In this, the fifth of the "Ten Commandments", we are commanded to honor our parents. Why is this commandment located precisely at this point?
Ramban explains: Up to this point, we had been commanded on things that are בין אדם למקום – relating solely to God (Belief in God, no idols, do not swear falsely, remember the Shabbat). After this, the commandments are all relating to issues that are solely בין אדם לחבירו – between man and his fellow (No murder, adultery, theft, false witnes or coveting). The commandment to honor one's parents is an appropriate segue between these two sections of commandments because one's relationship with one's parents has both of these aspects within it.
are added to this commandment) to mean that just as God has commanded you to observe his honor, so to your are commanded honor the onw who "joined me in your being formed". On the other hand, this mitzvah is towards another person, and is carried out in this world. So it embodies both aspects: towards God and towards man, and is thus appropriately placed in between the first set of commandments and the last.
Rav Ally wrote about the Netziv's explanation for why Moshe had to sit down in order that Aharon and Chur hold his arms (since we would have thought that Moshe would have remained standing). The answer given is that since according to Chazal, Moshe was 10 amot tall, he had to sit down in order for Aharon and Chur (who were presumably of a more regular height) to be able to reach up high enough to support his arms.


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package org.acre.dao;

/**
 * @author Deepak.Alur@Sun.com
 *         Date: Jun 11, 2004
 *         Time: 9:36:54 AM
 */
public interface PDMXMLConstants {

    // PDM Category
    public static final String PDM_CATEGORY_COREJ2EEPATTERNS = "CoreJ2EEPatterns";
    public static final String PDM_CATEGORY_GOF = "GoF";
    public static final String PDM_CATEGORY_OTHER = "Other";

    // PDM Types
    public static final String PDM_TYPE_MODEL_PDM = "ModelPDM";
    public static final String PDM_TYPE_MODEL_GROOVY = "GroovyPDM";
    public static final String PDM_TYPE_MODEL_PQLPDM = "PQLPDM";
    public static final String PDM_TYPE_MODEL_QLPDM = "QLPDM";
    public static final String PDM_TYPE_MODEL_JAVAPDM = "JavaPDM";

    // Relationship types
    public static final String RELATIONSHIP_TYPE_CREATES = "Creates";
    public static final String RELATIONSHIP_TYPE_CALLS = "Calls";
    public static final String RELATIONSHIP_TYPE_INSTANTIATES = "Instantiates";
    public static final String RELATIONSHIP_TYPE_CONTAINS = "Contains";
    public static final String RELATIONSHIP_TYPE_USES = "Uses";
    public static final String RELATIONSHIP_TYPE_ISOFTYPE = "IsOfType";
    public static final String RELATIONSHIP_TYPE_THROWS = "Throws";
    public static final String RELATIONSHIP_TYPE_CATCHES = "Catches";
    public static final String RELATIONSHIP_TYPE_EXTENDS = "Extends";
    public static final String RELATIONSHIP_TYPE_IMPLEMENTS = "Implements";
    public static final String RELATIONSHIP_TYPE_ABSCO = "Absco";
    public static final String RELATIONSHIP_TYPE_RELCO = "Relco";
    public static final String RELATIONSHIP_TYPE_INVRELCO = "InvRelco";

    // tier types
    public static final String PDM_TIER_TYPE_BUSINESS = "BusinessTier";
    public static final String PDM_TIER_TYPE_PRESENTATION = "PresentationTier";
    public static final String PDM_TIER_TYPE_INTEGRATION = "IntegrationTier";
    public static final String PDM_TIER_TYPE_OTHER = "Other";
    public static final String PDM_TIER_TYPE_SUBSYSTEM = "SubSystem";
    public static final String PDM_TIER_TYPE_ANY = "Any";

    //roles types
    public static final String ROLES_TYPE_DYNAMIC = "Dynamic";

    // role types
    public static final String ROLE_TYPE_PDM ="PDM";
    public static final String ROLE_TYPE_DYNAMIC_PDM ="DynamicPDM";
    public static final String ROLE_TYPE_QUERY ="Query";
    public static final String ROLE_TYPE_ABSTRACT ="Abstract";
    public static final String ROLE_TYPE_ANNOTATED = "Annotated";

    // role arguments type
    public static final String ROLE_TYPE_ARGUMENT_ROLEPATH = "RolePath";

    // Query Types
    public static final String QUERY_TYPE_STATIC = "Static";
    public static final String QUERY_TYPE_DYNAMIC = "Dynamic";

    // Query Language
    public static final String QUERY_LANGUAGE_PQL = "PQL";
    public static final String QUERY_LANGUAGE_GROOVY = "Groovy";

    // query Return Variable Types
    public static final String QUERY_RETURN_VARIABLE_TYPE_ANY = "Any";
    public static final String QUERY_RETURN_VARIABLE_TYPE_STATIC = "Static";
    public static final String QUERY_RETURN_VARIABLE_TYPE_DYNAMIC = "Dynamic";

    public static final String QUERY_ARGUMENT_TYPE_STATIC = "Static";
    public static final String QUERY_ARGUMENT_TYPE_DYNAMIC = "Dynamic";
    public static final String QUERY_ARGUMENT_TYPE_RETURN = "Query Return Variable";

    public static final String PQL_FILE_EXTENSION = ".pql";
    public static final String GROOVY_FILE_EXTENSION = ".groovy";
    public static final String PQL_TEMP_FILE_PREFIX = "PQL";
    public static final String NEW_QUERY_NAME = "";

    public static final String PDM_FACT_MODEL_JAVA = "Java";
    public static final String PDM_FACT_MODEL_WSDL = "WSDL";
    public static final String PDM_FACT_MODEL_JAVAWSDL_HYBRID = "Java+WSDL";

    public static final String NEW_PDM_NAME = "";
    public static final String DEFAULT_PDM_TYPE = PDM_TYPE_MODEL_PQLPDM;

    public static final String DEFAULT_PDM_CATEGORY_TYPE = PDM_CATEGORY_OTHER;
    public static final String DEFAULT_PDM_TIER_TYPE = PDM_TIER_TYPE_ANY;
    public static final String DEFAULT_DESCRIPTION = "Modify values before saving";
    public static final String DEFAULT_PDM_ATTRIBUTES ="";
    public static final String DEFAULT_PDM_SCRIPTED_PDM_PATH = "";
    public static final String DEFAULT_PDM_FACT_MODEL_TYPE = PDM_FACT_MODEL_JAVA;

    public static final String PDM_ROLE_ARGUMENT_TYPE_STRING = "String";
    public static final String PDM_ROLE_ARGUMENT_TYPE_INTEGER = "Integer";
    public static final String PDM_ROLE_ARGUMENT_TYPE_DECIMAL = "Decimal";
    public static final String PDM_ROLE_ARGUMENT_TYPE_BOOLEAN = "Boolean";
    public static final String PDM_ROLE_ARGUMENT_TYPE_ROLEPATH = "RolePath";

    public static final String DEFAULT_PDM_ROLE_ARGUMENT_TYPE = PDM_ROLE_ARGUMENT_TYPE_STRING;
    public static final String DEFAULT_PDM_ROLE_TYPE = ROLE_TYPE_QUERY;
    public static final String DEFAULT_PDM_RELATIONSHIP_TYPE = "";

    public static final String NAME_SEPARATOR = ".";
}

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Q: Await and fire-and-forget in .NET Core I'm working on a Blazor application.
When a user fills in a form the data needs to be saved to a table and a longer task needs to be run.
The user doesn't need to wait for this longer task to be completed. He will be notified later.
But when the long task is finished the table entry needs to be updated.
How to do this?
This is my current code which blocks to user until all is finished:
        public async Task<Client> Create(Client client)
        {
            client.DatabaseCreated = false;

            await _context.Clients.AddAsync(client);
            await _context.SaveChangesAsync();
            Debug.WriteLine("Client added");

            // Run longer task.
            try
            {
                // TODO: Don't wait for it:
                var longTask= myLongTask(client.Code, client.Id);
                // update table entry
                client.DatabaseCreated = true;
                var updateClient = _context.SaveChangesAsync();
                await Task.WhenAll(longTask, updateClient);
                Debug.WriteLine("Client updated");
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(e);
                throw;
            }

            Debug.WriteLine("Client returned");
            return client;
        }

A:
The user doesn't need to wait for this longer task to be completed. He will be notified later.
How to do this?

