows just how far reaching his influence became, right into modern history.
The Queens of Noble Birth
If a man is born into a high ranking family, why should he degrade himself by acting like a woman?
Decimus Lunius Luvenalis lived at the turn of the 1st and 2nd centuries CE and wrote poetry under the pseudonym of Juvenal. His most famous work was the Satires.
From his writing, it's easy to discern a world where gay marriage raised no eyebrows whatsoever. His Satire 2:132-135 discusses such a ceremony, wherein the protagonist is asked where he is going. "Nothing special," He responds, "a friend is marrying another man and a small group is attending."
But while this is a commonplace union in Roman society, certain considerations did give Juvenal pause.
The fashion (possibly inspired by Nero and Sporus) had become for one spouse to take a more feminine role, while the other was unequivocally the 'husband'. The former would arrive to their nuptials wearing a veil and a matron's stola. He would henceforth act like he was a woman. He'd do all of the shopping and cooking. He would run the house.
As the Roman world was so hot on ideals of masculinity, this turn of events outraged Juvenal. It wasn't so much that it was happening at all - though that did concern him - but that the part of the 'wife' was too often being taken by men of wealth and high class.
It was one thing for low born pretty boys to be rendered female, but not for the gentlemen of the senator classes!
Books about Roman Homosexuality and Masculinity
Roman Homosexuality: Ideologies of Masculinity in Classical Antiquity (Ideologies of Desire)
This book provides a thoroughly documented discussion of ancient Roman ideologies of masculinity and sexuality with a focus on ancient representations of sexual experience betwe...
Roman Manliness: "Virtus" and the Roman Republic
Recent studies of ancient Roman masculinities have concentrated on the private aspects of the subject, particularly sexuality, and have drawn conclusions from a narrow field of ...
Staging Masculinity: The Rhetoric of Performance in the Roman World (The Body, In Theory: Histori...
Performance was one of the five canonical branches of oratory in the classical period, but it presents special problems that distinguish it from concerns such as composition and...
When Homosexual Unions Were Practically Compulsory
During the reign of Emperor Elagabalus (218-222) having a husband was the fastest way for a man to gain promotion.
The problem with Elagabalus, as far as Rome was concerned, was not his homosexuality per se. Less than one hundred years previously, everyone had quite happily accepted Hadrian's love for Antinous.
No, the absolute issue here was that Elagabalus enjoyed flaunting his passive role in his same sex encounters. He played the part of the woman and he was the Emperor!
As has already been hinted at time and again in this historical run through, masculinity was so important in Roman society. As long as you retained your manhood, you could have who you liked.
Elagabalus preferred to dress as an Empress, rather than an Emperor. He married five different women, but there was no evidence that any of those marriages were ever consummated. His only son was adopted.
He also had many, many high profile sexual encounters with men. They were always butch, muscular individuals. But the great love of his life was an athlete (some say gladiator) called Hierocles. It was long-lasting and appeared genuinely loving. Even his contemporary biographer Cassius Dio called Hierocles the husband of Emperor Elagabalus.
During this reign, all of those elevated in social status by the Emperor were gay men with publicly announced marriages to other men. Those were the individuals who received wealth, titles and advancement within the military or senate. It was a policy so blatantly known that heterosexual men would pretend to have same sex partners, just to get ahead.
This did not go down too well with the higher echelons of Roman society, who responded in the usual way. Elagabalus was assassinated on March 11th 222.
Books about Emperor Elagabalus
He enjoyed a heady afterlife in novels, art, film and music, as the young Emperor became a kind of camp icon for boys who love silk robes.
The Brutal End of Gay Marriage in the Roman World
The edict would have come as a major shock, as so many Romans were already in same sex unions when it was announced.
When the Emperor Constantine overtly converted to Christianity, it set in motion a series of events which are still felt to this day.
Initially, the change in religion did not affect same sex unions. Throughout the reign of Constantine, this remained true. But he had raised his sons in the Christian faith and they were taught by their priests that homosexuality was wrong.
Constantine died in 337. As usual in the Roman world, the succession wasn't entirely smooth, with divisions opening up between the brothers. For a moment there, all efforts were deployed on securing power.
But by 342, Constans was in charge and he was swift to announce some sudden changes to Roman law. The Theodosian Code overturned many Roman traditions and outlawed Paganism. It included this:
'We order the laws to arise, justice to be armed with an avenging sword, so that those shameless persons guilty of (homosexuality) now or in future should be subjected to exquisite punishment.'
In short, same sex unions went from commonplace to punishable by death at the snap of the new Emperor's fingers.
However, we shouldn't read too much into this. There is absolutely no evidence that such punishments were actually carried out. The Christian Emperor had enshrined his values and mores into law, but that didn't mean that any judge was compelled to follow through.
The absolutely bizarre part of this is that Constans himself WAS homosexual. He was ultimately ousted as Roman Emperor when the legions staged an uprising. They were fed up with him conferring honors only onto his favorites - the household guard - and deserted him, as soon as General Magnentius made a bid for power.
Constans was assassinated in a temple in 350, but his anti-homosexual marriage laws remained on the statute books.
Books about how Homosexuality Became Seen as Bad
Homosexuality and Civilization
How have major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? In a narrative tour de force, Louis Crompton chronicles the lives and ...
The Construction of Homosexuality
"At various times, homosexuality has been considered the noblest of loves, a horrible sin, a psychological condition or grounds for torture and execution. David F. Greenberg's c...
A Natural History of Homosexuality
A terrible sin, a gift from the gods, a mental illness, a natural human variation—over the centuries people have defined homosexuality in all of these ways. Since the word homos...
Gifts and Cards for Modern Same Sex Marriages
Wedding Gifts for Gay Women
Are you looking for lesbian wedding gift ideas? Check out this collection of perfect marriage gifts for two brides.
Wedding Gifts for Gay Men
Are you looking for gay wedding gift ideas for two grooms? Check out this selection with presents to match any wallet.
Male Wedding Cards for Gay Couples
Have you been invited to a wedding with two grooms? Check out these gay marriage cards for men, to find the perfect one to mark their big day.
Groom and Groom Cake Toppers for a Gay Wedding
Been searching in vain for wedding cake decorations for a male gay marriage? Look no further! We have them right here.
Updated: 01/12/2015, JoHarrington
Ah! I see! What I do is write until the article is finished, however long that is. Right now, I'm struggling because an article that I want to write is too short. I've never had that before! I didn't realise that Wizzley warned you. LOL
Mira on 08/08/2013
Actually, I like the size of your articles because it seems to fit the subject matter just right each time -- holds the attention and all, so they don't seem long. What I had to pause twice was the video. But I'm glad you included it! It added an extra dimension to the article.
You're very welcome; and thanks for coming back to read it so often! I really did write a novel, didn't I?
So interesting, Jo! Thanks so much for taking the time to put such great articles together. I had to come back to this article several times before I had time to finish it, but am so happy I did. I also watched the video -- glad you included that, too.
Indeed! And I haven't even got to Ancient Greece yet. It was very acceptable there. :)
AnomalousArtist on 07/21/2013
Great article! If only people could see there's nothing new under the sun...
