In the year 1912 the tragic news of the Titanic shocked the world, and The Beverly Hills Hotel in California and Fairmont Chateau Laurier in Ottawa opened to the delight of international travelers. A beautiful collection of iconic grand dame hotel venues celebrated 100 this year and continue to welcome guest with great and grand style.
The opening of The Beverly Hills Hotel on May 12, 1912, two years before the city was incorporated, signaled the birth of the glitzy and world renowned community. It became the home to movie stars and entertainment mogels. Lovingly referred to by locals as "The Pink Palace" it features the ultimate in luxury, a collection of Bungalows which welcomed stars like Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, John Lennon and so many more. Last but not least it was home to the Polo Lounge, where a who�s who of the rich and famous gathered for generations. The Beverly Hills Hotel remains one of our nation's most enduring historic hotel icons.
A luxury Boston hotel that has been a symbol of the city's rich history and elegance since its gala opening in 1912, they celebrated the centennial anniversary, following the completion of a $20 million plus renovation and restoration project. This exciting project included remodeling of all 383 lavish guestrooms and suites, enhancements to meeting rooms and public spaces, a new restaurant, and the addition of a 3,000 square foot rooftop health club. The Fairmont Copley Plaza sits steps away from the Boston Public Library, historic Beacon Hill, and the Freedom Trail, as well as the Hynes Convention Center, Copley Place Mall and the boutiques of Newbury Street.
Perfectly located in the heart of Montreal's Golden Square Mile, the Ritz-Carlton Montreal has been the most elegant address in town since its opening in 1912. My daughter was married at the amazing historic hotel in what is considered the most exclusive ballroom in Montreal. This luxury hotel, is not only within walking distance of numerous high end boutiques, galleries and museums, but offers the finest in gastronimique dining and formal afternoon tea in the unique "Jardin du Ritz", a beautiful garden restaurant renowned for its exquisite food and great atmosphere. The Ritz-Carlton Montreal is the hotel of choice for doing business in Montreal. The hotel re-opened in June 2012 following a refurbishment.
Fairmont Ch�teau Laurier celebrating their 100 years of history, tradition and grandeur. Ottawa's famed castle opened its doors June 1, 1912 and changed the face of Canada's capital, lending a new elegance and sophistication to the city. The costs totaled $2 million, and guestrooms were priced at $2 per night! The hotel is as elegant as ever and offers one of the finest and most authentic tea services internationally. The legendary ch�teau has hosted heads of state, celebrities, dignitaries and guests from around the world. To commemorate the hotel's centennial year, a variety of events and promotions were implemented, including Centennial Packages, a Door's Open event with costume guided tours, Centennial Tea, a Memorabilia Search, Historic Food and Beverage promotions and much more.
This historic property is an elegant surprise where Lone-Star legend meets Four Diamond luxury in the heart of Dallas. The Adolphus has been the standard for luxury since St. Louis beer baron Adolphus Busch opened its doors in 1912. It is the baroque of downtown Dallas hotels. The hotel has imperial European elegance, and features regal Flemish tapestries and an ornately carved Victorian Steinway once owned by the Guggenheim family. There is an aura of the famous guests hosted at the hotel including Queen Elizabeth II, the Vanderbilts, U2, Oscar de la Renta, Donald Trump, and Babe Ruth who are all part of the legend at this delightful Dallas luxury hotel.
Westward Look Wyndham Grand Resort & Spa grew from an elegant hacienda-style family home in 1912, shortly after Arizona became a state when the population was only 13,000. William Watson and his wife Maria set about built their dream home then, and today the Watson's living room, called the Vigas Room with exposed log ceiling beams brought from Mount Lemmon; used in this Southwestern style, the beams are called vigas. In the 1920s, tourism began to be an important part of the Tucson economy, and the owners added 15 cottages around the original home and welcomed guests to enjoy the ranch experience.
Commissioned by King Alfonso XIII in 1912, the newly restored Westin Palace Madrid is near the Prado, historic monuments and some of the best tapas venues. In 2010 is was ranked as one of the world's best hotels by Cond� Nast Traveler�s Gold List. The regal building, located in Madrid�s center, has been a center of Spanish society for 100 years. It's known for its spectacular stained glass dome and proximity to the Prado, Thyssen and Reina Sofia museums.
The 100 year old, award winning, luxury Stafford hotel is located in central London with a blend of unique character and fascinating heritage. Located in the heart of St James's, The Stafford London, by Kempinski has an air of timelessness, where elegance and tradition create a haven of calm away from London's busy streets.
Built in 1912, Hotel Astoria survived the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, two world wars, Perestroika, the collapse of the Soviet Union and formation of the new Russian economy. It is a truly Russian luxury brand which has survived the turbulent history of 20th and 21st centuries, and is managed by the British hotelier Sir Rocco Forte since 1997 and later redesigned by Olga Polizzi. The historic hotel continues to offer excellent standards of traditional Russian hospitality. It reflects the noble history of St. Petersburg, with interior designed to recreate the grandeur associated with St. Petersburg. Located on St Isaac's Square at the hub of St Petersburg's city centre. St Isaac's Cathedral stands opposite Hotel Astoria, and the renowned Hermitage Museum nearby.
A change of scenery is guaranteed at the H�tel Normandy Barri�re located 2 hours from Paris. This Anglo-Norman dwelling has managed to synergize with the times, which has contributed to improving service quality on site. As the simple elegance of the hall and bar decorated by Jacques Garcia show; the sunlight from the beaches enhances the light wood-colored shades and merges with the fabric texture, creating an experience of ease and comfort in the rooms and suites.


