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Johnson's cat casts a long shadow
Posted on January 12, 2021 January 15, 2021 by andrew in Further Afield
FEW cats can boast such a lasting legacy as Samuel Johnson's Hodge.
Immortalised in a statue, poetry and various literary references, Hodge was described by his owner as "a very fine cat indeed", although relatively little is actually known about the favoured feline in question.
The most frequently quoted reference is from his friend James Boswell's biography, The Life of Samuel Johnson, published in 1791 and unique for the period in that it directly incorporated conversations Boswell had noted down, along with far more personal and human details than contemporary readers were accustomed to reading.
Among such revelations was Boswell's recollection of how Johnson treated his feline companions: "I shall never forget the indulgence with which he treated Hodge, his cat: for whom he himself used to go out and buy oysters."
He goes on to explain that Johnson's logic behind this was that if he got his servants to do this job, they would begin to hate the spoilt cat – a scene recreated with a bronze statue outside Johnson's London home in Gough Square which was unveiled in 1997 and displays Hodge posing proudly on the famous dictionary next to a pair of empty oyster shells.
This is the charming 300-year-old townhouse, now a museum, where Dr Johnson lived and worked in the middle of the 18th century, compiling his great Dictionary of the English Language in the garret.
Although Hodge is undoubtedly the most famous of Johnson's cats, the writer did have other four-legged friends, including Lily, a 'white kitling' who was 'very well behaved'.
But it was Hodge who was so vividly described by Boswell: "I recollect [Hodge] one day scrambling up Dr Johnson's breast, apparently with much satisfaction, while my friend smiling and half-whistling, rubbed down his back, and pulled him by the tail; and when I observed he was a fine cat, saying, 'Why yes, Sir, but I have had cats whom I liked better than this,' and then as if perceiving Hodge to be out of countenance, adding, 'but he is a very fine cat, a very fine cat indeed'."
Another friend of Johnson's, the poet Percival Stockdale, wrote an ornate elegy in homage to Hodge in 1778:
Shall not his worth a poem fill,
Who never thought, nor uttered ill;
Who by his manner when caressed
Warmly his gratitude expressed;
And never failed his thanks to purr
Whene'er he stroaked his sable furr?
But that wasn't the last time that Hodge would be remembered in print. Wood engraver and illustrator Yvonne Skargon wrote Lily & Hodge & Dr Johnson in 1991, juxtaposing a series of engravings of the two cats accompanied by quotations from Johnson.
And the writer William Boyd weaved an even more surreal reference into his 2002 novel Any Human Heart when his hedonistic protagonist, Logan Mountstuart, inadvertently sparks a furious argument in the Pyrenees through a chance reference to Hodge, who happens to bear the same name as his travelling companion.
More recently, Robin Saikia has paid his own tribute to Hodge through a dramatic monologue in which Samuel Johnson celebrates the life of his favourite cat and gives a spirited account of his adventures in London coffee houses.
Back in Gough Square, thanks to the sculptor Jon Bickley, Hodge (actually modelled on his own cat, Thomas Henry) is permanently ensconced with his oyster shells round the corner from Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, a pub renowned for its literary associations and maze of atmospherically gloomy bars.
Historically it's always been a popular meeting place for writers and journalists, somehow epitomising the spirit of that most famous of all Johnson quotes: "Sir, when a man is tired of London he is tired of life: for there is in London all that life can afford."
Arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history, the poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer and editor found popularity and success when monumental dictionary was finally published in 1755 after nine years of work.
But for some, his fondness for animals was just another demonstration of his underlying compassion, or as Boswell put it, "the real humanity and gentleness of his disposition".
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Adam roams the Garden of England
Posted on October 18, 2020 October 18, 2020 by andrew in Further Afield
A MAJOR problem with exploring unfamiliar territory is knowing where to find the most rewarding rambles.
Where does that footpath lead? How can you discover the best views, magical country lanes or historic villages? How do you find just the right spot for bluebells, butterflies, berries or birdsong, depending on the season?
SPLASH OF COLOUR: Letts Green near Sevenoaks PICTURE: Adam McCulloch
That's where journalist and musician Adam McCulloch can help take the guesswork out of a day trip to Kent.
Over the past few years, his Kent Walks Near London website has been building up a library of favourite rambles around the Garden of England, and it now boasts handy downloadable guides to more than two dozen walks, all between 2.5 and six miles long.
From wintry rambles on the North Downs Way to sunny afternoons looking out over the Weald, this is a delightful introduction to some of the county's strikingly different landscapes.
PERFECT DAY: a winter sunset near Dunstall Farm PICTURE: Adam McCulloch
Born in the Petts Wood area of south-east London, Adam spent his childhood gallivanting around the nearby countryside in pursuit of his family's two English springer spaniels – and, now 58, he's been enjoying the great outdoors ever since.
You might recognise the byline from the travel pages of The Guardian, but although Adam freelances for a variety of publications writing about everything from farming to finance, his walks website is more of a labour of love, incorporating an occasional blog and slide shows of some of the sights and sounds encountered en route.
He recalls: "I started to write up the routes and add them to the website in 2015. I'd been meaning to do it for several years before that, though. I was working at a large publishing house and a lot of my colleagues were from other parts of the country and some were from abroad. When discussing what people did at weekends I began to realise that a lot of people didn't really know much about this part of the world and how easy it was to get out here from south London.
WINTRY OUTLOOK: mist over the Darent Valley PICTURE: Adam McCulloch
"I was also thinking of university students and tourists who were curious about countryside close to London. I know that when I visit cities abroad I'm never just satisfied with museums, coffee shops, galleries and bars…I want at least one afternoon outside in the countryside.
"I feel strangely happy when I bump into foreign visitors in obscure corners of the North Downs enjoying a walk having ventured out on the train."
A keen cyclist and golfer, his rambles are focused on that part of Kent south and east of Petts Wood, down to Westerham, Hever and Chiddingstone and out to Shoreham and Otford, with another batch south-east of Sevenoaks.
The walks encompass a range of attractions, from castles, churches, hillforts and manor houses to atmospheric oast houses and monuments, rolling lavender fields or far-flung views over the downs.
ROOM WITH A VIEW: The Mill at Shoreham PICTURE: Adam McCulloch
There are helpful tips about public transport too, along with whether buggies will cope with the route or if dogs need to be kept on leads.
"The good news is that there are beautiful fields, woods and villages to walk in just 30 minutes out of town by car or train," he says.
Lockdown has encouraged people to stay local and walk more and he has seen a sharp rise in the number of people using the website this year.
"It's kind of gratifying to think people have found it to be a useful outlet at this disturbing time. Sometimes out on the walks I come across people using one of my routes, either with a pdf print-out or on their phones. It's always quite a laugh once they realise they're talking to the 'author'."
DISTANT PROSPECT: St Mary's Church at Chiddingstone PICTURE: Adam McCulloch
"One thing that I always knew to be the case and there's no getting round is that describing walks accurately can be difficult – people look at trails and hedgerows differently. An instruction that seems simple to me, 'Turn right just before a stand of trees' for example, is actually really open to misinterpretation.
"My partner certainly thought so when she did one route with me yesterday… she really helped me improve my description. I've learnt to really try to nail down directions and be as accurate as possible – I think it's working, no-one's had a moan recently!"
Away from the footpath and keyboard, Adam is also a saxophonist and composer in the jazz, funk and soul genres who has been playing semi-pro since the mid-1980s and organises bands for weddings and other events from private house parties to festivals.
ICY BLAST: deer in the thaw at Knole PICTURE: Adam McCulloch
But he's never happier than out on a walk – either alone or in company – and finding his interest piqued by an unusual wildflower, bird or insect.
"I love a social walk even more than a solitary one," he admits – at the same time modestly confessing that the fascination with trying to recognise unfamiliar flowers in the hedgerows might just be compensation for him being a "pretty useless" gardener.
Birds have become an interest too, with expert local birder 'Dave' obligingly helping to identify bird calls and explain the connection between various species and different habitats and terrain.
IN TOUCH WITH THE PAST: St Peter's Church at Hever PICTURE: Adam McCulloch
Adam has always paid a lot of attention to what's happening in the sky, too. "Since I was a kid I've always tried to work out what was likely to happen to the weather from reading cloud formations," he says.