Nero was the perfect example of what happens if a human being is allowed to do whatever they want to do, and is a psychopath. It's quite scary when you really begin imagining those scenes.
Guest on 07/18/2013
As a Classicist, Nero was completely nuts in every meaning of the word. His antics with burning the Christians for light was my O'Level exam translation text and I seriously thought I had mistranslated! I do enjoy the Classical Roman Emperors, they were the most fun. Anything and everything went. Once Constantine and his ilk arrived, they sobered down a bit.
You're welcome, and thank you.
It has been a lovely discussion. Thanks for stretching my brain with some challenging points of view. See you around Wizzley!
cmoneyspinner on 07/18/2013
Tweeted. That's funny. :) 'The revolution will not be televised'. You just took me back to my days at the University of Miami; 1972 - 1976.
This has been a great discussion, Jo. There's no more for me to add. Looking for ward to reading more of your articles though. See you around Wizzley!
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Prescription for less medicine
After only five years as an internist at Scripps Clinic, Dr. David Clayton could tell what was wrong with many of his patients before they even took off their shirts.
They were men, 50 to 80 years old, overweight, with high blood pressure and bad cholesterol — the perfect trifecta for the chronic metabolic disease currently bloating America. If they did nothing, they might be dead before their time, candidates for diabetes and stroke.
Some 90 percent of people over 60 take at least one medication, and more than one-third of those over 60 are on five or more medications.
And even many men and women who do get exercise and try to eat healthy fail because in this hyper-hyped world of "natural this and natural that," they don't understand the biochemical truth underlying their choices.
So Clayton, 40, in March launched the Clayton MD Total Health Center, a doctor-directed fitness program that includes a gym, on-site nutrition, a manual — "The Clayton MD Total Health Program" — and even a home chef. He is the only doctor on site and will work with patients to get off certain medications.
Trainers help with the physical fitness plan, and the chef can help with meal planning. In time, Clayton plans to add clinics in Encinitas and Mission Valley and add a nutrition bar.
As an MD, Clayton will develop a medical, customized plan for clients — "Extreme Wellness' — which in some cases is covered by insurance (with a co-pay.) Use of the gym and trainer, as well as meals, are extra.
The U-T talked with Clayton at his new gym in Sorrento Valley as a smoothie machine whirred in the background and 14-pound medicine balls thumped off overhead disc targets, a bunch of surprisingly game middle-aged dudes scrambling behind us.
Q: You have a business degree from Columbia, and you were even a biotech analyst at Goldman Sachs before returning to doctoring. How does an MBA treat medicine differently?
A: As much as this program is fundamentally grounded in good science, what happens when you put an MBA in a primary care office is that they listen to what patients want. What my patients told me was, "I don't want to be on medication. I don't want to worry about the side effects."
That was the unmet need in the marketplace, the kernel of inspiration for this place, to provide patients with a resource that didn't exist, and that is the single benchmark that I grade myself on: How many medications can I get my patients off of?
Q: It's certainly a unique approach, a doctor and a gym.
A: The uniqueness is twofold — the nutrition plan and the exercise plan. Nutrition and exercise are two areas where American medicine and pharma companies are really leaving patients to figure it out on their own. Having somebody on-site who can credibly read the blood and other stats from your own physician, and then monitor your progress from a medical standpoint to make sure you are achieving those goals — there is really nothing else like it.
Q: What do you tell most clients they can expect?
A: Over three months, reductions in blood pressure of up to 40 points, lowering of cholesterol by up to 60 percent, reductions in blood sugar of 30 percent, a loss of 40 pounds or more.
Q: That's bold. What's the nutrition component?
A: We all have heard enough about nutrition. The hard part is sorting through the noise to find the few important tips that will really move the needle on your health, then applying them every day. I've distilled all of nutrition down to these five points — ancestral diet, sodium and potassium, fiber, healthy fats and antioxidants. If you can get these right every day, then all the metabolics are improved.
Q: Ancestral diet?
A: Essentially what is called the Paleo diet, which looks back at the evolution of our species and a reliance on an all-natural diet, since many of the metabolic diseases you see today come from our being outside the time and lens of our natural habitat, and suffering the consequences.
However, the modern implementation of that Paleo diet has led to an Atkins-type diet, very meat-centric, heavy on calorie-rich foods, dates, coconut, that may not allow most people to reap health benefits. It is a bit "culty," for the 20-year-old athlete rather than for a grown-up looking for optimal health.
What I've done is bridge that evolutionary construct for disease and draw the connections to what modern medicine preaches about nutrition. We are finding the links between that evolutionary diet, the Asian diet, the Mediterranean diet, vegetarian diets, which are all commonly associated with heart health and mainstream medicine.
Q: So meat is OK?
A: Grass-fed beef is fine, but the diet emphasizes fish, more vegetables, more nuts, above all more fiber. All the meals we provide are designed to give optimal amounts of Omega-3, potassium, fiber and antioxidants while staying consistent with the ancestral or Paleo diet.
Q: So the meal plan here, the recipes in your new book, the chef who cooks the frozen meals — it's better to tell guys what to do?
A: What I found after a number of years as a physician at Scripps, a lot of people want to know exactly what they should do. If you want to cook for yourself, we provide the recipes. If you don't have the time, we provide the food. If they are here, they want to change. Our job is to make that change as easy as possible.
Q: Don't some people simply need their medication?
A: You won't know what type of medication you need until you get off the ones you can get off of. As they say, results may vary, and genetics are obviously a component, but if we can catch you in the early stages of high blood pressure or diabetes, and you are taking only one or two medications, that's a good indication you will be able to get off all of them.
However, if you are taking four medications to control your blood sugar, you know, that may not be the goal. The goal in that case may be that you live 10 years longer. You manage your blood pressure as optimally as you can, and you don't need that fifth or sixth medication. You don't end up with a neuropathy (numbness in your limbs). You don't end up with a stroke. Even though the train has already left the station, we can still stop you from getting worse.
Q: And the exercise? How do you get guys interested?
A: This is competitive, and it's very intense, and it is anything but boring. We are always catching you off guard, and we are putting you on the clock against your teammates. It definitely taps into that alpha male adrenaline rush of exercise. There's nothing more boring than sitting on the bench doing bicep exercises by yourself.
Here, you are doing jumping pull-ups, timed on the clock against four or five of your contemporaries, or partner work, Olympic strength training structured at different entry levels, kettle ball exercises, medicine ball drills, tire pulls for your spare tire.
We design from a core medical perspective based on who you are, from some guy who can't do a single push-up to one 67-year old Marine who could scale the rope to the ceiling but who still suffered from the same metabolic conditions afflicting other adults his age.
Q: Is this all your invention?
A: I like to think I've taken the best from yoga, from Pilates, from CrossFit, which is designed for elite 22-year-old athletes. Our workout uses a lot of the same fun toys as CrossFit but in a routine more manageable for a grown-up.
Michael Ma and Subin Ryoo helped with research for this column. Contact Steve at stevechapple.com
© Copyright 2014 Steve Chapple. All rights reserved.

