What a wonderful website for Tolkien fans. When the site's domain expired we lost so much information compliled in just one location. The new owners of the domain want to keep as much of the 2003 -2008 archived content in case Tolkien fans found their way back to the Royal Library of Menegroth. Alsa, most of the original images were not recoverable.
Kudos to Daereth, the original owner of the Arda Library, for all your dedication.
And to all visitors....Enjoy this edited version of Daereth's site.
By chance or by intent, you are now in the Royal Library of Menegroth, compiled and managed by Lady Melian (Daereth). I hope that you will enjoy your time here and find the Library to be a valuable guide to the world of Middle-earth, as so many have before you.
Fantasy is now considered to be one of the most ancient literary genres. Many great epics and myths of old, such as The Tale of Gilgamesh and Beowulf can be referred to as the first fantasy books ever written.
In the course of ancient history, the basic elements of fantasy were taken over by a number of civilizations, and were thus incorporated into folk tales and legends. Unlike the majority of traditions of antiquity, fantasy was adopted and subsequently perfected by priests and storytellers of the Middle Ages.
Until the mid-20th century, fantasy was thought to be an authentic feature of epic literature of the past, never to be revived in the present-day industrial world. However, JRR Tolkien's groundbreaking works, including The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion and The Hobbit, have rediscovered the traditions of fantasy and revealed its full capacities, revolutionizing out notion of modern literature.
Since 1953, the year when The Lord of the Rings was published, there has been an outbreak of fantasy-related works which flooded the bookstores all over the world. Some of them were based on Tolkien's characters and settings, others introduced an absolutely new perspective on contemporary fantasy-writing.
In general, fantasy stories can be broadly split up into two groups: those which feature events taking place in an imaginary world, like Arda of Tolkien and the Discworld of Terry Pratchett; and those that are set in the world we are all familiar with, like the Tale of the Nibelungs. Writers who choose either point of view will face certain challenges. In the first case, conceiving a world would require a great deal of creativity on behalf of the author. One also needs to depict it in great detail, so that the reader's every question about its structure can be easily answered. The characters' actions should conform with the specific laws of that particular world, otherwise the tale won't be convincing and it will become far too "fantastic" for most readers to appreciate.
On the other hand, if the story is set on Earth, one should always be in search of ways of incorporating magic and "fantasy" into the plot without actually distorting the reality as we perceive it. This technique has been used with great skill in JK Rowling's Harry Potter series.
What is it that makes fantasy so special? First of all, it is based on magic. The first legitimate purpose of fantasy is to introduce a touch of unreal action into life. That is why most stories involve plots based on wizardry, sorcery, witchcraft and other magic phenomena. Imaginary worlds are often inhabited by magical creatures: trolls, elves, goblins, dwarfs, ogres, golems, leprechauns, fairies and, last but not least, dragons.
To summarize the plots of thousands and thousands of fantasy books, it is enough to say that the one thing always present is the conflict between Good and Evil. Deep psychological analysis, reflecting on what is evil and what is not, is not quite common. In most cases, there is a straightforward Good and a straightforward Evil, opposite in theor strivings and beginnings. Other important elements of fantasy plpots are loyalty and betrayal, lover and hate, envy, greed and valor.
Following this brief overview are the synopses of the three greatest fantasy books ever written.
Gandalf, one of the Istari, discovers that a golden ring that Bilbo Baggins owns is actually the One Ring, forged by the Dark Lord Sauron in the Cracks of Doom, possessing a power great enough to destroy the world. Frodo Baggins, the courageous and mischievous hobbit, is faced with the immense task of taking the Ring back to Mordor across the realms of Middleearth. There he must cast it back into the Fire, and thus foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.
Is an account of events which took place sixty years before the Ring was discovered. Whisked away from his smug hobbit-hole by Gandalf the wizard, Bilbo Baggins finds himself involved in a plot to raid the hoard of Smaug the Dragon, and to help the folk of Thorin recover their ancient stronghold.
Is a story of the heroic Fist Age of Middleearth. It is also the story of the rebellion of Feanor and his kinsfolk against the gods, their exile from Valinor, and the realms of ancient Beleriand, ruled by valiant men and wise Elven-kings. The Silmarilli were three perfect jewels fashioned by Feanor the Fiery, the most gifted of the Elves. When Morgoth, the First Dark Lord, stole the jewels for his own ends, the Elves waged a long and terrible war to recover them. The Silmarillion, a genuine creation myth, tells of the estrangement of the races of Men and Elves, the Siege of Angband, and the fiver great battles of the First Age, hopeless despite their heroism.
The Silmarillion was published along with several shorter stories: Ainulindale, Valaquenta, Akallabeth and Of the Rings of Power, which tell of the events preceding the Creation of Arda, the downfall of Numenor and the War of the Ring.
The Silmarillion, which is the epic legendary precursor to The Lord of the Rings,is to Tolkien's Arda what the Bible is to Earth. It is an ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back, and in whose events some of them, such as Elrond and Galadriel, took part. The tales of The Silmarillion are set in an age when Morgoth, the First Dark Lord, dwelt in Middleearth, and the High Elves made war upon him for the recovery of the Silmarils.
Indeed, the most simplified description of Quenta Silmarillion, or The Silmarillion proper, would be to describe it as a cosmogenic (creation) myth. Although JRRT is unanimously considered the author of all the legends and tales of which it is composed, The Silmarillion was rendered suitable for publication, edited and supplied with comments and appendices by Christopher Tolkien, the writer's son.
After the death of JRRT, Christopher was faced by the formidable task of analyzing the decrepit notebooks and tattered sketches containing the subject matter of what would later become known as The Silmarillion.
Despite having been published two decades after The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion is the backbone of Tolkien's creative heritage. The first legends can be traced way back to the early 1920s, when even The Hobbit was far from completion. As years went by, the initial design underwent gradual changes. Many new details were incorporated into the story, other parts were narrated over and over again, supplying the text with features intrinsic to a magnificent creation myth, which it surely is.
As a result, in the early 70s The Silmarillion existed rather as a compilation of random texts and sketches than a single-volume work. Christopher Tolkien managed to put the bits together like a jigsaw puzzle, to reconcile the controversial moments and make the individual stories coherent in style, which is no mean feat.
The name The Silmarillion is derived from the Elvish name for three jewels, the Silmarils, around which the story revolves. Even though this is the main line of plot, two other works – Ainulindale (the Song of the Ainur) and Valaquenta (the Account of the Valar) are essential for its full understanding.
The Ainulindale is an account of the creation of Arda and the earliest days of the world. According to Tolkien, first there was Eru Iluvatar, the supreme god, who with his thoughts gave life to the Ainur, his servants and helpers. The greatest of the Ainur, known as Valar, the Powers of Arda, and lesser spirits called Maiar sang in front of the throne of Iluvatar to the melody that he revealed to them. But every time the Ainur raised their voices in unison, one of them, Melkor, wanted to interweave elements he alone had imagined that were not in accord with Iluvatar's design, into the chanting. Thus he started a discord, and many voices fell silent, while others joined in with his tune. And so controversy was ingrained into the essence of Arda, for later Melkor and his followers turned aside from the way of Light, and soon they fell from pride to envy, from envy to anger and into the abyss of darkness and hatred for all things beautiful.
Despite their interference, the three motives of the Song were completed, and then by the word of Iluvatar the Ainur beheld the world they had wrought with their singing.
The Valaquenta is the tale of the Ainur who descended into Arda and shaped the newborn world. Among them were eight Aratar, the Lords of the Valar, who never returned to the halls of Iluvatar and chose to forever stay in Arda.
They were assisted in their work by Valar of lesser powers, and a legion of Maiar, some of who later sided with Melkor and worked for the world's undoing. They were known as Balrogs, Valaraukar, the Demons of Might. The most dreaded of Melkor's servants was Sauron. The former student of Aule, he ever craved for more power and knowledge, and when the Valar denied him the authority he wanted, he turned to Melkor and became his faithful ally. Even after Melkor was overthrown, Sauron remained the servant of evil and was rightfully called the Second Dark Lord. In the Third and Second Ages, Sauron took up his abode in Mordor and there gathered his army of orcs, wanting to lay the whole of Arda at his feet.
The Silmarillion is a logical sequel of the two previous parts. Although even the basic turns of the plot are nearly impossible to recount, much less to cover in a synopsis, it can be safely stated that the conflict revolves around the Silmarils, three beautiful jewels fashioned by Feanor, the most gifted of the Elves. They were creations of unrivaled beauty, for in them was imprisoned the unsullied light of the Trees of Valinor. Melkor tried to lure Feanor to his side, but he revealed the enemy's evil designs and denied him his trust, naming him Morgoth, the Black Enemy. In revenge, Morgoth stole the Silmarils and brought them to be guarded in the fortress of Angband in the north of Beleriand.
The Noldor swore undying vengeance on anyone who would lay their hands on the Silmarils, and devoted their lives to their recovery. But such was the Curse of the Noldor that they had laid upon themselves that they never got their precious gemstones back. The rest of the saga is like an unending quest for the Silmarils, in the course of which Elven kingdom are established and destroyed, wars are waged and heroic feats are performed. The pivotal stories are the Lay of Leithian – of the love of Beren and Luthien – and the tale of Turin Turambar. The Silmarillion ends when Morgoth is overthrown and banished out of the fringes of the world.
Akallabeth recounts the downfall of the great island kingdom of Numenor and the Second Age. Sauron, who had survived the fall of Morgoth, seduced the Numenorean king into worshipping the Dark Lord. The king gathers a huge fleet to wage a war upon the Valar, but is of course downcast. In this very moment, Numenor is devastated, the only survivors being those loyal to the Valar.
"Farmer Giles of Ham" bears the distinction of being the only one of Tolkien's fairy tales to have been placed in a known region and an approximate time frame.
With this curious explanation, J.R.R. Tolkien suggests that we are about to read a work which arises from the same traditions as the tales of Arthur and Robin Hood. "Giles" is a bit of forgotten English folklore celebrating that half-imagined, mostly-forgotten time after the Saxons came and before they drove the Celts into the mundane woods and hills. The Latin names and references make it clear that Giles is a Briton, a late generation remnant of the old empire after the decline of the western authority of the Romans.
Giles was a farmer living in Ham who gained a small measure of fame when he accidentally shot a giant in the nose with his blunderbuss. The presence of the blunderbuss in the story is a quaint anacronism, of course, and to be construed as an embellishment by some later author. Giles was rewarded by the King of the Middle Kingdom, Augustus Bonifacius, with a sword named Caudimordax. The sword was more well known as "Tailbiter", and it was a powerful weapon against dragons.
The giant, who had blundered into Ham only because he'd gotten lost on one of his walks through the countryside, eventually spread a few tall tales among his friends and relatives to cover up his embarrassment. And he didn't realize he had been shot with a blunderbuss, but instead thought he had been stung by horseflies. Word reached the ears of the dragon Chrysophylax that there were no more dragon-slaying knights in the lands to the east of his mountains, so he went off to enjoy the fruits of the giant's imagination.
Which brought him up against Giles, now armed with Tailbiter. Giles like everyone else in Ham expected the King to dispatch a few knights to take care of the dragon, but the knights were afraid the dragon would dispatch them, so they found excuses not to take up the quest. And so Giles was left to cope with the dragon in what became a battle of wits -- a battle for which Giles was not well armed.
In the end Giles accepted a promise of ransom from the dragon and he let Chrysophylax go. This of course led to King Augustus' hearing about treasure and wanting his fair share (or his Kingly share, which would be more than fair). So Giles eventually had to help hunt down Chrysophylax after the dragon failed to return with his promised ransom, and once again Tailbiter gave him an edge. But Giles was finally beginning to see the light of day and instead of being greedy or overly loyal to the King, he made an alliance with the dragon and took only part of the treasure home with him.
The story makes light of the great dragon-slaying traditions. The knights who are supposed to do the job cannot, and they are useless fops more intent on discussing "precedence and etiquette" than on noticing dragonsign (huge footprints littering the landscape). "Giles" is also an interesting commentary on how people react to danger. Heroes aren't simply called for, they are demanded and hapless farmers who stand in the way of giants are bound to be made into heroes.
Represented here are some of the family trees of the royal houses of Middle-earth, as well as the lineage of some of the most important characters in The Lord of the Rings and the Silmarillion. These easy-to-use charts should help you get to grips with the family relationships among some of the royal families, which many readers find confusing. The first three tables come from the Appendices of the LOTR.
The famous celebration of the 111 the birthday of the venerable hobbit Bilbo Baggins took place on September 12th, year 3001 of the Third Age. A great many guests were invited, among them most of the Tooks and Bagginses – the distant relatives of Master Bilbo. The celebration was that significant because it was Frodo's birthday as well, and a special one – he was turning 33, which is with hobbits the time of the coming of age. Just as Bilbo promised Gandalf the Wizard in the movie version of the book, this was a night to remember. The Shire-folk were reveling on the glade around the party tree, enjoying Gandalf's famous fireworks, premium ale from Bilbo's own cellars and dancing – that us, until the farewell speech. All of a sudden, Bilbo bid a farewell to his relatives and disappeared into thin air by putting on his magic ring, which was later discovered to be the One Ring of Sauron. In the following confusion, Bilbo packed up and set out for Rivendell in a company of dwarves. He left the Ring, although not without hesitation, and not without Gandalf's help, into the keeping of Frodo.
The English writer and scholar John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, b. Bloemfontein, South Africa, Jan. 3, 1892, d. Sept. 2, 1973, reestablished fantasy as a serious form in modern English literature. As professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University, he presented (1936) the influential lecture "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics," an aesthetic justification of the presence of the mythological creatures--Grendel and the dragon--in the medieval poem; he then went on to publish his own fantasy, The Hobbit(1937). There followed his critical theory of fantasy, "On Fairy-Stories" (1939), and his masterpieces, the mythological romances The Lord of the Rings (1954-55) and The Silmarillion (1977).
Brought to England as a child upon the death of his father in 1896, Tolkien was educated at King Edward's School in Birmingham and at Oxford. He enlisted in 1915 in the Lancashire Fusiliers; before leaving for France, he married his longtime sweetheart, Edith Bratt. Tolkien saw action in the Battle of the Somme, but trench fever kept him frequently hospitalized during 1917. He held academic posts in philology and in English language and literature from 1920 until his retirement in 1959.
Tolkien began writing The Hobbit in 1936. For a number of years previously he had been inventing languages for the mythical place—Middle Earth—that is the setting for the The Hobbit and had been writing stories about Middle Earth as well (which were published posthumously as The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales ). The Hobbitwas soon quite popular, and Tolkien was asked for a sequel by his publisher. In 1937 he began work on what would eventually be published as The Lord of the Rings. The work consists of The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King.This remarkable work by the mid-1960s had become, especially in its appeal to young people, a sociocultural phenomenon. Both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are set in a mythical past; the latter work chronicles the struggle between various good and evil kingdoms for possession of a magical ring that can shift the balance of power in the world. The trilogy is remarkable for both its subtly delineated fantasy types (elves, dwarves, and hobbits) and its sustained imaginative storytelling. It is noteworthy as a rare, successful modern version of the heroic epic. An animated film version of the first two books of the trilogy appeared in 1978.
Inclination and profession moved Tolkien to study the heroic literature of northern Europe--Beowulf, the Edda, the Kalevala. The spirit of these poems and their languages underlies his humorous and whimsical writings, such as Farmer Giles of Ham (1949) and The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1962), as well as his more substantial works.
Opening with the recollection of Gandalf's fall in Moria, Peter Jackson's spectacular sequel to the Oscar-winning Fellowship of the Ring carries on with the story of the hobbits' quest into Mordor, seemingly hopeless despite their heroism… Aragorn and his companions are faced with a new peril: the treason of Isengard and Saruman's planned assault on Rohan, the free land of the Horselords… A skillful combination of large-scale battle and siege scenes with romance and true Elvish magic, the film is an outstanding masterpiece of the modern fantasy genre. Complemented with the superb acting of the ever-charismatic hobbit Elijah Wood and the beautiful Elf-princess Liv Tyler, the film is a magnificent yet at times intensely frightening experience.
Welcome! Melian's Crafts of the Archives of Middle-earth is an exclusive section meant solely for the development and sharing of ideas on the crafts of Middle-earth. You will do well to remember that this is the domain of Queen Melian and, of course, her cat called Mish, who will give you advice on how to use the section best.
Here, we feature several crafts. The most important one perhaps is cross-stitching. When practiced with much love and patience, it can be upgraded to tapestry-making. Some knitting and crochet has also found its way into the Crafts workshop.
The unique nature of this section is the way that it features patterns and ideas related to the world of Middle-earth. Therefore, what you see here will not be found anywhere else on the web. If it is, it is copied from this website.
[ Q ] Does the Black Lord write white poems?
[ A ] Of course not. In versification he mows under Sasha Cherny.
[ Q ] Does the Black Lord sleep in a white night?
[ A ] No. He saves this dream for a rainy day.
[ Q ] Does the Black Lord suffer from delirium tremens?
[ A ] No , if you drink "Black Russian"
[ Q ] Will the Black Lord join the Green Party?
[ A ] He will not look at his feet - he will definitely enter.
[ Q ] Will the Black Lord be taken to the Red Army?
[ A ] Yes, because the White Guard already has a Black Baron.
[ Q ] Do maidens love the Black Lord?
[ Q ] Does the Black Lord's army have light heads?
[ A ] Yes, but only on the bayonets of his glorious attack aircraft.
[ Q ] Do Red Khmers serve the Black Lord?
[ A ] No, he cannot pronounce their name without coughing.
[ Q ] Does the Black Lord read the yellow press?
[ A ] If it is not too blackened there.
[ Q ] Can the Black Lord get into the yellow house?
[ A ] Now, I will ask a psychiatrist. Hey, Morgot Takhkhisovich? Can the Black Lord get into the yellow house?
[ Q ] Is the Black Lord listed in the Red Book?
[ A ] Yes, but its area is a white spot on the map.
[ Q ] Will the White Sea be Black if we bathe the Black Lord in it?
[ A ] Yes, if the Black Lord himself repaired and greased his Thai fighter.
[ Q ] Can I invite the Black Lord to the white dance?
[ A ] Only if you are a White Lady.
In the The Hobbit, which originally was unconnected with the The Silmarillion, he used the familiar term "goblin" for the benefit of modern readers. By the time of The Lord of the Rings, however, he'd decided that "goblin" wouldn't do - Orcs were not storybook goblins. Thus, in The Lord of the Rings, the proper name of the race is "Orcs" (capital "O"), and that name is found in the index along with Ents, Men, etc., while "goblin" is not in the index at all. There are a handful of examples of "goblin" being used (always with a small "g") but it seems in these cases to be a kind of slang for Orcs. Tolkien's explanation inside the story was that the "true" name of the creatures was Orc (an anglicised version of Sindarin Orch , pl. Yrch). As the "translator" of the ancient manuscripts, he "substituted" "Goblin" for "Orch" when he translated Bilbo's diary, but for The Red Book he reverted to a form of the ancient word.
- "Hail Earendel brightest of angels, over Middle Earth sent to men ".
I came across EOMER in Beowulf, and my best advice to those thinking that nothing will surprise you about Tolkien is to flip through the first couple of pages of the Elder Edda to meet Balin, Dwalin, Fili, Kili, Thorin, Thror and many others.
Where can I find reliable info on Tolkien languages?
For the sole purpose of collecting ALL possible information on the creatures of Tolkien, as well as his world. I do realize though that this job is actually too big a piece of work for anyone to handle on his/her own. So if any of you out there would like to cooperate, I would appreciate any kind of help.
Who is the webmaster of the site?
The webmaster, designer and owner, is me, Daereth. I won't be wasting time telling you about my aliases and personalities in the world of Tolkien... One of the important things to know is that my first Arda personality is a half-orkish one (actually it is quarter-orkish), the other one is Lady Melian, the Maia who lived in Doriath, and yet another is related to Rohan. When I am asked for what an image of my fantasy character would be, I usually give a few. Here is my current favorite.
Who is the author of the articles published?
I have been busy compiling the articles for the Tolkien Encyclopedia for more than two years. I am the author of all the encyclopedia articles, unless stated otherwise. Some single articles in the Characters of the Dark section of the encyclopedia are the only exceptions. A few of the smaller ones were taken from the Silmarillion index.
Can I borrow your articles?
I believe you may. The only thing you have to do if you finally got that bit of info you've been browsing for for ages, is to link to us. A link to www.daereth.net will suffice, and an authorship notice (Daereth) will also be appreciated.
Please note that the images in the Fan Art gallery are exempt from this rule. You may download images from this site, but if you want to place them on your web, be sure you have the artist's permission as well.