"I haven't lost this childlike fascination with weather. The sky in the UK is ever-changing, constantly offers up clues and is often as beautiful as the countryside. It's the greatest art gallery of them all; maybe Turner would have agreed."
WEATHER WATCH: the sky comes to life as storm clouds gather PICTURE: Adam McCulloch
History still comes alive here too, from following in the footsteps of Chaucer's pilgrims whiling away the journey to Canterbury with their tales, to visiting Churchill's home at Chartwell or the Roman villa at Lullingstone.
As Adam says: "These places are still magical, especially now I've understood how they chime with some fairly momentous history. Take the unassuming North Downs village of Downe (just 20 minutes' drive from Bromley), for example.
"Here, a short walk will take you through Charles Darwin's garden and, 20 minutes later, to the perimeter of an airfield crucial to the UK's survival in the Battle of Britain, where Spitfires can still be heard and seen.
HISTORY LESSON: Ightham Mote near Sevenoaks PICTURE: Adam McCulloch
"And just down the road are the remains of an oak tree – the Wilberforce Oak – under which in 1787 Pitt the Younger and Wilberforce discussed ending the slave trade."
There you have it, then: medieval pilgrims, old flint churches, soaring birds of prey, big skies, long views and a chance to come face to face with history – what more could you ask for from a quick trip round the M25?
With almost 30 routes described, Adam relies on other walkers to let him know when something has changed.
"The worst 'change' I've come across was when a beautiful rewilded meadow on my Downe walk was flattened by a farmer all of a sudden with all wildlife utterly eradicated. It had become a wonderful place full of wildflowers, grasses and hawthorn with healthy numbers of yellowhammers, mammals and insects.
KENT SKYLINE: oast houses at Chiddingstone PICTURE: Adam McCulloch
"But I guess the land changed hands and suddenly there was a winter crop of something in there, right up to the edge of the woods, and the path became a muddy mess.
"To balance that, a golf course that walkers had to cross on the Fackenden Down and Valleys East of Shoreham routes was closed down a few years back and has rewilded beautifully, a magical chalk downs landscape full of life.
"Those are probably the two walks I do most often – the train stops right where the path starts in Shoreham (Kent, not the West Sussex one!) and so 40 minutes after leaving Peckham you are in a remote-feeling natural wonderland of beech, yew, birdsong and searing timeless views.
ESCAPE FROM THE CITY: a stag at Knole PICTURE: Adam McCulloch
"That's what the site's all about," he says. "To take you out of yourself and your neighbourhood and plonk you somewhere very different, yet very accessible."
Adam's website welcomes donations from those who find his downloadable guides useful. You can follow him on Twitter @kentwalkslondon.
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Autumn adventures on the water
Posted on October 8, 2020 October 8, 2020 by andrew in Further Afield
THE trees are changing colour, the nights are drawing in – what better time of year to take a relaxing break away from the crowds and explore Britain's beautiful waterways?
That's the message from the Canal and River Trust this autumn, especially for those struggling to recharge their batteries amid the stresses of coronavirus lockdowns.
For a self-catering staycation with a difference away from busy tourist areas, canal boat holidays offer a great opportunity to get back to what matters: spending time with family or friends, enjoying the natural world and being as lazy or as active as you like, walking, cycling, fishing or even canoeing if the fancy takes you.
The canals and rivers are beautiful at this time of year and offer plenty of scope to explore, with hire boat companies dotted around the country who have been working hard to make boats safe in line with the latest government guidance.
Research shows that people can feel happier and healthier by the water, which makes a canal boat the ideal option for a relaxing short-break escape.
You can plan your journey based around how you and your family or friends want to spend your days. If you love visiting attractions and eating out, go for a route that passes through a major city like Birmingham or Manchester. But if you prefer peaceful surroundings and spotting wildlife, there's a huge choice of rural waterways.
Your skill level and confidence in driving the boat may also play a part in your route decision. If you're new to boating, you may want to avoid areas with lots of locks. However, if you have energetic children, then locks will help to keep them entertained.
The trust looks after 2,000 miles of waterways and its website contains a host of ideas and resources for anyone new to boating – including free guides to fun local days out and comprehensive advice for beginners and where to find boat hire companies.
As well as offering the prospect of a more tranquil pace of life – and a greener holiday than jetting off to sunnier climes – boating holidays offer a chance for families to spend time together and discover some intriguing insights into Britains architectural history.
For those with a head for heights, the scary-looking Pontcysyllte Aqueduct in North Wales has been recognised with World Heritage Site status and is one of the most impressive engineering feats on the canal network (and one of seven wonders singled out by the trust for special mention). You can walk across or save your legs and go by boat.
To choose a location, you might look for a place that you've previously fallen in love with or an area that you have always wanted to explore.
The trust has plenty of advice for first-timers and advice about circular routes or "cruising rings" which vary in length and could take anything from two days to three weeks without the need to retrace your steps or worry about the return journey.
You can also check out social media posts and capture the excitement of your own boating adventure when you get home by tagging #CanalMemories on Twitter and mentioning @CanalRiverTrust.
The house Churchill called home
Posted on July 2, 2019 December 14, 2020 by andrew in CHARTWELL, Further Afield, History and Heritage
FOR more than four decades Chartwell in Kent was more than just a family home for the great statesman Sir Winston Churchill.
It was his refuge from the worries of the world, a place of inspiration for his art and provided surroundings in which he could fully indulge his love of nature.
The country house near Westerham boasts stunning views over the Weald of Kent which were the deciding factor in Churchill buying the estate in 1922.
And for National Trust members in the Chilterns wanting a change of scene, Chartwell is the perfect distance for a leisurely day out.
The legendary wartime prime minister stayed there until 1964, shortly before his death, and a prominent quotation around the property is his assertion that "a day away from Chartwell is a day wasted".
It's not hard to understand why the place became such a perfect retreat for the Churchills, and the visitor's book in the hall reads like a who's who of 20th-century history.
Those keen to find out more can get a timed entry ticket to the house where Winston and Clementine brought up their young family, and it is decorated pretty much as it was in the 1930s, with the library, study, sitting room and dining room laid out very much as if the family had only just left the room.
Everywhere there are mementoes drawn from different periods in his life, and upstairs there are museum rooms filled with gifts he received from around the world, along with some of his extraordinary collection of uniforms and other memorabilia.
Churchill may have demanded absolute quiet when he was working in his study, but his biographers recount how he joined in alarmingly strenuous high jinx with his children and turned the garden into a place of enchantment with a tree-house for the older children and a little brick summer house for the youngest that continues to delight visiting children.
In its heyday, Chartwell supported a staff of indoor servants, a chauffeur, three gardeners, a groom for the polo ponies and an estate bailiff.
Here, dinner parties would be hosted for family and friends, political and business associates, and celebrities from around the world. These were the highlight of the day for a man who inspired so many people through his use of language and went on to become one of the most quoted individuals in English history.
At these dinners, biographers recount how table talk, dominated by Churchill, was as important as the meal and the drinks and cigars might extend well past midnight – even though the great man himself might well return to his study for another hour or so of work once his guests had retired.
A recent addition to the displays at Chartwell, A History of Winston Churchill in 50 Objects contains a fascinating collection of the possessions accumulated by him during his lifetime, from personal mementos to gifts he received from friends, family and political contacts from around the world.
Those intrigued by his art can also find a huge collection of his paintings in his studio in the grounds, a favourite refuge teeming with his canvasses, many unframed and in various stages of completion, his oil paints still out and a whisky and soda poured.
Although he only began to paint in his forties, it soon became an engrossing occupation that would remain with him for the rest of his active life, with subjects ranging from local landscapes to places seen on his travels, from Paris to Egypt and Marrakech.
For those visitors keen to sample a taste of the great outdoors, livelier walkers can set off for a walk in the woods or even embark on a five-mark circular ramble linking the estate with the nearby Edwardian garden at Emmetts, also owned by the Trust.
The less energetic might prefer to loiter on the terrace listening to the twitter of the swifts and house martins, or soak up the buzz of insect activity around Lady Churchill's rose garden.
