Shelby County Mayor Mark H. Luttrell, Jr. is looking for twenty (20) new members to serve on the Mayor's Youth Council (MYC) during the next school year.
The advisory council is for young people in grades 9-12. Council members guide Mayor Luttrell on key issues related to youth.
"The council allows me to routinely hear the ideas and suggestions of our future leaders. It's vital we listen to their opinions and create opportunities to help them succeed in business and civic affairs," said Mayor Luttrell.
Last year, the council sponsored Shelby County Government Day that featured educational sessions about county divisions and bureaus. The MYC also conducted a mock debate which helped youth better understand the political process.
The MYC also conducts a forum at their monthly meetings to promote ways local businesses can include young people in their workforces.
Applications are being accepted only online through midnight, May 22, 2017, at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CQF87FY.
For more information, contact David McKinney at david.mckinney@shelbycountytn.gov or call (901) 222-2000.
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It's often hard to find the perfect gift for everyone on your list. This is especially true when you're trying to stay within in particularly small budget but still want to blow them away with your thoughtfulness. Last year, I was confronted with needing about a dozen gifts for a group of ladies, each wonderful and unique in their own way. Yet, these gifts needed to be fairly identical. After some thought, I settled on a dainty pair of earrings that could be worn with just about anything.
From what I could tell, all of the women were pleased with the earrings. In fact, several of them have pointed out to me that they were wearing them! The key to these earrings is the neutral (but sparkly) palette of faux white pearls, rhinestones, clear crystals, and silver.
If you've got some hard-to-shop-for ladies on your list this year, you might want to whip up a few pairs of these crowd pleasers. Let me show you how! You can watch my DIY Easy Earrings video and/or follow the directions below.
The supplies needed to make a single pair of these beauties are pretty basic.
You'll need two of each to make a complete set.
You'll also need a few pliers.
I used round-nose pliers, flush wire cutters, chain-nose pliers, and bent-nose pliers.
To begin, string your beads on a head pin in the following manner: crystal, spacer, pearl.
This pattern was chosen because the crystals were larger than the other two beads, and it felt most natural for the largest to be at the bottom.
Once your beads are on the head pin, create a wrapped loop by holding the pin with your round-nose pliers just above the top bead.
You'll likely want to re-position your round-nose pliers to then create a loop.
From there, continue to hold the loop with your pliers while wrapping the tail of the wire around the "stem" coming from the bead.
Wrap until the wire touches the top bead.
Use your flush wire cutters to trim away any excess wire from the wrapped loop.
Then, use your chain-nose pliers to secure the end of the wire by pressing it around the stem.
Place your chain-nose pliers in one hand and your bent-nose pliers in the other, and open the jump ring by twisting it.
Use the jump ring to connect the ear wire to the charm you just made.
Close the jump ring using the same two pliers and twisting it closed.
You'll repeat the same process to make the second earring and complete the pair.
Now that you know how easy this is, you'll be making pretty little earrings for yourself and everyone you know!
Keep in mind that you can alternatively make clip-on earrings for those without pierced ears by substituting a clip-on mechanism for the ear wires. As well, if you aren't comfortable making a wrapped loop, you can just as easily complete these earrings with a simple loop.
And, of course, you can mix up the palette to suit the tastes of those you're gifting. But, if you're grasping at straws and want to make it easy on yourself, this neutral palette is sure to please.
Don't hesitate to let me know if you have any questions at all. I'm happy to help.
And, enjoy the season of giving!
Sometimes we shun from simple projects like this one but we shouldn't - this pair of earrings is great for a subdued look or to complement a statement necklace or sequin dress, etc. Good for casual look, too!


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Change is the operative word
As its been said, the only guarantees in life are paying taxes, experiencing change, and the inability to cheat death. Changes in the Hobby are also constant, and as Editor Tom Bartsch explains that doesn't mean all things change, nor does it mean change is bad.
We promised a long, enjoyable look at The National Convention in Atlantic City, N.J. I don't think we disappointed in that regard in this issue. In these pages, you'll find three different perspectives of the show. From two contributors touring the show floor to another who goes on a one-day mission to fill his want-list and meet up with old friends. All three spent a lot of time scouring booths, and you'll find that hardly any of their stories overlap. What does that tell you? The scope of the hobby and The National itself is quite vast. It includes a wide variety of memorabilia, stories and people involved that would take weeks to fully explore. Every booth has a story, from its contents to the personal histories of the buyers and sellers. That's what makes this Hobby so fun and unique.
.es, the current high prices for high-grade vintage cards is remarkable. But, I certainly hope that monetary value isn't the only reason you are involved in the Hobby. If you're reading these words, that probably isn't fully the case because we try to convey the Hobby on a personal level. That also involves information, interviews and stories that go far beyond perceived value.
While many things change in this market, from perceived scarcity, values and the flavor of the day, it's the connection between people and sports that still drives the heart of this Hobby. And I hope that is something that never changes.
Changing Tides
And speaking of change, there will be a change at SCD going forward. Before you get too excited, everything regarding SCD remains the same (frequency, size, etc.); but, after this issue, I will no longer be the editor of this fine publication.
I have elected to pursue another opportunity, but I do not leave easily. This is likely the longest-tenured position in my working life. One that I fancied myself in when I decided to make journalism a career choice way back in middle school.
I was recently asked why I pursued journalism in school. I said I grew up reading Sports Illustrated as a child and marveled at how some stories could really move you. I wanted to have the same impact. Now, I don't have the writing abilities of SI's renown stable of contributors, but thankfully, I believe we have featured a number of writers over the years who are on that level, and as an editor, I couldn't ask for anything better.
The role of the SCD editor has changed dramatically even in the nearly six years I've been at the helm, with more and more duties that don't always involve the actual magazine to accomplish along the way. There are things you always wish you could do better or spend more time on, but the publishing world dictates a different course these days.
I also appreciate the support along the way. I was not an everyday hobby guy with vast knowledge of cards sets and signatures. I believe many of you have realized that. But for the most part that was accepted as long as the information was still put forth accurately and in an entertaining manner.
The 2016 National reinforced to me that the true collectors in the Hobby are some of the nicest folks you'll meet. While the dark side of the Hobby can creep in, the Hobby's backbone is strong and should weather whatever comes to the forefront in the future.
I thank you all for the support and encouragement over the years.

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Bram Zwanen (born 23 March 1998) is a Dutch football player. He plays for De Treffers.

Club career
He made his Eerste Divisie debut for Helmond Sport on 15 September 2017 in a game against Jong Ajax.

On 28 February 2021, he agreed to join De Treffers for the 2021–22 season.

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Living people
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Polynoe spica är en ringmaskart. Polynoe spica ingår i släktet Polynoe och familjen Polynoidae. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

Källor

Havsborstmaskar
spica


I think the key is guilt should not be an emotion or reason for charity.
Pressed wrong button, was going to say some valid points. Especially about it being thrust in our faces. I am becoming immune to it and only now donate to one charity. Not because I don't feel anything but because of the way it is portrayed on the TVs.


