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Tis true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him; for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine...
Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to ... - Page 191
Festschrift zum siebzigsten geburtstage Oskar Schade: dargebracht von seinen ...
Oskar Schade - German literature - 1896 - 415 pages
...natural and pleasing, though not perfect. Tis true, I cannot go so far äs he who published the last edition of him; for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine; but this opinion is not worth confuting; 'tis so gross...
German literature - 1896 - 415 pages
...natural and pleasing, though not perfect. 'Tis true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him; for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine; but this opinion is not worth confuting; 'tis so gross...
...natural and pleasing, though not perfect. 'Tis true, I cannot go so far äs he who published the last edition of him; for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine; but this opinion is not worth confuting; 'tis so gross...
Quomodo Edmundus Spenserus ad Chaucerum se fingens in eclogis "the ...
Emile Legouis - 1896 - 84 pages
...natural and pleasing, though not perfect. Tis true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him; for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine : but this opinion is not worth confuting ; tis so gross...
English Literary Criticism
Charles Edwyn Vaughan - Criticism - 1896 - 219 pages
...pleasing, though not perfect. It is true I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him;2 for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine, but this opinion is not worth confuting, it is so gross...
Ueber zweisilbige Senkung und epische Caesur bei Chaucer
Otto Bischoff, Karl August Otto Bischoff - English language - 1897 - 40 pages
...cannot go so far, as he, who published the last edition of him ; for he would make us believe, that the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse, where we find but nino; but this opinien is not worth confuting; 'tis so gross...
Pamphlets on Chaucer
...cannot go so far, as he, who published the last edition of him; for he would make us believe, that the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse, where we find but nine ; but this opinion is not worth confuting ; 'tis so gross...
Palamon and Arcite
John Dryden - 1898 - 83 pages
...natural and pleasing, though not perfect. It is true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him ; for he would make us believe the...fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine : but this opinion is not worth confuting ; it is so gross...
Dryden's Palamon and Arcite
John Dryden - 1898 - 149 pages
...natural and pleasing, though not perfect. It is true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him; for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine: but this opinion is not worth confuting; it is so gross...
Englische studien: Organ für englische philologie unter ..., Volume 24
English philology - 1898
...cannot go so far, as he, who published the last edition of him; for he would make us believe, that the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse, where we find but nine, but this opinion is not worth confuting; 'tis so gross...

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The Japan Times, March 19, 1999
Yayoi linked to Yangtze area
DNA tests reveal similarities to early wet-rice farmers
Some of the first wet-rice farmers in Japan might have migrated from the lower basin of China's Yangtze River more than 2,000 years ago, Japanese and Chinese researchers said Thursday.
This was suggested by DNA tests conducted by the researchers that showed genetic similarities between human remains from the Yayoi Period found in southwestern Japan and the early Han Dynasty found in China's central Jiangsu Province, Satoshi Yamaguchi told reporters.
People who introduced irrigation techniques to the Japanese archipelago in the Yayoi Period (250 B.C.-300) were believed to have come to Japan either from the Korean Peninsula across the Tsushima Strait, or from northern China across the Yellow Sea.
The latest findings, however, bolster another theory suggesting the origin of the Yayoi people was an area south of the Yangtze, which is believed to be the birthplace of irrigated rice cultivation.
Yamaguchi, a researcher at Japan's National Science Museum, said the researchers compared Yayoi remains found in Yamaguchi and Fukuoka prefectures with those from early Han (202 B.C.-8) in Jiangsu in a three-year project begun in 1996.
The researchers found many similarities between the skulls and limbs of Yayoi people and the Jiangsu remains.
Two Jiangsu skulls showed spots where the front teeth had been pulled, a practice common in Japan in the Yayoi and preceding Jomon Period.
But the most persuasive findings resulted from tests revealing that genetic samples from three of 36 Jiangsu skeletons also matched part of the DNA base arrangements of samples from the Yayoi remains, the scientists said.


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BULL-BEATING
Have you seen the unusual bull baiting figure that sold at Bonhams UK last month for just over GBP 2600, including charges? Interestingly, this bull baiting figure, pictured below, uses a particularly attractive base that is also found on other figures in the 'Sherratt' style ( such as Death of Munro, Doctor Syntax, and even a Polito's Menagerie).
Clearly, the figure had some damage. Bull's horns, dogs' legs--these are not atypical injuries to a baited bull. The tail was obviously broken, but I believe the pieces were still available to the new owner. The knotted rope that goes under the bull was missing. This is an injury I don't like, and I hope the new owner just leaves the figure without rope, rather than "restoring". A restoration dead center hurts my eye. Unknown Buyer, please, please don't restore that rope!
We are all familiar with the usual 'Sherratt'-style bull baiting, as below. This figure measures 13.25 inches across. Rarely, it can occur on a mound base..
Clearly, this traditional bull baiting figure includes a man, and two plaques, one reading BULL-BEATING and the other NOW CAPTIN LAD. Bonhams' bull baiting had only one title plaque and no man. But the NOW CAPTIN LAD plaque was omitted because the man was omitted! Those are the encouraging words uttered by the man to either his bull or dogs.
The bull measures the same size in both figures above. But note that 'Sherratt' did also make smaller bull baitings incorporating smaller bulls--rare examples (one with a man, one without) are pictured in my book. These smaller bull baitings are on mound bases.
But a word of caution. Never confuse smaller versions of the traditional 'Sherratt' bullbaiting on a table base with the real thing. These small figures were made as late as 1960. They appear at auction routinely, and they are routinely erroneously cataloged as early 19th century figures. Click on the tab BELIEVE IT? at the top of this page, scroll down, and you will see one of these ugly little 6 inch things. If I win the lottery, I am going to try and buy each and every one so I can smash them all. They disgust me. I am offended at auction houses confusing these nasty figures with The Real Thing. And I am tired of collectors making costly mistakes.
Back to the Bonhams' bull. A lot of money? Yes. But try to find another like it at any price. If you do, let us know!
Jenni williams
Hello, I have a Sherratt bull baiting piece, it is on a table base with the two plaques, only damage is to the dog on the top of the bulls paws, it is a piece that has been passed down through our generations, of the Pitt family, who originated from Staffordshire, it is now in my keeping.
Would I be able to get a valuation for the piece? Is there any way I can attach pictures?


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Hadiya Pendleton's friends, family celebrate her life 2 years after shooting death
ABC7 Exclusive
By Cheryl Burton
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Two years after Hadiya Pendleton was shot at a Chicago park, the friends by her side that day returned to the scene.
Friends and family members gathered Thursday night to remember and celebrate the 15-year-old who was full of life and promise. Candles spelled out her name, a symbol that her light still shines even though she is gone.
"This is our kind of way of honoring her and showing her that, you know, she's never forgotten," said Amber Mitchell, friend.
"Just trying to live on her memory, let people know that she will still live on forever," said Tyanna Liggett, friend.
Two years ago, the King High School honors student and several of her friends were huddled under shelter from the rain when shots rang out, one fatally wounding the standout sophomore. She had just performed at the inauguration for President Obama a week earlier.
Cleopatra Cowley-Pendleton says being around her daughter's friends provides comfort and a sense of gratitude that they haven't forgotten about her.
"You can't imagine how much it means to me and Anthony and Junior for you guys to continue to uplift us, because this is hard," said Cowley-Pendleton.
Hadiyah's friends say her favorite saying was, "If you smile, you tell your brain you're happy," a motto that inspires them every day.
"Hadiya is gonna always be in our hearts, and we always gonna remember her. So, I know you're looking down on us, and we remember you, so make us proud in heaven," said Imari Stewart, friend.
Hadiya's Promise is the foundation her family created to help at-risk youth, and on her birthday in June, her friends are planning to celebrate with a bonfire.
Hadiya would have graduated from high school this June, so her friends say they are planning something really special to pay tribute.
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10% Fiction » Blog Archive » How Red Rooster Chips transform into Licorice.
On the weekend we took a day trip down to Phillip Island. Along the way we stopped for some road-munchies at the local supermarket. I had a bit of a tummy upset so I grabbed some licorice (need I say anymore??!!??).
In the car I snapped open the bag and popped a black stick into dear hubby's mouth as he drove. He snaffled it quickly and opened up for another. I had an instant flash back to the time of our early dating.
Back then, as Uni students, we couldn't afford too much so we'd drive to the closest Red Roo[s]ter and buy a large box of hot chips for around two dollars. We'd then go for a drive and- romantically- I'd hand feed him the greasy-sticks-of-potato-yum. We'd usually end up at Elwood beach to have a cuddle and lick the salt of my fingers- as we watched the moon drift over Port Phillip Bay.
Those were joyful moments of blossoming infatuation. The biggest issue we faced was the weekly scrambling to find a freebie pass into our fave nightclub-so we could avoid the ten buck entry fee. We weren't worried about cholesterol, or high blood pressure, or diabetes.
Nearly two decades on- I'm now feeding my husband licorice sticks.
"We're getting old." I said. He laughed.
But it's true. We have swapped dancing at clubs till the wee hours of the morn for tango-ing stray children back to bed after bad dreams.
We have swapped long night time drives to hear the ocean caress the shore for short drives to cart children from basketball- to ballet- to birthday parties- to band practices.
We have swapped holding hands and whispering sweet nothings for messaging each other on Face Book.
As I chew on this memory-evoking licorice I realize that 'transitioned' is probably a more apt description- than 'swapped'. When did we morph from the free spirited pair into the "eat this it's good for your bowels" couple?
I panic….Could this be the beginnings of a mid-life-crisis?
Then hubby looks at me, I know what he is thinking.
Next weekend we are getting us some red rooster chips.
One of the things my hubby and I bonded over was our love of Darrell Lee's soft licorice (purely for it's yummy wonderfulness), so we've not been forced to make any grown up transitions. Yet.
Maybe you two will go entirely the other way and in your eighties will be sharing whiz fizzes together? ps: mmm agreed! Darrell Lee licorice is undoubtedly the best.


