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Brighouse, formerly 'Bridge House' is steeped in history, dating as far back as Roman times! In fact, there was a river crossing called Snake Hill Ford which is believed to have formed the Roman route between Wakefield & Manchester, which goes to prove our little town has always been well placed.
The name is thought to derive from House on the Bridge. At this time, Brighouse was a mere hamlet of the nearby village of Rastrick. By 1753 there were still only 55 houses in the centre, but over the course of the next century, Brighouse grew into a much larger town. It became an industrial base for textile manufacture, becoming known as a mill town specialising in mining, quarrying dyeing and wire works.
Its strategic location resulted in the start of the Calder & Hebble Navigation in 1757 by John Smeaton, the addition of the railway network and a goods yard. Much more recently, the M62 between Hull and Liverpool makes Brighouse a desirable location for business and commuters, with easy access to many large cities in the North.
Sir Titus Salt (1803-1876
Over the years, Brighouse and its surrounding areas have enjoyed many famous connections. How many do you know?
Sir Titus Salt who built Saltaire in Bradford, which is now a UNESCO World Heritage site. Salt lived within the borough at Crow Nest Mansion. On his death the funeral procession left Crow Nest to Saltaire.
Ann Walker who was the companion of Anne Lister (Gentleman Jack in the hit BBC Drama). They also owned the Crow Nest Mansion at one point. Ann died in 1854 and is buried at the old Lightcliffe Church opposite the Sun Inn. The couple made history as the first known women to have a same sex marriage, although without legal recognition.
William Booth who founded the Salvation Army was a minister for a short period of time in Brighouse.
The Bronte Family are believed to have travelled through Brighouse as the brother Branwell preached at Hartshead.
Robin Hood is believed to be buried in a marked grave on the Kirklees Estate at Clifton. Legend has it this was where the arrow was shot from Kirklees Priory by a dying Robin after being poisoned by the Babes. The Priory Gatehouse was placed on the Historic England Heritage at Risk Register in 1998 as it is home to the best group of medieval farm buildings in the region. New owners and grant aid from Historic England enabled repairs to be made to the timber framed grade 2 listed Gatehouse. The majority of the Gatehouse is thought to date from the early 16th century, but part of its timber frame is thought to have come from the Priory, a Medieval Nunnery founded in 1154-89 during the reign of Henry the 2nd.
The Calderdale Nightingale (as she was known), Susan Sunderland born in 1819 lived here all her life. She never sought fame, but a local festival in her name ensures her musical talents live on.
William Smith the first Mayor of Brighouse and local benefactor to the Smith Art Gallery, Rastrick Library, William Henry Smith School and St Matthews Church, Rastrick.
Brighouse has enjoyed a wealth of interesting buildings throughout its time, sadly many of the impressive mills that the town was built on have either been demolished or lost to fire.
Mill Royd Island that now stands over the town has been converted from past glories to apartment living.
The Ship Inn (formerly Prince of Wales) was built in 1926 using timbers from HMS Donegal, a ship from 1858 in a Tudor style.
The Rokt Climbing Centre in the former Sugden's Flower Mill, is one of the standout features of Brighouse. It is now home to the UK's highest man-made outdoor climbing wall, indoor climbing, a spin cycle studio and escape rooms.
The Richard Oastler Pub is in the former Park Chapel where you can still see the Pews & Organ upstairs with is beautiful ceiling. This pub is named after "The Factory King" of the area. This pub bears the name of the man who lived at nearby Fixby Hall for 20 years and famously campaigned against excessive working hours in the 19th century.
Brighouse Civic Hall dates back to 1868 when it was opened as the Town Hall.
National West Minster Bank is a listed building with a beautifully decorated façade. It was built in 1895 for The London & Yorkshire Bank.
Salvation Army Hall was opened in 1914 as St Pauls Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School. From 1949 to 1995 it was the Brighouse Magistrates Court.
Brighouse Assembly Rooms has been home to the Brighouse Masonic Lodge since they bought the building in 1907. The Lodge can trace its history back to 1870.
Brighouse Town Hall was built in 1869. This Grade 2 listed building graces Thornton Square on the site of an Old Malt Kiln. The clock was a gift from the Mayor Robert Thornton in 1914, which the Square was named after. The building next door was the Barclays Bank until 2020 and stands on the grounds of the Old Mansion House. This was the first branch outside of Halifax of the commercial banking company.
Black Bull Pub is the oldest pub in Brighouse and dates back to 1740. In the mid 19th Century the pub boasted a cricket ground at the back. In the 1960s when the pub had a hotel attached, many stars of the era stayed here between gigs, including rock band, The Kinks.
Brighouse Library & Smith Art Gallery is another of Brighouse's many Grade 2 Listed Buildings built on top of a former mansion house. The gallery was built by Alderman William Smith, first Mayor of Brighouse, and donated, along with his collection of artwork, to the people of Brighouse in 1907. It is often referred to as the Jewel in the Crown of Brighouse. The front gallery hosts an exhibition of oil paintings, based on People and Places, including works by Atkinson Grimshaw, Marcus Stone and Thomas Sydney Cooper. The rear gallery hosts changing displays, covering a wide variety of themes from local artists to touring exhibitions, including photography, mixed media and sculpture, ensuring there is always something new and different to enjoy.
Central Methodist Church based on Halifax Road has been known as Central since 1981 following the amalgamation of four other local churches.
Like other towns in the area, Brighouse was known as a mill town with its mix of textiles, wire works and dyehouses. To some extent it still is an industrial town thanks to its central location and large industrial estates.
Many famous companies have come and gone throughout years, some passed down through the generations of Brighouse Families.
Mellor's Mint who later taken over by Colman's of Norwich.
Turners & Wainwright Toffee of Brookfoot
Meredith & Drew who moved to Brighouse from their bombed home during WW2 and at the time were the largest biscuit company in the UK. The company closed in the 1950s and was later bought by United Biscuits.
TF Firths Carpets boasted 1800 employees at one point. Mothers, sons, daughters, aunties, uncles all worked together to keep it in operation. A company recognised across the globe in the industry, its carpets graced the Houses of Parliament, Cunard QE2, and British Airways to name a few.
Kosset Carpets. Who of a certain age can remember the Kosset Cat on the TV adverts?
Blakeborough Valves another globally known company with over 1200 employees with a world class product. Robert Blakeborough commenced his first valve experiments behind what is now Brooks Restaurant & Masterclass Kitchens.
Other companies with long histories however still flourish in the town today.
Drurys Soap Works hidden away on River Street dates back to 1882.
Siddall & Hilton was established as a Wire Works in 1895 and is now the largest welded mesh manufacturer in the UK.
Cultural / Musical Heritage
Brass Band Mural on Market Wall
Mention the word "Brighouse" and there will usually always be someone who says: "Oh yes, the Brass Band!". Brighouse & Rastrick Brass Band, along with Clifton & Lightcliffe, have delighted generations of people and won many awards for their musical talent.
In more recent times, the band 'Embrace' came from Brighouse.
Brighouse Arts Festival started in 2012 and is an annual arts festival in the town, with well known headliners in the past coming to the town.
You will never be stuck for cultural things to do in Brighouse. From the pop up cinema, to the music festivals, artisan food and drink markets, the Marching Bands Contest, the gala, and 1940s weekend, you truly are spoilt for choice!
