In the last few days of August, Oblio took several short flights around the pond.
On the morning of August 31, Roy and Millie spent hours purring, apparently coaxing Oblio to fly. Finally, after several abortive attempts, all three lifted off. Oblio flew with her right leg hanging down, but they cleared the trees and disappeared across the valley. Three hours later, the cranes returned; the rest of the day was spent in preening and feeding.
For the first days of September, Millie, Roy, and Oblio spent their days feeding (every two hours), dancing as a group of three (the first dances we had seen for over a month), and flying off on short daytime flights in all directions. Oblio usually lay resting in the grass for an hour or more after these flights. Every night, the family roosted overnight in a pond across the valley (2-3 km distant).
Early September weather was mild and with each day, Oblio grew stronger. Her right leg dangled somewhat in flight, but by the end of the first week of September, she was able to keep up with her parents (Image 12, September 10).
On the morning of September 11, bouts of feeding and preening alternated every hour. At 11:05 AM, the three flew off to the south, then turned west down the valley and disappeared, departing (we hope) on their migration south. The timing was auspicious since the first serious frost occurred only four days later.


I was tickled when decor8 reader, Maria Palatini, asked if she could write about one of her favorite Seattle stores. I figured that it may be helpful to those of you who plan to visit Seattle (or who live in the Pacific NW already). I also figure that even if you never plan to visit Seattle, it's still fun to see what's going on in different parts of the world. Take it away, Maria!
Todd Werny's funky little shop Space Oddity is located on a small side-street connected to the main artery of the style-savvy and sophisticated Ballard Avenue in Seattle?s sparkly, creative and hip Ballard neighborhood.
We're talking destination-shopping here, rivaling LA's Beverly Hills adjacent and surrounds. Except instead of Doughboys Bakery on W. 3rd Street in LA, you get Verite Coffee and Cupcake Royale on bordering Market Street.
I visited Space Oddity on a recent afternoon which was so typically Seattle, it was nearly cinema-worthy. Grey drizzly rain came down from the sky in a soft and dreary haze, and my companion and I (who was nice enough to lend me a very cute and bright printed umbrella for the afternoon to match her own) felt like we'd just stepped off of the Singles movie set, (or perhaps our shopping excursion could have been part of the movie!) as we traipsed around Ballard into this cool, cave-like spot.
Nestled in a relatively small space and warm and cozy with good music playing, there were vintage treasures galore to be found inside.
A ten year veteran of dealing in both vintage clothes and furniture in Seattle and its surrounds, Werny prides himself on the non-textbook approach of focusing on the soul and feel of each piece, rather than on its brand-name pedigree (although some pieces are pure certifiable brand-name vintage.) The main focus of the shop is mid-century, but other eras are represented as well. Affordability and accessibility, as well as an unpretentious hipness, make Space Oddity unique.
The vibe, comfort, and old-time quality of the materials of an item are the most important things to Werny when choosing pieces for his customers to discover and likewise treasure. This is no museum, these pieces are meant to be used and loved in his client's homes. The atmosphere of the shop is likewise mellow, allowing for the joy of exploration and creative brainstorming about design choices.
Standouts on my recent visit were some truly fab oversized Pucci-flavored 60's stereo speakers and an as-fab painting, which was part graphic design, part painting, and all style. It featured a 70's-esque snowy landscape, complete with a sun and moon and some groovy trees, a sleepy, cozy scene in white, tan and browns.
Other pieces of note were some sweetly stackable woven Aalto dining chairs and some great, solid and hip urban metal tables which were on rollers for easy mobility and flexibility in a given space.
Werny has new pieces come in all the time, so each visit is apt to bring about a new discovery, and since the shop is about to double in size due to a sizeable expansion currently in the process of being made, expect even more eye-popping vintage treasures on your next visit!
TIP: Blink and you'll miss it, so be sure to look for the large rectangular sign outside, which is lit all-around and all-year-round in large, xmas-sy like bright white lights.
This is my first post for the decor8 blog, and I look forward to helping you up to heaping servings of Seattle's amazing, multifaceted and let's face it, just beautiful design scene in the future. Over and out until next time! - Maria Palatini.
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Luke Koppa, Sam Shaheen, and I discuss new goggles — from great, to good, to terrible. Then we discuss the Armada ARV 106 Ti and 96 Ti, and which ski companies have stood out the most to us so far this season. We then share a few of the funniest answers to our BLISTER Survey (that you can win fully custom Folsom skis for completing), and we wrap up with a few very random reviews.
Shoutout to the Fischer / Ranger 102 shoutout. Converted me from constantly demoing and buying/selling skis the past 3 seasons to looking at demos as just time wasted that could be on my rangers. On ~30 days on them all over the west coast this season I was just repeatedly amazed at how good and fun they were in every new condition/terrain I brought them in.


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Drawing with rust isn't exactly conventional, but having never come across this method before I had to find out a little more. Catherine Harrison has had some brilliant work on display as part of Soup Collective recently, including exhibitions at Unity Theatre and Roadworks just since the beginning of 2016. Emblems though, at Coffee and Fandisha until 12th May 2016, is an excellent solo exhibition, that goes a long way to prove this fascinating drawing and print technique is one that can stand firmly alone and hold a crowd.
This seems to be the beginning of an exciting career for this artist, whose work has started finding an international audience, with work drifting across to Athens later in the year. But you're not interested in my take on that when we've managed to get an explanation of these beautiful drawings from the artist herself. The interview that follows has taught me some wonderful things, and might inspire you to try something a little different yourself – though when I tried to recreate the effect it failed miserably, so I can only assume it's a talent that comes with practice.
What's the theme of this exhibition at Coffee and Fandisha?
Both the practical and psychological aspects of alchemy inspire this series of work. The symbols are based on ancient alchemical texts as well as the familiar symbols in worldwide cultures and religions. Hidden meanings lie within the various symbols, shapes, numbers, lines and curves. All these aspects convey many different meanings and reference the writings and ideas of the psychiatrist Carl Jung. These symbols represent ideas such as ultimate wholeness, infinity, unity, balance, great strength, feminine, masculine and the five elements earth, air, fire, water and metal. The practical parts of alchemy are referenced by using abstract marks within the shapes that represent metallography, the components of the metal itself.
You mention on your website that you're interested in nature's elements, but what is it, more specifically, that draws you to rust?
I have always been interested in decay and using the rust as a material, to print, draw or paint with. Rust is like a disease that eventually disintegrates the object, and using it as a tool – this somehow creates a lasting memory of it.
Your approach is almost chemical in a way, keeping very tight structures in how you draw. It sort of reminds me of planning or biological drawings of plants (even the pair of scissors which were in Unity Theatre recently). What got you to that point of creating such clean lines in your work? Emblems takes some of its inspiration from metallography, but what exactly is that? And what was it that drew you to it?
Metallography is the study of the physical structure and components of metal, this is usually done by microscope. I first came across metallography whilst studying alchemy and metals, and was fascinated by it. I drew from the pieces of metal, such as copper and iron, looking at them under a microscope. This then developed over a number of years and changed into a sort of automatic, abstract but controlled drawing.
There's a serenity in the experience of viewing these works at Coffee and Fandisha, and I guess there's meant to be, but the alchemical and spiritual sides kind of clash. Was that intentional or just a happy accident?
I'd say it was a happy accident, but I like the contrast of the two, the order and chaos of the neat symbols and the abstract marks within them. These kinds of symbols are very familiar to people, and have been used over and over and for hundreds of years. I wanted to add something extra to them.
And has Emblems finished its run with this exhibition, or will there be more to come from it as a project? And if so, what's next on your things to do list?
I'm working on a new series of emblems at the moment that will be on display in Manchester and also part of the Threshold festival at the end of the month. I will then be heading to Athens in May to display some work there, assemblage pieces, consisting of the rusted objects. I'm also hoping to produce an installation piece of all the rusted objects I've accumulated, as well as re-visit some sheet metal work where I used a variety of chemicals to decay and corrode, to create controlled abstract works.
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The Queen's Craft Brigade is this Sunday! I hope you'll be there.
I'm going to be selling my cards, quilts, and dolls alongside vendors from the NY Handmade Collective ("Koto Embroidered Paper Goods" and "Key & Arrow Leather"). And, I'm going to meet vendors I've only seen online (like "Hiss Art" and "Mother Night").
I'll be ready to take custom orders for look-alike dolls and voodoo dolls. It will be an excellent opportunity to see what the dolls are like in person and ask questions.
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If you don't qualify for health insurance/medicare, etc you may qualify for free insulin and even most medications by simply applying for patient assistance from the manufacturer. I looked all this up the other day. You can make as much as 300% higher than the average income and still qualify for free medications, if more than that though you can still qualify for a percentage off.
Some of these places offer a mail order service for pills at a much lower cost regardless of income, some of the insulin companies require a w-4 as proof of low income and then deliver the insulin to your doctor for you for free.
Personally the only thing I saw that helped me was the cholesterol pill (Simvastatin) I've been paying $45 a month for i can now get 3 months worth for $40 from the manufacturer. And Pfizer is letting me get one prescription (Chantix) about $10 cheaper a month.
If there are medications you take that you can't find, let me know, perhaps I can help u find them.
This is a good discussion with great information concerning websites to go to for information.
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Facebook unveiled its new app on Monday that lets you manage your branded Facebook page from your iPhone.
The app will come in handy for those who manage several Pages or don't want to have the Facebook app (logged in to a personal account) installed on a work device. If you're the manager of a Page, be it for yourself or work, you can begin by downloading the app for free.
Using the Facebook Pages Manager app you can respond, post and comment on your page, plus post updates and photos. Last week, the app rolled out to markets around the globe for beta testing, reported Mobile Burn, and now all U.S. users can download it from the App Store. The new app requires iOS 4.2 or later.
It seems that Facebook is a big fan of apps. In March, the company announced it will launch its own app store that will enable paid Facebook apps — for both iOS and Android devices.


