This is your resource to memory care in Lake Como, FL. Memory care communities provide housing and care for seniors with Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia. Memory care empowers seniors who have memory loss to stay as active and engaged as they possibly can, while living in a dignified, comfortable and secure setting. Our local Senior Living Advisors are expert in dementia care in Lake Como, FL and nearby cities. After an initial consultation, your advisor will recommend a list of memory care communities that most closely match your loved one's specific requirements for care and living preferences, as well as your family's finances.
The minimum allowable age of residents is 55, there is a doctor on call, physical therapy is handled by the physical therapist that makes regular visits to this location, residents can self manage their diabetes, and the community is licensed for 6 residents.
Delicious and wholesome meals are provided to all residents even those with dietary restrictions, a visiting podiatrist helps keep your feet healthy, caregivers at The Windsor of Palm Coast are trained to spot potential disorientation presented by residents, residents who need help with medication management can be given reminders and be monitored to make sure they are taking their medications, and trained staff can administer injectable medication.
Sterling House of Palm Coast can handle behavioral issues that residents might be inclined to, Sterling House of Palm Coast has the training to resolve any aggressive behavior that residents may present, resident parking is available to residents who drive, hospice is an option available at this location, and respite care is offered.
Speech therapy is offered via a speech therapist who comes to the community regularly, wheelchair accessible showers are available at this location, hospice is an option available at this location, aging in place allows residents to remain in one location as their care needs change, and the staff speaks Farsi in the community.
Tasty and nutritious meals are provided to all residents even those with dietary restrictions, a visiting podiatrist helps keep your feet healthy, Clare Bridge of Ormond Beach can handle behavioral issues that residents might have, transportation is available for additional cost, and respite care is offered.
A dentist visits this community regularly, an occupational therapist visits and helps residents, caregiver employees can deal with any wandering issues residents may have, staff is trained to deal with any exit seeking behaviors that might present themselves dealt with, and residents who drive will find parking available to them.
They serve vegetarian food at Emeritus at Ocala East, a podiatrist visits the community to address any issues related to your feet, regular occupational therapy by a visiting therapist helps you stay active and engaged, speech therapy is offered via a speech therapist who comes to the community regularly, and wheelchair accessible showers are available at this location.
The Brookdale Pinecastle is specifically equipped to handle memory care and behavioral issues, caregivers at Brookdale Pinecastle can address potential disorientation presented by residents, full-service medication administration is available, residents can arrange for a room at this community that will allow them to live in this location whatever their healthcare needs are and become, and the community is licensed for 180 residents.
There is a doctor on call, staff is trained to deal with any wandering behaviors that might present themselves dealt with, resident parking is available to residents who drive, respite care is offered, and the community is licensed for 75 residents.
Vegetarian food is provided, regular occupational therapy by a visiting therapist helps you stay active and engaged, speech therapy is offered via a speech therapist who comes to the community regularly, transportation is available for additional cost, and the community is convenient to bus lines in the area.
Rooms have a private bath, regular occupational therapy by a visiting therapist helps you stay active and engaged, speech therapy is available on-site by a visiting speech therapist, the property has a nurse that is able to administer injectable medicine, and the community is licensed for 5 residents.
Licensed nurses are on staff to help you, residents who drive will find parking available to them, Emeritus At Port Orange is close to major busses, wheelchair accessible showers are available at this location, and respite care is offered.
Licensed nurses are on staff to help you, physical therapy is handled by the physical therapist that makes regular visits to this location, this community has been built specifically for the purpose of memory and dementia care, this property administers patient medications, and hospice is an option available at this location.
Nurses are on staff, the facility has staff that can administer insulin to manage diabetic needs, caregivers at Sweet Home At Last can address potential disorientation presented by residents, caregiver employees can deal with any wandering issues a member of the community may have, and this community was built in 2004.
An on-call physician is available to help, the facility has staff that can help residents with insulin to manage diabetic needs, caregivers at Waterman Village at Mt Dora can address potential disorientation presented by residents, transportation is available for additional cost, and respite care is offered.
This community can provide pet care, high tech wander guards are installed to prevent memory care residents from leaving the property, the Osprey Lodge is has particular expertise to handle memory care and behavioral issues, full-service medication administration is available, and resident parking is available to residents who drive.
An occupational therapist visits and helps residents, speech therapy is available on-site by a visiting speech therapist, respite care is offered, this community was built in 1990, and the community is licensed for 5 residents.
The minimum allowable age of residents is 55, an on-call physician is available to help, regular occupational therapy by a visiting therapist helps you stay active and engaged, caregivers at Serenades in The Villages can address potential disorientation presented by residents, and staff is trained to deal with any exit seeking behaviors that may need to be dealt with.
Speech therapy is available on-site by a visiting speech therapist, the property has a nurse that is able to administer injectable medicine, residents who drive will find parking available to them, this community provides complimentary transportation, and wheelchair accessible showers are available at this location.
The minimum allowable age of residents is 55, physical therapy can be done without leaving the community by a visiting physical therapist, caregivers at Atria at Lake Forest can address potential disorientation presented by residents, wheelchair accessible showers are available at this location, and the staff speaks Spanish at this location.
Regular occupational therapy by a visiting therapist helps you stay active and engaged, the community is secured for the safety of patients that might be prone to wander, resident parking is available to residents who drive, wheelchair accessible showers are available at this location, and aging in place allows residents to remain in one location as their care needs change.
The facility has staff that can help residents with insulin to manage diabetic needs, this property is its own free standing building, the property has a nurse that is able to administer injectable medicine, respite care is offered, and residents can arrange for a room at this community that will allow them to live in this location whatever their healthcare needs are and become.
A podiatrist visits the community to address any issues related to your feet, speech therapy is offered via a speech therapist who comes to the community regularly, caregivers at Wyndham Lakes can address potential disorientation presented by residents, caregiver staff can deal with any wandering issues residents may have, and trained staff can administer injectable medication.
An on-call physician is available to help, physical therapy is handled by the physical therapist that makes regular visits to this property, speech therapy is available on-site by a visiting speech therapist, the community can handle injectable medicine, and transportation is available for additional cost.
An occupational therapist visits and helps residents, residents can self manage their diabetes, Emeritus at Ocala West is skilled in behavioral issues that some residents may have, resident parking is available to residents who drive, and the community is licensed for 120 residents.
The minimum allowable age of residents is 55, regular occupational therapy by a visiting therapist helps you stay active and engaged, caregiver staff can deal with any wandering issues memory care residents may have, staff is trained to deal with any wandering behaviors that might present themselves dealt with, and resident parking is available to residents who drive.
Tasty and healthy meals are provided to all residents even those with dietary restrictions, the Brookdale Crown Point is especially designed to handle memory care and behavioral issues, transportation at cost can be arranged, hospice is an option available at this location, and respite care is offered.
A podiatrist visits the community to address any issues related to your feet, the Elmcroft of Timberlin Parc is specifically equipped to handle memory care and behavioral issues, full-service medication administration is available, Elmcroft of Timberlin Parc is close to major bus lines, and respite care is offered.


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Music, Movies And TV
Huge Apple TV promotion now live ahead of major upgrade
By Stephen Warwick
last updated 1 July 2022
Apple Tv 4k Review (Image credit: Stephen Warwick / iMore)
Apple is running a major promotion with its Apple TV.
You can buy one and get a $50 gift card.
The offer applies to the Apple TV and Apple TV 4K but is subject to availability "while supplies last."
Apple has today announced a new promotion for customers of its Apple TV, offering them a $50 gift card with either model as the company prepares for a rumored new model later this year.
The Apple store went down unexpectedly early Friday morning, with the deal available when it resurfaced:
Apple now offering customers a $50 gift card when they buy an Apple TV https://t.co/MH2u8D6DoVApple now offering customers a $50 gift card when they buy an Apple TV https://t.co/MH2u8D6DoV— Stephen Warwick (@StephenWarwick9) July 1, 2022July 1, 2022
Apple is now offering customers in the U.S. $50 with either the Apple TV 4K (2021) or the regular Apple TV. The deal will discount your Apple TV by $50, then add a $50 gift card to your basket:
Apple Tv (Image credit: iMore)
From Apple:
Qualified Purchasers receive an Apple Gift Card when they purchase an eligible Apple TV at a Qualifying Location. Only one Apple Gift Card per eligible Apple TV (limit of 2) per Qualified Purchaser. Offer subject to availability. While supplies last. Qualified Purchasers shall receive a discount equal to the value of the Apple Gift Card off the price of the eligible Apple TV, but will be charged for all items in their cart, including the Apple Gift Card.
This is likely a stock clearing exercise ahead of the rumored new Apple TV the company is reportedly planning to release later this year. Rumored upgrades include a new A14 processor and more RAM to turn it into a more capable gaming machine. There are also reports Apple has a cheaper Apple TV model in the works too. This makes sense of why Apple is discounting both models of its Apple TV so heavily. The deal is set to run for two weeks, so move fast if you want one, you have until July 14.
The deal only appears to be available in the U.S. at the time of publication. If you don't want to be tied down with a $50 Apple gift card, then the upcoming Prime Day Apple deals might well include some sweet Apple TV savings.
Bottom line: The price tag and marginal upgrades are a big ask for current 4K TV customers, but the new Apple TV 4K (2021) is an excellent bit of kit.
Stephen Warwick
Stephen Warwick has written about Apple for five years at iMore and previously elsewhere. He covers all of iMore's latest breaking news regarding all of Apple's products and services, both hardware and software. Stephen has interviewed industry experts in a range of fields including finance, litigation, security, and more. He also specializes in curating and reviewing audio hardware and has experience beyond journalism in sound engineering, production, and design.
Before becoming a writer Stephen studied Ancient History at University and also worked at Apple for more than two years. Stephen is also a host on the iMore show, a weekly podcast recorded live that discusses the latest in breaking Apple news, as well as featuring fun trivia about all things Apple. Follow him on Twitter @stephenwarwick9
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Szaja Kozłowski (* 1910; † 1943) war ein polnischer Studienkomponist und begabter Schachspieler.

