A book can sit on the tbr shelves for years until it's suddenly the right day to read it. Last week, I read a review of a movie called The Scarlet Tunic on the Costume Drama Reviews blog. The movie was based on the Thomas Hardy short story, The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion. I have a couple of volumes of Hardy's stories on the tbr shelves & I found the Melancholy Hussar in Wessex Tales which I bought in 2002. It was the right time to read it. I'm reading Gillian Gill's biography of Victoria & Albert, but it's a hardback & too heavy to take to work & carry on my lunchtime walk to the coffee shop. I needed a paperback & this week it was Hardy. Melancholy & fate are two words that I always think of when reading Hardy. I've read most of his novels & a lot of his poetry. The Mayor of Casterbridge & Far From The Madding Crowd are two of my favourite novels. I remember reading Jude The Obscure during a cold winter over 20 years ago, coming home from late afternoon tutorials in the city on the train in the dark, feeling more & more desolate. When I got to the saddest scene in the novel – if you've read it you'll know what I mean – I almost lost the heart to go on with it. His stories often show fate at her cruellest. If you've read a little Hardy, you can predict how a story will go. I did that with this collection, but it doesn't mean I enjoy the stories any less. The Wessex Tales are rooted in the countryside of Wessex, Hardy's name for the south of England, Dorset & Cornwall. He writes beautifully about country life & landscapes & country people from farmers to townspeople. I'll give you an example of the way fate plays a part in his stories. It's hard to write about the plot of a short story without giving everything away & I need to give everything away to show you what I mean so this is a SPOILER warning if you haven't read The Withered Arm.
Middle-aged Farmer Lodge has married a young bride & all the talk in the dairy is of the homecoming of the new bride & groom. One milkmaid, a little apart from the others, says nothing. Rhoda Brook knew Farmer Lodge years before & she has had his son although he has nothing to do with either of them now. She sends the boy out to have a look at the new bride and greedily gathers all the details of the new Mrs Lodge's appearance & manner. One night she has a dream or vision in which she sees Gertrude Lodge almost as an incubus, a horrible crone, sitting on her chest, mocking Rhoda with her wedding ring & she violently grabs the creature's arm & throws it onto the floor. She wakes with a start & thinks it was a dream but is disturbed to find that her son heard a noise in the night at the exact same time as she had her dream. Mrs Lodge visits Rhoda to bring her son a new pair of shoes (knowing nothing of Rhoda's relationship with her husband at this point although she later learns the truth). Gradually, Rhoda is ashamed of her former feelings towards her & the women become friends. However, Gertrude's arm shows the marks of a hand & the flesh begins to wither. She asks Rhoda to take her to visit a healer deep in the forest but he's not able to help her & she gradually becomes estranged from her husband & obsessed with finding a cure for her deformity. Rhoda & her son move away & some years later, Gertrude Lodge has become a bitter woman, still looking for a way to win back her husband's affection. She goes back to the healer in the forest & he tells her of an old remedy – laying the affected limb across the neck of a hanged man while the flesh is still warm. Gertrude is determined to try this last dreadful remedy. She bribes the hangman at Casterbridge to allow her access to the body of a young man due to be hanged the next morning for rick burning. She holds her arm across the neck of the dead man & her arm is cured. But, following the corpse is the boy's mother, Rhoda Brook & his father, Farmer Lodge, who see it all. Rhoda shrieks at Gertrude, pulling her away from her son, she faints & never regains consciousness, dying three days later. Farmer Lodge leaves the area, never to return. Rhoda returns to her old home & her old work as a milkmaid, never speaking of her sorrow, impassive as ever.
This is what I mean by fate. I knew as soon as the young man to be hanged was mentioned that it would be Rhoda's son, fateful retribution for Rhoda's role in Gertrude's blighted life. I knew that Gertrude's arm would be cured but at a terrible cost. All the stories in this collection have the same kind of inevitability about them, but Hardy writes so beautifully about relationships. Just because he would rather have a sad or ambiguous ending to his stories, doesn't make them any less readable or interesting.
It's a very hot day. I put some washing on the line at 9am & brought it in at 10.30. Very gusty north wind BUT a cool change tonight which Abby & I will be looking out for. Abby took her usual tour of the front garden early this morning & spent some time eating grass & rolling around under a tree. Not long after I took these photos, she was under the back steps in the coolest spot on a hot day, waiting for the change.
I love reading about books. Sometimes I think I spend more time reading about books in journals & on blogs, than actually reading the books. One journal I can't do without though is Slightly Foxed. I've been a subscriber since the beginning, about five years ago. Slightly Foxed isn't interested in the latest bestseller or celebrity biography. The books they review are rarely new & often not even in print. Slightly Foxed reviews books that may have slipped under the radar or fallen out of favour or fashion. Their reviewers are passionate about their choices. These are books they care about, they want to see them in print again or at least bought secondhand & read or read before they fall out of print. I always come across either an old favourite – recently 84 Charing Cross Rd by Helene Hanff & Sarah Caudwell's detective novels – or something that sounds so enticing I have to read it – John Buchan's Richard Hannay novels & James Hilton's Lost Horizon – or usually both. They've also started reprinting beautiful little hardback Slightly Foxed Editions of memoirs by writers like Rosemary Sutcliff, Diana Holman-Hunt & V S Pritchett. Like Persephone Books, Slightly Foxed, the journal & the Editions, are beautiful objects as well as being absorbing reading. Thick, creamy paper (why don't more publishers use it? So much easier on the eye than dead water flimsy paper) & the perfect size to slip into a handbag or pocket.
Barbara Pym is one of my favourite authors so I'm very glad that Virago has started reprinting her books. After a successful career in the 40s & 50s, she was out of fashion for most of the 60s & 70s until Philip Larkin & Lord David Cecil named her as an unfairly neglected author in a newspaper article & her novel, Quartet in Autumn, was published & shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Her novels came back into print & after her death in 1980, unpublished work, diaries & a biography by her friend & literary executor, Hazel Holt, was published. Virago has so far reprinted Excellent Women, Jane & Prudence, A Glass of Blessings, No Fond Return of Love, & Some Tame Gazelle. Less Than Angels is coming out in a couple of months. It seems Barbara Pym's time has come around again. I think it's because of this renewed interest in middlebrow fiction. Publishers like Persephone, Virago, Greyladies, Capuchin Classics & Vintage have been reprinting authors who were popular in the 30s & 40s but then faded from view. The strengths of these novels are the emphasis on the domestic, the involving plots, the characters & the details of lives that are different enough from ours to be fascinating.
I've just reread Jane & Prudence, one of my favourite Pyms. I sat down yesterday afternoon looking for a change from Queen Victoria, & before I knew it I was deep into the story & up to the scene where Jane, a scatty, not very successful vicar's wife, is standing in a department store looking longingly at the terrines of foie gras & asking a resplendent shopman in uniform how a vicar's wife can possibly afford such luxuries? Of course, the answer is that she can't, so she goes off to have lunch with her friend Prudence instead. Barbara Pym's humour is in such moments. She shows us the silly moments of ordinary life, especially in characters like Jane, who's fond of quoting bits of 17th century poetry to herself & quite unconcerned that her housekeeping skills are practically non-existent. Prudence is a former student of Jane's, almost thirty, & fond of unsuitable love affairs which really don't disturb her emotions very much at all. Jane & her family have moved to a country parish & she decides that there are several eligible men suitable for Prudence so she decides to do a little matchmaking.
Pym's men are often unsatisfactory, actually, they always are. I can't think of one man in any of the books who she isn't poking fun at. That's what is so attractive & funny about her books. Her women are often the neglected ones, the spinsters, the widows, the unattractive, "holy fowl" as Helena Napier describes them in Excellent Women. But, their lives are as happy & fulfilled, sometimes more so than their married sisters. Belinda & Harriet Bede in Some Tame Gazelle are happy spinsters, each rejecting truly awful marriage proposals. At the end of the book, Belinda is relieved that their lives will go on as always. She will mildly love Archdeacon Hoccleve as she has for the last 30 years & Harriet will have a new curate to fuss over, "...they would hardly realize the difference, except that he was rather Italian-looking & had had a nervous breakdown." I won't go on, I could quote something from nearly every book.
Barbara Pym is an author I can reread with pleasure & used to listen to on audio. Chivers Audio (now BBC Audio) recorded audio books of all the Pyms on cassette, but they've long since been withdrawn from my library. When I read the books now, I hear Susan Jameson reading A Glass of Blessings, Julia McKenzie reading Some Tame Gazelle & Juliet Stevenson reading Excellent Women. I hope they release them on CD as part of the Classics on CD range. I love audio books, I always have one on the go in the car. A subject for another post.
There's a copy of Jane & Prudence, and many other books by Barbara Pym, available at Anglophile Books.
Apart from reading, I also love cooking. I've just made some raisin bread to take into work for morning tea tomorrow. Everyone loves raisin toast & I love baking bread, it fills the house with that lovely spicy, yeasty smell.
Lytton Strachey was a writer & critic who had an overnight success with his book, Eminent Victorians, published in 1918. The four short biographies of Florence Nightingale, Cardinal Manning, General Gordon & Thomas Arnold swept away the traditional Victorian three volume biography & ushered in a new, freer, less respectful style of biographical writing. Strachey's book was a reaction to the Victorian hagiographies of great men, often written by their widows or acolytes, which smoothed over any rough edges of the subjects life. Only one example is the five volume life of Prince Albert that Victoria commissioned after his death. Strachey's Queen Victoria (1921) has no false flattery or submission to his subject. The book is full of sly humour, mostly at the expense of the great & good of the period. He quotes liberally from the Creevey Papers & the Greville Diaries, two men with access to the Court & a sardonic eye for a good story. Victoria comes across as a bouncy young girl with a boisterous sense of humour, rather too fond of laughing & showing her gums. More Regency in temperament than what we think of as Victorian. The chapter on Victoria's relationship with Lord Melbourne, her first Prime Minister, is quite moving. The young Queen, who had never known her father & had grown up in Kensington Palace with her foolish mother, never alone, with only her governess Baroness Lehzen for support, was determined to reign alone but realised that she needed help. Lord Melbourne was rejuvenated by the adoration of Victoria & he guided her through those first months of her reign. Then, along came Albert, whose influence Strachey sees as responsible for the increasing starchiness of Victoria's Court. With their marriage, Albert gradually became the centre of Victoria's life. He became, in effect, her Private Secretary & chief advisor. He revolutionised the badly run Royal palaces & was the architect of the Great Exhibition. Through all this, Victoria supported & admired him. All her life she wanted to have someone to lean upon. First Lehzen, then Lord Melbourne, then Albert. After his death at the early age of 42, she was devastated. The well-known story of her long seclusion in widowhood & her late return to public life & popularity is well-told. Her relationship with her Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli is dwelt upon in all its absurdity as well as its genuine affection. Disraeli laid on the flattery "with a trowel" as he said & he charmed & beguiled Victoria . She sent him primroses she had picked herself & was delighted when he insisted on her assuming the title Empress of India. Strachey doesn't go into her relationships with her children in any detail apart from the story of her fraught relationship with the Prince of Wales. He depicts Victoria as a woman with all her faults but he tries to understand the influences on her character that resulted in the stubborn, tyrannical, passionate personality of the Queen. Amazing to think it was published only 20 years after her death. Next up is a new biography of Victoria & Albert by Gillian Gill called We Two. Ninety years on from Strachey, will this be a radically different view of their relationship?
Abby was relaxing in one of her favourite sunny spots just outside the back door when I appeared with my camera, started crawling around the laundry on my stomach looking for a good angle & disturbed her peace. She looks at me with amazement when I do this but she's obviously decided it's just one of my eccentricities & she's willing to indulge me.
