More details of the Swiss 100-francs note which is due for 2019 have been revealed. The theme for this note will be 'Water' and the main color of the note will, of course, be blue.
According to this article from TheLocal.ch the note will feature two hands holding water. Another striking design element will be an image of the historic bisse d'Ayent, an irrigation channel unique to the canton of Valais. "The channel, built in 1442, connects the villages of Ayent and Grimisuat above the ski resort of Crans Montana and is a particularly impressive example of a bisse. Dating back centuries, the bisses were constructed to irrigate pastures at altitude in the Valais and as such, many follow spectacular routes, taking the water along hanging wooden structures tacked on to the sheer rock walls with a vertiginous drop below. Many have been restored and are now popular hiking routes."
Recently the new 50-francs note was issued as first banknote of the new series. The next banknote will be the 20-francs note due for spring 2017 with the theme of 'Light'.


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'Swedish' meatballs, as sold at Ikea. Photograph: George Martinus/Alamy
'My whole life has been a lie': Sweden admits meatballs are Turkish
Turks don't mince their words as they relish news that Ikea's famous dish is not Swedish
Jon Henley
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Thu 3 May 2018 06.52 EDT
Turks have reacted with undisguised glee to what many have described as an official – and certainly long overdue – confession from Stockholm that Sweden's signature national dish is, in fact, Turkish.
"Those famous Swedish meatballs you get in Ikea are actually Turkish, admits Swedish government," tweeted TRT World, Turkey's publicly funded international television news channel.
"Swedish meatballs originally Turkish dish: Swedish government," said the headline in Hürriyet Daily News, after Sweden's official national Twitter account, @swedense, came clean last weekend.
"Swedish meatballs are actually based on a recipe King Charles XII brought home from Turkey in the early 18th century," the Swedish account revealed abruptly and for no immediately apparent reason. "Let's stick to the facts!"
Jamie Oliver's Swedish meatballs recipe
Turkey's Anadolu agency seized the chance to speak to Annie Mattsson, of the literature department at Uppsala University, who confirmed that after losing a key battle against Russia in 1709, Charles and the remnants of his army took refuge in what is now Moldova, then part of the Ottoman empire.
Dubbed "the Lion of the North" in a book by the French writer Voltaire and also known as the "Swedish Meteor" for his early military prowess, Charles, who acceded to the throne in 1697 at the age of 15, had bitten off rather more than he could chew by taking on Russia, and spent the following six years in exile in and around present-day Turkey.
Having acquired a taste for the local cuisine, he returned to Sweden in 1714 with the recipe not just for köfte, the spiced lamb and beef meatballs that in time became the Swedish staple köttbullar, but also for the popular stuffed cabbage dish now known in Sweden as kåldolmar.
Charles, who died in 1718 when he was shot in the head while attacking Danish-occupied Norway, is also considered responsible for importing and popularising the Turkish habit of drinking coffee, which became so widespread in Sweden in the later 18th century that King Gustav III briefly banned it.
In Turkey's meatball capital, Inegöl, this week, a local chef, İbrahim Veysel, told the Doğan news agency it was an honour that the Turkish dish should have become "an example to different cuisines all over the world".
Others were less happy. Serdar Çam, president of the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency, complained that Ikea, which sells 2m meatballs a day in its in-store restaurants, should not be selling the dish as though it were Swedish.
Örjan, the forlorn – though presumably tongue-in-cheek – Swede currently curating the country's @sweden tourism account, rotated every week, lamented that the news had robbed life of its meaning. "My whole life has been a lie," he tweeted.
• This article was amended on 4 May 2018 to clarify that King Charles XII was dubbed "the Lion of the North" in a book by Voltaire.

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It's not easy to leave the past behind…but sometimes, it is.
Michael has been on leave from his job as an enforcer since he was stabbed while on a mission. He feels ready to get back to work, but Jared, the Whitedell pride doctor, won't let him. He's relieved when he and two of his team members are sent on a short, easy mission—along with everyone else in the pride because he's whined about being bored for weeks. But the mission isn't as easy as Michael had thought it would be, and the biggest surprise for him is smelling his mate in the house he's supposed to check.
Cooper has been stuck in the Green Hill pride mansion for close to fifteen years. His alpha is obsessed with keeping the pride members there since several of them left, and Cooper is the one paying the highest price. He's the pride's slave, and he's beaten regularly.
But when he smells his mate at the front door, he knows things are about to change.
Michael needs to get his mate out of that house. Cooper is stronger than most people give him credit for, and he manages to escape on his own. They both know Alpha Carter isn't going to take it kindly, though. Bonding will make sure Cooper isn't forced to go back, but Will Alpha Carter stop and acknowledge it, or will they have to find another way to keep Cooper in Whitedell?
"You're pouting. It looks good on you, but you've also been bitching almost non-stop, and no one likes that."
Michael glared at Nysys. "You'd be bitching too in my place."
Nysys shrugged. "I don't know. A forced vacation? Why are your panties in a twist? I'd be all over that."
Michael was pretty sure that was true, and that he should be using this time to relax, maybe watch the TV shows he never had time for. He hated not being able to work, though, especially when it was for something as stupid as being wounded on the job. "I'm healed. Hell, I was healed as soon as I walked through the door. I can go back to work."
Nysys patted Michael's thigh. "I'm sure you were, but there has to be a reason you haven't been cleared yet. Maybe Jared wants to make sure you don't have any lingering effects due to the wounds? Physical and mental?"
Michael glared harder. "I'm not going crazy."
Nysys rolled his eyes. "Who said you were going crazy?"
"And it wasn't the first time I was wounded while on a mission." Although it was the first time most of the team had needed to leave someone behind because it had been safer for everyone. Michael didn't blame them. Why would he? They'd all done their jobs, and everything had been all right. Even Sasha and Hunter had come back in one piece. Michael had been the worst one off, with his two knife wounds, but Nysys had shimmered him right into the infirmary, and he'd been taken care of right away.
So why hadn't he been cleared for work yet? It had been weeks. He was healed. He felt good. He wanted to get back to work.
"I'm bored," he whined.
Nysys huffed and got up. "I can't watch TV with you when you're like this. I can't even hear the TV over your whining."
"Benji hasn't complained," Michael pointed out, slightly wounded. His brother was curled up next to him and had stayed out of the conversation until now.
"That's because he has to stick with you. You're his brother." Nysys wiggled his fingers. "But I'm going. I'm sure I can find something more interesting to do than listen to you whine."
"Good riddance," Michael muttered as Nysys walked away.
Benjamin sighed. "You know, he's not wrong."
Michael's chest tightened. "What, you stick around only because we're related?"
Benjamin rolled his eyes. "No. I stick around because I love you and I know how frustrated you are. I even understand it, in a way. You love your job, and you hate to be on the sidelines." His voice went softer. "And you still want to prove to our father that you can do this, even though you two haven't talked since you moved to Whitedell. It's been almost fifteen years, Michael. You have to let go of that."
"I don't care about him." And it was true. If anything, he was glad his parents had brought him along when they'd come to Whitedell for Benjamin. It had given him a chance to see there could be more for him than the life they'd planned for him, and he'd grabbed the chance with both hands.
He hadn't yet let go. He loved his job. He loved feeling like he mattered, like what he did changed things for people. He couldn't help wondering if people were getting hurt because he hadn't been cleared for missions. Of course, he knew there were plenty of other enforcers, but there were also plenty of bad guys, even though the number of shifters and paranormal creatures in the world was nowhere near to the number of humans.
"Why don't you go talk to Sarah or Emerson?"
"I already talked to Sarah. She said she couldn't do anything. She's not the one in charge of the enforcers, and she's not the one who decides who does what."
"What about Emerson?"
Michael hadn't talked to the local head of the enforcers because he already knew the answer he'd get, but maybe it was worth a try. He'd been home for two weeks already, and he was fine. "Not yet."
"Why don't you go? The worst he can do is tell you no. That wouldn't be great for those of us who have to spend time with you, but at least you'd know. You can even ask him why he's not sending you and your team out right now. Maybe having an answer will help you deal with it."
Michael wasn't sure about that, but Benjamin was right. At least he'd know why, and he could try to change his mind and convince him he could be sent back to work.
Michael loved living in Whitedell. He loved spending time with friends he had outside of the team and his brother. He didn't get to do it often. But two weeks was too much. It wasn't even that he wanted to go who knew where. He just needed something to do. He'd had enough of reading books and watching stupid TV shows.
He kissed his brother's forehead and got up. "Thanks."
Benjamin smiled. "What for?"
"For listening to me bitch for the past two weeks."
"Like Nysys said, you're my brother. I kind of had to."
Michael laughed. "Whatever. Let's just hope Emerson has something for me to do." The best would be for the team to be sent out, but Michael would accept anything, even if it meant babysitting the new recruits or whatever. As long as he wasn't forced to spend one more minute on the couch or in his room, he'd be fine.