Leben
Exakte Lebensdaten sind von Szaja Kozłowski nicht bekannt, Czerniak kannte ihn jedoch sehr gut. Kozłowski kam während der Nazi-Okkupation Polens 1943 im Łódźer Ghetto um.

Turnierschach
Kozłowski war mehrfacher Teilnehmer des Finales der Łódźer Stadtmeisterschaft, erreichte aber nicht die ganz großen Erfolge.
Zwei seiner Partien wurden in einem Buch publiziert.

Schachkomposition
In der Schachkomposition erzielte Kozłowski wesentlich bessere Resultate. Er spezialisierte sich auf Studien. In einem speziellen Anhang an das Turnierbuch zum 35-jährigen Bestehen der Łódźer Schachvereinigung wurden 12 seiner Studien reproduziert. Knapp 30 Studien von ihm sind bekannt.
Grzegorz Grzeban schrieb 1956 in Szachy, Nr. 2 einen Artikel zum Kozłowski-Thema, in dem es wahrscheinlich um die zeitweilige Unterbrechung der Verbindung beider Türme geht.

Im Sommer 1967 verbrachte Włodzimierz Proskurowski viele Stunden in der Warschauer Nationalbibliothek, sah tausende Seiten der Zeitung Głos Poranny und anderen Materials der dreißiger Jahre durch und konnte so neun vollkommen vergessene Studien Szaja Kozłowskis wiederentdecken. Dieses Ergebnis veröffentlichte er 1968 in Szachy, Nr. 5, 6 und 7.

Teilweise reproduziert wurde dies in eg. vol. II, Nr. 18, 1969, S. 42–47.

Lösung:
1. Tg7+! Kxh8
2. Th7+ Kg8
3. g7! gewinnt

Ein Versuch, die Studie mit dem Zug 1. g7? als nebenlösig nachzuweisen, wurde von Walter Veitch analytisch widerlegt.
Siehe auch Zwilling van der Heijdens zu dieser Studie

Einzelnachweise

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 Kompositionen von Szaja Kozłowski auf dem PDB-Server

Schachspieler (Polen)
Schachspieler
Schachkomponist
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Gestorben 1943
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Journalism's confirmation bias in the Powerball Jane Doe saga: their narratives never consider alternative explanations.
The Toronto Star has a silly column on the Delaware woman who won over a half billion dollars just doing the slacker thing of buying a lottery ticket and now she is suing to remain anonymous. The Star's take is very instructive: they are taking an anonymous say-so that she is afraid for her safety -- and then the reporter lists some cases where there was trouble after a lottery win.
The article has a severe case of a confirmation bias: only looking at evidence (or in this case, unrelated anecdotes) that seems to confirm the theory, not the ones refuting it.
Why is the Star taking an anonymous woman's word as the gospel truth? The press in Canada has been in a tizzy for anonymous women making #MeToo claims -- but then turn around and not question an anonymous claim on another matter?
Journalists use anonymous sources all the time (I never did use anonymous as a reporter until I was asked to write the book OutFoxed: Rupert Murdoch's was on journalism. I was given two thick binders of interview transcripts from the movie in their entirety, but while the vast majority were on the record, three former Fox News employees were anonymous -- and no one bothered to tell me who they were. Well, I am not an old school journalist for nothing -- just based on the content of the interviews, I managed to find out the identities of all three within ten minutes. Usually, people would think having already completed interview transcripts would make things easier, but I had to verify everything independently, and that was a nightmare, especially given the tight timeframe I was given. Since I could be confident with what I had, I could use all three anonymous interviews for the book; otherwise, I would have had to skip any one that I could not pin down either the identity or the content of the interview. I literally slept one hour a day in the five months I had to complete the project); so the waffling stance on such sources is interesting.
But in this case, the reporter chooses to gloss over any other theory why someone who just won a massive amount of money would be behaving in such an obstinate manner.
First of all, if you do not want to have your name and face plastered all over the place after winning that much money, don't play the lottery offering that kind of money. You knew what you signed up for, and no one owes you a dime. If you cannot even smile for the camera and let people know who you are because that is too much for you -- don't play. No one put a gun to your head.
The "winner" may have stolen the ticket. In Canada, we have had convenience store workers steal tickets from customers and then claim them as their own, but it can just as easily be a personal support worker, maid, or anyone else who could swipe a ticket, and then pretend it was theirs.
We have had spouses try to take the entire jackpot and leave out their partner who would be legally entitled to half. We have even had people steal a group ticket of which they were a member, and then try to have a child or spouse claim the entire jackpot. I would be very suspicious of someone wanting anonymity for that reason.
Unless we have a name and a face, for all we know, the winner is bogus and the lottery is a scam. We have has insider rigging; it would not be a stretch to have phantom winners. Lottery money doesn't come from thin air -- it is the pooling of all the buyers who have a right to know where and to whom their money is going.
So there was no shortage of other scenarios the columnist could have used. Why would someone go to the trouble of a legal suit to keep her identity hidden? That is the central question here. I do not buy the innocent explanation, for example. Your life is going to radically change when you are suddenly given that kind of money, but you knew that when you bought your ticket.
I believe there are a myriad of reasons why you would go to those extreme measures to keep people from knowing you won the lottery, and this is a story ripe for local journalists to investigate. She may be hiding from someone because she is afraid of them -- or afraid of being forced to hand over some of those winnings to them. Bringing up volunteerism and community is often a deflection from stating the real reason for wanting to be anonymous.
As a journalist, every time someone gave me the church and apple pie sob story, a little digging showed me something far more realistic, and almost always held the key to what the real story was. I am not saying she stole a ticket, but if I were a reporter covering this story, I would be hitting the pavement to confirm or refute my instincts with facts.
I wouldn't be writing a column giving an unverified yarn credence. I would want to know the why of this story, and then dig from there.


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(3303) Merta (1967 UN) – planetoida z pasa głównego asteroid okrążająca Słońce w ciągu 4,94 lat w średniej odległości 2,9 j.a. Odkrył ją Luboš Kohoutek 30 października 1967 roku.

Zobacz też
 lista planetoid 3001–4000
 lista planetoid

Linki zewnętrzne

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Nazwane planetoidy
Obiekty astronomiczne odkryte w 1967


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Thuraya Telecoms and Xtra-Link to co-sponsor 25th silver anniversary Dubai to Muscat yacht race
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Thuraya Telecommunications Company and its long-standing service partner, Xtra-Link, will join forces to co-sponsor the 25th silver anniversary yacht race from Dubai to Muscat in November.
Confirmation of the dates of the race was announced at a press conference held by the United Arab Emirates Sailing & Rowing Federation in association with Oman's Ministry of Sports Affairs, at the Dubai Offshore Sailing Club. The race is officially recognized by the Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC).
The prestigious event, which is increasingly becoming a firm favorite with sailors from across the globe, will be adjudicated by independent judges from RORC.
As part of the anniversary celebrations, children in schools across Dubai will be engaged in a maritime adventure of their own. Special lessons and demonstrations are being created on how to navigate a boat and a chart, the use of satellite technology, and the importance of safety equipment onboard yachts. Thuraya will share its expertise on these and other topics with children across Dubai.
Keith Murray, Thuraya Product Manager, Maritime, said: ""We are proud to co-sponsor a race that has been running for 25 years and which does Dubai proud. This is a great chance to show children technology in action, linking theory and curriculum with real life here in the UAE. From a corporate responsibility perspective, too, it is good to be able to contribute towards imaginative educational platforms.""
As well as helping to create and lead elements of the education project, Thuraya and Xtra-Link voice and data equipment and 30 XT-PRO phones will be used as tracking units for crews taking part in the race.
Hans Kuijt, CEO, Xtra-Link, said: ""This will be the eleventh year that I have sailed in the Dubai to Muscat yacht race. It is great to see my friends in the sailing world using Thuraya equipment to stay connected during such a challenging and exciting race.""
Tracking units are essential kit, allowing those back on land to track boats in real time, improving crew safety and permitting spectators to follow the race remotely.
Five Thuraya Maritime Atlas IP terminals will be supplied to allow broadband connection to be established by the vessels. Weather reports can be downloaded and sailors will also be able to upload posts onto social media, ensuring a more interactive race for sailors, spectators and schools.
The Thuraya Atlas IP terminals and XT-PRO handsets provide robust, versatile and cost-effective communications in the harsh maritime environment, providing vital communication and giving peace of mind in case anything does go wrong.
Murray said: ""Thuraya has built a maritime portfolio to match the needs and requirements of those working in maritime markets. Our range of robust and reliable voice and data products and services continue to keep crew and vessels connected at sea.""
Thuraya Telecommunications Company	XtraLink 25th silver anniversary yacht race


Richard Allen Morton is a contributing editor to the Illinois State Historical Society.
An Irish Catholic Democrat from Chicago, Edward Fitzsimons Dunne was one of the most consistent champions of the humane liberalism known as progressivism that dominated American politics between the 1890s and the 1920s. A close political associate of William Jennings Bryan, Clarence Darrow, Jane Addams, and Raymond Robins, Dunne has been labeled Chicago's first truly reformist mayor and Illinois's most progressive governor. At his death, political insiders compared his role in Illinois to that of Woodrow Wilson on the national scene. As chief executive of Illinois from 1913 to 1917, Dunne supported a variety of progressive reforms with far-reaching effects. He favored woman suffrage, argued for expanded state responsibility for overseeing workmen's compensation and teachers' pensions, and initiated large-scale improvements in the state's roads. Dunne's contribution to progressivism in Illinois, of course, was not limited to his term as governor. In a public career that began with his election as a Cook County circuit court judge in 1892, he always advocated progressive change. As an elected public official, particularly as the mayor of Chicago, Dunne played a unique role in bringing into government the direct influence of Chicago's circles of social activists. Richard Allen Morton's political biography, therefore, not only highlights Dunne but also illuminates the political dynamics of progressive Illinois.


