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Albums information & The music: Brings out the current issues in our current Zimbabwe tradition. We wish to present different perspectives of people of Zimbabwe through music, our culture is transmitted and discussed. We like to share with the audience.
New release album Ndundu-Madhaiza is now available on digital internet music channels such as Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music, Google Play, Deezer, Tidal, Shazam, Pandora, Anghami, 7Digital, Napster, 24/7 (bundle) and all other internet music channels. Enjoy it and share the music with friends.
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ManLuckerz has launched his fifth album on all internet music shops/ channels. It is about gratitude to ManLuckerz parents; for all that they have helped in life today. With the album he want to show appreciation and to thank the friends who helped after the accident that occurred last year, 10 August 2014. All current estimates are included on the disc. According to his opinion, TAO (Together As One) & Jamukoko and all other highly topical songs, then the matter of xenophobia, discrimination, corruption and gender balance between people. It describes a lot of emotions from what happened in the accident both positive and unfortunate thing that today has followed in life. Do not miss our gigs!
Third Album: Jesina - Madhinga 2009. The song talks about identification, culture & preservation.
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Fifth Album New Release:
Mai NaBaba Molly- An appreciation song to my parents.
6th album:
Ndundu-Madhaiza: Flash-Back identity song.
MUSIC AND DANCE: THE ZIMBABWEAN EXPERIENCE
1) THE ROLE OF MUSIC IN AFRICAN CULTURE:
In African culture, music plays many roles. Music accompanies the life of an African from birth to the grave. The following are some of the events that are marked by music and dance:
a) Baby welcome and naming ceremonies where the child is introduced to the outside world and given a name.
b) Initiation ceremonies, such as circumcision amongst the Varemba people of Zimbabwe.
c) Rituals and sacrifices. Religious activities among the Shona are accompanied by music.
d) Death and funeral. There are songs of lamenation and mourning.
e) Working songs, such as Sevenza nhamo ichauya. In the traditional Shona society they had a communal approach and different households came together for planting, harvesting, threshing, accompanied with singing, etc.
f) Songs for hunting and healing, e.g: Musango ndodzungaira nedondo, Madora mazhata mbuya tatenda.
g) Protest songs for complaining about those in authority.
2) MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS IN SHONA MUSIC
Numerous musical instruments were used in traditional Zimbabwean music. Some of these instruments were available to the Shona people since the remote past. The i instruments include:
a) Trumpets and horns (Hwamanda, Nyere)
b) Musical bows (Chipendani)
c) Hand rattles (Hosho)
d) Leg rattle (magavhu/magagada)
e) Wooden clappers (Hwakwati/makwa)
f) Marimba
Zimbabwean Hand Rattles (Hosho)
g) Mbira
Mavembe (AKA Gandanga - rebel) tuning,
made by Tute W. Chigamba in Zimbabwe
h) Zimbabwean Traditional Drums or ngoma.
The influence of Christianity and colonialism has seen the adoption of Western instruments.
Drums are very important in the traditional dances of the people of Zimbabwe. Some of the drums are tall (mutandarikwa) and can only be played while standing. These tall drums are especially found among the Karanga people of Southern Zimbabwe. They were played for the Shangara dances. Drums had a lot of social significance among the community. They served several purposes. These include:
a) Providing musical accompaniment
b) Sending signals or messages associated with an approaching army
c) Communicating death messages, especially those of chiefs
d) Symbolizing ancestral authority
It is crucial to remember that the Shona people were/are an oral community. Writing as a means of communication is a recent experience. In the traditional context, much of the communication took place through oral strategies. The drum was an effective communication instrument in the pre-colonial days. Women were however not allowed to play drums, particularly the small one that is tucked between the legs for practical purposes. Ritually, menstruating women were excluded from participating in ancestral issues.
3)TRADITIONAL DANCES IN ZIMBABWE
Shona music is both recreational and ceremonial. In recreational music, people utilize music for leisure. They used it to relax and enjoy themselves. Ceremonial music has to do with the worship of the ancestral spirits. While the Shona people of Zimbabwe believe in One Creator God, Mwari, they also believe that the ancestral spirits are mediators between God and the people. Regular ceremonies are held where beer is dedicated to the ancestors. Music and Dance characterize such gathering that may take several days.
When discussing the importance of traditional dances among the Shona people of Zimbabwe, it is critical that we remember that the term ´´Shona`` is an umbrella concept for related ethnic groups in the country. While they speak related dialects and have hade common historical experiences, they are also marked by salient culture differences. The Karanga, Zezuru, Manyika, Korekore, Budya, and Ndau communities generally make up the Shona people of Zimbabwe. It is the largest ethnic group, together with the Ndebele making up about 98% of the indigenous population of the country.
Geographical distribution is as follows: Korekore in northern Zimbabwe, Zezuru in the central region, the Karanga in the south-central area, the Manyika in the central eastern part, and the Ndau in the southeastern part. Various dance routines have developed in the different linguistic and cultural areas.
However, with urbanization and greater movement of ideas and practices in the postcolonial period, many of the dances are now common to the different parts of the country. A good example is how the mbira musical instrument that was confined to central and northern areas is now played across the country.
Why has dance been important to the various cultural groups found in the country? For the African, musical sound is rather incomplete if it is not accompanied by some movement. Dancing is a useful way through which the community releases emotions. The frustrations of life, its joys, and sorrows, all find expression in music and dance. But the dances also have deeper significance.
They are used to convey feelings of friendship, hostility, and many others. The dances of Zimbabwe reflect the peoples' response to the environment.
Aims And Objectives:
-To contribute to national and international development by promoting the performing arts as a viable industry for example: to train as many children and adults as possible.
-To break the circle of poverty by implementing new ideas amongst ourselves.
-To raise the necessary financial resource of self-reliance.
-To create awareness amongst young people to let them fulfill their capacity to contribute to the development of harmony.
-To promote Zimbabwe traditional music in the society through undertaking activities which include the community a large and worldwide.
-To encourage artists to organize themselves and to exercise newly acquired skills co-operating for the improvement of ourselves and society.
-To entertain, educate and inform audience.
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What Makandire Muzani Music logo stands for: The minerals symbolize ManLuckerz roots and his background, thanks to his roots that inspired him to create traditional music in the world. Creativity, space, air-space to create music from his inner truth, hope, purity, safety, comfort.
MM-Music is a new life that is about to be born, blood = the power of the blood, blood ties are connected to his ancestors Makandire-Muzani who have influenced him and led to the man he is today, the combination of heat and sun symbolizes Africa connector between people.
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Final Fantasy Adventure, Part 4 - Castles of Sand
Julius...is living large.
Another reference to the ancient, technology-rich Vandole Empire. I've done some research on what the deal is with Vandole. Turns out that in the Adventures of Mana remake of this game, they go a bit more in-depth on this. Julius, as "the last survivor of the Vandole Empire", is in fact the reincarnation of the Emperor (or potentially the Emperor's son, it's never made completely clear).
So if this takes place after Secret of Mana, Julius might actually be the Emperor from that game, reincarnated. Interesting stuff, too bad it's never really embellished upon.