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Belgium is a constitutional, hereditary, and popular monarchy. The monarch is titled King (or Queen) of the Belgians (, /, ) and serves as the country's head of state. There have been seven Belgian monarchs since independence in 1830.

The incumbent, Philippe, ascended the throne on 21 July 2013, following the abdication of his father Albert II.

Origins
When the Belgians became independent in 1830, the National Congress chose a constitutional monarchy as the form of government. The Congress voted on the question on 22 November 1830, supporting monarchy by 174 votes to 13. In February 1831, the Congress nominated Louis, Duke of Nemours, the son of the French king Louis-Philippe, but international considerations deterred Louis-Philippe from accepting the honor for his son.

Following this refusal, the National Congress appointed Erasme-Louis, Baron Surlet de Chokier to be the Regent of Belgium on 25 February 1831. Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was designated as King of the Belgians by the National Congress and swore allegiance to the Belgian constitution in front of Saint James's Church at Coudenberg Palace in Brussels on 21 July. This day has since become a national holiday for Belgium and its citizens.

Hereditary and constitutional
As a hereditary constitutional monarchy system, the role and operation of Belgium's monarchy are governed by the Constitution. The royal office of King is designated solely for a descendant of the first King of the Belgians, Leopold I.

Since he is bound by the Constitution (above all other ideological and religious considerations, political opinions and debates and economic interests) the King is intended to act as an arbiter and guardian of Belgian national unity and independence. Belgium's monarchs are inaugurated in a purely civil swearing-in ceremony.

The Kingdom of Belgium was never an absolute monarchy. Nevertheless, in 1961, the historian Ramon Arango, wrote that the Belgian monarchy is not "truly constitutional".

Leopold I, Leopold II and Albert I
King Leopold I was head of Foreign Affairs "as an ancien régime monarch", the foreign ministers having the authority to act only as ministers of the king. Leopold I quickly became one of the most important shareholders of the Société Générale de Belgique.

Leopold's son, King Leopold II, is chiefly remembered for the founding and capitalization of the Congo Free State  as a personal fiefdom. There was scandal when the atrocities in the Congo Free State were made public, causing the Free State to be taken over by the Belgian Government. Many Congolese were killed as a result of Leopold's policies in the Congo before the reforms of direct Belgian rule. The Free State scandal is discussed at the Museum of the Congo at Tervuren in Belgium.

On several occasions Leopold II publicly expressed disagreement with the ruling government (e.g. on 15 August 1887, and in 1905, against Prime Minister Auguste Beernaert) and was accused by Yvon Gouet of noncompliance with the country's parliamentary system.

Leopold II died without surviving legitimate sons. The line now descends from his nephew and successor, Albert I of Belgium, who ruled while 90% of Belgium was overrun by the forces of Kaiser Wilhelm II and is notable for his forays into colonial rule of the Belgian Congo and later, abeyant Wilhelm, the League of Nations mandate in Ruanda-Urundi. In 1934, Albert died under mysterious circumstances as he climbed solo on the Roche du Vieux Bon Dieu at Marche-les-Dames.

Leopold III and Baudouin
Louis Wodon (the  of Leopold III from 1934 to 1940), thought the King's oath to the Constitution implied a royal position "over and above the Constitution". He compared the King to a father, the head of a family, "Regarding the moral mission of the king, it is permissible to point to a certain analogy between his role and that of a father, or more generally, of parents in a family. The family is, of course, a legal institution as is the state. But what would a family be where everything was limited among those who compose it to simply legal relationships? In a family when one considers only legal relationships one comes very close to a breakdown in the moral ties founded on reciprocal affection without which a family would be like any other fragile association" According to Arango, Leopold III of Belgium shared these views about the Belgian monarchy.

In 1991, towards the end of the reign of Baudouin, Senator Yves de Wasseige, a former member of the Belgian Constitutional Court, cited four points of democracy which the Belgian Constitution lacks:
 the King chooses the ministers,
 the King is able to influence the ministers when he speaks with them about bills, projects and nominations,
 the King promulgates bills, and,
 the King must agree to any change of the Constitution

Constitutional, political, and historical consequences
The Belgian monarchy was from the beginning a constitutional monarchy, patterned after that of the United Kingdom. Raymond Fusilier wrote the Belgian regime of 1830 was also inspired by the French Constitution of the Kingdom of France (1791–1792), the United States Declaration of Independence of 1776, and the old political traditions of both Walloon and Flemish provinces. "It should be observed that all monarchies have suffered periods of change as a result of which the power of the sovereign was reduced, but for the most part those periods occurred before the development of the system of constitutional monarchy and were steps leading to its establishment." The characteristic evidence of this is in Great Britain where there was an evolution from the time when kings ruled through the agency of ministers to that time when ministers began to govern through the instrumentality of the Crown.

Unlike the British constitutional system, in Belgium "the monarchy underwent a belated evolution" which came "after the establishment of the constitutional monarchical system" because, in 1830–1831, an independent state, parliamentary system and monarchy were established simultaneously. Hans Daalder, professor of political science at the Rijksuniversiteit Leiden wrote: "Did such simultaneous developments not result in a possible failure to lay down the limits of the royal prerogatives with some precision—which implied that the view of the King as the Keeper of the Nation, with rights and duties of its own, retained legitimacy?"

For Raymond Fusilier, the Belgian monarchy had to be placed—at least in the beginning—between the regimes where the king rules and those in which the king does not rule but only reigns. The Belgian monarchy is closer to the principle "the King does not rule", but the Belgian kings were not only "at the head of the dignified part of the Constitution". The Belgian monarchy is not merely symbolic, because it participates in directing affairs of state insofar as the King's will coincides with that of the ministers, who alone bear responsibility for the policy of government. For Francis Delpérée, to reign does not only mean to preside over ceremonies but also to take a part in the running of the State. The Belgian historian Jean Stengers wrote that "some foreigners believe the monarchy is indispensable to national unity. That is very naive. He is only a piece on the chessboard, but a piece which matters".

List of kings of the Belgians

The monarchs of Belgium originally belonged to the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The family name was changed by Albert I in 1920, to the House of Belgium and the armorial bearings of Saxony from the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha were removed from the Belgian royal coat of arms.

In 2019, the King Phillippe codified the coats of arms of himself and those of his family through a Royal Decree. The personal arms of the reigning monarch was modified to include the Saxonian escutcheon. The arms of other members of the royal family was similarly modified. The reinstatement of the shield of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha into the royal arms occurred shortly after the visit of the king and queen to the ancestral Friedenstein Castle. The latest royal decree therefore reverses previous changes made to the Royal versions of the coat arms which removed the armorial bearings of Saxony during the First World War. By including the three official languages in the motto it reflects his wish "to be the King of the whole Kingdom and of all Belgians".; . The national Coat of arms of Belgium remains unchanged, i.e. it does not incorporate the Saxon arms.

Since the 2017, Carnet Mondain, the title "Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha", along with "of Belgium" is again in use for all the descendants of Leopold I, with the exception of King Philippe, his wife, his sister and his brother who keep their title "of Belgium"; therefore  the descendants of Astrid of Belgium do not bear this title, but that of "of Austria-Este" of their father.