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Tara Lipinski, Johnny Weir's Expertise (And Fashion Sense) Land Them Top Figure Skating Spot for NBC
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OROBORO references ouroboros (the archetypal serpent eating its own tail) by staging a motorised looping belt that feeds ceramic items (bricks, plate, etc), produced by the artist, into a free fall. OROBORO is a cyclical function asserting the breaking point of a production line.
A screening program curated by Filipa Ramos.
From ancestral otherworldly rhymes to holographic pulsating rhythms of underwater life, A Sea of Sound brings together a series of artist's films and videos that embrace our oceans through sound.
Browse through the archive of Rhodiola Radio Shows.
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During Art Week, Vitamin supplement cocktails will be served to visitors. The cocktails include Stress, High Performance, and Happiness;, and the recipes are concocted by 3 137 in collaboration with Irene Karouzaki and Dimitris Nikolalou.
Christina Christodoulou, the designer behind sustainable fashion brand it's a shirt, has created outfits for the people serving you Vitamin supplements.
A live advisory session on integrative health, medicine, and wellness.
A podcast on how emerging technologies of care will shape tomorrow's everyday life. An attempt to imagine future ways of living, as well as future forms of coexistence between humans and machines.
Dragona's podcast hosts, among others, sound excerpts of works by Mediengruppe Bitinik, Kyriaki Goni, Rory Pilgrim and Liam Young and text excerpts by Maria Puig de la Belacasa, Taina Bucher, Mark Bohlen & Terro Karppi and Carme Torras.
This workshop invites participants to disguise and perform as turtles. Through possessing an 'invented' turtle state, time is experienced through another perspective, slowing down one's organism, and moving with the wind.
Guests are requested to bring a makeshift turtle shell, a lettuce, and a candle to meditate.
A three-hour special live session with homme fatal Nima Nabavi, during which songs are requested by the public on number 0563299918.
Hansel and Gretel, a fairy-tale by the Grimm brothers is used as the starting point for an alternative narration around cookies and danger.
Dustopedia (Ghobar-Nameh/ غبارنامه) is an encyclopedia with the capability for change, or the possibility of adding of new entries; archival/live entries of text, image, and film, toward various domains from scientific and ecological perspectives to rather abstract philosophical matters surrounding dust.
The show is set in between a hypothetical situation of a fundraising dinner party where Vasl team members meet Champa, a socialite who supports art but at times, finds it challenging to understand contemporary art practices, and talk about their programs over drinks.
RIWAQ's work deals with a region greatly affected and fragmented by conflict. They see architectural restoration as a social and economic incubator and what they do is not just about preserving buildings, it is a way to revitalize Palestinian identity under occupation.
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This is BIG NEWS !!
"Dental Tribune" one of the worlds BIGGEST Dental Publications has covered the story of India's First Dental Photography Calendar!!
Now that's a Happy Republic day for our Dental Photography School Family.
26 January 2017 couldn't get more merrier than this!
We are so proud of our hard work and all those who participated in the DPS calendar 2017.
Three Cheers for all those who believed in us and supported us.
Big Love to all who participated.
Thank you Dr. Niranjan for this article will be an encouragement for all the dentists to document their works better.
We are surely steering away in the right direction…. a Documentation Revolution !!
The DPS 2017 calendar was a launch by dental photography school India to promote better dental documentation in the dental fraternity. The concept was in lines of a Photography calendar like the Perilli or Kingfisher calendar. We had invited dentists all across the globe to send in their entries for it and we received an overwhelming response. We selected the top 12 entries for DPS17.
The calendar will be available for purchase in printed format (Size 6 inch by 9 inch) for Rs.200/- soon.


One of the biggest trends in weddings right now is the use of alternative desserts in lieu of a standard wedding cake. From creating a huge dessert table spread to making a tower of sweets into a donut wedding cake, I just love seeing all the creative options for weddings these days! I especially love when the dessert display becomes a focal point and doubles as unique wedding decor. One of the more creative options I've seen is making a donut wall– such a stunning way to displays your sweets on your big day!


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Answer each question. 1. What do you know about the early life of Aristotle? 2. What did he do in Mysia? 3. What did some writers claim about Aristotle? 4. Where did Aristotle set up his school? 5. How many subjects did Aristotle study? 6. What were the teachings of Aristotle and when did he die Copyright www.erallshilinx.com
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Life of Aristotle
• Early Life of Aristotle
In the northern Greek city of Stagira, Aristotle was born in 384 B.C. His father, Nicomachus, worked as the court physician to King Amyntus III of Macedonia. Both of his parents were from established medical families. He was probably raised in his family's Stagira home after his parents passed away when he was still a little child. He was sent to Athens at the age of 17 to study in Plato's Academy.
He spent 20 years there as both a student and a teacher, and upon leaving, he had both a great deal of respect for and criticism of his teacher's theories. It's likely that repeated conversations with his most talented pupil can be seen in Plato's own later writings, where he softened some of his earlier stances.
• Aristotle Go to Mysia
Aristotle moved from Athens to Mysia after Plato's death, where he spent three years teaching at the king's court and wed Pythias, the king's daughter. They had a daughter, but Pythias passed away while she was just a teenager.
• Claim About Aristotle
Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, On the Soul, and Poetics are some of his most significant treatises. Aristotle was well-versed in "logic, metaphysics, mathematics, physics, biology, botany, ethics, politics, agriculture, medicine, dance, and theater," all of which he made substantial contributions to.
• Aristotle set up his school
In 335 BC, Aristotle made his way back to Athens. He rented space in the Lyceum, a former wrestling school outside the city, because he was an alien who was unable to own property. Similar to Plato's Academy, the Lyceum drew students from all over the Greek continent and created a course of study based on the teachings of its founder. The Lyceum compiled a collection of manuscripts that made up one of the first great libraries in history in accordance with Aristotle's philosophy, which calls for reading other people's writings as a necessary step in the philosophical process.
• The Subjects Aristotle Studied
The majority of the sciences and many of the arts, including biology, botany, chemistry, ethics, history, logic, metaphysics, rhetoric, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, physics, poetics, political theory, psychology, and zoology, were all covered by Aristotle's extensive study interests.
• Aristotle's Teachings and He Died
One of the most significant Ancient Greek philosophers was Aristotle, who imparted many valuable lessons to us on a variety of topics, including science, logic, ethics, poetry, theater, metaphysics, and life in general. He spent his life teaching and had a large number of pupils. Aristotle died 322 BC (aged 61–62) Euboea, Macedonian Empire.
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Is it ok to dig up and move springtime bulbs in the fall? I'm off work today and tomorrow(due to the wind) and want to move some things around.
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TWO men who carried out a terrifying early morning knifepoint robbery of a taxi driver in Carlisle have been jailed for a total of almost eight years.
The city's crown court heard how their victim went to pick up a fare in darkness at Alexander Street at 5-30am on December 11.
Lexi Elliott and James Thompson – both aged 23 – got in with jacket hoods pulled tight around their faces. They asked to be taken to a B&M Bargains store, on Wigton Road, where Thompson – high on alcohol and cocaine – got out and brandished a Stanley knife with the blade concealed, forcing the frightened driver to flee.
His Skoda vehicle was driven off and found several hours later in the Dalston area, "totally destroyed" by fire.
In a deeply moving victim impact statement read to court today (WED), the driver spoke of being "fragile" and "already at the brink" following the death of his wife two years previously. On his mobile phone – taken in the robbery but never recovered – were "the last years I had with my wife".
"Being robbed at knifepoint tipped me over the edge," stated the taxi driver.
Elliott and Thompson, both of Highfield Avenue, Carlisle, were jailed for 49 months and 41 months, respectively. They had admitted robbery and arson, with Thompson also admitting illegal knife possession.
Detective Constable Andrew Metcalf said: "I am pleased that both have been brought before the courts within months of the offence.
"This was a pre-meditated attack on a person who serves the public and taken their means of income.


