REBIRTH: The True Story: The Huguenot fight for civil liberty that altered the fate of nations.
When one law, one faith, one king is the rule of the day, those who dare to think otherwise risk being the targets of terror and intolerance. Soon, the name Huguenot (pronounced hoo-guh-no) is applied to these reformers and dissenters, and many Huguenots and Humanists alike stand together in civil disobedience against the combined corruption and and cruelty of church and state.
In this world torn between renaissance and genocide … a true story unfolds of undying love and an unyielding fight for freedom. Set in a time when only a few have the courage to question the corruption of popes or the commands of kings. These few noble "heretics" will give up fortune and fame in a stand against intolerance, daring to speak their conscience — but not without the risk of death or dungeon.
"Rebirth's" history also includes the heritage of Robert Duval, Johnny Depp, Warren Buffet, Steve Forbes, Kenneth Branagh, Winston Churchill, over a dozen American Presidents, millions of U.S.and world citizens ( as well as over 75 percent of England's indigenous population — many of which– unknowingly, share this legacy of honor.) ALL those living in freedom and those longing for freedom will be outraged and ultimately inspired by this provocative true story.
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The themes of art, literature and liberty help re-create the romance of the Renaissance. Yet, this thirst for knowledge becomes a threat to the unbridled powers that be. Soon, what should be a time for expanding the mind turns into a time when speaking your mind can lead to the loss of your head. In spite of being trapped in a time of tyranny and terror, many find comfort in their belief that love and honor are stronger than hatred and intolerance.
(When Love finds you it changes everything…) Edmund and Genevieve find a better world in one another, and their love story is woven throughout. Love teaches us, that some things never die, that we all leave a legacy, woven by the threads that touch our hearts and makes us better human beings. Rebirth will reveal, in spite of an emotional roller coaster, that love can help us rise above all that we fear. Rebirth will ultimately inspire all who know the true power of love and honor.
As a little boy, Edmund loses his faith in humanity when he witnesses the beheading of innocents. Now, as a young man, this womanizing pacifist seeks to escape the pain of his past through pursuits of pleasure. He finds unexpected love in the the eyes of an extraordinary young woman and discovers a genuine respect for noble men who are willing to give up everything for the sake of honor. He does not share their faith, but believes in their right to defend their families and and the freedom to speak their conscience. He can no longer run from his fear, nor close his eyes to the terror unfolding around him.
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The niece of the Prince de Conde, Genevieve's youth does not reflect her depth of intelligence and wisdom well beyond her years. She feels the weight of the world on her shoulders and has a heart of gold that she tries her best to hide. Often portraying herself as aloof to keep from getting hurt, she is empathic to the pain and cruelty in the world. Edmund wins her heart, when he opens his own to her and shares his fears and pain of his past. Edmund will teach her to trust in true love, and she will help him find his purpose and the meaning of honor.
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During the French Renaissance, many are no longer able to accept the commands of Kings, nor the corruption of Popes. Those better educated are able to read for themselves, but not without the risk of death or dungeon. As Humanism and Reformation spread, the thirst for knowledge is viewed as a threat to the unbridled power of church and state.
Yet, some are willing to fight back. The Huguenots are at the forefront of the rebellion. Many are willing to give up fortune, fame and even their lives to preserve their honor and liberty of conscience. Prince de Conde and Admiral Coligny are their chosen leaders. Unlike William Wallace in Braveheart, who has little left to lose, these heroes are a pure and rare example of men who give up everything for a noble cause.
A man of honor and integrity, Admiral Gaspard de Coligny is debonair, yet humble and fatherly to all. He has everything a man can wish for, riches and renown with the King. In his fifties, Coligny believes religion is not a set of beliefs, but a way of life. The men who stand with him battle for the sake of honor and civil liberty. Coligny is a rare example of a man who gives up his wealth and the pleasures of success for this noble cause.
Wish List: Michael Caine, Kenneth Branagh, Colin Firth.
The chosen leader of the "heretics," Louis I, Prince de Conde is a patriot that is concerned with the path that France has chosen. In his late thirties to early forties in the screenplay, he is appalled when he sees men blindly bowing to dogma, even to the point of killing fellow countrymen. His faith is not that of a religious fanatic, but one of principle, to do what is right for the future of his people and his country.
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In her forties, Jean D'Albret, Queen of Navarre is an intelligent, well-read and practical woman. Her ideology represents the best of humanism, mysticism and religious reform. She is sincere in her pursuit of the truth and enjoys Plato, even having his dialogues translated. She has little patience for dogma, but pursues the ideal of moderation in religion, rejecting many aspects of medieval Catholicism. At her court, she gives refuge to dissenters and allows for freedom of conscience.
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When the pursuit of knowledge threatens the "powers that be," intolerance tramples the law and civil liberty and the torture and murder of the brightest and most noble Frenchmen becomes commonplace.
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The Queen Mother of France, Catherine de Medici tries to mediate peace, but is trusted by no one. Well-educated, with the heart of a humanist but a Machiavellian mind, Catherine tries to suffer the Guise's intolerance and bigotry when faced with the possible loss of power for her and her children: King Charles IX, King Henri III and Marguerite de Valois.
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In his fifties, Louis II, Cardinal of Guise exhibits a pretentious piety as he protects those loyal, while also trying to bring the full power of the Inquisition to France. He is devoutly loyal his brother, the Duke de Guise, and they both abuse power through tyranny and terror, opposing the more tolerant policies of Catherine de Medicis. It is the Guise arrogance and cruelty against anyone they deem "heretics" that directly leads to the French Wars of Religion.
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Nostradamus cameo: Anthony Hopkins, Max Von Sydow, Christopher Plummer.
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"Rebirth" was not intended to be a political statement or even an historical narrative, yet the true to life characters bring into sharper focus the harder edge that once appeared more like a distant mirage. Nevertheless, the heritage of love, liberty and honor inherent within the pages of "Rebirth" cries out to our humanity, and it belongs to us all.
What is a Huguenot? What Johnny Depp and others need to know.
The Huguenot fight for civil liberty that altered the fate of nations.
When one law, one faith, one king is the rule of the day, those who dare to think otherwise risked being the targets of terror and intolerance. Only a few are brave enough to speak their conscience, but not without the risk of death or dungeon. Soon, the name Huguenot (pronounced hoo-guh-no) is applied to these reformers and dissenters, and many Huguenots and Humanists alike stand together in civil disobedience against the combined corruption and and cruelty of church and state.
The Huguenot persecution began with the bravest and best educated nobles and soon included massacres of innocent women and children, simply for their stand on the ideals on freedom, the right to speak their conscience and the right to assemble without fear of persecution. This courage and sacrifice begin the philosophical debate on basic civil liberties and directly led to the basic principles of the U.S. Constitution.
Allocution de M. François Mitterrand, Président de la République, aux cérémonies du tricentenaire de la Révocation de l'Edit de Nantes, sur la tolérance en matière politique et religieuse et l'histoire du protestantisme en France, Paris, Palais de l'UNESCO, vendredi 11 octobre 1985.
The English word "refugee" would come about due to Huguenots exile and escape from France which amounted to some 1/4th million out of France's 20 million citizens, and during the years 1572-1690, most of which were concentrated in the West and in the South.
After over 50,000 had fled to England, they made up 5% of London town at a time when the London population was 10% of England. Genetically, the statistical probability that the next English person you meet in England will have at least some Huguenot ancestry is 75%.
From: Bernard Cottret's The Huguenot in England and to Peter Steven Gannon's volume on Refugees in the Settling of Colonial America.
[NOTE: This movement of refugees is said to have been the "largest forced migration of Europeans in the early modern period." Refer to Jon Butler's The Huguenot in America: A Refugee People in New World Society. Cambridge MA: Harvard UP, 1983.
Robert Duvall, Warren Buffet, Johnny Depp, Steve Forbes, Lawrence Olivier, Charlize Theron, Winston Churchill,Tyrone Power, Megan Fox, John Rockefeller, George Patton, George Will, Henry David Thoreau, Charles Tiffany, A.I. Dupont, Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Jay, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Francis Marion, Davy Crockett, John Sevier, Peter Mark Roget, James Bayard, Jean Belmain–French scholar,French-language tutor to King Edward VI and Queen Elizabeth I. George Washington and over a dozen American Presidents also have documented Huguenot ancestry. Many more world citizens,knowingly and unknowingly, share this legacy of honor.
– Il y a trois cents ans – on l'a dit et c'est la raison de votre présence – le Roi Louis XIV révoquait l'Edit de Nantes, signé par Henri IV, son aïeul. Un acte de gouvernement pour les contemporains, un acte parmi tant d'autres, ni plus, ni moins significatif, sans doute, que d'autres décisions prises au cours de ce long règne.- D'où vient que ce souvenir nous rassemble aujourd'hui ? D'où vient que cette date nous parle avec tant d'exigence, au point de justifier une commémoration ?
– La Révocation en tant qu'événement, le fait historique lui-même pourrait nous paraître étrangère, lointaine. L'interdiction faite aux protestants de pratiquer leur religion en France, il suffirait de dire qu'elle appartient à une époque révolue. A quoi bon, après tout, pour reprendre la belle expression de Marc Bloch, parlant de son métier d'historien "par macabre dilection, démailloter les dieux morts". C'est que la Révocation est un de ces grands moments où le destin bascule.
– La persécution d'une minorité devenue, d'un trait de plume, hors-la-loi dans son propre pays. Voilà qui nous renvoit à des réalités proches de nous. Cette gangrène dure encore. Nous en avons connu l'horreur ; l'humanité n'en est jamais guérie. Commémorer la Révocation est donc un geste grave. D'autres que moi mettront le passé au banc des accusés, au risque de porter un regard moralisateur, empli d'anachronismes sur la société du 17ème siècle.
Mais la Révocation, c'est d'abord son envers, son contraire, cet Edit de Nantes promulgué en 1598, pour mettre fin à 30 ans de guerre civile et éteindre un brasier inlassablement ravivé, qui, après avoir dévasté la France, menaçait son existence même, en tant qu'Etat. Trouver les moyens d'une coexistence entre la majorité catholique et la minorité huguenote, c'était d'abord exclure la perspective de la victoire de l'un sur l'autre, c'était refuser la solution qu'avait adoptée chacun pour sa part, l'Espagne et l'Angleterre, l'unité de religion imposée par la Terreur. Il fallait pour cela contraindre les factions en lutte à accepter une autre logique qui leur était supérieure. La raison de l'Etat, dépositaire et garant de l'intérêt national, de ce qu'en France, depuis le Haut-Moyen Age on appelle : le bien commun.
– Il appartenait à l'Etat de faire triompher ce qui n'était pas de l'ordre de la religion, de la foi, de la conscience individuelle, où l'Etat n'a que faire. Mais de l'ordre de la politique, dès lors que ce qui était en danger c'était la nation. Et ce tiers parti, dont les efforts conduisent, après tant de tentatives avortées, à l'Edit de Nantes, on lui avait donné, rappelez-vous, ce beau nom – permettez-moi d'y être sensible – "les politiques". Les uns appartenant à la Réforme, les autres étant fidèles à Rome. Ils auraient pu, eux aussi, lutter éternellement pour venger Coligny ou bien le Duc de Guise.
– Ainsi, dans ces particularités, comme dans les insuffisances que l'esprit moderne, habitué à la liberté religieuse, peut lui trouver, l'Edit de Nantes comporte un enseignement : il établit d'une façon propre à l'époque en question, un équilibre précaire, difficile mais réel entre le poids social de la majorité, les droits spécifiques d'une minorité et l'intérêt commun incarné par l'Etat. L'Edit est un compromis, au meilleur sens de ce terme. Un compromis dont le pouvoir politique se porte garant. Il demande à chaque communauté, sans renoncer à ses convictions, d'accepter une limite : la place de l'autre.
– Les catholiques rêvaient de rétablir en France une religion unique ; les politiques leur indiquent clairement qu'ils n'ont le droit d'utiliser, pour parvenir à ce droit, que des armes spirituelles. La réforme interne, le renouveau de la spiritualité, la controverse, la mission… Les protestants avaient constitué une force militaire, politique et religieuse pour croire, prier à leur façon. Mais l'Etat, tout en leur donnant des garanties, leur imposait certaines contraintes. Pour préserver l'unité politique de la Nation, il n'y aura pas d'Etat dans l'Etat.
Bref, l'Edit de Nantes, après tous ces déchirements, rappelle que tous sont d'abord des Français. Et ce serait certes un anachronisme, que de lire à l'avance dans l'Edit de Nantes la déclaration des Droits de l'Homme – vous l'avez dit, monsieur le président – ou la laïcité de l'Etat. Mais, quand on considère l'Histoire de France, dans une perspective de longue durée, on peut percevoir comme une étape – et une étape importante – dans la conquête progressive et lente de ces deux fondements de notre République.
Address by Mr. François Mitterrand, President of the Republic, in the ceremonies of the tercentenary of the Revocation of the edict of Nantes, on political and religious tolerance and the history of Protestantism in France, Paris, UNESCO Palace, Friday, October 11, 1985.
-Three hundred years ago – has been said and this is the reason for your presence – King Louis XIV revoked the edict of Nantes, signed by Henri IV, his grandfather. An act of Government for contemporaries, an Act among others, neither more, nor less significant, probably, than other decisions taken during this long reign.
-Where does this memory brings together us today? Whence this date tells us with such requirement, so as to justify a commemoration?
-The Revocation as an event, the historical fact itself may seem foreign, distant. The prohibition on the HUGUENOTS to practice their religion in France, it would suffice to say that it belongs to a bygone era. What good, after all, to resume the beautiful expression of Marc Bloch, speaking of his profession of historian 'by macabre preferred, démailloter the dead gods'. Is that the Revocation is one of those great moments where fate switches.
-The persecution of a minority became a stroke of pen, outlaw in his own country. This is what we refers to close realities of us. This gangrene lasts. We have experienced the horror; humanity is never cured. Commemorate the Revocation is therefore a serious gesture. Others that I will put the past in the dock, at the risk of a moralistic eye, filled with anachronisms on the 17th century society.
The Revocation, but first its upside down, its opposite, this edict of Nantes issued in 1598, to put an end to 30 years of civil war and turn off a tirelessly revived blaze, which, after devastated France, threatened its very existence as a State. Find ways of coexistence between the Catholic majority and the Huguenot minority, it was first exclude the prospect of victory of one over the other, it was denied the solution adopted each for its part, the Spain and England, the unity of religion imposed by terror. Need for this force the warring factions to accept a different approach which was superior to them. The reason for the State, depositary and guarantor of national interest, in France, from the upper-middle ages so-called: the common good.
-It belonged to the State of upholding what was not the order of religion, the faith of the individual conscience, where the State has no use. But the policy agenda, as what was in danger was the nation. And this third party, whose efforts lead, after so many failed attempts, in the edict of Nantes, had given him, mind you, this beautiful name – let me be sensitive – "policies". Each belonging to the reform, the other being loyal to Rome. They could have, too, fight eternally to avenge Coligny or the Duke of Guise.
-Thus, in these characteristics, as in the shortcomings that the modern mind, accustomed to religious freedom, can find him, the edict of Nantes includes teaching: it provides in a manner at the time in question, a precarious, difficult but real balance between the social weight of the majority, the specific rights of a minority and the common interest embodied by the State. The edict was a compromise, in the best sense of that term. A compromise whose political power vouch. He asked each community, without renouncing its convictions, to accept a limit: the place of the other.
-Catholics dreamed of restoring in France a single religion; policies clearly tell them that they have the right to use, to achieve this right, that of spiritual weapons. The internal reform, the revival of spirituality, the controversy, the mission… The protestants had established military, political and religious force to believe, pray in their own way. But the State, while giving them guarantees, imposed certain constraints. To preserve the political unity of the Nation, there is no State in the State.
– Fait exceptionnel, dans l'Europe d'alors, à partir de 1598, des membres d'une minorité religieuse pourront professer leur croyance – celle de la religion réformée – sans encourrir de sanctions dans leur carrière et même, plus simplement, dans leur vie quotidienne.
– Mesure plus étonnante encore – dans l'esprit de ce temps – il devient possible, sans cesser d'être un Français reconnu comme tel, de changer de religion. Il ne s'agit plus simplement de transformer un conflit ouvert en coexistence, sur la base d'un statu quo, mais bien de l'acte de naissance de la liberté de conscience, origine de toutes les libertés.
– Dans la société très hiérarchisée d'alors, où l'analphabétisme était le lot du plus grand nombre, le pouvoir politique osait établir le droit de la fragile, de l'obscure conscience individuelle. Il osait remettre à chacun cette décision capitale : le choix de sa foi, de sa religion. Alors qu'une telle décision dépendait – croyait-on – du salut éternel ou bien les peines d'un enfer qui n'en finirait pas.
– Soixante ans plus tard, voilà que soixante ans plus tard recommença le temps de la tourmente. Pendant un quart de siècle, l'Edit de Nantes allait être peu à peu démantelé, avant de se trouver révoqué.
– Pour rendre justice à la vérité historique, il ne faut pas confondre la persécution brutale qui finit par prévaloir avec la volonté de rétablir l'unité religieuse du royaume, que l'on crut pouvoir réaliser par des moyens moins violents. Mais c'est précisément cet engrenage inexorable qui aboutira aux galères, aux gibets, aux bûchers.
– L'échec de chaque mesure menait à en prendre une nouvelle – on connaît le processus – plus rude, qui se juxtaposait à la précédente, sans forcément l'abolir. Il y eut la guerre froide juridique qui commença par l'interprétation de l'Edit à la rigueur. On ergotait sur la lettre ; on finit par fabriquer, sur mesure, de nouvelles lois qui allaient à l'encontre d'articles précis de l'Edit. Il y a eu la caisse de conversion, fondée sur l'idée que l'appât du gain, chassait ce que l'on appellait les "mauvais sentiments" et que la corruption permettait d'éviter la violence.
– Et puis, devant son insuccès, on en arriva aux enlèvements d'enfants, aux dragonnades – c'est une histoire que vous connaissez – à la terreur aveugle, à la torture morale, où il suffisait d'un mot, d'un seul, un seul mot – j'abjure – pour que cessât le cauchemar.
– En proclamant la liberté de conscience sans abolir la religion d'Etat, l'Edit de Nantes avait ouvert, à demi, une porte. Mais loin de s'agrandir, l'ouverture se referma comme un tombeau.
Double leçon : face aux violences, aux fanatismes, à l'enchaînement des agressions et des représailles, c'est l'Etat qui rétablit la paix ; c'est le primat du politique qui fonde, en limitant les ambitions des libertés, des religions, et d'abord des consciences. Mais par là même, il accepte de se fixer à lui-même des bornes, de ne pas dépasser la limite qu'il s'est à lui-même imposée. Il s'arrête là où commence la liberté irréductible de chaque être humain, liberté qui n'existerait pas s'il n'était pas là pour la protéger et pour la garantir. Et tout cela en étant fidèle : fidèle à sa mission qui est de veiller jalousement aux intérêts de la patrie. Mais que l'Etat passe ces bornes, qu'il veuille régir les consciences et les coeurs, il oublie où se trouve son véritable rôle, plus simplement il renonce et il assiste impuissant au déchaînement des passions et il n'y a plus, en fin de compte et pour personne, ni ordre, ni liberté.
– L'Edit de Nantes, il faut le savoir, fut très impopulaire et au fond, il ne donna satisfaction à personne. Tandis que la Révocation, elle, fut approuvée avec enthousiasme par une très large majorité. Et seules, en-dehors de la communauté protestante – cela va de soi – quelques voix isolées s'y opposaient. Discerner à long terme l'intérêt d'un pays, sans se laisser détourner de son devoir, de ses principes, de ses objectifs, par les soubresauts et les foucades de l'opinion, ce n'est pas le chemin le plus facile. Mais c'est celui où l'on compte le moins de fautes.