Gladys Mitchell was one of the lesser Queens of Crime of the Golden Age. Never as popular as Agatha Christie or Dorothy L Sayers, she was prolific, writing more than 60 books. Vintage have begun republishing her books & I've just read The Saltmarsh Murders. I read the first half in fits & starts so I found it quite hard to work out who was who. As Martin Edwards blogged earlier this week, I'd have been quite grateful for a cast list at the beginning! Yesterday afternoon I read the rest of the book. Apart from a horribly stereotypical portrait of a black manservant, Foster Washington Yorke, (the book was first published in 1932) the characters were the typical inhabitants of an English village mystery, although they're all either eccentric or unpleasant. Narrated by the curate, Noel Wells, the mystery concerns the murder of Meg Tosstick, the former maidservant at the Vicarage, who was dismissed for being pregnant & was murdered nearly a fortnight after the birth of her baby. The baby has also disappeared. Meg wouldn't talk about the father of her baby, except to say that it wasn't Bob Candy, her former admirer. Speculation is increased when the baby isn't seen by anyone except Mrs Lowry, the owner of the pub where Meg took refuge. Some even doubt there was a baby. Meg was murdered on the evening of the August Bank Holiday fete, so there's ample opportunity for confusion over alibis. The police arrest Bob as Meg had refused to see him & his only chance to see her was on that night as he was barman at the pub & the owners were at the fete, leaving Meg unguarded. He admits he did see her & they talked but she wouldn't tell him who the father of the child was, & he left her alive when he went downstairs to work. Another young woman also disappears, apparently after an argument with her volatile boyfriend & this only adds to the plot. There's an exhumation, a search of a nearby stone quarry, a trial & a village concert, before the truth is revealed. Mitchell's detective is Mrs (later Dame) Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley. She's staying at the squire's house & Noel enlists her help in tracking down the murderer. Mrs Bradley is a psychologist, has been married & widowed twice, & is the most eccentric & intelligent person in the book. One aspect of the writing annoyed me, the constant references to Mrs Bradley's strange appearance. She's constantly compared to a serpent or a crocodile, she cackles & shrieks continually & clutches at people with a skinny yellow claw etc etc. This is an early book in the series which began in 1929, so I hope Mitchell toned down these constant references in later books. Mrs Bradley is brilliant at deducing just what's going on, often using her psychological training to determine motive or the probability of a suspect's guilt. I found the device of Noel, the naive curate, as narrator a bit confusing too as he threw up his absurd theories for Mrs Bradley to demolish with a cackle or a shriek. He also did a lot of confused running around, interspersed with making love to the Vicar's niece, Daphne. I have two more books in the series to read, Tom Brown's Body & When Last I Died. They were written later in the series & I'll be interested to see how the books progress. If you've read all of Christie, Sayers, Marsh, Allingham & Tey & are looking for more from the Golden Age, Mitchell may be the answer.
I've just watched the new BBC production of Emma. I'm glad I read the book again recently because I found I liked Emma better this time than ever before so I was predisposed to enjoy the series. Romola Garai was a lovely Emma. She portrayed Emma's unconscious snobbery & frustration with the inanities of village life as well as the loving care she shows her father. Jonny Lee Miller was wonderful as Mr Knightley, one of my favourite Austen heroes. He did a lot with just a glance. Mr Knightley's reactions to Frank Churchill, Jane Fairfax, Harriet Smith added so much that you sometimes miss when reading the book because you're so focussed on Emma. Christina Cole was a suitably snobbish, self-absorbed Mrs Elton. The production looked gorgeous, the costumes were beautiful, such lovely clear strong colours. In one of the extra features on the DVD, the designer said she didn't want a washed-out muslin look to the production & she certainly achieved that. It was especially interesting to see how Harriet's clothing copied Emma's as their friendship developed as a symbol of Emma trying to remake Harriet in her own image. The final episode was especially moving as Emma realises her love for Mr Knightley & sees the harm she has done to Harriet &, she thinks, her own happiness, by their friendship.
How do you choose your next book? Sometimes a new book just bought or just borrowed from work leaps over the entire tbr pile in a single bound & demands to be read. Sometimes the next book seems to lead on quite naturally from the book just finished. My next book is often chosen because of a recommendation from my online reading group. I've been a member for five years & we're a small group of about 30. Some of us post almost every day, some join in when they have time or when a book or author sparks a response, usually along the lines of "Oh, I love her, have you read...". Black Diamonds by Catherine Bailey (reviewed below) was the result of enthusiastic raves from two of our members. I bought it some time ago on the strength of that but another mention recently sent me running to the shelves to find it & read it. In the last couple of days, Elizabeth Von Arnim's All The Dogs Of My Life & Lytton Strachey's Queen Victoria have been read & recommended. I have the Strachey so that's moving towards my reading table tbr pile & I read the Von Arnim years ago but would like to read it again even though I'm a cat person rather than a dog lover. Another member of the group discovered P G Wodehouse last year & has been raving about Jeeves & Bertie Wooster ever since. I've picked up a remaindered copy of The Inimitable Jeeves very cheaply & will be reading it soon. The same person is my infallible guide to any BBC classic serial shown in the UK. We don't see these in Australia for at least a year after they're broadcast in the UK so I rely on Elaine to advise me about buying the DVD or just waiting to see it on TV. I've just watched the new Emma which I bought on her recommendation (review shortly) & in past years I've enjoyed Jane Eyre, Cranford & Little Dorrit months before they were shown on TV here. Little Dorrit still hasn't made an appearance. So, how do you choose the next book? Serendipity or according to a strict system – first bought, first read? Or whichever book you happen to trip over in the hallway because your bookshelves are overflowing & you have nowhere to put it?
The black diamond of the title is coal. This is the story of the Fitzwilliam family of Wentworth House in Yorkshire, one of the wealthiest aristocratic families in England in the early 20th century. It's the story of how the family's lives were intimately connected with the coal mines they owned & the miners they employed. It's also the story of the family's spectacular fall from grace so that by the 1950s, the last two male heirs were in the courts disputing the legitimacy of one of them. The book opens with the funeral of the 6th Earl Fitzwilliam in 1902. He was one of the richest men in the country, but the pomp & ritual of his funeral was marred by the fact that virtually none of the family were speaking to his grandson, Billy, the new Earl, because they believed him to be an imposter. Billy's father, Lord Milton, son of the 6th Earl was epileptic. This carried a terrible stigma of mental instability in the 19th century. Milton was sent out to the United States as he was seen as an embarrassment to the family. He took his young family with him & while they were in Canada, his son & heir, Billy, was born. Milton's parents had done everything they could to prevent him marrying, even to the extent of telling potential brides of the "taint" of his epilepsy. When he did marry & have a family, his father was horrified &, after Milton's early death, rumours spread that, in the wilds of North America, a boy had been substituted for the female child actually born. In 1902, the family decided not to go to court to settle the question. They were far more frightened of scandal than the thought of an illegitimate Earl. The story of the Fitzwilliams is full of stories like this. It's also a story of contrasts. George V paid a visit to Wentworth House in 1912 when discontent in the North was worsening. He wanted to see the conditions of the mines for himself & even took a tour underground. At the time the royal party was at Wentworth, two explosions ripped through the Cadeby Main colliery, not far away. The first explosion killed dozens of men. The second explosion killed many of the rescuers who had volunteered to try to reach the trapped men. This is the most effective part of the book. The story alternates between the eyewitness accounts of the disaster & the reactions of the King & Queen, the local community & the whole country. The contrast between the party at Wentworth House, where there were eight sittings of dinner for the servants according to their rank in the household, & the poverty of the miners & their families is compelling. The Fitzwilliams were one of the more enlightened mine owners. They hadn't employed a company to run their mines, they oversaw them closely & their employees were well looked after by the standards of the time. Safety was paramount, unlike most other mines which were run for profit & the miners were expendable. This is not just another story of aristocratic goings-on. The servants, miners & their families are just as much a part of the story as the aristocrats. Catherine Bailey has done a remarkable job of piecing together the story of the Fitzwilliams, especially as they destroyed practically all their personal papers. Often only one stray letter or piece of evidence remains for her to reveal the truth of the many scandals in the family's past. It's an impressive work of detection.
Abby relaxing in the front garden this time, between a camellia & a hebe. You can see by the droplets of lovely rain on the camellia that we had showers last night after a cool change. You may also be able to see a little burning on the camellia's leaves thanks to the very hot day we had on Monday. It's a cliche that Melbourne gives you four seasons in one day but we've certainly had our share of seasons this week. 43 degrees on Monday followed by the hottest night for a century & a prediction of snow on the Alps tomorrow. Today is a lovely 20 degrees & Abby enjoyed a stroll in the garden followed by a snooze on the front door mat in the sun.
Simon from Stuck in a book tagged me for this meme earlier this week. The idea is to close your eyes, choose 10 books at random from your shelves & write about them – where they came from, what they say about you. Well, I cheated a little. As my blog is new, I thought I would deliberately choose 10 books with my eyes open to describe my reading life over the past 30 years so that visitors have a better idea of who I am & what this blog is going to be about. The other point is that these are only the books I've kept. I've weeded hundreds of books from my collection over the years. So, there's now no evidence of my passion for historical fiction – all those Jean Plaidys & Victoria Holts have long gone. All my school & university textbooks have gone unless I really enjoyed reading them, so only a few classic novels made the cut. So, here's the list from the books I own now.
The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry – I'm fascinated by the writers of WWI. Owen, Sassoon, Gurney, Rosenberg. This anthology, edited by Jon Silkin, has a lengthy introduction putting the work & the writers in context.
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey – a tribute to my love of history & classic crime fiction. I've read this book at least a dozen times. It sparked a passion for Richard III that I've modified over the years & led to joining the Richard III Society & reading widely about medieval England.
William : an Englishman by Cicely Hamilton – Well, there had to be a Persephone! This was one of the first Persephones I bought. As I said in a previous post, Persephone has been my most important literary discovery of the last 10 years.
Nicholas & Alexandra by Robert K Massie – I first read this in one of my Dad's Readers Digest abridged volumes. They came out every month with 4 abridged books in each volume. I read the abridged version over & over again until I came across this copy in a bookshop in the mid 70s. It lead to a fascination with Russian history which was also sparked by a children's book which I borrowed from the school library & read many times & have never seen since, The Youngest Lady in Waiting by Mara Kay, about a young girl at the court of Nicholas I during the Decembrist revolt.
Selected poems by John Donne – One of my favourite poets. This could have just as easily have been Byron, Keats or Emily Dickinson. This slim Penguin has travelled with me & been read & reread many times. I don't read as much poetry now as I used to but Donne is a fond memory, especially the songs & sonnets.
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain – I remember reading this book over Easter, it must have been around 1980 as this copy has a still from the TV series on it. I was totally absorbed in this wonderful book. Vera's experiences in WWI & the loss of so many of her loved ones made a deep impression on me. It started my love of the writing of the period, not just the war but the between-the-wars period when it was written. I've since read Vera's diaries & some of her fiction. An inspiring woman.