Trump, Russia, and twitter, the important but ignored interference.
Besides determining if Trump and his campaign were in collusion with those interfering, what to do about it to prevent a recurrence is the main problem. There are two issues: the first is the hacking that everyone looks at. Obviously we need to increase the security of our communications and avail ourselves of the technology and security procedures that are out there. It would also be helpful, in those communications, to be kinder. Hostile and scheming communications can always be used against one, so be kinder.
Secondly is the twitter bots and this is the bigger issue that few see in its proper light. In the natural world twitter is widely used as a way of voting, just as it is in our social world. The best example of this is the study of how rapidly and accurately twitterers voted and determined that the value of the iPhone was better than its competition. In the same way when bees need a new hive the site that is chosen is the one with the most scouts on its door step. Bacteria also use twitter techniques to register their distress and when their votes reach a certain level the actions of the whole colony shift in a process called quorum sensing.
The twitter bots, as any geek will explain, are computer programs designed to retweet specific information–in this particular case the information was designed to hurt Clinton and help Trump. An example during the campaign was the rapidity with which Trump's female abuse was replaced by Bill Clinton's infidelity.
The real point of this is that twitter in nature is democratic–it's one bug, one vote–but this democracy is destroyed by the bots. Does that matter and does it affect campaigns?
Andres Sepulveda has no doubts. He told of his work to writers for Bloomberg Businessweek. For the past ten years he has been involved using social media to swing elections in South and Central America. He tells his story openly because he is in jail in Columbia for his interference. He says he was not involved with our election, but has no doubt someone was. So who are the programmers?
Those looking at the election's social media for the Science article, as well as our intelligence agencies are almost certain they come from Russia. The Russians have used these methods for decades in the Ukraine and Georgia, the software is the same and the comments in the programs are in Russian.
Both Mr. Sepulveda and those looking at the campaign are able to identify the bots. If they can do so why can't the programmers at Twitter. Doing so and labelling their retweets as "This tweet likely comes from a bot" would eliminate their effect and restore some of the needed democracy to this media.