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Q: Gitlab Runner on local VM with Gitlab CE cannot clone repo I have a linux virtual box with a Gitlab CE server.
I tried to configure a runner so I can use CI/CD, but it failed to git clone.
Here the output from the job

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*Couldn't find host "my_git_adress".org in the .netrc file; using defaults

*Trying "My public internet ip"...

*TCP_NODELAY set

*connect to "My public internet ip" port 80 failed: Operation timed out

*Failed to connect to "my_git_adress".org port 80: Operation timed out

*Closing connection 0
  fatal: unable to access 'http://gitlab-ci-token:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@"my_git_adress".org/"my_project".git/': Failed to connect to "my_git_adress".org port 80: Operation timed out
  Debug: Remote helper quit.
  ERROR: Job failed: exit code 1

EDIT: It appears that when the runner is on the same OS/device of the Gitlab server and when it is on another device on the same local network it fails. But when it is on different networks connected to internet it works (but it gets stuck on next steps may be because our bad connection).

A: Seems like a routing issue between your runner and your gitlab instance:

connect to "My public internet ip" port 80 failed: Operation timed out

I suggest you login to your runner and try something like this:
curl "http://my internet ip"
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Super sisters Stella and Ruby Blakely.
City of Peterborough Swimming club (COPS) returned to the scene of their 2015 Junior Fenland League final triumph at Boston to begin the defence of their crown and they came away as winners once again.
The Junior Fenland League is for swimmers aged 13 and under and each age group is subject to a cut-off time. Once a swimmer has achieved that time they cannot be selected again but they can swim in an older age group that has a faster time.
COPS have two teams competing in the league and they were both in action at Boston along with City of Ely and St Neots Swans.
Final result: COPS A 178 points, Boston 175 points, City of Ely 115 points, COPS B 108 points and St Neots Swans 87 points.
COPS A took 19 first places and 12 second places with Fenland League debutante Ruby Blakely (9) winning the 10yrs and under 50m breaststroke by nearly 4.5 seconds which makes her too fast to race in that event again.
Laura Fehrenbach (10), Erivan Hamid (11), Mia Karagholi (9), Amy Paget (10), Bert Papworth (10) and Connor Walker (12) all broke the cut-off times in one or more of their events.
COPS B took four first places with Lauren Browne (10), Stella Blakely (11), Kieran Griffin (9) and Isabel York-Forward (10) all winning while Jack Brown (12), Lewis Flower (11), Oskar Rajski (12) and Mia Turvey (9) all scored higher points than their A team compatriots in their races.
Isla Fullock (8) was the only B team member to break a cut-off time in the nine years and under 50m freestyle.
COPS A team: Olivia Bearman-Skipworth (9), Ruby Blakeley Lilly Borgognoni (12), Harley Brown (10), Fabien Brudnicki (12), Laura Fehrenbach (10), Holly Graves (11), Lili Griffiths (11), Erivan Hamid, Mia Karogholi, Kate Mcloughlin (12), Joshua Martin (10), Amy Paget, Bert Papworth, Stan Scarborough (9), Jack Underwood (8), Kieran Underwood (10), Connor Walker and George Whiteman (11).
COPS B team: Stella Blakely, Jack Brown, Lauren Browne, Briony Burmby (12), Calleigh Coull (8), Joel Coulson (11), Cameron Fisher (12), Lewis Flower, Isla Fullock (8), Sophie Galjaard (12), Kieran Griffin (9), Safford Hewitt-White (9), Tegan Hughes (10),Oliver Ilsley (9), Emily MacFarlane (10), Oliver Macfarlane (11), Hannah Jakeman (12), Oskar Rajski, Joshua Spencer (11), Mia Turvey and Isabel York-Forward.
COPS A host the second round of the Junior Fenland League on April 9 at the Regional Pool while COPS B will be competing at Whittlesey.


Removing the Mask: Seven Steps to Becoming the "Real You"
Last night, we were visited by a raccoon.
Raccoons have a mischievous and destructive reputation. They are known to carry rabies and will bite both people and pets.
They often run through the yard like furry, gray bulldozers, leaving a trail of trampled plants and broken pottery. This one was just outside the porch.
Usually they run away, but he came up to the screen and stood on his back legs. He moved his paws much like a puppy does when it wants to be picked up.
For a moment, the mask he wore told a tale of harmless innocence. Had anyone fallen for the act,however, the incident would have most likely ended up in the emergency room with a painful series of shots and possible stitches.
Now, for all the destruction and naughty behavior, raccoons are just doing what they need to do to survive in a world where humans have taken over their habitat. They are neither good, nor bad, but their behaviors can cause problems with the humans who share their territory.
Like the raccoon, we often wear a mask that represents the face we show to the world. This mask helps us to blend in and work with people from a variety of backgrounds.
Would you want your church leader to know about your occasional potty mouth?
Would you blurt out to your sport hunting friends that you are a vegetarian?
Perhaps you are one of the "no filter" people who doesn't care what others think. That is an honest approach, but does have its drawbacks.
In these cases, our masks are to keep peace with those around us where blunt honesty might separate us.
Other masks we wear, are to hide the things we are ashamed of. The things we are embarrassed about. The worst thing about these masks is that we keep them on when we look in the mirror.
A person with an eating disorder uses their mask to convince them that they are doing the right thing. Their weight has made them unacceptable in their eyes and starvation and purging are their rightful punishments.
A bully wears a "tough guy/girl" mask to hide the fact that they are secretly afraid. Like a bird that puffs up its feathers, they make themselves look larger than life so that others will hopefully run away.
A depressed person may put on a fake smile to hide their sadness when in a group of friends, rather than reach out to someone for help.
The mask, when worn long enough, becomes part of our identity. We forget who we are without it, and we are afraid of what we will find if we take it off.
This can affect our relationships as we struggle to be something we are not. We work to remember and keep up with the lies that we have told ourselves.
We try to move forward on our spiritual path and are frequently stopped by the emotional blocks we have been avoiding. We dig tunnels under and shortcuts around them, but they simply pop up in another place until we deal with them.
We may choose to give up on the relationship or try a different spiritual path, only to meet the same issues in the next one.
So, how do we remove the mask and heal the person underneath who we no longer recognize as ourselves?
First, think about the things that people criticize and complain about the most in your behavior.
Are you bossy? Boastful? Prejudiced? A victim? An energy vampire?
Second, put yourself in the other person's place. How would you feel if you were the recipient of your energy?
Third, is there any truth there? There is no blame or judgement in this step. Just be a detective looking for the facts. Take the other persons actions into account as well as your own. Relationship issues sometimes go both ways.
Fourth, what might have caused this behavior? Was there a past trauma? A childhood pattern inherited from your parents? Is it the result of physical pain or emotional distress?
Five, is it as bad as it seems? Are you overreacting to protect yourself from experiencing something that happened in the past? Or is this something new?
Six, how would you feel, how might your relationship change or how much farther would you have progressed, if you didn't have this issue? Who would you look like without this mask?
Seven, forgive yourself. Absolve yourself of blame. Like the raccoon, you were trying to survive. But now that you know you are fine, you can stop pretending to be someone else and embrace the beautiful expression of Divine Source energy that you are.
Where you go from there is up to you. You can apologize to those around you for past behavior or you may drift into a new circle of friends as the real you emerges. You may finally accept the reality of an abusive relationship and walk away. But in walking away, you are walking forward and making progress again.
Our masks can't last forever. It is best to empower yourself and remove your own mask than to let another do it for you.
The journey is always smoother when we take control of the vehicle. Your grandest destinations awaits! Enjoy the ride!


