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Enduring Love 2: Faith and Family
BETHLEHEM — Long before Eddie Albert whisked away Eva Gabor to Hooterville in "Green Acres," Bob Rietschlin did the same to Eleanor Allwine. Even
Enduring Love 2: Faith and Family BETHLEHEM — Long before Eddie Albert whisked away Eva Gabor to Hooterville in "Green Acres," Bob Rietschlin did the same to Eleanor Allwine. Even Check out this story on mansfieldnewsjournal.com: http://ohne.ws/1lY41MZ
Rob McCurdy, Reporter Published 5:43 p.m. ET July 10, 2014 | Updated 5:55 p.m. ET July 10, 2014
Bob and Eleanor Rietschlin pose with their then-17 grandchildren in October of 1985.(Photo: Submitted photo)
BETHLEHEM —
Long before Eddie Albert whisked away Eva Gabor to Hooterville in "Green Acres," Bob Rietschlin did the same to Eleanor Allwine.
Even though both attended Shelby High School in the 1940s, they came from different worlds — Bob a resident of the rural Shelby Settlement and Eleanor a city girl from the west side of Shelby.
With a hand pump for water, an outhouse for a bathroom and being stuck in the middle of farmland in eastern Crawford County with no neighbors mere yards away, newlywed Eleanor wasn't used to this kind of hardship and isolation. But she also was a good sport and ready to meet the challenge of her newfound life.
"I'm going to be a farmer's wife one of these fine spring days. Although to me a farmer's life is still a deep dark mystery," Eleanor penned in a poem called "A Farmer's Wife." "I love that farmer man of mine, for him I'll cook and sew. And if he's patient with me, in time the work of a farmer's wife I'll know. I'll clean our home, and mind our kids. I'll milk the cows, and feed the chicks. And if you so desire, my dear, into the fields I'll go. All this I'll do, so never fear that I'll regret I'm living the life too know."
In 1953, six years after their marriage vows, they moved to a two-story farmhouse on German Road fitted with indoor plumbing. By then Eleanor had long transitioned into being that farmer's wife, a duty she cherished until her death.
"A happy family is but an earlier heaven." — George Bernard Shaw
Nine children born in the span of 15 years required management, and with Bob working two jobs, it largely fell on Eleanor. Discipline came in various forms over the years, but it wasn't often doled out.
"I don't remember a lot of chaos. Mom had two tools for discipline: a yard stick and 'wait until your father gets home,'" youngest son Luke Rietschlin joked. "They started young with discipline for us so we weren't out of control, but there was always the basic bickering (between siblings)."
One trick Eleanor used to get her kids' attention was to start sweeping their toys off the floor and out the door if they weren't doing what was asked. And if anyone heard their middle name, daughter Mary (Rietschlin) Ferraiuolo said, that meant trouble.
"We did a lot of playing outside, even if it wasn't fit outside. That's what we did," their son Tom Rietschlin said.
Living on a grain farm that early on also was home to a flock of sheep, the children had plenty of open space to roam and lots of things to experience in the barn. Hunting squirrels, jumping out of the haymow, riding bikes and later swimming in the pond next to the house were just some of the pastimes.
At night, brothers John, Tom, Nick and Mike slept in a couple of bunk beds in one room, while Dan and Luke shared another room. Eldest daughter Jane had her own room, and youngest sisters Mary and Betsy shared one, too.
"Life just existed. You played and ate and went to bed and did it again the next day," Tom said. "I know you always waited for Mom to tuck you in at night."
"Love begins at home and it is not how much we do ... but how much love we put in that action." — Mother Theresa
For a big Catholic family like the Rietschlins, Sunday was important.
"We never missed a Sunday (Mass)," Luke said. "A lot of times in the summer they had daily Mass and we would have a week or two in the summer where we were altar boys. They were both hardcore about (going to church). It was generational and a family thing and how they were raised."
Religion was so important in the family's life that Bob refused to work on Sundays. As a last resort, if the weather conspired against him and he had to be in the fields to either plant or harvest, Mike said his dad would meet with the priest and get a dispensation for missing church.
"God, family and work," Betsy (Rietschlin) Tijerina said. "(Church) was a central piece to our family life. We went to church every Sunday as a family, and it wasn't optional. That was very important to them and that helped instill in all of us those values.
"Our activities revolved around the church. Between the church and the school, we were there a lot."
All nine children attended Sacred Heart from first grade through eighth, as their father did. While extracurricular activities like sports were not encouraged, school work was. Eleanor would help them with their lessons, but Bob was always available if any math or science questions needed answered.
However, when it came to music, it was a full family endeavor.
"The thing I always talk about with my kids is the music, and (Mom) was quite a musician and learned to play the piano quite young," eldest son John said. "On Sunday evenings we would sit around the piano as kids and sing the songs of the day, things like 'Davy Crockett' I remember singing, and some Christian songs, too."
Bob played the harmonica, while Eleanor played the piano. Jane, Mary and Betsy all learned piano, while Tom and Luke also could sing and play instruments.