The estate dates from the 14th century, but the house itself was largely rebuilt and extended by the society architect Philip Tilden in the 1920s.
In 1946, when financial pressures forced Churchill to consider selling Chartwell, it was acquired by the National Trust with funds raised by a consortium of the wartime prime minister's friends on condition that the Churchills retain a life tenancy.
After Churchill's death, Clementine surrendered her lease on the house and it was opened to the public by the Trust in 1966, becoming one of its most popular properties.
In the 50th anniversary year of its opening, more than 230,000 visitors made tracks for the Grade I listed building – and a new generation may have been inspired to find out more about the wartime leader following the release of two major films in 2017, the biopic Churchill and war drama Darkest Hour.
Today, guests can explore the house, studio and 80 acres of gardens, although check the main website for opening times and individual entry costs.
Anyone prepared to make the journey round the M25 to Kent can also visit a variety of other Trust properties nearby, including the impressive medieval moated manor house at Ightham Mote, the remains of a knight's house at Old Soar Manor and the 14th-century moated castle at Scotney.
National Trust membership ranges from £120 a year for two adults living at the same address, and £126 for families.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — "Do you feel safe in our home?" Kathy Langston asked her husband, Navy Chaplain Mike Langston.
It was four years after his last tour of duty. Theirs was a family that understood deployment. Mike had been gone a total of nine and a half years during the course of their marriage.
But they weren't ready for this; the "best friend" relationship that had defined their marriage had become a distant memory replaced by tension and misunderstanding. Mike's answer to that single question was the catalyst Kathy needed to shift her perspective.
"That was the biggest revelation. This is not aimed at me. He's just reacting. There's nothing personal in it," she said.
"I came home from a war environment," Mike said of deployments primarily in Afghanistan and Iraq. "One day I'm on the battlefield; the next day I'm in my living room. How do you turn that off?
Mike was eventually diagnosed with moderate to severe PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder).
"A governor controls how an engine runs, and if you lose that, you lose that control. PTSD does that to the internal makings of our body. We lose that governor," Mike explained. "I worked with the psychiatrist, and I started learning different techniques and tools to help me be able to ratchet down that intensity.
"That started a seven-year trek of moving toward healing and hope," he said.
"In that process, I felt like, sometimes, God had abandoned me," Mike acknowledged. "I asked, 'Where are You, God? Why me? What's going on? Where are You in the midst of all this pain and hurt?' After I started therapy, Kathy started educating herself on all the issues of PTSD.
A hallmark moment in the healing process came in October 2014 when Mike was asked to speak at a Blue Star Mothers event for mothers of servicemen. There, he publicly revealed his PTSD diagnosis for the first time.
"Each time I tell my story it's a little easier," Mike said.
As the Langstons began to reach out and share more often, they realized there was a gap in Christian resources for those affected by PTSD. They have coauthored the book "A Journey to Hope: Healing the Traumatized Spirit" as a way to bridge that gap, not only for service members and their families, but also for churches.
A ministry of healing, Kathy stated, is the responsibility of the body of Christ.
"You are able to sit here in church and worship because men and women are over there getting scars and wounds," she said. "We need to provide a safe place where the love of God is shared with those who are wounded. In our world today, we're so busy and we're so clogged up with things that trauma is one of the only ways the Spirit can reach us anymore to bring us into a closer relationship with God.
Mike, now retired after a 36-year military career that included the position of commanding officer of the Naval Chaplaincy School and Center, is a professor of chaplaincy at Columbia International University's seminary and school of ministry in Columbia, S.C. Kathy is a professor teaching professional communication at the University of South Carolina. Learn more about the Langstons' ministry and PTSD resources at hopethrufaith.com.


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To Rev. Angela Cowser, "the Biblical Basis for Socialism Is Undeniable"
When Angela Cowser, cochair of the recently launched Institute for Christian Socialism, talks about her life experiences, she uses the word "dissonance." A lot. It starts with her childhood in a middle-class black family in Memphis, Tennessee and continues with her years at an Ivy League school. The same goes for her time as a community organizer, and now her role as a Presbyterian minister and seminary dean and professor.
She talks about the dissonance between the wealth-sharing examples of the Bible and the grinding poverty lurking right outside the doors of comfortable church sanctuaries, and the dissonance between the rhetoric of the American dream she learned in school and the racism and sexism she and others experience every day.
"For much of that time, definitely when I was a child, I had no language to explain it," she says. "I just knew it didn't make any sense to me. Starting with: Why did I end up in a middle-class home and healthy community, when I could see so many children did not?"
In the Cowser home, her father, a band director at a public school, instilled an appreciation for music that led to her playing violin at a concert level. Her social worker mother made it a point to bring home white colleagues to join the dinner table — not exactly the norm in 1960s Memphis.
The family attended an Episcopal church that catered to economically comfortable black families like theirs. But that church was located in the middle of the Foote Homes public housing complex in a deeply poor neighborhood. And the pastor was a white man, even though the pews were filled with black worshippers.
As she absorbed the message of the Scriptures read inside that church, her inner conflict only deepened. "The Gospels always resonated with me. Jesus always resonated with me. I always sensed that women could talk with him, that children could talk with him. That poor people — even though they were not in our church — could talk to him, and he would understand."
Cowser was eight years old when Dr Martin Luther King Jr was killed at the Lorraine Motel, just a few miles from that family church. As she grew up, she struggled to make sense of the assassination. She learned how unpopular King's economic justice and antiwar messages were in his last years. White Memphis fiercely resisted the campaign he died supporting, a strike by the city's mostly black sanitation workers for safe working conditions and living wages.
"Dr King was talking about race and economics, and he was preaching nonviolence, which is what Jesus talked about," she says. "But he was shut down and misunderstood by the majority of white people, who were mostly Christian. I had to wonder: Do those two words, 'white Christian,' even go together?"
As Cowser and her sister Valerie entered their teenage years, their parents insisted they work part-time. Cowser got a job at a restaurant, serving food and cleaning up alongside white working-class colleagues, serving the city's gay community in the wee hours, and enduring sexual harassment and discrimination. When Cowser, a star student and now a violin virtuoso, went away to Brown University, she continued to work to pay the bills, this time at the school cafeteria, the Ratty. Meanwhile, her fellow students flew to Switzerland for the weekend, or to one of the three or four vacation homes owned by CEO parents. John F. Kennedy Jr was a classmate.
"For me, that was when the rhetoric around meritocracy and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps all collapsed and fell apart," she says. "My roommates were jetting off while I was heading to work in the kitchen, and I knew I was not dealing with a level playing field."
At Brown, women's studies professors introduced Cowser to the concept of socialism. As she began to read Marx and Engels, it reminded her of the biblical messages she grew up with. She was not surprised to learn that Marx came from a long line of rabbis.
"By then, I had spent several years realizing that things were not right in our society. And now I saw there were other ways to organize an economy that reward people for their work and enable them to sustain themselves. Capitalism was doing that for some, but it was leaving a whole bunch of other people to suffer and die. And I learned that these class issues could not be divorced from race and gender."
After graduation, Cowser worked in a variety of jobs — managing symphony orchestras, programming computers for hospital systems, helping run a nonprofit that served the homeless — and earned a master's degree in international relations. She had left the church when she went away to college, repulsed by the disconnect between the Gospels and the world she saw in the workplace, the classroom, and the halls of government.
"I was an active Christian, though," she insists now. "I still followed Jesus. I just wasn't in a church."
By the time she found her way back to church, it was back home in Tennessee. Cowser was hired at Tying Nashville Together (TNT), a grassroots advocacy organization tied to Saul Alinsky's Industrial Areas Foundation. As she helped TNT push for after-school programs, improved public housing, and transportation, Cowser discovered she had a gift for organizing people.
She was especially effective with people in the faith community that constituted TNT's power base. "Angela was and is a hard person to say 'no' to," says Ray Sells, a retired United Methodist minister who volunteered with TNT. "She knows how to ask people to do things . . . and, if need be, to demand they do them."
Some of the congregations TNT sought to mobilize were led by pastors who were already eager to engage with political activism. Others took some convincing.
"Angela would build relationships with people in the congregation and serve as an on-the-ground teacher about how faith principles demand action to address injustice," Sells says. "Eventually, their pastors realized that they had to work with her."