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15 years later, Real Women Have Curves is still a cultural revolution
America Ferrera, George Lopez, Patricia Cardoso, more reflect on the body-positive gem
By Joey Nolfi
October 18, 2017 at 03:33 PM EDT
Patricia Cardoso's coming-of-age drama, Real Women Have Curves, opens on an elderly woman gleefully singing under an early morning sunrise — one that coats her luminous, weathered, storied skin in picturesque beams of light. It then quickly cuts to a shot of a young woman washing away soot from a heavily soiled window. The sentiment guiding the film is clear: beauty exists all around us, but we must polish our perspective to find it.
If Hollywood history is to be believed, visual splendor is most often found solely within the confines of white America, but Real Women Have Curves, a breakout Sundance hit with a predominantly Latin-American cast, expanded an entire generations' concept of beauty, an impact that's still felt 15 years after the film's original Oct. 18, 2002, release. At a time when most films set in East Los Angeles chronicled gang life, Real Women Have Curves instead struck a poetic chord of authenticity with its warm portrayal of a lived-in, culturally rich, cinematically underserved side of the nation. The film foces on Ana (America Ferrera), a full-figured high school senior who liberates herself from societal standards and her family's traditional values on a journey of sexual and cultural awakening, weighing the pursuit of higher education in New York City against fulfilling her mother's (Lupe Ontiveros) stifling pleas for her to settle down with a man and abandon professional ambitions to work at her sister's textile factory.
The film contrasts original playwright Josefina Lopez's vision for both the new and old guard of women in Mexican-American culture, creating a space where progression is only achieved through respectful compromise in the film's haunting final frame, which acknowledges a girl can still walk like a lady if she reaches back and leans forward as she commands center stage in her own narrative. "Turn on the light, I want you to see me," a naked Ana instructs her boyfriend, Jimmy, toward the conclusion, shortly before they have sex for the first time. "I want you to see me. This is what I look like." In that moment, as Ana comes into her own, it's not difficult to imagine an entire audience seeing themselves reflected on the big screen in the pale glow of the lamp on the nightstand — the universal struggle to "fit in" melting away as the air of acceptance washes over every fold on Ana's body and into the collective consciousness of moviegoers waiting to do the same.
On the film's 15th anniversary, read on for EW's full behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film with Ferrera, Cardoso, co-star George Lopez, screenwriter and producer George LaVoo, and the woman who started it all, Josefina Lopez.
In 1988, a formerly undocumented playwright literally wrote the next chapter of her life into a groundbreaking play about five Latina women trapped in a sewing factory
JOSEFINA LOPEZ: I was undocumented for 13 years. I wanted to write a play to affirm my humanity because I felt so dehumanized being undocumented… I've always had issues with my weight [and one of my teachers] told me, not in a mean way [that] she thought I was a great actress — that I had the ability to play Juliet and Lady Macbeth — but no one was going to cast me as the ingénue if I didn't lose weight. Because only thin girls get the lead. Men write the roles and direct the movies [so I had] to adhere to those standards; otherwise, I'd always play the side character. I thought, ok, if I lose the weight, then I'm going to be told by casting people that I should change my name [to] a white name, change my hair color… if I do this, I'm going to have to give up who I am to be an actress. I refused to do that. The problem isn't that I'm undocumented, Mexican, working class, or overweight; the problem is society.
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Soon after, offers poured in from Warner Bros. to Norman Lear, who approached Lopez about translating her work to screens big and small
JOSEFINA LOPEZ: It took 11 years for the movie to get made. I worked with Norman Lear to turn it into a sitcom, and even he couldn't get it on TV! He went to the presidents of the three networks, ABC, CBS, and NBC — they said it wasn't interesting or original. I said, "Yes it is! It's about Mexican-Americans, where else are we seeing real Mexican-Americans on TV?"
Lopez then gave writer George LaVoo a shot at pushing the story in a new direction, shifting the story's perspective to the youngest character, Ana, a curvy L.A. teen with dreams of attending Columbia University despite familial resistance
GEORGE LAVOO: Josefina was willing to meet with me, but she asked, "The Norman Lear version didn't pan out, so how could you get this made when he couldn't even sell it?" [Laughs] But, I had the idea of shifting the story, so she gave me options and a very small amount of money, and I worked on a draft. One of the big changes was that in the play, the older sister, Estela, is the main character, but the younger sister, Ana, had more potential for growth and change. That shift made the story more accessible as a film.
JOSEFINA LOPEZ: [Ana] is the entry point for an audience, she endures the most courageous [evolutionary] act of loving and accepting herself while challenging her mother's old-fashioned views. George guided me as to how to open it up and how to make it simple too and made universal and acceptable to a white audience and a male audience… we [didn't want to alienate men], but wanted to reveal that machismo and sexism in Mexican-American culture are often passed through the mother, that she's the enforcer of machismo… [so] she became the antagonist [in the movie].
Finally, a female executive at HBO changed everything
JOSEFINA LOPEZ: HBO's Maud Nadler had the power to say yes. It came down to a female executive saying women's stories matter. Stories about mothers and daughters are important to me because I love my mother, and I remember asking Maud, after we made the film, why she said yes. She said: "Because I love my mother." It took a woman in a position of power to find value in this story.
LAVOO: I wasn't expecting every door to be closed in my face… [Every studio head] said, "I really like this script, but there's no audience for it." Luckily, I connected with what they called the art house division of HBO, and they felt like this project came at the right time for them, because they were going to do what the networks weren't: reach the Latino audience… other people said they couldn't finance it because there were no stars to hook the audience on. At that time, 17 years ago, there were almost no known Latino stars in America that were financeable, but I wanted to create a new star.
Colombian filmmaker Patricia Cardoso was hired to direct, and the cast soon fell into place, fronted by a then-unknown 17-year-old with only a single TV movie under her belt
AMERICA FERRERA: I'd just shot a Disney Channel Original Movie called Gotta Kick It Up; that was the first time I'd booked a paying job. With my first check, I bought a car and paid for a summer drama program at Northwestern University before my senior year of high school. I was away at drama camp [when] I got a call from my manager that HBO was casting for a character I fit the bill for. They wanted me to come back and audition, but I was so set on drama camp that I refused. I said, "I'm going to finish drama camp, and in six weeks if they haven't' found someone, I'll go in." That was a bold thing to do for a 17-year-old with no credits to her name. Six weeks later, they [still] wanted to see me.
I was excited that there was a with a Latin-American girl in the lead, one who came from a background that felt similar to mine. I'd never seen a movie like it, and I'd never seen a character like this portrayed in film before… What's special about the film is that so many people can watch it and see in themselves and the dream they have for themselves that their parents, family, or friends didn't see for them. The specificity of it made it feel universal.
GEORGE LOPEZ: It was like watching a rose open up. There was a lot at stake with the movie and the part, and America had to carry that. It was tough on a girl who was almost 18 years old. Every time I saw her in our scenes, I could see the flower open up a little bit more. I remember the look in her eyes; You can't hide that look, that little bit of insecurity that all actors have, but then the confidence she brought, it made me feel tears of joy.
Casting Ana's conservative mother, however, was a challenge. Studios suggested major stars who weren't right for the part, and an international search yielded no results, so Cardoso came full circle and cast the play's OG head-mama-in-charge
LAVOO: Earlier that year, there was company that said if I could get Raquel Welch to play the mother, maybe they'd finance it. But she's not right! She's an extremely glamorous, beautiful person, not the earthy mother we needed.
CARDOSO: I didn't want to cast Lupe Ontiveros, because she'd played the character before, and my concept for the movie was very different. I looked everywhere. I had a casting director in New York, another one in Texas, and one in Mexico City, but Lupe really was the best actress for the role. When I realized that, I called her and asked if she'd be willing to meet, and we did. I told her upfront that I love her work, but I was concerned she'd play the character she played in the stage version because my concept was completely different from that character — and she liked my concept more!
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A cast had been finalized, but Cardoso found another character during production: the city of Los Angeles, lensed through a warm, vibrant perspective in contrast with the gang-related stories often filmed in Boyle Heights
CARDOSO: I wanted to show a part of Los Angeles we don't usually see, in a beautiful way, not a seedy neighborhood filled with stereotypes of East L.A. It was important to expand the concept of beauty for women [with this film], but also for the city and the neighborhoods. When I hired the production designer and cinematographer, I was looking for people who had that same sensibility. I interviewed some cinematographers and they told me, "Oh yes, we're going to make sure we make East Los Angeles look very tough," and I'm like, "No, that's not what I want!" It was definitely a breakthrough. There'd been other movies about East Los Angeles before, but many of those stories are about the poor, illegal immigrant struggle, or gang members and drug dealers — which is still a reality of the Mexican-American world in Los Angeles, but I chose to tell a different part of that reality.
LAVOO: It's based on Josefina's experienc. She's curvy, and so much [about embracing that] is told through the soft, warm, humorous tone of Josefina's experience… Hopefully that's what you're seeing when you see the city as different from the gangs and the grittiness [from other films]. Josefina wanted to show the city as a vibrant place where women can have full lives and grow.
GEORGE LOPEZ: The house in the movie, the factory, and the locations were the foundation we needed to be able to talk about this movie 15 years later. Not only do the actors connect with each other, they connected to the area. It's not a studio, it's not a stage; you don't walk into the stage and see the back of a house, you walk into an actual house [in Boyle Heights]. That means a lot! We were all in there, all in the backyard, all in the house, and it plays real because it was real.
The film's climax, which sees Ana and her factory coworkers stripping down to their underwear during a heat wave, plays as an empowering surge of sisterhood and body acceptance, though Ferrera almost didn't participate
CARDOSO: In the version of the play I saw, the underwear they wore [in the scene] was big and exaggerated, so it played as if people were laughing at the women, so I wanted to do the opposite. I wanted the actresses to choose the underwear they liked and felt comfortable in. Everything was done to make them look good and feel beautiful how they already are. Each actor showed the costume designer pictures of underwear they liked, then she went to the store and bought many different things, and they all chose from what she bought!
FERRERA: I was 17 years old, and it was only my second job. I'd never had to take my clothes off in front of a 200-person crew — most of them men. I'm sure I was incredibly intimidated by that. I remember wearing a robe between takes, and as the day went on, it was too much of a hassle to get the robe on and off between takes, so I was like, whatever, I'll stand here without the robe!