For completeness, the family tree should include Princess Delphine of Belgium (born 1968). Princess Delphine is the legally acknowledged half-sibling of King Philippe of Belgium, and her children are also recognised as members of the royal family.

Title
The proper title of the Belgian monarch is King of the Belgians rather than King of Belgium. The title indicates a popular monarchy linked to the people of Belgium (i.e., a hereditary head of state; yet ratified by popular will) rather than to territory or state. The Latin translation of King of Belgium would have been Rex Belgii, which, from 1815, was the name for the king of the Netherlands. Therefore, the separatists who founded Belgium chose Rex Belgarum.

Belgium is the only extant European monarchy in which the heir to the throne does not ascend immediately upon the death or abdication of his or her predecessor. According to Article 91 of the Belgian constitution, the heir accedes to the throne only upon taking a constitutional oath before a joint session of the two Houses of Parliament. The joint session has to be held within ten days of the death or abdication of the previous monarch. The new Belgian monarch is required to take the Belgian constitutional oath, "I swear to observe the Constitution and the laws of the Belgian people, to maintain the national independence and the integrity of the territory," which is uttered in the three official languages: French, Dutch, and German.

Members of the Belgian royal family are often known by two names: a Dutch and a French one. For example, the current monarch is called 'Philippe' in French and 'Filip' in Dutch; the fifth King of the Belgians was 'Baudouin' in French and 'Boudewijn' in Dutch.

In contrast to King Philippe's title of "King of the Belgians", Princess Elisabeth is called "Princess of Belgium" as the title "Prince of the Belgians" does not exist. She is also Duchess of Brabant, the traditional title of the heir apparent to the Belgian throne. This title precedes the title "Princess of Belgium".

In the other official language of German, monarchs are usually referred to by their French names. The same is true for English with the exception of Leopold, where the accent is removed for the purpose of simplicity.

Because of the First World War and the resultant strong anti-German sentiment, the family name was changed in 1920, from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to van België, de Belgique, or von Belgien ("of Belgium"), depending upon which of the country's three official languages (Dutch, French, and German) is in use. It is this family name which is used on the identity cards and in all official documents by Belgium's royalty (e.g. marriage licenses). In addition to this change of name, the armorial bearings of Saxony were removed from the Belgian royal coat of arms (see above). Other Coburgers from the multi-branched Saxe-Coburg family have also changed their name, such as George V, who adopted the family name of Windsor after the British royal family's place of residence.

Nevertheless, the Royal Decree published on 19 July and signed on 12 July 2019 by King Philip, reinstated the Saxonian escutcheon in the all royal versions of the family's coat of arms. The reinstatement of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha main royal arms occurred shortly after the visit of King Philip and Queen Mathilde to the ancestral Friedenstein Castle.

Constitutional role

The Belgian monarchy symbolises and maintains a feeling of national unity by representing the country in public functions and international meetings.

In addition, the monarch has a number of responsibilities in the process of the formation of the Government. The procedure usually begins with the nomination of the "Informateur" by the monarch. After the general election the Informateur officially informs the monarch of the main political formations which may be available for governance. After this phase, the monarch can appoint another "informateur" or appoint a "Formateur", who will have the charge of forming a new government, of which he or she generally becomes the Prime Minister.

Article 37 of the Constitution of Belgium vests the "federal executive power" in the monarch. Under Section III, this power includes the appointment and dismissal of ministers, the implementation of the laws passed by the Federal Parliament, the submission of bills to the Federal Parliament and the management of international relations. The monarch sanctions and promulgates all laws passed by Parliament. In accordance with Article 106 of the Belgian Constitution, the monarch is required to exercise his powers through the ministers. His acts are not valid without the countersignature of the responsible minister, who in doing so assumes political responsibility for the act in question. This means that federal executive power is exercised in practice by the Federal Government, which is accountable to the Chamber of Representatives in accordance with Article 101 of the Constitution.

The monarch receives the prime minister at the Palace of Brussels at least once a week, and also regularly calls other members of the government to the palace in order to discuss political matters. During these meetings, the monarch has the right to be informed of proposed governmental policies, the right to advise, and the right to warn on any matter as the monarch sees fit. The monarch also holds meetings with the leaders of all the major political parties and regular members of parliament. All of these meetings are organised by the monarch's personal political cabinet which is part of the Royal Household.

The monarch is the Commander-in-Chief of the Belgian Armed Forces and makes appointments to the higher positions. The names of the nominees are sent to the monarch by the Ministry of Defence. The monarch's military duties are carried out with the help of the Military Household which is headed by a General office. Belgians may write to the monarch when they meet difficulties with administrative powers.

The monarch is also one of the three components of the federal legislative power, in accordance with the Belgian Constitution, together with the two chambers of the Federal Parliament: the Chamber of Representatives and the Senate. All laws passed by the Federal Parliament must be signed and promulgated by the monarch.

Previously, children of the King were entitled to a seat in the senate (Senator by right) when they were 18. This right was abolished in 2014 as part of the Sixth Belgian state reform.

Inviolability

Article 88 of the Belgian Constitution provides that "the King's person is inviolable, his ministers are responsible". This means that the King cannot be prosecuted, arrested, or convicted of crimes, cannot be summoned to appear before a civil court, and is not accountable to the Federal Parliament. This inviolability was deemed incompatible, however, with Article 27 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court which states that official capacity shall not exempt a person from criminal responsibility under the statute.

Traditions
The Court still keeps some old traditions, most famous is the tradition that the Reigning King of the Belgians becomes the godfather of a seventh son and the Queen the godmother of a seventh daughter. The child is then given the name of the Sovereign and receives a gift from the palace and Burgomaster of the city.
Similar traditions are attached to the Russian Tsar and the President of Argentina.
Another tradition is the centuries-old ceremonial welcome the new king receives in the country during the Joyous Entry; this tradition apparently dates back to the Dukes of Brabant.

Popular support
Popular support for the monarchy had historically been higher in Flanders and lower in Wallonia. The generally pro-monarchy Catholic Party and later Christian Social Party dominated in Flanders, while the more industrialised Wallonia had more support for the Belgian Labour Party and later Socialist Party. For example, the 1950 referendum saw Flanders voting strongly in favour of King Leopold III returning, whereas Wallonia was largely against. However, in recent decades these roles have reversed, as religiosity in Flanders has decreased and the King is seen as protecting the country against (Flemish) separatism and the country's partition.

Royal Household

The King's Household (, , ) was reorganised in 2006, and consists of seven autonomous departments and the Court's Steering Committee. Each Head of Department is responsible for his department and is accountable to the King.

The following departments currently make up the King's Household:
the Department for Economic, Social and Cultural Affairs
the King's Cabinet
the King's Military Household
the King's Civil List
the Department for Foreign Relations
the Department of the Protocol of the Court
the Department of Petitions

The King's Chief of Cabinet is responsible for dealing with political and administrative matters and for maintaining the relations with the government, trade unions and industrial circles. In relation to the King, the Chief assists in keeping track of current events; informs regarding all aspects of Belgian life; proposes and prepares audiences; assists in preparing speeches and informs the King about developments in international affairs. The Chief of Cabinet is assisted by the Deputy and Legal Adviser, the Press Adviser and the Archivist. The incumbent Chief of Cabinet is Baron Frans Van Daele, former Chief of Cabinet of President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy.

The Head of the King's Military Household assists the King in fulfilling his duties in the field of defence. He informs the King about all matters of security, defence policy, the views of Belgium's main partner countries and all aspects of the Belgian Armed Forces. He organises the King's contacts with the Armed Forces, advises in the fields of scientific research and police and coordinates matters with patriotic associations and former service personnel. The Military Household is also responsible for managing the Palace's computer system. The Head of the Military Household is a General Officer, currently General Jef Van den put and assisted by an adviser, currently Lieutenant-Colonel Aviator Serge Vassart. The King's Aides-de-Camp and the King's Equerries are also attached to the Military Household.

The King's aides-de-camp are senior officers chosen by the monarch and charged with carrying out certain tasks on his behalf, such as representing him at events. The King's Equerries are young officers who take turns preparing the King's activities, informing him about all the aspects that may be important to him and providing any other useful services such as announcing visitors. The equerry accompanies the King on his trips except for those of a strictly private nature.