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import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileUtil;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job;
import org.apache.hadoop.rdd.job.jobcontrol.RDDControlledJob;
import org.apache.hadoop.rdd.plan.OutputHandler;
import org.apache.hadoop.util.StringUtils;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;

public class RDDJob extends RDDControlledJob {

  private Path workPath;
  private List<Path> paths;
  private boolean mapOnly;

  public RDDJob(Job job, Path workPath, OutputHandler handler) throws IOException {
    super(job, Lists.newArrayList());
    this.workPath = workPath;
    this.paths = handler.getPaths();
    this.mapOnly = handler.isMapOnly();
  }

  private synchronized void handlePaths() throws IOException {
    if (!paths.isEmpty()) {
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        Path src = new Path(workPath, "out" + i + "-*");
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        FileSystem targetFs = target.getFileSystem(job.getConfiguration());
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    String file;
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        handlePaths();
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June 30, 2022 Transatlantic Autonomous Driving Dialogue - Social Impact & Opportunities - SAP Café 3
From self-driving cars to RoboTaxis and autonomous food delivery - this event explored the latest trends in Silicon Valley & Germany.
Since the first autonomous car was invented, the technology of autonomous vehicles has advanced significantly. Fully autonomous vehicles are just around the corner. Thus, many inventive minds are already thinking about how to bring more innovative technologies and applications to the industry and the consumer.
Autonomous driving is about to disrupt multiple key industries and will impact the lives of consumers immensely. What will the next steps look like? What are the challenges of the expansion of autonomous technology and are there limits? How will autonomous driving shape our lives moving forward?
Core questions we discussed at the event:
In what ways can the autonomous driving industry expand?
What are the newest developments in the industry?
How can the Silicon Valley software and the German automotive expertise jointly improve the industry?
How can society benefit from autonomous vehicles?
Benefit from various use cases and opportunities:
Attendees learned about the latest industry insights from our panel participants
Attendees learned about potential collaboration opportunities
Attendees explored the newest pilot projects in the autonomous driving industry
*MTI was a proud partner of this event
June 25, 2022 30th Annual Awards Banquet and Convocation Celebration
To ensure the efficient movement of people and products, we must prepare a new cohort of transportation professionals who are ready to lead a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable transportation industry. To that end, MTI held its 30th Annual Banquet and Convocation Celebration in-person, featuring a commencement address by Dr. Beverly Scott, at San Jose State University on June 25, 2022. After celebrating our graduates and annual successes virtually, we were grateful for the opportunity to welcome our esteemed trustees, generous sponsors, local leaders, graduates, friends and family to gather and commemorate the advancements made in our industry.
Joined by our distinguished Board of Trustees, we celebrated our MSTM graduates from classes 2020-2022, our alumni of the year, the winners of the Garrett Morgan Sustainable Transportation Competition, and much more.
This exciting MSTM celebration included individualized recognition of each graduate and award presentations.
June 8, 2022 to June 10, 2022 ILCAD 2022 - Denver, CO
MTI was a part of the U.S. Committee hosting ILCAD 2022 in Denver, CO June 8 – 10. This year's event was co-organized by International Union of Railways (UIC), Association of American Railroads (AAR), Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) and Operation Lifesaver Inc. (OLI).
The themes of the 2022 conference were:
Technology – What technologies could help to educate people, raise awareness, and ultimately prevent incidents at level/grade crossings?
Enforcement/Regulations – joint initiatives of the railways with local authorities and law enforcement agencies to encourage people to respect the rail-highway interface.
Community outreach – What are the best means of making people aware of the safety risks at crossings?
*MTI was a proud co-sponsor of this conference.
June 3, 2022 13th Annual Mineta National Transportation Policy Summit: Mapping the Route to Equitable Road User Charges
The accelerating transition to electric vehicles brings new urgency to discussions on how to replace fuel taxes with other broad-based, reliable sources of transportation revenue. From Wyoming to Delaware to California, more and more state legislatures are considering mileage fees, regions like the San Francisco Bay Area are considering expanded tolling, and New York City is within reach of adopting a congestion pricing proposal. Overlaying these discussions is a persistent call to consider the equity of any new charges on drivers. How will the charges impact low-income drivers? Does payment require access to banking tools that are not universally available? This event explored proposals including fee rates that vary by driver income, vehicle characteristics, or time and place, and equity-centered policies for responding to non-payment of tolls or other fees.
See here for more information and recordings from past events in the series.
PDH Certificate
Featured Speaker: US Congressman Peter DeFazio, Chair, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure for the 117th Congress
Fireside chat with Karen Philbrick, PhD, Executive Director, Mineta Transportation Institute
Keynote Speaker: Polly Trottenberg, Deputy Secretary, US Department of Transportation
Q&A will be moderated by Jeff Morales, Managing Principal, InfraStrategies, LLC
Panel Moderator: Stephanie Wiggins, Chief Executive Officer, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro)
Asha Weinstein Agrawal, PhD, Director, MTI National Transportation Finance Center
James Corless, Executive Director, Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG)
Reema Griffith, Executive Director, Washington State Transportation Commission
Hasan Ikhrata, Executive Director, San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG)
May 26, 2022 2022 MSTM Capstone Showcase - Online
6:00 - 8:00p.m. (PT) | View Event Page
During this virtual event, students from the Master of Science in Transportation Management program at San José State University presented their final capstone research projects. This interactive event provided opportunities to meet with the students and learn about their research and key issues in the field of transportation.
May 16, 2022 The Future of Mobility: Innovations to Replace Parking Mandates - Online
The City of San Jose voted to reform policies that mandate parking in new development. It has also implemented Transportation Demand Management measures, perhaps supported by these mobility solutions above, that assisted with this transition.
Presented by Catalyze SV, TransForm, and the Mineta Transportation Institute, we invited developers, policymakers, & community members to learn about innovative mobility services that could help make development easier & more cost- effective. This 2-hour educational event via Zoom on May 16 was tailored for developers building in Silicon Valley. The invited companies shared their solutions for helping developers decrease the amount of parking they need, including emphasizing alternative, more sustainable forms of transit.
The participating companies were:
Envoy, Jack Axelrod
Glydways, Zachary Zelig
Lyft, Colin Hughes
Parkade, Evan Goldin
Via, Courtney Sung
*MTI was a proud co-sponsor of this event
May 7, 2022 to May 14, 2022 Sciencepalooza! 2022 - Online
The Synopsys Outreach Foundation launched their 23rd annual sciencepalooza! event, serving the East Side Union High School District. With all of the challenges our schools, students, teachers, and families have endured over the past two years, it's time to have some fun with: All things STEM! We want to celebrate what students have learned and give them opportunities to see STEM at work and as a career path ahead for them! This event was a full day, hands on event and not your traditional science fair. The goal was to create a festive, fun atmosphere for students to enjoy!
MTI was a proud sponsor of this event as well as sponsoring the Mineta Best Innovative Transportation Award!
April 26, 2022 How to Be Your Own Boss Without Going Broke or Crazy - Part 3 - Online
In this last session of the series, attendees had a chance to learn from small business owners about their experience building their business, with a focus on branding and winning work. We also invited a large consulting firm to share their perspective on partnering with small businesses.
Mydria Clark, Supplier Diversity Manager, HNTB
Rachael Keish, P.E., Chief Executive Officer, Keish Environmental
Vignesh Swaminathan, CEO/President, Crossroad Lab
View Part 1 Recording
Presenters: Mydria Clark, Rachael Keish, P.E., and Vignesh Swaminathan
April 26, 2022 to May 28, 2022 SVBC's Bike Month and Bike to Wherever Days
Whether you bike to work, school, shops, parks, libraries, or just wherever, biking is good for you and our environment. Bicycling is one of the biggest ways you can reduce Climate Change as well as improve your health! COVID-19 caused many more people to bike around to exercise, have fun, and get wherever they need to go. During the month of May, SVBC organized a series of fun, family-friendly events to keep the momentum rolling and celebrate biking!