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Decks come in many shapes and sizes, from the simple raised platform to the elaborate work of art with built-in railings and benches. Regardless of the type of deck you want, you will find it an extremely useful addition: You can put your more delicate houseplants out on the deck (the treated pine won't mind if you water the plants on the deck,) you can put tables out on the deck and eat out in the fresh air, or you can bring your favourite chair out on it and relax on the deck with a cool drink and hot book.
Treated pine is a great material for making decks because it is durable and easy to maintain. It stays cool for longer than other materials too so you can wander out on your beautiful deck barefoot even when Australia is having a heat wave.
A great way to give your landscape a lush look is to add wooden planters full of flowers behind the flower beds that you have in the ground. Having differing levels of plant life makes a yard look more interesting and fuller. It's also a great way for an adventurous gardener to baby along plants where the natural dirt is hard and full of clay.
Planters are pretty straightforward to make- nail 4 boards together in rectangular shape and then fill it with soil. It's a great project for beginners. Treated pine's durability and malleability make this project even easier. If you are new to working with wood, then this softwood will go easy on you.
Everybody likes to sit in their backyard, but many people would prefer to not have bugs crawling up their pants or water from the lawn soaking through their seat. Enter treated pine benches: these simple to make structures let you relax on the cool wood on a warm day, secure in the knowledge that the wood is keeping you above the level of creepy-crawlies.
Here again, treated pine's advantages as a softwood really shine. You won't need to do much to keep your bench in good shape over the years, and it will be comfortable to sit on for long periods in the day.
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Decline of Estes, again.
Thread starter thobin
MidOH said:
The hardcore leftist mentality is a bit sickening here. It's a bit lighter, with every CA poster on ignore, but it still ruins what is an otherwise decent forum.
Wow, talk about a difference of perspective. You see a hardcore leftist mentality, I see a forum full of ageing, grumpy 'get off my lawn' right-wing conservative Americans. Which, in fairness, is pretty much the predominant demographic of the rocketry hobby. But Father Time is coming for us all, so there is still hope for the future.
It also makes the entire hobby less approachable. If I go to a nice group launch, am I going to have to shield my kids from sicko's?
I don't know what launches are like in Ohio and the surrounding area but I've never once felt the need to shield my boy from "sicko's" at ANY rocket launch. I find it sad you feel that way.
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Exactimator
What is it you think we're doing at our CA launches that you'd have to shield your kids from?
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smstachwick
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Exactimator said:
Running with scissors, playing with matches, eating yellow snow, listening to satanic metal music, summoning demons from ouija boards….you know, classic lefty stuff!
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gldknght
ArthurAstroCam said:
Based on what I am experiencing on some of the other forums, there are many who look down on those of us that build and fly Estes rockets, as opposed to Medium Powered and High Powered rockets. As I have told them, my love of Estes rockets is out of nostalgia building and flying them with my late father. For me, this is not a "hot rod" hobby, and I am not looking to move up into larger, more powerful rockets. I am not sure what, if anything, is wrong with this. I love Estes as a brand, and I love their products.
I'm working on my level 3 cert rocket. As I mentioned earlier, I've been flying Estes rockets for more than 40 years. I still build and fly them. The small rockets are just as much fun as the big ones, they are WAY cheaper to fly and you normally don't have to chase them into the next county to get them back.
Do what makes you happy! This is a hobby, after all...
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Philip Tiberius D.
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smstachwick said:
Don't forget "Critical Thinking".
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No answer from MidOH. That's a shame because I'm genuinely curious what he thinks we do out here.
He's probably right. I don't consider our launches successful until at least two kids have left the field crying because of (insert MidOH's issue here).
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dr wogz
Fly caster
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CalebJ said:
You're afraid of hardcore leftists at a rocket launch? What is it that you're in fear of, exactly?
that he'll be mobbed, and his motor stash distributed [equally] to the kids watching.. and/or among the other flyers.. all while implementing excessive rules & forms and a massive vote to ensure it was all 'wanted'.... (and an additional fee added / requested to pay for the processes)
Sorry, I couldn't resist! just poking a bit of fun at you MidOH!
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dbrent
I know this thread has kind of gone in many directions, but to reply to the OP and his original point, I wouldn't say we are anywhere near the 1999-2009 lowpoint of Estes. Remember the "Pop-Fly" and "Port-Pot-Shot"...UGH! Those were the truly "lean" years in my opinion. In contrast, I like what Estes has been producing lately and their last 2 catalogs have been over 100 pages in length. I do agree there are a TON more RTF, ARF and E2X kits and launch sets than there were in the golden years of the 70s and 80s but it's not a zero sum game. I see plenty of "builders" kits in the new catalogs as well. I have not done a census yet (but plan to soon) with regard to the total number of kits in prouhduction, but it would appear there there are more total kits being offered in the past few catalogs than there were in the catalogs from the 70s and 80s.
And for the record, I don't think you are a troll and I didn't take your post as "bashing" Estes. You are just longing for more of a certain type of model rocket that I happen to also share a fondness for. I spend a lot of time cloning kits from those older catalogs than I do building newer stuff, but there is plenty of newer kits I want to build as well. All of the Designer Signature Kits, The Skylab Saturn V and Saturn 1B, Super Mars Snooper, Cosmic Interceptor, Black Star Voyager, Doorknob, Little Joes I & II, etc.
There is also a petition to bring back the Gemini Titan and Mercury Atlas kits (or they might be new kits - I'm not 100% sure).
Best of luck to all and happy building!
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dbrent said:
I know this thread has kind of gone in many directions, but to reply to the OP and his original point, I wouldn't say we are anywhere near the 1999-2009 lowpoint of Estes. Remember the "Pop-Fly" and "Port-Pot-Shot"...UGH! Those were the truly "lean" years in my opinion. In contrast, I like what Estes has been producing lately and their last 2 catalogs have been over 100 pages in length. I do agree there are a TON more RTF, ARF and E2X kits and launch sets than there were in the golden years of the 70s and 80s but it's not a zero sum game. I see plenty of "builders" kits in the new catalogs as well. I have not done a census yet (but plan to soon) with regard to the total number of kits in production, but it would appear there there are more total kits being offered in the past few catalogs than there were in the catalogs from the 70s and 80s.
I have signed the Mercury-Atlas form and sent an email emphasizing my interest. I'd encourage anyone who knows they'd buy this kit to do this.
Regarding the original posting, it is a sad reality that genuinely-held opinions are sometimes indistinguishable from satire, tomfoolery, and trolling if they're strongly-worded, sufficiently devoid of context, and flat-out ridiculous. I don't think I expressed in this thread an evaluation of the author's intent, although I certainly had some questions at times.
Regardless, it appears that the premise of Estes being in overall decline has been rejected, with complaints being confined to specific product lines that are subject to user error as often as manufacturing defects.
The RTF and Beginner rockets are solid. In my experience they set up easily, look nice, fly well enough to encourage more motor purchases ($), and are sufficiently differentiated from each other to avoid feeling like cookie cutter designs. Every time I look at the instructions for one, I'm glad I did. In terms of construction, I've never had two be exactly the same.
Intermediate and Advanced rockets are easy enough to assemble if you've developed some hand skills and rocketry know-how already, but they introduce new challenges in measuring, marking, cutting, glueing, priming, sanding, painting, and finishing. Sure, you can probably get them into the air OK, but how nice can you make them look?
Some in the Intermediate and Advanced range also have enough performance potential to pose a challenge of selecting a suitable launch site if flown at full rated power. The Goblin, Hi-Flier XL, and Star Orbiter are such hot rods. Perhaps a few standard-sized birds are as well.
There have been a few eccentricities in categorization by difficulty, especially coinciding with the recent price increases and corresponding website updates, but I'm sure they'll figure it out through consumer and focus group feedback.
P.S. I actually kinda liked the Port-a-Pot Shot. I believe that there is at least one aspect of each individual's personality that never advanced beyond age 7. I will always find a portable toilet rocket funny.
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sebastianc
Argentina, Bs As, Ezpeleta
lo que note es que la mayoria de modelos usan motores debajo de D o con D en este último catálogo
SecondRow
This is the only part of dbrent's post I can't agree with. If i saw the Port-a-Pot Shot hanging on the racks in a hobby shop, I would grab it in a second.* Poop jokes are almost always funny.
*The same goes for a Dude. I would buy all the Dudes in the store.
Stewman
This thread has been pretty interesting, to say the least. I would have to say that, in my opinion, Estes is back on the way up. They are owned and run by people that actually fly rockets, they are catering to a lot of different areas. And they are bringing the Orbital Transport back! Good times. As has been mentioned, people should attend the NAR's virtual NARCON the end of this month. Both Bill Stine and John Langford will be giving presentations.
My only wish is that we had part numbers again......LOL.
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Grant_Edwards
I know this thread has kind of gone in many directions, but to reply to the OP and his original point, I wouldn't say we are anywhere near the 1999-2009 lowpoint of Estes. Remember the "Pop-Fly" and "Port-Pot-Shot"...UGH!
It does seem like Estes was casting about a bit at that time. I had never seen either of those, so I googled them. The porta-pot-shot made me shake my head in wonder, but I thought the pop-fly was sort of a fun idea. Did the baseball come down on its own so you could catch it like a regular ball?
CalebJ
Grant_Edwards said:
There's a pop fly on the shelf in a hobby shop near here. I've been tempted to grab it just out of curiosity.
Wow. AFAICT, the Pop Fly has been out of production for 13 years. It was in the 2008 catalog but gone from the 2009.
This place has tons of ancient stuff. I bought four or five kits the last time I passed through that were ~2005 vintage.
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sebastianc said:
Inglés, por favor. We don't all speak that.
HOWEVER. Google gives me this:
"What I noticed is that most models use engines below D or with D in this latest catalog"
That's the way it's been for as long as I can remember. I mainly fly Standard 18mm size, followed by Mini 13mm and then by progressively larger motors (namely 24mm and 29mm). I imagine this reflects the general trend with hobby rocketeers. The Standard size is a good compromise between power/size and affordability, while a D is a common every-now-and-then treat and larger motors really turn heads. Mini motors are good for wind-checkers, sacrifices to the rocket gods, quickie builds, or experimenting with new concepts. For example, they allowed me to practice multi-staging without breaking the bank or presenting a severe hazard if something went wrong.
