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Last names beginning with B
Bodkin, William Alexander
Story: Bodkin, William Alexander
William Alexander Bodkin
New Zealand National Party cabinet, 1951
Bodkin, at the 1952 Sportsperson of the Year presentation
Lawyer, local promoter, politician
This biography, written by Tom Brooking, was first published in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography in 2000.
William Alexander Bodkin was born in Queenstown on 28 April 1883, the son of Irish immigrants James Bodkin, a watchmaker, and his wife, Eleanor (Ellen) Black. In 1889 his father purchased the Monte Christo farm near Clyde, where Frenchman Jean Desire Feraud had experimented with grape growing and irrigation. William spent most of his childhood here, where his father grew fruit, raised dairy cattle and continued Feraud's experiments with irrigation.
William left school at 12 or 13 to work on his father's farm but earned enough money from rabbit shooting and investments in a local gold-dredging operation to fund his secondary education from the relatively advanced age of 18. He attended Wilson's School in Christchurch and matriculated in 1904. He then proceeded to the University of Otago to study law and won admission to the Bar in 1909. He immediately purchased the practice of J. R. Bartholomew in Alexandra; about 1930 it became Bodkin and Sunderland. Bodkin specialised in mining and irrigation law and in 1909 adopted the role of local booster by setting up a group to promote irrigation in Central Otago. He married Elizabeth Lillias McCorkindale, a schoolteacher, at Mānuka Creek, South Otago, on 1 September 1920; they were to have one daughter.
Politically, Bodkin supported mainstream liberalism with its emphasis on development, self-help and closer land settlement. He first ran unsuccessfully for Parliament in 1914, standing as a Liberal against the Reform Party MP Robert Scott. Bodkin then turned his attention back to developing irrigation and revitalising mining. He acted as Alexandra's borough solicitor and served one term on the borough council. In 1928 he won the Central Otago parliamentary seat for the United Party led by the ageing Sir Joseph Ward. He was a vigorous supporter of Ward's unsuccessful attempt to revive John McKenzie's closer settlement policies of the 1890s. Despite this disappointment he proved an able parliamentarian and a good speaker, and served as chairman of committees in 1930–31.
Bodkin's political influence diminished during the years of the coalition government (1931–35). His calls for greater help for farmers and the revitalisation of goldmining added to his local popularity, however, and he strengthened his hold on the seat by continuing to promote irrigation schemes and tourism. His attempts to revive gold dredging proved less successful. Despite his managing to secure the passage of a special bill in 1936 to shore up the Molyneux Gold Dredging Company, this ill-fated venture failed to pay a dividend. Other dredging efforts proved only slightly more successful and the long-promised boom never eventuated. Bodkin decided thereafter that the expansion of tourism and fruit growing based on adequate irrigation held the keys to a more certain economic future for the arid region of Central Otago.
Following the coalition government's defeat in 1935, he played a very active part in building the more broadly based conservative New Zealand National Party, which was established in 1936. Bodkin was rewarded for this and his effectiveness as an opposition speaker by being made minister of civil defence within the short-lived bi-partisan War Administration in 1942. When National won the treasury benches in 1949, he served as minister of internal affairs and minister of social security and, from 1951, minister in charge of tourist and health resorts. Bodkin proved an able administrator and earned a reputation as an expert in parliamentary procedure, but he failed to make any outstanding contributions to his portfolios. It seemed that his particular talents were best suited to the role of local advocate and opposition critic. Walter Nash hinted at this when, in 1954, he praised the retiring minister for his conscientious administration, generosity to his constituents and fine speeches made when in opposition.
The other major reason for Bodkin's enormous local popularity was the prominent role played by his wife in community affairs. Elizabeth Bodkin established the Central Otago branch of the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children in 1915. She served as president of the branch from 1933 to 1949, as a dominion councillor between 1932 and 1960 and as dominion president from 1950 to 1957. This involved much travel around New Zealand and earned her a reputation as an able advocate for the cause of improved child-rearing practices. She also found time to be a supportive wife to a busy local MP who had to travel widely among his scattered constituents.
Bodkin was knighted in 1954. After his retirement he focused his energies on local history and founded the Alexandra District Historical Association and a local museum. He died at Alexandra on 15 June 1964, survived by his wife and daughter. The new museum built in Alexandra in 1967 was named the Sir William Bodkin Museum in his honour.
Tom Brooking. 'Bodkin, William Alexander', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2000. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/5b34/bodkin-william-alexander (accessed 20 January 2022)