The Intendant of the King's Civil List is responsible for managing the material, financial and human resources of the King's Household. He is assisted by the Commandant of the Royal Palaces, the Treasurer of the King's Civil List and the Civil List Adviser. The Intendant of the Civil List also advises the King in the field of energy, sciences and culture and administers the King's hunting rights. The Commandant of the Royal Palaces is mainly in charge, in close cooperation with the Chief of Protocol, of the logistic support of activities and the maintenance and cleaning of the Palaces, Castles and Residences. He is also Director of the Royal Hunts.

The Chief of Protocol is charged with organising the public engagements of the King and the Queen, such as audiences, receptions and official banquets at the Palace, as well as formal activities outside of the Palace. He is assisted by the Queen's Secretary, who is mainly responsible for proposing and preparing the Queen's audiences and visits.

The Head of the Department for Economic, Social and Cultural Affairs advises the King in the economic, social and cultural fields. He is also responsible for providing coordination between the various Households and Services and for organising and minuting the meetings of the Steering Committee. The Head of the Department for Foreign Relations informs the King of developments in international policy, assists the King from a diplomatic viewpoint on royal visits abroad and prepares the King's audiences in the international field. He is also responsible for maintaining contacts with foreign diplomatic missions. The Head of the Department of Petitions is charged with processing petitions and requests for social aid addressed the King, the Queen or other members of the royal family. He is also responsible for the analysis and coordination of royal favours and activities relating to jubilees, and advises the King in the fields for which he is responsible.

For the personal protection of the King and the royal family, as well as for the surveillance of the royal estates, the Belgian Federal Police at all times provides a security detail to the Royal Palace, commanded by a chief police commissioner. The other members of the royal family have a service at their disposal.

Royal family

Members of the Belgian royal family, other than the monarch, hold the title of Prince or Princess of Belgium, with the style of Royal Highness. Prior to the First World War, they used the additional titles of Prince or Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Duke or Duchess of Saxony, as members of the House of Wettin.

The title Prince or Princess of Belgium is a specific noble title within the Belgian nobility reserved for members of the Belgian royal family. Originally the Royal Decree of 14 March 1891, reserved this title for all persons descending in the direct male line from king Leopold I. The royal decree also automatically granted the title to the princesses who joined the Belgian royal family by their marriage to a Prince of Belgium. This royal decree was amended by the Royal Decree of 2 December 1991, which reserved the title for the direct male and female descendants of Albert II and abolished the Salic Law with regards to its granting. The Royal Decree of 12 November 2015, published in the Belgian official journal on 24 November 2015, abolished the aforementioned Royal Decree of 1991, and restricts new grants of this title to the children and grandchildren of the reigning monarch, and to the children and grandchildren of the crownprince(ss). The spouse of a Prince or Princess of Belgium is no longer automatically granted the title but he or she can still be granted the title by royal decree on an individual basis. Prior to this, all descendants of Albert II were entitled to the title of prince or princess.

King Philippe (born 15 April 1960) is King of the Belgians. He married, on 4 December 1999, Jonkvrouwe Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz, who was created Princess Mathilde of Belgium a day before their wedding, after which she also took the title Duchess of Brabant as the wife of the Duke of Brabant, and became, from 21 July 2013, Queen Mathilde of the Belgians. She is a daughter of Patrick d'Udekem d'Acoz (made a count prior to the wedding) and his wife, Countess Anna Maria Komorowska. They have four children:
Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant, who will inherit the throne after her father due to a 1991 act of succession which established absolute (gender-neutral) primogeniture, altering the order of succession from "eldest son" to "eldest child".
Prince Gabriel of Belgium
Prince Emmanuel of Belgium
Princess Eléonore of Belgium

Other members of the royal family
King Albert II (born 6 June 1934). He was the king between 1993 (following the death of his brother King Baudouin) and 21 July 2013, the Belgian National Day, when he abdicated in favour of his son Philippe, Duke of Brabant, because of ill health. On 2 July 1959, he married Donna Paola Ruffo di Calabria (born 11 September 1937) in Brussels, who became HRH Princess Paola of Belgium, Princess of Liège, and after 1993, became Queen Paola of the Belgians. She is the daughter of Fulco VIII, Prince Ruffo di Calabria, 6th Duke of Guardia Lombarda (1884–1946) and his wife, Luisa Gazelli dei Conti di Rossana e di Sebastiano (1896–1989). Together they have three children, the current king (see above), a daughter and another son:
Princess Astrid, Archduchess of Austria-Este (born 5 June 1962). She is the wife of Prince Lorenz of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia, whom she married on 22 September 1984 and who was created a prince of Belgium in 1995. Princess Astrid, with her own descendants, is before her brother Laurent in the order of succession to the Belgian throne, due to the 1991 act of succession mentioned above. They have five children:
 Prince Amedeo of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este. He married Elisabetta Maria Rosboch von Wolkenstein on 5 July 2014. They have one daughter and one son:
Archduchess Anna Astrid of Austria-Este
Archduke Maximilian of Austria-Este
Princess Maria Laura of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este. She married William Isvy on 10 September 2022.
Prince Joachim of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este
Princess Luisa Maria of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este
Princess Laetitia Maria of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este
Prince Laurent of Belgium (born 19 October 1963). He married Claire Coombs, an Anglo-Belgian former land surveyor, on 12 April 2003, who was created HRH Princess Claire of Belgium 11 days before their wedding. They have one daughter and two sons:
Princess Louise of Belgium
Prince Nicolas of Belgium
Prince Aymeric of Belgium
Princess Delphine of Belgium (born 22 February 1968). She is the non-marital daughter of King Albert II by his former mistress, Baroness Sybille de Selys Longchamps. After winning a paternity case in 2020, she and her children were elevated to the rank of prince/princess of Belgium by a court ruling on 1 October 2020. She has been in a relationship with James O'Hare since 2000. They have one daughter and one son:
Princess Joséphine of Belgium
Prince Oscar of Belgium

Other descendants of Leopold III
Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (born 16 April 1955). He is the eldest son of Grand Duke Jean and Princess Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium, sister of Kings Baudouin and Albert II and aunt of King Philippe.
Princess Léa of Belgium (born 2 December 1951). She is the widow of Prince Alexandre of Belgium, half-brother of both Kings Baudouin and Albert II, and half-uncle of King Philippe.
Princess Marie-Christine, Mrs Gourgues (born 6 February 1951). She is the eldest daughter of Leopold III and Lilian, Princess of Réthy, half-sister of both Kings Baudouin and Albert II and half-aunt of King Philippe. Her first marriage, to Paul Drucker (Toronto, Ontario, 1 November 1937 – 1 April 2008) in Coral Gables, Miami-Dade County, Florida, on 23 May 1981, lasted 40 days (though they weren't formally divorced till 1985); she subsequently married Jean-Paul Gourges in Los Angeles, California, on 28 September 1989.
Princess Marie-Esméralda, Lady Moncada (born 30 September 1956). She is the youngest daughter of Leopold III and Lilian, Princess of Réthy, half-sister of both Kings Baudouin and Albert II and half-aunt of King Philippe. Princess Marie-Esméralda is a journalist, writing under the name Esméralda de Réthy. She married Sir Salvador Moncada, a Honduran-British pharmacologist, in London on 4 April 1998. They have a daughter, Alexandra Leopoldine (born in London on 4 August 1998), and a son, Leopoldo Daniel (born in London on 21 May 2001).

