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The Father says today, I am your deliverance. I am not merely saving you–I AM your salvation. What that means is that I don't make up My mind on a case-by-case basis whether or not I am going to be there for you. I am your God, and I never change. I am your Healing. I am your Deliverance. I am your provision. I can be nothing other than your All in All. My default posture toward you is yes, and nothing other than your personal choices determine whether or not you enjoy that privilege. Be adaptable. Be flexible. Be willing to be change in My pocket that I might spend you on the initiatives of My kingdom on the earth. Let every decision you make in life be in deference to My Lordship moment by moment and day by day. Allow Me to live out My life in you and through you in fundamental ways, and you will see a radical shift in the level of blessing you will know and enjoy.
As you come to know Me as your salvation and as your Way, Truth and Life, things will fundamentally change for you. The water table of My blessing day by day will get higher and higher. You will find yourself moving from glory to glory and not reeling from one catastrophe to another. I never intended for your life to be a roller coaster careening from one problem situation to another. That isn't how I operate. I am a good God, and I have no other plan for you than to taste daily of My goodness. Reject every other perspective and embrace the leading of My Spirit as I mold and shape you into that fit vessel for My purpose. This is your destiny, and this is your portion–to be utilized in My kingdom and to reap the rewards of all things being added because you cooperated with My plan.
I accept this Word and I receive it with gladness.