A l'époque de la Révocation, le pouvoir comptait sur le loyalisme des Huguenots – Mademoiselle du Corbier l'a fort bien précisé – et comme l'avait déclaré Mazarin "le petit troupeau broute de mauvaises herbes mais ne s'écarte pas". Il n'avait pas prêté une oreille attentive à certains avertissements comme celui des deux pasteurs du Languedoc affirmant avoir – je les cite – "dessein de porter leur obéissance aux ordres de Sa Majesté aussi loin que leur permettait leur conscience". Il pensait qu'il suffirait d'ajouter aux violences des dragons cette parole décisive : "le Roi le veut"… Seulement voilà, le premier instant de stupeur passé, le loyalisme changea de nom : il devint la résistance.
En dépit d'une interdiction formelle – songez-y – d'une surveillance très inhabituelle à cette époque, 250000 protestants français partirent pour des pays de refuge. Je vous le dis, ce n'est pas sans émoi, que même 300 ans plus tard, le Président de la République française évoque cette émigration et la présence ici-même de descendants de ces Huguenots ajoute à ma peine. Mieux que quiconque Michelet a su rendre l'intensité d'un tel exil. Il écrivit : "l'émigration était très difficile. Son plus grand obstacle était dans l'âme même de ceux qui avaient à franchir ce pas. Il leur semblait trop fort de se déraciner d'ici, de rompre avec tant de fibres vivantes, de quitter amis et parents, toutes leurs vieilles habitudes, leur toit d'enfance, leur foyer de famille, les cimetières où reposaient les leurs. Cette France cruelle, on ne peut cependant s'en séparer sans grand effort et sans mortel regret".
– -Exceptional in Europe, from 1598 fact, members of a religious minority can profess their belief – that of religion reformed – without incurring penalties in their careers and even more simply, in their daily lives.
-Most amazing measurement – in the spirit of this time – it becomes possible, without ceasing to be a French recognized as such, to change religion. This is most simply transform a conflict opened in coexistence, on the basis of the status quo, but rather the Act of birth of the freedom of conscience, origin of all freedoms.
–In the very hierarchical so, where society illiteracy was the lot of the greatest number, political power dared to establish the right of the fragile, of the obscure individual conscience. He dared return to each this momentous decision: the choice of faith, of religion. While such a decision depended on – thought – of salvation eternal or even sentences of a hell that did would not.
-Sixty years later, this is sixty years later began the time of turmoil. For a quarter century, the edict of Nantes would be gradually dismantled, before to get revoked.
-To do justice to the historical truth, do not confuse the brutal persecution which eventually prevail with the willingness to restore religious unity of the Kingdom, that is believed to be able to perform by less violent means. But it is precisely this inexorable spiral that will lead to the galleys in the Gibbets in the pyres.
-The failure of each measure led to a new – we know the process – more rude, who strung to the previous, without necessarily abolish it. There's the legal cold war which began with the interpretation of the edict in a pinch. They quibbled on the letter; We end up making, custom, new laws that were contrary to specific sections of the Edit. There were the caisse de conversion, based on the idea that the lure of gain, hunted what one called the "bad feelings" and that corruption was to avoid violence.
–And then, to his failures, it came to the abduction of children, to the "dragonnades" – this is a story you know – the blind terror, moral torture, where it was enough of a Word, from a single, one word – I had – for that original nightmare.
-By proclaiming freedom of conscience without abolishing the State religion, the edict of Nantes had opened, half, a door. But far from growing, opening closed as a tomb.
Double lesson: to violence, fanaticism, to the chain of attacks and reprisals, it is the State that restores peace; It is the primacy of the political underpinning, by limiting the ambitions of freedoms, of religions, and first of consciences. But there, he accepts to set itself terminals, do not exceed the limit that it has itself imposed. It stops there where begins the irreducible freedom of every human being, freedom which would not exist if he was not there to protect and to guarantee. And all this being true: faithful to its mission which is to jealously protect the interests of the homeland. But the State passes these terminals, that he wants to govern the consciences and hearts, he forgets where his true role, more simply it renounces and he assisted helplessly to the unleashing of passions and, ultimately, and for anyone, neither order nor freedom.
-The edict of Nantes, he must know, was very unpopular, and basically, he gave satisfaction to anyone. While the Revocation, it was approved with enthusiasm by a very large majority. And alone, outside the Protestant community – that goes without saying – a few isolated voices opposed. Discern long-term interest of a country, without getting away from its duty to its principles, its objectives, through the ups and downs and the vagaries of opinion is not the easiest path. But this is the one where there is the least amount of mistakes.
At the time of the Revocation, the power relied on the loyalty of the Huguenots – le Corbier Mademoiselle has well said – and as stated by Mazarin "the little flock grazing weeds but does not deviate". He had not lent an ear to some warnings like the one of the two pastors of the Languedoc claiming to have – I quote them – "design to wear their obedience to the orders of his Majesty as far as allowed them their conscience". He thought that it would suffice to add to the violence of the dragons this decisive word: "The King wants to"… Only here, the first moment of surprise passed, loyalism name was changed: it became the resistance.
Despite a formal ban – think – monitored very unusual at that time, 250,000 French protestants went to countries of refuge.
Pour les membres de la bourgeoisie industrieuse, artisans créateurs de techniques nouvelles – vous l'avez rappelé, mademoiselle, monsieur le président, mais cela on ne le savait pas beaucoup au XIXème siècle – l'élite paysanne – il faut avoir parcouru les Cévennes ou mes Charentes natales pour le savoir – les réfugiés firent don de leurs qualités à leurs pays d'accueil. Et, puisqu'à cette tribune, une Huguenote hollandaise symbolise l'exode subi et l'hospitalité reçue, rappelons que les fugitifs apportèrent et développèrent aux Pays-Bas bien des techniques qui avaient leur valeur et qui justifiaient votre remarque sur le fait qu'on les a reçus de grand coeur, mais aussi au fait que l'on comptait un peu sur eux pour lancer l'économie fatiguée du moment : chapellerie, soieries, draps avec lesquels on habillait si souvent les milices, les serges, les crépons, les broderies en or et en argent. Mais surtout, vous l'avez rappelé pour l'imprimerie et la librairie : la liberté d'opinion s'épanouit dans ce pays déjà plus tolérant que la plupart des nations d'Europe et beaucoup à cause de cela.
– On y vit s'y développer une sorte d'oecuménisme, déjà, celui de l'entraide : les catholiques et les juifs hollandais participant aux collectes effectuées en faveur des exilés. Et il faut ajouter, pour l'honneur de notre pays, qu'en Allemagne, sur les registres de la ville-carrefour de Francfort-sur-le-Main, plaque tournante du voyage vers le refuge, nous retrouvons, oui, on retrouve la trace, non seulement de nombreux Huguenots, bien entendu, mais aussi de catholiques français bannis du royaume pour avoir aidé des protestants. Toute solidarité n'a donc pas été absente de notre peuple en ce moment décisif.
C'est dans les Misérables que Victor Hugo met en scène une "pauvre femme huguenote – c'est lui qui parle – sous Louis-le-Grand, qui se voit prendre son nouveau-né juste avant de l'allaiter et le bourreau disait à la femme, mère et nourrice : "Abjure" lui donnant à choisir entre la mort de son enfant et la mort de sa conscience". Je voudrais noter à cet égard que la résistance des femmes force l'admiration. Celle de ces mères-Pénélope qui transmettaient chaque nuit, l'éducation protestante interdite. Celle des prisonnières de la Tour de Constance – vous avez évoqué ce très beau film qui rappelait cette tragique histoire – dans cette forteresse où elles priaient, où elles chantaient des psaumes, où elles célébraient le culte, montrant de la façon la plus exemplaire la situation paradoxale que vivent les prisonniers d'opinion dans les pays privés de liberté : être enfin libres, précisément parce qu'en prison, acquérir la liberté de l'esprit, précisément au -prix du sacrifice et de la liberté des corps | Ce que je dis là ; quelle est celle ou celui d'entre vous, quelle que soit sa confession de la religion dont il se réclame, qui ne l'a pas vécu ou qui n'a pas connu par ses ancêtres, ou qui ne le connaît pas par ceux de sa confession, qui est digne dans d'autres pays où la persécution existe, qui donc a échappé à cette misère, à cette protestation, à cette affirmation, et finalement à ce courage victorieux ? Mais à quel prix… la souffrance, le sang, la mort, parfois l'oubli.
Les historiens, de nos jours, ont nuancé l'apologie romantique de la Réforme, mère de la Révolution. Je crois qu'ils ont raison. 1789 appartient à l'ensemble du peuple français. Mais il n'est pas indifférent que les éléments qui ont structuré le protestantisme français, dès les XVIème et XVIIème siècles, aient contribué à le rendre insupportable aux tenants de l'absolutisme. Je nommerai Rabeau St-Etienne, qui devait être victime lui-même de la Révolution après une vie si chargée d'orages, d'exils, de proscriptions. C'était un pasteur. Mais il put prononcer à la tribune de la Constituante, au cours de l'élaboration de la déclaration des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen, la formule restée célèbre, pardonnez-moi de la citer mais elle est belle : "ce n'est même pas la tolérance que je réclame ; c'est la liberté". J'ai moi-même employé plusieurs fois, déjà, le mot tolérance. Et ceux qui m'ont précédé ont fait comme moi. Et pourtant c'est bien de cela qu'il s'agit : c'est le vrai débat de la Révocation. On se trompe lorsque l'on croit que le choix est entre la tolérance et l'intolérance. L'intolérance est un -état d'esprit – toujours dangereux – ; la tolérance, cela se révoque. Ce qu'il fallait établir et défendre, c'était la liberté ; mais la liberté implique autant de devoirs que de droits. Elle ne peut pas signifier le repli sur soi, le simple droit pour les individus d'échapper aux contraintes de la vie en commun. la liberté chez nous, ou du moins ce que je connais, c'est aussi la maîtrise de l'Etat par tous les citoyens, grâce aux mécanismes de la démocratie et je me suis attaché à ce que ces mécanismes élargissent leur emprise, pour que le citoyen puisse exister face à l'Etat, pour que l'Etat soit l'expression des citoyens. C'est une recherche ; on n'y parvient jamais assez. Mais l'-entreprise a commencé. Tout ce que je viens de vous dire, nul ne l'a mieux compris que les héritiers du désert.
Au XIXème siècle, la vitalité protestante a compté parmi les forces qui ont fait mûrir l'idée démocratique et fait triompher les valeurs, la Révolution. Elle montre, apparent paradoxe et cohérence profonde, une ferveur retrouvée. Et dans l'ordre du politique, une action résolue qu'on a appelée la laïcité de l'Etat, une sorte de dissociation du temporel et du spirituel, sans nier ni l'un, ni l'autre, complémentaires pour la vie de chacun et cependant différents dans la gestion de l'Etat, constituant le meilleur garant d'une pleine et entière liberté religieuse. A condition, bien entendu, de ne pas vouloir cette liberté que pour soi-même. "L'honneur d'une religion est que l'on puisse ne pas la pratiquer" – s'exclamait le pasteur de Pressence à la tribune de la Chambre lors de l'ordre moral, et en contradiction avec l'ordre moral. Et le même Pressence, au moment solennel de la commémoration – la même – du bicentenaire de la Révocation, ajoutait que le protestantisme serait prêt, le cas échéant, à défendre la liberté du catholicisme si jamais l'anticléricalisme venait à y porter atteinte. Ce langage croise ce dialogue à travers le temps et à travers l'espace, – celles et ceux qui sont ici, je le vois bien, c'est le langage qu'ils souhaitent, ressentant sans doute profondément que ce sont les mêmes menaces qui, aujourd'hui, sont devant eux, établissant par le dialogue oecuménique de nouvelles relations avec le catholicisme, le protestantisme, je le pense, n'a pas oublié, ne peut pas oublier son histoire tourmentée de minorités. Les éléments de la dernière partie de l'exposé de M. le président, le Pasteur Maury, le montrait bien : les minorités.
– On se souvient de l'action du Pasteur Boegner, particulièrement – il y a en a bien d'autres, bien entendu, et de toutes confessions – contre les lois anti-juives pendant l'Occupation, et celle, plus récente de la Cimade en faveur des travailleurs immigrés.
– La République sait ce que peut apporter à la communauté nationale la réflexion des religions présentes en France sur les problèmes de société.
Mesdames et messieurs, si la République vous garantit la liberté, votre rayonnement spirituel, c'est votre affaire. Personne ne peut le prendre en charge à votre place. Votre apport à l'histoire de France – que symbolisera demain la représentation de la première tragédie écrite en français et due au réformateur Théodore de Bèze, que j'ai rencontré souvent dans mes itinéraires autour de Vézelay – il vous appartient de continuer à l'enrichir en demeurant l'une des familles de pensées vivantes de ce pays.
– La République garantit à tous la liberté de croire ou bien de ne pas croire. Elle se refuse à choisir entre les Français en raison de leur religion – dont je répète qu'elle n'a pas à connaître – et si elle magnifie et n'inscrit dans ses lois aucun culte, ce n'est pas par indifférence, c'est que sa tâche est d'unir les Français par d'autres moyens – car la recherche religieuse c'est aussi la recherche de l'unité – qui sont ceux d'un autre ordre. Défendre ce qui est commun, faire prévaloir l'essentiel.
IN ENGLISH:We have just mentioned well values about the Revocation; It is probably because we feel that these values remain current. Should one who chose the same route, he who comes, we therefore reject it. Wanting the France to be welcoming to those who chose to live there, and at the same time – which they reproached – want to stay themselves. Do accept and even love by all, and better than the peculiarities, differences to which each is attached: the France as it is and the Republic which the serves. Old story, the dragonnades, galleys, the camisards? No, history of today around the world. Vertigo of exclusion, rejection of minorities, temptation to push towards exile – and what refuge – a part of those who live with us or with us. It exists, it travels in some minds.
-That is why, ladies and gentlemen, the memory of the Revocation must help us to uphold the spirit in which is commemorated the 300th anniversary – painful anniversary, one of the most painful among the painful of a long history of France – with the hope to see the collected France, for the most part, naturally. It is common tasks; It shall refuse anyone. Making sure to always preserve the freedom of conscience, equality of rights and by requesting in Exchange that a best practice of the brotherhood, as a more constant search of necessary equalities.
-That is why I say in conclusion: therefore find new reasons to believe in this freedom. In the memory of persecution among others, but one of the bloodiest in history of France, I repeat again, we will be able to draw lessons of loyalty and courage. In remembrance of the divisions, tears or rifts, found the strength to work for the unity of the motherland. Because it is a generation, mine, that of many others, here in this House, a generation that has lived in his youth another drama of exclusion: the choice of death against the conscience, or death with his conscience. And what is lived, how could we forget it? There are more than a duty: to teach it to those who will follow us.
– Qu'est-ce qui fait de la France, au-delà des particularismes, ce qu'elle est ? Une présence dans le monde, une continuité dans l'histoire ; cela hante chaque jour mon esprit.
-It lives there develop a sort of ecumenism, already, that of mutual assistance: Catholics and the Dutch Jews attending fundraising carried out in favour of exiles. And it should be added, for the honor of our country, in Germany, on the records of the crossroads city of Frankfurt am Main, hub of the journey to the refuge, we find, Yes, we find the trace, not only of many Huguenots, of course, but also banished from the Kingdom for having helped Protestant French Catholics. Solidarity was thus not absent from our people in this crucial time.
It is in les Misérables Victor Hugo staged a "poor woman Huguenot – it is he who speaks – under Louis-le-Grand, who has been taking her newborn just before breastfeed and the executioner said to the woman, mother and nanny:" forswears "giving it to choose between the death of her child and the death of his conscience". I would like to note in this regard that the resistance of the women commands admiration. One of these mothers-Penelope who passed every night the banned Protestant education. The prisoners of the Tower of Constance – you mentioned this beautiful film which reminded of this tragic story – in this fortress where they prayed, where they sang psalms, where they celebrated the cult, showing the more exemplary way the paradoxical situation that live prisoners of conscience in the country deprived of their liberty: finally free being, precisely because in prison, acquire the freedom of mind, precisely – price of the sacrifice and the freedom of the body. What I say What is one or one of you, regardless of his confession of the religion which he professes, who does not lived it who has not known by his ancestors, or that is not known by those of his confession, which is worthy in other countries where persecution exists, which therefore has escaped this misery to this protest, to this statement, and finally to this victorious courage? But at what cost… suffering, blood, death, sometimes forgotten.
– Nous venons d'évoquer bien des valeurs à propos de la Révocation ; c'est sans doute parce que nous sentons que ces valeurs restent actuelles. Celui qui n'a pas choisi la même route, celui qui vient d'ailleurs, faut-il donc l'écarter. Vouloir que la France soit accueillante à ceux qui ont choisi d'y vivre, et qui en même temps – qui le leur reprochera – veulent rester eux-mêmes. Savoir faire accepter et même aimer par tous, plus et mieux que les particularités, les différences auxquelles chacun est attaché : la France telle qu'elle est et la République qui la sert. Vieille histoire, les dragonnades, les galères, les camisards ? Non, histoire d'aujourd'hui à travers le monde entier. Vertige de l'exclusion, rejet des minorités, tentation de pousser vers l'exil – et vers quel refuge – une partie de ceux qui vivent chez nous ou avec nous. Cela existe, cela chemine dans certains esprits.
– Voilà pourquoi, mesdames et messieurs, le souvenir de la Révocation doit nous aider à faire prévaloir l'esprit dans lequel est commémoré ce tricentenaire – anniversaire douloureux, l'un des plus douloureux parmi les douloureux d'une longue histoire de France – avec l'espérance de voir la France rassemblée, pour l'essentiel, naturellement. Il est des tâches communes ; on ne refusera personne. En veillant à préserver toujours la liberté de conscience, l'égalité des droits et en ne demandant en échange qu'une meilleure pratique de la fraternité, qu'une recherche plus constante des égalités nécessaires.
– Voilà pourquoi je vous dirai pour conclure : trouvons donc de nouvelles raisons de croire à cette liberté. Dans le souvenir d'une persécution parmi d'autres, mais l'une des plus sanglantes de notre histoire de France, je le répète encore, nous pourrons puiser des leçons de fidélité et de courage. Dans le souvenir des divisions, des déchirures ou des déchirements, on trouvera la force de travailler à l'unité de la patrie. Car, il est une génération, la mienne, celle de beaucoup d'autres, ici, dans cette assemblée, une génération qui a vécu dans sa jeunesse un autre drame de l'exclusion : le choix de la mort contre la conscience, ou de la mort avec sa conscience. Et ce que l'on a vécu, comment pourrait-on l'oublier ? Il ne reste plus qu'un devoir : celui de l'enseigner à ceux qui nous suivront.
It lives there developed a sort of ecumenism, already, that of mutual assistance: Catholics and the Dutch Jews attending fundraising carried out in favour of exiles. And it should be added, for the honor of our country, in Germany, on the records of the crossroads city of Frankfurt am Main, the hub of the journey to the refuge, we find, Yes, we find the trace, not only of many Huguenots, of course, but also banished from the Kingdom for having helped Protestant French Catholics. Solidarity was thus not absent from our people in this crucial time.
It is in Les Misérables Victor Hugo staged a "poor woman Huguenot – it is he who speaks – under Louis-le-Grand, who has been taking her newborn just before breastfeeding and the executioner said to the woman, mother and nanny:" forswears "giving it to choose between the death of her child and the death of his conscience". I would like to note in this regard that the resistance of the women commands admiration. One of these mothers-Penelope who passed every night the banned Protestant education.
The prisoners of the Tower of Constance – you mentioned this beautiful film which reminded of this tragic story – in this fortress where they prayed, where they sang psalms, where they celebrated the cult, showing the more exemplary way the paradoxical situation that live prisoners of conscience in the country deprived of their liberty: finally free being, precisely because in prison, acquire the freedom of mind, precisely – price of the sacrifice and the freedom of the body. What I say What is one or one of you, regardless of his confession of the religion which he professes, who does not lived it who has not known by his ancestors, or that is not known by those of his confession, which is worthy in other countries where persecution exists, which therefore has escaped this misery to this protest, to this statement, and finally to this victorious courage? But at what cost… suffering, blood, death, and to be forgotten?