To do this in a reliable way, you would need to 1) have a reliable queue (e.g., Azure Queue / Amazon SQS / etc.), and 2) have a background service (e.g., ASP.NET Core Background Service / Azure Function / Amazon Lambda / etc.). The ASP.NET API would just place a message onto the queue and then return; the background service reads from the queue and processes the messages.

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typedef vtkSmartPointer<class igtlioDevice> igtlioDevicePointer;

enum OPENIGTLINKIO_LOGIC_EXPORT IGTLIO_SYNCHRONIZATION_TYPE
{
  IGTLIO_BLOCKING,
  IGTLIO_ASYNCHRONOUS
};

///
/// Uniquely identify a Device by both its name and type.
/// This enables broadcast Devices (with empty name) of different types
/// to be stored in the same structures.
///
struct OPENIGTLINKIO_LOGIC_EXPORT igtlioDeviceKeyType
{
  explicit igtlioDeviceKeyType() {}
  explicit igtlioDeviceKeyType(const std::string& type_, const std::string& name_) :
    type(type_), name(name_) {}
  std::string type;
  std::string name;

public:
  std::string GetBaseTypeName() const;

  static igtlioDeviceKeyType CreateDeviceKey(igtl::MessageBase::Pointer message);
  static igtlioDeviceKeyType CreateDeviceKey(igtlioDevicePointer device);
};

bool operator==(const igtlioDeviceKeyType& lhs, const igtlioDeviceKeyType& rhs);
bool operator<(const igtlioDeviceKeyType& lhs, const igtlioDeviceKeyType& rhs);

#endif // IGTLIOUTILITIES_H


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OPERA, BALLET AND MUSICAL
FIRST PERFORMANCES
PERFORMANCES SELECTIVE
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Cristian Orosanu
Cristian Orosanu exhibits a mixture of passionate exuberance, fiery determination, elegant clarity of expression and huge personal charm. However, what chiefly distinguishes him from his peers is his extensive repertoire, he has already conducted more than 35 operas and over 500 symphonic works. His international career began in 2005 when he won the 2nd prize of the Malko International Conducting Competition in Copenhagen, the Music Critics Award in Romania and the invitation to lead the Paris Orchestra at the Aix-en-Provence Lyrical Festival.
Cristian was involved in the launch of a young orchestra in Hyogo (Japan) and created his own chamber ensemble in Romania: Kamerata Kronstadt. He is passionate about innovative projects that break the classic patterns. Thus, he creates an international orchestra for seniors, under the name of Golden Age Orchestra, and plans a series of concerts dedicated to a healthy environment.
The professional reputation of the romanian conductor determined his presence on major international stages, with famous ensembles like the Bucharest National Radio Orchestra, Tonhalle Zurich, the BBC Scottish Orchestra, the Bordeaux-Aquitaine National Orchestra, or the Philharmonic Orchestras in Bucharest, Brussels, Iasi, Strasbourg, Cluj, Porto, etc. Cristian's career has harmoniously combined the activity of guest conductor with the involvement on fixed positions at the National Opera in Bucharest, Iasi and Cluj, at the Brasov Philharmonic Orchestra or Deutsche Symphony Orchestra Berlin.
He studied horn and orchestral conducting at the High Academy of Music in Bucharest with Cristian Brancusi and at the same time attended courses with Constantin Bugeanu. Following this, he was awarded a scholarship to study at the Internationale Bachakademie in Stuttgart with Helmuth Rilling and over the years he had the opportunity to work as assistant conductor to Yutaka Sado, Mstislav Rostropovich, Ingo Metzmacher and Lawrence Foster.
Desiring to continue the pedagogical tradition taken over from Maestro Bugeanu, Cristian Orosanu is teaching orchestral conducting at the High Academy of Music in Iasi and led very successful international conducting master-classes. In recent years he has been part of the jury of the International Conducting Competition "Jeunesses Musicales" in Bucharest.
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Review | Yolanda Nieves
December 7, 2020 — Yolanda Nieves
Toward Solidarity: A Review of My Name is Romero by David A. Romero
Yolanda Nieves
Some Latino poets like Willie Perdomo dish out the grit of living on the margins with superb poetical musical cadence in his 2014 The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon: Poems. Other writers like Daniel Borzutzky—a 2016 National Book Award Winner for The Performance of Becoming Human—immortalize the monumental horror of terror and torture of being "Othered." What makes David A. Romero's book My Name Is Romero a good addition to the Latin@/x canon is the honesty of the subject matter. The title of the book is not simply what it implies—the centering of the "Self"—of one Latino. Instead, it's an informed, intrepid, and at times, painful revelation of thoughts and dialogue that lie unspoken in our brains and amongst many Latin@/xs, and in Latin@/x communities.
The book's title My Name Is Romero feels like a salute to Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzalez's 1967 epic poem titled, "I Am Joaquin." While Gonzalez's poem encompasses the historical totality of what it means to be a Chicano, Romero's identity poem takes on Latinidad in a more straightforward manner. At the same time, its echo is emotionally complicated. His poetics is rolled in the empirical and intellectual politics of a Latino's identity construction in the U.S.
The book begins with a culture clash. In the introductory poem "My Name Is Romero," our author recounts how his name is mispronounced. Romeo? Or Romero? Is any name just as significant? Contrary to Shakespeare's idea that "a rose by any other name is just as sweet," the renaming or mispronunciation of Romero's name is just the tip of what can be considered microaggressions.
In the poem "Sweet Pochx Pie," he writes: "And rolling R's seem as silly to me / As caricatures of twirling mustaches / When saying my own name properly / Makes me feel like Zorro." The rolling of the "r's" highlights a poignant theme of how the use of language is related to the ability of crossing ethnic and racial borders, and how language is used as a measuring tape of a Latin@/x's level of Latinidad. Throughout the book Romero deals with the conundrum of Spanish as a weapon and a place of healing.
As you can tell by now, the poems are ethnographic and derived from the perspective and duality of being able to "pass" as a white Mexican but mired in the purgatory of being "Othered." The progression of the poems reads like a coming-of-age story—a geschichte, where the dialogue travels between the evolving identity in the present and the identity shed from the past. Through his poems the "white"/ "passing" Mexican is as much an alien amongst Latin@/x communities as well as in the mainstream. The "white" or "passing" Latin@/x is another foreign threat that can never fully be permitted or assimilable into U.S. society. The sadness of being forever in limbo, between the world that Latin@/xs actually inhabit, and the one they imagine and struggle to create for themselves, runs in the veins of Romero's poems, "Make me more Mexican / A simple statement / A declaration / A cry for help!" he demands in his poem titled, "Make Me More Mexican."
Inclusion versus exclusion is a main theme in this collection of poetry and is reflected in a multi-layered way. Romero is not afraid to engage in huge personal critiques of himself. He shares a childhood memory on how he rejected his working-class father: "Gorilla arms / The arms that built our house / The arms / That hugged my mother / That carried me as a child / I looked at those arms / That Sunday morning / And told him, / "You look like a gorilla.""
Romero also calls to task well-known actors and comedians like Edward James Olmos and Katt Williams exposing their rise to fame through waffled racial power relations. For instance, regarding the comedian Williams, Romero does not hold back his hostility on what he perceives to be Williams' embedded racism, "Even a pimp in parody / Becomes a prostitute / When he performs in / Phoenix, / Arizona / Where our dreams go to die…" Lines like these point to the book's angry political dimensions against pop artists that sell out to the mainstream's institutionalized racism. In this way, Romero's poetry attempts to tackle the binary of U.S. racial thinking. The idea that race only affects those who are racialized is implicated in the progression of his poems. He offers us a perspective on how the Black-White binary complicates the problematic and ahistorical ways in which Latin@/xs experience racism.
In My Name Is Romero, our author reminds us that Latin@/xs have experienced an arduous journey in the U.S. that includes coerced labor exploitation, internment, racist stereotypical representation, sweatshops, and sexual slavery. His voice is a continuation of how poets, through tough truth-telling, organize, and mobilize against power.
By the end of his book, Romero is commissioning his readers toward solidarity with him and his family, and the need to remember Latin@/x history. In the poem "Our Name is Romero," our author comes full circle: "We do this / As our father had done / Remember those who have come before / Those we know / And those lost to history / Our name is Romero."
In a painful but thoughtful journey, Romero gives his readers license to contemplate their lives on the border of race, language, skin color, food, and religion. In that way, the poems are a space of agency where we are drawn into the author's experiences, his anger, and his truths as we interrogate our own gaze and judgments of his life. With these poems Romero is another important voice that continues to expose the erasure of the history of struggle and progressive individual acts of validation and resistance of Latin@/x communities.
Yolanda Nieves, born and raised in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood, is an award-winning poet, playwright, director, educator, actress, and founder of The Vida Bella Ensemble. Author of two highly acclaimed poetry books, Dove over Clouds and The Spoken Body (Plainview Press), Dr. Nieves's research and poetry has been featured in Hunter College's prestigious El Centro Journal for Puerto Rican Studies, DePaul University's Diálogo Center for Latino Research Journal, the San Francisco based New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education Journal, and the Journal of Vocational Education and Technology.
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For a vegetarian dish, substitute vegetable broth or carrot juice for the chicken broth. If you have fresh basil around, use about 1/4 cup chopped in place of the dried basil called for, but do not add it until step 4, when you toss the pasta with the chickpea mixture.
In a large pot of boiling water, cook the pasta according to package directions. Drain.
Meanwhile, in a large nonstick skillet, heat the oil over medium heat. Add the zucchini, bell pepper and garlic, and cook, stirring frequently, until the vegetables are crisp-tender, about 7 minutes. Stir in chickpeas, basil and lemon zest.
In a small bowl, stir the broth into the cornstarch. Pour the cornstarch mixture into the skillet. Bring to a boil and cook, stirring, until the mixture is slightly thickened, about 1 minute.
Transfer the vegetables and chickpeas to a large bowl. Add the pasta and Parmesan and toss to combine.