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Q: Twitter Bootstrap Tabs: Go to Specific Tab on Page Reload or Hyperlink I'm developing a web page in which I'm using Twitter's Bootstrap Framework and their Bootstrap Tabs JS. It works great except for a few minor issues, one of which is I do not know how go directly to  a specific tab from an external link. For example:
Home
Notes

should go to the Home tab and the Notes tab respectively when clicked on the links from an external page

A: This works in Bootstrap 3 and improves dubbe and flynfish 's 2 top answers by integrating GarciaWebDev 's answer as well (which allows for url parameters after the hash and is straight from Bootstrap authors on the github issue tracker):
// Javascript to enable link to tab
var hash = document.location.hash;
var prefix = "tab_";

if (hash) {
    hash = hash.replace(prefix,'');
    var hashPieces = hash.split('?');
    activeTab = $('.nav-tabs a[href=' + hashPieces[0] + ']');
    activeTab && activeTab.tab('show');
}

// Change hash for page-reload
$('.nav-tabs a').on('shown', function (e) {
    window.location.hash = e.target.hash.replace("#", "#" + prefix);
});

A: Building on Demircan Celebi's solution; I wanted the tab to open when modifying the url and open tab without having to reload the page from the server.

A: Just insert this code on your page:

$(function(){
  var hash = window.location.hash;
  hash && $('ul.nav a[href="' + hash + '"]').tab('show');

  $('.nav-tabs a').click(function (e) {
    $(this).tab('show');
    var scrollmem = $('body').scrollTop();
    window.location.hash = this.hash;
    $('html,body').scrollTop(scrollmem);
  });
});

A: Here is my solution to the problem, a bit late perhaps. But it could maybe help others:
// Javascript to enable link to tab
var hash = location.hash.replace(/^#/, '');  // ^ means starting, meaning only match the first hash
if (hash) {
    $('.nav-tabs a[href="#' + hash + '"]').tab('show');
}

// Change hash for page-reload
$('.nav-tabs a').on('shown.bs.tab', function (e) {
    window.location.hash = e.target.hash;
})

A: you could trigger a click event on the corresponding tab link:
$(document).ready(function(){

  if(window.location.hash != "") {
      $('a[href="' + window.location.hash + '"]').click()
  }

});

A: This code selects the right tab depending on the #hash and adds the right #hash when a tab is clicked. (this uses jquery)
In Coffeescript :
$(document).ready ->
    if location.hash != ''
        $('a[href="'+location.hash+'"]').tab('show')

    $('a[data-toggle="tab"]').on 'shown', (e) ->
        location.hash = $(e.target).attr('href').substr(1)

or in JS :
$(document).ready(function() {
    if (location.hash !== '') $('a[href="' + location.hash + '"]').tab('show');
    return $('a[data-toggle="tab"]').on('shown', function(e) {
      return location.hash = $(e.target).attr('href').substr(1);
    });
});

A: $(function(){
  var hash = window.location.hash;
  hash && $('ul.nav a[href="' + hash + '"]').tab('show');
});

This code from http://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/issues/2415#issuecomment-4450768 worked for me perfectly.

A: @flynfish + @Ztyx solution that I use for nested tabs:
    handleTabLinks();

    function handleTabLinks() {
        if(window.location.hash == '') {
            window.location.hash = window.location.hash + '#_';
        }
        var hash = window.location.hash.split('#')[1];
        var prefix = '_';
        var hpieces = hash.split('/');
        for (var i=0;i<hpieces.length;i++) {
            var domelid = hpieces[i].replace(prefix,'');
            var domitem = $('a[href=#' + domelid + '][data-toggle=tab]');
            if (domitem.length > 0) {
                domitem.tab('show');
            }
        }
        $('a[data-toggle=tab]').on('shown', function (e) {
            if ($(this).hasClass('nested')) {
                var nested = window.location.hash.split('/');
                window.location.hash = nested[0] + '/' + e.target.hash.split('#')[1];
            } else {
                window.location.hash = e.target.hash.replace('#', '#' + prefix);
            }
        });
    }

childrens should have class="nested"

A: I came up with a solution that uses the url hash or localStorage depending on the availability of the latter with below code:
$(function(){
    $(document).on('shown.bs.tab', 'a[data-toggle="tab"]', function (e) {
        localStorage.setItem('activeTab', $(e.target).attr('href'));
    })

    var hash = window.location.hash;
    var activeTab = localStorage.getItem('activeTab');

    if(hash){
          $('#project-tabs  a[href="' + hash + '"]').tab('show');
    }else if (activeTab){
        $('#project-tabs a[href="' + activeTab + '"]').tab('show');
    }
});

A: This is an improved implementation of dubbe's solution which prevent scrolling.
// Javascript to enable link to tab
var url = document.location.toString();
if (url.match('#')) {
    $('.nav-tabs a[href="#'+url.split('#')[1]+'"]').tab('show') ;
}

// With HTML5 history API, we can easily prevent scrolling!
$('.nav-tabs a').on('shown.bs.tab', function (e) {
    if(history.pushState) {
        history.pushState(null, null, e.target.hash);
    } else {
        window.location.hash = e.target.hash; //Polyfill for old browsers
    }
})

A: I would suggest you use the code provided by Bootstrap authors on their issue tracker on GitHub:
var hash = location.hash
  , hashPieces = hash.split('?')
  , activeTab = $('[href=' + hashPieces[0] + ']');
activeTab && activeTab.tab('show');

You can find on the link to the issue more information about why they didn't choose to support that.

A: Tried couple of ways discussed above and end up with following working solution, just copy and paste in your editor to try. To test just change hash to inbox, outbox, compose in url and hit enter key.

        <link type='text/css' rel='stylesheet' href='https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.0.0/css/bootstrap.min.css' />

Inbox

Outbox

Compose

                    Inbox Content

                    Outbox Content

                    Compose Content

Hope this will save your time.

A: Here is what i did, really simple, and provided your tab links have an ID associated with them you can get the href attribute and pass that over to the function that shows the tab contents:

Then in your url you can add the hash as something like: #tab_tab1, the 'tab_' part is removed from the hash itself so the ID of the actual tab link in the nav-tabs (tabid1) is placed after this, so your url would look something like: www.mydomain.com/index.php#tab_tabid1.
This works perfect for me and hope it helps someone else :-)

A: If it matters to anybody, the following code is small and works flawless, to get a single hash value from the URL and show that:

what it does is it retrieves the id and fires the click event. Simple.

A: While the JavaScript solution provided may work, I went a slightly different way that requires no additional JavaScript, but does require logic in your view.  You create a link with a standard URL parameter, like:
My Link

Then you simply detect the value of activeTab to write 'class="active"' in the appropriate

Pseudocode (implement accordingly in your language).  Note I've set 'home' tab as a default active if no parameter provided in this example.
$activetabhome = (params.activeTab is null or params.activeTab == 'home') ? 'class="active"' : '';
$activetabprofile = (params.activeTab == 'profile') ? 'class="active"' : '';

Home

Profile

A: UPDATE
For Bootstrap 3, change .on('shown', ...) to .on('shown.bs.tab', ....)

This is based off of @dubbe answer and this SO accepted answer.  It handles the issue with window.scrollTo(0,0) not working correctly. The problem is that when you replace the url hash on tab shown, the browser will scroll to that hash since its an element on the page. To get around this, add a prefix so the hash doesn't reference an actual page element
// Javascript to enable link to tab
var hash = document.location.hash;
var prefix = "tab_";
if (hash) {
    $('.nav-tabs a[href="'+hash.replace(prefix,"")+'"]').tab('show');
}

// Change hash for page-reload
$('.nav-tabs a').on('shown', function (e) {
    window.location.hash = e.target.hash.replace("#", "#" + prefix);
});

Example of use
If you have tab-pane with id="mytab" you need to put your link like this:
Go to Specific Tab

A: I just had this issue, but needed to handle multiple tab levels. The code is rather ugly (see comments), but does its job: https://gist.github.com/JensRantil/4721860 Hopefully someone else will find it useful (and feel free to propose better solutions!).

A: This is my solution to handle nested tabs.
I just added a function to check if the active tab has a parent tab to be activated.
This is the function:
function activateParentTab(tab) {
    $('.tab-pane').each(function() {
        var cur_tab = $(this);
        if ( $(this).find('#' + tab).length > 0 ) {
            $('.nav-tabs a[href=#'+ cur_tab.attr('id') +']').tab('show');
            return false;
        }
    });
}

And can be called like this (Based on @flynfish's solution):
var hash = document.location.hash;
var prefix = "";
if (hash) {
    $('.nav-tabs a[href='+hash.replace(prefix,"")+']').tab('show');
    activateParentTab(hash);
}

// Change hash for page-reload
$('.nav-tabs a').on('shown', function (e) {
    window.location.hash = e.target.hash.replace("#", "#" + prefix);
});

This solution works pretty fine to me at the moment.
Hope this can be useful for someone else ;)

A: I had to modify some bits for this to work for me.
I am using Bootstrap 3 and jQuery 2
// Javascript to enable link to tab
var hash = document.location.hash;
var prefix = "!";
if (hash) {
    hash = hash.replace(prefix,'');
    var hashPieces = hash.split('?');
    activeTab = $('[role="tablist"] a[href=' + hashPieces[0] + ']');
    activeTab && activeTab.tab('show');
}

// Change hash for page-reload
$('[role="tablist"] a').on('shown.bs.tab', function (e) {
    window.location.hash = e.target.hash.replace("#", "#" + prefix);
});

A: I am not a big fan of if...else; so I took a simpler approach.
$(document).ready(function(event) {
    $('ul.nav.nav-tabs a:first').tab('show'); // Select first tab
    $('ul.nav.nav-tabs a[href="'+ window.location.hash+ '"]').tab('show'); // Select tab by name if provided in location hash
    $('ul.nav.nav-tabs a[data-toggle="tab"]').on('shown', function (event) {    // Update the location hash to current tab
        window.location.hash= event.target.hash;
    })
});

*

*Pick a default tab (usually the first)

*Switch to tab (if such an element is indeed present; let jQuery handle it); Nothing happens if a wrong hash is specified

*[Optional] Update the hash if another tab is manually chosen

Doesn't address scrolling to requested hash; but should it?