CARDOSO: America didn't want to take off her pants! When we rehearsed, she was completely fine, but when we shot it, she didn't want to. She's one of the smartest people I've ever met, but she was only 17. She came to me and told me she felt the character wouldn't do that. She said it was unnecessary, but I knew that by contract she had to do it, but I didn't want to force her. She came back 20 minutes later and told me, "Ok, I'm going to do it, but I'm only going to do it for you."
LAVOO: We had dividers up so that the area of the set [we were shooting] was blocked off; only a few people were allowed there. We were getting ready to shoot, and Patricia comes up to me and says, "America doesn't want to do the scene the way it's written; she only wants to take her top off, not her pants." This was the first we were hearing this, and it's what's done in the play and it's a crucial turning point in the story. We had to do it. So, I made an excuse. I said, "Let me call Colin Callender," who was the head of HBO Films at the time. I said, "Let me see what he wants." So, I took my phone outside, and I pretended to call Colin. I came back and said, "Colin said you have to do it." And she said, "Ok, we'll do it." I didn't know what we were going to do. I couldn't imagine the movie without that scene. Hopefully they're happy it happened that way. [Laughs].
CARDOSO: America was mad at me the whole day! It took two days to shoot that scene, and she was so mad, she wouldn't even look me in my eyes! The next day, she came running to me and said, "You know, now I understand why it was important for the character to take off her pants. Can we please shoot the scene again?" I said, "No, you did it perfectly!"
FERRERA: I clearly see how this film empowered others to feel seen, liberated, and beautiful, but I was a child playing everything but a typical child. More than saying, "Oh, that's my body," people watched it and said, "Oh yes, that's how my mom responds to my body, that's how my culture responds to my body, that's how the world responds to my body." For me, being a young woman going through my own journey with my body, having it seen and talked about and projected upon by people watching this movie, if anything, sort of stunned me for a while, because that in and of itself sent a strong message about how I should feel about my body, and it was a much longer journey for me to get to a place where I felt empowered about my body the way that film helped others feel.
HBO took the film to Sundance the following year, where its runaway success began
FERRERA: I remember the premiere at Sundance, with 500 people in the audience. Very few of them were Latino — it was Sundance, so it was mostly white — but it was still people from different backgrounds and walks of life, so it wasn't necessarily playing to a specific audience. There wasn't a screening in Boyle Heights with Mexican-American community members, so I think there was a feeling of oh, are people going to get this? When an audience of 500 industry insiders rose to their feet and gave us a long, standing ovation, it became clear that it transcended the specificity of the film.
JOSEFINA LOPEZ: When I saw it at Sundance, I knew it was a hit when I heard men crying in the audience!
Fifteen years later, the film has inspired a generation of body positivity
JOSEFINA LOPEZ: It became a story about asking: what's the value of a woman? You're a masterpiece by God's design, and you should feel proud of yourself, and that's the story I wanted to tell the world because that's what I wanted to tell myself. Growing up in this country, you're constantly shown that being white and thin is beautiful… society tells women we only have value if, somehow, we have value to men. If men value us, if we have a function to them, then we have value, [but] I wasn't put on earth to be somebody's servant, to be someone's supporting character; I'm here to be the protagonist of my own story.
FERRERA: It's a story about relationships, people, and human beings. What was so surprising to people was that they'd never seen this mother-daughter, coming-of-age story told through the lens of a young Latina woman who happens to be in a body that wasn't [considered] ladylike. The film is about a young girl with dreams, and a family and a culture that couldn't give her what she needed to [achieve those dreams], and that's a story about the human experience. I can't imagine that it doesn't still resonate on a personal, human level.
GEORGE LOPEZ: I don't think you have to be Latino to have dreams. Every kid says something like, "My dream is to be a teacher!" Well, that should be a goal, not a dream. A dream is maybe you want to fly around the earth three times or stand on the sun. That's a dream… my grandparents didn't encourage me to be anything other than a carpenter or shipping-and-receiving clerk. So at some point, you're going to have to break with family, and that's what this movie is. If Ana stays home, nothing good happens, and when she does leave, she sees her sister's broken dreams in her eyes when as she says goodbye. It's significant to everyone; it's not even racial. Everyone has a dream. It's what all the great movies are about.
FERRERA: Having Real Women Have Curves as my first large film experience set the tone for the career I wanted, and what I sought out in projects afterward. I realized I could do what I love and tell stories that had the power to make people feel seen. While that's by no means what I set out to do at 17 years old, it set the tone for what I saw as possible [for myself]. The next big movie I did was Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, then Ugly Betty. Obviously the similarity [between the parts is there in terms of] questioning what we consider traditionally beautiful. When any woman is onscreen, that theme feels present to me. I don't think I equated the two [projects], except to say that, for me, when I heard about Ugly Betty and the character, I had the same feeling there that I did when I read Real Women Have Curves: I've never seen the world through this woman before, with this experience, with this family, with this background.
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Iowa-Based Pizza Restaurant Expands to…Where?!
Eric Stone Published: July 13, 2022
Happy Joe's, Coralville via Google Maps
This may confuse you after the closure after their recent closure in NE Cedar Rapids/Marion, but Happy Joe's is headed overseas..to Egypt!
Trust me, I looked it up in case they meant Cairo, Illinois. Or to make sure there wasn't a U.S. city named Egypt. Nope, it's in Egypt, the country.
That won't be the end of their expansion, either. But more on that in a minute. Happy Joe's Pizza And Ice Cream, based in Bettendorf, Iowa, has opened a location in Cairo, Egypt, according to KWWL. A quick Google search noted that as of June 3, 2022, there are 45 Happy Joe's locations in the United States (22 of those are in Iowa, according to the company's website).
Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Florida...and Egypt. That's quite a footprint. Here's a look at the brand-spanking-new location in Cairo:
But that's not all. The Middle East and Africa are next.
What does Twitter mean by "back open in Egypt"?
They were there once before, with a location in Cairo back in the late '80s, says KWWL.
50(!) other future locations are expected in Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, and Dubai.
According to Restaurant News, the company was founded in 1972 by Joe Whitty in Davenport, Iowa. "Happy Joe's dream was to create a restaurant concept that focused on serving America's two favorite foods – pizza and ice cream – in a family-friendly, celebratory environment. Owned and operated by Dynamic Restaurant Holdings Inc., Happy Joe's has been named a FastCasual "Top 200" concept, Franchise Times "Top 400" business, and Nation's Restaurant News "Top 500" restaurant. The family-centric pizza brand has eight companies and 34 franchise locations throughout the Midwest with more in the pipeline."
Here's to Iowa's own Happy Joe's. Uniting the world-one delicious taco pizza at a time!
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Tell us about yourself:
I was born and raised in Puerto Rico. I love adventure, people, and discovering new places so, somehow, I always knew I wanted to work in hospitality. It was my great honor to earn my hotel management degree at the prestigious Cornell University, School of Hotel Administration, which has a branch in Isla Verde not far from my hometown. Once I graduated, I started my career as a front desk manager. Over the years, I worked my way up through various roles to general manager at resorts throughout the Caribbean. I feel really lucky that my life has been so exciting, filled with many new experiences and opportunities to learn from the interesting people I meet. When I was offered the opportunity to become the general manager of Crocodile Bay Resort, I jumped at the chance, despite having never visited. Within a month, I was on a plane, ready to start my next adventure – this time, in the jungle.
What is the most interesting request you've ever had from a guest?
Once, during Costa Rica's rainy season, I received a request to stop the rain and improve the weather! I'll never forget it. Unfortunately, while I wasn't able to satisfy my guest's request, I was able to offer them a bird-watching experience, which is incredible at that time of year. If you look closely, it's possible to spot more than 30 different types of indigenous birds within a one-mile radius of the resort.
What is the most challenging experience you've ever handled at your resort?
During a severe rainstorm, one of our fishing boats got loose from the dock. It was a bit challenging to save the boat and suffice it to say, there was a lot of teamwork, some splashing and swimming, but, after much huffing and puffing, luckily there was no damage to the boat or dock.
What's your biggest professional accomplishment?
I'm proud of having successfully opened four hotels, especially "Monsieur" Cuisinart Golf Resort & Spa in Anguilla, British Virgin Islands. I'm also pleased to have a wonderful record of happy guests and provide mentorship to the talented professionals in our industry.
Best career advice you received:
Hendrick Santos, my former general manager at Hyatt Hotels in Puerto Rico (who is also my friend and mentor), taught me the importance of looking at the big picture, continuing to think out of the box, keeping my property in the best condition possible, and caring for my staff as much as I care for the guests.
I love inspiring positive change by creating memorable experiences for each guest who stays with us. The highlight of my day is hearing them say, "I don't want to leave!" because that tells me our team provided them with a great experience. I also have fun working in an industry that is constantly evolving, allowing me to continually expand my passion for service.
Article on Rabin Ortiz derived from "The Friday Report – News for the Interval Holdings Family of Companies" June 14, 2019.
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Q: Roadmap on how to publish payload to slack channel with webhook How do i publish a custom payload to slack channel with use of webhook from springboot application??
I have tried using the same approach i used in sending a paylaod to teams channel with slack channel but i usually get a bad error with 400 error code. Then i realized that Slack doesn't accept the same formatted with teams. Now i am back to square one.
All i am trying to accomplish here is to send a catch payload from my application to a particular channel i added on slack to update them. However, that payload will contain links and images.
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Yesterday convicted felon Dexter Isaac claimed that he was the triggerman in the 1994 shooting of Tupac Shakur at Quad Studios. He alleged that Jimmy Henchman paid him $2,500 to complete the task. Henchman's lawyer told the Daily News:
"It's a flat out lie, Dexter Isaac is not claiming this 17 years later to clear his conscience. He's doing it because he's told anybody who will listen he doesn't want to die in prison. He has kids and wants to work off his sentence. He can't be trusted."
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A patient held for observation is not admitted to the hospital, though there are certain similarities: patients will be checked in, pertinent information from the patient or their representative can be taken, and nurse(s) and doctor(s) from the given department may visit and a physical exam and personal and family history, and basic blood and imaging tests be conducted, and a bracelet for the observation period be given to the patient. However, they are not admitted formally to the hospital as an inpatient. They may be assigned a bed on the hospital's patient floors outside of the ER or the department they arrived in, or in a dedicated observation unit.

