OKAY, LET'S START WITH THAT TITLE -- WHAT'S A MENTALIST?
A mentalist is a theatrical mind-reader; a performer who, using a variety of techniques, is able to produce results that would only seem possible by psychic or paranormal means.
AND THOSE TECHNIQUES WOULD BE...?
They range from a knowledge of subtle psychological principles and the quirks of human behavior, to quick thinking and a good memory. I'm also interested in things like suggestion, non-verbal communication, and the so-called trance state. And I don't hesitate to borrow ideas from stage magicians, either.
SO ARE YOU PSYCHIC OR WHAT?
YOU TELL PEOPLE HOW IT'S ALL DONE AFTER, RIGHT?
And what fun would that be, either for me or the audience? I do have a pretty sound knowledge of the kinds of tricks psychics have used and continue to use to convince their clients (read: marks) of their powers, and may occasionally expose one of these to illustrate a point, or when giving a lecture-demonstration. But in general, no.
WHY ARE YOU INTERESTED IN ALL OF THIS?
I think that the idea of reading another person's thoughts, of contacting spirits of the discarnate at séances, and all the rest of it are fascinating, hair-raising questions. Who doesn't love a good ghost story? And what would it be like if you could read somebody's thoughts? What would that experience be like? Well, let's find out...!
HAVE YOU EVER HAD A GENUINE PSYCHIC EXPERIENCE?
My wife and I finish each other's sentences, and often know what the other is about to say. I have had the very eerie experience of walking into a room in an allegedly haunted house and feeling the hairs on the back of my neck tingle, as though someone were standing right behind me. During one show, I had no idea what a participant was thinking, so I guessed. My guess was very, very close to what she had in mind. In each case, I have very certain ideas as to why each of these things happened, but you may make of these experiences what you will.
WHAT ABOUT THOSE PEOPLE ON TELEVISION WHO TALK TO THE DEAD?
I can only watch a few minutes of this kind of thing before I lose interest. Or start to feel sick. The statements that come through from the spirit-world are always so silly and trivial, aren't they? And the spirits of the departed always play absurd guessing-games with those they are presumably trying to reach out to. I want to see good, solid information delivered from the Beyond, not some vague statements like, ''Someone here has a connection to a 'J' name'' , or ''They keep showing me blue - what does this mean to anyone?'' Until I see something that doesn't look like a macabre and desperate game of 20 Questions, I can't take this kind of thing seriously at all. In fact, playing this kind of game on those in grief just seems vile and amoral.
SO ... WHAT CAN YOU DO FOR ME?
I can enliven your event, I can entertain your guests, I can impress your clients, I can show your employees the (seemingly) impossible, I can fill that pesky spot in your programming schedule, I can provide you with a smart alternative to yet another singer, comedian, or ho-hum speaker, I can present a lecture-demonstration like you've never seen, and I can help you look like a very clever event planner indeed.