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Ley Lady Ley
Submitted by: Theredwitch
Keeping Harry on the Old Straight Track
By Theredwitch
The last book is written and there is a release date. It seems almost futile now to engage in Harry Potter theories because soon we will know all. Well, not all; there are still a great many details that might not make it into this novel for the dedicated Harry Potter sleuth to work out. This article is concerned with something that makes up that background, although it is possible that ley lines will be very important in the last book. They have some interesting names to various people: ley lines, dragon lines, and passing hallows. So read on, gentle reader, read on, because Harry's life might depend on this force.
Where the Truth Leys
The route of the Knight Bus is very curious. It does not seem to follow Muggle roads when dropping off passengers or picking them up. It was somewhere in Wales when Harry flagged the bus down in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and rather than dropping him off in London which would have been closer, it went back to Wales to drop off Madam Marsh in Abergavenny before stopping at the Leaky Cauldron.1 It has been discussed in the forums whether or not the movements of the bus are due to its travelling along ley lines.2
Ley lines were discovered by Alfred Watkins.3 He was a partner in a flour-milling business, a photographer and an amateur archaeologist. He travelled around the countryside for his business and while visiting Backwardine he discovered that several places of antiquity appeared to fall in a straight line on the map he was consulting. He looked at more maps and discovered that these alignments occurred with most ancient sites and he called them "ley lines" from lea, the Saxon word for "open spaces." He published his findings in a book called The Old Straight Track in 1925.4
That ancient monuments were constructed along straight lines is not in doubt. Alfred Watkins always thought they were merely pathways between points of spiritual power,5 not conduits of that power, and it is this relationship between those points in alignment that is in doubt. However, in a constructed world like Harry Potter's where the author can set her own rules about what is and what is not, anything is possible, and it appears that there are ley lines in Harry's world. Whether they are conduits of extraordinary magical power or a system to bring order to Harry's world remains to be seen but I think we can guess, at the very least, that the movements of the Knight Bus are not so random ' nor is the selection of names for things like home towns of Quidditch teams and water skiing budgies. It appears as though J.K. Rowling has a map on which she has drawn her own ley lines and she selects towns that are only placed along those lines. If we can find the lines, we can make some guesses about the places Harry goes, like the true location of Little Whinging and Hogwarts.
I would doubt if these lines are merely straight pathways between points, since flying and Apparation make a straight path on the ground unnecessary. I think these lines are corridors of power, and that crossroads or the beginning points of those lines are places of extraordinary power. It would certainly be the most magical way to organize the map of Wizarding Britain.
I say that Watkins "discovered" them, but the Chinese have known about ley lines for many years. They called them "dragon lines" and, using geomancy to detect them, sought some benefit from these earth energies by placing tombs on them and for town planning, which we know as Feng Shui.6
The early settlers to Iceland knew of these types of earth energies, too. Iceland was discovered by the Vikings, followed soon after by Irish and Scottish monks. These first settlers to Iceland saw a spirituality in the land and left certain areas undeveloped specially for the use of land wights, or spirits, as their very own. Places of worship were discovered using geomancy, as the Chinese used, to respect the anima loci (spirit of place) in the location. This is outlined in Landnamabok: The Book of Settlement.7 This may be how the Celts developed the lands they settled as well, perhaps by dowsing or geomancy as a means of discovering hidden ley lines.
The early Celts had an animistic religion;8 they worshipped god in nature, i.e. tree spirits, rivers and mountains, stones and others. Much of Harry's world draws upon Celtic lore. The wand woods are Celtic based.9 Hogwarts is built on an old Celtic site.10 Harry comes of age at seventeen,11 which was the age of choice for the Celts.12 The high feast at Hogwarts is Hallowe'en,13 or Samhain as the Celts once called it. There are so many examples.
Modern occultists have taken Watkins' original idea and made these alignments into corridors of magical power. Some role-playing games even refer to power surges along these lines of power as "passing hallows' 14 since the monuments along these lines are frequently referred to as hallows, or sacred places, and either the hallows create an energy that passes between the points or the lines create the energy that the hallows draw upon. Indeed if they are points on an energy grid, then it follows that energy will flow. Many of these lines are across barrows, monoliths and wells where supernatural beings congregate and this includes ghosts. With all the ghostly activity, Hogwarts must be located on a very powerful hallow!
Watkins tried to make his theory of alignments acceptable to science by establishing a system of points to make it a measurable, solid thing. For instance, a mound was worth one point, a standing stone was worth another point, beacons were worth one point, crossroads if named and ancient ¾ point and so on. The total value had to add up to five points to be a valid ley,15 but four points was generally accepted as not being the result of a coincidence.
The theory was this: if ten points are marked haphazardly on a sheet of paper, "there is an average probability that there will be one three point alignment." 16 Watkins wrote that "if only three accidentally placed points are on the sheet, the chance of a three point alignment is 1 in 720." 17 So if you put ten dots on a piece of paper or a map, odds are you will get one alignment of three dots. Fair enough ' so he required four or more points to make it a valid ley.
A ley should not be taken as proved with less than four good mark-points. Three good points with several others of less value like cross roads and coinciding tracks may be sufficient. 18
The Ley Hunter's Manual states that since an alignment must be within an arc of ¼ of a degree, a map with a scale of one inch to the mile "encompasses something like a additional 600 feet." 19 That is a lot of wiggle room, but we are not out to prove that ley lines exist to a physicist, only that J.K. Rowling planned out Harry's world along ley lines of her own making. And that, I think we can do.
Muggle History and the Wizarding World Collide
Most of the truly important places in Harry's world are hidden from us with their wizarding names, such as Godric's Hollow, Hogwarts, Little Hangleton. With a little detective work, a good map and some history books, we can make some deductions about the Muggle equivalents in the map of Muggle Britain.
