Wabash hosts a handful of art exhibits each year, and often those artists will spend a day or two in the department with faculty and students. For the past week, New York artist Elizabeth Huey has been in residence lecturing, meeting with students, and working on a sculpture which will be the center piece of an exhibit which opened Monday.
"It's been great having Elizabeth Huey here to meet with students," Assistant Professor of Art Elizabeth Lee said. "She has talked with a number of art majors one-on-one about their work. A couple of them then came to me asking for articles she suggested they might read."
The experience is a new one for the artist. Though she has given a few lectures, this is her first time spending an entire week on a college campus as a visiting artist.
"I definitely offered advice," Huey said of her time with students. "I enjoy contributing my perception of someone's work. I enjoy asking questions and learning what artists are thinking about."
Having an artist in the classroom, especially a young cutting-edge artist, gives the students a unique perspective.
"It is refreshing for artists, even as undergraduates, to get a new perspective," Lee said. "Huey has an especially rich repertoire of images to draw from in her discussion with students. She has also been talking to students about the realities of life in the art world today."
Huey said living in New York and being active in the city's galleries provides her insight to offer others. "I'm so close to what many believe to be the center of the art world, Chelsea," she said. "I have that advantage of frequenting art openings and galleries. It's hard to get coffee and walk my dog without running into an artist I may know from reading the newspaper or from having previous familiarity with.
"If I'm able to see the beginnings of a (student) artist's work then perhaps draw a relationship between them and an artist who may be more established or developed, students can Google their names and see images, see what galleries they show with, their statements, and potentially meet with them some day. I think that's a big part of developing as an artist, forming these relationships with other artists."
Huey earned a BA in Psychology from George Washington University then studied art at Marchutz School for Art in Aix-en-Provence, France, and earned her Masters of Fine Arts from Yale in 2002.
"As a recent MFA graduate, she has a good sense of the art scene in New York and has been able to give students valuable advice on graduate school choices, career moves and such," Lee said.
Another piece of advice Huey believes is important is using the internet.
"If you look back in our history, art develops within groups," Huey said. "We have the advantage now of being in groups where one person is in California, one is in Kansas and another is in Brooklyn, "These groups don't always have to be isolated to daily meetings in bars, and they can expand beyond that. I see myself as a person who could hopefully help to build - maybe even spark interest between artists."
Huey works in large paintings. Her paintings are so large that they proved too heavy, and expensive to ship, that she will only have smaller pieces in the Wabash exhibit. But she is creating her first-ever sculpture as the show's centerpiece. It will also include some large-scale collages and smaller drawings.
Ken Johnson of the New York Times describes Huey's work as "abrasively raw painting (that) envisions the mystical." Time Out New York wrote about her work: "Mixed-media painting whose romantic imagery suggests a spread in Vogue as imagined by Kai Althoff. Giant insects cavort with glamorous babes; dapper hunters mingle with floating angels in landscapes full of towers, swamps and gestural patterns."
Her next major show will be in Sept. 2006 partly inspired by a summer visit to Crawfordsville. She visited in August to get a feel for the area before her November residency. She was fascinated by the Old Jail Museum.
"I went online and started searching for images from Indiana and started looking at Crawfordsville," she said. "I happened to find this Old Jail online and started reading about it. I went for visit and had a tour. They cranked the jail for us. And then I happened to come across the medical history museum (in Indianapolis). "These two places intrigued me before my visit. I have since started looking at many hospitals, institutions, and prisons in Indiana and other parts of the Midwest."
The artist will be on hand for the opening from 8 to 9:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 14 in the Eric Dean Gallery of the Fine Arts Center at Wabash College. The event is free and open to the public and refreshments will be served. The hours for the Eric Dean Gallery are Monday through Friday from 8-5 p.m. and Saturday from 10-2 p.m. Admission is free.
Hewitt is Wabash College Director of New Media/Web Editor.
Top right: Huey visits during the art exhibit opening Monday night.
At lower right: Huey worked on collages that became a part of the exhibit. In lower photo she is removing pictures from some old science books which will become part of the collage.
On homepage: Students, faculty visit the "Old Jail" exhibit created by Huey during her stay at Wabash.


A group of eight fighter jets will descend on Agra-Lucknow expressway on the day of its grand opening on November 21, which is also the eve of party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav's 78th birthday .The aircraft will then take off and do aerobatics in the skies.
The 302-km expressway, which is chief minister Akhilesh Yadav's dream project, has been completed in a record time of 22 months and has cost Rs.13,200 crore. It will get operational by December. The longest expressway in the country is currently a six-lane project, expandable up to eight lanes.
The expressway which will pass through Unnao, Kannauj, Etawah, Mainpuri and Firozabad, will reduce the travel time between Agra and Lucknow to just four hours, nearly half of what it takes now. Two farm mandis, a logistics hub, an IT City and a residential town are planned to be built along the expressway.
The expressway was planned and constructed in a way that in case of emergency or war, IAF could land its fighter planes using the road as a runway .
In May last year, IAF successfully landed a French Dassault Mirage-2000 fighter jet on the Yamuna Expressway, Mathura, as a part of elaborate trials to see how many other highways can be used for war-like emergencies.


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Gyßling oder Gyssling ist der Familienname folgender Personen:

 Georg Gyssling, (1893–1965), deutscher Diplomat
 Hans-Werner Gyßling (1904–1954), deutscher Journalist
 Otto von Gyßling (1863–1934), bayerischer General der Artillerie, Dr. phil h. c. der Universität München
 Robert Gyßling, deutscher Jurist und Politiker (FVp), MdR
 Walter Gyßling (Direktor), (1836–1903), Gründungsmitglied des Deutschen Museums
 Walter Gyssling (1903–1980), Schweizer Journalist