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Vatic Note: One of the items in here that caught my attention was the write up on the feeling brain. It explained why the powers that be use "FEAR" to control and manipulate us into doing their agenda. I am going to speculate a bit here, based on the results of my research, I would say that the reason corporations do not see the value to them of the triune brain, is because they believe that serfdom/slavery eliminates the need for advanced brain development to achieve capital growth.
Instead they believe slaves will serve them, the more dumbed down they are and thus, the need for technological advancements will be negligible. They already control those who are scientists and innovators to a degree, so they don't need any more. Rather they just need to educate their "own" as they have in the past and it has worked for them. That is why they set up secret societies to indoctrinate those with such skills and abilities. Generally, they are also their children.
As for society and keeping it under control, I can see where they might truly believe the psychotropic drugs they use to control such individuals, are enough to retain control over those they deem to be a threat. That would be indivduals with an independant nature and thinking which is where change usually comes from.
Unfortunately those on psychotropic drugs have committed murder with a negative impact on society. But then I don't believe the powers that be give one rats butt about the well being of society. If they did, they would not have gone to the Tavistock Group to coordinate a program for determining and manipulating the mass psychology of masses of humanity, which they did many years ago.
We did a blog on them almost in the beginning of our blog, about 6 years ago, and that opened my eyes to the efforts these fascists make to actually do the opposition of what this article recommends. This should be incorporated in any homeschooling efforts and that would save the nation and our culture.
http://www.reptilianagenda.com/brain/br121804y.shtml
By Jane Wardlow Prettyman, Reptilian Agenda,
IBM and the media ask:
"How can we make computers as smart as humans?"
The real question is:
How can we make humans as smart as humans?
First off, humans have not just one brain but three.
Headlines called it "The Brain's Last Stand" and "Man vs. Machine" as chess champion Garry Kasparov met IBM's Deep Blue.
Well, man and brain "lost." What does that mean?
IBM spoke of computers "catching up to humans" and "becoming as smart as humans." The twain between humans and computers may indeed meet as computers smart-up and humans dumb-down. The unasked question is: how can we make humans as smart as humans?
Kasparov said he wanted to "defend the integrity of chess against the scientific idea of splitting everything into pure numbers." A noble aim, yet what needs defense is not chess but the capacity for comprehensive human thinking. This requires education of more of the brain than the "thinking cap" which Deep Blue glorifies.
The computer's talent for computation corresponds to the mere topmost third of the brain, the neocortex. Now the neocortex is certainly important. It allows us to speak and to plan and to "fly forward in thought," to make tools and weapons and games like chess. But there are two other major intelligences. They don't speak in words but they express themselves eloquently and are intrinsically part of our overall human intelligence.
Let's step back and look at the whole picture. The human brain contains three major stages of evolution layered one over another--from reptiles (R-complex, routines for survival) to mammals (limbic system, affection, nursing the young) to humans (left and right hemispheres of the neocortex, prefrontal lobes, verbal ability, planning, "thinking").
The scientific research on the triune brain was well-established in the 1980's by Dr. Paul McLean at the NIH Laboratory for Brain Evolution and Behavior in Bethesda, Md. Dr. Elaine de Beauport recently published "Three Faces of the Mind" based on McLean's work--with educational applications.
The background for this article derives from my work with Dr. de Beauport for several years in New York as she developed educational exercises for all three brains. These techniques of self-care now prepare nurses entering high-stress positions at Mt. Sinai Hospital in NYC and other major urban hospitals. Elaine is also a member of a UN panel looking into triune education in relation to peace.
But how many of you ever heard of the triune brain?
A basic understanding of our three brain systems--taught from childhood onward--would have enormous impact on our lives. Exercises for practicing their orchestration could save marriages, families and relationships, reduce crime, improve health, benefit parenting, enhance life satisfaction. How to deal with anger, how to fight with your lover without hurting each other: Did we miss the briefing? Why did we never learn these simple techniques until we spent a small fortune on therapy?
"If it's in time, it's education. If it's too late, it's therapy."
Our young assumptions said the older parts of the brain were "unconscious" and "uneducable."
The fact is that the older brains are indeed educable--they can learn. But educating the limbic emotional brain, in particular, is resisted by our dominantly neocortical ("thinking") culture which tends to be organized according to logic and separations, whereas the limbic brain is organized according to feeling and affection. We don't dismiss the value of the thinking brain (we couldn't write this without it), but we do challenge its exclusivity. We want to bring the sister and brother brains back into the fold.
The Feeling Brain
The limbic system or "feeling brain" is located just below the neocortex and is essentially a chemical-hormonal system of organs that govern affection, feeling/emotion, short-term memory, smell, oral activity, pleasure/pain, fight-or-flight, mood, and sexuality. That's one heck of a list of things we're not taking very good care of.
Because the limbic brain controls the autonomic nervous system, health is profoundly affected by feeling. We may think we're unemotional when we think but all "thoughts" are neuronally run through the limbic region and influenced by its emotional activities. Well-ordered boardrooms are disrupted daily by the unpredictable limbic brain. Kasparov himself, with his colorful outbursts, is a perfect example of the limbic style coming to the surface of thinking.
We hear frequent reports of children ages 5-12 and older committing cold-blooded murders with no sense of emotional consequence. It happens that the nerve connections between the thinking brain and the feeling brain (giving rise to emotional consequence and empathy) are not fully formed until puberty or even later in adolescence.
Before these connections are complete, the raw curiosity of the neocortex that wonders "what would it be like to kill?" may not yet be tempered by the caring limbic affection center. The imagined consequences are not yet felt. The relative lateness of these links in the child's brain--coupled with unaffectionate and sleepy parenting that abandons the child within the same room--may help us understand the lack of even rudimentary empathy in some children.
In the media event with Deep Blue, the same emotional part of his brain that gave Kasparov's chess game unpredictable brilliance also made him throw his head in his hands. His limbic behavior was displayed in a tantrum, a sign of weakness in machine terms--an embarrassment for the emotional brain that makes us, in the context of machine-like perfection, not want to deal with it.
IBM didn't count on Garry's moody blow-up, but generations of judgment of "emotionalism" brought one primary if silent conclusion: The computer was more "reliable" than the human in ways that are valued by corporations and workplaces. All of IBM's efforts were said to be for "the benefit of human beings." One might ask which human beings IBM means.
Kasparov may have choked, that is, been defeated by his own feeling brain, possibly because he's more used to playing humans than machines. He had no limbic-feeling "opposite" with which to interplay. Faced with the limbic vacuum in Deep Blue, Kasparov went a little paranoid. Paranoia is (loosely speaking) the other side of empathy: a combination of thought (from the neocortex) and fear (from the limbic).
These qualities--from paranoia to empathy--define the range of our evolutionary potential. The limbic brain is the place to go to work.
Then there's the perspective of IBM. When one considers the uneducated limbic system's messy addictions and unruly behavior, one can easily see that computer labor, not having limbic brains at all, would be far more efficient than human labor. Much less trouble.
Here's a paranoid thought: One wonders whether the general gist of the idea--not conscious, of course--is to keep humans under-educated in their emotional intelligence (not far from "pregnant and barefoot") so that corporations can complain about "problems" with humans like drug abuse or illness among workers.
Then they can throw up their hands and reach to "intelligent" (compliant, dependable, no back-talk) computers (or people who think like computers) to replace human workers. Everybody will understand. We have to be efficient to compete, and the emotional part of human beings is not (certainly not in its uneducated state) efficient for their uses.
That's reaching but something similar may be happening by default.
A panel from the IBM Website:
How accurate a portrait they (unknowingly) drew when they placed "the team behind the technology" inside the technology, while Kasparov's nose and mouth (two limbic organs) hover softly in the background.
The conflicts of interest between the social/corporate establishment and the limbic emotional brain are multiple and they are serious. One symptom of resistance was the annoyed employer reaction to ADA-mandated accommodations of psychiatric illnesses in the workplace. That's a big one.
But what if we reduced psychiatric illness by respecting the limbic-feeling brain in the first place? Cost-cutting HMO's won't help us much with therapy to repair the damage. Education is our only hope.
Business (a good thing in moderation) and our society that thrives on business are up against a big question: Will we accept feeling as a form of intelligence and value that intelligence enough to educate it?
A Crocodile in the Sun
The third but not least of our three "minds" makes its home way down deep in the oldest evolutionary structure in brain. It sits on top of the brainstem and it's ancient but not a fossil. It's alive and active in quiet and disruptive ways. It is called the R-complex and has come to be known as the "reptilian brain" to describe the stage of evolution this intelligence is--still--responsible for dealing with.
The reptilian brain is quite a performer. It gives rise to our ability to mimic, imitate, repeat, accumulate, build. It organizes routes, routines, habits, patterns, arts, rituals, religions, bureaucracies, governments, and institutions. These all have limbic and neocortical input, too, but they all start in this brain and are preserved here.
The reptilian brain makes sure that what we accomplished in evolution is preserved intact. These are the safe routes found over the years of one's life and safeguarded from generation to generation.
Routines and rituals define and preserve lines of power and order. Most business activities and money transactions are reptilian. Efficient reptilian routines get the job done and increase productivity. Henry Ford's assembly line (repetition in motion) was a reptilian invention. Automobile traffic is the reptile on wheels.
It is a very powerful, sometimes explosive, little brain. Territoriality arises from the reptilian brain and makes us touchy about our "space." When our territories or routines are disturbed, we can strike out in irritation or violence. We curse at the car that cuts into our lane. We snarl at loved ones for "silly" reasons that are not at all silly to the reptilian brain. We start gang turf rumbles and full-scale wars.
When happy, this is a very beautiful little brain. It arranges flowers. It goes to the beach. It likes to be comfortable in a favorite spot, like a crocodile in the sun.
The reptilian brain's talent for imitation was itself imitated in the structure of Deep Blue. Again, just as IBM glorified the neocortex's most limited talent (computation), they selected the most simple-minded skill of the reptilian brain (copying). This was done by means of programming Deep Blue with thousands of previous chess games and strategies. Data retrieval from a massive library of copies joined the most mechanical talent of the neocortex to produce Deep Blue's chess challenge to Kasparov.
A dubious achievement at best.
Humans have the capacity for "data retrieval" from millions of years of evolution in our own triune brain. The evolutionary organs within our skulls unfold a roadmap to our history of facing the unknown, prevailing and loving. These are what intelligence is for.
The "evolution" of technology is not nearly so ecological. Technology leaves itself in pieces on scrap heaps, unremembered, abandoned for the new. The triune brain remembers everything, all the way back to the era before the origin of the human species. It makes us relive the stages of evolution again and again, so we'll never forget the skills it took to get here and go on from here together.
Given how many wonderful things the two deeper brains do, one wonders what the neo ("new") cortex does except make trouble. Of course the neocortex does some great things, but (chiefly because of its verbal ability), it is powerful enough (valued by society) to effectively suppress the other two brains, thinking of them as "emotional" and judging them as "irrational" or "unconscious."
It's a little dictatorship inside our heads. That's a problem.
(Would Deep Blue think it was a problem?)
When IBM highlighted the educability of Deep Blue, their PR team deftly shifted public focus from the human priority to the priority of the machine. Human qualities--the term "Deep," for example--were assigned to the machine, while machine-like qualities were assigned to Kasparov, such as whether he could calculate as fast as Deep Blue.
The news media, by and large, followed IBM's advertising plan. But facing off Blue's number-crunching ability with only one-third of the human brain was disingenuous and misleading. We were focused by a grandiose PR event entirely on improving the intelligence of machines. Meanwhile, educational neglect of two complete brain systems in human beings is one of the major causes of the broad failure of education in our culture.
Public schools are a chaos of the ignored--and therefore ignorant--triune brain. This neglect contributes to the failure of culture itself in individual human failures and social unrest because we don't know how to orchestrate these highly active but unskilled "brains."
Cocaine abuse, for example, may be (in part) an attempt to replicate pleasure chemicals produced naturally inside the brain--when the limbic-feeling brain is educated and stimulated, as it can be. The boredom is deep. Manic workouts in health clubs aren't enough. The natural hormones flow in the process of relating with others and being affected by other human beings, not just machines. The human interplay is the potent limbic stimulation.
Issues like race and adultery dominate the news--those are limbic-affectionate subjects in a struggle with our "thoughts." We think we're talking about morality but it's also about feeling. Often we find the thinking brain is bollixing the limbic feeling process, hardly allowing the flow and forcing extremism. We're afraid of "losing control." We're certainly likely to lose control if our emotional brains are uneducated from the beginning of life.
By "educated" we mean (from the Greek) "led out, drawn out," played with, moved, loved, affected. Play and affection are the ways the limbic brain learns.
"Play" means "at play." It is free and spontaneous. Dr. MacLean has shown that play stimulates limbic brain development in children, enhances those empathic connections and sociability, and doesn't stop with childhood. Dolphins are models of playfulness--and of affectionate intelligence. Play is not the same thing as sport, although spectator sports have largely supplanted play in humans, as has media entertainment.
But play can run amok. The Sixties were, in a sense, a limbic decade, and the mixed results of the Sixties might be attributed to the non-educated limbic brain that binged on drugs and sexuality. It was also a great decade (non-violence was a contribution), but it could have been greater. It goes to show you what can happen when under-educated intelligence rises to the surface of history.
Will investment in the triune brain ever be seen to be in IBM's (or any company's) interests? Someday soon the evidence will be obvious to stockholders that the corporate bottom line can grow with the education of the whole human being. Already, some CEO's are realizing it would cost less to educate the limbic and reptilian brains than it now costs not to educate them.
If IBM spent as much money promoting the whole human brain as they spent on programming Deep Blue, a start would be made toward improving not just computer intelligence (which is helpful as an electronic tool) but the fullness of human intelligence which is helpful for red-blooded living.
source: http://www.americanreview.us

