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Living through the Crusades: 3 poems and songs that reveal how medieval people felt about the holy war
In 1095, Christian knights mounted a religious war against Muslims in Jerusalem in an attempt to reclaim the Holy Land. Known collectively as the Crusades, the military expeditions transformed the western world, and left a profound legacy in inter-cultural and inter-faith relations nationally and worldwide. Now, long forgotten songs and poetry that reveal contemporary responses to the holy war have been made publicly available online
In the first archive of its kind, researchers from the universities of Warwick, Royal Holloway College in London and La Sapienza University in Rome are uploading the works of troubadours and trouvères (medieval musicians and poet-musicians), which illustrate public perception of the Crusades.
The archive will be populated over the next four years with contemporary poems and songs, alongside translations and historical context of their original composition and performance.
Funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council of the UK, the project promises to bring to life "the profound and disturbing legacy of the Crusades".
Professor Linda Paterson from the University of Warwick, who is leading the project, said: "Modern editions of these medieval texts are very often out of date and scattered in journals and disparate publications. This project aims not only to edit and collate the texts, but make them easily available to the public; they are a valuable resource for not only academic researchers, but also students and school-teachers and are particularly relevant in the current global political climate."
Here, writing for History Extra, Paterson shares three of her favourite poems and songs to feature in the archive:
1) Marcabru, Pax in nomine Domini
I chose this troubadour song because it's perhaps the most brilliantly robust crusade song urging men to go on crusade: not to the Holy Land where the French have made a mess of the Second Crusade, but to Spain, to take part in the Reconquista. It has a powerful, solemn tune, a recording of which can be heard on the website – listen here (click the logo to the left of the title).
The modern English translation of the poem reads:
I. Peace in the name of the Lord! Marcabru made the vers and the tune. Hear what he says: how the heavenly Lord in His loving-kindness has created for us, in our vicinity, a washing-place such as never existed before, apart from over there near the valley of Josaphat in Outremer; but it is about the one over here that I exhort you.
II. We ought to wash night and morning, according to what is right, I assure you. Each has the opportunity to wash; he ought to go to the washing-place while he is still fit and well, for it is a true medicine for us, because if we go to death beforehand, instead of a lofty mansion we shall have lowly lodgings.
III. But avarice and no-faith divide youth from his companion. Ah, what grief it is, that all and sundry fly towards that place whose reward is infernal! If we do not run to the washing-place before we have our mouth and eyes closed, there is not one of us so puffed up with pride that he will not find a strong adversary at the moment of death.
IV. For the Lord who knows all that is, and knows all there will be and ever was, has promised us a crown and the title of emperor; and its beauty will be sapiential, for it will shine in the sky at the washing-place more than the morning star, provided that we avenge God of the wrongs that they do to Him both here and over there towards Damascus.
V. Akin to the line of Cain, the first evil man, there is a great number here of whom not one shows honour to God. We shall see who will be His close friend, for with the miracle of the washing-place Jesus will be in communion with you. And drive back the rabble who believe in augury and divination!
VI. But the lecherous wine-trumpeters, dinner-gobblers, brand-blowers, hearth-squatters will remain behind, those pilferers! For God wants to test the brave and the sound in His washing-place, and these others will keep an eye on the houses and dig their coulter into the garden (?), which is why I hound them to their shame.
VII. Here and in Spain the Marquis and all of Solomon's Temple bear the weight and the burden of pagan pride, which is why youth gathers a base reputation; and the public outcry relating to that other washing-place pours down on the highest-ranking leaders: broken failures, weary of valour, who love neither joy nor delight.
VIII. The French are perverted if they say no to God's cause, for I know how things stand! Antioch, here Guyenne and Poitou are in mourning for reputation and worth. May God conduct the count to His washing-place and lay his soul to rest, and may the Lord who rose from the tomb guard Poitiers and Niort.
2) Chardon de Croisilles, Li departirs de la douce contree
This trouvere song is typical of songs of departure and separation, when a crusader expresses his pain and sadness as he reluctantly leaves his lover for the Holy Land.
To read the original poem, click here.
The modern English translation reads:
I. Departure from the sweet land where lives my beauteous one has put me into great sadness; I am constrained to leave the one I have loved the most in order to serve the Lord God my creator, and yet I belong completely to Love, since I leave it all my heart and my thoughts: if my body goes to serve Our Lord, I have not forgotten true love on this account.
II. Love, this is too hard a parting, when I am forced to leave the best lady who ever existed or who was ever born; in her is all beauty and worth, and none should marvel if I weep at this; when my body goes to fulfil its destiny, see how my noble heart has already begun its return journey, musing and longing after my lady.
III. Lady, in whom is my death and my life, I depart from you more grief-stricken than I say; henceforth you have my heart in your power: keep it, or you have betrayed me. God, where shall I go? Shall I utter loud laments or cries when I am constrained to divide myself from my noble heart and leave it with the one who has never left me part of hers?
IV. Love justly thanks the false lover for the profit it receives from him, but I obtain no pity; it trusts the flatterer and the fraud, but I trust entirely to noble service; my loyalty, I know this well, deprives me of the joy which I have rightly deserved; it greatly grieves me that I ever set eyes on her, when on her account true love so defies me.
V. Sweet lady, whom my heart does not forget, for God's sake please do not forget me! Never will I ever seek another love; for God's sake, I beseech you, do not seek another lover! But if I learn that you are mocking me, I shall not die entirely, but only half; however you will not make an enemy of me if loyalty is not my enemy.
VI. At the moment of departure, sweet lady, I beg you, whatever a flatterer may say to you, do not forget me, and towards you I in turn will never behave basely.
Oracle of the Crusaders before Jerusalem during the First Crusade. © INTERFOTO/Alamy
3) Daspol, Seinhos, aujas, c'aves saber e sen
This comic fictional dialogue between Daspol and God has the the troubadour asking God some cheeky questions about why people don't want to go on crusade any more, challenging His ordering of the world and offering Him some advice on improvements.