An EmPATH unit is a specialized type of hospital-based outpatient medical observation unit dedicated to mental health emergencies.

In the United States, some Medicare patients have spent several days as an outpatient in the hospital, but never officially being an inpatient in the hospital, which results in unexpected bills and makes them ineligible for Medicare payment for some future necessary services, especially skilled nursing care.

See also
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 Watchful waiting

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Q: Java memory keeps on increasing on running a JavaFX Application I'm running a JavaFx Application using Netbeans 8.2. When the application is initialised, I click on the application menu to open a file, which pops up the file chooser window. Now, this is where the problem happens. When I look at the memory usage in the System Monitor (on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS), the
java memory usage keeps on increasing (see image) every few seconds until I cancel the file choose window.
I ran the profiler in netbeans to get some insight, but everything seems fine. Even heap usage is within limits. Not sure what the issue is.
Memory Usage Screenshot

A: Don't worry, it keeps climing up but it eventually gets cleared back down when it does a GC (Garbage Collect). I've noticed that too (also from Netbeans 8.2), which brought me to here.. But then while I was typing, I noticed it drop back down and I was like "Ohhhh, the GC just happened".
It's true JavaFX could probably reuse some objects, but I've noticed for me it doesn't add more than 100MB of RAM, and then collects and resets back down.
You can limit the amount of max RAM you want it to allocate as well so it garbage collects earlier. :)
To set the min/max RAM, go to Project Properties -> Run -> VM Options and put -Xms16M for minimum, and -Xmx400M for maximum.. M/G for Megabyte and Gigabyte..
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25 years ago HIV was a death sentence. Those living with HIV were sometimes discriminated against and often shunned.
And then came Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, director Jonathan Demme, and a movie called Philadelphia. That movie and the developments in HIV treatment which followed it changed the face of HIV and AIDS in America and throughout the world.
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of Philadelphia, I am proud to announce a new two-episode podcast series: People Like Us: Inside Philadelphia.
Here's how the news was covered in the entertainment trade publication The Wrap.
This is produced with the incredible audio wizardry of my collaborator Jeff Schmidt, the generous support of our production partners at Wondery, and a big green light from the folks at Sony who are releasing a new 4K edition of the DVD.
This series, to my knowledge, is the first to be produced solely to support charity. Thanks to Coca Cola, 100% of the donations made by listeners to this podcast will go to support (RED) and its campaign to rid the world of AIDS in our lifetimes.
I am so thrilled and grateful for the great honor and responsibility of making this series.
I am also deeply grateful to the people involved in the original film who have heard the podcast and offered their enthusiastic approval. These include Joanne Howard (wife of the late director Jonathan Demme), Ron Nyswaner (screenwriter), and stars Denzel Washington and Tom Hanks.
(By the way, if you want to know what "anxious" is, try asking Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington to listen to your podcast).
Please listen to this short series. It's easily the most important thing I've done. And every penny it generates will go to halt the scourge of AIDS, which even today is the leading cause of death among women of reproductive age worldwide.