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India Calling: What it's like to broadcast cricket in a country with a billion fans
Date: February 28, 2017 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell
Ahmedabad 2011 – The crowd after India beat Australia in the World Cup quarter-final
As a sports broadcaster, very few things can surpass commentating cricket in India
In more than two decades at the ABC I was privileged, and lucky, to go to multiple Olympic, Paralympic and Commonwealth Games and cover world championships in numerous sports.
But commentating cricket was my greatest passion. And commentating in India was always at the top of the list. I was fortunate to broadcast three Test series there – 2001, 2004 and 2008 – along with the 2011 World Cup.
For each Test series I worked alongside my great mate, Jim Maxwell, the man whose voice was the soundtrack of the Australian summer.
Together we got to experience a cricket mad nation in all its various guises.
We did so each time in the company of the great Harsha Bhogle, one of nature's true gentlemen who carries rock star status in India and has become over the years one of ABC Grandstand's listeners' favourites.
India, as a country, is a total assault on the senses – sight, sound, taste and smell are all put to the test. The latter not always in the most pleasant of ways.
One morning in Chennai, Jim and I shared a taxi to the ground with renowned News Limited cricket journalist, Robert Craddock.
Unfortunately, 'Crash' was not feeling on top of the world having contracted a stomach bug. Breakfast that day consisted of a few slices of dry toast.
The M A Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai has the Buckingham Canal running alongside it. While sounding regal it is anything but. It is effectively an open sewer flowing directly outside the main gates. Upon alighting from the taxi we were hit full force with the stench. Topped by an already hot and humid start to the day, sadly Crash's breakfast reappeared.
Each afternoon around the tea break when the wind changes direction and comes in off the sea the canal's contents assaults the olfactory nerve. At times the stench has you almost dry wrenching.
The infamous 'Buckingham Canal' at Chennai
India is a country of the unexpected.
Whilst walking towards the airport terminal in Delhi one trip we were amazed to see a cow walk up to the electronic sliding doors and saunter inside.
On another occasion, driving pre-dawn out to Mumbai airport we passed a naked body with a small sheet covering the head by the side of the road. It was a sobering sight.
Often when you think India, you think people. The streets teem with them. And wherever you see an Indian, cricket is not far away. In alleyways, on streets, in parks, the game is played with fervour.
The famous maidan in Mumbai, a massive open space, has hundreds of men and boys playing pick-up games from sunrise to sunset. It is where Sachin Tendulkar spent much of his youth.
One of the great challenges of broadcasting from India lies in the technical side of things. Having a broadcast line installed is one thing. Getting it to work, and keeping working, is often an exercise in frustration.
On each tour of India it was an issue and on numerous occasions we were forced to call the game on either mobile or landline phones.
On the opening day at Kolkata in 2001 we called the first two sessions on various phones. A task made more difficult by the fact we were commentating from an open balcony literally amongst the massive crowd.
Commentating on the phone, Kolkata 2001
At Nagpur in 2008, we spent almost the entirety of the opening day calling on our mobiles. Eventually, well after the tea break, we were informed what the problem was. We had been given the wrong phone number to pass onto our master control in Sydney which was supposed to dial us in, and we could not dial out as they had placed an international bar on the line at the local exchange.
We queried the technicians who kept milling around our box for five hours about those possibilities but we were assured on each occasion that neither of those issues were the root cause and the problem lay with our equipment.
And when I say technicians, I mean multiple. Sometimes they seem to multiply like the biblical loaves and fishes. It was not uncommon to have as many as five in the box – one seemingly working on the problem and the other for watching the action, if not outwardly barracking for the home side.
We used to often wonder if the constant line issues were because of the technicians' desire to resolve things slowly so they could watch the game from our box.
Every time we were forced to call on a phone our head of department back in Sydney had kittens as he worried about those up the management food chain potentially wanting us to abandon the call in favour of local programs back home due to the inferior sound of the broadcast.
Somewhat oddly, many listeners rang the ABC, to say how much more authentic the call sounded and it fitted more with their idea of India.
One of the great features of the ABC's coverage from India was our scorer, the incomparable Mr Subramanian.
He 'found' Jim and Tim Lane when the national broadcaster commentated a series for the first time from the sub-continent in 1998.
I must admit listening back home to that series I was never sure whether he existed or he was merely a 'prop' that Jim and Tim were referring to in order to enhance the coverage. However, in the lead in the 2001 tour, Jim assured me he was the real McCoy and would be with us.
And, lo and behold, come the first Test in Mumbai, he magically appeared as if he was wandering out of an Arthurian mist.
Mr Subramanian hails from Chennai and he informed us that he had spent 20 hours on the train in order to fulfil his duties with us in Mumbai. He continued around the country on each of our tours on the vast and overcrowded Indian rail network.
There was never cause to doubt his enthusiasm. However, the accuracy of his information was sometimes a different matter.
The day after our mobile phone episode in Kolkata in 2001, Mr Subramanian arrived at the ground with a sandalwood statue of the Hindu god, Ganesha, who amongst other powers, was the god for removing obstacles.
He remained in Jim's luggage for every one of our subsequent tours to India. On occasions Mr Subramanian, a devout Hindu, would perform a puja ceremony in the morning before play, placing flower petals and burning incense at the base of the statue.
Our Ganesha's powers did not always save the day but he often became a point of reference throughout our broadcasts.
Mr Subramamanian
Mr Subramanian was somewhat of a prophet as well as a scorer.
At Chennai in 2004 he amazed us all. At lunch on the third day Australia was 4-230 after a patient opening session that saw Damien Martyn and nightwatchman Jason Gillespie survive unscathed.
Just as play was resuming Mr Subramanian commented to us that two wickets would fall in the middle session.
I was behind the mic with around ten minutes to go before tea when I remembered his forecast. I ribbed him about the fact that a wicket was yet to fall.
He told me two would still fall before the tea interval. I asked him who would go first, Martyn or Gillespie?
He confidently said Martyn. And the very next ball he was snapped up at slip by Harbhajan Singh for 104. Gillespie fell three balls later with Australia going to tea at 6-290.
The smile on Mr Subramanian's face was priceless as the rest of us merely shook our heads.
Each tour of India provided its own highlights and memories but without doubt the 2001 series was the most memorable sporting contest I have ever covered.
After six days of cricket Australia looked certain to end its 31-year drought in India such was its dominance. Seven days later they had lost one of the most exciting and memorable series in cricket history.
Australia won the first Test at Mumbai in the most emphatic fashion with a ten wicket win inside three days. The match was dominated by Matthew Hayden and Adam Gilchrist who each made centuries in Australia's second innings as the tourists rollicked to victory.
Mumbai is the Tendulkar's home and in a country where he is revered, the epicentre of that adulation is in Mumbai. He made knocks of 76 and 65.
His first two shots of the series are seared in my memory. Damien Fleming was bowling from the far end. Tendulkar went onto the back foot and defended the ball to the right of Mark Waugh at mid-on – he was out of the cordon after fracturing a finger in the warm-up game – and it scooted away for two.
The next ball he again defended off the back foot. It beat Fleming in his follow through and was fielded two metres inside the rope. Both shots wreaked of pure class and exquisite timing.
At stumps on day three, Tendulkar was 34 not out in India's second innings.
Jim and Harsha at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai 2004
The gates to the Wankhede stadium were shut an hour before the game. The Little Master was guaranteed to be batting and the locals all wanted to witness it. The presence of Tendulkar on the field was met with rapturous applause, even a defensive push back to the bowler.
When the second wicket fell in each Indian innings it heralded the arrival of a living deity.
The outgoing batsman was applauded from the field before the ground fell silent. As soon as the Little Master stepped onto the field there was a deafening roar which only intensified all the way until he took guard. From then on, the crowd rose to every one of his acts, no matter how banal they were.
And then, when he was dismissed, an eerie silence fell around the ground. You could almost hear an inhalation of breath from the crowd. The silence remained until he was roughly a dozen metres from the pitch before the low rumbling heralded tumultuous applause all the way back to the pavilion whether he had departed for nought or a hundred.
There is a misconception about cricket crowds in India. In the south of the country – Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata and Chennai – Test matches are very heavily supported. However, in the north at cities like Delhi, Mohali and Nagpur they can be very thin on the ground.
In 2008, when Tendulkar broke Brian Lara's Test aggregate record the ground would have been lucky to have had 4000 in it. That didn't stop the administrators from shooting fireworks into the sky from outside the ground. In brilliant sunshine you could not see them but play was stopped for five minutes because of the noise!
The Kolkata Test in that 2001 series is one of the most famous in the game. It kept the archivists of the sport busy.
