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The sound is big. The towns are small. And the name is HARDY.
Big Loud artist HARDY grew up on classic rock in Philadelphia, Miss., a town of about 7,500 in the country setting of Neshoba County. So when fans hear the music on his four-song EP for the label, This Ole Boy, they're getting the real deal. The songs are bold and proud, the voice is commanding and the lyrics are centered on farms, in the backwoods and mostly in America's heartland.
"I love that lifestyle, and that's what I want to talk about," he says unapologetically. "I'm not really a love song dude. If I'm going down that road, it's a song like 'This Ole Boy' where it's a redneck-in-love kind of thing. People that are like me, or people who still live in small towns, still love that and want to hear that. That's why I'm who I am as an artist."
HARDY's artistic identity is notably focused on This Ole Boy. His voice is gritty in "4x4," soulful in the background vocals of "This Ole Boy" and edgy in the stack of HARDY harmonies in "Rednecker." The productions' mix of swamp rock and country walks a line between strutting sarcasm and communal congeniality. And the incessant word play – where else does "quatro" rhyme with "macho?" – marks HARDY as a smart guy with an uncommon sense of humor. READ MORE HERE: http://hardyofficial.com/
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Ukraine Joins NATO's Counter-Piracy Operation
KIEV, Ukraine -- NATO welcomed Ukraine's decision on Friday to join its counter-piracy operation Ocean Shield, while Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Ukraine's NATO membership was on track, but warned there was concern about Ukraine's use of "selective justice."
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
"NATO and Ukraine are key security partners. For many years, Ukraine has been making substantial and very welcome contributions to all major NATO-led operations, including our engagement in Afghanistan," said Rasmussen, who chaired a meeting of defense ministers in the NATO-Ukraine Commission.
The secretary general and Ukrainian Defense Minister Pavlo Lebedev signed an exchange of letters confirming Ukraine's intent to contribute a frigate and helicopter to NATO's operation Ocean Shield, which fights piracy off the coast of Somalia.
Ukraine will contribute the frigate Hetman Sahaydachniy, the flagship of the Ukrainian Navy.
"The exchange of letters serves to confirm Ukraine's offer and NATO's readiness to proceed to the last stage of technical certification, which is necessary to make sure that the Ukrainian contribution is capable of operating effectively with NATO vessels," the NATO press service said in a statement on its website.
NATO said it provides significant support to Ukraine's ongoing reforms of the defense and security sectors.
The ministers agreed on a set of priorities to guide cooperation over the next five years, including in training and exercises.
On the issue of Ukraine's future membership, Rasmussen said NATO's decision that Georgia and Ukraine will eventually join the alliance "still stands."
"We fully respect the non-alignment policy, the non-bloc policy or whatever you might call it. That's for Ukraine to decide," he said, adding, however, that there was "serious concern" about Ukraine's use of "selective justice."
NATO is committed to supporting Ukraine's reform efforts, Rasmussen said.
"In particular, the determined implementation of reforms to reinforce democracy and the rule of law would benefit the people of Ukraine and the entire Euro-Atlantic community."
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Warning! You Will Go To Jail If You Involve In Election Malpractice, NYSC DG Warns Corp Members
Maj.-Gen. Suleiman Kazaure, the Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has given a stern warning to all corps members to avoid being involved in election malpractice as anyone caught will be prosecuted under the law.
NAN reports that Kazaure gave the warning in Ibadan on Tuesday during his advocacy and sensitisation visit to Oyo State.The director-general warned the corps members not to accept any form of inducement, including money from politicians, strangers and members of the public. He advised them to always study their environment and be security-conscious, saying that corps members participating in election duties must be in their NYSC uniform."Your Identity cards must be on you; ensure your phones are recharged with enough airtime; be armed with pocket notes; have the phone numbers of your local government inspectors and Divisional Police Officers (DPOs).Peradventure there is any problem, protect yourself first and report to the nearest police station. The security operatives will all be deployed during the exercise. Note that participation is not compulsory for you.
"Never drag anything with anybody. You may decide not to participate because it is optional. Any corps member that violates the law having been warned, would be prosecuted.INEC officials will train you people and clothe you with everything needed for the elections. After the training, they will select the best among you; so be good ambassadors of the scheme, your family and Nigeria,'' Kazaure said.Also speaking, the Chairman, Ibadan South-East Local Government, Mr. Abimbola Omiyale, promised that the government would do its best to ensure adequate security of the corps members."We are all joining hands to make sure that the corps member who will work anywhere in the state, will be protected and that the election is violent-free," he said.
Also, the Oyo State NYSC Coordinator, Mrs Emiola Ambekemo, said the sensitisation was to remind the corps members that they must be law abiding."They are already aware of the right things to do especially in times like this. We just need to remind them that they must be law abiding as anyone who violates the rules will face the law as the director-general has said," she said.Speaking on behalf of the corps members, Mr Ajiboye Okoye assured the director-general and the management of NYSC that the corps members would not compromise in any way."We have taken a resolution today to abide by the law, guidelines of INEC and be good ambassadors of the scheme,'' he said.
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The video of a Canadian girl being snatched by a sea lion and dragged underwater sent shockwaves across social media, after it went viral last week.
But unfortunately for the little girl, there's more.
The Vancouver Aquarium told NBC News that the girl is now being treated for a possible "seal finger" infection.
"The family saw media reports in which our marine mammal trainer recommended they call us, and they did get in touch." the spokeswoman Deana Lancaster told NBC News. "She did get a superficial wound and she's going to get the right treatment."
As reported by ABC News, untreated severe infections can lead to loss of fingers or limbs.
Lancaster explained that any time a member of the animal care team is bitten by a seal or sea lion, they're immediately treated with antibiotics.
The girl was sitting on the dock's edge in Steveston Harbour in Richmond, British Columbia, when a massive sea lion suddenly leapt from the water, grabbed her dress and dragged her into the water. A man, believed to be a relative, immediately dived into the water and pulled the girl to safety, unharmed.
"There was somebody beside them that was trying to feed them. Also, they weren't trying to take pictures or anything," the man told CBC News.


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Q: Xamarin.Android Swipe to Refresh in MVVMCross loader loading infinitely My code is
.AXML file
<MvvmCross.Droid.Support.V4.MvxSwipeRefreshLayout
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    local:MvxBind="Refreshing IsBusy;RefreshCommand RefreshCommand">

my view model
       private MvxCommand refreshCommand;
       public ICommand RefreshCommand
        {
            get
            {
                return refreshCommand ?? (refreshCommand = new MvxCommand(ExecuteRefreshCommand));
            }
        }

        private bool m_IsBusy;

        public new bool IsBusy
        {
            get { return m_IsBusy; }
            set
            {
                m_IsBusy = value; RaisePropertyChanged(() => IsBusy);
                BaseMessage = m_IsBusy ? "Refreshing..." : string.Empty;
            }
        }

        async private void ExecuteRefreshCommand()
        {
          await Task.Run(() => { m_IsBusy = false; });
        }

I can able to see the loader,loader is loading indefinitely , but couldn't able to stop the Swipe to refresh loader.