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THE BRITISH MUSEUM PRESENTS
'A LITTLE GAY HISTORY'
THE British Museum is highlighting a guide focusing on gay-related exhibits as part of the London Pride festival this month.
"A Little Gay History" by Richard Parkinson, a curator in the ancient Egypt department, features gay objects and topics which otherwise often get overlooked at the mammoth museum.
There is a sculpture of the beautiful face of Antinous, at whose death Emperor Hadrian "wept like a woman"; a battered copper coin showing the poet Sappho, whose surviving fragments of erotic poetry were so intense that the Victorians called all women who loved women after her native Lesbos; and a 20-year-old tin badge demanding, "how dare you presume I'm heterosexual".
The guide together with an audio guide featuring the voices of prominent British actors, will form part of the Pride festival – which will also include a special showing of the Merchant Ivory film of EM Forster's "Maurice," in which the hero finds love in the galleries of the British Museum. Forster wrote the book in the early 20th Century but would not allow it to be published until after his death in 1970.
After Antinous drowned in the Nile in AD130, possibly killing himself, Hadrian proclaimed him a god and displayed his image across the empire. His subsequent deep depression may have contributed to his own early death just eight years later.
At the museum's blockbuster exhibition on Hadrian in 2008, a survey showed most visitors had no idea of the married emperor's intense feelings for another man.
Parkinson claims that the oldest chat-up line in history can be found in his department: a poem from 1800 BC in which one ancient Egyptian male god makes a pass at another, remarking "neferwi-pehwi-ki" – what a lovely backside you have.
However he concedes that many of the tender Egyptian images of two men caressing actually depict brothers, and that the graphic images on one papyrus from 950 BC, including a god fellating himself, are religious, not erotic, texts.
"Desire leaves no archaeological traces," he writes, making it easy to ignore, miss or misunderstand gay references. "History has all too often been a list of the deeds of famous men who are implicitly 'heterosexual' and usually European … Unsurprisingly, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people have often felt excluded and silenced, and without a voice."
The objects Parkinson has chosen, most from the British Museum but some from the British Library, include a drawing by Michelangelo showing the beautiful body of Phaeton falling from his father's sun chariot, which the artist sent to his handsome young friend Tommaso de'Cavalieri. If he didn't like it, Michelangelo promised to make another "by tomorrow evening".
Parkinson writes: "The combination of the superb drawing and the elegantly written note to his friend, protesting that it is only a first sketch, embodies an infatuated eagerness to impress a young man in a way that feels instantly recognisable to anyone who has ever been in a similar situation."
He has also included some recent acquisitions, including a 1997 pack of playing cards portraying Japanese drag queens, made by the artist Takashi Otsuka, donated to the museum on condition that it is stored "with the queens on top".
A colourful quilt bought in Pakistan in 1985 is said to have been made by, or for a hijira transsexual, but the curators are not sure if this is actually true. Without the story, the quilt is just a piece of cloth, Parkinson says.
"Even with the anecdote, the history of its maker's life remains a blank. For all the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people we can name in history, we must consider how many thousands of others are unrecorded, unacknowledged and unremembered."
In the audio trail, narrator Maggi Hambling is particularly struck that Sappho's Greek island home valued the poet enough to put her on its official coinage. "So two Sapphos might be worth a bag of peas?" she ponders.
However, looking at some of the museum's huge collection of donated protest badges, she remarks that she personally can't stand being called lesbian, just about accepts lesbionic, but prefers to refer to herself as a dyke.
Actor Russell Beale, who also narrates the audio guide, is awed by the beauty of the Roman silver Warren Cup showing men and youths making love, so startlingly erotic that the first time the British Museum was offered it in the 1950s, it turned it down flat.
In 1999, when it came on the market again, the museum had to raise £1.8m to acquire it.
"It's just heaven, isn't it?" Russell Beale sighs.
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THE LOST TOMB OF ANTINOUS
WILL BE FOUND ONE DAY
AND TOURISTS WON'T BE ABLE TO STOP DANCING
WHEN ANTINOUS EMERGES FROM HIS CRYPT
AND SHIFTS INTO DIVINE DJ MODE:
"ANUBIS" OFFICIAL VIDEO BY SWISS ELECTRO-DANCE DJ MIKE CANDYS
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THESE ANCIENT ROMAN FOUNTAIN CURSES
ARE NOW PERPETUATED BY UNESCO
IN ancient times, visitors to the Roman baths in what is now the city of Bath in England would write a curse on a thin sheet of lead and then throw it into the spring that fed the baths.
Now Bath's famous Roman curse tablets have been added to the UNESCO Memory of the World register of outstanding documentary heritage.
The 130 Roman curse tablets can be seen at The Roman Baths.
They are the personal and private prayers of 130 individuals inscribed on small sheets of lead or pewter, and cast into the hot spring at Bath, and date from the 2nd-4th century AD.
The earliest known surviving prayers to a deity in Britain, they are messages in Latin to the Roman goddess Sulis Minerva, from people who had suffered an injustice, asking for wrongs to be put right and for revenge.
The tablets are extremely difficult to read and translate and some are quite virulent, such as the person who, seeking revenge for theft of a bronze vessel, asks that it be filled with the blood of the thief.
One curse was written in British Celtic, the only text known to survive in that language.
Another tablet contains the earliest known use of the word 'Christian' in Britain.
The curse tablets are the only objects from Roman Britain to have been inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World UK register, which aims to raise awareness of some of the UK's exceptional documentary riches.
They were one of nine new inscriptions to the register and they join the 41 already listed.
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THE PRINCES LIVED HAPPILY EVER
IN THIS GAY CHILDREN'S FAIRY TALE
AND the two princes lived happily ever after ... in the world's first gay fairytale book for children.
The Princes and the Treasure, a fairytale children's book featuring two gay princes, has just been released around the world after its initial release in the United States earlier this year.
Although the story begins with the typical plot of the prince on a quest to save the princess and find a treasure, it blossoms into a love story when the two princes Earnest and Gallant meet during their mission, do some self-discovery, and realize that the real treasure they have found is the love they have for each other.
They even get married!
This groundbreaking children's book was written by openly gay college professor Jeffrey A. Miles (who teaches business management at the University of the Pacific). Miles told the Advocate:
"I really wanted a story like this when I was a little boy. I knew that stories about princes falling in love with princesses didn't apply to me and my life. I knew from a very early age that I was never going to marry a princess.
"So I wrote this story for children, but I also wrote it for anyone who wants to read a fairy tale story of two men who meet each other, go on an adventure, fall in love, get married, and live happily ever after with their handsome prince. "
When asked about how kids seem to be taking the book, Miles said:
"I'm happy to say that kids love the story just like the other famous fairy tale stories. Kids see that the story is about two people who fall in love and get married. All of the kids who have read the story don't find it unusual that the two characters who get married happen to be two men. Kids seem to see that love can happen between two people regardless of the couple's gender. I've been amazed how easy that idea is for kids to understand and how hard that is for some adults to understand."
This book is exciting for many reasons- the gay role models, the twist on a classic fairytale storyline, and the shattering of stereotypes- to name a few. Not to worry, Miles has already completed a sequel, The Princes and the Dragon, and plans to continue writing about Earnest and Gallant starting a family and raising twin children.
EXPERTS HAIL 'MAGICAL MOMENT'
AS GOLD COIN FOUND AT HADRIAN'S WALL
IN a breakthrough which defied two generations of diggers along Hadrian's Wall, a volunteer French archaeologist has found the first gold coin at Vindolanda, the Roman site which has been intriguing excavators for almost 50 years.
Described as being "well-worn", the confirmed aureus bears the image of the Emperor Nero, dating it to around AD 64 or 65.
And early this morning ... as this blog item was being published ... it was announced that a part of a Roman sword blade had been found ... still sharp and sporting nicks from having been used in battle (image at left).
As for the gold coin, the precious currency was worth half a years' salary for serving soldiers, but was lost on the northern outpost of the empire following 300 years in circulation.
"I thought, 'it can't be true'," says Marcel Albert, from Nantes, who has spent six years taking part in a dig which has attracted participants from across the world.
"It was just sitting there as I scrapped back the soil, shining, as if someone had just dropped it."
Thousands of coins have been found at the former auxiliary fort, which is perhaps best known for revealing a treasured set of writing tablets.
"My first find at Vindolanda nearly 20 years ago was a coin, but because of their scarcity I didn't think for a moment that I would ever see a gold coin unearthed at the site," said Justin Blake, the Deputy Director of Excavations at the Vindolanda Trust.
"It was an absolutely magical moment for the whole team."
Beads, brooches, rings, leather shoes, arrowheads, pottery and a gaming counter have already been unearthed during the opening half of the digging season at Vindolanda.
"You actually have more chance of winning the lottery than finding a gold coin on a Roman military site," says Dr Andrew Birley, the Director of Excavations.
"So this is a special and very likely one-off find."
Experts hope to carry out extensive research before putting the coin on show at the site's museum.
"It had been a great year on site to date with a whole host of finds," reflects Sonya Galloway, of the Trust.
"Just yesterday they found a iron spoon also from the 4th Century level – perhaps it was used by an angry wife to hit the person over the head with when it was realised they lost the gold coin.
"They are excavating three areas of the site this year – the fort, where this discovery was made, the vicus, where they are digging deep into the pre-Hadrianic levels, and further to the north of the main site, where we have a Canadian Field School from the University of Western Ontario."
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25 ANCIENT GREEK THEATRES
NOW REOPENED FOR DRAMA PRESENTATIONS
IN an unprecedented effort to rejuvenate interest in Greek cultural sites, 25 Ancient Greek theatres and archaeological sites across Greece are being reopened this week.
A number of theatres staged plays over the weekend and other sites will be opened to the public in coming days.
The "Athens Festival" institution, in collaboration with "Diazoma" association, have taken the initiative of opening the sites to the public in order to promote the country's cultural heritage.
Most ancient Greek theaters are scheduled to open this weekend in order to host various theatrical productions during the summer.
As part of the initiative, the 25 ancient Greek theaters and archeological sites participating, will host a theatrical production of "The Woman of Zante" ("Gynaika tis Zakynthou") by Dionysios Solomos, directed by Dimos Avdeliodis and Olia Lazaridou in the leading role.
Even though the organizers wanted the initiative to include 30 locations, the Central Archaeological Council of Greece (KAS) deemed that five of these locations could not be used due to renovations or excavations that were underway.
Because of the fragile nature of the sites, access will be limited.
For example, in the theater of Maronia only 350 people will be able to watch the play.
At other sites, such as the theater of Dimitradas, Athens Festival decided that the play would be performed outside the building, as an alternative solution.
Stavros Benos, president of Diazoma said that the implementation of the initiative is "'a great victory. Up until now, ancient theatres remained closed unless renovation work was carried out."
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THE SOLSTICE IS SACRED
TO ANTINOUS AS APOLLO-HYACINTHUS
THE cycle of the June Solstice is sacred to Antinous in the form of Apollo-Hyacinthus. ... Antinhous being the beautiful flower boy Hyacinthus who dies, just as the sun begins to die, but who was raised from the dead and deified by the love of the God of Light, who forbade Dis Pater from taking his beloved boy to the place of Death....