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The benefits of physical education (PE) ring clear as a school bell. With PE, we can keep kids' hearts healthy and their minds in gear to do their best at school. The fact is, active kids do better. Physical education has positive impacts on their physical, mental, and emotional health. Yet competing priorities are making effective PE programs increasingly less common. With your help, we can change that.
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Area happenings: Events surrounding Holmes, Wayne counties
Through Dec. 31: Victorian House Holidays at the Mansion, 484 Wooster Road., Millersburg. Hours are Tuesday-Friday, 1-4 p.m., Saturdays 1-8 p.m., and Sundays, 1-4 p.m. The Victorian House is closed Mondays, and is closed Thanksgiving and Christmas days. Admission is $10, with a senior discount (for guests 60 and over) at $9. The mansion is decorated inside and out, and features self-guided tours. The Millersburg Glass Museum will be open Friday and Saturday, 1-4 p.m., only during the season.
Ongoing: Holiday Fair, Mansfield Art Center, 700 Marion Ave., Mansfield. The fair showcases local artists and artisans. The theme is Making Spirits Bright. From art in the Upper Gallery and Gallery Shop to the Art to Go craft kits for kids in the Foundation Gallery, attendees will find fine art, fine crafts, jewelry and gifts. Women's Day Into Evening Event will be held Thursday, Dec. 10 , 2-8 p.m. This is a free event with a percentage of sales proceeds going to the Richland County Foundation Women's Fund. For more information on the Holiday Fair visit mansfieldartcenter.org.
Dec. 4: Historical Downtown Church Walking Tour, Main Street Wooster, 5-8 p.m.; 330-262-6222.
Dec. 5: "The Nutcracker" ballet, 7 p.m., Wayne Center for the Arts production; live broadcast on MCTV and Facebook and YouTube channels; free. For more information call 330-264-2787.
Dec. 5: Christmas Craft Fair, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Brunswick Recreation Center, 3637 Center Road, Brunswick. Vendors with handcrafted goods. For more information email BKiwanis13@aol.com. Free admission.
Dec. 12: The County Line Historical Society Museum, 281 N. Market St., Shreve, will be open noon-3 p.m. Parking is available at Shreve Mobil, Farmers National bank and downtown parking lots. Handicap parking is at the rear of museum, entering alley off East Robinson Street. Adults $2 and children ages 12 and younger are free. For more information call 330-464-4382.
Dec. 12-13: Holiday History Hunt, Heritage Home Association's road rally, scavenger hunt and self-guided driving tour of 25 historic homes and other sites in Tuscarawas County, mostly in Dover and New Philadelphia. Those who participate will be offered the opportunity to complete a quiz, of sorts, on the history of the sites they tour. Prizes will be awarded. No admission fee; donations accepted. Route is about two hours. Visit www.tuschha.org and click on the Christmas wreath (top right) to find the web page. For questions or additional information, contact information is available there. Vice-President and Christmas Tour co-chair Patti Strickling can be reached at tours@tuschha.org.
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Kitchen renovation progress – let's recap!
Our ancient refrigerator gave up the ghost last August. We ordered this one from Lowe's but it took well over a month to finally get it in mid-September. Roughing it without refrigeration in the summer was a good time, and when we finally had our lovely new appliance in place, it made the rest of the kitchen look absolutely dismal.
Buy new dishwasher. Do nothing for years.
Buy new refrigerator. Realize kitchen is pit of despair.
Put creepy hippie cement and tile mosaic bench from the kitchen entry in the street. Remain baffled at how quickly someone snags it. Enjoy, hippies.
Replace all the almond plastic outlets and switches with white.
That looks ok. Decide it needs something else. Paint the lower cabinets, doors, and baseboard in the breakfast area Benjamin Moore Carter Gray.
Hang bamboo shades in the door windows for privacy.
Decide I can't stand the janky weird salvaged cabinets that have been mounted to the exposed brick over the sink. Rip them down.
My brother builds a shelf from spalted maple (pictured above) to go over the sink. Ok, now we're talking.
Remove butcher block counter near the stove, sand, and refinish.
Realize the entire exterior wall is filled with mold and mice villages.
Gut and trash the exterior wall cabinets, have my dad and brother rebuild new ones after cleaning out and re-insulating in ways mice and mold can't get into.
Reinstall butcher block counter over new cabinets.
Wait several months until the doors are finished for the new cabinets.
Paint the fancy new cabinets in Carter Gray.
Now the cabinets that are on the other side of the kitchen (from the 50s) look terrible. Yay!
Cut cat door in broom closet. Make it a cat litter closet to hide the cat litter. This is pretty cool.
Remove ancient and filthy light fixture over breakfast table.
Replace with this one from Cedar & Moss.
Get new brass knobs for all cabinets.
Decide that brass is the wrong choice as all the appliances have chrome handles. Leave brass knobs for now.
Realize the new light is also brass. Give up on life.
Remove disgusting copper backsplash behind stove / under microwave cupboard. Replace with plywood painted Carter Gray.
Call brother in the middle of having him tile backsplash with white subway tile to tell him to rip out disgusting badly made microwave cupboard and tile all the way to the ceiling.
Brother builds charming microwave shelf to replace disgusting cupboard out of spalted maple to match shelf over the sink. The heart rejoices.
Realize hand-me-down bright red microwave looks like crap. Hand it down one more time to my brother, buy new white one.
Install fan over the stovetop, as we've never had one.
Realize fan vent makes horrible banging (like someone pounding furiously on the window) sound when it's windy. Continue to live with PTSD over banging that strikes when least expected.
Rip out track lighting that's falling off the ceiling.
Realize the ceiling looks really really bad next to the newly painted walls.
Install new lights to replace the track lighting.
Install new recessed cans that are white metal instead of almond plastic on 3 recessed lights.
Hate everyone who ever thought almond was an acceptable thing to do, ever.
Replace the soft pine, stained dark brown, carved fake 70s medieval beams around the doorways with white painted trim.
Realize I can't live with the terrible (ALMOND COLOR) hippie floor tiles – interspersed with 3D snails, snakes, and other insect tiles.
Have back and forth with brother who insists the floor cannot be retiled, as the beams under the kitchen are not level and the tile will just crack.
Consider jacking up kitchen extension (it's not part of the main house, thus the exposed brick) to pour new foundation.
Realize that's completely insane and can't happen.
Consider cork flooring. Decide on cork flooring. Add to end of list.
Discover that I've lost all my "before" kitchen photos from my phone. Feel sad that I can't share the horror with the world.
This definitely is NOT going to look like the kitchen renovations on blogs and Pinterest. How do those people do it? Wonder what fundamental life lesson I missed.
Realize the life lessons were "marry rich" and "don't buy a house built in 1836".
I can't live with the almond color two basin sink as I keep breaking dishes on the divider, and also because almond.
Begin fruitless search for affordable single basin white farmhouse sink on craigslist.
Have meltdown over brown granite countertop around sink and stovetop. Do nothing about it.
Install water filter under sink. Realize sink faucet is gold and water filter faucet is chrome. Stop caring. Seriously though, if you're still reading, please weigh in on mixed metals in kitchens.
Buy new wall oven to match refrigerator and replace ancient almond one.
Oven arrives. Doesn't fit in cabinet. Spend several days with oven sticking 5″ out of cabinet hole.
Rip out gas stovetop so that the new oven will fit in the cabinet.
Oven now working, but we don't have a stovetop. Get camping stove from the cabin and put on top of the counter.
Realize we've started new oven with something plastic from the manufacturer in it. Continue to cook with baked on plastic drip in brand new oven. Eventually die from toxic chemicals.
Search for electric stovetops. Realize I don't want an electric stovetop. Try to figure out how to salvage old gas stovetop.
Continue cooking on camp stove.
Re-configure gas pipes to stovetop area & modify cabinet so that new oven will fit.
Rip out brown granite around stovetop.
Buy pale stone countertop (marble?) to go around stovetop.
Reinstall old gas stovetop after a major cleaning.
Rip out brown granite countertop and cabinets by the sink area.
Build new cabinets under sink.
Find white single basin sink with drainboards.
Replace brown granite counter near sink with butcher block because that much marble is off the table.
Replace leaking gold faucet with chrome one.
Learn to live with mix of brass and chrome.
Rip out hippie floor tiles.
Replace with dark gray cork flooring.
Eventually rebuild the entry into a pantry when we re-route the back door through the laundry room.
Omgggg. You deserve a medal. Or 50. I just (mostly) finished my bathroom after almost 3 years, so I can commiserate.
Your brother is a genius. Those shelves are awesome! I keep putting off remodeling our kitchen because it feels like my head will explode from all the decisions. It needs to be torched to the ground so maybe that will make everything easier.
If you want a low commitment consulting project, HELP us with our rental. A few rooms need a paint job, badly!
Aaaah this is kind of where we are with our own f!&@ing kitchen – it's such a saga. We're staring down our terrible ancient linoleum and debating cork, plotting out our new fridge, and needing to paint many cupboards and get new handles, and replace a couple of windows…….. And maybe that's it? In the kitchen. Not to mention all the everythings that need to happen in the rest of the house! These lists, they grow and grow.
It sounds like you are going to wind up with a beautiful kitchen, though!
This sounds a lot like my mom's kitchen remodel. Over the course of 8 years, she's slowly gotten the kitchen to reflect what's in her head – but she still doesn't have upper cabinets, she's questioning whether she wants a stove as big as what they have now that she's lived with it a while, and the tile totally has a dip in it where the floor isn't level–where she's definitely like, 'oh well!' at this point!
It looks awesome – she's found old 50s cabinets on craigslist, old light fixtures on ebay – I mean, she's dedicated but it definitely means it's not a 6 week project. We went that blast-through-it route *only* because we had money from the sale of our house and it was *still* wildly traumatizing.