I. Lords, you who have knowledge and sense, listen to what happened to me the other night when I was asleep. I was up in Heaven where God was holding assembly, and people were crowding all around here; and I'll tell you about the charge He was making against Christians: that they behave falsely, since neither counts nor dukes nor princes nor clerics are claiming back His Holy Sepulchre.
II. And I stood up and spoke wisely in refutation: You are in the wrong here, God, and you should take a different approach: you give power to false people who commit the sin of pride and villainy with it every day, for they neither believe nor do anything that is good; and you give them heaps of gold and silver, so that Christians are spineless ‒ for after all, people can't be fighting all the time!
III. Lord Daspol, since you confute me I'll send the clerics every misfortune, and I'll take property away from the Orders, so that if they're rich now they'll soon be in want, and on top of that I'll make them gravely ill and the princes will lose tax revenues; then they will be shamed and dishonoured and eventually have their grave in hell!
IV. Fair lord God, you're obviously powerful, since you live in a safe place and on high. Why do you think we should fight for you, since you honour Saracens and vicious people who leave you no stronghold or stockade, and raze the buildings to the ground? But this dispute has gone on a long time so I don't know what's the point of us accusing you.
V. Lord Daspol, if the princes and prelates had any love for me in their hearts, they ought to remember with true charity how I was put on the cross for the human race; each of them would willingly take part in the passage if they recalled the spilling of my blood, even if they died after such a hard endeavour; but none of them pays any attention to that journey.
VI. Fair lord God, you've talked a great deal, but you could easily repair this damage if you made each Saracen want to acknowledge his sin of his own accord; then no-one would need to go astray, since each would recognise his error. For we suffer death for their ancient sin ‒ and you think nothing of pitching us into a massacre.
VII. Lord Daspol, it's turned out that the Temple and the Hospital and the Orders, begun in holiness, do evil instead of good, and are keen to go on sleeping in their wickedness, for all of them are full of pride and avarice and don't want to think of any other task. But I'll make them change room and lodging so that the very boldest of all will be in terror!
VIII. Fair lord God, you could achieve royal glory if you put a stop to base behaviour: since you recognise that they're all disloyal, why do you let them carry on in their vile ways? And since the world is going to ruin through greed, give us enough so that we are all equal; and since we'll all be true and faithful / high-minded and high-born, everyone will want to think about his nobility!
IX. Then I awoke. But may it please God through His holiness to ordain that the kings and cardinals, prelates and princes have a change of heart so that (lit.: be such that) each may desire to end in great goodness.
X. King of Aragon, father and son of prowess, castle of worth, fount of what makes a man worthy, I tell you my dream, lord, God save you, for you will direct your nobility aright towards Him.
To find out more about the archive, click here.
Medieval life
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The long history of the Crusades
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Ukraine's New Navy Head Denis Berezovsky Defects After Just One Day On The Post
Overnight, there had been numerous rumors that the newly appointed chief of the Ukraine navy, who was just made head of the navy on Saturday, had defected to the Crimean people explicitly, and to pro-Russian forced in the region implicitly. The sourcing of most were various Russian outlets so we discounted these until we got confirmation from a "western" source. The BBC did just that moments ago.
New head of Ukraine's navy 'defects' in Crimea
The newly appointed head of Ukraine's navy has sworn allegiance to the Crimea region, in the presence of its unrecognised pro-Russian leader.
Rear Admiral Denis Berezovsky was only made head of the navy on Saturday, as the government in Kiev reacted to the threat of Russian invasion.
Russia's troops have been consolidating their hold on Crimea, which is home to its Black Sea Fleet.
The moment of defection allegedly caught on digital media:
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The move is not entirely unexpected: while the US may not have many issues with facing the Russian navy head on as it did last summer in the Mediterranean over Syria, others are not quite as excited with being on the receiving end of the Russian military juggernaut.
So if this has been confirmed, the rest of the news reported earlier by RIA is also true. To wit:
Ukraine's autonomous region of Crimea confirmed Sunday that the majority of Ukrainian military units stationed on the Crimean peninsula have expressed their support of legitimately elected Pro-Russian authorities.
Earlier reports by Russian media about peaceful takeover of the military units by forces loyal to the Crimean government were denied by the Ukrainian defense ministry.
However, Crimean authorities said that most of the Ukrainian units sided on Sunday with pro-Russian forces "without a single shot fired," and warned the commanders of a few units that remain loyal to Kiev that they would face criminal action if refused to surrender.
"I would like to warn commanders who force their subordinates to commit illegal actions that they will be punished according to existing laws," Crimea's Prime Minister Sergei Aksenov said in a statement.
The Crimean government said earlier that some 10 warships from the Ukrainian navy left their naval base in Sevastopol apparently on orders from Kiev.
Crimea is now at the center of the ongoing crisis in the country as pro-Russia groups move to distance themselves from a reformed national parliament that ousted President Viktor Yanukovych a week ago.
The map below is said to summarize all the Ukraine cities where the Russian flag has already been hoisted.
If anything, these bloodless victories will only embolden Russia to press on: hardly the resolution the west would like. Perhaps that explains why early unofficial quotes of the Russian Ruble see the currency dropping as much as 10%.

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Laling-Fort
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By Road: 291 km to Dhule.
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It s an old and ruined fort occupying the top of the hill. It is a place of considerable antiquity and the fort is supposed to have been built duringtheregion of Malik Raja Faruqi, which subsequently granted to his eldest son. It was in this fort that, Nasir Khan and his son Miran Adil Khan were besieged in 1437 by the Bhanrani general till they were relieved by an army advancing from Gujarat. Also, there are two temples of Hemadpanthi styles and are also in very much frayed condition.This ancient fort is believed to have built during Faruqui Kings and is now in ruined condition.There are two main parts of the fort – Citadel and Summit. Just before the devastated entrance gate of the fort there are rock cut caves to the left. Some of them can be used for stay. To the right of the entrance one can see a sculpted tiger on a rock. Moving ahead from here we come across the fortification wall which is still intact and some bastions to the right after a short ascend. Moving back to the entrance gate, proceed on the path which is beneath the gate that leads to the fort summit. After 20-25 steps on the path towards left we come across some water tanks cut in rock. Although the water in it is potable but it stinks a bit. There are few more water tanks further on the same path and the summit/open area of the Citadel starts a few steps from here. The summit is well protected by fortified wall from all sides and some parts of the wall have carvings. The surface of the summit is elevated at one side where there are built in caves.