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 Gysling
 Gyselinck
 Kißling
 Kissling
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"Sing another," he said . . . "but something jolly."
Baroness von Riedesel continues to describe their stay in Virginia to which the Convention Army, as prisoners of war, had been relocated. Her husband paid to have a house built for the family and they planted a garden which the Baron enjoyed. But he could not tolerate the heat. She describes what happened to him on one hot day.
I was busy setting our new home to rights and putting my husband's things in his room when I heard a commotion outdoors. I ran to the window and saw some men carrying my husband into the house. His face was blue, his hands white, his eyes rigid, and beads of perspiration covered his forehead. He had had a sunstroke. I was more dead than alive myself, and the children uttered penetrating screams. We laid him down at once, tore off his clothes, and fortunately the surgeon of the regiment, who lived with us, was at home at the moment, so that he could bleed him immediately. He began to gain speech again and told us that while walking through the garden he had felt the sun burning hot on his head. He had hardly been able to reach the house, when his aides arrived, without whose help he would have been lost. Good Lord, what would have become of me and my little children among the captives so far from home in the enemy's country!
The von Riedesels went to a spa the doctor had recommended for the Baron's health. He did recover although he suffered from the ill effects of the incident for the rest of his life. The Baroness tells a charming story of a bargain she made with a local farmer. At the spa she made friends with Mrs. Charles Carroll who visited every morning to enjoy a musical treat. A Captain Geismar played the violin for the Baroness who sang Italian arias.
On day a farmer came to our house, whom we had frequently asked with many kind words to bring us fresh butter. As most Americans love music, he listened attentively, and when I had finished, he told me I would have to sing again. I asked him jestingly what he would give me for my singing, as I did nothing without being paid. He immediately replied, "Two pounds of butter." That amused me very much, and I sang another song. "Sing another," he said when I had finished, "but something jolly." In the end I had sung so much, that the next day he brought me four or five pounds of butter. He had brought his wife with him and begged me to sing again. I won their affection, and after that I always had everything I needed. The best of it was that he really thought I wanted to be paid for my singing and was very much astonished when I paid them for the butter before they left.
The Baroness developed critical views of Southerners and their plantations cultivated by slaves.
The Virginians are mostly indolent, which is ascribed to their hot climate . . . . The plantation-owners . . . have numerous Negro slaves and do not treat them well. Many of them let the slaves walk about stark naked until they are between fifteen and sixteen years old, and the clothes which they give them afterward are not worth wearing. The slaves are in the charge of an overseer who leads them out into the fields at daybreak, where they have to work like cattle or suffer beating; and when they come home completely tired out and sunburnt they are given some Indian meal called hominy, which they make into baked stuff. Often, however, they are too exhausted to eat and prefer sleeping a couple of hours, because they must go back to work. They look upon it as a misfortune to have children, because these, in turn, will also be slaves and unhappy men. . . . But there are, of course, good masters too.
In the next post: the possibility of an exchange.
Marvin L. Brown, Jr. A Revised Translation and Introduction and Notes, Baroness von Riedesel and the American Revolution: Journal and Correspondence of a Tour of Duty 1776-1783 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of NC Press, 1965), 83-86. The portrait appears HERE.
posted May 22nd, 2018 by Janet, Comments Off on "Sing another," he said . . . "but something jolly.", CATEGORIES: Convention Army,Hessians,Illness,Slaves/slavery,Virginia,von Riedesel, Baroness Frederika,von Riedesel, Lieutenant General Friedrich
"we got orders to go to Virginia"
Members of the Convention Army——British and Hessian troops surrendered by General John Burgoyne after the battle of Saratoga in 1777——became prisoners of war after Britain and the Continental Congress failed to reach an agreement which would have allowed the troops to return to England.(See previous post.) According to the prevailing conventions of warfare, prisoners of war were supposed to be provisioned by their own country, but this rule was often ignored or impracticable.
There were three ways for prisoners to gain some or all of their freedom: exchange, parole, and desertion. Only high ranking officers were candidates for exchange and this was negotiated by the Continental Congress. States and local governments could grant parole on an individual basis; parole allowed soldiers limited freedom contingent on their promise not to engage in fighting. Because it was hard to provide for POWs, they were often paroled to farmers to help till the soil and also to provide their own food. Some prisoners with their own funds or money sent by relatives could purchase extra food and other supplies. Quite a few prisoners would desert. With the British failing to send supplies for the prisoners, it fell to the states and local communities to provide them with food and shelter (even in some private homes), and to local militias to guard them. When a state reached the limit of its ability to care for prisoners the Continental Congress ordered them moved to another state.
One of the most interesting diaries of the Revolutionary War era is that of BARONESS FREDERIKA VON RIEDESEL. Her husband, Major General Friedrich von Riedesel, was an officer in charge of a contingent of Brunswickers recruited by the English to fight in America. He became the commander of all the Hessians (and Indians) in the Saratoga campaign. Seventy-seven wives had accompanied the Brunswicker soldiers including some wives of officers. Among them was Frederika who traveled from the Continent with three children, the youngest of whom was still a babe in arms, to join her husband in Canada. After the defeat at Saratoga she accompanied the Convention Army to Boston. She describes her arrival there.
We finally reached Boston, and our troops were quartered in barracks not far away, on Winter Hill. We were put up at a farmer's house, where we were given only one room in the attic. My maids slept on the floor, and the men in the hall. Some straw on which I had spread our bedding was all we had for a long while on which to sleep . . . .
We stayed in this place three weeks before we were then taken to Cambridge, where we were put up in one of the most beautiful houses, previously the property of royalists [loyalists]. [On Brattle Street which was called "Tory Row" because of the number of loyalists who resided there.] . . . .
We lived in Cambridge quite happily and would have liked to stay there as long as our troops were held prisoners, but as the winter drew near, we got orders to go to Virginia.
In January and February of 1779, during a hard winter, the troops and their followers, on low rations, were marched to Charlottesville, Virginia. Baron von Riedesel secured a carriage for his family but made the trip with his troops. The Baroness recounted experiences on the journey and upon her family's arrival in Virginia.
Before crossing the Blue Ridge Mountains we had to make another week's halt in order to give our troops a chance to reassemble. Meanwhile there had been so much snow that four of our men had to ride ahead of my carriage and make a path for us. We passed through picturesque country, but so rough and wild that it was frightening. Often our lives were in danger when we passed over breakneck roads, and we suffered terribly from the cold and, what was even worse, from lack of food. When we arrived in Virginia and had only another day to go before reaching our destination, we had nothing left but tea and some bread and butter, nor could we get anything else. One of the natives gave me a handful of dried fruit. At noon we arrived at a house where I asked for some food, but it was refused harshly with the remark that the people had nothing to give to the royalist dogs. I saw some Turkish flour [Indian meal] and begged for a couple of handfuls so that I could mix it with water and make some bread. The woman replied, "No, that is for our Negroes who work for us; you, however, wanted to kill us."
Our destination was called Colle, in Virginia, where my husband had gone on ahead with the troops and now awaited us with impatience and longing. We arrived there in the middle of February 1779, having gone from Boston through the provinces of Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, traveling 678 English miles, in about twelve weeks. . . . The troops were in Charlottesville, two hours away. One had to go through a beautiful forest to get to them. At first they were very uncomfortable there. They had log cabins, but these were not plastered, and they lacked doors and windows so they suffered terribly from the cold. They worked very hard to build better houses . . . and in a short time the place became a pretty town. Each of the barracks had a garden in the back and a nice little fenced in yard for poultry . . . . We had a large house built with a big room in the center and two smaller rooms on each side, which cost my husband a hundred guineas. . . . A number of Negroes brought us everything they had in the way of poultry and vegetables . . . . In the summer we suffered terribly from the heat and lived in constant fear of rattlesnakes, and the fruit was completely ruined by three sorts of insects. We had heavy thunderstorms, sometime five or six a day, and the wind was so terrific that a hundred trees or more were uprooted. . . . We had no chairs at all, only treestumps on which to sit, and these were also used for tables by laying boards across them. . . . My husband was always sad, and, what was more, he could not stand the heat at all, which went as high as 103 degrees and was most oppressive.
More about the von Riedesels and the Convention Army in the next post.
Marvin L. Brown, Jr. A Revised Translation and Introduction and Notes, Baroness von Riedesel and the American Revolution: Journal and Correspondence of a Tour of Duty 1776-1783 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of NC Press, 1965), pp. 68, 69, 72, 79, 80, 82-83. The portrait of the Baroness is by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein in 1829. The illustration is a framed 1789 engraving, "Encampment of the Convention Army at Charlottesville, ACHS 1848, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va. Other posts on Baroness von Riedesel can be found HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.
"great severities from the Frigidness"
John Jay, having been named minister plenipotentiary to Spain, sailed for Europe on October 20, 1779, accompanied by his wife Sarah. Their ship Confederacy met with severe weather and barely made it to Martinique where there was a considerable layover until another vessel could be secured. Catharine (Kitty) Livingston wrote, on 13 February 1780, to her sister from Philadelphia, expressing her concern.
How my dear sweet Sister was you supported in the hours of trial and danger; the appearance of death in so terrible a manner must have awaken[ed] every fear. You have indeed seen the wonders of the deep, and experienced in a remarkable manner the goodness and mercy of an indulgent providence. Your Friends have all reason to bless and thank God for his interposition in your favor, and it ought to console and encourage us to trust in the Author of your Salvation—For he spoke and it was done. he commanded and it stood fast.
Kitty continued, recounting details of the severe winter the country was enduring, envying (when she had thought Sarah was safely in Spain) "the temperance of your climate, whilst we were exposed to great severities from the Frigidness of ours."
Our Winter set in earlier and with more Severity than is remembered by the Oldest liver among us. The year thirty five, and forty is agreed from circumstances not [to] be compared to this; in neither of those severe Seasons was the Chesapeake at & twenty Miles below Anopolis a firm bridge as is and has been a long time the case. In Virginia it has impeded all Trade, several of there Vessels have been cut to peices and sunk by the ice. The Merchants here think many of there Vessels that they expected in have perished on our coast, the last that got in was the Jay*; and that was in November, and she was much injured by the Ice and it was expected for several days that she and her cargo would be lost.
To the Eastward the Snow impeded all traveling to the State of New York—it cut of[f] Communication from Neighbour to Neighbour. The last accounts from Fish Kill it was four feet deep on a level. Numbers of Families in this City have suffered from its severity altho many among them made great exertions for their releif. In New York the want of fuel was never known like it, they cut down every stick of timber on Mr. Byard's place** and would not permit [him] to keep any tho he offered to buy it. Several gentlemen went upon long Island and felled the trees, and after bringing it to town with their own horses it was seized for the Kings Troops [New York was occupied by the British], its reported of two families that the want of wood obliged them to lay a bed a week . . . .
You shall hear from me by every opportunity; at least I will write by every one. This letter is going to New London. I shall write to morrow by a Vessel that is to sail from Boston—till then I bid you adieu
* The ship, the Jay, was a Pennsylvania vessel of eighteen guns. There were three other vessels in the Continental service named Jay. One was Lady Jay. They saw action in the Revolution.
** William Bayard was a New York merchant who, initially sympathetic to the Patriot cause, ultimately became a firm Loyalist.
And we complain of the frigid weather and snow we have had recently (and, no doubt, more to come) when most of us are comfortable in our heated houses and can stay warm under our electric blankets!!
Kitty Livingston was not exaggerating in her description of the winter of 1779-80. George Washington, from his winter quarters in Morristown, New Jersey, wrote to Lafayette in March 1780, "The oldest people now living in this Country do not remember so hard a winter as the one we are now emerging from. In a word the severity of the frost exceeded anything of the kind that had ever been experienced in this climate before." There were twenty-six snow storms in New Jersey, six of which were blizzards. The illustration shows the type of hut soldiers encamped at Jockey Hill near Morristown occupied.
According to historian Ray Raphael, writing in the American History Magazine 2/4/2010:
In January 1780 . . . Mother Nature transformed America into a frigid hell. For the only time in recorded history, all of the saltwater inlets, harbors and sounds of the Atlantic coastal plain, from North Carolina northeastward, froze over and remained closed to navigation for a period of a month or more. Sleighs, not boats, carried cords of firewood across New York Harbor from New Jersey to Manhattan. The upper Chesapeake Bay in Maryland and the York and James rivers in Virginia turned to ice. In Philadelphia, the daily high temperature topped the freezing mark only once during the month of January, prompting Timothy Matlack, the patriot who had inscribed the official copy of the Declaration of Independence, to complain that "the ink now freezes in my pen within five feet of the fire in my parlour, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon."
Kitty's letter is in The John Jay Papers in the Columbia Digital Library Collections and can be seen HERE.
posted February 12th, 2018 by Janet, Comments Off on "great severities from the Frigidness", CATEGORIES: Jay, John,Jay, Sarah Livingston,Livingston, Catharine "Kitty",Maryland,Morristown, New Jersey,New York,Philadelphia,Virginia,Washington, George,Weather,Winter of 1780
" to be united with a gentleman of respectable connexions"
In 1796, when HARRIOT WASHINGTON was twenty years old, she caught the eye of Andrew Parks, a young merchant. He wrote to George Washington on April 1 seeking his consent to marry Harriot and asked Harriot's Aunt Betty, with whom she was still living, to do the same.
I have made my addresses to her and she has refered me to you, whose consent I am to acquire, or her objections to a Union with me are I am assur'd insuperable, having therefore no hope of possessing her, unless I should be so fortunate as to obtain your assent, and as my happiness measurably depends upon your determination, I shall endeavour by stating to you my situation and prospects in Life, to merit and induce your approbation. . . . "
Washington replied to Parks on the 7th that he would give the matter serious consideration warning the young man that
My neice Harriot Washington having very little fortune of her own, neither she, nor her friends, have a right to make that (however desirable it might be) a primary consideration in a matrimonial connexion. . . . My wish is to see my niece happy; one step towards which is, for her to be united with a gentleman of respectable connexions, and of good dispositions; with one who is more in the habit (by fair and honorable pursuits) of making, than in spending money—and who can support her in the way she has always lived.
Washington also wrote to his sister regarding the proposal; he was nothing if not thorough and told her that he would look into the young man's background and asked her to do the same.
Altho' she has no right to expect a man of fortune, she certainly has just pretensions to expect one whose connexions are respectable, & whose relations she could have no objection to associate with. How far this is, or is not the case with Mr Parks, I know not for neither his own letter, or yours give any acct of his family nor whether he is a native or a foreigner—& we have his own word only for his possessing any property at all altho' he estimates his fortune at £3000. A precarious dependance this when applied to a man in Trade.
Interestingly, Washington said he wished that Harriot could have remained single and settled at Mount Vernon to which he expected to return after the end of his presidency "because then she would have been in the way of seeing much company, and would have had a much fairer prospect of matching respectably than with one who is little known—and of whose circumstances few or none can know much about."
Parks wrote back to Washington at the end of April giving him the name of a reference (his brother-in-law and business partner), describing his financial situation and what he had to offer Harriot.
I hope I possess most of the requisites, necessary to make your Niece happy[,] I have been for several Years, accustom'ed to Business, which has, I am persuaded, kept me clear of a temper, for vicious dispositions; my connexions, are respectable generally, inasmuch as they are people of Business, and mostly in good circumstances. I have described to your Niece, as nearly as I could, what my Situation would afford, in the style of living; which wd not be more than genteel, and comfortable, this she sais, will perfectly satisfy her, and render her happy, provided you can think it sufficient.
After further assessments of Parks' suitability and his sister's remark that Harriot was "Old Enougf now to make choice for her self, and if they are not happy I believe it will be her one falt, he bars the Best caracter of any young Person that I know." Washington gave his consent to the marriage which occurred on July 16, 1796. Washington footed the bill and invited the young couple to Mount Vernon when business would allow. They did pay a visit in September of 1798.
Information on this segment of Harriot Washington's life can be found HERE, April 5, 2017. Sources for quoted passages of letters: "To George Washington from Andrew Parks, 1 April 1796," http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/99-01-02-00396. "From George Washington to Andrew Parks, 7 April 1796," http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/99-01-02-00413. "From George Washington to Betty Washington Lewis, 7 April 1796," Founders Online, National Archives, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/99-01-02-00411. "To George Washington from Betty Washington Lewis, 5 July 1796," http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/99-01-02-00691. All are from Founders Online National Archives and were last modified on June 29, 2017. They are Early Access documents from The Papers of George Washington and are not the authoritative final versions.
posted July 6th, 2017 by Janet, Comments Off on " to be united with a gentleman of respectable connexions", CATEGORIES: Courtship,Lewis, Betty Washington,Marriage,Parks, Andrew,Virginia,Washington, George,Washington, Harriot
"the thing's that were sent are very pretty"
The year 1794 found HARRIOT WASHINGTON writing once more to her uncle, George Washington, who had promised his deceased brother Samuel to look after her, asking for money to buy a few articles of clothing. Harriet had been living with George Washington's sister Betty Washington Lewis at her home Kenmore in Fredericksburg, Virginia, when she received an invitation in November of 1793 from Betty's married daughter, Betty Lewis Carter, to visit with her in Culpeper, Virginia. Preparing to return to Fredericksburg Harriot wanted something new to wear for the celebration of Washington's birthday.
Culpeper [Va.] January [7, 1794]I hope My dear Uncle will excuse my troubling him so soon again, but as he is the only Freind, on earth that I can apply to, for any thing I am induced to think that my necesity will apologize for me. I have spent the winter in Culpeper with Cousin Carter, in a very retired manner, we have scarcely seen a person since we came up, and as I am just a going to return to Fredericksburg, I shall be thousand time's oblieged to My dear Uncle, if he will give me as much money as will get me a silk jacket and a pair of shoes to wear to the birth night as that will be the first Ball I shall have been to this winter.
Cousin Carter join's me in love to you and Aunt Washington. I am My dear Uncle Your affectionate Neice
Harriot Washington
Harriot thanked her uncle in a letter of February 9 for "the bundle" she received, noting that "the thing's that were sent are very pretty," and "there could not be any procured here as handsome." According to two entries dated 11 March 1794 in George Washington's Household Accounts, he paid $19.19 for "sundry articles" sent to Harriot and 25 cents for the freight to Fredericksburg of the box containing these articles. It is interesting that Harriot received clothing rather than money.
Citation: "To George Washington from Harriot Washington, 7 January 1794," and "To George Washington from Harriot Washington, 9 February 1794," Founders Online, National Archives, last modified March 30, 2017, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-15-02-0038. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 15, 1 January–30 April 1794, ed. Christine Sternberg Patrick. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009, pp. 49–50, p. 206.]
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...says the dink that lives in an alternate reality, and isn't part of the earth at all.
What's a "fught"? You're drooling again, loser.
So you're saying a $15+ minimum wage is worthwhile? That consumers (including immigrants who PAY TAXES and BUY THINGS!) affect the economy? That Americans *might* take a low-paying job to keep "furr'ners" from doing so? That businesses actually HIRE immigrants?
Twitler got a day of self-praise and the world laughing at it.
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Rev. Sloan standing in the upper balcony of New Vision Church. Rev. Ian Sloan has plans for New vision Church by turning it into a concert venue. New Vision United Church is trying to raise funds for renovations that would allow it to become a mid-size concert space. – Photo by Gary Yokoyama, The Hamilton Spectator
Downtown Hamilton church re-envisions itself as a concert hall
NEWS Oct 26, 2017 by Graham Rockingham Hamilton Spectator
If Hamilton wants to truly consider itself a "music city," it needs a mid-sized performance venue, something smaller than the 2,100-seat FirstOntario Concert Hall and something bigger than the 450-capacity Studio at Hamilton Place, something that can hold 600 to 1,100 people.
Rev. Ian Sloan at New Vision United Church has a simple solution. Bring his congregation's 149-year-old building up to building and fire code regulations and you have a concert hall just the right size, with outstanding sightlines and proven acoustics.
Not only that, but you help preserve an important part of the city's heritage.
"It provides for flexible staging," says Sloan, "not just music, but theatre and dance.
Just think of it." ~ Rev. Ian Sloan
"Why build a new one?" asks Sloan, who has headed the church since 2009. "This is probably one of the most significant buildings in the city. I can't imagine how many lives have been through here."
If you're not familiar with New Vision, it's that big red-brick building at the corner of Main West and MacNab, next to the HSR bus terminal and a stone's throw east of Hamilton Place. Perfect location for a music hall, no?
On Thursday, between 5 and 7 p.m., the church is opening its doors to the public with an open house. The object is to show off the building's potential. There'll be performances by Juno-winning blues guitarist Steve Strongman, organist Shawn Grenke, the Hamilton Children's Choir and members of the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra. There will also be representatives from Toronto-based ERA Architects who recently completed a study of what it would take to transform the building into a performance space while preserving its heritage.
Built in 1868 as a Methodist church, it was called Centenary until 2014 when it amalgamated with St. Giles United and changed its name to New Vision.
Sloan says his congregation is committed to the idea of turning the building into a concert hall, so much so that this summer they took the pews out of the church's main floor.
The move didn't affect worship. About 50 or 60 regulars have been holding services downstairs in the church hall for the past two years. But without the pews, you can really see what a versatile performance space it could be.
A horseshoe shaped balcony seats 600. You could put another 500 or so concertgoers in chairs on the main floor where the pews used to be. Or, even better, put a stage in the centre, theatre-in-the-round style.
"It provides for flexible staging," says Sloan, "not just music, but theatre and dance. Just think of it."
You don't have to think too hard. The church has played host to some fairly significant acts in recent years including Whitehorse, Joel Plaskett, The Barr Brothers, the Arkells and Terra Lightfoot.
Last year, American folk-rock group The National headlined a Syrian refugee benefit at the church. It sold 800 tickets at $100 apiece. The promoters (Sonic Unyon Records) of the benefit could have sold a couple hundred more but the city refused to allow more people in.
The publicity garnered by the refugee benefit made city fire safety and building code officials take notice. The church, they realized, wasn't up to code for concerts. Church services are exempt from such regulations, but not other forms of assembly, like concerts.
Sloan sat down with city officials to determine what was needed to bring the building up to code. A firewall and new stairwell exits are needed to meet fire safety regulations, and 21 new bathroom fixtures to meet building code (there are currently only four). Total cost is in the vicinity of $1 million, including improvements to the inner lobby.
Sloan also envisions more amenities, such as an elevator from the eastside alley to aide acts loading into the facility.
City officials have given the green light for another concert (maximum capacity 800, general admission $29.99) Nov. 18 by Daniel Lanois, the Hamilton-raised musician best known for producing Grammy-winning records by world famous acts such as U2, Robbie Robertson and Bob Dylan.
Sloan, however, would like to see a lot more events at New Vision, as many as two a month. First, he needs to bring the building up to code. And that would take money, something the congregation doesn't have. The congregation isn't ready yet to launch a funding campaign, but that will come, hopefully, with the momentum built around Thursday's open house.
The building is also undergoing a city heritage assessment, which may make it eligible for grants to preserve certain features deemed historically significant. Potential heritage grants, however, would only cover a fraction of the costs.
"The main thing is that we're committed to getting this thing open," Sloan says. "We've got the building and we've got the spirit."
All they need is the money.
Graham Rockingham is the Hamilton Spectator's music editor.
Photos by Gary Yokoyama, The Hamilton Spectator
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Brendan's been regularly busting his prepaid data plan and we thought we'd pay the local Umobile office a visit to discuss alternatives. The nearest office is located at AEON AU2, and since it was already lunchtime we decided to try their food court. We've always enjoyed AEON (what was formerly known as Jusco)'s food courts, and think that their Rawang and Taman Maluri outlets serve some amazing dishes at pretty reasonable prices.
Cat tried their 1Sotong Set; Brendan ordered the Sizzling Lamb Chop while I had a hankering for 2Nasi Lemak.
Truth be told, the dishes were pretty average and did not meet our expectations (we thoroughly enjoyed our Rawang and Taman Maluri visits). Furthermore, although being an AEON food court we gather the pricing differs from branch to branch, since the total including a round of Coca-Cola for everyone came to a spend thrifty RM40.29 (with 6% tax).
Since this outlet caters to a lot of senior executives and ex-pats attached to the national petroleum company living in the vicinity AEON has seen it fit to personalize their price scale to fit these affluent people, eh? We won't be coming here anytime soon then.