Veronica Belmont joins the show to talk about Google's Unsend feature. Do humans have no impulse control? On the other hand is five seconds of delay even helpful?
The Next Web reports Instagram has updated its app to let you find images by location. There's also a tab called Explore in the US version that shows trending tags and features a curated selection of accounts, places and topics organized into collections. The update rolls out to Android and iOS today.


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World Youth Day Cologne a Magnet for Anti-Christian Proselytizers
Tue Aug 9, 2005 - 12:15 pm EST
By LifeSiteNews.com
CYBERSPACE, August 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Those young participants of World Youth Day who have attended more than one have grown accustomed to certain aspects that have become standard features of the mass events. These include talks from bishops, fellowship with jubilant throngs of youth from around the world and a huge, outdoor Mass celebrated by the Pope.
Another aspect without which it seems no World Youth Day would be complete is the fury of anti-Christian protesters who seem enraged that young Catholics have rejected their message of sexual immorality and the Culture of Death. World Youth Day is a magnet for homosexual activists, agitators for women's ordination, abortion advocates and the ubiquitous representatives of Planned Parenthood and their affiliated organizations handing out condoms and anti-Catholic literature.
In Toronto in 2002, commuters were confronted with full size billboards featuring a photograph of a group of bishops and the caption, "Because the bishops ban condoms, innocent people die. Catholic people care. Do our bishops?"
The same group will be targeting World Youth Day Cologne (Aug. 16-21) with its billboard campaign. At the central metro station in Cologne, young pilgrims will be greeted on arrival in the city with "giant billboards… proclaiming in German, English and Spanish that 'Good Catholics Use Condoms,'" and posters with the same slogan will appear throughout the public transit system starting Friday, August 12.Â
The City of Cologne has granted the use of the transit system free of charge to the WYD attendees and no Catholic bishop or lay organization has thus far come forward to try to stop the offensive campaign. In Toronto, the Pattison Outdoor Advertising Company, the company that sold the billboard space to Catholics for Free Choice (CFFC), removed the anti-Catholic propaganda and in a letter to protesters, said, "Pattison Outdoor would not do anything to knowingly disrupt this once in a lifetime event."
In a media release CFFC has vowed to spend the nearly two-week long event again attempting to recruit the young people into the Culture of Death with a condom campaign.
In a weird parody of the pro-life movement, the campaign is being called, "Condoms-4-Life." Organizers are attempting to promote the common anti-Catholic theme that the policies of the Church against using condoms to protect from the AIDS virus is directly responsible for "hundreds of thousands" of AIDS deaths. With its nearly unlimited funding available from affiliate organizations such as Planned Parenthood and various giant corporate foundations such as the Ford Foundation, CFFC is able to concentrate on direct attacks on the Catholic Church, upon which it particularly focuses at World Youth Days.
Other posters will bear the caption, "We believe in God. We believe that sex is sacred. We believe in caring for each other. We believe in using condoms."
The media release freely admits that its purpose, far from being "educational," is part of an ongoing war of ideas against the Catholic religion, specifically it adherence to traditional Christian morality. "The campaign aims to counter the message sent by the Catholic bishops worldwide that condoms are immoral and unsafe and is a direct challenge to the cardinals and bishops who recently claimed that condoms were helping to spread HIV/AIDS."
The fact that AIDS rates have plunged in the few countries who have dared to defy the condom dogmas of the United Nations and Planned Parenthood and have instituted abstinence programmes, is kept carefully quiet. Recent statistics show that faithful Catholics in those countries where AIDS is most prevalent have considerably lower rates of HIV/AIDS infections.
The condom and abortion pushers are not the only ones going to Cologne. Christopher Gillibrand, a Catholic living in Brussels who runs a weblog called, "Catholic Church Conservation" reports that a homosexual organization is sending a group of protesters to World Youth Day to "proselytise" the Catholic pilgrims. The organization, "KJGay" calls itself "a community of homosexuals, lesbians, bisexuals and heterosexuals in the Catholic Youth Community Group," and claims to be "the largest youth federation within the Catholic Church of Germany." The group admits that their purpose is to garner acceptance of the "gay lifestyle" among Catholics.
An article on a German language Catholic website says, "There are unfortunately clear signs in Germany that the Catholic Church supports such youth-endangering activities." KJGay appears to have some connection at least to official Catholic youth organizations in Germany. Some of the websites of "KJG," the Catholic Youth Community Group, feature links to the homoseuxal organization.
Mr. Gillibrand asks, "What are the Cardinal Archbishop of Cologne, the German Bishops' Conference and the organisers of WYD (the Pontifical Council for the Laity) going to do to protect Catholic youth in Cologne?"
Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Catholic League Urges Action Against CFFC Targeting of World Youth Day
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2002/feb/02020601.html
Group Vows to Hand out Condoms at World Youth Day
Read Catholic Church Conservation's report on the KJGay:
http://cathcon.blogspot.com/2005/08/wolves-in-sheeps-clothing.html
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Dereham Colts II beat Norwich City IV 6-2.
The game started fast with Dereham in possession right from the whistle.
The first goal for Dereham was scored within minutes by Jackie Taylor with a well placed hit from a short corner.
The first goal for Dereham was scored within minutes by Jackie Taylor with a well placed hit from a short corner. The game continued to be played with Dereham having good possession, with good challenges from City breaking up the play.
A cross from Robyn Ollington from right midfield into the D was picked up by Fran Leverett on the left-hand post who scored Dereham's second goal.
City fought back with some good runs down the centre but these were caught by Dereham's defence and cleared up the wings. Dereham scored another after some good work by Krissy Barnard on the left who found Taylor waiting in the D to convert. As Dereham relaxed, however, City caught a break with a fast run through the midfield and defence straight to goal, and scored.
The half-time score was 4-1 to Dereham.
The second half started faster, but quieter, the heat of the day affecting the players. City were playing further into Dereham's half and play intensified.
Good defensive work by Harriet Thorp and Beth Redpath kept the City attack at bay for a while, but City struck a well placed side-line hit into the D and scored a fast and good goal to make it 4-2.
However Dereham came back with another goal from Leverett (Dereham's man of the match) after determined play from Teresa Stolworthy in midfield.
Desperate for another goal, Dereham's midfield worked hard and well with the defence but City broke through to gain a short corner which was saved by Emily Barnard with a quick deflection.
A fourth goal for Dereham came a few minutes before the whistle blew with the final score 6-2 to Dereham Colts II.