We want as many people as possible to get in the habit of bicycling for transportation rather than driving a car. Did you know that it's possible to move more stuff using your bike than most people can fit in a car? Check out Carrying Things by Bike. And did you know if you choose to bike rather than drive you can save 1 million dollars?
Major Bike Month Events
April 26 - Basic Bike Maintenance -
May 1 - Bike Month kicks off with Viva Calle SJ!
May 3 - Biking Basics
May 5 - Smart Cycling Part 1 Classroom (English)
Mayo 14, 2022 - Ciclismo Inteligente Parte 1 (Español)
May 14 - Volunteer: BTWD Bag Stuffing in Santa Clara County & San Mateo County
May 16 - Volunteer: BTWD Bag Distribution to Energizer Stations in Santa Clara County & San Mateo County
May 17 - Basic Bike Maintenance
May 20, 21, 22 - Bike to Wherever Days!
May 27 - Bike Bashes
May 28 - Smart Cycling Part 2 On Bike (English & Spanish)
*MTI is a proud co-sponsor of this event.
April 19, 2022 Electric Vehicles—Past, Present, & Future - Online
Electric vehicles may seem like cutting-edge technology, but they are in fact quite the opposite: electric versions of the "horseless carriage" first appeared nearly two centuries ago. This webinar invited International EV experts Dr. Gijs Mom and Dr. Daniel Sperling to reflect on lessons from the history of EV technology and policy innovation that could help today's policymakers and automotive experts smooth the path for cost-effective EV adoption.
Earth Day 2022 called for us to "Invest in Our Planet," and explore key questions about EV technology, regulation, subsidy, and charging infrastructure is critical to furthering the potential for EVs as climate-friendly transportation.
Dr. Gijs Mom is Associate Professor Emeritus at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, where he also served as Programme Director for Mobility History. Today he is recognized globally as one of the foremost experts on automotive history, known for his unique ability to blend analysis of technological, cultural, and political forces.
Dr. Mom began his career with degrees in both literary history and automotive engineering, and briefly worked on engine development at Renault, in Paris. He next completed a doctoral degree in the history of technology. His dissertation, The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age, was published in 2004. This book received both the ASME Engineer-Historian Award and the Best Book Award from the Society of Automotive Historians.
Among Dr. Mom's many scholarly articles is a prize-winning analysis of early electric trucking, coauthored with David Kirsch (2001). Later books include a cultural history of Western automobility, Atlantic Automobilism; The Emergence and Persistence of the Car, 1895-1940 (2014), a history of automotive technology: The Evolution of Automotive Technology, A Handbook (2014), and the first volume of his world mobility history, Globalizing Automobilism; Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900 – 1980 (2020). The last won best-book awards from both the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) and the World History Association (WHA). The sequel of this book, Pacific Automobilism, Adventure, Status and the Carnival of Mobility, 1975-2015, will be published in September 2022.
In 1997 Dr. Mom founded the European Center for Mobility Documentation, located in Helmond, the Netherlands. In November 2003, he co-founded the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M), which he led as president during its first five years. In 2011 he founded the journal Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies and served as its first editor.
Dr. Daniel Sperling works at the University of California, Davis, where he is Distinguished Blue Planet Prize Professor of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science and Policy, founding Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies, and founding chair of the Policy Institute for Energy, Environment, and Economy .
Dr. Sperling has been recognized for three decades as a leading international expert on transportation technology assessment, energy and environmental aspects of transportation, and transportation policy. He has authored or co-authored hundreds of technical papers and books. Dr. Sperling was co-director of the 2007 study that designed California's landmark low carbon fuel standard and co-director of a follow-up 2010 national study. He was also lead author of the transportation chapter on the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore. His books include Three Revolutions: Steering Automated, Shared and Electric Vehicles to a Better Future (Island Press, 2018) and Future Drive: Electric Vehicles and Sustainable Transportation (1995). In 2022, he was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Dr. Sperling's many public service roles include his appointment in 2007 to the California Air Resources Board, where he oversees state policies and regulations on climate change, low carbon fuels and vehicles, and sustainable cities.
Prior to obtaining his Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley (with minors in Economics and Energy & Resources), Dr. Sperling worked two years as an environmental planner for the US Environmental Protection Agency and two years as an urban planner in the Peace Corps in Honduras. He has an undergraduate degree in engineering and urban planning from Cornell University.

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Osallistuin tällä hupulla kansainväliseen käsityökisaan (kesällä 2008), joten siksi kirjoitus hupun historiallisista taustoista on Neulakolle poikkeuksellisesti englanniksi. Huppu menestyi hyvin ja voitti koko kisan.
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An open hood with an embroidered band
The item
The item is an open wool hood which buttons up the front with cloth buttons. It is lined in wool and decorated with an embroidered band, done in wool on linen. The goal of this project was to recreate a hood as it may have been worn by a upper middle class woman in medieval Scandinavia.
Hoods in medieval Scandinavia
There are several archaeological examples of medieval hoods, the Swedish Bockstens man's hood, the 17 hoods from Herjolfsnes in Greenland as well as some partial remains of hoods from London. (Østergård 2004; Crowfoot et. al. 2001; Nockert 1997) Hoods were a popular item of clothing in medieval Scandinavia for both men and women. Although medieval art rarely shows women wearing hoods, wills frequently mention hoods owned by women or being bestowed to
women. The lack of hoods on women in art may be because the female headdress was such a prominent gender marker in medieval clothing that artists needed to show it to clearly distinguish women from men in their work (Andersson 2006, 116-117).
The pattern for this hood is based on hood no. D10597 from Herjolfsnes in Greenland. (fig.1 and fig 2.) The hood has a gore in the front of the hood to give some extra fullness to the relatively long cloak. The hood also has a long liripipe, part of which is attached as a separate piece. (Østergård 2004, 205; Nockert 1997, 97) I followed the proportions of the original hood as closely as possible, but still drafted the pattern of the hood to fit my own measurements, allowing some extra space for the veil and wimple I wear under my hood. I also split the front gore and added buttons and buttonholes as well as a lining and an embroidered band.
The buttoned, open hood became popular in the mid 14th century. These hoods were open in the front and the buttons made it easier to fit the hood more tightly around the neck. Because the buttoned hood doesn't need to be pulled on over the head, it is easier to wear with veils and wimples. Medieval art shows this style mostly worn by women, who wear it either buttoned up, open or even partially buttoned (fig 3). Pieces of buttoned open hoods have been found in London
and Dordrecht in the Netherlands. Although there are no extant Scandinavian buttoned hoods, one is depicted on the grave of Ingeborg Bengtsdotter (fig. 4) in Uppsala cathedral and a hood with silver buttons is mentioned in the will of Katarina Knutsdotter in 1369. (Andersson 2006, 115) I set the buttons on the hood as they were set on pieces of a buttoned hood from London.(fig. 5) I made the buttons and the buttonholes for the hood using the technique described in Textiles an Clothing (Crowfoot et. al. 2001, 170-171) (fig. 6) which results in buttons much like the ones excavated from Herjolfsnes (Østergård 2004, 170) and London (Crowfoot et. al. 2001, 190-191).