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Q: jQuery not working on PhoneGap I have been coding with jQuery, JavaScript, Ajax and PHP, and when I want to create my app using PhoneGap, jQuery nor CSS scripts are not working. Some idea?
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="../css/template01.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../css/own.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../css/jquery.mobile.icons.min.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../jqm/jquery.mobile.structure-1.4.5.min.css" />

<script src="../jqm/jquery-2.2.4.min.js"></script>
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A: Problem with jQuery version.Use only following CDN :
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<link href="https://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.4.5/jquery.mobile-1.4.5.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>

A: I happen to be building an app in phonegap as we speak and jQuery works perfectly fine for me. If you copy your phonegap structure to any folder as if it's any other HTML website, it should work fine. (This is also how I build any html to a Phonegap project)
Doing this should make it clear to you where the issue is. I am going to guess it's something to do with your way of including. Are you entirely sure the href and src attributes are filled in correctly?
Your index.html should be in the very root of your project with phonegap. Can you give us more insight into your map structure?
For me, in my project, it looks like this:
<script src="assets/plugins/jquery/jquery-2.2.3.min.js"></script>
<script src="assets/plugins/abtags/ab.tags.js"></script>
<script src="assets/js/init.js"></script>
<script src="assets/js/marketplace.js"></script>
<script src="assets/js/stores.js"></script>
<script src="assets/js/catalog.js"></script>
<script src="assets/js/tracking.js"></script>
<script src="assets/js/main.js"></script>
<script>init();</script>

And this works perfectly fine. Considering that index.html has to be in the root directory of your project, I cannot imagine you needing ../ in your directories, since it would go back one level too deep.
Edit: Also not entirely unimportant: Are you using Phonegap Build, or CLI?
If you are using the CLI, note that there's a special place for css files and js files.

While Cordova allows you to easily deploy an app for many different platforms, sometimes you need to add customizations. In that case, you don't want to modify the source files in various www directories within the top-level platforms directory, because they're regularly replaced with the top-level www directory's cross-platform source.

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Put your css file in www/css/index.css.
link it like this: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/overrides.css" />
Source here: https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/latest/guide/cli/ (search for using merges to customize each platform)

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Working meeting with Acting Governor of Kirov Region Igor Vasilyev
The Acting Governor of the Kirov Region briefed the President on the socioeconomic situation in the region.
The discussion also focused on appeals made to the head of state by Kirov Region residents during Direct Line with Vladimir Putin.
President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Mr Vasilyev, you have been working for a year already, haven't you?
Acting Governor of Kirov Region Igor Vasilyev: It was a year last week, on July 29.
Vladimir Putin: During this time, you could have familiarised yourself with the unresolved issues and with the potential of the Kirov Region. How do you assess the situation?
Igor Vasilyev: Mr President, if you allow me, I would like to briefly report on the state of affairs and the prospects that we have.
Let us start with the situation in various sectors.
Over the past year, the industrial production index grew three percent to 103.3 percent, which is a bit higher that the overall figure for Russia. Agriculture – 103.9 percent. Investment in wood processing grew substantially as well as in production of medicines and other remedies. Housing commissioning rates dropped a bit, there is an explanation for this, I will tell you everything today.
If you would allow me, briefly, specifically, by industry. The state debt structure here, unfortunately, is close to a hundred percent. We set the goal not to increase, but to gradually decrease state debt. We have a corresponding agreement with the Finance Ministry. We are working to swap commercial loans with budgetary. This year, I hope, we will manage to replace 1.5 billion, we have an appropriate agreement with the Finance Ministry. We are constantly working with commercial banks to decrease interest rates, only last year this effort allowed us to save 70 million roubles through the decrease of interest rates.
Of course, we are actively working on increasing our own budget inflows. This year we managed to achieve a growth of two billion mostly thanks to profit tax. This has been the result of work with specific taxpayers. This is, first and foremost, due to greater tax discipline.
There is a law on bankruptcy, less than one percent of enterprises finish bankruptcy procedures with a financial recovery and can return to operations in their previous area. And in the first half of 2017 we managed to commission two such enterprises.
In Chepetsk, which is a mono-city, production of chipboard, more than 250 jobs. This enterprise, which had been bankrupt for six years, is now solvent, actively operating, and pays its profit tax, among other things.
And the unique enterprise, Kirovsky Mashzavod l Maya, which produced cranes for railways – large-load, huge cranes. We managed to pull it out of bankruptcy and create more than 800 jobs.
In the timber industry, we started actively holding open auctions where a person, without any official involvement, can use our newly created and unique information system electronically, and, with a maximum of three clicks, register oneself both as a potential buyer, participate in bidding, and, without going anywhere, pay for the lumber, and formalise relations with the state.
Vladimir Putin: This is what you told me: investment projects in this sphere dealing with the use of this system.
Igor Vasilyev: Yes, you know, there used to be a practice, when priority investment projects were arranged according to this principle: first timber, then the jobs and establishment of new production…
Vladimir Putin: In other words, forest rights were granted under the promise of further investments.
Igor Vasilyev: Absolutely correct. And, as usual, there were individuals without scruples. Some time later, it turned out that there was no forest…
Vladimir Putin: And no investments.
Igor Vasilyev: Yes. This is why we are changing the situation: first production, timber and participation in open auctions. This yields results – investment in the forest industry has grown fourfold.
The industry. Work is underway under a diversification plan, in accordance with your instructions, to increase the share of industrial enterprises' operations, apart from the state armament orders, to 50 percent. In Kirov Region, we created a council of chief engineers, an engineering center with the participation of our backbone, Vyatka State University. This has borne fruit. We have recently signed an agreement with the Bauman Moscow State Technical University.
There are problems. The Molot factory fell under the sanctions of the United States of America. The factory, incidentally, was selling shooting and hunting rifles to the United States. I think that now we will work together with our defence and law enforcement agencies in hope of adding to this plant's load with orders from inside the country.
The industrial cluster. This year we will complete the formation of a biotechnological cluster in accordance with all the laws of the Russian Federation. There are several large enterprises that are involved in the production of vaccines and vitally important remedies. And this year we are launching production of disposable syringes in the settlement Vostochny. A big, serious enterprise will strengthen the import substitution drive.
Now over to agriculture. The number of cattle is growing; we rate first in the Volga Federal District in terms of milk yield per cow.
Vladimir Putin: How much is this?
Igor Vasilyev: This is almost seven thousand litres of milk.
Vladimir Putin: You can still have it increased.
Igor Vasilyev: Yes, we can. We have a goal of achieving one million tonnes per year. This will provide us with an opportunity to hold serious talks with the processer.
And the environment. This year is the Year of the Environment. We developed a system of environmental control, which enables each concerned citizen to see landfills, wildfires, or any unauthorised waste and inform both the municipal authorities and the Government about this. You know, this absolutely works. Enterprises are joining in as well. We have signed seven agreements on participation in the invigoration of the ecological situation.
In the construction industry, we have a major issue. Almost 40,000 square metres of housing have been found to be dilapidated and were not included in the programme by 2012. I think here we need to find the reasons for this. We will reveal them, we will be working hard to do so.
Vladimir Putin: Do you mean they were simply not taken into account?
Igor Vasilyev: They were not. Some mistakes were made by officials, maybe with some direct intent.
Vladimir Putin: In other words, they were to be included in line with the decisions taken, but they were not.
Igor Vasilyev: Absolutely correct. We have discovered them now, as of 2017 we will be including them in the programme Thank God, thanks to you as well, the programme has been extended for one year. We are actively working with the housing and utilities fund and hope to reach a mutual understanding.
Only around twenty percent of the roads in Kirov Region correspond to acceptable standards. This year, thank you very much, Kirov managed to become one of the cities with a population of a million people, although there are only 500,000 people living in it. Under the Safe and High-Quality Roads programme, we received an additional 1.2 billion of funding for our road fund and we can now do 100 kilometres of roads in Kirov. We are actively engaging in a programme with the Transport Ministry, actively engaging in a programme with the Federal Road Agency, and have a goal of increasing the share of roads that correspond to acceptable standards to 51 percent by 2018.
In housing and utilities rates, we introduced an information system, we had 500 different rates – 500, I am not joking. The difference in rates for a single type of fuel –1500%. We are systematising it now.
Vladimir Putin: For different districts?
Igor Vasilyev: For each district of the region, and for different types of fuel. Of course, the fact that we have the lowest rate of gasification, only 40 percent, is the cause of this and we need to work on this. However, I think that this year, with the use of these information systems, we will be able to decrease rates by 10 percent for the population.
As for demographics and healthcare, today we had a chance to talk at an outpatient clinic. We are actively engaging in a project aimed at creating 'lean clinics'. More than ten were brought into absolute order. Each time, when heading out to the district – we now do this with almost all the members of government in attendance – we pay special attention to healthcare facilities.
As concerns education. We are bringing 29 schools to the regional level in order to grant them additional financing. This year, despite our clearly small budget, we found funds and, almost 300 percent more, roughly 60 million, were allocated toward the preparation of educational establishments.
(Then Igor Vasilyev briefly dwelled on the issue of kindergartens, which has yet to be resolved in Kirov Region.)
As for wages, we are on schedule. There are issues that we inherited.
Mr President, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that on each page of the presentation, in the left-hand corner, there is an inscription "Kirov Region Information System". We are arranging the management of the region using principles of project management. I believe that soon we will finish this work and will be able to work in the open space of digital data.
Vladimir Putin: Fine.
You mentioned environmental issues. What I would like to draw your attention to, according to the data, which came from people during the Direct Line, in some places illegal pits are being dug, as people believe. There is a suspicion that these pits will be used as landfills for solid domestic waste, right in front of residential houses. All of it is here. I request you to pay attention to this.
Now, for those on the waiting list for housing – workers and pensioners of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. This is something we need to examine.
Today, you and I were in a good medical centre, but there are issues with the health industry. I will not go into detail; you can take a look later.
As for gasification, you have just mentioned. People rightfully ask: "We supply large volumes of gas, oil abroad, what about gasification right here?" You know that gasification is developing, but here is what I would like to draw your attention to. Gazprom finishes the pipe, but bringing it up to the consumer – this is the region's job. This is why I ask you to look into this. Funds must be allocated in time to bring gas to the final consumer, to create a distribution network. What we have now is a situation where Gazprom has built the pipe, but the people still do not have any gas.
Igor Vasilyev: We are adjusting the programme. We are expecting a visit by Mr Miller shortly and these questions will be at the top of our agenda.
Vladimir Putin: Well, Mr Miller will lay the pipe. You need to plan funds to get it to the final consumer.
Igor Vasilyev: Yes, Mr President.
Vladimir Putin: Over a year, of course, one cannot do very much. But overall, I believe, you are on the right track. I would like to wish you success.
Igor Vasilyev: Thank you!