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Humphrey Plantagenet, duke of Gloucester, (born 1391—died Feb. 23, 1447, London, Eng.), English nobleman who was the first notable patron of England's humanists. He became known as the "good Duke Humphrey," but many historians, pointing to his unprincipled and inept political dealings, have questioned the appropriateness of the title.
The fourth son of King Henry IV, Humphrey was made Duke of Gloucester in 1414 by his brother King Henry V (ruled 1413–22), and from 1415 to 1420 he served in a series of campaigns in the Hundred Years' War against France.
Upon the death of Henry V in 1422, Parliament decreed that Gloucester should serve as acting regent for the infant king Henry VI while the official regent, John, Duke of Bedford, was leading the troops in France. By 1425 Gloucester was embroiled in a bitter power struggle with his uncle, Henry Beaufort, chancellor and chief minister of the realm. This feud continued until, in the mid-1430s, Beaufort gained firm control over the government. On Feb. 18, 1447, Beaufort's successor as first minister, William de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, had Gloucester arrested. Five days later the duke died, probably of natural causes. The popular belief that he had been murdered led to widespread uprisings in 1450.
Gloucester was one of the first Englishmen to appreciate classical Greek and Roman literature. He provided extensive patronage to English and Italian humanists and presented a large part of his library to the University of Oxford.