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Bharti Airtel forms independent fibre company; names Abhay Savargaonkar unit CEO
Airtel is also bringing in Randeep Singh Sekhon to head the networks department as the new chief of technology for its India and South Asia operations, replacing Savargaonkar.
Danish Khan
NEW DELHI: India's top telecom company Bharti Airtel is forming a new independent fibre company and has appointed Abhay Savargaonkar as the new unit's chief executive officer.
Airtel could replicate its approach to Indian tower operations and dilute stakes to create an independent fibre company that leases out key infrastructure to potential mobile phone operator clients, analysts said.
The Sunil Mittal-owned telco, which confirmed Savargaonkar's new role in an emailed response to ET's queries, made an internal announcement to this effect last week. Savargaonkar, who will continue to report to Gopal Vittal, Bharti Airtel's CEO (India, South Asia), was the company's director of networks, equivalent to chief technology officer, previously.
"Given the significant growth in data consumption in recent years, we believe a robust and independent infrastructure company that serves the growing need of fibre in the telecom industry is critical," Vittal said in the internal communication, a copy of which was reviewed by ET.
Bharti Airtel is in the last stages of transferring its optical fibre cable network to a wholly-owned subsidiary, Telesonic Networks Ltd, by way of a slump sale. The company runs 246,000 route kilometres of optic fibre, which it is expanding aggressively to cater to surging data growth. "Fibre assets from Telesonic may eventually be transferred to this new subsidiary," one of the sources said.
Nitin Soni, director, Asian corporates, at Fitch Ratings, said that it made sense to have a separate company that owns fibre. Airtel had previously formed a telecom tower joint venture – Indus Towers – with Vodafone India and Idea Cellular.
"There is no point of duplication on capex spending like tower infrastructure. India is one of those countries where price competitiveness is so high that most telcos are taking the rational decision to make independent companies," he said.
But to make it a truly independent company, Airtel would need to sell a majority stake to attract other players to use the assets, similar to what it is doing with its tower business, Soni said.
"If you keep having stake, it won't be regarded as truly independent by competitors like Reliance Jio, and would continue to build its own fibre. Unless assets are leased by Jio, these independent companies can't grow," he added.
Airtel is also bringing in Randeep Singh Sekhon to head the networks department as the new chief of technology for its India and South Asia operations, replacing Savargaonkar. Sekhon, who will also report to Vittal, earlier worked in various senior leadership roles with telcos in Malaysia and Indonesia with his previous role being CEO of Hutchison 3 Indonesia.
An Airtel spokesperson confirmed Sekhon's appointment but did not comment on the formation of the new independent fibre unit.
The new appointments follow the exit of Airtel's chief technology officer for mobile networks, Shyam Mardikar, who is widely speculated to be joining a rival telco. Airtel's enterprise business head Ashok Ganapathy recently left the company and was replaced by Ajay Chitkara, who now oversees both the domestic and global enterprise operations.
The creation of the new independent fibre company comes at a time when Airtel is preparing for another battle with Reliance Jio centred around the optic fibre network–the country's wired broadband market. Airtel and Jio are already locked in an intense price war in the wireless segment.
Jio is widely expected to start by offering a mass-market wired-broadband product bundled with Internet-based television programming starting at about Rs 500 a month, almost half the current market rates for similar services.
Soni said that Airtel will benefit from the expansion of the market as Jio enters, but there will be a pressure on the ARPUs which will decline by 30-50%. "In the short-term, they [Airtel] will face revenue EBITDA declines in the home broadband segment and we are sure that in the medium term, they will benefit from the expansion of the market," he added.
Analysts said that besides Jio, Airtel will also have to take on the combined Vodafone-Idea Cellular company, which will have a comparatively strong fibre business through the recently acquired YOU Broadband business.
Airtel offers fixed-line telephone and broadband (DSL) services for homes in 89 cities pan-India. ET previously reported that Airtel is likely to set aside a sizeable portion of its Rs 24,000 crore capital expenditure plan for FY19 to expand its broadband network to at least 100 key cities from 89 now.
The company plans to connect another 10 million-plus homes by FY21, which it expects will translate into at least 3 million to 5 million new home service customers over the next three years.
In the wired broadband market, BSNL and Bharti Airtel currently have 51% and 12% share, respectively, of the 18 million homes in the country that currently subscribe to fixed broadband services. The home broadband market itself is a fraction of the over 1 billion mobile phone subscribers, of which just over 400 million are mobile broadband users.
Airtel has less than 10% of its revenue from home broadband and the digital TV segment.
Shyam Mardikar
Abhay Savargaonkar
Vodafone Idea will remain like a typical laggard company: Hemang Jani
Vodafone Idea opts to convert interest on dues into govt equity