Hoods were often lined, although none of the extant hoods from medieval Scandinavia show traces of la lining. A mid-14th century manuscript, The Romance of Alexander, shows approximately 75 hoods that appear to be lined in contrasting colours. The brown, grey and white lining can be interpreted as fur, but the pink, blue, red and yellow linings are most likely either silk or wool, materials which could be dyed in such vibrant hues using medieval dyes. In the medieval
Swedish and Norwegian wills studied by Eva Andersson, 36% of the mentioned hoods were described as lined. A fur lining seems to have been the most common: ¾ of the linings were fur. Other linings were in silk or in wool (Andersson 2006, 117). I didn't want a fur lining, so decided to use wool, which was a less expensive than silk and a more common lining material in 14th century Scandinavia.
Materials and sewing techniques
The hood is made of heavily fulled beige wool in tabby weave and is lined with thin dark red wool twill. All the seams are hand sewn with a natural colored linen thread, waxed with sewing wax. The seams are sewn with running stitch, which was the most common seam type found in extant medieval garments (Crowfoot et. al. 2001, 155)
The seams are finished in different ways, on the thick wool the seams are opened and sewn flat on each side on the seam with a row of running stitches (Crowfoot et. al. 2001, 156). The red wool was likely to fray, so the seam was finished by a
method known form the Greenland textiles, sewing the seam allowance down on one side with overcast stitches (Østergård 2004, 98). The edges have been finished with rows of stab stitches, a method used on the face-openings of many hoods excavated from Greenland (Østergård 2004, 99). The stitches reinforce the hem and keep the lining in place.
The pattern on the embroidered band is from an Icelandic antepedia, dated to ca. 1300-1400. (fig.6 and fig. 7) The antepedia depicts scenes from the life of Virgin Mary, embroidered in wool on a linen background. (Grinder-Hansen 2002, 92-93). I examined the antepedia on display at the National Museum of Copenhagen in 2004.
The embroidery both on the original and the hood is made using double couching, which makes the surface of the embroidery look like a woven picture. The technique was known in Iceland as 'refillsaumur'. (Grinder-Hansen 2002, 92) Double couching was an embroidery technique used over a long period of time and was not exclusive to Scandinavia. The Bayeux tapestry was double couched in wool on linen. Later the same technique was used in silk and metal threads, such as on the embroidery on a late 15th century liturgic tunic from Vallentuna church in Uppland, Sweden. (Franzen 1997, 28). As in the original, the double couched patterns are contoured and their outlines traced with backstitches.
The embroidery is done in red, white, blue, black and light green wool on a linen background. The colors have been chosen as close to the colors on the original as possible. Although the colors on the original may have been faded over the centuries, I found the combination of colors appealing and decided to use them in their current hue on my embroidery. The thread I used is very similar in thickness and quality compared to the yarn in the original. However, it is dyed with modern dyes.
In this project, I experimented with a more medieval manner of transferring the embroidery pattern onto the fabric. The vine pattern on the borders of the antepedium is repetition of the same curve. Kay Staniland (1997, 31) cites a method used for tracing repetitive patterns by tracing a design onto paper, pricking the outline and then pouncing with powdered chalk, pumice or charcoal. This produces rows of fine dots that can then be connected with ink or paint. The method is shown in Alessandro Paganino's 1527 book for embroiderers. The same method can be used with parchment, which was more readily available in 14th century Scandinavia than paper.
After enlarging the pattern close to its original size using a photograph, I traced one repetition of the vine pattern onto paper. I pricked out the outline and transferred the pattern onto the fabric using chalk. After this, I connected the dots using ink.
Embroidered bands
Embroidery is not often seen on medieval depictions of secular garments. Staniland (1997, 27) writes that in the earlier centuries of the Middle Ages, it "seems likely that embroidery was used sparingly and rarely in secular garments". Fourteenth century records of bequests for english royal clothing show a growing demand for embroidery on clothing for the upper class, done in silks and gold threads (Staniland 1997, 28-29). But how was embroidery used on clothing in medieval Scandinavia?
Eva Andersson's resarch on clothes in medieval wills from Sweden and Norway shows decorative bands (lad) cited in mid-14th century wills. These bands are mentioned on different types of clothes and they were either woven or embroidered. One such band is mentioned on a child's hood. Also loose bands are mentioned, which shows evidence of the practice of the decoration being attached to the garment, not embroidered directly onto it. (Andersson 2006, 131) The wills do not describe where the bands were placed. A preserved textile, the cloak from Leksand (Norway), has a decorative tabletwoven band along the front edge (Andersson 2006, 92-93). Following the practice used on the Leksand cloak, I placed the band around the front edge, although not around the buttons and buttonholes.
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Tony Blackburn is best known for being one of the original Radio Caroline DJ's in the 1960's, and his breakfast show was the first show to be broadcast on BBC Radio One when it was launched on 30th September 1967.
Tony was born in 1943 in Guildford in Surrey, but the family moved to Bournemouth 3 years later, living in the next road to where I grew up in the village of Lilliput.
He originally wanted to be a singer, but despite releasing 14 singles in the early 1960's, his singing career didn't take off, and he found work as a DJ on the offshore radio stations Radio Caroline and Radio London, which were based on board ships that were anchored just outside the UK territorial limit.
In 1967 Tony joined the BBC and his breakfast show was a bit hit, mainly due to his fun and friendly style and terrible corny jokes. He went on to take over hosting of the Sunday morning show for children Junior Choice and in more recent years he has presented shows on Radio London and Capital Radio, as well as co-hosting Seaside Special on BBC Television.
In 2002 Tony Blackburn became the first winner of the reality show "I'm A Celebrity get Me Out Of Here" and in 2010 he took over as host of the long running radio show "Pick Of The Pops".
Tony published his autobiography in 2007 entitled Poptastic!: My Life in Radio
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javaduke wrote: I just recently got my Pro 1000 and started reloading 45ACP. I was able to make the press work as expected, adjusted timing, dies, so far no primer feeding issues - however, one issue still remains. When the case goes into the second station and powder is dispensed, I have to apply substantial amount of force to remove the case from the die and lower the shell plate. Not really an issue if I load one case at a time, but if there are cases at other stations too, it really becomes messy. I did contact the Lee support, following their recommendation, disassembled the die and polished the expander sleeve, but the issue still remains. I'm wondering if anyone else had the same problem and if there's any solution.
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WyrTwister wrote: Are you belling / expanding the mouth of the brass too much ?
That's what I thought initially, but no, it is just enough to seat the bullet properly. I can try to adjust the die so that it seats a bit higher and see if that makes any difference.


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Our fifth yearly anthology contains micro fictions by writers from all over the world. 136 stories covering many subjects and themes – some focussing on dramas within family relationships, some politically themed or about war, others spanning whole life times and longer. All in 300 words and under – the real, the surreal and the experimental. So much inventiveness and so much to read and enjoy.
"Reading the fifty long listed flashes I received, I knew these stories were – are – loved by their authors. But they were also so much more than that. Each story had its own distinct quality, its own voice, its own style and structure. Each had sentences I underlined and words I circled. Not knowing what I was looking for, I found everything."
~Santino Prinzi, author of This Alone Could Save Us
"… I read a lot of flash and when I read the BFFA long list I thought there had to be some mistake, I must be reading the short list instead of the long list, so high was the quality of the work I was looking at. This made the judging process incredibly enjoyable on the one hand – to see so much variety, so much stimulating and original work, a wonderful willingness to experiment, and on the other hand, so difficult to choose."