Ladies in Waiting by Dulcie M Ashdown – Another historical book. This is here because it was one of the first books I remember saving up to buy. I had to go into the city several times a year as a child to see an eye specialist. There was a bookshop on Collins St & I would go in each time & look longingly at this book, saving up & always hoping it would still be there. I finally bought it. It cost all of $14.95, but it was the mid-70s & I had to save my pocket money.
South Riding by Winifred Holtby – There also had to be a Virago in the pile. I've been reading Viragos since the compaby began & discovered so many favourite writers between the beautiful green covers. Besides Vera & Winifred, there's Elizabeth Taylor, Elizabeth Von Arnim, Rosamond Lehmann. The list goes on.
Now, the list wouldn't be complete without a couple of titles from the tbr shelves.
The Diary of a Country Parson by James Woodforde – This is a beautiful Folio Society edition. I've been a member of the Folio Society off & on over the years. Their books are always beautifully produced & illustrated. I love journals & letters & I will get to the parson one of these days.
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset – My dear friend Dani at A Work in Progress read this a couple of years ago, wrote about it so persuasively that I bought this gorgeous Penguin edition with every intention of reading it immediately & haven't started it yet.
So that's the list. I could have chosen another 10 books quite easily. It would be interesting to do a list just from the tbr shelves. Why did I buy it? Do I have any real intention of ever reading it?? There's always my retirement, I suppose.
I've been back at work for a week now, and, apart from enduring Melbourne's hottest night for 100 years on Monday, it hasn't been too bad. I love my job, my only complaint is that it interferes with my reading. I have finished a book this week though. To Bed With Grand Music by Marghanita Laski is one of the latest publications from Persephone Books. One of Persephone's strengths is the wide range of writing about WWII that they've published. Short stories by Mollie Panter-Downes, the wonderful diary, Few Eggs & No Oranges by Vere Hodgson & novels like Saplings by Noel Streatfeild & A House In The Country by Jocelyn Playfair. To Bed With Grand Music is a very different view of the war to the stiff upper lip of Vere Hodgson & the nobility of Cressida in A House In The Country. Deborah & Graham tearfully say goodbye before he's posted overseas. He doesn't promise to be faithful to her but says he would never let another woman replace her in his heart. Deborah is living in a country village with their son, Timmy, & faithful housekeeper, Mrs Chalmers. Deborah is very young & soon finds village life too constricting. She gets a job in London, moves in with Madeleine, a sophisticated friend from student days, & swears fidelity to Graham, spending her evenings alone in the flat while Madeleine goes out with a succession of men. When Deborah meets Joe, an American Lieutenant, she begins an affair with him in a glow of romantic feelings. She still feels loyal to Graham, & Joe is loyal in his way to his own wife, but Deborah realises that she's becoming frustrated & bored with her life & she gradually succumbs to the little luxuries Joe can provide. When he's posted overseas, Deborah is sure she'll never have another affair, but soon she's going out with Sheldon Z Wynuck, another American officer, but a step down in class & sophistication from Joe. Then, she meets a suave Frenchman who teaches her, at her request, how to be a good mistress. Then there's a Brazilian & a friend of her husband's who looks her up when he's on leave... Deborah's moral sense has completely abandoned her by this time. She has also virtually abandoned Timmy, who is looked after by Mrs Chalmers & hardly sees his mother. Deborah's own mother, Mrs Betts, has abandoned her daughter to her fate by this time, only intent on seeing that her grandson is cared for. Mrs Betts's attitude to Deborah struck me as quite unfeeling. She's only in her early twenties at the beginning of the war but her mother does very little to guide her when she realises how her daughter is living in London. Mrs Betts allows Deborah to rationalise her desire to leave Timmy because she sees that he's happier with the housekeeper than with his moody mother. She seems to blame Deborah's dead father for this tendency to lax morals & washes her hands of her, apart from paying her debts at one point. The ending of the book is ambiguous. The war has ended, Graham will be coming home, but will their marriage survive? I find it fascinating that the book was published so soon after the war (1946). It wasn't well-reviewed & it's easy to see why. The picture it paints of women living the high life while their men were serving overseas is not the image Britain wanted to see. Deborah is selfish, self-seeking & predatory by the end of the book, but I have some sympathy for her. Left alone with a small child while her husband has a cushy posting in Egypt, no support from her mother, few friends & no inner resources to fall back on, it's not surprising to see her downward progress.
I'm going to write the occasional post about an author or publisher or journal that has changed the way I read. The first one just has to be about Nicola Beauman's Persephone Books. One of the luckiest internet searches I ever did was about 10 years ago. I was looking for the Virago website (turned out there wasn't one then) & found Persephone Books instead. Nicola Beauman had started Persephone just the year before to reprint the books she wrote about in her book A Very Great Profession, published by Virago in 1983 & reprinted by Persephone last year. Middlebrow novels, books that were sneered at when they were first published by some critics & had fallen out of favour since. Books that were incredibly popular & much loved. Books written mostly by women & mostly in the period 1900-1950. Books that have a less stridently feminist tone than the Feminist novels reprinted by Virago. Domestic novels - & short stories, diaries, letters & non-fiction as well. There were maybe 10 books published when I found Persephone & I couldn't wait to get my hands on them. I ordered my first three, Good Evening, Mrs Craven by Mollie Panter-Downes, William : an Englishman by Cecily Hamilton & Julian Grenfell by Nicholas Mosley. I gobbled them up & bought three more, & three more... Now I have them all & a standing order for the new titles. The books themselves are beautiful. I probably don't even need to describe them as a Persephone has become proverbial for a beautifully designed book, lovely to look at & hold. The plain dove grey covers with cream panels, the endpapers chosen to match the period of the book, the creamy paper, the introductions & afterwords written by distinguished writers & critics. Still, none of this would matter if the contents weren't so exciting, so unputdownable. Persephone Books has broadened my reading & given me the most pleasure in my reading life over the past 10 years. I've discovered Dorothy Whipple (my favourite Persephone author), Susan Glaspell, Marghanita Laski, R C Sherriff, Vere Hodgson & the adult novels of children's authors Richmal Crompton & Noel Streatfeild. Reading Persephones has led me down many reading paths & introduced me to the online reading group I've been a member of for the last five years & couldn't live without. They also publish the lovely Persephone Classics, their bestsellers with bookshop-friendly covers. I'm half way through reading To Bed With Grand Music by Marghanita Laski, reviewed here & here. It's a fascinating look at a side of the Home Front we don't often see in books or movies about WWII. Deborah is a total contrast to the noble Cressida in Jocelyn Playfair's A House in the Country (Persephone). This is certainly not Vere Hodgson's spirit of the Blitz but all the more interesting for that.
I finished Emma last night & enjoyed it very much. Emma isn't quite as spoiled as I'd always thought her. She does make mistakes but then a perfect heroine would be boring. She's almost set up for failure by being described as rich, handsome & clever in the first sentence. I think that's what has always got me offside in the past. And the first half of the book, with her schemes for Harriet & her unfriendly attitude towards Jane Fairfax, does annoy me. But, by the end, I couldn't help feeling that her errors are on the side of friendship & love – except maybe her jealousy of Jane Fairfax but that springs from an acknowledgment of her own laziness & lack of application. There are lots of other things to admire in Emma apart from the heroine. Mrs Elton is appallingly wonderful. She & Mr Elton truly deserve each other. Mr Woodhouse is as tyrannical as ever in his own way. It's interesting that Emma does everything she really wants to do while still soothing her father & making him think it was all his own idea. Very clever, but then she's had a lifetime's practice. So, I enjoyed Emma more this time than I ever have before & I'm looking forward to watching the BBC series when it pops through my letterbox.
Morland Dynasty - is it the end?
Elaine at Random Jottings has just posted about the demise of Cynthia Harrod-Eagles' Morland Dynasty series of historical novels. Not because Harrod-Eagles has decided to stop writing them, but because her publisher refuses to publish them anymore. The Morland Dynasty was one of the first series that I just could not get enough of. I read a lot of historical fiction in my teens. I think Jean Plaidy & Cynthia Harrod-Eagles inspired my love of English history & led me to read non-fiction history as well. Actually, the non-fiction has taken over from the fiction & I don't read much historical fiction any more. But, without the Morlands, I may never have started on this journey. I agree with Elaine that the publishers, Little, Brown, need to get behind the series & jump on the history bandwagon that Philippa Gregory et al with all those headless women on book covers have made their own. Cynthia Harrod-Eagles is a fantastic writer. I love her Bill Slider detective series (the latest, Fell Purpose, came out just before Christmas & is a terrific read), & if Little, Brown stick to their decision to drop the series, I hope another publisher will see the great potential in this series.
I'm nearly halfway through my reread of Emma. I'll never be as fond of Emma as I am of Anne or Elinor but this time I'm trying to read with an open mind. It was very perceptive of Jane Austen to write "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like. " She may have been joking but Emma is not easy to like when she's being a snob. But, she's endlessly kind to her father, smoothing away every difficulty & always thinking of his comfort. I enjoyed the way she manages to make sure all her guests have enough to eat even though her father advises them to eat as little of possible of everything for the good of their health. I love the scenes with Mr Knightley, the dialogue just crackles along & it demonstrates the equal relationship they have. This time I'm taking more notice of how Emma feels about her mistakes. The excruciating proposal from Mr Elton was as funny as ever, but this time I took note of Emma's feelings when she's safely back in her room, mortified by her own blindness & sorry that her misunderstanding will lead to pain for Harriet. She is a good friend to Harriet, she's fond of her & wants her to make a good marriage but she is reluctant to accept that Harriet's illegitimacy is going to have an effect on how high she can rise in society. Her snobbish disdain for Robert Martin still made my blood boil, but, after he meets Harriet at Ford's, Emma does admit the good manners & real feeling he displays. She is willing to alter her opinions, she's never blindly fixed, although she's reluctant to admit (to Mr Knightley if not to herself) that she has made a mistake. So, like Emma, I'm willing to admit that my opinion of Emma is changing for the better. Frank Churchill has just made his appearance so we'll see if my improved opinion lasts through the awful party when Frank teases Jane (much to Emma's delight) & the picnic at Box Hill.
I had an unfortunate introduction to Ronald Blythe. I had to read his classic account of English village life, Akenfield, at high school & I didn't enjoy it at all. I think teachers have a lot to answer for. How many people do you know who have been put off Shakespeare, Jane Austen etc because they were forced to read them at school? Luckily, I wasn't put off Shakespeare by being forced to sit through the class laboriously reading Macbeth aloud (and it's still my favourite Shakespeare) but I think I'm the exception to the rule there. Apart from poor Ronald, I've never been able to read John Steinbeck after reading The Grapes of Wrath in Form 5. Akenfield was published in the late 60s & Ronald Blythe has been writing about the countryside ever since. I've just read the first two collections of his weekly columns for the Church Times, Word From Wormingford & Out Of The Valley. Blythe is a Reader in his parish which consists of three congregations at Wormingford, Mount Bures & Little Horkesley. The books follow the seasons & the liturgical year with observations of the natural world, parish matters, the garden & the adventures of Max the cat. The Stour Valley has artistic connections. It is Constable country, Gainsborough was born here & Blythe knew the artist John Nash who lived in the area. He also loves the poetry of John Clare & as president of the John Clare Society is in demand to give talks about the poet. I enjoyed the gradual feeling of learning about the parish. Ronald Blythe spends quite a bit of time walking & meditating on life, his past & the changes that modern times have brought to his village & the Church. I read the books straight through but I think they could also serve as books to dip into as the seasons pass just to glean a little bit of country wisdom from a long life well lived by a happy man.