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Copyright on the Farm
John Deere 6620 tractor with grain trailer in Västerby, Hedemora Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden. (Calle Eklund / Wikimedia Commons)
By MC Forelle
This article summarizes work recently published by the author in New Media and Society, titled "Copyright and the modern car: Colliding visions of the public good in DMCA section 1201 anti-circumvention proceedings"; DOI: 10.1177/14614448211015235
In 2015, tractor manufacturer John Deere made waves for sending its dealers a letter asserting that when farmers repaired their own John Deere equipment, what they were really doing was violating US copyright law. At the time, this came as news to a lot of farmers: as a characteristically self-sufficient community, they'd always repaired their equipment on their own. How did putting a computer on a tractor change this?
The law that John Deere was evoking was the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a law that was the result of decades of debates over whether, and how, computer software should be protected via intellectual property law like copyright. Although originally written with the content industries – film, music, and publishing – in mind, the law was written broadly enough to apply to anything that runs software. And these days, that includes everything from coffeemakers to pacemakers to, you guessed it, tractors and cars. The consequence of this is that copyright is now being used by corporations to hinder the development of new products and practices that could help us repair, maintain, and modify our stuff. More fundamentally, this copyright creep is also based in, and continues to reify, some troubling aspects about how ownership, progress, and the spread of knowledge are understood and instantiated in US legal thought and mainstream ideology.
In 2015, John Deere was among a cadre of other automotive and farming equipment manufacturers fighting against a movement to exempt automotive software from Section 1201 of the DMCA, which prohibited car owners and repair mechanics from bypassing the technological protection measures that controlled access to that software—access that is essential for many fundamental and commonplace automotive repair, maintenance, or modification activities. Fighting for this exemption was a coalition of digital rights activists, right-to-repair advocates, farmers, and car enthusiasts who believe that owning an object – especially a car – means having the right to repair it yourself, as you see fit.
Looking more deeply into how both sides of the debate engaged in it, however, a troubling dichotomy is evident. As currently written and interpreted, US copyright law constrains the acceptable debate over copyright's purview to a battle between economic good (almost always understood as profit or income) versus individual autonomy. As a consequence, other perhaps more communal ways of thinking about the purpose of copyright, of how knowledge creation ought to be protected, and what it even means to deem some property "private" in the first place, get sidelined or ignored.
If US law is to continue granting copyright protection to computer software, then copyright law must be re-evaluated. At the very least, Section 1201 of the DMCA has to go, or be fundamentally rewritten, not least because of the impact it is having on the ability to repair, maintain, and modify our everyday devices. It is also doing serious damage to important and longstanding limitations to copyright like fair use (Aufderheide and Jaszi, 2018), as well as creating a chilling effect on speech and innovation (Seltzer, 2010).
But the problems this debate points to extend beyond just the DMCA, and are actually part of a much larger, and more urgent, project. The US copyright paradigm must radically shift to acknowledge that copyright has communal benefits and harms that go beyond economic impact or individual liberty, especially as software-embedded devices are starting to have far-ranging effects on communities and the environment. When corporations are able to argue that copyright is essential to the protection of their profits as they use it to block repair and modification work, they are also blocking efforts at accessibility, creative reuse, and fighting object obsolescence. But when the only possible objection to that approach is to appeal to an individual's right to autonomy in their use of their devices, how these devices actually exist as parts of enormous networks of labor and resources—in their production, use, and afterlife—gets forgotten. What might the digital future of copyright and ubiquitous computing look like if they were instead reimagined as fundamentally about shared ties rather than personal autonomy or private property? What more equitable and sustainable digital futures might be brought into being (and for whom, where, and under what conditions)?
MC Forelle is a Cornell Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow, the first to be based at the Cornell Tech campus in New York City; she is also a visiting fellow at the Digital Life Initiative at Cornell Tech. There, she is expanding her dissertation into a book project that studies the legal and technical obstacles faced by users, tinkerers, and repair communities working to repair, maintain, and modify software-embedded automotive technologies. Her work broadly examines the intersection of law, technology, and culture, with a particular interest in materiality, sustainability, and practices of resistance and change.
Aufderheide, Patricia, and Peter Jaszi. Reclaiming Fair Use. University Of Chicago Press, 2018. press.uchicago.edu, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo28242133.html.
Forelle, MC. "Copyright and the Modern Car: Colliding Visions of the Public Good in DMCA Section 1201 Anti-Circumvention Proceedings." New Media & Society, SAGE Publications, May 2021, p. 14614448211015236. SAGE Journals, doi:10.1177/14614448211015235.
Seltzer, Wendy. "Free Speech Unmoored in Copyright's Safe Harbor: Chilling Effects of the DMCA on the First Amendment." Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, vol. 24, 2011 2010, pp. 171–232.
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The Pilgrims and the Sinners: Sunday in Paris
Posted in Americans in Paris, entertainment, local customs, tagged 19th century Paris, life in Victorian Paris, sunday in paris, Victorian travel on September 3, 2015| Leave a Comment »
On fine Sunday afternoons, the outskirts of Paris offered cheaper refreshments and popular balls like this one painted by Auguste Renoir
In his Innocents Abroad Mark Twain divided travelling Americans into the Pilgrims and the Sinners. The Sinners enjoyed all the world had to offer in terms of amusement while the Pilgrims experienced a serious culture shock on several levels. For rock-solid Puritans such as the man who requested that the trans-oceanic steamship engines be stopped to observe the Sabbath, the sight of a fun-filled Sunday boulevard was a direct path to Hell. (Not to speak of –horror of horrors!—the nude statues in public places and more 'nudities' in the Louvre.)
The following text was written by James Jackson Jarves (1818–1888). This American newspaper editor and art critic visited Paris in the early 1850's and published his impressions in Parisian Sights and French Principles (1852). On the subject of Sunday he stands in the middle.
On this day Paris disgorges its population upon the Boulevards, the Champs Elysees, Bois du Boulogne, public gardens, and museums. The throng is interminable, but a more orderly, happier looking and better dressed crowd is nowhere to be seen. The working faubourgs send their population outside the barrier. In fine weather the Champs Elysees present the appearance of a fair. Every species of jugglery, Punch and Judy, concerts and dog shows, booths, games, and mountebank tricks are in full blast, and each becomes the centre of a curious circle. The roll of carriages and pleasure vehicles is incessant. Paris dines " en ville," or in other words, as pleasure is a part of a Frenchman's creed and he is fond of good eating, he dines on that day with his family or friends at a restaurant, takes his coffee and brandy in the open air or on the sidewalk in front, and passes the evening at some theatre or ball. However remiss he may be at mass, this part of his religion is never neglected. The government encourage this mode of its observance by selecting it for grand reviews, races, launches, and whatever can add to the already seemingly superabundant sources of amusement. The grand waters at St. Cloud and Versailles play on Sunday, and the throng of people on the excursion trains of the railways is immense. Sunday is taken literally in the sense of a day of rest from ordinary work; consequently a day of liberty from otherwise the necessary labours of the remaining six might derange.
A Frenchman is as conscientious in defending his manner of keeping the Sabbath as an American would be in condemning it, though there are some, even Catholics, who agree with the latter. Education makes the difference. As the highest authority has declared Sunday was made for man, the surest way to test the relative merits of the two systems is by the effects on national character. The balance of physical happiness, and the enjoyment of the senses in works of art, would seem to be in favor of France ; but in the acquisition of religious instruction and the strengthening of moral principles, the graver course of the United States stands out in strong relief. The former renders the individual more joyous because less thoughtful — the latter more thoughtful and less joyous. The first, like their own champagne, sparkles, exhilarates and is gone ; the last, a solid aliment for the soul, nourishes strength for the hour of trial. A happy combination of the two would temper the one and adorn the other.
Americans in Paris and the Kissing Protocol
Paris of the 1870s: Risen From the Ashes
Posted in Americans in Paris, architecture and urbanism, Third Republic, tagged 19th century France, 19th century Paris, life in Victorian Paris, Victorian travel on August 5, 2013| 1 Comment »
Place de l'Opéra
Charles C. Fulton was one of the incomprehensibly rich American tourists who invaded Paris two years after the twin calamities of the Franco-Prussian War and the fall of the Second Empire. In 1871, the city was ruined by Prussian bombardment and the Commune of Paris revolution, both responsible for destroying and damaging many public buildings. It is therefore surprising that Fulton never mentions the wounds Paris had sustained. In the two years that followed, Paris seems to have risen from the ashes to dazzle the foreigners as it did under the reign of Napoleon III.
Excerpt from Europe Viewed Through American Spectacles by Charles C. Fulton.
Paris, August 18, 1873
It is not an easy matter at this late day to write letters from Paris that will interest and instruct. It is a city which everybody is familiar with, it having been so often described, and its attractions and beauties so vividly spread before the general reader that it would almost seem like undertaking to write something new about Baltimore. We have visited it so often, and ridden and walked through its multifarious thoroughfares until all its crooks and turns are as familiar to us as those of any of our leading American cities. Still there is something about Paris that makes it always appear bright, gay, and sparkling to the visitor.
The Parisian does not worship the "dust of ages" or take pride in smoked and begrimed walls as the Londoner does. If he has anything that is handsome he tries to make it handsomer. He is always rubbing, scrubbing, and polishing old things, or tearing them down to make room for something new and more beautiful. The four handsome clusters of gas-lamps in the centre of the Place de l'Opéra are not only kept as bright and elegant as the day they were put up, but the elaborate bronze lamp-posts are polished with as much regularity as the glasses of the lamps. If the slightest defect is observed in one stone in the street, it is relaid or replaced by a new one; and if a flaw in the asphaltum as large as a man's hand is discovered, a repairing party is at work in a few hours, and the defect removed. Every tenant is held responsible for the cleanliness of the street before his door, and neither dirt nor rubbish of any kind is permitted. As in public matters, so also is those of private concern. They never allow their houses or store fronts to become dull or dingy. They are always arranging and rearranging the goods in their windows and striving to make them more attractive. All these scores of miles of boulevards are planted with sycamore trees. When they plant trees they take good care that they shall have a fair chance to grow, and they are all flourishing beautifully. Around each tree an iron grating, extending three feet each way, is inserted in the pavement, in order that its roots may have breathing-room and water. There are hundreds of thousands of these trees all thus planted, and all tended and watered by the city authorities. If one should happen to die, a tree of similar size is brought to take its place, that the uniformity may be unbroken. These trees are the pride of Paris, and are yearly becoming more serviceable as a shade to the broad sidewalks as well as a grand ornament to the boulevards.
Thus it is that the attractions of Paris are always increasing. No rust or decay is permitted , and old things are swept away as having served their day and generation. Antiquity has no worshipers, and is made to yield to the spirit of improvement. New squares, gardens, and fountains are following the march of improvement in the suburbs, and even in those quarters of the city where the poorer classes mostly reside, these pleasure-grounds are being fitted up as elegantly as in the wealthiest sections. Paris is not beautiful in spots, but every portion of it abounds in attractions.
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Crinolines and Impériales: Public Transport in Paris
Posted in prices, transport, tagged paris transport history, Victorian travel on October 15, 2011| 1 Comment »
"Impériale" omnibus, early 1850's
Parisian transport was regulated since the early 1800s and no public vehicle could circulate in the city without a special permit. In 1853, the first double-decker buses called impériales appeared in the streets. The upper floor was uncovered and admitted only male passengers as the women's voluminous crinolines were a dangerous obstacle in climbing the steep steps. The creation of the Compagnie Impériale des voitures de Paris in 1855 merged all existing public transport companies. Twenty-five public transport lines covered 150 km of Parisian streets. In the 1860s there were thirty-one omnibus lines, which served the city's main thoroughfares from 8 a.m. until midnight. Private cabs, hailed on the street and marked with red numbers, cost 2 francs the hour. Small steamboats known as mouches (flies) or hirondelles (swallows) plied the Seine.
The omnibuses were uncomfortable, with the users exposed to all winds. In inclement weather, the ride was very unpleasant. At the back, there was at first a ladder that was later replaced by a more convenient spiral staircase. There were 500 omnibuses and the company stables housed 7000 horses.
Above: In 1855 Paris saw faster and larger two-horse omnibuses with 24 seats. Inside seats cost 30 centimes and included a transfer. A seat on the impériale cost 15 centimes, but no transfer was possible.
The construction of the Paris metro was a revolution in the French capital. The first line opened with the 1900 World Exposition
The Guide to Gay Paree 1869 – Part 8: Beware!
Posted in Guide to Gay Paree 1869, local customs, manners, morality, people of Paris, prostitution, shopping, tagged cafés chantants, Paris guide, Victorian travel on September 19, 2011| 3 Comments »
(From Paris Partout! A guide for the English and American Traveller in 1869 or How to see PARIS for 5 guineas)
Jean -Louis Forrain "At the Public Garden", 1884
Beware of the flower girls at the bals publics, cafés chantants, and outside the theatres, as well as the wily advances of well-dressed and spoken women. The uncouth boldness of the street-walker will strike the visitor with immediate amazement and distaste: but how could one expect that under a lady-like appearance and language the Parisian gay woman hides the evil designs of a fallen angel, and laughs inwardly at the gullibility of her victims?
In markets barter is the rule: let an inexperienced lady make her appearance, and she will at once be asked the double the price that would be expected from an obviously sharp-witted French cook. There are no fishmongers in Paris: all fish are sold at the market.
Jews selling lorgnettes, plated jewellery &c., who may also offer you licentious, forbidden literature and illustrations.
The concierge, or caretaker of apartment buildings. This person, if offended, has it in his or her power to give much annoyance, mislaying letters, misinforming callers, and speaking ill of you to tradespeople.
It is desirable to avoid the free discussion of politics. The police are ubiquitous and zealous, with wide powers of arrest and detention. The wiser course must certainly be to express yourself with great temperance in referring to the Emperor and government of France, and not to do or say anything that may serve to lessen the entente cordiale at present existing between our nations.
This concludes the The Guide series. I hope you have enjoyed the trip to the Second Empire Paris. Let me know!
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The Guide to Gay Paree 1869 – Part 6: Entertainment
Posted in entertainment, Guide to Gay Paree 1869, local customs, morality, prices, social life, tagged cafés chantants, Paris guide, victorian entertainment, Victorian travel on September 4, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Paris, the City of Light, is a veritable charivari of pleasures after nightfall; the visitor must only beware of not regretting the effects of a too-eager readiness to yield to the siren calls of its temptations and intoxications.
Theatres, cafés chantants and dancing halls
The Grand Opéra, rue Pelletier. Properly the French Opera, run up in a hurry in 1821(to replace a building in the rue de Richelieu, at the door of which the Duc de Berri was stabbed and which was pulled down in consequence). In front of the portico, three dastardly Italians tried to assassinate the Emperor and the Empress in 1858, and now this building is being replaced too, by a splendid edifice designed by M. Garnier, due to open in 1871. The government provides 900,000 francs of annual subsidy. Peformances on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and often Sunday.
The Opéra Comique, Place des Italiens. In this handsome hall are presented lighter works, by modern composers such as Aber, Halévy, etc.
The Théâtre Italien, Place Boildieu. Here a select audience listens to Italian Opera, in a season which lasts from November to April (after which the singers generally repair to London).
The Théâtre Français, rue Richelieu. The seat of the French regular drama – classic works and modern alike, with a government subsidy of 240,000 francs. Molière was once its manager; in later years it has been the scene of triumphs of Talma and Rachel. The manager is allowed to withdraw an actor from any other theatre to the Comédie-Française (as it is also known) on one year notice.
The Odéon, near the Luxembourg. A minor Théâtre Français, but not an inferior one. Here Beaumarchais' play Le Mariage de Figaro was first produced in 1784; nine years later, the entire troop of actors was arrested by order of the Revolutionary tribunal. It has several times been burnt down.
Théâtre des Variétés, Boulevard Montmartre. A neat and much-frequented house, in which the amusing musical vaudevilles of M. Offenbach can be seen.
The infamous Boulevard du Temple, or 'Boulevard du Crime', on which the smaller theatres played the most lurid and distasteful melodrama, has now been destroyed to make way for the regime's march of progress.