The two, who were like twins, whose long, blonde curls, rustled together in the jealous wind of Zephyrus, enjoined a passionate love affair, until one day, the sight of their happiness proved too much for Zephyrus to endure, and while Apollo and Hyacinthus were throwing the discus together, the wind god sent a gust of air, when Apollo threw the golden disk, causing it to fall directly on the perfect head of Hyacinthus who died instantly from the blow. It was all an accident, and a tragedy, but Apollo was beside himself with grief, like Hadrian holding the body of his beloved Antinous.
The Sun God turned the blood that flowed through the soft curls into the flower that we call the Hyacinth. The Death of Hyacinthus is the divine metaphor for the beauty and tragedy of life taken from the young in their full vigor, falling victim to the accidents of youth.
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HADRIAN would have been planning a long night tonight in his personal observatory, despite the fact that it is the shortest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere — the Summer Solstice — which is exact at 12:51 p.m. in Rome Saturday.
First, he would observe the setting sun sending a shaft of goldish-red light through a certain slit in his observatory tower to illuminate a golden statue of the Egyptian Goddess Isis.
Modern Priests of Antinous will be celebrating rites at the HOLLYWOOD TEMPLE OF ANTINOUS to mark the Solstice.
The meditations of the Hollywood Priests of Antinous will be focused on an Italian archaeologist and her team who will be spending this Solstice at the ruins of a tower on a hillock at Hadrian's Villa which was the Emperor's own private observatory.
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BIG ROMAN TEMPLE FOUND IN FRANCE
DEDICATED PERHAPS TO ANTINOUS?
AN unprecedentedly large Roman temple has been unearthed in northern France which dates to the 2nd Century AD in the heyday of the Religion of Antinous.
The discovery raises new hope of an Antinous Temple being found, or at least a shrine or chapel (aedicula) to Antinous within a temple.
Experts caution, however, that they do not yet know to which deity or deities this temple was dedicated.
This is the largest provincial temple found in France. It measures 70 meters by 105 meters and has two small pavilions in the back, of which only the foundations remain.
In the center, the "Cella," visitors could access a dramatic masonry platform via a front staircase.
Here in the heart of the temple, the ancient Romans would have erected the statue of a deity.
Archaeologists have discovered many elements of the artwork inside the sanctuary, including clashed spears and marble veneer.
The entrance to the temple was a monumental façade measuring 10 meters high and 70 meters long, which made it an exceptional structure in Roman Gaul.
This façade consists of 13 to 17 arches, above which the Romans surmounted an entablature and, exceptionally, a frieze that should include a dedication in bronze letters.
A few decades after its erection, the façade collapsed in one piece perhaps due to a defect in the foundation related to the nature and slope of the ground, which caused a mess of thousands of blocks and fragments.
Archaeologists intend to study these fragments to gradually restore the original appearance of the sanctuary.
The ornamentation, sometimes enhanced color reveals carved decorations: Greek meanders, foliage, animals, and images of several deities, including Venus, Apollo, and Jupiter.
Within the entablature, its most unique sequence is the frieze decorated with deities from the Greco-Roman Pantheon, such as a crouching Venus alongside the head of an old woman.
This sculpture recalls an episode told by Homer in The Odyssey. After an affair with Mars, Vulcan's wife retired to the woods. An old lady informed the gods, who sought the place of her retreat.
To punish her, Venus turned the old woman into a rock. At the top of the façade, one of the most remarkable features is a decoration of monumental heads, which measure three times larger than human size, with complex hair and eyes that had once consisted of colored stones.
Among them, the head of Jupiter and a series of griffins with outstretched wings sit along yet-undetermined gods … could Antinous be one of them?
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There is a famous relief from the ruins of the Temple of Zeus in Olympia, Greece, which illustrates the myth of the day when Herakles stepped in to relieve Atlas of the heavy burden of carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders.
The relief shows Atlas stretching out his hands to grasp the Apples of the Hesperides -- and Herakles struggles to hold the world -- which turns out to be a lot heavier than he had anticipated.
But standing behind him is the goddess Athena (out of Herakles' field of vision) and Athena calmly lifts her left hand and gently steadies the burden with her fingertips. She's not doing any heavy lifting. She is only using her little finger to steady the load.
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THE RIDDLE OF THE ROMAN DODECAHEDRON
IS UNRAVELED AT LAST BY NIMBLE FINGERS
MORE than 100 of these strange objects are known to exist, and their purpose remains a puzzling mystery that has baffled archaeologists since their first discovery.
All throughout Europe, small geometric objects known as Roman dodecahedrons have been recovered.
As far north as Hadrian's Wall, and further south toward the Mediterranean, the dodecahedrons, usually made of bronze or stone, are seldom larger than about eight to ten centimeters in size.
So what was their purpose?
No written records mention them, and experts have come up with many suggestions.
They could have been gaming pieces or weapons or even impediments strewn ahead of invading armies to cripple cavalry horses.
Others have speculated that they may hold religious or cultural significance, and some have gone so far as to presume they could have been useful in determining the proper times for planting various crops throughout the year.
But was there a simpler and more practical use … a use that was literally at our fingertips?
And for one man, this kind of practical thinking led him to finding a unique use for the Roman dodecahedrons… as well as a possible solution to their creation in ancient times.
In the video below, YouTube user Martin Hallett offers his own thoughts about what the Roman dodecahedrons might have been used for, demonstrating a fascinating potential solution to their design … and an interesting, but creative outcome as well.
Using a 3D printer, he had a scale replica of one of the dodecahedrons made, and then went to work experimenting… with knitting yarn.
His breakthrough came when he realized the holes in the dodecahedron always come in five different sizes ... just as human fingers always come in five different sizes.
He deduced that these strange objects must have served some practical purpose related to fingers.
And the answer was indeed right at his fingertips ….
FOLLOW IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF ANTINOUS
DEEP INTO THE MYSTERIOUS SERAPEUM
ANTINOUS and Hadrian visited the Ancient Egyptian capital city of Memphis (Mennefer) in October of the year 130 AD and one of the highlights was the Serapeum underground labyrinth of tombs of the Sacred Apis Bulls.
Now you can follow in the footsteps of Antinous because the Serapeum has reopened to the public for the first time since 1986, when it was closed for safety reasons.
It recently opened again following 10 years of renovations to shore up the crumbling subterranean labyrinth which has mystified and impressed visitors for thousands of years.
Priest Hernestus was among the last visitors who wandered awe-struck through the Serapeum before it was deemed too unsafe for tourists.
He remembers it as one of the most magically mysterious places in all of Egypt, not least of all because he had been warned it could cave in at any moment.
The enormous burial site at Saqqara, just south of Cairo, dates back to 1400 BC and is the burial place of 30 Sacred Apis Bulls, animals considered to be holy by Pharaohs.
The labyrinth, lighted in ancient times by torches and today by electric lighting, was lined with tomb niches for the Apis Bulls. Each niche contained a giant granite sarcophagus weighing between 60 and 70 tons.
Experts over the centuries have been puzzled as to how the Ancient Egyptians were able to carve out this underground labyrinth and place such enormous granite sarcophagus coffins (each containing a mummified bull) into the tight confines of the narrow niches.
The site was discovered in 1851 by French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette - who blasted it open with dynamite - but closed in the late 20th Century because the rising water table following construction of the Aswan High Dam was eating away at the masonry holding up the arched passageways.
It has has now been fully renovated at a cost of $15 million (£1.2 million).
The foundations of the tomb have been reinforced, walls mended and lighting, ventilation and surveillance installed.
The tombs of the bulls lie in massive granite coffins along the complex labyrinth of underground galleries, connected by long dark passageways.
"This archeological site is linked to very old beliefs regarding ancient Egypt, when they declared the sacred Apis Bull to represent the responsibility of Egypt's ruler that was to guarantee the fertility of the land and its animals," Mohammed Ibrahim, the secretary of state for antiquities, told AL ARABIYA NEWS.
Egypt is in the throes of political turbulence not seen since the times of the pharaohs.
The tourism industry has taken as nosedive as foreigners avoid traveling to Egypt.
Ibrahim hopes that sites such as the Serapeum will help to draw visitors back.
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WORLD'S FIRST JOKE BOOK
DATES FROM THE DAYS OF ANTINOUS
EVER HEAR the joke about the astrologer who predicted a sick boy would survive the night and get well? He wanted payment in advance ... just in case!
An English translation of PHILOGELOS (THE LAUGHTER LOVER) is a collection of jokes dating from the Hadrian Era and gives insights into Roman humor.
Take for example the joke in which a man complains that a slave he has just bought has died.
"By the gods," answers the slave's seller, "that's more than he ever did when he was with me."
Other jokes in the book show that sex, nagging wives and farting have formed the basis of humor for centuries.
One example is: "A misogynist is attending to the burial of his wife, who has just died. When a passerby asks, 'Pardon me, who is it who rests in peace here?', he answers, 'Me, now that I'm rid of her!'."
The 265 jokes in Philogelos are attributed to a pair of jokers called Hierocles and Philagrius. Little is known about them, except that they were more likely to have been the compilers of the jokes than the original writers of the gags.
The jokes have been published in a multimedia online book, which includes video of veteran British stand-up comedian JIM BOWEN performing the jokes for a 21st century audience.
Bowen said: "One or two of them are jokes I've seen in people's acts nowadays, slightly updated. They put in a motor car instead of a chariot."
The translator of the book, William Berg, a US professor of classics, said the Philogelos book was already a later version of jokes dating back to the 1st and 2nd Century AD.
HERE'S A SELECTION:
No. 187: An ill-tempered astrologer cast the horoscope of a sick boy, promised his mother that he would live for a long time, then demanded his fee. "Come back tomorrow and I'll give it to you then," the worried mother said. "But what happens to my fee if he dies in the night?"
No. 201: A man consults a charlatan soothsayer and asks about the health of his family who live in a distant province. "They are all well, especially your father." "But my father's been dead for ten years!" "Ah, clearly you do not know your REAL father."
No. 202: Having cast a boy's horoscope, a charlatan prophet predicted that he would be first a lawyer, then a city prefect, and finally a provincial governor. But the boy died. His mother came back and remonstrated, "My son has died, the one you said would be a lawyer and prefect and governor." "I swear by his memory," responded the prophet, "he would have been all of those things had he lived!"
No. 203: Someone went to a charlatan prophet and inquired if his conniving rascal of a rival would come back from a voyage. The prophet promised that he would die at sea. But the man found out a few days later that his enemy had returned unharmed. "Well," said the prophet, "how shameless can you get? That man even goes so far as to cheat the Fates!"
No. 204: A charlatan prophet cast a client's horoscope and told him he could never have children. "But I've already got seven!" "Then you'd better take good care of them!"
No. 205: A charlatan prophet was captured by the enemy, and confessed his trade. Now it so happened that they were about to fight a battle. "You'll win it," he promised them, "as long as the enemy don't see the hairs on the back of your heads." (trans. B. Baldwin)
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A LITTLE ANTINOUS CAN GO A LONG WAY