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By mid 1973, Soft Machine had gone through a tremendous amount of personnel turnover and a shifting in their sound over the previous year. The band now consisted of founding member Mike Ratledge (electric piano, synthesizer), Karl Jenkins (electric piano, piano, sax, oboe), Roy Babbington (electric bass) and John Marshall (drums and percussion). Having already collaborated with a guitarist, Gary Boyle (as documented on NDR Jazz Workshop), upon meeting guitarist Allan Holdsworth, then in the early stages of his professional career, in November, the group invited him to join the band, which he did, becoming the first guitarist to join the band in over 5 years!
With the addition of a musician of Holdsworth's prowess, Soft Machine decided to take a fresh start and develop material that would feature their virtuosic new addition in a fitting manner. Jenkins and Ratledge composed a whole new repertoire which was road-tested on extensive tours of North America and continental Europe in the first half of 1974 and which would ultimately make up the Bundles album, widely acknowledged as a jazz-fusion classic alongside the best exponents of the genre worldwide.
On July 4, 1974, Soft Machine were invited to perform at the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, sharing the spotlight with such headliners as Billy Cobham's Spectrum, Larry Coryell's Eleventh House and the Mahavishnu Orchestra. This alone was evidence of the band being a dominant presence on the now widely popular jazz-rock scene, which had evolved out of the unique and edgy sound that the band had pioneered a few years before. Switzerland 1974 is this performance, captured just a couple of weeks before the studio sessions for Bundles. The hour-long set is the only available visual document of the Ratledge-Marshall-Jenkins-Babbington-Holdsworth line-up, and it includes live versions of the entire album, most notably the classic "Hazard Profile" suite, augmented with individual showcases for each member as well as a collective improvisation and brief snippets from Six and Seven. As well as retracing Soft Machine's transformation into one of the leading exponents of jazz-fusion, it provides a rare chance to witness the genesis of Allan Holdsworth's unique, innovative and unbelievably fluid and dexterous playing, before he went on to universal acclaim with Tony Williams' New Lifetime, the prog-rock 'supergroup' U.K., Jean-Luc Ponty, Bill Bruford and ultimately his own electric fusion groups.
Caveat: Due to the age of these tapes and how they had been previously mixed, edited, used, and stored, there were multiple visual and audio sources of this show in varying lengths, each with their own flaws. While significant flaws could not be completely eliminated, very special thanks are due to our engineers Doug Moon and Udi Koomran, who worked from these multiple copies in order to make the final result as good as it can possibly be.
Looks and sounds absolutely amazing, given its age. Being too young to have seen SM live, this is a godsend. Never thought I would have the chance to see something like this!


FUNDING woes may have shut down a major SETI observatory, but the search for extraterrestrial intelligence isn't dead. In fact, it's more focused than ever.
Previous searches for alien radio signals focused on stars considered friendly to life, based on how often they experience violent flares. On 8 May, astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley, the SETI Institute of California, and the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory started SETI scans that target stars thought to have planets in the "habitable zone", which could host liquid water.


In an article in the network infrastructure e-magazine, Inside Networks, Mike Irvin of HellermannTyton explains why optical fibre has seen a substantial increase in the data centre in recent years.
It is important to remember that the infrastructure is only as good as the sum of its parts and using inferior optical fibre components can undermine the entire network performance.
If you would like to read the article please follow the link here to Inside Networks September 2015 Edition.


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Real's Hernandez signs for Sociedad on loan
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Real Madrid defender Theo Hernandez signs for Real Sociedad on loan
Dermot CorriganMadrid correspondent
Real Madrid defender Theo Hernandez has completed a season-long loan move to Real Sociedad.
Hernandez, 20, played 13 times in La Liga last season but could not displace regular first-choice left-back Marcelo and has opted to move on to find regular football.
The Atletico Madrid youth product moved across the capital for €24 million just 12 months ago, but found life difficult at the Bernabeu and rarely featured under last year's coach Zinedine Zidane.
Juventus and Fulham had also both been linked with moves to take him on loan this summer, but having played a limited role during Madrid's International Champions Cup campaign in the U.S. a move to La Real has been sealed.
"Real Madrid C. F. and Real Sociedad have agreed the loan of our player Theo Hernandez for the upcoming season until the 30th of June 2019," read a statement.
A superb 2016-17 campaign on loan at Alaves, capped with a Copa del Rey final goal against Barcelona, persuaded the Bernabeu hierarchy to trigger his release clause last summer.
But the signing of right-back Alvaro Odriozola from La Real earlier this summer, as well as the emergence of youth teamer Sergio Reguilon, have increased new Madrid coach Julen Lopetegui's options in defence.
Recent months have also seen Theo's older brother Lucas -- who usually plays at centre-back -- move up to the France senior side and play on the left side of defence as Les Bleus won the World Cup.


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resistance training (RT) versus high velocity RT (HVRT) on metabolic, cardiovascular, and psychophysiological responses in elderly hypertensive women.
Methods: Fifteen elderly women (mean age ± standard deviation, 67.1±6.9 years) classified as having hypertension stage 1 or 2 were randomly allocated to complete traditional RT or HVRT; 1 week later, subjects allocated to RT completed the HVRT session and vice-versa. Heart rate, blood pressure, affective response, perceived effort, and blood samples analyzing lactate, nitrate, nitrite, oxidative damage (thiobarbituric acid reactive substances [TBARS]), and 6-hydroxy-2,5,7,8-tetramethylchroman-2-carboxylic acid equivalent antioxidant capacity (TEAC) collected before and after training sessions were assessed. Nutritional counseling was provided regarding nutrients that could affect cardiovascular and nitrate/nitrite analysis.