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Comments on Aboriginal Tales
Posted by michelinewalker in Aboriginals, Fables, Fairy Tales, Sharing
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Shoshone Indian (sic) Smoking by Alfred Jacob Miller (courtesy the Walters Art Museum)
The Walters Art Museum http://art.thewalters.org/ (Baltimore, Maryland)
http://art.thewalters.org/detail/37886/a-shoshonee-sic-indian-smoking/ (description)
This is a brief note. I am working on The Song of Hiawatha (1855) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (27 February 1807 – 24 March 1882), but every Sunday I share brunch with a friend. I was in the kitchen.
About Amerindian tales
I have read several Amerindian "fairy tales." Shapeshifting is a recurrent motif or "constant" in Amerindian tales. Shapeshifting is often a trickster's device, but also an attempt to discover the truth and to protect oneself. It is survival through deceit, such as playing dead.
There are numerous Creation myths. They are listed in Wikipedia.
Sequoya's Syllabary (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Sequoya's Syllabary
Before Sequoya (1770 – 1840), the gifted Cherokee who created a syllabary, it is reported that Amerindians could not write. Once Sequoya invented his syllabary, literacy among the Cherokee surpassed the rate of literacy among the white. Sequoya, who may have been a Métis, developed 86 syllables, borrowing from several alphabets.
According to Wikipedia, in order to convince other Cherokees to use his syllabary, he wrote down what they were saying and called his daughter, to whom he had taught the Sequoya syllabary. She read her father's text, and Cherokees recognized that it was what they had said.
John Ross, Cherokee Chief (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Sequoya moved to Oklahoma and may have done so voluntarily. But Scots-Cherokee Chief John Ross left Georgia unwillingly. Yet he organized the removal, at least part of it. He bought 12 wagons, the same wagons as the ones used to carry the white west, but each of which carried a total of 1,000 persons. I do not understand the full logistics of the removal. Some Cherokees travelled by boat, but many also walked during part of the 2,200-mile journey (3,218 km). It was a true "trail of tears." Reports vary, but it appears 6,000 Cherokees died on their way to Oklahoma, one of whom was Chief John Ross' first wife.
According to James Mooney, 4,000 lives were lost. (See Myths of the Cherokees, Gutenberg [EBook #45634].) In all, the population was "16,542 Cherokees, 201 inter-married whites, and 1592 slaves (total: 18,335 people)." (See Cherokee Removal, Wikipedia.)
American Indian oral tradition (kids.britannica.com)
The Formulaic "A long time ago …"
Let me return to the Cherokee's account of a deluge. It begins with the formulaic "A long time ago:"
(A long time ago a man had a dog, which began to go down to the river every day and look at the water and howl.) This formula tends to reinforce the fictional character of a story. It happened a long time ago and, if possible, elsewhere.
The formulaic "A long time ago… " may be James Mooney's wording. He is the person who took the tale away from an oral tradition to insert it in a learned, i.e. written, tradition. Yet it could be that storytellers have long used this kind of wording, if only to get attention.
"House [below] built in early 19th century by John McDonald, maternal grandfather of John Ross. Now called the 'John Ross House,' it was occupied by Ross' daughter and her husband, Nicholas Scales. It is located in Rossville, Georgia." (Caption and photo credit: Wikipedia)
John Ross House
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Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories
Posted by michelinewalker in Children's Literature, Fables, Fairy Tales
Childood's Favorites and Fairy Stories, Children's Literature, fables, fairy tales, Poems, Songs
Thumbelina came to live with the Field-Mouse. (Gutenberg [EBook #19993])
Fairy Tales and Fables: a Page
Yesterday, I had every intention of posting a short article on Anansi, a folktale character black slaves brought to the Americas. However, I thought I should first provide a list of posts on fables and fairy tales. It turned into a lengthy process because I had not kept a list of RELATED ARTICLES for most posts on fairy tales.
The page I posted yesterday is therefore incomplete. I will add a list of fables later. I kept a record of these posts, but must add the date on which each was published. I have a list of posts of fables, but each post needs a date. It seems that posts do not exist unless they are listed.
Childhood Favorites and Fairy Stories
However, I would like to invite you to take a peek at the Project Gutenberg's EBook #19993. It is a collection of literary works for children and it includes poems, limericks, the words to songs, and fables and fairy tales originating from several countries.
The copyright was obtained in 1909, but the book was published in 1927 by the University Society of New York. By 1927, its editors had died. These are Hamilton Wright Mabie, Edward Everett Hale William Byron Forbus. William Byron Forbus died in 1927. All three editors are well-known authors, but we may have forgotten them. Today is the day we remember them.
In this collection, the art work is not always attributed to a specific illustrator, which is the fate of the image featured at the top of this post, that of Thumbelina. It's a little gem. But the illustration contains initials: O. A.. The editors have indicated that "[m]any of the illustrations in this volume are reproduced by special permission of E. P. Dutton & Company, owners of the American rights."
Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories is also an Internet Archive Publication. It can be accessed by clicking on its title. There are a few copies of this book online perhaps indicating its importance. Combined with An Argosy of Fables, this book is a lovely discovery.
The book is entitled:
I have not found a Volume 2.
Several authors are represented in this collection, including Shakespeare. However, I have chosen to end this short post using a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. It's a lullaby.
"SWEET AND LOW"
Sweet and low, sweet and low,
Wind of the western sea,
Low, low, breathe and blow,
Wind of the western sea!
Over the rolling waters go,
Come from the dying moon, and blow,
Blow him again to me:
While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps.
Sleep and rest, sleep and rest,
Father will come to thee soon;
Rest, rest, on mother's breast,
Father will come to his babe in the nest,
Silver sails all out of the west
Under the silver moon:
Sleep, my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
With warm greetings to all of you. ♥
Childhood Favorites is told by LibriVox on YouTube.
Johannes Brahms' Lullaby
The Brothers Grimm's "Ashenputten"
Posted by michelinewalker in Fairy Tales
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Alexander Zick, Charles Robinson, fairy tales, Folklore and National Identity, the brothers Grimm
Alexander Zick illustrated Cinderella with the doves, inspired by the Grimms' version. (Caption and photo credit: Wikipedia)
As I mentioned in a post entitled "How the Bear lost its Tail," published on 4 August 2015, I pressed the "Publish" button instead of the "Save Draft" button. As a result, I published an incomplete post. The above image was also published before the post was complete.
The Brothers Grimm
Kinder- und Hausmärchen (1812)
Cinderella "the persecuted heroine" AT type 510
the lesser success of Grimm's Fairy Tales (1812)
(Unless otherwise indicated, links refer to a Wikipedia entry.)
I reread my post and did not modify it substantially. However, I introduced the Brothers Grimm: Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm (1786–1859). In 1812, they published Children's and Household Tales (Kinder- und Hausmärchen) or Grimm's Fairy Tales in the hope of finding cultural similarities between the inhabitants of German-language lands, a quest that did not prove altogether successfully, but created a discipline, first named folkloristics.
It is in this regard that mentioning the Brothers Grimm was essential. The Brothers Grimm's goal was to find cultural similarities between the yet-to-be unified German-language lands, an undertaking which required them to go from town to town and hamlet to hamlet collecting folklore. As I wrote above, this huge effort proved a lesser achievement than they had anticipated. Grimm's Fairy Tales was a bestseller, but it would eventually come to light that the tales of Germany had variants in other countries.
As the 19th century turned into the 20th century, a new discipline evolved, which could be called the above-noted folkloristics, and would lead to the development of related disciplines such as ethnology, linguistics, archaeology, all of which could be included under an umbrella discipline we know as anthropology: the "study of humanity," to quote Wikipedia. (See Anthropology and History of Anthropology).
The Aarne-Thompson Classification System
In the case of the Brothers Grimm's collection, it led to an international classification of types and motifs which was first published in 1910 by Finnish professor Antti Aarne and which would become the Aarne-Thompson Classification System. For instance, Cinderella had variants and different titles in various lands, but Cinderella is AT type 510: "the persecuted heroine." There was universality to a large number of fairy tales, fables and other folktales. It was as though these had travelled from Europe to the Orient and vice versa as Venetian Marco Polo and other merchants traced the silk road.
As for their specificity, it resided in the variants, either the type (i.e. tail-fisher) or the motif (i.e. the severed tail).
Kinder und Haus: Märchen, volume one of Grimm's Fairy tales, 1812
http://pinkmonkey.com/dl/library1/story012.pdf
Ashenputten, elements
Grimm's Fairy Tales contains a Cinderella, entitled Ashenputten. We have a coarse stepmother, her two insensitive daughters who belittle Cinderella, a father who brings the two stepsisters the gifts they wish for, birds who provide Cinderella with the clothes she needs, three girls: the stepsisters and Cinderella, a three-day celebration, the slipper, and some mutilation, the removal of a toe and that of a heel. I doubt that mutilation would be allowed in a 17th-century French-language fairy tale, a time when bienséances (decorum) was observed in the literature, the theater in particular, of France.
In the German-language Ashenputten, we do not have a fairy godmother, nor a carriage, nor the fateful 12 o'clock, nor an extended search to find the owner of a glass or vair slipper, a mere slipper in German-language lands. Finally, the prince asks the father if perhaps he does not have a third daughter. The plot of Ashenputten is basically the same plot of as the 700 BCE story of Rhodopis "about a Greek slave girl who marries the king of Egypt" (see Cinderella, Wikipedia). However, Ashenputten differs from Charles Perrault's Cendrillon if only because it is a more intimate variant of Charles Perrault's Cendrillon, which is not irrelevant, and because it features birds. So there is both specificity and universality between Cendrillon and Ashenputten. Fairy tales are "'arrangements' d'arrangements."[1]
Origins: the oral and written tradition and Literature
We have just seen that the plot of Cinderella is rooted in Rhodopis, a 700 BCE written story. In more recent centuries, this ancient tale has been the story of Cenerentole, written by Neapolitan Giambattista Basile (1566 – 23 February 1632). (See Cinderella, Wikipedia). But the tale was also written by Charles Perrault in 1697, at the end of the Grand Siècle, the age of Louis XIV.
In France, Cenerentole became Cendrillon and it is one of Charles Perrault's Histoires ou contes du temps passé (Tales of Past Times), except that Giambattista Basile's Cenerentole had already entered a "learned" tradition. Basile himself had introduced Cinderella into the "learned" (i.e. written) tradition. In Charles Perrault, however, Cendrillon was transformed into literature, a major transformation. Charles Perrault (12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703) was an affluent bourgeois, a perfect honnête homme (a gentleman), a frequent guest in the finest salons, and a writer.
A parallel can be drawn between Charles Perrault and La Fontaine, as both men transformed the material (the learned tradition) that constituted their sources into literary works of art and, in the case of La Fontaine, into masterpieces. I doubt, however, that Basile and Perrault knew Cinderella had been a work of literature as Rhodopis. It had perhaps returned to the oral tradition when Basile wrote his Cenerentole, in the early part of the 17th century.