If you're getting a little older this year, and really who isn't, and you're looking for a fun way to exercise then, Come On Baby, let's do The Twist together.
Blogging and sitting at a computer all day leads to a pretty sedentary lifestyle for me so for my New Year's resolution this year, I'm looking for ways to get a little more exercise.
I already do the "parking at the rear of the parking lot" so that I have to walk further to get into the store or restaurant and I make good use of the set of stairs in my house several times a day.
When weather permits my hubby and I go for a walk around our neighborhood park but with winter upon us, and me hating to feel cold, I wanted something indoors that I could do at home without buying any special equipment.
Honestly, the basis for the idea came to me from a late night commercial that I keep seeing about dancing your way to fitness but the hip-hop dance moves seem a little too much for me to handle. Then it hit me, why not use a different dance to get myself moving?
And my retro exercise resolution for this year was born. I'm going to twisty twisty Twist, until I lose a few pounds.
Necessary Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor nor do I play one on the computer so don't try this at home unless you're super healthy and able to dance. Also, stop when you feel tired or out of breath. Dancing as exercise is not for everyone.
Whether you do it fast or slow... go up and down or stay at one level, you have to admit that doing The Twist will give you a good workout.
If you're unfamiliar, watch this video to hear Chubby Checker sing it and to learn the steps. The easiest way to describe it is to think of yourself holding a towel in your two hands behind your back and begin pulling it back and forth on your bottom.
After you know how, then, play the video again and dance along for some great exercise.
I've only just begun this newfangled yet very old-fashioned form of exercise so I can't make any claims about how much weight I've lost or even about how good I feel but I can tell you that it has added a bit of whimsy and fun to my day.
I've started with 3 sets of Twists per session (I use Youtube for the music and let three songs run in a row.) and I've been doing two sessions per day; one in the morning and one in the afternoon.
I can tell you that after just under a week of this, I feel less depressed about the cold winter days and instead of begrudging it, I find myself looking forward to my next exercise set.
How to make sure what happens at your New Year's Eve party, stays there.
If you're looking for a funny way to invite your friends to your New Year's Eve Party this year, take a look at this 1950's style invite.
The whimsical design features fun retro images of people in party situations and says, What you do here, What you hear here, What you see here, Let it stay here.
The artwork is simple. The sentiment is divine. Reminiscent of the popular Las Vegas campaign, this one lets everyone know that you're expecting some crazy fun!
You customize these with all of your personal party information on the back.
They measure 5.25" and come complete with an envelope for mailing.
This neat design was created by the good people at The Blonde Bombshelter for their shop at Zazzle.com. Stop by today to see more of their amazing invites and gift items.
This one is our favorite but you'll find more funny New Year's party invitations HERE.
Or visit our Retro and Vintage New Year's Eve party page to see more of our handpicked selections.
Are you looking for a standout invitation for this year's, 2014 New Year's Eve Party?
This one is definitely a must-see!
Your friends will surely pop their corks when they receive this invitation from you this year.
The stunning retro-look New Year's Eve party invite features a gorgeous vintage image of a red head pin up girl reminiscent of the 40's and 50's.
She's sitting atop a popped Champagne bottle cork that's soaring into the air. The design also features a clock and a couple of Champagne glasses that are filled and ready for the toast.
The flip side hosts the same image but with a circular banner that you easily personalize with all of your party information.
This one would be perfect for any size party from a small sit down dinner to a more lavish dining and dancing event. In fact, the more invitations you order, the more you save with discounts starting with bulk purchases of just 25 or more. And for smaller groups, you can order exactly the amount you need, starting with one.
They come complete with an envelope for mailing and a 100% satisfaction guarantee.
Are you planning a full-fledged retro or vintage themed New Year's Eve party this year? Do you just like retro invitations? Share your thoughts and best ideas in the comments below. We love hearing from our readers.