The Théâtre Gymnase-Dramatique, Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle, is respectable. The plays are moral and the performers are all married.
Note Ladies do not patronize the pit, or parterre, of any theatre; gentlemen admitted here should in the interval ensure their places by tying a handkerchief around the banquette. Be also warned that at the Grand Opéra, the claque sit here. This disagreeable cohort, paid by the management in this and other theatres to respond favourably to the entertainment in question, should on no account be shushed or silenced in their mercenary activities. An attempt to abolish the claques in 1853 proved totally unsuccessful after a fortnight.
Tickets for all Parisian theatrical performances may be booked from a central office on the Boulevard des Italiens; avoid the profiteers who swarm outside the more popular theatres – their offers are always excessive in price, and frequently entirely bogus!
Cafés chantants. Spectators sit and listen to music, sometimes of a coarse nature, executed by performers often outrageously overdressed. No charge is made for admission, but one will be expected to take refreshment, usually of inferior quality. The company is not aristocratic, but the visitor need not fear annoyance or impropriety. The most celebrated of these institutions is L'Alcazar, rue du Faubourg Poissonière. Here the fabulous Theresa, whose salary exceeds 20,000 fr. per annum, sings, twice a week in the winter season, ditties of a satirical and even saucy turn.
Balls publics. It is difficult to imagine scenes more curious or fantastic than those presented by these public dancing halls. At the most refined level, balls masqués are presented during the winter in the Grand Opéra – the pit being boarded over and joined to the stage. Gentlemen may be admitted (10 fr.) in plain evening clothes, but ladies should be masked or in costume. The gorgeous and glittering revelry of the polka, waltz, and mazurka reaches its climax at 1 a.m. Strict etiquette is by no means the predominating characteristic of the fair who resort to this pleasantest of pandemonia. It will be conceived that if a visitor should take the ladies of his family to witness this display, he must take them to a box as a mere spectators, for to mingle with any of these too vivacious groups, could be worse than indiscretion.
Elsewhere public dancing halls abound. Some of the smaller establishments in the suburbs are little more than dens of all the vices: official efforts to curb their activities and proliferation have not been altogether effective.
In the centre of the city, more commodious establishments may be found, among them the Salle Valentino, rue S. Honoré. The architecture is a medley of the Moorish and Greek; the columns are gaily painted, and the recess is backed by mirrors which greatly enhances the brilliancy of the scene. There are a billiard table, a shooting gallery, a dynamometer for amateurs of muscular strength, and tables where trifles may be raffled for. The visitor must expect to see every variety of embrace not excepting the ursine hug. Admission 2-3 fr.
Jardin Mabille, Avenue Montaigne. A large circular space, with a pavilion for the orchestra in the centre, is reserved for the dancers, and lighted by a profusion of gas-lights suspended from artificial palm trees. A snug corner is laid out for refreshment; here the votary of Terpsichore may treat his partner to a refreshing lemonade. An immense covered saloon affords the visitor a secure asylum from bad weather. The company of this elegant garden comes under the description of 'the gayest of the gay', but licence is not carried beyond propriety. Admission 2 fr.
Would that the same could be said of the Salon de Wauxhall, rue de la Douane, which partakes of the character of the manufacturing arrondissement surrounding it, and is not much more respectably attended than the Holborn Casino! The police make forays on its bacchic excesses, and arrests are made.
A novel and hilarious diversion is provided by an American importation. In the Roller Skating Club, rue Jean Goujon, skating on shoes soled with rubberized wheels is demonstrated daily by 'Professor' Fuller, a master of the Art who claims to have been 'decorated by every Sovereign in the world with ice in his dominions'. The first of such institutions in Europe.
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The Guide to Gay Paree 1869 – Part 5: Shopping
Posted in Americans in Paris, Guide to Gay Paree 1869, markets, shopping, tagged Guide to Paris, Victorian travel on August 28, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The Grand Magazins du Louvre
The visitor should note that Paris is the most expensive city in Europe. English sovereigns and half-sovereigns are generally accepted in lieu of native currency.
Much to be marveled at are the grands magasins or magasins de nouveautés, huge emporia divided into several floors and departments. These stores offer a wide range of dry goods, drapery, haberdashery, clothing, and furnishing. They are rigorously managed and quite respectable. Among smaller shops, American citizens may like to note the pharmacist Swann, rue Castiglione, by appointment to the American Embassy and the American Cracker Manufactory, Boulevard Malesherbes. Novel gifts 'for the folk back home' may be found at the establishment of M. Paul Morin, Boulevard Poissonière, whose jewellery is forged in that wonderful new metal, aluminium, which so impressed the Emperor at the recent International Exhibition that he commanded a dinner service made of the same. The Maison Violet, newly opened on the rue Scribe, occupies a vast insular salon, ornamented with frescoes and a superb chandelier of one hundred jets. The tone is essentially aristocratic. Inner boudoirs sell the paraphernalia of the toilette, notably the house's own exclusive 'Reine des Abeilles', or Queen Bee, cosmetic preparations, by appointment to the Empress.
More on shopping in Paris under the Shopping category (for some reason Wordpress does not allow me internal links):
Clever and bizarre local items
Paris by gas-light
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The Guide to Gay Paree – Part 4: Restaurants and Cafés
Posted in food and drink, Guide to Gay Paree 1869, prices, tagged Paris guide, Victorian travel on August 21, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Le Train Bleu restaurant, Paris. Typical 2nd Empire interior design.
Dinner is served between 4.30 and 8 p.m. Very large portions are the rule, and the visitor will find that one French appetite is sufficient for two Anglo-Saxon appetites.
The carte: nothing can be more bewildering to the stranger than to have this printed list, of some hundred dishes, placed in his hand, and he soon begins to feel uncomfortable at the contempt that his ignorance must inspire in the waiter. We, therefore, recommend – for reasons of as much economy as of personal dignity – that the visitor favours the fixed price menu of the day, available at all but the very smartest establishments.
For those who do not wish to risk the possibility of digestive contretemps, plain, wholesome English fare is offered by Lucas, in the rue Madeleine (ham or roast beef, with boiled cabbage and mashed potatoes, 1 fr. 20 c. English cheeses; half portions available); also by the well-established Byron's Tavern, rue Favart, Taverne Britannique, rue Richelieu, and His Lordship's Larder, rue Royale. Beware signs in windows advertising 'Veritable Warranted Cheddar' or 'Stakes from London, Day and Night'.
The stranger should not as a rule venture below third class, but he may safely patronize a new form of eating house, the cremerie or bouillon, in which simple dishes and collations are constantly ready for instant purchase and consumption. These places do not minister to the refinement or romance of dining out in Paris; no ceremony beyond eating and paying is attached to them; but they do have the advantage of the utmost convenience.
For those who wish to sample the full glory of Parisian cuisine, with expense no object, we would single out Café des Anglais, Boulevard des Italiens. Obtaining a table is not easy; there are times when those without réclame or a title seem to be tacitly excluded. The restaurant upstairs (in which smoking is not permitted) has long been the haunt of la jeunesse aristocratique – the Duc de Rivoli, Prince Paul Demidoff, the Marquis de Modena &c. A beefsteak costs 1 fr. 75c. The cellars, which contain over 200,000 bottles of wine, including some of the Château Lafitte dating from the previous century, make a faery dining hall. The ground-floor café is but plain and typique, and open all night. Beware cocottes. Véfour, Galerie Valois. Salmon mayonnaise (the receipt a closely guarded secret), 2fr. 50c. The 36-page menu here lists twenty hors d'oeuvres, thirty-three soups, forty-six dishes of beef, thirty-four of game, as well as forty-seven of vegetables and seventy-one fruits en compote. Trois Frères Provençaux, Galerie Beaujolais (not to be confused with its pallid imitator, the Deux Frères Provençaux, rue Dauphine), has four salons and eighteen private rooms; fine wine, cod with garlic a speciality.
Note Ordinary red table wine is usually drunk mixed with aerated water – this precaution is especially recommended in inferior restaurants.
Ilya Repin "Scene from a Parisian Café" 1875
Paris boasts at least twenty thousand cafés. The more salubrious of them present the visitor with a sprightly scene. Around are luxurious couches for your accommodation; mirrors, gilding, and tasteful adornments of decorative skill enrich the walls; whilst every art that can be used to attract and retain the visitor is brought into operation – the daily journals, draughts, chess, dominoes, cribbage, and billiards. Excellent coffee, chocolate, and liqueurs are supplied at reasonable prices. Ladies are at perfect liberty to frequent these saloons and are numerously found there. The utmost decorum prevails, and the freedom and ease of conversation carried on in a low tone, form an additional attraction to these popular places of resort. Smoking is generally prohibited until the evening.
Coffee is served either as a demi-tasse (strong, black), or as a mazagran (in a glass, with an accompanying carafe of water), or as capuchin, with milk. Never tip, even for a single cup of coffee, less than 10c. Should you give less, you risk the embarrassment of an ironic shout of 'Un sou pour le garçon!'
Tortoni, Boulevard des Italiens. Renowned for its ices and sorbets. Café du Helder, Boulevard des Italiens. Open after the theatre; food, at a price (half a chicken, 4 fr.!!) Well known for its absinthe, a spirituous liquor which, if taken in any quantity, can be ruinous to both moral and physical well-being. Café Leblond Favre, Passage de l'Opéra. Stockjobbers from the Bourse breakfast there. Sherry cobbler, mint julep, American grog, and other Yankee potations purveyed. Café de Suède, Boulevard Montmartre. After-theatre suppers of goose aux marrons, sauerkraut and potato salad, served in private cubicles. Literary and journalistic clientele, of a radical political nature. A famous habitué is Le Guillois, the eccentric editor of the newspaper Le Hanneton. To publicise this he adopted the ludicrous habit of taking out the copy in public places, pretending to read it, and gasping loudly: 'This newspaper is remarkable! The critics are excellent, the drawings clever! And so much for a ridiculously low price! Truly, this Le Guillois the editor is an astonishing man who deserves to succeed!'
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The Guide to Gay Paree – Part 3: Find a hotel
Posted in Americans in Paris, Guide to Gay Paree 1869, lodgings, prices, tagged old Paris, Paris guide, Victorian travel on August 14, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Le Grand Hotel du Louvre
Hotels and Accommodations
Paris contains some 4,000 hotels and lodging houses, many of them bearing in their names the evidence of the entente cordiale – hence the Hotels Chatnam, Bristol, Windsor, Manchester, Brighton, Liverpool, Westminster, Dover, Bedford, Canterbury, Richmond, Lancaster, Clarendon, Nelson, Byron, Walter Scott, Prince Regent and several Albions, Londres, Victorias, Iles Britanniques, and Angleterres. Those on an expansive budget should note:
Grand Hôtel, Boulevard des Capucines. A new hotel, financed by the Jewish bankers Pereire, of great show and size (not to be confused with its neighboring rival, the Grand Hotel du Louvre against which it has been wrangling a costly and bitter legal suit). Seven hundred rooms, for which one can expect to pay 20 francs per diem. For all the splendour of its public quarters, designed by M. Charles Garnier, do not recon on quiet, prompt attendance. There are few private w.c.s and many damp, dark corridors. More commodious to traveling agents for commercial houses than families seeking cheer and respectability. A lifting machine, operated by hydraulic press, raises clients to their floor, thus circumventing the fatigue of staircases. Electric bells operate throughout.
Hôtel Meurice, rue de Rivoli. Much patronized by visiting royalty and aristocracy. Our intelligence has it, however, that standards in this establishment have fallen since it passed out of private hands and into those of a joint stock enterprise, the Paris Hotel Company.
Hôtel de Calais, rue Neuve des Capucines. Frequented by the elite of American society. American breakfasts served (buckwheat cakes, fishballs &c.). Close to the American banking house.
Visitors intending to stay for longer periods should not hesitate to take a furnished apartment: a reliable agent can be found in A. Webb, 220 rue de Rivoli, tea dealer and wine and brandy merchant. Many English, Americans, and Russians of more than moderate means prefer the leafy residential stretch of the Champs Elysées.
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The Guide to Gay Paree – Part 2: Arrival to Paris
Posted in Guide to Gay Paree 1869, history, important events, Napoleon III, tagged Paris guide, Paris history, Victorian travel on August 7, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Hubert Sattler: Paris 1867
1789 Capture of the Bastille
1792 Republic proclaimed
1793 Execution of Louis XVI
1804 Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed Emperor.
At the outbreak of the Revolution in 1789, one-third of Paris had been occupied by ecclesiastical property. Since much of it was subsequently expropriated, and then sold to speculators or retained by the state, Napoleon availed himself of an opportunity to beautify the city, opening the rue de Rivoli, completing the Louvre Palace, and beginning the Arch of the Etoile.
1814 Abdication of the Emperor. Restoration of the Bourbon Louis XVIII.
1824 Succession of Charles X
1830 Three-day revolution. Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orleans, proclaimed King. He completed the Arch of the Etoile, the Madeleine, enlarged the Hôtel de Ville, and repaired many neglected monuments, as well as widening principal thoroughfares. During this reign, Paris was surrounded with the present fortified wall and ditch, and the detached forts erected.
1848 February revolution. After two days' fighting, Louis Philippe fled, and republic was proclaimed. The words 'Liberté, Egalité, et Fraternité' met the visitor's eyes in every direction; they have now been erased. Louis Napoleon, son of Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland and nephew of the first Napoleon, elected by universal suffrage President of the French Republic.
1851 2 December. Discretion compels us to pass over the coup d'état which took place on this date. Suffice it to say that exactly a year later, Louis Napoleon was elected Emperor by universal suffrage, and the present regime, known as the Second Empire was established. In 1853 Louis Napoleon married the present Empress, Eugénie de Montijo. Since these events, works of public utility in Paris have proceeded at a pace quite stupendous, throwing into shade everything previously achieved in any city of the world. Picturesque but insalubrious quarters of narrow and crooked streets have been cleared, the boulevards extended, railways constructed.
Paris today
Today visitor to Paris will find a population between one and a half and two million. In 1860 the line of fortified walls which surrounds the city was made the municipal boundary; this wall is rather more than 22 miles in circuit and has 66 entrances or gates.
The city is divided into 20 arrondissements, with their own administrations, over which are placed the Prefect of the Seine, Baron Georges Haussmann, and his municipal council. The modern fashionable quarter comprehends the bright and brilliant rue de Rivoli, Place Vendôme, Boulevard des Italiens and the Champs Elysées. The Palace of the Tuileries is the Paris residence of the Emperor and Empress; on the Ile de la Cité are the law courts, central police office, and the great hospital; there is nothing like 'the City' in London – the Bourse or Stock Exchange being close to the fashionable quarter. In the Faubourg Saint-Germain, on the Left Bank of the river Seine, stand the vast hotels of the nobility, in which some of the traditions of old French society are maintained; in the adjoining Latin Quarter, many thousands of students lead a life of riot and license hardly to be understood by a foreigner. To the East, in the Faubourg S. Antoine, are numerous manufactories and the dwellings of those who work in them, formerly the hotbed of terror and insurrection. On the outskirts, as in the Faubourg S. Victor, Mouffetard, Belleville &c, are to be found the most wretched of the population; but Paris may at least be proud that it possesses fewer dens of misery, filth, and vice than the vicinity of Tottenham Court Road or Drury Lane can exhibit.
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PARIS! – gay and beautiful Paris – rich in architectural treasures, teeming with historic associations of deepest interest – favoured in its genial climate – replete with endless novelty – the abode and dictator of European fashion – full of all that art and science can contribute to beguile the sense – its people renowned for their wit and daring – in fact, in sum, in total, THE PARADISE OF TOURISTS!
From London
Of the different routes available, the speediest is that adopted by the South-Eastern Railway, whose accelerated special tide trains leave regularly from Charing Cross, passing to Paris via Sevenoaks, Folkestone (indifferent refreshment room), and Boulogne. Weather permitting, the entire trip is of a duration c. 10 hours. Return ticket, one month's validity, £3 10s.
Since a French regulation of 1860, English citizens are now exempt from the expense and annoyance of passports; but although by no means absolutely necessary, one of these documents, or a card of identity, is most strongly recommended.
Attention is generally paid only to cigars, on which a levy of 10 centimes per item is payable. Certain books and newspapers, of inflammatory or political tendency, can cause difficulties or embarrassment.
25 francs equal £1; 5 francs equal $1.
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Colliers wanted to inject inspiration into their staff and get staff's 'buy in' into growing the business both as an entire brand but also the branches throughout the country. This involved a substantial number of staff all of whom they wanted to feel a part of the company's offer to their clients.
JPS focused on the Growth of the Business component in what they were trying to achieve and sourced small pot plants with a variety of different seeds. Each staff member was given one of these that not only had instructions for the plant's growth but also and related this to their contribution in the success of the brand. Feed and water a plant and it will grow.
Everybody became a desk gardener! They all had them on their desk at work and it became a great topic of conversation as well as an internal competition on who could grow the greatest plant. This continued through to a repotting stage and we even got a very impressive capsicum that had been taken home to the vegetable patch.