A: Looking at the code of MvxSwipeRefreshLayout you can see it inherits from SwipeRefreshLayout. SwipeRefreshLayout contains a boolean Refreshing. This indicates wether it's loading and thus a loading icon should be shown. Setting this to false will hide the animation.
You can do this by binding to it. Create an extra property for example isRefreshing in your ViewModel like:
private bool _isRefreshing;
public bool IsRefreshing
{
    get { return _isRefreshing; }
    set
    {
        _isRefreshing = value;
        RaisePropertyChanged(() => IsRefreshing);
    }
}

Now in your view bind actually bind the two like:
<MvxSwipeRefreshLayout
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    local:MvxBind="Refreshing IsRefreshing; RefreshCommand RefreshCommand">

Now you have to manually set the boolean to false when your 'refresh work' is done. For example:
public IMvxCommand RefreshCommand
{
    get
    {
        return new MvxCommand(async () => {

            // This simulates some refresh work which takes 3 seconds
            await Task.Delay(3000);
            IsRefreshing = false;
        });
    }
}

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Home Business France, World Bank, AfDB pledge $25.5bn against desertification in Africa
France, World Bank, AfDB pledge $25.5bn against desertification in Africa
France, the World Bank and African Development Bank (AfDB) have committed a total of $25.5 billion to support the 8,000-kilometre-long Great Green Wall, which is an African-led initiative, spanning 11 countries to combat land degradation, desertification and drought.
At the recent One Planet Summit for Biodiversity the Great Green Wall for the Sahel and Sahara Initiative, the donor agencies and governments pledged to make funding available for the next ten years to restore lost lands.
According to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), climate change is having a crippling impact on the Sahel, happening one and a half times faster than the global average, and causing the region to experience droughts every two years, instead of the typical 10-year cycle.
UNEP said the funding from the government of France, which committed $14 billion; the African Development Bank, $6.5 billion and the World Bank, $5 billion, would help strengthen the climate resilience, restore degraded land, create green jobs, and protect biodiversity in Africa.
The Great Green wall is growing vegetation and restoring a band of land from Senegal to Djibouti to help boost food security, improve health, and create thousands of new jobs and income opportunities for the communities living there.
According to UNEP, focus will be laid on sustainable land use, indigenous farming techniques and green jobs. The initiative has already planted billions of trees and supported tens of thousands of local households.
The Great Green Wall is the first flagship of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021–2030, and UNEP, through the Global Environment Facility and other donors, operates many restoration projects along it.
"The year 2021 marks the beginning of the Decade for Ecosystem Restoration – and the Great Green Wall is an inspiring example of ecosystem restoration in action. This initiative alone won't transform the Sahel's fortunes overnight, but it is rapidly becoming a green growth corridor that is bringing investment, boosting food security, creating jobs and sowing the seeds of peace," said Susan Gardner, Director of UNEP's Ecosystems Division.
UNEP, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN and the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) are collaborating with 10 other UN agencies and Development Banks to coordinate the action in support of the GGW.
"The mobilization of this additional funding will contribute to the achievement of the Great Green Wall goals," said Mohamed Cheikh El-Ghazouani, President of Mauritania and the Chair of Conference of Heads of State and Government of the Pan African Agency for the Green Great Wall.
"With smart policies and the right investments, we can chart a path that…revives economies and builds resilience. Innovations in energy and transport can steer a sustainable recovery. Nature-based solutions – such as Africa's Great Green Wall – are especially promising."
Co-organised by France, the United Nations and World Bank, the One Planet Summit brought together world leaders to commit to action to protect and restore biodiversity.
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Like the Z06, it's weaponized fiberglass, just with a little less fissile material.
Basically, the Grand Sport is a Z06 with 460 horsepower instead of 650. Like the Z06, it's weaponized fiberglass, just with a little less fissile material. Equipped with the $7995 Z07 package, which adds Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tires and carbon-ceramic brakes, the Grand Sport clings to Turn 1 with 1.19 g's of grip, a close second to the Z06's 1.20 g's, the most grip we've ever recorded in that corner.
Like the Z06's tires, the Cup 2s have just a couple of laps in them to get a best time. After that, the tires plateau, lose a bit of grip, and add about a second or so to the stopwatch. Same pressure on the driver as the Z06 exerts, in other words.
Unlike the Z06, though, the Grand Sport can only be had with the Z06's Stage 2 aerodynamic package. Chevy engineers deemed the higher-downforce Stage 3 setup from the Z06 to have too much drag for the Grand Sport's less powerful engine, so here the center part of the wickerbill is shorter and the ends of the front splitter are smaller. The Grand Sport strikes a good-enough balance of downforce and power to keep it in the Z06 hunt. In the 80-to-90-mph right-left-right transitions of the infield, the Grand Sport's average speed is only a half-mph off the Z06's. It's not until the exit that the Z06's superior power helps it pull away. In the Hog Pen right that leads to the straight, the Grand Sport strains your neck for one second with 1.45 g's of cornering stick, a figure that matches that of the Dodge Viper ACR. Through the Climbing Esses, the Grand Sport only gives up two-tenths to the Z06.
From behind the wheel, the two cars are pretty much identical. The competition seats are the same, the steering is just as heavy, and the shifter is just as likely to find fifth gear instead of third as it is in the Z06. Both have the same supernatural stability, stiff springing, gentle damping, and generous wheel travel. We'd have a hard time justifying the extra spend for the Z06.
Over the uphill esses—on a public road, this sector would likely have a recommended speed of 45 mph—it goes in at 133.5 mph, strikes the right-hand curbing at 130, leaps, and sticks the landing. Do this in a plane and the landing gear would probably collapse. Corvette ride-and-handling engineer Jim Mero laughs and says it's like landing in pillows. No, Jim. No.
A battle of grip versus power waged in the 2:47 club this year as a front-engined Chevy, a rear-engined Porsche, and a mid-engined McLaren all ended up within 0.4 second of each other. Power and minimal aero trickery allowed the 562-hp 570S to hit 162.8 mph on the straight, 9 mph faster than the 500-hp 911 GT3 RS and 16.6 mph faster than the 460-hp Corvette. But, without the wings, spoilers, and obese rubber of the Porsche and Chevy, the McLaren's power couldn't help it in high-speed corners. Zeroing in on the Climbing Esses shows that the McLaren lost 29.3 mph from entry to exit (139.4 mph to 110.1) as the driver fought to stabilize the car while searching for grip. In the same section, the GT3 RS went in at 137.2, but only dropped 19.0 mph. The Corvette entered the slowest (133.5 mph) and pounded out of the sector at 120 mph, a drop of only 13.5 mph.