Many of the names in the Harry Potter series come out of the Battle of Hastings and the Domesday Book:20 Dawlish, Dudley, Dursley, Lydney,21 Orpington22 and Snape are all towns in the Domesday Book. The Bishop of Bayeux is called Odo,23 and a Norman knight was Richard le Fort Escue,24 or Richard Strong Shield. Another was William Peveril,25 a Norman knight who was reputed to be an illegitimate son of William the Conqueror, and fought on the Norman side at the Battle. The Peverell coat of arms on Marvolo's ring is one of the heirlooms of which the last of the Slytherin descendants are so proud. It is their link to "royalty." At this point in time, they carry the last name of Gaunt, which comes from a player in the War of the Roses, John of Gaunt,26 father of the Lancastrian side of the war. It suffices to say that Muggle history plays a big part in the background of wizarding Britain.
The Domesday Book lists a number of holdings by William Peveril but the most interesting for the purposes of this article is Peveril Castle27 in the southern part of the Peak District National Park. It was originally owned by William Peveril in the Domesday Book but was later given to John of Gaunt.28 This brings two of the Slytherin branches to the same area where they could mingle. Near the ruins of this castle are the little towns of Little Hucklow and Great Hucklow and Grindlow (grindylow?) all in the Domesday Book as well.29
A quick check on the British Automobile Association's Route Planner page shows that Little Hucklow is 208 miles from the center of Surrey, selecting Crawley as my centerpoint.30 Since we don't know where Little Whinging is yet, this is a good starting point as the area around Little Hucklow is sufficiently wooded, rural and hilly to fit the description in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince for Little Hangleton and is close to Manchester, where Rowling lived for a time.
Figure 1: Little Hucklow
The cave where the Slytherin locket was hidden was difficult to place but I have a candidate for this location: Flamborough Head in East Riding of Yorkshire. This is about a three and a half hour train ride,31 which seems like a long ride for a day trip from an orphanage but there are some compelling reasons for placing it here.
The idea for the orphans' trip to the seaside was probably borrowed from a real charity in London called the London Taxi Drivers' Fund for Underprivileged Children,32 started by a taxi driver who had grown up in an orphanage. In 1928, he organized with five other taxi drivers a ride in a taxi to the coast for London orphans to see the sea and get some sea air. The timing is perfect for Tom Riddle who was born around 1926.33 However, the taxi drivers took those first children to Southend which is too close to sea level to have the cliffs and caves in which Riddle scared two other orphans. And since Mrs. Cole does not mention a taxi in these excursions, one may assume that no taxis were involved.
The geology of Kent and Sussex is not really suitable for natural caves. There are some caves there but they are mostly man made.34 The chalk that forms the cliffs along those shires are held to be too unstable for the large deep kind of cave that Riddle used for his Horcrux. And, if you follow the coastline north from the Thames Estuary, the countryside has some lovely beaches, mostly because the shorelines are at sea level. It is not until Flamborough Head that there are the towering, rocky cliffs that Harry saw while with Dumbledore. These caves are natural and more stable than the south coast caves and many are inaccessible at high tide. Even more promising: the small village along the cliffs, Sewerby,35 is mentioned in the Domesday Book as having been laid to waste.
The caves and cliffs on the Welsh and Cornish coast fit the description as well but, as Slytherin's element is water and the direction is east, they just don't fit the pattern. And there is a pattern.
The next place I propose to mark on the map is Ely in Norfolk, a county in which there is a grassy marsh called the Fens. Ely is a man made island in the Fens where people lived long before the Norman invasion.36 The Venerable Bede mentions Ely as being so named because it is a place where there are lots of eels, a snakelike type of fish. Ely is also in the east, which corresponds well with Slytherin's element of water, being an island in a swamp. Since the Bede knows of Ely in the 7th century, it was settled in long before Salazar Slytherin went north and helped to found Hogwarts.
The Saxons made their last stand against the Normans here, led by Hereward the Wake.37 The Saxons were betrayed and Ely was captured, but Hereward escaped before the Normans could get him. He clearly had some magical help as the Normans brought a witch to curse the besieged in Ely, but the tower she stood on caught fire and toppled over. While his men were on the run and lost in Rockingham Forest, a wolf guided them and supernatural candles burned on the trees, their shields pointing the way. Hereward was eventually pardoned because he was so slippery and eluded capture for so long that the Normans gave up.38 It is uncertain where Hereward went after he escaped the fall of Ely, but perhaps his wizarding helper went north to Little Hucklow.
My pet theory about why Slytherin fought with Gryffindor and left Hogwarts forever is because Gryffindor, who allowed anyone magical to study at the school, allowed the conquering Norman wizards in. The Saxon nobility was largely sold into slavery after 1066 and their lands were given to Normans.39 Could the last straw have been that Slytherin was forced to accept the Malfoys into his house?
Lydney in Gloucestershire is my choice for Godric's Hollow, due to the shrine of Nodens that is placed there. Other points on the map are taken from the series such as Abergavenny (where Madam Marsh got off the Knight Bus), Aberdeen (another Knight Bus stop), Bristol (over which Harry fell asleep while flying with Hagrid), Peebles (where a Muggle saw a flying Ford Anglia), Portree (a town with its own Quidditch team), etc. The system does not seem to work with the towns named on the Famous Wizarding cards, but it does work with towns in Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Once we have all our points marked on the map, we can start drawing lines between them and see if they line up, or at least if some of them do.
Lining Them Up On a Map
I have 46 points on my map in the end. I have included one line as a ley line although it is never mentioned in the series simply because it is such a powerful ley, the ultimate ley line: the Prime Meridian. The place where time begins, which runs through Greenwich in London but also runs through Surrey and, depending on the scale of the map you are using, runs near Ely and just skims past Flamborough Head. And there you have my first problem. How big was the map Rowling used and how fine a point on her pencil? Some things are close but for the theory to work they have to be on the line. Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades, not ley lines.