I don't like to revisit the same hikes too many times, but I could never get tired of this place, especially at night. I can't get over how amazing the view is. I just love the city lights & somehow, it always looks different every time I go. Not to mention, the stairs are a great workout, even if you only do one set.
Tuesday [1.6.15] was the first day it was warm in the last month. Ya, it's been freezing in LA this winter… Like 50s. I'm a SoCal girl, born and raised, so I'm not used to this kind of cold weather on a daily basis. I'm used to 70 degrees, sunny winter weather. ☀😎. But ya, I wanted to take advantage of the weather and since I was conveniently down the street at my pole class, I had to hike up the stairs. The moon was also so big and beautiful, it just lit up the whole hill.
On a separate note, today (Wednesday evening) was my first day back at my Step and Strength class. I miss it. Classes were cancelled because of the holidays and now we are learning completely new steps which we haven't in awhile. I don't think I like it much either though. Maybe I'm just not a fan of change, but I haven't liked any of the new routines in my gym classes so far.
Oh & I just have to note (more for myself) — on Monday, I weight maybe 2-4lbs less than my usual. Today, I weight another 1lb less, putting me at the lightest weight in years. This was also measured before dinner (I tend to blow up after). My belly still seems bloated though so I think it's partially due to losing muscles along with fat from eating better… Which I am actually really surprised at considering how much junk food I've consumed in the last few weeks.
Now in my opinion, I don't think a person's physique can be best measured by weight just because someone can be toned with muscle mass and weights a decent amount, compared to a skinny person with the same body frame and no muscles that weights much less. I'm not see which is better. I think it is personal preference.