Slots at London Heathrow are so precious that the Channel Islands have not had a link to London's main airport for many years.
In the case of Guernsey the last direct link to Heathrow was 20 years ago.
It means that Islanders wishing to make connections via London must (in the vast majority of cases) fly into the capital's other airports and proceed to Heathrow by surface transport.
However some good news was announced today.
From March 31 Islanders will have their Heathrow link restored.
Flights will be operated by Flybe itself and not by one of its franchise partners.
Yes it is true that the timings will not suit everyone.
But provided you are prepared to wait a few hours between flights there are opportunities for both short- and long-haul connections.
As aviation analysts would say "It's better to have some connections at Heathrow rather than none at all".
Obtaining a slot at Heathrow is a murky business as we have explained on numerous occasions before.
Although there is no official confirmation it is understood that the slot pair in question was previously used by Larnaca-based Cobalt Air which failed in 2018.
I have checked Cobalt Air's schedules (when it last operated at Heathrow) and found that the arrival and departure times are identical (to those of Flybe).
However not everything in the garden is rosy. This slot pair is available only for the summer season.
Therefore this Guernsey-Heathrow link will cease after October 26 unless a way can be found to maintain the service.
Guernsey is determined to make this new route a success. It has now emerged that the authorities will subsidise the Heathrow route. It will receive £825,000 in funding over seven months.
The news follows last month's announcement by Channel Islands carrier Blue Islands, of new routes from Guernsey to London Southend and Liverpool.