~Mary Jane Holmes, author of Don't Tell the Bees
"It's been a pleasure reading these pieces, the quality indicates how well contributors craft their stories, producing shining gems of literature that demonstrate this genre is not alone alive and well, but thriving. The range of topics and styles on offer show practitioners of this form can still find something fresh, or interpret ideas in a novel way."
~Nod Ghosh, author of Filthy Sucre
Paperback, ISBN 978-1-912095-10-0, 133mm x 203mm, 262 pages.
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Anthologies, Bath Flash Fiction Anthologies, Bath Flash Fiction Award Winner
Political turmoil and a raging pandemic might have marked 2020 as a year to forget but in this anthology you'll find memorable stories to transport you to different worlds, all celebrating the resilience of human nature.
"I appreciated the variety here, be it in voice, form, mood, setting, or time period. Some stories had a literal magical twist; for others the magic was in conjuring a whole world of emotion and humanity in less than 2,200 words. Every single story exhibited a mastery of the written word, and it was tough to choose."
~The 2020 Judge, Kate Johnson, MacKenzie Wolf Literary Agency.
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This anthology, the fourth from the Bath Flash Fiction Awards, contains 137 micro fictions of 300 words or under by writers from all over the world. The stories cover many topics: relationships in all their forms, familiar, strange, tragic or benign; war and displacement; the climate emergency; historical subjects; the fantastical and surreal. So many different styles and themes. So much to enjoy, make you think, and inspire you to write your own stories.
"From lush description to plot surprises to current events and complicated relationships of all kinds… a wonderful cross-section of flash fiction."
~Nancy Stohlman, author of Madam Velvet's Cabaret of Oddities
"There's humor and pathos in these stories, conventional plots alongside innovative structures… personal stories and those concerning larger cultural themes."
~Christopher Allen author of Other Household Toxins
"A real cornucopia of flash skills…all sparking joy."
~Vanessa Gebbie author of The Coward's Tale
Anthologies, Bath Flash Fiction Award Winner
The twenty distinctive stories in our seventh anthology reveal the secrets, pains and pleasures of being human. Set in different times, cultures and places they reflect universal truths and beg to be read.
'What struck me most was the inventiveness of the stories, whether in their structure, their voices, or in the wonderful range of vivid imagery. A girl suspended in mid-air, survivors healing through song in a candlelit chapel, two streetlamps leaning into each other, in love, in the twilight. These were images that remained with me long after reading.'
—Samuel Hodder, Blake Friedmann Literary Agency
Flash Fiction Festival Three
82 micro fictions from participants and presenters who came from around the world to the third Flash Fiction Festival UK which took place in Bristol, UK in June 2019. Dip in to discover short short stories – all 250 words or under – in different styles and on many different themes from the personal to the political.
"A festival of riches, the UK Flash Fiction Festival is for adventurous writers and readers. From memoir and travel writing to novellas and dream sequences, the sessions in the third UK Flash Fiction Festival engaged writers new or experienced in the form and encouraged outside-the-box writing. Participants polished their skills, learned new ones and discovered hot-off-the-press books. Flash at its very best – with the very best!"
~ Michelle Elvy, writer, tutor, editor and festival workshop presenter. Author of the everrumble.
"The 2019 Flash Fiction Festival was a revelation. Fabulous workshops, great company. Came home with my head popping with ideas. A great confidence booster!"
~ Anne Howkins, festival participant.
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Things Left and Found by the Side of the Road : Bath Flash Fiction Volume Three
133 short short fictions selected from the winners, short listed, and long listed authors from the three rounds of the 2018 international Bath Flash Fiction Awards. All 300 words and under, these stories are by writers representing over twenty different countries. Experimental fictions exploring many different themes and subjects which show the variety possible in his exciting and continually developing genre.
"Writers flowed but did not meander. I went to places I haven't been before, and I was shown ordinary objects in a different light, heard language used in a new way, smelled new smells, felt new feelings."
Tara L. Masih, novelist, short story writer, editor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction, author of My Real Name Is Hanna
"A fascinating dip into the psyche of creative writers at this point in time… lots of examples of great writing here, by great writers."
David Gaffney, novelist and short story writer. Author of More Sawn-Off Tales, All The Places I've Ever Lived, The Three Rooms in Valerie's Head
"The standard was high… powerful writing and interesting themes… a feeling that many writers were working hard and pulling from deep resources."
Nuala O'Connor, novelist, poet and short story writer. Author of Joy Ride to Jupiter, Miss Emily and Becoming Belle
Flash Fiction Festival Two
Sixty micro fictions written by participants and presenters inspired by the second UK Flash Fiction Festival held in Bristol, July 2018. The stories here, by writers from several different countries, touch on world politics, relationships in all their forms, fantasy and historical themes. Short-short fictions that surprise and linger long.
"The Flash Fiction Festival 2018 was a wonderfully inclusive, supportive weekend for flash writers at all levels. Its workshops were well varied and inspirational, while the readings gave so much pleasure with the quality and range of the work. Not to be missed next year!"
—Carrie Etter, poet, flash fiction writer and Reader in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.
"The Flash Fiction Festival 2018, under the direction of Jude Higgins, is itself a collaborative work of art. It was a deep pleasure to be part of a world where everyone was open, engaged in each other's writing, and made more adventurous by proximity to this community. We talked, we ate, we drank, we wrote. Then we wrote about what had just happened."
—Laurie Stone, writer, critic and teacher.
"A great weekend. A lot of serious work done, but also a lot of fun. If you write, or want to write flash, book for next year as soon as booking opens!"
—Jenny Woodhouse, writer, U3A Group Leader.
The devastating consequences of a wild fire in 'the bush'. An unreliable narrator who may have been wrongly accused of a crime. The skewed logic of a child in the aftermath of tragedy. Just some of the powerful winning and shortlisted stories that are included in this sixth anthology from Bath Short Story Award.
'I was taken from the UK to Australia with detours to the Middle East, Japan and North America. And I was plunged into the lives of different characters dealing with a variety of emotions – grief, disappointment, anger and guilt. The writing is of a high standard throughout ans every one of these stories has things to commend them.'
—Euan Thorneycroft, Senior Literary Agent, A M Heath
The Lobsters Run Free : Bath Flash Fiction Volume Two
One hundred and thirty-five flash fiction stories from world-wide authors selected from the long lists of the three Bath Flash Fiction Awards in 2017. These dazzling fictions, all 300 words or under, give us fresh insights into world wide concerns – from relationship issues and domestic situations tender or fraught, to war torn landscapes and the plight of the dispossessed. So much is compressed into so few words. So much will linger after reading.
"The stories were of a very high standard…I'm so impressed with how organized and efficient all of the Bath contests appear to be. The production of a beautiful anthology from the contest long list is also very impressive…"
—Kathy Fish, author of Together We Can Bury It and co-author of RIFT.
"I could not believe how many powerful stories I read in the long list of fifty stories. It was very difficult to select the short list of twenty and then to choose the winners."
—Meg Pokrass, author of Bird Envy, Damn Sure Right and The Dog Looks Happy Upside Down.
"Every single flash I received possessed qualities I admired and envied…I marvelled at the form's ability to permit such a range of approaches – from slices-of-life to epic narration to poetic experiments and beyond…"
—David Swann, author of Stronger, Faster, Shorter and The Privilege of Rain.
Flash Fiction Festival One
Seventy-four micro-fictions written by presenters and participants at the first ever literary festival entirely dedicated to flash fiction, held in Bath, June 2017. These short-short stories, 250 words or under, show the wide variety of styles possible in this emerging genre.