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Scenes 47-49 : Rabban's Wrath
Having been ordered to leave Dune, Rabban is drunk with anger, and his Harkonnen army are massacring men, women and children in Arrakeen.
Rabban sees the Guild ship carrying the Atreides approaching and spits and swears at it.
At the Palace beggars look longingly through the fence at the fountain and palm grove. Rabban and his soldiers suddenly appear and blow up the fountain killing several bystanders.
Rabban grabs an old man and asks him how much water the 20 palm trees need - enough water for 100 men every day.
Rabban then has the old man and other survivors bound against the trees before they are set alight.
Entering the Palace Rabban orders every servant killed, Rabban himself slaughtering children with glee.
Finally Rabban orders ever Harkonnen soldier into the hall, and once it is full they are commanded to defecate!
The defecating scene is mentioned by the Jodorowsky's Dune documentary director Frank Pavich in an interview on Indiewire
'In order to insult Duke Leto, David Carradine, Rabban the Beast gets his army, the Algerian army, to pull down their pants in front of the palace and shit. So there's going to be a scene of 2,000 extras defecating at once. So here's Charlotte Rampling, she agrees to meet with Jodo, she gets the script, she reads the script, and she says, "I can't be in a movie where there's 2,000 extras defecating on screen!" '
On the Japanese Blu-ray of the Jodorowsky's Dune documentary there is a deleted scene in which Jodorowsky talks about this scene, unfortunately it is in Spanish with Japanese subtitles!
In the official Jodorowsky's Dune Script from a Ulule crowd funding campaign for Jodorowsky's "Psychomagic, an art that heals" movie, the defecating scene has been removed, persumably cut from an early draft.
Apparently this scene didn't make it into the Moebius storyboards, but as there are no publicly available images of the boards for this section of the script it is sadly not possible to know if Rabban's rampage is included in any fashion.
In the next part the Atreides arrive on Dune - although there is no mention of if they appreciated Rabban's gift of moisture!
Continue to Part 17: Atreides Arrival