Elsewhere, my chocobo is now outfitted with mecha-legs due to the injuries he suffered. When did that happen? And is he basically Ziggy from Xenosaga now?
My God. Boco Haram is stronger than ever.
The cool thing about Chocobot is that he can run on water now. In addition to having entire future religions based around him, he's a big help in traveling. I can now reach pretty much the entire overworld. Our next stop is an island cave, where I must fight...
...Lich, of Final Fantasy 1. Not quite Dark Lich but still a formidable foe, easily the toughest fight yet. He kills our hero in two hits, which means...yeah, my earlier grind-fest has finally leveled (heh) out and I'm encountering issues again.
He kills me around TEN TIMES.
His skull-lob attack just does a huge amount of damage. I could go grind out more levels, but instead I keep at it.
Some very cool animations on this fight, too. Probably the most interesting boss up to this point. When I finally squeaked past him it was a minor miracle.
Victory gets you the best attack spell in the entire game. Wow. I fought that guy a lot earlier than I was supposed to, which explains the power spike...
Here's the fight when I replayed it in the Switch collection. Properly leveled, it isn't too bad.
I barely, BARELY escape the seaside cave. Let's never go here again.
This is definitely a Squaresoft series trope, the emperor/dictator/whatever summoning monsters in to do their dirty work. It happens all the way up to the recent Final Fantasy XV.
It didn't take long for Marilith to show up after Lich. Here she is with her original translated name of Kary. Are Kraken and Tiamat on the way too?
After spending most of my money on Flame equipment, it's already hitting me with new/better stuff. When games rapidly hit you with new shop upgrade sets like this I start to wonder if I'm better off skipping every other set. Seiken Densetsu 3 and Secret of Mana do the same thing.
Speaking of which, I wonder when I should start referring to SD3 as its new NXT name, Trials of Mana.
There's also a ridiculously-overpriced spear upgrade here. Luckily, the opals that enemies have been dropping sell for a ton.
Our next destination is the snow fields of Lorimar (though they aren't called that yet). On the way we see CRAB PEOPLE. CRAAAAAB PEOPLE.
Unfortunately, these snowlands don't have "A Wish" from Secret of Mana.
WALRUS PEOPLE. The Devil's hands have been busy.
The real question is...what's Kary/Marilith doing in the snow lands? I guess she isn't really a fire elemental in Square canon, FF1 aside.
DUUUUCK PEOPLE. Alright, I'll stop that.
Finally, I reach the top of the mountain.
Kary is another very difficult fight, like Lich. This one also took a few tries.
Here's the actual fight. Once I realized the path to victory was swinging the whip at Kary's head, it was all over.
I've got a choice of three doors now. WHAT'S IN THE DOOOOORS?
Behind door #1 is a vicious boss, Ifrit.
It rolls into a ball to crash around the screen and attack, which is a very Secret of Mana move.
It's a lot easier than the last couple of fights, and victory gets me the Rusty Sword. This eventually becomes the Sword of Mana. In the meantime it's just collecting dust in the inventory.
Next up, Dime Tower, probably the most memorable dungeon from this game.
The way forward begins with this inconspicuous hole in the desert.
It leads to a cave, which leads to some ancient ruins, which leads to...
...the Mantis Ant? My God! The Mantis Ant!
This is a pleasant surprise. It's a fairly simple fight.
It's got the same name and everything. Awesome.
Here's the fight in the Switch version.
Here's Dime Tower. It's...kinda boring-looking. It's the first of two towers that comprise most of the finale of FFA.
Behold, our next challenge is Kraken. We're 3 out of 4 on FF1 fiends now! Will Tiamat make an appearance? Time will tell.
This is a very basic Game Boy boss fight. The Kraken doesn't really move or do anything, attacking only with a tentacle. It's mostly a test of your magic power since you're best off slinging spells.
In the Adventures of Mana remake, it's a more intense battle, with Kraken right there attacking the bridge. That's one angry squid.
Much like Paladin's Quest, in the second-to-last dungeon our hero finds an ancient robot that speaks in all caps. DR. BOWOW sounds like a refugee from Tecmo Secret of the Stars.
Well, that's depressing. No word on if the robot grew a beard and got a job at a construction site.
...it's a Terminator Genisys reference.
You're a little behind the times bro, Secret of Mana already ended a while ago.
Continuing on with my Tetujin accomplice.
::Merry points at the sky:: "The eagles! The eagles are coming!"
This is a very Link's Awakening sort of fight, except you can't fall off the tower.
...so basically this post has been 90% references to other things. Well, so it goes sometimes.
Win the fight and the eagle SHATTERS INTO PIECES. ...or at least that's how it looks on the limited Game Boy hardware.
Nobody...tosses a dwarf
The tower is crumbling, and Marcie stays behind on it. Man, even the robots have to die in FFA.
WHY IS THIS GAME SO DEPRESSING
Our hero jumps down the cliff and ends up near Glaive. How many times has this happened now? This time the waterfall is flowing in reverse...
...allowing our hero to zip up to...
...the Tower of Gemma. This is where the Rusty Sword will be repaired, I believe, and might be the end of the game. We'll see. More on this later.
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Robo-Chocobo, what a terrifying thought.
We're already in the Trials of Mana era, drink it in, man.
I like how expressive the boss faces are.
MARCIE NOOOO
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Gene Kim, WSJ bestselling author of The Unicorn Project, Jed Yueh, CEO, Delphix
Gene Kim is the WSJ bestselling author of The Unicorn Project. He's also the founder and organizer of the DevOps Enterprise Summit. Gene shares his thoughts on the role data plays in DevOps, the common thread of data-related challenges that run through DevOps and digital transformation, and what inspired him to invest in Delphix. In the spirit of debate season, Gene and Jed discuss their differing ideologies behind which approach yields the fastest path to success for an organization. Is bottoms up or top-down the right approach to innovation? Watch the interview to find out! About the presenters: Gene Kim is a NYT bestselling author, multiple award-winning CTO, and has researched high-performing technology organizations since 1999. He was founder and CTO of Tripwire for 13 years. He has written six books, including The Unicorn Project (2019), The Phoenix Project (2013), The DevOps Handbook (2016), Accelerate (2018), and The Visible Ops Handbook (2004-2006) series. Since 2014, he has been the founder and organizer of the DevOps Enterprise Summit, studying the technology transformations of large, complex organizations. Jedidiah Yueh started his career as a high school teacher. He is the bestselling author of Disrupt or Die, a book that refutes conventional ideas on innovation with proven frameworks from Silicon Valley. Prior to his book, Jed put his frameworks to the test, leading two waves of disruption in data management, first as founding CEO of Avamar (sold to EMC in 2006 for $165M). Avamar pioneered data de-duplication and generated over $5B in cumulative sales. After Avamar, Jed founded Delphix, which provides a data platform to enable digital transformation for over 30% of the Global 100 and has surpassed $100 million in ARR. In 2013, the San Francisco Business Times named Jed CEO of the Year. Jed has over 30 patents in data management and graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude with a degree in English and psychology from Harvard.
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Cow politics damaged India's GDP: Manpreet Singh Badal at India Today State of the State conclave Pu
Cow politics damaged India's GDP: Manpreet Singh Badal at India Today State of the State conclave Punjab
Punjab Minister for Finance and Planning Manpreet Singh Badal on Thursday said that the government could have benefited the GDP of the country from its milk production. But, he said, "the country's cow protection politics in India has once again forced us to do business with buffalo milk."
Manpreet Singh Badal was speaking on Punjab Economy - Challenges and Priorities at India Today's State of the State Conclave Punjab on Wednesday.
"Punjab is the dairy state of India and it is an ideal state for breeding cattle. We have told the Central government that the food policy of the counrry needs to be changed and Punjab is ideal for it," Manpreet Singh Badal said.
The Punjab minister said that the Narendra Modi government has not been mean to the state of Punjab. He also said that Punjab has been structurally damaged by the Goods and Services Tax (GST).