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Each year on February 14, many people exchange cards, candy, gifts or flowers with their special "valentine." The day of romance we call Valentine's Day is named for a Christian martyr and dates back to the 5th century, but has origins in the Roman holiday Lupercalia (source: History Channel).
Be honest, did you know Valentine's Day has a Christian connection? Nope, I didn't either! I thought it was a made up holiday where men try to make up for all the wrong we've done throughout the year. What other day do we spend unbelievable amounts of money on flowers? What other day is okay to bring your sweetheart a huge box of chocolates and expect her to eat every bite? I don't think the Bible relates cards, candy, gifts, and flowers to love. Sorry History Channel. The Bible in fact, describes love completely different.
"Love is patient, love is kind, love is not jealous, it does not boast, it does not become conceited, it does not behave dishonorably, it is not selfish, it does not become angry, it does not keep a record of wrongs, it does not rejoice at unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth, bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things." This is a clear description of Christ!
1 John 4:16-18 says "God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love."
Now I'm sure your Valentine would enjoy a night out on the town, a card, flowers, candy, etc. Just make sure that those gestures are a token of your love and not the description of your love. Being patient, transparent, honest, kind, understanding, humble, appreciative, and not keeping score are far better descriptions of love and make a much bigger and lasting impact in your relationship. These attributes demonstrate Christ. Trust me, I know what I'm talking about. One year for Valentine's Day, I purchased a car for myself…I don't have to tell you how that played out with my Valentine. Haha, what was I thinking!
So I'm not sure what any of you are doing for Valentine's Day this year, I hope you have great plans that demonstrate your affection for the special person in your life. Just remember that if your Valentine can't see Christ in you; gifts, cards, candy, flowers, and a night on the town are only tokens that will never be the difference maker in your relationship. To develop real intimacy and unending love, Christ has to be at the center.
Happy Valentine's Day to all you romantics!
I remember that Valentine's day very well. HaHa.
Pastor Corey McDonald grew up and lived in Kansas City, Missouri, most of his life where he attended college and started his quest into the business world as an Entrepreneur. Corey was ordained and installed as Pastor of Quest Church in Lee's Summit, MO, in November of 2010.
Corey is devoted to his beautiful bride Erica and three children, Corey, Eryk, and Ashton. His hobbies include sports, coaching, music, fishing, grilling, smoking barbecue, and spending time with family and friends.