Results: Systolic blood pressure was not statistically different (p>0.05) between conditions at the beginning and during 30 minutes after sessions. Diastolic blood pressure, rate pressure product, and heart rate were not statistically different (p>0.05) between conditions at the beginning and during 45 minutes after sessions. Nitric oxide was significantly higher (p<0.0005) for HVRT compared to RT after 30 minutes of exercise. TBARS and TEAC were significantly higher (p<0.05) for HVRT compared with RT only immediately after exercise. There were no differences for psychophysiological variables between protocols.
Conclusion: The acute cardiovascular and metabolic responses, including oxidative stress, are transient and within normal values. Taken together with the positive affective responses, both HVRT and RT with this intensity and volume seem to be safe for elderly hypertensive women under medication.


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La Commission béninoise des droits de l'homme (CBDH)  créée dans les années  1990,est l'institution nationale béninoise indépendante chargée de protection et de promotion des droits de l'homme, accréditée de statut auprès des Nations unies. Elle n'est assujettie à aucune autorité publique et exerce ses fonctions sans aucune ingérence.

Historique
La Commission béninoise des droits de l'homme (CBDH) est créée en 2012.Conformément à la Loi n° 2012-36 portant création de la Commission béninoise des droits de l'Homme délibéré et adopté en sa séance du 17 par l'Assemblée Nationale. Au regard de sa conformité aux "Principes de Paris", elle a été accréditée le 18 mars 2022 au statut "A" de l'Alliance Mondiale des Institutions Nationales des Droits de l'Homme(GANHRI). Avec cette accréditation, la commission sera amenée à prendre la parole devant le Conseil des droits de l'homme.

Composition
Dans la section II de la composition de la commission en son Article 5 de la loi n° 2012-36 portant création de la Commission béninoise des droits de l'Homme, la Commission comprend onze (11) membres choisis parmi les personnalités de nationalité béninoise jouissant de leurs droits civils et politiques et connues pour leur probité morale, leur indépendance d'esprit, leur expérience dans leurs domaines respectifs et leur intérêt pour les droits de l'Homme.

Mission
Conformément à la Loi n° 2012-36 portant création de la Commission béninoise des droits de l'Homme délibéré et adopté en sa séance du 17 par l'Assemblée Nationale, la commission a pour plusieurs missions principale la promotion et de sauvegarde des droits de l'homme en République du Bénin. A cet titre elle peut recommander la ratification d'instruments internationaux relatifs aux droits de l'homme, prendre part à la préparation des rapports que le gouvernement doit rédiger à l'intention des divers organes de l'ONU ou de toutes institutions internationales, gouvernementales ou non gouvernementales, ayant en charge des questions de droits de l'homme»

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Panchmarhi is the only hill station located in the state of Madhya Pradesh in central India. It is widely known as "Satpura ki Rani" for being situated in the Satpura mountain ranges. The hill station is popular amongst tourists for its lush-green meadows, streams and waterfalls that stroll in a rhythmic way through the jungles. Planning a holiday amid the natural beauty of Panchmarhi, away from the concrete jungle, is the best way to rejuvenate. There are many spectacular waterfalls, pillars, and caves that interest tourists during their Pachmarhi travel.
Jamuna Prapat – It is a mesmerizing waterfall that goes through a stream which offers drinking water to Pachmarhi. There is a wide range of bathing pools around the waterfall that are best to relax.
Apsara Vihar – This 'fairy pool' is an ideal picnic spot for families with small children and elders, since the pool is shallow but deepening only towards the base of the fall.
Priyadarshini – This majestic viewing point marks the destination from where Pachmarhi was discovered by Captain Forsyth in 1857. The Captain developed Pachmarhi as a place to relax and influence of the same is embodied in its churches and colonial architecture.
Pandav caves – the visit is incomplete without Pandav caves which have mythological belief of Pandavs residing here during their exile period.
Other significant attractions are caves of Jata Shanker, Bada Mahadeo and Gupt Mahadeo.
Satpura Tiger Reserve – This reserve is one of the best places to see the endangered animals from all across the India. You can find 40-odd tigers, unknown number of leopards, sloth bears, deer, monkeys, and birds of all types here. Tourists can also book safaris for themselves.
Ramykund Pool – You will find access to the crystal-clear Ramykund Pool through Pachmarhi's main road and there are two beauty points known as Astachal and Reechgarh, in which you can take bath and enjoy.
Shivratri Festival – A lot of tourists and around 100,000 pilgrims including sadhus and adhivasis attend celebrations at Mahadeo Temple located in the inner parts of Pachmarhi. The tourists need to hike up to Chauragarh Hills to sight the Shiva shrine.
Though tourists can visit the place all year round, yet October to June are the best months to experience pleasant atmosphere.
Numerous local tourists as well as outside visitors visit Pachmarhi, only hill station in Madhya Pradesh, because of natural beauty and historical significance.
There are a lot of ways through which you can reach Panchmarhi i.e. air, railways or via road. The most important airline that connects Panchmarhi to other cities is via Bhopal, Gwalior, Mumbai, Delhi, etc.
The railway station nearest to Pachmarhi is Pipariya at a distance of 47 kilometres. The city is well-linked with some of the major cities via road like Indore, Gwalior, Delhi, Pune, etc.
When it comes to Pachmarhi accommodation, there are a lot of star options for tourists as the city is well-connected and receives a lot of tourists every year. However, there are options for lodges and guesthouses with centrally air-conditioned system rooms to give you a comfortable stay.


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Daniel Lambert the famous fat man.