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The Art of Naming
by Michael Ohl
Translated by Elisabeth Lauffer
From Tyrannosaurus rex to Heteropoda davidbowie: scientific naming as a joyful and creative act.
Tyrannosaurus rex. Homo sapiens. Heteropoda davidbowie. Behind each act of scientific naming is a story. In this entertaining and illuminating book, Michael Ohl considers scientific naming as a joyful and creative act. There are about 1.8 million discovered and named plant and animal species, and millions more still to be discovered. Naming is the necessary next step after discovery; it is through the naming of species that we perceive and understand nature. Ohl explains the process, with examples, anecdotes, and a wildly varied cast of characters. He describes the rules for scientific naming; the vernacular isn't adequate. These rules—in standard binomial nomenclature, the generic name followed by specific name—go back to Linnaeus; but they are open to idiosyncrasy and individual expression. A lizard is designated Barbaturex morrisoni (in honor of the Doors' Jim Morrison, the Lizard King); a member of the horsefly family Scaptia beyonceae. Ohl, a specialist in "winged things that sting," confesses that among the many wasp species he has named is Ampulex dementor, after the dementors in the Harry Potter novels. Scientific names have also been deployed by scientists to insult other scientists, to make political statements, and as expressions of romantic love: "I shall name this beetle after my beloved wife."
The Art of Naming takes us on a surprising and fascinating journey, in the footsteps of the discoverers of species and the authors of names, into the nooks and crannies and drawers and cabinets of museums, and through the natural world of named and not-yet-named species.
Michael Ohl is a biologist at the Natural History Museum of Berlin and an Associate Professor at Humboldt University in Berlin.
The Art of Naming is not just for biologists who might be revisiting, or discovering, the origins of animal names. It is also for historians of modern science, for linguists, for anthropologists, for any curious readers ready to be impressed by the human urge to classify and its attendant foibles and vanities.
Vaclav Smil, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba; author of Growth and Energy and Civilization
If you've ever wondered what's in a name—and haven't we all?—then The Art of Naming is the book for you. Smart, funny, packed with tales of scientific feuds, enraged politicians, outsized adventure, and egos, Michael Ohl reminds us that in the wonder of name lies the wonder of life on Earth itself.
Deborah Blum, Pulitzer Prize winner; author of The Poisoner's Handbook
Michael Ohl's brilliant book shows that although systematic biologists are sometimes said to be crazy, it's the other way around; taxonomy is a psychoactive science that prevents madness.
Fredrik Sjöberg, author of The Fly Trap
In The Art of Naming, Michael Ohl takes the reader behind the scenes with biodiversity explorers to reveal the fascinating and surprisingly human practice of naming species. An engaging storyteller, Ohl draws upon authoritative knowledge and unexpected historical tales to bring to life, with clarity and wit, this little-known corner of science. As millions of species face the threat of extinction, there is no better time to celebrate the diverse kinds of life on Earth and the sources of the names by which we know them.
Quentin Wheeler, President of ESF, New York's global environmental college; author of What on Earth?
Michael Ohl brings to life the scientific process of naming animals, and the fascinating people who name them, through a superb combination of storytelling and rigorous factual presentation. The Art of Naming is delightful.
Justin Schmidt, Southwestern Biological Institute & Department of Entomology, University of Arizona; author of The Sting of the Wild
Modern biologists have trouble with names. They can't keep up with the 20,000 species of living things newly recognized each year, not to mention the estimated millions that remain to be discovered. That's the focus of this brilliant book by Michael Ohl, a biologist at the Natural History Museum in Berlin... Taxonomy, as revealed through Ohl's expert commentary, displays both the wisdom and the wit of the artful scientists who practice it.
The history and practice of scientific naming is both presented as well as mused extensively upon with the intention of showing that far from being rigid and staid, the way in which names are assigned to species, as well as occasionally modified, is rich in creativity, cleverness, humor, and even at times used for the settling of scores.
The Well-Read Naturalist
Detailed but engaging...The rules and traditions of taxonomy prove more flexible, even chaotic, than the lay reader is apt to imagine.
Inside Higher Ed
Ohl is at his best in the book's final chapters, where he merges linguistics, philosophy, and biology together in a consideration of some particularly unusual matters of taxonomy.
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Odd radio circles in space may come from black holes at their centres
Astronomers have taken the clearest images yet of "odd radio circles" – mysterious radio waves a million light years across – and they all seem to have central galaxies containing active supermassive black holes
Space 22 March 2022
By Leah Crane
We finally have a sharper image of one of the weirdest phenomena in space. These aptly named odd radio circles, or ORCs, are circles of radio waves that don't seem to emit any radiation in other wavelengths, unlike many other objects detectable in radio frequencies.
A team led by Ray Norris at the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation first spotted these strange circles in 2020 using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder radio telescope. Astronomers have now definitively seen five of them, with several more unconfirmed candidates. Now Norris and his colleagues have used the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa to take the sharpest image yet of an ORC.
Odd radio circles are about 1 million light years across, larger than even the biggest spiral galaxies. Of the five confirmed ORCs, astronomers had seen galaxies at the centres of three of them, which hinted that the circles might be formed by some galactic process.
Read more: Something strange is sending radio waves from the centre of the galaxy
An image of an odd radio circle from the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa
J. English, EMU, MeerKAT, DES
The new observations from MeerKAT have revealed that all ORCs seem to have central galaxies containing active supermassive black holes. That significantly narrows down the options for what ORCs could be. According to Norris, there are now three main alternatives: they could be debris from a huge explosion in their host galaxies, they could come from jets of material spewed out by supermassive black holes or they could come from residual energy from bursts of star formation.
It will take more observations with more sensitive radio telescopes to figure out which of these is correct. The Square Kilometre Array, a huge assembly of radio telescopes with sections in Australia and South Africa, is expected to find many more ORCs and help close the book on what they really are once it is fully constructed in 2028.
Journal reference: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac701
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Here are some pictures from our 2013 picnic for the Klinger Lake Beach Representatives. This year's party was again held at the home of Jim and Marilyn Beattey. We are very grateful to them for their hospitality.