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Developing Dialogue
Browse Texts
Browse Manuscripts
Oliverius (15th-c.)
Like two other manuscripts that contain the 'Legiloque' version of the Dyalogue du pere et du filz, Vatican BAV Reg.lat. 1668 was once in the library of a Celestine monastery (a branch of the Benedictines). A 16th-c. note on f. 82v reads, 'Aux Celestins de Marcoussis' ('To the Celestines of Marcoussis'). The Celestine house at Marcoussis, 17 miles south of Paris, was dedicated in 1408, some years after this manuscript was made. So where was it before?
Drawing of the Marcoussis convent by Louis Boudan (1704), EST VA-91 (4) (Source: gallica.bnf.fr / BnF)
Another inscription on f. 82v, this one from the 15th c., provides some tantalizing clues. A note at the base of the folio has been erased, but with the help of a UV lamp I transcribe it as follows: 'Hunc librum tradidit in custodia quidam homo armoricus (?) natione britannicus vocatus Oliverius […]' ('A certain Armorican (?) man, of Breton nationality, by the name of Oliverius […] delivered this book into [our] custody').
Unfortunately, the word following 'Oliverius' is covered by the stamp of the Vatican Library and remains illegible even under UV. The most I can say is that it doesn't look as though any of the letters have lengthy ascenders or descenders.
Oliver the Breton's identity remains a mystery, then. But the presence of his name does at least tell us something. Before reaching the Celestines, Vatican BAV Reg.lat. 1668 was almost certainly in the hands of an individual rather than an institution.
The Sanguin family (15th-c.)
At least seven surviving manuscripts of the Dyalogue du pere et du filz have an Italian connection. Two of these were made in northern France and later travelled to Italy (by the 16th c. for Florence BR 2756; in the 17th c. for Vatican BAV Reg.lat. 1668). A third (Paris BnF fr. 12581) was made in France and annotated by an Italian (even if the volume itself may never have reached Italy). And a further three manuscripts were produced in Italy and later taken to what is now France (in the 15th c. for Paris BnF fr. 726; by the 18th c. for Lyon BDL Mss&R 43 and Paris AN AB/XIX/1730 Haute-Garonne 14).
Italian note on f. 177v of Paris BnF fr. 12581 (Source: gallica.bnf.fr / BnF). The note reads, 'Io amo mellio huomo chabia difalta di denari che denari che abbiano difalta duomo' ('I prefer a man who lacks money than money that lacks a man').
French was an international language of learning in the later Middle Ages, so it's hardly surprising the Dyalogue circulated in Italy. But these volumes also remind us that French manuscripts continued to cross the Alps long after the medieval period.
Paris BSG 1654 is unique among this corpus in that it seems to have made two transalpine journeys. This extensively illustrated volume was made in Paris in the 1320s. Its contents – didactic and devotional material including the abridged Bible en françois, but also treatises on the crusades – suggest that whoever commissioned it had access to hot-off-the-press translations made for Charles IV's court (Rouse & Rouse 2013). But at an early date it was in Genoa, where material was added at the beginning and end of the volume.
By the end of the 17th c., however, Paris BSG 1654 was back in France, and more specifically in the library of Senlis Cathedral. The back paste-down provides clues concerning this second international voyage. There we find the names of several members of Franco-Italian banking family the Sanguins. Guillaume Sanguin had moved from Italy to Paris before the end of the 14th c., and two of the names are those of his son and grandson. As for how the volume arrived in Senlis, in the 17th c. two members of the Sanguin family were bishops of that very city (Rouse & Rouse 2013). The Sanguins must have had something to do with it.
Rouse, Richard, and Mary Rouse (2013). Bound Fast with Letters: Medieval Readers, Writers, and Texts (Notre Dame: U Notre Dame P)
Jehane de Mailly, abbess of Berteaucourt (after 1406)
Munich BSB gall. 60 is a multi-part volume, predominantly made up of didactic and devotional works that were crudely copied on paper in the early 15th century. It almost certainly arrived at the BSB from Polling Abbey (Upper Bavaria), which was dissolved in the 19th century. In the 16th century the manuscript belonged to the Celestine monks of Sainte-Croix-sous-Offémont in the Compiègne forest (there's an ownership mark on f. 74r). But at least bits of it seem to have come from a little further north…
Seal of the first Jehane de Mailly (Source: Ledru 1893, 118)
At the base of f. 16v is a note in a 15th-century hand that I transcribe as follows: 'Je Jehane de Mailly, hunble abbesse de Bertaucourt, connoissons a avoir eu et recheu de noble home et sage Robert de Vitry le somme de chent sous et .vi. livres parisis' ('I Jehane de Mailly, humble abbess of Berteaucourt, acknowledge acceptance and receipt from the noble and wise Robert de Vitry of the sum of 100 sous and 6 livres parisis').
A Jehane de Mailly, abbess of the Benedictine abbey of Berteaucourt (in the Somme), is mentioned in documents from 1389 to 1445 (Ledru 1893, 118). She almost certainly wasn't extraordinarily long-lived; it appears that one Jehane de Mailly was succeeded by another, not that surprising given abbesses were typically from local noble families and Jehane was hardly an unusual name.
A note by one of the Jehanes doesn't, of course, mean either of them owned this part of the manuscript. In fact, the rest of f. 16v is given over to correspondence dated 1406 of a certain Jehan de Courchelles, chaplain of Frohen (just down the road from Berteaucourt). Was he the owner? And what was his relationship to Jehane?
There's no evidence that the Dyalogue section of the manuscript was ever in the hands of Jehan de Courchelles, but it, too, probably came from Picardy. The language has a strong north-eastern colouring, beginning, for example, 'Chest livres est appelés Li Dyalogues pour che que il est fais et ordenez des paroles de deus, ch'est du pere qui sen fil enseignoit et du fil qui au pere demande che qu'i ne set'. Note the use of ch (e.g. chest, for modern French c'est) and sen (for modern French son).
Ledru, Ambroise (1893). Histoire de la maison de Mailly, t. 1 (Paris: Lechevalier)
Sanson, Jacques (1646). L'histoire ecclésiastique de la ville d'Abbeville et de l'archidiaconé de Pontieu au diocèse d'Amiens (Paris: Pélican)
Jehan Aigneaul's brother (fl. 1510)
A curious inscription on f. 1v of Paris BnF fr. 1136 reads as follows: 'Celui qui a composé quel livre est sorti de la maison et race des Aigneaux de la ville de Dizon, dont son frere estoit mayre et viconte de la ville de Dizon, l'an de grace mil [cinc] cent dix, bien assurement' ('The man who composed (?) the which book was born into the house and lineage of the Aigneaul family of the city of Dijon, his brother having been mayor and viscount of the city of Dijon, in the year of our lord 1[5]10, without a doubt').
Inscription by brother of Jehan Aigneaul, Paris BnF fr. 1136 f. 1v (Source: gallica.bnf.fr / BnF)
The man who penned this note may not have had any doubts, but he leaves us with plenty. He wrote the date 1110, but surely he missed out a five. Did he really mean 'composed' in the sense of 'authored', the most obvious meaning at the time when the verb composer is paired with livre? Surely this would have been a blatant lie, given this book was over 150 years old at the time. Or might he have been a binder who 'put it (back) together'?
At least we know a bit more about brother Jehan. Jehan was a dyer, like his father Pierre. He was elected mayor of Dijon eleven times between 1493 and 1504. Some years earlier, in 1473, he was involved in a kerfuffle during his watch duty. He accosted a butcher breaking curfew, only to be attacked by Estienne, the offender's neighbour, who shouted, 'Jehan Aigneaul, Jehan Mouton, Jehan Berbis. Fault il que nous soyons gouvernez par un tel tainturier?' ('Jehan Aigneaul [Lamb], Jehan Sheep, Jehan Ewe. Do we have to be ruled by a dyer like you?') Yes, Estienne, you do. For eleven years…
Becchia, Cécile (2013). 'Filius cum patre. Parenté, alliance et transmission de la charge de vicomte-mayeur à Dijon au XVe siècle', Le Moyen Age 119, 339-74
Voisin, André (1937). 'Notes sur la vie urbaine au XVe siècle. Dijon la nuit', Annales de Bourgogne 9, 265-79
Charlotte de Savoie (c. 1442-1483)
Not exactly a looker, but 'an excellent princess in other respects'. Such was the view of Charlotte, at any rate, expressed by diplomat and chronicler Philippe de Commines (Scoble 1856, I.80). Born in about 1442, Charlotte married the future king Louis XI in 1451, becoming queen of France in 1461. By 'excellent princess', presumably Philippe meant she didn't cause too much trouble. Her life at the château of Amboise was a quiet one, 'une existence pieuse vraisemblablement occupée surtout à la lecture d'œuvres de piété et d'édification morale, reflétant un penchant marqué pour la dévotion et la méditation' (Legaré 2016).
Charlotte de Savoie (detail from Adoration of the Shepherds, c. 1472)
Charlotte's personal library was certainly impressive. The inventory drawn up after her death lists more than 100 books, most of them religious in nature. Among them is a 'Legigolle', that is, a Legiloque, made of paper. This no doubt corresponds to Chantilly BdC 138, copied by Estienne Fauvre in October 1476, according to a colophon on f. 113v. The watermark on f. 116 points towards Bourges as place of production (where Charlotte sourced a number of her books), and a fair few volumes once in Charlotte's possession are now in Chantilly, having been passed on to Charlotte's daughter Anne de Bourbon and eventually acquired by the duc de Condé (Legaré 2001, 44; Rouse & Rouse 2010, 122).
Chantilly BdC 138 preserves eight of the 14 works (Dyalogue included) that make up the earlier Legiloque anthologies Chantilly BdC 137, Paris BnF fr. 1136 and Paris BnF NAF 4338, probably made for friends or family of Marie de Bretagne, countess of Saint-Pol (Rouse & Rouse 2010). Is it possible to identify which one (if any) was the source for Chantilly BdC 138?
All three of the Legiloque volumes were meticulously produced, but errors inevitably crept into the copying process. If Chantilly BdC 138 was copied directly or indirectly from any of them, we'd expect at least some of those errors to have been reproduced. In the case of the Dyalogue text, there are plenty of errors that occur in Chantilly BdC 137 but nowhere else (including the omission of the beginning of Q.31). There are also a fair few errors unique to Paris BnF NAF 4338 (such as the non-sensical 'sainte Eglise de res', for 'nostre mere' in Q.21). But there are barely any errors unique to Paris BnF fr. 1136. Of these one could have been easily corrected (omission of 'na' in 'ne Diex n'est cors, ne n'a semblance de cors', translating a Latin quotation in Q.7). And the other would probably have been guessable given the context (omission of 'endormis' in 'que tu ne soies endormis', Q.4). Without errors common to Chantilly BdC 137 and Paris BnF fr. 1136 that aren't present in the other two manuscripts we can't be sure, but Paris BnF fr. 1136 is the only surviving Legiloque volume that could be the source for Charlotte's book.
Legaré, Anne-Marie (2001). 'Charlotte de Savoie's Library and Illuminators', Journal of the Early Book Society 4, 32-67
Legaré, Anne-Marie (2016). 'Le mécénat artistique de Charlotte de Savoie à Bourges (1470-1483): L'exemple de ses livres à caractère religieux', in Murielle Gaude-Ferragu & Cécile Vincent-Cassy (eds), «La dame de cœur»: Patronage et mécénat religieux des femmes de pouvoir dans l'Europe des XIVe-XVIIesiècles (Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes), pp. 109-21
Rouse, Mary & Rouse, Richard (2010). 'French Literature and the Counts of Saint-Pol ca. 1178-1377', Viator 41, 101-40
Scoble, A.R., ed. (1855-56). The Memoirs of Philip de Commines, 2 vols (London)
A lord of Corsant? (16th-c.)
Florence BR 2756, which preserves the Lucidaire, the Dyalogue and the Terre de promission, has tended to be dated to c. 1300 in scholarship (e.g. Giannini 2006, 121). Establishing where it was made, however, has proven trickier: Nixon, for example, suggests the decoration is indicative 'of a southern or Italian provenance' (1993, 59); Giannini, on the other hand, points to the north-east of the oïl zone on the basis of the hand and scripta, noting that the decoration bears all the hallmarks of French work (2006, 123).
Medieval parrots in Paris BnF fr. 19093, f. 26r (at the back of the Florence manuscript is an extract of the 'Novas del papagay'). Source: gallica.bnf.fr / BnF.
At the back of Florence BR 2756 are two folios (ff. 71-72) on which sonnets in a Florentine dialect and Italianized extracts from Arnaut de Carcasses's (Occitan) Novas del papagay and Chrétien's (French) Cligès were copied. We know that this material was bound with the rest of the manuscript by the 16th c. because someone wrote phrases (mottoes?) in French and Italian on fol. 71 and elsewhere in the volume that include the word 'Coursant'/'Corsante'. This is no doubt a reference to Corsant (near Mâcon), and suggests the manuscript may have been in the hands of a member of the Andrevet family, who held the lordship of Corsant in the 16th c. The Andrevets had several ties with the court of Savoy. Philibert Andrevet III, for example, who married in 1507, was lord of Corsant and 'Conseiller & Chambellan' to Charles, duke of Savoy (Aubert de La Chesnaye Des Bois 1863, 1: 495).
Did Florence BR 2756 arrive in Italy with the Corsant family? Possibly, but there might be an even earlier Italian connection. If we distinguish between the large decorated initials that open the three principal works of the volume (no doubt French) and the smaller plain initials that were added a lot less carefully (and indeed often erroneously), we might note that the latter resemble unflourished initials added to manuscripts in northern Italy (see for example Paris BnF fr. 9685 and NAF 9603). If this manuscript was almost certainly in Italy by the 16th c., there's also a possibility it arrived even earlier…
Aubert de La Chesnaye Des Bois, François-Alexandre (1863-). Dictionnaire de la noblesse, contenant les généalogies, l'histoire et la chronologie…, 19 vols (Paris: Schlesinger)
Giannini, Gabriele (2006). 'Il romanzo francese in versi dei secoli XII e XIII in Italia: Il Cligès riccardiano', in Maria Colombo et al. (eds), Modi e forme della fruizione della 'materia arturiana' nell'Italia dei sec. XIII-XIV (Milan: Istituto lombardo di scienze e lettere), pp. 119-58
Nixon, Terry (1993). 'Catalogue of Manuscripts', in Keith Busby et al. (eds), Les manuscrits de Chrétien de Troyes / The Manuscripts of Chrétien de Troyes, 2 vols (Amsterdam: Rodopi), 2: 18-85
Johannes de Monte (14th c.)
Cambrai BM 256 (246), made perhaps in the early 14th c., opens with the abridged version of the Bible en françois attributed to Roger d'Argenteuil, with the rest of the volume made up of sermons. We know that before the Revolution it was in the possession of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Sépulcre in Cambrai – a note at the top of fol. 1r says as much. But it wasn't originally made for the monks.
Part of map of Cambrai in 1710, with the Church of Saint-Georges at the centre.