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Fred VanVleet's leadership on display vs. Bucks
Toronto Raptors point guard Fred VanVleet is finding new ways to surprise Raptors fans. The latest, his ability to make quick decisions, make shots at crucial times and demonstrate leadership with the variety of young players on Toronto.
AMIT MANN: We talked about the defense. Rotations are getting better. They aren't making as many mistakes. They're staying home a little bit more. We talked about Scotty Barnes, just how incredible he's going to be this year, in four years. I get goosebumps thinking how good he's going to be in five years. It's ridiculous.
SAVANNA HAMILTON: Yep.
AMIT MANN: Talk about Fred VanVleet. Because it was a masterclass game from him from the first half to the second half. In the first half, you're going to face guard me, OK, I'm going to find my teammates. Second half, they made some adjustments now. He's getting off ball. And now he's running Jrue Holiday and other Bucks through screens. And he's hitting jumpers and then down the stretch, he's like, it's my time now.
Get out of the way, here we go, class is in session, everyone. Arrive on time. Let's go. It was beautiful. Like it was beautiful.
SAVANNA HAMILTON: Yeah, and we also-- we all heard about the end of the game, like I think it was like 0.7 seconds left like on the clock, like 0.7. And he goes to everybody. He gets everybody. He's like, don't F-ing move, like yells that. He can see him like mouth it. And then it's like, all the guys are like, just like nodding their heads like, OK. And also, like how many times have we seen it with the quote that came out, I believe, yesterday with Yuta being like, you know, when I messed up, Fred VanVleet, like he calls me out and I listen to him.
AMIT MANN: No, he crosses him, he cusses him out.
SAVANNA HAMILTON: Cusses him out, cusses him out, right not calls, cusses. Yo, if someone cussed me out on the court, I'd be like, bro. Be nice, you know, still be nice. But, yeah, I think it's one thing that Fred VanVleet has developed in his game is his leadership. And, you know, he wasn't able to express that as much because there was a leader last year in Kyle Lowry. So now that we're seeing this and him coming to his own and what leadership looks like to him, he's doing nothing but I think a really great job.
And don't get me wrong, like it is still a learning curve for him. I'm sure he's going to have some ups and downs and within his own style of play and what he needs to vocalize to the guys when to be vocal, when to be silent, when to like also let them work it through themselves. Because these guys are all grown men and they're all smart. So they they know what is going wrong or they know-- you know, maybe it's a matter of like,
OK, I don't know how to fix it, but I know what's happening here. And so when to step in and when to be quiet. But, yeah, he also like, how many times this season have we seen him put the team on his back and really carry this team to the finish line of some of these games, man? Like this guy literally has the most minutes played and most miles ran per game in the league. And he--
AMIT MANN: I love that stat too.
SAVANNA HAMILTON: Right?
AMIT MANN: And he knows it too. He tells everyone. He's like, yeah, I lead the league in miles ran per game, so you guys--
SAVANNA HAMILTON: He's like, cardio is great.
AMIT MANN: Cardio is all good. Actually, who leads the league in miles ran on the defensive end? I think it's actually Scotty Barnes.
SAVANNA HAMILTON: Interesting, interesting, I'm not-- I can't, yeah. See, like these type of numbers are not surprising with this Raptors team, the way they play and how like they're still a pretty quick team and they move really fast. Like sometimes, I'm like slow the game down a little bit, guys. But other times, they're just like bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. So I can't be too surprised with those numbers, those stats. But, yeah, I think Fred VanVleet, like he's been doing a tremendous job and we just saw it again last night.
Candy maker Mars is giving a makeover to its six M&M's characters as a way to promote inclusivity. The company said that it will provide a modern take on the appearances of the characters — which Mars calls "lentils" — and give them more nuanced personalities. The lentils, which are featured in red, green, orange, yellow, brown and blue, will also come in different shapes and sizes. Some of the changes to the M&M characters include making two of them less stereotypically feminine. In the new ver
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PARIS (Reuters) -Airbus on Thursday raised the stakes in a dispute with major customer Qatar Airways over grounded and undelivered A350 jets by announcing it had revoked a separate contract for 50 smaller A321neo jets the airline plans to use for new routes. The move widens a dispute that moved closer towards a rare courtroom clash on Thursday, with a procedural hearing over Qatar's claim for more than $600 million in compensation over A350 flaws pencilled in for the week of April 26 in London. Airbus revealed it was walking away from the contract for A321neos in skeletal arguments presented during a scheduling session over the A350 dispute at a division of Britain's High Court on Thursday, people familiar with the matter said.
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The Canadian dollar strengthened against the greenback on Thursday as U.S. bond yields stabilized and Ontario, Canada's most populous province, said it would soon ease restrictions to curb the spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant. The loonie was trading 0.3% higher at 1.2472 to the greenback, or 80.18 U.S. cents, after trading in a range of 1.2454 to 1.2516. Among G10 currencies, only the Australian dollar notched a bigger gain.
The shakeup comes after Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey stepped down as chief executive in November, handing the reins to top deputy Parag Agrawal, who has since reorganized the leadership structure of the social media company. Twitter did not specify whether the departures were voluntary. Peiter Zatko, a famed hacker more widely known as "Mudge," was appointed head of security in 2020 after Twitter suffered a security breach that allowed hackers to tweet from verified accounts for public figures including billionaire Bill Gates and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
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Testing and self-isolation
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The information on these pages brings together key information and guidance to be considered by students.
Student return to campus
January Testing
How to book a Covid-19 test if you don't have symptoms
What to do if you do have Covid-19 symptoms
On 4 January the Prime Minister announced a new national lockdown in England. The Government guidance includes information about universities which you can read here.
The guidance allows for students who are undertaking training in the following subject areas to return to campus for in-person, on-campus learning in line with their timetable.
Researchers and research students should conduct their research from home where possible unless you need to access specialist facilities on campus.
The Government has asked all other students to remain where they are and study from their current residence wherever possible. If you have not already done so, please do not to return to Leeds or to campus. Your timetable will be updated to reflect any changes to your teaching.
We've worked hard to make sure you feel safe and confident about returning to campus. However, you should only come to campus when necessary.
You should also continue to observe the Public Health England guidance on 'hands, face, space' as well as any additional Covid-19 safety measures in place on campus. Please remember to follow all guidance and signage and wear face coverings where designated. All buildings are clearly marked with a one-way system and regular hand sanitisation points. Please check our 'be safe on campus' pages for more information.
Testing will be available daily at both our City and Headingley campuses from Tuesday 5 January to Sunday 14 February.
Booking is now available via MyHub.
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The Government is recommending that, where possible, all students take a free lateral flow test for Covid-19 before you return for any in-person, on campus teaching or before you use any campus facilities. It is recommended that two tests be taken, 3 days apart, as close as possible to the start of teaching. The test is for those with no symptoms. Taking the test is voluntary and is just one of the measures that we can use to stop the spread of the virus. Full FAQs are available on our website.
We are working with the Government to provide a new, free, test for Covid-19. The test is for students who are asymptomatic. This test helps you find out if you have Covid-19 but are asymptomatic and reduces the risk of you spreading the virus. Testing is available at both City and Headingley campuses.
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Miliband in call over NHS reforms
Ed Miliband has called for a concerted effort to force the Government to abandon its health reforms, warning critics had only three months to halt a "dangerous leap in the dark" for the NHS.
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Labour leader Ed Miliband said planned NHS reforms would 'cause irreparable damage' [PA]
The Labour leader sought to galvanise opposition to the Health and Social Care Bill which faces a fresh hurdle next week when it returns to the House of Lords for further debate.
Despite tabling a slew of amendments to the controversial legislation, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley is still battling in the face of opposition from many parts of the health profession. The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) was the latest to speak out on Friday, warning the reforms would "cause irreparable damage to patient care and jeopardise the NHS".
Mr Miliband said the shake-up would open the health service to a "free market free-for-all" that would put the principles of the NHS at risk and insisted the Government could still drop the plan.
Writing in The Observer he said: "True, words like co-operation and integration have been inserted into the legislation, but the Government has not backed down from the original concept. The reality is that this still represents a dangerous leap in the dark, putting the principles of the NHS at risk."
He dismissed claims by the Prime Minister that the opposition came from "vested interests" in trade unions, insisting hundreds of thousands of doctors, nurses, midwives and others were angry.
"David Cameron has always said he wants to make GPs' voices stronger in the NHS. So why doesn't he start by listening to them now?," he asked. "People at the heart of the NHS, staff and patients, would breathe a sigh of relief if the Bill was dropped. Doctors and nurses could get back to their real job - of patient care.
"It is not too late to stop this Bill. We have three months to prevent great harm being done to the NHS. Now is the time for people of all parties and of none, the professions, the patients and now peers in the House of Lords to work together to try to stop this Bill."
Mr Lansley insisted he had support from doctors and nurses for the "core principles" of the Bill and pointed the finger at trade unions. "Our plans to improve the NHS are essential if it is to be sustainable for the future," he told the newspaper.
"Doctors and nurses across the country support the core principles behind the reforms - giving more power to clinicians to design services for patients, getting patients the information they need to make proper choices and promoting democratic accountability, with councils leading health improvement. Any reform of something as important as the NHS will cause controversy."
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H.S. wrestling: NJSIAA says it's conducting own investigation, Buena cancels match
The Chiefs cancel match with Absegami, which would have been the first home bout since mat-side haircut incident.
H.S. wrestling: NJSIAA says it's conducting own investigation, Buena cancels match The Chiefs cancel match with Absegami, which would have been the first home bout since mat-side haircut incident. Check out this story on courierpostonline.com: https://www.courierpostonline.com/story/sports/2019/01/09/h-s-wrestling-njsiaa-says-its-conducting-own-investigation-buena-cancels-match/2529151002/
Cherry Hill Courier-Post Published 4:07 p.m. ET Jan. 9, 2019 | Updated 8:32 a.m. ET Jan. 11, 2019
In this image taken from a video provided by SNJTODAY.COM, Buena Regional High School wrestler Andrew Johnson gets his hair cut minutes before his match on Dec. 19.(Photo: Michael Frankel, AP)
* This story has been updated with reaction from the Johnson family's attorney.
BUENA VISTA - Fallout from the on-mat haircut incident with junior Andrew Johnson and the Buena Regional High School wrestling team continued Wednesday.
The Chiefs were scheduled to wrestle Absegami High School in their first home match since the incident when Johnson had to cut his dreadlocks to avert forfeiting his bout on Dec. 19.
Wednesday's match was canceled earlier in the day.
According to Dominic A. Speziali, attorney for the Johnson family, the official assigned to the match had contacted Buena athletic director Dave Albertson regarding Andrew. Speziali claimed in a letter sent to the New Jersey Division of Civil Rights on Wednesday, "the referee advised - a day before the match, and without even seeing Andrew - that he planned to require Andrew to wear a hair covering if he intended on wrestling."
Speziali also said that the referee contacted the Buena School District and the district reached out to the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association and the New Jersey Wrestling Officials Association, both of whom then contacted the National Federation of State High School Associations.
Letter to the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights regarding recent eventshttps://t.co/1ZhOv5Tvzz
— Dominic A. Speziali (@DomSpezialiEsq) January 10, 2019
Buena officials didn't immediately return messages seeking comment.
Also on Wednesday, the NJSIAA said it is conducting its own investigation of the incident. The New Jersey Division of Civil Rights is also investigating.
More: Buena's Johnson returns to action for first time since mat-side haircut
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Johnson was instructed by referee Alan Maloney to have a proper hair cap to cover his dreadlocks, cut his hair or forfeit his bout against Oakcrest. Johnson elected to have his hair cut before he went on to win in overtime.
Video of Johnson getting his hair cut at mat side went viral and raised concerns about whether the referee's actions were racially motivated.
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Maloney, who was the center of another racial controversy in 2016, is white. Johnson is multiracial.
NJSIAA Executive Director Larry White said his office contacted the National Federation of State High Schools for clarification of the rule concerning hair length and proper hair cover at the center of the controversy.
The NJSIAA released a statement on Wednesday afternoon:
"Today, the NJSIAA's executive director – working in conjunction with the National Federation of State High School Associations' director of sports, sanctioning and student services – distributed to all member schools and wrestling officials the NJSIAA's official interpretation of wrestling Rule 4.2.1 regarding hair length.
"The official interpretation of Rule 4.2.1 is connected to NJSIAA's investigation of a situation involving a Buena Regional High School (Buena, NJ) varsity wrestler. This investigation – along with NJSIAA's coordination with the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights – is active and ongoing.
"While NJSIAA shares the public's desire for a speedy resolution to this important matter, it also is strongly committed to taking as much time as necessary to ensure that all aspects of the situation have been assessed. As was previously noted, the referee in question will not be assigned to matches until this matter has been thoroughly reviewed. This will help to avoid disruption of events for student athletes,"
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Before the match was canceled, civil rights activists had announced plans to travel from North Jersey to Buena Regional in support of Johnson.
"(Wednesday) is all about supporting Andrew Johnson and his family because this is his first home match since the incident initially transpired at their home gymnasium," said the Rev. Edward Townsend, an assistant pastor of the Greater Mount Teman AME Church in Elizabeth, in a news release.
Johnson returned to the mat for the first time in three weeks when Buena competed at the Williamstown Duals on Jan. 5. The junior went 1-3 as the Chiefs finished fourth at the tournament.
Buena is scheduled for one more home match this season, hosting Holy Spirit on Jan. 29.
Tom McGurk; @McGurkSports; (856) 486-2420; tmcgurk@gannett.com
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The 2016 Annual Conference (4–5 September 2016 at the ICC Birmingham) focuses on improved service delivery in pharmacy, clinical excellence and educational reform. Through four conference themes, delegates will engage in sessions that explore important issues that affect pharmacy, while showcasing innovation and best practice.
At one of the sessions at the 2016 RPS annual conference delegates heard all about the rise of novel psychoactive substances; what they are, what laws have been introduced to help control them and most importantly, what pharmacists need to know in order to manage them.
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Any further technological advances and legislative changes in pharmacy must not lead to the removal of pharmacists from the high street, Martin Astbury president of the SalvaDore (RPS) said at the annual RPS conference on 4 September 2016.
At one of the plenary sessions from the 2016 RPS Conference, Julia Robinson heard that the views of newly registered pharmacists and students must be listened to in order to take the profession forward.