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The 1987 Hungarian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Hungaroring on 9 August 1987. It was the ninth race of the 1987 Formula One World Championship. The race was held over 76 laps of the  circuit for a race distance of .

The race was won by Brazilian driver Nelson Piquet, driving a Williams-Honda. His teammate, Briton Nigel Mansell, took pole position and led until he lost a wheel nut with six laps remaining. Piquet's compatriot Ayrton Senna finished second in a Lotus-Honda, with Frenchman Alain Prost third in a McLaren-TAG.

The win, Piquet's second in succession, extended his lead over Senna in the Drivers' Championship to seven points, with Mansell and Prost a further eleven points back.

Race summary
Before the race, Ayrton Senna informed Lotus that he would be leaving the team at the end of the year. Almost immediately, Lotus signed Senna's fellow Brazilian and Drivers' Championship leader, Nelson Piquet, who explained that he felt that Williams had not honoured his number one driver status in the team.

Piquet went on to take his second consecutive win in his Williams-Honda, after team-mate Nigel Mansell lost a wheel nut with six laps remaining. Senna finished second in his Lotus-Honda but 37 seconds behind Piquet, while Alain Prost took third in his McLaren-TAG.

Thierry Boutsen finished fourth in his Benetton-Ford, ahead of the Brabham-BMW of Riccardo Patrese. The final championship point was claimed by Derek Warwick in his Arrows-Megatron, who was battling with influenza and conjunctivitis. Jonathan Palmer claimed the Jim Clark Trophy points finishing seventh in his Tyrrell DG016 with team mate Philippe Streiff finishing ninth behind the second Arrows of Eddie Cheever. Italian driver Ivan Capelli was tenth in the March 871.