Every time I take a new map and mark my points, I end up with slightly different lines. A difference of ¼ of degree on an arc 'with a map scaled at one inch to a mile 'and you get a variance of 600 feet! Imagine in a map with a scale of one inch to 30 or 60 miles and there are some deviations between maps on coastlines and placements of towns, however slight. But in spite of the difficulties, the points on the map almost all end up either on a ley line or right beside one.
Figure 2: Ley lines through England and Wales. Please click on image for an enlarged version.
I take a pencil and draw my first line from Lydney, Gloucestershire and connect it to Dursley in Somerset, extending it both directions into Wales and into southern England. It crosses the Prime Meridian at a lovely town called East Grinstead. East Grinstead is not in the Domesday Book because it is a modern town. This makes it a contender for Little Whinging because it too is a modern town and also due to the following passage in Brewer's Britain and Ireland, taken from George Hay's Sleeper:
Funny place, East Grinstead. Nothing remarkable, on the face of it ' just masses of Stockbroker Tudor mansions on the outskirts, a messily indeterminate centre, if you can call it that, and then a sprawl of smaller houses fading into industrial estates. Neither charming nor particularly ugly: just a sort of nothing town. And yet... And yet the whole area has been some sort of manna-accumulator as far back as one can trace. The Druids were just the earliest one could be certain of, but we know there were other practitioners long before they were put down by the Romans. Down, but not out. The place was and remain pagan, in any true sense: friendly in fact, to just about any belief short of orthodox christianity. Today, you have the Great Mormon Church, the Rudolf Steiner school, the Church of Scientology, and more witches than one could shake a broom at. 40
I love the idea that the Dursleys are living in this "sort of nothing" town that has "more witches than one could shake a broom at." Even better, the Automobile Association's Route Planner gives the miles from East Grinstead to Little Hucklow as 209 miles. In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Frank Bryce was murdered in Little Hangleton and "two hundred miles away, the boy called Harry Potter awoke with a start." 41 We have a winner! Except for one snag. East Grinstead is not in Surrey, it is in Sussex. There is a difference of one mile between it and the place I chose as my centre point. I will mention it as a possibility nevertheless, because the boundary between Sussex and Surrey is not marked on most of the maps that I looked at. East Grinstead is situated close to the boundary and juts into Surrey so that one could be forgiven in mistakenly placing it there. It was not until reading an entry in Brewer's Britain and Ireland that I realized my error. If Rowling made the same mistake as I did, once it was committed in print to being Surrey, she could not change it back. So, while it has potential and is a personal favourite, I cannot consider it as definitely being Little Whinging. And I still have to prove that any ley lines exist.
I have another city that has bearing on the books in spite of not actually being mentioned in the series. That place is Ipswich and it is going to lead us to Ottery St. Catchpole. While I agree with the Harry Potter Lexicon that the home village of the Burrow is likely to be Ottery St. Mary,42 since the name refers to being on the river Otter and the only river Otter is in Devon, I think Rowling chose to honour another person rather than St. Mary in its naming. In Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, there are two entries for "catchpole": one refers to the sheriff's office and the other refers to the extraordinary Margaret Catchpole,43 an almost legendary folk-hero from Suffolk ' St. Catchpole!
It would be further evidence of Rowling's sense of humour to deify a woman who was thrown into jail for stealing a horse, consorting with smugglers and escaping from jail twice before being shipped off to Australia. She is associated with Ipswich in Suffolk. A line drawn to connect Ottery St. Mary to Ipswich and beyond takes in Maidenhead (where a wizarding party went awry), Little Norton (where Stubby Boardman was hit in the ear with a turnip), Topsham (where Madam Z. Nettles used Kwikspell to improve her abilities) and Chudleigh (which is probably where Ron's favourite Quidditch team is from). This line also goes through Stonehenge, another place associated with many ley lines and is located near the Malfoy mansion, which is somewhere in Wiltshire. This gives us six points. That is enough to not be a coincidence, even if Ipswich is a controversial choice.
There are two other major ley lines running through London besides the Prime Meridian: Diagon-al Ley and Knockturn-al Ley. Perhaps Diagon Alley is at a slant to Charing Cross and Knockturn Alley's power waxes in the dark. And I can find more on the map. I drew a line connecting Aberdeen to Holyhead (another Quidditch town) in Anglesey (another Knight Bus stop) and along this line, I also found Montrose (Quidditch team), Arbroath (to where Guthrie Lochrin flew a splintery broomstick), and Peebles ' five more points, another viable ley line and all towns are canon!
There are two Barnsleys, home of the water-skiing budgie, in Britain. One is in Gloucestershire and one is in South Yorkshire. How to know which is the correct one? Find out if it lines up with other points on the map, of course. The one in South Yorkshire lines up with Little Hucklow, Abergavenny and Caerphilly (Quidditch team). Four points, good enough for Watkins.
Blackpool (where Great Uncle Algie pushed Neville off the pier), Liverpool (where Celestina Warbeck had a concert), Little Norton and Peebles line up and pass through an Edinburgh suburb called Barnton, a town mentioned in Quidditch Through the Ages. The Lexicon places it near Liverpool but they do not seem to have found the other one near Edinburgh.44 If that is a valid ley, it is five points.
Snape is named after a town in Britain but which one? There are two Snapes. One is in Suffolk and the other is in North Yorkshire. Extending the line from Ottery St. Mary to Ipswich crosses Snape in Suffolk, giving that alignment seven points. But I must admit I favoured the Snape in Yorkshire and thought that it would appear on a line that also included the real world Spinner's End. It might, but one needs to know with which other points it aligns. Until we get that last book of the series, we don't know where the most important points on the map are. But as long as we can demonstrate that there are alignments and that they are not random, we can use the points we do have to guess at other possible ley lines and find the places that have eluded us until now. I have five ley lines listed here that would have satisfied Watkins, not including Diagon Alley and Knockturn, which may have just been a play on words.