Family tree of members

Deceased members

Crown Prince Louis Philippe (eldest son of Leopold I, died in 1834);
Queen Louise-Marie (second wife of Leopold I, died in 1850);
King Leopold I (second son of Prince Francis, died in 1865);
Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico (husband of Princess Charlotte, daughter of Leopold I, died in 1867);
Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant (eldest son of Leopold II, died in 1869);
Princess Joséphine-Marie (second daughter of Prince Philippe, third son of Leopold I, died in 1871);
Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (first husband of Princess Stéphanie, daughter of Leopold II, died in 1889);
Prince Baudouin (eldest son of Prince Philippe, third son of Leopold I, died in 1891);
Queen Marie Henriette (wife of Leopold II, died in 1902);
Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders (third son of Leopold I, died in 1905);
King Leopold II (second son of Leopold I, died in 1909);
Princess Marie, Countess of Flandres (widow of Prince Philippe, third son of Leopold I, died in 1912);
Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern (husband of Princess Joséphine Caroline, sister of Albert I, died in 1919);
Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke in Saxony (husband of Princess Louise, daughter of Leopold II, died in 1921);
Princess Louise of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duchess in Saxony (eldest daughter of Leopold II, died in 1924);
Prince Victor, Prince Napoléon (husband of Princess Clémentine, daughter of Leopold II, died in 1926);
Empress Carlota of Mexico (eldest daughter of Leopold I, died in 1927);
Prince Emmanuel, Duke of Vendôme and Alençon (husband of Princess Henriette, sister of Albert I, died in 1931);
King Albert I (youngest son of Prince Philippe, third son of Leopold I, died in 1934);
Queen Astrid (first wife of Leopold III, died in 1935);
Crown Princess Stéphanie of Austria, Princess Lónyai de Nagy-Lónya (eldest daughter of Leopold II, died in 1945);
Prince Elemér Lónyai de Nagy-Lónya (widower of Princess Stéphanie, daughter of Leopold II, died in 1946);
Princess Henriette, Duchess of Vendôme and Alençon (eldest daughter of Prince Philippe, third son of Leopold I, died in 1948);
Clémentine, Princess Napoléon (youngest daughter of Leopold II, died in 1955);
Princess Joséphine-Caroline of Hohenzollern (third daughter of Prince Philippe, son of Leopold I, died in 1958);
Queen Elisabeth (widow of Albert I, died in 1965);
King Umberto II of Italy (husband of Princess Maria-José, daughter of Albert I, died in 1983);
Prince Regent Charles, Count of Flanders (second son of Albert I, died in 1983);
King Leopold III (eldest son of Albert I, died in 1983);
King Baudouin I (eldest son of Leopold III, died in 1993);
Queen Marie-José of Italy (eldest daughter of Albert I, died in 2001);
Lilian, Princess of Réthy (second wife of Leopold III, died in 2002);
Grand Duchess Joséphine-Charlotte of Luxembourg (eldest daughter of Leopold III, died in 2005);
Prince Alexandre (third son of Leopold III, died in 2009);
Queen Fabiola (widow of Baudouin I, died in 2014);
Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg (widower of Princess Joséphine-Charlotte, daughter of Leopold III, died in 2019);

Royal consorts
Princess Louise d'Orléans (second wife of King Leopold I)
Archduchess Marie Henriette of Austria (wife of King Leopold II)
Duchess Elisabeth in Bavaria (wife of King Albert I)
Princess Astrid of Sweden (first wife of King Leopold III)
Mary Lilian Baels* (second wife of King Leopold III)
Doña Fabiola de Mora y Aragón (wife of King Baudouin)
Donna Paola Ruffo di Calabria (wife of King Albert II)
Jonkvrouwe Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz (wife of King Philippe)

See also
List of Belgian monarchs
List of heirs to the Belgian throne
Line of succession to the Belgian throne
Crown Council of Belgium
Princess Delphine of Belgium and Royal bastard

References

External links

The Belgian monarchy – official site of the Belgian royal family
The Belgian monarchy - official brochure of the Belgium government
What role for a Belgian monarch? - website Expatica.com

Belgium
1831 establishments in Belgium

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My sweet Delilah is almost here. I don't think these scans do her justice but I'll have photos in the next couple of weeks. She'll be introduced at Fall Quilt Market and I think the collection will be available wholesale in October through Free Spirit. I haven't even gotten my sample yardage yet but I can't wait to sew with Delilah.
Well, it's about time for another fabric giveaway. Holly from Decor8 (a blog I check almost every day to be inspired by) was kind enough to blog about Dolce and seeing as she's a design blog rock star as well as author , columnist and decorator and so will be sending lot's of people this way I figured it's a great time to have a giveaway.
In the mean time, we'll send out one each of our patterns to keep the winner busy till the fabric arrives.
BTW, the bag there is a sample for quilt market but I liked it so much I decided to make it a pattern, coming soon.
Eh bien, il est temps pour un autre cadeau en tissu. Holly de Decor8 (un blog je vérifie presque chaque jour pour être inspiré par) a été assez aimable pour bloguer à propos de Dolce et car elle est un blog design rock star, ainsi que l'auteur, chroniqueur et le décorateur et sera donc envoyer beaucoup de gens de cette façon J'ai pensé que c'est un grand moment d'avoir un jeu-questionnaire.
En attendant, nous allons envoyer un chacun de nos modes de garder le gagnant occupé jusqu'à ce que le tissu arrive.
BTW, le sac il ya un échantillon pour le marché de couette mais je l'ai tellement aimé, j'ai décidé d'en faire un modèle, coming soon.
Nou, het is hoog tijd voor een andere stof giveaway. Holly uit decor8 (een blog controleer ik bijna iedere dag te worden geïnspireerd) zo vriendelijk was om een blog over Dolce en het zien als ze een ontwerp blog rockster evenals auteur, columnist en decorateur en zo zal het verzenden van veel mensen op deze manier Ik dacht dat het een goed moment om een giveaway hebben.
In de tussentijd, sturen we een uit elk van onze patronen aan de winnaar bezig te houden totdat de stof aankomt.
BTW, de zak is er een monster voor quilt markt, maar ik vond het zo leuk ik besloot om er een patroon, coming soon.
Nun, es ist an der Zeit für einen anderen Stoff Werbegeschenk. Holly aus Decor8 (a blog überprüfe ich fast jeden Tag von inspirieren lassen) war gut genug, um Dolce Blog und da sie ein Design-Blog Rockstar sowie Autor, Kolumnist und Dekorateur und so wird das Senden werden viel von Menschen auf diese Weise Ich dachte es ist eine gute Zeit, um ein Werbegeschenk haben.
In der Zwischenzeit, wir senden ein jeder unserer Muster um den Gewinner zu tun, bis das Gewebe zu halten ankommt.
BTW, die Tasche ist ein Beispiel für Quilt-Markt, aber ich mochte es so sehr, habe ich beschlossen, machen es zu einem Muster, coming soon.
Note: I'm going to start posting in French, Dutch and German as well, using google translate, an incredibly helpful tool BTW. I am living in Belgium and I see the visits from all over the place on my stats, plus, maybe it'll help me with my French...Apologies to the native speakers of those languages as google translate sometimes comes up with some non-sensical stuff.
Note: Je vais commencer à poster en français, en néerlandais et en allemand aussi, en utilisant Google Translate, un outil incroyablement utile BTW. Je vis en Belgique et je vois les visites de toute la place sur mes statistiques, plus, ce sera peut-il m'aider avec mon français ... excuses pour les locuteurs de ces langues, comme Google Translate vient parfois avec certains non -stuff sensical.
Opmerking: Ik ga om te beginnen met detachering in het Frans, Nederlands en Duits ook, met behulp van Google Translate, een ongelooflijk nuttig instrument BTW. Ik woon in België en ik zie de bezoeken van over de plaats op mijn statistiekenpagina, plus, misschien zal het me helpen met mijn Franse ... excuses aan de native speakers van die talen als Google Translate soms komt met een aantal niet sensical-stuff.
Hinweis: I'm going to start Entsendung in Französisch, Niederländisch und Deutsch als auch, mit Google zu übersetzen, eine unglaublich hilfreiches Werkzeug BTW. Ich wohne in Belgien und ich sehe die Besuche aus der ganzen Platz auf meiner Statistikseite, plus, vielleicht werde mich mit meinem Französisch helfen ... entschuldige mich bei den Muttersprachler dieser Sprachen als Google Translate manchmal kommt mit einigen nicht -unsinnige Sachen.
No fabric to actually sew with yet, it's on it's way but who actually knows when it will arrive. Things get here a bit more slowly. So, I've been playing with Dolce the only way I can. The birdies are giving me lots of applique ideas though. I think this collection will be really good for that. My other collections haven't had such nice small, tight repeats which are so wonderful to use to make appliqued shapes.
Well, very soon I think/hope I'll have some actual sewn things to share with you from Dolce (I'm like rabid at this point to get my hands on it!! I hate to wait in general, but it's almost painful to wait for a new collection) And a great, very, very simple bag pattern as well that I really hope you like.
Well, I've been having a lovely Sunday playing with swatches of French Hatbox, and going to Starbucks for hot chocolate, and taking a walk with my crazy family, it's always an adventure with them truly.
Trying to get ideas for samples to make for market with FH. I think it would be fun to make a little crazy patchwork dress, maybe for a little one. Won't be getting any real yardage for a while but like to just play to start getting ideas.
Have to tell you I'm always a little nervous about putting up a new collection, I mean you all are so incredibly supportive and just plain nice but there's always the chance that someone won't like it and will say so, which would be ok, but, ya know, I want you to like it!
By the way, I am a total Facebook convert. It is way fun to be able to keep up with people in real time that way. After I got over the initial weirdness of it (if you join it's likely you'll run into people you haven't seen or heard from since kindergarten) I really got into being able to just check in with what my friends and creative peeps are doing in real time. It's just fun, like a real conversation that you can participate in but don't have to.
For all women who are so busy schlepping kids around that they find themselves make-up less at kids soccer games, the supermarket, work, etc. on a regular basis. You know who you are, women who haven't had quite enough "mirror time" since their first baby! But are strangely happy that life is so full even if it means they don't always get a daily shower in! Haus-fraus unite! Let the world know about "Haus-Frau Chic."
This group was inspired by my best friend who, when given the eye by a cute guy on the street, exclaimed "don't look at me, I'm a haus -frau." This cracked me up and ever since then I take every opportunity that presents itself to describe myself as a (very proud) Haus-frau.
Come join if you are indeed a Haus-Frau!
Hope all you wonderful people had a wonderful Super Bowl Sunday!!!
And thank you to the girl who posted a while back and said "I love your happy girl style". I think this expresses this collection, Darla, perfectly!!!!!
Thought I'd show you some of the colorways that won't be making it into the Ava Rose collection. I think they're all pretty but they didn't quite fit into the collection in the way I wanted. Still though, maybe I'll make a reject quilt with them.
Oh boy, craziness around here. I made a last minute decision to introduce a collection that will be released in August in addition to Ava Rose which will be released in May. So that's what I've been workin on the last couple of weeks to get it in before the deadline.
I'm excited about this collection. It's just so totally unabashedly feminine and the idea of a French hatbox was just a perfectly beautiful fit for the name.
Hope you like the little preview. The artwork's still a bit rough but I think you get the idea.
I'm actually working right now on last minute changes and I've got a sick husband and one sick child (please, don't be the flu) only one so far, fingers crossed, so I've gotta run but just wanted to show you. I cannot wait to cover some hat boxes in this fabric!!!