A: For Bootstrap 3:
$('.nav-tabs a[href="#' + tabID + '"]').tab('show');

https://jsfiddle.net/DTcHh/6638/

A: Combining peices from other answers, here is a solution that can open many levels of nested tabs:
// opens all tabs down to the specified tab
var hash = location.hash.split('?')[0];
if(hash) {
  var $link = $('[href=' + hash + ']');
  var parents = $link.parents('.tab-pane').get();
  $(parents.reverse()).each(function() {
    $('[href=#' + this.id + ']').tab('show') ;
  });
  $link.tab('show');
}

A: For Bootstrap 5.1 for redirecting to specific tab
var hash = location.hash.replace(/^#/, '');
if (hash) {
var someVarName = $('.nav-tabs a[href="#' + hash + '"]');
var tab = new bootstrap.Tab(someVarName);
tab.show();
}

Change hash for page-reload
$('.nav-tabs a').on('shown.bs.tab', function (e) {
  window.location.hash = e.target.hash;
  window.scrollTo(0, 0);
})

A: I make sth like this for links with ajax #!# (e.g./test.com#!#test3) but you can modify it whatever you like
$(document).ready(function() {

       let hash = document.location.hash;
       let prefix = "!#";

       //change hash url on page reload
       if (hash) {
         $('.nav-tabs a[href=\"'+hash.replace(prefix,"")+'\"]').tab('show');
       }

       // change hash url on switch tab
       $('.nav-tabs a').on('shown.bs.tab', function (e) {
          window.location.hash = e.target.hash.replace("#", "#" + prefix);
       });
 });

Example with simple page on Github here

A: I know this thread is very old, but I'll leave here my own implementation:
$(function () {
  // some initialization code

  addTabBehavior()
})

// Initialize events and change tab on first page load.
function addTabBehavior() {
  $('.nav-tabs a').on('show.bs.tab', e => {
    window.location.hash = e.target.hash.replace('nav-', '')
  })

  $(window).on('popstate', e => {
    changeTab()
  })

  changeTab()
}

// Change the current tab and URL hash; if don't have any hash
// in URL, so activate the first tab and update the URL hash.
function changeTab() {
  const hash = getUrlHash()

  if (hash) {
    $(`.nav-tabs a[href="#nav-${hash}"]`).tab('show')
  } else {
    $('.nav-tabs a').first().tab('show')
  }
}

// Get the hash from URL. Ex: www.example.com/#tab1
function getUrlHash() {
  return window.location.hash.slice(1)
}

Note that I'm using a nav- class prefix to nav links.

A: Building on Peter's answer, and incorporating https://stackoverflow.com/a/901144/1604205, here's the code in JS:

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The 2004–05 Chappell–Hadlee Trophy was the first edition of Chappell–Hadlee Trophy, a three-match ODI series between Australia and New Zealand. It was played from 5 to 10 December 2004 as part of New Zealand tour of Australia.

Summary

Chappell–Hadlee Trophy 2004–05. One-Day International series result: Series tied 1–1.

First match
The first match at Telstra Dome in Melbourne on 5 December was won by New Zealand and was considered a thrillingly close affair. After a decidedly unsuccessful Test series against Australia, a New Zealand victory was considered unlikely, with bookmakers odds heavily favouring the home side.

Australia began proceedings with opening partners Adam Gilchrist and Matthew Hayden reaching 50 runs before the end of the seventh over. This partnership was ended in spectacular fashion, with Hayden attempting a strong pull shot which looked to be heading straight for the boundary. However, Mathew Sinclair, at full sprint and diving to his left, pulled off a marvellous wrong-handed catch which has been heralded as one of the best of the decade (competing with Australian Glenn McGrath's catch in the 2002–03 Ashes against England). Gilchrist put in a typical performance, making a quick 68 runs off only 54 balls, before being dispatched by an impressive Chris Cairns delivery which bowled him (a feat Cairns was later to repeat twice more, taking both Michael Clarke's and Brett Lee's wicket in the same manner). Cairns' insertion into the bowling attack sparked a collapse in the Australian middle order, which in the space of 18 balls lost 4 wickets for just 10 runs. The bowling of Cairns and Daniel Vettori wreaked havoc with the Australian batsmen, with personal figures of 3/39 and 3/31 respectively.  Darren Lehmann second top-scored with 50 runs and he, together with the struggling efforts of the lower order batsmen, brought Australia to a respectable 9/246 after 50 overs.

New Zealand began the run chase in a tenuous fashion, losing the wicket of captain Stephen Fleming LBW for a duck after less than one minute. However, the 1/0 figure was in the next two hours to become 1/128, with opening batsman Nathan Astle and Mathew Sinclair's partnership proving to be formidable. Sinclair was then run out by Andrew Symonds, and Astle's wicket fell in the following over for 70 runs, which included a magnificent six. The breakthrough was consolidated with the loss of Scott Styris' wicket soon after for just 5 runs, but Hamish Marshall put up a performance of 50 not-out from 52 balls, and together with quick scores of 24 runs off 22 balls from Jacob Oram, 14 runs off 11 balls from Chris Cairns, and 20 not out off 13 balls from Brendon McCullum, helped New Zealand reach the target of 247 with just two balls left to be bowled.

Hamish Marshall's impressive and innovative innings of 50 not-out earned him man of the match.

Second match
The second match at Sydney Cricket Ground on 8 December was won by Australia, and was similar to the first in that Australia set a competitive total and New Zealand put up a very good chase, making for another close finish.

Adam Gilchrist opened in his usual quick-hitting style, making 60 runs from 48 balls, including nine fours and one six. At one stage, in the course of three overs, Gilchrist piled on 41 runs. His partner Hayden contributed one run during this time. Chris Cairns was brought into the attack to attempt to slow the run rate, but it took the bowling of Scott Styris to remove Gilchrist from the batting crease, caught by Nathan Astle. The new batsman Ricky Ponting with Hayden put together a useful partnership to be 1/140, before Ponting was dismissed after making 32. It was in Ponting's innings that New Zealand's veteran bowler Chris Harris, in saving four runs, dove to his left, landed awkwardly on his shoulder and tore his rotator cuff, in his 250th ODI. Ponting's dismissal proved to be the precursor to another middle order collapse for Australia, for Hayden was dismissed just a few minutes later for 43, and in even shorter order Damien Martyn was dismissed for 5 and Andrew Symonds for his second consecutive duck. Australia had lost four wickets for eight runs and looked to be in some bother, which was exacerbated five overs later with the loss of Michael Clarke for just six runs. At six wickets down though, Darren Lehmann and Brad Hogg steadied and put on a partnership of 74 runs before Darren Lehmann was run out with two overs remaining at 7/235. The incoming batsman Brett Lee put on 10 quick runs and Brad Hogg a further 16 to have Australia at 7/261 after 50 overs.