Modi was honoured by President Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan in appreciation of the Indian leader's role in consolidating the long-standing friendship and joint strategic cooperation between the two countries, WAM news agency reported on Thursday.
"By granting our dear friend the Indian Prime Minister the Zayed Medal, we express our appreciation for his role and efforts in developing friendly relations and extending bridges of cooperation between the UAE and India in various fields," the Crown Prince said.
He expressed "his pride at the strong friendship and cooperation between the UAE and India, and wished the country and its people continued progress, prosperity, security and stability", the report said.


An Evening with Bruce Cockburn | Waterville Creates!
Few recording artists are as creative and prolific as Bruce Cockburn. Since his self-titled debut in 1970, the Canadian singer-songwriter has issued a steady stream of acclaimed albums every couple of years. But that output suddenly ran dry in 2011 following the release of Small Source of Comfort. There were good reasons for the drought. For one thing, Cockburn became a father again with the birth of his daughter, Iona. Then there was the publication of his 2014 memoir, Rumours of Glory.


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IVG GOTY 2013: Your chance to win a PS4
IVG StaffJanuary 13, 2014
After a two-year absence, the IVG Game of the Year awards are back, and to make up for our absence, we're giving away a PlayStation 4 to one lucky IVG member.
We've got nine categories for you to vote across, with nominations compiled by our editorial team after lots of careful deliberation. That said, we've restricted each category to five nominations, so if you get pissed off that a game you really like didn't make it, just know that we've been there.
Our overall game of the year category, however, works a little differently than elsewhere. Since IVG is first and foremost an Indian gamers' community, we think it's only fair that the gamers pick their game of the year rather than us short-listing nominees.
So aside from voting in the various categories, we'd like you to tell us your top five games of the year. We'll then compile everyone's top five games and arrive at IVG's overall top 10 games of 2013.
One thing to keep in mind while picking your top five – only games that were first released between January and December 2013 are eligible. So, for example, even though Spelunky was released in 2013 on PC, PS3 and PS Vita, it was first released in 2012 on Xbox 360, so it is ineligible this year.
About that PS4
In order to be in the running to win the PS4, every IVG member (yes, you have to be an IVG member to be eligible to win. You can register here if you aren't a member yet. It's quick and free) must vote in all the GOTY categories below, and name their top five games of 2013. Basically, fill out everything in the form below, and you're good to go.
Also, please bear in mind that Sony is currently running low on PS4 stocks in India, so whoever does win the PS4 will have to wait till new stock arrives in India, which should be between mid-Feb and early March.
Update: Voting for the IVG GOTY 2o13 and entries for contest are now closed. Check back soon for the results.
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The problem without a solution. The coming train wreck. No way out. These are but a few of the descriptions being bandied about by ISOs, increasingly frustrated by small merchant unwillingness to upgrade both POS devices and ATMs to EMV.
Exhibits A and B in this conundrum are the most recent press releases by both Ingenico and Verifone, blaming recent earnings misses on plunging EMV-ready hardware sales to merchants. With sales below forecast and, presumably, now bloated hardware inventories, both companies must be scratching their heads as to why, nearly a year after POS liability shift, an estimated half of all U.S. merchants have yet to upgrade their POS devices to EMV. Both companies blamed small merchants for delaying their adoption of EMV technology in POS devices. Ingenico went further, blaming the card brands for a "relaxation" in fraud chargeback rules meant to spur EMV adoption by these same merchants.
Upgrade kits are the cheapest option for both merchants and ISOs. Depending on the manufacturer, ATMs up to 15-20 years old are still supported and can be upgraded easily to EMV through the purchase of an upgrade kit. At a cost of around $500, ISOs may be able to persuade merchants that the cost of upgrade far outweighs the risk of coming fraud chargebacks. At better performing sites, ISOs may even be willing to absorb the cost of an upgrade kit in exchange for an extended contract.
Trade-in non-EMV hardware for new, EMV ready gear. Depending on the site and the merchant, a new ATM may be the best solution. However, the high cost of a new ATM has thus far been a barrier to widespread merchant upgrade. Trading in older, non-EMV hardware to the manufacturer accomplishes a number of things. First, the net cost of the new ATM is drastically reduced by credit given on the trade. Secondly, the older ATM stays out of the landfill. Reduced upgrade cost plus environmental responsibility can be an irresistible combination in convincing merchants to upgrade.
Refurbished, EMV-ready ATMs are an increasingly popular option with merchants. Where merchants want a fresh machine without the new ATM sticker shock, refurbished ATMs have exploded in popularity. Depending on configurations, a refurbished ATM, partially offset by the trade-in of a used ATM can further reduce a merchant's cost to nearly that of an upgrade kit! Refurbished ATMs as an option for merchant upgrade to EMV can be a powerful tool in the hands of ISOs.
With most small merchants still taking a "wait and see" approach to ATM EMV upgrade, ISOs need a variety of tools to proactively address the issue. By providing a number of low-cost alternatives to their merchant customers, ISOs may be able to move the needle where the "just buy a new ATM" approach has thus far failed The alternative may well be costly court battles between ISOs and merchants over who pays six-figure liability shift claims as we saw in Canada.