A few years ago my parents moved to Stamford, a pretty stone town in the East Midlands. Like a lot of that area, I was surprised how important Stamford almost was. Once an important walled city that made cloth that was famous as far as Venice, it's now rather unknown.The could have put its wool-riches into industry but the Lord Burlington didn't want railways or canals near the place. It was touted as the third place to have a university town after Oxford and Cambridge but Durham beat it to it. As such the people of Stamford have to be happy with (and are proud of) living in a pretty little town best known as a go-to location for period dramas.
While there are a number of interesting things about the town, like a running of a bull held there for hundreds of years, during my visit in 2020, not much was open but church graveyards. One of the graves is for Daniel Lambert, here I am at it.
Why was his grave particularly noted on the 'visit Stamford' notice-boards? His grave explains.
"He measured three Feet one Inch round the Leg
nine Feet four Inches round the Body
and weighed
Fifty two Stone eleven Pounds!"
You need to be a rather large person for your measurements to be celebrated on your gravestone.
Born the son of Leicester gaol's keeper, Daniel was into sports and outdoor pursuits. Quite rarely for his time, he learnt to swim and gave swimming lessons to other children. He also liked hunting, horse-racing and breeding dogs for sporty pursuits (most of them involving in the death of some animal). He worked as an engraver for a while but ended up working with his dad in the prison, later taking over his dad's job. It was while doing this largely sedentary job that he started to gain weight. He was reputedly very well liked in his position, being considered honest and kind to those under his watch. He also carried on dog breeding, reportedly punching a dancing-bear in the head to rescue one of his prize dogs from the bear's paws.
However, when the gaol was closed, he was made redundant. Because of his good standing, he was given £50 a year pension and he still made money from his dogs but he began to grew more reclusive and to gain in weight. Soon, his weight was famous and people game to look at him. He was so discomforted by this, that he didn't leave the house. That was until his finances forced him to.
He had a specially built coach made, rented rooms in Piccadilly in London and charged people a shilling to meet him. Then he and his guests would chat, often about dogs, races and other sports, though some guests would ask him questions about his weight. When one person asked him how much his large coat cost, Daniel told him that whatever it was, he'd be happy to do without the material brought by the enquirer's shilling. Soon the shy, retiring Daniel Lambert was a media sensation and taking his private showings on tour around the country. It has to be asked (and has been by John Woolf in his book The Wonders) how this shy man became so keen to get himself 'out there' that he took himself on tours and crowd funded portraits of himself to be engraved and sold. It's also strange that being forced against his deepest desires to exhibit himself out of lack of money, he had enough for the outlay of a purpose built carriage and lodgings in Piccadilly.
From then on, Daniel Lambert alternated touring and pursuing his sporting interests. He developed his dog breeding and found a lot of success in that. Often he'd mix business and pleasure and it was at the end of a tour when he visited Stamford to watch the races and make some money showing himself off. It may have even been his planned last engagement as he'd made enough money to live comfortably off. The morning of the race he woke up, set to shaving and experienced trouble breathing. He died ten minutes later.
His funeral was a huge affair in Stamford, with crowds gathered to watch the specially-made xxxxl coffin being taken to the specially enlarged grave. He wasn't the fattest man on record for long, an American soon pipped him to that post but he is still a local legend and even has a beer named after him.
You could do worse.
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My Month of Time-Travel Fiction
As I pulled out books I fancied reading in the year ahead, I found myself piling them up into discreet groups with vague but persistent thematic similarities. One of these piles consisted of novels related to time-travel and January being the month of new beginnings, time-travel seemed appropriate. In all, I read eight books that featured time-travel somewhere in the blurb and it was interesting to see how a concept can be spun in many different directions and came to a few interesting conclusions.
First of all, it's interesting how rarely time-travel is used for its own sake. Only one of the eight books was really about time-travel. The Society of Time by John Brunner told the story of a world in which the Great Armada had succeeded and the future was based on the traditions of Imperial Spain. As such, it is now 1988 and the world is stagnated technologically and socially. There hasn't been an agricultural or industrial revolution, slavery is still common and women are also property – but there is time-travel. In this case, the discovery was made by a priest and functions by a simple machine of alternating metal pieces. This discovery is regulated by The Society of Time, a religious order who function as both time police and pious monks. I found the mixture of religion and time travel particularly interesting as there's a notion that God has ordained time to be as it is and going back and interfering is messing with the divine plan.
This means when an exquisite piece of Peruvian art looks too new, it's an offence against the church as well as time. It's important that the item is returned in a way that vibes with history as it has already been played out. Things are even trickier when renegade members of the society attempt to create the perfect killers and things go a little wrong. Finally, it all goes wrong and history is changed. The notion is that any reality with time-travel in it is too unstable, too vulnerable to people going back to have a little tinker that it will eventually become one without time-travel, that people will stop going and changing things only when the option is no longer available. This means poor Don Miguel, a decent and intelligent if not particularly fleshed out protagonist, is stranded in a world completely different to any he knows – ours. The seemingly alternate reality world isn't at all, it's our world as it originally was before people mucked about with it.
While The Society of Time showed time-travel as having huge implications, even reality warping possibilities, the rest of the books were more content with using time-travel to explore personal stakes. Only HG Wells's OG time-travel story, The Time Machine travelled into the future. The Time-traveller introduces the idea of time as a fourth dimension, and like the ones of height, length and width can be travelled in. So he does, taking his machine to the far, far, distant future.
What I found most interesting about the book is how the Time-traveller puts together his observations to form theories. He notices that there are no private houses, only large communal dwelling places and decides it's the result of a form of communism. Then, watching the innocent future people, the Eloi, frolic around without any animals or even stinging plants, he concludes that he is seeing humanity after their peak - that he has stumbled into a world post-utopia where humanity solved all life's problems and as a result are devolving. I really liked this idea of post-utopia, that it's only through having problems to solve that humanity reaches towards its best self, the Eloi are so blasé that they accept one of their number drowning without even trying to help.