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Plotless novel of the religious life
My mother gave me a copy of Sylvia Townsend Warner's novel The Corner That Held Them for Christmas in 1992. I read it at the time with moderate enjoyment; I have a feeling that my life then meant I only read in bed, for I failed to be properly engaged with this, a story of which the heroine is a convent, a story which has no real plot. Perhaps it's necessary to read it in a shorter time, to give it due attention. The convent of Oby, in a hidden corner of Norfolk, was founded in the twelfth century by Brian de Retteville in memory of his wife, Alianor, who had once dishonoured and always despised him. The story opens thus: Alianor de Retteville lay on her bed and looked at Giles who was her lover. Ok, you think, she's going to end up a nun...and we'll follow her story. Great. But it doesn't work like that.
As the back cover of my edition tells us: A good convent should have no history. Its life is held with Christ who is above. History is of the world, costly and deadly ... Yet the events of history carry a certain exhilaration with them. This book is rather like that ideal convent; only it has history instead of heroes. The nuns are human, but they have their eyes on heaven - some of the time. The priest who comes to them as a gift from heaven during the Black Death - is he all that he seems? But soon he is subsumed into the life of the convent; Prioresses come and go; the tower is completed and collapses; nuns die, are disgraced, disappear; the Bishop makes a visitation.
At my second reading - when to be honest I could remember only the beginning from twenty years ago - I loved it. I was completely hooked, finishing it in a rush before heading off on holiday, unwilling to let it wait till I came home. It's like a window into a religious community, one of which you see the start but which will live on once you shut the window again; a walk alongside the often worldly sisters who in their ambitions, squabbles, jealousies and pleasures seem fit inhabitants of this Benedictine convent which was established for such chequered motives.
The period is depicted convincingly, with all its miseries and fears, its discomfort and instability, and the language is convincing without being in any way archaic. "We were interrupted, were we not?" says the prior of another religious house to the prioress of Oby. "By the way, what became of your mad priest?"
I shan't tell you. But if you can get hold of this excellent book, do.
Labels: Black Death, book reviews, convent life, historical novels, mediaeval, novels, Sylvia Townsend Warner
Teacher training - some questions
I keep getting into conversations about education these days. What's the matter with me? I've obviously fallen into lassitude to be so easily dragged back to my former self. Today's was about the people who teach the teachers - those aspirants who've gone through the selection process and made it to training college. Now, I'm basing some of what I'm about to say on the assumption that the government don't think the current selection process is sufficiently rigorous, and the rest on my own memory of my year at college. And that, best beloved, was not yesterday, nor even last year. I actually know nothing at all about the people who teach the teachers these days, and nothing at all about how they got their jobs in the first place. But I'm going to toss a few thoughts around nonetheless - and perhaps some gentle reader will be able to lighten my darkness.
I'm going to start with a few questions:
What makes someone go for a job in a College of Education? Presumably they start off in schools. Are college staff significantly better paid? Or do they prefer to work in a less challenging environment?
How are they selected? Are they required to demonstrate mastery of their academic subject? To show how well they teach a class? To talk a storm at an interview? Is there any written examination or practical test (maybe like preaching to a congregation who are looking for a new minister?)
Having got the job, what is their primary aim? To demonstrate how to do the same job as the teachers the students experienced perhaps 4 years ago? To show how to put a lesson across? To discuss new techniques and new media? (I know of at least one lecturer who might well answer in the affirmative to that). To ensure that their students actually like children before they start?
Do they spend much time teaching in classrooms as a CPD exercise?
And I'm going to reflect:
When I was at college, I loathed it. After a 3 year MA course I found it at once restrictive and vague. Quite apart from having to be there from 9-4 and wear a skirt (both, presumably, easing us back into required behaviour for the job) I actually had no idea what I was learning about. This was especially true in my two subject areas. In English, I learned nothing at all. Nothing. In Latin, the nice little man who taught us (a class of 4 students) had such a boring delivery that I routinely fell asleep. It's embarrassing when your head actually hits the desk, in a class of 4.
There were classes in Educational Psychology - which is where I think I heard the instruction that when confronted by an unruly class we were to "exhaust the response". And classes in Drama, which I loathed - I can't remember why, but the lecturer kept coming to look for us in the cafeteria at the start of the afternoon, so we were obviously not keen. And were there discrete classes in Methods, or was that in the subject classes?
In all that time, no-one ever told us that it was essential not to be boring. Mind you, if they had, we might have laughed in their faces; I have never been so bored so consistently for so long. And no-one ever suggested that we had to be passionate about our subject and about communicating that passion. Naturally, no-one ever gave us practical work in demonstrating how we might do that.
Yes, I learned something in that year at college. But I learned it in the three schools where I was sent on teaching practice - by watching some excellent teaching, by talking to the people I'd been watching, by making mistakes and suffering the slow death of the period when you've run out of material and don't have anything to put in its place.
And 30 years later, I'd say I was still learning. But I always knew that there were still people out there living behind a barrier of worksheets, boring their pupils to death, sending them to sleep in the period after lunch.
So, if you're out there, the person who knows the answers to the above, gonnae put me out of my misery?
Labels: education, questions, teacher training, teachers, teaching
Testing the teacher
Staving off the tedium of cough-recovery inactivity, I was ploughing through yesterday's Sunday Times when I came across a piece about the proposal to raise entry standards for wannabe primary teachers. (Actually I'm not certain about that last qualification - the paper was certainly talking about primary teachers, but there was a lack of clarity ...) Anyway, I had a flashback to my own primary education, during which I was taught by two men and five women, six of whom were Glasgow MA graduates and one a BSc. They all wore their hoods to prizegiving. They were fiercely proud of their work and of the school, and some of them were also pretty fierce, in a respect-inducing sort of way. The only time I ever saw one of them at a loss was the hapless BSc who taught us in P7, for he became entangled in the thickets of English grammar and had to appeal, in a note home via me, to my father for assistance. Less strange than you might think - they were old buddies, and when I came in with homework that was different from that of the other 39 in my class, he realised he was in unsuspected deep water. (He might not have noticed the juxtaposition of metaphors in that story, but the formidable Miss Campbell would not have liked it).
When I was a secondary teacher, I never felt out of my depth in my own subject. Had I had to teach P7 maths, it might have been another story - though I can still do long division, for what it's worth. Perhaps a subject-based degree is not such a useful qualification for a Primary teacher - but its possession at least shows a level of study and competence without which an underlying confidence might well be lacking. I still tend to rate people by their ability to write competent and properly-spelled English as an indicator of basic education, and I still expect teachers not to come out with such expressions as "I seen" and "I done" - or, worse still, "Ah seen" and "Ah done". It's even worse when this is a common feature of the speech of the English teacher of one's own child - and when the same teacher, who is also a colleague, tells you "But you're posh".
Posh I am not. But I was well taught, fairly rigorously tested, and instilled with a passion for language that has grown with the years. I cannot say that the similarly good teaching managed to get me beyond the basic competence needed for Higher Maths and Higher Science (remember, if you're older than I am, that that was awarded after a single paper in both Physics and Chemistry; they split the two, if I'm correct, in the early 1960s) - but the MAs who taught me were bright enough to do the biz in Primary and my teachers after S3 had a real uphill struggle against orchestra practices and other distractions.
So: how on earth do you get accepted for teacher training without demonstrating enough ability and education to have room for manoeuvre? And whom does a lack of rigour help? Not the teacher - horrid to find yourself the butt of sneers from a ten-year-old who knows the answer you don't; not the pupils, who have perfectly correctly spelled words marked wrong by the ignoramus charged with their education. No: there are no winners. There don't seem to be teacher shortages either, not right now.
Seems pretty bloody obvious to me.
Labels: education, qualifications, teacher training, teachers, testing.
Pitfalls for travelling minstrels ...
Not long after our return from Russia we found ourselves once more hosting a visit to Dunoon from the vocal ensemble Voskresenije from St Petersburg. Having done this annually for several years, the vestry of Holy Trinity decided that it was too difficult to attract a capacity audience every year, and we switched to hosting a concert every two years. Because of new regulations governing the use of buildings for concerts and so on, we were moved by the looless state* of HT and the cost of hiring portaloos to use the Burgh Hall. This itself is very much a work in progress, but is a building well-provided with loos and rooms in which choristers can eat and change, and on this occasion was able to offer a bar at the back of the hall. All seemed set for an interesting evening; the hospitality for the night after the gig was all set up; the posters had been printed. I should have known better.
It has got around that I have been organising Voskresenije's concerts here - and elsewhere, at times - for quite a time. And so it came about that, the evening after our return from Moscow, I had a phone call from the organiser of the concert the night before the choir were due to come here. To cut a long and tortuous story short, he'd had to cancel - and the choir were already on tour. This is catastrophic for them - it amounts to about £1000 out of pocket for them, what with finding alternative accommodation (for that too hadn't materialised) and losing income from a gig. I was appalled, and I was furious. I found myself saying "send them here." I didn't know how my hosts were going to react, and for two days I sat on the news, plucking up the courage to ask them if they could cope.
They coped, magnificently. To a man and a woman they were horrified at the behaviour of the church that had treated "our" Russians so cavalierly. They met the minibus in a dark car-park, were allocated their guests by Jurij (the MD) and set off into the night. It could all have gone so wrong, but despite the odd tremor about a dog or two, it ended up going swimmingly. Or singingly. Laundry was done, singers went for dog-walks in the dark along the shore, my friends Michael and Charlie decided they could speak Russian after downloading Google Translate and finding it worked. The concert was a joyful sell-out, and though HT has a better acoustic and more atmosphere, people on the whole appreciated the convenience(s) and the bar.
As you can see from the photo above, they left in great good humour. That's Jurij between me and Mr B, with a young tenor/counter-tenor and one of the hosts - who memorably opined that we should have them for two nights every time as it gave us time for chat. And despite the fact that I was dying from a cold I felt exhilarated as well as exhausted. What seemed like a mountain to climb had once again become a dawdle.
But there's a moral to this tale. Hosting a choir like this is rewarding in all sorts of ways, and I would commend it to any community (it's usually churches who do it). But if you decide it's something you'd like to happen, you have to make it work. If you're uncertain or unwilling to meet the challenges the organisation can throw up, don't embark on it. That church - about an hour's journey away, on the other side of the Clyde, solid, middle-class - behaved abysmally. I'd hate to think of it ever happening again.
Holy Trinity Dunoon, on the other hand ...
*HT may not remain looless for ever. There are plans afoot - or abottom, if you like.
Labels: Holy Trinity Dunoon, hospitality, responsibility, Russian choir, touring, Voskresenije
Do not forget Russia
On a trip such as our Russian one, people become pretty important. Our first night on board we realised at dinner that we were surrounded by Australian voices. Not surprising: APT is an Aussie company. Later we discovered Kiwis, a Dutch/German couple, an Italian couple - and a Scottish couple, she from Millport and he from Glasgow and a former pupil of my uncle more years ago than he cared to recall. All this on a Russian ship in the north of Russia. Amazing. But the people in the first pic were also important. The musicians, in national dress, entertained us every evening, helped the Russian class to sing "Kalinka" and sang "Happy Birthday" to several
guests during the cruise, me included. It turned out that the soprano knew our friend Jurij, who in turn told me that she had toured with Voskresenije. In the same pic you can see the captain (just - on the left), the doctor (who rather alarmingly told one woman who was suffering from an allergy to avoid red foods), two senior officers and the chefs.
The pic on the right shows our guide in St Petersburg - a very interesting and articulate woman who would have engaged the most rebellious class and who made some interesting political and social observations. She was typical of the guides on this trip - a very professional lot.
On the left we are visiting the house of a couple in Svirstroy - a retired midwife (in the stripy jersey) and her retired engineer husband. She told us about life in this small riverside town - growing vegetables, storing them in the basement below the kitchen, clearing snow, making pickles - and I've never seen anyone more serene and apparently content with what seemed a difficult and fairly arduous existence. The lovely girl in the jeans was one of the onboard interpreters - they were an impressive lot, these language students, and utterly charming.
The girl in 19th century dress on the right was also charming, as Mr B found as a result of serious research - she was one of three guides who showed us round the Governor's House in Yaroslavl, in the personae of the Governor's daughters, and when it came to walzing in the first-floor salon, she asked him to dance with her. Turned out she was a language student on a holiday job, and they chatted away quite the thing while Mr B expired gently with the exertion of doing and old-fashioned walz in a pair of Brasher walking shoes, fleece-line Rohan trousers and a fleece pullover. While open-air Yaroslavl was chilly and windy, the Governor's House was, like every other interior we visited, boiling. All that centrally provided hot water ...
The little girl in the pic below was the person we thought of as "our" on board guide. Julia is Kalmyk, a Buddhist of Mongolian origin, from one of the primarily Muslim states to the east of the Caspian Sea, and was fluent in
English and French as well as piano playing. She told us that
so many people wouldn't believe that she was Russian, because she didn't look like a Russian, and that she always told them "but I have a Russian soul". Perhaps a Russian soul is what makes the Russians we met such a serious group of people. All of them seemed devoid of flippancy, they seemed dedicated to doing their jobs well and to making us happy, and they seemed immensely well educated. The guide in the picture taken in the Moscow metro (below), holding a blue "lollipop) was the daughter of two doctors, and had a degree from the Moscow State University. Her parents, she said, had given up a great deal to send her there, and she had loved it.
Because the Russian language and the Cyrillic alphabet are so dauntingly unfamiliar, it is easy to succumb to the temptation to stick with other tourists, to avoid even attempting to interact with the people. But when we did get into conversations with our Russian contacts, the two of us loved their seriousness, their culture, their clear-sighted comments. It was from them that we learned that most Russian couples will have only one child; that they all live in flats in the cities; that no-one can get a worthwhile job unless they live in a city; that Russian society is still in a sort of 1950s timewarp.
And when we left, when we said "goodbye" to the people we had met, they all, without exception, said the same thing: "Do not forget Russia."
I don't think I ever will.
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Can you build a house by yourself without hiring a contractor? This is a question that some people would like to have answers for. The answer is it depends. There are situations and conditions which make it legal to build a house on your own, and there are situations and conditions which make it illegal to build a residence on your own.
It's legal to build your own home without hiring a construction company if you meet the following requirements:
1 – You Have a Building License