The New Zealand run chase was every bit as exciting as it had been in the first match.  Nathan Astle followed up his 70 runs in the first match with just 11, beaten by the bowling of Australian speedster Brett Lee. Sinclair was the next to go, scoring 17 runs before edging a Jason Gillespie ball to Hayden in the slips. This was the beginning of a New Zealand collapse, with Scott Styris the next to depart with 5 runs, and then Stephen Fleming who had successfully taken on Lee, scoring 34 runs from 44 balls, falling to Brad Hogg's first delivery, given out LBW. Jacob Oram then fell for two runs, followed by Hamish Marshall for just 9, the latter falling victim to a quick ball from Lee which took his off stump.

New Zealand had lost five wickets for 23 runs, but a remarkable revival was to come, which perhaps would have won the match were it not for a dubious decision going against them.

Chris Cairns and Brendon McCullum found themselves in the precarious position of being at 6/86 after 22 overs, needing 262 for victory. Cairns hit fast and hard, knocking 50 runs from 40 balls, before falling victim to Gillespie's bowling, attempting another boundary. Three overs later, McCullum was the recipient of a ball from Brad Hogg which he attempted to block, getting a thick edge of his bat to the ball before it struck his pads. Upon appeal however, umpire Peter Parker gave McCullum out, a clearly incorrect decision.

Two bowlers, Kyle Mills and Daniel Vettori, were then the batsmen for New Zealand, and had the task of getting nearly 100 runs in less than 13 overs, with only the shoulder sling-sporting Chris Harris left to bat if either of them was dismissed. They took to this task with an amazing showcase of batting prowess, the likes of which would have been impressive for opening batsmen, let alone bottom-order batsmen.

Initially, Vettori took control with competent batting and got to 27 runs at the beginning of the 42nd over, with Mills having taken a more passive role at 7 runs. This role was soon to be reversed. Mills hit four sixes in four consecutive balls, over the space of two overs, in a display considered to be worthy of any current top batsman. In the following over, now needing only a run per ball bowled, Vettori was run out by a direct throw from Ricky Ponting, to have New Zealand 9/236.

Chris Harris bravely took to the batting crease with a runner, Hamish Marshall. Looking ungainly and in considerable discomfort due to his previously incurred injury, he managed 4 runs from 6 balls before being beaten by a McGrath yorker which took his middle stump, leaving Mills at 44 not-out from 26 balls, and New Zealand all out for 244.

Brad Hogg was named Man of the match.

Third match
The third match at Brisbane Cricket Ground on 10 December, which was meant to be the series decider, was rained off, and the Trophy shared after a 1–1 series tie.

Daniel Vettori was named Man of the Series after two impressive performances, with both the bat and the ball.

References

Chappell-Hadlee Trophy
Chappell-Hadlee Trophy
Chappell-Hadlee Trophy
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Q: Spring DBUnit : Limiting spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl execution I have an abstract class that I extend when creating tests for our annotation config based Spring application. I am using an embedded H2 database and as such have my spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl.auto=create-drop. In the class below you can see that I create an entityManager from the EntityManagerFactory in the @Before method of the below class. This means that the create-drop process is happening between each test method. I am assuming that this is a time-consuming process and as such want this to only happen once before executing the tests in the application. I have attempted to do so by moving the logic into a configuration class but I get all sorts of errors using that approach.
Could someone please outline how I could achieve this?
@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration(classes = App.class)
@WebIntegrationTest
@DirtiesContext(classMode = DirtiesContext.ClassMode.AFTER_CLASS)

public abstract class AbstractDBUnitTest {

    @PersistenceUnit
    protected EntityManagerFactory entityManagerFactory;

    protected EntityManager entityManager;

    @Before
    public void setUp() throws Exception {

        //Set up datasource, connection etc..
        entityManager = entityManagerFactory.createEntityManager();
        entityManager.getTransaction().begin();

    }

    @After
    public void tearDown() throws Exception {

        //Clean up records

        EntityTransaction transaction = entityManager.getTransaction();

        if (transaction != null && transaction.isActive()) {
            if (transaction.getRollbackOnly() == true) {
                transaction.rollback();
            } else {
                transaction.commit();
            }
        }

    }
}

I can confirm that the hbm2ddl process is creating and dropping my tables once for each test class because I see this output once for every TestCase class that I execute in the application:
org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaExport  : HHH000227: Running hbm2ddl schema export
org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaExport  : HHH000230: Schema export complete


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That might explain why the president is apparently so irked by the show's joke that Steve Bannon—represented by an actor in a Grim Reaper costume—is actually the one running the show. As revealed Thursday, the "President Bannon" meme has long irked Trump, who reportedly fumed, "Did you see this crap?," to a confidante after watching the first S.N.L. cold open starring Reaper Bannon.
Given all that, we're guessing neither Trump nor his daughter Ivanka will go live from Studio 8H again anytime soon—and that's probably for the best.