It's the discovery of the Morlocks, the albino, underground troglodytes that changes his views, there was only utopia for some. Seeing they come from underground, hearing machinery coming from beneath and seeing how the Eloi are clothed and fed without any effort on their part, he now concludes that the Eloi are the idle class and the Morlocks a working class mutated to serve them… However, when he travels under the ground and sees a Morlock feast, he realises the truth, that the (literal) underclass are (literally) eating those above them. It's this parable, this warning that the book is really about and time travel was our way of getting there.
Where Were You, Robert by Hans Magnus Enzensberger also uses time-travel to explore other ideas. Robert is a teenager who finds that when he stares at an image and rubs his eyes, he falls into it and the time it was created. First he falls into a documentary about Soviet Siberia and finds himself there, then he goes to the cinema and falls into its filming in Australia, then an old photo, even sketches. A particular problem for Robert is that he can only fall backwards in time as images are always created before the time he is in. Another problem is acclimatising and adjusting to the different places and times he finds himself in.
At first, I thought the book was about that, about the ability for people to adapt and create new lives for themselves, Robert has to do it time and again. However, as the book continued, I began to realise it was about the strain of having to do that. The book takes place over two years in Robert's personal timeline, he is changing in himself. Not only that but the need to create a new life in each new time and place means he becomes many different people; from spy, to painter, to brigand. How can Robert maintain his sense of self and what is a self when it can't even be charted along a timeline? The book ends with Robert back in his own timeline and at the age he left, yet he's had two years of intense development. There's an odd, lingering queasiness to the way he'll have to suppress the experiences he's had and pretend to be the person he was which really lingers. After all this, Robert will never be the same Robert again. (Besides the fact that there isn't any reliable way of knowing he won't find himself shooting off into time again).
Another character who finds himself lost in time is Ibn Shalaby in Khairy Shalaby's The Time-Travels of the Man Who Sold Pickles and Sweets. He has a bad case of the Billy Pilgrim's, finding himself unstuck in time. As he wanders Cairo, he finds himself slipping into moments of the city's history, from its founding to various rebellions and riots. He seems to have little control, barrelling into different times and situations. Sometimes he can sense where he's going, occasionally seeing the future as layers above him, like a layers in archeology, going as far as tickling the feet of the future people walking above him. He's not the only one, there are historians who wander in time but they seem to have more control than Shalaby. It's surprising how many non-time-travellers accept the arrival of Shalaby and have met other time-travellers before - indeed, the whole essence and mechanics of time-travel are rather fuzzy.
Naturally they are fuzzy, like most of the time-travel books I've read, the travel is a tool to explore other elements. This book uses time-travel to explore ideas of psycho-geography and to create a picture of Cairo through the ages and the people who walked through it. Interestingly, the picture of the Egyptian people, specifically the 'Brothers of Shalaby', the vendors and kiosk-people, are downtrodden followers of every herd, invasion and coup. He traces this as a result of them being the serf class in the days of the Pharaohs and that this inherent servility is the secret of their survival through centuries of political torment. Beside the Ocean of Time by George Mackay Brown also sought to create this comprehensive overview of one place through time but the blurb lied, the main character didn't travel in time at all, he was just someone daydreaming of other periods.
Finally, there were the books were time-travel was used to solve specific problems. The children in Dyan Sheldon's The Difficult Job of Keeping Time had to go into the Victorian era and dodge some devious adults to find the deeds of a church which held time together. Al Choudrey in Ross Welford's Time Travelling with a Hamster and Huck in Gillian Avery's Huck and Her Time Machine went back to solve family problems.
Huck's problem is that her family are known screw-ups, famous in their town for outlandish behaviour. She takes members of her family back in time to teach them a lesson but accidentally (and I'm not sure how) has them possessed by previous ancestors who turn out to be just as bad as the ones she lived with. The message being one of accepting your family despite their flaws. This is a strange book in general, the time machine (which is actual the one that HG Wells's time-traveller used) is found in a dump by Huck's brother, Barty. It's actually Barty's point of view we remain in and although Huck goes back in time, her brother, and so the reader, never does. There's also a lot of fudging over the end over whether the story we just read actually happened or not, I found it quite an unsatisfying book.
Far more satisfying is Time Travelling with a Hamster, where Al is given a letter that his dead father had left him to open on his twelfth birthday. It turns out his father had built a time machine and wants Al to use it to prevent an accident which would later turn out to kill him. The time machine in this book is a mathematical code which runs on a laptop and displaces a connected object, in this case an old bath, in space-time. There's a lot of fun in the book about the machine being such an unwieldy object, this is further complicated that it is located in a secret basement in their old house and Al has to repeatedly break into the house to use it.
This was also the only book other than The Society of Time which had actual time-travel rules, something I was expecting a lot more of. HG Wells's protagonist goes to the future which is less paradox heavy, Ibn Shalaby and Robert interact with the past but don't seem to change anything in particular, Huck's story may or may not have happened and the children in The Difficult Job of Keeping Time go on their quest to change one thing and there's no particular consequence to their other actions. The main rule in Time Travelling with a Hamster is that a person can't travel to where they already are, a no doppelgänger rule. However, his attempt to save his dad does have a horrifying effect, in that he (and the hamster, Alan Shearer) accidentally kill his dad at the age of eight. Rather than wipe Al out of existence it leads him back to a present where his Dad is still dead but his mum has no idea who he is. It's a scene which taps into a really strong childhood fear of having your parents not recognise you. I leave it to any reader to see how that gets cleaned up.
My month of time-travel books was a really interesting little exercise which made me realise how peripheral the time-travel is to so many stories about it and also made me realise how many stories using this device are still out there, many unwritten.
'The Times' by Elizabeth Griffith at the Dr Johnson Reading Circle (Part Three, Final)
Dr Johnson's Reading Circle came back to their screens to see how The Times by Elizabeth Griffiths plays out. At the end of Act 4 we were left with marital confusion, imminent financial ruin, a big party with extravagant costumes and an obviously significant pair of earrings that have passed through many hands. I predicted a dramatic ending.