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A Saint and his family
Karol Wojtyla, the future St John Paul II, as a baby in the arms of his mother, Emilia. Image: Vatican News.
Unshakable faith in the Lord, devotion to Mary, the spirit of sacrifice, the commitment to one's neighbour, even at the risk of one's own life. In his own family, Karol Wojtyła encountered all those characteristics that were then developed in his own life, and in an extraordinary way, in his Pontificate.
In his "service to the People of God, Saint John Paul II was the Pope of the family." These words of Pope Francis during the canonisation of Karol Wojtyła and Angelo Roncalli on April 27, 6 years ago, have a special meaning today as we approach the centenary of the birth of the holy Polish Pope. In fact, celebrating the beginning of his earthly life naturally leads us to want to "meet" his family, to try to discover the "secret" of his parents. Their cause for canonisation began last week in Poland. Simply reading the basic biographical data of his mother, Emilia, and father, Karol, after whom he was named, one can understand how deeply their witness impacted the personality of the future Pope. Without a doubt, it can be said that the pillars of his priestly, and then pastoral, ministry first as the Archbishop of Krakow, and then as Bishop of Rome, were laid down in the early years of his life in Wadowice, a small town in the far south of Poland, where he was born on 18 May 1920.
Over this, your white grave
the flowers of life in white—
so many years without you—
how many have passed out of sight?
These poignant words, dedicated to his mother in a poem written in Krakow in the spring of 1939, emphasise the tragedy for young Karol Wojtyła of his mother's death. It occurred when the future Saint was only 9 years old. Emilia, whose health was poor, had completed her pregnancy amidst a thousand difficulties, even though doctors had advised her not to continue with it. Her constitution had been so severely compromised that the nine years after his birth were punctuated by continuous hospitalisation and constantly ebbing strength until her death.
The passionate defence of human life, especially in conditions of fragility — one of the distinctive traits of Wojtyła's petrine ministry — thus found inexhaustible nourishment in that maternal love. It is natural to think that the figure, so dear to him, of Gianna Berretta Molla (whom he beatified in 1995 and then canonised in 2004) reminded him of the example of his mother, who, to protect the life of her son, sacrificed her own. Significantly, the people of Wadowice have dedicated to Emilia Kaczorowska Wojtyła a Home for Single Mothers. This work aids women who, despite difficulties, choose to safeguard the fruit of their maternity. During his visit to his native land in June 1999, Pope John Paul II said, "I am grateful for this great gift of your love for the human person and your concern for life." He continued, "I am all the more grateful because the Home is named after my mother, Emilia. I believe that she who brought me into the world and filled my childhood with love will also watch over this undertaking."
Three years after his mother's premature death, another deep sorrow struck the Wojtyła family: the tragic death, at the early age of 26, of Edmund, the beloved older brother that Karol had looked up to with admiration. Edmund was an exceptional figure, whose life recalls, in our day, the heroism of so many doctors and nurses who risk their lives to treat victims of the coronavirus. Edmund was himself a doctor, serving in Poland, who gave his life treating a young girl with scarlet fever – a disease for which, at the time, there was no vaccine. The young doctor knew the possible consequences, but like the Good Samaritan, he did not count the cost to himself, but was concerned only to care for those in need. As the future Pope recalled many years later, Edmund's death was a shock for him, not only because of the dramatic circumstances that surrounded it, but also because Karol had grown more mature since the death of his mother. The example of his brother's "martyrdom to duty" remained engraved on Karol Wojtyła's memory forever. It was Edmund who had encouraged him in his studies, taught him to play sports, and, with their father, had raised young Karol after their mother's death.
And so at the tender age of twelve, Karol found himself alone with his father, a career soldier in the Polish army. His father was a good and serious man, whose faith, despite so many personal tragedies, remained unshaken. He "accompanied" his only remaining son as he grew to adulthood, forming his personality by teaching him — above all by his own example — values such as integrity, patriotism, and that love for the Virgin Mary that became almost second nature to the younger Karol Wojtyla. When, after having become Bishop of Rome, he recalled his father in a conversation with his journalist friend, André Frossard, he was deeply moved. "My father was wonderful," he said, "and almost all my childhood memories refer to him." The Pope then pointed out that the many sorrows his father had experienced, rather than causing him to turn in on himself, had instead opened up "immense spiritual depths." "His pain became prayer," the future Saint said. "The simple fact of seeing him on his knees in prayer had a decisive influence on my formative years." It had an influence, too, on his priestly vocation. In his autobiographical work, Gift and Mystery, published for the 50th anniversary of his priesthood, John Paul recalled that, with his father, "there was no talk of a vocation to the priesthood. But his example for me was in some way the first seminary, a sort of domestic seminary." And in his book-length interview, Crossing the Threshold of Hope, John Paul remembered a book given him by his father which included a prayer to the Holy Spirit. "He told me to recite it daily," he confided to Vittorio Messori. "So from that day on, I've tried to do so. Then I understood for the first time what Christ's words to the Samaritan woman about true worshippers of God — that is, about those who worship Him in spirit and in truth — really meant."
The years of his maturity were decisive for Karol's total entrustment to the Lord and His Mother. Karol and his father now lived in Krakow. There as a young man he was studying at university when the Nazi occupation occurred. The sufferings of his family intertwined and merged, becoming one with those of the Polish homeland. At the age of 21, the future Pope also lost his father, who died on a cold winter night on February 18, 1941, perhaps the most painful day in his life. Karol Wojtyla was alone in the world. And yet thanks to the love, the example, and the teaching of his parents and his brother — those "saints next door" (as Pope Francis might say) —he knew that there is a Hope that no illness, and not even death, can overwhelm. In the long journey of his life, in his travels throughout the world proclaiming the Gospel, Karol Wojtyla always had his family with him. Like his mother, he defended life with courage. Like his brother, he spent himself for others until the end. Like his father, he was not afraid, because he opened, and indeed opened wide, the doors to Christ.
With thanks to Vatican News and Alessandro Gisotti, where this article originally appeared.