Australia amassed 445 and preceded to bowl the hosts out for 171 in under 60 overs. With a lead of 274 runs, Steve Waugh enforced the follow-on and when India slipped to 3-115 with the loss of Tendulkar that elusive series victory seemed a formality.
Someone, however, forgot to tell V V S Laxman and Rahul Dravid.
At stumps on day three India was 4-254, still trailing by 20 runs with Laxman on 109 and Dravid unbeaten on seven. Day four, beneath a molten yellow sun, produced one of the greatest days in Test history.
Laxman and Dravid batted for its entirety, never offering a chance, as Waugh worked his way through no fewer than nine bowlers.
Laxman, in particular, put on a batting masterclass. At times you got a stitch in your eyebrows watching his mastery with the willow. On numerous occasions, he would back away to the leg side and drive Shane Warne out of the footmarks and through the covers for four with the skill of a Medici sculptor.
He kept plundering the quicks with whips of his pads akin to a man brushing lint off his trousers.
Day one, Kolkata 2001
All day Waugh appeared to be attempting to plug gaps. A ball would go to the boundary, Waugh would make a field adjustment and the next ball would go through the gap where the fieldsman was previously.
In the end, Waugh literally dispersed his fieldsmen like chaff to the wind. At times it was like watching an autopsy being performed on a man who was still alive.
As the day unfolded Laxman began stalking history and, as a result, he truly cashed in. In a uniquely Indian way, the electronic scoreboard started to display monetary rewards for his genius.
When he posted his double century a message stated he would receive 200,000 rupees from the Cricket Association of Bengal. Additionally, he would pocket a further 1000 rupees for every run between 200 and 236, which was Sunil Gavaskar's all-time record for an Indian batsman at that time. And then, for every run beyond 237, he would collect 2000 rupees.
At stumps, he was on 275 and 312,000 rupees (A$13,000 at the time) richer. Only in India.
When I went downstairs to the post-play media conference, the CAB circulated a release stating that Harbhajan would receive 100,000 rupees for his hat-trick on the opening day – the first by an Indian in Test cricket. They also said they would reward the team with a 500,000 rupee bonus if it won the match.
Having survived the day unscathed, India at stumps on day four was 4-589, with Dravid on 155 and the lead at 315. They had put on 335 runs in the day. The Australian players left the field looking a bottle of week old lemonade.
India declared at 7-657 about 45 minutes before lunch on the final day, a lead of 283 runs. Laxman finally departed for 281. Dravid was unconquered on 180. Their stand had realised 376 runs.
Australia's record breaking 16 match winning streak was about to end. The question was would they hang on for a draw or surrender the match? They had to survive a minimum 75 overs.
At lunch, they were 0-24. By tea, 3-161. The draw was firming.
Tendulkar chimed in with 3-31, including trapping Gilchrist in front for a first ball duck, leaving him with a king pair having been the middle wicket in Harbhajan's opening day hat-trick.
With time running out , skipper Sourav Ganguly had Harbhajan swap ends. It met with instant success. Three balls into the 69th over he trapped Glenn McGrath in front. With less than half an hour remaining, Australia was all out for 212 with India levelling the series with a 171-run win.
Harbhajan's 6-73 sat alongside his first innings 7-123.
In most circumstances that would win you man-of-the-match but that honour was bestowed upon Laxman for his innings of 59 and 281.
With the sun rapidly setting the on-ground presentations were being carried out in murky light, while at the far end of the ground, the spectators in the multi-level grandstand had gathered up the placards that they had been waving for each boundary and six and placed them in various piles that they set alight.
Brilliant orange spot fires illuminated the stand, creating a surreal backdrop to a bizarre Test.
Each day there was a minimum 70,000 in the ground. They would all have stories to tell.
Jim and I had a short walk back to the hotel with our gear trailing behind us. We needed to wander through a long-distance bus depot with buses displaying signs for exotic locations like Darjeeling. As Australians, we copped plenty of good natured banter. The locals were in fine spirits and well they should have been. A series that looked lost a couple of days earlier was now firmly in the balance.
A few days later everyone was ready to go for the decider at Chennai.
The day before the game, Jim and I were patiently sitting in the commentary box awaiting the installation of our broadcast lines. While doing so we watched the Indian team training in the nets erected on the outfield.
When the players packed up and headed for the team bus one man remained. Tendulkar.
After half-centuries in each innings in Mumbai, he made a pair of tens at Kolkata. He was clearly keen to end the series on a high note. For over half an hour he faced a rag tag attack consisting of local net bowlers and the odd member of the ground staff.
His monastic devotion paid off. He scored 126, bringing up his century with a massive straight six off Colin Miller. The resultant crowd noise was deafening.
His knock was the batting cornerstone in his side's two-wicket victory. A victory that denied Australia its first series win on Indian soil in 31 years.
It was an epic series. One of the greatest in the sport's long and storied history.
Bees halt play, Delhi 2008
Three years later, I was lucky enough to see Australia break the drought.
After winning at Bangalore and playing out a rain affected draw at Chennai, the side won the third Test at Nagpur.
On the eve of the game, Ganguly withdrew citing injury. Many thought it was in response to the pitch that was prepared, which had a covering of green and very un-Indian in appearance. Publicly, he made his displeasure known.
The Aussies had no such qualms with the post-match celebrations going deep into the wee small hours.
My last cricket experience in India was the 2011 World Cup.
I worked on that trip for both the ABC and BBC which presented me with the opportunity of calling many matches around the country not involving Australia.
In Bangalore, however, I was on my own, forced to call the Australian games against Kenya and Canada solo. I busily lined up the likes of Ian Chappell, Danny Morrison and Simon Doull – all there on TV duties – to help out in the expert's char. It was tiring for me and no doubt painful for the audience!
Australia bowed out in the quarter-finals, going down to India at Ahmedabad.
I have never broadcast before a more boisterous and loud crowd.
This week, the ABC returns to India to provide ball-by-ball coverage of a Test series for the first time in nine years.
Despite competition on the radio airwaves in recent summers I firmly believe ABC Grandstand's product continues to be the benchmark.
The broadcast of this tour will be headed up by Gerard Whateley and Alister Nicholson, two men who will certainly uphold the fine tradition of cricket on the ABC which dates back eight decades.
I, for one, will be a passionate listener. For the boys' sake, I hope the broadcast lines hold up.
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Everybody wants to look beautiful and attractive and this is the driving force behind the progress and development that has been made in Rhode Island dermatology. Over the years, in Rhode Island just as in most of the other parts of the world, a number of special procedures have been developed with the direct objectives of helping people with different skin conditions and ailments overcome them and look attractive. However, in the past the efforts have been grouped separately as either medical procedures and treatments intended for medical conditions of the skin on the one hand, or cosmetic procedures and treatments carried out with the primary objective of making people look better. With the advent of Aspire Dermatology in the world of Rhode Island dermatology, the picture has begun to change.
Aspire dermatology is a new and innovative solution to the two problems of medical skin conditions and cosmetic treatments to improve people's looks. Introduced, developed and practiced by Dr. Jason Michaels, Aspire dermatology adopts a unique approach that differs significantly from the other Rhode Island Dermatology treatments. Dr. Michaels who is both the founder and practicing physician at Aspire Dermatology employs a unique combination of both medical skin treatments and procedures for different skin conditions as well as cosmetic procedures that are intended to improve the appearance of patients.As indicated above, while there is a clear difference between the treatment of medical skin conditions and cosmetic skin treatments, there is no rule that dictates that the two should be carried out separately, as most of the practitioners in the field of Rhode Island dermatology seem to believe. This is the main principle that Dr. Jason Michaels employs in his practice at Aspire Dermatology. The list of medical skin conditions that are treated in this way include the following; acne, dry skin, psoriasis, razor bumps, shingles, skin cancer, moles and warts, melanoma, keloids, impetigo, excessive sweating, hand dermatitis, actinic keratosis and contact dermatitis. Of course, the list above is hardly conclusive and there are many more skin conditions that are treated at the Aspire Dermatology Med center. On the other hand, the cosmetic procedures that are performed at the center include the following; chemical peels, acne scar revision, chemical brow lift, facial re contouring, collagen remodeling, dermal lasers, bulbous nose among others.The combination of cosmetic procedures along with the treatment of a variety of medical skin conditions produces much better overall results compared to the application of any of the options on its own. For instance, after the treatment of acne, some scars may be left behind. Combining acne scar revision with the former treatment takes care of the problem.Dr. Jason Michaels has a wealth of knowledge and experience in the fields of medical and cosmetic skin care, being a trained dermatologist with more than 14 years worth of experience in the field. He was also named by Vegas Magazine as Las Vegas' Image maker, in recognition of his significant contributions to cosmetic skin care. Over his career, Dr. Jason Michaels has earned a long list of awards and certificates and is one of the few practitioners of Rhode Island dermatology who perform Mohs surgery.