Most of the UK's top flash fiction writers and teachers offered workshops and talks and readings at the Flash Fiction Festival: David Gaffney, Tania Hershman, Calum Kerr, David Swann, Vanessa Gebbie, Kit de Waal, Paul McVeigh, Peter Blair, Ashley Chantler, KM Elkes, Meg Pokrass, Jude Higgins, Christopher Fielden and Michael Loveday. Plus distinguished international guest and leading exponent of the form, Pamela Painter, from the United States.
"It was a wonderful assembly of authors and editors and 'students' – though the students already seemed like authors."
"You managed to create a relaxed yet focussed ambiance so that participants could let anxieties fall away, have fun writing and immersing themselves in craft and other skills, soaking up all the varied and sparkling influences that abounded."
—Vanessa Gebbie
"…I had previously come across the genre, viewing it more or less exclusively as something light and whimsical but I had completely under estimated its potential and the discipline involved. It was these latter two aspects that intrigued me…"
—Patricia Wallace
"…comments and insights from the workshops showed me how the embryonic idea I started with could be developed and given depth."
—Mary Bevan
To Carry Her Home : Bath Flash Fiction Volume One
One hundred and forty-five very short stories, by authors from eleven different countries, that tell of life in today's world. From perilous journeys and strange encounters to tales of love of loss, the stories challenge, linger after reading and evoke the full range of emotions. So much is covered in these page long pieces.
"unique landscapes, with unusual words, startling sentence fragments and odd characters… remarkably crafted stories… truly international with heartfelt prose, playful poetics and taking literary risks"
—Robert Vaughan, writer, poet and editor, author of Addicts & Basements and co-author of RIFT.


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Interfaith 'Prayer:' What Is It and Should We Do It?
by Gilbert Meilaender
Gilbert Meilaender teaches theology at Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana.
This article appeared in The Christian Century, October 23-November 5, 2002, pp. 32-37. Copyright by The Christian Century Foundation; used by permission. Current articles and subscription information can be found at www.christiancentury.org. This material was prepared for Religion Online by Ted and Winnie Brock.
When the peoples of the world cry out to god, are there Christian grounds for supposing they are addressing the true God?
A contemporary reader of the New Testament letter we call 1 Corinthians is likely to be a little puzzled by the amount of attention it gives to whether the Corinthian Christians could cat meat that had been offered to pagan idols. Chapters 8-10 treat this question, though not in a straight line entirely free of digression. By the tune St. Paul completes his discussion he has distinguished three different sorts of eases and has outlined his response to each.
In one case Christians might buy in the market and eat meat that had been offered in sacrifice to a false god. This Paul allows. But in a second, related case this eating might be done at a meal with fellow Christians who, not fully seeing that an idol amounts to nothing, fear that eating this meat involves one in the ritual worship of a false god. In that ease, concern for the conscience of one's fellow Christian means that one should not eat food that might otherwise be permitted.
Then there is a third case. eating meat at the pagan sacrificial feasts themselves. That St. Paul absolutely prohibits -- and not simply because it might harm the conscience of a fellow Christian whose faith is less robust. No, that Paul forbids because -- just as sharing in the bread and cup of the Lord's Supper involves communion with the Lord Jesus -- participating in ritual idol worship brings one into communion with powers opposed to the God who raised Jesus and thereby subverts the Christian's pledge of covenant loyalty.
Pants discussion of the issue is not unsophisticated. At one level he accepts and applies the prophetic critique of the gods of the nations: they amount to nothing, having no real existence. Yet he also recognizes that behind the "nothingness" of the false gods lies real power, evil power whose goal is that we should bend the knee or bow the head before a false god, that we should give a kind of reality to what is nothing. "I do not want you to be partners with demons," Paul says. Although ours is a world in which gods are often not taken seriously -- thus, for example, the newly named archbishop of Canterbury can think nothing of participating in a Druid ritual of induction -- it does not pay to toy with them.
In C. S. Lewis's The Last Battle, the Calormenes, who worship Tash, have plotted to take over the land of Narnia, whose inhabitants are pledged to the great lion Aslan. The Calormenes have been helped by some Narnians, who, without actually believing in Tash's existence, have pretended that Tash and Aslan are one and the same -- and have invoked Tash's presence. Then one day the sky suddenly clouds over, it becomes cold, a foul smell overpowers -- and a creature with the shape of a man but the head of a bird, with a cruel curved beak, flies over. The grass seems to wither beneath its shadow. Tash has been called for -- and now has come. As one of the dwarfs says: "People shouldn't call for demons unless they really mean what they say." False gods must be taken seriously.
What this involves and how rightly to do it is not, however, always easy to determine. So, for example, in a contretemps nearly unintelligible to many, David Benke, president of the Atlantic District of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, has been suspended by the Synod for his participation in an "event" (what to call it is part of the argument) at New York's Yankee Stadium held 12 days after the September11 attacks. At this event, representatives of a variety of religious traditions spoke to and prayed with the assembled crowd in order to honor those missing and dead in the attack. Pastor Benke offered a clearly Christian prayer, having asked those present to join hands and pray with him -- and for that has been suspended. (The suspension is under appeal.)
I do not want to discuss this case itself -- and that for several reasons. For one thing, the Missouri Synod has sometimes applied 1 Corinthians 10 to prayer with other Christians -- even though in I Corinthians Paul clearly has in mind those who pray to and worship false gods. So focusing on the Missouri Synod itself would divert me from what I find truly puzzling and thought- provoking. Moreover, my own view of the matter seems likely to please no one. I doubt that it was really wise for Benke to participate in the event, but the Synod's (juridical) way of handling his participation seems misguided and heavy-handed. (Understandable, for those who know the ins-and-outs of the Synod's history in the past quarter century, but misguided nonetheless.) But the ease provides an occasion that ought to provoke us to larger thoughts, and I find myself very puzzled about those larger questions.
For me at least, none of these questions has an obvious answer. Most discussion of "the religions" has tended to reduce all significant questions to just one: that of salvation. Important as that issue surely is, my concern is a different one that ought also, I think, to puzzle us. I am not asking whether all these people, who seem (at least) to worship different gods, will one day all be saved. My puzzles are less ultimate but nonetheless significant. I simply want to think about what they do when they pray "together" -- not only whether we can approve whatever it is they are doing, but also whether we can talk clearly about what they are, in fact, doing. (It is important to keep in mind that I want to think about these questions from within a Christian perspective. I am not developing some general theory about "religion" or asking what we might say from some purportedly neutral perspective. I begin from within the Christian faith and ask how things look from there.)
Suppose we start by remembering that Christians pray to God in and through Jesus. The simplest -- though by no means simple -- case may be that of Christians and Jews (who, though not Christians, are, of course, also not pagans). If they pray with/alongside each other, how shall we think about what they do? Christians pray to their Father in heaven in and with Jesus -- who himself prayed to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. If Christians pray in and with him, they too pray to the God of Israel. Of course, they know Israel's Lord not only as the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but also as the Father of their Lord Jesus Christ. But it makes some sense to say that, praying in and with Jesus, they address the same God -- the true God -- to whom Jews pray.
I recognize, of course, that the matter would (subjectively) look somewhat different if we began not from a Christian but from a Jewish perspective. Jews, after all, are not about to pray in the name of Jesus when they address -- as he did -- the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob. Therefore, even if it makes sense for Christians to think of themselves as praying "to" the God whom Jews also address in prayer, a certain asymmetry does (subjectively) exist and must be recognized and honored. Acts 2:46 makes clear that the first Christians prayed regularly in the temple; nevertheless, it is hard to suppose that Christians could do that today while confessing Jesus as Lord. Still, the case of Christians and Jews is the easiest, the least puzzling, to consider.