I have a confession to make. I love Jane Austen but I don't like Emma Woodhouse. Emma is universally agreed to be Jane's masterpiece & I love the plot, the other characters, the village setting, but Emma irritates me. She's spoilt & self-satisfied & interfering & I just want to shake some sense into her. My favourite Austen is Persuasion, closely followed by Sense & Sensibility and Pride & Prejudice. But, the beauty of Jane is that there's always something new to discover in the books. I've reread all the novels over the past year & I was surprised to find that Fanny Price wasn't the insipid, self-effacing girl I'd always thought her. This time, I discovered the jealousy in her thoughts about Mary Crawford & Edmund and admired her determination to resist Henry Crawford against the persuasions of everyone else. So, I'm about to start yet another reread of Emma in the hope that I've matured enough to appreciate her. I have the latest BBC version of Emma on the way from Amazon & I'd like to read the book again before I watch it anyway as I like to have the book clear in my mind before watching the TV version. I'll let you know how I get on.
I've made New Year reading resolutions in the past. Some I've kept – in 2008 I decided to reread four of my favourite historical biographies, books I read over & over again in my teenage years but hadn't read since although I'd read a lot more about the subjects of them all. The books were Richard III by Paul Murray Kendall, Elizabeth I by J E Neale, Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser & Nicholas & Alexandra by Robert K Massie. I'd bought beautiful Folio Press editions of all these over the years & I read these at home, taking my battered old original paperbacks to work for lunchtime reading. I loved it. All of these books were like old friends, I'd read them so often & I enjoyed so much reading them again. So, that was one resolution I kept. Last year, I was going to read several books on the English countryside that had languished on my tbr shelves for too long. I didn't pick up any of them. I've just read two of them, both by Ronald Blythe, & I'll blog about them soon. I think the problem with this resolution was that much of what I read is English so these books didn't stand out as enough of a challenge. I just forgot about them. This year, in common with a number of bloggers, I'm going to try to read some of the books on the tbr shelves before I buy any more. I do have some pre-orders from the Book Depository which will arrive over the next few months but I don't want to buy any books for a while. I also work for a regional library service so I plan to try waiting for books to arrive at work before racing off to the Book Depository & buying something that I've just read about or had recommended to me by the members of a wonderful online reading group I've belonged to for the last five years. Cornflower is asking whether we plan to be slow readers (as recommended by Susan Hill in her book, Howards End is on the Landing) or fast readers this year. I've always been a pretty fast reader & I don't think I can slow down the amount of reading I do as there are just so many books I want to read & reread. But, I'd definitely like to slow down my buying this year & savour what I already own. Hopefully writing this blog will also lead to a slowing down & an appreciation of what I read.
Abby used to live with my father, but, after he died just over 4 years ago, she came to live with me. She has me pretty well-trained now. Food, a lap for sleeping on, lots of attention & doors opened when required – I'm able to handle all these demands now without fuss. Abby's in favour of my reading habits, mainly because it means I sit still for long periods so she can sleep in peace. Neither of us enjoys summer, especially not the very hot summer we had in Victoria last year, so we're both hoping for mild days to come & autumn to arrive as early as possible. Abby keeps me company & also endlessly amused. So, here she is asleep in one of her favourite parts of the garden & looking more alert. There will be more photos to come of Abby in her many moods.
I'm on holidays from the library for a couple of weeks & it's given me the chance to do lots of reading. I was thrilled that this book turned up on Christmas Eve for me to borrow. Martin Edwards' Lake District series is one of my favourites. I read the first three books in the series in a great rush a couple of years ago after Elaine from the blog Random Jottings recommended them & I've been waiting for the next one ever since. The Lake District is a beautiful setting for a series, the mysteries are intriguing & the protagonists are likeable. Daniel Kind is a historian who moved back to the Lake District on a whim in the first book in the series, The Coffin Trail. His girlfriend had died & he fell into a relationship with Miranda, a journalist. DCI Hannah Scarlett has been moved sideways into the cold case squad & feels her career is going nowhere. She once worked with Daniel's father & this is the link between them at the beginning of the series. Their tentative friendship soon develops into an unacknowledged attraction, unacknowledged because of Daniel's relationship with Miranda & Hannah's with Marc Amos, a secondhand bookseller. At the beginning of The Serpent Pool however, Miranda has left & Daniel has just returned from a trip to the US. Hannah & Marc have moved into a new house needing lots of renovation. The house is near a folly called the Serpent Tower & the Serpent Lake where a young girl, Bethany Friend, drowned several years ago. Hannah is determined to find out what happened to Bethany & the cold case squad begins to investigate. If it was suicide, why would she choose drowning when she was terrified of water? When George Saffell, an obsessive book collector, is found dead among the burnt remains of his precious collection, Hannah is interested as he was one of Marc's best customers. Was it an insurance scam gone wrong? But again, George was terrified of fire, so why choose this method? Hannah & Daniel begin to suspect a connection between the deaths & Hannah is disturbed to discover that Marc knows more than he's told her about both victims. I love the way Edwards uses history & literature in the books. Here, Daniel is researching Thomas De Quincey which leads to discussion of his essay on murder as a fine art. The Arsenic Labyrinth was full of information about the arsenic industry in the 19th century. I love reading about Marc's job as a bookseller & the details of the cold case investigations are also fascinating. This series is a success on several levels for me. The setting, the labyrinthine plots & especially the relationship between Daniel & Hannah keep me on tenterhooks for the next instalment. Martin Edwards also has a great blog, Do You Write Under Your Own Name?
Yesterday morning I started reading a first novel, The Crossing Places, by Elly Griffiths. Late afternoon, I finished it. It combines mystery & archaeology, both of which I really enjoy reading about. Ruth Galloway is a lecturer in forensic archaeology living in an isolated cottage on Saltmarsh on the Norfolk coast. She's a loner, nearly 40, overweight, estranged from her born-again Christian parents. She's called in by DCI Harry Nelson to look at some bones discovered in the marsh. Nelson hopes they may be the remains of Lucy Downey who went missing 10 years ago but they're Iron Age. Ruth was involved in a dig near the site 10 years before when a henge was discovered. Now, she's excited by the discovery of the remains & also hopes to discover the causeway that may link the two features. Nelson has been receiving strange letters since Lucy Downey disappeared & when another girl is abducted & he receives another letter full of mythological references, he asks Ruth for help. Ruth and Nelson are interesting characters, both essentially obsessed loners - although Nelson is married, he's not really at home in Norfolk, he only moved there from Blackpool because his wife thought he should go for promotion. Nelson admires Ruth's professional detachment & there's definitely a spark of attraction between them. At the end of the novel there's an intriguing twist that will have an impact on their relationship in future novels in the series. I'd hoped for a bit more about the Iron Age body & the gold torques that were found with it but I suppose only so much can be crammed into a novel, especially a first novel where characters have to be introduced & the mystery plot has to keep ticking along. There were several subplots, all handled very well. I read the book very quickly & I had no trouble keeping track of who was who. The lonely atmosphere of the Saltmarsh was beautifully evoked especially when Ruth strays off the path & becomes lost on the marsh. Griffiths fills in Ruth's past, the summer of the dig when she fell in love, her relationships with her mentor, the enigmatic Erik Anderssen, her work colleagues & few neighbours. The second book, The Janus Stone, will be published next month in the UK.
I love footnotes. A volume of letters or a diary just isn't complete without exhaustive footnotes, preferably right there at the bottom of the page so I can just glance down & check who or what the writer is referring to. Even when I think I know, I still like to check just to be sure. The only problem I had with Pepys's Diary was that there were no footnotes. There's a Biographical Index which had information about each person so if I forgot which William was which (this happened quite often), I could go to the Index & check. But, it just wasn't the same. Two more of my best reads of last year were Christina Rossetti's Letters edited by A Harrison & the Selected Journals of L M Montgomery edited by Mary Rubio & Elizabeth Waterston. The Journals had the notes at the back but Rossetti's Letters had the footnotes right there at the end of each letter for instant reference. Some of my favourite books of all have been letters & diaries – Charlotte Bronte's Letters (that's one of Charlotte's letters there), Virginia Woolf's Diaries, The Mitford sisters' Letters, Sylvia Townsend Warner's Diaries, Dorothy L Sayers's Letters (I still have several volumes of these to go), the selected letters of Keats, Vera Brittain, Frances Partridge... I also have some waiting on my tbr shelves that I really want to read this year. Penelope Fitzgerald's letters, the letters of the Duchess of Devonshire & Paddy Leigh Fermor, Jessica Mitford's letters & the selected letters & journals of Byron. Will they live up to my standards when it comes to footnotes? I hope so.
I keep a list of books I've read. I've been doing this since 1979 so I've just completed 30 years of recording my reading. I usually come up with a list of my Top 10 books of the year but I could only come up with a Top 5 list for 2009. I read more books than usual, 172, but there weren't as many standout books for me last year. I reread quite a bit & these are always favourites, but I don't put rereads on my Top list. In 2009, my Top 5 was dominated by diaries & letters. I read the final volumes of Christina Rossetti's Letters & L M Montgomery's Journals. I've been reading these over several years, waiting for them to be published & then available through ILL & last year, I finally got hold of the last volumes. But, my book of the year was The Diary of Samuel Pepys. Only the Shorter Pepys I should add, although the Shorter is still 1000pp long. I would love to read the complete Diary now that I've had a taste, but living with Sam for the few weeks it took me to read this volume was a wonderful introduction to his world. It took a little while to get into the rhythm of the Diary & to work out who everyone was. The Diary begins at a moment of high drama in 1660 with the political machinations which will lead to the Restoration of Charles II. Pepys is actually in the fleet that goes to Holland to bring the new King back to England. From that moment, he's plunged into an immense amount of work as a hard working clerk to the Navy Board. He's a witness to many public events in the nine years of the Diary including the Great Fire & the plague as well as the Dutch War. His personal life is, if anything, even more fascinating. His love of the theatre, fine clothes & bad women is told with such honesty. This is what I loved most about the Diary. Although he was only writing for himself, he is meticulous in justifying every extravagance. He vowed he would only attend so many plays per month, but he's ingenious at getting around his own vow when he's desperate to see a performance. His sexual adventures are hidden, even from himself, in a peculiar mixture of French & Latin as if he can't quite admit to himself that he's behaving badly. He's honest about his sometimes shabby treatment of his much younger wife, Elizabeth, & enjoys describing his bodily ailments & their cures. The minutiae of everyday life for an up & coming clerk in government service is just fascinating. I also admired his pride in his success as he adds up every month how much he's worth. At the end of the book I felt bereft. Pepys stopped writing the Diary in 1669 because he thought he was losing his sight. Luckily, he didn't, but what a shame that he didn't resume the Diary. Imagine what we could have learnt about the rest of the reign of Charles II, the short, disastrous reign of James II & the Glorious Revolution. Still, I'm so grateful for what Pepys did write & that I have the whole 10 vols to look forward to reading in the future.
Welcome to my blog. I've been a keen follower of literary blogs for a few years now & thought I would try a little blogging myself. I want to have a record of my reading, more than just a list of books read, & reviewing here will hopefully make me think more closely about what I read.
The adventures of my cat, Abby, will also make an appearance although, as she's 15, her adventures consist mostly of moving from one cosy spot for sleeping to another & demanding food & attention several times a day.