Why Ley these Lines Down Anyway?
Ley lines could pinpoint Azkaban on the North Sea, Hogwarts, and the hiding place of the Horcrux Riddle made with Rowena Ravenclaw's wand. It has to be a wand because the fourth Hallow of the Tuatha de Danaan (that has yet to be accounted for) is the Spear of Lugh, which makes its way into the minor Tarot cards as the suit of wands. Her element is air and the direction is north. So since she comes from glen, this must be Scotland, perhaps even near Hogwarts.
Figure 3: Ley lines through Scotland. Please click on image for an enlarged version.
Although I have yet to find a site I am happy with, two of my lines on one map intersect at the north end of the Island of Skye in the Hebrides near a place called Creag an Fhithich or "Rock of the Raven." The one line started at Flamborough Point and went through Peebles, where Harry and Ron were spotted by Muggles while flying the Ford Anglia. The other line starts in Hastings, goes through London crossing the Prime Meridian at Greenwich, Little Hucklow, Paisley (the location of a witch who wrote to Harry to say she believed him in the fifth book), Loch Lomond (where Mirabella Plunkett fell in love with a merman), before going right through Waternish Point on the island of Skye where the Rock of the Raven is. Only one line has enough solid points to be sure that it is a valid ley, but with three to four points each, they are both worth considering. And, on a different map with a different scale, the lines did not fall the same way.
Hogwarts must surely be in Argyll. The Fat Lady hid in a map of Argyllshire after she was attacked by Sirius Black. Since there are many paintings in Hogwarts but no other maps mentioned as wall decorations, I can think of only one reason to put that map on the wall and that is because it covers the surrounding area. Several lines on different maps that I used went through Loch Morar, where the Morag,45 the resident lake monster, behaves very much like the giant squid. It has appeared to be a giant snake but boaters who must fend off an attack don't stop to check if it is a tail or a tentacle they are fighting. The east end of Loch Morar is very remote from Muggles as the main road to Mallaig now passes the town of Morarby.46 There is a train station, so perhaps this is Hogsmeade, or the model of it, because you have to walk to any settlements around the lake. There are no Muggle roads but perhaps the wizards have a branch line that will take them to Hogsmeade unnoticed, if Morar is not it. The Ordnance Survey map shows a cairn on the north side.
Figure 4: Loch Morar.
That there are ley lines in Harry's world has been shown. That there are ley lines in the Muggle world has also been demonstrated. The Vikings who settled Iceland used them for their spirit places and the Chinese harnessed their energy for many centuries as well. The people who built stone circles and barrows built their sacred places along a straight track as well. This could be the source of the ancient magic that is based in the elements of the earth and seeks to re-establish the balance that has been upset by the flouting of natural law that Lord Voldemort has done. Perhaps Harry will discover that the hallows along these lines are places of deathly power indeed. Harry is at a crossroads. Which way will he go next?
1. Rowling, Prisoner of Azkaban, 32.
2. Asphodel Wormwood, comment on "Spell Strength, How does magical power work?", post #3.
3. Wikipedia, s.v. "Alfred Watkins."
4. Devereux, New Ley Hunter's Guide.
5. Ibid., "A flood of ancestral memory."
6. Leyhunter.com, s.v. "Feng Shui."
7. Curran, Encyclopedia of Celtic Mythology, 185'6.
8. Ibid., 184'5
9. Rowling, "Extra Stuff: Wands."
10. Mzimba, "Alfonso Cuarón: The man behind the magic." Admittedly this is not canon because it is Cuarón repeating something that Rowling said. Exact words in interview: "So then you say ˜What about a sundial?' She says: ˜That makes perfect sense because when the castle was built it was on an ancient Celtic site.'"
11. Rowling, Half-Blood Prince, 56.
12. Berresford Ellis, Ancient World of the Celts, 85
13. At least it appears to be the biggest feast day at Hogwarts. Christmas is only celebrated by the few left behind over the holidays and the end of the school year feast is not accompanied by entertainment. Easter does not appear to have any special celebration at all. Valentine's Day is the only other day mentioned.
14. Camarilla: UK, "Passing Hallows of Britannia." There are other websites but this one is the best example.
15. Devereux, New Ley Hunter's Guide, "Camps."
16. Wikipedia, s.v. "Ley Line' "Are alignments and ley lines the same thing?"
20. Domesday Book Online. Unless provided with separate footnotes, all references to towns in the Domesday Book come from this website.
21. TheRedWitch, "Finding Godric's Hollow."
22. Taken from the Domesday Book but I am assuming that Porpington is a corruption of Orpington, as in Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington.
23. Wikipedia, s.v. Odo of Bayeux. This is a reference to the song about Odo that Slughorn and Hagrid sing after Aragog's funeral.
24. Mariboe, "Battle, East Sussex."
25. Wikipedia, s.v. "William Peveril."
26 The Heritage Trail, "Peveril Castle."
29. Domesday Book Online.
30. Automobile Association, "Route Planner."
31. Association of Train Operating Companies,"National Rail Enquiries." Checking the schedule for February 21, 2007, departure is at reasonable earliest 7:20 arriving in Bridlington at 10:54 and returning at 18:25 arriving at King's Cross Station in London at 21:59. It seems like a long ride but is doable. http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/#.
32. Wikipedia, s.v. "Norwood." For more info, see The London Taxidrivers' Fund for Underprivileged Children (video), http://www.thelondontaxidriverschildrenscharity.co.uk/index.php?p=HOME.
33. Lexicon, "The Master Timeline."
34. Kent Underground Research Group, "Natural Caves."
36. Ayto and Crofton, Brewer's Britain and Ireland, 386.
37. Ayto, Brewer's Phrase and Fable, 664.
38, Wikipedia, s.v. "Hereward the Wake."