A building license is not a building permit. These are two different things. A building license is a trade/professional license that allows you to operate as a building contractor. In order to get this license, you must have relevant certifications and qualifications in your trade. A minimum level of experience is also required in a trade you are applying for as well as other documentation. In some cases, you have to pass Trade Exams by the local boards and authorities. The minimum age requirement to get a license is 18 years, good credit scores and a certificate of competency are some of the items that are needed. Each and every state in the USA has its own licensing requirements and laws which may be more or less the same.
As you can see, you have to be a qualified/certified builder by profession if you are planning to build your own house. Without a trade license, you are not allowed to build a house on your own. There are various types of licenses required in the construction industry and these are specified by the municipalities/local authorities under their Building Regulations and Departments. There are 3 broad categories of licenses which limit the type, size and scope of work you can do and these are General Contractor, Building Contractor and Residential Contractor licences. Trade specific licenses for bricklaying, plumbing, HVAC, plastering, painting, roofing, carpentry, tiling, glazing, electrical installation and so on will also be required.
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The question you must ask yourself is, are you competent, qualified, experienced and certified in all these specialty trades? Most likely you aren't and you will need to hire skilled labourers and artisans to perform certain duties and jobs. As an example, you might be a qualified bricklayer, but you will need a skilled plasterer, tiler, roofer, painter, plumber, HVAC technician and electrician to complete tasks that you aren't qualified in.
Getting a building license is not easy. According to reports, 90% of applications will be rejected by the local authorities. Building is a complex task that should comply with statutes and codes set by the state and local government authorities, to prevent potential disasters, hazards and disorder.
2 – You Stay in a Remote Unregulated Zone
In some countries, there are rural areas whereby the area is undeveloped and unregulated. This territory usually lacks basic infrastructure such as electrical, water and sewer reticulation. In such areas, people usually build their own homes in clustered communities since the area hasn't attained village or town status. Note that once the area has been designated under an authority for development purposes, the settlements and homes will be subject to Municipal Building Regulations and Codes. That means the homes will be destroyed and taken down.
When is it Illegal to Build your Own House?
Basically, you are not allowed to build a house if you don't have a license as a certified contractor. Even tiny houses and DIY home kits are regulated. They need to be installed and assembled by a registered contractor.
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Building a House on Your Own
The common idea behind a DIY house is that it's more economical to build on your own rather than outsourcing skills and labour to a contractor. Eliminating the contractor's costs and profit will allow you to save money, but it will cost you time, energy and operational efficiency. It takes a lot of time to build a house on your own. A typical house takes about 3 to 6 months to build when using a contracting company. An owner-built house will take longer by at least 3 months.
A team makes less mistakes than one man because the tasks are delegated among specialized skilled workers and technicians, so the work is done smoothly and efficiently. The advantage of using a contractor is that the company has established relationships with suppliers and logistics in place which makes procurement of materials, labour and equipment a smooth process. Established construction companies with a positive bank rating, certificate of good standing and work history have access to supplier credit facilities which allows them to buy materials without advance payment. This is very important if you have cashflow problems because it allows your project to run smoothly without delays and stoppages. Outstanding amounts are usually paid at the end of each valuation period. Established contractors also have credit arrangements with banks, loan companies and other financiers, to ensure the project won't run into cashflow problems. It's often easier to get funding as a registered company than as an individual. That doesn't mean the DIY Home Builder has no options. There are banks which provide individuals with construction loans for building a house, renovations, remodelling and repairs.
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Building is a daunting task if you don't know the right people and places in the industry. The DIY house builder is confronted with multiple tasks which include planning, excavation, building, organization of equipment and materials. Since no-one is a Jack of all Trades, the DIY home owner has to spend a lot of time learning things which is he is not acquainted with. That means reading manuals, watching videos and liaising with experts in the specialized trades.
Being a DIY home builder means you are a licensed contractor, and you have to hire subcontractors in the course of the project. Building a house on your own doesn't absolve you from contractor/subcontractor's risks and obligations. All the risks, liabilities, penalties and conditions of contracts which apply in a typical construction contract will also apply to you and the subcontractors. This includes insurance and workmen's compensation.
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To get into college, Harvard report advocates for kindness instead of overachieving
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By Lisa Heffernan and Jennifer Wallace
Jan. 20, 2016 at 4:00 p.m. UTC
As your oldest child begins to fill out her college application, it is hard not to feel a rising panic. For the last four years she has thrown herself into her school work, taken AP classes, studied for the SAT, worked on the school paper, played on the field hockey team and tutored elementary school children.
Yet as she methodically records her activities on the application, it becomes clear that this was simply not enough. There are 10 looming blank spaces and although her days have been overflowing with homework, activities and volunteering, she has only five activities to report. There are 15 spaces to record the four AP classes she was so proud of taking.
You wonder who the kid is who can complete all of these blank spaces, and what has gone wrong that this is what applying to college now means.
A new report released today by Making Caring Common, a project of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, takes a major step in trying to change the college admissions process to make it more humane, less super-human.
Parents, educators and college administrators have long wrestled with the unintended negative side effects of the admissions process, like the intense focus on personal achievement and the unfair advantages of more affluent students. The report, entitled Turning the Tide: Inspiring Concern for Others and the Common Good Through College Admissions, aims to tackle these complex issues. It lays out a blueprint for addressing three of the most intractable challenges facing college applicants today: excessive academic performance pressure, the emphasis on personal achievement over good citizenship, and the uneven opportunities available to students of varying income levels and backgrounds.
Many colleges have tried to address these concerns over the years but it takes a unified effort to make a big impact, says lead author Richard Weissbourd. More than 80 stakeholders, including admissions officers (like Harvard's), deans, professors and high school counselors have endorsed the report.
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"It's the first time in history that I'm aware of" that a group of colleges is coming together to lay out what is and what isn't valued in the admissions process, says Weissbourd.
"Yes, we want students who have achieved in and out of the classroom, but we are also looking for things that are harder to quantify, [like] authentic intellectual engagement and a concern for others and the common good," explains Jeremiah Quinlan, dean of undergraduate admissions at Yale University, one of the report's endorsers.
In response to the report, Yale will be adding an essay question on next year's application that asks applicants "to reflect on engagement with and contribution to their family, community and/or the public good," Quinlan says. Yale will also "advocate for more flexibility in the extracurricular sections on both the Common Application and Coalition Application, so that colleges can more easily control how they ask students to list and reflect on their extracurricular involvement."
The University of Virginia is also in agreement with the report. "We support Turning the Tide because we philosophically agree with many of the principal points in the document, [like] promoting, encouraging, and developing good citizenship, strong character, personal responsibility, [and] civic engagement in high school students," says Gregory Roberts, the school's dean of admissions.
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Like Yale, several of the report's endorsers have already modified their admissions efforts or practices as a result of these findings. Weissbourd said that over the next two years, Making Caring Common will work with college admissions officers, parents, high school guidance counselors and others to further implement the report's recommendations. He hopes that many of these points will eventually be incorporated into the Common, Coalition and Universal applications as well.
Here are five highlights from the report, along with tips from Making Caring Common for how parents can help turn the tide:
1. Reduce stress by limiting course loads and extracurricular activities. Admissions offices can reduce undue pressure by sending a clear message that "long brag sheets do not increase students' chances of admission." To make this point, the authors recommend applications provide room for only two to four activities or ask students to describe two to three meaningful activities in an essay. Tallying up a lengthy listing of AP credits should be discouraged in favor of more sustained effort in areas of genuine interest.
Parent tip: Help your teens by encouraging them to find activities, classes and volunteer experiences that are meaningful to them, but that do not create undue stress.
2. Value the different ways students make contributions to their families and communities. Current applications often disadvantage students from less affluent backgrounds who may make important but overlooked contributions, such as working part-time to help support their families or taking care of a family member, leaving them no time for extracurricular activities or community service. Colleges need to clearly communicate the high value they place on family contributions and give ample opportunity for applicants to explain their role. By doing so, the authors hope to redefine achievement in broader terms.
Parent tip: If your teens help to run the household, babysit a younger sibling after school, or make other significant family contributions, make sure they write about it on their applications.
3. Stress the importance of authenticity. At the heart the report is the notion that admissions committees are looking for students who are authentic and honest about their interests and accomplishments. Students are encouraged to find the right college fit by remaining true to themselves, keeping an open mind about their options and examining a broad range of colleges. It should also be made clear that over-coached applications can jeopardize admission. Confidence and integrity are best reflected in the student's own voice.
Parent tip: College admissions officers can sense when an application is not authentic or trumped up. Help teens present themselves in their best light, while still staying true to who they really are.
4. Alleviate Test Pressure. Some colleges have already taken steps to de-emphasize the weight of the SATs and ACTs by making these tests optional. Admissions offices can reduce the pressure surrounding standardized tests by doing this or clearly explaining the test's weight in the admissions process.
Parent tip: Try to discourage students from taking the same standardized test more than twice, as it rarely results in a meaningfully higher score. Remind your children of that.
5. Engage in meaningful community service. The report highlights a common misconception that volunteering for certain high-profile causes or traveling to exotic countries will make an application stand out. It will, but for the wrong reasons: namely that it looks inauthentic.
Parent tip: Help your teens find sustained community service opportunities that extend for a year or more where the student can be fully engaged in something that is important to them and, in turn, have a meaningful impact. Community engagement can take many different forms, from addressing local needs to serving in a soup kitchen to volunteering on a political campaign or making meaningful contributions at home. Look for opportunities where teens can work side by side with the people they are helping, instead of for them, which can sometimes feel patronizing and may not create as rich an experience.
There will be some applicants who will try to game these new recommendations by engaging in community service in which they have no real interest and later writing insincerely about their experience. However, Weissbourd notes, even students who engage in community service with misplaced motivation may have a powerful learning experience. Research shows that for many students service activities are an opportunity for maturity and growth, even when they are mandatory or driven by the college application process.
Lisa Heffernan writes about parenting during the high school and college years at Grown and Flown. You can follow her on Twitter and Grown and Flown on Facebook.
Jennifer Wallace is a freelance writer based in New York, where she lives with her husband and their three children. Twitter: @wallacejennieb.
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Camelot—The Next Generation: A Review of Merlin and the Book of Beasts
Posted in King Arthur in Film, King Arthur's Children, Merlin, Mordred, tagged Avlynn, Galahad, James Callis, King Arthur's Daughter, Lancelot, Medusa, Merlin and the Book of Beasts, Mordred, Tristan on November 17, 2015| 1 Comment »
I'll admit I didn't have high expectations for this film. After all, it has a 3.8 rating at IMDB and I haven't been impressed with original Sci Fi films based on the few I've seen so I put off seeing it until recently, even though it was released in 2010.
It wasn't any better than I expected, but it had one pleasant surprise—yes, it creates yet another child for King Arthur.
The story begins apparently several years after Arthur's fall at Camlann. Sir Galahad is the last of the Knights of the Round Table. He is accompanied by three younger knights, and together they go on a quest to find Merlin to seek his help because a sorcerer called The Arkadian is terrorizing Britain by releasing venomous moths and other creatures from a magical book called The Book of Beasts.
Galahad's party finds Merlin, but he isn't willing to help. Then he discovers that one of the knights is not only a girl, but she is Avlynn, the daughter of King Arthur and Guinevere. Avlynn wants Merlin to help her gain the throne that is rightfully hers and also to retrieve Excalibur from the lake where it was hidden after Arthur's passing to Avalon. Merlin still refuses to help, and the group leaves, downcast.
Soon after the party is attacked by what appear to be zombie soldiers, and at the moment when it seems they will lose, Merlin comes to their aid, having changed his mind about helping.
At this point, Merlin says several things that are difficult to understand because the actor playing Merlin, Jim Callis, talks like he has rocks in his mouth; he also sounds a bit disgruntled and demented. My biggest complaint about the entire film, in fact, was that I couldn't always understand what Merlin was saying.
Not that the rest of the movie is so spectacular, but I did like that Avlynn and Galahad's other two companions are Lancelot, son of Galahad, and Tristan, son of Tristan and Isolde. Lancelot, of course, is in love with Avlynn, but she's not interested in him.
When the showdown with the Arkadian happens, it turns out he's Mordred and he didn't die at Camlann after all. He unleashes more creatures from The Book of Beasts. Every creature in the book is actually a real creature residing in the book, including Medusa and her sister Gorgons, who seem badly out of place in this film, but they do manage to cause trouble for the Camelot crew, and ultimately, turn Sir Galahad to stone, a spell Merlin can't reverse.
In the end, Mordred is defeated and killed. The Book of Beasts is destroyed when Excalibur is stabbed into it. Avlynn has been enchanted by Mordred, who wanted to marry her and breed a new Pendragon line, but Lancelot rescues Avlynn by kissing her and breaking the spell. Now, clearly, with a little urging from Merlin, Avlynn will marry Lancelot and they will rule together, with Tristan as head of the army.
While I love that a daughter was created for King Arthur in this film and also the other second generation characters, there's not much else to recommend this film. Jim Callis, despite being in several other roles in successful films where he did a good job, just isn't a good Merlin and the story is pretty predictable. Nothing about the sets was attractive or made me feel any awe; the fountain of Brittany which could have been a nice touch in the film isn't even in Brittany but Britain, and the Gorgons got annoying fast.
I agree with IMDB: 3.8.
Tyler Tichelaar, Ph.D., is the author of The Children of Arthur series, which includes the novels Arthur's Legacy and Melusine's Gift, and he has written the nonfiction book King Arthur's Children. You can learn more about him at www.ChildrenofArthur.com.