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Tuesday, June 08, 2021 Julie Tappendorf
Today, we are providing updates to employee-related bills that passed both houses of the General Assembly and are now awaiting Governor action.
If signed by the Governor, SB 539 would make changes to the Illinois Government Ethics Act and related ethics statutes.
First, the legislation would modify the economic interests that certain government officers are required to disclose annually when they file their economic interest statement under the Act. For example, an individual required to file a statement of economic interest must also include certain interests of spouses and minor children. The Secretary of State would be required to publish guidance for completing and filing the disclosure statements given the changes made by this legislation. Also, so long as a filer reasonably relies in good faith on the Secretary of State's guidance, the filing will not constitute a willful false or incomplete statement.
In addition, the proposed amendments would prohibit certain county, municipal, and township officials from being compensated for any activity by a lobbyist or lobbying entity, and amend the requirements for lobbyist registration.
The bill also preempts municipal regulation of lobbyists that would conflict with the statutory regulations, except for the City of Chicago.
SB 2486 would amend the Personnel Records Review Act, which restricts the release of disciplinary records of employees in Illinois and requires notice be provided to an employee when their records are set to be released. If the amendment is signed by the Governor, employees who wish to file a complaint with the Department of Labor or in court based on a perceived violation of the Act may do so within three years of the disclosure of the disciplinary record in question.
Post Authored by Erin Monforti & Julie Tappendorf, Ancel Glink
Ethics / Personnel