In exactly 30 days, I land in Scotland for a four week adventure that I have anticipated, on some deep-in-my-knower levels, since 2000.
I don't even know how to talk about it.
I have so many questions for God. I hope Scotland holds those answers. Maybe not the place itself, but the time. The distance. The lonely moments without any of my friends. The quiet moments. The conversations with my Scottish friends. Conversations with my God.
So I'll pack my things in one suitcase [or two] and I'll stuff my questions in side pockets, shoes, and other tiny spaces.
I have questions about my art. What is next? What does that look like? How soon can I start and how soon will I be done? Is it another book? It is something else?
I have questions about art in general. And creating. And worship. And how my life is art and how I want to grow in that.
I have questions about my future. Is it Nashville? I hope so. Is it Scotland? I hope so. [And 2 "I hope so" statements aren't a good thing.] It is some weird hybrid of the two + more? Is this trip about clarity or deeper longings? I want to know what's next.
I have questions about God. And me and God. And who we are as a unit, if that makes any sense at all. I want to know Him and I want to know what our next adventure will be.
I have questions about this little book. About God's plan for it. About where God's plan for it meets and takes over my plan for it. And what the next steps are.
I have questions about relationships. [Oh here she goes.] About why some work, about why some don't, about why some have to be sacrificed on the altar of God Knows Best. About how to have healthy boundaries and healthy honesty and how to cultivate the kind of community that breathes those things.
I have questions about how all these things work together. What does this puzzle look like when all the pieces are finally laid down? How do my desires to be a speaker and my desire to live overseas coexist? I feel like my dreams are an overflowing toy chest and I can't decide which toys to play with first.
I have questions about my dreams. The ones that I shout from the rooftops and the ones that I barely can whisper to my closest friends. And I have questions about your dreams. And how we keep talking about them until they are real.
I have a lot of questions. Many of them I am almost too afraid to ask.
It is not that Scotland is to be a Magic8 Ball that I turn upside down for answers. Instead, I want Scotland to stir up those bubbling questions so fiercely that I can't help but seek out the answers.
So a month from today, when I am a weary but happy traveler, I hope I don't have all the answers. I hope I am not looking for answers.
I hope, instead, that I can no longer contain the questions.