A controlled mind is the best friend of a human being. But if it is uncontrolled, it proves to be the greatest enemy of man.
Mind can make heaven into hell and hell into heaven.
We need to be the author of our own life.
Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe of felicity.
Pain of mind is worse than the pain of body.
A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.
The human mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.


I posted earlier about my functional CTO story, detailing how my role of CTO evolved over time which can be found here. It's one challenge to be CTO in a 'normal' startup and quite a separate challenge to also be at the forefront of a new category.
A little over 5 years ago, we started SuperAwesome. Just a few people in a small office in central London, we didn't realise the scale of the challenge. To us, it was still a product problem and we didn't truly grasp that it was going to need an infrastructure solution (which ultimately led to the creation of the 'kidtech' sector).
For context, today our kidtech is used by hundreds of companies (and thousands of apps) all over the world to enable safe engagement with over half a billion kids every month. This is 100x bigger than what we were thinking in the beginning.
Although everything you're building springs out of fundamentally different principles, that doesn't mean there aren't parallels to be drawn with industries or evolutions elsewhere. If anything, being at the forefront of a new category often puts you in the privileged position of being able to (almost) predict how things will evolve by finding an industry that has gone through a similar or parallel evolution in the past.
Most of the ecosystem converged around advertising as a means to monetise.
Social made everything take off, changing the experience from being one-directional to include much more meaningful, bi-directional experiences actually involving the user.
The emergence of libraries and tools drastically accelerated the development of apps and sites and reduced the up-front investment needed to build great experiences.
Every industry is unique and the above examples will most likely not apply directly to whatever you're building, but finding a parallel you can relate to is definitely step one in building a mental model of how everything might play out over time.
As your category is new, does this mean you should just start building everything from scratch again? Definitely not. Or does it?
As CTO, one of my roles is to be aware of how things are solved in other places and avoid reinventing the wheel. Leveraging what everybody else has done before you is a great way to save time and focus on your unique selling point.
I fully believe in the above, which is why it pains me to say that when building out a new category, you will find yourself having to build out many more components of the stack than when you are building a product in an existing one. The reason goes back to the first principles test: if your category is built on entirely different principles, it follows that most of the solutions built in other categories most often do not follow them (that's why we're talking about building a category in the first place).
In our case the problem was data. In a world where every single solution for adults was built around data, many different components from social mechanisms to analytics were simply incompatible with the first principles we set out for the category (zero data).
To be clear: I am not saying this means you literally have to build everything. I am merely pointing out that many of the traditional solutions we're all aware of might clash with the first principles of your category, forcing you down a path of build over buy more often than you would usually be comfortable with.
It also means it's harder to find an internal champion of your solution, as you simply do not know whose responsibility it is to drive it forward (even if they are properly convinced).
It means your product development process doesn't have clear stakeholders to talk to in order to prioritise effectively.
A great example of this is that in most kids companies today, there is no CTO (the technical decision maker).
As you start growing and having more of these situations, try to identify patterns that work which can guide your process going forward.
In our case after many years of trial and error, we came to the conclusion that in most cases we should be starting conversations with either the CTO (if there is one) or the legal teams due to the nature of our space.
Being successful at building a new category doesn't happen simply by building it: people need to understand what you've built and fit it into their own mental models. This shouldn't really come as a surprise since your category doesn't exist yet and the subject of your type of solution simply doesn't come up in the normal planning process of other companies. It means that you will constantly have to educate everyone (including your customers) on your technology.
Earlier in the year, our Chief Product Officer, after seeing the 10,000th email correcting the description of what we do as a company rightly stated: "Sometimes I feel like this company exists by sheer force of will" and that is exactly what it feels like.
You might think I already covered this point in the beginning of my post, but there is a clear difference: it's one thing realising you are building a category and quite another actually doing it.
You don't build a category on your own (if you think you are, you should probably have another look at the first principles test as you're most likely building a product). If anything, building a category means enabling everybody else to build the best possible products in the space, making the category as a whole more visible, useful and successful along the way.
This line of reasoning might seem simple enough to follow, but I can guarantee you that when you are seen as the category maker (and leader), every single problem related to the category somehow ends up being a product that looks appealing to build (you are the only one with the infrastructure after all!). Combine this with the builders trap I talked about earlier and you can see how easy it is to lose focus.
Building out a new category on the internet is hard. There are no books to read up on, no clear-cut analysis to look at and far fewer people to talk to than when you operate in an already-established part of the web. At the same time, it provides you with the opportunity to set the agenda, the opportunity to show the way and, when done well, and the opportunity to define a whole industry.
For anyone wondering why they cannot find their core customer or why they feel like the entire company is suffering from imposter syndrome I hope this post provides some clues or at least some comfort in saying you're not alone. Building the #kidtech industry has been, and continues to be, a difficult journey, but sometimes it's the best and only way forward.
If you're interested in staying on top of technology and kidtech news, we publish several kids industry newsletters which now have over 10k subscribers reading monthly. Sign up now!
Joshua Wohle is Chief Technology Officer at SuperAwesome.


We provide 24/7 support for your hire!
While our kitchens and catering equipment are out on hire, they are covered by our technical support service. Our technical support line is open 24/7 (even on Christmas Day!), so we are always here and ready to help.
Our dedicated team of catering equipment engineers know our catering equipment inside out and can fix almost any problem. Every item of our catering equipment has its own unique barcode which gives us access to detailed records of each individual item and can help our engineers pinpoint any potential problems.
If something goes wrong with an item of equipment while it's on hire, our engineers will first carry out a detailed diagnosis over the phone - 75% of faults are solved in this way, so it saves you time and money. If a callout is needed, we stock a full range of spare parts on site, so our engineers can fix any problems super fast. If an item of equipment really has given up the ghost, we can quickly send you a replacement from our fleet of 9,000 items of kit, so there's always a backup plan!
For most technical support requests, we have a 24 hour response time, though if you call us before 10am we can usually get an engineer out to you on the same day. For emergency problems where your kitchen isn't operational or if you have a major refrigeration failure, we send an engineer straight away. While they won't ride in to save you on a white horse, our engineers will arrive in a van stocked with spare parts and tools. Probably slightly more useful.
For larger or more complex projects, you will also have the option of being provided with an extremely fancy personalised eHandover Pack. This is a bright red, shiny tablet pre-loaded with your delivery note, detailed health and safety information, delivery schedule, site drawings, equipment schedule and commissioning sheets, plus individual user manuals for each item of equipment. This will be your first line of defence against kitchen confusion and equipment gremlins - ideal for big events where there's lots going on and you need the info right at your fingertips!