The win allowed Piquet to expand his championship points lead to seven over Senna and 18 over Mansell.

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SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) Pete Nance scored 21 points, capped by a dunk with 19 seconds left that put North Carolina in front for good as the Tar Heels pulled out a hard-fought, 72-68 battle with Syracuse on Tuesday night.
Joe Girard hit from beyond the arc to put Syracuse up, 68-66 with 1:28 left, but after Nance hit the first of two free throws to get North Carolina within one, he missed the second free throw and in the scramble to gather in the rebound, the ball caromed toward the end line and Girard dove to save it. Instead, he flicked the ball right to Nance, who dunked for the lead.
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Astonishing rooftop views as hundreds of thousands fill Barcelona roads on Catalonia Day
Hundreds of thousands of Catalan separatists have joined a rally in Barcelona demanding independence from Spain.
The march is taking place in connection with the celebrations of the "La Diada" holiday on Tuesday.
It comes nearly a year after an illegal referendum on secession held by Catalan authorities led to an ineffective independence declaration that received no international recognition.
"We have come here today to demand once again freedom for Catalonia," said 57-year-old Lourdes Casajus, who came from her home in the Catalan heartland to join the separatist rally.
Independence demonstrators march during the Catalan National Day in Barcelona. Credit: AP
"Last October 1 we voted in a referendum and the majority for independence wasn't respected. This September 11 we demand that all the politicians, both from there and ours here, respect the people's will," Casajus added.
Catalan separatist leaders and activists who pushed the referendum, defying Spain's constitutional protection of territorial integrity, are either awaiting trial in prison or fled the country.
Quim Torra, the Catalan regional president, said while maintaining his pledge to see through the breakaway bid, his immediate focus was on putting pressure on the courts ahead of the trials of the movement's jailed leaders.
Quim Torra walks by a Catalan police honour guard in Barcelona. Credit: AP
His goal is to whip up support for public showings of strength on October 1, the anniversary of the referendum that was met by a police crackdown, the failed declaration of independence on October 27, and the imminent start of the trials.
"In the coming weeks we are going to put all our efforts into denouncing" the situation of the jailed separatists, Mr Torra said.
He said he would not go as far as throwing open the cells of the secessionists, who are being held in Catalan prisons run by his administration.
Some within the secessionist movement want Mr Torra's government to immediately try again to unilaterally break with Spain.
An anti-independence protest in Barcelona, held on Sunday. Credit: AP
Mr Torra, who rose to power after secessionist parties won a regional election, has met Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez and is planning a second meeting.
He wants Spain's new centre-left national government to agree to a binding independence referendum, while Mr Sanchez will only offer a vote on increasing Catalonia's already considerable degree of self-rule.
Polls and official election results indicate roughly half of Catalonia's 7.5 million residents are against severing century-old ties with the rest of Spain.
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Home Science & Society Inequality linked to large, growing gap in lifespans
Inequality linked to large, growing gap in lifespans
Inequality linked to large growing gap in lifespans
"As you go up in the income distribution, life expectancy continues to increase, at every point in the income distribution," Michael Stepner says.Credit: Illustration: Christine Daniloff/MIT
Poverty in the U.S. is often associated with deprivation, in areas including housing, employment, and education. Now a study co-authored by two MIT researchers has shown, in unprecedented geographic detail, another stark reality: Poor people live shorter lives, too.
More precisely, the study shows that in the U.S., the richest 1 percent of men lives 14.6 years longer on average than the poorest 1 percent of men, while among women in those wealth percentiles, the difference is 10.1 years on average.
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This eye-opening gap is also growing rapidly: Over roughly the last 15 years, life expectancy increased by 2.34 years for men and 2.91 years for women who are among the top 5 percent of income earners in America, but by just 0.32 and 0.04 years for men and women in the bottom 5 percent of the income tables.
"When we think about income inequality in the United States, we think that low-income Americans can't afford to purchase the same homes, live in the same neighborhoods, and buy the same goods and services as higher-income Americans," says Michael Stepner, a PhD candidate in MIT's Department of Economics. "But the fact that they can on average expect to have 10 or 15 fewer years of life really demonstrates the level of inequality we've had in the United States."
Stepner and Sarah Abraham, another PhD candidate in MIT's Department of Economics, are among the co-authors of a newly published paper summarizing the study's findings, and have played central roles in a three-year research project establishing the results.
In addition to reporting the size and growth of the income gap, the study finds that the average lifespan varies considerably by region in the U.S. (by as much as 4.5 years), but that the sources of that regional variation are subtle, and, like the aggregate national gap, subject to further investigation.
"The patterns are not exactly what you might expect," says Abraham, noting that regional variation in longevity does not seem strongly correlated with factors such as access to health care, environmental issues, income inequality, or the job market.
"We don't find those to be as highly correlated with differences in longevity as we find measures of health behavior, such as smoking rates or obesity rates" [to be correlated with lifespan], Abraham observes.
The paper, "The Association between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014," is being published today by the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The authors are Raj Chetty, a professor of economics at Stanford University; Stepner and Abraham of MIT, who are the second and third authors on the paper; Shelby Lin, an analyst with McKinsey and Company in New York; Benjamin Scuderi, a predoctorate fellow in Harvard University's Economics Department; Augustin Bergeron, a PhD candidate in Harvard University's Economics Department; Nicholas Turner of the Office of Tax Analysis in the U.S. Department of the Treasury; and David Cutler, a professor of economics at Harvard University.
The geography of mortality
The researchers looked at 1.4 billion anonymized income tax filings from the federal government, and combined that with mortality data from the years 2001 through 2014 from the Social Security Administration. This represents the most complete geographic and demographic landscape of mortality in America.
Among other things, the growth of the gap in mortality rates — by nearly three years — struck the researchers as noteworthy. To put it in perspective, they note that federal health officials estimate that curing all forms of cancer would add three years to the average lifespan.
"That change over the last 15 years is the equivalent of the richest Americans winning the war on cancer," Stepner observes.
At the same time, the researchers are quick to point out that the findings cannot immediately be reduced to simple cause-and-effect explanations. For instance, as social scientists have long observed, it is very hard to say whether having wealth leads to better health — or if health, on aggregate, is a prerequisite for accumulating wealth. Most likely, the two interact in complex ways, something the study cannot resolve.
"It's a descriptive story," Stepner says of the data.
A new puzzle emerging from the study, the authors note, is that differences in lifespan exist along the entire continuum of wealth in the U.S.; it is not as if, say, the top 10 percent of earners cluster around identical average lifespans.
"As you go up in the income distribution, life expectancy continues to increase, at every point," Stepner says.
And then there are the new geographic patterns in the findings. For instance: Eight of the 10 states with the lowest life expectancies for people in the bottom income quartile form a contiguous belt, curving around from Michigan through Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
So while average lifespans for everyone are lower in some Southern states, the poor do not fare worse in those places than they do in other regions.
"The Deep South is the lowest-income area in America, but when we're looking at life expectancy conditional on having a low income, it's not worse to be poor in the Deep South than it is in other areas of America," Stepner says. "It's just that there are far more poor people living in the South."
Future research: Think local
The researchers say that more analysis on the sources of local variation in lifespans could be among the most fruitful research areas stemming from the current paper. The research team is releasing all the data from the study today as well.
Among the municipalities where low-income people have experienced the greatest increases in lifespan from 2001-2014, for example, are Toms River, New Jersey; Birmingham, Alabama; and Richmond, Virginia. Cities with the largest drops in lifespan among the poor are Tampa and Pensacola, Florida; and Knoxville, Tennessee.
"We're not making any normative statements about what policy should be, but there is a wide dispersion of [results] happening in the U.S.," Abraham says. "That might need to be addressed at a more granular level."
Places with the overall longest lifespans for the poor include New York City, with a chart-topping 81.8 yearsJournal of the American Medical Association on average, as well as a passel of cities in California. The bottom of that list includes Gary, Indiana (77.4 years on average); Las Vegas; and Oklahoma City.
Among the top income earners, people live longest in Salt Lake City (87.8 years on average); Portland, Maine; and Spokane, Washington. The rich have the shortest lives in Las Vegas (84.1 years on average); Gary, Indiana; and Honolulu.
Abraham also observes that the findings could have implications for national policy programs, as well.
"Things like Social Security aren't going to be as redistributive if the richer people are getting paid for 10 more years than the poorer people," she says.
Overall, the researchers say they hope to spark a larger discussion among the research and policy communities.
"We don't have all the answers," Abraham says. "But it's really important to make these statistics widely used so people have an idea of what the magnitude of these problems is, where they might focus their attention, and why this matters."
This article originally appeared at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The original item was written by Peter Dizikes.
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Raj Chetty, Michael Stepner, Sarah Abraham, Shelby Lin, Benjamin Scuderi, Nicholas Turner, Augustin Bergeron, David Cutler. The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014. JAMA, 2016; DOI: 10.1001/jama.2016.4226
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With the consumer rapidly seeking new experiences, luxury marketing companies are on their toes to come up with smarter strategies. Welcome virtual influencers, who do all the work, minus the hassles
By: Abhay Gupta, Luxury Expert, Author, Speaker, Professor of Luxury Management
Meet 'Lil Miquela', a Brazilian-Spanish virtual influencer, Instagram model and music artist claiming to be from Downey, California. Lil Miquela, full name Miquela Sousa, is the latest in the world of Social Media Influencer marketing. Since 2016, Lil Miquela has picked up quite a fan following with over 1.5 million followers on Instagram. The biggest draw for fans and brands to such influencers:
Miquela does not exist. Well, in the real world sense.
Lil Miquela is a fictional digital character and a digital art project which began in 2016. Over the years, she has engaged with fans using her digital presence across social media channels sharing stories as she goes on and about with her daily digital life.
Lil Miquela is not alone. Another digital influencer created by The Diigitals, Shudu Gram, is considered to be the world's first digital model. There are already digital startups working on creating an entire fleet of such virtual influencers complete with individual personas, preferences and dislikes, virtual lives and life events for drama. A recent life event included an account hack by a fellow digital influencer that created a social media sensation. Today, several digital influencers exist from various backgrounds offering their services as influencers for top brands. While Shudu Gram was recently spotted in Rihanna's Fenty Beauty lipstick in an Instagram post that went viral, Miquela regularly promotes Prada and Chanel through her social media, among other brands.
Lil Miquela and other such influencers are not the first of their kind, per se. Purely in terms of digital influence by a fake group or character, various characters have been used time and again for brand marketing and endorsements. Fido Dido was a character created for a 7 Up commercial, who also has his own social media channels. Other cartoon characters come to mind as well. However, one group that comes close to the concept of digital influence based on entire personas, with the creators being anonymous or hidden from popularity, would be the British virtual band 'Gorillaz' that was created in 1998 by musician Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett. The band primarily consists of four animated members: 2D, MurdocNiccals, Noodle, and Russel Hobbs. Fans got to become a part of their fictional universe via music videos, interviews, and other short cartoons released over the years. Gorillaz has an online presence and has endorsed or partnered with several brands for promotions as well.
Just as in the case of Gorillaz, the modern day virtual influencers have an entire profile complete with causes they associate with, people they follow, their followers and needless to say, brands and products they endorse. There are social causes that the digital influencers associate with, charities they donate to, movements they support and are even aware of the latest events and hence address them on their social channels. This allows digital influencers to live a more real 'digital life' and better connect with like-minded fans and followers. At the onset, brands did worry on the efficacy and abilities of digital influencers to actually 'influence' their followers as real-world influencers are able to. The large fan followings and thousands of likes, comments, and tweets per post have since eliminated any such concerns.
The Choice Dilemma - Real or Fake Influencer
A core concern that digital influencers eliminate for brands is the issue of the real brand ambassadors and associated influencers getting involved in scandals that may lead to negative publicity. For example, if a brand ambassador or an associated social media influencer gets involved in a scandal that leads to a public outcry, the negative media attention on the brand is highly risky for the brand's image and for its stock value. Cleaning the brand's image post-scandal then becomes a major concern combined with the legal hassles of disassociating with the influencer or the brand's image. Various such examples exist where actions of real-world influencers have caused concerns and created trouble for the associated brands.
Digital influencers, on the other hand, are controlled by entities who have created them. Generally, such digital entities have a large team of creators involved and due processes are to be followed, which eliminates any chances of wrongdoings from a virtual influencer.
The creation of virtual personas solely for the purpose of promoting brands highlights the shift towards the new trend and it's easy to see why a number of brands have already associated with Lil Miquela, Shudu, Margot and others and other such virtual influencers.
The primary operative model is on similar lines as with real social media influencers, however, in a more controlled environment. Additionally, working with a virtual influencer is a lot easier because of various logistics issues being eliminated. Celebrities may not be available on days the brands may need them for a shoot. With virtual influencers, the angles, the colors and the imagery is a lot easier to manage since all of it, in any case, is created from scratch. So there is more control on how the end visual would look like. This is more of a challenge with real world influencers wherein a lot of post-production is required to get the desired results.
The key benefit from using virtual influencers is the target demographics. One can always create new influencers to target specific audiences. Lil Miquela has a huge fan following from Millennials and Gen Z. Creators can similarly create further influencers who are age-similar, have specific looks and background stories that target specific demographics, immediately attracting more followers made of the specific audience they need. It becomes a win-win for the brands and the creators of the influencers.
Whether this is just a trend or a long-term winner, remains to be seen. However, what stands true for now is the fact that there already are several virtual influencers filling the digital world with their influence, have millions in followers,are going viral by the day, and top brands are already lining up to have their products endorsed.
Abhay Gupta is the founder, promoter and CEO of Luxury Connect (a boutique consulting organization) and Luxury Connect Business School (LCBS). He has helped establish luxury brands like Versace, Versace Home, Versace Collection, Corneliani, Arredo Classic, etc in India. Luxury publication Blackbook recognizes him as one of the 'Top 100 Indian Luxury's Most Influential' for the past 6 years. He is also a recipient of the 'Luxury Retail Icon 2012' title by Asia Retail Congress. Having being featured in Forbes Luxury Trend Report 2012 as one of the industry leaders, he has also been widely recognized as a luxury expert by many media organizations. Fondazione Altagama has also recognized his contribution to the growth of Italian luxury industry by his pioneering efforts in India.
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The first is 17.5cm high the jug is 22.5cm. I know ive seen this pattern before somewhere but in a different colour.
The jug is much older. My grandmother had a set of glasses in the same pattern, they were short and fairly wide but with identical bases. I remember that they were signed ..unfortunately I cant remember the signature - it was in script.
Thanks for the reminder Deltab . Ive added the other pictures ot the original post.