POCKET shrines are a handy and magical way to take Antinous with you wherever you go.
ECCLESIA ANTINOI is the online meeting place for adherents of Antinous, and recently we have been talking about creating portable altars and pocket shrines.
Many group members have shrines at home but would like to have a sacred little something to take with them, not only on long journeys but even when they go to work, to school or run everyday errands.
One group member said a household altar can be a multi-purpose center. He told us: "As I prepare a new altar and shrine to Antinous, I've dedicated a place to put my wallet, money, and keys in a niche in the shrine thus connecting my life source — money — with that of Antinous' caring, protective spirit."
Everyone can create ANTINOUS ALTARS in even the most limited space. It need not be large and expensive. Even a photo of Antinous on a shelf can be a sacred spot.
Many people think they have to have lots of space and buy out a whole home-hardware store to build an overly elaborate shrine which takes up practically a whole room. That's not true. You can create a Sacred Space anywhere — on a table top, on a shelf or a special box or bag — for a portable shrine such as travelers and pilgrims used to have with them on arduous journeys in bygone centuries before the advent of paved roads and reliable transport.
Just as a bonsai tree embodies a forest giant, a pocket shrine is the embodiment of the Great Temple of Antinous in ANTINOOPOLIS.
A pouch or bag can hold a photo or figure of Antinous along with other "magical" things which are special to you such as crystals, sea shells, inspirational notes, mementos of people (or animals) you love. A deck of tiny Tarot cards or a small vial of perfume oil, dried flowers and prayer beads. The possibilities — as tiny as they may be in physical size — are absolutely unlimited.
In his book about Antinous, Beloved and God, Royston Lambert points out that in ancient times many followers of the Blessed Youth felt it was necessary to have a tangible representation of Antinous with them at all times for protection and for blessings:
"Some of the devotees evidently could not bear to be parted from the beneficial and reassuring presence of their Antinous and therefore had small, light-weight travelling busts or bronzes made to accompany them on their journeys."
Ancient worshipers of the Beauteous Boy knew that a little Antinous quite literally can go a long way ....
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ON JUNE 11th, the Religion of Antinous celebrates the Rise of the Star of Antinous. This is the date in our Liturgical Calendar when the Constellation of Antinous begins to rise over the horizon at sunset. It is visible on the eastern horizon along the banks of the Milky Way.
Wherever you live on Earth, you can see the Constellation of Antinous on starry nights from mid-June through late October when, in synchronicity with the Death of Antinous in late October, the Star of Antinous descends below the western horizon in the glare of the setting sun.
The Constellation of Antinous is no longer recognized by astronomers (just as Pluto has been demoted to the rank of "dwarf planet"). But it is still visible from any point on Earth nestled between Sagittarius and Capricorn and in the talons of Aquila (the Eagle Constellation) representing the Imperial Eagle which carried Antinous to lofty heights.
The most visible identifiers are the three bright stars of Aquila — Altair at the crown of his head, Tarazad, and Alshain. Alshain is derived from Arabic for "Two Friends" which astrologers have cited as a hint as to how to interpret the Sign of Antinous.
The Star of Antinous is however difficult to see. Most people cannot see it at all. You won't find it on any star chart. Like the Star of Bethlehem, it is a mystery and a conundrum about which many theories have been written.
And even if you could see it, the light which reaches your eyes would have left the star thousands of years ago — perhaps about the time that Emperor Hadrian discovered the star.
The simple truth of the matter — and the most beautiful facet of all — is the fact that Hadrian discovered the Star of Antinous with his own tear-filled eyes as he looked skyward in grief after the death of his beloved Antinous. Distraught and weeping, the emperor stood under the canopy of the star-studded heavens and looked up the River Nile towards the spot where his Beloved Boy had died. And he saw a new star which he recognized as a celestial sign that the gods had taken Antinous to be one of them.
You have to realize that Hadrian was a keen astronomer/astrologer himself. He knew the heavens like the back of his hand and he was so adept at casting horoscopes that it was said he had determined the exact hour of his death. He built an observatory at his sumptious villa outside Rome. And the tour of Egypt had brought him into contact with the finest Egyptian magician/priests, one of whom taught him how to cast a binding spell which could give him dream-visions and could also cause someone to fall hopelessly in love with him or — depending on how it was cast — even cause that person to die in agony.
Hadrian was that sort of control freak. Despite the fact that he was the mightiest man on Earth who could send a man to death on a whim (and did so, on occasion), he also wanted control over the future. And he wanted to be able to force someone to love him and never, never leave him.
Much has been theorized about those fateful final days leading up to the death and deification of Antinous and Hadrian's discovery of the STAR OF ANTINOUS.
Yes, much has been written about these events and about Hadrian's obsession with magic and astrology and soothsayers. One of the more fanciful versions was published in a novel in the mid-1950s by the German author Ernst Sommer. Entitled simply Antinous, the novel suggests Antinous sacrificed his own life to save his beloved emperor during the imperial tour of Egypt in the year 130 AD.
The dramatic climax of the plot has Hadrian lying in a villa in Hermopolis, feverish and at death's door after having been bitten by a mosquito. The emperor writhes in bed, calling out Antinous's name. The Empress Sabina and heir-apparent Lucius, jealous but also fearful that the presence of Antinous might further agitate the emperor, issue orders that the boy be kept away from the emperor.
After several daring attempts to sneak into the villa, Antinous is finally put under house arrest aboard an imperial vessel anchored a few miles upstream near the fallen-down Temple of Bes (the future site of the Sacred City of Antinoopolis). Lucius has ordered that he be put in irons to prevent him from sneaking off to visit Hadrian. But the guards cannot bring themselves to place the beauteous boy in irons, in defiance of Lucius's orders. Instead, they merely confine him to his quarters below deck with a single porthole overlooking the nighttime waters of the Nile.
Sensing that the emperor is dying, Antinous realizes his love for Hadrian is boundless and that nothing can keep them apart. Thinking back to his discussions about life and death with Jewish Rabbis, Christian clerics and Egyptian priests of Osiris, he realizes that the day has come. The hour has arrived. It is time to surrender everything he has — in a pure act of love that will transform everything.
He opens the porthole hatch and sees an unusually bright star which seems to beckon. He steps out of his clothes and leaves them (his last earthly possessions) lying in a heap on the floor. He climbs deftly out the porthole and slips quietly into the water.
At the same moment, Hadrian breathes his last breath, to the horror of Sabina and Lucius and the others who are gathered at his bedside. In a state now beyond physical life, Hadrian opens his eyes to see Anubis standing before him with outstretched hands, lifting him out of bed and guiding him away down many dark corridors. At last, Hadrian is taken through a massive portal and into a chamber where Thoth is waiting beside scales placed before Osiris.
Thoth begins the Weighing of the Heart ceremony as Osiris asks who this person is who seeks admittance to his realm. In the midst of the solemn proceedings there is a loud banging at the portal and Anubis announces that someone has arrived to offer his own heart in exchange for the emperor's heart, so that Hadrian might live and walk the earth again. That person is standing unseen just outside the portal. After brief discussion, the Egyptian deities acknowledge that the Law of Maat specifically envisions such an exchange and that, indeed, it is the most sacred and powerful of covenants — surrendering one's own heart on the Scales of Truth for that of a loved one. Such love cannot be denied. The offer cannot be denied.
Genesthoi — So Be It Done!
Back at the death bed in the Hermopolis villa, Hadrian gasps suddenly and his eyelids fly open, to the amazement of everyone who thought he had just expired. Sensing what has happened, he speaks hoarsely of a vivid dream involving deities. He looks around and demands to know where Antinous is.
"Where is he? What have you done with him? I know he would be here at my side if he were physically able. Bring him to me at once!"
But as Sabina and Lucius stammer excuses, and before the runners can summon Antinous, a boat crewman bursts into the room with the news that Antinous is missing and presumed to have drowned in the Nile.
Hadrian suffers a relapse, but the Egyptian magic is well done. So he cannot die this time. As the search for Antinous continues, with hope waning each day, Hadrian retreats to the rooftop observatory of the villa in Hermopolis which has been placed at his disposal by a wealthy Hermopolite. The emperor stares into the heavens night after night, refusing to give up hope that Antinous might yet be alive, perhaps dazed and confused and lost somewhere along the river.
Then one night he looks into the heavens and sees the proof that he has been looking for since the disappearance of Antinous. He summons the empress and Lucius and the entire court and also calls for the chief astrologer of the Temple of Thoth in Hermopolis to come quickly.
He informs them that a new star has appeared in the heavens and that it is a celestial sign that Antinous has left this earthly existence to ascend to the pantheon of the gods. He has surrendered everything on behalf of his beloved emperor, just as he had always said he would. Everyone thinks Hadrian has suffered another relapse and is delusional with fever. But the astronomer arrives and swiftly confirms that the sharp-eyed emperor has indeed discovered an uncharted star.
As Hadrian leaves to issue orders for the deification of Antinous, construction of the city at the spot where he drowned and erection of temples throughout the world, the astronomer remains behind in the rooftop observatory with the wealthy owner of the house. Where precisely is this new star, the owner asks. "I know quite a bit about the stars for an amateur, but I can't for the life of me see anything at the spot in the heavens where Caesar was pointing just a while ago."
The astronomer says that the new star is definitely there and that astronomers throughout the world will confirm its existence and it will be recorded duly in all the star charts.
"Yes, but can't you point it out to me?" the wealthy man pleas. "I'm straining my eys looking, but I just can't see anything."
The astronomer answers, "And that is why you will never be a good astronomer. You scan the heavens with your eyes, but not with your heart."
So Hadrian looked into the nighttime skies and discovered a new star to point the way to that new religion. As a scholar and man of science he was able to see it with his own two eyes. Perhaps it was a super-nova which flared and then went out — who knows? He saw it and his court astronomers confirmed it and the Constellation of Antinous was recorded in the star charts for 19 centuries to come.
But more importantly, Hadrian discovered the Star of Antinous shining in his heart. The Death of Antinous showed him a way to make his vision of the perfect religion a reality on Earth. It was the Light he was seeking. It was the Light of Antinous.
So when you look up into the nighttime skies tonight in search of the Star of Antinous, don't be surprised if you can't find it with your physical eyes. You can't find it in physical space, which is why Flamen Antinoalis Antonius Subia calls it the Dark Star of Antinous. Look inside your heart and you will find it shining there with all the beauty of a dream of perfection ....
Lumen Antinoi Adiuva Nos!
(Light of Antinous, Sustain Us!)
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Why are some people such drama queens?
Why do some people get so obsessed with the little stuff, the gossip, who said what to who, who's sleeping with who, who's no longer sleeping with who…?
The short answer: Because it gives them something to do.
Life is short. You'd think we would have learned by now, how to make better use of our VERY limited time here on Earth.
The Internet: Keep It New, Keep It Fresh.
Perspective is a good thing. And a hard thing.
Not so long ago, in evolutionary terms, we moved in groups of no more than 150 people, and personal drama wasn't something we could easily get away from.
As long as somebody's preoccupation with their own drama doesn't blind them to the importance of other things, I can forgive them for it.