The day-to-day management and operations of the European Society of Clinical Pharmacy takes place at the Society's International Office (IO). The director of IO is Edwin van Aalten. Working closely with the governing committees of ESCP, the IO co-ordinates all of the operations, administers the activities of the Society and implements new policies and strategies.
Anita de Smet is working at the Office in Leiden as assistent-director.


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i work there! haha. jasmine if you come to my work (l'occitane) and take my picture i will give you free samples!
Love this photo. Her look is so simple and stylish. Thanks for posting this one.
this is so put together but in such an unexpected way. her outfit doesn't necessarily match, but it coordinates so beautifully! it doesn't clash, either. great pick!
This is my favorite picture yet. Beautiful!
This is my favorite picture so far. Beautiful!
i love this picture! please post more like this!
She looks amazing. Is she from NY? She has that new york city nolita girl look. I love this look, it is so refreshing after all the hipster looks that have been around for tooooo long.
Hi anon. - Nope, she's a Seattlelite!
Seriously. Seattle girls dress so incredibly... incredible!!!
she looks adorable. I love the dress on her.


RE: The tariff classification of five women's garments from Hong Kong.
In your letter dated March 19, 1990, on behalf of Contempo Casuals, Inc., you requested a tariff classification ruling.
Style No. 1156 is a woman's top constructed from a 100% cotton, finely knit fabric. The garment does not reach the waist and features the following: long, hemmed sleeves; a deep, rib knit V-neckline which forms a partial opening. The V-neckline extends and is sewn to a rib knit bottom.
Style No. 1224 is a woman's 100% cotton, all over, rib knit short jacket that does not reach the waist. The garment consists of three panels, of which two are in the front, sewn together lengthwise. The garment features the following: shoulder pads; a fold down collar; long, hemmed sleeves; a full frontal opening with a three button closure; and a hemmed bottom.
Style No. 1226 is a woman's 100% cotton, finely knit shirt that has more than 10 stitches per two centimeters in both the vertical and horizontal directions. The garment features the following: shoulder pads; a stand-up collar; long sleeves with cuffs; a full front opening with a two button closure just below the collar. The two front panels, when buttoned, cross one over the other and are curve at the bottom. The back panel has a pleat starting below the neck.
Style No. 1261 is a woman's 95% cotton, 5% spandex pullover that has more than 9 stitches per 2 centimeters in the horizontal direction. The garment features the following: shoulder pads; long, hemmed sleeves; two panels that criss cross in the front forming a V-neckline that covers the chest and most of the neck area; and a hemmed bottom.
Style No. 1263 is a woman's 95% cotton, 5% spandex top that does not reach the waist. The garment features the following: shoulder pads; long, hemmed sleeves; a deep V-neckline that gathers at the bottom of the garment; and a hemmed bottom. A metal ring ornaments the gathered bottom. Your samples are being returned as requested.
The applicable subheading for styles 1156 and 1263 will be 6114.20.0010, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS), which provides for women's other garments, knitted: of cotton: tops. The rate of duty will be 11.5% ad valorem. The HTS subheading for style 1224 will be 6104.32.0000, which provides for women's suit-type jackets, knitted: of cotton. The duty rate will be 16.9% ad valorem. The HTS subheading for style 1226 will be 6106.10.0010, which provides for women's shirts, knitted: of cotton. The rate of duty will be 21% ad valorem. The HTS subheading for style 1261 will be 6110.20.2075, which provides for women's sweaters, pullovers...and similar articles, knitted: of cotton: other. The rate of duty will be 20.7% ad valorem.
Styles 1156, 1226, 1261 and 1263 fall within textile category designation 339. Style 1224 falls in category 335. Based upon international textile trade agreements, products of Hong Kong are subject to visa requirements.


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UK must tackle bycatch in practice, not just on paper
Home » News » UK must tackle bycatch in practice, not just on paper
Bycatch (incidental capture or entanglement in fishing gear) is the number one cause of death for cetaceans in the UK, with smaller species such as dolphins particularly at risk.
Earlier this year, the UK and devolved governments finally published their much-delayed Marine Wildlife Bycatch Mitigation Initiative, outlining how they intend to address this deadly problem.
Unfortunately, the WCA is dismayed to see that – after decades of preventable cetacean deaths – the UK seems no closer to taking meaningful action on bycatch.
Although the Initiative recognises the significance of bycatch as a killer of marine wildlife, and shows a willingness to invest in research and develop mitigation measures, it doesn't represent any real progress towards the kind of urgent changes that are needed to save lives.
Photo of a common dolphin found dead on Southwick beach, just behind the WCA and Sussex Dolphin Project office. The rope tied onto the dolphin's tail is a clear sign of bycatch.
The UK's draft Joint Fisheries Statement (JFS), released a few months earlier, claimed that "Through the upcoming UK Bycatch Mitigation Initiative, the fisheries policy authorities will commit to actions that […] reduce the bycatch of sensitive species".
However, there are no commitments to action in the Initiative – it only suggests actions that authorities "could" take, with no measurable objectives or clear timescales for implementing and enforcing these.
After submitting feedback on the draft JFS in which we flagged its lack of specific actions, measures, targets and timelines for tackling bycatch, we're now disappointed to find that the long-promised Initiative has fallen short in exactly the same way.
Through our 'Dolphins Aren't Discard' campaign with Sussex Dolphin Project, we will continue to hold the UK government to account until they fulfil their legal duty to end cetacean bycatch.
In particular, we're calling for the UK to improve fisheries monitoring and transparency through the use of remote electronic monitoring (including onboard CCTV), which is a reliable and cost-effective tool that's already used by many other countries to reduce bycatch.
Until the UK takes urgent action, hundreds of cetaceans will continue to lose their lives needlessly each year. Please support our campaign and help to strengthen our voice as we speak up for dolphins and other victims of bycatch.
Header photo of common dolphins by Redders48, via Getty Images.
Author: Miki Tillett
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A: I am not sure if my interpretation is right or wrong. What I observed is that when we give width and height constraints to the first view, this I think is not respected by the subsequent views that have been added. However, it does seem to respect the other constraints (top, bottom, leading, trailing). So when I started giving the same magnitude of width and height to the other subsequent views, then the arrangement came out as expected. Thoughts from the community are welcome.

