I sent a quick heads up to some of my prayer partners through e-mail; I wanted a confirmation that each of them would be available and ready to pray together on our designated day. One response came back and looked like it had been quickly sent off.
" I will try to make it…".
I thought to myself, try?
It really got me thinking about commitment, faith and calling.
First of all, I want to say that this is in no way a judgement on anyone as in reality, the person who sent that particular note made it and we had a blessed and needed time of prayer. Also there are times and circumstances that we are committed to a ministry or cause but in reality cannot be where we are called to be and that is all in God's hands. But the fact is the response prompted a few thoughts and caused me to examine myself and I wanted to share those thoughts here with you, whatever the worth.
*At the bottom of page is the Waves Sound box (Grooveshark), you can pause to listen to 25 seconds of wisdom from Yoda from this Star Wars Clip!
I love the way Yoda tells Luke in this wonderful scene in Star Wars how he must unlearn what he has learned.
I have found so much of my own life of faith has been, after all, a great UN learning.
So much of what had been helpful to survive childhood trauma had to be released.
Former strengths became strongholds as my spiritual formation began to take hold in this life. Wrestling with God over who would determine the course of blessing, ultimately sitting on the throne in the chamber of my heart, brought injury to myself and others. Learning to trust and submit came at a cost that was deemed necessary pain in the unlearning process. Learning to rely on Him alone by grace alone, through faith alone, seems easy enough to say, but is harder to live by, as Satan pursues those who are marked for Kingdom service. But He who is in each of those called is stronger than he who is in the world.
I look at what I am doing or where I am?
It has caused me to stumble in ministry and my walk more than once.
and sensing a glimmer of the great Glory before me.
run, shrink back, get sidetracked with temporal things.
Ultimately, I make the mistake that many make at one time or another this side of eternity.
I take my eyes off the Master. I forget His promises.
I forget what He has spoken in our sweet times of fellowship and intimacy.
his bold proclamations and fears.
And ashamed that I am Peter on His worst days.
and tripping on my own long tassels.
I recall the delicacies from days past.
So how do we turn our eyes back on to the one who is faithful?
Here are 4 ways I considered.
it is you who have strayed from God; God has not changed.
A wise friend said to me once when I was in a backslidden state: "Dawn, God has not gone anywhere. But you have." I was not very happy when he said these words, but he was right. I would have done well to heed those words immediately; instead I wrote a few choice descriptions of him in my journal.
Later, I recognized God had used this friend to speak truth.
Once you recognize you are the one who is offtrack, get back on track.
As one very fine friend said to me, "Do what you did before".
That was actually a biblical principal. In that the returning was to the simple acts of obedience and trust I had done as a "baby" Christian. It's amazing how many "good" things can get Christians out of the will of God.
to the Everlasting Arms of the one who will never fail, leave or forsake you. There is nothing more beautiful than learning firsthand the graciousness of God. Except that once you receive it you know how to give it. Therein is the key and last important component of our turning back.
His amazing love, grace and mercy towards you. In doing this, you are empowered to lavish it on others. Do likewise and be wise!
Dear Lord, Jesus, I am incapable of anything worthwhile apart from your saving grace, mercy and everlasting Love. Thank you for being faithful, even unto death on a cross, that I might live the life you have called me to. By your power, for your glory, learning as one who is blind, naked, wretched and poor, I ask for the riches of your wisdom and rejoice in your truth. Lavish us with your love that we might know what it means to love…by your example; though it cost us everything. We know it is the way to freedom now and forever. Amen.
*This is a re-post from March of 2012.
As I read it, I was amazed at how much of it applies to my life right now!
So from the Archives, I give you Yoda's Wisdom. May it bless you.
Amen! Yes! Yes! Yes! Do or not do. There is no try. Bless you girl.
So good, thanks for these words Dawn!
Yes, I needed this one this morning. We either do or we don't. God has given us all we need to succeed. Have a lovely weekend Dawn.
I will "try" to follow this wise counsel my dear friend. I too am guilty of just "trying" and not following through with my commitment. May God help me to unlearn these bad habits. Thank you for this today. I needed it.
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Tucker is an American television program on MSNBC that focused on politics, hosted by Tucker Carlson. The show aired from June 13, 2005 to March 14, 2008.
The Situation with Tucker Carlson
In February 2005 Carlson was signed by MSNBC to host a primetime show slated to debut in the second quarter of 2005.[1] It debuted on June 13, 2005.[2]Prior to July 10, 2006, the program was known as The Situation with Tucker Carlson. In the program, Carlson debated with a number of guests: one segment involving a liberal and one with former Around the Horn sports show host Max Kellerman. Kellerman would provide an argument against Carlson's opinion, regardless of whether he himself disagreed with Carlson. This style prompted comparisons to sports talk shows that use a similar format, such as ESPN's Pardon the Interruption. Tucker was produced by Bill Wolff, who worked with Kellerman on two other PTI-styled sports shows, Around the Horn and I, Max.
In addition, Carlson interviewed guests, most often politicians or newsmakers. The show aired on MSNBC weekdays at 6 PM ET. Commercials for the show branded it as Tucker (Live).
The show had seven regular segments. This format was generally followed, except in such extraordinary cases as the two episodes broadcast from London after the July 7 bombings and episodes broadcast during (and after) Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
First, there was an opening segment in which Carlson introduces his panelist and debates four to five news stories with him or her. Second, in "Crime Blotter," Carlson introduced three stories about "wrongdoing and justice served" and typically discussed one of them with a guest, usually via satellite, on a number of topics related to a situation. Third, in "The Outsider," Carlson debated a variety of news-inspired issues with Max Kellerman, who played devil's advocate regardless of his personal viewpoint. Fourth, in "Curious Situation", Carlson introduced a story in the news and was joined by a guest, usually via satellite and typically pre-recorded, to discuss this situation. Fifth, in "First Look", Carlson was joined by his senior producer, Willie Geist, to take a look at tomorrow's news. Sixth, in "Voicemail", viewers were encouraged to call in and leave messages for Carlson. Four to five messages, on a variety of topics ranging from stories that aired on the program to a drinking game for the show to Carlson's bow tie, were aired and commented on. Finally, in "The Cutting Room Floor," Carlson joked about non-serious stories with Geist, son of Bill Geist from CBS.
The original format of the program, prior to its move to 11 p.m. on August 8, 2005, initially had six regular segments. First, there was a segment in which Carlson introduced his two panelists and debated five to six news stories with them. Second, in "Op-Ed Op-Ed," Carlson introduced three editorials from newspapers nationwide and debated them with the panelists. Third, in "Free Speak," Tucker spoke with a politician or newsmaker, usually via satellite, on a number of topics related to his or her situation. The fourth segment followed the same structure as the first. Fifth, in "The Outsider," Carlson debated a variety of news-inspired issues with Max Kellerman. Finally, "The Cutting Room Floor" segment of the show remained the same.
After the show changed its name to Tucker and time slots to 6 p.m., "The Outsider" was removed and new segments like "Beat the Press" were added. The segments were later dropped, replaced with a panel discussion with two or three guests. It usually ran two-three segments.
When Geist moved to Morning Joe, the last segment that regularly featured him instead had fellow MSNBC producer and contributor Bill Wolff.
Cancellation by MSNBC
Tucker was cancelled by MSNBC and replaced with Race for the White House with David Gregory,[3] until December 2008 when Gregory became a moderator of Meet the Press. The last airing was shown on March 14, 2008. Carlson continued to be a political contributor to MSNBC until May 19, 2009 when he was hired as a Fox News contributor.
There were rotating guests, including MSNBC political analyst Pat Buchanan, The Hill associate editor A.B. Stoddard, Democratic strategist Peter Fenn, Newsweek magazine's Richard Wolffe and Democratic analyst Hilary Rosen.
Substitute hosts in the past included MSNBC's Alison Stewart and Chris Jansing, WABC radio host Curtis Sliwa, sports host Max Kellerman (himself a former frequent guest), and Willie Geist. Geist could be seen at the end of most editions in a segment called "In Other News," similar in format to "The Cutting Room Floor." On February 7, 2008, substitute host David Shuster made controversial comments regarding Chelsea Clinton, resulting in his suspension from MSNBC.
Broadcasts outside United States
MSNBC and NBC News programming is shown for several hours a day on the 24-hour news network Orbit News in Europe and the Middle East. This included Tucker and several other MSNBC shows.
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^ "'The Situation with Tucker Carlson'". NBC News. May 31, 2005. Retrieved .