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The Status of Women in Iran
By Brandon McPhail Jun 16, 2009 in World
It has been proven that when a society's women are well-educated and prosperous, the society as a whole only stands to gain. Women's education rates and legal rights before and after the 1979 Islamic Revolution are essentially unchanged in Iran.
The West has it in its collective conceptualization of women's rights in the Middle East that when governments were sympathetic to the West, somehow it meant the lives of women were better.
Under the American-backed Shah, Sharia Law was implemented in 1970. While each country that implements Sharia Law does so with its own interpretation, just as western nations interpret democracy differently, all forms of the law put men well ahead of women.
Recent outrage in Iran's capital Tehran has been centered around the University of Tehran over what many students are saying was the invalid re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Reports from around the world have shown women have taken a front seat in the protests. It makes sense that female students would be at the forefront of these protests as they comprise a majority of the student body in some faculties. The University of Tehran is a bastion of relative equality in a country where women's rights go no further than having their husband ask permission before he takes additional wives.
In 1963, Prime Minister Assadullah 'Alam issued a decree giving women the right to vote. As a result, eight women were elected to office and a woman was appointed ambassador to Algeria.
This led to the first Women's Conference in 1965 where issues of women's education and marriage laws were discussed by 2,000 attendees. With increased popularity in women's groups, the government conglomerated all women's groups into one pro-government group called the Women's Organization of Iran (WOI).
By 1975, the WOI had established 349 branches and 120 centres throughout the country. Organization and education made the WOI a driving force behind the 1979 Revolution that eventually led to the gradual decline in women's rights. By 1983 the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution banned women from studying engineering, science, technology and agricultural studies.
The WOI remained a force throughout the 1980's, eventually leading to the repeal of limits on women's education in 1986 when women were once again permitted to pursue studies in their chosen field.
By the early 1990's, women made up approximately half the student population at the University of Tehran, with 58 per cent of students in Natural Sciences being women.
By 2009, 65 per cent of the student population are women. As grassroots religious fundamentalism spread throughout Muslim nations in response to wars fought against the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980's, and later against America and its allies in Iraq and Afghanistan, men gradually made up fewer numbers at the University of Tehran.
Today, women in Iran live in a perpetual state of rights acquisition and disillusion. The Iranian government has created female police brigades, allowed for female news reporters and have female government representatives at English news conferences.
At the same time, since the conservative resurgence in 2004 and the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a woman can still receive 74 lashes for going out in public without a Hijab.
Recently defeated presidential hopeful Mir-Hossein Mousavi had promised to make women's rights a part of a new Iranian constitution had he been elected.
Moussavi, who is married to Zahra Rahnavard who served as a political advisor to former reformist president Mohammad Khatami, has also promised to appoint female cabinet ministers.
With Ayatollah Khamenei currently reviewing Friday's election results, women's rights in Iran are once again in a state of purgatory.
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Empowering women and girls
In Northern Ireland
GLOW is a registered charity that currently operates in Belfast and focuses on empowering women and girls.
Established in 2011 and spearheaded by Chara Clarke, GLOW was developed from a common desire of women in the local community to address issues facing their peers such as low self-esteem & confidence, mental health problems, isolation and a general lack of purpose.
As an inter-generational, cross community organisation, GLOW challenges the status quo in order to break the vicious cycle of these issues by equipping women and young girls with tools and techniques to build their confidence, self-esteem, resilience and life skills. This will help them set positive, realistic steps in achieving their goals, enabling them to live happy fulfilled lives.
GLOW believes that all women and girls have purpose and so our unique programmes create a positive atmosphere and allow the opportunity for women and girls to discover their true selves. This has a knock on effect as participants can positively impact on their family and community, especially in setting young female family members up with confidence and life skills to have a successful future.
To empower women and girls in Northern Ireland (and beyond) to discover their true identity and purpose so they can achieve their full potential.
Meet the dreamers behind glow
Chara Clarke
Chara's heart for women and girls is apparent through her 10 years of volunteer experience within the local church. Paired with certificates in Life Coaching and Leadership & Management, she has held leadership roles within women's ministry and is highly respected for her love of people. More recently Chara received her Advanced Diploma in Social Enterprise from University of Ulster.
In 20o8 a group of women started to do social events to bring women from the Shankill and Falls communities together. During these events Chara recognised these women had low self esteem issues and other mental health problems that seem to lead them further into isolation. This sparked something in Chara to help these women! As a result, our unique women's programme came to be developed with the help of a few others.
As the programme developed and more people heard the testimonies, GLOW experienced a snowball effect and funders began to support the project.
GLOW Women's Project Support Worker
A number of years ago, Natasha came through 'The Real Me' programme and was then invited to train as a facilitator herself so she could lead the sessions!
We are delighted to now have Natasha on board full time at GLOW as a Project Support Worker as she is so passionate about empowering other women.
"So many people are suffering with mental health problems. My ultimate goal is to become a counsellor but I'd also love to keep facilitating for the same reason. Being able to help others makes me happy".
Nikkita
GLOW Events & Marketing Officer
Nikkita joined the GLOW team in 2020 as our Events and Marketing Officer.
After graduating from QUB in 2012 with a BA (hons) in Film Studies and a CIM qualification, Nikkita has gained a wealth of experience in marketing, promotion and event management over the past ten years. She loves creating social media campaigns to raise awareness of the work GLOW does.
Nikkita looks after her own mental health through hiking, going to the gym and has completed her Mental Health First Aid.
"GLOW is the type of support network I would have loved to have had on my doorstep as a teen. Early intervention is so important in helping girls navigate their mental health and figure out who and where they want to be in life".
You Glow Girl Coordinator
Paula is our You GLOW Girl coordinator and oversees design and production for the social enterprise.
Coming through "The Real Me" programme in 2018, Paula continued to be involved with other programmes at GLOW. She came on board as a volunteer initially and was a huge asset to the staff.
Paula is happily married and a proud mum of three boys but she still found time to achieve a Level 3 qualification from the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
GLOW Finance & Admin Officer
Margaret has held various posts over the years working in finance, admin and office management.
Margaret also worked with the Home Office assisting with the Visa procedure for volunteers and then went to work for a homeless hostel charity and individuals with addiction issues.
'I enjoy a challenge and look forward to learning more about the people GLOW helps'.
GLOW Youth Worker
Lauren started as our Youth Worker back in May 2020 (right at the beginning of a pandemic) and we are so lucky to have her organising and facilitating our LILY, Fearless & Female and Glow-Getter youth sessions.
'I am very passionate about working with young girls and helping them to grow within themselves and build their confidence and self-esteem.'
As well as being a new mummy, Lauren is also a talented digital artist and musician who loves creating in her spare time!
You Glow Girl Social Media Officer
Laoise is our You Glow Girl Social Media Officer. She takes care of all things social media- whether it's creating Tiktoks, overseeing the social media platforms or helping with photoshoots.
Laoise is currently a university student, studying Broadcast Production at Queen's University. Her hobbies include podcasting and blogging. She has worked on TV & Film in the past.
"I love studying Broadcast Production and it really connects with the social media marketing I do at You Glow Girl. I've learnt photography and editing through my degree and I love to create content. I also have my own podcast Laoise Online. I'm passionate about helping people, which is why I am passionate about becoming a journalist/ content creator".
Our Programmes Will..
Increase confidence and self-esteem
Help the discovery of purpose and identity
Help participants learn and nurture practical and essential life skills
Provide guidance on living a lifestyle of positive mental health
Encourage and build positive and lasting friendships
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2016-17 archdiocesan Catholic Directory wins national award from Catholic Press
The 2016-2017 Archdiocese of New Orleans Catholic Directory won a national second-place award from the Catholic Press Association of the U.S. and Canada. The directory is a listing of all Catholic parishes, schools, churches, organizations and ministries. The Catholic Directory is compiled by Jonelle Foltz, Cheryl Dejoie-LaCabe, MJ Cahill and Lloyd Robichaux of the Clarion Herald; Sarah McDonald of the Office of Communications; and John Smestad Jr., director of pastoral planning and ministries. The judges said: "Nicely presented with practical tabs for all the categories. Moving photos of special events give a pastoral touch to this reference tool."
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Q: Android database testing - using Room.inMemoryDatabaseBuilder() passes exact same test that Room.databaseBuilder() does not I am writing units tests for an app's Room database. Here is relevant code when using Room.databaseBuilder()
@Before
public void createDb() {
    Context context = ApplicationProvider.getApplicationContext();
    db = Room.databaseBuilder(context, AppDatabase.class, "AppDatabase").build();
    itemDao = db.itemDao();
}