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A Boot Up the Lincolnshire Wolds
All the walks have been carefully selected by Hugh Marrows to give as wide as possible an overview of this lovely part of Lincolnshire balanced with an attempt to explore some of its lesser-known areas. They range in distance from 4 to 10 miles and are ideal for families and groups of friends.
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George & Robert Stephenson
Railway specialist Robin Jones re-tells the story of the Stephensons – who rose from the humblest of beginnings to dominate the engineering landscape and to become true heroes of Victorian Britain.
Spirit of Surrey
Local author and photographer Mike Cope travels the highways and byways of Surrey to reveal a host of delights in more than 60 sparkling colour images, featuring the country houses, gardens and the precious landscape of this sometimes under-estimated but always historic and often extremely attractive county.
A Boot Up Bodmin Moor
A Boot Up The Western Yorkshire Dales
The Western Dales offers both easy and more challenging walking in the magnificent limestone surroundings. These walks by Keith Wood visit famous landmarks such as Malham Cove and Goredale Scar and the subsidiary valleys including Ribblesdale, Clapdale, Twisleton and Dentdale.
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A Boot Up The Chilterns
The Chiltern Hills remain a beautiful, unspoilt corner of England. Beech woodland and chalk downs provide a haven for wildlife while on the downs in summer are to be found abundant orchids. These ten circular walks by Robert Wood, ranging from 3 to 8 miles, suit the needs of families, groups of friends or individuals looking for a gentle stroll or a longer walk.
Spirit of Narrow Gauge Steam
Robin Jones looks at the finest of Britain's narrow gauge steam today. In more than 60 images and with a sharp and incisive text, Spirit of Narrow Gauge Steam is the ideal brief guide, in Halsgrove's new collectible, pocket-size format.
A Boot Up Mid Dorset
These ten circular walks from Rodney Legg, ranging from 3 to 8 miles, suit the needs of families, groups of friends or individuals looking for a gentle stroll or a longer walk, and reflect the many varied facets of Mid Dorset– its people, its history, and its working landscape and will help first time visitors to experience some of the great scenery the area has to offer.
A Boot Up Durham City
Durham is a good place to live. Because of its small size it offers all the advantages of a city without the disadvantages. These ten country walks by Philip Nixon are perfect for families and are all within the boundary of the city.