TNT became known for pulling together large crowds of people to confront lawmakers in public settings, for framing its demands in moral and faith language — and for winning. Both the city council and chamber of commerce made significant concessions to TNT's demands, including establishing a youth outreach worker project and a Neighborhood Justice Center that mediated neighborhood disputes, restructuring the Nashville bus network, and securing $250 million in new funding to improve public school infrastructure.
Cowser returned to school to earn a doctorate at Vanderbilt University. She is an ordained Presbyterian minister and serves as a professor and associate dean at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary; she wrote a book and numerous scholarly articles.
But her colleagues say she is still an organizer. Through the United Methodist Church, she is organizing anti-poverty, pro-justice campaigns in eastern Ohio at the neighborhood, congregation, and community levels. And she pushes her seminary students and colleagues to transform the socially powerful churches those students will be leading into institutions that challenge income and racial inequality.
"Angela does not put up with idealistic fluff, either from her students or her co-instructors," says one of those co-instructors, Tim Eberhart. Eberhart taught alongside Cowser at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois, before she took on her associate dean position at Louisville Seminary.
Cowser insists that all social and theological discussions be grounded in the lived reality of people who struggle, Eberhart says, and she is not shy about invoking her own life experiences as examples.
"She makes it clear: we need to organize people, money, and institutions. That is how social change happens."

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CROWLEY: THE FLOP HOUSE ANTI-CHRIST (Cont.)
Who was Aleister Crowley?
What do you call a man who shows signs of psychotic behavior, defecates on hotel carpets because he thinks his feces are "sacred", writes poetry about molesting his own children, identifies with the Anti-Christ, and dies a penniless junkie in a flophouse? If you're a Thelemite, you declare him a god and hang on every letter of his writings of course!
Believing he was the Anti-Christ of the Apocolypse (Revelations), he set out to replace Christianity with a religion where he would become a Demigod of a religion with only one commandment: "Do What Thou Will". With Crowley's new religion (called "Thelema"), a person would be able to perform magic spells that work, become invisble (or at least Crowley thought he could become invisible anyway), take any drug, hashish, heroin, cocaine, etc., without fear of addiction, and indulge in every form of sexual gratification.
Crowley died a drug addict, never attaining this supposed mastery over drugs. I personally new a girl into Wicca and Crowley. She died a drug addict, just like Crowley. She spent some time in and out of rehab before she did. She left behind a husband and two kids...she was only 26. There is no telling how many people that have died from drug overdoses in the last 50 years have done so trying to achieve an unattainable goal of Thelemic mastery of the will.
Dying a drug addict is not some kind of magical power! Drugs can cause hallucinations, and no doubt many occultists really believe their hallucinations are spirits, gods, or demons. They aren't, they're hallucinations. [ Note: If you have a problem with drugs or alcohol or know someone who does,you may want to try oceanfront drug rehab centers.]
Crowley was born Edward Alexander Crowley in 1875. He was born into a rich family, an heir to Crowley Ale. His family belonged to a strict church called The Plymouth Brethren. Crowley was very close to his father, who was a minister for the sect. At age 10, young Aleister's world was shattered when his father died. It seems Crowley's later homosexuality was born out of the need of a father figure, in the classic Freudian idea.
Some people have believed Crowley's departure from Christianity into the occult and black magic was due to a repressive childhood, but by Crowley's own admission, he was a "rather spoiled little boy", and apparently his life wasn't as "repressed" as many would have us believe. There is an incident that occurred young Crowley's life that changed him which is usually overlooked by all but a few people doing research on Crowley. I feel it was this incident that started poor Crowley on his path to ruin.
When he was 14 years old, he was knocked unconscious after a mishap with a homemade firework on Guy Fawkes night, 1891. The homemade "roman candle" consisted of a large glass jar with almost two pounds of gun powder. The explosion shattered nearby windows, left Crowley with pieces of gravel embedded in his face, and knocked Crowley unconscious. He remained in a coma for four days , and had to wear a blindfold for two weeks for fear he would go blind from the flash.
After he came out of the coma, or so it is said, Crowley had a marked change in his personality and behavior. Some of his followers believe that this accident opened up what Colin Wilson might call "faculty X", giving Crowley "mystical powers". In reality, what it probably did was give him minor brain damage. People who suffer head injuries involving brain damage often exhibit a change in personality and psychotic behavior, and any trained psychologist or psychiatrist will tell you this is so.
Psychotic behavior can include extreme impulsiveness, aggressiveness and a disregard for the law and the rights of others. There is no one more important in the world of the psychotic than himself. Crowley exhibited these behaviors after his mishap. It was on that Guy Fawkes Night that Edward Alexander Crowley ended and Aleister Crowley began.
Crowley suffered from sexual deviations, which he wrote about extensively. He was bisexual, and a pedophile. In fact all throughout Crowley's writings is an obsession with sex. He was obsessed with sex to the point he might be described as a pansexual; a person who see sex in everything. He often paid prostitutes to have sex with him, from which he contracted V.D. He seemed to be willing to try anything sexually.
Crowley developed an interest for the occult at an early age. He started reading books on occultism such as Mather's Kabbalah Unveiled, and the infamous Book of Black Magic and of Pacts by A.E. Waite, and claimed at age 14 he even made a pact with the devil. He attended Cambridge University after he finished public school, but dropped out before graduating. He fancied himself a painter, a poet, and above all a "magickian".
There is probably little of what Crowley turned out that could be considered art or poetry in the traditional sense...or magic for that matter. A good portion of his poetry amounted to little more than dirty limericks. His "art" was one dimensional, and often pornographic. His magic could only be called magical in the minds of the most desperate.
At age 21 Crowley opened a "Temple of Satan" in a studio flat on Fulham Road , London. Crowley continued to study the occult and blowing his share of the family fortune on drugs and prostitutes and working to be "the wickedest man in the world" during the years along the way.
In 1909 Crowley started an occult religion he hoped would replace Christianity (it didn't) called "Thelema", which is the Greek word for "will". An example of Crowley's utter hate for Christians and Christianity can be seen in this comment,
"With the cross of Jesus trampled on the floor...Christians necks our footstool, Heaven itself Our throne."
Well, obviously Crowley had issues with Christians.
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first signing in Hot-lanta
Early on Saturday morning, I woke to find a sharklike Lincoln towncar parked on the lawn. I peeked through the slats in my blinds. Was I dreaming? I opened the front door and tiptoed across the grass. A man in a dark suit stepped out and tossed my suitcase in the trunk.
I called my brother and said, "Guess I don't need a ride to the airport."
HarperCollins hired the mysterious driver to whisk me to Miami International Airport. No time to bask in the rockstar treatment. During my ninety-minute flight, I folded and unfolded my notes, trying to remember what the heck I would say.
The SIBA conference (Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance) took place at the Atlanta Hilton. It's like the Cannes of indie bookstores, where everybody gets together and talks shop with the publishers. I was supposed to give a talk, but the panel's name kept changing, and I wasn't sure what to make of the sub-headline: "How people overcome obstacles in their lives to relate well with others."
Another Lincoln swooped to the hotel, under lights that pulsated like a Broadway show. In the lobby, a glass elevator rocketed up and down. (When you take a ride, your ears click. I half-expected it to crash through the roof and carry me to a chocolate factory).
I met Jen (part of the Harper PR crew...in other words, my guardian angel for the afternoon). She lead me through the lobby, past crowds of football-toting, linebacker types (apparently, some sports-related thing was also going on) and people in identical t-shirts (a family reunion?) and the SIBA folk (easily identified by their bib-sized green namecards, not to mention, tote bags stacked with hardcovers).
I told Jen, "I'm just going to talk a little about myself and the book. Is that okay?"
Her eyes crackled with humor. "I hope so."
"I mean, I'm not supposed to give a motivational speech or something, right?"
She told me: everything's going to be fine. And I believed her.
I slumped in the last row, messing with my notes. I kept thinking: Okay. I'm a professor. I can handle talking to large groups of people. Then I looked up and saw an elegant woman with Afro-puffed curls, walking, almost in slow motion, up the stage. She sat behind a table decorated in yards of fabric, like Victorian curtains, and took out a poster--the foam-backed kind that fold and stand on their own. On the front was her bookcover and her Official Author Photo.