Goričko is a picturesque cultural landscape with dispersed farms on low hills. The mosaic of meadows, fields, orchards, vineyards and hamlets is intertwined by meandering streams, and outlines the coniferous and deciduous forests. Goričko is the Slovenian part of a Three Countries Park with Austria and Hungary and a habitat of endangered plant and animal species in Europe.
The wrinkled Goričko lies at the crossing of the Alps and the Pannonian Basin. Dramatic volcanic events 17 million years ago and more recently 1.6 million years ago are still visible in the hills on the other side of the River Kučnica, in Austria and in the vicinity of the castle, where the biggest castle in Slovenia is situated on a solid rock of volcanic ash.
Here people here still live in harmony with nature and respect other creatures – plants and animals. And it was their established existence on this area which placed Goričko into the Three Countries Nature Park and the Natura 2000 network upon entry into the European Union. In the Three Countries park of Goričko-Raab-Őrség, three nations together protect the natural and cultural landscape as an integrated whole on more than 105,000 hectares. In the Goričko Region, there are 7 habitats listed among specially protected areas and 38 animal species, of which 14 are bird species.
All this is offered by a picturesque carpet of interlaced areas of different usage of land for a number of cultural plants on the fields, colourful meadows, vineyards, full fruit trees next to houses in dispersed settlements and roadside villages as well as forests on the ridges and shady slopes. Streams wind among them shaded by the trees and shrubs, as well as the roads connecting people between the villages. That is pleasing for hikers and cyclists who have found their paradise here.
The standing water in Goričko was created by man. The largest is Lake Ledava, followed by the Bukovnica, Hodoš and Križevci Lakes. These have attracted aquatic and riparian birds which nest in the white willows and reeds.
Wet meadows in the Goričko Region are located in the river valleys. These are the habitat of the Siberian blue and yellow water iris, lemon daylilies, and white daffodils in some places.
Dry meadows on the slopes, on acidic sandy soil are rich with flowers, meadow orchids, and the smell of thyme.
Mixed deciduous-coniferous forests feature the world of fungi, deer, and bats, forest birds and smaller mammals.
A geologically interesting world can be found in the north-western part in the triangle between the Serdica Hill, Sotinje Hill and Beli breg as well as the settlements of Nuskova and Grad.


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Q: New published Firebase InApp message campaigns( with custom trigger event) are visible only after fresh install of App I am trying to use firebase in-app messaging for different screen events( different activities with custom trigger events in OnCreate()).
The problem I am facing:
Suppose There are some already published in-app campaigns (with custom trigger events)in the firebase console before the installation of the App's APK.
After the fresh installation with APK, the app shows already published campaigns well.
Now I publish some new campaign(with some different screen custom event trigger), and after publishing this new campaign I reopen my app and visit that screen(screen with the custom trigger of newly published campaign), the newly published campaign is not visible (expected behavior it should be visible).
If I reinstall my app again, all published campaigns are visible(along with the latest published campaign).
I don't want to reinstall the app every time for new campaigns.
Please help me if you have any information about this. Thank you so much!
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https://firebase.google.com/docs/in-app-messaging/modify-message-behavior?platform=android#trigger_in-app_messages_programmatically_2

code snippets I followed:
FirebaseInAppMessaging.getInstance().triggerEvent("activityD"); ( using this code line in OnCreate() and OnResume() in my Activity. publishing campaign with the same trigger string.

code snippets I also experimented with:
FirebaseInAppMessaging.getInstance().setMessagesSuppressed(false);
FirebaseInAppMessaging.getInstance().setAutomaticDataCollectionEnabled(true);

Expectations: I placed different trigger events on different screens. After that, I publish a in-app campaign with a custom trigger. The user should receive the message just after it visits that screen with the custom trigger event. There should be no need for a fresh installation of the App.

A: Similar question here.
In-App Messaging will only fetch campaigns once per day. The app fetched all active campaigns when you installed it. That's why the published campaign after that is not included. It'll be fetched until the next cycle. Afaik, there's no workaround for this. You can use "Test on Device" just to make sure that the campaign is working. Then, just wait for it to be fetched in the next cycle.