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Clapton: New 14-Track Album Features Mix of New Songs and Covers
Published // 04.Aug.10
Eric Clapton's new 14-track studio album, "Clapton," will be released Monday 27 September in the U.K. and the following day in the United States. It is made up of a mix of new material and covers. Several songs, like "Rocking Chair" and "When Somebody Thinks You're Wonderful," will be familiar to concert-goers as Eric and his band have been performing them on stage. The complete track list is:
01. Travelin' Alone
02. Rocking Chair
03. River Runs Deep
04. Judgment Day
05. How Deep Is The Ocean
06. My Very Good Friend The Milkman
07. Can't Hold Out Much Longer
08. That's No Way To Get Along
09. Everything Will Be Alright
10. Diamonds Made From Rain
11. When Somebody Thinks You're Wonderful
12. Hard Times Blues
13. Run Back To Your Side
Tokyo, JP


The 2017 Gothenburg International Boat Show, Scandinavia's first boat show of the year, ended its nine-day run on Sunday with a small increase in attendance. Around 64,857 people in total attended this year's event.
The show saw a small decline in the number of exhibitors (292 versus 308 last year) and boats on display (452 versus 475), but many exhibitors were very optimistic after the show.
Princess Yachts, exhibiting through its new distributor for the Swedish west coast, reported two yachts sold at the show.
With a strong economy, Sweden looks set to face another year of good boat sales. The most visible trend is the sale of open aluminium boats up to 8m in length. Finnish producers like Buster Boats, Yamarin and Silver Boats lead this segment, but high-profile companies in Sweden like Anytec Boats reported good sales in Gothenburg.
"We've more or less sold all our production for this season, but still managed to sell a couple of Anytec 860s with twin outboard engines," says Johan Erixon, Anytec sales manager.
The only market segment decreasing is 10m-plus sailboats. The Swedes, like boat owners in neighbouring Norway, Finland and Denmark, seem to prefer sailing in the Mediterranean or Caribbean over Sweden.
Nevertheless, More Yachts displayed a very large sailing yacht at the show – the More 55, produced in Croatia. "In Gothenburg we sold one More 55 and now have 14 More 55s for charter in our order book," says Einar Halldin, CEO of More Sailing, a Swedish-Croatian company that builds its boats just outside Split in Croatia.


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Biografia
Visse a Roma fino al completamento della scuola dell'obbligo. In seguito si stabilì con la famiglia a Modena, dove frequentò il Liceo Classico L.A. Muratori, prima di iscriversi alla facoltà di economia e commercio. Tra la fine degli anni sessanta e l'inizio dei settanta cominciò a scrivere le prime canzoni e a esibirsi dal vivo.

Nel 1975 fondò con Vasco Rossi a Zocca (MO) "Punto Radio", una delle prime radio libere d'Italia. Punto Radio viene citata da Pupi Avati nel suo film Gli amici del bar Margherita.
Intorno al progetto gravitavano altri personaggi che avrebbero scritto pagine importanti della musica d'autore italiana, come Gaetano Curreri e Massimo Riva, con cui Bellei strinse saldi rapporti di amicizia e di collaborazione musicale. In particolare, l'amicizia con Vasco era destinata a restare salda e sfociò in una collaborazione diretta all'album di esordio del rocker di Zocca ...Ma cosa vuoi che sia una canzone... (1978), nel quale Bellei canta come seconda voce. In quegli anni si moltiplicarono i concerti e le apparizioni sul palco anche al fianco di Pierangelo Bertoli e Antonello Venditti che il 6 maggio 2008, dopo averne scritto la prefazione,  ha presentato, insieme a Leo Turrini, il libro dedicato a Riccardo Bellei "Radio Bellei".

Terminata l'esperienza di Punto Radio, proseguì parallelamente alla sua attività di cantautore la sua carriera di intrattenitore radiofonico nei network modenesi di Modena Radio City e Teleradiocittà (TRC). Dopo una fase di distacco dalla musica, trovò il suo nuovo inizio nel giornalismo e per circa dieci anni, tra la metà degli anni 80 e la metà dei 90, lavorò come reporter sportivo e giornalista di costume per numerose testate locali e nazionali.

Alla metà degli anni 90, ritornò alla musica riprendendo il vecchio repertorio e realizzando una serie di nuovi brani, che ricominciò a proporre dal vivo. Nel 1996 fu prodotto il video del brano "Non è una canzone", registrato con la collaborazione di Antonello Venditti, che fu presentato a livello nazionale dallo stesso Bellei in una puntata di Tappeto volante di Luciano Rispoli.

È morto nell'aprile 2017 a 64 anni per una malattia.

Discografia

Bibliografia
 Alessandro Greggia, RadioBellei, musiche e parole di una vita inaspettata, Damster, 2007  ISBN  978 8895412092

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By staff Writer | April 06, 2010 at 08:00 PM
The superintendent of the Maine Bureau of Insurance was sworn in today for a new 5-year term that expires April 1, 2015.
This month, Maine Governor John E. Baldacci reappointed Mila Kofman as superintendent of insurance, a position to which she was first nominated and confirmed in early 2008. A confirmation hearing was held March 22 before the Maine Legislature's Joint Standing Committee on Insurance and Financial Services.
Maine Attorney General Janet Mills testified in support of the nomination, along with representatives of the insurance industry, physicians, Maine small businesses and consumer advocacy groups. The Committee's for vote reappointment and the Senate confirmation vote were unanimous.
Prior to her appointment as superintendent, Ms. Kofman was an associate research professor and project director at the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute. She studied state private health insurance market reforms, regulation, products, and financing strategies.