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Isabella, England's Second Holy Roman Empress
Isabella of England, Holy Roman Empress
Nearly everyone knows that Henry I's daughter Matilda, Lady of the English, was Holy Roman Empress as the wife of Holy Roman Emperor Henry V. What is less well-known is that, almost 70 years after Matilda's death, her great-granddaughter followed in her footsteps.
Isabella of England was born in 1214; she was the 4th of 5 children born to King John and his 2nd wife Isabella of Angouleme. She had 3 older siblings, Henry, Richard and Joan, and a baby sister Eleanor. Born at a time when her father's strife with his barons was at its height, her early childhood was turbulent, to say the least. John died just 2 years later, in October 1216, leaving 9-year-old Henry as king of a country in the midst of civil war while fighting off an occupying French army.
Even before her father's death, Isabella's older sister Joan (born in 1210) had left England, to be raised by the family of her intended husband, Hugh de Lusignan. However, by 1220, amidst great scandal, Hugh had repudiated Joan and married her mother in her stead, whilst still holding Joan as hostage in order to gain Queen Isabella's dower.
Whilst Joan was still in the hands of the Lusignans, her marriage to Alexander II of Scotland was negotiated, with an added clause that Isabella could be substituted for her older sister, should Joan not make it back to England in time. In the event Joan returned in time and Henry III looked elsewhere for a husband for Isabella.
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
Becoming part of his policy of continental diplomacy, Henry looked at several possible husbands, such as Henry VII, king of the Romans and Louis IX of France. After some prompting by Pope Gregory IX, Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II (father of Henry VII) sent an embassy to England to pursue his own suit for the English princess to become his 3rd wife.
Within 3 days of the Sicilian embassy's arrival Henry was agreeable to the match, which complimented his keen interest in the Holy Roman Empire. He had Isabella brought from the Tower of London to Westminster to be interviewed by the ambassadors. They were so impressed with her that they hailed Isabella "Vivat imperatrix! Vivat!"
The marriage contract was signed on 22nd February 1235, with Henry giving Isabella a dowry of 30,000 marks. Although Isabella already had her own fine chapel silver, Henry gave her a magnificent trousseau, which included a service of gold and silver plate. The English people were irritated by Henry's demand for a substantial marriage aid, but Henry saw the marriage as adding to his personal prestige, and a possible alliance against Louis IX of France.
On 11th May 1235 Isabella set sail from Sandwich, escorted by the bishop of Exeter, the archbishop of Cologne and the duke of Brabant; she arrived at Antwerp 4 days later. With a substantial escort, to guard against kidnap threats from Frederick II's enemies, Isabella arrived in Cologne on 24th May. She made a processional entry into the city, to the cheers of a 10,00 strong crowd, endearing herself to the noble ladies by throwing her veil back.
The marriage of Frederick II and Isabella of England
She was to spend 6 weeks in Cologne waiting for Frederick, who was dealing with a rebellion by his oldest son, Henry VII.
By July 1235, however, they were together in Worms where, on Sunday the 15th, they were married in the cathedral by the archbishop of Mainz. Isabella was crowned Holy Roman Empress at the same time. Four days of wedding festivities followed, with guests including – according to Matthew Paris – 4 kings, 11 dukes and 30 counts and marquesses.
Frederick, it seems, put great store by astrology; in 1228 Michael Scot had completed his encyclopedia of astrology while at Frederick's court. And it was on the advice of the emperor's court astrologers that the marriage was not consummated until the 2nd night.
Isabella was the emperor's 3rd wife; his 1st, Constance of Aragon, had died of malaria in 1222 and his 2nd wife, Queen Isabella-Yolanda of Jerusalem had died in childbirth in 1228. Frederick was 20 years Isabella's senior and expended all his energy on war, travelling and ceremonials in order to maintain his authority throughout his vast empire.
Frederick was delighted with his bride; she was beautiful and popular. He sent 3 leopards to Henry III in England as a sign of his appreciation. However, following the celebrations he also dismissed the majority of Isabella's English attendants; she was allowed to retain only her nurse, Margaret Biset – who and been with her since her early childhood – and a maid, called Kathrein.
St Peter's Cathedrals, Worms, where Isabella was married and crowned Holy Roman Empress
Isabella travelled with Frederick's slaves to his palace at Hagenau, where Frederick spent the winter with his new empress. Their first child was probably born around 1237/8, although there does seem to be some confusion over how many children there were, and when they were born. What is certain is 2 children survived childhood; Henry, King of Jerusalem, died unmarried in his teens in 1254 and Margaret married Albert I, Margrave of Meissen and Langrave of Thuringia and Misnes, in 1256.
Isabella travelled extensively through her husband's lands, residing in Apulia, Lombardy, Noventa between 1238 and 1239. Frederick was always close by, despite his battles with the papacy, and arrived in southern Italy shortly after his wife's arrival in February 1240.
Isabella was expected to live in some magnificence, but Henry III was irritated that she was only rarely allowed to appear in public. There were rumours that Frederick kept his wives in a harem, although these were probably unfounded and arose from the seclusion that firstly Isabella-Yolanda and then Isabella lived in.
When Richard Earl of Cornwall visited the Emperor in 1241, he didn't immediately see his sister, although this was probably down to court protocol, as the Empress was pregnant at the time. When they did meet the brother and sister were treated to a lavish court entertainment, being delighted by a magnificent display of jugglers and Muslim dancers.
Andria cathedral, Isabella's final resting-place
Following Richard's visit, Frederick II returned to war. He was besieging Faenza in northern Italy when his wife died in childbirth on 1st December 1241; the baby died with her. Before his departure on campaign, Isabella had urged Frederick to stay on good terms with her brother Henry III, who was leaning more and more towards the papacy.
She was buried at Andria, Sicily, alongside the emperor's 2nd wife, Isabella-Yolanda. Isabella had been married for just over 6 years and was only 27 years of age.
Through her daughter Margaret, Isabella is the ancestor of Queen Victoria's beloved husband, Prince Albert.
Pictures courtesy of Wikipedia
Sources: The Oxford Companion to British History Edited by John Cannon; The Plantagenets, the Kings who Made England by Dan Jones; History Today Companion to British History Edited by Juliet Gardiner and Neil Wenborn; Brewer's British Royalty by David Williamson; Britain's Royal Families, the Complete Genealogy by Alison Weir; The Plantagenet Chronicles Edited by Elizabeth Hallam; The Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens by Mike Ashley; The Plantagenets, the Kings that made Britain by Derek Wilson; England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings by Robert Bartlett; http://www.britannica.com; oxforddnb.com.
Isabella's story features in greater detail in my book, Ladies of Magna Carta: Women of Influence in Thirteenth Century England .
©Sharon Bennett Connolly 2016
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The Historical Diaries 07/12/2015 / 01:15
What a fascinating story ! It is so hard to believe that marriage was such a political tactic, and that little girls got sent off to be raised by their intended's family at such young ages, and I don't know just makes marriage feel so callouses during those times, but I know it was normal common practice and nobody thought anything on it , marriage was a tool for power and to help raise you in life
Absolutely. It was all about duty and political alliances. You have to hope that there was consideration that the husband would be 'a good fit', but I'm not sure they always thought that far.
I would think they would hope but in the end it didn't matter cause like you said duty and alliances came first
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alice bouilliez 01/12/2016 / 12:07
So this is why Henry VIII was considered to be a pretender to the title of Holy Roman Emperor that Maximillian took?
It's possible. The Holy Roman Emperor was actually elected by the German princes, though he tended to come from the same family every time. It may well be that Henry emphasised his claim because of Isabella and Richard of Cornwall, Isabella's brother, who was elected Holy Roman Emperor, but never crowned due to a disputed election. I explain it a little in my post on Sanchia of Provence: https://historytheinterestingbits.com/2015/11/12/sanchia-of-provence-queen-of-the-romans/.
Best wishes, Sharon
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The Carnival of Chocolate
July 10, 2016 January 29, 2020 / By nzrac / Events & Activities
Dunedin. New Zealand's first city. A lot of people don't know, but it was home to our first art gallery, first street lighting, and first phone call.
What a lot of people do know is that it has the world's steepest street and a chocolate factory, and every July Dunedin-ites manage to combine these two attributes at the Cadbury Chocolate Carnival.
Jaffas cascade down Baldwin Street, Dunedin. Photo: Gerard O'Brien
From July 16 to 22 Cadbury will host over 50 events with confection connections in Dunedin, and expects to lure about 62,000 chocoholics to the city. This will be the 16th annual carnival, and this time around you can treat yourself to cooking classes, choc-tacular art and fashion exhibitions, chocolate and beer matching at Speights brewery, a chocolate facial, body polish or manicure at Erban Spa, and many more diabetes-inducing activities. You'd be a fool to not take a tour of a real chocolate factory at Cadbury World, and there's a trip on the Crunchie Train on the Taieri Gorge Railway, which we quite coincidentally wrote about just last week.
The festival finale is traditionally the Jaffa Race. For those unfamiliar with this sublime Kiwi delicacy, Jaffas are balls of chocolate with an orange shell, proudly produced and consumed in New Zealand since 1931. On July 22nd 75,000 of them will be released at the top of Baldwin St, the worlds steepest residential road, and bouncing, rolling, and ricocheting to the bottom like a delicious orange tsunami. Visitors can buy numbered stickers for $1 each (the money goes to charity) to stick onto a Jaffa, and can receive a prize if theirs is among the first over the finish line. There are three races of 25,000 Jaffas scheduled, with proceeds for race 1 going to Make-a-Wish, race 2 going to Surf Life Saving New Zealand & race 3 going to Parent Centre New Zealand.
Teddy Bear's Picnic at Larnach Castle.
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See the Cadbury website for event information.