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DVD Review: A Good Cast Can't Rescue THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST
Posted on September 15, 2013 by Niall Browne in Reviews
The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a film that just doesn't come together – despite its impressive cast. It's a noble failure, but a failure nonetheless.
Mira Nair's film is based on Mohsin Hamid's international bestseller and the director has lined-up an intriguing cast including Kiefer Sutherland, Kate Hudson and Liev Schreiber. They all do a serviceable job in supporting roles, but the lead is taken by Riz Ahmed, who just doesn't have the charisma to make the material work. His character arc just never feels real.
It's noble to make a post-9/11 drama from the perspective of a young Pakistani, watching how the attack on the World Trade Centre impacted the lives of real people. In the case of The Reluctant Fundamentalist , we follow Ahemd's Changez Khan, a financial analyst who moves from Pakistan to America. However his life is radically altered following the attacks. His life in America is changed when he is treated with suspicion and this alters his perception of who he is and the world around him.
I haven't read Mohsin Hamid's novel but I feel that there must be more depth to it than what Nair brings to the screen. It feels jam-packed with character and plot, taking its 2 hour-plus running time to breaking point. Sometimes books just aren't meant to be films. The supporting cast feels like window dressing, a way of making the film palatable to audiences and moneymen alike. Furthermore, they just don't feel like they're giving it their all. It's as if they all signed-on to the film so they could have a noble 9/11 film on their CVs.
Visually, The Reluctant Fundamentalist is rather flat. It doesn't have a sheen to make it feel classy. The film looks and feels like a prestige project that has been made on a budget. On paper it may seem like The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a major awards contender, but the finished product is nothing to boast about. A dud.
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In terms of historic visits Ireland has known its fair share. Barack Obama made quite a stir in his ancestral home of Moneygall. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II giggled her way through the English Market in Cork, JFK kept it low key with a cup of tea in Wexford's Kennedy homestead while Mr Regan had a pub named after him. Naturally.
The Vikings arrived unannounced, of course, while St Patrick made a rather dramatic return by sailing into Strangford Lough in County Down. When it comes to arrivals in Ireland, however, few can match that of John Newton.
Who's John Newton? On Donegal's Inishowen Peninsula, he's a household name.
Elvis Presley, Andrea Bocelli, Whitney Houston, Rod Stewart – the big voices take on the big songs and it doesn't get any bigger than Amazing Grace. Along with Auld Lang Syne, Happy Birthday and Jingle Bells, this repentant ode to God and the power of change is a song that spans the globe. In it, a wretch seeks mercy – atonement.
John Newton wasn't only the writer – he was the wretch.
In fact, during his passage back to England from Africa in 1748, Newton was so unpopular with "his crew that the captain blamed him for the violent storm which so nearly claimed their lives".
And while that storm off Donegal's coast didn't take John's life, it did change it.
During the storm that almost took his and his fellow passengers lives, Newton felt utter and complete fear and turned to God for mercy. That mercy came in the shape of Lough Swilly, a mirror of a lake between Inishowen and Fanad peninsulas in County Donegal. It was in Inishowen that the boat was repaired and the crew housed.
Happily, that sense of Swilly calm is not confined to the mid-18th Century.
"I often feel that same sense of peace and "refuge" when I walk along the banks of the lough and gaze out across the water or listen to the waves gently lapping at the shore," Ruth tells us. "No matter how busy I've been, a few moments by Lough Swilly are like taking a deep breath!" But Newton and crew wouldn't have only been pleased with the surroundings. The care and attention they received at the hands of the locals was something unique. In the intervening years that warmth has not dimmed.
Whether is was Lough Swilly, Inishowen or his salvation from the storm, Newton was a new man. From this point on he renounced his work in the slave trade, became a friend and political ally of the abolitionist William Wilberforce and of course, penned Amazing Grace.
So the next time you sing Amazing Grace, spare a thought for John Newton and remember that neither he, nor the song, would be here without the calm of Lough Swilly and the Inishowen Peninsula.
Now that's a sweet sound.
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Jo Shapcott, Kim Moore & Jennifer Lee Tsai with music from Chris Davies: 25 January 2020
Posted on December 7, 2019	by Janet Rogerson
Free event at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester on Saturday 25 January 2020 at 2.30-4.00. Everyone welcome. All areas of the Gallery are accessible and there are several parking bays on Denmark Road for disabled visitors.
Jo Shapcott
Jo Shapcott was born in London. Poems from her three award-winning collections, Electroplating the Baby (1988), Phrase Book (1992) and My Life Asleep (1998) are gathered in a selected poems, Her Book (2000). She has won a number of literary prizes including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Collection, the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the National Poetry Competition (twice). Tender Taxes, her versions of Rilke, was published in 2001. Her most recent collection, Of Mutability, was published in 2010 and won the Costa Book Award. In 2011 Jo Shapcott was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.
Kim Moore's first collection The Art of Falling (Seren, 2015) won the 2016 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. She won a Northern Writers Award in 2014, an Eric Gregory Award in 2011 and the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2010. Her pamphlet If We Could Speak Like Wolves was a winner in the 2012 Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition. She is currently a PhD candidate at Manchester Metropolitan University and is working on her second collection. Along with Clare Shaw, she is Co-Director of Kendal Poetry Festival.
Jennifer Lee Tsai
Photo credit: Suzanne Lau
Jennifer Lee Tsai is a poet, editor and critic. She was born in Bebington and grew up in Liverpool. Jennifer is a fellow of The Complete Works III and a Ledbury Poetry Critic. Her poems are featured in the anthologies Ten: Poets of the New Generation (Bloodaxe: 2017), Islands Are But Mountains: New Poetry from the UK (Platypus Press, 2019) and have been published in various magazines and journals including Oxford Poetry, The Rialto, SMOKE, Soundings, Ambit, Wild Court and Magma.
Jennifer is an Associate Editor of SMOKE magazine and a Contributing Editor to Ambit. She is currently a PhD student in Creative Writing at the University of Liverpool.
Her debut poetry pamphlet Kismet (2019) is published by ignitionpress.
Chris is a Musician, Composer, Performer, Buddhist, Hairdresser and Oudist with over thirty years experience working in the Arts, mainly with visual theatre and dance. His current projects are composing music and performing in a new adaptation of the 12th century Sufi poem 'The Conference of Birds' by Farid ud-Din Attar; he continues to perform live accompaniment for the first full length animated film ever made 'The Adventures of Prince Achmed', with a play called 'Spring Reign' about the situation in Aleppo, Syria; he is saxophonist/raver with Mr Wilson's Second Liners who play early 90's dance classics in the style of a New Orleans Brass Band, a few haircuts, transforming the mind through Buddhist study and practice, and sound technician for Poets and Players. For more information please look here ~ http://www.musichris.co.uk
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J O Morgan and Maria Stepanova with Sasha Dugdale (translator) with music from Phil France: 22 February 2020
Posted on January 6, 2020	by Janet Rogerson
Free event at the Whitworth Art Gallery on Saturday 22 February at 2.30-4.00. Everyone welcome. All areas of the Gallery are accessible and there are several parking bays on Denmark Road for disabled visitors.
J O Morgan
J. O. Morgan is the author of six books, each a single, book-length poem. His works have been shortlisted for both the Forward Prize and the T.S.Eliot Prize, with his most recent book Assurances (2018) also winning the Costa Award for Poetry. His forthcoming work, The Martian's Regress (due March 2020) is underpinned by aspects of ecology and migration, as well as the long-term future of the human race.
Maria Stepanova with Sasha Dugdale (translator)
Maria Stepanova is a poet, essayist, journalist and the author of ten poetry collections and two books of essays. She has been awarded several Russian and international literary awards (including the prestigious Andrey Bely Prize and Joseph Brodsky Fellowship). Her book In Memory of Memory is a book-length study in the field of cultural history. It won Russia's Big Book Award in 2018 and will be published in English by New Directions in the US and Fitzcarraldo in the UK in 2020. Her collection of poems War of the Beasts and the Animals will be published in English by Bloodaxe in 2020.
Sasha Dugdale
Sasha Dugdale has published four collections of poems with Carcanet, most recently Joy in 2017 which was a PBS Choice. The title poem won the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem in 2016. She is a Russian translator and is currently working on translations of the Russian poet Maria Stepanova to be published by Bloodaxe and Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2020. She is former editor of Modern Poetry in Translation and poet-in-residence at St John's College, Cambridge (2018-2020).
Phil France
Originally from West Yorkshire, but now resident in Manchester, composer, bassist and producer Phil France is probably best known as a key collaborator alongside Jason Swinscoe in the Cinematic Orchestra, where he co-wrote, arranged and produced on classic albums including Everyday, Man With The Movie Camera, Ma Fleur and also the triple award winning soundtrack for The Crimson Wing nature documentary. In 2013 France released his debut solo album, The Swimmer (GOND016), an emotive, epic record influenced by the great second wave of film composers including John Carpenter and Vangelis, as well as minimalist composers such as Steve Reich and Philip Glass.
Five years later France presents the follow up, the enigmatically titled, Circle, which again represents a very personal journey for the artist. For France the album is an extension of work he began on The Swimmer. A process he has described as: " blocks of sound containing intricate minimal arpeggiated patterns and electronic textures that develop and shift in subtle, original and melodic ways. The trancelike quality, mood and electronic character of title track Circle led France to think of the circular patterns which eventually became a potent concept for the album as for France "The Circle is infinite – During the process of making this record, I have been constantly reminded that nothing ever stays the same and that all is in constant flux. The challenge for me is always to respond positively, be aware of and seize the opportunity for progression constant change provides" And it is that sense of movement and flow, but also calm and beauty that permeates Circle and make it such a worthy successor to The Swimmer.
The Guardian: 'Phil France's Circle sees the former Cinematic Orchestra bassist and composer creating a series of simple, unfolding minimal pieces, all arpeggiated synths and warm oscillator drones. The results sound, variously, like Vangelis discovering acid house, or Mike Oldfield mutating into Nils Frahm, or New Order's Elegia transformed into a minimalist symphony'.
Gilles Peterson: 'A brilliant album'.
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Workshop with J O Morgan
We are pleased to host a workshop with J O Morgan on Saturday 22 February 2020, 10.30-12.30 at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.
The fee is £20. Please email davidborrott@btinternet.com to confirm a place. Once your place has been confirmed payment can be made by cheque or by using the PayPal button below:
Workshop Payment £20
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Workshop with Jo Shapcott: 25 January 2020
THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULL
Workshop with Jo Shapcott on Saturday 25 January 2020, 10.30-12.30 at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.
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Our competition is now closed. Good luck to all who entered. And thanks to everyone who helped us spread the word.
We are pleased to announce the 8th poetry competition run by Poets & Players, one of Manchester's leading organisers of poetry and music events.
Our judge for 2020 is Sinéad Morrissey