One medieval owner was rather insistent that this book belonged to him. On the front paste-down, he wrote: 'Iste liber pertinet iohanni demonte' (This book belongs to Johannes de Monte). On f. 42v he gave a bit more information: 'Iste liber pertinet Iohanni demon (?) si quis inueniet pro amore dei sibi reddet ad sanctum georgium' (This book belongs to Johannes de Monte. If anyone finds it, by God's grace may it be returned to Saint-Georges). A similar note, minus the mention of Saint-Georges can be found in the margins of f. 45r.
It seems plausible that 'Saint-Georges' refers to the medieval parish of that name in Cambrai itself. Cambrai had a St George connection from as early as the early 6th c., when Clovis, founder of the Merovingians, established a monastery nearby dedicated to the saint. But it wasn't until the 11th c. that Cambrai's church of St George was built (Leduc 2001). Though the building no longer exists, the long Rue de Saint-Georges leads us to where it once stood.
I haven't found any trace of Johannes de Monte (of Mons?). Might he have been the parish priest of Saint-Georges? His choice of sermons and the Bible en françois as reading material would certainly seem appropriate if so. He was, at any rate, very attached to his book!
Leduc, Christophe (2001). 'Géographie paroissiale en milieu urbain: L'exemple cambrésien à l'époque moderne', Revue du Nord 340.2, 359-79
Isabeau of Bavaria (c. 1370-1435)
Christine de Pisan presenting her book to Isabeau of Bavaria. London BL Harley 4431, f. 3r (detail). (Source: bl.uk)
History hasn't been especially kind to Isabeau, the daughter of a Bavarian duke who became Queen of France in 1385 when she married Charles VI. As Tracy Adams notes, modern scholars' descriptions of Isabeau have all too often been along the lines of 'scheming, promiscuous, greedy, neglectful of her children, hungry for power, lacking in intelligence', all on the basis of little or no evidence (2010, 222).
At the very least, Isabeau's reputation sits a little uncomfortably with what we know about her literary tastes. Thirty-three books are mentioned in her surviving accounts, the majority of them containing devotional works in French or Latin (Bell 1982). Her library was evidently important to her: she appointed one of her court ladies, Catherine de Villiers, to look after it, and even had special trunks made so her collection could accompany her on her travels (ibid.).
One of the books owned by Isabeau was a copy of the 'Legiloque', a compendium of 19 devotional works that included a revised version of the Dyalogue du pere et du filz. Isabeau inherited her copy from Blanche d'Évreux (1330-1398), who was dowager queen of France for several decades after the death in 1350 of her husband, king Philip VI (Rouse & Rouse 2010, 128).
There are three surviving copies of the 'Legiloque' (Chantilly BdC 137, Paris BnF fr. 1136, Paris BnF NAF 4338), all sumptuously illustrated by the artist Mahiet, who worked in Paris between the mid-1320s and the 1340s. As Mary and Richard Rouse have shown (2010), the 'Legiloque' was compiled for Marie of Brittany, Countess of Saint-Pol (1268-1339). But it is not known which of the extant copies (if any) Marie herself owned. Nor do we know which one was owned by Isabeau, or indeed if hers was a completely different copy that has since been lost.
As the Rouses note (2010), eight of the works that make up the 'Legiloque' also survive in a 15th-century volume (Chantilly BdC 138). What hasn't yet been noted in scholarship, however, is that the particular recension of the Dyalogue that we find in the 'Legiloque' is also preserved in four other manuscripts of the late 14th or 15th centuries, three of which (Avignon BM 344, Munich BSB gall. 60 and Vatican Reg. Lat. 1668) belonged to Celestine monasteries at one time or another.
Which of the surviving 'Legiloque' manuscripts (if any) was the source for the later copies? Well, this might not actually be the right question, because there's some reason to believe that the later copies of the Dyalogue actually preserve a text that is closer to the first recension. Consider, for example, the beginning of Q.1: 'Anciennement n'estoit nuls baptizés devant qu'il eüst aage' in Paris Arsenal 2059; 'Et pour ce, biaus filz, tu dois savoir qu'au commencement de la foy crestienne nul n'estoit baptiziez devant qu'il eüst aage' in Avignon BM 344, Munich BSB gall. 60 and Vatican Reg. Lat. 1668; and 'Biaus fiex, anchienement nus n'estoit baptisiés devant qu'il eüst aage' in the later copies of the 'Legiloque' version. It seems likely that the major restructuring of the Dyalogue on the basis of the seven sacraments took place before it was included in the 'Legiloque'…
Adams, Tracy (2010). The Life and Afterlife of Isabeau of Bavaria (Baltimore: John Hopkins UP).
Bell, Susan Groag (1982). 'Medieval Women Book Owners: Arbiters of Lay Piety and Ambassadors of Culture', Signs 7, 742-68.
Gibbons, Rachel (1996). 'The Piety of Isabeau of Bavaria, Queen of France, 1385-1422', in Courts, Counties and the Capital in the Later Middle Ages, ed. Diana Dunn (Stroud: Sutton), pp. 205-24.
Rouse, Mary & Rouse, Richard (2010). 'French Literature and the Counts of Saint-Pol ca. 1178-1377', Viator 41, 101-40.
In a manner of speaking…
The Manieres de langage are the earliest surviving model conversations for English learners of French. They were compiled in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, when French was no longer a mother tongue in England but remained an important language to master if you wished to pursue a career in law, business or administration.
Much like the medieval manuscripts that preserve the Manieres, this anthology comprises a selection of model conversations taken from various sources. Like at least two medieval compilers of these texts (see Cambridge University Library, MS Ii.6.17, and Lincolnshire Archives, Formulary 23), we have added English translations to the French text. Our renderings are a collective effort, the product of fortnightly sessions of the Oxford Anglo-Norman Reading Group in Michaelmas Term 2017. Individuals have taken the lead on each model conversation, however, and have contributed their own translation styles.
Thanks go to Oxford University's Medieval Studies Programme for sponsoring the reading group, to the Leverhulme Trust for enabling us to hold a workshop entitled 'In Dialogue with the Manieres' in November 2017, and to the Anglo-Norman Text Society for allowing us to reprint the French text of Andres Kristol's edition (Manières de langage (1396, 1399, 1415), London: ANTS, 1995).
Oxford was a particularly important centre for the teaching and learning of French in the later Middle Ages, and seems to have played a key role in the dissemination of the Manieres. Reading these little texts more than 600 years after they were first compiled – sitting a stone's throw from the former site of the Molyn-sur-le-hope inn (see p. 15) – we students of French have found that they still have the capacity to instruct and entertain. We hope that our translations will be of interest and use to those in Oxford and elsewhere.
Pietro Sacco da Verona (c. 1379-1432)
Paris BnF fr. 726 is a large, late-13th-century volume made up of a biography of Julius Caesar (Li Fet des Romains), Brunetto Latini's encyclopaedic Tresor, and a copy of the Dyalogue du pere et du filz – all copied in a rather small script. Its contents may be in French, but this is an Italian production. In fact, it was one of numerous manuscripts produced by Pisan prisoners who were set to work by the Genoese in the wake of the Battle of Meloria of 1284.
Paris BnF fr. 726, ff. 2r, 5r, 6r, 8r (details) (Source: gallica.bnf.fr / BnF)
We don't know who the original owners of Paris BnF fr. 726 were. In the early 15th century, however, the volume fell into the hands of Pietro Sacco da Verona, who (helpfully for us) wrote his name across the bottom corners of ff. 2r, 5r, 6r and 8r. The date '22. aug. 1420′ on f. 199v may also be in his hand. Pietro had left Verona to study in Paris as early as 1392, and by the end of the century he seems to have become heavily involved in the book trade there. Buying and selling books could be a risky enterprise, though. Pietro's clients included Louis, Duke of Orléans, and some rather prestigious English bibliophiles (King Richard II included). This eventually proved a problem in Burgundian-ruled Paris. In 1415 he was brought before magistrates on espionnage charges (he was let off).
We don't know for sure how Paris BnF fr. 726 reached Paris, but given that Pietro had dealings in northern Italy throughout his later life, it's at least plausible he himself was responsible.
Avril, François, & Marie-Thérèse Gousset (1984). Manuscrits enluminés d'origine italienne. Vol. 2: XIIIe siècle (Paris: BnF)
Meiss, Millard (1967). French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Late Fourteenth Century and the Patronage of the Duke (London: Phaidon)
Rouse, Richard, & Mary Rouse (2000). Manuscripts and Their Makers: Commercial Book Producers in Medieval Paris 1200-1500 (Turnhout: Harvey Miller)
Joannes, abba(s) canon(icorum) (?) (15th c.?)
Lyon BDL 43 is a volume of pious material in French, including extracts from the Gospels and a copy of the Dyalogue du pere et du filz. A note at the base of the opening folio tells us it entered the library of the prestigious Collège de Tournon in 1728. At the time, the Jesuits who ran the Collège were acquiring books from far and wide as most of their collection had been destroyed by a fire in 1714.
Entrance to the Lycée Gabriel Faure (formerly the Collège de Tournon)
But where was the manuscript before arriving in Tournon? There is little doubt it was produced in Italy, probably in the 14th century. The script is an Italian rotunda, with the limb of 'h' resting on the baseline, 'u' instead of 'v' at the beginning of words, and uncrossed tironian et signs. And it's not difficult to spot Italianisms such as che (for que), per (for pour), maniera, spaventer, or çustice. The text of the Dyalogue in this manuscript is also closely related to Paris BnF fr. 726, which is thought to have been produced in Genoa at the end of the 13th century.
The opening folio of Lyon BDL 43 also provides another clue, in the form of a name that appears to read 'Joannis abba cano.'. Was this John perhaps abbot of a congregation of canons regular? His name also appears in a note in the margin of f. 89v, which reads 'Joannes | abbalatra'. The text of the Dyalogue at this point compares priests to dogs who guard the Church (Q.37), so perhaps John is affirming his barking credentials ('latra' is Italian for 'bark').
Noise wasn't always appreciated by medieval annotators, however. On f. 98v of Avignon BM 344, for example, someone has written 'frere Guilliaume' beside mention of the importance of holding one's tongue ('garder la langue').
Berthault de Villebresme (late 15th c.)
Paris BnF fr. 1546 is a large volume of pious texts in French (including the 'abridged' Bible en françois). The bulk of it was produced towards the end of the 13th century, but someone must have thought there was scope to make the tome even more pious since a Life of St Julian the Hospitaller was added in the early 14th century.
Paris BnF fr. 1546 f. 221v (Source: gallica.bnf.fr / BnF)
At the back of the volume (on f. 221v) we find not one but two late medieval ownership marks. If my transcription is correct, the later one reads: 'Ce liure (?) est a bertault de villebresme demourant abloys' (This book belongs to Berthault de Villebresme, who lives in Blois).
Berthault belonged to an up-and-coming bourgeois family based in Blois in the Loire Valley. A lawyer by profession, he became an advisor and emissary to Charles, Duke of Orléans and, in 1461, provost of Blois. After Charles' death Berthault remained in the service of the duke's third wife, Maria of Cleves.
L'hôtel de Villebresme in Blois, built in the late 15th c.
Berthault seems to have participated enthusiastically in literary activities at the court of Blois. He took part in the so-called 'concours de Blois', and several of his poems have survived to this day. But he is also known as the author of the Geste du Chevalier au Cygne, a prose retelling of earlier chansons de geste about the Swan Knight, legendary ancestor of the crusader hero Godefroy de Bouillon. Berthault dedicated the Geste, which he composed in around 1470, to Maria of Cleves, who herself traced her ancestry back to the Swan Knight.
We don't know how Paris BnF fr. 1546 came into Berthault's hands (we'll save the other ex libris for another time…), but on his frequent trips to Italy on ducal business perhaps it gave him some solace to recall his manuscript with the tale of St Julian, patron of hospitality.
Champion, Pierre, ed. (1911). La Vie de Charles d'Orléans (Paris: Champion)
Emplaincourt, Edmond A., ed. (1989). La Geste du Chevalier au Cygne (Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P)
Workshop: In dialogue with the 'Manieres de langage'
24-25 November 2017 (Jesus College, Oxford)
This workshop will explore how model dialogues were used in language instruction in the late Middle Ages. Our primary focus will be on the Anglo-French Manieres de langage of the late 14th century / early 15th century.
Once cited as evidence that French in England was in its death throes at the turn of the 15th century, the Manieres are today more likely to be viewed as testifying to the continued vitality, at least in some quarters, of late varieties of Insular French. Twenty years since Andres Kristol's edition of the Manieres appeared in the ANTS series, now seems like a suitable time to share current research on these intriguing dialogue texts and to consider directions for future work and collaborations.
Questions we intend to consider include:
Do manuscript contexts have further light to shed on the circulation of these texts and on the pedagogical settings in which they were used?
To what extent do the Manieres enter into dialogue with other French teaching materials with which they are bound in extant manuscripts (e.g. nominalia, Bibbesworth's Tretiz, model letters)?
What do the Manieres tell us about the sociolinguistic status of Insular French(es) in relation to Continental varieties, English and Latin?
To what extent and how do the Manieres attempt to represent everyday speech?
How do the authors of the Manieres exploit comedy as a pedagogical device?
There will be presentations by Geert De Wilde (Aberystwyth University), Emily Reed (University of Sheffield), Huw Grange (University of Oxford), and Rory Critten (Université de Lausanne). The full programme is available here.
All are welcome to attend, but for catering purposes particpants are asked to register their interest by emailing huw.grange@jesus.ox.ac.uk by noon on 16 November 2017.
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PASS THE POPCORN // I'M NOT THERE (2007).
″One, never trust a cop in a raincoat. Two, beware of enthusiasm and of love, each is temporary and quick to sway. Three, if asked if you care about the world's problems, look deep into the eyes of he who asks; he will not ask you again. Number four and five, never give your real name… and if ever told to look at yourself, never look. Six, never say or do anything the person standing in front of you cannot understand. And seven, never create anything. It will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life and it will never change″.
PASS THE POPCORN // LOVE AND MERCY (2015).