39. Kirkby, "The Norman Conquest."
40. Ayto & Crofton, Brewer's Britain and Ireland, 368'9.
41. Rowling, Goblet of Fire, 19.
42. Lexicon, "Gazetteer' s.v. "Ottery St. Catchpole."
43. Ayto, Brewer's Phrase and Fable, pg. 242. I am basing my certainty that Margaret Catchpole is St. Catchpole on the fact that we know Rowling owns this book and uses it for names.
44. Lexicon, "Gazetteer' s.v. "Barnton."
45. Centre for Fortean Zoology, "Expeditions: Loch Morar' 2005.
46. Undiscovered Scotland, "Morar."
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Sometimes a journey is an outward adventure. Other times it is an inward one. My journey as a writer may have begun when I wrote my first novel at the age of nine, but it received new life upon arriving in France for a writing school and reflection into myself. The date alone was auspicious: 10-10-10. I should have known that it would be powerful.
I lacked confidence in my writing ability, in spite of being encouraged to join a creative writing club by a college professor. I was in the business field – not the arts – following the well meaning advice of counselors and relatives. There was no one encouraging me to give writing any serious consideration. I assumed they knew best.
But there came a time when the tribal drum beat called out louder than ever before. The time to find out if I had any talent had arrived. I jumped off the comfortable cliff of the status quo and leapt alone onto a plane headed for France toward a destiny shared with other students and a teacher I believed in although I had only shared conversations with her through the internet.
I didn't even belong to any social media groups before preparing for this class. My computer was a ten year old relic with no ethernet port. My internet service was dial up. The largest portion of my writing consisted of journaling in long hand. I had written a few novels – one was quite horrible but allowed me to get the kinks out and the other had a few issues but I rather liked it. It was my secret hobby; nobody, not even my husband, knew.
Pierre Auguste Renoir's Final Resting Place.
Even in class I had trouble handing my work over to the instructor – writer, professor, editor Janet Hulstrand. I feared that she would suggest a new hobby – knitting maybe. But I had to know if there was a shred of salvageable material in my work. I had to know if I had any talent. And I was prepared to hear that I didn't. It is always easier to hear the bad as opposed to the good. I would have calmly let it go and enjoyed the beauty of the French countryside. When she told me that it was good and that it really needed little in the way of editing, I actually cried. It was supreme validation.
The other students were immensely supportive and the villagers of Essoyes referred to us as 'Janet's writers'. Perhaps I needed to hear myself referred to as a writer in order to believe it in the deepest cells of my body. I probably needed to hear it about six thousand times.
The leaf-covered table and chairs beyond Janet's chalet.
But I remember the day near the end of the week, walking through the golden vineyard behind the Hotel des Canotiers – the very field Renoir used as inspiration for 'Path through the tall Grasses' – with a few of the other students. I could see the writer in them and suddenly could feel it in myself. A voice whispered inside of my own head telling me that I too was a writer.
'Path Through the Tall Grasses' reproduction placed in the spot it was painted.
The safe shelter Janet provided allowed a metamorphosis of my beliefs. Another writer suggested that I purchase business cards to remind me of it. Being part of a group mirrored my reflection from them – the women I respected. Once I believed, the path was marked for me by Janet.
She honed in on my weaknesses and helped me develop them into strengths. She made suggestions – which I listened to – and allowed ideas to flourish. One day she even stopped the class to give me time to jot down another plot for a story line.
I returned home full of energy, excitement, and determination and didn't want to lose it. So I started a blog just to get use to the idea of having my work seen on a daily basis and learning that making mistakes was alright. There is always a way to edit and correct. Constructive criticism has helped me grow. I welcome it.
Then I sent a short story entitled –What is it About Paris? – to an online publishing house and have just been notified that it tied for runner up travel story of the year.
Louvre from the Tuileries Garden in Paris, France.
With each success I gained a little more courage. I sent a travel article to Bonjour Paris about Essoyes and the newly created Renoir Museum which they published.
And then I entered a contest through Rate My Study Abroad, although I wasn't enrolled through a university. It received an honorable mention and I was – and still am – over the moon about that one.
The following spring I attended a writer's conference in Asheville, North Carolina, where I met my current publisher, The Wild Rose Press, and my editor, Maggie Johnson.
With their encouragement, I submitted my first novel, Acquisition.
It was released on November 7, 2014.
It was followed by The Haunting of William Gray in November 2015.
Inspired by travels in the low country of South Carolina, it offers the twists that are indicative of its setting in Georgetown and Charleston.
Part historical, part paranormal, a little gothic, and very intriguing, The Haunting of William Gray will–hopefully–have readers believing in ghosts.
As a special treat, my holiday novel, Herald Angels, will be released just in time for Christmas on 12-09-2016.
Whether you prefer simple country celebrations, or flashy and bright Christmas in the city, this is the novel for you.
Rural Virginia competes with Manhattan for the spotlight as the main character struggles with her past, future, and various family issues, most notably those concerning her sister.
If you are looking for a feel-good-Christmas novel, this is the one for you.
Behind the Mask, my fourth novel with The Wild Rose Press, will launch March 24, 2017!
Inspired by Venice, Italy, it juxtaposes the watery city with an American in trouble, a murderer on the loose, and an Italian doctor intent on saving her.
Romance meets intrigue in this international suspense.
And my network of talented writers is expanding.
A Young Adult novel I had been toying with for years was awarded a two week residency at Noepe Center for Literary Arts on Martha's Vineyard. Living with likeminded authors from various places around the United States gave me new insights and perspectives, and a lot of cool friends.