Act 5 starts with the servant Forward setting up for a night of gaming at the Woodleys'. As usual, he's out to grab what he can, earmarking the expensive candles, the nice cards (not the bent ones covered in snuff) and even the specialised card tables for his own use. The Woodleys walk in to finalise the details. They are sweet together, holding hands and giving each other little compliments. After confusion over who Sir William is trying to marry Louisa to, Mr Woodley finally admits to his wife that they are seriously short of funds. He's expecting Lady Mary to react badly, the audience is expecting her to react badly but instead she says that she'd happily live in Dorset(shire) without a full complement of servants as long as she can still be with Mr Woodley. He's delighted that she's taken the news so well, his fear of telling her has been his main conflict in the play and he leaves happily. Then she makes the longest speech, where she even quotes Hamlet, and declares that she's happy to give up all the glitz for her true love but she will miss society and the friendship of people like Mrs Bromley.
Then follow a couple of short scenes, one where Woodley and Colonel Mountfort are annoyed that they can't get in contact with Louisa, and one where Louisa is talking with Sir William, which is why she can't contact the other two. As usual Sir William is not listening to anyone else and is sympathetically trying to tell her that her marriage to Belford (who she doesn't wish to marry) is off while she's trying to tell him about the Woodleys' decision to go to the country.
Then follows the main scene the play has been building towards, an evening of various card games at the Woodleys. The room has been set so that different games occur in different areas and the conversations of the whist, loo and quadrille players interject, overlay and interact with the conversations had by the main cast. It's a pretty dynamic piece of staging and we imagined there was probably a lot of business happening that isn't in the stage directions. Were we more knowledgeable of eighteenth century card games and the language that went with them, all the talk of pams, loos, monsters and beasts may have added to the meaning. As such, they added to the texture.
Early on in the scene, Lady Mary tells Mrs Bromley of her decision to move to their country house and invites her to visit but she is rebuffed and starts to look at Mrs Bromley differently. Then she sees that Mrs Bromley is wearing her earrings from the beginning of the play which she thought were being added to but were actually sold to Mr Bromley. When Mrs Bromley rudely gloats that they are hers now as she actually has the money to pay for them, Lady Mary is repelled. Then Mrs Bromley sits down to play loo and is immediately found cheating. She looks to Lady Mary for support but finding none, storms out. Then there's a message that bailiffs have come, sent by Mr Bromley, and the room clears, everyone owing something to somebody.
Louisa wakes Sir William up to help, the bailiffs having been shooed away by Colonel Mountfort and his money. William blusters and bluffs, saying how the Woodleys deserve prison for their spendthrift ways but is clearly pleased that this hasn't happened because of the good Colonel, who actually he rather likes now and has probably always liked, even if he argued with him in the previous act. They come together and Sir William, pleased by the Colonel, allows him to marry Louisa. Also pleased with Lady Mary's decision to move to the country, he decides to settle the Woodleys' debts and give them the house so they can come to London for the season. He talks over everyone's attempts to thank him and the play is over.
It must be said, The Times ends on something of an anti-climax. While it was clear that Sir William had the power and means to solve everyone's problems, it seemed there needed to be rather more happening to bring him round. Set up as pig-headed and blinkered, unable to hear anyone's views but his own, he changes his mind considerably at the end of the play. Similarly, Lady Mary, who seemed to be completely immersed in commercialism suddenly decides that she loves her husband more than any of the fripperies she had been spending thousands of pounds on. While Mrs Bromley was exposed as a card cheat and hissed out of the room, Mr Bromley isn't on stage in the last act and his comeuppance is a hasty line about being imprisoned for tampering with his bills. The beginning of the play teased a big masquerade, where Lady Mary would be dressed as a Sultan, dripping in jewels, this never happened. And while the earrings did play a role in Lady Mary's opinion of Mrs Bromley, they didn't have the huge Desdemona's Handkerchief level significance that the play seemed to have been building to.
There were fun characters and good set-ups but it felt like the play hadn't given them enough to do or escalated into an intractable ball of confusion to be sorted out at the end. Whereas other eighteenth-century comedies we have read together needed a flow-chart to understand, The Times felt a little rushed and easy. That said, it did have the dynamic card table scene, the joy of Sir William's bluster, Lady Mary's easy spending and the Bromley's fun two-facedness. It was a fun play but just a little undercooked.
Part One here.
Part Two here.
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'The Times' by Elizabeth Griffith at the Dr Johnson Reading Circle (Part Two)
On Tuesday the Dr Johnson Reading Circle sat down at their computers again to read The Times by Elizabeth Griffith. The first two acts had mostly dealt with setting up the characters, setting and theme. Principally we were introduced to Mr Woodley and his wife Lady Mary who are seriously low on funds, though Mary doesn't know it. Their situation is not helped by Mr and Mrs Bromley who pressure the couple to spend more. The solution: make up with their rich, argumentative uncle William - but that doesn't look very likely.
Now we're all set up, it's time for the fun to begin and in this instalment there's lots to be had with Lady Mary's ignorance of her position, Sir William's bull-like attempts at match-making and a real exposure of the Bromleys' two-facedness. A lot of these two acts are taken up by three characters I didn't fully introduce in the first section: Louisa, related to the Woodleys and of marrying age; Counsellor Belford, Sir William's friend who is not of marrying age and Colonel Mountfort, who loves Louisa and is loved back.
Sir William has decided his friend Belford and his relative Louisa would make a really good couple. He hasn't asked them their opinions at all, nor does he consider the fact that Belford is old enough to be her father a real drawback. As far as he is concerned, they are both good people (i.e they do as he says) and so are a perfect match. With his customary tact, he brings up the notion of marriage with Belford, leading his hints closer to his proposed match and becoming increasingly peeved that he is not understood until he has spell out the idea in full. Like many things, the proposed marriage seems self-evident to Sir William, Belford said that Louisa would make someone a happy man and doesn't Belford want to be one? When Belford suggests that maybe his being forty-eight and her eighteen might be a problem, Sir William simply tells him not to reveal his age. The more Belford tries to tell Sir William that although he is flattered by the suggestion, he doesn't think it very fair on Louisa, the more Sir William takes it to mean that he accepts it. It's a great scene, with one character railroading the other into accepting a hand in marriage that the woman in question hasn't even offered.