"It's amazing how musically inclined we are," Jane (Rietschlin) Butler said. "We're all interested in music and that all comes from Mom. We would have sing-alongs at home and always records or the radio were playing. There was always music in the background."
The three youngest — along with Nick for a short time — as well as a couple of cousins and neighbors, formed a band called The Last Resorts. They were active when Luke and Mary were in high school and Betsy was in eighth grade. For a number of years, they played together at wedding receptions, parties, festivals and square dances in the area.
"They weren't so thrilled with us being minors out there and people could drink alcohol or smoke, but they didn't let it stop us," Mary said.
In fact, Bob tacitly encouraged them. One night he came home with a red bass guitar and amplifier.
"I think he said he heard it and said he liked the way it sounded and thought maybe we could make use of it," Luke said.
As the kids got older and television became a reality in the 1960s, the one show they would watch together through the week was "The Beverly Hillbillies." On Sunday nights, Eleanor would pop an overflowing kettle of popcorn, allow the kids one soda and the family would watch "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" and "Walt Disney Presents."
In the winter, they'd take rides around the farm on a sleigh Bob converted into being pulled by a tractor instead of horses.
"They were very loving and life revolved around the children. They were tickled with family life," said Rosemary Kanney, Bob's younger sister. "I was very proud of them. They had a very happy family life."
"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them." — Desmond Tutu
Their oldest son, John, was the only one of the children who did not graduate from Buckeye Central. Instead, he was sent to Brunnerdale Minor Seminary in Canton for high school.
For the Rietschlins and many families in the Settlement at that time, sending children to boarding school with the hopes they become priests or nuns wasn't out of the ordinary. Of the 10 in John's class at Sacred Heart, four went away.
"They scrimped and saved $450 a year in tuition for me to go. They had nine kids and two jobs, but they came up with the $450 for me to go to seminary," John said.
The rhythms of life continued, only with one less person at the table.
"It wasn't traumatic. I didn't have to have counseling," Tom joked, the closest in age to John at only a year younger.
The same could be said for John, who felt few pangs of homesickness. A studious child like his dad, also fascinated with math and science, he said an influential nun showed him a path that could include his interests and the priesthood, which appealed to him.
John would come home for Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter breaks and spend June to August back on the farm, while the family was allowed to travel over old U.S. 30 to visit once or twice a semester. At 16, he graduated high school early, like his father. From there John went to St. Joseph's College in Rensselaer, Ind., and graduated in three years with a math degree in 1970.
However, he didn't go forth with the priesthood, deciding in his senior year that wasn't his path. He fell in love with Donna (Becker) Rietschlin and they married on Oct. 2, 1971, in Evansville, Ind. During this time, because he didn't go on to seminary, his draft number came up for the Vietnam War. He met with the draft board in Bucyrus and was granted conscientious objector status on the condition he join civilian service and become an orderly at a hospital in Evansville.
"They were definitely disappointed. They weren't angry, but sad," John said of his parents' reaction to his not joining the priesthood.
Months away from finishing his duty, John and his wife became convinced they were still aiding the war effort. They left the country and settled in Canada — like approximately 40,000 young men of that era did.
"He was angry about this," John said of his father's reaction. "He at one point many years earlier had told me, 'I don't know where the second-best country in the world is, but I do know where the best country is.' I can't really remember we had a conversation on (moving to Canada) for a while. My mother didn't say much at all. We had very little communication."
Within a couple of years of living in exile in Canada, John learned that his grandfather and namesake, John Rietschlin, had died. His family wanted him to come home for the service, but he couldn't. If he did, he would be arrested, and the FBI was waiting for him at the funeral. Bob asked the agents to leave. He might have been a conservative-leaning World War II vet who loved his country, but John was his son, too.
"I'm sure it was hard on Mom and Dad at the time," Tom said. "It wasn't something that was discussed and there was no reason to. They kept it between the two of them and God. I'm sure there was lots of prayer there, too."
A reunion would come all too soon. In June 1974, John and Donna welcomed their second child and the Rietschlins' second grandchild into the world while living in Toronto, but in October, little Anna Marie died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Bob and Eleanor and John's eight brothers and sisters went north to be with him.
"My dad came to the funeral, and it had been three years since I'd last seen him," John said, his voice choking with emotion. "It's crazy. It was 40 years ago, but it still brings me to tears to remember it."
The two of them had a private moment together before the funeral.
"He basically said this is more important. He still didn't agree with me, but it was more important for him to be there for me," John recalled. "Again, he didn't agree (with the decision to leave the country), but he apologized for breaking off the relationship. After that, he stayed in contact."
John built a nice life for himself in Canada. He had eight children and earned his master's and doctorate degrees in sociology. He continues to work for the Canadian government's Policy Research Directorate in Ottawa. Several times over the years, Bob and Eleanor went to visit. Once President Jimmy Carter pardoned the deserters who fled to Canada, John and his family would come to the Settlement a few times a year, every year.