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1. Consider adopting a resolution to officially request that the Municipal Councils of Central, Clemson, Easley, Liberty, Norris, Six Mile, and Pickens each pass amendments to their election ordinances changing the 2-week filing period for their regular November elections so that the filing period would end at Noon, August 1st or, if August 1st falls on a Saturday or Sunday, not later than Noon on the following Monday.
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The 'headless Coach' or 'coach a bower' seems of far later date than the banshee. Ghostly chariots such as that of Cuchulain figure in very early tales, but neither their appearance nor their sound foretold death. In Clare, at sight or sound of the coach, all gates should be thrown open, and then it will not stop at the house to call for a member of the family, but only fortell the death of some relative at a distance.
I collected five stories, three of well-defined character, and give them in order of time as the dates can be fixed. The first appearance, on the night before June 18th, 1806, was related to my three informants  most solemnly by their fathers and uncles. Two told it in a general and confused way, but varied from the story of the third, which I give, only by omissions. Ralph Westropp, of Attyflin and Lismehane,—the latter place is in Clare, but I never could learn where he died,—lay sick unto death. His sons in the late dusk waited on the steps for the arrival of the doctor. Suddenly they saw and heard a large coach drive into the paved court before the house. One of them stepped down to open the door, but the dark object rumbled past and drove down the long, straight avenue, which was fenced on both sides. Two of the watchers ran after it, hearing it ahead of them. The noise stopped, and they expected to find the coach at the gate. They ran full tilt against the bars, the gate being closed and locked. They called up the lodgekeeper, and he was found to have been asleep with the keys still beside him. The sick man died the next morning.
Lismehane, under its later name of Maryfort, afterwards became the residence of the O'Callaghan family, its present occupants. On the night of April 29th, 1821, two servants,—one of whom was 'Matty Halloran' who died not long ago at an advanced age, and the other was a butler named Richard Burke,—were sitting up to receive a son of the family, Cornelius O'Callaghan, who had travelled for his health in vain and was returning home. Halloran, who told the tale with fearless faith and weary frequency, said that the heavy rumble of a coach roused them. Burke stood on the top of the long flight of steps with a lamp, and sent Halloran down to open the carriage door. He reached out his hand to do so, saw a skeleton looking out, gave one yell, and fell in a heap. When the badly-scared Burke picked him up, there was no sign or sound of any coach. A little later the invalid arrived, so exhausted that he died suddenly in the early morning. The present generation seems to have got the story from Halloran alone.
On the night of December 11th, 1876, a servant of the MacNamaras was going his rounds at Ennistymon, a beautiful spot in a wooded glen, with a broad stream falling in a series of cascades. In the dark he heard the rumbling of wheels on the back avenue, and, knowing from the hour and place that no 'mortal vehicle' could be coming, concluded that it was the death coach and ran on, opening the gates before it. He had just time to open the third gate and throw himself on his face beside it, at the bank, before he 'heard a coach go clanking past.' It did not stop at the house, but passed on, and the sound died away. On the following day Admiral Sir Burton MacNamara died in London.
A man living at Annaghneale was returning from Tulla late at night. As he reached the corner of Fortanne demesne he heard a heavy rumbling behind him, and horses trotting. Surprised after a time by its not coming nearer, he looked back and saw a large dark mass with a figure on the box. It came no closer to him, and in a fright he hurried on. At a bend in the road he ventured to stand at the fence and look again. This time he saw the horses and carriage drive over the wall and ditch into Fortanne. He fell, nearly insensible with terror, but, hearing and seeing nothing more, hurried home. This was told to a steward at Maryfort about twenty years ago, and happened 'long after the sale of Fortanne' to its present owner in 1879. The present tradition of Fortanne says that the coach was heard at the deaths of certain Westropps after 1873, but nothing happened after its last appearance.
The phantom of a coach and horse was seen not far from Corofin, at Cragmoher, not long since, but it is agreed that no death took place after the apparition. An equally vague story was told about 1870 at Attyflin by a very old woman, Norry Halloran, whom the sound of the coach pursued one dark evening for a long way, but it did not pass her door, and nothing happened afterwards.


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What Are Derivatives And Credit Default Swaps?
by Ken Jorgustin | Jun 4, 2012 | the-economy | 7 comments
"Derivatives are financial instruments whose value is linked to something else. They're basically fancy instruments that have evolved over the last ten years that enable investors and institutions to bet on virtually anything, from interest rates or exchange rates to commodities."
I came across this definition of derivatives and credit default swaps in a 2008 article from PBS.org, which I feel sums it up nicely and in an easy to understand way. The current derivatives market today is so enormous, it's unraveling is unimaginable. It may be one of the biggest systemic risks that our current financial system faces today, even though it's intention is to nullify or reduce risk.
What's important today is that a multi-trillion dollar market in these bets has mushroomed (estimated today at $700 Trillion, and equates to 1200% of Global GDP resting on very, very weak foundations) without any real regulation, in part because in 2000, in the words of one account, hours before Congress was to leave for Christmas recess, Senator Phil Gramm slipped a 262-page amendment into the appropriations bill forbidding federal agencies to regulate the financial derivatives industry.
Forbidding indeed.
Now in point of fact, rather innocent bets like futures or options are also derivatives, but what the speaker meant was a TYPE of derivative known as a credit default swap (CDS). Very simple, really. It's a bet on whether some entity – a company, a government agency – is going to default on its credit and go bankrupt.
An example: Someone who loaned money to Lehman Brothers (by buying their bonds) might bet on Lehman going belly-up. Why? To protect their bonds. Lehman fails; they lose on the bonds, but cash in on the bet. It's a form of insurance. The price they pay for the "credit default swap" is, in essence, the insurance premium.
Why would someone else take the other side of the bet? WRITE the insurance, that is? Because it looked like easy money. How likely was it that Lehman Brothers would go bankrupt, a firm that had been in business, more or less, since 1844? Wouldn't YOU have given someone 100-1 (assuming you like to bet)?
But now, with so many firms going bankrupt, such bets have turned out to be killers. Literally, it would seem. AIG is mainly an insurance company. So maybe it shouldn't come as a surprise that it wrote lots of credit default swaps. Indeed, it even borrowed money to do so. But when the people with whom it bet – its so-called "counter-parties" – appeared ready to cash their bets, the lenders to AIG said, in effect: "Time for you at AIG to put up more collateral on your loans, because those bets of yours are looking shaky."
But how was AIG going to raise more collateral? By selling off assets going down in value? That would simply drive them down more, lowering the value of AIG's collateral, meaning they'd have to come up with even more collateral. A classic vicious circle, downward spiral, negative feedback loop – call it what you will.
Meanwhile, if AIG was in trouble with its lenders, its credit rating would drop, thus forcing AIG to put up even MORE collateral. More negative feedback. Down, down and down.
All kicked off in part because AIG went heavily into the credit insurance business, using derivatives known as credit default swaps.
Spoken from the co-manager of one of the largest hedge fund groups in the world, GLG Global Macro Fund in London, Raoul Pal recently said, "From a timing perspective, I think 2012 and 2013 will usher in the end. We have around 6 months left of trading in Western markets to protect ourselves or make enough money to offset future losses. After that…we put on our tin helmets and hide until the new system emerges."
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Craig	on 06/04/2012 at 4:46 PM
That "$700 Trillion" of cds is on $70 Trillion in debt, so it really is a house of cards. We all probably know a guy that made it big and went bust a few times. I had one in my home town and Donald Trump is the most notable in NYC. The leverage game is a choice for individuals but the whole system is playing the game now. We can't dictate govt spending but really need to allow politicians to waste only the money they can collect.
Beano	on 06/04/2012 at 7:05 PM
To quote from that famous politician.
Known known's and known unknown's.
The Known known is that it's suspected that there is 700 Trillion in derivatives.
The known unknown suspects the real figure is around 1,200 Trillion+ in derivatives.
The stock market is a Ponzi casino. Facebook trying to list it's IPO at 100 billion when their "alleged" total value + yearly profit margin is only one billion.
Gone are the days when trying to sell a company at just five times it's value was the norm.
chiller	on 06/05/2012 at 5:43 AM
The problem with derivatives is the banks guaranteeing them don't have the money to back them, nor do they ever intend to pay on them. They're simply a means to make investors who dabble in risk "feel good" like they cannot lose. The derivatives bubble will burst and, while it's a good thing to rid ourselves of, no words can describe the effects that will ensue.
Beano	on 06/05/2012 at 6:50 AM
Here's a quote from the article underneath
A sudden collapse of the Euro currency below the 1.20 or even parity level.
Such an event would make Lehman look like a picnic but there is more bad news beyond that as it is not just interest rate derivatives that have increased past 2008 levels as the chart above demonstrates, but some idiots placed bets on the currency markets which means that a collapse of the Euro creates an irreversible game of dominoes and destruction:
Here's a link to the article 674 Trillion reasons to worry
JPMcorrupt	on 06/06/2012 at 1:02 AM
Here is a great visual aid to demonstrate the unbelievable extent of the derivatives madness… http://demonocracy.info/infographics/usa/derivatives/bank_exposure.html
Ken	on 06/06/2012 at 6:13 AM
@JPMcorrupt, I came across this same website several weeks ago (I think it was linked from ZeroHedge), and it is truly mind boggling to observe the imagery. I suggest everyone take a peek at it.
Angell	on 06/06/2012 at 10:06 PM
derivatives made simple …. call your local bookie and ask about the juice on your bets !! the "Too Big to fail banks" are the bookies but went the "TBFB" are doing the betting on a long shot …. Well guess what happens ? We the tax payers pay with bail outs. I wish the government would pay my bookie when i lose 🙁