"'Still She Bears Her Weird Alone': King Arthur's Daughter and Sir Walter Scott
Posted in Arthurian Books, Descendants of Arthur, King Arthur's Children, Merlin, tagged Christabel, Coleridge, Guinevere, Gyneth, King Arthur's Daughter, Merlin, Pre-Raphaelite artists, Sir Roland De Vaux, Sir Walter Scott, Tennyson, The Bridal of Triermain, Vanoc, William Morris on June 11, 2012| 11 Comments »
Arthurian literature fell out of favor in the eighteenth century and it would not be until Victorian poets like Alfred, Lord Tennyson and William Morris and Pre-Raphaelite artists would again make the legend popular, but one work from this time when Arthur was rarely featured in literature was Sir Walter Scott's "The Bridal of Triermain." The poem was first published in 1813 and its use of the names of Triermain and Sir Roland De Vaux bear resemblance to Coleridge's equally famous poem "Christabel" which was written in 1797-1800 but not published until 1816, yet it seems that Scott, who was friends with Coleridge, may have seen the manuscript and been influenced by it. Nevertheless, the two works bear little resemble in plot or character.
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
For Arthurian scholars and enthusiasts, "The Bridal of Triermain" holds interest because it creates an illegitimate daughter for King Arthur. Unlike other works where Arthur has illegitimate children before his marriage to Guinevere, Arthur is married to Guinevere already at the time of this poem, and she is already involved with Sir Lancelot.
The poem is told in the present day (early 1800s) by a narrator named Arthur who is trying to court a female named Lucy. Arthur tells Lucy the tale of Roland De Vaux, who sought to wed King Arthur's daughter Gyneth. Within this story is Lyulph's Tale, in which Roland's bard Lyulph tells Roland the story of Gyneth, who has been asleep for five hundred years, and whom Roland wishes to win as his bride.
Gyneth became King Arthur's daughter after he met and fell in love with a maiden named Guendolen. Scott describes this woman who seduces Arthur as follows:
But Guendolen's might far outshine
Each maid of merely mortal line.
Her mother was of human birth,
Her sire a Genie of the earth,
In days of old deem'd to preside
O'er lovers' wiles and beauty's pride,
By youths and virgins worshipp'd long
With festive dance and choral song,
Till, when the cross to Britain came,
On heathen alters died the flame.
Now, deep in Wastdale solitude,
The downfall of his rights he rued,
And, born of his resentment heir,
He train'd to guile that lady fair,
To sink in slothful sin and shame
The champions of the Christian name.
In other words, Guendolen is the weapon of her father, the genie, against good Christian knights. She seduces Arthur, and while it is unclear whether she loves Arthur or not, she clearly wants him to stay with her and wastes his time in making love to her so he forgets his kingly duties for three months. Finally, Arthur comes to his senses and decides to leave her. When she begs him not to go, he tells her if she's worried he has gotten her pregnant, he will do right by their child:
I swear by sceptre and by sword,
As belted knight and Britain's lord,
That if a boy shall claim my care,
That boy is born a kingdom's heir;
But if a maiden Fate allows,
To choose that maid a fitting spouse,
A summer-day in lists shall strive
My knights, the bravest knights alive,
And he, the best and bravest tried,
Shall Arthur's daughter claim for bride.
Nevertheless, Guendolen does not want Arthur to leave, and in her anger, she tries to poison him by giving him a cup to drink from, but Arthur spills a drop on his horse and it burns the horse so Arthur flings the cup from him and rides away.
Years later, Arthur's daughter Gyneth shows up at court on Pentecost, saying her mother has died and asking her father to keep his promise. Guinevere is notably not upset to learn of Arthur's human weakness that led to an illegitimate child, bur rather, she just smiles on Lancelot, acknowledging her own weakness.
Arthur keeps his promise by holding a tournament for all the knights to compete for Gyneth's hand, but before long, he realizes what a bad idea it was because all his knights are being slain. He tries to talk Gyneth out of the tournament, telling her he'll pick the best knight for her, but she refuses and the tournament continues. The narrator then comments:
'Seem'd in this dismal hour, that Fate
Would Camlan's ruin antedate,
And spare dark Mordred's crime;
Already gasping on the ground
Lie twenty of the Table Round,
Of chivalry the prime.
However, when Merlin's own son Vanoc dies, Merlin suddenly appears, ending the tournament and punishing Gyneth to sleep for centuries:
Sleep, until a knight shall awake thee,
For feats of arms as far renown'd
As warrior of the Table Round.
Lyulph now completes his tale of how Gyneth sleeps by stating:
'Still she bears her weird alone,
In the Valley of Saint John;
And her semblance oft will seem,
Mingling in a champion's dream,
Of her weary lot to 'plain,
And crave his aid to burst her chain.
Few have braved the yawning door,
And those few return'd no more.
Despite the unlikeliness of solving the quest and winning Arthur's daughter for his bride, Sir Roland de Vaux, who is lord of Triermain, is determined to succeed. He rides in quest of the sleeping princess and eventually comes to a castle in the Valley of St. John where he must pass through the Hall of Fear and overcome its snares to succeed:
'It is his, the first who e'er
Dared the dimal Hall of Fear;
His, who hath the snares defied
Spread by pleasure, wealth and pride.
Of course, he succeeds and manages to kiss and wake Gyneth. And the two live happily ever after, having many descendants for King Arthur:
Our lovers, briefly be it said,
Wedded as lovers wont to wed,
When tale or play is o'er;
Lived long and blest, loved fond and true,
And saw a numerous race renew
The honours that they bore.
I admit that while I admire the music of Scott's meter and rhyme, I'm not overly impressed with the poem. I don't understand why Roland would want to wed Gyneth when she's a type of female Mordred who was intent on destroying Camelot, but I guess the quest itself and that she is King Arthur's daughter makes her attractive enough to him.
Scott's poem was well known throughout the nineteenth century, so doubtless many writers of Arthurian poems and novels in the Victorian period were influenced by his work. It should be noted that the narrator named Arthur equally is successful in winning the love of his Lucy.
Tyler Tichelaar, Ph.D. is the author of King Arthur's Children: A Study in Fiction and Tradition. You can also visit him at www.ChildrenofArthur.com
Ten Things You Didn't Know About King Arthur's Children
Posted in Arthurian Books, Descendants of Arthur, King Arthur's Children, Mordred, tagged Amr, Battle of Camlann, British Royal Family, Clan Campbell, Constantine, DNA, King Arthur, King Arthur Fact & Fiction, King Arthur's Children, King Arthur's Daughter, Medraut, Modern Arthurian Novels, Mordred, Mordred's daughter, Mordred's sons, Scots, Tortolina, Tyler Tichelaar on August 1, 2011| 9 Comments »
King Arthur had children other than just Mordred.
Arthur traditionally had three children in Welsh tradition, including Amr, whose story resembles Mordred's, while Mordred (Medraut) is not Arthur's child in Welsh legend.
The Scots believe Mordred was the good guy at the Battle of Camlann.
King Arthur's descendants may include the Scottish Clan Campbell.
Mordred had two sons of his own who tried to take over the kingdom after his death.
Both Arthur and Mordred may have had daughters. Ever hear of Tortolina?
Constantine, inheritor of Arthur's throne, may have been the true villain, not Mordred.
The British Royal Family claims to be descended from King Arthur in numerous and suspicious ways.
Modern novelists have invented many new fictional children for King Arthur.
If King Arthur really lived, DNA and mathematical calculations reveal that YOU are his likely descendant.
Find out the Fact from the Fiction and Far More in:
King Arthur's Children: A Study in Fiction and Tradition
Tyler R. Tichelaar, Ph.D.
www.ChildrenofArthur.com
www.BarnesandNoble.com
The Introduction to "King Arthur's Children"
Posted in Arthurian Books, Descendants of Arthur, King Arthur's Children, tagged Arthurian literature, Britain, genealogy, Geoffrey Ashe, Human History, Julius Caesar, King Arthur, King Arthur's Children, King Arthur's Daughter, King Arthur's descendants, Mordred, Tyler Tichelaar, Vera Chapman on January 23, 2011| Leave a Comment »
My new book King Arthur's Children: A Study in Fiction and Tradition is now available in hardcover, paperback, and kindle editions. For more information, visit www.ChildrenofArthur.com.
King Arthur's Children: A Study in Fiction and Tradition
Below is the Introduction to King Arthur's Children:
The subject of King Arthur's children is not widely known even to the legend's most avid readers. Mention of these children may make readers pause for a moment, say to themselves, "What children?" and then add, "Well, of course there's Mordred, but sometimes he is King Arthur's nephew rather than his son."
My reaction was similar when I first found mention of King Arthur having any children other than Mordred. The fact is, however, that King Arthur has traditionally had children almost since the legends were first told. Over the centuries, these children were lost amid the continually increasing number of new stories, many springing up without any source in the tradition, only to be added to the legend, while the original Celtic stories were largely forgotten. Occasionally, when scholars came across obscure references to one of Arthur's children in the earlier sources, they were unsure what to make of this curiosity. As Arthurian studies have progressed, particularly over the last century, however, efforts have been made to understand the historical time period in which King Arthur lived, around the fifth to early sixth centuries; this research has resulted in many discoveries and even more theories, some of which will now allow us to make more accurate statements about King Arthur's forgotten children.
With the continual increase of interest in the Arthurian legends, it is time that a study finally be made of King Arthur's children. If we wish to discover who the historical King Arthur was, perhaps we might find out something about him by studying his children. The need to study King Arthur's children is almost as important as the study of King Arthur himself because King Arthur's children, as we will see, are what help connect us to King Arthur's time period. The concept of King Arthur and the golden age he established fulfills a psychological yearning for many people. Comfort and satisfaction can be derived from believing in King Arthur's ethical code. People have a need to believe in a golden age as we saw during John F. Kennedy's presidency when attempts were made to compare Kennedy and the United States to King Arthur and Camelot. By discovering Arthur's children and descendants, we find a link between the age of Arthur and our own time.
At the end of The Discovery of King Arthur, Geoffrey Ashe asks why the spell of King Arthur continues to excite us and capture our imaginations (189). Ashe suggests King Arthur's popularity in the United States may be based in Americans' tendency to speak about their "roots." But then he comments, "I doubt if this is the whole answer, since most Americans are not British descended" (189).
Actually, estimates of Americans of British (English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh) descent run from 50-80% depending on the study. The number of studies and results on the Internet of how many Americans have British ancestry is too many to detail, but they can easily be found. Even people who identify themselves as African American often have Caucasian blood—and those descended from slaves with white blood will generally find that the Southern white slave owner in the family tree was of British descent. If we consider that King Arthur likely lived about the year 500 A.D. and we then consider how many descendants he had and how they migrated across the globe over fifteen hundred years, it is not much of a stretch to suggest that nearly everyone on earth can potentially be a descendant of King Arthur—provided he lived and did have children. DNA analysis recently has proven that everyone of European descent alive today can claim descent from anyone who lived in Europe prior to the year 1200 A.D. In fact, as Steve Olson demonstrates in Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past Through Our Genes, if we go back just ten generations, we each would have 1024 ancestors, so thirty generations ago that number would be 1024 x 1024 x 1024, which equals over one billion. Since that many people did not live in the world thirty generations ago—estimates for the year 1400 were 375 million—many of our ancestors repeat, meaning our ancestors married distant cousins and shared similar ancestors. In any case, we can probably all claim descent from such famous ancient people as Confucius, Queen Nefertiti, and Julius Caesar (Olson 46-47). Furthermore, even people today of predominantly Asian or African descent could be descended from King Arthur. African-American poet Elizabeth Alexander, for example, is a descendant of King John of England (reigned 1199-1216 A.D.), as recently revealed on the PBS show Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. broadcast in 2010. As Steve Olsen notes, "suppose an emissary from Ethiopia married a woman in the court of Henry II and had children. Today, all Europeans are descended from that Ethiopian" (46).
Anyone interested in genealogy knows that "race" does not really exist. In researching my own ancestry, I have found myself descended not only from people in every country in Europe but even China, India, and Persia. The human race is itself a melting pot. With these statistics, based in fact, not merely fancy, if King Arthur were a historical person, he is very likely ancestor to all of us. Our descent from King Arthur is obviously through his children, so we should learn more about them.
My own interest in King Arthur began when I first read The Boy's King Arthur at the age of fourteen. At twenty-one, I also began to take an interest in genealogy and traced my family back to King Edward III of England, among whose ancestors, of course, was Cerdic, King of Wessex, credited with being one of Arthur's greatest enemies. Imagine my surprise and interest when I read Geoffrey Ashe's suggestion that Cerdic was a possible son of King Arthur (199). If this relationship were true, then I would be a direct descendant of King Arthur! Something of a boyish pride swelled up in my heart, something that perhaps non-genealogists or non-lovers of Arthurian literature would not understand, but who would not like to claim descent from King Arthur? Later, I will discuss whether or not Cerdic is a possible son of King Arthur, but Geoffrey Ashe's suggestion was enough to spark my interest, especially when I learned King Arthur also had other children. The descendants of these other children must have multiplied so that by the 1600s, when Americans' British ancestors began journeying to the New World, several of them may have been carrying Arthurian blood over the seas with them. Not only I, but thousands if not millions of other Americans, would therefore be descendants of King Arthur!
If there were a King Arthur, then his descendants are probably more numerous than can ever be thoroughly traced. We may never know whether Arthur's descendants are living among us (or are us), as we may never know whether Arthur was a real person. However, both are pleasant thoughts, and I personally believe both may be more than just possibilities.
Even if it is not through blood, then through culture Americans are the descendants of Arthur and his times. The popularity of Arthurian literature can quickly transport anyone who reads a book or watches a film back to the Arthurian age. The ideals with which we credit Arthurian times, whether the period received those ideals from our time, or our time from the past, still serve to connect us.
Arthur's children are of interest to us, whether it is through genealogy or by cultural heritage. In King Arthur's Daughter, Vera Chapman makes this point nicely when she writes about the growth of Arthur's descendants:
"Not by a royal dynasty but by the spreading unknown and unnoticed, along the distaff line—mother to daughter, father to daughter, mother to son. Names and titles shall be lost, but the story and the spirit of Arthur shall not be lost. For Arthur is a spirit and Arthur is the land of Britain." (144)
Anyone who would be a descendant of King Arthur need not have a fifteen hundred-year-old pedigree to prove it; we need to tell the tales about Arthur, and when people hear these stories, he will then live on in their hearts and his line and descendants will continue to grow.
In the following pages, I will attempt to explore all the figures said to be descended from King Arthur, from the legend's earliest versions to the most modern novels. Often these modern novels are based on earlier traditions, or they are making their own interpretations of what could have happened. Arthurian studies always leave us the problem of trying to separate what is fact from fiction, and even the most respected Arthurian stories of the Middle Ages often become as suspect as the modern novels, and the modern novels today often try to be more authentic than their medieval counterparts; therefore, we must consider all interpretations and possibilities considering Arthur's children, whether they appear believable or not. In many cases, we will discover that what might have happened if Arthur were a historical person is not as important as how people have chosen to interpret or even rewrite Arthurian literature.
This book represents the first time King Arthur's children will all be assembled together, along with the various tales about them, as the subject of study. After looking more closely at the children of King Arthur, we will come to a better understanding of the purpose Arthurian literature has served over the centuries and perhaps we will even become more closely connected to King Arthur and his times.