Unfortunately, John's story wasn't the only sad tale in the lives of Bob and Eleanor.
Bob's sister, Ruth Kehres, lost her husband at a young age in the 1960s when he was hit by a train driving home, leaving her with seven kids.
Eleanor's father, Ralph Allwine, died in a house fire in 1981.
Finally, their daughter Mary's husband of five years, Doug Shell, was involved in a head-on car-truck crash near New Washington on Nov. 20, 1987. He lingered in a hospital in Columbus before dying Jan. 9, 1988. It was the first time Luke saw his father break down.
"I was dumbfounded. Doug and I were friends all through high school. They lived down the road from us. It was a bad time for me," Luke said.
Bob grew to love Doug like a son because he was so close with his sons and because he was a good husband to his daughter.
"They had a lot in common, and they were good old homeboys," Mary said of the connection.
Her mother and father made many trips to be by his side in the hospital and to lend their daughter support, but that remains between Mary and her folks.
"They were just really private people and personal things like that weren't discussed," Mary said. "It was so hard. It was an hour and a half down there and they went a lot."
Like her brother John, Mary eventually moved on with her life. She attended University of Akron and earned multiple degrees in music. She married Guy Ferraiuolo, settled in Doylestown, gave birth to a daughter and a son, and works as a musician at two churches, playing piano and the organ and directing the choir.
"It was more things (his parents) did than said that shaped myself and my siblings," John said. "Caring, belief in family and religious community, I tried to live that way, too."
It's the Rietschlin way.
"Where there is love, there is life." — Mahatma Gandhi
In 1959, Bob began working full-time on the maintenance team at the new PPG plant east of Crestline, one of the original 59ers, as they were called. At the same time, he continued to farm with the help of his brother Mark Rietschlin, 15 years his junior.
Well over 6 feet and a few biscuits shy of 300 pounds in his prime, Bob had the stature and endurance to work two physically demanding jobs.
"He was one of the strongest men I've ever been around," Mark said. "I'm only 5-9 and a little over 200 pounds. He was the biggest in the family. There was no one in the Rietschlins big like that. In those days he was considered really big. He was 6-2 and he was a big-shouldered man. I know he would get disgusted with me when I couldn't hold up my end of something we'd be moving."
Bob worked from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. He would arrive home at 3:15 sharp every afternoon. He would get a drink, maybe have a snack, read the paper or take a quick nap, then head out to the barn or his large workshop. While Mark and Bob's sons did the bulk of the work in the fields, he ran the business of the farm and looked after the equipment, tools and materials, making any repairs deemed necessary.
According to Tom, his father could carry two 80-pound bags of fertilizer on his shoulders, and hold another on his hip while he walked to the planter.
"He was like having a small hoist. It was amazing," Mike said.
It was a work ethic he passed on to his children.
"He was good at that, teaching his sons to work. He was determined to make us work so we wouldn't be lazy," Nick said.
While Bob worked two full-time jobs for the first 41 years of their marriage, Eleanor didn't sit by idle. Besides managing nine kids, she was a tireless volunteer at Sacred Heart. She became the de facto librarian when her older children were in school, making a trip to Shelby's public library to pick up books for all the kids at the school, cataloging them and returning the due books to Shelby.
She also served as the church organist and pianist for decades, working holy days as well as Masses during the week and weekends.
But on Thursdays, going back to when the first kids were still in diapers, she traveled into Shelby to tend her business. In the early days, she and Bob would drop the children off with her parents or a sister and go grocery shopping together in the evenings — their only alone time as a couple for the week. Later, as the kids grew older, she'd go to Kroger, the bakery, a department store and the hardware store to make a day of it.
"People called her Mrs. Thursday because she always went to Ben Franklin on Thursdays in Shelby. They didn't know her name, but she was always there on Thursdays," Nick said of his mom in later years.
The Mrs. Thursday moniker went back even earlier.
"When I was a boy going to Peoples Department Store in Shelby, the staff would call her Mrs. Thursday," Mike said.
At home, she was in charge of mowing the grass on her Cub Cadet and always planted and tended to a huge garden with the help of the kids.
"She was very loving and caring and a very warm person. Because she was quiet, maybe people didn't feel like they got to know her very well, but she was very pleasant," Betsy said. "She took the time and the effort to make family occasions really nice."
Whether it was bunny cakes and real colored eggs at Easter or making sure everyone had presents at Christmas, Eleanor was bound to make sure her children knew they were special.
"One thing I do remember as a kid was because of the Depression, Mom and Dad didn't have a lot and there were some Christmases where they didn't have a present," Mike said. "She was adamant that her kids wouldn't go without Christmas. She remembered what it was like as a kid and she didn't want that for us."
It might have been more clothes and necessities than toys in the lean years, but they never went without.
"The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds — they mature slowly." — Peter De Vries
At the age of 62, Bob retired from PPG as a troubleshooter in 1988, after working 29 years. At the same time, he retired from the farm, turning it over to his sons and his brother Mark.