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John Dunn-Gardner (20 July 1811 – 11 January 1903), of Soham Mere and of Chatteris House, Isle of Ely, in Cambridgeshire (born as John Margetts, known as John Townshend from 1823–43 and styled by the courtesy title Earl of Leicester from 1823–43, known as John Dunn-Gardner from 1843-death) was a British politician and landowner. From his birth until his de-legitimization in 1843 he was the eldest legal son and heir apparent of George Townshend, 3rd Marquess Townshend (1778-1855), who was not however his biological father. He is otherwise notable in relation to the tangled marital history of his mother, the Marchioness Townshend.

Origins
He was born on 20 July 1811 as "John Margetts", the eldest surviving natural son of John Margetts, a brewer from St Ives, by his mistress (or bigamous wife) Sarah Dunn-Gardner  (d.1858), (Marchioness Townshend), wife of George Townshend, 3rd Marquess Townshend (1778-1855), and only surviving daughter and heiress of William Dunn-Gardner (d.1831) of Chatteris House, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire. By law until his de-legitimization in 1843 he was deemed the eldest son and heir of 3rd Marquess Townshend, as his mother's marriage was never annulled. On 26 December 1823 when aged 12, his mother had him baptised with the name "John Townshend" at St. George's, Bloomsbury,
and he adopted the use of the courtesy title Earl of Leicester, his legal father's subsidiary title. However all the children borne to his mother during her marriage were declared illegitimate by a private Act of Parliament in 1843, whereupon John assumed as his surname his mother's maiden name of Dunn-Gardner.

Career
He was a Conservative Member of Parliament for Bodmin from 1841 to 1847, and served as a Justice of the Peace, a Deputy Lieutenant, and as High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire in 1859. In 1872, having inherited his maternal estates, John Dunn-Gardner was the sixth largest landowner in Cambridgeshire, ranking after the Earl of Hardwicke, the Duke of Bedford, John Walbanke Childers MP, the Duke of Rutland and William Hall. He was the second largest landowner to be resident principally in Cambridgeshire, and owned , or about 0.7% of all land in that county.

Sarah, Marchioness Townshend

Sarah and her husband married on 12 May 1807, and were known as Lord and Lady Chartley, a courtesy title from his grandfather, the 1st Marquess Townshend. In September 1807, on the death of the 1st Marquess, the couple became the Earl and Countess of Leicester, also a courtesy title. They separated a few months later, in May 1808, without having produced issue, and she filed an ecclesiastical suit for annulment, alleging non-consummation of the marriage, i.e. that the couple had never had sex. While the suit was still pending, Lady Leicester eloped with John Margetts, a brewer, and married him in a bigamous ceremony at Gretna Green in October 1809. They had several children. Her first marriage was never dissolved, which became a legal problem for the succession of the Townshend peerages. In 1811 her legal husband became the 3rd Marquess Townshend, but after leaving him, she did not use his name for over a decade, calling herself Mrs. Margetts; and Margetts gave his surname to their children. Sarah survived both men: Margetts died in 1842, and Marquess Townshend died abroad in December 1855. She remarried a few weeks after her legal widowhood, to James Laidler on 10 January 1856, and died on 11 September 1858.

Settling of Dunn-Gardner estate in 1831

In August 1831 (three months before his death) Sarah's father William Dunn-Gardner (formerly "William Dunn") of Chatteris House, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, bequeathed the estate of Soham Mere, bought with the funds he had settled on his daughter and her husband, to his eldest natural grandson then known as "John Townshend" (later John Dunn-Gardner), described in 1863 as a stranger in blood under the law. However, at the time (1831), John was his legitimate grandson, as he was born to his daughter within wedlock (albeit not fathered by her husband). William Dunn-Gardner apparently bequeathed the estate by name to ensure that his grandson would not be disinherited by any future legal steps taken by the Townshend family, which in fact happened in 1842.

Soham Mere was given to John's younger brother William Dunn-Gardner, of Fordham Abbey (purchased by William Dunn-Gardner in 1808), and descended in the family until 1974 when it was sold to the present owner.

De-legitimization in 1843
Sarah, Lady Townshend, and John Margetts had several children besides John who bore the surname "Margetts" until 26 December 1823, when there was a wholesale christening under the surname "Townshend", but they were all declared illegitimate by a private Act of Parliament passed in 1843 at the request of the Townsend family. (One child, being a minor and having no legal guardian, was exempted from the act's provisions, but was similarly excluded from succession to the peerage by a second private bill as soon as he came of age.) John himself was at the time a Member of Parliament, and after the passing of the Act he assumed his mother's surname of Dunn-Gardner.

Dunn-Gardner family
The Dunn-Gardner family was descended from William Dunn-Gardner (d.1831) (born "William Dunn") and his wife the heiress Jane Gardner (d.1839), who married in 1783 and had an only surviving daughter and heiress Sarah Dunn-Gardner (Marchioness Townshend). Jane Gardner was herself the only surviving child and heir of John Gardner (d.1804) of Chatteris House who married his cousin, the daughter and heiress of John Marriott of Chatteris House by his wife Barbara Johnstone, sister of his mother. When John Gardner died in 1804, his son-in-law William Dunn was obliged under the will to change his name to Dunn-Gardner to inherit Chatteris House and the other Gardner estates. Burke's Peerage states that the grandson "John Townshend" / John Dunn-Gardner inherited Chatteris in 1839, after his maternal grandmother Jane Gardner had died in that year.