But it didn't end there. I accepted the invitation by the director of Noepe, who also leads a Monastic Studies Retreat in Italy, to join this past year's journey. It was a trip not only to a previously unknown-to-me medieval village — Orvieto — but also into some unearthed territory within myself.
The Young Adult novel I finished during my second residency at Noepe, has now been awarded one of ten spots in University of Iowa's Novel Intensive Workshop. I'll be updating with pictures and further details of its progress later this summer.
My single step began with the Essoyes School . It gave me permission to follow my dreams, which changed my life. There is no going back behind a dark curtain of self-doubt.
What a wonderful journey you've had, both physically and intellectually. I am off to read your Paris story — a city I love. Congratulations on all your accomplishments and I am really looking forward to following on your path.
Thanks Elyse. I hope you enjoy the Paris story. It's my humorous approach!
I think we just inspire one another, Arindam. You offer much inspiration to me, and I know that you do to others as well.
Hello Renee Johnson Thanks for following my blog.You have a very nice blog here. I love your collections! Keep spreading the joy and beauty by writing hand to the world, my friend.
Thank you for such a nice comment. I'm so glad you enjoyed what you've read so far. And your blog is excellent. I'll be following along!
Always Welcome Renee..nice to meet here….Are you interested to writing articles through our blog.?
Certainly. That's a nice idea actually. Thanks Cyril.
Ok fine .Always keep in touch.
What a beautiful story Renee. Congratulations on your Paris story. I'm off to read it now.
It's a bit of fun and humor. Hope you enjoy it!
A beautiful life's journey full of adventures and excitement. A journey that led to amazing people and places.
Thank you. It was pretty amazing and inspiring.
Wow, Renee, this is inspiring to read – that life can be so fulfilling AND including writing, doing it. I loathe my office work.
Cheers to you 🙂 & Happy Easter, while I'm here!
Happy Easter to you and Daniel.
Welcome! Thank you for subscribing to follow my blog. looks like you have an interesting blog here, and I do hope you enjoy mine.
Thank you for visiting Arun. I hope you'll find something of interest here.
It's an honor to be a part of your amazing world of beautiful words and images. Thanks for the recent comment. Have a great week.
The honor is mine. Thank you for such a lovely comment.
Wishing all the best. Have a great weekend.
Thanks IT. Hoping the same for you every weekend.
The action part is the hardest, but also the most rewarding. I have a feeling you are more 'figured out' than you think and I love your site. Good luck and nice to meet you too.
Thanks for inspiring us everyday and for the warm, generous visits. Have a blessed day.
Thanks Cathy. I enjoyed your site as well and will be back for more of your insights.
It's a pleasure reading your work.
Thank you so much. What a nice comment.
Thanks so much for the follow. I am returning the favor, as I enjoy your writing. What an incredible experience to study writing in France! It sounds very tempting. . . .
Thank you. I enjoy your blog as well. France is always tempting, isn't it? Must return soon. The light, the people, the culture, the food…lovely.
Love the Louvre picture – and the cheese cart!
Thanks. I can't resist a cheese cart. Yum.
Thank you for visiting my blog and following it. Have a wonderful CHRISTmas!
Thank you and wishing you a very happy Christmas as well.
A beautiful introduction replete with inspiring quotes which makes one think deeply. Writing a novel at the age of 9 reveals you to be gifted. I'm keen now to explore and savor your articles.
Thank you so much. I am a quote lover to be sure and often add them to my posts. I'm pleased to hear you enjoyed reading about my journey.
Thanks Sherri. I just read your piece on Paris as well, and loved it. OK, I'm just going to say it! We'll always have Paris – in common!
Hi, Renee –Thanks for following my blog. I love reading about the journeys of fellow writers.
Ver inspiring words, you have a great blog!
Thank you so much. I'm coming over to your site to visit with you too.
So happy to have you stopping in for a visit. I love your site as well. Hopefully we'll add some thoughts to each other's journeys. Thank you.
Very inspirational Renee. By reading stories like yours I'm hoping I can find my way too. I started my blog as a way to start writing again, which I'm enjoying. Not sure where it'll take me but here's hoping there's no stopping me! I look forward to following you.
Welcome. I hope you will find something interesting here every time you drop by. And thanks for the follow.
Hi Renee, thank you so much for stopping by my blog and following. Your accomplishments are so inspiring. Look forward to reading more.
Thank you Mia. You have a lovely blog and I look forward to following along with you as well.
Renee, this is the most wonderful and inspiring about page I've read! 😀 My heart delights as you begin to trust your writing self and bounces with joy as you discover who you are – a writer! Well done on your early successes to give you lift and real boost in confidence. The course sounds amazing set in a stunning setting with so much artistic aura. I must check it out. You travelled a long way to this one …not so far from me.
Annika, thank you so very much. Yes, there has been much traveling–inward and outward–to reach this point. I hope in sharing this, others will be inspired to take steps forward in their journeys to find themselves.


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«I'm So Young» es una canción escrita por William "Prez" Tyus Jr., de Cincinnati, Ohio. Mientras aún estaba en el instituto, Tyus escribió las canciones "I'm So Young" y "Every Day of the Week" y se las dio para cantar a un grupo afroamericano D'Italians. Una vez que se firmó un contrato de grabación con Chess Records, el grupo cambió su nombre a The Students, y era bajo este nombre que las dos canciones clásicas doo-wop de Tyus fueron grabadas.

"I'm So Young" ha sido grabada por varios artistas entre ellos están Rosie and the Originals, The Del-Vikings, The Beach Boys y The Ronettes (como "So Young").

La letra
La letra de esta canción habla de un tema muy común, en personas que quieren casarse muy jóvenes: en esta canción dice que él no se puede casar con ella, porque es muy joven, y no los dejan, ya que dicen que su amor es un capricho de adolescentes. Después dice que él se irá al mar, que no volverá a ver a la madre del niño, dando a entender que tuvo un hijo.