^ Sam Thielman (March 10, 2008). "Tucker Carlson to lose MSNBC show". Variety. Retrieved .
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Social determinants of health and mortality
Health, life course and ageing
Family, living arrangements and social structure
Here you can find our past projects.
Contingent Life Courses (C-LIFE)
This NordForsk funded project facilitates the investigation of welfare, health and employment in the Nordic countries by aiming to establish a register-based comparative dataset that is to be made available to social scientists within public health and welfare research assessing health inequality in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.
The project title, Contingent Life Courses, reflects that people's lives and life chances are structured by important features of the social context, and notably, the welfare state. The database will enable rigorous analyses of how life courses are shaped by social policy, and assessments of the importance of social policy and welfare reform for health, welfare and social.
An attractive feature of the proposed database is that it will make possible comparative research on the living conditions and life courses of marginal social groups and how these groups are affected by social policy. Marginal groups, such as school drop-outs, adolescents in poor health or who live in poor or socially disadvantaged households, long-term social assistance recipients, lone mothers, cancer survivors and immigrants, are all small groups that are often difficult to reach, identify and analyse in conventional comparative survey data. Using comparative national register data will hence bring the trajectories and conditions of such marginal groups to light.
Simultaneously, the data will allow studying important population trends such as the development of health inequality, labour market exclusion, use of welfare benefits and social mobility patterns, in a comparative perspective. Nordic register data are pivotal to such an aim, as survey data may be biased or have incomplete time-series, and national register-based studies may not be sufficiently comparable. The higher prevalence and variance in social policy reforms obtained by assembling data from four different national settings constitute a much richer set of data than could have been obtained for one single country.
In sum, the project represents a promising and ground-breaking initiative that – if successful – will foster novel research and scientific excellence, and significantly improve the position of Nordic social scientists and public health researchers internationally. Furthermore, the knowledge that can be produced from the C-LIFE project will be of significant value for policy makers, and may also serve as an instrument for evaluation of new policy interventions and welfare reforms in the years to come.
NordForsk - C-life
Researchers: Lasse Tarkiainen, Kaarina Korhonen, Heta Moustgaard
Developing methodologies to reduce inequalities in the determinant of health (DEMETRIQ)
Social inequalities in health are a major challenge to public health in Europe and reducing them is a priority for the European Union. The objectives of DEMETRIQ are (i) to develop, evaluate and refine methodologies for assessing the effects of social, economic and health policies on the pattern and magnitude of health inequalities among socioeconomic groups, (ii) to assess the differential health effects by socioeconomic group of 'natural policy experiments' in the fields of unemployment and poverty reduction; tobacco and alcohol control; and access to education and preventive health care, and (iii) to synthesize the evidence from the findings of objectives 1-2, and to actively engage users in the research to promote effective exchange of knowledge for policy and practice. In our work package, we will examine population-wide behavioral change in terms of alcohol control. We will collect information on relevant aspects of alcohol control policies in EU countries, and carry out time series analyses of the impact of these variations on inequalities in alcohol consumption and related mortality and morbidity.
Key words: public health, social inequalities, Europe, alcohol control, policy, change, time series analysis
Researchers: Kimmo Herttua and Pekka Martikainen
Formal care and voting
Finland was the first country in Europe to achieve universal suffrage in 1906. In principle, men and women from all social classes had the right to vote in parliamentary elections. However, the poor who were continuously receiving poor relief from their local municipality were excluded from the national vote. The extent to which these voting restrictions affected the elderly and women is still unknown. Because the elderly were more at risk of earning less income because of a failing capacity to work, it is likely that they were more often politically excluded. This study will assess the proportion of those who were excluded from the vote because they had received poor relief at the beginning of the 1910s. The historic statistics needed in the study are held at the National Archives of Finland. The results of the study will enhance our understanding of the age discriminatory nature of Finland's universal suffrage.
Key words: vote, universal suffrage, elderly, care, socioeconomic position
Researcher: Elina Einiö
Inequalities in health expectancy across Europe: EURO-GBD-SE -project
Healthy life expectancy is a composite measure of length and quality of life and thus an important indicator of health in aging populations. In this study, we estimated educational differences in disability-free life expectancy (DFLE) for eight countries from all parts of Europe in the early 2000s. Long-standing severe disability was measured as a Global Activity Limitation Indicator (GALI) derived from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) survey. Census-linked mortality data were collected by a project comparing health inequalities between European countries (the EURO-GBD-SE project). The lowest DFLE was found among Lithuanians, the highest among Italians. Both life expectancy and DFLE were longer the higher the education, but educational differences were much larger in the latter in all countries. Highly educated Europeans cannot only expect to live longer, but they also spend more years in better health than those with lower education. However, the size of the educational difference in DFLE varies significantly between countries: the smallest differences appear to be in Southern Europe and the largest in Eastern and Northern Europe.
Key words: educational differences, Europe, disability-free life expectancy, long-standing activity limitation, Sullivan's method, Census-linked mortality data, EU-SILC survey data
Researchers: Netta Mäki and Pekka Martikainen
Socioeconomic factors, health, and the length of working lives
Information on factors influencing the length of working lives and the distribution of life years between work and retirement is crucial for policy development in ageing societies. We found that both working life expectancy at age 50 and the share of remaining life spent in work have increased across periods following the recession of the early 1990s, and across successive cohorts. The trends were similar across the social classes, but there were large differences in the numbers of years spent in various states: compared with upper non-manual employees, male and female manual workers were expected to spend fewer years in both work and statutory retirement, but more years in other forms of non-employment. The likelihood of retirement through any route at age 63–64 was higher among people who became subject to the new flexible statutory pension age between 63 and 68 than among people who were subject to the old system with a fixed statutory pension age at 65. The reform led to increased retirement at age 63–64 regardless of health status, but the change was more pronounced among people with better health. In absolute terms, however, people with poorer health still retire a little bit earlier. After the reform, high levels of education, social class, and income were associated with a longer time spent in employment either in the form of later retirement or participation in post-retirement employment. Otherwise, economic constraints including high debt, low wealth, and renting one's home were associated with continued employment both before and after retirement.
Keywords: socioeconomic factors, health, working life expectancy, labour market participation, timing of retirement, post-retirement employment, pension reform
Researcher: Taina Leinonen
Leinonen T, Laaksonen M, Chandola T, Martikainen P. Health as a predictor of early retirement before and after introduction of a flexible statutory pension age in Finland. Soc Sci Med 2016;158:149–57.
Leinonen T, Martikainen P, Myrskylä M. Working Life and Retirement Expectancies at Age 50 by Social Class: Period and Cohort Trends and Projections for Finland. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci published online 11 November 2015.
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Q: How to View a SAML Response in chrome while debugging using visual studio I wanted to view SAML response in chrome while debugging. I have installed SAML DevTools extension. When i browse web site in chrome and then press F12 to open developer tools, i see tab for SAML and i can see the response.
However, i'm developing an application using Visual Studio 2017, and the application makes call to external Idp to get SAML response. I set my visual studio to open in chrome, and start debugging the application. It opens in chrome, then i press F12 to open developer tools, however this time i don't see SAML extension.
The SAML extension is only available when browse the web site without debugging

A: Are you doing Chrome-specific work? If you can use FireFox I'd recommend using saml tracer (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/saml-tracer/), or just using Fiddler (https://www.telerik.com/fiddler). These are the best tools for SAML tracing in my experience.

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Enable extensions when debugging website in Chrome from Visual Studio 2017
In a nutshell, sign into Chrome that is opened - it will install your extensions, and persist your sign-in, allowing you to use the SAML extension.

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IPL 2022: 3 Important Players Of CSK Are Injured Ahead Of The Tournament
By CricShots - Mar 7, 2022 1:05 pm
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Before the commencement of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022, teams were usually concerned about the fitness of their players. Cricketers need to remain fit for close to two months and an injury to them could leave the teams fielding an unbalanced XI. For Chennai Super Kings (CSK), the fitness of a few cricketers has already become a huge matter concern ahead of the 15th edition of the IPL.
Ruturaj Gaikwad
Some of the crucial cogs of the cricketers are nursing injuries and it needs to be seen as to how they would cope with it. In this article, we take a look at three CSK players who are injured right now.
#1 Deepak Chahar – Right quadriceps injury
Deepak Chahar
Deepak Chahar has even missed the recent limited-overs series against Sri Lanka due to an injury. It is now said that he will miss the major part of IPL 2022 due to the same. It will be a massive blow for the CSK, who bought him for INR 14 Crores at the auction. CSK also does not have reliable domestic replacements for Chahar in the squad. Considering Chahar had also improved as a batter, CSK's batting depth will also be compromised. The entire dynamics of the CSK XI will now change due to Deepak's injury.