There's also the fact that black powder motors in the E and F range tend to CATO with some frequency, which Estes has taken steps to rectify in the last few years but still remains well-known to regular flyers. I think composite motors are seen as a thing for older and more advanced flyers.
mustcomedown
Looks like the new owner of Estes will be speaking at the virtual NARCON in a couple weeks.
https://www.accelevents.com/e/NARCON2022#agenda
(EST)
KEYNOTE—Building Back Better in Penrose: Making Estes Great Again
Main Stage Session
Pretty much everyone in the NAR knows the hobby's origin story of G. Harry Stine, Orville Carlyle, and Vern and Gleda Estes. But did you know that Estes has changed hands five times since its founding, most recently in a bankruptcy sale? The story of Estes is the story of model rocketry, and its successes and struggles tell a lot about the future of "the educational space age hobby". In this keynote, long-time NAR member John Langford will describe his family's purchase of Estes in 2018: what they found, what they have done so far, and what they hope to do in the future. The talk will highlight the key roles played by (among others) Mary Roberts, Bill Stine, Trip Barber, and Vern Estes himself in making this turnaround story possible. John will discuss the complexities of the supply chain, the impact of COVID, and how Estes came to be on multiple late-night TV shows last summer. At the core of the story is STEM Education, and the audacious goal of having every student in America fly an Estes rocket by the time they graduate from high school.
John Langford
Owner at Estes Industries
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All of these came from the same shop last month.
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Someone on FB just made an interesting comment in regards to 'shipping to Canada':
"Estes is pretty much the only company that refuses to ship to Canada, due to an agreement with a third party middle-man for some odd reason."
I always thought it was due to the "shipping internationally" headache .. but this is curious.. thoughts?
Got a reply that there are 3 hobby wholesalers that seem to have an exclusive agreement with Estes, so they get the biz, not Estes.. Pitty they 'insist' on not honoring any of Estes' sales or freebies (ornaments or catalogs)
And yes, looked them up, all seem legit, with many overlapping product lines..
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Just to reiterate my point about it not being a "zero-sum-game"...
In the 1977 Estes catalog there were 82 unique rocket kits listed (all skill levels and including the cold power kits of that year, not including non-flying rockets and starter sets).
In the 2014 Estes catalog there were 171 unique rocket kits listed (all skill levels, not including non-flying rockets, air rockets and starter sets).
Between 1999 and 2009, the lean years I referred to, the census of unique rocket kits varied between 51 and 65 kits available. You have to go back to 1971 and prior (basically Estes first 10 years) to find lower census numbers.
I'm working on an Excel spreadsheet of all Estes releases by year throughout the company's history. I'm currently working on 2015, so I don't have census numbers beyond that, but when I get current I will post the census for all years in a separate thread. So far 2014 is the high water mark for number of kits available.
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dr wogz said:
Makes sense. A niche hobby company probably wouldn't have the resources to distribute organically on an international or global scale. They'd have to partner with a wholesaler, another manufacturer, or some other kind of third party.
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Hero sells more than 30 Lakh Splendor Plus in India every month. For comparison, TVS cannot sell that many Apaches even in a year! To say that Hero Splendor Plus is a success would be an understatement. Many companies have tried to emulate this success but have only fallen face down onto the road. Spendor Plus however continues to soar above the rest in this age of inflation as well.
As automobile enthusiasts, we have pondered over this age-old question many times. Let's look at what makes Splendor Plus such a great success in India
Hero Splendor Plus is not the epitome of automotive design. It hardly has any! To say that it sells in great numbers is because of its design would be idiotic in isolation, but hear me out.
The Hero Splendor Plus has remained mostly the same since it first launched way back in 1994. The current generation Splendor Plus has the same silhouette as the old Splendor, with modern elements added to it. Having ridden the Splendor since childhood, this is probably the only constant in my life along with my family. This familiarity is what draws people towards it. People buy the Splendor Plus because they know it will be there when they need it. They know that this motorcycle will never leave their side and stand by their side through thick and thin.
New vs Old Splendor
This emotional attachment to Splendor Plus is what makes it different from all the other ones that despite technically being better than the Splendor Plus. Very few motorcycles are able to create this level of emotional attachment to their customers. The way a Splendor looks is what makes it such as bestseller in today's highly competitive market. If Hero for some reason decides to change the look in the next iteration, the motorcycle will not sell as much even if it has the best engine in the world. On the other hand, if the Splendor Plus is sold with a bad engine, it will still sell in huge numbers for some time.
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We Indians are very shrewd. We are not very extravagant in anything apart from marriage ceremonies. We only spend as much as is required and do not spend any further money on it. This is why many subscription-based services fail in the country. We Indians just want to buy the product once and do not have to pay for it on a continuous basis.
This is why the Splendor Plus is so loved here. It comes with no added cost since it is so reliable. I have seen decade-old Splendor Pluses being ridden like it's brand new. The fact that it has very few body panels and electronics means there are few things that could go wrong. Its minimalistic construction is what makes it one of the most reliable motorcycles in the country.
I still remember the Splendor costing around Rs 45,000 when I was a kid. Global inflation means that the price has almost doubled since then but it is still a very cheap motorcycle as compared to others. The Splendor Plus 2021 model comes in at Rs 80,000 on road for the base model and goes up to Rs 85,000 for the 100 million edition.
The fact that it still undercuts all of its competitors is a mark of great business by Hero. They have sold more than 100 million motorcycles and if nothing goes wrong, I can see them selling 100 million more.
With a 97.2 CC engine, the Hero Splendor Plus is very smooth. In addition to that, however, it is also very fuel-efficient. Hero Splendor Plus can give a mileage of 65kmpl very easily and could even go higher if ridden with efficiently. This is what attracts most buyers these days. Given Petrol prices are skyrocketing, people do not what to buy motorcycles that would cost a fortune to run.
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You can buy a Hero Splendor Plus for Rs 80,000 today and sell it for Rs 50,000 or more 4 years later if the condition is good. Try doing that with a Bajaj motorcycle. A comparable Bajaj bike would not even get you Rs 35,000 after two years such is their depreciation. Buying a Splendor is a good investment in itself. You can use the motorcycle all you want and get good money when you decide to sell.
Depreciation does not hit the Splendor Plus as hard as it does other motorcycles
These are the top reason why Hero sell more than 30 lakh units a month. There is still no stopping Splendor Plus's sales despite every other company trying their best. There are only two motorcycles, the Bullet and the Splendor that have such a huge following in the country. What do you think about Splendor Plus? Do you think we missed any of the big reasons for its immense sales figures? Do let us know!
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After several posts on Ancient Egypt, let's head east. Ancient China and Ancient Egypt might seem similar on the surface.
Both cultures developed ideologies about the central place of their king in the universe, invested in massive burial cults for them, and built huge pyramids (including the one pictured above for the Han Dynasty emperor Jingdi (188-141BCE). But Chinese civilization has had unique thought patterns, which can't be reduced to other cultures.
David N. Keightley went back farther than the Han Dynasty and studied thinking from the late Shang Dynasty (1200-1045BCE). He found that a lot of early Chinese thought was structured around the concept of the four directions (fang). This word had a rich range of meanings, including political groups, agricultural powers, cosmological forces, and border areas outside the kingdom, which could be hostile. Kings invoked the 4 fang when they sacrificed and conducted divination.
Keightley noted that the late Shang elites thought that symmetry, pattern and order were beautiful. He felt that they wouldn't have enjoyed the wilds of nature. Ancient Egyptians also preferred symmetry, as you can see in a post on Egyptian temples. But Egyptians' intellectual landscape was more dominated by polarities than 4 directions. The flow of the Nile, and the rising and setting sun fused in their main model of reality. But some key features of China encouraged people to structure their thought around the 4 cardinal directions.
1. The Shang Dynasty presided over a large plain north of the Yellow River, in Henan and Hebei. This wasn't the simple world of the Nile, which was a narrow ribbon of fertile land between deserts. The world of the Shang Dynasty was a large expansive land, and much of it was fertile for millet growing. But it was more unpredictable than the Nile–vulnerable to storms, floods and droughts. The idea of the 4 directions thus provided a comforting sense of order.
Beijing's Forbidden City is laid out according to the 4 directions.
2. The Shang was surrounded by other states. Sometimes they fought, but they often traded. The traditional idea that the Shang was the only state at that time is a myth that the Zhou rulers developed when they conquered it. The concept of the 4 directions was a handy way to order a world of many states on all sides–kings could conduct rituals for them and feel a sense of security.
3. The sun blazes much more often in Egypt, so it was natural for ancient Egyptians to focus on a sun cult. The Shang lands get hot and cold–seasons alternate. Nature is a plurality of seasons and forces. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west, but its orbit also moves between the north and south. The late Shang did have sun cults, but Keightley wrote that diviners inquired much more often about wind and rain–forces that shaped farmers' lives in ancinet China, but not in Egypt.
4. Many towns had a squarish shape, with the ruler's court in a central area. Cities throughout China's subsequent history were laid out in this regular, symmetrical pattern. The traditional hutong style house (pictured above) follows this pattern. So do many temples.
So, many factors encouraged people in the Shang dynasty to think in terms of a cohesive community oriented to the 4 directions, which was controlled by a central elite. China's natural and political landscape was larger and more complicated than happy Egypt's, and it needed this conceptual framework to keep it manageable.
–in modern Tian'anmen Square, Beijing. China's ancient thought patterns have very deep roots, and they still live today.
Many other cultures have structured their thought around 4 cardinal directions, including Mayan, Aztec, Navajo and Yoruba. But China developed in unique ways, and she blended other ideas with them, and synthesized one of the most fascinating ways of thinking about and representing reality. We'll soon see how.