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When I was growing up, failure presented itself as something pretty damn clear and public - you failed a test, you failed to do pull-ups in PE class. In the adult world, it was the same way - marriages failed if they wound up in divorce, your football team failed if they lost, you failed if you didn't get that promotion at work. In figure competitions, failure was glaringly obvious - if the judges gave you first call outs you were a success. And if not, well, you failed. CrossFit has proven to be the same - you either lifted the weight successfully or you had a failed attempt. Period.
I've also realized that some failures can be private and hidden, like emotional and moral failures - for example, failing to understand another person, to do the right thing, to say what you mean, to listen or to understand another person. But whether failure is private or public, it's still tied to this black-and-white, win-or-lose, pass-or-fail mentality. It's taken me a long time to understand the nuances of success and failure, and to see how they often intertwine and overlap. What is failure to one person can be success to another, and much of what we consider success or failure isn't a result of actually succeeding or failing, but only our reaction to the experience at hand.
Failure is defined as a lack of success, but it's been said that in order to achieve anything, you have to be willing to fail. In essence, if you're looking for the path to success, you have to be willing to take some wrong turns at first. And the sweetest victories always seem to be the ones that are the most difficult. In fact, it's been my experience that the level of satisfaction in achievement is directly proportional to the level of hard work invested.
When I was five, I took horseback riding lessons. The first time I was thrown, my mother made me get back on the horse. "You always get back on the horse that threw you,' she said. "Otherwise you'll never ride again." That stuck with me, and perhaps it's part of why I have no problem with failing. Failure is easy. I do it every day, probably in a million different ways. I have been doing it for years. I have more missed personal record (PR) attempts then I have PRs. I have dumped months of work and wasted whole years, I'm sure, doing bad programming and utilizing incorrect diet methods. I've placed poorly in just as many shows as I've placed well. And even when I am pointed the right way and am productive, training hard, and setting PRs or placing well in figure, I am still not satisfied by the results. I am always pushing for more. I think it's an athlete's nature to never be satisfied, and I happen to also have a perfectionist personality.
I have never been afraid of failing, although I have been afraid of what others would think of me if I did. But experience, trial and error, mistakes, shortcomings - these are the things that teach us, mold us, and make us better. Often times, I've found I learn more from doing things wrong than I do from doing things right. Unfortunately, the way society views failure and success has embedded in us a fear of failing - a fear so deeply rooted that it often prevents us from even trying. No one wants to be regarded as weak or incapable. No one likes feeling like they fall short all the time.
But consider your mindset when it comes to failure. Instead of seeing a result as being a failure or success, view it as an experience. A simple part of what it means to be alive. And be open to experience in all forms- both good and bad. Failure is an opportunity. It's a chance to do things better, to get them right. It's a chance to test yourself, push your limits. Failing has always made a fighter out of me – it has ensured that I go on pushing for a pro card, no matter how many naysayers I have. In fact, I think failure has been one of the best things for me. Not having had my pro card handed to me on a silver plate has really made me who I am. It led me into strength training and CrossFit and also into alternative ways of nutrition and programming.
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Deadlift 5x3 @ 80%. I don't deadlift much and my old 1RM was 275, so I based it off that, which set the weight at 220. This felt really manageable, so I'm sure there's another PR sitting in there somewhere.
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Berger is a surname in both German, and French, although there is no etymological connection between the names in the two languages. The French surname is an occupational name for a shepherd, from Old French bergier (Late Latin berbicarius, from berbex 'ram'). The German surname derives from the word Berg, the word for "mountain" or "hill", and means "a resident on a mountain or hill", or someone from a toponym Berg, derived from the same. The pronunciation of the English name may sometimes be /ˈbɜːrdʒər/ BUR-jər following the French phonetics (the German is /ˈbɜːrɡər/ BUR-gər). Notable people with this surname include:
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Barbara Berger (born 1930), All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
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Daniel Berger (born 1993), American professional PGA Tour golfer
David Mark Berger (1944–1972), American-born Israeli weightlifter; Maccabiah champion (middleweight); one of the 11 hostages murdered in the Munich massacre
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Reflections in Holy Week 2018 (1),
Monday, Saint Mary's, Askeaton
The Risen Christ with Mary of Bethany (left) and Mary Magdalene (right) … a stained glass window in Saint Nicholas's Church, Adare, Co Limerick (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2018)
Monday 26 March 2018, Monday in Holy Week:
8 p.m.: Evening Prayer, Saint Mary's Church, Askeaton.
Readings: Psalm 36: 5-11; Hebrews 9: 11-15; John 12: 1-11.
Hymn: 217, All glory laud and honour
May I speak in the name of + God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Throughout this week, as we journey together through Holy Week, we continue the gradual build-up from Palm Sunday, with services each evening in this group of parishes. We are here in Saint Mary's, Askeaton this evening [26 March 2018], in Saint Brendan's, Tarbert, tomorrow [27 March], then we journey on to Rathkeale on Wednesday, to Castletown for the Maundy Eucharist on Thursday evening, so that we can mark Good Friday prayerfully and appropriately here in Askeaton.
All this is to prepare us to celebrate the Resurrection, on Easter Eve in Rathkeale and Castletown on Saturday evening and in Askeaton and Tarbert on Easter Day.
During Holy Week, we have a series of readings from Saint John's Gospel, in which Jesus has a very different set of encounters or exchanges each evening.
This evening, we are invited to be spectators, to be guests if you like, in the home of Mary and Martha and their brother Lazarus in Bethany. And there Jesus is the guest of honour, in the evening before Palm Sunday.
So, we have just taken a step back by one evening from our Gospel reading yesterday morning (Mark 11: 1-11; see John 12: 12-15).
Martha and Mary offer their home in Bethany as a place of welcome, peace and refuge for Jesus. His life is under threat, but still he has time, and they have time, for a meal together.
We had a hint of the Easter story already in this home when Jesus raised their brother Lazarus from the dead.
Now we have a sign of Jesus impending death, when Mary anoints his feet with costly perfume.
But Judas fails to see the full picture, to understand the full scenario that is beginning to unfold.
Judas has a point, I suppose, from our point of view. There is so much need in the world, so much need around us, there is so much that is demanding of the best of our intentions.
But so often the best of my intentions remain just that, and I never do anything about them.
How often do we hear people say, 'Charity begins at home,' as a way of putting down people who genuinely want to do something about the injustices around us, even the injustices in the wider world?
Yet, so often, we suspect, that in their case charity does not even begin at home … it never even gets to the starting blocks.
For Mary, in our Gospel reading this evening, charity begins in her own home. But we get a hint that it is not going to end there. It has only started.
Judas is told the poor are always going to be with him … perhaps because charity does not even begin in his own home, never mind reaching out beyond that.
Mary's action is loving and uninhibited, Mary's gift is costly and beyond measure.
Love like that begins at home, and it goes on giving beyond the home, beyond horizons we never imagine.
Later this week, the disciples must have been reminded of Mary's actions when Jesus insisted on washing their feet in a similar act of love and humility.
How would I feel if Jesus knelt in front of me and washed my feet?
Would I worry whether I had smelly socks, whether he would notice my bunions, chilblains and in-grown toenails, so concerned about what he thinks of me that I would never stop to think of what I think of him and what he thinks of others?
Or would I, like Mary, smell the sweet fragrance that fills a house that is filled with love.
Someone recently described prayer as 'a time of living in the fragrance and the scent of God. It is gentle, light and lasts long. It comes off us; if we live in love, we spread love, and others know that something deep in us gives a fragrance to all of our life'.
Mary is extravagant and generous and is not inhibited by the attitude of others around her.
How much did she understand about Jesus' impending death when none of the disciples saw it coming?
Mary does not sell the perfume, as Judas wants. Instead, she kept it and she would bring it the grave early on Easter morning with the intention of anointing the body of the dead Jesus.
Can people smell the fragrance of Christ from us?