#2 Ruturaj Gaikwad – Wrist injury
Ruturaj was all set to play a few games for India but then he suffered a wrist injury, and he failed to prove his worth in international cricket. He was later ruled out of the Sri Lanka T20I series. However, as per reports, he could become fit by the time IPL 2022 starts. Ruturaj was the Orange Cap winner in IPL 2021 and will lead the top-order for the franchise.
#3 Maheesh Theekshana – Hamstring injury
Young Sri Lankan spinner Maheesh Theekshana is also nursing an injury at the moment. He is not playing against India due to the same. His mystery bowling will be useful for CSK. However, right now, the player is injured. That said, there is ample time to recover for the cricketer.
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Packing up my study
This is actually happening–my wife and I are essentially swapping spaces, so now I'm in the basement and she's moved into my old space–but it has felt something like a metaphor, too.
The larger context for this metaphor is that my retirement is on the horizon. Once this semester ends, I'll be working for another three years, and that'll be that. I still want to research and write after I leave teaching, so it's not as though I'll be leaving academe entirely; for her part, my wife thinks I'll still want to keep my hand in teaching by taking on a class or two as an adjunct, that I'll miss being out of the classroom. She may be right about that But my son is turning four this month, and it already feels as though I have missed much of his infant and toddler years; and, truth be told, the work of teaching has kept me exhausted and, thus, unable to fully enjoy the time I've had with him. Moreover, my wife and I have always enjoyed traveling, but we've always had to schedule trips around an academic calendar. (It occurs to me that in another year or two, my son will have his own academic calendar . . . ) In a few years, we'll have a bit more flexibility in that regard. It doesn't seem like all that long ago that I was telling my wife that, so long as my health held up, I could see myself teaching well past my eligibility date for retirement. But then my son came along and, in these last twelve months, the pandemic. As a colleague of mine told me the other day, "I'm so tired, I'm re-tired." (His last month with us is the first of June.)
So. The work of boxing up some things, of going through old files and deciding what to keep and what to recycle, of rearranging books and realizing I still need a couple of new bookcases to hold everything, has been something of a trip down memory lane . . . and a review of some purchasing decisions that, with time and distance, now seem less than wise. For one thing, I ran across a syllabus of mine from 21 yeas ago, when I was in my last semester at the University of Mobile. It was from an American Lit. survey class, and it was strange to read it again because its language (that of the various course policies, I mean) sounds to me a whole lot like I do now. Shouldn't my bureaucrat-ese have evolved at least a little in all that time? Or am I, at a subconscious level, pretty much settled on how all that should sound? I feel more lenient nowadays than I did back then, but my tone doesn't reflect that.
I have no idea what to make of all that.
Oh, yes–ill-advised purchasing decisions. Well, let's just say that there were a bunch of bad books on Faulkner published back in the day, and I bought a few of them. Actually, calling some of them "bad" is unfair; it's better to say that time has passed them by. Even accounting for the times in which they appeared, they no longer feel as though they have anything to teach their reader. Or this one, at any rate. So, off to Half-Price Books with them, along with hopes that someone wanting okay introductions to Faulkner might find them helpful.
There's also been some looking-ahead, in addition to all this revisiting of the past. We have talked about moving in a few years, after I retire, so we'll be doing all this again, in some form or fashion, before much time has passed. I will be older and casting about for things to keep me busy, seeing as I won't have teaching to do that. And who knows how all of this will look to me then as I round up and load/unload these boxes yet again?
"New" writing!
March 2, 2021 / johnwbuaas	/ Leave a comment
Over on the "Domestic Issue" page of this blog, I've just posted PDFs of two things:
Chapter Two of the book project, which is a comparison of the rhetoric of miscegenation in Faulkner's Go Down, Moses and Jorge Amado's Tent of Miracles, and which I consider the core of the book. (Indeed, much of it is little changed from its first appearance in my dissertation.) There I have a fuller discussion of the idea of heterotopias, and it also introduces my idea of Astonishment as a crucial moment in that rhetoric of miscegenation, as well as in New World writing more broadly.
An "Appendix II." It's a development of some passing mention I make in Chapter Two to African-American physical and narrative spaces in Go Down, Moses–how, as Faulkner made editorial changes to pre-existing stories to turn them into that novel and also added the long fourth section of "The Bear," all of these changes created those spaces. Yet Faulkner understands that just because he created space for those spaces, that doesn't mean that he, as a white man, cannot fully inhabit them.
The "new" in this post's title, by the way, is a bit of a joke. Chapter Two has some additional writing in it, but it's otherwise in the form that it's been now for a couple of years. It (finally!) feels finished, or very close to it. "Appendix II," though, is something that first came into existence as a blog post here about a year and a half ago, but my beginning to read Christina Sharpe's magnificent book In the Wake: On Blackness and Being led me back to that post and to develop some of its ideas a bit more. It still needs some additional material relating to Caroline Barr, the Faulkner family maid who died at age 100 in 1940 (the very year of Go Down, Moses' publication). But it, too, feels done in its essence.
Anyway. I hope that if you are so inclined you'll have a look, and I hope you'll feel inclined to leave comments and questions.
A link to a new archive: Stones That Calculate
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We've come to the end of our fifth week of the fall semester. I suppose that, under the circumstances, things have gone about as well as can be expected; certainly, we've handled things much better than some other places I could name. Campus-wide, we've had only a small number of cases of COVID among students, faculty, and staff, which is of course good; the administration, though, anticipates a spring semester much like this one: a mix of face-to-face classes and various hybrid formats. In short, it's been a busy time, which has kept me away from "here." A growing pile of books and articles here in the study, though, attests to what I'm going to call "research" for the book and for a couple of other, teaching-related ideas I've been kicking around.
Before I lose track of it, I want to post a link to an online archive I've just come across via Twitter, Stones That Calculate: https://stones.computer/ Its subtitle is "Collection of resources about post-digital materiality," which sounds like it would come in handy for people interested in larger contexts (and consequences) for discussions about our dramatic shift toward the computer as a medium and regulator of human experience. Here's its preamble:
By stones that calculate, we mean the assemblage of all information processing devices or infrastructures and their socio-political impact on our automated society. This website is an online collection of resources that maps academic as well as artistic perspectives which reflect digital conditions within materialist discourses. We have examined the research field on the basis of three topics from which we later derived sixteen aspects.
This archive is an evolving exercise to provide an entry point and simplified overview for inspiration and further explorations.
I'm looking forward to having a deeper look around this collection for pieces that might come in handy this spring when we talk about AI and machine learning in my comp. classes.
Adventures in creating online content!: Commentary on Ex Machina
A scene from Ex Machina
As so many colleges and universities have done this spring, ours has stopped holding its face-to-face classes and is shifting content and assignments to an online environment. So, before classes resume next week, I've been working up notes and commentary on upcoming readings and, in the case of one class that was scheduled to screen it after spring break, Ex Machina. I thought I'd share my commentary on that film here; it's a kind of thematic Cliff's Notes of the kinds of things I'd talk with my students about in class and/or want them to think about should they choose to write about it as part of their unit on Artificial Intelligence. I think it's useful. Even better: it's certainly not some definitive statement on the film (it feels like it could turn into something more substantial), but I had fun writing it.
Please feel free to contribute ideas, suggestions, complaints, etc.
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Neftali de Leon, La Virgen de Guadaliberty (1999)
Not that anyone, even anyone reading this post, has likely wondered why I haven't posted here in a while, but: I have missed posting here, even if you have not missed them. So, excuse some self-indulgence. I also thought it would be worthwhile to say something here about the current project I and some colleagues have been collaborating on at my school–which, as it happens, is one of the main reasons I've not posted here. Also, apropos of book-project news, I recently encountered this image you see here that contributes to and expands the visual and semiotic languages engendered by the Virgen de Guadalupe, a discussion that will be part of Domestic Issue.
"I was listening to myself": African-American space and the forcing of Faulkner's narrative hand in Go Down, Moses
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An arrangement of the spiritual "Go Down, Moses," which is the source of Faulkner's novel's title. The Wikipedia article for the spiritual notes that Harriet Tubman used this song as one of two for codes with slaves she helped to escape. I have no idea if Faulkner knew that history of the song, but for purposes of this post I do like the happy coincidence of Tubman's using the song as a means by which to create black space for the people she helped to liberate.