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Jennifer Riley Named Endicott Cheerleading Head Coach
BEVERLY, Mass. – The Endicott Athletics and Recreation Department has announced the hiring of Jennifer Riley as the new cheerleading head coach for the 2018-19 academic year.
Riley comes to Endicott with over 10 years of cheerleading coaching experience. Riley will look to expand the program's efforts in regional and national competition as well as regular involvement with the College's varsity athletic teams.
Riley has spent the last 10 years as a cheerleading instructor with the National Cheerleaders Association (NCA). While with NCA, the Derry, N.H. native has taught cheerleaders, ages youth through the college level, skills such as dance, cheer, and stunting. Riley also served as the assistant varsity cheerleading coach at Windham High School in Windham, N.H., where she worked on basic progressions to elite skills while staying competitive within the division.
A graduate of Pinkerton Academy, Riley went on to graduate from Elmira College in Elmira N.Y. in 2009. At Elmira, Riley was a member of the nationally renowned Soaring Eagles cheer program. During her time there, Riley was a part of a national championship program. She graduated with a B.S. in Criminal Justice.
"We are very excited to bring on a coach of Jennifer's caliber," stated Amy Wilichoski, Endicott's Assistant Director of Recreation and Club Sports. "Having won a national championship while at Elmira, she will bring that mentality to the Endicott program and look to build upon a strong foundation that saw the women finish seventh at last year's NCA Cheer Championships."
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June 19, 2018 Jennifer Riley Named Endicott Cheerleading Head Coach
April 7, 2018 Cheerleading Program Finishes Seventh In The Nation At NCA Collegiate Championship
December 18, 2017 Semester-Long Internship Q&A with Cheerleading Senior Nicole Regan