Are we prepared to let charity begin at home? And then, in the joy of the Easter Resurrection, to allow it to be shared with the whole world?
And so, may all we think, say and do be to the praise, honour and glory of God, + Father, Son and Holy Spirit, Amen.
John 12: 1-11
1 Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. 2 There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him. 3 Mary took a pound of costly perfume made of pure nard, anointed Jesus' feet, and wiped them with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. 4 But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was about to betray him), said, 5 'Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?' 6 (He said this not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief; he kept the common purse and used to steal what was put into it.) 7 Jesus said, 'Leave her alone. She bought it so that she might keep it for the day of my burial. 8 You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.' 9 When the great crowd of the Jews learned that he was there, they came not only because of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. 10 So the chief priests planned to put Lazarus to death as well, 11 since it was on account of him that many of the Jews were deserting and were believing in Jesus.
whose most dear Son went not up to joy,
but first he suffered pain,
and entered not into glory before he was crucified:
Mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of his cross,
may find it none other than the way of life and peace;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
The Lenten Collect:
Almighty and everlasting God,
you hate nothing that you have made
and forgive the sins of all those who are penitent:
Create and make in us new and contrite hearts
that we, worthily lamenting our sins
and acknowledging our wretchedness,
may receive from you, the God of all mercy,
perfect remission and forgiveness;
The Blessing:
Christ draw you to himself
and grant that you find in his cross a sure ground for faith,
a firm support for hope,
and the assurance of sins forgiven:
Tomorrow: John 12: 20-36, The Greeks who come to see Jesus
Wednesday: John 13: 21-32, Judas plans to betray Jesus
(Revd Canon Professor) Patrick Comerford is Priest-in-Charge, the Rathkeale and Kilnaughtin Group of Parishes. This Holy Week Reflection was prepared for Saint Mary's Church, Askeaton, on 26 March 2018.
Scripture quotations are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA, and are used by permission. All rights reserved.
Labels: Adare, Askeaton, Holy Week, Lent 2018, Saint John's Gospel, Sermons 2018
How Queen Victoria's visit
to Killarney brought financial
ruin to the Herbert family
Muckross House stands on the small Muckross Peninsula, between Muckross Lake and Lough Leane, two of the lakes of Killarney (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2018; click on images for full-screen resolution)
I find on most weekends that by Sunday afternoon I am comfortably tired. I have come to recognise this as a positive sign of how I have worked and prepared for my liturgical and preaching commitments each week.
I sometimes say with humour that all I am fit for on a Sunday afternoon is to sit back and watch cricket or rugby. But, more often than not, this means a walk on a beach or by a riverbank or lakeshore.
This week, two of us drove from Holy Trinity Church, Rathkeale, Co Limerick, to Killarney, Co Kerry, to see the Lakes of Killarney, Torc Waterfall, and the grounds of Muckross House, which is part of the Killarney National Park.
Muckross House stands on the small Muckross Peninsula, between Muckross Lake and Lough Leane, two of the lakes of Killarney, 6 km south the town. The house is best known for its parkland setting beside the Lower Lake at Killarney, but it is also interesting architecturally and is, perhaps, the finest example of the Elizabethan Revival style in Co Kerry.
Muckross House, named as Muckross Abbey on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey in the 1840s, is said to be the fourth house built by successive generations of the Herbert family on lands granted in 1586 by Queen Elizabeth.
The present Muckross House was built in 1839-1843 for Colonel Henry Arthur Herbert (1815-1866), MP for Kerry (1847-1866), whose family had lived at Muckross since the early 18th century. Colonel Herbert, who was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, was Chief Secretary for Ireland (1857-1858). He built the house using the substantial dowry that came with his marriage in 1837 to the watercolour artist Mary Balfour (1817-1893).
The house was designed by the Scottish architect, William Burn (1789-1870), who was just beginning to establish himself as a country house architect. A talented architect, he was a pioneer of the Scottish Baronial style, and received major commissions from the age of 20 until his death at 80.
Burn was born on Rose Street in Edinburgh, the son of an architect, Robert Burn. After training with the architect Sir Robert Smirke, designer of the British Museum, he returned to Edinburgh in 1812 where he established his practice.
He was living and working at 131 George Street in the New Town, Edinburgh in the 1830s. He a master of many styles, but all are typified by well-proportioned simplicity externally and frequent stunning interiors. He worked in London from 1844. He died at 6 Stratton Street in Piccadilly, London, and is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery, on the edge of the path to the Anglican Chapel.
Burn designed Muckross House in the Tudor Gothic style with 65 rooms, and it is a highly successful example of the Tudor Gothic or Elizabethan Revival style, then popular in Ireland. The array of tall chimneys, oriels, stepped gables, finials and mullioned windows are all skilfully integrated into a crisp composition
Muckross House has an asymmetrical entrance front that gives way to a symmetrical garden front where a series of reception rooms open en suite. Handsome bay windows define each front and show cut-sandstone mullioned dressings. Overhead, the steep gables are crowned by spiky finials, while elongated grouped chimney stacks embellish the roofline. The interior was built with the same magnificence as the exterior, although the rooms have now lost most of their original Victorian furnishings.
The cost of building the house is estimated at £30,000. It was originally intended that the house would also include an extensive servants' quarters, a stable block, an orangery and a summer house. But the scale of the project was cut back at the behest of Mary Herbert who, although living most of the year in England, arranged a number of fundraisers to assist tenants on the estate during the Great Famine (1845-1849).
The imposing porte cochère at Muckross House was added by William Atkins (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2018)
The imposing porte cochère at Muckross was a later 'improvement' completed to a design in 1857 by William Atkins (1812-1887) of Cork, who was also responsible for farm buildings, a gateway with accompanying lodge, and the nearby Holy Trinity Church (Muckross) at Cloghereen.
William Atkins was a nephew by marriage of the architect George Richard Pain and was his apprentice. The architects George Richard Pain (1793-1838) and his elder brother James Pain (1779-1877) were responsible for many public and church buildings throughout Co Limerick.
Atkins married his cousin Louisa Gelston (1812-1904) in 1845. Two years later, he inherited half the estate of his grandfather William Atkins at Fountainville, and he farmed the property until 1854. In the second half of the 1860s, he designed several new Church of Ireland churches, which suggests he may have been a district architect for the Ecclesiastical Commissioners at this time.
His works include the Leamy School in Hartstonge Street, Limerick, Saint Columba's College, Rathfarnham, Aghadoe House, Killarney, Saint Mary's Church (Church of Ireland), Killarney, and the Church of Ireland parish church in Ardfert, Co Kerry. He died on 5 January 1887.
Queen Victoria arrived in Killarney on Monday 26 August 1861. The royal party spent their first night at Killarney House, the seat of the Earl of Kenmare, where the visit was considered a formal state occasion. However, her two-night stay at Muckross was regarded as a private affair, with the local press reporting that 'her Majesty … had declared her intention of being 'very quiet' while at Muckross.'
Queen Victoria arrived at Muckross with Valentine Augustus Browne (1825-1905), 4th Earl of Kenmare, as her escort. The Times reported she was met by her hosts on the lawns at the door of the house and a gathering of ladies and gentlemen greeted her enthusiastically.
On entering the house, Queen Victoria would have seen the Persian carpets, mirrors and tapestries specially commissioned for her visit. The curtains still hanging in the dining room are believed to have been woven in Brussels or Paris, while an heraldic sideboard was imported from Italy. New china, linen and silverware were used at the meals, while the servants were dressed in new uniforms.
A suite of rooms commanding panoramic vistas overlooking Lough Leane and Muckross Lake was reserved at Muckross House for the exclusive use of Queen Victoria (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2018)
A suite of rooms commanding panoramic vistas overlooking Lough Leane and Muckross Lake was reserved for the exclusive use of the queen. with the Kerry Evening Post reporting that 'an entire section of the mansion has been set apart for the royal family, so that all their apartments communicate without the necessity of passing into the corridors to be used by other occupants of the house. … In her sitting room – which, like all others, is a splendid apartment furnished richly and tastefully – there is a series of views of the Lakes of Killarney, painted by Mrs Herbert. They are works of the highest artistic excellence.'