Here is part of the compositional history of Go Down, Moses as told in Heart in Conflict: Faulkner's Struggles with Vocation by Michael Grimwood (my source for this is p. 147 of Philip M. Weinstein's book Faulkner's Subject: A Cosmos No One Owns): after he added additional material to "Pantaloon in Black" and "Delta Autumn," Faulkner both created "The Fire and the Hearth" out of three previously-existing stories and, even more crucially, added the long fourth section of "The Bear."
What happened, that compelled Faulkner to engage in writing this additional material? Basically, Roth's lover is what happened.
(Here and below the fold follow some speculation inspired by Minrose Gwin's insightful readings of Faulkner.)
While, yes, it was Faulkner's conscious decision, when reworking the first version of "Delta Autumn," to have Roth become Ike's kinsman and to make Roth's lover the granddaughter of James "Tennie's Jim" Beauchamp, something in that new material compelled Faulkner to add that section to "The Bear." In that fourth section, we learn why Ike decided not to inherit his grandfather's plantation (something we learn nowhere else in the novel), and we learn of Ike's attempts to find and pass on to them the money bequeathed by Ike's grandfather to his (the grandfather's) black descendants. (Regarding the specifics of Ike's passing on the money to Lucas Beauchamp, Faulkner provides a fuller description of that moment in the material added to "The Fire and the Hearth.") All of this is past information that Roth's lover at least alludes to in the new material in "Delta Autumn." Ike signals his reluctance to revisit those past memories when he says to her, a couple of times, "Never mind that" (341, 343; except where indicated, all quoted passages are from this edition of Go Down, Moses). Yet, here we are in Go Down, Moses, reading these things.
In this post on the novel I wrote a while back, referring to Gwin's excellent essay "Her Space, His Hand: The Spaces of African American Women in Go Down, Moses" (found here), "Faulkner is not completely in control of the forces created by certain of his black characters' narratives as they push against the confines of the world in which they find themselves." I think this is especially true of what we see happening in "Delta Autumn" and Faulkner's post hoc emendations to, in particular, "The Bear." Ike may not have wanted to hear or think about what Roth's lover says to him in that hunting camp; but then again, it's probably the case that she does not much care what Ike thinks: her description of herself while on her sojourn with Roth, "I was listening to myself," could just as easily apply to her conversation with Ike as well. Even so, she sure gets Faulkner's attention. Still, as I'll discuss below, that additional material does not neatly close up what otherwise would have been narrative gaps in the novel. Rather, they reveal still other spaces in his narrative created by African-Americans that Faulkner himself only vaguely understands but, to his immense credit, lets stand as vaguely understood.


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Name and Etymology
Cultural Activity and Literary References
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¶Introduction
The Steelyard was the chief outpost of the Hanseatic League in the city of London. Located on the north side of the Thames, slightly west of London Bridge, the Steelyard was home to many wealthy German merchants from the 13th century to the end of the 16th century. It was the central Kontor, or community, of the Hanseatic League in England. The League defined itself as a firm confederatio of many [German] cities, towns, and communities [designed] for the purpose of ensuring that business enterprises by land and sea should have a desired and favorable outcome and that there should be effective protection against piracies and highwaymen, so that their ambushes should not rob merchants of the goods and valuables (Lloyd 7).
Plan of the Steelyard circa 1667, as depicted in Gustav Droysen's Allgemeiner Historischer Handatlas (Plate 28). Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Map of the Hanseatic League in Europe circa 1400, as depicted in Gustav Droysen's Allgemeiner Historischer Handatlas (Plate 28). Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
¶Location
The Steelyard was located on the north bank of the Thames, slightly west of London Bridge and Church Lane, and south of Thames Street. Though nominally in Dowgate Ward, the Steelyard merchants elected their own alderman in their own guildhall (Weinreb and Hibert 824). Of the guildhall itself, Stow notes:
These marchants of Haunce had their Guild hall in Thames street in place aforesaid, by the said Cosin lane. Their hall is large, builded of stone, with three arched gates towards the street, the middlemost whereof is farre bigger then the other, and is seldome opened, the other two be mured up, the same is now called the old hall.
(Stow 1: 234)
¶Name and Etymology
The name Steelyard may derive from the unit of measure, the stiliard, defined in Salusbury's Mathematical Collections and Translations as a weight sometimes of an hundred pounds (Salusbury 191). These weights could have been used to measure the weights of imported goods brought to the merchants. However, Weinreb and Hibbert assert that the name derives from the big scales used in the weighing of imported goods rather than the weights themselves (Weinreb and Hibbert 824). Alternate spellings and names include Stele house, Stele yarde, Styllyarde, Steleyarde, Stiliarde, Stilliard, Stillyard, Styleyarde, and the Guildhall of the Merchants of Cologne.
¶Significance
The London Steelyard, as well as the Hanseatic League as a whole, was important to English trade until the middle of the16th century. As Stow notes, the imports of the Steelyard merchants included Wheate, Rie, and other graine, as Cables, Ropes, Masts, Pitch, Tar, Flaxe, Hempe, linnin cloth, Wainscots, Waxe, [and] Steele (Stow 1: 232). Because the Hanseatic League offered a massive boon to trade in their buying and selling of goods, they were offered exemptions from taxes and tariffs (Lloyd 21). These exemptions aggravated anti-alien sentiment throughout England, leading the Merchant Venturers' Company to enter into legal and economic competition with the Hanseatic League from 1407 until the abandonment of the Steelyard in the early 17th century (Lloyd 294-295).
The Steelyard was a powerful economic force in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, but by the reign of Elizabeth, piracy and economic sanctions had rendered the once great Steelyard obsolete (Lloyd 344-345). By the early 17th century, the Steelyard was usually referred to in popular representations as a place of cheap Rhenish wine and bumbling Dutchmen. This reputation made it a favourite destination for those looking for a good time, such as Master Linstock and his ladies in Thomas Dekker and John Webster's Westward Ho!
¶History
Arms of the Hanseatic League. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
While Hanseatic Kontors had been established in England as early as 1157, the exact date of the Steelyard's creation is uncertain (Lloyd 17). Some historians claim that it was chartered as early as 1237, whilst others claim that its inception can be traced to Henry III's 1260 proclamation of the Hanse's right to establish a guildhall in London (Lloyd 19). What is certain is that by 1300 the Steelyard was recognized as the chief executive authority of the Hanse (Lloyd 37).
Towards the end of the 14th century, there were approximately twenty-eight Hanseatic merchants living in the Steelyard (Lloyd 75). The next century brought great difficulties to the Hanseatic League as a whole, as the merchants frequently found themselves embroiled in legal difficulties with the English government over piracy claims and expiring tax exemptions (Fudge 18-19). As Hanseatic historian T.H. Lloyd notes, the chief grievances of the merchants were:
(1) The levy and tunnage and poundage; (2) the collection of a poll tax from travellers entering and leaving English territory at Dover and Calais; (3) prolonged delays in obtaining justice; (4) denial of the right to mixed juries, especially in courts of admiralty; (5) denial of immunity from distraint for debts and trespasses of third parties; (6) delay in payment of goods purveyed for the crown; (7) exaction of local tolls at Southampton and Newcastle; (8) denial of the right to sell wine by retail in London.
(Lloyd 143)
Such grievances were favourably addressed in the aftermath of the 1475 Treaty of Utrecht (Lloyd 228-229). In spite of these successes, the English government remained largely unfriendly to the Steelyard, as well as towards the Hanseatic League as a whole, particularly in the 16th century: in 1519, Cardinal Wolsey, under the authority of Henry VIII, accused Steelyard merchants of selling unfinished cloth, compelling the merchants to find sureties totalling 18,800 pounds (Lloyd 253-254). Wolsey also threatened to levy alien rates of duty and taxation on all Hanseatic merchants, setting aside the traditional exemptions given to the League (Lloyd 254). Furthermore, the Steelyard was unable to compensate for the adverse balance of trade in provincial Kontors as it had done in the 15th century, leading to massive trade deficits throughout the 1500s (Lloyd 275).
Towards the middle of the century, the political situation in London had become increasingly threatening to the continuation of the Steelyard. In 1554, the Steelyard merchants complained that English traders were given preferential treatment by the crown and that the Hanseatic League was in danger of collapsing (Lloyd 297). The situation did not improve once Elizabeth succeeded Mary. By 1598, Elizabeth had formally closed the Steelyard, revoked all the medieval privileges given to the Hanseatic merchants in London, and ordered the remaining merchants in London to leave the country (Beerbühl 29-30). This last demand was later rescinded in favour of allowing the merchants to remain in London whilst subjecting them to restrictive alien laws that favoured domestic merchants (Beerbühl 30).