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Dolby Atmos Mixing : Now is the time to immerse yourself!
In our article from April we covered the ongoing march of Dolby Atmos mixing and content for cinema and TV (over 900 film titles, 350 TV releases, 200 live and sporting events).
For the post professional, working in Atmos is not a steep learning curve, nor is it a steep investment. The source audio is the same source audio. Going Atmos, or 'Atmos-ready' is a short technology hop from 5.1 or 7.1. From the production's point of view, shooting content which is ultimately delivered in Atmos is no different.
Netflix, Amazon and Apple TV all adopting and pushing the format is no surprise: not only does a Dolby Atmos soundtrack represent a premium product in the here-and-now, an Atmos title brings with it the highly valuable attribute of longevity, of shelf-life.
Remember Stereoscopic 3D? Broadcasters and equipment manufacturers worked hard in the late 2000s to convince the consumer, production and post production sectors that 3D was going to break through and become a mainstream format. An immersive technology which would bring a cinematic experience to the home, placing the viewer at the heart of the action.
Then 3D just, sort of… disappeared.
3D's failure to launch domestically can be attributed to two fundamental factors (and a handful of incidental ones, like the stupid glasses).
Lack of good content to drive consumer adoption
The burden of having to shoot and post in an entirely different way from 2D
Crucially, neither of these factors stand in the way of Dolby Atmos. In fact, both are working in Dolby's favour. All of which means Dolby Atmos is here to stay, increasingly part of the mainstream audio vocabulary.
…It's likely a number of readers are now looking at the studio ceiling, wondering where those extra speakers are going to go.
However: that's really step two.
Step one is to understand and experiment with the format and the tools. Dolby announced at NAB 2018 the forthcoming release of updates for their software tools: The Dolby Atmos Mastering Suite and the Dolby Atmos Production Suite. With their release imminent, Resurface spoke with some of the beta-testers, to gauge their reaction to this updated entry-point into the world of Atmos. To sign up to be notified as soon as the new versions are available, click the button on the sidebar (or below, if you're reading on a smartphone).
Interestingly, most of the feedback we got wasn't specifically feature-related. Certainly there was much praise for some of the GUI enhancements. Enhanced visual feedback and overall a snappier, slicker experience. The ability to see the relative height and volume of objects at-a-glance being a favourite.
Overwhelmingly, it was the workflow itself which resonated most with the beta users; the way in which Atmos can be integrated into existing studios with minimal cost, then become the default working format from which others can be easily derived.
Integration becomes far simpler when, like Formosa NoHo, there's a Dante environment involved.
Formosa Group operate a network of purpose-built audio post facilities spanning seven locations across Los Angeles. The majority of which are equipped for Dolby Atmos mixing and editorial, whether for theatrical cinema or home theatre.
Dan Shimiaei – Director, Operations at Formosa comments "We have an all RedNet environment, so from the hardware side, the addition of a Mac-based, Dante option for the renderer is much more convenient and economical"
Physical I/O neatly taken care of with a couple of Ethernet cables, there's the DAW integration to consider next. Re-recording mixer Jonathan Wales explains "As far as creating objects goes, we end up doing them on-the-fly. That's hats off to the Pro Tools integration. Now that it's so fluid, it's no more difficult to work in Atmos than it is to not work in Atmos!".
Wales' view is shared by Adam Daniel of Point1Post. Daniel comments "Working in Atmos is no slower than in 5.1 or Stereo. Given all the benefits, I don't see why anybody wouldn't want to work in Atmos from the outset" adding "The downstream platform demand is there, why not start working with the metadata as early as the cutting room. There's nothing to be afraid of!".
The idea of a single deliverable from which all other versions are simply renders seems closer than ever. Wales describes the 5.1 direct rendered down-mixes as '"stunning", adding "You end up with a 5.1 you couldn't achieve if you were working in 5.1! I've also done a lot of movies in 5.1 where the client has come back later for an Atmos version.
It's much easier to work in Atmos from the beginning. Creating the 5.1 isn't even a separate pass anymore, and that's a huge achievement".
This layer of abstraction between the working format and the rendered deliverable suggests a new level of future-proofing. Formosa's Shimiaei explains "If you start exploring the down mixing options, you realise that it's going to be simple to incorporate new or yet-to-be-invented algorithms. The metadata you already have will allow you to re-render, and not have to remix, for these formats of tomorrow".
There seems a lot to be said for having Atmos metadata as a part of any audio workflow. Jonathan Wales advocates "Changing your workflow before you change your room. Even if I'm not in an Atmos room, I would use the Production Suite, so I have the metadata even if I never hear the show in Atmos. When we went from LCRS to 5.1 it was easy, we knew how to mix. Atmos is a little different, but the key thing is to get into it now".
Getting immersed in immersive is no longer the preserve of the feature film elite. As Adam Daniel sees it "Four years ago we invested in Dolby Atmos knowing there was a risk it wouldn't take off as a format. The risk at that time was being too early, now there's only the risk of being too late.
The format has passed the point of critical mass. The technology now exists so that if you want to, you can be working in Atmos this afternoon".
The increasing demand for Atmos content, alongside initial feedback on the Mastering and Production Suite updates all indicate that Dolby's object based format could now become the standard audio archive format for future reference. All of which suggests now is a good time to be engaging with clients as "The Host With The At-most".
Those extra speakers can wait until their purchase is justified by a need to monitor in Atmos. For many, that won't be very long.
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From Oakland to the White House? The rise of Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris at her first appearance with Joe Biden as running mates, in Wilmington, Delaware, this week. Photograph: Carlos Barría/Reuters
The Democratic vice-presidential candidate, a daughter of immigrants, inspires hope – and conflict – in supporters
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Bancroft Way in Berkeley, California, is quaint and slow, the kind of street where everyone seems to know each other by name. This week, neighbors sat outdoors drinking wine under the evening sun, as they chatted animatedly about their childhood companion who had just become headline news.
It was on Bancroft Way that Kamala Harris spent her formative years with her single mother, Shyamala, and sister, Maya. Today, former neighbors reminisce about her following her selection this week as Joe Biden's Democratic running mate in his bid to evict Donald Trump from the White House.
Biden campaign raises $26m in 24 hours after announcing Kamala Harris pick
"I am really proud of her and think she will make a very good vice-president," Kenneth Hunter said. He was standing at the same street corner where he said he and Harris had caught the bus every morning for Thousand Oaks elementary school in north Berkeley as part of efforts to desegregate local schools.
But even here, among her childhood friends, and just days away from the Democratic national convention, where Harris will enter the history books as the first woman of color to be placed on a major-party presidential ticket, there's a note of hesitancy.
Harris, left, with her sister, Maya, and mother, Shyamala, outside their apartment in Berkeley, California, in 1970. Photograph: Courtesy Kamala Harris Campaign/AP
Octavia, a third-generation Berkeley resident who lives on the block, said she was worried that criticism of Harris's record as a former prosecutor might dampen enthusiasm among Black voters, who make up a crucial share of the Democratic party's support.
"Not enough Black people are behind her," said Octavia, requesting not to give her last name. "When people say they don't want to vote for her, I ask: 'How many Black or brown women who look like you and me are there in office right now? How could you not vote for her?'"
That's a debate that is likely to rumble on not just in Berkeley and neighboring Oakland, where Harris was born in 1964, but throughout California and across the nation ahead of the US presidential election on 3 November. Just who is Kamala Harris, and what does she represent for future of the Democratic party and, potentially, of the most powerful country on Earth?
The most singular aspect of Harris's newly elevated status is her identity as the daughter of immigrants who came to the US in search of world-class education and were thrown together during the 1960s protest marches at Berkeley. Her father, Donald Harris, was an economist from Jamaica; her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, came from southern India and became a breast cancer researcher.
Part of the reason that Harris's rise has made such an emotive impact on large numbers of Americans lies in her quintessential story of a first-generation citizen made good – all the more so with the anti-immigrant Trump in the Oval Office.
In the wake of the seismic reckoning with systemic racism unleashed by Black Lives Matter, the shattering of this glass ceiling by a woman of color has also left a profound impression on many.
Kamala Harris, then California's attorney general, at the California Democratic convention in 2012. Photograph: Sandy Huffaker/Corbis/Getty Images
"This doesn't reconcile our past, but it does give us hope for the future," said Catherine Flowers, a leading environmental justice campaigner from Alabama who confessed she had grown teary-eyed when Biden announced his running mate. "Black women have held up the civil rights movement and the Democratic party for decades, yet we have rarely gotten any credit."
When Harris appeared in her new role alongside Biden for the first time on Wednesday, she spoke about how she had imbibed politics from a young age when she was taken by her parents to the Berkeley anti-Vietnam protests "strapped tightly in my stroller". After her parents divorced when she was seven, she was brought up mainly by her mother, who taught her "to keep on marching".
Her mother instilled in the sisters pride in their south Asian roots. In her political autobiography, The Truths We Hold, Harris describes how Shyamala also recognized that her daughters would be perceived as Black in the US and "was determined to make sure we would grow into confident, proud black women".
Harris went on to attend the historically black Howard University in Washington DC where she pledged to the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority and learned, she writes, that "we were young, gifted and black, and we shouldn't let anything get in the way of our success".
This November 1982 photo provided by the Kamala Harris campaign shows her, right, with Gwen Whitfield at an anti-apartheid protest during her freshman year at Howard University in Washington. Photograph: Courtesy Kamala Harris Campaign/AP
Harris emphasizes in her memoir those issues of identity. She also leans into what might be categorized as her softer side, devoting several pages to her husband, Doug Emhoff, a Los Angeles-based corporate lawyer whom she married in 2014, and his two children by an earlier marriage, Cole and Ella.
She depicts herself as someone who puts family before all else, cooking regular Sunday dinners and playing sports mom to the kids who call her "Momala". "I've had a lot of titles in my career, and certainly 'vice-president' will be great, but 'Momala' will always be the one that means the most," she said on Wednesday.
It may be obligatory for aspiring American politicians (with the exception of twice-divorced Trump) to accentuate their family credentials. For Harris it serves the added purpose of rounding off the edges of her public image as a spiky and at times controversial prosecutor, as she also faces sexist criticism focusing on her ambition and toughness.
In recent times, her ability to forensically dissect an opponent, learned on the job as a local prosecutor in Alameda county and San Francisco and later as California's attorney general from 2011 to 2017, has been a major asset. It brought her to the nation's attention when she reduced Trump's first attorney general, Jeff Sessions, to a quivering wreck in 2017 and when she grilled Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation to the US supreme court the following year.
Senators Cory Booker and Kamala Harris confer as the then supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies on Capitol Hill in September 2018. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
It was on full display too when she made her viral "that little girl was me" attack on Biden at the second Democratic debate last year, accusing him of opposing the same desegregationist policies that had put her on that bus to Thousand Oaks elementary school when she was a kid.
Though her abundant adversarial skills will undoubtedly be put to good use when she comes to face Mike Pence in the televised VP debate in October – expect her to tear him limb from limb over his record as head of the White House coronavirus taskforce – her career as a prosecutor continues to cause her difficulties with progressives. In her role as California's "top cop", she presented herself not as "tough on crime" or "soft on crime" but "smart on crime".
When she has tried to justify her choice to forge her legal career on the prosecutorial side, she has talked about her commitment to seeking justice for all. "I knew the history of brave prosecutors who went after the Ku Klux Klan in the south, or who went after corrupt politicians and corporate polluters," she has said.
That has not spared her from coming under heavy criticism about some of her more contentious stances while in positions of power. She did not use her prosecutorial muscle to ensure accountability over police killings of Black people in the Bay Area, holding back from intervening in several cases and opposing moves to require her office to investigate all fatal police shootings.
Questions have been raised too about why she blocked the release of Daniel Larsen, a prisoner the courts had declared to be innocent, just because he missed a filing deadline for habeas corpus.
I used to be critical of Kamala Harris. Now I am going to defend her at every turn | Shanita Hubbard
As state attorney general she opposed legalizing marijuana for recreational use, even though it is a driver of mass incarceration of young Black men in the US. Her sponsorship of a new Californian law that threatened parents with jail if they allowed their children to play truant from school has also come under scrutiny as excessively punitive.
All of which leaves progressive women of color feeling somewhat conflicted about her meteoric rise. Rachel Carmona, the chief operating officer of the Women's March, who is Mexican American, welcomed Harris' pick as historic and long overdue.
"But it isn't enough," she said. "We reject the idea that we need to trade representation for women in prominent roles for our politics and our values. Both Harris and Biden need to be ready on day one to push a progressive agenda on justice and equality."
Harris listens as Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event, their first joint appearance since Biden named Harris as his running mate, on Wednesday. Photograph: Carlos Barría/Reuters
Pressure from the left to effect change is one thing, racist and sexist tropes from the right quite another.
Trump and his cohorts have lost no time laying into Harris. The US president, in an echo of his "birther" lies about Barack Obama's nationality, is encouraging the false idea that Harris is ineligible for the second-highest office in the land because her parents were immigrants.
Other rightwing pundits have been trying to find her achilles heel with increasingly shrill attacks on her personality. Fox News contributors have willfully mispronounced her name and derided her as angry, crazed or "abrasive".
Harris says she takes her lead from her mother, who died in 2009, and who was frequently overlooked because of her strong Indian accent but who refused to let that hold her back from becoming a leading woman of color in science.
One of her favorite expressions is: "Don't let anybody tell you who you are – you tell them."