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The audience of the preaching and the book of JeremiahProphet who condemned Judah's infidelity to God, warned of Babylonian conquest, and promised a new covenant
Jeremiah's ministry to the people of Israel took place over the course of some forty years, beginning in 627 B.C.E. and continuing through the time of the fall of Jerusalem in 587 B.C.E. We don't know the end-date of his ministry or his life, but Jeremiah 40-44 report some prophetic activity after the fall. Many texts give us examples of this preaching, particularly in Jeremiah 1-20. But the audience for this preaching is different from the audience of the book (with some overlap), which is "finished" by other editors/authors sometime after his death. The date of the completion of the book is not known, but at least one major edition was addressed to the exiles in Babylon (see 1:3) and they are a "new audience" for the earlier words of the prophet.
The Babylonians
The Babylonians are the dominant foreign power during much of Jeremiah's ministry and play a prominent role in the book. The Assyrians had dominated the region during the seventh century B.C.E., but were defeated by the Babylonians at the battle of Nineveh (612 B.C.E.). NebuchadnezzarBabylonian king who conquered Jerusalem, destroyed the Temple, and exiled the people ascended the throne of Babylon in 605 B.C.E., and he set his sights on further conquests. Babylon defeated Egypt and its allies at the battle of Carchemish in 605 B.C.E. and secured control of the region, including Israel. When King JehoiakimOne of the last kings of Judah. Jehoiakim was the son of Josiah. rebelled against Babylonian rule in 601 B.C.E., Babylon moved against Jerusalem, which fell in 597 B.C.E., and put Zedekiah, another son of JosiahJudean king noted for his reforms of Israel's worship in the time of Jeremiah, on the throne. Zedekiah also rebelled against Babylon, despite Jeremiah's counsel, and Babylon responded by razing the city and the templeThe Jerusalem temple, unlike the tabernacle, was a permanent structure, although (like the tabernacle) it was a place of worship and religious activity. On one occasion Jesus felt such activity was unacceptable and, as reported in all four Gospels, drove from the temple those engaged…, humiliating the Davidic king, and sending many Israelites into exile (587 B.C.E.). Babylon appointed a leading Judean citizen, Gedaliah, to govern JudahJudah was the name of Jacob's fourth son and one of the 12 tribes.; but within a few years anti-Babylonian zealots assassinated Gedaliah, and more Judeans were exiled to Babylon (approximately 582 B.C.E.). Other Judeans, ignoring Jeremiah's counsel, migrated to Egypt and took Jeremiah with them (40:7-44:30). Jeremiah apparently died in Egypt.
The Book of Consolation
Jeremiah 30-33 (some include only chapters 30-31) is often referred to as the Book of Consolation. Written in both poetry and prose, the oracles announce God's future restoration of Israel, and the narratives are a concrete symbolization of God's new possibilities for Israel. That these materials are included at this point in the text is something of a puzzle, but may be an indication that even in the midst of the certain judgment to come, God's saving will was at work on behalf of the people of God. The oracles are usually placed in the second person direct address. As such, they become a very personal word from God to a people who are enduring deep suffering.
The book's rhetorical strategy
As noted, the book of Jeremiah is addressed to the exiles in Babylon in the wake of the fall of Jerusalem. The book is thus addressed to the people of God at a time when they have been traumatized by these disastrous events. The book is most basically concerned to address itself in as forthright a way as possible to these survivors. It seeks to use the heritage of Jeremiah to address ongoing personal, spiritual, and religious needs of a devastated and questioning community. Their most compelling question is one that regularly punctuates the text (for example, 5:19; 9:12; 13:22; 14:19; 16:10; 22:8): "Why is the land ruined and laid waste like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?" (9:12). The book stakes a theological claim that these events occurred not because Israel's God was incompetent or uncaring, but because the people of God were unfaithful. The intended effect is to bring to the shamed and hurting exiles a clear word about the kind of God who has been active among them, a God who will, finally, make all things new. To that end, language is used in a starkly realistic way, through the use of vivid portrayals, piercing images, and harsh, outrageous metaphors. This language is used especially to highlight the people's infidelity and to depict the horrendous judgment through which they have passed. The suffering of the people is fully recognized. But because of the suffering of God in and through their experiences, their tears will not have the last word.
The call of Jeremiah as literary convention
The report of the call of Jeremiah is outlined in ways similar to other divine calls (for example, Moses in Exodus 3; Isaiah 6). The common elements in the calls include: the divine encounter (Jeremiah 1:4); the introductory word (1:5a); the commission (1:5b, 10); the objection (1:6); the divine reassurance (1:7-8); the sign (1:9-10, 11-16). The "objection" component is important, not least because it helps readers to see that, though Jeremiah was called by God from his mother's womb, the call was still able to be resisted (see also 20:7-8).
The formation of the book of Jeremiah
The formation of the book of Jeremiah has been the subject of considerable debate. Scholars generally agree that the book achieved its present form over an extended period of time, continuing beyond the time of Jeremiah himself, but the details are disputed.
Several prominent sources have been suggested: the poetic oracles, especially in Jeremiah 2-25; the prose accounts of the ministry of Jeremiah, especially chapters 26-29 and 34-45; various editorial reworkings. The formation of the book has been described as "a rolling corpus" (William McKane, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Jeremiah [Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1986] vol. 1, p. 1). That is, a nucleus of basic texts has been built up over time by other texts, at each stage of which further reflections are generated. This process was somewhat haphazard, with the result that clarity and coherence are not always present.
The Greek translation of Jeremiah
An especially striking characteristic of Jeremiah is the significant difference between the SeptuagintThe Septuagint is a pre-Christian (third to first century BCE) Greek translation of the Jewish Scriptures. It is believed that the term Septuagint derives from the number of scholars-seventy (or seventy-two)-who reputedly did the work of translation. (or LXX, the Greek translation) and the original Hebrew. The LXX is one-seventh shorter than the Hebrew; the latter has 3,097 words that the LXX does not have, while the LXX has 307 words that the Hebrew does not have. The LXX has the same number of chapters, but they are somewhat differently arranged; the most striking is that Jeremiah 46-51 in the Hebrew is placed after 25:13a in the LXX (and in a different order). The LXX normally expands on the Hebrew text in the Old Testament, but not in Jeremiah. This suggests to many scholars that the LXX was an earlier version of Jeremiah and not a later shortened version. This may mean that the LXX translation took place before the book had been completed, but it is difficult to say.
Jeremiah and BaruchThe scribe of the prophet Jeremiah.
Jeremiah is the only prophet who has a personal secretary and companion. We know little about him, however. Baruch is given an explicit role in the transmission of Jeremiah's oracles (see 36:4, 32). Baruch is often given a considerable role in the composition of other parts of the book, especially those prose sections that portray Jeremiah's activities (see 36-45), but this is speculative. Jeremiah does speak a specific word of the Lord to Baruch in Jeremiah 45. Later Jewish literature develops the relationship between Jeremiah and Baruch (see the deuterocanonical book Baruch), and some tendency exists to read that later material back into the life of Jeremiah.
Jeremiah and its readers
Texts are not autonomous, independent of those who read them, nor can they communicate without a reader. So, to at least some degree, meaning is not simply found in the mind of the author, nor is it inherent in the text. The meaning of the text is the result of the conversation between the text and its readers. As a result, no single meaning is available in any text; indeed, meaning changes over time, even for the same reader, because readers change. Meanings of texts, then, will always be open-ended to some degree; they are not fixed and stable. At the same time, while the texts can mean many things, they cannot mean anything. Constraints on meaning possibilities exist; these include the text itself, historical background information, and the many and diverse communities within which readers and texts reside.
Jeremiah and the theological task
The book of Jeremiah is filled with theological reflection, that is, reflections about God and the divine-human relationship. The word "theology" for what the Bible contains has been suspect in scholarly circles, not least because that word is thought to introduce subjective factors into an "objective" or "descriptive" enterprise. But it has increasingly been evident that every reader of the text, from whatever angle, introduces subjective factors into biblical study, whether admitted or not. At best, one might attempt a relatively objective approach. Theological analysis is not innately any more subjective than historical or literary study. In view of such analysis, most scholars recognize that it is no longer appropriate to distinguish between what the text meant and what the text means. All questions asked of the text are contemporary questions, and all results of our work are, finally, constructive.
Jeremiah in other ancient literature
The tradition of Jeremiah as a "weeping prophet" is reinforced by 2 Chronicles 35:25 and the introduction to the book of Lamentations in the Septuagint, which ascribes that book to Jeremiah. Several apocryphal and pseudepigraphical books imagine varying accounts of his ministry (for example, Baruch; the Letter of Jeremiah; 2 Maccabees; 2-4 Baruch). Jeremiah is mentioned in the New Testament only in MatthewA tax collector who became one of Jesus' 12 disciples (2:17; 16:14; 27:9). Citations of Jeremiah in the New Testament are relatively infrequent. The most famous uses of Jeremiah are the references to the new covenantBecause Israel had broken the old covenant, the prophet Jeremiah declared that God would establish a new covenant, one that would be written on the heart. The New Testament is often referred to as the New Covenant because Jesus came to fulfill the law and… (1 Corinthians 11:25; 2 Corinthians 3:5-6; Hebrews 8:8-12; 10:16-17), after which the New Testament derives its name.
Jeremiah's laments
Six texts in Jeremiah 11-20 have been identified as the laments or "confessions" of Jeremiah. They usually include 11:18-20; 12:1-4; 15:10, 15-18; 17:14-18; 18:18-23; 20:7-13, 14-18 (other texts also have been so designated, for example, 4:19-22; 8:18-9:1). These blunt and intense laments belong to the same genreA genre is a type or category of something, often literature. Form criticism (see) begins with sorting biblical literature into various genres. as many lament psalms (for example, PsalmA psalm is a song of praise. In the Old Testament 150 psalms comprise the psalter, although some of the psalms are laments and thanksgivings. In the New Testament early Christians gathered to sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. 13). These texts are grounded in the personal prayers of Jeremiah. They reflect Jeremiah's calling to be a spokesman of God to a people antagonistic to such a word and to the one who bears that word. These prayers reveal how he feels in being squeezed between an insistent God and a resistant people.
Luther on Jeremiah
Martin Luther already recognized the complexity of the formation of the book of Jeremiah. His preface to the book includes these comments: "So, it seems as though Jeremiah did not compose these books himself, but that the parts were taken piecemeal from his utterances and written into a book. For this reason one must not worry about the order or be hindered by the lack of it" (Luthers Works, 35:280-281).
The portrayal of Jeremiah
Jeremiah is unique with respect to the amount of material that speaks about the prophet's personal journey. At the same time, the book betrays no interest in giving readers a biography of the prophet (witness the lack of reference to his birth and death). Considerable scholarly disagreement exists regarding the extent to which the book's portrayal corresponds to reality. Some scholars think the book narrates the story of the prophet in a relatively straightforward way. Others think that the portrayal of the prophet has been idealized, with only shadowy links to historical reality. Most scholars find their way between these two poles. The book presents us with both a powerful personality and an interpretation of his person and ministry. The result is that Jeremiah emerges as both more than and less than the actual historical prophet. All personal matters about the prophet are not presented for biographical purposes, but are in the service of the word of God that the book puts forward for its readers.
The speaker of Jeremiah
Sometimes Jeremiah speaks in the first person, as in his call (1:4, 11). At other times, the story is about Jeremiah, presented in the third person, especially in the last half of the book (see, for example, 25:1; 27:1). Jeremiah's secretary Baruch is often thought to be responsible for the third person narrative. At other times, readers cannot clearly sort out whether it is God or Jeremiah who is speaking (4:19-22; 8:18-9:3).
The structure of Jeremiah
The structure of the book of Jeremiah is something of a puzzle, not least because of the inconsistent chronological ordering of materials (for example, 21:1-2 is dated around 588 B.C.E.; 24:1 then is dated in 597 B.C.E.; 25:1 then jumps back to 605 B.C.E.). It is probably best to divide Jeremiah into two major blocks of materials (chapters 2-24 and 26-51, with chapter 25 a hinge), with an introductory and a concluding chapter. The first half of the book emphasizes judgment (though promise themes are present); the last half stresses salvationSalvation can mean saved from something (deliverance) or for something (redemption). Paul preached that salvation comes through the death of Christ on the cross which redeemed sinners from death and for a grace-filled life.. Scholars sharply disagree regarding the flow of thought within these two halves of the book. In any case, the book does not present a single argument in any usual sense or a clear historical development; it might be best to think of a kaleidoscopic or impressionistic portrayal of this highly conflicted time of Israel's life and thought.