I glanced back at my notes. Luckily, I had brought my own goodies: a tin full of pinback buttons, business cards, and a plastic sewing kit (thank you, Container Store) that I had pimped out to fit my stickers and flyers. Everything fit in my TCO tote bag...except for my own foam-backed poster (which didn't fold...and, due to its ginormous size, I had to stuff in a portfolio binder. How I managed to cram my "pieces of flair" into my suitcase that morning, I have no clue.
"I think you should go up now," said Jen. She gave me a smile and I smiled back.
I plunked myself between two older gentlemen. On my right sat a guy who wrote suspense novels. "It's all about a hero saving the world from the bad guys," he boomed. On my left sat a bearded man who had written the same book (something about civil rights in the 1950s) multiple times. "Not revisions," he said. "First person, second person, third person, fourth person..."
The other authors got into a heated discussion about books from the south, and what stereotypes New Englanders might have of them. When it was my turn, I talked about the "novels" I stapled together as a kid, stories about talking lobsters and identical sisters who lived in a treehouse. I wondered if the people in the audience (who kept trickling through the door, filling up the place) would think I was crazy. But they laughed a lot...a good sign. Or not.
On the way out, Jen said, "You did great." A woman came up to me and said, "I liked your speech!" (Is that what it was?) and someone handed me a raffle ticket. The panel's moderator, Sally, announced that she had read my book's ending twice. My eyes burned as I scribbled on her copy (my first signature...ever. I haven't even autographed my parents' copy yet).
Next, Jen lead me into the ballroom, where all the authors sat at a U-shaped clump of tables and signed stacks of books. I sat beside the Suspense Guy again. He watched me unload my TCO stickers and cracked jokes about "shameless self-promotion" while banging his fist on the table.
"Sell books!" he bellowed whenever somebody crept over to the table. Across from us, I spotted a woman in a feather-trimmed hat (I was getting a vampire/Goth vibe about her) and assorted men in ties. I stared at the mountain of TCO books. Two years of my life.
A few people picked up my book and asked, "What age is this for?" and I 'd say, "Everybody.") The first crop of book-seekers were the store owners, then a general stampede hit the floor. Now I know how Anne Rice must feel (in high-school, I used to wait hours, just to see her pull up to a bookstore in a coffin). I signed so many books, I couldn't move fast enough. Fortunately, another Harper PR angel, Elyse, stood over my shoulder, flipping the pages open like a concert pianist.
I signed whatever they wanted: For my wife. For my niece. For "Book Lover." For Kay-with-a-K. Or "Just your signature please." I kept reminding myself: Don't get used to this.
SIBA is the perfect place for an unknown author (yours truly) to meet and greet with a slew of indie bookstore owners. I had a blast talking to everybody (We're all geeks and we love books). Even the grumpy old guy who marched up to my table, grabbed a copy of my book, and blurted, "This looks like chick lit. I don't know who would be interested in it."
"Do you know anyone in high-school?" I asked, freezing the grin on my face.
"Nope."
"Do you know anyone in college?"
"How about your wife?"
He shrugged and walked away.
When the last stragglers filed out, I turned to Elyse and said, "I've got another signing in Decatur. Is someone supposed to go with me?"
She blinked. "Is this your first signing at a bookstore?"
"I'll go with you," she said.
We got a little lost on the way to Decatur (the driver kept smacking into dead ends), but we made it to the Little Shop of Stories. Call it my dream bookstore: loaded with comfy couches, overstuffed armchairs, and its own ice-cream parlor. The awesome owner, Diane, shook my hand and piled a stack of books on a table. I took out my pen and signed every last copy. Diane mentioned her new book club for teens (Glamor Girls). They will post reviews online, which is a very cool idea.
As I turned to snap a picture of a giant frog (you know my thing for amphibians), I heard my name and spun around. To my surprise, it was Carol, a MySpace friend.
"You came to see me?" I asked. "Wow."
"I just got my Internet back and saw your message," she said.
"And I'm standing here, taking pictures of a frog," I said, laughing.
After the signing, I sat with Elyse in a cafe called Sage, just a block from the Little Shop. After the long day, we finally had a chance to breathe. There was something going on in a park across the road: kids chasing balloons and blowing soap bubbles. Music trickled on the breeze.
"What a lovely night," said Elyse, who ordered "fancy" fried green tomatoes with goat cheese (She pronounced it, "toe-mah-toes," which made me smile) and okra with globs of Tabasco sauce. Elyse wanted a "southern experience." I was content, chowing down on fries and a glass of beer.
By the following afternoon, I'd be back in Miami, feeling like I'd just woken from a beautiful dream. I'd have new classes to teach (and my own car to weave through rush hour traffic). I'd sit at the computer, typing alone in my room. But check out the bottom of my shoes. They're covered in red Georgia clay...and I refuse to wash it off.
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Architect Adaeze Cadet: Dream It, Work Hard, Grind 'Til I Own It
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Architect Adaeze Cadet has risen to the top of her field, but she won't stop climbing until she's cleared the path for other Black women to join her at the summit.
03.18.21 | By Design Milk Staff
HKS Principal and Design Director Adaeze Cadet on site at h Club in Los Angeles \\\ Photo: Morgan Pansing
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Two Lincoln Tower Residences in Bellevue, designed by HKS \\\ Photo: Garrett Rowland
Jasper Residential Tower, by HKS \\\ Photo: Blake Marvin
h Club Los Angeles, by HKS architects and Interior Designer Russell Sage Studio \\\ Photo: Benny Chan
Thanks to Kimberly Zerkel and Morgan Pansing for words and photos. Shot on location at H Club LA.
Adaeze Cadet knows that play matters.
As a child in Sacramento, the now-LA-based Principal and Design Director at renowned architecture firm HKS didn't foresee the Master's Degree, the board-room meeting notes, and teetering skyscrapers like San Francisco's The Jasper with her name on it. She just knew that she really loved playing with her box of LEGO bricks.
At nine years old, in the midst of her block creations, she stood and declared to her family that she was going to be an architect. Instead of balking at her goal or treating it as a passing phase, Cadet's parents understood how important it was to encourage it.
"My mom would take me to open houses so I could nit-pick over the design," the architect and designer says while recalling her upbringing. "She got me a bunch of architecture books and really helped to foster that."
But it was while flipping through these books that Cadet first recognized a problem that continues to plague the architectural world.
Adaeze Cadet on site at h Club in Los Angeles \\\ Photo: Morgan Pansing
"Nobody looked like me," she recalls, "There are all of these great architects but not one of them, according to these textbooks, is Black or a woman."
Lack of representation and blatant bias led to an early incident that nearly undid the years of self-motivation and encouragement from her family. It started with a specific professor at Philadelphia University, where Cadet had chosen to start her academic career.
My first professor — white, male — got me to question if I could be an architect. For my whole life, this is something I wanted to do, and he just kept laying into me and making me feel like my design was inadequate.
It took the encouragement and praise of outside critics to finally remind her of why she was studying architecture in the first place.
Knowing that she had talent to spare but not a single moment left to lose to unsupportive faculty or alienating classmates, Cadet transferred to Prairie View A&M University, an HBCU, where her educational experience became transformative.
"When I transferred, there was a huge difference. I received a lot more support from my professors. I had camaraderie with my classmates." The need for connection and the ability to share her love of architecture with peers who looked like her was vital. "That foundation from Prairie View helped me have faith and confidence in my abilities. Which led to my success, which is how I've been able to advance at the firm."
And advance she has: In late January, HKS, an international architecture and design firm with more than two dozen offices around the world, announced that Cadet was promoted to Principal, one of the firm's most senior roles. This appointment makes Adaeze Cadet the first Black female Principal ever at HKS, an accomplishment that is considered both no small feat, and long overdue.
But despite an illustrious career, including a Master's Degree in Architecture from Prairie View and overseeing massive projects — from multi-family units to hotels and resorts — up and down the West Coast, Cadet has still had to face the many challenges of being a Black woman in a white-male-dominated sphere. Being talked over in meetings, having consultants question her work, clients who address her white colleagues first… the disrespect seemed to culminate in one particularly jarring moment. When introduced by a former client to a reporter at an event, she was asked if she was the client's assistant. Cadet had, at this point, been working for HKS for over ten years and was the firm's Vice President.