The Hanseatic property in London was seized by the crown but later returned to the merchants in 1606 by King James. However, after this devastating blow, the merchants of the Steelyard, as well as the Hanseatic League as a whole, never regained their former glory. Even though Elizabeth rescinded her decision to exile London's Hanseatic merchants, only eight chose to remain. In 1623, it was reported that only five still occupied the Steelyard (Beerbühl 30-31).
By 1632, the situation was even grimmer—no remaining Hanseatic merchants lived in the Steelyard. In 1666, the vast majority of the medieval buildings in the area were completely destroyed (Lloyd 345). Despite all of this, the Steelyard properties remained in the hands of the towns of Lubeck, Hamburg, and Bremen until 1853, when they were sold to build the Cannon Street railway station (Lloyd 345; Weinreb and Hibbert 824).
¶Cultural Activity and Literary References
The Steelyard operated as an all-male German enclave within London. Women were not allowed within its walls. The merchants and their fellow countrymen were forbidden from playing games with Englishmen for fear of quarrels (Weinreb and Hibert 824).
Steelyard merchants patronized German artists in London. Between 1533 and 1536, Hans Holbein the Younger was commissioned to produce eight portraits of prominent Steelyard merchants. These included Georg Gisze, Hans of Antwerp, Hermann Wedigh III, Dirk Tybis, Cyriacus Kale, Derich Born, and Derick Berck (Holman 139). Holbein had also been commissioned in the middle of the 16th century to paint two large allegorical pieces for the dining room of the Steelyard Guildhall, The Triumph of Riches and The Triumph of Poverty, both of which are now lost (Weinreb and Hibbert 824). Based on Holbein's extant pen sketches for the paintings and subsequent work by artists who sought to replicate the piece (such as Lucas Vosterman the Elder's own The Triumph of Riches and Triumph of Poverty), art historian Susan Foister suggests that the moral of the allegory of the work is that money is the source of sorrow, whether too much or too little (Foister 69).
Portrait of Georg Gisze, Steelyard merchant, painted by Hans Holbein the Younger circa 1532. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
The Triumph of Poverty, painted by Lucas Vosterman the Elder in the first half of the 16th century. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
During the reigns of Elizabeth and James, the economic power of the Steelyard was largely in the past. Thus, most references to the area from 1550 onwards tend to be satirical allusions to the League's former glory or jokes about the area as a place to get drunk on duty-free Rhenish wine.
A scene in the first act of Dekker and Webster's Westward Ho! takes place in a Rhenish wine house in the Steelyard. It features one of the characters, Master Linstock, getting drunk with his ladies and making fun of Hans, their Dutch server.
Thomas Nashe frequently refers to the Steelyard as a place of debauchery. As his narrator notes in Pierce Penniless, Men when they are idle and know not what to do, ſaith one let us goe to the Stilliard and drinke Rhenish wine (Nashe sig. F1v). Gabriel Harvey later responded to Nashe in a poem titled The Asses Figg in his work Pierce's Supererogation:
So long the Rhenniſh furie of thy braine,
Incenſt with hot fume of a Stilliard Clime,
Lowd-lying Naſh, in liquid termes did raine,
Full of abſurdities, and of ſlaundrous ryme
(Harvey sig. Gg2r)
In Isabella Whitney's Wyll and Testament, the Steelyard is also referred to as a place of drinking and debauchery. She notes that
At Stiliarde ſtore of Wines there bée,
your dulled mindes to glad:
And handſome men, that muſt not wed
except they leaue their trade.
(Whitney)
In Thomas Middleton's 1627 drama Michaelmas Terme, Short, the crony of a wealthy London cloth merchant, makes a brief joke about the misfortunes of the Steelyard. When asked where to send a worthless cloth, Short remarks that they could send it to Maister Beggar-land Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance. Use only in quotations in born-digital documents. (CH)[…] or his Brother Maister Stilliard-downe, there's little difference (Middleton sig. D2v).
Beerbühl, Margrit Schulte. The Forgotten Majority: German Merchants in London, Naturalization, and Global Trade, 1660–1815. Trans. Cynthia Klohr. New York: Berghahn Books, 2014. Print.
Dekker, Thomas. Westward Ho! The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker. Vol. 2. Ed. Fredson Bowers. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1964.
Foister, Susan. Holbein in England. London: Tate Publishing, 2006. Print.
Fudge, John D. Cargoes, Embargoes, and Emissaries: The Commercial and Political Interaction of England and the German Hanse, 1450–1510. Toronto: U of Toronto, 1995. Print.
Harvey, Gabriel. Pierces Supererogation or A New Prayse of the Old Asse. London, 1593. STC 12903. Reprint. EEBO. Web. Subscr. EEBO.
Holman, Thomas S. Holbein's Portraits of the Steelyard Merchants: An Investigation. Metropolitan Museum Journal 14 (1979): 139–158. doi:10.2307/1512741.
Lloyd, Terrence H. England and the German Hanse 1157–1611: A Study of Their Trade and Commercial Diplomacy. Cambridge: Cambridge U, 1991. Print.
Middleton, Thomas. Michaelmas Terme. London, 1607. Reprint. Internet Archive. Web. Open.
Nashe, Thomas. Pierce Penileſſe His Svpplication to the Diuell. London, 1592. STC 18373. Reprint. EEBO. Web. Subscr. EEBO.
Salusbury, Thomas. Mathematical Collections and Translations. London, 1661. Wing 115:17. Reprint. EEBO. Web. Subscr. EEBO.
Bethlehem Hospital
Bread Street Hill
Bread Street Ward
Broad Street Ward
Budge Row
Candlewick Street Ward
Castle Baynard Ward
Cheap Ward
Cornhill Ward
Dowgate Ward
Friday Street
Jews' Cemetary
Leadenhall
Lime Street Ward
Neville's House and Garden
Old Fish Street Hill
Shoreditch Street
Sugarloaf Alley
The Elms (Smithfield)
The King's Storehouse
Vintry Ward
Walbrook Ward
Weinreb, Ben, and Christopher Hibbert, eds. The London Encyclopaedia. New York: St. Martin's P, 1983. Print. [You may also wish to consult the 3rd edition, published in 2008.]
Leadenhall Street
St. Christopher le Stocks
St. Christopher's Alley
Diamond, Aric. The Steelyard. The Map of Early Modern London, edited by Janelle Jenstad, U of Victoria, 26 Jun. 2020, mapoflondon.uvic.ca/STEE2.htm.
Diamond, Aric. The Steelyard. The Map of Early Modern London. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed June 26, 2020. https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/STEE2.htm.
Diamond, A. 2020. The Steelyard. In J. Jenstad (Ed), The Map of Early Modern London. Victoria: University of Victoria. Retrieved from https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/STEE2.htm.
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Student contributor enrolled in English 4523: Renaissance London: Literature, Culture, and Place, 1540-1660 at the Ohio State University in Spring 2015, working under the guest editorship of Chris Highley.
Playwright, poet, and author.
Thomas Dekker is mentioned in the following documents:
Simon Eyre (Draper and Mayor)
TEI-encoded, diplomatic transcriptions of prose and poetry selections rich in London toponyms.
Thomas Dekker authored or edited the following items in MoEML's bibliography:
Bevington, David. Introduction. The Shoemaker's Holiday. By Thomas Dekker. English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology. Ed. David Bevington, Lars Engle, Katharine Eisaman Maus, and Eric Rasmussen. New York: Norton, 2002. 483–487. Print.
Dekker, Thomas, and John Webster. West-ward Hoe. London: John Hodget, 1607. Rpt. EEBO. Web.
Dekker, Thomas. The Belman of London. London: 1608. STC 6482. Subscr.FS EEBO.
Dekker, Thomas. Britannia's Honor. The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker. Vol. 4. Ed. Fredson Bowers. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1961. Print.
Dekker, Thomas. The Dead Tearme. Or Westminsters Complaint for long Vacations and short Termes. Written in Manner of a Dialogue betweene the two Cityes London and Westminster. 1608. The Non-Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker. Ed. Rev. Alexander B. Grosart. 5 vols. 1885. Reprint. New York: Russell and Russell, 1963. 4.1–84.