That's not to say he quit working. For the next 18 years or so, he would work for Tom as a hired hand. Never one to run the combine or drive the tractor when he ran his farm, Bob finally did the thing in farming he enjoyed most — being on the land.
"He completely enjoyed himself," said Eric Rietschlin, Tom's son. "I would say he was as much at home there as anywhere. Whenever I would come home to relieve him in the field, he would have to make one more pass around before he would get out for me."
Both Bob and Eleanor were quiet, low-key personalities. Neither was roused easily, but retirement took off any edge they had. While they didn't talk about the past or their feelings often, they would engage if asked about certain things.
"They kind of relaxed. Money wasn't an issue and health wasn't an issue (when they retired in 1988). It didn't take a lot to make them happy. They didn't need to run around to entertain themselves," Tom said.
But they didn't sit in rocking chairs and watch the world go by.
They only took one family vacation when the oldest kids were little, traveling to Washington, D.C., by car in the pre-Interstate days. "Never again," Nick recalled them saying, and from that point on any vacations were spent as day trips to sites around Ohio.
However, for their 25th anniversary, the two took a vacation to Hawaii alone — a trip Bob coveted since the war when his ship docked near the islands but no one was allowed ashore.
Once the kids were raised and out of the house, they traveled extensively, taking a train trip across Canada, an Alaskan cruise, a cruise through the Panama Canal, and a tour of Montreal, to name some of the adventures.
"His dad had never slept outside his own bed, and my dad had a different experience than that," John said.
Maybe because it was the way they met, both were avid theater-goers, holding season tickets to the Huron Playhouse, Ohio's oldest continuing summer theater. They also went to Kenley Players productions around the state and attended the Mansfield Playhouse or shows at the Renaissance Theatre.
While they didn't make it to many of their grandchildren's sporting events — even to see Nick's son Chris, who walked-on Ohio State's football team — they would go to the occasional recital or school play. They acknowledged all birthdays, and never missed an activity at the church.
"The one thing that amazed me was your parents never did anything without the other. If Dad didn't go, they didn't go; and if Mom didn't go, they didn't go," said Cheryl, Luke's wife. "They did everything together."
But they rarely did things with other couples. Bob didn't go out on the town, and Eleanor didn't have a clique of ladies, either. Instead, they chose to spend their quiet time together. Eleanor was an avid reader, as her book collection which included hundreds of Harlequin romances attests. Likewise, Bob was an original subscriber to the Reader's Digest non-fiction series and had his shelves stocked with all sorts of books on science and technology.
"Love is a game that two can play and both win." — Eva Gabor
Eleanor wasn't just a farmer's wife. She was a closet poet.
Not until their children began going through the old farmhouse after their deaths did they find the notebook of handwritten poems by their mother over the years.
Some were about life on the farm; others went deeper.
"I cannot tell in words, dear, how much you mean to me. I feel so safe when you are near, no troubles do I see," she wrote in a poem titled "Only You." "I may be just a shortie, but my love for you is big and strong. Emotions overwhelm me as I dream the whole day long. You mean the whole wide world to me. I love you more as time goes by. No other man can I see. I know, my darling, I'll love you 'till I die."
No truer words about enduring love were ever written.
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Man wanted over $50 million fraud strikes deal with the US after extradition case collapses
Frank Salvatore Rafaraci travelled to the US of his own volition following an agreement with the American authorities
18 October 2021, 4:52pm
by Matthew Agius
A planned sitting in an extradition case will not take place tomorrow after the subject flew to the US pursuant to an agreement with the American authorities, after the implosion of the extradition case against him.
Frank Salvatore Rafaraci, a 68-year-old Italian-American man, is understood to have flown to the US of his own volition, after Mr. Justice Giovanni Grixti declared null an appeal filed by the Attorney General against a decision to invalidate Rafaraci's arrest in Malta.
Today the American authorities have withdrawn their request for Rafaraci's extradition. Consequently, the Attorney General has also withdrawn proceedings against the man.
He had been wanted by the American authorities to answer charges of having defrauded the United States Government out of some €50 million.
Rafaraci was wanted by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia for prosecution on the offences of conspiracy to commit bribery, bribery, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
The man had been suspected as a participant in a scheme that used falsified invoices and receipts for equipment and supplies provided to the US Navy and is also alleged to have paid tens of thousands of euro in cash bribes to a US government official in exchange for insider information on future Navy contracts.
US authorities believe the man and his known associates then laundered illicit funds using shell companies, evading millions of dollars in US taxes.
Lawyers Stefano Filletti, Giannella de Marco, Stephen Tonna Lowell and Mark Refalo represented Rafaraci.
Lawyer Meredith Ebejer appeared for the Office of the Attorney General, assisting police inspectors Omar Zammit and Robinson Mifsud.