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Brooks gives Cullitons needed boost
Steve Rice
Mar 04, 2013 • March 4, 2013 • 4 minute read
Mitch Brooks' speed and tenacity drew comparisons with fan favourite Trevor Sauder at the Stratford Cullitons' spring camp nearly a year ago.
Despite an early-season injury and carrying the weight of high expectations, the 17-year-old rookie quietly turned in a respectable 29-point season.
Monday night in the Cullitons' first home game of the 2013 playoffs — a 3-1 win over the Waterloo Siskins — fans may have finally seen the Sauder in Mitch Brooks. And Brooks earned their appreciative cheers.
A stellar forechecking effort on one particular shift in the second period had the Siskins' heads spinning and fans buzzing.
Then late in the third period he had the crowd on their feet after blazing through the Waterloo team and coming within inches of scoring.
The hustle continued through to the final buzzer as he ragged the puck with a Siskins' player on his back to draw the game's final penalty.
"Sauder's out of the lineup so other guys have to pick it up, fill in the energy role for the team and that's what Phil (coach Westman) asked me to do," Brooks said. "But you can't replace a guy like Sauder. He's the heart and soul of our team.
"It's real nice to be compared to him, but I don't think I'm that good."
Westman said Brooks is a player who thrives in the playoffs.
"Mitch is a competitor and the type of player that steps up this time of year," Westman said. "That's why we recruited him from Thamesford. because of that grittiness. It rubs off on everybody else out there, too.
"Brooksy did a really good job of skating. And when I needed a little bit of a push on the penalty-kill I put two 16-year-olds out there and Dylan (Wettlaufer) and Ryker (Killins) did a really good job. They gave us good energy at the right time.
"That was a tough hockey game and everyone competed well and stepped up in their roles."
The Cullitons have managed to take a 2-1 series lead without Sauder, the two-time GOJHL Midwestern Conference defensive player of the year.
Now they'll have to try to win it minus top regular-season goal-getter and leading playoff point man Shane O'Brien.
O'Brien crashed head-first into the boards with 1:30 remaining in the game with the help of Siskins' captain Adam Campagnolo. Some observers thought Campagnolo merely placed his hand on the back of O'Brien while others believe he grabbed the Stratford player's jersey and thrust him into the boards.
Referees gave Campagnolo only a two-minute minor for roughing, but the Cullitons planned to look at the game film last night and would consider sending it to the Ontario Hockey Association to decide if further discipline is warranted.
Regardless of what other punishment may arise, if any, O'Brien was taken to hospital complaining of a sore neck and leg and will miss the remainder of the series, according to Westman.
The Cullitons are also missing Jonathan Langford, who has a concussion following a head-check in Game 2 in Waterloo Sunday that wasn't called, Westman said. Garrett James took Langford's place in the lineup last night.
For the second straight game the Cullitons took a 2-0 lead, capitalizing on blown coverage by the Siskins.
Josh Miller dug the puck out of the corner and made a nice centering pass to O'Brien wide open in front of goalie Darren Huck for the first Stratford goal.
In the final minute of the first period Wettlaufer's shot rebounded right onto the stick of Killins and he hammered it home for a 2-0 Stratford lead.
Jimmy Soper got one back for the Siskins in the second period. But seven minutes into the third, Liam Maaskant hit Jared Culliton with a stretch pass and Culliton drilled it into the back of the net for the insurance marker.
The Cullitons were outshot badly, 45-33, for the second game in a row and gave the Siskins eight powerplays, although holding them scoreless on the man-advantage.
"A lot of their shots came from the powerplay and we have to stay out of the penalty box. It's that simple," Westman said. "We can't win hockey games with that many penalties."
Fortunately for the Cullitons, Nick Caldwell has been outstanding in net, particularly in the last two games where he's stopped 86 of 89 shots.
"The last two games especially Nick's played really well," said Brooks. "We probably shouldn't have to use him as much as we do, but when we need him he's definitely there for us.
"We want to take less penalties, but if you're taking them it means you're in there battling and getting physical."
Siskins' coach Brian O'Leary said his team continues to play without enough urgency.
"I don't know if it was too easy for us to win Game 1 or whatever but we can't get down 2-0 every game and looking to battle back every time," O'Leary said. "We made some errors that we have to correct. Their first goal there's two guys in front of the net and they're both wearing white jerseys. We're missing some assignments and that could be from being a little too nonchalant.
"(But) we have to have some more pushback, too. That's what I'll be looking for."
Game 4 Wednesday night will be "by far the biggest game of the year" for the Cullitons, Westman said as the team looks to take a 3-1 series stranglehold.
NOTES — Arena box office is open Tuesday night 6:30-8 p.m. for tickets to Wednesday's Game 4 ... at the buzzer to end the first period Jake Ryan skated through the Waterloo crease and Huck flopped to the ice in a performance befitting the Festival City. But the Cullitons killed off the penalty to start the second period ... Watson and Currie were also key contributors on the PK ... hard to believe that it's been 11 years since former Cullitons' director and longtime CJCS play-by-play man Bob Smith passed away March 7, 2002.
steve.rice@sunmedia.ca
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2011 was the second year that the Cycling for Gaza (C4G) group worked with Welfare Association (UK), to organise a unique 3-day cycling challenge raising funds for Gaza. The cycle was in Jordan with all cyclists flying into Amman to meet up.
Day 1 / 8th December 2011: Aqaba to Feynan 135km.
Day 2 / 9th December 2011: Feynan to Mujib 127km.
Day 3 / 10th December 2011: Mujib to the Dead Sea 85km.
Total 347km in just 3 days!
A total of 26 cyclists successfully completed the event in Jordan. In early 2012 more than £220,000 was raised for five projects in Gaza supporting over 1900 children with disabilities and with special educational needs.
Emergency food production and distribution supporting marginalised farmers and impoverished families in Gaza.