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Q: Cost Suffix in Oracle Explain Plans I have the following snippet of the explain plans below:
Explain Plan 1
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| Id  | Operation                                    | Name                         | E-Rows |E-Bytes|E-Temp | Cost (%CPU)| E-Time   |  OMem |  1Mem | Used-Mem |
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|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT                             |                              |        |       |       |    37M(100)|          |       |       |          |
...
|* 36 |    INDEX UNIQUE SCAN                         | ZX_ACCOUNTS_U2               |      1 |    36 |       |     0   (0)|          |  1025K|  1025K|          |
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Explain Plan 2
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| Id  | Operation                                    | Name                         | E-Rows |E-Bytes|E-Temp | Cost (%CPU)| E-Time   |  OMem |  1Mem | Used-Mem |
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|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT                             |                              |        |       |       |   879T(100)|          |       |       |          |
...
|* 39 |    INDEX UNIQUE SCAN                         | ZX_ACCOUNTS_U2               |      1 |    36 |       |     0   (0)|          |  1025K|  1025K|          |
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As I know, the total cost of Explain Plan 1 is 37 Millon. But I'm not sure with the Cost of Explain Plan 2. Is it 879 Thousand? or is it 879 Trillion?
I tried to find some documentation about the suffixes but I couldn't find any.
Thanks!