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Last week, Colorado Parks and Wildlife demoted one of its employees from the field as a law enforcement officer to another park, where he now serves as a technician. The real question is why he has a job at all.
That's because Travis McKay, a park ranger at Trinidad Lake State Park, was ticketed for poaching a trophy mule deer after hunting hours using artificial light, according to The Denver Post. According to Rick Cables, director of CPW, plenty of people within the organization were upset McKay wasn't fired. No kidding.
According to The Denver Post, the officer who stopped McKay after his kill noticed it wasn't tagged properly. McKay then lied to the officer about when the deer was shot, but text messages from McKay's phone indicated it was well after dark. Eventually McKay admitted to using artificial light, was fined $11,000 and demoted to maintenance worker at another park.
We understand not everyone is as quick to fire a person as Donald Trump, but this is a bit ridiculous. After completely violating everything a park ranger — and a park service — is meant to protect, there's no way you can keep a person like that on your staff and retain your credibility as an organization. Yes, he got relegated to the Siberia of the parks department, but it's not enough. The punishment falls woefully short of the crime.
As a result, we at Petersen's Hunting are presenting McKay with the "You're Fired!" Award. It's not quite as good as the real thing, but it's just about as shameful.


There's something quite important that I've learnt since I started working here: SEO is an ever changing game.
Marketing to the search engines isn't as straight forward as getting links and pointing them at a website. What works and what doesn't is always changing, keeping online marketers always on their toes.
Take the recent Google "Penguin" update, for instance. This, and its later 1.1 refresh, has been part of 4 huge updates that Google have confirmed just since I started working in SEO between February and now – but there may have been more that we don't even know about. Also included in these updates were refreshes to the "Panda" update from last year.
Each one of these updates slightly changes what it is the online marketers have to do to rate a site higher, and this is only once they've figured out what effect the update is having to begin with.
The first step to moving a website back up the search results after it's been knocked down by one of these updates is establishing which update brought the hit. It could be Penguin, Panda or a mysterious unknown update Google didn't even announce.
It's confusing stuff, especially with the updates that Google keeps quiet about. Keeping on top of these updates and how it could affect a sites ranking is half the SEO game on its own, especially when currently good practices of link building could switch suddenly into a negative.
When Google wants to change something, they will. All the rest of us can do is try to keep up to date, keep on top of Google's guidelines and cross our fingers that our site won't be messed about by the next change.
Ben Frisby was an Online Marketing Executive here at Boom Online Marketing. He's now one of our alumni!


DETAILS: Made for you, to give to them, to use on another! The Eco-Luxe range is named after its unique quality to re-use and recycle each part of this stylish Christmas set.
Each box contains 8 greetings cards incorporating 4 typographical and illustrative designs. Once the cards have been sent to your friends and family, each receiver can re-use the card as a luxury Christmas gift tag by simply cutting along the dotted lines and punching out the hole shown on the inside of the card.
Second to that, you get to keep the box the cards come in and by trimming the bottom of the package tag (where indicated) you have a ready-made gift tag to write on and attach to the twine provided, before re-tying and sending on with your choice of gift inside.
The Eco-Luxe cards are professionally printed on a luxury heavyweight 365gsm card stock that is 100% recycled and is also recyclable. The print and board is sourced in the UK to reduce carbon footprint. Each card measures 110mm x 110mm and comes with a scarlet red envelope. The gift box tag is printed on a white gold pearlescent paperstock. All card stock is sourced from FSC approved forests.
Please note, the ribbon/twine shown on the gift tags are not included in the box set – the tag ties are to be added to the gift tag by the receiver (although the gift box does come secured in the pretty twine shown).