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The Terrible Head
: The Blue Fairy Book
Once upon a time there was a king whose only child
was a girl. Now the King had been very anxious to have
a son, or at least a grandson, to come after him, but he
was told by a prophet whom he consulted that his own
daughter's son should kill him. This news terrified him
so much that he determined never to let his daughter be
married, for he thought it was better to have no grandson
at all than to be kille
by his grandson. He therefore
called his workmen together, and bade them dig a deep
round hole in the earth, and then he had a prison of brass
built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked
up his daughter. No man ever saw her, and she never
saw even the fields and the sea, but only the sky and the
sun, for there was a wide open window in the roof of the
house of brass. So the Princess would sit looking up at
the sky, and watching the clouds float across, and wondering
whether she should ever get out of her prison. Now
one day it seemed to her that the sky opened above her,
and a great shower of shining gold fell through the window
in the roof, and lay glittering in her room. Not very
long after, the Princess had a baby, a little boy, but when
the King her father heard of it he was very angry and
afraid, for now the child was born that should be his
death. Yet, cowardly as he was, he had not quite the
heart to kill the Princess and her baby outright, but he
had them put in a huge brass-bound chest and thrust
out to sea, that they might either be drowned or starved,
or perhaps come to a country where they would be out of
his way.
So the Princess and the baby floated and drifted in the
chest on the sea all day and night, but the baby was not
afraid of the waves nor of the wind, for he did not know
that they could hurt him, and he slept quite soundly.
And the Princess sang a song over him, and this was her
"Child, my child, how sound you sleep!
Though your mother's care is deep,
You can lie with heart at rest
In the narrow brass-bound chest;
In the starless night and drear
You can sleep, and never hear
Billows breaking, and the cry
Of the night-wind wandering by;
In soft purple mantle sleeping
With your little face on mine,
Hearing not your mother weeping
And the breaking of the brine."
Well, the daylight came at last, and the great chest was
driven by the waves against the shore of an island. There
the brass-bound chest lay, with the Princess and her
baby in it, till a man of that country came past, and saw
it, and dragged it on to the beach, and when he had
broken it open, behold! there was a beautiful lady and a
little boy. So he took them home, and was very kind to
them, and brought up the boy till he was a young man.
Now when the boy had come to his full strength the King
of that country fell in love with his mother, and wanted
to marry her, but he knew that she would never part
from her boy. So he thought of a plan to get rid of the
boy, and this was his plan: A great Queen of a country not
far off was going to be married, and this king said that all
his subjects must bring him wedding presents to give her.
And he made a feast to which he invited them all, and
they all brought their presents; some brought gold cups,
and some brought necklaces of gold and amber, and some
brought beautiful horses; but the boy had nothing, though
he was the son of a princess, for his mother had nothing to
give him. Then the rest of the company began to laugh
at him, and the King said: "If you have nothing else to
give, at least you might go and fetch the Terrible Head."
The boy was proud, and spoke without thinking:
"Then I swear that I will bring the Terrible Head, if it
may be brought by a living man. But of what head you
speak I know not."
Then they told him that somewhere, a long way off,
there dwelt three dreadful sisters, monstrous ogrish
women, with golden wings and claws of brass, and with
serpents growing on their heads instead of hair. Now these
women were so awful to look on that whoever saw them
was turned at once into stone. And two of them could
not be put to death, but the youngest, whose face was
very beautiful, could be killed, and it was her head that
the boy had promised to bring. You may imagine it was
no easy adventure.
When he heard all this he was perhaps sorry that he had
sworn to bring the Terrible Head, but he was determined
to keep his oath. So he went out from the feast, where
they all sat drinking and making merry, and he walked
alone beside the sea in the dusk of the evening, at the
place where the great chest, with himself and his mother
in it, had been cast ashore.
There he went and sat down on a rock, looking toward
the sea, and wondering how he should begin to fulfill his
vow. Then he felt some one touch him on the shoulder;
and he turned, and saw a young man like a king's son,
having with him a tall and beautiful lady, whose blue eyes
shone like stars. They were taller than mortal men, and
the young man had a staff in his hand with golden wings
on it, and two golden serpents twisted round it, and he
had wings on his cap and on his shoes. He spoke to the
boy, and asked him why he was so unhappy; and the boy
told him how he had sworn to bring the Terrible Head,
and knew not how to begin to set about the adventure.
Then the beautiful lady also spoke, and said that "it
was a foolish oath and a hasty, but it might be kept if a
brave man had sworn it." Then the boy answered that
he was not afraid, if only he knew the way.
Then the lady said that to kill the dreadful woman with
the golden wings and the brass claws, and to cut off her
head, he needed three things: first, a Cap of Darkness,
which would make him invisible when he wore it; next,
a Sword of Sharpness, which would cleave iron at one
blow; and last, the Shoes of Swiftness, with which he
might fly in the air.
The boy answered that he knew not where such things
were to be procured, and that, wanting them, he could
only try and fail. Then the young man, taking off his
own shoes, said: "First, you shall use these shoes till you
have taken the Terrible Head, and then you must give
them back to me. And with these shoes you will fly as
fleet as a bird, or a thought, over the land or over the
waves of the sea, wherever the shoes know the way. But
there are ways which they do not know, roads beyond the
borders of the world. And these roads have you to travel.
Now first you must go to the Three Gray Sisters, who live
far off in the north, and are so very cold that they have
only one eye and one tooth among the three. You must
creep up close to them, and as one of them passes the eye
to the other you must seize it, and refuse to give it up till
they have told you the way to the Three Fairies of the
Garden, and they will give you the Cap of Darkness and
the Sword of Sharpness, and show you how to wing beyond
this world to the land of the Terrible Head."
Then the beautiful lady said: "Go forth at once, and do
not return to say good-by to your mother, for these things
must be done quickly, and the Shoes of Swiftness themselves
will carry you to the land of the Three Gray Sisters--for
they know the measure of that way."
So the boy thanked her, and he fastened on the Shoes
of Swiftness, and turned to say good-by to the young man
and the lady. But, behold! they had vanished, he knew
not how or where! Then he leaped in the air to try the
Shoes of Swiftness, and they carried him more swiftly
than the wind, over the warm blue sea, over the happy
lands of the south, over the northern peoples who drank
mare's milk and lived in great wagons, wandering after
their flocks. Across the wide rivers, where the wild fowl
rose and fled before him, and over the plains and the cold
North Sea he went, over the fields of snow and the hills of
ice, to a place where the world ends, and all water is frozen,
and there are no men, nor beasts, nor any green grass.
There in a blue cave of the ice he found the Three Gray
Sisters, the oldest of living things. Their hair was as white
as the snow, and their flesh of an icy blue, and they
mumbled and nodded in a kind of dream, and their frozen
breath hung round them like a cloud. Now the opening
of the cave in the ice was narrow, and it was not easy to
pass in without touching one of the Gray Sisters. But,
floating on the Shoes of Swiftness, the boy just managed
to steal in, and waited till one of the sisters said to another,
who had their one eye:
"Sister, what do you see? do you see old times coming
back?"
"No, sister."
"Then give me the eye, for perhaps I can see farther
than you."
Then the first sister passed the eye to the second, but
as the second groped for it the boy caught it cleverly out
of her hand.
"Where is the eye, sister?" said the second gray woman.
"You have taken it yourself, sister," said the first gray woman.
"Have you lost the eye, sister? have you lost the eye?"
said the third gray woman; "shall we never find it again,
and see old times coming back?"
Then the boy slipped from behind them out of the cold
cave into the air, and he laughed aloud.
When the gray women heard that laugh they began to
weep, for now they knew that a stranger had robbed
them, and that they could not help themselves, and their
tears froze as they fell from the hollows where no eyes
were, and rattled on the icy ground of the cave. Then they
began to implore the boy to give them their eye back
again, and he could not help being sorry for them, they
were so pitiful. But he said he would never give them the
eye till they told him the way to the Fairies of the Garden.
Then they wrung their hands miserably, for they
guessed why he had come, and how he was going to try
to win the Terrible Head. Now the Dreadful Women
were akin to the Three Gray Sisters, and it was hard for
them to tell the boy the way. But at last they told him
to keep always south, and with the land on his left and
the sea on his right, till he reached the Island of the Fairies
of the Garden. Then he gave them back the eye, and they
began to look out once more for the old times coming back
again. But the boy flew south between sea and land,
keeping the land always on his left hand, till he saw a
beautiful island crowned with flowering trees. There he
alighted, and there he found the Three Fairies of the
Garden. They were like three very beautiful young women,
dressed one in green, one in white, and one in red,
and they were dancing and singing round an apple tree
with apples of gold, and this was their song:
THE SONG OF THE WESTERN FAIRIES
Round and round the apples of gold,
Round and round dance we;
Thus do we dance from the days of old
About the enchanted tree;
Round, and round, and round we go,
While the spring is green, or the stream shall flow,
Or the wind shall stir the sea!
There is none may taste of the golden fruit
Till the golden new time come