Dekker, Thomas. The Gull's Horn-Book: Or, Fashions to Please All Sorts of Gulls. Thomas Dekker: The Wonderful Year, The Gull's Horn-Book, Penny-Wise, Pound-Foolish, English Villainies Discovered by Lantern and Candelight, and Selected Writings. Ed. E.D. Pendry. London: Edward Arnold, 1967. 64–109. The Stratford-upon-Avon Library 4.
Dekker, Thomas. The Gul's Horne-booke. London: [Nicholas Okes] for R. S[ergier?], 1609. Rpt. EEBO. Web.
Dekker, Thomas. If it be not good, the Diuel is in it A nevv play, as it hath bin lately acted, vvith great applause, by the Queenes Maiesties Seruants: at the Red Bull. London: Printed by Thomas Creede for John Trundle, 1612. STC 6507. EEBO.
Dekker, Thomas. Lantern and Candlelight. 1608. Ed. Viviana Comensoli. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2007. Publications of the Barnabe Riche Society.
Dekker, Thomas. Londons Tempe, or The Feild of Happines. London: Nicholas Okes, 1629. STC 6509. DEEP 736. Greg 421a. Copy: British Library; Shelfmark: C.34.g.11.
Dekker, Thomas. Londons Tempe, or The Feild of Happines. London: Nicholas Okes, 1629. STC 6509. DEEP 736. Greg 421a. Copy: Huntington Library; Shelfmark: Rare Books 59055.
Dekker, Thomas. Londons Tempe, or The Feild of Happines. London: Nicholas Okes, 1629. STC 6509. DEEP 736. Greg 421a. Copy: National Library of Scotland; Shelfmark: Bute.143.
Dekker, Thomas. London's Tempe. The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker. Ed. Fredson Bowers. Vol. 4. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1961. Print.
Dekker, Thomas. The magnificent entertainment giuen to King James, Queene Anne his wife, and Henry Frederick the Prince, upon the day of his Majesties triumphant passage (from the Tower) through his honourable citie (and chamber) of London, being the 15. of March. 1603. As well by the English as by the strangers: with the speeches and songes, deliuered in the severall pageants. London: Printed by Thomas Creede for Thomas Man the younger, 1604. EEBO. Reprint. Subscr.
Dekker, Thomas. The Magnificent Entertainment: Giuen to King James, Queene Anne his wife, and Henry Frederick the Prince, ypon the day of his Majesties Triumphant Passage (from the Tower) through his Honourable Citie (and Chamber) of London being the 15. Of March. 1603. London: T. Man, 1604. Treasures in full: Renaissance Festival Books. British Library. Web. Open.
Dekker, Thomas? The Owles almanacke prognosticating many strange accidents which shall happen to this kingdome of Great Britaine this yeere, 1618 : calculated as well for the meridian mirth of London, as any other part of Great Britaine : found in an Iuy-bush written in old characters / and now published in English by the painefull labours of Mr. Iocundary Merry-braines. London, 1618. EEBO. Reprint. Subscr.
Dekker, Thomas. Penny-wise pound foolish or, a Bristow diamond, set in two rings, and both crack'd Profitable for married men, pleasant for young men, and a rare example for all good women. London, 1631. EEBO. Reprint. Subscr.
Dekker, Thomas. The Second Part of the Honest Whore, with the Humors of the Patient Man, the Impatient Wife: the Honest Whore, perswaded by strong Arguments to turne Curtizan againe: her braue refuting those Arguments. London: Printed by Elizabeth All-de for Nathaniel Butter, 1630. STC 6506. EEBO.
Dekker, Thomas. The seuen deadly sinnes of London drawne in seuen seuerall coaches, through the seuen seuerall gates of the citie bringing the plague with them. London, 1606. EEBO. Reprint. Subscr.
Dekker, Thomas. The Shoemaker's Holiday. Ed. R.L. Smallwood and Stanley Wells. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1979. The Revels Plays.
Dekker, Thomas. The Shomakers Holiday: or, The Gentle Craft With the Humorous Life of Simon Eyre, Shoomaker, and Lord Maior of London. London, 1600. EEBO. Reprint. Subscr.
Dekker, Thomas, Stephen Harrison, Ben Jonson, and Thomas Middleton. The Whole Royal and Magnificent Entertainment of King James through the City of London, 15 March 1604, with the Arches of Triumph. Ed. R. Malcolm Smuts. Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works. Gen. ed. Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007. 219–79.
Dekker, Thomas. A Strange Horse-race. London: 1613. STC 6528. Subscr. EEBO.
Dekker, Thomas. Troia-Noua Triumphans. London: Nicholas Okes, 1612. STC 6530. DEEP 578. Greg 302a. Copy: Chapin Library; Shelfmark: 01WIL_ALMA.
Middleton, Thomas, and Thomas Dekker. The Roaring Girl. Ed. Paul A. Mulholland. Revels Plays. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1987. Print.
Smith, Peter J. Glossary. The Shoemakers' Holiday. By Thomas Dekker. London: Nick Hern, 2004. 108–110. Print.
Webster, John, and Thomas Dekker. Northward Ho. London, 1607. STC 6539.
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Mary This numeral is a Roman numeral. The Arabic equivalent is 1I Queen of England Queen of Ireland
(b. 18 February 1516, d. 17 November 1558)
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Thomas Middleton
Playwright.
Thomas Middleton is mentioned in the following documents:
Trig Lane
Thomas Middleton authored or edited the following items in MoEML's bibliography:
Brissenden, Alan. Introduction. A Chaste Maid in Cheapside. By Thomas Middleton. 2nd ed. New Mermaids. London: A&C Black; New York: Norton, 2002. xi–xxxv. Print.
Middleton, Thomas. A Chaste Maid in Cheapside. Ed. Alan Brissenden. 2nd ed. New Mermaids. London: Benn, 2002.
Middleton, Thomas. A Chaste Maid in Cheapside. London, 1630. STC 17877. Reprint. EEBO. Web.
Middleton, Thomas. Civitatis Amor. Ed. David Bergeron. Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works. Gen. ed. Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007. 1202–8.
Middleton, Thomas. A Faire Quarrell. London: Printed by George Eld, 1617. STC 17911.
Middleton, Thomas. No Wit/Help like a Woman's. London: Humphrey Moseley, 1657. ESTC R16728. Print.
Middleton, Thomas. The Triumphs of Honour and Industry. London: Printed by Nicholas Okes, 1617. STC 17899. Reprint. EEBO. Web.
Middleton, Thomas. The Triumphs of Integrity. Ed. David Bergeron. Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works. Gen. ed. Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007. 1766–1771.
Middleton, Thomas. The Triumphs of Love and Antiquity. London: Printed by Nicholas Okes, 1619. STC 17902. Reprint. EEBO. Web.
Middleton, Thomas. The Triumphs of Truth. London, 1613. Ed. David M. Bergeron. Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works. Ed. Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino. Oxford: Clarendon, 2007. 968–76.
Middleton, Thomas. The Triumphs of Truth. London, 1613. STC 17903. Reprint. EEBO. Web.[Differs from STC 17904 in that it does not contain the additional entertainment.]
Middleton, Thomas. The Triumphs of Truth. London, 1613. STC 17904. Reprint. EEBO. Web. [Differs from STC 17903 in that it contains an additional entertainment celebrating Hugh Middleton's New River project, known as the Entertainment at Amwell Head.]
Middleton, Thomas. The Works of Thomas Middleton, now First Collected with Some Account of the Author and notes by The Reverend Alexander Dyce. Ed. Alexander Dyce. London: E. Lumley, 1840. Print.
Taylor, Gary, and John Lavagnino, eds. Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works. By Thomas Middleton. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007. The Oxford Middleton. Print.
Thomas Nashe
Playwright and writer.
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Nashe, Thomas. The returne of the renowned Caualiero Pasquill of England from the other side the seas, and his meeting with Marforius at London vpon the Royall Exchange where they encounter with a little houshold talke of Martin and Martinisme, discouering the scabbe that is bredde in England, and conferring together about the speedie dispersing of the golden legende of the liues of saints. London, 1589. STC 19457.3. Reprint. Early English Books Online. Web.
Nashe, Thomas. A Wonderfull Strange and Miraculous Astrologicall Prognostication for this Yeere 1591. London: Thomas Scarlet, 1591. Reprint. EEBO. Web.
John Webster
Poet and playwright.
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Webster, John. The dramatic works of John Webster. Vol. 3. Ed. William Hazlitt. London: John Russell Smith, 1897. Print.
Webster, John. The Tragedy of the Dutcheſſe of Malfy. London: Nicholas Okes, 1623. STC 25176. Subscr. EEBO.