The test fails here and the error is android.database.sqlite.SQLiteConstraintException: UNIQUE constraint failed: item.id (code 1555 SQLITE_CONSTRAINT_PRIMARYKEY[1555]). (I think I know what causes the error, I need I don't have an auto generated primary key for entries so a record is inserted with an id already in the table. Anyway, that's not what my question is.)
And same method, using Room.inMemoryDatabaseBuilder(). Here the test passes.
@Before
void createDb() {
    Context context = ApplicationProvider.getApplicationContext();
    db = Room.inMemoryDatabaseBuilder(context, AppDatabase.class).build();
    itemDao = db.itemDao();
}

And the test itself is:
@Test
public void writeItemAndReadInList() {
    float value = 3.0f;
    Item item = new Item(value, new Date());
    itemDao.insert(item);
    List<Item> all = itemDao.getAll();
    assertEquals(all.get(0).getValue(), value);
}

So the question is why does the first method fail and the second one pass? What difference is that one database is created in memory and the other not? If the problem is with inserting with unique primary keys, shouldn't it be present in both methods? Unless that is not the problem here.

A: Room.databaseBuilder(..).build() won't drop your database between runs, it is persistent. Room.inMemoryDatabaseBuilder(...).build() it is not (all data is lost when the process is killed), that's why you're not getting unique constraint exceptions when you first run the test.