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Crown City is a city in Ohio. So far we have accumulated 137 streets in Crown City and on these streets we have added 77,074 real estate properties.
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Q: awk print the number of columns between a selected range from awk
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*I have the next line for show a range of text from file. It's correct, but i would like to show the number of line at the first of each line. I prove with different s options without results.

    buffer=`awk -v desde="$DESDE" -v hasta="$HASTA" 'NR>=desde&&NR<=hasta' "$FICH"

The output of the command below is the next:
1:20220413:20:Curso Astrología:5:Vicente Ferrer

1:10042022:0:Donación instituto Samye:103:Propia

14:20220428:0:Candelario Yeshe Nyimpo Inc:9:Dudjom Tersar

1:20220512:60:Ayuda por el Hambre y Violencia:6:Vicente Ferrer

 Total Lineas: 43 | Total Pag: 2  |Buffer: De 0  hasta 26 | 27

But i would like the next result:
1 1:20220413:20:Curso Astrología:5:Vicente Ferrer

2 1:10042022:0:Donación instituto Samye:103:Propia

3 14:20220428:0:Candelario Yeshe Nyimpo Inc:9:Dudjom Tersar

4 1:20220512:60:Ayuda por el Hambre y Violencia:6:Vicente Ferrer

 Total Lineas: 43 | Total Pag: 2  |Buffer: De 0  hasta 26 | 27

Thank you in advanced

A: 1st solution: With your shown samples please try following awk code. I have improved your attempted code, also taken care in case line number crosses hasta value it will simply exit from program to save some cycles and time.
awk -v desde="$DESDE" -v hasta="$HASTA" '
NR>hasta{ exit }
NR>=desde && NR<=hasta{
  if(/^ Total/ || !NF){print; next }
  if(NF){print ++count,$0}
}
' "$FICH"

2nd solution with your shown output run following on your shown output in case you want to do so:
awk '/^ Total/ || !NF{print;next} NF{print ++count,$0}' Input_file

Explanation: Adding detailed explanation for above code.
awk '                 ##Starting awk program from here.
/^ Total/ || !NF{     ##Checking condition if line starts from space Total OR its NULL then.
  print               ##Print that line.
  next                ##next will skip all statements from here.
}
NF{                   ##Checking condition if NF is NOT NULL for current line then:
  print ++count,$0    ##Printing count value(increasing it with 1 before printing) followed by current line value.
}
' Input_file          ##Mentioning Input_file name here.

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In early November, the family of an Oklahoma woman who had cancer received a verdict for more than $25 million against her health insurer, Aetna. The jury found that Aetna acted in bad faith in denying proton beam therapy to her as an "experimental" treatment. Proton beam therapy is a targeted form of radiation treatment which generally has fewer side effects than standard radiation.
The jury's decision that Aetna acted recklessly in denying treatment to Orrana Cunningham drove its eight-figure verdict. Afterward, jurors said they deliberately came back with big damages to send Aetna a message to change its ways. The verdict appears to be the largest in a bad faith case in Oklahoma history.
The trial centered on the legitimacy of proton beam therapy. Aetna's medical directors deemed the treatment experimental, but expert witness testimony at the trial showed it was common and well-established in the medical community. Jurors were turned off by the fact that one Aetna medical director admitted that he reviewed 80 cases per day, and spent more time preparing for his trial testimony than he spent on Cunningham's request for treatment.
Proton beam therapy has been used by cancer physicians for decades and is covered by Medicare. It is also well-established as an effective treatment for patients 21 and younger, and for older patients as well. In light of that, jurors were angered by what they perceived as a "rubber stamp" approach to claim denial by Aetna.
Unfortunately, Cunningham herself never lived to see the verdict in her favor. Her husband mortgaged their home and started a GoFundMe page to get her the treatment Aetna refused to provide. However, she died of a viral infection before the case went to trial.
In personal injury cases we handle, defense attorneys often ask why an injured person does not use their health insurance to keep costs down. Aetna's behavior in the Cunningham case shows why. Even when health insurance is ostensibly available, many patients face claim denials, high deductibles, and "out of network" providers which effectively makes insurance unavailable. And not all injured people have the time and resources to fight their health insurers as the Cunningham family did with Aetna.
Regardless of how the Cunningham case ultimately turns out, we hope the health insurance industry gets the jury's message loud and clear. Appeals for necessary, potentially life-saving treatment supported by medical evidence should be granted. The "DENIED" rubber stamp should be put away forever.


As "the situation of the Roma" in Europe has grown increasingly concerning, the European Union (EU) has urged Member States to promote the social inclusion of this diverse population. While the EU has challenged Member States to implement intercultural education, Italy has claimed its own "via Italiana" (or "Italian way") as to how it is going about this process. In an attempt to better understand intercultural education and the role of education in social inclusion projects, this paper aims to address the following questions: What are some of the implications of the intercultural educational initiative currently underway in Italy with regard to the Roma, and how do they interact with other factors, such as housing conditions? More generally, what are some of the promises as well as some of the shortcomings of intercultural education for fostering a peaceful coexistence and a semblance of shared understanding in a diverse society? By reviewing the circumstances of the Roma, and considering the contributions of the INSETRom project and the Community of Sant'Egidio, the author reflects on the implications of intercultural education and the potential ways in which this educational paradigm facilitates identity-formation.
Mcsweeney, Mary Cristine, "Socially Including a 'Resistant People': Intercultural Education and the Roma in Italy" (2012). Master's Theses. 726.