The Brothers Grimm were philologists who attempted to create a past for the nascent Germany. Most civilizations created a mythology, a pourquoi tale. This process is now known as anamnesis (anamnèse), remembering, but not the religious anamnesis. They retrieved the folklore of German-language lands believing these lands shared a national heritage. Their project did provide the German-language countries with a past of its own. Although the plot of their stories were basically the same as in other countries, there were variants and these variants could not be could not be considered as inconsequential. Variants matter.
Cenerentole, Cendrillon, Ashenputten and Cinderella are rags-to-riches narratives rooted in a story written as Rhodopis in 700 BCE and classified as AT type 510, "the persecuted heroine," in the Aarne-Thompson Classification System. More than two thousand years had passed.
Yet, such is life. Humans have always hoped for salvation even though their fate seems inescapable. That wish is universal, so it is not in the least surprising that the people inhabiting German-language lands should have adopted and molded an Ashenputten. They needed her.
Charles Robinson illustrated (art nouveau) Cinderella in the kitchen (early 1900s), from "Tales of Passed Times" with stories by Charles Perrault.
But let us return to our animals. We don't know how a Reynard the Fox episode, the Tail-Fisher, went from Europe to the Black population of Georgia, US where Joel Chandler Harris wrote them down as Uncle Remus: his Songs and his Sayings (1881), using an eye dialect. I have suggested in an earlier post that deported Acadians, the Cajuns, told the Blacks of Georgia the tales they knew, before leaving for Louisiana, still a French colony in 1755, or before walking back north to the Atlantic provinces of Canada. Other tales, however, were brought to America by slaves packed like sardines in the hull of a ship.
Koiné Languages and Créole Languages (19 January 2014)
Further Musings on "Puss in Boots" (27 March 2013)
Puss in Boots, revisited (24 March 2013)
Uncle Remus and Tar-Baby (21 August 2012)
A Reading of Perrault's "Cinderella" (10 February 2012)
Fairy Tales & Fables (10 November 2011)
Magical Cats: "Puss in Boots" (9 November 2011)
Sources and Resources
Grimm's Fairly Tales is Gutenberg [EBook #2592]
Giambattista Basile, Stories from Il Pentamerone is Gutenberg [EBook #2198]
Ashenputten is http://pinkmonkey.com/dl/library1/story012.pdf:
Neuf contes de Perrault is http://www.cndp.fr/fileadmin/user_upload/CNDP/catalogues/perrault/files/contes_perrault.pdf
[1] Marc Soriano, Les Contes de Perrault, culture savante et traditions populaires (Paris : Gallimard, coll. 'Tel', 1977 [1968]), p.76.
Pletnev plays Tchaikovsky
Aschenputten by Alexander Zick
Bluebeard Continued & Concluded
Posted by michelinewalker in Art, Fairy Tales
Aarne-Thompson-Uther, Bluebeard, Charles Perrault, Dom Juan, fairy tales, Grimm Brothers, Kay Nielsen, Misanthrope, Molière, Perrault
La Barbe Bleue, from the painting made Specially for the 1913 Christmas edition of "The Illustrated London News," by Kay Nielsen* (Photo credit: Google Images)
*Available from The Spirit of the Ages
Charles Perrault's Audience
As you have noticed, Bluebeard is reminiscent of many folktales and other works of literature, not all of which belong to what we now call children's literature. Yesterday, we looked at Charles Perrault's Bluebeard. Perrault's first audiences were persons who gathered in French seventeenth-century salons, a more refined and sophisticated environment than court: the Louvre and, later in the century, Versailles. Children may have been Perrault's very last audience.
Charles Perrault as a Moderne
I also mentioned that in French seventeenth-century literature, one could not combine comedy and tragedy. Like comedies, fairy tales end well, but there may be a "happy ending" to a comedy that does not seem a real comedy. Such is the case with some of Molière's comedies. The best examples are Le Misanthrope, Tartuffe and Dom Juan. Molière nearly broke the rules as did Perrault in his fairy tales. We know that Bluebeard's young wife will be saved, but by the time her brothers arrive, we are out of breath. Would that a message-carrying dog had been sent to fetch the brothers!
However, Charles Perrault, a moderne in the famous Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes, has chosen riveting suspense. Here, rules are being challenged by a member of the Académie française itself. Other than the stained key, there is very little enchantment in Bluebeard, in which respect it resembles Puss in Boots. The young wife and Anne are clever girls, but where is the young wife's fairy godmother? Well, she does not have one. Is this a fairy tale? One wonders.
A Fairy tale "bursting out," but saved
As for motifs and instances of intertextuality, seldom have they been as abundant than in Bluebeard. In fact, motifs and intertextualité seem to override genre. Although, "all's well that ends well," this is a fairy tale I would call "éclatée" or bursting out. Perrault is taking the new genre to its very limit. Moreover, there is something biblical about this fairy tale: the stain cannot be removed, except miraculously. That stain seems of remembrance of la tache [stain] originelle, the original sin. Moreover, the brothers arrive at the very last-minute. So not only the young bride, but the genre itself, i.e. fairy tales, are saved. This is an "in extremis," intervention.
As for Bluebeard, he is not the mean second wife who turns her husband's beautiful daughter by a first marriage into a chimney sweeper. Bluebeard is more than an "animal," he is a monster. He's Goethe's Faust: Mephistopheles.
Having written the above, I can say no more than I did yesterday: "All's well that ends well."
Both images are by Danish illustrator Kay Nielsen (12 March 1886 – 21 June 1957)
For those of you who are students of folklore, I have provided Alishman's extremely useful cross-referencing, complete with links to the tales he mentions. Motifs overlap in this surprisingly rich "fairy tale," so I have listed them.
Particularly helpful is Alishman's page devoted to the Grimm Brothers. It is entitled: Grimm's Fairy Tales. The brothers Grimm have a classification system of their own: KHM.
ATU Type 710
Marienkind (KHM 3)
To access D. L. Alishman's page, click on
How the Devil Married Three Sisters ATU 311
and other folktales of Aarne-Thompson-Uther type 311
translated and/or edited by D. L. Alishman
How the Devil Married Three Sisters (Italy).
The Cobbler and His Three Daughters (Blue Beard) (Basque).
Your Hen Is in the Mountain (Norway).
Fitcher's Bird (Germany).
Link to The Hare's Bride (Germany). This tale is contained in a separate file and will open in a new window.
The Three Chests: The Story of the wicked Old Man of the Sea (Finland).
The Widow and Her Daughters (Scotland).
Peerifool (Scotland).
The Secret Room (New York, USA).
Zerendac (Palestine).
The Tiger's Bride (India).
Links to related sites.
(copied from D. L. Alishman)
The Robber Bridegroom
Link to The Robber Bridegroom (Germany, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, versions of 1812 and 1857). Opens with a new page.
The Robber's Bride (Germany).
The Sweetheart in the Wood (Norway).
The Story of Mr. Fox (England).
The Oxford Student (England).
The Girl Who Got Up a Tree (England).
Bloody Baker (England).
Bobby Rag (England).
Captain Murderer (England, Charles Dickens).
Laula (Wales).
The History of Mr. Greenwood (Scotland).
The Cannibal Innkeeper (Romania).
Greenbeard (Lithuania).
Sulasa and Sattuka (India, The Jātaka).
Bluebeard,
by Harry Clarke (1889-1931)
(Please click on the image to enlarge it.)
Bluebeard: Type & Suspense
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Illustration in The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault by Harry Clarke (1889-1931), illustrator. London: Harrap (1922) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Charles Perrault's (1628-1703) Bluebeard, La Barbe bleue (see Gallica.BnF), is an exceptionally rich source of motifs. In Aarne-Thompson-Uther, Bluebeard is classified as ATU 312, ATU 312A: The giant-killer and his dog– Bluebeard. The U in ATU stands for Hans-Jörg Uther.[i] Charles Perrault's Barbe bleue, Bluebeard, features a killer, but there is no reference to a dog. However, Bluebeard is rooted in a popular and largely oral tradition. In the more traditional tales, a dog or a bird is sent to warn our heroine's family, her brothers especially.[ii] This element has been removed by Perrault. However, Professor D. L. Alishman specifies that folktales classified as ATU 312 and ATU 312A are stories "about women whose brothers rescue them from their ruthless husbands or abductors." Such is the case with Bluebeard. So, to begin with, the motif of Bluebeard is AT 312 and 312A .
According to Alishman, related tales are:
Bluebeard (France, Charles Perrault).
King Bluebeard (Germany).
Don Firriulieddu (Italy).
The Little Boy and His Dogs (African-American, Joel Chandler Harris).
Blue-Beard (North Carolina, USA).
The Chosen Suitor (Antigua, British West Indies).
The Brahman Girl That Married a Tiger (India).
1. Kay Nielsen (12 March 1886 – 21 June 1957) (Photo credit: Google Images)
2. Gustave Doré (6 January 1832 – 23 January 1883) (Photo credit: Google Images)
3. Arthur Rackham (19 September 1867 – 6 September 1939) (1919) (Photo credit: Google Images)
4. Gustave Doré (Photo credit: Google Images)
(Please click on the small images to enlarge them.)
Setting the Stage: a mystery and Suspense
Bluebeard is feared by most women. He owns many properties, in town and in the countryside, "gold and silver dishes, beautifully upholstered (embroidered) furniture and golden carriages: de la vaisselle d'or et d'argent, des meubles en broderie, et des carrosses tout dorés." (Gilbert Rouger)[iii] However, his blue beard makes him so ugly and terrifying that women run away when they see him. Moreover, despite his blue beard, this colourful but brutal character has married several times, but every wife has disappeared. The moment Perrault reveals this fact, we enter the realms of mystery and suspense. What has happened to the former wives? There will be a moment of revelation.
Bluebeard's neighbour, a Lady, has two beautiful daughters and is looking for suitable husbands. When they first see Bluebeard, the daughters find him repulsive. However, Bluebeard organizes a feast and invites the young women and a few of their friends (first image). As they go from pleasure to pleasure, the younger daughter begins to see Bluebeard as a less frightening man and marries him.
Bluebeard marries and goes on a trip: forbidden room
Once he has married the younger daughter, Bluebeard tells her he must go away on a trip, but to invite friends (second image). He then starts distributing keys and warns his wife not to enter a certain room yet gives her the key to this room. The telltale key and the forbidden room are motifs dating to the story of Adam and Eve. Eve is tempted by the serpent and bites into the forbidden apple. When collecting folktales, the Brothers Grimm were told the story of Marienkind, Mary's Child, in which a girl enters a forbidden thirteenth room, sees the Trinity and is then burdened with a telltale gold finger. Marienkind will not confess that she did enter the forbidden room until she is condemned to burn at the stake. As the flames start engulfing her, she finally tells the truth and is saved. The motifs of that tale, the forbidden room and the telltale stain, link it to Bluebeard.
Disobedience: the stained key
Like the archetypal Eve, women are considered curious and, despite their fears, they want to unlock forbidden rooms, closets and cabinets. Again, "folk versions of the tale do not fault the heroine for her curiosity?"[iv] Bluebeard's young wife trembles, but she unlocks the hidden cabinet (third image). Here we think of the deceptive closet that leads to other rooms. That is another motif. Next, when the young wife sees the bloodstained floor and the bodies of dead women, she drops the key and it gets stained by the blood on the floor of the room. This element seems a variation on the "tache [stain] originelle," or the original sin. Therefore, our main motif could well be that of the indelible stain. Babies are born "entachés," stained with the original sin. The young wife cannot clean the key. It is, therefore, an enchanted key.
Bluebeard returns
Bluebeard returns that very evening and is received with open arms. His bride hopes to delay the moment when he will ask for the keys to be returned, one of which is the stained key. The young bride therefore entertains her husband as does Scheherazade, the Persian Queen of the One Thousand and One Nights who has studied sufficiently to know that fiction, entertainment in the form of storytelling, might save her from death, which it does.
However, the next morning, our poor young wife is asked to return all the keys her rich and ruthless husband has entrusted to her. He sees the stained key and tells her she will join the wives who have died due to their indiscretion. She, of course, falls to her knees begging for forgiveness. Bluebeard was testing her and she has failed the test. She is yet another Eve who has yielded to temptation.