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Would you believe, this is one of the WIDE country roads!
We're in Compton, Devon, in the southwest of England.
I could look out our windows at this every day!
And Keith lights the Rayburn! And Keith lights the Rayburn!
He did finally get it going, and we had some wonderful food cooked on it!
Sandra's cooking me a REAL English breakfast.
Yummmmm, and check out the presentation!
Keith, what did you call this door - tatty?
And how old is this barn?


This publication is a result of the project "Integration of Society in Estonia: A combined approach for history and public debate". This project aims to intensify the mutual integration of the population of Estonia, especially with regards to the Russian speaking group. The approach of this project runs on two parallel tracks. First to start an organised and guided dialogue between journalists, politicians, academics and teachers about the topic, and second to develop educational material for history and civic education, to train teachers how to use it and to provide it to as many schools and teachers as possible. The outcomes of the dialogue will be implemented in the educational material and the material will be assessed and discussed in the dialogue. The result will be an intensified public discussion and public awareness of the problem of integration and a balanced high quality approach for education which will be actually used in schools.
Local Coordinators: Eero Medijainen, Mare Oja.
Authors: Mart Kand, Eda Maripuu, Sergei Teplov, Vjacheslav Zhiburtovich.
Resourcers: Veera Korelskaja, Tatjana Michelson, Silvia Oispuu, Katri Raik, Reet Salu, Anu Toots.
International experts: Roger Austin, Sue Bennett, Teresa de Seabra.
International Observers: Evaldas Bakonis, Danguole Bylaite, Tatjana Koval.
Dutch Embassy: Mr. Karmo Kroos, Mr. Tanel Matlik, Ms. J.M. van Vliet.