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Introduction to Notable Poems
By Hamilton Wright Mabie
O one who knows and loves
English poetry can fail to regret that so many cultivated readers have turned away from a fountain of refreshment so abundant, and that so many other readers, who would find delight in poetry if they knew it well, are leaving out of their lives so powerful an influence against the materializing tendency of the age. The selection of poetry presented in this volume has no more ambitious purpose than to bring together in convenient form a small body of verse in English of the highest quality ;
verse which appeals with equal force to those whose prime interest is in perfection of form and to those to whom poetry is the inevitable language of the human spirit in its moments of exaltation. No attempt has been made to give the selection a representative character other than that secured by bringing together the different verse forms; and even in this respect the choice has only followed the line of the most beautiful and memorable poetry. In the Introductions the endeavor has been made to set the poems in their environment, so to speak, by sketching briefly the development of the poem and of the poet; by bringing together the facts which throw light on the making of the poem; and by pointing out the characteristic qualities not only of the selections but of the verse forms of which they are examples.
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Q: MVC & Jquery validation: Disabled Dropdownlists gets validate, how can make it not happen I am using MVC3, EF Model first.
I have a form with two DropDownList that gets disabled depending on what value the user choose on another dropdownlist, i've used Jquery for this here is the code:
$(function () {
    $('#SubjectTypeName').change(function () {
        var value = $(this).val();
        if (value == '2') {
            $('#TeamName, #ConsultantName').removeAttr('disabled');
        } else if (value == '3') {
            $('#TeamName').attr('disabled', 'disabled');
            $('#ConsultantName').attr('disabled', 'disabled');
        } else if (value == '4') {
            $('#TeamName').attr('disabled', 'disabled');
            $('#ConsultantName').attr('disabled', 'disabled');
        }

        $(".questionsForSubjectType").hide();
        $("#questionsForSubjectType_" + value).show();
    });

})

But when the DropDownList is disabled and I click on next page, the disabled DropDownLists gets validated by MVC standard Jquery validation that I have. I've done the validation by declaring [Required] on my properties in my ViewModel for this validation. How can I prevent the validation on my disabled DropDownlists but still make sure the DropDownLists gets validated if they are enabled
Thanks in Advance!

A: does the MVC validation occur at client side or server side?
At server side you could check if dropdown_A was used, ModelState.Remove("dropdown_B"); then your ModelState.IsValid will be true.

A: Is the [Required] attribute on the field the dropdown is for set? Perhaps removing this could help if that is the case.
You could also consider populating partial views based on user input.

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SJU Screening of "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry"
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Yves Nguyen, Assistant Entertainment Editor
The Dr. M.T. Geoffrey Yeh Art Gallery inside the Sun Yat Sen Center presented a documentary film about the political dissidence and art of Ai Weiwei, China's most famous living artist and "the world's most powerful artist" on Jan. 26. The film "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry" was followed by a short discussion with art gallery director, Yulia Tikhonova.
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei lives in Beijing with his wife, and their home is revealed to be equal parts sanctuary, self-imposed prison and animal shelter with some 40 cats and dogs. Only one of the animals, a cat, has figured out how to open the door to go outside, but Ai pontificates: "The biggest difference between people and cats is that cats will open the door but they will never close it behind them." This metaphor comes at the beginning of Alison Klayman's documentary on the artist and is never mentioned again. However by the end, Ai will have closed a couple of doors behind himself.
Ai, perhaps most famous for designing Beijing's National Stadium, the "Bird's Nest," went onto infamy when he publicly condemned the 2008 Olympics as Chinese party propaganda. Since then, Ai has berated his government for never admitting to or holding themselves accountable for the slipshod "tofu" building construction that led to the death of thousands of school children during the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. His politically dissident, anti-establishment art, such as his "Haus der Kunst," Munich installation, for example, spells out Chinese characters using blue and pink backpacks as a reference to the backpacks of the dead Sichuan students, has somewhat evaded China's totalitarian censorship through the Internet. After his blog was silenced he fought back with Twitter and continues to use Twitter to this day.
Ai shows a courageous fearlessness for a country that he loves and a government that he hates in a time where it presents danger to his life. He said, "I think there is a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression."
Brittany King, a senior Graphic Design student, said, "As an artist, I think the film is really important because in a time where political tensions are rising, it gives way for a position to express yourself fearlessly, boldly, even if it means pushing your limits and going outside of your boundaries."
Kseniya Ostrovska, a sophomore Fine Arts student, shared similar thoughts, saying, "This might be relevant to our political situation in the States now, especially with all the political activists being against Trump and his current political agenda."
Ai is very relatable to the students at St. John's not only for his political activism, but also his appreciation of New York, as he lived here from 1983 to 1993. Klayman includes a bittersweet, present-day scene in which Ai revisits New York City and eats at the Carnegie Deli. He hoards leftovers. "Yes, yes," he says, referring to the onion rings, "I will take everything." His fanaticism for a good New York sandwich shop is touching. But why, one wonders, would someone who could live anywhere in the world choose a place where his own home has been surrounded by state-controlled cameras?
Hung Huang, the Chinese equivalent to Oprah Winfrey, said, "He's the only Chinese artist I know who cares deep down for his country and what happens to it."
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Modern stories in Shakespeare's Verse
And this our life, exempt from public Haunt,
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After a trip to London and watching a great production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, a crazy thought came to me -- maybe "various" Shakespeare lines could be stitched together to tell a new story.
I became obsessed with the idea of studying Shakespeare's canon to see how the Bard's words could be used to tell modern stories.
Shakespeare stands alone in his ability to describe the human condition. And I am convinced that within Shakespeare's canon are the lines and verses that, if combined together, can perfectly tell any modern story. At least, that is what I'm trying to do.
PS: below is the obligatory bio stuff.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------David is a member of the Dramatists Guild and has been involved in the theatre outside of Boston as both a producer and director. He is an advisor to the Intermission Theatre in London.
David is the recipient of the 2014 EMACT DASH (Distinguished Achievement and Special Honors) Award for Excellence in Conceptual Creativity and Execution for the Premier production of his play Much Ado About Love: A Romantic Comedy in Shakespeare's Verse.
His short films have been screened at film festivals in London, Spain, Portugal, and the United States. His film Just Friends was named Official Selection in the Cinephone, International Mobil, Indiwise, and the IOWF Film Festivals.
David is also a corporate strategist with 30 years experience in international business strategy and a focus on Japan.
David currently lives in Tokyo with his wife.
Copyright © 2020 David nanto


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Dimethyl Fumarate Allergy
Dimethyl fumarate (DMF) has shot into prominence as an unexpected but powerful sensitizing agent. In fact, the American Contact Dermatitis Society conferred the dubious distinction of 'Contact Allergen of the Year-2011' on DMF.
What is DMF?
DMF is a fine white crystalline powder, which is used extensively in the Asian leather furniture industry to prevent mold growth in finished leather products, including couches, recliners, sofas, and shoes.
The antifungal chemical is packaged in sachets, resembling the silica gel sachets put into electronic items and other moisture-sensitive products, including leather. However, silica gel does not adequately prevent fungal growth in larger leather items, especially during transport between varying climatic zones with different humidity levels. The moisture build up inside the closed container can be significant in humid locations. For this reason, DMF is used instead to protect such pieces. It evaporates and, thereby, prevents mold proliferation.
The DMF sachets are packed into the furniture in several ways. They may be fastened to the frame of the piece, or tucked under the leather upholstery. For smaller items, such as leather shoes, the sachets are put into the packaging.
DMF allergy
DMF evaporates over time, and the vapor condenses and settles on the leather covering. It is this which is responsible for the allergic symptoms in hypersensitive individuals. These are typical of classic allergic contact dermatitis. The skin becomes red and swollen, with itching and scaling. The rash is papulovesicular and confined to the sites of exposure where the patient's skin comes in contact with the seat or couch i.e., the back of the legs and buttocks, and the back. If the patient was reclining, the back of the arms may also be affected. This type of localization has led to its being called 'sofa dermatitis'. The rash may be triggered by concentrations as low as below 1 ppm.
The chemical permeates fabric and clothing, which is why skin covered by clothes is also affected. The longer the person is exposed to it, and the more repeated such exposure is, the worse will be the symptoms. Thus severe cases may present as impetigo, a bacterial folliculitis, or mycosis fungoides. In such patients, hospitalization is required.
DMF can also cause eczema of the foot following exposure to DMF in shoes. If high concentrations are present, irritant contact dermatitis may occur instead. This may take the form of a rash with sharp edges, and which arises acutely following the use of a new pair of shoes, and which is limited to the area of contact with the shoe leather.
Other items which have been associated with DMF allergy or contact irritation include helmets.
The classic patch test is used to diagnose DMF allergy, using concentrations of 0.001 to 0.1% dimethyl fumarate in petrolatum or aqueous solution. Some researchers use an upper limit of 0.003-0.005% to prevent irritation.
http://www.dermnetnz.org/topics/allergy-to-dimethyl-fumarate/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/articles/19796087/