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Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro ordered to wear mask in public
From 21 April 2020: The BBC's South America correspondent Katy Watson looks at how Bolsonaro has responded to the virus in Brazil
A judge in Brazil has ordered President Jair Bolsonaro to wear a protective mask when he is in public spaces in the capital, Brasilia, and the surrounding federal district.
The far-right president has been criticised for belittling the risk posed by coronavirus.
He dismissed it as "a little cold" at the start of the pandemic.
Brazil has the second-highest number of coronavirus cases and Covid-related fatalities in the world after the US.
There are more than 1.1m confirmed cases of coronavirus in Brazil and more than 51,000 coronavirus-related deaths have been recorded, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.
Despite these high figures, President Bolsonaro has repeatedly appeared in public without a mask while greeting his supporters.
Image source, EPA
Last week, Jair Bolsonaro was seen leaving the presidential palace without a mask
At one rally, he was filmed coughing without covering his mouth and on another occasion he was seen sneezing into his hand and shaking the hand of an elderly woman immediately afterwards.
The requirement to wear masks in the federal district came into force on 30 April.
The rule was brought in by the governor of the federal district, Ibaneis Rocha, and requires people to cover their nose and mouth in all public spaces, including public transport, shops and commercial and industrial premises.
On 11 May, the rule was further tightened with those flaunting it facing fines of 2,000 reais ($387; £310) per day.
Federal Judge Renato Borelli's ruling means Mr Bolsonaro is not exempt and that the president and any other public officials who do not comply with the requirement will also incur the 2,000-reais fine.
President Bolsonaro has argued from the start of the pandemic that measures taken to curb the spread of the virus could be more damaging than the pandemic itself.
On Monday, he renewed his call for the easing of lockdown measures and the reopening of shops and businesses.
He said that the way the pandemic had been handled had "maybe been a bit over the top".
The president's insistence that the economy should be prioritised has been deeply divisive and he has clashed with state governors who have introduced restrictions of movement and requirements to wear masks in public.
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The Disney Life blog is about to get an overhaul. I've neglected this space for far too long with no good reason to abandon it.
Look forward to once-a-week posts from me about Disney happenings as well as other theme park news in the area! I might even get experimental and try (le gasp) video content.
Have any suggestions for reviews you want to see? Movie rants you'd like to hear? Ridiculous scenarios you want to put me in? Leave them all in the comments!


Hey there! This is my second comeback week back after being sick and knocked off my mile PR training track. Last week I got the ball rolling again. This week was about recovering from last Sunday's half marathon, assessing how the body handled it, and keeping the comeback momentum going.


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Q: Automating Mail Merge using Excel VBA I created a macro in Excel where I can mail-merge data from Excel into Word Letter Template and save the individual files in the folder.
I have Employee data in Excel and I can generate any Employee letter using that Data and can save the individual Employee letter as per the Employee name.
I have run mail-merge automatically and save individual files as per the Employee name. And every time it runs the file for one person it will give the status as Letter Already Generate so that it wont duplicate any Employee records.
The problem is the output in all the merged files the output is same as the first row. Example: if my Excel has 5 Employee details I am able to save the 5 individual merged files on each employee name, however the merged data if of the first employee who is in Row 2.
My rows have the below data:

Row A: has S.No.
  Row B: has Empl Name
  Row C: has Processing Date
  Row D: has Address
  Row E: Firstname
  Row F: Business Title
  Row G: Shows the status (if the letter is generated it shows "Letter Generated Already" after running the macro or it shows blank if it is new record entered.

Also how can I save the output (merged file) also in PDF other than DOC file so the merged files will be in two formats one in DOC and the other one in PDF formats?
Sub MergeMe()

Dim bCreatedWordInstance As Boolean
Dim objWord As Word.Application
Dim objMMMD As Word.Document
Dim EmployeeName As String
Dim cDir As String
Dim r As Long
Dim ThisFileName As String
lastrow = Sheets("Data").Range("A" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row
r = 2
For r = 2 To lastrow
If Cells(r, 7).Value = "Letter Generated Already" Then GoTo nextrow
EmployeeName = Sheets("Data").Cells(r, 2).Value

' Setup filenames
Const WTempName = "letter.docx" 'This is the 07/10 Word Templates name,  Change as req'd
Dim NewFileName As String
NewFileName = "Offer Letter - " & EmployeeName & ".docx" 'This is the New 07/10 Word Documents File Name, Change as req'd"

' Setup directories
cDir = ActiveWorkbook.path + "\" 'Change if appropriate
ThisFileName = ThisWorkbook.Name

On Error Resume Next

' Create a Word Application instance
bCreatedWordInstance = False
Set objWord = GetObject(, "Word.Application")

If objWord Is Nothing Then
  Err.Clear
  Set objWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")
  bCreatedWordInstance = True
End If

If objWord Is Nothing Then
MsgBox "Could not start Word"
Err.Clear
On Error GoTo 0
Exit Sub
End If

' Let Word trap the errors
On Error GoTo 0

' Set to True if you want to see the Word Doc flash past during construction
objWord.Visible = False

'Open Word Template
Set objMMMD = objWord.Documents.Open(cDir + WTempName)
objMMMD.Activate

'Merge the data
With objMMMD
.MailMerge.OpenDataSource Name:=cDir + ThisFileName, sqlstatement:="SELECT *  FROM `Data$`"   ' Set this as required

With objMMMD.MailMerge  'With ActiveDocument.MailMerge
.Destination = wdSendToNewDocument
.SuppressBlankLines = True
With .DataSource
  .FirstRecord = wdDefaultFirstRecord
  .LastRecord = wdDefaultLastRecord
End With
.Execute Pause:=False
End With
End With

' Save new file
objWord.ActiveDocument.SaveAs cDir + NewFileName

' Close the Mail Merge Main Document
objMMMD.Close savechanges:=wdDoNotSaveChanges
Set objMMMD = Nothing

' Close the New Mail Merged Document
If bCreatedWordInstance Then
objWord.Quit
End If

0:
Set objWord = Nothing
Cells(r, 7).Value = "Letter Generated Already"
nextrow:

Next r

End Sub

A: To save the file in pdf format use
objWord.ActiveDocument.ExportAsFixedFormat cDir & NewFileName, _
                  ExportFormat:=wdExportFormatPDF

It looks to me that when you are executing the mail merge, it should create a file with ALL of the letters, so when you open it, it would appear that the first letter is the one that is getting saved, but if you scroll down the word file that you have saved, you may find each letter on a new page.
Instead, you want to execute the merge one letter at a time.
To fix this, change the lines as follows:
With .DataSource
  .FirstRecord = r-1
  .LastRecord = r-1
  .ActiveRecord = r-1

You need to use r-1 because Word is going to use the record number in its dataset, and since the data starts in row 2, and the counter r is related to the row, you need r-1.
You don't need to open up word each time, so put all of the code setting the datasource of the mail merge and creating the word doc outside of your main loop.
Const WTempName = "letter.docx" 'This is the 07/10 Word Templates name,
Dim NewFileName As String

' Setup directories
cDir = ActiveWorkbook.path + "\" 'Change if appropriate
ThisFileName = ThisWorkbook.Name

On Error Resume Next

' Create a Word Application instance
bCreatedWordInstance = False
Set objWord = GetObject(, "Word.Application")

If objWord Is Nothing Then
  Err.Clear
  Set objWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")
  bCreatedWordInstance = True
End If

If objWord Is Nothing Then
    MsgBox "Could not start Word"
    Err.Clear
    On Error GoTo 0
    Exit Sub
End If

' Let Word trap the errors
On Error GoTo 0

' Set to True if you want to see the Word Doc flash past during construction
objWord.Visible = False

'Open Word Template
Set objMMMD = objWord.Documents.Open(cDir + WTempName)
objMMMD.Activate

'Merge the data
With objMMMD
.MailMerge.OpenDataSource Name:=cDir + ThisFileName, _
    sqlstatement:="SELECT *  FROM `Data$`"   ' Set this as required

For r = 2 To lastrow
    If Cells(r, 7).Value = "Letter Generated Already" Then GoTo nextrow
'rest of code goes here

Also, instead of checking the Excel file for the Employee name to create the file name, you could do this after you merge the document.  For me, this is a little more intuitive to link the file name to the letter you have just merged.  To do this update the line further to:
With .DataSource
  .FirstRecord = r-1
  .LastRecord = r-1
  .ActiveRecord = r-1
  EmployeeName = .EmployeeName 'Assuming this is the field name

Then immediately before saving the file you can do this:
 ' Save new file
NewFileName = "Offer Letter - " & EmployeeName & ".docx"
objWord.ActiveDocument.SaveAs cDir + NewFileName

Hope this helps.