A: Explain plan numbers generally follow the International System of Units prefixes: K = kilo, M = mega, G = giga, T = tera, P = peta, and E = exa.
There are a few oddities in the numbering scheme. Explain plan uses an uppercase "K" for "kilo" when I would expect a lower case "k". There are some inconsistencies in when Oracle switches between prefixes - K, M, and G can have four digits, but T and P can only have three. And "E" only means "exa" for some numbers; really large numbers are always displayed as "18E".
Below are the different input and display numbers used by DBMS_XPLAN.DISPLAY:
Number of rows           Explain Plan Output
-----------------------  -------------------
9                        |     9 |
99                       |    99 |
999                      |   999 |
9999                     |  9999 |
99999                    | 99999 |
999999                   |   999K|
9999999                  |  9999K|
99999999                 |    99M|
999999999                |   999M|
9999999999               |  9999M|
99999999999              |    99G|
999999999999             |   999G|
9999999999999            |  9999G|
99999999999999           |    99T|
999999999999999          |   999T|
9999999999999999         |    10P|
99999999999999999        |   100P|
999999999999999999       |   999P|
9999999999999999999      |    10E|
99999999999999999999     |    18E|
999999999999999999999    |    18E|
9999999999999999999999   |    18E|

Below is the code that generated the results:
--Create sample table that is only used for statistics.
--drop table test1;
create table test1(a number);