Tests are a common element in fairy tales as are the three requirements that will turn a toad into a prince. But Bluebeard is a one-test, or trap, narrative that resembles the Pandora's Box narrative. Pandora is given a jar named pithos which she is instructed not to open, but curiosity, the villain, is as irresistible as the serpent. She opens the jar and releases all the bad things in the world. Evil is born and women are to blame. They are the scapegoats.
Fortunately, Bluebeard's young wife inhabits fairyland. Her sister Anne has not yet returned home. So the young bride has a stand-in, so to speak, and uses a common a ruse. She asks to be allowed to pray for one half of a quarter-hour and goes upstairs to alert her sister. This recourse is reminiscent of Shakespeare's Desdemona's (Othello) request. This is yet another motif or, possibly, an instance of intertextuality, texts that mirror one another. Usually, folktales contain motifs, just as music contains themes. Shakespearean theater is otherwise classified, but the stained finger could be designated as a motif in the broader world of fiction. Our terrified héroïne asks her sister Anne to go to a tower and to watch because their brothers have promised to visit and Bluebeard has returned earlier than expected. Anne is instructed to alert them from her tower. This is ATU type 312 and 312A.
Anne, ma sœur Anne, ne vois-tu rien venir ?
Bluebeard grows increasingly impatient, but the younger wife keeps asking her sister Anne whether or not she can see the brothers. This is a summit of suspense: Anne, ma sœur Anne, ne vois-tu rien venir ? Anne, my sister Anne, can't you see anything coming? Anne answers twice. Je ne vois rien que le Soleil qui poudroie, et l'herbe qui verdoie. All I see are flurries of the Sun and grass turning green. The third time, however, Anne reports that she sees men on horseback riding in their direction. As you know, the number three is a common element of fairy tales.
At his wits end, Bluebeard starts screaming so loudly that the house shakes (fourth image). He goes upstairs and grabs his young wife by the hair, holding a knife. Once again, she asks to pray, but he will not let her pray. At this point, the reader or listener fears that all is lost, except that we are in fairyland. There has to be a savior, and there is.
Kairos: the opportune moment
At the opportune moment, kairos, the brothers make a racket at the door. The door is forced open and Bluebeard sees one brother, a dragoon, and the second, a musketeer. Bluebeard runs away from them, but the brothers catch him when he reaches the porch and they drive a sword through his body (fifth image).
The younger sister inherits her husband's possessions. She provides her sister with the dowry that will enable her to marry a kind man she has known for a long time. She buys her brothers appointments as captains and, for her part, she marries a gentleman.
The Morals
There are two moralités. One is the moral of cautionary tales. It is an exemplum. The tale tells about the dangers of curiosity:
La curiosité malgré tous ses /attraits,
Coûte souvent bien de regrets
On en voit /tous les jours exemples paraître.
Curiosity, despite all its /appeal /
Often costs many regrets /
One sees /everyday examples appear. (literal translation)
However, Perrault uses a second moral that is not altogether a moral, but a form reassurance. He writes that those who have common sense know that this story happened a long time ago. There are no longer such terrible husbands, nor husbands who asks for the impossible, even when they are displeased or jealous, etc.
In other words, he tells readers that he has written a fairy tale.
Criticism of Bluebeard
There has been criticism of Bluebeard. For instance, help is so slow in coming that this fairy tale, nearly fails the "happy ending" rule fairy tales. However, Perrault's suspense is acceptable in storytelling. It adds piquancy to the tale. In seventeenth-century France, one could not mix comedy and tragedy. Tragedy inspires pity and fear. Featuring a dog or a bird carrying a message would have lessened the degree of suspense, not to mention pity and fear. In more traditional tellings of Bluebeard, the heroine "insists on donning bridal clothes, and they prolong the possibility of rescue by recounting each and every item of clothing."[v]
As mentioned above, curiosity is not a factor in more traditional tellings of Bluebeard.
Bruno Bettelheim[vi] situates Bluebeard in the animal-groom cycle (Aarne-Thompson), except that our heroine marries the animal before a curse is lifted that transforms him into a kind and beautiful person, which is usually the case in fairy tales. In Beauty and the Beast, Beauty learns to love Beast as Beast is, which lifts the curse. She marries a beautiful man, the appropriate ending of a fairy tale.
Bluebeard is an ATU 312 or ATU 312A type, but it is related to the Brother's Grimm's Fitcher's Bird (number or KHM 46, Grimm), Aarne-Thompson-Uther type 311, and the Robber Bridegroom (KHN 40, Grimm), Aarne-Thompson-Uther type 955. Marienkind (KHM 3) is ATU 710. So it seems that Professor Alishman's above-mentioned list could include Marienkind, Fitcher's Bird and the Robber Bridegroom, depending on his criteria for selection. Margaret Atwood is the author of The Robber Bride (1993) and Angela Carter, the author of The Bloody Chamber (1979). It would appear this story therefore combines many ATU types. Moreover, this tale and its variants have been told many times.
The Indelible Stain and Intertextualité
The indelible stain seems a particularly important motif. I have mentioned the Bible. Curiosity leads to the original sin, called stain in French: la tache. But it also reminds us of the stain on Lady Macbeth's hand. It will not wash away: "Out, damn'd spot! out I say!" (Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 1, line 35). Lady Macbeth has killed and the stain on her hand is as permanent as the original sin. She must atone. In this regard, Bluebeard is reminiscent of William Shakespeare's Macbeth. But we are reading a fairy tale. The genre itself demands a happy ending, as do comic texts. Moreover, the indelible stain could be a motif, and the original sin, to which it can be compared, an instance of intertextualité.
The indelible stain motif also appears in Le Roman de Perceforest, a medieval narrative usually associated with Sleeping Beauty. Blanchette's fairy godmother has asked her not to touch Lyonnel. But she does, briefly and accidentally. The finger that has touched Lyonnel turns black.
In the Brother's Grimm's Marienkind, Marienkind opens the thirteenth door, or the forbidden door. It seems the number thirteen has long been an unlucky number, but the more important element, the motif, is that of the telltale stain.
Let it be short: "All's well that ends well." Tout est bien qui finit bien.
Perrault fairy tales are the Project Gutenberg [EBook #29021]
[i] The AT-number system was updated and expanded in 2004, the year Hans-Jörg Uther published his Types of International Folktales: A Classification and Bibliography. Hans-Jörg Uther calls types some of the elements formerly named motifs, but some motifs are types. The telltale stained key is a motif, but brothers saving a sister would be a type.
[ii] Maria Tatar in Jack Zipes, editor, The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2000).
[iii] Gilbert Rouger, editor. Les Contes de Perrault (Paris: Editions Garnier, 1967).
[iv] Op. cit. The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales.
[v] Ibid.
[vi] The Uses of Enchantment (New York: Vintage Books Edition, 1989 [1975, 1976]), p. 182.
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Posted by michelinewalker in Fairy Tales, Metamorphosis
Anne Anderson, AT 415C, Cupid and Psyche, fairy tales, Jean Cocteau, La Belle et la Bête, metamorphosis, Mme Le Prince de Baumont, Panchatantra, W. Heath Robinson
La Belle et la Bête by Anne Anderson (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Anne Anderson, illustrator (1874 – 1930)
Many men are more truly beasts than you. A good heart and an ugly face are better than a fair face and a rotten heart.
In 1757, Mme Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont (26 April 1711 – 8 September 1780) translated and published Beauty and the Beast. She shortened Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve's long version of Beauty and the Beast.
Beauty and the Beast is my favourite fairy tale because beast is transformed into a prince by a beautiful woman who sees beauty beneath a beastly form. Being recognized as handsome and being loved by a woman despite his monstrous appearance is the only way Beast can escape the curse that has turned him into a truly ugly animal.
As the story goes, during a snowy night, Beauty's father, an impoverished trader, gets lost in a forest where, to his astonishment, he finds a castle. It is a beautiful castle. On the table, there is a meal and logs are burning in a fireplace. Moreover, a bed awaits him in a lovely room and, upon waking, Beauty's father finds clean clothes and a good breakfast. Obviously, the trader's host is a generous person.
However, after meeting Beast, matters change. The former trader's horse is saddled and awaits the lost father, but he picks up a rose for his daughter, as she has asked. Beast is furious and tells Beauty's father to return three months later, when he will kill him. The father is also told that if he does not come back, one of his three daughters will die in his place. Yet, Beast gives him a trunk filled with gold, which is surprising.
This is a fairy tale, so the number three is used again. The trader lives on a little farm and has three daughters and three sons. Beauty is the youngest and the most beautiful of the three daughters. Unlike her jealous sisters, she is also kind and compassionate.
When three months have elapsed, the trader is ready to return to the castle and die, but Beauty manages to convince her father to let her go in his place.
Beast does not kill Beauty upon her arrival at the castle. In fact, she finds that he has given her an apartment: "Beauty's apartment." This is also surprising. The apartment contains many books and a grand piano. At night, she and Beast have supper together and, after a while, he starts asking her to marry him. But she keeps refusing.
One day, her mirror tells her that her father is ill. She asks Beast to let her visit with her ailing father. She promises to return. Beast, who was supposed to kill her, is devastated, but he lets her go and provides her with a ring that will allow her to find herself in the castle the morning after she puts it on. There is magic in this fairy tale, as is usually the case.
Beauty is away from the castle for more than a week, so when she returns, Beast is dying. She asks him to live and tells him she loves him and will marry him. She unknowingly lifts the curse that has transformed a prince into Beast. Beast is again a beautiful prince.
According to the Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales (pp. 45-49), this tale is related, in plot, to Apuleius's c. 125 – c. 180) "Cupid and Psyche," an inner fable within Apuleius Golden Ass, the outer fable. In motif, it is also related to the ancient Pañchatantra tale "The Girl who Married a Snake." So now you know why I blogged on "Cupid and Psyche." Versions of this fairy tale were also written by Straparola (c. 1480 – c. 1557) and Basile (c. 1575 – 23 February 1632), whom you know.
In 1946, Jean Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963), a poet, novelist, playwright, etc. made a film based on Beauty and the Beast. Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête is still considered one of the finest films in its genre, fantasy. Beauty and the Beast is a film produced in 2017.
Beauty and the Beast is a Gutenberg publication [eBook #31431].
It is ATU type 425C. (Aarne-Thompson-Uther Classification Index)
"Every evening the Beast paid her a visit" (Gutenberg)
Posted by michelinewalker in Fables, Fairy Tales, Literature
Adrienne Ségur, Bruno Bettelheim, Comenius, effet de réel, fables, fairy tales, fantasy, Roland Barthes
Le Chat botté, Adrienne Ségur
In 1976, psychologist Bruno Bettelheim (28 August 1903 – 13 March 1990 [by suicide]) published a book entitled The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales.[i] In The Uses of Enchantment, Bruno Bettelheim tells about the importance of fantasy in the life of unhappy children. Fairy tales belong to the realm of fantasy and, consequently, give unhappy children hope that a fairy godmother will come to their rescue.
From that point of view, i. e. the importance of enchantment in the life of a troubled child, it is perhaps best that the wounded child read fairy tales as opposed to fables, fables being a lesson or didactic.