If there may be an intelligible sense in which -- at least from a Christian perspective -- Christians and Jews might pray "to" the same God, can we extend this sense any further? To Muslims, for instance? After all, in the language that has become common in the academic study of religion, Islam is -- together with Judaism and Christianity -- one of the Abrahamic religions. Thus, the sacred story that Muslims narrate acknowledges Abraham as their forefather -- indeed, as one who submitted to God's will and, hence, was a true Muslim. But theirs is the god of Abraham and Ishmael -- not of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. It is hard to think of Jesus as having prayed to that god and, therefore, hard to suppose that Christians address that god when they pray in and with Jesus. And if we cannot make the case with respect to Muslims, it is surely folly to try with respect to Buddhists, Hindus, Sikhs -- i.e. all those "non-Abrahamic" traditions.
This is about as far as I can get, starting from the premise that Christians pray in and with Jesus. It may give us an intelligible sense in which Christians and Jews address the same God, but it doesn't seem to give us more than that. Is there any other starting point -- still not, I hasten to add, one grounded in some general theory of religion, but one grounded in Christian faith?
O God, the Father of all mankind, I would bring before Thee tonight the burden of the world's life. I would join myself to the great scattered company of those who, in every corner of every land, are now crying out to Thee in their need. Hear us, O God, and look in pity upon our manifold necessities, since Thou alone art able to satisfy all our desire.
Who are those, I wonder, who "in every corner of every land are now crying out to Thee in their need"? Does the prayer here invite us to think only of Christians scattered in various lands? Or does it contemplate the possibility that all sorts and conditions of people, by whatever name they may address god, are in fact crying out in their need to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and the Father of Jesus? What Baillie had in mind I cannot say for certain, but the question is worth puzzling over.
"From the rising of the sun to its setting," says the prophet Malachi (1:11) in an oracle of the Lord, "my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense is offered to my name, and a pure offering; for my name is great among the nations, says the LORD of hosts." For almost 2,000 years, at least some Christian thinkers have taken Malachi's oracle to mean that wherever genuine sacrifice is offered, it is (objectively, though not, of course, subjectively) made to YHWH, the one true God. C. S. Lewis gives a kind of literary incarnation to Malachi's statement in the person of Emeth in The Last Battle. Emeth is a young Calormene soldier, a noble soul who has loved the god Tash with his whole heart and who longs to see Tash. Those plotting to take over Narnia, who have claimed that Tash and Aslan are one (and who call this god "Tashlan"), have said that anyone who goes through the stable door will see Tashlan, though they actually plan to kill faithful Narnians who go through the door.
But Emeth says he wants to go through that door, "for gladly would I die a thousand deaths if I might look upon the face of Tash." He does, and later, when the faithful Narnians have gotten into Aslan's world, they find Emeth (a Calormene who had not worshiped Aslan) there. He tells them his story: How the Lion had met him. How he had thought the Lion would kill him, since he had been a devotee of Tash. But how the Lion had said, "Child, all the service thou hast (lone to Tash, I account as service done to me. . . . Not because he and I are one, but because we are opposites, I take to me the services which thou hast done to him, for I and he are of such different kinds that no service which is vile can be done to me, and none which is not vile can be done to him. . . . But I said also (for the truth constrained me), Yet I have been seeking Tash all my days. Beloved, said the Glorious One, unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek."
Alongside Malachi's oracle we need to set another from the prophet Amos (9:7) to Israel:
"Are you not like the Ethiopians to me,
O people of Israel?" says the
LORD.
"Did I not bring up Israel from the
land of Egypt,
and the Philistines from Caphtor
and the Syrians from Kir?"
Amos is the prophet who also says to Israel, "You only have I known of all the families of the earth" (3:2). Yet, although Israel has been specially called by God, Amos suggests that other peoples may have their own callings from that same God. The prophet parallels Israel's exodus from Egypt with the exodus of' the Philistines and that of the Syrians. They too have had a history of dealing with the one true God, even if that history is not known to us in the way Israel's is. They too have had a calling from YHWH. (It is important that we emphasize here that their callings are not from some generic god whom all experience in their different ways. Were that the right way to talk of it, we would be on our way toward a theory of religious experience according to which all people have, some kind of fundamental experience -- call it absolute dependence -- which then gives rise to different ways of being religious. All gods are then fundamentally articulations of the same primordial experience. Tash and Aslan are indeed the same, and we can make no sense of Paul's concern in I Corinthians, with which I began, about the worship of false gods. On the contrary, I take Amos to be saying that other peoples have their own history of dealing not with a generic god but with YHWH, the God of Israel, whom we can identify rightly only through the story of his dealings with Israel, even though those are not his only dealings.)
I want to be careful, though, not to press the argument beyond my particular concerns here, and the example of Emeth may have begun to do so. I am not, as I noted above, asking whether all these other peoples, who have had their own history of dealing with Israel's God, will be saved. After all, alongside Amos's Oracle we must set the word of the psalmist (147:19-20):
He declares his word to Jacob,
his statutes and ordinances to Israel.
He has not dealt thus with any other nation;
they do not know his ordinances.
I am asking simply whether, when the peoples of the world cry out to god in their need, there are Christian grounds for supposing that, at least sometimes, it may be the true God whom they address.
Christians, after all, believe with the psalmist (19:1) that the heavens declare the glory of God. They believe, as St. Paul says in Romans (1:20), that God's "eternal power and deity" can be and have been discerned in the things he has made. Even Karl Barth, that staunch critic of natural theology, could write: "In spite of all the worldliness and unfaithfulness and ignorance of people, does not God in fact see to it that the knowledge of God is not ineffective that people must . . . know about God and therefore know what they do not want to know or in fact seem to know?" No one can live entirely out of touch with God. Indeed, no one can live entirely out of touch with that God who is the Father of Jesus Christ -- through whom, St. John says, all things were made, and who is both the life and the light of the world. Jesus simply is the light of the world, as John's Gospel says more than once. Hence, to be a human being is, as Barth puts it, "to stand already, even if with closed or blind eyes, in this light, the light of life." The true God is objectively present to all, even if subjectively unknown.
We have, therefore, grounds for thinking that -- at least sometimes -- the peoples of the world pray to the true God when they cry out in their need. Although they do not fully know that God, he still is present to them and may receive their prayer as directed to himself. Perhaps there is a sense, then, in which a Christian and a Hindu, praying alongside each other, might also be said to be praying "to" the same God -- both directing their prayer to the objectively present God who is the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, though that God is incompletely known to one of those who prays.
The reader will, I hope, recognize the interrogative and tentative quality of these reflections. Granting that quality, I have tried to think through whether and how it might be that Christians and non-Christians could be said, in their shared moment of need, to pray "to" the one (and only) true God -- the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and the Father of the Lord Jesus. Suppose there is a sense in which that can truly be said. Shall we then conclude that their praying "together" is unproblematic? Hardly. We have not come to the end of our puzzling yet.