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Jayne Mansfield's Ex-boyfriend's List, Who Has She Dated or Married
The queen of sex and bosom or the queen of cleavage, as Jayne Mansfield was popularly called in the late 1950s, was an alias reserved for female entertainers of her peers who were not averse to displaying intimate parts of their anatomy just to gain popularity. The blonde sex symbol was not born blonde, rather she is a natural brunette whose hair color came from the bottle, the typical peroxide blonde of the oldies.
The legendary actress played the leading role in several Hollywood movies. Most of her movies emphasized her hourglass figure, her platinum blonde hair, and her attractive cleavage, which reveals the sex goddess without hesitation through revealing costumes that can seduce every red-blooded man in her environment. Indeed, the constant publication of her body statistics by the media in the 1950s led Evangelist Billy Graham to proclaim that "this country knows more about Jayne Mansfield's body statistics than the Second Commandment.
As expected, Mansfield had a considerable amount of dating stories during her lifetime. Below are some of the most important names on her long list of lovers and acquaintances of Jayne Mansfield.
Who Has Jayne Mansfield Dated or Married? List of Her Ex-boyfriends
It is known that the blonde bombshell has dated some of the most famous men, including politicians, athletes, entertainers, and even some Hollywood executives. Her image as a beauty icon has enabled her to get rid of all these high-profile men in a flash. Let's take a look at her little black book.
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1. Paul Mansfield
When the actress was 16 years old, she married Paul Mansfield on May 10, 1950. The marriage ceremony took place at a public wedding, and Jayne was three months pregnant at that time. After the birth of her daughter – Jayne Marie Mansfield – on November 8, 1950, her husband, who hoped that motherhood would discourage his wife's acting ambitions, moved with her to LA in 1954 when she refused to give up acting. While the rising star honed her acting skills at the University of Texas, her husband occupied himself with service in the US armed forces. The couple finally divorced in January 1958 after almost eight years of marriage.
2. Mickey Hargitay
Mansfield met her husband number two – Mickey Hargitay, a plumber, and carpenter who became an actor and bodybuilder and was the winner of the 1955 Mr. Universe. Their dramatic introduction took place when Jayne saw Hargitay at the Latin Quarter nightclub in New York City and asked him for a steak and the big guy on the left. The duo began a relationship and finally entered into marriage on January 13, 1958, at Wayfarers Chapel in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.
The transparent wedding dress of the actress contributed to the glamorous and publicity aspect of the event. The couple initially had two children: Zoltán Anthony Hargitay, born on August 1, 1960, and Miklós Jeffrey Palmer Hargitay, born on December 21, 1958; a third child, Mariska Magdolna Hargitay, was born in January 1964. The birth of their third child forced the couple to get back together after their divorce in May 1963, which was necessary because being single and pregnant would inevitably have a negative impact on the actress's career. After the birth of her daughter, Jayne sued for the legalization of her divorce and won.
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3. Jayne Mansfield and Matt Cimber
On September 24, 1964, the sexy actress got married for the third time, but this time to director Matt Cimber, also known as Matteo Ottaviano, née Thomas Vitale Ottaviano. The couple had a son Antonio Raphael Ottaviano, born in October 1965. Unfortunately, they separated in July 1965 and their divorce papers were processed the following year.
Apart from their failed marriages, the nightclub entertainer had a romantic relationship with several high-profile men, including John F. Kennedy, whom she met through his brother-in-law Peter Lawford in Palm Springs, California.
4. Sam Brody
Mansfield was also associated with Samuel S. Brody, her attorney. The blonde beauty, who set Hollywood ablaze with her flawless body and acting skills, died prematurely in a car accident with her lawyer Sam Brody, her lover at the time.
Other names associated with the actress include Enrico Bomba, a film producer; Nelson Sardelli, an entertainer from Las Vegas; Claude Terrail, the man behind the Parisian restaurant Tour d'Argent; Jorge Guinle, a Brazilian billionaire; and Robert F. Kennedy, to name a few.
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Obituary for Aleen B. Edwards
North Haven, Connecticut
Loving Mother, Grandmother, Aunt, Cousin and Friend.
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Aleen B. Edwards (Mimi as she was affectionately called by her grandchildren), 74 of North Haven, CT departed this life on Saturday, January 26, 2019 at her home. Aleen was born in Rock Hill, South Carolina on September 26, 1944, a daughter of the late Deacon Bridges and Cathleen Brown Barnette. At an early age Aleen accepted Christ and joined Mount Hebron Baptist Church in Rock Hill where she was the junior pianist and played piano for the children's choir. She was also a member of the choir and junior ministry board. Aleen graduated from Emmett Scott High School in Rock Hill. She continued her education and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, NC, her Master's degree in Teaching from Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT, and her Bachelor of Theology from Christian Leadership Bible College where she was Salutatorian of her class. Aleen worked in the Roanoke School district in Roanoke, Virginia before moving to New Haven. During her tenure in the New Haven school system she worked at Sacred Heart School as a reading teacher, Project Concern, Edgewood School, and Jackie Robinson Middle School from where she retired after thirty three years of dedicated service to the children of New Haven. Aleen's Christian life was expanded when she joined St. Matthew UFW Baptist Church under the leadership of Bishop Robert Gay. She was a dedicated member of the Gospel, Mass and Intermediate Choirs. Most recently she was honored with a certificate of appreciation for her tireless dedication to the St. Matthew's Music Ministry. Aleen was a long time member of the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Club, Inc.where she served as treasurer for many years before coming inactive due to health issues. She was also a member of the Delta Phi Chapter of the National Sorority of Phi Delta Kappa. No matter how Aleen felt, she would always give you a smile and kind word. She always encouraged others, and lent a helping hand. Although she has joined her Heavenly Father after a long courageous battle with heart disease, she will be missed very much by her family, loved ones and friends. Aleen lived a wonderful and happy life. Aleen is survived by her children Marcellus A. Edwards, III and his wife Patrice of North Haven, Marcus L. Edwards of Brookhaven, GA, the loves of her life,, her grandchildren Marcellus A. Edwards, IV of Hyattsville, MD and Morgan V. Edwards of North Haven, nephews Melvin Troy Harris of Philadelphia, PA, Jason Edwards of Norwich, CT, Jovan Gamble of New Haven, one niece, Tracie (Timothy) Berry of Stone Mountain, GA, one sister-in-law, Sharon Edwards of West Haven, CT, several cousins in Rock Hill, and special friends, Mother Dolores Ricks of Hamden, CT, Portual Barber of New Haven and Michael R. Carter of Charlotte, NC. The life and legacy of Aleen B. Edwards will remain in the hearts of her loving and devoted church family, many colleagues and friends.
"For to me, to live in Christ and to die is gain." Phillippians 1:21
Aleen's family will receive relatives and friends on Saturday, February 2nd from 10:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. at St. Matthew U.F.W.B. Church, 400 Dixwell Ave., New Haven, CT. A funeral service will take place at the church at 12:00 p.m., the Rev. Kenneth Hardy officiating. Burial will take place in Rock Hill, SC at a later date. The Washington Memorial Funeral Home, 4 Washington Ave., North Haven has been entrusted with arrangements. www.washingtonmemorialfh.com
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Hey everyone! Today's Mommy Minute is going to be a review of the Spring 2018 Causebox! Causebox is a great subscription box that helps out worthy causes, but I have decided to end my relationship with them – find out why in the Final Thoughts section below!
Causebox is a quarterly subscription box that delivers beautiful products that give back. Each quarter you'll receive $150+ worth of lifestyle products that are exclusive & ethically made for $49.95!
Causebox always has a beautifully designed outer box, and a mini magazine that talks about each product and has interviews with the creators of the products.
I'm a sucker for Spring.
I just love the colorful, flourishing flowers and the warmth of the sun on my bare skin after months of artificial heat. The season invigorates me – it feels so natural and rejuvenating to shed the heavy layers of winter and step out onto fresh green grass and admire nature's new bloom. Out with the old and in with the new. And with the new comes a fresh perspective, exciting new opportunities, and a fresh foot forward.
We put our bodies, minds, and souls through so much every day, which is why it is crucial to treat ourselves whenever we get the chance. Taking the time to check in with ourselves and improve how we feel improves the way we're able to face the world – with kindness, positivity, and mindfulness. That's why this season's Causebox is infused with so much self-love and care. An all-natural rosehip oil to rejuvenate your skin after a long day, a clean mascara to give you that confidence boost on your way out the door, a beautifully blush, artisan-made kimono to dress up your Spring wardrobe and make you look and feel fresh. This and more – because the better you feel, the better you can make others feel.
Everything in this box is meant to make you feel loved and beautiful – and everything in this box is made to support and create a better, fairer, and more equitable world. Look good, feel good, do good, give good.
They always have a beautiful flat-lay of the products included in each box. . .
and each box is always packaged so beautifully!
+ Symbology Exclusive Kimono, $105.00.
An exclusive, custom kimono handmade and printed for CAUSEBOX in Jaipur, India. Soft and subtle, it can be dressed up or down all season long.
This is a really gorgeous kimono. The fabric is lightweight and the print is gorgeous. It's very comfortable on and it's casual enough to be used in a variety of settings with several different looks. I love the color of it, it's a beautiful blush pink. I've acquired several kimonos through subscription boxes and I think this is one of my favorites!
+ Bloom & Give Tea Towels, $24.00.
Two tea towels made in Kerala, India, which demonstrate hundreds of years of fabric expertise in every stitch.
Since I've started redecorating my house, I've fallen in love with tea towels so I was really excited to see these in this box. They are very simplistic, but beautiful. Luckily, these will match my kitchen perfectly since we use a lot of black and white coloring in our kitchen. Plus, Bloom & Give donates 10% of their sales to girls' education programs.
+ PF Candle Co Cedar and Moss Reed Diffuser, $22.00.
Cedar and Moss Reed Diffuser from the iconic candlemaker – a flame-free, long lasting scent that transforms any room.
I love reed diffusers, especially with my kids. Flame free is always the safest! Plus, I always thought they were very classy looking. This has a really nice scent – it's kind of a masculine scent, but in a nice, light way. There are notes of moss, lavender, sage, lavandin, orange, amber and musk.
+ Soko Petite Bow Earrings, $42.00.
Dynamic and delicate silver bow earrings – a graceful melding of impact and style.
Soko is an ethical fashion brand. I checked out their website and they have the cutest stuff! These earrings are one of my favorites that they offer – and fairly priced, too. These are very simple bow earrings in Silver. I have to be careful when wearing earrings like this due to little hands that like to yank on them, so these will be reserved for special occasions, but I love having this option in my jewelry box!
+ Juice Beauty Phyto-Pigments Ultra-Natural Mascara, $24.00.
Phyto-Pigments Ultra-Natural Mascara – this clean beauty staple derives its rich black color from purple carrots.
I've never heard of a mascara that is made from purple carrots and I feel like that's a fun fact that more people need to know about. This is a really nice mascara that doesn't leave me with any clumping issues. The color is a nice, opaque black and it lasts all day without flaking. I can't really complain about that!
+ Scentuals Rosehip Beauty Oil, $22.90.
An all-natural rosehip beauty oil that provides a range of benefits: from skin and hair moisturizing to burn and scar healing.
This is really nice oil. I've never used rosehip oil before, but I was surprised that it didn't have much a rose scent to it. Either way, this is a very thick oil that soaks into skin nicely. It makes my skin feel super hydrated without feeling greasy (which is the issue I have with most oil-based products). I've really enjoyed this so far, and I can't wait to keep using it.
+ Marylou Faure 5″ x 7″ Art Print, $10.00.
5″ x 7″ art print that celebrates the female form. Designed by celebrated London-based artist Marylou Faure – the print doubles as a postcard!
This is really cute postcard! I don't typically send postcards, but these are always nice to frame or use in other crafty ways. This is a beautiful piece by Marylou Faure, who's cause is equal rights. She likes to try to fight against body shaming and likes to represent characters that are curvy and confident!
I really love CAUSEBOX and what they do for charities. I think it's a great box that sends a great message and works with some great causes. However, I feel that most of the items are easily repeated and typically very similar to each other. I'm not using as many of the products from each box as I would hope, so for now I'm cancelling my subscription to CAUSEBOX. I would recommend this to anyone that enjoys quality products that support wonderful causes.
I paid $49.95 for $249.90 worth of products!
What do you think of causebox? What is your favorite charity?


"Sound quality is horrible, THERE IS NO BASS!"
"Cons - This is a very, very inconsistent brand when it comes to sound quality."
"I am going to continue to buy them since they are so inexpensive and it is hard to find earbuds that fit my ears and have a nice sound quality, just be warned."
"I love the sound quality on these earbuds and they fit my tiny ears perfectly, but 3 months after buying them, the sound went out in the left ear."
"They feel great, great sound quality, and they look cool."
"I'm definitely going to order another pair of frogz and keep the skullcandies as backup because, and I can't stress this enough, they are so much more comfortable with equal better sound quality to boot! "
"They look really nice and the plastic shell seems to be pretty good quality, so it doesn't feel cheep."
"Those rubber fittings are comfortable, but create an air tight seal in your ear and these are the results:a. every time cord moves, literally with every step, headphones hit the rubber liner and create an annoying sound like an out of rhythm heart beat that's the best I can describe it."
"The last pair I bought I ended up throwing away after one use the sound was so terrible and tiny, while the pair I had bought before those put my SkullCandy buds to shame their quality was so excellent."
"These buds have the worst sound I've ever heard."
"They pump out decent sound, and they isolate the sound fairly well."