Being a Black person, we're taught to make white people comfortable. So even though I wanted to be like, 'What the f…,' I couldn't. Instead I said, 'I know, I look a lot younger than I am,' and laughed it off.
The emotional toll of inequality, on top of a busy work schedule, is enough to drain anyone's energy. So how to stay charged and ready for action? When Cadet feels especially worn, she relies on some well-chosen motivational mugs ("I have one that says 'Be fierce,'" she smiles), sewing, or Beyonce lyrics to get through the day.
But the greatest motivational factor is reminding herself of what she's known since childhood: that she is talented and is where she needs to be.
What has helped me throughout the years is to remain confident in my abilities, in the fact that I am here for a reason, I am at this table for a reason. I have an opinion and I have a voice that's just as valid as my counterparts.
She brings that confidence and love of problem-solving to her firm's J.E.D.I. (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) Council. And despite the "cuteness" of the council's name, Cadet is here to remind everyone that they are dealing with life-and-death issues. Of the many initiatives that they oversee, one of the council's main areas of focus is getting more BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) and women into leadership positions.
"Until you start seeing BIPOC and women in leadership roles, you won't see a real change," says Cadet."
Cadet emphasizes another lesson learned at a young age: that she would have to be twice as good to get half as much. When met with questions about merit, she points out that the BIPOC candidate is likely more qualified.
With that implicit bias, there's already a road block into advancing in our profession. So our industry needs to get more BIPOC into leadership positions so that they can make sure architecture teams are diverse and that there is diversity on the overall project team, partnering with BIPOC-owned firms. That's really where you're going to start to see a difference. And the data already suggests that having a more diverse team builds a better project and a better design. The team will have more diversity of thought, and avoid being tone deaf in certain areas.
One look at her recent projects — from Robertson Lane in West Hollywood to the aforementioned Jasper in San Francisco, to the Two Lincoln Tower Residences in Bellevue, Washington — and it's clear that Cadet is deserving of the limelight.
But as she ascends to the top of her field, her focus is just as much on the people coming up behind her.
"I've had friends who are like, 'You know my daughter is thinking about being an architect,' and I say, 'Send her my way.'"
Check out NOMA and their local chapters to support their efforts to improve DEI in architecture. There's also Beyond the Built Environment that engages the community through architecture to advocate for equitable and diverse environments. It's founded by Pascale Sablan who's another talented architect that has recently joined the Adjaye Associates Team.
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Want to have on your table natural fresh and fragrant vegetables, the amount of pesticides and herbicides that would not exceed the norm, and even all year round? Then you just need to build a greenhouse on the dacha. Do not have a large amount to buy it? Not scary. In this article we will look at how to make a greenhouse out of glass with your own hands, give drawings, photos and video instructions.
Glass greenhouses have been recommended by time as long-term constructions. For example, the French actively use such greenhouses since the end of the XVI century, and to this day. Be sure: the greenhouse from glass will be your servant for several decades.
Glass does not trap ultraviolet rays, which are necessary for the rapid growth of plants and the ripening of fruits, which, therefore, allows the maximum benefit from the energy of sunlight.
If multilayer or tempered (thermal) glass is used, then this construction can withstand the most adverse conditions (precipitation in the form of large hail, strong heat and even strong frosts will not be susceptible to construction).
The glasshouse is characterized by excellent thermal insulation. In addition, there is the possibility of installing heaters in them.
Of course, a greenhouse made of glass also has negative sides that must be considered when constructing it. For example, the fact that glass is a rather heavy material (1 m² of glass with a thickness of 4 mm weighs 10 kg, and 6 mm - 15 kg) should affect the presence of a solid foundation, as well as the construction of a sturdy construction - a frame. But unlike greenhouses covered with other materials, experienced amateur gardeners close their eyes to the shortcomings of glass-covered greenhouses, because, in their opinion, not only do green plants grow glass and bear fruit, but also get sick less.
The degree of illumination of the intended location. Since the greenhouse must be well lit, it is necessary to make sure that there is no overlap of the shadows of trees and other objects on the intended building plot. It is advisable to orient the greenhouse towards the south in order to ensure uniform distribution of sunlight and heat throughout the day.
Wind mode. It is necessary to find a wind-blown place, in the absence of which the building must be installed so that the wall attacked by the wind can be reliably protected or planted with a barrage of a shrub or insulated with special materials.
The surface layer of the soil and the relief of the selected area. It is necessary to find only a dry, as flat as possible place on a small knoll, otherwise there will be a decrease in air temperature and, as a result, a violation of the microclimate inside the building. It should also be noted that if you want to use the greenhouse for a year, then you need to place it in the place where you can remove the top layer from the soil. So, you protect your plants from winter winds and drafts.
Remoteness from sources of water supply and power supplies.
To to facilitate the construction process, it is necessary to choose a project, that is, a plan for the construction of a glass greenhouse developed before us, and to correct the drawings.
What should be foreseen at this stage? Much will depend on the architectural shape of the greenhouse. Since you will cover it with glass, and this material does not bend, the choice is narrowed. It is better to stay on a rectangular or multifaceted greenhouse under a single or gable roof. However, if you wish, the roof can be given a pyramid shape with four or more edges.
If you have a greenhouse of round shape sunk into the soul, then you need to take into account the bad the air exchange characteristic of this type of building can be improved by installing several additional side vents in the roof.
The wall shape of the greenhouse will help you save space on the summer cottage. In addition, you put less effort on its heating.
It should be mentioned that combined greenhouses under glass are the most popular. In this design for the frame take a bar 50 * 50 mm, and often glazed with old window frames, which will save you money. Someone puts the windows in the PVC profile. At the same time, the upper tips are qualitatively strengthened and an arched roof with metal trusses is installed.Cover the roof with polycarbonate or plexiglass.
Having decided on the shape of the future structure, you need to go to the drawings. Someone who will do the classic way - using a pencil and paper, and someone who has a basic basic knowledge of the PC, can make them in 3D, for example, using the program Google Sketch Up.
The drawings are a very important step in building a greenhouse, as they will help you calculate the necessary the amount of consumables and determine how much money you need to make it.
For example, let's take the draft of a gable glazed greenhouse made of wood and see what needs to be reflected when drawing up a drawing. If you take the standard format of glass 1600 * 2200 mm, 4 mm thick, and a bar of 100 * 100 mm, then we get the ideal distance between the vertical posts, which will be equal to 800 mm. It is noteworthy that it will be half the width of the sheet.
Since the building will be used in winter, the base should be raised above the ground (if 1/2 of the glass height is 1100 mm, then the base should be raised by 900-1200 mm).
The maximum slope of the roof covered with glass will be 15 o . Roof rafter system is preferable to build from a bar 50 * 50 mm.
So, you have chosen a suitable place for the construction of the greenhouse and calculated its dimensions with the help of drawings. Now with the help of pegs and rope, you can make the layout of the site under construction.
Go to the crucial moment - laying the foundation of the greenhouse. It should be noted that with properly flooded foundation, you can save up to 10% of heat in winter.
Experts recommend the use of strip footing, which provides the strength of the structure. In this case, the concrete is poured to the depth of soil freezing (from 55 to 80 cm).
How to fill the foundation for a greenhouse from glass?
Dig a trench 30 cm wide and 40 cm deep.
Next, pour sand into it that need to tamp.
In the trench lay out reinforcement for reinforcement and pour concrete.
Erect a plinth 10 cm high above the foundation, while building up the formwork. Using a level, level the top of the formwork and refill the concrete layer to the edges. To create a waterproofing, lay a narrow strip of roofing material or bitumen mastic on frozen concrete. Now, to a height of 1/2 brick at the base of the strapping, make a brickwork. You can slightly change the process of pouring the foundation, however, the principle remains the same - the use of mortgage reinforcement and waterproofing material.
The foundation should be additionally insulated from all sides with polystyrene foam plates.
Now it's time to make the frame. Recall that greenhouses made of glass especially need a strong and durable frame, which can be built from both metal and wood. The first is characterized by its durability, the second - environmental friendliness.