Sinéad Morrissey has published six collections of poetry: There Was Fire in Vancouver (1996); Between Here and There (2002); The State of the Prisons (2005); Through the Square Window (2009); Parallax (2013) and On Balance (2017). Her awards include the Irish Times Poetry Now Award (2009, 2013) and the T S Eliot Prize (2013). In 2016 she received the E M Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. On Balance was awarded the Forward Prize in 2017. She has served as Belfast Poet Laureate (2013-2014) and is currently Director of the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts at Newcastle University.
What previous judges have said about the Poets & Players Competition:
When Poets & Players asked me to judge their competition I happily agreed. It's an organisation I have long admired, from its earliest days with the inspiring founder Linda Chase, to today's impressive incarnation in the splendid Whitworth Gallery. (Pascale Petit, 2018)
Poets & Players is one of the most significant and impressive poetry organisations in the country: the quality of the readings it puts on, its presence in the city is remarkable, so I'm delighted to be part of it in judging this competition. (Michael Symmons Roberts, 2017)
What was electrifying about this year's entries … was not just the wide and eclectic range of subject matters … but also the range of forms and tones, the many tongues and registers that together created a resonating and distinct entry of poetry. (Jackie Kay, 2016)
What a fabulously organised competition… One tries to dissuade people from the idea of competitions but if you're going to have one have it like this. (Paul Muldoon, 2015)
It was actually really fun judging the competition because you get the sense of what is happening in poetry right now … it was fascinating to take the temperature, as it were, of contemporary poetry. I'd like to thank Poets and Players organisation for running the competition, for wanting to run the competition, but also in general for the work that they do in promoting poetry in Manchester and the broader area, it's a commendable organisation and I'm delighted to be associated with it. (Vona Groarke, 2014)
This competition was scrupulously organised, and I loved the fact that the anonymity of the entries allowed each poem to speak for itself. (Jacob Polley, 2013)
POETS & PLAYERS PRIZE
Sinéad Morrissey will read ALL poems. All poems will be judged anonymously.
1st Prize: £600
2nd Prize: £200
3rd Prize: £100
Commended poets at the judge's discretion.
Closing Date: Tuesday 21 January 2020
Winners will be informed by Tuesday 17 March 2020 and will be invited to read alongside Sinéad Morrissey at the prize giving ceremony on the afternoon of Saturday 4 April 2020 at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. If you have not been notified by 17 March 2020, we are afraid you have not been successful.
RULES AND OTHER INFORMATION
The competition is open to anyone over the age of 16, except for members of the Poets & Players committee.
Poems must be in English, typewritten in single space, font size 12. Please begin each poem on a new page but multiple online entries should be contained in a single document.
Poems can be on any subject, in any style or form, but must be the author's own original work. They should not have appeared anywhere before, online or in print. Please do not submit poems that are currently under consideration elsewhere.
Maximum line length for individual poems is 40 lines (excluding title). Please do not include photographs or illustrations.
No changes can be made to poems once submitted and we regret that we are unable to provide feedback or make any refunds.
You may submit as many poems as you wish, accompanied by the appropriate payment and application form/s.
Please note that all competition entries must reach us by Tuesday 21 January 2020, (online entries may be submitted up to 12 midnight on this date (GMT); postal entries must be received in our mailbox no later than Tuesday 21 January 2020). Entries arriving after this date will not be considered.
ENTER BY POST
ALL entries must be accompanied by a completed application form (see the link below):
Competition Application Form 2020
Please post the completed Competition Application form and poems to: Poets & Players Poetry Competition, Poetry Dene, 16 Clifton Street, Bury, Lancashire, BL9 5DY.
If you wish to receive confirmation of your entry please enclose a prepaid envelope.
Poems must be printed on separate, numbered sheets, word processed (or typed) and clearly legible (single spaced and font size 12).
Please do not include your name or other identifying information on the same page as the poem/s. All poems will be judged anonymously.
You may enter as many poems as you wish but please ensure you add all poem titles to the application form/s.
Entry fee is £4 per poem or 3 for £10. Please do not send cash. Postal entries must be paid by cheque or postal order (only email entries may use PayPal). Please make payable to 'Poets & Players' and send together with your poem/s and Competition Application form to the address above.
ENTER BY EMAIL
Please email the completed Competition Application form and poems to
P-Pcomp@mail.com All email entries will be acknowledged.
Please ensure that all poems are sent as a single attachment and not in the body of the email. Please use your name as the title of the document (poems and application form can be in the same document but must be on separate pages). If you are submitting more than one poem you should include them all in the same attachment but please ensure pages are numbered and start each poem on a new page. Single spaced and font size 12. Please save documents as doc, docx or PDF.
Entry fee is £4 per poem or 3 for £10. Email entries must be paid by PayPal. IMPORTANT please include the PayPal reference number on the application form.
Single poem £4
Three poems £10
CHECKLIST: Completed Application Form; poems on separate sheets (with no identifying information); cheque or postal order made payable to 'Poets & Players' (if submitting by post); PayPal reference (if submitting by email).
Entrants retain copyright of their poem, however, we would hope to receive permission to make a video recording of the winners reading at the awards ceremony for our website, and to publish the winning poems on our website and/or in the Whitworth Art Gallery for one year after the competition.
Workshop with Michael Schmidt: 23 November 2019
Posted on September 27, 2019	by Janet Rogerson
This workshop is now full 🙂
As part of the Carcanet Press 50th Anniversary celebrations we are pleased to host a poetry and publication workshop with Michael Schmidt on Saturday 23 November 2019, 10.30-12.30 at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.
Michael Schmidt is a founder-editor of Carcanet Press (b. 1969) and editor of PN Review (b. 1972). He is a university teacher, literary historian, anthologist and poet.
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Mimi Khalvati, Joe Dunthorne and Lauren Garland with music from Ask My Bull: 23 November 2019
Posted on August 30, 2019	by Janet Rogerson
This free event is part of the Carcanet 50th anniversary celebrations. It is at the Whitworth Art Gallery at 2.30-4.00. Everyone welcome
Mimi Khalvati
Mimi Khalvati has published eight collections with Carcanet Press, including The Meanest Flower, shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize, and Child: New and Selected Poems 1991-2011, a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. A new collection of sonnets, Afterwardness, is due in October 2019. She is a founder of the Poetry School and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Photo credit Tom Medwell
Joe Dunthorne was born and grew up in Swansea. His debut novel, Submarine, was translated into sixteen languages and adapted for film by Richard Ayoade. His second, Wild Abandon, won the Encore Award. His latest is The Adulterants. A collection of his poems, O Positive, was published earlier this year by Faber & Faber.
Lauren Garland
Lauren Garland is a student on the MA programme in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her recent work explores friendship and visual art. Lauren's poetry has been published in magazines including Butcher's Dog and Poetry Salzburg Review. She was commended in the 2018 McLellan Poetry Prize and her collaboration with composer Aaron Breeze won the 2019 Rosamond Prize. Lauren is on Twitter as @GarlandLauren
Ask My Bull
Ask My Bull are a musical chimera that combines the visceral energy of punk, the danceability of drum'n'bass and the intriguing nuance of jazz: AskMy Bull is delightfully hyperactive and cinematically epic …
Beautiful chaos or a bittersweet play-fight? Ask My Bull birthed CREATURE, their first full-length album. It was released on the world in June 2019 and barely contains the energy of the band's journey between man and beast.
Always primed for festival season, Ask My Bull's has rocked many of the best, including Shambala, Boomtown, Beat-herder, Kendal Calling, Eden, Kelburn Garden Party, Nozstock and One Tribe/Audio Farm.
They provided the soundtrack for Vewn's viral video 'Cat City', which currently has almost 2 million views on YouTube. The collaboration later aired on Adult Swim, with the band's track 'Army of Swans' providing the soundtrack to Vewn's short 'Mask Dog'. The band even created a haunting live score for the play Oct.O.Pus … who knows what they will be getting up to next …
The band has recently completed their line up, adding a second sax player and are excited to write new material and gig in support of their album.
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Technology today is forcing significant changes in the ways we communicate. Some technologies, like artificial intelligence, improve efficiencies (speed, quality, style) in our daily lives that many of us likely don't even notice are happening. Similar to any technology that's new to an industry, AI has caused some skepticism, and I've witnessed that the media industry in particular has been prone to these beliefs that AI is replacing jobs. But in an era where unique and real storytelling is valued more than ever, AI can be a powerful tool for publishers, brands and anyone else who aims to create engaging content in a sustainable, consistent and scalable way.
In the early days of AI, it was perceived by many as a complex technology. Because of its highly technical nature, developers and engineers were among the few who fully understood how to use AI and how it could be applied in the real world. In the media industry, new technologies are traditionally eased into newsrooms -- from CMS tools to analytics and performance tracking. But change can be scary, and many live with the "if it's not broken, don't fix it" mentality. Adjusting everyday processes that have been the foundation of jobs for years can seem daunting and, even worse, less efficient.
Everyday AI is gaining traction in content creation processes as creators become more savvy and open-minded about how this technology can help them tell great stories, like turning text into video, for example. Larger media companies like Reuters (Full disclosure: Reuters is a Wibbitz customer) recognize the benefits of leveraging AI for video creation, enabling the company to produce video at the same pace as editorial content.
Beyond text-to-video, we're seeing a lot of AI technologies used in data-rich domains like weather, sports and finance. Companies like Automated Insights and Graphiq are able to ingest a large amount of data, understand the context, identify key story points and generate text articles or infographics. Across mediums, AI streamlines the storytelling process by eliminating the time-consuming, non-creative tasks that burden creators and it's becoming a key tool for storytellers to consistently hit the right tone and keep pace with demand.
Despite these benefits, AI carries a negative stigma that it's going to replace humans altogether. However, it's changing the way content creators work and for the better. Without disputing the notion that AI reduces or eliminates many everyday tasks, it's important to understand it from a more positive point of view: It's making workflows more efficient and helping to drive new media formats.
AI is now so sophisticated that it can do a significant portion of the legwork -- as in detecting what is trending and happening around us -- and it sets up its human allies for success. AI completes these tasks at a scale that humans are incapable of, but then storytellers have the level of detail, cultural sensitivity and personality that brings the content to life. Merged together, this process makes storytellers better at their jobs and proves AI as more of a complement than a replacement for modern storytelling.
Similar to other breakthrough developments that we've seen over the past few decades (e.g., smartphones, virtual reality, even facial recognition, to name a few), giving up partial control to technology is essential to the way we'll interact with one another in the future. It's unrealistic to believe that in the next decade we'll be living in a fully machine-operated society, but it's fair to say that related technologies will be a big part of the way we communicate, consume information and more.
If there's one thing we know for certain, it's that AI is not the last transformational technology coming to storytelling, as we're already seeing progression with virtual and augmented reality. It's the creative people who see the world differently, who are brave enough to embrace these technologies that will see the positive impact on their lives and their jobs.