A: The following code works as intended. It saves one .docx and one .pdf file for each entry in the data table while following OpiesDad's recommendations.
Before running, check if the VBA library for Word (Microsoft Word 16.0 Object Library) is activated and make the connection to the Excel data table from the Word template (Mail Merge settings).
Sub MergeMe()

Application.ScreenUpdating = False

Dim bCreatedWordInstance As Boolean
Dim objWord As Word.Application
Dim objMMMD As Word.Document
Dim EmployeeName As String
Dim cDir As String
Dim r As Long
Dim ThisFileName As String
lastrow = Sheets("Dados").Range("A" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row
r = 2

' Setup filenames
Const WTempName = "Proposta.docx" 'Word Template name,  Change as req'd
Dim NewFileName As String

On Error Resume Next

' Setup directories
cDir = ActiveWorkbook.Path + "\" 'Change if appropriate
ThisFileName = ThisWorkbook.Name

' Create a Word Application instance
bCreatedWordInstance = False
Set objWord = GetObject(, "Word.Application")

If objWord Is Nothing Then
  Err.Clear
  Set objWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")
  bCreatedWordInstance = True
End If

If objWord Is Nothing Then
MsgBox "Could not start Word"
Exit Sub
End If

' Set to True if you want to see the Word Doc flash past during construction
objWord.Visible = False

'Open Word Template
Set objMMMD = objWord.Documents.Open(cDir + WTempName)

'loop through each table row
For r = 2 To lastrow

    If Cells(r, 7).Value = "Letter Generated Already" Then GoTo nextrow

    objMMMD.Activate

    'Merge the data
    With objMMMD

    .MailMerge.OpenDataSource Name:=cDir + ThisFileName, sqlstatement:="SELECT *  FROM `Dados$`"   ' Set this as required

        With objMMMD.MailMerge  'With ActiveDocument.MailMerge

            .Destination = wdSendToNewDocument
            .SuppressBlankLines = True

                With .DataSource
                    .FirstRecord = r - 1
                    .LastRecord = r - 1
                    .ActiveRecord = r - 1

                     EmployeeName = .DataFields("Nome").Value 'Change "Nome". to the column name for employee names"

                End With

            .Execute Pause:=False 'executes the mail merge
        End With

    End With

On Error GoTo 0

' Save new file (.docx & .pdf) and close it
NewFileName = "Offer Letter - " & EmployeeName  'Word Document File Name, Change as req'd"
objWord.ActiveDocument.SaveAs cDir + NewFileName + ".docx"

objWord.ActiveDocument.ExportAsFixedFormat cDir + NewFileName + ".pdf", _
                  ExportFormat:=wdExportFormatPDF

objWord.ActiveDocument.Close

Cells(r, 7).Value = "Letter Generated Already"

nextrow:
Next r

objMMMD.Close False
objWord.Quit

Application.ScreenUpdating = True

End Sub


Canberra: Australia will become a third party in a World Trade Organization dispute between the United States and China over market access restrictions for American movies, music and books, said the Australian trade minister.
The WTO launched an investigation last month into Chinese restrictions on the sale of such products Washington's fourth commercial complaint against Beijing in a little over a year.
The US says that less favourable distribution opportunities in China for foreign-made CDs, DVDs and computer software have cost its media companies millions of dollars.
Announcing that Australia would join the dispute, Trade Minister Simon Crean said his government was not taking sides. Third party status would give Australia an opportunity to register its views on key issues.
"This case raises important market access issues for Australia's business interests, especially for sound recordings," the Aussie minister said in a statement.
Australia has a free trade agreement with the United States, it is negotiating a similar pact with China, its biggest trade partner. Other WTO members, including Japan, have also decide to become third parties in the dispute.


We did the thing, y'all! Last Thursday, before dawn had even cracked, we hit the road towards our old Kentucky home. The journey was long but full of snacks and inside jokes. Once we hit our beloved Louisville, we hung with Zelda's parentals and Scout's momma; toured the Maker's Mark distillery; hit up our favorite brunch spot, doughnut shop, and beer bar; and, of course, got all decked out for the main event: Scout's first, and Zelda's first-as-an-adult, Kentucky Derby.
Now the sun may not have shone bright that day. Our race experience was decidedly damp, complete with ponchos and a flash flood warning. Were we thrilled to be experiencing the wettest Derby on record? That would be a no. But despite the torrential downpours, we still managed to have a blast. After all, we were there with some of our nearest and dearest pals, the bourbon was plentiful (both from the julep vendors and the baggies we smuggled in inside our bras), and the ponies sure were pretty. You may say we shed a tear at the singing of our state anthem; we may try to claim it was a raindrop. But one thing is certain: We derbied, and it was great.


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Waxahatchee Announces Solo Tour Dates
By Lizzie Manno | May 7, 2018 | 3:53pm
Photo by Jesse Riggins Music News Waxahatchee
Alabama singer-songwriter Waxahatchee, aka Katie Crutchfield, has announced solo tour dates in September.
Crutchfield has been touring extensively this year, both full band and solo, and she also made an appearance at this weekend's Shaky Knees Festival. Paste's Scott Russell praised the band's Shaky Knees set, writing, "Waxahatchee gave a stand-out showing at their first Shaky Knees, making space for emotional reflection in an environment where noise often drowns out nuance."
Crutchfield was previously announced as a supporting act for Courtney Barnett's upcoming U.S. tour in October, and she will also appear at the Decemberists-curated Travelers Rest Festival in Missoula, Mont.
Support for her new solo tour dates will come from Anna St. Louis and Night Shops. Kansas City singer-songwriter Anna St. Louis recently released First Songs, an eight-track cassette tape, via Kevin Morby's Mare Records, while Night Shops released an EP of demos last year and is also a member of L.A. garage-rock band Flat Worms.
Crutchfield's latest full-length release came in 2017 via Merge Records with her critically lauded LP, Out In The Storm. You can read Paste's interview with Crutchfield about the record here.
Check out Waxahatchee's upcoming tour dates below.
Waxahatchee Tour Dates:
12 – Bloomington, Ind. @ The Bishop (with Amy O)
05-08 – Winnipeg, Manitoba @ Winnipeg Folk Festival
14 – Birmingham, Ala. @ Sloss Music & Arts Festival
04-05 – Missoula, Mont. @ Travelers' Rest Festival
05 – Athens, Ga. @ Georgia Theatre^
08 – Washington, D.C. @ Miracle Theatre^
09 – Brooklyn, N.Y. @ The Bell House^
10 – New York, N.Y. @ Le Poisson Rouge^
12 – Pittsburgh, Pa. @ The Warhol at Carnegie Music Hall^
13 – Nelsonville, Ohio @ Stuart's Opera House^
14 – Cleveland, Ohio @ Survival Kit Gallery^
15 – Toronto, Ontario @ Bloor Street United Church^
16 – Grand Rapids, Mich. @ Wealthy Theatre^
18 – Mineral Point, Wis. @ Mineral Point Opera House^
20 – Lincoln, Neb. @ Lincoln Calling Festival – 1867 Bar
21 – Lawrence, Kan. @ White Schoolhouse^
29 – Denver, Colo. @ Ogden Theater*
02 – Phoenix, Ariz. @ The Van Buren*
03 – San Diego, Calif. @ The Observatory North Park*
05 – Los Angeles, Calif. @ Greek Theatre*
08 – Seattle, Wash. @ Paramount Theatre*
10 – Vancouver, B.C. @ Vogue Theatre*
12 – Portland, Ore. @ Crystal Ballroom*
17 – Milwaukee, Wis. @ Pabst Theater*
21 – Boston, Mass. @ House of Blues*
23 – Philadelphia, Pa. @ The Fillmore*
25 – Nashville, Tenn. @ Marathon Music Works*
27 – Austin, Texas @ Stubb's Waller Creek Amphitheatre*
(^ – with Night Shop, Anna St. Louis)
(* – with Courtney Barnett)
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That is why when I learned an angel's sending me a box of Jolly Cow Chocolate Milk for Christmas, my, my holidays never tasted better.
This tasty chocolatey treat is available at your nearest grocery stores. Race you to the shelves?