For the erection of a metal frame, pipes or angles of steel are used, and for a wooden frame, bars of 100 mm are used, which are ideally made of autoclaved wood and guarantee the long service life of the structure.
If the wood does not have the proper impregnation, then it should first be prepared by treating it with an antiseptic, then with a stain, and finally paint it. Most of them use old window frames for glazing greenhouses, and the framework for such a building is made of 100 * 100 mm bars.
The structure of a glass greenhouse with a wooden frame consists of upper and lower trim, corner posts and support bars.
The treated bars with a cross section of 100 mm, i.e., 10 * 10 cm in size, are installed on the foundation brick tape with an additional layer of waterproofing and fasten securely to the base.
Then nail the vertical bars to the horizontal bars at the four corners.
Upper tying is done by connecting vertical bars with upper horizontal bars.
After that, you need to nail support bars to the top and bottom straps.
Now you need to make a roof truss system. For central risers, screeds, as well as intermediate racks, a timber of 10 * 5 cm is used. The roof lathing and door frame can be made using 10 * 3 cm bars. Note that the frame with strut fastening is fastened with a cutting point and subsequent twisting with screws.
Farms gather on the land. Then they are raised on the frame and to avoid deformation of the roof, fixed on the slide. Finally connect the trusses with a ridge bar.
Now you can glaze the finished structure. The glasses are fastened with the help of carnations and silicone sealant, and outside they are upholstered with a rubber or wood bead. The roof is covered with glass from the bottom up, laying it on a layer of putty.
In such a simple way, you can independently build a greenhouse from glass. If you wish to supplement the information in the article with valuable tips, write your comments.


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Royal Australian Air Force completes training mission, departs from Luke
Col. Matthew Renbarger, 56th Operations Group commander (left), presents Lt. Col. Jordon Sander, 61st Fighter Squadron Australian Senior National Representative and new commander of Royal Australian Air Force No. 2 Operational Conversion Unit (No. 2 OCU), an F-35A lithograph during the RAAF Mateship ceremony Nov. 22, 2019, at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz. During the ceremony, pilots and leadership from Luke and the RAAF celebrated the end of the RAAF's F-35A Lightning II pilot and instructor pilot training at Luke and a start of a new relationship as the Australians return to their home to start flying operational missions in the F-35A. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Leala Marquez)
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Revolt Against Sex Rules without Rules
By Barbara Garro Last updated Dec 22, 2020
Good people see all the evil in our world. Others who have allowed evil into their lives are often burdened by guilt, feel so empty inside they abuse substances or sex. When these do not help, some seek suicide to end their sadness and dissatisfaction with life.
For example, back in the mid-20th Century, from their first day of school forward, children learned to love God and America by daily prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag visible in every classroom. Entertainment media's morality was enforced. No swearing or sex. Teen pregnancies, drug abuse and mental remarkability were a rarity. Now, freewheeling entertainment media has glamorized sin and sex into a successful lifestyle to desire.
How tempting is the evil lifestyle to impressionable young people who are still forming their person-hood? Being enticed to entertain every desire with society's blessing, the norm for them seems sin and sex.
Thinking before doing, knowing possible consequences, holding an awareness that every choice creates their lives seems old-fashioned. Schools teaching Sex Education and distributing condoms in grade school is its own evil.
When young people hit bottom, how ironic it is the ones with old-fashioned morality are usually the ones who come to their rescue.
How important is it to you to work toward giving back innocence to our children? All change for the good of all takes work.
For example, consider death to all who make English translations of the Bible after the John Wycliffe (d.1384) English Bible translation was banned. Next translator, Tyndale (d.1536) was strangled and burned for his translation. No one knows who wrote the English version of the Bible commissioned by King James I of England (d. 1625), but the updated version is still popular today.
Those who truly want change for the good of all refuse to give up because evil perpetrators want everyone to live a life of sin. 2.2 billion Committed Christians can put immorality sellers out of business by refusing to use their evil media. When immoral media becomes unprofitable, moral media will become the media of choice garnering profits.
Slowly, things are changing. New mega churches are succeeding all over the country. New Christians are populating Asian countries at an astonishing rate. How many Christians are watching the current Roma Downey A.D. Series, a family-friendly Sunday evening show? Praise God it is on NBC. Praise NBC for airing it.
The majority of Christians need to speak out with their votes to elect the moral into office. This will lead to a revolution that will cause a reformation that will result in a majority of morally right TV, movies, recordings, print in magazines, and the Internet.
Push the sex rules without Rules River with a solid commitment to leading a moral life, this day, every day and hope your example shows others the way to return morality to our world.
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My mission in this life is to help people discover their best selves and have the happy lives they deserve. That's now. At one time I was the Director of Risk Management for Comcast Corporation and am a CPCU. I have completed the Coach Training Institute's program for personal coaching and Coach University's Corporate Coach two-year program. For 18 years, I was a syndicated business columnist published in all 50 states and 18 foreign countries. I have a master of arts from Empire State College, State University of New York, along with degrees in Business, Finance & Economics and Business & Professional Communications. I am the author of Grow Yourself a Life You'll Love, From Jesus to Heaven with Love: A Parable Pilgrimage, and wrote the lead song on Australian Margie Ward's, Magic Night Music CD. In addition, my poetry has been published in 21 anthologies and a combination art and poetry book is due out in 2012, along with The Comfort of the Shepherd: Parable Prayer & Meditation. After 9/11, I quit my business writing, coaching and speaking life and took back my art, since artist was my first choice of career. My art has won awards and in 2010, I began taking on private art students and writing students. I also edit non-fiction and other genre books for authors and run The Saratoga Poetry Focus Group, operating for 21 years and counting. Just recently, I took back Garro Talk, my small business syndicated column, which is published in all 50 states and 24 foreign countries.
What do I do when I am not working? I am outside enjoying God's nature doing my daily walk, attending religious classes at Skidmore College. volunteering at St. Clement's Church, Mary's Haven, and Caffe Lena in Saratoga Springs, NY. And I read incessantly, non-fiction, poetry, religion, Bibles of all stripes, occasionally fiction.
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Přírodní park Dolní Povltaví se nachází v severní části okresu Praha-východ. Byl vyhlášený 1. června 1994 současně vyhláškou č.j. 608-ŽP/94 Okresním úřadem Praha-východ a č.j. 8/94 OkÚ Mělník. Území tvoří kaňon Vltavy a boční údolí pravobřežních přítoků. Důvodem zřízení přírodního parku je zachování tradičního rázu krajiny s lesostepmi a skalními stepmi a typickou kulturní zemědělskou krajinou. Významným prvkem je tok řeky Vltavy s vodní faunou a břehovými biotopy.

Součástí parku jsou chráněná území Větrušické rokle, Máslovická stráň a Kaňon Vltavy u Sedlce a krajinné prvky Klecanský háj, Klecanské sady a Draháňská rokle (též Drahanské údolí).

Parkem podél Vltavy vede pěší turistická červeně značená trasa 0005 z Prahy-Troje do Kralup nad Vltavou.

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Chráněná území v okrese Mělník

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(2176) Donar est un astéroïde de la ceinture principale. Il fut découvert le  à l'Observatoire Palomar par Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld et Tom Gehrels. Il présente une orbite caractérisée par un demi-grand axe de 2,93 UA, une excentricité de 0,05 et une inclinaison de 3,0° par rapport à l'écliptique.

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New Delhi: After failing to garner support on Jammu and Kashmir from countries individually, Pakistan is now preparing to rake up the issue at the forum of United Nations, mainly with the agenda of internationalising the matter.
Pakistan, which has become desperate ever since the government of India abolished the special status of Jammu and Kashmir granted under Article 370 of the Constitution and bifurcated the state in August, is sending its Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi to get the issue raised at the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
The intent is to get the world human rights body to make some critical remarks against India by particularly citing the restrictions imposed in Jammu and Kashmir after the historic step with regard to it was taken through a Parliamentary process.
India, obviously, has prepared to foil Pakistan's designs. It has sent its expelled High Commissioner to Pakistan Ajay Bisaria and some other senior officials of the External Affairs Ministry to highlight that Pakistan is unnecessarily trying to rake up an internal matter of India at an international forum.