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e.tv Ghana also known as ETV Ghana is a free-to-air terrestrial television network broadcasting 24-hours a day from Accra since its launch in October 2009. As of December 2011 it will also commence terrestrial transmissions in Kumasi. Beyond Accra and Kumasi, it is available via satellite on First Digital TV and SMART TV. It is privately owned TV in Accra.

History
The TV station was born of a partnership between Global Media Alliance (GMA) and Sabido Group, parent company of e.tv, the largest English-medium channel in South Africa. e.tv Ghana operates under Global Media Alliance's broadcasting company (GMABC).

Edward Boateng is the Chairman of the Board of Directors and renowned Ghanaian film and TV personality Jot Agyeman is e.tv Ghana's Station Manager.

Programming
e.tv Ghana's programming falls into six broad categories: entertainment; talkshows; sports; current affairs; drama; and movies. It also broadcasts special major one-off events, children's programming and comedy shows.

e.tv Ghana has historically invested heavily in local talent and programming and supplements its local content with shows imported from South Africa and the United States. About 30-40% of its prime time programming is locally produced. Its local acquisitions are a mix of in-house shows and co-productions with local production companies. Locally produced shows include Awake, The Be Bold Show, 100 Degrees, Meet the Girls, The Late Night Celebrity Show and Sports Lounge. South African shows include the hit-soapies Rhythm City and Scandal! and international imports include How I Met Your Mother and WWE Wrestling.