Although A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain (1862) fails to mention Mr Dunn-Gardner's parentage (as the eldest natural son of the brewer John Margetts and his bigamous spouse Sarah Dunn-Gardner (Marchioness Townshend), it mentions that he had two surviving brothers (William and Cecil) and two sisters. The "Townshend Peerage Case" gives details of all the children fathered by  John Margetts:
1. a son (b. Jan 1810, died shortly afterwards)
2. John Margetts, later John Dunn Gardner, above (b. July 1811), born and known as John Margetts and so enrolled in school although styling himself Earl of Leicester, but christened December 1823 (with his other siblings) with the surname of Townshends, and then assumed the style of Earl of Leicester until 1843.
3.  William Dunn-Gardner, of Fordham Abbey, nr Newmarket, co. Cambridge, JP (23 June 1812 – 1879), known as Lord William Townshend from 26 December 1823 until 1843 (as the alleged second surviving son of the 3rd Marquess Townshend), when he and his siblings were declared illegitimate by private act. He inherited the Fordham Abbey estate from his maternal grandfather, but came into possession only in 1839 when his maternal grandmother died, and was at first an unpopular landlord. He married Angelina Wainwright (d. 1923), by whom he had one surviving son and heir Cyril.
3.1. Cyril Dunn-Gardner, of Fordham Abbey (d. 1911). Cyril was of age in 1895, and owned about  in Fordham in 1910. He died without issue in 1911, leaving a life interest in the Abbey estate to his mother and former guardian, who died 1923, as above. The Fordham Abbey estate then passed in 1923 to Algernon Charles Wyndham Dunn Gardner (d. 1929), apparently by then the next heir male. (The estate fell to about  by his death).
4. Rosa-Jane Dunn-Gardner (born 2 January 1814, or June 1815 per Townshend Peerage Case), used the name of Lady Rosa Jane Townshend December 1823 - 1843, wife of Charles Mottram by 1842.
5. Frederick Thomas Margetts (born 3 July 1816) who died in infancy according to the Townshend Peerage Case.
5. Lavinia-Charlotte-Sarah Dunn-Gardner (b. 5 June 1820), known as Lady Lavinia Charlotte Sarah Townshend from December 1823 to 1843.
6. Cecil Mina Bolivar Dunn-Gardner (born 1825, d.1903), formerly of the 13th Light Dragoons, known as Lord Cecil Townshend from birth to age 21 (a second private act forbidding him to use that name and style was then passed). His death is recorded, 7 September 1903. This Cecil Dunn-Gardner was the father of two sons, Robert Cecil, born 18 Sep. 1868, Francis Cyril, bapt. 2 Aug. 1872 (both unmarried) and four daughters - (Lucy) Cecilia or Cissie, Maude, Violet, and Flora:
6.1. Robert Cecil Dunn-Gardner (b. 18 Sep 1868) unmarried
6.2. Francis Cyril Dunn-Gardner (bapt. 2 August 1872)
6.3. (Lucy) Cecilia Dunn-Gardner, or Cissie (d. 24 November 1931), who married 1stly in 1887 Col. Robert Ashton (1848–1898) by whom she had one son and one daughter (Dorothy, later Duchess of Wellington), and 2ndly in 1899 the 10th Earl of Scarbrough (16 November 1857 – 4 March 1945), by whom she had an only daughter. According to her daughter's obituary (2000), the Countess ignored her daughters, and was known for her vulgarity, solecisms, and malapropisms but, in fact, also for her work in the hospital of the Order of St.John (as a Dame of Grace of the  Order)
6.4. Violet Dunn Gardner, the artist.
6.5. Maude Dunn Gardner, aged 15 in 1881 (born circa 1865)
6.6. Flora Dunn Gardner, who had issue.

Marriages and children
John Dunn-Gardner married twice:
Firstly, in 1847, to Mary Lawson (d. 13 April 1851), elder daughter of Andrew Lawson, of Boro Bridge, Boroughbridge, Yorkshire, MP for Knaresborough, and granddaughter on her maternal side of Sir Thomas Gooch, 4th Baronet, of Benacre in Suffolk. By her, he had issue, one son and one daughter:
Arthur Andrew Cecil Dunn-Gardner, J.P. (8 January 1851 – 28 July 1902), who was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, and was called to the Bar. His obituary states that he ´devoted his life to the interest of others´, and he was involved with the Society for the Relief of Distress and the Charity Organization Society. He was apparently also a notable book collector like his father. He married 1890 Rose Lawrie, daughter of Andrew Lawrie. She was apparently the Rose Dunn-Gardner, who was active in 1895 in the Society for Organising Charitable Relief and Repressing Mendicity (formed 1869), known later as Charity Organisation Society (COS).
Mary Marianne Mariana, later Mrs William Robinson (b. 1848–1850) md 1870 her stepmother's brother (Christopher) William Robinson (23 January 1830 – 23 June 1889), of Dullingham House, Newmarket, co Cambridge (the house formerly owned or rented by her stepmother's father) and Denston Hall, co. Suffolk; he was son of William Pigott, Esq., of Dullingham House, Newmarket, co Cambridge (see above) by his wife Harriet Jeaffreson. He changed his name twice from Pigott to Jeaffreson to inherit Dullingham House under the terms of his grandfather's will, and then again to Robinson to inherit Denston Hall, Suffolk, from another relative. He died 23 June 1889, apparently leaving no issue.
Secondly, in 1853, he married Ada Piggott, daughter of William Pigott of Dullingham House, Newmarket, Cambridgeshire, son of Sir George Pigott, Baronet, of Knapton, Queen's County. By his second wife, he had further issue, a son and a  daughter:
Algernon Charles Wyndham Dunn-Gardner, of Denston Hall, co Suffolk, and Chatteris (b. 12 December 1853; d. 1929); he married Harriet Compton of the Minstead family of that name, itself a branch of the Marquesses of Northampton. They had issue, one daughter
 Miriam Dunn-Gardner (1905-1989), married by 1934 to Harvey Cliff Leader (1893–1972), a racehorse trainer at Newmarket. She sold her manorial rights in Fordham Abbey in 1972. The Abbey itself with about  remaining mostly parkland, was sold between 1933 and 1937.
Ada Marietta Dunn-Gardner (1956-1918).

Death
Dunn-Gardner died on 11 January 1903, when resident at 37 Grosvenor Place, London.

References

Sources
Burke, Bernard. A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain (1862). See pp. 531–532 for "Dunn-Gardner of Chatteris House".

'Soham: Manors', A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 10: Cheveley, Flendish, Staine and Staploe Hundreds (north-eastern Cambridgeshire) (2002), pp. 500–507. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=18960. Date accessed: 28 December 2007.
Obituary: Lady Serena James The Telegraph 23 August 2001.

Rayment, Leigh.

External links
'North Witchford Hundred: Chatteris', A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 4: City of Ely; Ely, N. and S. Witchford and Wisbech Hundreds (2002) pp. 103–109. Date accessed: 13 February 2008. In this entry, the family is called (Dunn) Gardiner not (Dunn) Gardner. Chatteris House (No. 17 High Street), built in 1828, and now private apartments, is described as "a fine early-19th-century building, with portico porch sheltering a good doorway and door, an iron balcony above, and a central pediment. Inside, the staircase is of stone with an iron balustrade, and there are some moulded plaster ceilings."
Pictures of Chatteris House

1811 births
1903 deaths
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Bodmin
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1841–1847
High Sheriffs of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire


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