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Medicine is consistently evolving as we discover new ways to make use of innovative technologies. That being said, should a smartphone app be the new norm? Does this place patients at risk, or does it pave the way for more people to obtain the information they need; information that could potentially save their life?
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IHOP (the pancake-maker) sues IHOP (the prayer center) over trademark
The Kansas City Star/September 14, 2010
By Donald Bradely
Pancakes and prayers " have we reached a point where even those two can't get along?
Frankly, yes. So praise the Lord and pass the syrup, the International House of Pancakes and International House of Prayer are fixing to throw down.
IHOP (pancake), based in Glendale, Calif., has sued IHOP (prayer), based in Kansas City, for trademark dilution and infringement. The lawsuit, filed last week in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, essentially said there was room for only one IHOP and that would be the restaurant chain that has been using the initials since 1973.
The religious group drawing thousands from around the world to south Kansas City to prepare for "end times" was started just 10 years ago.
Other than an acronym, the two have nearly zilch in common.
The IHOP (prayer) on Red Bridge Road operates 24/7/365, sending a never-ending digital signal of prayers to Jerusalem, where it streams live on God TV for broadcast all over the world.
The other largely operates 24/7/365, too, but it is known for its pancakes, including a signature breakfast specialty called "Rooty Tooty Fresh 'N Fruity."
But the chain, which has 1,476 restaurants across the country, claims it has six registered trademarks with the IHOP acronym and that the religious group's use of the same four-letter logo causes, according to the lawsuit, "great and irreparable injury and confuses the public."
The lawsuit further accuses the church mission of adopting the name International House of Prayer knowing it would be abbreviated IHOP " the intent being to misappropriate fame and notoriety of the food chain.
On Tuesday, IHOP (pancake) spokesman Patrick Lenow said the suit was filed only after the church mission refused repeated requests to stop using the trademark.
"We are compelled to protect the 350 small-business owners who own IHOP franchises and the IHOP good name that's been around for 52 years," Lenow said.
Thus the question, why sue now? The church mission started calling itself IHOP a decade ago.
"They've expanded " and now some of the branches are serving food," Lenow said.
Among the seven defendants, four are in California where the suit was filed, including the Pasadena International House of Prayer. Although the suit also seeks attorney fees and costs of litigation, it does not ask for monetary damages.
Calls to IHOP (prayer) chief operating officer Mark Schumacher were not returned.
Gary Cooper, a former Houston attorney who until recently served as the mission's chief financial officer, said the lawsuit lacked legal basis.
"I don't think it will go anywhere," Cooper, who serves on an IHOP board, said Tuesday by telephone from Oklahoma.
But Gary Hecker, a well-known intellectual rights attorney in Los Angeles and founder of the Hecker Law Group, said the court would probably side with the restaurant chain.
"Because of that extremely famous name, IHOP may well have the right to protect itself even well outside the scope of selling pancakes," Hecker said Tuesday.
One defense might be that the two sides are so different that no confusion could exist.
Even so, Hecker said, "I would take the pancakes."
IHOP (prayer) was started by a man named Mike Bickle, who by his own admission grew up in a Waldo bar and claims to have traveled to heaven twice.
The ministry is now planning to build a $150 million world headquarters " including IHOP University and a 5,000-seat conference center " along U.S. 71 in Grandview.
Again, IHOP (pancakes) got there first. One of the restaurants is across the highway.


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Orthodoxy has Become Second Biggest Religion in Austria
Source: Basilica
Pravmir.com team | 19 September 2018
Photo credit: crkva.at
Metropolitan Hilarion Takes Part in the Consecration of Archangel Michael Church in Austria
Orthodoxy is Largest Religion in Latvia
11 ton mosaic of Jesus installed in one of the world's biggest churches
The biggest on the Southeast coast Orthodox church opened in the USA
Biggest in the Central Asia Orthodox church opened in Bishkek
Orthodoxy has become the second biggest religion in majority-Catholic Austria, reports Der Standard.
While intense debate is underway in Austria on the growing Muslim population, Orthodoxy has quietly and discreetly grown into the second largest religious community in the country.
Islam has held the first place in terms of migrants to Austria in recent years. According to 2017 statistics, 700,000 Muslims live in Austria, but the number of Orthodox Christians has edged them out. The latest official figures date back to 2014, when 500,000 Orthodox Christians were counted in Austria.
However, according to the secretariat of the Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of Austria, there is a community of 750,000-800,000 Orthodox Christians in the republic.
According to the Pro Oriente Foundation, the largest group of Orthodox immigrants in recent years has been Romanians, representing 50% of the Orthodox influx, though they are not perceived as classical migrants, as they are moving within the European Union.
Translated by Orthochristian.com
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Orthodoxy has become the second biggest religion in majority-Catholic Austria, reports Der Standard. While intense debate is underway in Austria on the growing Muslim population, Orthodoxy has quietly and discreetly grown into the second largest religious community in the country. Islam has held ...