The Ramayana is a guidebook, a sacred text, an inspiring scripture for every man in all lands, whatever his creed or condition might be. It imparts poise, balance, equanimity, inner strength and peace. Peace is the best treasure, without it power, authority, fame and fortune are all dry and burdensome. Thyagaraja has sung that there can be no happiness without inner peace.
The Ramayana and the Mahabharata are two most important epics of Ancient India. The Ramayana is the older of the two and was authored by Maharishi Valmiki at the instance of Sage Narada.
The Word – Ramayana - means life-story of Rama. The original work was in Sanskrit, though later on, Saint Tulsi Das wrote it n Hindi poetry under the title Ramcharitmanas. Our series is, however, based on the original Sanskrit Text.
In south India, Kamban wrote the Ramayana in Tamil while Kirtivasa wrote it in Bengali.
As remarked by Saint Narada, the Ramayana came to be a sacred book. People study it with deep devotion and reverence not only in India but in some countries of the Far East too.
Because of its highly lesson-giving ideals, the Ramayana has been serving as a light-house for the people of India. Its ideals of true family-relationships, dutifulness, purity in thinking, tolerance and virtue are working a wonder even today in the face of polluting western influences which are more concerned with materialism than with noble values.
'Ramayana' is an epic which needs no introduction as its story is well know to every Indian. Different versions and editions of 'Ramayana' are available in all the Indian languages as well as many of the foreign ones. But the format, in which we are present 'Ramayana', is unique.
We are bringing out 'Ramayana' in twelve parts. The last two parts are based on "Lava-Kush" episode which is not found in mot of the editions of 'Ramayana'. The exclusive feature of the present 'Ramayana" is the importance given to pictures. The reason behind it is not only that young readers love pictures, but also that they find it easy to understand and learn the matter given in any illustrated book.
No other edition of 'Ramayana' can claim abundance of multi-coloured attractive pictures like the one here. We are confident the labour and devotion, with which our artists and authors have worked on this project, will be appreciated. We also hope that the readers will oblige us by sending their valuable remarks.
Long, long ago, there was a king named Dashrath in India. He had his capital at Ayodhya. He was a brave but God-fearing ruler who loved his subjects as his children. He had three queens named Kaushalya, Kaikeyee and Sumitra. The queens were very beautiful, pious and virtuous ladies.
Dashrath belonged to the dynasty started from the Sun-god himself. So, he worshipped the Sun daily as a guided by the royal priest who was named Vasishtha.
In spite of the comforts of stately life, the king and his three queens were not happy. The reason was that none of the queens had given birth to any child so far. So, the kingdom was without a crown-prince.
The King and the Queens were well past middle age. So, the king had lost all hope to be blessed with a son. "Who will succeed to my throne after me?" he often asked himself.
The king folded his hands and said, "I am ready to do anything." He, then, requested the royal priest to make arrangements for the son-granting worship.
"This worship is to be performed by Saint Shringi. Go to his hermitage bare-foot and request him for it," remarked Vasishtha.
The saint agreed and accompanied the king to Ayodya. He performed the worship.
As soon as it was over, the Fire-god appeared out of the fire with a pot in his hands. It contained the holy Prasad for the queens.
"Your wish is granted, O king! Take this pot to you palace and ask your queens to share its contents," said the god. Saying so, he disappeared. The king was very happy indeed.
After the Yajna, Saint Shringi left for his hermitage. Seeking Sage Vasishtha's permission, king Dashrath went into the palace. Seeing a pot in his hand, all the three queens cane running to him. They were very excited indeed.
"What is there in this pot?" asked the queens. The king told them all about the Yajna and handed over the pot to Kaushalya, the eldest queen. Then all the three queens shared the Prasad as directed by Fire-god.
Before long, th king got the news that all the three queens were in the family way. He was beside himself with joy. In his heart of hearts, he thanked the Almighty and both the saints as well. His wish was going to be fulfilled.
Days rolled by followed by weeks and months. In time, approached the day of the births of four princes of Ayodhya. This auspicious day was the ninth day of the waxing moon in the month of Chaitra. The three queens bore four lovely sons in the evening. King Dashrath had become the father of four sons.
Kaushalya, the eldest queen, gave birth to one son and Kaikeyee too. But Sumitra bore two male twins. The town of Ayodhya put on a new look and celebrations went of for a number of days.
As for the royal palace, it resounded with shouts of joy. Everyone was happy at the births of the princes. The maids and attendants were given awards and gifts by the king and the queens. There was joy and bliss everywhere around.
Festivities continued for days together on end. Bazaars and streets were profusely decorated with bunting and colourful gates. Rows of lit lamps were kept on the balconies at night. Ladies of the town were specially happy. They marched to the palace in groups singing joyful songs to congratulate the queens.
King Dashrath despatched a special messenger to convey the happy news to Sage Vasishtha. The Sage came to the palace to bless the new-born princes. A large number of sadhus and Brahmans were with him too.
The king paid his respects to all the saints and gave them gold, clothes and cows in alms. Saint Shringi was specially honoured in a befitting manner. He blessed the entire royal family and the four princes in particular.
Merriment and celebrations went on for over a month. When the princes were forty days old, their christening ceremony was held. The king requested Sage Vasishtha to suggest befitting names for the four princes.
The royal priest (Vasishtha) performed the naming ceremony and named Kaushalya's son Rama, the source of bliss. As for Kaikeyee's son, he named Bharata – caretaker of one and all.
"Queen Sumitra's eldest son is born to destroy the enemies; so he should be named Shatrughna. Her youngest son is to possess the best of human qualities. So, he is to be named Laxmana," said Sage Vasishtha.
The queens like the names very much. They were indeed extremely delighted.
Rama, the eldest prince, had a sallow complexion. But he was extremely handsome. The gold chain around his waist and the amulets on his arms added to his personal charms all the more. He was the apple of the king's eye. All the three queens loved him most dearly too.
Rama's movements and pranks were very fascinating indeed. He was the talk of the entire palace. Whoever saw him, he/she wanted to take him into his/her arms and fondle him lovingly.
All the other three princes were fair-complexioned. The king and the queens were almost always lost in their dear sons. They fed them with their own hands and could ill-afford to let them be away from their eyes even for a moment.
In due course, the princes grew young. The king requested the royal priest to perform their thread ceremony. This done, their formal education started. First of all, they were imparted training in shooting arrows.
Rama was the most handsome and lovable of all the princess. He was cool-tempered and patient by nature. Lakshmana was more attached to Rama from the very beginning though he was quick to anger. As for Bharata and Shatrughna, they were very intimate.
As the princes grew up further, the king decided to send them to the ashram (hermitage) of Sage Vasishtha for all-round education befitting the then princes.
There they were to live as continents (brahmacharis) till the age of 25 years and attain knowledge at the feet of the great guru.
The princes were soon informed that they were to go to the hermitage of the royal priest. So, they prepared themselves for that. Soon, they got their hair shorn and dressed up as continents in coarse clothes of saffron colour.
Then the princes, led by Rama; went to their mothers to seek their permission to leave the palace. The mothers felt shocked at the very idea of separation from their sons. But the family tradition was to be followed.
So, they had to send them off but with heavy hearts and tears in their eyes.
At Sage Vasishtha's hermitage, the princes started learning various disciplines at the feet of the great teacher. The Sage imparted them knowledge befitting the princes of a great kingdom.
The princes devoted themselves to studies and served the sage as humbly as they could. He imparted them to the knowledge of the three aspects of Gods power – Creation, Preservation and Destruction.
Sage Vasishtha imparted instruction on state matters too to the four princes. Apart from it, he guided them in day-to-day worldly dealing as well. He explained to them the use of saam (allurement), daam (greed), dand (punishment) and bhed (division).
Sage Vasishtha explained to the princes that human body is made up of five elements – air, water, fire, earth and space. Also, that man is the supreme creature among all living-beings.
The princes took an oath to follow the instructions of the great teacher to the letter. They were now well-informed to step into the life of house-holders.
The princes were just nearing the end of Brahmacharya period. So, Sage Vasishtha decided to teach them the duties of a good ruler and the art of state-craft.
"In short, if a king is greater than his people, his duties are far heavier and harder too," said the great Sage.
The education of the princes having been complete, Sage Vasishtha sent message to king Dashrath. The king at once followed that the sage wanted the princes to return to Ayodhya. So, he sent Sumanta, his prime minister, to bring them home.
Sumanta collected stately robes for all the four princes and got ready to go to the hermitage of the sage. The queens were very impatient to see the princes.
The queens asked Sumanta to return without delay along with their sons. The king and the queens sent presents for Sage Vasishtha and other students of the ashram as well.
Sumanta left Ayodhya in a chariot promising the queens to return soon with their sons.
Sumanta reached the hermitage of Sage Vasishtha and touched the feet of the great teacher. He paid respects to him on behalf of the king and the queens also. Then folding his hands, he stated the purpose of his visit.
"I have taught you all I could. You must translate all my teachings into your day-to-day life. You shall be able to prove yourself to be good men. Not only this, you will be successful parts of the state-machinery also.
Sage Vasishtha was indeed very pleased to hear what the princes had said.
The princess put on the stately robes that Sumanta, the prime minister, had brought for them. Then they left for Ayodhya in his chariot. Soon, they reached their capital that had been nicely decorated in their honour.
People of Ayodhya thronged to welcome their princes who had returned after a number of years. Everybody was impatient to have a glimpse of the princes.
Rama, the crown-prince, was the chief attraction for one and all. People hailed him with garlands and raised slogans in his honour.
Soon the news of the return of the princes reached the palace also. The king and the queens became impatient to see their dear sons. They had fixed their eyes at the gates of the palace.
Soon a maid came running and informed the king of the arrival of the princes. King Dashrath was unable to control himself for joy indeed. He moved towards the gate to receive the princes.
Choked with emotion, the king took the princes into his arms and kissed them one by one. He asked them to go and pay their respect to their mothers.
So, the princes made for the chambers of their mothers who were waiting for them impatiently.
As soon as a maid came running in to inform the queens of the arrival of the princes, Kaushalya took off her necklaces and gave it away to the maid as her reward.
Just them the princes entered the chamber where the queens were waiting for them.
Seeing them, Kaushalya could not contain herself for joy. Rama first of all, touched the feet of Queen Kaikeyee who embraced him out of affection.
The princes paid their respects to the three queens one by one. Tears of joy had welled up in the eyes of the three queens who had seen their sons after many years. They kissed and fondled them as if they were small boys.
The day of the princes' arrival was celebrated as a festival. Alms were given to the poor generously. Presents were sent to the saints and Brahmans. Blessing kept pouring in all day from all quarters. Everyone prayed for the long life of the princes. Kaushalya fed them with her own hands.
Festivals went on for some days. Then the princes took to their daily duties. They got up in the morning and paid respects to their father and mothers. Then they got ready to attend the court. Rama, being the crown-prince, disposed of the state-matters entrusted to him. His brothers helped him in his task. The king was very pleased to see the princes going over their daily routine so carefully.
He was especially delighted to see Rama doing his duties for the good of the people who loved him very dearly.
This is going to be wonderful, I really enjoyed this first part and am anxiously awaiting the next.........keep um coming, as you know, I need all the help I can gather at present.
I have posted this conversation between Swami and Prof Anil Kumar, as it relates to the Ramayana.


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Q: Can I get to response headers in Loopback afterRemote hook? I have a Loopback model on which I am logging requests to keen.io using the afterRemote hook. http://docs.strongloop.com/display/public/LB/Remote+hooks#Remotehooks-ctx.result
I am also using the response-time package to add the response time header to the response. https://github.com/expressjs/response-time
This is working fine, expect I cannot figure out how to get to the X-Response-Time header in the response in order to log it to keen.io.
Can I get to the response headers in any way below?
module.exports = function(Studio) {
    var isStatic = true;
    var isNotStatic = false;
    Studio.disableRemoteMethod('deleteById', isStatic); // DELETE /Studios/{id}
    Studio.disableRemoteMethod('create', isStatic); // POST /Studios
    Studio.disableRemoteMethod('upsert', isStatic); // PUT /Studios
    Studio.disableRemoteMethod('updateAll', isStatic); // POST /Studios/update
    Studio.disableRemoteMethod('updateAttributes', isNotStatic); // PUT /Studios/{id}
    Studio.disableRemoteMethod('__create__ListenNps', isNotStatic);
    Studio.disableRemoteMethod('__delete__ListenNps', isNotStatic);
    Studio.disableRemoteMethod('__destroyById__ListenNps', isNotStatic);
    Studio.disableRemoteMethod('__updateById__ListenNps', isNotStatic);

    Studio.afterRemote('*', function(ctx, affectedModelInstance, next) {
        var Keen = require('keen-js');

        var client = new Keen({
            projectId: "myid",
            writeKey: "mykey"
        });

        var queryEvent = {
            ip: ctx.req.ip,
            baseUrl: ctx.req.baseUrl,
            url: ctx.req.url,
            route: ctx.req.route,
            query: ctx.req.query,
            method: ctx.methodString,
            // response: ctx.result.???, What can I do here to get to the response headers? Specifically X-Response-Time
            keen: {
                timestamp: new Date().toISOString()
            }
        };

        client.addEvent("queries", queryEvent, function(err, res) {
            if (err) {
                console.log(err)
            } else {
                console.log(res)
            }
        });
        next();
    });
};

A: Try to use ctx.res.getHeader('X-Response-Time') method
or
listen the res.on('finish') event.

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