Puss in Boots is a fairy tale and is therefore a fantasy rather than a lesson. In fact, in an earlier re-telling of the story, Puss licks away the third son's acne. That's marvelous. As well, Puss befriends the third son. According to Bettelheim "being befriended by [an animal]" is among those "events" that can "lead to great things" (p. 73).
As for fables, animal fables, as I have just noted, they may fail the troubled child in that they teach lessons. Fables are considered didactic. I cannot disagree with Dr Bettleheim, but let us reflect on the differences between fables and fairy tales.
Fables and didacticism
Although the morality is not always expressed explicitly, fables are lessons. At times, the example, or exemplum, suffices in conveying the moral. Usually, however, the morality is placed at the beginning or at the end of the "story."
oblique Discourse
However, although fables have a moral, I believe we could argue
first, that the use of animals as protagonists (characters) shields children from too rude a lesson. Besides, if the King is not a lion, similarly, children are not grasshoppers;
second, that the re-teller (author) of a fable tells a story and that, however real a story may appear, it is still a "story." It therefore should not have too direct an impact on children, including unhappy children.
In fact, making a story seem real is difficult. Roland Barthes calls the device used to make a story real "un effet de réel." Now, if creating an "effet de réel" is not easy, when animals talk, the universe of fables and animal fairy tales may well be more hermetic, or distant, than that of fairy tales featuring persons. If such is the case, a troubled child is not likely to be harmed by reading fables instead of fairy tales.
In other words, animal fables are a particularly oblique (dire sans dire) or indirect narrative, which may indeed be a factor in their seeming less "real." Most of us have heard children commenting that the clumsy animal protagonist of a story they have read is, indeed, rather clumsy. They, the children, would never leap without first looking. So children tend to dissociate themselves not only from animals, but also from a fictitious dramatis personæ (the cast).
Dépaysement or a change of scenery
Indirection is a dépaysement. Bettelheim writes that "the fairy tale's happy ending occurs in fairyland, a country that we can visit only in our minds" (p. 133). He is writing, in other words, that fairyland is an "elsewhere," (un ailleurs) and that we, including children, know that it is. So it would be difficult for the child to identify fully with the denizens of fairyland, particularly if the cast is made up of animals. Animals automatically create a barrier between the story and the reader. It would seem that dépaysement, or feeling you are in another world, is greater when animals, rather than humans, are used as characters in a story.
Animal fairy tales may well be more distancing, or more "otherwordly," than fairy tales featuring human beings. If Puss is made to wear boots, I believe there is a motivation to introduce an element of magic in the fairy tale. The storyteller confirms we are in fairyland, not to mention that real animals do not talk national languages.
Yet, if animals create a dépaysement, they are also like honey to a bear (or is it a bee?). Animals catch the attention of children. Children like animals. It would be my opinion that we must take into account the Horatian (8 December 65 BCE – 27 November 8 BCE) prodesse et delectare (Ars poetica). Fables instruct and delight, and vice versa. If there is fantasy in fairy tales, fables delight while instructing. So the difference between the two genres may not be that important.
Adrienne Ségur
Johann Amos Comenius (28 March 1592 – 4 November 1670) was particularly concerned with pleasing the child. As you know children's books are usually illustrated which is also consistent with the Horatian "to instruct and delight." Now, if fables are written so they provide instruction while giving pleasure, the illustrations might well enhance the pleasure.
In a sense, my choice of Malcolm Arthur's and Fred Marcellino 's re-telling of Puss in Boots[ii] had very much to do with the illustrations. In fact, I bought the book and showed it to my students to underline the importance of illustrations. They are pleasurable and therefore condition the child's mind, and the adult's.
Finally, fairy tales may not be overtly moralizing, but some, if not most, contain a lesson. The third son of the miller did not look beyond appearances. He didn't see that the cat he had inherited was a person in disguise and very clever.
As well, the third son had the good fortune of watching a very smart cat, a cat who knows how to be successful and takes his master from rags to riches without the intervention of magic. The text does not indicate whether or not he received magical bottes de sept lieues. Yet, the cat's ingenuity has been the foremost agent of change. Besides, the cat himself has changed.
Marcellino's last illustration, shows a portrait of Puss dressed like an aristocrat, which underscores his having been successful, successful to the point of being less of a cat and more of a human We are told, moreover, that Puss no longer eats mice, except for sport, i.e. humans hunt. So two mice, standing on the floor, are looking at the picture admiringly. It is as though they could recognize that Puss himself had risen while making the miller's third son a prince.
In fact, Puss deserves nearly all the praise in making his master an aristocrat. One therefore wonders what the third son would do without his cat.
P. S. The video I had placed at the end of this post has been removed. It consisted of illustrations of fairy tales by Adrienne Ségur. These are available online. Please click on the word illustrations.
The current video tells the story of the fairy tale. It does not mention Italian authors Francesco Straparola's (c. 1480 – c. 1557) Il piacevoli notti (The Facetious Nights) (1550–1553) and Giambattista Basile's (1566 – 23 February 1632) Lo cunto de li cunti overo lo trattenemiento de peccerille, or Il Pentamerone. It does not mention Charles Perrault, but refers to the 17th-century in France. Fairy tales are the product of Salons.
[i] (New York : Vintage Books and Random House: 1989 [1976]).
[ii] Charles Perrault, Malcolm Arthur, translator, and Fred Marcellino, illustrator, Puss in Boots (New York: Farrar Strauss Giroux, 1990).
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Can We Hear Each Other?
Submitted by Jerry Halberstadt on Tue, 01/03/2023 - 23:18
I appreciate the decades of service to the people of Peabody by Charles Bonfanti as he retires from his position as Commissioner of the Peabody Municipal Light Plant (PMLP), as reported on January 2, 2023, by Caroline Enos (Light commissioner steps down over activists' push to stop peaker plant).
Like Mr. Bonfanti, we are all struggling to understand and adapt to what seems like a sudden emergency as we become aware of high rates of illness and death from pollution and the looming threat of climate change. Yet although these existential threats have been known for decades, we have all conspired to ignore them.
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Clean Air & Clean Power, Yes. Pollution, No
Submitted by Jerry Halberstadt on Wed, 09/28/2022 - 19:18
How can we stop burning fossil fuels for transportation and electricity, burning that creates pollution? We need community engagement.
If we are to stop pollution, we must inform and empower everyone to identify pollution as a source of their pain. I announce here a coordinated effort to expand our movement for clean air, health, life, and the planet that will focus on broad community engagement and empowering local leaders.
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Festival!
Founded by Mayor Peter A. Torigian in 1983, the International Festival was designed to honor and bring together the many diverse ethnic and religious segments of Peabody. Today, the festival demonstrates the strength and vibrancy of the many old and new groups that live and strive for a better life in Peabody.
Our efforts to educate and empower people to deal with pollution, public health concerns, and the climate crisis by shifting from fossil fuels to clean renewables will build on the strength and wisdom of all Peabody residents.
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The people of Peabody care for each other, honor their fallen heroes and nurture their children and their youth.
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Submitted by Jerry Halberstadt on Mon, 05/30/2022 - 00:08
On May 26, 2022, demonstrators from the North Shore and across the Commonwealth gathered on the Danversport Bridge over the Waters River in Danvers to demand that Governor Baker must do health and environmental studies for the fossil fuel Peabody peaker electrical generator. The organizers of the event included Susan and Ron Smoller of Breathe Clean North Shore with the support of Mireille Beijani of Community Action Works and Logan Malik of Mass Climate Action Network, and with the sponsorship of several advocacy groups. Demonstrators flew kites and sang protest songs. Some paddled a fleet of kayaks and some rode bicycles to join the demonstration.
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Submitted by Jerry Halberstadt on Sun, 05/29/2022 - 23:40
For the future of this child, Peyton Massie, we demonstrate. We, the people demonstrating on the Danversport Bridge, are energy democracy in action. We are teenagers, grandparents, storytellers, musicians, poets, singers, teachers, ministers, doctors, reporters, videographers, photographers, and a man from Ireland. Our goal is to empower people to work together to save our planet from global warming, save our wetlands and forests, and protect everyone from harmful pollution. We share an obligation and a desire to improve our communities, work for the common good, and be stewards of the world today to preserve it for the future.
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Organize & Plan for Clean Energy
Submitted by Jerry Halberstadt on Fri, 04/29/2022 - 13:38
To save the planet for all life and our grandchildren, we need to organize, protest, and be at the table to plan our local clean energy solutions. Starting with our protests against a new gas and oil-powered electrical generator, we are now engaged with changing laws & regulations and demanding to empower citizens in long-term planning. Progress is won with organization, diligent research, technical knowledge, and creating new partnerships.
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Can We Awaken in Time From Madness and Denial?
Story: Judith Black; Photography: Jerry Halberstadt
We are sleepwalking to climate catastrophe—can we awaken from this nightmare? On April 16, 19, and 21 we climate activists stood out in Peabody Square to say that a new fossil fuel facilities in the year 2022 is an example of
"immoral and economic madness."— UN Secretary-General António Guterres
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Fasting for the Future in Peabody
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Do we want a livable planet for ourselves, our children and grandchildren?
This peaker plant, built, would be another nail in the coffin of a livable future. This peaker plant stopped is the beginning of a swift transition to a better tomorrow.
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What Do We Want? Clean Energy! When Do We Want It? Now!
On Saturday, November 12, 2021, advocates for clean energy from many towns joined Peabody residents in the "Peabody Peaker Push" to protest against the proposed peaker plant and to walk through neighborhoods near the plant location to inform people about the project.
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Hot Off the Press is fairly regular feature focusing on picture books that are recent releases. I usually base the post on my weekly visits to Vroman's Bookstore or Mrs. Nelson's Bookstore in LaVerne. The following titles can be found at either bookstore.
Rocket Writes a Story by Tad Hill (Random House, July 24, 2012) - If you loved How Rocket Learned to Read, you will enjoy this sequel.
Random House has put together several resources to accompany this book. Click here to check out several downloads.
The Night Rider by Matt Furie (McSweeney's McMullen, August 7, 2012) - This wordless picture book is a bit of a dream journey in full color.
Click here to get an inside look at the book.
ABC ZooBorns! by Andrew Bleiman and Chris Eastland - This gets the cuteness vote of the week.
For fans of really cute baby animals, ZooBorns has their own website, and has put out a board book version, early readers, e-book, an app and more.
Timeless Thomas: How Thomas Edison Changed Our Lives by Gene Barretta (Henry Holt, July 17, 2012) - I was eagerly awaiting this one and it didn't disappoint. My review is coming this week.
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Џенана Шехановић (Брчко, 23. март 1991) босанскохерцеговачка је професорка клавира и пијанисткиња.