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Find out how you can 'pay what you decide' to see shows this spring
Shows for all ages and tastes
Dawn Hinsley
As a Tiger in the Jungles uses spoken word, movement and circus
A Pay What You Decide scheme will return to a Lincoln venue in spring, with even more performances included in 2019.
The theatre will once again allow audiences to pay whatever they like to see plays and performances.
You will be able to book a show for free and decide how much the show was worth then make a donation when you leave.
The Pay What You Decide season at Lincoln Drill Hall includes eight performances between February and May and the programme includes Franz Kafka's Metamorphis that uses state-of-the-art makeup and prosthetics to tell the story of a man who wakes up one day to find that he has transformed into an insect overnight.
The show will be brought to the stage on March 27 and promises to "chill its audience to the core".
A Brave Face will be staged in April
Family productions are also on the bill - Hotel Paradiso combines elements of comedy and drama to present a theatre and circus show for all.
See below for details on all shows.
Outside the comfort zone
While it might seem like a gamble for the venue to allow people to choose how much they pay, when Lincoln Drill Hall first introduced Pay What You Decide it proved very popular, attracting a number of full capacity audiences and generous box-office takings which are split between the venue and the performers who receive a guaranteed sum.
Lincoln Drill Hall's CEO, Chris Kirkwood said: "We were unsure before we launched our first Pay What You Decide season about how it would be received, but it proved to be extremely popular with audiences last autumn so we're really excited to be bringing it back with an even bigger and better programme this spring."
And, because the amount people pay at the end of the show counts as a donation, the charity-run venue is able to secure match-funding through the Arts Council's Catalyst Evolve scheme.
Father Ted star to bring stand up tour to Lincoln
As a charity-owned arts centre, Lincoln Drill Hall depends on donations to operate and, following reductions in public funding, the charity is under more pressure than ever.
Chris added: "Pay What You Decide encourages the people of Lincolnshire to reach out and explore new arts performances that might be outside of their ordinary comfort zone.
"It takes away some of the uncertainty about whether a certain show is something you'd really enjoy and it helps to support new talent and innovative, challenging performances.
"This year, we face an enormous fundraising challenge and we need to raise a lot of money to make sure we can keep delivering all the important services we offer. "
Last autumn, people typically chose to donate £5 each at every performance.
The shows:
Political Party on Friday, February 8. In this show about how we should be doing politics rather than talking about it, Luca Rutherford aims to bring the party out of politics in an interactive show full of music, dancing … and eggs.
Exploring mental health with dark humour and extreme honesty, We Are What We Overcome on February 16 delivers a night of anthemic songs, stories and conversations. This show is for anyone who has ever overcome one of life's many challenges or is battling to do so.
Luca Rutherford aims to bring the party out of politics in an interactive show full off music, dancing… and eggs in Political Party (Image: Ashley Zazoua Bowes)
Translated to 'female warrior' in Latin and 'the brave one' in Hindi, Sonia Sabri brings us Virago on February 27. This new solo production explores the decisions we must make during life, regardless of our gender. The show explores controversial misconceptions, alongside 'light vs dark' and 'real vs fairy tale' versions of the female existence.
Bess the Commoner Queen appears at Lincoln Drill Hall on March 14 and tells the story of Bess of Hardwick, a close friend of Elizabeth I and the confidant of her sister, Mary Queen of Scots, whom she and her husband kept under house arrest for 15 years.
Franz Kafka's Metamorphis will be brought to the stage on March 27 (see above).
On Friday, April 19 Hotel Paradiso combines elements of comedy and drama to present an integrated theatre and circus show that's suitable for the whole family. It tells the story of Madame and her staff who are fighting to keep the quirky hotel open, despite their arch enemy scheming to get it repossessed.
A Brave Face explores post traumatic stress disorder, and its effect on individuals and families who have been directly influenced by war and the wider community. A real-world story on the stage on April 24. Not suitable for under 12s.
Finally, As a Tiger In The Jungle on May 9 is inspired by the lives of performers, Renu and Aman, two former child circus slaves from India, which aims to raise awareness of the up to 2,000 children who are still enslaved in circuses in Nepal and India.
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Big Bend National Park is located on the border of Mexico and Texas, which is divided by the Rio Grande River. The park is unique because of its vast desert expanses on one side, as well as forested mountains on the other side. We were recommended to go visit the park by several locals throughout our stay in the Marfa area. We never planned to go south, but as fate would have it we met Jacob, a friendly guy from Austin, at the Marfa lights show. He was hiking Big Bend the next day and invited us to go on the adventure with him.
We took it as a sign and followed him there yesterday morning. We had no idea the park, including the Chisos Mountains, could be this vast and beautiful.
From the entrance of Big Bend to the base of where our hike would begin is 13 miles. Scarlet was even apprehensive and she overheated as we pulled into the parking lot.
The three of us packed our bags for the night and headed up the trail to Emory Peak, the highest peak in the park. Hiking in the desert with a pack on that is equal to half your size is no easy task. The heat and the steepness does not allow for anything but concentration.