--How does the DBMS_XPLAN.DISPLAY handle large numbers?
declare
    v_lines sys.odcivarchar2list;
    v_num_rows number;
begin
    dbms_output.put_line('Number of rows           Explain Plan Output');
    dbms_output.put_line('-----------------------  -------------------');

    --Repeat the process for many numbers.
    for i in 1 .. 22 loop
        --Increase the number of digits.
        v_num_rows := rpad('9', i, '9');

        --Change the stats.
        dbms_stats.set_table_stats(user, 'TEST1', numrows => v_num_rows);

        --Generate the explain plan.
        execute immediate 'explain plan for select * from test1';

        --Gather the explain plan.
        select plan_table_output
        bulk collect into v_lines
        from table(dbms_xplan.display);

        --Output the relevant part of the explain plan.
        --The row and column numbers may be different on your system.
        dbms_output.put(rpad(v_num_rows, 22, ' ') || '   ');
        dbms_output.put_line(substr(v_lines(6), 35, 9));
    end loop;
end;
/

(I used the number of rows instead of cost because the number of rows is much easier to manipulate. I'm pretty sure that Oracle displays both numbers the same way.)


We've all experienced that dreadful moment. You've just flushed the toilet but instead of the bowl emptying, it starts to rise with water. Your blocked toilet nightmare has begun, and it isn't safe to use until further notice. You try to think of what the cause of the blockage could be but can't think of anything. It's not always obvious things that cause our toilets to clog up. Some of them are habits that we can change, and others are structural issues that will require intervention. Here are the most common causes of a blocked toilet – and what you can do about it.
There's more to your toilet than the actual unit you sit on. There's a host of pipes and valves that you can't see, working together behind the scenes. If one of them (for example, your flapper) doesn't work, it has an impact on the whole structure. If your toilet system can't move enough water through the pipes with enough pressure, it can cause a blockage.
Certain types of toilet paper are difficult to break down. It's usually the hard kind that feels more like paper towels that cause issues. However, even if you do use soft tissue, there's no need to use the entire roll every time. Excessive toilet paper will result in a blocked toilet as well.
Blocked toilets often act as graveyards for neglected toys. If you have children in the home, make sure you monitor them when they're in the bathroom. Young humans are explorers, and they may try to flush small toys or Lego down the toilet, given a chance.
Toys aren't the only threat to working toilets. The truth is, you can't flush anything down you please, even if it looks flushable. Things that shouldn't go down the toilet include sanitary towels, diapers, wet wipes, condoms and cotton earbuds.
Everything has a lifespan. It's possible that your blocked toilet is a symptom of a larger problem and that it's time for some new plumbing or a new toilet.
These tips will help you prevent a blockage in the future, or figure out what's causing the current one. For immediate assistance with getting it unclogged, you can contact Drain Ninjas for assistance.


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