Keeping in mind the train of thought I developed above, we might suppose that Paul could, with some theological justification, have told the Corinthians that in those sacrificial rituals the pagans were actually reaching out unwittingly to the true God. This same Paul, after all, as Luke recounts in Acts, could tell the men of Athens that their altar erected "to an unknown God" was, though unknown to them, built for the worship of the God whom he preached. It would have been another matter entirely for him to have joined in their worship of that unknown god -- as if he were not able to identify the One to whom all worship must be directed. So it would be possible for Christians to acknowledge that they and their pagan neighbors pray, in the complicated sense I have specified, "to" the same God. And there might be a sense in which they could pray "alongside" each other, with the Christians knowing that, in the sense specified, all were praying to the same God. But it would be harder to specify a sense in which, even granting all this, they could avoid seeming to deny the Lord Jesus if they were to present themselves as praying "with" their pagan neighbors.
Switch back to the Yankee Stadium event that generated these puzzles for me. What were those who gathered there doing? And do Christians have any reason to draw back from what they were doing? My own (tentative) view is that Christians might have grounds for thinking that they were all, in their shared time of need, praying "to" the same God (objectively present to all though subjectively unknown to many). But to the degree that they thought of themselves as praying "with" each other -- or, perhaps, to the degree that they encouraged others to suppose that they were praying "with" each other -- it was to some power other than Jesus that they were looking as the bond of their union, the power that brought them together "with" each other.
Nor is it terribly hard to identify what that power might have been at Yankee Stadium: namely, "America the Beautiful." I say this hesitantly, not wishing to seem insensitive to those who suffered the loss of loved ones in the September 11 attacks. Still, Christians need to be careful how we react to that evil deed. A "national crisis" is a terrible moment for us all, but it is no time to forget that it is often hard to draw clear lines distinguishing civil religion from ersatz religion -- and from, dare we say it, pagan religion. A national crisis is a time in which to bend every effort and energy to serve the lives of our fellow citizens -- and even, I would add, to defend them by force if need be. Nevertheless, for almost two millennia Christians have made clear, as Justin Martyr put it, that "we worship God only" though in other matters we serve our fellow citizens and those who rule.
We live in a time when Christian congregations have come increasingly to realize that we can no longer count on the surrounding culture to do much of our work for us -- and that to become a Christian may be experienced as a more decisive break from the surrounding culture than it was 50 years ago. Hence, we revive the adult catechumenate, and we make increasingly clear that baptism involves a new birth into the new people of God. We cannot do this in earnest and then revert to the rituals of civil religion the moment some national crisis comes upon us. To be sure, a people -- with the will to sustain itself as a people over time -- needs civic rituals. But Christians need to think about what form they should take -- about the form they may take if Christians are to share in them.
It is no easy thing to be fellow citizens with pagans -- not to say with the pagan that lies buried within each of us. (And likewise, we ought to acknowledge, it may not be easy for pagans to live with us as fellow citizens.) We need to think more, and harder, about how to manage this.
Barth wrote that, because Christ is the light of the world, Christians are eager to tolerate non-Christians, and that this "may have to be for a very long time, even his whole life." But this is not, Barth added, toleration "in the absolute sense." The Christian cannot grant to the non-Christian "a right to be blessed in his own way, for he knows of himself that to his salvation there is no such right even for him. Absolute tolerance towards him would mean not taking him seriously. . . . In effect, then, the Christian cannot leave the non-Christian at peace.
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In Memoriam: Burke Shelley
by Kevin Johnson Wednesday, January 12th, 2022
Sad news to report today: Budgie bassist and vocalist Burke Shelley has passed away. His daughter Ela wrote on social media that he died in his sleep at Heath Hospital in Cardiff. He was 71 years old.
Shelley was born in Cardiff in 1950 and formed Budgie in 1967 at just 17 years old. Their self-titled debut came in 1971, and the band steadily released new albums each year for the majority of the decade.
The power trio's sound melded blues with hard rock with Shelley's snarling bass and high-pitched vocals giving them an even more distinct edge. Many point to the band as one of the progenitors of heavy metal, though Shelley was reluctant to accept that. Their most influential song, "Breadfan", was famously covered by Metallica, who cite the band as an influence. Other groups that covered Budgie songs include Van Halen, Megadeth, and Iron Maiden.
Budgie released 10 albums between 1971 and 1982 before breaking up in 1988. They reunited for a series of concerts in 1994 and 1995 and then formed again in 1999. They released another album, You're All Living in Cuckooland, in 2006. Budgie came to a halt in 2010 when Shelley suffered an aortic aneurysm that left him unable to sing to his full abilities. He would later be diagnosed with Stickler Syndrome, which is a rare disorder affecting connective tissues.
Our thoughts are with the family and friends of Burke Shelley.
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Saw budgie so many times live over the years one hel of a live band with a loyal following huge loss to Welsh rock and rock music in general RIP BURKE
Budgie were the first band I ever went to see, Brighton polytechnic 1974, a band whose first four albums are simply fantastic slabs of no frills, straight forward rock, and deserve to be mentioned alongside those of Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Uriah Heep.
A highly influential band, without ever getting the rightful acclaim I feel they deserved, even the mighty Metallica covered two of their songs.
R.I.P. Burke.
David Attwood
I saw budgie twice in Birmingham and I was blown away and my love for budgie never slowed playing budgie CDs in my car Christmas eve as I headed home, so this sad news brought me to tears. Thank you for what you brought to the world and thank you for changing my world. A massive fan. Dave Attwood.
DHattie
I was born in 1968 and my first rock tunes I listened was in '76 and Budgie were among them and not really knowing who they were, to me They sounded so F***k'n Awesome! My Condolences are with The Shelley Family and Friends. RIP Burke Shelley


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Former Genesee County judge Valdemar L. Washington turns up as figure in Kwame Kilpatrick case
It's the talk of the political world in Michigan, and a former Genesee County Circuit Court judge has played a role in it, albeit a minor one.
Valdemar L. Washington, who served on the circuit bench for about 10 years before retiring in 1995, helped broker a deal between Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and several police officers who claimed they were retaliated against because of their roles in a probe of the mayor's security team.
The legal settlement is at the center of the scandal that threatens to topple Kilpatrick from office.
Washington, now a deputy state treasurer, said he can't talk about confidential aspects of the negotiations, even though he's drawn media attention because of his role.
Washington still lives in Flint and operates a private facilitation service used by attorneys to resolve cases out of court.
Washington said he was asked last year to help the parties try to settle a Whistleblower's lawsuit by former Detroit officers Gary Brown and Harold Neithrope. But the parties were too far apart, and the case went to trial, ending with a jury verdict in favor of the officers.
After the trial, Washington was called in to help mediate the issue of attorney fees.
During those talks, the mayor agreed to drop a planned appeal and settle the cases involving Brown and Neithrope, along with a separate Whistleblower's suit by a former mayoral bodyguard.
As part of the $8.4-million settlement, Kilpatrick approved a cover-up of scandalous text messages between himself and his former chief of staff, Christine Beatty, according to published reports.
Media reports on the case have included references to Washington in his role as facilitator.
Recently unsealed documents indicate that during the settlement talks, Washington was asked to deliver a sealed envelope from the plaintiffs' lawyer to an attorney for the mayor, according to a report in the Detroit Free Press.
The contents of the envelope were not revealed. But a short time later, the mayor agreed to settle the two cases, the newspaper said.
All parties were required to sign confidentiality agreements as part of the settlement, according to the newspaper.
Washington said he acted as he would in any other case. As a facilitator, his job is to talk with the parties and convey information, such as settlement offers, he said.
"I'm just there to assist them in reaching a point of agreement," he said.
"I worked with this plaintiff's law firm and the city of Detroit before on a very similar kind of case, and through negotiations we were able to resolve the entire case," he said.