In the next scene it is Louisa who is forced into accepting the proposal and Sir William leaves happy with his machinations for the day. She and her prospective husband meet and, without the influence of Sir William, manage to talk sensibly about their strange predicament. It's clear that Belford wouldn't mind being Louisa's husband but doesn't want to cause her distress and is content to be her 'old friend' - with an emphasis on old. He'll even put in a good word for Colonel Mountfort.
Louisa appears to have two guardians, the older Sir William and the younger Mr Woodley. Colonel Mountfort succeeds in getting Mr Woodley's permission to marry and is even the first to hear of Mr Woodley's financial troubles. Now he has to get the elder. Sir William is in a good mood at first but certainly isn't when the Colonel asks to marry Louisa. It seems clear to Sir William, the Colonel is just a soldier, he can get any woman so he should leave his Louisa alone. The two argue and Colonel Mountfort leaves. Then Belford comes in to reject the offer of Louisa's hand and those two argue and Sir William storms out. For now, Louisa's fate is uncertain (well, it's not, the play's a comedy, of course the lovers will get together, but how?)
Interspersed with these scenes, we see more of Lady Mary and Mrs Bromley, as well as Mr Woodley and Mr Bromley. The Bromleys are given more asides than they were in earlier scenes, allowing them to show their untrustworthiness more explicitly. Both have been encouraging their Woodley to spent exorbitant amounts of money but now Mr Bromley finds out the Woodleys are running out of it, he realizes it's time to make one last hit before they move on to someone else.
In a little aside, I find it interesting that Mr Bromley's first name is Robert and he frequently calls himself 'Honest Bob'. Despite it being many years after the Walpole administration, it still seems that the name Bob indicates a money grabbing and devious character.
In the last scene of the fourth act Bromley and his wife talk privately for the first time. He wants to cash in and sue the Woodleys for the eye-watering sum of seven thousand pounds. What's more, he considers it a fair exchange for keeping the foolish couple company and introducing them to the 'best' people. Mrs Woodley wants to wait till after the big 'do' the women have been preparing for but she's placated by the gift of the earrings which were passed about so much in the first two acts. The pair prepare to make their score, muttering asides about their dislike for each other and twirling their respective moustaches. We are set up for the big event and a number of large confrontations. It should be a dramatic finale.
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Cal. Fish & Wildlife officer fired for supporting Ted Nugent
September 2, 2014 | Richard Berkow | Print Article
A veteran patrol officer with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife lost his job because he wrote a letter of support for hunting and gun-rights activist Ted Nugent.
Cpt. Robert D. Simpson, who spent nearly 20 unblemished years with the agency, was fired in 2013 and lost his appeal for reinstatement several months ago. He was released for using official stationery to write a letter of support for the famed rock musician, who was facing federal hunting violations, ABC 30 Action News reported.
"Ted Nugent is a polarizing figure…and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife seems to be very much against him," said legal analyst Jeff Hammerschmidt.
Nugent, accused of breaking deer-hunting laws in 2010, had reproached the agency on his TV show, explaining "I did so because of a manipulation and an unjust, let's call it, entrapment," he told ABC News. He then got in trouble in Alaska, for illegally hunting a bear.
That's when Simpson wrote his letter and one year later, was fired.
The Wildlife Department refused comment to the ABC News reporter, but Hammerschmidt offered that most employers do not fire an employee for their first infraction unless it's really serious, like workplace violence.
"But," he noted, "it would be interesting to know if other employees who committed similar conduct were terminated when it involved someone other than someone famous."
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Woods; Saturday and Sunday service at 14111 Ludlow,
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4000. Rabbi: Kasriel Shemtov. Services: Friday 5:30
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Cantor: Pamela Jordan Schiffer. Services: Friday 8 p.m.,
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Services: During the school year, morning services at
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AAPPTF urges Arunachal CM to create Transport Workers' Welfare Board
All Arunachal Pradesh Public Transport Federation submits two-point memorandum to Arunachal CM Khandu
ITANAGAR , December 4, 2018 12:34 am
A view of the 3rd interaction-cum-awareness programme under BMS held at Itanagar. Image credit - Northeast Now
The All Arunachal Pradesh Public Transport Federation (AAPPTF) in a two-point memorandum submitted to Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Monday urged him to create the Arunachal Pradesh Motor Transport Worker's Welfare Board and construct proper parking lots in the Capital Complex.
The memorandum was submitted by Federation president Dobing Sonam on the sidelines of the 3rd interaction-cum-awareness programme under BMS which was organized by AAPPTF at Nyokum Lapang ground in Itanagar.
Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) All India secretary, Rai Bihari Sharma and organizing secretary, North East in-charge, Sunil Kirwai, appealed Khandu to look into to the memorandum, not as a demand of the federation but as their right.
"To ask for creation of a welfare board to look into the problems of the transport workers and parking lot is the right of the workers and the same should be arranged for them," said Sharma while urging Khandu to take step and become the first State in the country to create a Motor Transport Worker's Welfare Board.
"The transport industry pays tax to the government and helps it generate revenue in a huge scale, so it is also the duty of the government to look into the wellbeing of the workers. The State as well as the Central government should look into issues of the workers such as minimum wage and provide them social security," Sharma said.
For the welfare of the transport workers, the chief minister assured that thorough analyses and study about the operations of the workers boards in other states will be carried out to constitute a similar board in the state.
He said AAPPTF and BMS will be made part of such study group for the creation of the board.
On demand for parking space in the state capital region, Khandu informed that the state government has sanctioned two such projects near civil secretariat and Ganga market each worth Rs 15 crore in the previous year.
If the need for more parking project is required, Khandu assured to have discussion with the federation to have it opened in Naharlagun and other areas of the capital region.