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Josh Duhamel's Best "Bully!"
President Theodore Roosevelt is as excited as everyone else about Josh Duhamel's naming as the "voice of North Dakota Tourism" and he wanted to telephone Josh to say "job well done."
It's official: Josh Duhamel is the voice of North Dakota Tourism's new advertising campaign. In Medora, we couldn't be more excited for Josh to represent the state — and we hope to see him in Medora again this summer, too! "Bully!"
Josh even recorded a greeting for viewers of the campaign, with his own rendition of Theodore Roosevelt's favorite phrase, "Bully!"
Josh enjoys a cup o' Joe at Theodore's Dining Room in Medora. Do you?
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Bully Pulpit Golf Course – The Crescendo Effect
Bully Pulpit is truly a golf experience unmatched anywhere else. But sometimes we wonder if we're a little biased because of our love for the Badlands as a whole. Recently, though, Minnesota Tee Times' Michael Herzog made the trek to Medora to take in the Bully Pulpit experience for himself.
After a day on the course and night on the town, we think Michael may now have the same feelings for the Badlands as we do. Here are a few snippets from his recent story.
"I am often asked by friends, "Why would I invest my time, money, and resources into the eight hour drive to Medora to play Bully Pulpit?" and I can answer that with one word: simple. You will find that Bully Pulpit Golf Course and the city of Medora provide what Bully Pulpits' PGA Head Golf Professional, Casey Moen, refers to as 'The Crescendo Effect.' READ MORE »
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Surprised by Art in Medora
If you've never been to Medora or haven't visited in a long time, you may wonder if Medora is just a place for cowboys and musical enthusiasts. Cowboys and music lovers abound—it's true—and they can be seen daily sauntering through town enjoying the view from the saddle, or reveling in the rhythms of the famous Medora Musical. But for those of you with a wide range of interests, Medora offers a lot to visitors who take the time to explore—more so now than ever before.
A surprising aspect that visitors to Medora are discovering is the artwork to be found throughout town. Some examples of art in Medora are obvious, and others are more subtle. You will discover artwork infused with the flavor of the Old West, along with more modern works inspired by nature that add to the visual interest of Medora.
Enjoy these examples and many more when you are here, and feel free to share your Medora art discoveries with us as you find them! Check out www.medora.com/events for special art shows and feature artist events throughout the spring, summer and fall seasons.
Old Town Hall Theater, 1930s Murals
Guests can catch an entertaining show in the Old Town Hall Theater every day of the week ("A Teddy Roosevelt Salute to Medora" Mondays through Fridays at 4pm, and the "4M Revue" Saturdays and Sundays at 1pm and 4pm).
However, stop in early to take in original murals on the interior walls of the theater. The Old Town Hall was built in 1924, and traveling artist Joe Breckenridge created the murals in 1936. He then returned in 1960 to touch up his work.
Harold Schafer Heritage Center Patio Lawn, Wind Sculptures
A much newer addition to the artistic side of Medora, these wind sculptures were added in the past month. Five unique metal sculptures, hovering like trees above your head, spin and swirl in the North Dakota breeze.
These sculptures were gifted by the John Andrist family of Crosby, North Dakota, and are located at the Harold Schafer Heritage Center Patio Lawn, adjacent to the historic Von Hoffman house lawn.
North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame, "Cowboys and Indians: Alive and Well Today" Art Exhibit and Sale
Along with its fascinating permanent exhibits, The North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame is currently featuring this traveling exhibit of art.
The gallery pieces speak to the very purpose of the museum: honoring the heritage of Native American, Ranching, and Rodeo culture.
Take in this colorful exhibit, and while you're visiting the museum, appreciate the artwork on display in the permanent exhibits such as the beaded Native American moccasins shown here, and the bronze pieces adorning the outside of the building by North Dakota sculptor Arnie Addicott.
Downtown merchants
I had to look twice – no, that's not a longhorn grazing on the lawn of a local merchant's business, it is in fact a usable grill!
This creative cooker and a colorful herd of mini-horses add to the color and fun you will experience walking the streets of Medora.
Lyle K. Glass Photography
"Cowboy Lyle" may wear boots and a cowboy hat, but he's a photographer at heart. Lyle's photography features wildlife and scenery from the North Dakota Badlands.
You'll find his work displayed in frames and as greeting cards in various locations throughout Medora. And if you'd like to get a shot of Lyle himself (and maybe even an autograph!), you'll likely find him outside the Badlands Pizza Parlor in downtown Medora.
Theodore's Dining Room, stained glass windows
When the Rough Riders Hotel Dining room was refurbished and renamed Theodore's Dining Room in 2009, the interior underwent a total transformation. One of the beautiful additions to the dining room is a set of identical stained glass windows, placed back to back and looking out onto the dining room on one side, and TR's Tavern on the other.
The windows were gifted by Jim and Joanne Kack, who purchased the pieces from a Minnesota stained glass collector in the mid 1980s. The glass was thought to have originated from the Church of the Redeemer Episcopal Church in Superior, Wisconsin, which opened in January 1892. Two similar pieces given by the Kacks are also displayed above the front desk of the adjacent Rough Riders Hotel in Medora.
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This wall mirror is a simple yet interesting piece. The mirror's pattern creates a vintage feel and gives the reflection an interesting coloration. The frameless style is meant to allow an easy integration into any living space, without worrying about matching finishes. Antique pattern is reminiscent of the old-world style found in 19th century homes throughout Europe.
This large antiqued mirror was designed and constructed in the USA. Using traditional techniques for creating an antiqued pattern, this mirror was treated to give a distinguished, vintage look. All components of the mirror are hand inspected for quality.
The mirror includes all hanging hardware, has a wooden backplate and french cleat to ensure easy installation. The wooden backplate gives a floating effect to the mirror, which sits 1/2″ from the wall on which it is hung. This backplate is painted black for concealment.
This mirror includes a black, iron frame.
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Belt and Road Forum: Philip Hammond's speech
The Belt and Road Forum speech in full, delivered on 26 April, 2019.
Excellencies; Ladies and Gentlemen. It's a pleasure to be back in China for this second Belt and Road Forum. To take stock of how the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has evolved over the past two years…
…to discuss the next phase of the Initiative.
To hear, as we have of China's commitment to the BRI not only to deliver much-needed economic infrastructure, but to demonstrate leadership in addressing social and environmental challenges too;
We have all seen how China's own development has lifted hundreds of millions of its citizens out of poverty in just four decades…
…and none of us doubts that the Belt and Road Initiative has tremendous potential to spread prosperity and sustainable development – touching, as it does, potentially 70% of the world's population.
A project of truly epic ambition…
…and I congratulate President Xi and the Chinese people on the scale of this vision…
..and the determination with which it has been pursued.
The UK is committed to helping to realise the potential of the BRI - and to doing so in a way that works for all whose lives are touched by the project.
The potential benefits are clear to all of us in this room;
But to deliver them, it is essential that BRI operates to the highest international standards;…
…with all parties working together in partnership within the rules-based international system…
…to create genuine win-win outcomes, in which host countries, investors and promoters alike benefit…
…with fair terms…
… sensitivity to local concerns and traditions…
…and the highest environmental standards…
…all delivered to international norms of good governance…
…with full transparency around projects, and around the sustainability of the debt that partner countries are incurring to secure them;
…Ensuring that Belt and Road is an example of how globalised, open economic cooperation can deliver benefits for all.
And I welcome the "triple pledge" we heard from President Xi Xinping this morning to ensure the highest international standards in delivery of Belt and Road, to maintain China's commitment to free trade and multilateralism; and to continue the reform and opening up of China's economy.
Two years ago, at the First Belt and Road Forum, I spoke of the UK as a 'natural partner' in Belt and Road…
…citing the complementarity of the UK and Chinese economies…
…the potential of London's deep capital markets to support the future financing needs of the BRI…
…and of the strength of the UK's legal, professional and technical services sectors to support the design, development, contracting and delivery of BRIprojects.
And since then, I have worked to turn that vision of cooperation into a reality.
In May 2018, I was pleased to appoint Sir Douglas Flint, former Chairman of HSBC, as HM Treasury's Financial and Professional Services Envoy to the Belt and Road Initiative;
Under his chairmanship, we're bringing together UK business leaders from financial and professional services and China Development Bank, Bank of China, and China Construction Bank to establish a Belt and Road expert board in London.
We have launched, in April 2019, a three year China Infrastructure Programme to work with China to improve infrastructure development outcomes in Africa and Asia.
And we have worked with the AIIB to deepen our relationship and to support the development of a pipeline of high-quality infrastructure projects.
It is clear that, to support the sheer scale of the BRI vision, private finance will need to play an ever greater role in these infrastructure projects.
And to unlock that private finance, and reassure investors, we must create a recognised infrastructure asset class for Belt and Road projects…
…with standardised contract terms and uniform reporting that global investors will recognise and trust.
In doing so, we should, of course, draw on the work that G20 and other international organisations are doing to create frameworks for sustainable infrastructure investments; and I want to offer London's world class expertise in project financing and the associated legal, professional and technical skills as a partner of choice in delivering these international-standard infrastructure projects.
The BRI is an extraordinarily, ambitious vision. To turn that vision into a sustainable reality it must work for everyone involved.
That means achieving the highest economic, social, governance and environmental standards;
It means attracting the necessary private capital;
It means ensuring that all partner countries and all their citizens can benefit.
Our offer is to bring the best of Chinese manufacturing, engineering and construction with the best of British project design and legal, technical and financial services expertise…as we harness the "Golden Era" of UK-China relations…
…to deliver world-class sustainable infrastructure for all for the twenty-first century.
I look forward to working with all of you to make that happen…
To deliver jobs, growth and higher living standards for all of our citizens.
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Original article link: https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/belt-and-road-forum-philip-hammonds-speech
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Astronomers Find New Moon In Our Solar System
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Scientists have found an entirely new moon in our own solar system – and it had been hiding in plain sight.
The new object, named Hippocamp, has been discovered floating around Neptune. It is the planet's smallest moon, and behaves very strangely, in ways that could shed light on how it first formed.
Hippocamp had already been captured in previous images of the nearby planet. But astronomers' technical abilities were not enough to actually spot it, and only now has the tiny world actually been noticed and catalogued.
When the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew past Neptune in 1989, it spotted six small inner moons orbiting the planet. Each of them is very small, and much younger than Neptune, probably having formed soon after the planet's largest moon called Triton arrived.
But new research shows that there had been another, unnoticed and tiny, moon floating near the planet. That takes the total number of moons around Neptune to 14 and sheds new light on the huge planet.
The breakthrough new discovery used the latest highly technical image processing techniques and images from Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope, allowing astronomers to see the inner moons despite the rapid speed at which they hurtle around Neptune. When the first picture was taken that included Hippocamp in it, in 2004, scientists lacked the ability to spot such a tiny object that was moving so quickly.