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Once you've got the bicycle of your dreams or a bicycle to fit your needs, the next thing you need to do is make sure you're safe while out on the road. Helmets, elbow pads, and knee pads are all viable options for keeping you safe. It's also wise to invest in equipment like a bicycle pump, a spare tube for your tires, and a multi-tool set. When you're geared up appropriately, you're ready for anything Mother Nature has to throw at you!
After you've purchased your bicycle and taken it for a spin, you're going to want to take care of it to ensure longevity and safety. Bike maintenance is an involved process, but bicycling.com has a list of 101 maintenance tips that everyone should know. If you're ever unsure about what to do, take your bike to the closest bike shop and have an expert take a look at it and have them teach you the basics! Never neglect any squeaks and uncommon noises that come from your bicycle, get them checked out as quickly as possible so you can avoid breaking down on the side of the road!
Not everyone is capable of jumping on a bicycle and riding 25 miles with no problems. Biking is a cardiovascular exercise and does require some level of physical fitness. If you're new to biking or are just getting back into it, try to work your way up to completing your commute route. Instead of trying to commit to finishing it on the first try, take a couple weekends to ride the route and go as far as you can. As you work out those muscles, your strength will increase and you will become more capable of finishing. Push your limits incrementally. You will find that you can accomplish a lot more than you were initially able to.