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Homewood High & Dry is a long-standing business that has thrived on the West Shore since the early 1960s. A legacy on the West Shore of Lake Tahoe, the Homewood name was born in 1961 as a ski area founded by Ron Rupp with two rope tows and a ton of passion. In the summers Rupp taught water skiing on the lake and it was easy see the potential in building a Marina and bringing year round recreation to the Homewood area. Rupp partnered with Helen Aldridge and her son George and in 1966 they began construction of a showroom and harbor on the lakefront lot across from the ski area.
Taking an innovative approach to boat storage, the Homewood High & Dry Marina was the first in the area to utilize dry rack storage. Borrowing the concept from marinas in Florida, which are often subject to harsh weather, dry rack storage would prove beneficial in keeping boats safe during Tahoe's unpredictable weather.
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In 1977 Nate Topol purchased a swath of lakefront property that included the Homewood High & Dry Marina and the neighboring motel and over the next few decades he began developing the property into a destination area. After many years running the Truckee Lumber Mill, a business that brought his family to the area in the 1940s, Topol envisioned developing the property that brought a unique attraction to the West Shore.
In addition to expanding the Marina to include outdoor dry storage, he built the Topol Pavilion, an outdoor venue that was home to the Lake Tahoe Music Festival for many years. Topol also expanded the original West Shore Café to include outdoor dining on a private pier and created a new dining experience on West Shore. The area grew into a public access point to recreation on the lake. The business was a family affair with Topol's wife and five children working in the West Shore Café and Marina.
Throughout the years the property has evolved to fit the evolving West Shore area. Today the Topol Pavilion no longer exists. The West Shore Café has grown into a destination, wedding venue including an intimate inn and luxury dining options. The Homewood High & Dry Marina continues to be a convenient and customer service-oriented access point to the lake and the protected waters of West Shore's McKinney Bay.
Topol envisioned a day when the Marina and West Shore Café would operate harmoniously with the neighboring Homewood Mountain Resort and in 2010 he sold the restaurant to JMA Ventures, which currently owns and operates both the restaurant and resort to this day. He continued to operate the Marina until his passing in 2013 at which point his son, David took over operations.
In 2016 JMA Ventures purchased the marina and hired David Topol as the Marina Director and keeping the family legacy alive.
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Weber Shandwick has hired Fiona Battle to lead its content arm Mediaco throughout EMEA.
Battle is the first European hire for Mediaco, which launched in March and is seeking to capitalise on client demand for content.
The practice has a wider remit than PR, including native advertising, digital media buying and collaborations with tech content firms Adaptly, Contently and Outbrain.
Battle, who was previously digital lead at Exposure and joins after a career break, reports to EMEA head of digital James Warren and will work closely work with Mediaco's US head Jason Wellcome.
Mediaco is part of WS's digital practice but serve clients across the practices at a local and global level.
'They increasingly need to take control of their own story, particularly online. Paid media is vital and fundamental to this. The myth is that all you need in social is content, but you have to grease the wheels with media budget,' he said.
As PR agencies increasingly go head to head with advertising, content marketing, social and creative agencies Warren said the expansion in to paid media would give WS a competitive edge.
Warren predicted 'bullish prospects' for the unit based on its success in North America, calling the media and creative budgets it could potentially take a share of 'transformative'.
With Battle taking the helm this week, the agency is already in talks with existing UK clients about possible projects. Consumer and FMCG clients have been the initial focus, but 'interesting conversations with corporate and technology brands' were also taking place according to Warren.
In the US, senior Mediaco hires have included those from editorial, production, media planning and advertising backgrounds.
Battle is the latest in a string of London-based hires across the agency aimed at boosting its digital expertise.
Last month ex-BBC digital programming producer Pete Way joined the firm to lead the agency's digital production and Bite's Nadia Saint joined as digital head of its technology practice.
Anna Hardman also joins from Edelman as digital director of its European consumer practice working along side practice head Gabriela Lungu.


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Boston's lost art
Thieves stole the Gardner paintings 25 years ago; the city's leaders could help get them back
By Stephen KurkjianMarch 8, 2015, 1:26 a.m.
Full frame of Rembrandt's "The Storm on the Sea of Galilee."Associated Press
It was the largest art heist in world history, and it remains unresolved. Twenty-five years ago, on March 18, 1990, thieves broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and made off with 13 pieces of artwork, including two masterpieces — "The Concert," the only Vermeer that had been on display in New England, and Rembrandt's only seascape, "Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee," one of the best paintings from his early period. It's time to get them back, and the leaders of Boston can help.
The theft, worth a half billion dollars, also included sketches by Degas, a portrait by Manet, and three other Rembrandts (including an etching on paper). Although the FBI has chased every lead, there has never been a "proof of life" sighting of any of the pieces since they were driven off into the misty night in a dark-colored hatchback.
Anne Hawley, who took over as director of the museum several months before the robbery, has spoken eloquently about what the loss means to the public. In 2008, she described the theft as "a tragic loss, not just to the art world and to the visiting public, but to society as a whole. Imagine never being able to watch a theatrical performance of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' or Beethoven's 'Fifth.' Art has the power to inspire thinking and creativity, and the loss of these paintings, drawings, and objects affects all of us and all of society."
Even though the museum tried unsuccessfully to convince the Vatican to issue a papal appeal for help in recovering Rembrandt's "Storm" seascape, remarkably, not a single leader from government or politics, from business or academe, from religion or even sports has joined publicly with Hawley to lament about the theft or call on their separate communities to assist in the search.
Two years ago, the head of the Boston office of the FBI made headlines when he asserted that federal investigators had discovered who was responsible for the theft and that those who held the artworks had tried to fence them in Philadelphia in 2002. However, FBI Special Agent Richard Deslauriers provided no names of those responsible for the theft or who had tried to fence the works. Whatever leads developed from the bombshell announcement have led to no recovery, and it seems as the 25th anniversary of the theft nears, along with Hawley's announced retirement at the end of the year, that the city has come to accept the loss as the ultimate cold case.
Before that happens, though, it may be time to try a different approach than depending solely on law enforcement — an approach that would call on the leaders of "official Boston" to speak about what the collective loss of these masterpieces means to the region's "common wealth."
Consider the impact of seeing such leaders as Cardinal Sean O'Malley, Governor Charlie Baker, and Mayor Marty Walsh standing in front of the empty frames that once held the Rembrandts and the Vermeer in the second floor Dutch Room, asking for the public's help in recovering the works. Or Tom Brady. Or David Ortiz.
Vermeer's 1664 oil on canvas, "The Concert."REUTERS
The FBI believes that the heist was pulled off by local thugs who had been made aware of the museum's poor security by fellow gang members. The fact that some of the most valuable pieces were cut from their frames attests to the likelihood that the crime was not ordered by a criminal mastermind or foreign potentate who was driven to have these masterpieces on his wall.
Without law enforcement gaining a clear signal to their whereabouts, perhaps Boston's leaders can help, and Gardner Museum officials would do well to give the idea serious consideration. In addition, social media could help spread the message that the masterpieces are public treasures that belong back on the walls of the Gardner, and anyone who might know something should contact the museum or authorities. Presumably, that message would be accentuated by the reminder that there is a $5 million reward for the safe return of the artworks and that federal prosecutors have long pledged not to charge anyone who provides key information that leads to a recovery.
If justice and sympathy are factors in such campaigns, then Mrs. Gardner's own biography provides ample reason for even Boston's hardest hearts to be responsive to an appeal. Her goal in opening the museum in 1903 was to encourage an American-style of painting that might one day match the Italian, Dutch, and other worldly masters whose works she was acquiring with her late husband's fortune. And for years she insisted that admission to the museum be free, or whatever the visitor could afford, so that as many as people as possible, regardless of their social or economic status, could enjoy the wonders of artistic expression. It's time to get the masterworks back. And Boston's leaders should help.
Stephen Kurkjian covered the investigation into the Gardner Museum theft for the Globe and his book on the case, "Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World's Greatest Art Heist'' will be published this month.
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What is the principle of Fujara flute voice?
What is the Fujara flute construction?
Where can I find whole or collapsible Fujara flutes?
What is the sound quality of the collapsible Fujara flutes?
The Fujara is a kind of very long overtone fipple flute in bass possition. There is no reed.
Sound in the Fujara is created like in flute, NOT like in trumpet or reed instruments. Fujara is BLOWN INTO a fipple wind hole like the end-blown fipple flutes, e.g. recorder; and NOT ACROSS the embrouchure like transverse flutes or shakuhachi.
That is one of the reasons, why the Fujara is much easier to learn, and only after few days of practice one is able to play simple melodies.
On the upper part of the fujara main pipe is located its fipple flute sound device.
On the lower end of the smaller fujara wind pipe is located fujara flute mouthpiece.
Fujara flute is blown directly into the mouthpiece, fujara flute is played standing, holding the flute vertically.
The smaller Fujara wind pipe acts as an air chamber for the fipple sound device located on the upper part of the fujara flute main pipe. The in-blown air is flowing up from the flute's mouthpiece through the flute's smaller wind pipe reaching the flute's fipple sound device, where the fujara's beautiful, soft and haunting voice is created.
Fujara main pipe is made from one long piece of upland wood. The smaller fujara wind pipe is attached to the fujara main pipe. Fujara main pipe is split into two or three collapsible pieces. However, the smaller fujara wind pipe is left intact in one whole piece and is attached to the top piece of Fujara main pipe.
Means, Deep Cut Fujara flutes are crafted as whole, and also as collapsible in 2 parts. See more details in the particular Fujara pages.
"Whole" Fujara overtone bass flutes (Fujara main pipe is made from one long piece of quality upland wood) are made in Slovakia already for centuries.
On contrary, "collapsible" Fujara overtone bass flutes present brand new element in the Fujara flute's construction. Folkart Slovakia - www.fujara.sk pioneered in the collapsible Fujara flutes construction and developed neccessary technology to craft fine quality collapsible instruments. Thus, only the Fujara flute craftsmen closely cooperating with Folkart Slovakia adopted the neccessary technology and are able to craft excellent quality collapsible fujara flutes.
In general, there is no difference in overall sound quality in between collapsible and whole instruments of any fujara type .
Quality of the Fujara overtone bass flute depends solely on the quality of the craftsmanship and the particular piece of wood used.
>> Detailed comparison of whole and collapsible fujara flutes.