India is expected to assert its well-articulated position that restrictions were imposed to save human lives and cite the record that not a single civilian has died there in the last one month in any police action.
India is also likely to highlight how cross-border terrorism sponsored and nurtured by Pakistan has caused bloodshed and hampered development in Jammu and Kashmir.
After the abolition of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, India has launched a diplomatic blitzkrieg, telling the major powers of the world as well as other nations about the rationale behind the decision.
Led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself, India has been telling the world that the abolition of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and its bifurcation into two Union Territories was aimed at ensuring all-round economic progress and social development here.
Modi has been telling this to leaders of various countries during his telephonic conversations as well as personal meetings. Recently, he did so in Vladivostok in Russia on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) last week, when he held bilateral meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.
Meanwhile, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has been touring several countries to convey India's point of view.
Pakistan's move to take the issue to the UNHRC comes after facing rebuff from most of the countries to its attempts to rope in third-party intervention to make India revoke its decision of August 7.
It virtually pleaded with countries like the US and Russia and also tried to get support from the Gulf nations by using the Muslim card.
Pakistan has even tried to blackmail the world community with threats of war with India and by saying that it would not be able to help in international war against terrorism in Afghanistan.
However, all nations maintained that they would not like to get involved, with most saying that it is India's internal matter and some others saying that any issue over Jammu and Kashmir should be resolved bilaterally by India and Pakistan.
The biggest shocker for Pakistan was the attitude of the Gulf countries and the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC), which have not fallen for Pakistan's bait.
To add insult to Pakistan's injury, United Arab Emirates (UAE), a major Islamic nation, instead of being critical of India, honoured Prime Minister Narendra Modi with 'Order of Zayed', the highest civil decoration of the country about two weeks back.
Similarly, Bahrain also honoured Modi with its highest civilian award.
Pakistan's "all-weather friend" China, while holding that Kashmir is a bilateral issue between India and Pakistan, placated Islamabad by getting the UN Security Council last month to hold "informal" discussions on the developments in the state.
But Pakistan's effort, through China, to make UNSC issue some statement against India, failed miserably as it was not done. Among the five Permanent members of the UNSC, the US, Russia, France and the UK maintained, individually, that the matter should be discussed bilaterally between India and Pakistan.
US President Donald Trump, who has spoken to Modi and Khan over phone, has been shifting his position between offer of mediation "if both countries wanted" and asking Pakistan to reduce tensions. But India has asserted that no other country can have any say as affairs related to Jammu and Kashmir are the country's internal matter.
In fact, Modi told Trump during their meeting late last month that issues related to Jammu and Kashmir were India's internal matter and no other country needed to take the "trouble" of getting involved.
Amidst desperation, Pakistan Foreign Minister even said that the issue of Jammu and Kashmir would be raised at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). However, according to reports in the Pakistani media, there were not many takers in the Pakistan government for this move as the learned people opined that the world court has no jurisdiction in the matter.
Quoting international law expert Taimur Malik, a Pakistani media report said it would be difficult to put India in the dock due to various provisions of the international law as India reserves the right on bilateral issues at the ICJ.
New Delhi has maintained that since Jammu and Kashmir has legally acceded to the Union of India in 1947, all matters related to the state are internal.
On abolition of the special status granted to the state in 1950 under Article 370, the government holds that the provision of the Indian Constitution was meant to be temporary in nature and ending of its applicability amounted to no violation of any kind.
India, in fact, has gone a step ahead by saying that any talks with Pakistan on Jammu and Kashmir would be related to the territories of the state under illegal occupation of Pakistan.
Those territories, including parts of Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan, were annexed by Pakistan by sending its army and irregulars on October 22, 1947, in violation of the Standstill Agreement that Maharaja Hari Singh, then ruler of the state, had signed with both India and Pakistan.
Worried by the Pakistani action, Hari Singh appealed to India for help and in the process, the Instrument of Accession was signed on October 26, 1947, following which Indian troops landed in Srinagar and started pushing back the Pakistani aggressors.
The then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru approached the UN against the Pakistani action. The UNSC passed a resolution, mandating a ceasefire between Indian and Pakistani armies. In the resolution, the world body enlisted certain steps, first of which was that Pakistan, the aggressor, must withdraw its troops and irregulars from all territories of Jammu and Kashmir. Thereafter, India would keep its minimum forces in the vacated state to allow a plebiscite under the supervision of the UN.
The UNSC Resolution No.47, adopted on April 21, 1948, read: "The Government of Pakistan should undertake to use its best endeavours: (a) To secure the withdrawal from the State of Jammu and Kashmir of tribesmen and Pakistani nationals not normally resident therein who have entered the State for the purpose of fighting, and to prevent any intrusion into the State of such elements and any furnishing of material aid to those fighting in the State."
The resolution also said: "The Government of India should: (a) When it is established to the satisfaction of the Commission set up in accordance with the Council's resolution 39 (1948) that the (Pakistani) tribesmen are withdrawing and that arrangements for the cessation of the fighting have become effective, put into operation in consultation with the Commission a plan for withdrawing their own forces from Jammu and Kashmir and reducing them progressively to the minimum strength required for the support of the civil power in the maintenance of law and order."
Pakistan, however, defied the UNSC resolution as it never implemented the first step prescribed by the world body.
Since then, much water has flowed, with India and Pakistan signing a number of bilateral pacts and documents, like the Simla Agreement of 1972 and Lahore Declaration of 1999, which have superseded the UNSC resolutions.
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Facebook's Going Public: What it Could Mean for You
Jan 25, 2012 Jennifer Williamson, Distance Education.org Columnist | 0 Comments
Let's face it: most of us are on Facebook. And those who aren't face pressure to join—not being on Facebook is almost seen as antisocial behavior. We rely on the Facebook to keep up with old friends and new, send out mass messages, and organize events—among many other things. Facebook has always been a private company, but the rumors are growing that it will go public in 2012. What will this mean for users?
It's not 100% clear—but what is clear is that change will have to come. Facebook may try to raise as much as $10 billion during its initial public offering and may go for $100 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal*. And to keep its investors happy, Facebook would have to continually make more money each quarter than the year before. That would have an effect on the way it operates—and the user experience.
Here's some speculation about what those effects might be.
More ads on your profile
There's no way to predict exactly how going public would affect the Facebook user experience. But it's difficult to say there won't be any changes.
In order to be successful on the stock market, Facebook must always make money, quarter over quarter. That can put a huge pressure on companies to make decisions that may drive short-term revenue gains, but not be so great for the company's future. Stockholders wouldn't have a huge stake in the company's future ten years down the line, as they can always sell their stocks; they may pressure Facebook to do things like increase its ads in profiles in order to drive short-term profit. Even if it also drives users away over the long term.
Fewer, less frequent changes to the user experience
Not all of Facebook's changes are popular when they're first rolled out. In 2006, when the company introduced the News Feed, it was reviled—now it's difficult to imagine Facebook without it. Still, new changes could produce short-term dips in stock prices—which would bother investors. As a public company, Facebook may have less freedom to make changes to the user experience that could ultimately improve it.
Then again, an alternative argument states that with more money from investors, Facebook would have more freedom to invest in technology and innovation—and customers could see bigger changes ahead.
More privacy issues
One of Facebook's most valuable assets is that it is a repository of personal information about millions of consumers worldwide. As Facebook faces more pressure to turn a profit, it could face more pressure to make its users' information available to businesses. Facebook already uses profile information to govern the type of ads you see, but these ads could get more invasive and personalized as businesses learn more about you and your purchasing habits through the site.
There's no way to predict exactly how going public would affect the Facebook user experience. But it's difficult to say there won't be any changes—as the pressures the company faces and its incentives will change. As the company faces shareholder pressure to turn a profit, it's likely customers will see some big changes in how Facebook advertises to them, uses their information, and rolls out new innovations—to either good or bad effect.
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Jennifer worked as a GED teacher for an adult education nonprofit for two years. Her students came from all walks of life, and ranged in age from sixteen to sixty-eight. During that time, she became knowledgeable about the unique needs of non-traditional and adult learners. She counseled hundreds of students about their higher education options, including online degree programs.