We only stopped twice for breaks and made friends with a Mexican blue jay on the way.
He led the path all the way up to our spot. We made it to our backcountry camp sight, TM1, in three hours and 3.5 miles later.
We took a small break for lunch and sat looking at the view realizing that the mountains have the same effect on us as the sea.
The wind and our shortness of breath from the altitude were a little strenuous but it couldn't stop us once we got going. The excitement overpowered any fatigue we felt and Jacob kept us on our toes. We had to climb huge boulders at the peak to get to the very top. The view at the top of the peak went on for miles, you can even see Mexico. 7,825 feet never looked so good! We celebrated with our friend Jack in honor of our hard work.
As the sun was setting and the clouds and wind were blowing in, we decided to head down to camp a little earlier than we would have liked. On the plus side, we managed to see the beginning of the sunset. Once we got down we had a little dinner and chatted while looking at the spooky moon with its bright halo. We retired into the tent for the night and much to our surprise the winds at our camp were nothing like we had ever experienced. The sounds they created whipping through the peaks at around 50 mph and against our tent made our imaginations run wild. We were sure we heard other people, bears, and thought we were going to get blown off the cliff. Our rain guard flew off twice during the night! With little to no sleep we woke up in a cloud, literally. We hiked down in the complete opposite conditions as the hike up.
We were so fortunate to have met Jacob. It was as if we had always been friends with him. The journey in Big Bend would not have happened without him and that will never be forgotten.
We are sore in places we didn't even know existed and are making a quick pit stop in Terlingua to get Scarlet back to good health.
Good bye Texas, we know we will back!


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The couple announced the birth of their fourth child with an adorable snap on social media.
The Baldwin household just got a little bit more crowded.
Alec Baldwin and wife Hilaria have announced the birth of their fourth child, their third son in a sweet social media snap from the hospital.
Hilaria also shared the same snap on her Instagram account and revealed they had another boy.
"He's here! He's perfect! 8lbs 2oz (3.7kg) #wegotthis2018," she captioned the beautiful post.
At this stage the couple haven't revealed what name they've chosen for their little boy.
The new addition joins big siblings, 20-month-old Leonardo, two-and-a-half-year-old Rafael and four-year-old Carmen.
Alec is also dad to 22-year-old daughter Ireland, from his previous marriage to actress Kim Basinger.
The couple announced they were expecting their fourth bub last November and she's been documenting her pregnancy through plenty of social media snaps.
Just after announcing another baby was on the way Hilaria spoke to PEOPLE about their growing family and admitted she "never knew how many kids" she wanted.
But she said she "really, really" likes motherhood.
"We were like, 'Oh, should we have another kid?'" she explained when recalling the conversation she had with her husband.
"We were like, 'You know what? Let's try something different — let's try.' [With] the other ones, it's not like we were like, 'Oh my God, how did this happen?' But this is the only one we [planned]," she explained.
We're sure their other kids cannot wait to meet their new brother!


You are probably in love with lemon chicken and lemonade, but the fact is that your skin loves the lemon juice even more. This sunny yellow fruit is full of nutrients that are vital for the skin when applied directly. Because of the significant amount of Vitamin presence in the lemon, this fruit can be used to give your skin a real treat. So, how to use lemon properly to get optimum result?
Lemon juice is packed with natural nutrients and thus it has various benefits on skin. However, the acidic characteristic is irritating for some specific skins, so, it is a good idea to dilute the juice by mixing some water before you use it on your skin.
Lemon juice has the tendency to diminish the age spots. To get better results, you should apply this juice at bedtime and leave it to work on your skin overnight.
If used at the spot where there is a scar due to some disorder of the skin, it is possible to eliminate the scars. It is not a quick process, and you need to maintain a regularity for a certain amount of time to get the results.
Lemon has natural antibacterial property that helps in healing acne and also prevents any further damage. However, if you have applied lemon juice to cure acne and on the blackheads, then remember to wash off your face after use.
Citric acid is a natural solution to remove the layer of the dead skin from the face thus the regular use of lemon juice lighten the skin and gives a better skin complexion.
How to use lemon juice on the skin?
Lemon juice can be used in a different way and for a different purpose.
Lemon Exfoliant – Homemade: Take a small bowl and blend one tablespoon of lemon juice and two tablespoons of brown sugar and one white egg. Mix it properly and apply it on the face and scrub the mixture properly on the face. After ten minutes of application, clean the face with lukewarm water and then moisturize.
Natural face wash: Lemon juice can be used as a natural face wash by mixing it with water, honey and aloe in equal parts. Apply this mixture on the face in the morning instead of water then rinse with water.
Lemon mask for dry skin: Lemon mask can be made at home very easily by blending one tablespoon of powder milk, lemon juice, honey and an oil of your choice and apply this mask for 20 mins. This will lighten your skin and is very useful for dry skin.