Voit, who studied at the the prestigious Arts Academy in Dusseldorf, Germany, knows all about the "Becher School" of photography. His photographs, however, play with typologies rather than being boxed-in as such. Voit is merely asking us to look closely, pay attention, and smile along the way. Our world has changed and these "new trees" reflect the landscape of our 21st Century planet.


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Ch7 Pt2 Sarafand, Palestine and Watermelon
It was borne upon me as time went on that throughout the Christian era, the Jews had had an incredibly hard time, most particularly in Europe. The Second World War was possibly the hardest time of all, and barely a family existed in all Europe that had not been decimated as a result of Hitler's orders to resolve the so-called "Jewish Question" by sending six million innocent men, women and children to the gas chambers and incinerators for the mortal sin of professing the wrong religion.
It was to save the remnants of these tortured communities and to make sure that such a holocaust never occurred again that the leaders of Jewish Palestine wanted the British to allow increased immigration. Bevin, the Labour Foreign Minister of the time, to his eternal discredit, actually turned immigrant ships around and sent their occupants back to those dreadful concentration camps in Europe of which they were the sole survivors.
This was why, that night when my train stopped in the middle of Sinai, near Gaza, British troops were searching soldiers of the Jewish Brigade who had fought beside us in the war – because they might have been members of the Haganah, the secret Jewish army dedicated to the removal of the British mandate which was strangling the already tortured Jewish community. This was why, in later years, when I returned to Israel, people spoke to me of the British Mandate in terms of disgust as "The British Shame".
These things I was to understand more fully at a later date as realisation dawned on me.
The Christian religion is basically an intolerant religion, for it postulates that only those who accept its tenets may be saved. Yet it is based upon the same Bible on which Judaism erects its principles, excepting, of course, the New Testament. I often wonder if it would help matters were that Christian clergy to make a point of emphasising that Christ was a Jew and a rabbi, and that he was killed by the Romans, not the Jews. Furthermore, that the Ten Commandments were brought down from Mount Sinai by Moses, the Jewish Patriarch, and are of equal importance to both Jews and Gentiles.
My own view is that all our religions have failed in one way or another — and I regretfully have to include Judaism – because in the final analysis they elevate belief in some dogma or another over the most important fact of all, the fact of mankind's common humanity.
After the search of the Jewish soldiers had finished, our train began to move, and within an hour we reached Gaza, a lost little outpost, where I was the only one to alight. A tumbledown cabin, threatening to collapse at any moment, seemed to serve as some sort of an office. I inquired through an opening if anybody knew anything about me, and of course, nobody did. After a few minutes, the person in charge of the office, a young soldier whose khaki shirt tails flapped carelessly outside his shorts, decided to telephone the unit which I was supposed to join. Not less than a quarter of an hour afterwards I heard him asking someone to send transport to pick me up. He then informed me that I would have to wait four hours before my truck arrived, so I sat resignedly down on my kit, feeling the sun get hotter and hotter, and the sweat begin to seep into my shirt.
I dozed off, dreaming about a farm in the Argentine, which I had once had hopes of buying after the war, after winning the Irish Sweepstakes, of course. Suddenly a distant noise brought me to wakefulness. At the bend of the black ribbon of bitumen stretching across the yellow, sandy countryside, a jeep turned suddenly into view. When it drew up, I asked the driver and his armed escort what time it was.
"Half past ten."
Not bad. I had only waited three hours.
"Pile your kit into the back, chum," said the escort, who sat next to the driver.
"Sure. Do you always go around armed to the teeth like that?"
The soldier fingered his Sten gun. "Orders. Terrorists knocking about. Every driver has to have an armed escort."
I climbed on the jeep. I say "on" because by the time I had stowed my kit behind the two front seats, the only place left for me was on top of it. There was a grinding of gears and a sudden rocket-like start which nearly threw us all into the road. Typical! Even if the soldiers hadn't been wearing red berets, I would have known I was back in the Airborne Div. Then we began to hurtle through the countryside.
This part of Palestine was very attractive. The earth gave one the impression of dryness, yet everywhere there was green. Great green cacti often bordered the route, enclosing orange groves whose oranges were at this time still quite small, and of the same dark green as the foliage surrounding them. Sometimes we passed an open yellow space next to a collection of clay dwellings, where Arab boys crushed corn by means of a small platform harnessed to heavy, patient oxen. Elsewhere men separated the wheat from the chaff by the age-old method of tossing everything into the air and letting the wind carry away what was not wanted. Arab women passed by, hips swaying, with a tall pitcher, a watermelon, or some bundle or other balanced on their heads. The women here were better clothed than their counterparts in Egypt. Long robes, often many-coloured reached almost to the ground, greatly contrasting with the drab tatters of the Egyptian peasant woman, and the veil was rarely worn. The galabieh of the Egyptian peasants was rarely in evidence here. Most of the men wore overcoat-like garments, somewhat shabby slacks, or trousers which were tightly fitting in the calf and baggy in the seat.
The relative wellbeing of these Arabs and the green of the countryside were all the more striking after the dirt and sterility of Egypt. In Egypt, every village had been dirty and dusty. Here, there was verdure. The roads were excellent, although inclined to be a little narrow. Even the houses of the Arabs, made of clay like those in Egypt, but thatched like old English cottages, seemed cleaner and far more attractive as they nestled snugly just off the road. Much of this superiority in living conditions stemmed from the efforts of the Jewish pioneers to improve what had been a most inhospitable land.
We eventually reached the headquarters of the Sixth Airborne Division, where I spent the night, met several comrades from the old First Airborne Division, and made additions to my kit. The next day I went to join the Second Parachute Brigade at Sarafand Cantonnement, an immense camp of tents and barracks – almost a town of its own – between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. On the second day of my stay here, the garrison was called out to Tel Aviv to trace two British officers who had been kidnapped by terrorists. I tried to do a deal with the sergeant major, known to us as "Slapsy", but was unsuccessful, and found myself left behind in the camp on duty in the Signal Office. A day and a half later the men returned, having succeeded in winkling out neither the kidnappers nor the kidnapped. They had, however, discovered several arms caches. One of them was under a barn, one of the pillars of which served as a ventilator. Another was beneath a children's playground in which kiddies danced around a maypole, each one taking a cord dangling therefrom. As these children danced in a circle, each with his cord, a small fan was set in motion, and this assured a circulation of air in the underground cache.
The Jews in Palestine were aware that the British Mandate was drawing to its close, and that when it did the might of the surrounding Arab nations would be turned against them and they would need every weapon they could get to defend themselves. The imagination of the British never extended that far. We saw the matter only in terms of "Terrorists" arms caches whose weapons might be used against us. Due to our restrictive immigration policy, of course, they sometimes were.
The modern all-Jewish city of Tel Aviv was out of bounds to us. At this time, however, I was more concerned with visiting Jerusalem, which was only thirty miles away. Jerusalem was not out of bounds, but it was extremely difficult for a soldier to get there, either by 'bus or by hitch hiking, because we were so far from the main road. Furthermore, it was a strongly enforced rule that we should go out in threes at least, and never without arms. Thus it became a question of finding two other people as anxious to go to Jerusalem as I was, who had enough money to make the trip, and who were off duty on the same day and at the same time as I. There were so few people in our Signals Section that it was hard to fulfil these conditions. Then, to clinch matters, two days after the raid on Tel Aviv, we began to prepare to move camp. No more passes, came the order, until the removal of the entire camp, lock, stock and barrel, was complete.
So we transported ourselves three miles away to Bir Selim, just outside Bir Yakov. This small Jewish colony, even further away from civilisation, consisted chiefly of half a dozen bistros with signs outside in square Hebrew characters. It seemed that after travelling a quarter of the way round the world to Palestine, I was not yet to be able to visit Jerusalem. A week later, I was sent to the Sixth Battalion, who were stationed at a large mixed army and air force camp in the desert. While I was at Bir Selim, however, I did finally manage to take a very quick look at Jerusalem.
After plaguing the life out of "Slapsy", I managed to get myself chosen for the unpleasant job of escort for a comrade who was going to spend two weeks in the military prison at Jerusalem for having left the camp by himself and without arms. Thus, maybe for an hour, I was able to feast my eyes on the white buildings of this modern, hilly city, where it is so warm during the day, and on occasion remarkably chilly at night. I also went to the top of the tower next to the YMCA for a quick panoramic view of the surrounding country.
Unfortunately we had to return to camp almost at once. The Old City with its Wailing Wall, its narrow alleys dating back to biblical times, and its religious shrines remained a mystery to me. In fact, I had to wait thirty two years, until 1978 before I finally returned to Jerusalem, saw all these things, and many more, and touched the wall of the Temple – "The Wailing Wall" – which had been the focus of so many Jewish dreams-in-exile over two thousand years.
The main memory of our trip to Jerusalem was the bullying manner in which my prisoner was received into the military prison – being pushed through the entrance at the double. As he disappeared, I had a glimpse of other soldiers doubling around the interior square in heavy packs in the hot sunshine and to hoarsely barked commands by the military police who seemed to be in charge.
On the road back to the camp, a lorry piled high with watermelons was rattling along in front of us, and we in our truck decided to pass it. As we drew level, we stood up in our own open vehicle, and each one of us grabbed a huge, juicy watermelon from the lorry. That day the road from Jerusalem to Sarafand was strewn with pips and watermelon rind.
Tagged 1946, British Mandate, Gaza, Jerusalem, Jew, Jewish, oranges, Palestine, religion, Sarafand, terrorism, watermelon
Ch7 Pt1 Cairo to Gaza-under the British Mandate.
At the "Brew-Up Canteen", opposite the arching entrance of Cairo's Central Station, I nibbled my last biscuit and drank my last cup of tea in Farouk's exotic city. I crossed the big courtyard, avoiding motor cars and horse drawn cabs, then mounted the two or three steps leading to the station, my sleeping-bag and blankets in a large roll on my back, an over-stuffed kit-bag and large pack dragging behind me, a rifle slung over my shoulder. The din from the platform struck me like a wave. Everyone was in a hurry. Newspaper vendors in galabiehs and small circular woollen hats dashed hither and thither with guttural cries of "Egyptian Mail!" – "Bourse! Bourse!" Here I saw my last braided Egyptian military big bug. These fellows were done up like field marshals, although their true rank would probably have been much less exalted. I extricated myself for the last time from the clutches of tattered beggars who wished to move my kit a few yards, even a few inches, for a grossly inflated tip. And I had my last close-up glimpse of an Egyptian native woman, with her black eyes so shockingly daubed with make-up. (In later years this became a fashion in the western world and finally seemed no longer strange). I got into the train, noting with relief that it was reserved exclusively for the use of troops. So much the better. There would be less chance of losing one's rifle or other kit through thieves. I sat down on a wooden seat, the train groaned into motion, and then we began to leave behind the palaces and the hovels of Cairo.