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/ Energy
A New Diet for China's Energy Appetite
The protracted approval process for the CNOOC-Nexen deal will affect the way China acquires resource assets.
By DANIEL DICKER Dec 10, 2012 | 12:30 PM EST
Stocks quotes in this article: CEO, NXY
The Canadian government's final approval of the CNOOC (CEO)-Nexen (NXY) deal is important in that it may be the last time Chinese energy companies are in the limelight for a major energy buy. The long approval process of this $15.1 billion deal may have convinced the Chinese that they're better off staying under the radar to satisfy their insatiable appetite for resource assets -- an appetite that will continue in 2013.
The approval of this enormous energy deal is probably best thought of as the right bookend to CNOOC's failed 2005 effort to buy now-defunct U.S. producer oil Unocal. With Nexen, the Chinese oil conglomerate gets a mix of assets, including interest in various traditional Canadian and non-traditional oil sands assets, as well as interests in the Gulf of Mexico in the U.S. and the North Sea in the U.K.
But the long battle for government approval was difficult and uncertain, and probably convinced CNOOC (as well as other Chinese mega-cap integrateds, like Sinopec (SHI)) that a joint-venture investment -- without battling over national resource issues -- is the way to go in the future. The Chinese have proven that they don't need to own 100% of any company's assets to satisfy their appetite for future energy supply.
CNOOC is a perfect example. It has entered into partial investments and joint ventures in excess, mostly under the radar of government and investor interest. The deals are wide-ranging: Australian producer Exoma, Argentinian producer Bridas, and U.S. natural gas giant Chesapeake Energy (CHK). There's even a fully separate division to house joint ventures with Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.A). None of these deals requires any government approval, or even shareholder approval.
Besides the consternation that you might feel seeing this trend of Chinese mega-caps swallowing domestic energy assets continuing or even accelerating, there's little to be gamed. Even if you know that Chinese energy companies continue to search for deals, you're still facing a tough task determining where they're likely to go next. You could assume that they will add from the assets of companies where they've already had successful joint ventures, like Chesapeake (always looking to make another deal), or Canadian energy producer Talisman Energy (TLM). Or, you might take a chance on their looking at undervalued energy producers under corporate duress, like SandRidge Energy (SD).
But you'd be making nothing more than a guess. The only thing you can be sure of is that this trend of Chinese asset purchases is likely to continue. Their appetite seems unquenchable.
At the time of publication, Dicker had no positions in the stocks mentioned.
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It was a packed house as everyone was clearly ready to start thinking about their holiday decorating. Metallics seem to be the theme this year and the store was a-glitter with gold and silver.
Several local designers and merchants styled tabletops for holiday celebrations. Tammy Whittier of Nielsen's created the opening vignette with classic Raynaud Festivité Limoges and lush greenery.
Diane James herself designed a festive drinks table with beautiful arrangements from the collection.
I love all white for the holidays and maintenance free can be especially appealing during this hectic season.
And Diane pointed out a little fun she had with her frog prince ornament and faux engagement ring.
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I adore cloches – they make such a pretty statement – but I'm not quite sure where I would store them all!
The media partner for the event was Connecticut Cottages and Garden and I got a quick snap of a few friends with editorial director D. J Carey, on the far right – from left, Cynthia James Matrullo and Carolyn James McDonough of Diane James Home, designer Carey Karlan of Last Detail Interior Design and designer Catherine Cleare.
What a fun way to kick off the season! I'll certainly consider adding a little glimmer to my holiday decor this year!
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I'm in love with the frog. These are gorgeous tables–I just can't quite believe that we are that close to Christmas. Have a wonderful week-end.
This is a great way to start the holiday season! Absolutely stunning tables, and I was happy to see the work of the talented Diane James present.
Wow, so much holiday magic here. Looks like a splendid event. I especially love white and a little sparkle during the holidays and see lots to be inspired by. And it's always fun to see the James girls! I wish I could have been there. Happy weekend, Stacey!
You have the best pictures of the evening and we're so happy you came!
Absolutely beautiful! Each table was beautifully done. The cloches were the perfect piece!
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"Letter From Mumbai: Opening Night,"
by staff writer Katherine Boo. In it readers meet Sunil, a 13-year old garbage scavenger who lives in one of the slums beside the international airport. Malnourished, often without shelter, the motherless boy must be clever and brave every day in order to keep himself and his little sister alive.
"When the New Yorker piece appeared, I had already been working for a long time. I started in November 2007," says Boo, of her writing from the Mumbai slum of Annawadi, where she spent three years, and about which she collected thousands of documents.
No stranger to difficult stories -- her reporting on the impoverished and the forgotten in the U.S. has earned her the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service as well as a MacArthur Fellowship -- she nevertheless faced serious challenges with Annawadi. There were a dozen languages in the slum, none of which Boo spoke. There were monsoons and stifling heat, and the fact that her health was not great to begin with. (Boo suffers from rheumatoid arthritis.) There was a lake of sewage and human waste and dead and living animals, a lake that regularly washed out the 335 hand-built huts on the half-acre slum where 3,000 residents tried to scrap out a living.
These include Sunil and his friend Abdul Husain, so adept at sorting and reselling garbage that he supports his parents and eight siblings. There is politically savvy Asha, who schemes her way to success, and her daughter Manju, flawless to a fault. One-legged Fatima sets herself on fire as an act of revenge, and Meena, a teenager who with reason despairs for her future, drinks rat poison. And there is an ebullient boy, a metal scavenger who re-enacts Bollywood films to the delight of his friends, and whose subsequent murder goes worse than unnoticed.
this month, her first reading for her first book, Boo, at the Heathman Hotel, discussed how the book came to be.
"For the first seven months, I was working in three different places. I didn't have a translator who wanted to work in the same way I wanted to work, which is really slowly. A lot of the time it seems pointless to them: Why are you sitting in a garbage shed watching this kid work? It's boring. They often want to jump-start it."
Right. This one translator wanted to show me the rat squad -- they go around killing rats. Every newspaper in the world has done the rat squad story. It took me from November 2007 to April 2008 to find a cool translator who understood what I was doing. Then I could really start reporting.
I first went to Annawadi in November 2007. The more I got to know Asha, the more I got to know Manju, and Abdul; I felt they were people I hadn't read about, in particular Zehrunisa Husain (Abdul's mother). I thought she and her son, it wasn't a question of subsistence anymore. In the context of Annawadi, they had done their best to make a decent life for themselves and I thought, this is just something I've never read about. Then I just found myself wanting to be back there and spend time with them.
Q: Many people in Annawadi are practical by necessity; they do what they need to do to stay alive. While it may seem excessive to me that Asha once hit Manju in the neck with an ax for pinching money to buy chocolate, I do not have to survive in that environment.
And it worked! It worked. Manju is the most perfect, virtuous daughter -- and she still is. What is interesting about Manju is when I figured out that, her whole trying to be the most virtuous girl in Annawadi is also a way of pointing out to her mother that she (Asha) is not.
Q: She's getting back at her.
It was her passive-aggressive way.
Q: Did you have push-back from authorities?
The police started going after me in 2009, and I worried that the situation was hopeless, and also that my translator was at risk. The piece I did for the New Yorker got picked up by an influential Mumbai newspaper, and translated. On one level, it was incredibly flattering. And the people in Annawadi read it and knew I was doing the job I was saying I was doing, and they saw it was accurate. But the police, I can't say what they were thinking, but after that things got more difficult for me, and people I was talking to were threatened, and there was the night they held me and my translator at the police station. That was an unpleasant night. They said they were going to charge me with abetment, but they could not decide what I was abetting, and then maybe I was a foreign spy casing the airport. I didn't know what was going to happen, since people in the slum had had the experience of being falsely accused.
Q: Did other parts of the Indian public -- the middle class, the bourgeoisie -- try to distract you from the slums?
Yes, yes, New India. Because of my husband, and the world we live in, I knew better than most people how ridiculous my project sounded to anyone else. What a cliché I am! And after "Slumdog Millionaire" came out, oh my God, I was so embarrassed for myself. When that movie came out, I felt, too, that often when you're writing about these things, people want a happy ending.
Q: There's that appetite for resolution.
Yes. And I think about the documents that say how people died, and how they actually died.
Q: Such is the case with 15-year-old Kalu, who acts out the Bollywood movie scenes, and who is later found murdered on the airport road, but whose death means so little, the police record it as a death by tuberculosis.
: It's not just that a kid like Kalu dies and it gets covered up. It's that every other kid on the road knows. ... And the toll that takes; the way people understand their lives have no meaning in society. It's a terrible and corrosive thing. What does this make you feel about your life? I don't have the words to explain what it does to them, to know that the person who is the star in their world gets killed and nobody cares. I don't have the language for it. And in some ways I don't want to have the language for it. I don't want to get it down to a line.


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This name is in version 1.1 of The Plant List, record kew-222701, and has not been changed.
The record derives from WCSP which reports it as an accepted name (record 222701) with original publication details: Monogr. Burmann. 126 1938 .
Full publication details for this name can be found in IPNI: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:126622-1.