Lotion: You can prepare a lemon lotion at home by mixing two parts of lemon juice and three parts of glycerine. Apply this lotion before bedtime and let it work on your skin overnight. Clean your face with water in the morning a see an instant glow.
A mixture of lemon juice, honey and olive oil in equal parts can be used as a moisturizer and can be used in the dry areas of the skin. Leave the moisturizer for 10-15 mins on the skin and then wash the face with fresh water.
You can use lemon juice in some parts of the body such as knees, elbows, and heels to eliminate any discoloured or roughness from the skin.
Mix one tablespoon of lemon juice, one tablespoon of witch hazel, one tablespoon of water and two tablespoon of vodka and apply this mixture on the oily skin to remove oil and to tone-up your skin.
Lemon juice can be used on the blackheads to reduce their occurrence and to reduce their adverse effect. To do so, apply the lemon juice before bedtime and let it be on the skin for the entire night. Clean your face with fresh water in the morning.
A mixture of one tablespoon of honey with few drops of lemon juice and almond oil can be used on the skin to get rid of wrinkles. Apply the solution on the face and leave it to work for 15 mins and then rinse it off with cold water.
Cut a piece of lemon into quarters and take a piece and dip it into white or brown sugar and then scrub the face with that piece of lemon to get rid of the dead skins from the face. Alternatively, you can also mix lemon juice, water and sugar and make it a paste and rub it on the face and then you can rinse the face with cold water and apply moisturizer.
The presence of natural antibacterial ingredients, the lemon juice fight against the bacteria that causes the acne. To use lemon juice to eliminate acne, dilute the lemon juice with water or use the lemon juice directly on the skin. Take two tablespoons of lemon juice and use it on the acne. Leave out for the overnight and wash the face in the morning with cold water.
Although, lemon juice is a natural remedy to cure many skins related problems, still you should follow some tips to avoid any discomfort and to get the best result.
The citric acid in lemon causes irritation to the skin for many people and thus if you face any such irritation then you are advised to dilute the lemon juice by mixing some water.
Lemon juice makes the scenario worse if someone has dry skin. The person must use some moisturizer immediately after using the lemon juice on the skin. You can also mix lemon juice with honey which works as a moisturizer.
Do not use the lemon juice too frequently which may increase the dryness of the skin. Limit the applications of lemon juice to 3/4 times a week.
If you are undergoing any tropical treatments for your skin, then it is a good idea to consult with a physician before you start using the lemon juice as lemon may interface with these medicines.
If you are using lemon juice for your skin, then avoid any prolonged exposure to the sun as your skin becomes more prone to sunburn.


WASHINGTON - When he was up for confirmation to the Supreme Court, John Roberts famously compared his job to that of an umpire in baseball, making sure that everybody plays by the rules. "But it is a limited role," Roberts added. "Nobody ever went to a ball game to see the umpire."
WASHINGTON � When he was up for confirmation to the Supreme Court, John Roberts famously compared his job to that of an umpire in baseball, making sure that everybody plays by the rules.
�But it is a limited role,� Roberts added. �Nobody ever went to a ball game to see the umpire."
Until now, perhaps. The umpire took center stage yesterday as the Republican chief justice who upheld President Barack Obama�s health-care law, delighting liberals and enraging conservatives.
But many of those familiar with Roberts� thinking say the calibrated decision is fully in keeping with his outlook.
�It�s an extremely disappointing ruling, particularly with Roberts so amazingly rewriting the law in order to uphold it,� Sen. David Vitter, R-La., said.
Many Democrats had argued that a partisan ruling against Obama�s sweeping health-care legislation would have irrevocably damaged Roberts�, and the court�s, credibility.
�The court stepped back from the brink,� said Walter Dellinger, a deputy attorney general under former President Bill Clinton.
heroes, Chief Justice John Marshall.
In the landmark 1803 case Marbury vs. Madison, Marshall established the court�s power of judicial review that persists to this day. But the decision itself was a legal pretzel, concluding that Thomas Jefferson�s administration had acted illegally but also that the court lacked jurisdiction.
Bradley Joondeph, a Santa Clara University law professor, said Roberts avoided a similar conflict with Obama over health care while establishing conservative limits on federal power.


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Q: Why is my linestring not valid ? was recorded from GPX file I have a linestring that was built from points from GPX file. I've insert it to sql as geometry and when I try to run funcs on it (like STStartPoint ) I get error that line isn't valid and I need to run MakeValid on it (which change the GPS Points).
Here is the line :
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and this is that I get after MakeValid()
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I'm trying to show the line and auto put flag on start and end of it.

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The Keelung City Indigenous Cultural Hall () is a cultural center in Zhongzheng District, Keelung, Taiwan.

Architecture
The cultural center is housed in a 5-story building. The first floor houses an activity, while the third and fourth floors are the exhibition hall. The top most floor is linked to the indigenous culture square. It consists of sculptures, houses and a viewing platform.

See also
 List of tourist attractions in Taiwan

References

External links

Cultural centers in Keelung

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