Образовање
Џенана је студирала у Немачкој, Аустрији, Хрватској и родној Босни и Херцеговини. Са 14 година била је најмлађи студент икада уписан на Музичку академију Универзитета у Загребу, Хрватска. Прву годину студија завршила је у класи професора Џорџа Станетија и Карла-Хајнца Камерлинга. Дипломирала је 2010. године у класи професора Срђана Чалдаровића, а годину дана касније стекла је и своју мастер диплому за клавир на Музичкој академији Универзитета у Загребу.

Имала је бројне самосталне концерте широм Европе, укључујући и Босну и Херцеговину, Словенију, Србију, Хрватску, Аустрију, Немачку, Италију, Норвешку, Мађарску и Лихтенштајн, као и бројне групне наступе са Сарајевском филхармонијом и Загребачким солистима. Године 2010, на основу својих 15 међународних награда, Шехановићева је добила награду ректора Универзитета у Загребу. На предлог бившег председника Хрватске Стјепана Месића она је додатно добила и хрватско држављанство.

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Спољашње везе

 Étude op. 10, no. 4 (F. Chopin)
 Études d'exécution transcendante no. 10 (F. Liszt)
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Aboriginal (First Nations and Metis)
Indian Policy and the Early Reserve Period
Early government policy for First Nations in Saskatchewan was administered under the Indian Act, with the goal of training First Nations people to become farmers and assimilating them into the greater Canadian society. Through the Indian Act and an assimilationist policy based on social Darwinism, attempts were made to dispossess First Nations of their land and identity: the rationale behind the reserve system was to place them on pieces of land isolated from white settlement, where policies could be more easily applied and monitored. Once reserves had been selected and surveyed, Indian agents were sent to administer them; they had sweeping powers ranging from control of First Nations' movement to control of agricultural equipment and expenditures by the band.
The most restrictive policies and legislation came after the events of the 1885 North-West Resistance, when the government of Canada concentrated its efforts on breaking up the tribal system and assimilating First Nations people. Three officials were most prominent in the development and implementation of Indian policy: Sir John A. Macdonald, Edgar Dewdney, and Hayter Reed. After the events of 1885 Hayter Reed, then Assistant Indian Commissioner of Indian Affairs, drafted a lengthy "Memorandum on the Future Management of Indians," which would become a template for Indian policy in Saskatchewan; it was approved by Dewdney as Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and by Macdonald as Prime Minster and Superintendent General of Indian Affairs. Reed promoted a "peasant farming" approach, central to which were the pass, permit, and Birtle system, and severalty.
The pass system was at first to be issued only to "Rebel Indians"; however, Macdonald insisted that the system should be applied to all First Nations. In early 1886, books of passes were issued to Indian agents, and subsequently First Nations people could not leave their reserve unless they had a pass signed by the Indian agent and describing when they could leave, where they could go, and when they had to return. The pass system, however, was never passed into legislation and as a result was never legal—although it was enforced well into the 1940s.
The permit system was instituted to control the selling and buying of goods by First Nations people. If a First Nations farmer wanted to sell any produce, he had to secure a permit signed by the Indian agent. In a similar fashion, if non-First Nations people wanted to come onto the reserve to sell goods, they also had to obtain a permit from the agent.
The Birtle system was a cattle loan program whereby a First Nations farmer would be given a cow: at the end of a year, he had to return either the cow or its offspring. The belief was that if an Indian person had a vested interest in an animal, success would be more likely; however, the system failed owing to the lack of any real control by First Nations over their stock.
The severalty or subdivision of reserve land was also central to the peasant farming policy. Beginning in 1889, Indian reserves were to be divided approximately in two: one-half would be surveyed into 40-acre lots upon which individual families were to farm; the other half was to be held in common as hay and timber land. Reed's belief was that an Indian farmer was to become self-sufficient, but was not to compete in the marketplace. The pass and permit systems, as well as severalty, restricted how successful Indian farmers could be and ultimately contributed to the failure of agriculture on First Nations reserves.
Rob Nestor
Carter, S. 1990. Lost Harvests. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.


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Title: The activist's handbook: a primer for the 1990s and beyond
Author: Shaw, Randy 1956-
Subjects: Politics | Sociology | California and the West | Urban Studies | American Studies | Public Policy
Publisher's Description: The Activist's Handbook is a hard-hitting guide to winning social change in the 1990s. Randy Shaw, attorney and longtime activist for urban issues, shows how positive change can still be accomplished despite an increasingly grim political order, if activists employ the strategies set forth in this d . . . [more]
Title: Radio active: advertising and consumer activism, 1935-1947
Author: Newman, Kathy M 1966-
Subjects: American Studies | History | Media Studies | Women's Studies | Politics
Publisher's Description: Radio Active tells the story of how radio listeners at the American mid-century were active in their listening practices. While cultural historians have seen this period as one of failed reform - focusing on the failure of activists to win significant changes for commercial radio - Kathy M. Newman a . . . [more]
Title: Impure science: AIDS, activism, and the politics of knowledge
Author: Epstein, Steven
Subjects: Social Science | Medicine | Public Policy | History and Philosophy of Science | Sociology
Publisher's Description: In the short, turbulent history of AIDS research and treatment, the boundaries between scientist insiders and lay outsiders have been crisscrossed to a degree never before seen in medical history. Steven Epstein's astute and readable investigation focuses on the critical question of "how certainty i . . . [more]
Title: The spirit of freedom: South African leaders on religion and politics
Author: Villa-Vicencio, Charles
Subjects: Religion | Politics | African Studies
Publisher's Description: This collection of interviews explores the role of religion in the lives of eminent South Africans who led the struggle against apartheid. Nelson Mandela, Chris Hani, Desmond Tutu, Nadine Gordimer, and seventeen other political, religious, and cultural leaders share the beliefs and values that infor . . . [more]
Title: Renaissance Paris: architecture and growth, 1475-1600
Author: Thomson, David 1912-
Subjects: Art | Architecture
Publisher's Description: In the modern literature on Renaissance art and architecture, Paris has often been considered the Cinderella of the European capitals. The prestigious buildings that were erected soon after François I decided in 1528 to make Paris his residence have long since been lost. Thomson, however, restores t . . . [more]
Title: Displaying the Orient: architecture of Islam at nineteenth-century world's fairs
Author: Çelik, Zeynep
Subjects: Architecture | European History | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern History
Publisher's Description: Gathering architectural pieces from all over the world, the Paris Universal Exposition of 1867 introduced to fairgoers the notion of an imaginary journey, a new tourism en place . Through this and similar expositions, the world's cultures were imported to European and American cities as artifacts an . . . [more]
Title: Gimme some truth: the John Lennon FBI files
Author: Wiener, Jon
Subjects: American Studies | Politics | Sociology | Social Problems | Music | Social Theory | Cultural Anthropology | Law
Publisher's Description: When FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover reported to the Nixon White House in 1972 about the Bureau's surveillance of John Lennon, he began by explaining that Lennon was a "former member of the Beatles singing group." When a copy of this letter arrived in response to Jon Wiener's 1981 Freedom of Informatio . . . [more]
Title: There's something happening here: the New Left, the Klan, and FBI counterintelligence
Author: Cunningham, David 1970-
Subjects: American Studies | History | Politics | Sociology | Law
Publisher's Description: Using over twelve thousand previously classified documents made available through the Freedom of Information Act, David Cunningham uncovers the riveting inside story of the FBI's attempts to neutralize political targets on both the Right and the Left during the 1960s. Examining the FBI's infamous co . . . [more]
Title: Reclaiming identity: realist theory and the predicament of postmodernism
Author: Moya, Paula M. L
Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies
Publisher's Description: "Identity" is one of the most hotly debated topics in literary theory and cultural studies. This bold and groundbreaking collection of ten essays argues that identity is not just socially constructed but has real epistemic and political consequences for how people experience the world. Advocating a . . . [more]
Title: The building program of Herod the Great
Author: Roller, Duane W
Subjects: Classics | Architecture | Ancient History | Archaeology
Publisher's Description: Herod the Great, King of Judaea from 444 B.C., is known as one of the world's great villains. This notoriety has overshadowed his actual achievements, particularly his role as a client king of Rome during Augustus's reign as emperor. An essential aspect of Herod's responsibilities as king of Judaea . . . [more]
Title: The quiet hand of God: faith-based activism and the public role of mainline Protestantism
Author: Wuthnow, Robert
Subjects: Religion | Christianity | Sociology | Public Policy
Publisher's Description: Robert Wuthnow and John H. Evans bring together a stellar collection of essays that paints a contemporary portrait of American Protestantism - a denomination that has remained quietly, but firmly, influential in the public sphere. Mainline Protestants may have steered clear of the controversial, att . . . [more]
Title: Disaster hits home: new policy for urban housing recovery
Author: Comerio, Mary C
Subjects: Architecture | Urban Studies | Public Policy | Economics and Business | California and the West
Publisher's Description: Whenever a major earthquake strikes or a hurricane unleashes its fury, the devastating results fill our television screens and newspapers. Mary C. Comerio is interested in what happens in the weeks and months after such disasters, particularly in the recovery of damaged housing.Through case studies . . . [more]
Title: Political protest and cultural revolution: nonviolent direct action in the 1970s and 1980s
Author: Epstein, Barbara
Subjects: History | Politics | American Studies | United States History | Sociology
Publisher's Description: From her perspective as both participant and observer, Barbara Epstein examines the nonviolent direct action movement which, inspired by the civil rights movement, flourished in the United States from the mid-seventies to the mid-eighties. Disenchanted with the politics of both the mainstream and th . . . [more]
Title: The research universities and their patrons
Author: Rosenzweig, Robert M
Subjects: Sociology | Sociology
Title: Building a better race: gender, sexuality, and eugenics from the turn of the century to the baby boom
Author: Kline, Wendy 1968-
Subjects: History | United States History | Gender Studies | American Studies | History and Philosophy of Science
Publisher's Description: Wendy Kline's lucid cultural history of eugenics in America emphasizes the movement's central, continuing interaction with popular notions of gender and morality. Kline shows how eugenics could seem a viable solution to problems of moral disorder and sexuality, especially female sexuality, during th . . . [more]
Title: Palestinian politics after the Oslo Accords: resuming Arab Palestine
Author: Brown, Nathan J
Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies | Politics
Publisher's Description: This timely and critically important work does what hostilities in the Middle East have made nearly impossible: it offers a measured, internal perspective on Palestinian politics, viewing emerging political patterns from the Palestinian point of view rather than through the prism of the Arab-Israeli . . . [more]
Title: Looking for God in Brazil: the progressive Catholic Church in urban Brazil's religious arena
Author: Burdick, John 1959-
Subjects: Anthropology | Latin American Studies | Christianity
Publisher's Description: For a generation, the Catholic Church in Brazil has enjoyed international renown as one of the most progressive social forces in Latin America. The Church's creation of Christian Base Communities (CEBs), groups of Catholics who learn to read the Bible as a call for social justice, has been widely ha . . . [more]
Title: The Prophet's pulpit: Islamic preaching in contemporary Egypt
Author: Gaffney, Patrick D 1947-
Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern Studies | Islam
Publisher's Description: Muslim preaching has been central in forming public opinion, building grassroots organizations, and developing leadership cadres for the wider Islamist agenda. Based on in-depth field research in Egypt, Patrick Gaffney focuses on the preacher and the sermon as the single most important medium for pr . . . [more]