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What Do I WIMBY (Want In My Backyard)?
by Shirley Siluk Gregory 4 comments
No matter what new energy proposal someone makes, it's bound to attract an outcry of NIMBYs (Not In My Backyard). (My recent post about the U.S. generating all the energy it needed via a 100-mile-by-100-mile solar installation in the Mojave Desert, for example, evoked some protest.)
So I thought it might help to pose the future-of-our-energy question in another way: What do I WIMBY? (As in, Want In My Backyard?)
OK, here we go: Following are photos illustrating several clean and/or renewable energy options that could help us curb greenhouse gas emissions and reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. Which ones would you be willing to view from your backyard as a tradeoff for a cleaner, brighter future? Be honest now: I'm asking literally if you would say OK if one of these was what you saw when looking out of the window of your home.
Is it Nuclear Power?
Image credit: Anna Gomez at Wikimedia Commons, released into public domain.
Concentrated Solar Power?
Image credit: Sandia National Laboratory at Wikimedia Commons, released into public domain.
Distributed Solar Power?
Image credit: Downtowngal at Wikimedia Commons, under a Creative Commons license.
Wind Power?
Image credit: Dirk Ingo Franke at Wikimedia Commons, under a GNU Free Documentation license.
Hydroelectric Power?
Image credit: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation at Wikimedia Commons, released into public domain.
Tidal Power?
Image credit: TidalStream Partners at Wikimedia Commons, under a GNU Free Documentation license.
Or Geothermal Power?
Image credit: Gretar Ívarsson at Wikimedia Commons, released into the public domain.
I'll be the first to answer: I'd have to say distributed solar (rooftop panels) and tidal. Honestly, I'd find all the others unsightly when viewed from my home. (Though I have to acknowledge that's clearly selfish: if it's a choice between saving the Earth — and civilization — from the effects of catastrophic climate change, I'd take any of the above.)
Of course, by the time any of us really has to make that choice, it'll be too late to stave off a climate catastrophe. That's the problem with NIMBYism.
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Shirley Siluk Gregory
Shirley Siluk Gregory, a transplanted Chicagoan now living in Northwest Florida, represents the progressive half of Green Options' Red, Green and Blue segment. She holds a bachelor's degree in Geological Sciences from Northwestern University but graduated in 1984, just when the market for geologists was flatter than the Florida landscape. Just as well, though: she had little interest in spending her life either in a laboratory or, heaven forbid, an oil field. So, of course, she went into journalism. After extremely low-paying but fun and educational stints at several suburban Chicago weeklies and dailies, Shirley and her then-boyfriend/now-husband Scott found themselves displaced by a media buyout and spending the next several years working as freelancers. Among their credits: The Chicago Tribune, a publication for the manufactured-housing industry, and Web Hosting Magazine, a now-defunct publication that came and went with the dotcom era. Shirley's always been concerned about nature and conservation (and an avid pack-rat, as her family can attest to), but became even more rabidly interested in the environment primarily due to two factors: the growing signs that global warming was real and threatening, and the birth of her son, Noah, in 2003. Suddenly, the prospect of a world that might not be quite as habitable in 40 or 50 years took on a whole new, and personal, meaning. Living where she lives now also helped light the fire of Shirley's environmental awareness: her hometown was severely damaged by Hurricane Ivan in 2004, and beaten up again by Hurricane Dennis in 2005. That, and the fact that she and her family were vacationing in New Orleans until the day before Katrina -- and spent 12 hours driving home for a trip that normally takes 3 -- has made Shirley deeply appreciate how fragile our lifestyles are, and how dependent they are on sound management of natural resources and sustainable living practices. That's why she's become a passionate reader and writer about all things green and sustainable.
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Славко Ћурувија (Загреб, 9. август 1949 — Београд, 11. април 1999) је био српски новинар и издавач, оснивач листова "Недељни телеграф", "Дневни телеграф" и "Европљанин".

Убијен је на Васкрс 1999. године, током НАТО бомбардовања Србије после сукоба са влашћу Слободана Милошевића због неслагања око извештавања о рату на Косову и Метохији. Ћурувију је непосредно пре убиства непрестано пратило 27 припадника Службе државне безбедности (СДБ). Децембра 2021. године, 22 године после убиства, тадашњи начелник Службе Раде Марковић и тројица бивших припадника СДБ-а правоснажно су осуђени на укупно сто година због умешаности у убиство Ћурувије.

Биографија
Славко Ћурувија је рођен у Загребу, 9. августа 1949. године.
Дипломирао је на Факултету политичких наука Универзитета у Београду. Радни век је почео у предузећу "Машиноградња".
Од 1984. године је радио као аналитичар у Управи за анализе Савезног секретаријата за унутрашње послове.

Године 1986. Ћурувија се придружио новинарској екипи листа "Борба".
Почео је као коментатор, а затим је напредовао преко уредника унутрашње политичке рубрике, до позиције главни и одговорни уредник.

Писао је коментаре и репортаже са Косова и Метохије у периоду од 1986. до 1988. године. Био је један од ретких новинара који је био поред Слободана Милошевића током његове посете Косову Пољу, 24. априла 1987, када је Милошевић изговорио чувену реченицу "Нико не сме да вас бије!".

У "Борби" је остао до 1994. године када је држава преузела контролу над листом, након чега је напустио новине. Све време је био активни дописник или сарадник више медија: "Комунист", НИН, "Вјесник", "Вечерњи лист", "Недеља", "Побједа", ТВ Београд, ТВ Политика, ТВ Сарајево. Године 1994. заједно са Момчилом Ђорговићем основао је лист "Телеграф" (чије име, после њиховог разлаза 1996, Ђорговић мења у "Недељни телеграф"). Две године након тога, 1996, основао је "Дневни телеграф" (ДТ), први приватни дневни лист у Србији. 1998. године је основао магазин "Европљанин".

Познанство и сукоб са Мирјаном Марковић
Не постоје поуздани подаци о природи односа између Славка Ћурувије и Мирјане Марковић, супруге тадашњег председника Србије Слободана Милошевића.
Александар Тијанић је у ТВ документарцу "Кад режим стреља" описао њихов однос као "пакт о ненападању који му је омогућавао да дође до значајних информација и тиме значајно увећа број читалаца Дневног телеграфа". Ћурувијина невенчана супруга Бранка Прпа је придавала знатно мањи значај том познанству.

Ћурувијин однос са Мирјаном Марковић се значајно погоршао у лето 1998. године, када су у току биле значајне полицијске акције против побуњених Албанаца на Косову. На основу Уредбе Владе Србије о посебним мерама у условима претње НАТО напада на земљу "Дневни телеграф" привремено је забрањен 14. октобра 1998, а просторије су запечаћене. Изнервиран таквом одлуком Славко је одјурио код Мире Марковић.
На основу књиге Предрага Поповића "Они не праштају", тада су пале тешке речи између њих двоје.
Славко је упитао Миру: "Шта то радите? Ако наставите тим путем, висићете на Теразијама!" У склопу пропаганде за време рата на Косову и Метохији прикривани су злочини режима Слободана Милошевића над албанским цивилима, а у водећим медијима су сви Албанци називани терористима. Хјуман Рајтс Воч наводи да су привођени независни новинари који убијене Албанце нису називали терористима, а Ћурувија је из истога разлога био саслушаван.

Недуго затим заплењена је целокупна имовина фирме ДТ-прес која је издавала ДТ, а потом је Славко регистровао листове у Црној Гори. Ипак, због текстова и илустрација у "Европљанину" октобра 1998. суд у Београду изрекао је Ћурувији и његовом предузећу укупну казну од 2,4 милиона тадашњих динара.

Пресуда је донета на основу контроверзног Закона о информисању, који је донет 1998. године када се на челу Министарства за информисање у Влади Мирка Марјановића налазио Александар Вучић.
Тадашњи закон је увео високе новчане казне за новинаре чије се извештавање није уклапало у прописане оквире (тзв. "независни новинари"), а на основу тужби које би, позивајући се на "противдржавно и подривајуће деловање" разних врста, подносили грађани или организације, а по којима су прекршајни судови имали обавезу да одлуче у року од 24 часа.
Казна је изречена три дана након доношења закона ретроактивним дејством Закона.

Новембра исте године, "Дневни телеграф" бива кажњен по тужби Савеза жена Југославије, којег је заступала Братислава Буба Морина, са 1.200.000 динара због објављивања огласа студентске организације "Отпор", чиме је "угрозио све грађане, жене и децу".