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Mississippi Immigration Raids Lead To Arrests Of Hundreds Of Workers
By Richard Gonzales
Published August 7, 2019 at 9:25 PM EDT
Rogelio V. Solis
Two people are taken into custody by ICE agents at a Koch Foods Inc. plant in Morton, Miss., one of seven food processing plants targeted for coordinated raids in the state.
Federal immigration officials raided several food-processing plants in Mississippi on Wednesday and arrested approximately 680 people believed to be working in the U.S. without authorization.
The coordinated raids were conducted by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations "at seven agricultural processing plants across Mississippi," according to an ICE statement. In addition to the arrests, agents seized company business records.
More than 600 ICE agents were involved in the raids, surrounding the perimeters of the targeted plants to prevent workers, mainly Latino immigrants, from escaping. The actions were centered on plants near Jackson owned by five companies, according to The Associated Press.
One of the plants is owned by Koch Foods Inc., which bills itself as one of the largest poultry processors in the U.S. with more than 13,000 employees. Forbesranks it as the 135th largest privately held company in the country, with an estimated $3.2 billion in annual revenue, according to Fortune.
Another plant raided Wednesday is in Canton, Miss., and is owned by Peco Foods Inc., based in Tuscaloosa, Ala. It is the eighth-largest poultry producer in the U.S., according to the company's website.
No representatives for either company responded to an email request or telephone call for comment.
The arrested workers were bused to a local Mississippi National Guard hangar, where they were interviewed about their immigration status, including whether they already had deportation orders.
"Today's raids are part of the ongoing war against immigrant families and the communities in which they live," Julia Solórzano, an attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center, said in an emailed statement. "It is especially sickening that days after immigrants were targeted by a gunman in El Paso, Texas, workers at plants across Mississippi witnessed armed agents descending on their workplace.
"It's also worth noting that immigration agencies that have repeatedly blamed 'over capacity' detention facilities for the horrific treatment of those imprisoned nevertheless detained more than 600 people today," she said.
The size of the raid operation harks back to 2008 when, under the George W. Bush administration, more than 400 unauthorized workers were arrested in a meatpacking facility in Iowa.
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The most common symptoms include pain bottom of the heel and arch. Pain in the morning and after non-weight bearing rest. Can be sore as the day progresses.
The diagnosis needs to be made starting with a history and physical by the Podiatrist. X-ray and possible other imaging may be ordered. A heel spur may be identified on the bottom of the heel. The size of the spur does not relate to the amount of pain. A large spur may have no pain of the heel where a small spur or no spur the person may have great pain.
In treatment of the plantar fasciitis /heel spur syndrome need to support the plantar fascia and lessen pressure on the heel and plantar fascia. This will help allow it to heal. There are many different treatments. Depending on how long one has had the pain various treatments are performed and the longer one has had the pain it is more of multiple treatments used together.
Various treatments include; change of shoe gear, modify activity, taping, heel pad, ice, stretch/strength exercises, massage, medication, injection, physiotherapy, acupuncture, insoles, custom orthotics, night splint, extracorporeal shock wave therapy, cast, surgery.
Long term preventive care is to continue with what has led to the resolve of the plantar fasciitis being regular changing of shoes before they wear out, prescribed exercises and custom orthotics.


John Balkwill is a book artist and printmaker residing in Santa Barbara, California where he operates The Lumino Press, which is dedicated to producing handprinted and bound limited edition books as well as prints.
He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from The University of Norte Dame and a Master of Fine Arts degree from The Institute for the Book Arts at The University of Alabama, where he studied under the internationally recognized private press printer Gabriel Rummonds. He also studied at St. Mary's College in Rome. Balkwill learned the techniques of wood engraving from John DePol, the dean of American wood engravers, and studied Japanese woodblock printmaking with Akira Kurosaki, one of the most respected contemporary Japanese printmakers.
As a printmaker Balkwill works primarily with relief printing methods. He has produced wood engravings and relief engravings on landscape subjects, notably the series Ten Views from Lake Tahoe and the Finding the Space suite, inspired by Gary Snyder's poetry.
John Balkwill's work is available at Thornebrook Gallery, your source for limited edition prints by Island International Artists.
This is a limited edition print by John Balkwill of Island International Artists.
Title: "A Bright & Windy Night"


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Les honneurs de la guerre sont un ensemble de privilèges accordés à une armée vaincue lors de la cérémonie de reddition.

Ces honneurs, qui symbolisent la bravoure de l'armée vaincue, sont devenus une coutume à l'époque des premières guerres modernes. En général, une garnison qui se rendait était autorisée à sortir au son des tambours et des drapeaux, après quoi elle devenait prisonnière de guerre ou se voyait accorder le libre passage.

Les pleins honneurs de la guerre
Lorsque les pleins honneurs de la guerre sont accordés, l'armée vaincue peut défiler avec ses drapeaux flottants, ses tambours battant et ses baïonnettes fixées . À l'époque des platines à mèche, les mousquetaires allumaient leurs mèches des deux côtés et plaçaient les boules de mousquet dans leur bouche. Lorsque l'armée vaincue défile, sa fanfare peut jouer un air de son choix, généralement un air ennemi. Cependant, il n'est pas obligatoire que l'armée vaincue choisisse un air ennemi, et l'armée britannique lors des batailles de Saratoga (1777) a défilé sur l'air de The British Grenadiers.

Après le défilé, l'armée vaincue empile ses armes et remet toute propriété gouvernementale au vainqueur. Toutefois, les officiers peuvent conserver leurs armes de poing et leurs bagages personnels. L'armée vaincue peut également emporter quelques canons, ainsi qu'une réserve symbolique de munitions.

Refus des honneurs
Il était courant que les commandants refusent les honneurs de la guerre en représailles à un autre incident. Les honneurs de la guerre avaient été refusés aux défenseurs américains lorsqu'ils s'étaient rendus après le siège de Charleston (1780). Lors de la négociation de la reddition d'une armée britannique à Yorktown un an plus tard, le général américain George Washington a insisté : « Les mêmes honneurs seront accordés à l'armée qui se rend que ceux qui ont été accordés à la garnison de Charles Town ». En conséquence, les Britanniques ont dû défiler avec des drapeaux enroulés et des mousquets épaulés, et les articles relatifs à la reddition insistaient pour que la fanfare joue « une marche britannique ou allemande ».

Les honneurs de la guerre sont considérés comme une reconnaissance symbolique d'une défense vaillante. Par conséquent, un général victorieux peut également refuser d'accorder les honneurs de la guerre s'il estime que l'ennemi a cédé trop facilement. Par exemple, après que le commandant britannique a été tué par un boulet de canon lors de la bataille de Fort Oswego (1756), son remplaçant a rapidement décidé de se rendre. Le général français Louis-Joseph de Montcalm a refusé d'accorder les honneurs de la guerre à l'officier John Littlehales, parce qu'il estimait que Littlehales ne s'était pas suffisamment battu.

Histoire
Les honneurs de la guerre sont devenus traditionnels au début de l'ère moderne, lorsque les sièges étaient plus fréquents et que les défis logistiques rendaient difficile d'acculer un ennemi vaincu après une victoire sur le champ de bataille. Cependant, la pratique s'est poursuivie à l'ère de la guerre industrielle. Après le siège de Metz (1870), les Prussiens ont offert les honneurs de la guerre à l'armée française qui capitulait, mais le général français François Achille Bazaine a refusé de les accepter.

Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, les Allemands ont accordé les honneurs de la guerre à la garnison française vaincue au siège de Lille (1940) et les Britanniques ont accordé les honneurs de guerre à l'armée italienne vaincue à la bataille d'Amba Alagi (1941).

Les honneurs de la guerre font toujours partie des lois de la guerre, bien que des termes tels que la rétention des canons soient devenus obsolètes. Le manuel de 2015 sur le droit de la guerre du ministère de la défense des États-Unis (United States Department of Defense) précise que :

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Q: Is is possible to modify the maven console output to hide the [INFO] logging? I was wondering if it was possible to modify the output from maven to for example hide the lines that start with [INFO] or to be able to see lines that start with [DEBUG]?

A: try grepping the output, e.g.
mvn help:evaluate -Dexpression=project.version | grep -v "^\["

A: I don't think there is a way to configure it as a logger but mvn -q hides the [INFO] lines and mvn -X shows the debug messages.
Update in 2015: newer versions of maven have added a config file where this is finally possible although as a global per install configuration, check on your $mavenInstallationDir/conf/logging/simplelogger.properties if the file doesn't exist then your maven version is probably too old, I believe it was added on the 3.1 release

A: You can activate debug output using -X or --debug. For example:
mvn -X install

You can hide INFO messages using -q or --quiet. For example:
mvn -q install

A: From their own docs, you want this:
RESULT=$(mvn help:evaluate -Dexpression=project.version -q -DforceStdout)
echo $RESULT

For reference, see: https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-help-plugin/evaluate-mojo.html#forceStdout