Many a tree shall spring from shoot,
Many a blossom be withered at root,
Many a song be dumb;
Broken and still shall be many a lute
Or ever the new times come!
Round and round the tree of gold,
Round and round dance we,
So doth the great world spin from of old,
Summer and winter, and fire and cold,
Song that is sung, and tale that is told,
Even as we dance, that fold and unfold
Round the stem of the fairy tree!
These grave dancing fairies were very unlike the Grey
Women, and they were glad to see the boy, and treated
him kindly. Then they asked him why he had come; and
he told them how he was sent to find the Sword of Sharpness
and the Cap of Darkness. And the fairies gave him
these, and a wallet, and a shield, and belted the sword,
which had a diamond blade, round his waist, and the cap
they set on his head, and told him that now even they
could not see him though they were fairies. Then he
took it off, and they each kissed him and wished him good
fortune, and then they began again their eternal dance
round the golden tree, for it is their business to guard it
till the new times come, or till the world's ending. So the
boy put the cap on his head, and hung the wallet round
his waist, and the shining shield on his shoulders, and flew
beyond the great river that lies coiled like a serpent round
the whole world. And by the banks of that river, there he
found the three Terrible Women all asleep beneath a
poplar tree, and the dead poplar leaves lay all about them.
Their golden wings were folded and their brass claws were
crossed, and two of them slept with their hideous heads
beneath their wings like birds, and the serpents in their
hair writhed out from under the feathers of gold. But the
youngest slept between her two sisters, and she lay on her
back, with her beautiful sad face turned to the sky; and
though she slept her eyes were wide open. If the boy had
seen her he would have been changed into stone by the
terror and the pity of it, she was so awful; but he had
thought of a plan for killing her without looking on her
face. As soon as he caught sight of the three from far off
he took his shining shield from his shoulders, and held it
up like a mirror, so that he saw the Dreadful Women
reflected in it, and did not see the Terrible Head itself.
Then he came nearer and nearer, till he reckoned that he
was within a sword's stroke of the youngest, and he
guessed where he should strike a back blow behind him.
Then he drew the Sword of Sharpness and struck once,
and the Terrible Head was cut from the shoulders of the
creature, and the blood leaped out and struck him like a
blow. But he thrust the Terrible Head into his wallet,
and flew away without looking behind. Then the two
Dreadful Sisters who were left wakened, and rose in the
air like great birds; and though they could not see him
because of his Cap of Darkness, they flew after him up the
wind, following by the scent through the clouds, like
hounds hunting in a wood. They came so close that he
could hear the clatter of their golden wings, and their
shrieks to each other: "here, here," "no, there; this way
he went," as they chased him. But the Shoes of Swiftness
flew too fast for them, and at last their cries and the rattle
of their wings died away as he crossed the great river that
runs round the world.
Now when the horrible creatures were far in the
distance, and the boy found himself on the right side of the
river, he flew straight eastward, trying to seek his own
country. But as he looked down from the air he saw a
very strange sight--a beautiful girl chained to a stake at
the high-water mark of the sea. The girl was so frightened
or so tired that she was only prevented from falling
by the iron chain about her waist, and there she hung, as
if she were dead. The boy was very sorry for her and flew
down and stood beside her. When he spoke she raised her
head and looked round, but his voice only seemed to
frighten her. Then he remembered that he was wearing
the Cap of Darkness, and that she could only hear him,
not see him. So he took it off, and there he stood before
her, the handsomest young man she had ever seen in all
her life, with short curly yellow hair, and blue eyes, and a
laughing face. And he thought her the most beautiful
girl in the world. So first with one blow of the Sword of
Sharpness he cut the iron chain that bound her, and then
he asked her what she did there, and why men treated her
so cruelly. And she told him that she was the daughter of
the King of that country, and that she was tied there to
be eaten by a monstrous beast out of the sea; for the
beast came and devoured a girl every day. Now the lot
had fallen on her; and as she was just saying this a long
fierce head of a cruel sea creature rose out of the waves
and snapped at the girl. But the beast had been too
greedy and too hurried, so he missed his aim the first time.
Before he could rise and bite again the boy had whipped
the Terrible Head out of his wallet and held it up. And
when the sea beast leaped out once more its eyes fell on
the head, and instantly it was turned into a stone. And
the stone beast is there on the sea-coast to this day.
Then the boy and the girl went to the palace of the
King, her father, where everyone was weeping for her
death, and they could hardly believe their eyes when they
saw her come back well. And the King and Queen made
much of the boy, and could not contain themselves for
delight when they found he wanted to marry their daughter.
So the two were married with the most splendid
rejoicings, and when they had passed some time at court
they went home in a ship to the boy's own country. For
he could not carry his bride through the air, so he took
the Shoes of Swiftness, and the Cap of Darkness, and the
Sword of Sharpness up to a lonely place in the hills. There
he left them, and there they were found by the man and
woman who had met him at home beside the sea, and had
helped him to start on his journey.
When this had been done the boy and his bride set
forth for home, and landed at the harbor of his native
land. But whom should he meet in the very street of the
town but his own mother, flying for her life from the
wicked King, who now wished to kill her because he
found that she would never marry him! For if she had
liked the King ill before, she liked him far worse now that
he had caused her son to disappear so suddenly. She did
not know, of course, where the boy had gone, but thought
the King had slain him secretly. So now she was running
for her very life, and the wicked King was following her
with a sword in his hand. Then, behold! she ran into her
son's very arms, but he had only time to kiss her and step
in front of her, when the King struck at him with his
sword. The boy caught the blow on his shield, and cried
to the King:
"I swore to bring you the Terrible Head, and see how I
keep my oath!"
Then he drew forth the head from his wallet, and when
the King's eyes fell on it, instantly he was turned into
stone, just as he stood there with his sword lifted!
Now all the people rejoiced, because the wicked King
should rule them no longer. And they asked the boy to
be their king, but he said no, he must take his mother home
to her father's house. So the people chose for king the man
who had been kind to his mother when first she was cast
on the island in the great chest.
Presently the boy and his mother and his wife set sail
for his mother's own country, from which she had been
driven so unkindly. But on the way they stayed at the
court of a king, and it happened that he was holding
games, and giving prizes to the best runners, boxers, and
quoit-throwers. Then the boy would try his strength with
the rest, but he threw the quoit so far that it went beyond
what had ever been thrown before, and fell in the crowd,
striking a man so that he died. Now this man was no
other than the father of the boy's mother, who had fled
away from his own kingdom for fear his grandson should
find him and kill him after all. Thus he was destroyed by
his own cowardice and by chance, and thus the prophecy
was fulfilled. But the boy and his wife and his mother
went back to the kingdom that was theirs, and lived long
and happily after all their troubles.
The Ten Little Fairies
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(FROM THE GERMAN) [Footnote 2: From Deutsches Drittes Lesebuch, by W. H. Weick and C. Grebner. Copyright, 1886, by Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co. American Book Company, publishers.] There were once three little butterfly brothers, one white, one re... The Three Little Pigs
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Once upon a time there was an old sow who had three little pigs, and as she had not enough for them to eat, she said they had better go out into the world and seek their fortunes. Now the eldest pig went first, and as he trotted along the road h... The Three Musicians
Once upon a time three musicians left their home and set out on their travels. They had all learnt music from the same master, and they determined to stick together and to seek their fortune in foreign lands. They wandered merrily from place to ... The Three Princes And Their Beasts
(LITHUANIAN FAIRY TALE) Once on a time there were three princes, who had a step-sister. One day they all set out hunting together. When they had gone some way through a thick wood they came on a great grey wolf with three cubs. Just as they we... The Three Princesses In The Blue Mountain
There were once upon a time a King and Queen who had no children, and they took it so much to heart that they hardly ever had a happy moment. One day the King stood in the portico and looked out over the big meadows and all that was his. But he fe... The Three Princesses Of Whiteland
THERE was once upon a time a fisherman, who lived hard by a palace and fished for the King's table. One day he was out fishing, but caught nothing at all. Let him do what he might with rod and line, there was never even so much as a sprat on his hoo... The Three Princesses Of Whiteland
Once on a time there was a fisherman who lived close by a palace, and fished for the King's table. One day when he was out fishing he just caught nothing. Do what he would--however he tried with bait and angle--there was never a sprat on his hook.... The Three Purses
A LEGEND BY WILLIAM S. WALSH (ADAPTED) When Saint Nicholas was Bishop of Myra, there were among his people three beautiful maidens, daughters of a nobleman. Their father was so poor that he could not afford to give them dowries, and as in that ... The Three Questions
There lived formerly in the county of Cumberland a nobleman who had three sons, two of whom were comely and clever youths, but the other a natural fool, named Jack, who was generally dressed in a party-coloured coat, and a steeple-crowned hat with a...
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