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INFERNÄL MÄJESTY
Demon God
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INFERNÄL MÄJESTY has been blasting our eardrums for a long-ass time. Since 1986, however, the band has only released four full-lengths, the most recent from 2017. But you know what? That's ok. This album actually consists of 2007's EP "Demon God" and "Demo 1997". Two interesting fun-facts about the band… 1) They were previously named LORD SATANS DECIPLES and OVERLORD. 2) The bass player Daniel Nargang is the current vocalist for KICK AXE. "Demon God" begins with 'Burnt Beyond Recognition'. A thumping bassline introduces the song until the chugging, throbbing guitars kick in. The vocals are a mash-up of throat-ripping screams and gurgling growls. The Black / Thrash force of aural atrocity permeates through the speakers like a wild orc hunting its weak prey. 'Systematical Extermination' is a maze of spiraling electric riffs that lead to a scream bubbling from the black depths of Hell. 'Crusade', after close to a minute, becomes a thunderous, towering giant of a song. 'Nature Of Assassins' shows its Thrash roots as 'S.O.S.' (featuring CANNIBAL CORPSE members George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher on guest vocals and a guitar solo by Rob Barrett – Frank) will mesmerize you with its razor-sharp guitars before shoving your ass into the nearby crushing mosh-pit. The final track of the EP, 'Skeletons In The Closet' consists of mocking vocals (courtesy of ZIMMERS HOLE's Chris Valagao – Frank) and Black / Thrash at a furious pace. The release is rounded out by "Demo 1997", consisting of 'Is There A God?' and 'Gone The Way Of All Flesh', which, though slightly less produced, still consistently fits into this overall offering. Now if we can just continue to receive new material from INFERNÄL MÄJESTY also, the world will be a better place. For more info, check out www.facebook.com/infernalmajestyofficial, www.vicrecords.com
David Simonton
Related reviews / interviews:
• INFERNÄL MÄJESTY - Unholier Than Thou (David Simonton)
• INFERNÄL MÄJESTY - No God (Hacker)
• INFERNÄL MÄJESTY - Nigrescent Years Of Chaos (Marco Stebich)
• INFERNÄL MÄJESTY - One Who Points To Death (Laurent Ramadier)
• INFERNÄL MÄJESTY - interview (Luxi Lahtinen)


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World Shooting Para Sport Championships Conclude in Sydney
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (October 18, 2019)
Six American shooters were in action Friday during the final day of competition at the 2019 World Shooting Para Sport Championships in Sydney, Australia.
In the qualification round of the R6 mixed 50-meter prone SH1, Kevin Nguyen (Columbus, Ga.) posted the highest score for the U.S. with a 607.7, good for 29th place. Taylor Farmer (Castalia, Ohio) finished 35th with a 605.0 total.
Great Britain's Matt Skelhon won the gold medal to become a double world champion at the event, having won gold earlier in the week in the mixed 10m air rifle prone. On Friday, he also equaled the world record of 215.4 set by Germany's Natascha Hiltrop, who took the silver medal in Friday's event. Israel's Yuliya Chernoy claimed the bronze.
In P1 men's 10m air pistol SH1 competition, the top American score was fired by Aaron Causey (Riverside, Ala.) who shot a 548 to finish 34th. YanXiao Gong (Malibu, Calif.) was 36th with a 547, followed by Marco De La Rosa (Chicago, Ill.) in 48th (537) and Michael Tagliapietra (Fond du Lac, Wis.) in 54th (523).
Tomas Pesek of the Czech Republic took the top prize in the men's 10m air pistol ahead of Russia's Sergey Malyshev and India's Manish Narwal.
Full results can be found at https://www.paralympic.org/sydney-2019.


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HomeFeel-Good/EventsPenn Highlands names Halstead as Regional Market President
Penn Highlands names Halstead as Regional Market President
Tue, April 5, 2022 by wcednews
DuBois, PA – Penn Highlands Healthcare has made several key leadership changes to further its regional approach to the delivery of healthcare services in Northwestern and Central Pennsylvania.
Rhonda Halstead, MSM, President of Penn Highlands Clearfield, has been named Regional Market President – Central Region, which includes Huntingdon, Blair and Centre counties. In this newly created position, Mrs. Halstead will oversee operations at Penn Highlands Huntingdon and Penn Highlands Tyrone. In addition, she will manage the construction and launch of Penn Highlands Healthcare's new hospital in State College. Her regional team will include Joe Myers, MBA, President of Penn Highlands Huntingdon, and Anna M. Anna, RN, BSN, MHA, President of Penn Highlands Tyrone.
Mrs. Halstead's current responsibilities at Penn Highlands Clearfield will be assumed by Bradley J. Chapman, MBA, FACHE, the current president of Penn Highlands Elk in St. Marys. Mr. Chapman will serve in the dual role of president at both Penn Highlands Elk and Penn Highlands Clearfield.
"These executives have shown exceptional leadership skills in their current roles and will complement the health system's overall regionalization strategy as it continues to evolve," said Steven M. Fontaine, CEO of Penn Highlands Healthcare. "Over the last several years, strategic efforts have been made to regionalize fiscal services, human resources, recruitment, supply chain, fund development and marketing/communications along with the addition of system service line managers."
Penn Highlands Healthcare's growth strategies include investment in additional clinical staff, state-of-the-art equipment and advanced technologies to ensure the health system is positioned to provide quality healthcare services in the communities it serves without adding unnecessary overhead in the system.
Mrs. Halstead, who is a 31-year veteran of the healthcare industry, brings extensive health administration management experience to her new role. Prior to joining Penn Highlands Clearfield in 2018 as the Hospital's President, she held senior leadership positions at Val Verde Regional Medical Center in Del Rio, Texas; Rideout Regional Medical Center in Marysville, Calif.; and HCA Gulf Coast Medical Center in Panama City, Fla. Mrs. Halstead received a Bachelor of Science degree from Florida State University and a Master of Science Degree in Management, Health Administration from Troy University.
Bradley J. Chapman brings more than 10 years of health industry experience to his new role. Mr. Chapman joined Penn Highlands Elk in 2017. He previously held leadership positions at Auburn Community Hospital in Auburn, N.Y. and Oswego Hospital in Oswego, N.Y. Mr. Chapman received his bachelor's degree in Accounting and a master's degree in Management from Niagara University. In addition, he earned a certificate in Healthcare Leadership from Le Moyne College.
Penn Highlands Healthcare was officially formed on September 30, 2011, and is comprised of eight hospitals – Penn Highlands Brookville, Penn Highlands Clearfield, Penn Highlands Connellsville, Penn Highlands DuBois, Penn Highlands Elk, Penn Highlands Huntingdon, Penn Highlands Mon Valley and Penn Highlands Tyrone that have served area communities for the past 100+ years. Its business continuum also includes home care agencies, long-term care facilities and residential senior living communities, as well as durable medical equipment companies and retail pharmacies.
Penn Highlands Healthcare has evolved into an organization with approximately 6,097 workers in 150+ locations throughout 39 counties in Northwestern/Central and Southwestern Pennsylvania that include community medical buildings, outpatient facilities, surgery centers and physician practices. Providing exceptional quality care to the region, it has 827 physicians and 405 advanced practice providers on staff. The facilities have a total of 1,513 inpatient, skilled nursing and personal care beds. The system offers a wide range of care and treatments with specialty units that care for cancer, cardiovascular/thoracic, neurosurgery, pulmonology, neonatal and high-risk pregnancy patients. Being focused on what is important – patients and families – makes Penn Highlands Healthcare the best choice in the region.
Four local students to represent Penn State DuBois at THON 2023
DuBois beats out 12 states in bid to hold Little League Eastern Regionals
Clearfield and Jefferson County Commissioners announce bids for re-election
Two Penn Highlands Healthcare hospitals recognized for Excellence in Patient Safety
Penn State DuBois hosts comedian Derrick Knopsnyder tonight
Penn State DuBois finishes showcasing All Sports Museum exhibit on Monday