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/**
@file		dbindex.h
@author		Graeme Douglas
@brief		A generic relation index interface.
@details
@copyright	Copyright 2013 Graeme Douglas
@license	Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
		you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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#ifndef DBINDEX_H
#define DBINDEX_H

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

#include "../ref.h"
#include "../dblogic/eet.h"
#include "../dblogic/compare_tuple.h"
#include "dbindex_types.h"
#include "../dbops/db_ops_types.h"

/**
@brief		Database index search modes.
@details	Since search routines usually only need to be slightly
		modified for various structure operations, we will
		maximize code reuse by leveraging search modes.
*/
typedef enum
{
	DB_INDEX_SEARCHMODE_EXACT = 0,		/**< Find an exact match. */
	DB_INDEX_SEARCHMODE_PREVIOUS = 1,	/**< If no exact match can
						     be found, then we return
						     the closest predecessor.
						*/
	DB_INDEX_SEARCHMODE_COUNT		/**< The number of elements
						     in this enumerated type.
						*/
} db_index_searchmode_t;

/**
@brief		Database relation index types.
*/
typedef enum
{
	DB_INDEX_TYPE_NONE = 0,		/**< No index. */
	DB_INDEX_TYPE_INLINE = 1,	/**< Inline index (sorted as it comes in). */
	DB_INDEX_TYPE_SKIPLIST,		/**< Skip list index. */
	DB_INDEX_TYPE_COUNT		/**< Count of all index types. */
} db_index_type_t;

/**
@brief		The generic index type.
*/
typedef struct db_index
{
	db_uint8	type;		/**< Type of the index. */
	db_fileref_t	indexref;	/**< Reference to the file containing
					     index data. */
} db_index_t;

/**
@brief		An index offset type.
*/
typedef long db_index_offset_t;

/**
@brief		Find the next tuple from an indexed scan based on another
		tuple.
@param		sp		The indexed scan operator to search.
@param		indexon		Which index to use.
@param		searchfor	The expression to search against.
@param		comparator_tp	A pointer to the tuple to evaluate the
				expression over.
@param		comparator_hp	A pointer to the relation header info for
				the relation the tuple pointed at by
				@p comparator_tp.
@param		mmp		A pointer to the memory manager instance being
				used to allocate memory for this query.
@returns	@c 1 if a tuple is found, @c 0 otherwise.
*/
db_int scan_find(scan_t *sp,
		db_uint8 indexon,
		db_eet_t *searchfor,
		db_tuple_t *comparator_tp,
		relation_header_t *comparator_hp,
		db_query_mm_t *mmp);

/**
@brief		Find the offset of a tuple in an indexed relation matching the
		search criterion.
@param		sp		The indexed scan operator to search.
@param		indexon		Which index to use.
@param		searchfor	The expression to search against.
@param		comparator_tp	A pointer to the tuple to evaluate the
				expression over.
@param		comparator_hp	A pointer to the relation header info for
				the relation the tuple pointed at by
				@p comparator_tp.
@param		mmp		A pointer to the memory manager instance being
				used to allocate memory for this query.
@returns	@c -1 if no index found, otherwise an integral offset greater
		than or equal to @c 0.
*/
db_index_offset_t db_index_getoffset(scan_t *sp,
				db_uint8 indexon,
				db_eet_t *searchfor,
				db_tuple_t *comparator_tp,
				relation_header_t *comparator_hp,
				db_query_mm_t *mmp);

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

#endif

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Mezgit Kalesi (Mezgitkale, auch bekannt als Mausoleum des furchtlosen Königs, ) ist ein römisches Tempelgrab im Rauen Kilikien aus dem 2. oder 3. Jahrhundert im Landkreis Silifke der türkischen Provinz Mersin.

Lage
Mezgit Kalesi liegt beim Dorf Öztürkmenli etwa zehn Kilometer westlich von Kızkalesi und etwa genausoweit nördlich von Silifke. Im Badeort Atakent (dem antiken Korasion, früher Susanoğlu) zweigt am östlichen Ortsausgang von der Küstenstraße D-400 eine Straße nach Norden in Richtung İmamlı ab. Sie erreicht nach etwa elf Kilometern die römischen Ruinen von Paslı, wo eine weitere Straße rechts nach Öztürkmenli abbiegt. Nach weiteren zwei Kilometern erreicht sie Mezgit Kalesi.

Beschreibung
Das Grab hat die Form eines Tetraprostylos und steht auf einer Grundfläche von etwa 9,2 × 7,7 Metern zuzüglich einer nicht mehr vorhandenen Freitreppe von 2,5 Metern Tiefe. Die Höhe beträgt 7,8 Meter, die Grabkammer ist etwa quadratisch mit einer Seitenlänge von 4,9 Metern. Die vier vorgelagerten Säulen und die Anten haben korinthische Kapitelle mit glatten, nicht ausgearbeiteten Blättern. An der linken Treppenwange befindet sich ein Phallusrelief, das als Olbisches Zeichen gilt und für Hermes in seiner Funktion als Psychopompos steht. Im Giebelfeld ist ein rechteckiger Rahmen erhalten, der vielleicht ein Medaillon oder eine Inschrift trug. Auf dem rückwärtigen Giebelfeld sind drei Reliefs zu erkennen, die ein Schwert, einen Schild und möglicherweise einen Skorpion darstellen. Hansgerd Hellenkemper und Friedrich Hild halten eine Deutung der Reliefs als Wehrgehänge für möglich, weisen allerdings auf schlechte Lichtverhältnisse hin. Von den Säulen kragen auf halber Höhe vier Konsolen hervor, die vermutlich Büsten oder Statuen der Grabinhaber trugen.

In der Grabkammer waren in zwei Ebenen die Grablegen angeordnet, von denen nichts erhalten ist. Lediglich die Konsolen, auf denen die obere Ebene auflag, sind noch vorhanden. Die Kammer wurde wohl in der frühen Neuzeit als Wohnraum genutzt. Dazu wurde auf den Konsolen eine Decke aus Holzbalken eingezogen sowie an der Rückwand ein Kamin eingemauert. Dessen Abzug wurde in die Rückwand des Grabhauses gebrochen. Diese Art der Nachnutzung ist aus mittelalterlicher Zeit von Burgen in Kilikien bekannt, bei antiken Bauten allerdings erst aus der Zeit der Neubesiedlung durch türkische Halbnomaden im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert.
An die Rückseite des Grabbaus schließen Mauern an, die zu einem mindestens zweistöckigen Gebäude gehören. Weitere Mauerreste in der näheren Umgebung sowie Zisternen und die Ruinen einer Ölmühle lassen sich einem landwirtschaftlichen Gut der spätrömisch-frühbyzantinischen Zeit zuordnen.
Hellenkemper und Hild datieren das Grab, wie die meisten römischen Grabbauten im Rauen Kilikien, ins 2. oder die erste Hälfte des 3. Jahrhunderts.

Worauf die oft gebrauchte volkstümliche Bezeichnung "Mausoleum des furchtlosen Königs" zurückgeht, lässt sich nicht klären.

Literatur
 Hansgerd Hellenkemper, Friedrich Hild: Neue Forschungen in Kilikien. Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für die Tabula Imperii Byzantini Band 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 1986 S. 57–58 ISBN 3700107714

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 Mezgit kale, le mausolée du roi sans peur (Bilder)

Einzelnachweise

Archäologischer Fundplatz in der Türkei
Kilikien
Römische Grabstätte
Grabbau in Asien
Grabbau in der Türkei
Bauwerk in Silifke
Archäologischer Fundplatz in Asien

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