Webster, John. The White Devil. London, 1612. STC 25178. Reprint. Early English Books Online. Web.
Webster, John. The Works of John Webster: An Old-Spelling Critical Edition. 3 vols. Ed. David Gunby, David Carnegie, and Macdonald P. Jackson. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007. Print.
Webster, John. The Works of John Webster. Ed. Alexander Dyce. Rev. ed. London: Edward Moxon, 1857. Print.
Isabella Whitney
Poet and assumed daughter of Geoffrey Whitney.
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Whitney, Isabella. The Manner of Her Will, and What She Left to London. Women Writers in Renaissance England. Ed. Randall Martin. London: Longman, 1997. 289–302.
Whitney, Isabella. The Manner of Her Will. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Ed. M.H. Abrams and Stephen Greenblatt. 7th ed. 2 vols. New York: Norton, 2000. 1.606–14.
Whitney, Isabella. The Wyll and Testament of Isabella Whitney. Renaissance Women Poets: Isabella Whitney, Mary Sidney, and Aemelia Lanyer. Ed. Danielle Clark. London: Penguin, 2000.
Thomas Wolsey Archbishop of York
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Master Linstock
Dramatic character in Thomas Dekker's Westward Ho!
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German painter and printmaker.
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Gabriel Harvey
Scholar and poet.
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Hello - I hope everyone had a nice and relaxing weekend. I did the all American thing...went to a baseball game (Go Padres!), and BBQ'd.
Here's my card for SC282. My hubby needed a "Thank You" card for a golf tournament he played in, and I just so happened to have the perfect stamp (like I wouldn't?!).
That's it for today - will be back with more soon.
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North West Cambridgeshire MP, Shailesh Vara, has welcomed news of plans for a continued military presence at RAF Wittering; the resting place of Britain's Harrier Jump Jet Fleet.
Orton Longueville Councillors Lead Local Fight
Local Councillors Graham Casey, Janet Goodwin and Pam Winslade are leading the fight against illegal traveller encampments and arson attacks in the Orton Longueville Ward of Peterborough.
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Saturday, 25 June, 2011
Thank you for your support at the last election. Because of you, David Cameron is the first Conservative Prime Minister in 13 years and the Government's plans to build a strong economy and a big society are in full swing. Now, to help us communicate with you, we've launched this new local website.


We had our 2nd Annual Golf Outing and it was a huge success. We are thankful for our wonderful players and sponsors, community members, businesses, volunteers and staff members who helped make it a success.
A series of five public forums will be held to collect comments and suggestions for the New Options Waiver Program (NOW) renewal application. We need input from families, self-advocates, providers, and the general public.
Each year, the Kiwanianne Club conducts their one fund raiser, the Korn Dawg book at the Kiwanis Fair. At that time, members of their organization, members of the community and proud and thankful recipients of past donations and scholarships, gather together to prepare and cook the best corn dogs in America! Through that one event, may organizations receive a donation from the Club members. The Griffin Area Resource Center, Inc, is proud to be one of those organizations receiving a donation this year. Lisa Sassaman, Kiwanianne member and Executive Director of the Griffin Area Resource Center, along with Leslie Nichols, Lakeisha Head, and Yasmeen Delaney pose for a picture while accepting this donation.


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HANGZHOU, China, Sept 4 – The global economy is being threatened by rising protectionism and risks from highly leveraged financial markets, Chinese President Xi Jinping said at the open of a two-day summit of leaders from G20 nations.
His warning on Sunday followed bilateral talks with Barack Obama that the U.S. president described as "extremely productive", but which failed to bring both sides closer on thornier topics such as tensions in the South China Sea.
With the summit taking place after Britain's vote in June to exit the European Union and before the U.S. presidential election in November, observers expect G20 leaders to mount a defence of free trade and globalisation and warn against isolationism.
The global economy has arrived "at a crucial juncture", Xi said, in the face of sluggish demand, volatile financial markets and feeble trade and investment.
"Growth drivers from the previous round of technological progress are gradually fading, while a new round of technological and industrial revolution has yet to gain momentum," he said.
G20 countries are set to agree in a communique at the end of the summit that all policy measures – including monetary, fiscal and structural reforms – should be used to achieve solid and sustainable economic growth, Japanese Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Koichi Hagiuda said.
"Commitment will be made to utilising all three policy tools of monetary and fiscal policies and structural reforms to achieve solid, sustainable, balanced and inclusive growth," Hagiuda told reporters on the sidelines of the summit.
Xi also called on G20 countries to match their words with actions.
"We should turn the G20 group into an action team, instead of a talk shop," he said.
But some of the G20 leaders have begun drawing battle lines in disputes over issues ranging from trade and investment to tax policy and industrial overcapacity.
On Sunday, Xi held talks with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and told him he hoped Australia would continue to provide a fair, transparent and predictable policy environment for foreign investors.
China was angered when Australia blocked the A$10 billion ($7.7 billion) sale of the country's biggest energy grid to Chinese bidders last month.
China has accused Australia of bowing to protectionist sentiment in blocking the bid for Ausgrid, as well as an earlier one by a China-led consortium to buy cattle company Kidman & Co.
Beijing has also criticised Australia, a staunch U.S. ally, for running surveillance flights over disputed islands in the South China Sea.
Meanwhile, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said China must set up a mechanism to address its problem of industrial overcapacity, saying it was "unacceptable" the European steel industry had lost so many jobs in recent years.
"Overcapacity is a global problem but there is a particular Chinese element," he told a news conference.
Britain's future after its departure from the European Union was also subject to discussion.
Obama reassured Prime Minister May that Britain's closest political, commercial and military ally would stand by her.
But he did not shrink away from his stance that Brexit was a mistake and that London would not be able to jump the queue to arrange a bilateral trade deal.
Juncker said that if Britain wanted access to the European Union's common market, it needed to respect the rules of the common market.
Turnbull, meanwhile, said Australia wanted an early free trade agreement with Britain so markets could remain open between them when Britain formally left the European trading bloc.
LATE NIGHT TALKS
Obama held talks with Xi on Saturday that ran late into the night.
He urged Beijing to uphold its legal obligations in the disputed waters of the South China Sea, and stressed U.S. commitments to its regional allies.
Xi said China would continue to safeguard its sovereignty and maritime rights in the South China Sea.
But China is keen to keep the summit focused on economic issues and to prevent other disputes from overshadowing it.
According to a "fact sheet" on China-U.S. relations issued on Sunday, the two sides agreed on a range of issues, including avoiding competitive currency devaluations and not limiting deal opportunities for foreign information and communication technology providers.
Obama, now in the last five months of his presidency, is using the visit to put a final stamp on his signature policy shift toward the Pacific, setting the tone for his White House successor, who will be elected in November and take office on Jan. 20.
His visit began chaotically at the Hangzhou airport, where his staff argued with Chinese security over media access. Obama said on Sunday he "wouldn't over-crank the significance" of the airport events.
"None of this detracts from the broader scope of the relationship (with China)," he told a news conference. "The bilateral discussions that we had yesterday were extremely productive and continue to point to big areas of cooperation."
Security was extremely tight in Hangzhou, with parts of the city of 9 million people turned into a virtual ghost town as China seeks to ensure that the G20 summit stays incident-free.
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El Salvador is betting on bitcoin to solve its high remittance costs
How much Western Union and MoneyGram could lose in commission from remittances.
Proponents of Bitcoin have touted for years how its decentralized nature could empower people in developing nations, giving them access to banking services out of reach due to high costs.
In practice that's never really happened, as the cryptocurrency is volatile and difficult to use for day-to-day transactions. But one country, El Salvador, is making a serious push to get its citizenry to adopt bitcoin, and for a good reason: remittances.
Nearly 70 percent of the Latin American country's citizens receive remittances, that is, money from friends and family living abroad. In fact, almost 25 percent of El Salvador's GDP comes from such remittances. And that means the companies that enable them are about to lose a whole lot of money.
Underbanked or unbanked — A whopping 70 percent of El Salvadorians don't have access to traditional banking services because of high fees and minimum deposit requirements that create steep barriers to entry. As a result, many receive their remittances through intermediaries including Western Union and MoneyGram.
Having an obvious monopoly, these companies charge high fees that can range anywhere from 12-30 percent to send and receive cash. One individual living abroad who sends money to his family in El Salvador told CNBC that another issue is crime — the country has one of the highest crime rates in Latin America, and when people go to pick up their cash from a Western Union, gangs will often be waiting around the offices to steal it.