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Lee, George Washington Custis
Existence: 1832-1913
LL.D., Tulane University. President, W&L, 1871-97; president emeritus, W&L, 1897-1913; acting (Thomas A. Scott) professor of applied mathematics (and astronomy), W&L, 1873-78; 1879-89. Professor military and civil engineering and applied mathematics, VMI, 1865-71. See Who's Who, 1901-02; Trustees' Papers; MSS Catalog.
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
Frank E. White Papers
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0330
Scope and Contents This is a collection of research documents and photographs for Frank E. White's 2008 publication Sailor's Creek: Major General G. W. Custis Lee, Captured with Controversy.
Found in: Washington and Lee University, James G. Leyburn Library Special Collections and Archives / Frank E. White Papers
General George Washington Custis Lee and the Grace Memorial Church
Found in: Washington and Lee University, James G. Leyburn Library Special Collections and Archives / WLU-Coll-0671, Fortnightly Club Papers / Papers / James L. Howe
George Washington Curtis Lee, 1940-10
Dates: 1940-10
George Washington Custis Lee papers
Scope and Contents This collection consists of George Washington Custis Lee's correspondence, commission as major general, recollections collected by Greenlee Letcher, a copy of his will, transcripts of his letters, and a paper on G.W.C. Lee, possibly written by Letcher.
Found in: Washington and Lee University, James G. Leyburn Library Special Collections and Archives / George Washington Custis Lee papers
Grace Memorial Church Records
Scope and Contents This collection is the minutes of a February 4, 1884 committee meeting at the church describing the funeral of former Virginia governor John Letcher (1813-1884) the week before, and the decision to name a group consisting of Lexington, Virginia notables to write a sketch of Governor Letcher's life. This group included G. W. C. Lee, Francis H. Smith, J. T. Preston, A. T. Barclay, and Col. Edmund Pendleton.
Found in: Washington and Lee University, James G. Leyburn Library Special Collections and Archives / Grace Memorial Church Records
Henry A. Ward Papers
Scope and Contents This collection consists of correspondence between Ward and George Washington Custis Lee during his time as President of Washington and Lee University.
Dates: Inclusive 1875-1878
Found in: Washington and Lee University, James G. Leyburn Library Special Collections and Archives / Henry A. Ward Papers
James Lewis Howe Papers
Scope and Contents This collection is the papers of James Lewis Howe, professor of chemistry at Washington and Lee University (1894-1938), which include his correspondence concerning the Presbyterian Church and foreign missions, the Washington and Lee University chemistry department, the American Chemical Society and philately. Also included are notes on archival material for and typescript of Annals of Washington and Lee University during the administration of George Washington Custis Lee,...
Found in: Washington and Lee University, James G. Leyburn Library Special Collections and Archives / James Lewis Howe Papers
Lee, George Washington Custis, 1913 - 1996
Scope and Contents File includes obituary of Lee by the Ring-tum Phi; "From West Point to Fort Point: The Story of George Elliot and Custis Lee"; "Major-General George Washington Custis Lee"; "Last Battles: The Wartime and Postwar Careers of Custis Lee"; and photocopies of items at the National Archives concerning G.W.C. Lee.
Found in: Washington and Lee University, James G. Leyburn Library Special Collections and Archives / WLU-Coll-0668, Washington and Lee University and Regional Virginia History Research Collection / Biography
File — Box: 8, Folder: 160
Scope and Contents Original typescript and manuscripts relating to reminiscences of G.W.C. Lee's time as President of Washington and Lee, and his time in Lexington.
Found in: Washington and Lee University, James G. Leyburn Library Special Collections and Archives / RHS-Coll-0033, Rockbridge Historical Society Biographical Collection / Lee
Lee-Jackson Foundation Collection
Scope and Contents This collection consists 115 total items. Box one consists of eighty-six letters written by members of the Lee Family of Virginia, including Robert E. Lee; his wife, Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee; his children, his father-in-law, George Washington Parke Custis; and Lees of the 18th through early 20th century. Box two consists of twenty-nine items, most written by and/or received by individuals connected to the Lee and/or Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson military and family circles. Prominent...
Dates: 1847 - 1905; Majority of material found within Bulk dates 1847-1869
Found in: Washington and Lee University, James G. Leyburn Library Special Collections and Archives / Lee-Jackson Foundation Collection
More about 'Lee, George Washington Custis'
Associative Relationship
Lee, Annie Carter (Associative with Related, Person)
Lee, Robert E., General (Robert Edward) (Parent, Person)
Archival Record 8
American Civil War (1861-1865) 2
American Confederate voluntary exiles 1
American Revolution (1775-1783) 1
Broadsides 1
Church history 1
College students 1
Funeral rites and ceremonies 1
Memorials 1
Mexican War (1846-1848) 1
Military appointments 1
Missionaries 1
Presbyterian Church 1
Printed ephemera 1
Records 1
Report cards 1
Ring-Tum Phi 1
Sailor's Creek, Battle of (Virginia : 1865) 1
Science -- Curricula 1
Speeches, addresses, etc., American 1
Virginia -- Lexington 1
Wills 1
Washington and Lee Special Collections and Archives
Leyburn Library
Lexington, VA 24450
https://library.wlu.edu/specialcollections


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Borșa (en hongrois Borsa et en allemand Borscha) est une ville roumaine du județ de Maramureș, dans la région historique de Transylvanie et dans la région de développement du nord-ouest.

Géographie

La ville de Borșa est située à l'extrême-est du județ, dans la haute vallée de la Vișeu, à  au sud-est de Sighetu Marmației, la capitale historique de la Marmatie et à  à l'est de Baia Mare, la préfecture du județ.

Au sud de la ville se trouvent les monts Rodna (Munții Rodnei) qui culminent au Mont Pietrosul à  d'altitude. Au nord, ce sont les monts Maramureș (Munții Maramureșului) qui culminent au mont Toroiaga (Vârful Toroiag) à  d'altitude.

Borșa est à la limite avec le județ de Suceava à l'est que l'on atteint par le col de Prislop en montant depuis Cârlibaba, avec le județ de Bistrița-Năsăud au sud, les villes de Vișeu de Sus et de Moisei à l'ouest et l'Ukraine au nord. Elle est traversée par la route nationale DN18 qui unit Sighetu Marmației et la Moldavie.

Borșa est reliée par voie ferrée avec Sighetu Marmației.

Le territoire communal inclut la ville de Borșa elle-même ( en 2002) ainsi que le noyau urbain de Băile Borșa ( en 2002).

Histoire

La première mention écrite de la ville date de 1365.

La ville comptait jusqu'à la Seconde Guerre mondiale une importante communauté juive ( (22 % de la population totale) en 1930 qui a été détruite par les Nazis pendant la Shoah ( en 1956).

Démographie

Ethnies
Recensement de 1910 :  Roumains (69,5 %), 378 Hongrois (4 %),  Allemands (24,8 %) et 133 Ukrainiens (1,4 %).

Recensement de 1930 :  Roumains (72,9 %), 392 Hongrois (3,5 %), 96 Allemands (0,9 %),  Juifs (22,1 %) et 68 Ukrainiens (0,6 %).

Recensement de 2002 :  Roumains (97,3 %), 522 Hongrois (1,9 %) et 115 Tsiganes (0,4 %).

Religions

En 2002, 93,1 % de la population était de religion orthodoxe et 4,1 % catholique.

Politique

Économie

L'exploitation minière fut autrefois une activité majeure dans la région mais depuis la révolution de 1989, elle a beaucoup périclité.

L'exploitation des immenses forêts () est très importante. La commune possède aussi  de terres agricoles.

La ville possède un très grand potentiel touristique de par sa proximité avec les grands sites naturels des monts Rodnei et Maramureș.

Station de ski

Une petite station de ski a été développée à proximité immédiate de la ville. Le domaine skiable est notamment connu pour son tremplin naturel de  situé sur une colline.

Lieux et monuments

 Église en bois de 1718, fresques murales de 1775.
 Complexe touristique.
 Parc national des Monts Rodnei.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Article connexe
 Liste des stations de sports d'hiver en Roumanie

Liens externes

 Carte administrative du județ de Maramureș
  Diverses informations sur la commune
  Site du Parc National des Monts Rodnei
  Informations sur la station de Borsa sur le site skiresorts.ro
  Informations sur la station de Borsa sur le site roxy-world
  Informations sur la station de Borsa sur le site SkiVirus

Ville dans le județ de Maramureș
Station de sports d'hiver en Roumanie
Station de sports d'hiver des Carpates

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Coleoptera Bibliography - Catalogued by author. Includes links to related resources.
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Great Books for History Buffs - A bibliography of recommended books on various historical topics by a graduate student in the subject. The focus is on Vietnam and Emma Goldman.
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Medieval Civilization - Selected Books from Torreyson Library in Medieval History.
Photographs Of African Americans During The Civil War - Catalog of the contents of the Civil War Photograph Collection Reading Room of the Library of Congress cross referenced with a bibliography of reproductions. The photographs fall into several categories, including soldiers, civilians attached to the military, and contraband and refugees.
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Lidar: Lidar systems do not provide color information on target objects. It uses lasers to create the points between the source and reflected object.
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