The new moon is named Hippocamp, after the sea creature in Greek mythology. Its tiny size makes it the smallest of Neptune's collection of moons, and it is only about 34 kilometres across.
The moon orbits close to Proteus, the biggest and furthest out of those inner moons. Astronomers say it is likely that Hippocamp was formed when fragments came off that bigger object when it was hit by a big comet.
They say it can't be ruled out that Hippocamp was formed where it is now and has no connection to Proteus. But its tiny size and strange location suggests that it formed in a collision, helping shed light on how the rest of the Neptune system formed.
"Proteus sports an unusually large crater called Pharos — a telltale sign that the moon might have barely escaped destruction by impact," writes astronomer Anne J. Verbiscer in an article commenting on the discovery." Whenever this impact occurred, it no doubt launched debris into orbit around Neptune."
One of those splintered pieces of debris could have become the new moon, the authors say.
The discovery could also help illuminate how other moons were formed, the authors say. If Hippocamp was formed in such a collision, then it is likely that the others were shaped by impacts with comets.
As well as the discovery of Hippocamp, the new research published in Nature also gives new detail on other moons such as Naiad, the innermost moon that has not been seen since 1989. The astronomers also give new data including size and orbit estimates of all the inner moons for the first time.
The same technique might lead to even more discoveries. Similar work already helped find an object in the distance reaches of the solar system, and might one day find other moons around larger planets – or even whole planets orbiting distant stars.
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MIL-OSI Russia: A Christmas service was held in the Main Church of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
The leadership of the Russian military department took part in the Christmas service, which was held in the Main Church of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, erected in the Moscow region in honor of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
The solemn liturgy in the central altar of the Upper Church was served by the head of the Synodal Department for Cooperation with the Armed Forces and Law Enforcement Agencies, Vicar of His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Bishop Bronnitsky Savvaty.
In particular, three deputy defense ministers of Russia – Gennady Zhidko, Timur Ivanov and Yuri Sadovenko, servicemen and civilian personnel of the department, and their families – came to the Christmas service at the church.
The cathedral, in which the Christmas service was held, was erected with donations. It was consecrated on June 14, 2020, the year of the 75th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, and opened to parishioners on June 22. It is one of the three Patriarchal Cathedrals in Russia. The upper church was consecrated in the name of the Resurrection of Christ, the lower church – in honor of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Grand Duke Vladimir.
The vaults of the temple are assembled from stained-glass windows depicting orders that were awarded for feats of arms in different periods of Russian history, and the image of the Savior Not Made by Hands in the central dome of the temple is the largest image of the face of Christ, made in mosaics.
The temple is surrounded by the "Memory Road" multimedia museum, which contains information about all the participants in the Great Patriotic War.
The dimensions of the temple are symbolic and refer to the most important numbers associated with the history of the Great Patriotic War. The diameter of the main dome is 19.45 meters. The height of the belfry is 75 meters. The height of the small dome is 14.18 meters. Also, according to the number of days and nights of war, -1 418 meters is the length of the gallery of the museum complex "Memory Road".
On Christmas days, a winter festival is held on the cathedral square of the temple, which has already been attended by more than 140 thousand people. An ice skating rink with an area of 5.5 thousand square meters and a tubing slope with a length of about 60 meters are open in front of the temple.
Next to the temple in the Patriot park, guests are greeted by the only museum in Russia on wheels dedicated to the events of the Great Patriotic War. The Victory Train arrived here on December 25 and will be available for visiting until January 16 inclusive.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This article is a translation. Apologies should the grammar and / or sentence structure not be perfect.
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We are a music on hold provider and we are currently attempting to integrate our solution for a hosted snomONE system here in Australia.
Our solution is capable of delivering content for music on hold in a number of live and non-live ways, coming down to three main sections - streaming, file-based, or analogue audio jack. All of our solutions deliver or attempt to deliver a 'live stream' sounding experience for a number of sections of each business.
We are trying to implement a number of different clients' live streams on the same machine - there are several businesses which all have their own promotional on-hold material whom all use the same hosted system. Given this, we have two options: deliver files, or deliver stream. File delivery often poses security questions as providers rarely will let you upload files directly to their hosted systems. In this circumstance, considering we need to deliver multiple on-hold sources to the same machine, we need to use the RTP stream method.
For example, one of our clients (non-SNOM) uses a total of three on-hold 'playlists' which are played back depending on which queue the caller dials into - the sales queue promotes product, the support queue answers FAQs and the general on-hold promotes the business itself. Their system supports this by the use of multiple RTP streams, it is not capable of three audio inputs and the MoH system must be restarted to change source files.
That being said, we are experienced in delivering RTP streams to be used for content within a SIP session. We are also capable of delivering audio via a SIP session itself - our device registers as an extension and answers any phone calls with the MoH content requested via URI. We have attempted to setup our solution delivering to the snomONE system as detailed above but have run into some issues.
There are a few, but the main issue is that for every second person whom is placed on hold, the music on hold does not work correctly - a horrible loud looping static-y noise is played instead.
•	Keep the first caller on hold as a 'test' – put another extension on hold.
•	Keeping both calls on hold, place ANOTHER call on hold.
It seems as if the PBX is swapping between one source and another. Packet capturing on the PBX reveals that the audio content switches between what is being received on the RTP port, and '7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f' - capturing the payload of the stream and saving it to a wave file, you can hear it switching between each stream.
Additionally, if you create a MoH source of the type 'RTP Stream' and set nothing up to send to it, place someone on hold, you receive this noise (7f7f7f7f7f7f7f). I would expect if nothing is being received on the RTP port then this stream would have silence - instead it's got this odd content being generated - where from? Upon receiving something to the port, it starts to send this information instead.
We have logged a ticket with snom via the provider we are integrating with, however I thought I would post on the forums to see if anyone has had any experience with delivering RTP streams to SNOM.
The design for the RTP MoH originally comes from the CS410, where another subsystem provides the RTP stream in G.711 format. In that environment, it seems to be working reasonably okay.
The RTP MoH uses a small internal buffer with a read and a write pointer. The speed of the read pointer is determined by the internal 8 kHz sampling frequency clock for the media playout. The write pointer speed is determined by the RTP input. If the read and the write speed differ too much, then you will have the effect of wrap-around. Usually the problem is not the overall speed difference, the problem are jitter on the RTP side. Maybe this is the problem here. A simple wireshark trace would show this.
We could dramatically increase the buffer to reduce the problem. However before we do that we should unstand what exactly the problem is. Otherwise we just make the problem less obvious, but still there.
I'm not sure that's the issue, though. Wireshark traces show acceptable jitter (mean 0.10ms max 0.20ms). Using Wireshark to dump the payload of an RTP stream will result in an audio file that works perfectly. As mentioned, if you place one person on hold and then use a second extension to place another call on hold, both calls will get the repeating audio. The next time you place someone on hold, all calls will return to normal.
Each time you place a person on hold, the source for EVERY call changes. This has resulted in a perfectly formatted audio file coming out of the RTP stream, but with looping audio in the places where the issue has occured. The looping audio lasts for a few seconds before I had placed another extension on hold and the hold music went back to normal.
If you go on hold with an RTP source that's never had traffic sent to it, you receive a grinding electronic noise - however, if that port has received packets in the past, it will loop those audio packets instead. It's almost like the internal buffer is having issues moving it's pointer for every second hold operation that is performed.
I find it hard to point to any issue with the source stream, as I have mentioned the same solution is in use to deliver MoH for a number of other platforms across differing quality links; we have rarely had any issue with jitter or latency, and I don't believe that there is any issue with the source itself in this circumstance - as it looks and sends audio like any RTP device does.
I think that somewhere in the code, it is possible that the RTP MoH is still looking for this 'internal feed' that you have mentioned. It is certainly strange behaviour, as the playback works perfectly otherwise. I have read some other posts on RTP MoH and it seems most are using a virtual loopback with an on-system player. One post mentions he has made VLC send audio directly to the RTP port which was working as intended - but does not mention this issue.
It may be worth noting that we also use VLC to deliver RTP streams, however it has been modified to send 20ms packets instead of the default behaviour in which it will send 16.666ms packets. We attempted using stock VLC to deliver the audio, however it did not work at all in any configuration with any type of source file - much the same as other platforms, it just makes a horrible noise as the packet times are outside what is expected by most IP platforms.
Has anyone else successfully implemented an RTP source and used it without this behaviour?
Just stopped past to read some new posts and noted that there hasn't been any replies to this thread.
This is a pretty major bug which means the snomONE system is completely unable to use an external music on hold source. We know that several clients of our integrator have moved to other systems as a result of not being able to use live MoH services. When your phone provider says to you 'We logged the bug with the vendor last year, we'll get back to you when they get back to us' then it does not fill you with confidence.
Why is there not more attention paid to this?
As posted in another thread, we did spnd some time on it and there is a problem when the packet length is not 10, 20, 30, 40 (multiple of 10) ms. This is typical in the telecom world... If the packet length is not multiple of 10 ms, the PBX seems to have problems with the internal wrap-around (leaving a noise carpet at the end of the buffer). We made a code change that should make it possible to send any length for MoH, we are investigating it. If you would like to check as well, send a PM and we'll send you a link to a build for verification.


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Artpark: The O'Jays, Average White Band give the people what they want
by jmaloni
Wed, Jun 19th 2019 01:45 pm
The O'Jays were A-OK.
There is a line – a chorus, in fact – in The O'Jays' hit 1975 song that says, "Got to give the people/Well, well/Give the people what they want."
"Give the People What They Want" is exactly what Eddie Levert Sr., Walter Williams Sr. and Eric Nolan Grant did at Artpark on Tuesday.
The O'Jays offered a high-energy performance that had the audience up on its feet singing, clapping and dancing in the outdoor amphitheater. The R&B act's setlist spanned its 50-year career, and the trio's vocal execution proved why their group is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Not to be outdone, opening act Average White Band got the party started with an enthusiastic set of its own. AWB left the crowd wanting more with its closing rendition of hit song "Pick Up the Pieces."
Next up in the "Tuesday in the Park" lineup is a prog-rock carnival of hitmakers, with "The Royal Affair Tour." Artpark will welcome to Lewiston musical acts Yes, Asia, John Lodge of the Moody Blues and Carl Palmer's ELP Legacy with guest vocalist Arthur Brown. The concert begins at 6 p.m.
For more information, or for tickets, visit www.artpark.net.
The O'Jays
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