Pulling out the stops — Because remittances are so important to El Salvador's economy, president Nayib Bukele moved to make Bitcoin legal tender in the country, and has spearheaded the launch of a government-run wallet called Chivo, which offers no-fee transactions and allows for quick cross-border payments.
As an example, a person in Canada can spend 10 cents to buy $10 worth of bitcoin and send it to a person in El Salvador, using the Chivo wallet. They can then immediately convert that to U.S. Dollars (the official currency of El Salvador) at any one of 200 new Chivo ATMs in the country, at no cost. If the sender had used Western Union's own app, the fee would have been $3.24 on that $10.
Buying and selling bitcoin isn't without its own fees, but they're still quite a bit less than what Western Union or MoneyGram ask for on international transfers. Legacy banking providers can take days to process transactions because they often using differing computer systems and process transactions in batches on a once-daily basis.
"Wherever you are now, you can send bitcoin to anyone with a Chivo wallet in El Salvador, and in minutes, they have the value and then they can go to one of the ATMs and take it out in cash without a fee," said Alex Gladstein, chief strategy officer for the Human Rights Foundation, speaking to CNBC.
President Bukele is giving $30 worth of bitcoin to any citizen who downloads the Chivo app to try and incentivize uptake. There's a hope that the cryptocurrency could someday be used for transacting in El Salvador, not just receiving money from aboard. But there remain some concerns, like the volatility of the currency. And because the Chivo wallet is controlled by El Salvador's government like any normal bank, it could theoretically freeze a person's funds. But users of Chivo can move their funds onto a locally-hosted wallet to avoid that issue.
Considering the slice of the pie they demand, it's hard to feel sorry for Western Union or MoneyGram in this instance. Perhaps they'll be encouraged to either revise their rates, or find new ways to offer El Salvador's citizens sufficient value they keep using their services.


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6 Reasons You'll Love an Expedition Cruise
Adventure Travel Jun 19, 2017
Sarah Schlichter
Senior Editor Sarah Schlichter's idea of a perfect trip includes spotting exotic animals, hiking through pristine landscapes, exploring new neighborhoods on foot, and soaking up as much art as she can. She often attempts to recreate recipes from her international travels after she gets home (which has twice resulted in accidental kitchen fires -- no humans or animals were harmed).
Sarah joined the SmarterTravel team in 2017 after more than a decade at the helm of IndependentTraveler.com. Sarah's practical travel advice has been featured in dozens of news outlets including the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, USA Today, Budget Travel, and Peter Greenberg Worldwide Radio. Follow her on Twitter @TravelEditor.
The Handy Item I Always Pack: "A journal. Even years later, reading my notes from a trip can bring back incredibly vivid memories."
Ultimate Bucket List Experience: "Road tripping and hiking through the rugged mountains of Patagonia."
Travel Motto: "'To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.' -- Freya Stark"
Aisle, Window, or Middle Seat: "Aisle."
Email Sarah at sschlichter@smartertravel.com.
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As an independent traveler, I've never been too interested in cruising as a vacation option. Hairy chest contests? Not for me. Casinos and cheesy stage shows? I'll pass. For me, traveling is about experiencing a destination, not cruise ship bells and whistles. And I've never felt comfortable descending upon a tiny island port with a teeming crowd of 2,500 other tourists.
But on a recent trip to Alaska's Inside Passage with Lindblad Expeditions, I realized that there's a whole other side of the cruise industry that's actually ideal for independent travelers like me: expedition cruises.
I sailed aboard Lindblad's National Geographic Sea Lion with only 60 fellow passengers, and the ship's fairly basic amenities — one lounge, one dining room, small cabins — played second fiddle to our experiences of the destination itself: Zodiac landings on deserted beaches, up-close views of calving glaciers, forest hikes led by veteran naturalists, and spectacular views of breaching whales and sleek sea lions. It was everything I didn't know cruising could be.
Is an expedition cruise right for you? Read on for six reasons to give expedition cruising a try.
1. Adventure with Creature Comforts
Think of expedition cruising as "soft adventure." You'll sail to some of the most remote places on Earth — like Antarctica, the Amazon or the Galapagos Islands — but rather than roughing it in a tent or swatting mosquitoes in a jungle lodge, you'll be based in a comfortable, climate-controlled ship.
The level of onboard luxury varies significantly from expedition line to another, and even between ships in the same fleet. Some vessels have spas, gyms, libraries and internet cafes; others stick to the basics (lounge, dining room, observation deck). Meals are typically served at set times in a single seating, with snacks available in between. Couples, take note: Cabins with twin berths instead of double beds are common on expedition ships.
2. Small Ships
While modern-day cruise liners have swollen to the size of small towns, carrying thousands of passengers, expedition ships rarely hold more than 200 people — and are often much smaller. (For example, the smallest ship in the Zegrahm Expeditions fleet, a live-aboard yacht called Galapagos Sky, carries just 16 passengers.)
Smaller ships offer a number of key advantages for independent travelers. Most importantly, they can take you where the big ships can't go — like the tiny fishing village of Petersburg, Alaska, whose harbor is too small to accept calls from lines like Holland America and Royal Caribbean. Big ships are also verboten in the Galapagos Islands, where there's a 100-passenger limit per vessel.
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If you avoid group travel because you hate feeling like part of a herd, expedition cruising is a good compromise. Excursions off the ship are divided into smaller groups, so you'll rarely, if ever, find yourself aboard the dreaded motorcoach. But you'll also enjoy the benefits of traveling with other people — namely, the chance to get to know interesting, well-traveled fellow passengers and staff. By the end of my weeklong Alaska expedition, I was snapping photos of my newfound friends and exchanging email addresses so we could keep in touch after we returned home.
3. Access to Places That Can't Be Reached by Land
There are some places that you simply can't explore without taking an expedition cruise, such as Antarctica and its outlying islands, or the remote Arctic landscapes where polar bears roam. In other parts of the world, like Alaska's Inside Passage, cruising is a preferable alternative to expensive flights or time-consuming ferries between areas of interest. Even if on-land lodging is available, as it is in the Galapagos, in many places you'll see and experience more if you take a cruise instead.
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4. Enrichment
One key part of any expedition cruise is the emphasis on learning. Expedition cruises are led by biologists, geologists, anthropologists, historians and other specialists who can identify the local wildlife or offer a cultural perspective on the place you're exploring. In lieu of musical productions and nightclubs, evening entertainment often consists of talks by these experts to help illuminate what you've seen during the day. Some expedition cruise lines, including Lindblad Expeditions and Natural Habitat Adventures, also offer photography experts on some or all sailings.
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5. Flexible Itineraries
Expedition itineraries are typically more changeable and spontaneous than those sailed by mainstream cruise ships. Weather, tides, ice conditions and wildlife sightings can all affect the day-to-day activities aboard an expedition vessel. On my Alaska trip, the ship veered away from its intended route on several occasions to give passengers a closer glimpse of bears on a distant shore or to follow a pod of humpback whales. We also had one or two planned anchorages change when forbidding weather rolled in.
6. Casual Onboard Environment
Leave your formalwear at home — you'll need the suitcase space for your hiking boots and parka! On an expedition ship, the atmosphere is informal and relaxed at all times.
9 Incredible Animals to See in the Arctic
Which Companies Offer Expedition Cruises?
The list below is a sampling of the major players in expedition cruising, along with some of the places where they sail. There are many other smaller companies as well, often specializing in a single destination. If you're interested in cruising a particular region, do an internet search or consult a knowledgeable travel agent to find these local alternatives.
Abercrombie & Kent: Antarctica, Arctic, Asia
Coral Expeditions: Asia, Australia
G Adventures: Amazon, Antarctica, Arctic, Galapagos
International Expeditions: Amazon, Cuba, Galapagos
Lindblad Expeditions: Alaska, Amazon, Antarctica, Arctic, Baja California, Canada, Caribbean, Central and South America, Europe, Galapagos, Mexico, Pacific Northwest, Southeast Asia
Maple Leaf Adventures: Alaska, British Columbia
Natural Habitat Adventures: Alaska, Amazon, Antarctica, Arctic, Baja Peninsula, Central America, Galapagos
Quark Expeditions: Antarctica and Arctic
UnCruise Adventures: Alaska, Central America, Galapagos, Hawaii, Mexico, Pacific Northwest
Zegrahm Expeditions: Africa, Alaska, Antarctica, Arctic, Asia, Australia/New Zealand, Caribbean, Central America, Europe, Galapagos, Maldives, South Pacific
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