Queen Victoria visited Torc Waterfall with Mary Balfour Herbert (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2018)
The following day, Queen Victoria, accompanied in her carriage by Mrs Herbert, drove around the demesne, visiting Dinish Island, Mangerton Mountain and the Torc Waterfall. After lunch, the party embarked at the boathouse to view a stag hunt on the lake. The queen probably planted some trees ceremonially, and a copse near the site of the old stable yard was known as the 'Queen's Trees.'
Ladies' View, 17 km south of Killarney (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2018)
Ladies' View, 17 km south of Killarney, takes its name from the pleasure expressed by Queen Victoria's ladies-in-waiting when they visited the place.
On the morning she left, Queen Victoria visited the ruins of the 15th century Muckross Abbey in the grounds. Eleanor, the eldest Herbert daughter, remarked that the Queen 'is to have ivy from the Abbey and ferns from various places sent to Osborne [the royal palace on the Isle of Wight] as recollections of this place.'
Before leaving Killarney, Queen Victoria presented Mrs Herbert with a bracelet of gold, pearls and diamonds. In return, Mrs Herbert presented three of her watercolours, The Upper Lake, The Middle Lake from Copper Mine Bay and The Lower Lake with Fir Island; these paintings are still held in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle.
Muckross House and estate were inherited by Colonel Herbert's son, Major Henry Arthur Herbert (1840-1901). He married Emily Julia Charlotte Keane (1848-1911) from Cappoquin, Co Waterford, a daughter of Edward Arthur Wellington Keane (1815-1882), 2nd Baron Keane.
However, the cost associated with the improvements to house and the entertainment of Queen Victoria had contributed to the family's financial difficulties, along with the loss of rental income and ill-advised financial investments. The estate was put up for auction by the Standard Life Assurance Company in 1899, but it was withdrawn from sale because of a lack of interest at the time.
Later that year, Muckross was sold to Arthur Edward Guinness (1840-1915), 1st Baron Ardilaun, of Ashford Castle, Co Galway, who was related by marriage to the Herbert family. He wanted to preserve the dramatic landscape, but he did not live in the house himself. Instead, he rented the house to wealthy groups as a seasonal hunting lodge.
Shortly before the outbreak of World War I, Muckross House and its demesne were again in 1911 sold to William Bowers Bourn II (1857-1936), a wealthy Californian entrepreneur and mining magnate. William and wife Agnes Bowers Bourn gave Muckross to their daughter Maud and her husband Arthur Rose Vincent as a wedding present.
The couple lived there until Maud died from pneumonia in 1929. While they were living there, the improvements they made cost over £110,000 and included building the Rock Garden, the Stream Garden, and the Sunken Garden (1915).
The Muckross Estate forms the heart of the Killarney National Park (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2018)
Three years later, Maud's parents and her widowed husband, Senator Arthur Rose Vincent (1876-1956), decided to present Muckross House and the 11,000 acre estate to the Irish nation in 1932, on the understanding that its peace and tranquillity would never be disturbed by the sound of motor cars. It was called the 'Bourne-Vincent Memorial Park,' it became the first National Park in the Republic of Ireland and it formed the basis of the present-day Killarney National Park. In later years, the park was substantially expanded with the acquisition of land from the former estate of the Earls of Kenmare.
Killarney National Park is now a magnificent park extended to more than 10,000 hectares, including the three Lakes of Killarney and surrounding mountains and woodland. The park is today administered and managed by the National Parks and Wildlife Service, while Muckross House is managed jointly by the Office of Public Works and the Trustees of Muckross House.
Muckross House was restored in two stages from 1983 to 1995. The second stage included the redecoration of the billiard room, dining room, boudoir and Queen Victoria's bedroom and dressing room. The boudoir in the suite of rooms reserved exclusively for Queen Victoria was restored in 1990-1995, and the décor and furnishings were based on photographs of the room taken in 1865. Surviving furniture was restored and supplemented by period furniture of the Victorian era.
The Trustees of Muckross House organised a Herbert family reunion at Muckross House in 1999. An exhibition of watercolours by Mary Balfour Herbert was part of the special occasion. For the first time in 100 years, members of the Herbert family gathered at Muckross House, with widely scattered family members and descendants coming from England and America. Many of them were previously unaware of each other's existence.
The Herbert Family held a reunion at Muckross House in 1999, organised by the Trustees of Muckross House (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2018)
Labels: Architecture, Cappoquin, Co Kerry, Killarney, Lake walks, Local History
Following the Stations
of the Cross in Lent 41:
Lichfield 9: Third Fall
'Third Fall' … Station 9 in the Chapel at Saint John's Hospital, Lichfield, Jesus falls for the third time (Photograph: Patrick Comerford)
This is Holy Week and the last week in Lent. Throughout Holy Week, there are special services in each of the churches in the Rathkeale and Kilnaughtin Group of Parishes. This evening, this service is Evening Prayer at 8 p.m.in Saint Mary's Church, Askeaton.
Throughout Lent, my meditations each morning are guided by three sets of Stations of the Cross that I have found either inspiring or unusual. These are the stations in Saint Mel's Cathedral, Longford, at Saint John's Well on a mountainside near Millstreet, Co Cork, and in the Chapel of Saint John's Hospital, Lichfield.
The idea for this series of morning Lenten meditations came from reading about Peter Walker's new exhibition, 'Imagining the Crucifixion,' inspired by the Stations of the Cross, which opened in Lichfield Cathedral last month and continues until the end of Lent.
In my meditations, I am drawing on portions of the Stabat Mater, the 12th century hymn of the Crucifixion ('At the cross her station keeping') attributed to the Franciscan poet Jacopone da Todi. Some prayers are traditional, some are from the Book of Common Prayer, and other meditations and prayers are by Canon Frank Logue and the Revd Victoria Logue of the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia.
Lichfield 9: 'Third Fall'
For these last two weeks in Lent, I am looking at the 14 Stations of the Cross in the Chapel of Saint John's Hospital, Lichfield. Since I was a 19-year-old, I have regarded this chapel as my spiritual home.
The Ninth Station in the Stations of the Cross has a traditional description such as 'Jesus falls for the third time.' But in the Ninth Station in the Chapel of Saint John's Hospital, Lichfield, instead of a traditional full description, there are two simple words in plain capital letters: 'Third Fall.'
In this station in Saint John's, Christ has stumbled and fallen for a third time. The Roman soldier who has been whipping and goading him all along the way now seems tired and exhausted too, as he tries to hold up an arm of the cross with both hands, his whip hanging limply in one hand, without any hint of a gesture to move Christ on with force.
Christ holds onto his cross with one hand, but with both arms he embraces the jagged rock that has broken his fall and that must be bruising his already much-bruised body.
Psalm 18 refers to God as 'my rock, my fortress and my deliverer' (verse 2), and Psalm 95 speaks of God as 'the rock of our salvation' (verse 1). But this morning I am reminded of the words of the Prophet Habakkuk: 'The very stones will cry out from the wall, and the plaster] will respond from the woodwork' (Habakkuk 2: 11).
These words of Habakkuk are recalled in Saint Luke's account of Christ's entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday:
As he was now approaching the path down from the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the deeds of power that they had seen, saying,
'Blessed is the king
who comes in the name of the Lord!
Peace in heaven,
and glory in the highest heaven!'
Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, 'Teacher, order your disciples to stop.' He answered, 'I tell you, if these were silent, the stones would shout out' (Luke 19: 37-40).
From Stabat Mater:
Lord Jesus, crucified, have mercy on us!
O thou Mother! Fount of love,
Touch my spirit from above.
Make my heart with thine accord.
Brutalised. Dazed. Beyond strength.
Now nearly on Calvary's broad summit, Jesus collapses.
Poles long set into the ground are silhouetted against grey clouds.
Impatiently, Jesus is pulled up and shoved angrily toward his death.
Prayers:
Loving Lord, you fell that we might rise and taught us that unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. Help us to die to ourselves so that we might live to you and bear much fruit for your Kingdom. This we pray in the name of Jesus, our crucified Lord, the King of Glory, the King of Peace. Amen.
We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you.
Because by your holy cross You have redeemed the world.
Jesus, your journey has been long. You fall again, beneath your cross. You know your journey is coming to an end. You struggle and struggle. You get up and keep going.
The Collect of the Day (Monday in Holy Week):
A prayer before walking to the next station:
Holy God,
Holy and mighty Holy immortal one,
Have mercy on us.
Tomorrow: 'Stripped' … Station 10 in the Chapel at Saint John's Hospital, Lichfield, Jesus is stripped of his clothes.
Yesterday's reflection
The Chapel of Saint John's Hospital seen on Saint John Street, Lichfield (Photograph: Patrick Comerford)
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