At the first stop, I bought my last bottle of the inevitable fizzy lemonade from the inevitable dirty vendor. Made drowsy by the hum of the wheels, I watched Egypt abandon me. The palm trees, the cultivated patches of ground, sparsely covered with verdure, the irrigation canals with their muddy water, the dry desert – all passed quickly by. I was in the shadow, and the breeze from the open window struck my face. A ray of sunlight hit the floor at my side.
I had time to think of the future. I had enjoyed my stay in Egypt. I had even made enquiries about working there, and had found the difficulties insurmountable for one of my limited qualifications. Yet perhaps this did not matter after all. Egypt was not the country for me to spend my life in. This exploitation of the poor by the rich could not last. It was based on rotten principles. I must find a new country to settle down where a man is as good as his master, where there is no class distinction and no colour bar. Where shall I find this place? I do not know. Only one thing is certain. Years of pen-pushing at the County Hall in London will never satisfy me. One day I shall marry – for life without a woman to turn to is finally only half a life. But I must find some skill to earn a decent living, for I can never again put up with the poverty known by my parents and grandparents. And then I must leave England and plant my children in a new land. Because I have weighed English society, observed it, lived with it, and I have found it wanting. It may well be that England has rejected my people in the past. But I have now finally and forever rejected England.
But these are things for the future. I have gained experience in Egypt, and I have enjoyed my stay. It is a credit entry in the ledger of life.
I dreamt thus as the train left Egypt and the sun went to bed behind the sandy horizon. Some hours after nightfall we steamed into a siding and left the train to have a snack in a huge, badly illuminated barrack where food had been prepared for us. This was El Kantara, our last stop in Egypt. Here you either got rid of your Egyptian piastres – "ackers" to the soldier – in the perpetually open Naafi, or changed them into Palestinian "mils". A "mil" being a one thousandth part of a Palestinian pound is worth therefore about a farthing English. Back in the train again, I sat on the floor, rested my head on a wooden seat, and drifted off into an uncomfortable slumber.
I awoke with every limb stiff. My eyes were sticky with sleep, my face was greasy and dirty, and my head ached abominably. Outside I heard someone shout a name. Was it "Gaza"? That was my destination, our first halt after Kantara, and we were supposed to arrive there at five o'clock in the morning. It was already half past four, and I had no wish to miss my stop and finish up at Haifa, on the Mediterranean coast near the Lebanese border – I had too much kit to lug about. I asked one or two soldiers who weren't stretched out sleeping if they knew where we were, but they had no idea. I opened the carriage door and climbed down onto the shingley railway track. There were several sidings near to us, and I could distinguish a whitish hut just opposite which might have been some sort of a stationmaster's office. Evidently we were in a station of some sort, but where? Was it Gaza, that lonely spot where rumour had it that the British Government was going to install all those troops whom it would shortly find itself obliged to evacuate from Egypt? At the head of the train I could see a crowd of men standing in the glare from the headlights of two motor cars. What was going on? Some days ago terrorists had blown up the railway line between Cairo and Gaza. Could this be something similar? I began to make my way through the darkness in the direction of the light, but suddenly the brilliance of an electric torch exploded in my face, and I put up my hands to protect my eyes. A voice demanded: "Who are you?" The light was lowered, and I could distinguish the white straps and the red-covered cap of a man of the Corps of Military Police. Beneath his arm he held a small machine gun.
"I'm going to Gaza. What's happening over there?"
"Nothing. Get back into your carriage."
"How far is it from here to Gaza?"
"An hour's journey."
"Are we going to stay here long?"
He had planted himself in front of me. I turned my back on him and regained my carriage. The bloody Gestapo again! No wonder these military police are the outcasts of the British army. Their only object in life is to bully their comrades and put them on charges. It's a pig's job, and it takes a certain type of piggish mentality to carry it out.
On my very first leave in the army, I had run up against the military police, and thereafter kept as much out of their way as possible. I had left my parents' flat without my pay book or my pass, for I was still very much a greenhorn. Naturally, a military policeman stopped me and asked me for my papers, which I was unable to produce. However, I told him that I had left them at home, just two steps away, and if he would come with me, I would produce them. He refused to do this, and took me to the local police station, where he put through a call to Scotland Yard, (apparently their military headquarters), telling them he was bringing me in. A military police sergeant then appeared. I explained the position to him, and eventually prevailed upon him and his understrapper to accompany me to my home so that we could end this silly business. This was done, and I produced my pass to their satisfaction. However, since a phone call had been placed to Scotland Yard they told me that they would now have to deliver my body there so that the whole matter could be tied up in red tape and filed away. So we got into their vehicle and I finished up at Scotland Yard, where I was finally turned loose.
I could have lost half a day's precious leave through this, but the last laugh was against the military police because I had intended to go into the west end anyhow. In my eyes, they had merely finished up giving me a free lift. Nevertheless, this little encounter reinforced my previous opinion that there were two major qualifications necessary to be a military policeman. First of all you had to have a natural, inbuilt inclination to be a rotten bastard. Secondly, it was mandatory to have a fair amount of bone and not too much brain between the ears.
Turning these matters over moodily in my mind, I sat down once again on the floor of my carriage, rested my head on the hard wooden seat, and eventually fell asleep.
It might have been an hour and a half later when I awoke. Around me haggard wrecks which one recognised with difficulty as being human beings were picking themselves off the floor. Never mind. Somewhere "our boys" had mothers who loved them and wives who thought they were handsome! Our train still had not moved, and I staggered towards the door, teetered on the threshold, and descended to the track. It was extremely cold. To think that yesterday I had been in Egypt, where all the nights seemed to be warm. The crowd I had noticed the night before was still gathered at the front of the train, and I strolled in its direction.
Officers and military policemen were searching the kit of a number of Jewish soldiers – big, tough looking men with words on their shoulder flashes in the unintelligible Hebrew tongue. But the search was almost finished, and they were packing up.
I walked idly back to my carriage. About me wagons still rested silently in their sidings. Dawn was just breaking. The sky was half grey, half blue, and there was as yet no trace of the sun. Fields extended on either side, gloomy and indistinct. Not a sign of movement attracted the eye. Nothing was happening. The land was dead. Yet this country of Palestine was torn by internecine strife between Jew and Arab. We English were there because we had a duty to maintain some semblance of order in the land under mandate to us from the old League of Nations; but also because, when we had left Egypt, we should need some territory as a military base to protect our lines of communication with the Orient, and our Middle East oil against the menace of foreign powers, principally Russia. Naturally, we received in the process kicks in the backside from both Jews and Arabs. From the Jews, because we wouldn't allow a rush of immigrants to enter the territory. From the Arabs, because we wouldn't make our measures more restrictive than they were against the Jews. Never again will I believe – if I ever really have — the old propaganda from my schooldays, that wherever he goes 'everybody loves an Englishman'. In my experience, the exact reverse is often the case, and sometimes it is the Englishman's fault.
During my stay in Palestine, I noticed a marked hostility to the Jews in all ranks in the British army. I even felt it within myself, but in the interests of fairness, tried to suppress it. I was familiar and friendly with Jewish English people from my childhood days, but had never thought to try and see the world through Jewish eyes. In Palestine I now began consciously to try to do this.
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Giulio Briccialdi
Giulio Briccialdi.
Giulio Briccialdi (1/2 March 1818 – 17 December 1881)[1] was an Italian virtuoso flautist and composer, a technical innovator on his instrument and a professor of music.
Briccialdi was born in Terni. His contributions include inventing the B-flat thumb key for the Boehm flute.[2] He died in Florence.
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Briccialdi was born in Terni, Italy, in the Papal States on 2 March 1818 and began studying flute with his father. After his father's death, the 14-year-old Briccialdi moved to Rome to pursue a musical career and avoid family pressure to join the priesthood. His first appointment was to the Accdemia di Santa Cecilia in Rome at the age of 17.
While in Rome he studied composition and, in 1835, began teaching flute at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia. He then moved to Naples, where he was the flute teacher for the royal family.
Over the next couple of years he worked in Naples and Milan, and was flute teacher to the King's brother. Then in 1841 he toured Europe and America, finally settling in London the following year.
In London he became a director of the instrument making firm Rudall and Rose and was responsible for several mechanical developments which are still in use today. He was appointed professor of flute at the Conservatoire in Florence in 1870, and remained there until his death in 1881. In 1996 the asteroid N. 7714 was named in his memory.
Briccialdi, known as "the Paganini of the flute," was a remarkable virtuoso who toured Europe as a soloist and was responsible for several technical improvements to the flute—now standard features on the instrument. He ultimately settled in Florence and taught at the Florence Conservatory.
Andantino con variazioni, after Paganini, for flute & guitar
Ballabile di Concerto, for flute & orchestra
Canzonetta with variations for flute & piano in C major
Capriccio on themes from "Ernani", Op. 28
Capriccio on themes from "I Lombardi", Op. 30
Carnival of Venice for flute & orchestra Op. 78
Character Piece 1865
Duo Concertante for 2 flutes in F major, Op. 100/2
Elegie di Ernst, for flute & piano, Op. 26
Fantasia Dramatica on themes from Aida for flute & piano, Op. 134
Fantasia for flute & piano on themes from Lucrezia Borgia
Fantasia for flute & piano on themes from Verdi's Macbeth, Op. 47
Fantasia for flute & piano on themes from Rigoletto, Op. 106
Fantasia for flute & piano, Op. 108
Fantasia for flute & piano, Op. 57
Fantasia on themes from Il Trovatore
Fantasia for flute & piano after Verdi's la Traviata, Op. 76
Flute Concerto in F major (pub.1850 by Richault)
Flute Concerto No.2 in E♭ major, Op. 19
Flute Concerto (No.3?) in A major, Op. 130
Le Streghe, for flute & piano, Op. 138
Pot-pourri fantastique on themes from Il barbiere di by Rossini for wind quintet, Series 10, No 4
Pot-pourri Fantastico, for flute & piano, on themes from Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and 'Lucrezia Borgia, Op. 46
Quintet for winds in B♭ major, Series 10, No 2
Quintet for winds in B♭ major, Series 10, No.3
Quintet for winds in D major, Op. 124
Solo Romantico, Op. 72
Theme and variations for flute & piano "Il carnevale di Venezia", Op. 78
7714 Briccialdi, an asteroid named after Giulio Briccialdi
^ de Lorenzo, Leonardo (1992). My Complete Story of the Flute: The Instrument, the Performer, the Music at Google Books, pages 135-6. Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press. ISBN 0-89672-277-5.
^ Toff, Nancy (1996). The Flute Book: A Complete Guide for Students and Performers at Google Books, page 56. New York: Oxford University Press US. ISBN 0-19-510502-8.
Free scores by Giulio Briccialdi at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
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