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Thursday, May 8 12:01 AM EDT
Steve Ballmer Sells Soul to Satan
By M. Stefanakopolus
San Francisco, CA - Linux advocates returned from last week's Embedded Systems Conference, an annual event more commonly dubbed "ESC West," dismayed over recent Microsoft advances in the embedded device space. Aarno Savlaeven, who traveled from Sweden to attend the conference, reported, "they had devices everywhere, all over the show floor! Everywhere I looked there was that stupid 'Windows Powered' logo; I couldn't get away from it!"
Mr. Savlaeven, who works for a company building Linux-based PDA devices for the Scandinavian market, said "You don't get it; the worst part is that [the devices] all worked! Every one of them! Not a single almost-works prototype in the bunch! Do you know what that means?"
Although most would consider that an extreme unlikelihood, what Mr. Savlaevin saw has been confirmed by many other attendees and by several leading industry analysts. Says L. Curtis Ovborg, an independent analyst who closely monitors the embedded systems marketplace, "This is clear evidence that [Microsoft CEO] Steve Ballmer has sold his soul to Satan. I have suspected this for a while, but it's still nice to get some solid confirmation despite what this means for the industry."
It is well known in the software world that Microsoft founder Bill Gates long ago sold his soul to the Prince of Darkness to secure the success of the Windows operating system. That Steve Ballmer has done so as well suggests that Microsoft is willing to do whatever is necessary to succeed in embedded systems, a market segment historically free from Microsoft's influence. "Microsoft has always said they were entering this market for the long term," says Ovborg, "but I didn't figure they meant for eternity itself."
When asked how many souls Microsoft would have to sell to ensure victory in the embedded marketplace, Ovborg concludes "Probably just the one. However, what most people don't realize is that the very necessity of selling Ballmer's soul reflects a strategic blunder by Microsoft: by entering the embedded marketplace with Windows CE--a new codebase developed from the ground up--Microsoft opened up a loophole in its original agreement about the desktop Windows OS, which the Father of all Lies was only too happy to take advantage of. Had they instead stripped features out of desktop Windows to make it small enough for embedded [applications], Ballmer could have kept his soul."
Linux Delayed by Microsoft's Army of Evil Monkeys
Microsoft Announces Ads for BSOD
Ironically, Microsoft's early work towards embedded and PDA-like applications, most notably the ill-fated WinPad device, took just such an approach. However, those efforts were abandoned because the hardware at the time could not support the Windows OS in such small form factors.
Linux newsgroups have been abuzz with discussion ever since ESC-West concluded last Friday. One poster, clearly dismayed by this development, wrote "How can we possibly compete with this? I'd gladly sell my soul for Linux, but the Devil doesn't want it! I typed 'Lucifer hear me' into a root shell over and over till he appeared, but he just said open software developer souls are too innocent and pure for him, melted my keyboard, and left!" Whether the the Devil was referring to the poster's software development mentality or to his presumed lack of mortal sin was not clear, however.
In unrelated news, the WinHEC conference has been renamed the WinHELL conference.
More Microsoft News


"If you can find a better-built, better-backed car, buy it."
The tag line sounds like vintage Lee Iacocca. But it's from Mitsubishi TV commercials that have aired this year in Australia.
"I shamelessly admit I copied it," laughs Thomas Phillips, CEO of Mitsubishi Motors Australia Ltd. Phillips is a 40-year veteran of Australia's auto industry. He worked at General Motors' Holden Ltd. unit and Toyota Motor Corp. Australia, where he was director of sales and marketing. He joined Mitsubishi in 2000.
"I'm no Lee Iacocca," Phillips adds, "but the concept still works."
In the early 1980s, Iacocca staked his reputation - and the future of a nearly bankrupt Chrysler Corp. - on his TV commercials. He challenged American consumers: "If you can find a better car, buy it."
Mitsubishi Australia was in nearly as dire straits when Phillips decided to echo Iacocca's line.
A steady worldwide barrage of negative news had battered Mitsubishi. Quality and financial problems, and the news of DaimlerChrysler AG's pullout from an alliance with the Japanese automaker, had hurt Mitsubishi sales.
Mitsubishi Australia faced additional downbeat news. In May 2004, Mitsubishi said it would close its engine plant in Lonsdale, Australia.
Many consumers thought that meant the end of Mitsubishi's Australian assembly plant, in Tonsley, a suburb of Adelaide. Mitsubishi was preparing to pull out of Australia, they figured.
But they were wrong. Mitsubishi had just finished investing $189.4 million in the Tonsley plant to launch a car. There are no plans to close the plant.
Mitsubishi's market share in Australia hit a low point of 4.9 percent last June. That share stood at 9.2 percent as recently as 2000.
Mitsubishi ranked behind the other three automakers that build vehicles in Australia: Toyota Motor Corp., Holden and Ford Motor Co. It also trailed such importers as Nissan Motor Co.
The bad news peaked for Mitsubishi Australia last October. A series of negative media reports assailed the state of the company.
At that point, Phillips says, "92 percent of the market thought we were going out of business. We had to make a statement."
" tag line. Like Iacocca in the classic Chrysler ads, Phillips comes across as a boss who connects with viewers on a personal level because he is willing to put his reputation on the line.
Looking the camera in the eye, he admits: "We've had some problems." Then he finishes with the commandeered exhortation.
The "better-backed" part of the line, which Iacocca never used, refers to a five-year warranty Mitsubishi Australia initiated in December.
Print ads emphasized that Mitsubishi Australia wasn't about to fold up and go away. Under the headline "It's not the end of the line. It's the beginning," one ad acknowledged: "The Mitsubishi name has been in the papers a lot lately. Not always in the motoring section."
The ads worked. Within 30 days, only half of Australians thought Mitsubishi was going out of business, down from 92 percent.
Mitsubishi Australia's new ad campaign was designed to address these issues.
Mitsubishi's sales in Australia jumped 10.0 percent in January over the same month of 2004. In the first four months of 2005, sales rose 14.4 percent from a year earlier. During the same four months, Mitsubishi's U.S. sales plunged by 40.2 percent from the year-ago period.
From January through April, Mitsubishi's Australian market share rose to 6.3 percent, from 5.8 percent in all of 2004. The increase came despite a paucity of new models.
Mitsubishi Australia is assembling focus groups to discuss marketing concepts. The sessions begin with owners of various brands discussing vehicle marketing in general. They do not indicate which company is sponsoring the focus group.
Phillips notes that participants say without prompting how much they like the "If you can find" ads. He says that ad agency executives who conduct the focus groups tell him that "in 20 years of leading such groups, they've never seen such a spontaneous reaction."


It goes without saying—except for our having just said it—that getting engaged is an entirely individual process.
For some brides, a big sparkler is the go, something with presence that lights up rooms and #ringselfies, while for others, opting for an alternative style in rubies, emeralds or sapphires is ideal.
And, of course, there are those to prefer to keep things a touch more low-key.
Between delicate bands in platinum, yellow or rose gold, petite stones and understated settings, small engagement rings are perfect for minimalist brides as they can have just as much impact—in half the space.
Considering a smaller rock? Here, 18 to inspire.
Horizon ring, $3,350 at Tiffany & Co.
Petite Precious diamond ring, $3,390 at Natalie Marie Jewellery.
'Bowie' ring, $5,850 at Grew & Co.
Gold and emerald ring by Yi Collection, $3,165 at Moda Operandi.
Etincelle De Cartier ring, $2,990 at Cartier.
Petal ring, $780 at Sarah & Sebastian.
Maya ring, $6,800 at HLSK.
'Blake' ring, $5,910 at Grew & Co.
'Paris' ring by ARK, $1,750 at Moda Operandi.
Three Stone diamond ring, $1,750 at Natalie Marie Jewellery.
'M'ama non M'ama' ring by Pomellato, $2,884 at NET-A-PORTER.
Aurora ring, $285 at HLSK.
Round ring, $3,950 at Tiffany & Co.
Me/You ring by Anita Ko, $3,895 at Moda Operandi.
Diamond ring by Melissa Joy Manning, $526 at NET-A-PORTER.
Diamond and yellow-gold ring by Raphaele Canot, $2,375 at MATCHESFASHION.COM.
One diamond ring by VanRycke, $630 at My Chameleon.
Diamond and white gold ring by Delfina Delettrez, $590 at MATCHESFASHION.COM.


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Jean Tiberi (born January 30, 1935) is a French politician who was mayor of Paris from May 22, 1995 to March 24, 2001. , he was mayor of the 5th arrondissement of Paris and deputy to the French National Assembly from the second district of Paris.

Of Corsican descent, Tiberi first entered the National Assembly in August 1968 as the replacement for René Capitant, who was appointed to the government as Minister of Justice. He was re-elected in the 1973 election, serving until early 1976, when he was appointed to the government as Secretary of State in charge of Food Industries, under the Minister of Agriculture and the Minister of Industry and Research. He served in that position until August 1976, after which he returned to the National Assembly in a by-election in November 1976 to replace Monique Tisne. He has been re-elected to the National Assembly in every election since then.

He was Mayor of the 5th arrondissement of Paris from March 1983 to May 1995, when he became Mayor of Paris. After serving as Mayor of Paris, he was again elected as Mayor of the 5th arrondissement in 2001.

Jean Tiberi and his wife Xavière Tiberi were involved in corruption scandals in the Paris region in which Mr Tiberi was convicted of vote-rigging and given a ten month suspended prison sentence.

In 1998, a justice-ordered search of Jean and Xavière Tiberi's apartment on the Place du Panthéon showed that they possessed two pistols whose authorization had expired since 1991 and five ammunition boxes. They were not prosecuted in exchange for the destruction of the weapons.

The above actions are sometimes referred to by the press as Corsican mores.

Along with Jean-Pierre Soisson and Didier Julia, Jean Tiberi was among the longest-serving members of the National Assembly, in which he has served 10 terms and 44 years. He  did not run for  reelection in 2012.

Friend of Jean-Edern Hallier, he has been Cercle InterHallier member since 2019.

Political career
Governmental function

Secretary of State for Food Industries : January–August 1976.

Electoral mandates

National Assembly of France

Member of the National Assembly of France for Paris : 1968–1976 (Became Secretary of State in 1976) / And since November 1976. Elected in 1968, reelected in 1973, 1976, 1978, 1981, 1986, 1988, 1993, 1997, 2002, 2007.

Municipal Council

Mayor of Paris : 1995–2001.

Deputy-mayor of Paris : 1983–1995. Reelected in 1989.

Councillor of Paris : Since 1965. Reelected in 1971, 1977, 1983, 1989, 1995, 2001, 2008.

Mayor of the 5th arrondissement of Paris : 1983–1995 / And since 2001. Reelected in 1989, 2001, 2008.

Councillor of the 5th arrondissement of Paris : Since 1983. Reelected in 1989, 1995, 2001, 2008.

References

1935 births
Living people
Lycée Louis-le-Grand alumni
Rally for the Republic politicians
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
Mayors of Paris
Politicians from Paris
French people of Corsican descent
French city councillors
Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas University alumni
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Mayors of arrondissements of Paris