News
e.tv Ghana has an in-house news production department that focuses on national and business news content for its website and local and international news stories for its television transmissions. The main nightly news programme is called Prime News and is fronted by Gideon Aryeequaye in a 20:00h slot. The main business news programme is fronted by Christal Jeanne and is called eBusiness Journal, airing prior to Prime News at 19:30h.

In addition to regular news updates broadcast during the day, e.tv Ghana also airs a daily news programme from parent station e.tv South Africa at 18:00h, eNCA.

References

External links

Television stations in Ghana
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Television channels and stations established in 2009

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About Dan Markovitz
5 December 2005 by Kevin Meyer
Dan Markovitz is the founder and president of TimeBack Management. As a trainer, he has worked with UBS, Merrill Lynch, American Express, AXA Equitable, RSM McGladrey, Nixon-Peabody, Young & Rubicam, Pfizer, the Veterans Administration Hospital of New York, and Planned Parenthood of New York City, among other clients. He has been quoted in Time.com, written for the Wall Street Journal, Industry Week, and the Journal of Accountancy, and is a regular contributor to the New York Enterprise Report. Prior to founding his own firm, Mr. Markovitz held management positions at Sierra Designs, Adidas, CNET and Asics Tiger. He also has experience as an entrepreneur, having founded his own athletic footwear company.
Mr. Markovitz also draws on prior experience as an educator and athletic coach. As an English teacher, he was nominated for the prestigious Disney Teacher of the Year award, and he continues to coach high school cross-country. He holds a BA from Wesleyan University and an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
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Q: 3-class classification with different costs Consider the following scenario: I have an auto dealership, and I want to decide whether to buy a used car. If it's a good buy, I would make a substantial amount of money of it. If it's a bad buy, I would lose a substantial amount of money. If it's neither ("nop") , I would lose a small amount of money.
Naturally, I start with training and testing sets, and then use a simple 2-class classifier, that aims to predict whether it's a good buy or a bad buy ( I used gbm ,whose latest version, by the way, now includes also multinomial regression!).
Once I have my classifier, I can look at my testing set, and inspect the cars that the classifier told me to buy. with these cars, I would calculate my expected future earnings:
   number of good buys X profit - number of bad buys x loss - number of 'nop' buys x smaller loss.

So, if you think about it, I actually shouldn't be trying to classify. I should try and find an area in my features space in which the given criterion is maximized. However, this sound like a combinatorial problem.
So (finally), my question is: what algorithm / method is there that I can use to maximize my cost function?
Thanks a lot!


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Dr. Deanna McCrary earned her doctorate in naturopathic medicine from the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon, the oldest, accredited naturopathic medical school in North America.
After a 10-year career in the publishing industry which included managing the publications wing of an international human rights organization in Brussels, Belgium, she decided to revive a long-suppressed interest in medicine. In 2003 she went to massage school to "test the waters" of this new career idea. The spark ignited into a fire as her desire to learn more led her to work for the well-known preventive medicine researcher and author, Dean Ornish, MD. With Dr. Ornish and his team she worked on a study of pomegranate juice's effectiveness in patients with ischemic coronary heart disease and another study that involved changes in gene expression in prostate cancer patients who underwent lifestyle changes such as a vegan diet, regular exercise, daily yoga and meditation. The result of the former was published in the American Journal of Cardiology while the latter was published in The Lancet.
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In 2017, 5 million Britons took part in Dry January and used the new relaunched app, Dry January & Beyond which was downloaded by over 36,000 people globally.
National research shows nearly one quarter of adults are drinking more than the recommended weekly limit of alcohol. The harmful effects of alcohol misuse is of increasing public health concern. Alcohol consumption is related to a range of adverse health effects including increased risk of certain types of cancer (including breast cancer), hypertension, certain types of dementia, depression, type 2 diabetes and alcohol related brain damage. The new guidance released in 2016 recommends 14 units per week for both men and women and advises that there is no safe limit for drinking alcohol.
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Lynne Patton fumbled her first job at the agency, only to be vaulted upward.
Six months ago, Lynne Patton was a party planner. On Monday, she took the helm of New York's federal housing office, a promotion she won after making enemies at the Department of Housing and Urban Development and fumbling a job as senior adviser to Secretary Ben Carson.
It pays to have been a party planner for the Trumps.
Patronage is as old as politics, but Patton's swift rise to power has startled even some Trump administration insiders.
When President Donald Trump dispatched her to HUD in February — a month before Carson's arrival — industry lobbyists mostly shrugged it off. But the former events planner quickly made a mark, big-footing experienced staffers and flubbing the rollout of Carson's first public appearances as secretary, according to people close to the secretary.
During his confirmation hearing, Carson had promised to take a nationwide listening tour to get his bearings, a move widely praised by housing activists. Planning the tour fell to the professional — Patton.
It didn't go well. The launch was barely publicized, denying the new HUD secretary news coverage as he visited his hometown of Detroit. In other cities, Carson praised programs targeted for budget cuts, a blunder that suggested he hadn't been properly coached by staff.
In April, the secretary was ridiculed when he got stuck in an elevator at a Miami housing project. Soon after, his staff suspended the listening tour, which his own allies chalked up as a disaster.
Patton wasn't suited for that job, according to the people close to Carson. But given her friendship with the Trumps, banishment to a far-flung office wasn't an option, they said. She wanted the New York job, and she got it.
Her résumé was a challenge. Rumors of her appointment caused so much heartburn in New York that it made tabloid headlines. When it came time for a formal announcement, Patton tried to juice her own news release, claiming experience she didn't have, including skill in bipartisan politics. The language was dialed back, according to the people close to Carson.
Beyond the Trump family, Patton seems to have little job experience. Her LinkedIn page cites Quinnipiac University School of Law, which she attended briefly, and Yale, which she didn't attend at all.
She was a Red Cross supervisor in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, identifying housing for "hundreds of displaced families" in conjunction with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, according to the HUD news release.
She also serves on the Trump administration's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, according to the release.
"As someone with both the trust and respect of the HUD Secretary and the President of the United States, I look forward to advocating before them on behalf of the city and region I call home," Patton said in a statement.
Patton is the third of 10 HUD regional administrators named by the administration. Beth Van Duyne, an early Trump supporter and former mayor of Irving, Texas, was awarded the top spot at HUD's Fort Worth office in April, covering five states. In May, the administration installed Joe DeFelice, a Republican organizer and Trump supporter, at the helm of HUD's regional office in Philadelphia.
Neither has significant housing experience, but, unlike Patton, both have government know-how and local political chops.
As HUD secretary under President George W. Bush, Alphonso Jackson said he sought regional administrators who had "the best relationships" with the people they'd be representing. His pick for New York, Sean Moss, was an executive with the state's economic development authority.
New York's housing market is uniquely dense, expensive and deeply invested in public assistance. Community activists and their well-heeled industry partners can — and do — bring political pressure to bear on government and elected officials.
Diplomacy will be a big part of Patton's new job. Regional administrators are HUD's community liaisons and problem solvers in the field. The best have a background in housing, said Carol Galante, who led the Federal Housing Administration under President Barack Obama.
The Obama administration had its share of political patronage, too, Galante said. But there were also plenty of campaign workers who wanted jobs and didn't get them.
Patton has worked for the Trump family since at least 2009, according to her LinkedIn profile, most recently as an unpaid vice president at the Eric Trump Foundation, where she planned major fundraising events.
While organizing parties for the foundation, she was collecting a paycheck from the Trump Organization, where she earned $106,000 in compensation, which included free golf and hotel stays, while serving as assistant to Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr.
Patton's job at HUD pays $160,000 a year.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is pursuing allegations that Eric Trump's charity illegally funneled payments to the family's for-profit business, at which he and Patton worked. The foundation ceased fundraising on Dec. 31. Last week, it filed paperwork to change its board structure and resume operations under the name Curetivity.
If Carson's team thought moving Patton to New York would cure its headaches, it was wrong. Over the weekend, without giving HUD staff a heads up, Patton sat down with The New York Times to push back on her bad press.
Patton has been public about struggles with substance abuse and addiction and, in an emotional YouTube video posted last year, praised the Trump family for standing by her through tough times. Not everyone is impressed.


How modern-day singletons can still learn a thing or two from their literary heroines. Times and technology have changed since Jane Austen's day but some things still remain true when it comes to finding true love.
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