Ћурувија је, заједно са још двојицом новинара листа, 8. марта 1999. године кажњен на пет месеци затвора због узнемиравања јавности.

Мирјана Марковић је десетак дана пред Ћурувијино убиство, на седници Дирекције Југословенске левице (ЈУЛ) њега означила као главног државног непријатеља који је изазвао бомбардовање и да ће му народ судити.

Неколико дана пред убиство, Мирјана Марковић је преко Драгана Хаџи Антића издејствовала да се у прорежимском Експресу објави текст Мирослава Марковића "Ћурувија дочекао бомбе".
Тај текст многи сматрају за својеврсну пресуду Ћурувији.

Убиство
Славко Ћурувија убијен је на Ускрс, 11. априла 1999. године, истог датума када је две године раније убијен Радован Стојичић Баџа.
Убиство је извршено око 17 часова у Београду, у Светогорској улици (у то време Иве Лоле Рибара), у пролазу испред броја 35, где су се налазиле просторије маркетинг службе 'Дневног телеграфа', а на четвртом спрату и стан у коме је Ћурувија живео.
Министарство унутрашњих послова саопштило је да је Ћурувија "лишен живота из ватреног оружја, од стране непознатих извршилаца и да радници Секретаријата у Београду интензивно трагају за починиоцима овог кривичног дела".
Тадашњи дневни листови су пренели сведочење очевидаца да су "на њега пуцала двојица нападача обучена у црно и са црним капама са прорезима за очи на главама.
Чула су се три-четири хица, а онда су из хаустора излетела двојица и у пуном трку отишла низ улицу ка Таковској".

Ћурувији је пуцано у леђа, један хитац га је погодио у главу, а други му је прошао кроз срце.
Убице су дршком од пиштоља удариле и Славкову партнерку Бранку Прпу, која је била са њим.

Њих двоје су непосредно пре напада били на ручку са пријатељима.
На основу података која су објављени из тајног полицијског досије "Ћуран", сазнало се да је Ћурувију и његову супругу до непосредно пред његову смрт, у три смене, пратило 27 припадника Државне безбедности.

Истрага
Као и многе истраге за убиства из тог периода и ова дуго времена није имала судски епилог. Током истраге је на предлог специјалног тужиоца за организовани криминал, саслушано око 100 сведока. Крајем 2007. године, тужилац је опет доставио захтев за спровођење нових истражних радњи.

Адвокат Рајко Даниловић, који је раније заступао Јову Ћурувију, брата убијеног Славка, а касније Бранку Прпу, је изјавио да особе упућене у истражни предмет знају ко је извршио убиство и који људи из Државне безбедности су то организовали, а претпоставља се са великим степеном поузданости и ко је и када наручио убиство.

Б92 је још 2006. године сазнала да је као једног од двојице непосредних извршиоца атентата сведок убиства идентификовао Луку Пејовића.
Он је имао досије нарко-дилера у Црној Гори, а убили су га непознати нападачи убрзо после петооктобарских промена у Србији 2000. године. Током суђења за убиство Ћурувије ова претпоставка је од стране више учесника истраге означена као нетачна.

Раније се спекулисало да је директно Мирјана Марковић наручила Ћурувијино убиство десетак дана пре извршења и да су поред ње за убиство оптужени и бивши шеф Државне безбедности Раде Марковић, некадашњи шеф београдског центра ДБ Милан Радоњић, као и припадници тајне службе Ратко Ромић и Мирослав Мики Курак.

На основу изјаве портпаролке Специјалног суда Маје Ковачевић, очекивало се да истражне радње буду окончане маја 2008. године. Међутим, до тога није дошло ни годинама касније.

На месту где је убијен Славко Ћурувија у Светогорској улици постављена је спомен-плоча са следећим текстом: "На овом месту 11. априла 1999. године убијен је због оштре критичке речи Славко Ћурувија, новинар, уредник и власник "Дневног телеграфа" и "Европљанина". У знак сећања, Независно удружење новинара Србије, 11. април 2000". Ова спомен-плоча је украдена 6. октобра 2009. Удружење новинара Србије и Независно удружење новинара Србије су осудили овај догађај и захтевали да се починиоци "хитно" пронађу и казне, а обележје врати на своје место. НУНС је оценио да је реч о "одговору на годишњицу 5. октобра". Независно удружење новинара Србије је поново поставило спомен-плочу 5. новембра 2009, уместо оне старе, која је украдена 6. октобра.

За убиство власника "Европљанина" и "Дневног телеграфа" Сид је осумњичио бивше шефове Ресора државне безбедности Радета Марковића, Милана Радоњића, те оперативце Ратка Ромића и Мирослава Курака, док се истраживала и улога Мирјане Марковић. Суђење је започело у Специјалном суд у Београду 2015. године, а 5. априла 2019. године, исти суд је осудио Радета Марковића и Милана Радоњића на по 30 година затвора, док су Ратко Ромић и Мирослав Курак осуђени на по 20 година.

Апелациони суд је ову пресуду оборио и вратио на ново суђење, које је пред истим трочланим судским већем, које је донело првостепену пресуду, почело у октобру 2020. године.

Почетком 2021. године Судско веће Специјалнога суда у поновљеном поступку је прогласило кривим некадашње припаднике СДБ-а Радета Марковића, Милана Радоњића, Ратка Ромића и Мирослава Курака, за убиство Ћурувије. Прва двојица су осуђена на 30 година затвора, а Ромић и Курак (који је у бекству) су добили по десет година мање.

Библиографија
 Ибеовац: ја, Владо Дапчевић, "Филип Вишњић", Београд, 1990.

Постхумно
 Жртве: Иван Стамболић Славку Ћурувији, прир. Вукашин Стамболић, Удружење Наука и друштво Србије, Београд, 2006.(коаутор Иван Стамболић)

Референце

Спољашње везе

 Време, 17. април 1999.: На београдском Новом гробљу сахрањен Славко Ћурувија
 Б92, 11. април 2008.: 9 година од убиства Ћурувије
 Дванаест година од убиства Славка Ћурувије ("Политика", 11. април 2011)
 Они су убили Славка Ћурувију ("Блиц", 13. јануар 2014)

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Robert Hood returns with the Omega: Alive album (mixed live set). The album was presented at Club Nitsa in Barcelona during the Sonar Festival.
Create the cover design for the "Omega Alive" release on CD, and stay true to the concept as used for the "Omega" album release.
Abandoned streets and car wrecks return in the artwork for this follow-up of the "Omega" release.


Social media influencer and South African based socialite Faith Nketsi and friend Kim Kholiwe are set to light up Ginimbi's club Sankayi tomorrow.
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Canada New Zealand Business Council
Helping Canada and New Zealand do business together
Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) will deepen Pacific economic integration – Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide
Credit: Original article can be found here
On 15 November, 15 countries signed the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). This trade and investment agreement will cover around 30% of the world by both GDP and population. Over time, it should lead to deeper integration of regional supply chains and economies in East and South East Asia, boosting trade and productivity.
RCEP extends and links a number of existing trade agreements into a multi-lateral partnership covering most of the major economies in the Asia-Pacific region. It includes all the members of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) (Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Brunei), plus China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand. Notably, it does not currently include India.
In some areas – tariff reduction, e-commerce, and state-owned enterprises – RCEP is not as 'deep' an agreement as the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), which includes a number of common countries with RCEP (Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore and Brunei). However, RCEP could act as a platform for future agreements that go further.
Although signed, RCEP may take months if not years to come into effect – it must be ratified by at least six ASEAN countries and three non-ASEAN countries before coming into force. However, its long-term impact could be significant for a number of reasons.
RCEP covers a huge – and growing – share of the world economy
The 15 signatory countries to RCEP constitute almost 30% world GDP, a similar share to the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA, which replaced NAFTA) and significantly larger than the EU. What is more, this share is likely to increase over time, as RCEP includes many faster growing economies – such as China, Vietnam and Indonesia. RCEP represents an even larger share of the world's population – over 30%, compared to around 6% for each of the USMCA and the EU.
Source: CRU
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