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Accueil » Livres canadiens » The Canadian Horror Film
The Canadian Horror Film
Terror of the Soul
Dir. : Gina Freitag and André Loiselle
From the cheaply made "tax-shelter" films of the 1970s to the latest wave of contemporary "eco-horror," Canadian horror cinema has rarely received much critical attention. Gina Freitag and André Loiselle rectify that situation in The Canadian Horror Film with a series of thought-provoking reflections on Canada's "terror of the soul," a wasteland of docile damnation and prosaic pestilence where savage beasts and mad scientists rub elbows with pasty suburbanites, grumpy seamen, and baby-faced porn stars. Featuring chapters on Pontypool, Ginger Snaps, 1970s slasher films, Quebec horror, and the work of David Cronenberg, among many others, The Canadian Horror Film unearths the terrors hidden in the recesses of the Canadian psyche. It examines the highlights of more than a century of Canadian horror filmmaking and includes an extensive filmography to guide both scholars and enthusiasts alike through this treacherous terrain.
2015 9781442628502
Anglais Broché / souple 6 x 9 29.95 $ CA 302


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Black Is the New Black – SBMA EXHIBIT TRAVELS TO THE 1980S, DOES NOT FIND NEON
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Think of the 1980s and art and what comes to mind? Possibly Nagel, neon colors, jagged diagonals and geometry, paint splashes. Maybe the squiggles of Keith Haring, or the attack of Basquiat, or Jeff Koons' kitsch. But for Julie Joyce, who curated this new show at the Museum of Art, it was a time of excitement for galleries, of a new trust in materials and finance, and lots of black. "Totally 80s: Gifts to the Permanent Collection" only nods to the clichéd idea of the decade in its title. There's one example of neon. But there's lots of black. (There's more, too, in the other show she helped set up: the photos of John Divola, in the gallery around the corner).
Recent exhibitions from the Museum's permanent collections have been too much of a muchness, with too much repetition of recently shown work. But "Totally '80s" avoids that, thanks to recent gifts from the Broad Art Foundation in L.A. and Laura-Lee W. Woods and Robert J. Woods, Jr. There are only two familiar pieces here: Charles Arnoldi's rough-hewn and brutal wood canvas, "Landfisher" and Al Held's "Brughes II" that used to hang in the atrium, neon hoops and green building girders — an example of the brief "neo geo" movement.


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Overall, I did pretty good here on my blog this week. I am trying to make a conscious effort to post more and participate more in 2011 than I have in my previous years as a book blogger. It's hard to believe that I'm going into my 3rd year of blogging this year! Crazy! I'm definitely looking forward to making 2011 a wonderful year as far as my blog is concerned.
I cleaned up my blog a little bit last weekend – trying to get my 2010 things into more permanent locations and get my 2011 goals/challenges zeroed out to start all over again. I spend way too much time on the internet, and yet, not enough time on my blog! I hope to be able really get this blog into tip-top shape. You might be seeing some layout changes in the coming months, as I'm itching for something new (and yet dragging my feet because of the time it will take, and the insecurities I have with changing anything too much). Hope everyone has another great week this week!


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Cirencester Town Station platform, c.1960
A view of the platform at Cirencester Town station, Gloucestershire, c.1960, showing a railbus (W799XX) at the far end.
The station opened in May 1841 and closed in April 1964. The original station building was granted Grade II listed status in 1971
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1960 Cirencester Gloucestershire Station


BENITO BEN BAGSIK ALINA Age 68, of Haleiwa, Hawaii, passed away October 14, 2012 in Wahiawa. Born February 24, 1944 in San Andres, Malate, Manila, Philippines. Retired from Turtle Bay. He is survived by son, Jason (Sherie) Alina; daughter, Jeannette (Gary) Cabagua; 6 grandchildren, brother, Efren B. Alina; sisters, Grace A. Russell, Letty Alina, Dulce A. Roley. Visitation 9 a.m. Friday (November 9) at Mililani Mortuary Makai Chapel; Program 11:30 a.m. Prayer Svc. 12 Noon. Burial 12:30 p.m. at Mililani Memorial Park. Casual Attire. Flowers Welcome.


CERTIFICATION ; The majority of these are part of a huge collection of over 1000 autographs in around a dozen large books all obtained in person (between 1990-1999 mostly in the Manchester area) by husband and wife Tony & Kath (many autographs are personally dedicated / dated to them with messages of thanks from the artists). The majority of signatures are of the major pop-groups of the period (including many Brit-Pop) signed at the various Manchester music venues (The Apollo / Nymex Arena / The Academy / G-Mex Centre and The University Union) and also at festivals (the T-Festival Strathclyde 1995-97). From the notes / dedications within the books and the difficult accessibility into such premium venues & concerts, we believe the couple must have worked in positions that gave / allowed them back-stage access during the period. IAA. AFTAL Dealer No13 and UACC RD Memorabilia UK COA.
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