Versión The Beach Boys
El grupo estadounidense The Beach Boys grabó una versión de "I'm So Young". Esta versión nunca fue editada en sencillo, pero fue publicada como la octava canción del álbum Today! de 1965.

Publicaciones
Esta canción apareció en el álbum Today! de 1965, fue compilada en el box U.S. Singles Collection: The Capitol Years, 1962-1965 de 2008 y volvió a aparecer en la compilación Summer Love Songs de 2009.

Véase también
 Canciones de The Beach Boys

Referencias

Canciones de The Beach Boys
Canciones de 1964
Canciones en inglés
Canciones de pop

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What is a Principal Certifying Authority?
A Principal Certifying Authority can be either a private accredited certifier or the Bega Valley Shire Council. Private certifiers are professionals accredited by the Building Professionals Board. The Principal Certifying Authority ensures development is carried out in accordance with the approved plans, specifications and conditions listed in the development consent or Complying Development Certificate, and certifies that the construction is in accordance with the Building Code of Australia and the Environmental Planning & Assessment (EP&A) Act 1979.
For subdivision certificates the Principal Certifying Authority can only be Bega Valley Shire Council.
As well as a Construction Certificate you may need to gain additional approval for other work such as connecting to Council's water and sewerage services or building a driveway. These additional approvals under Section 68 of the Local Government Act can only be authorised by Council. Work that will require additional approval is also listed in Council's Application Guidelines.
Apply for additional approvals by ticking the additional approvals box on the Construction Certificate application form and then completing the additional forms. A list of all relevant forms is available here. Note also that only Council is authorised to carry out plumbing and drainage inspections.
Go to Council's Fees and Charges for costs involved in obtaining a Construction Certificate and other associated approvals. Please note that for construction costing $25,000 or more a Long Service Levy is also applicable and must be paid before a Construction Certificate can be issued. Fees can be paid to the Long Service Levy Payments Corporation either directly or through the Bega Valley Shire Council. This fee is charged at 0.35 per cent of the construction cost. Owner-builders and non-profit organisations may seek an exemption of up to 50 per cent. For further information on the Long Service Levy, please contact the Long Service Corporation on 13 14 41.
Make sure Council is notified of the intended commencement of work at least two days prior to the start of any work. This can be done by completing the Notice of Commencement Form and lodging the form with Council.


Today the Moon is in her darkest face before she is blocked out by the light of the Sun. The earth is at maximum low tide, and as earthians, we are there with her.
At the time of the full moon, Mercury and Mars will be together in the sky — the astrological term for that is conjunction. They will both be standing precisely 180 degrees apart from Pluto in Capricorn. This is called an opposition.
The dark of the Moon is the first theme I'd like to explore today, and the second is the nature of the opposition, along with some of the more lush symbolic meanings of each of these ideas. As I will illustrate, both ideas are linked at this time in a beautiful way.
The Moon is waning until it's new. It gradually loses light, increasingly showing us her darker faces until she completely disappears. This is associated with the dark mother Hekate. Hekate is strongest when the moon is darkening, because that is when the time is ripe for going into the underworld. Imagine that when you close your eyes, that darkness there is the underworld. How much easier it is to visualize in your mind's eye, when your eyes are closed, versus when they are open. These visions, actively created by you, are powerful forces for transformation, especially when they are engaged consistently and with emotional thrust. The dark of the moon, when Hecate is strongest, is when there is a guide leading the way for inner work.
Another wonderful and concurrent theme unfolding in the planetary weather is deeply instinctual opposition happening between Mercury and Mars conjunct in Cancer, opposite Pluto retrograde in Capricorn. For me, this particularly special instance of planetary choreography is a reassuring sign that the Universe is nothing less than divinely orchestrated.
First, the opposition aspect. Imagine being tasked with entering a room with another person. You and the other person are to stand at opposite sides of the room, and look into each other's eyes, maintaining eye contact without yielding.
That's the nature of the opposition. Now imagine that you and the other guy need to sort out a negotiation on equable terms, because it's central to both of you performing at the highest (or perhaps **most efficient**, to do away with hierarchical value statements….) level possible.
The opposition aspect is particularly prone to projection. This is when we see in the other party our own disowned (seemingly unpalatable) qualities. With Pluto and Mars in the mix, there is a danger of demonizing these qualities, making them bad or wrong, thereby uplifting ourselves because we could never Be Like That.
So with Mercury-Mars in Cancer opposite Pluto we want to find the still point in the center. We want to arrive at a resolution by finding what is common between us, and initiating (cardinal opposition) compromise that makes the best use of the strengths of both parties. We want to see how the other person's qualities that grate on us, feel dangerous to us, feel confrontational, prompt us to examine darker lurkings of our own minds, these qualities want to be seen, emotionally coddled (coddle them!!), nourished with attention so that the business of acting on personal instincts that are actually quite powerful can carry on.
The story of this new Moon. Traveling to the depths (remember you have a guide) and choosing to begin making peace with what is found in the dark.
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Retail sales during June increased by 0.2%, but with the exclusion of gas and autos, it increased by 0.4%.
Economists were expecting sales growth of 0.6% over last month and 0.5% excluding gas and autos. During May, retail sales saw a growth of 0.5%, but excluding gas and autos, sales remained constant.Retailers have issued discouraging commentary about sales. The CEO of Container Store, Kip Tindell, said that consumers may be purchasing automobiles and homes and at times high price furniture, but most portions of the retail market are experiencing more challenging sales than they had hoped for earlier in 2014.
The hardwood flooring retailer, Lumber Liquidators, said that the demand they experienced during March was not evident in May and June has weakened even more.Family Dollar has also reported declining quarterly earnings and Gap reported a 2% decline in sales during June.John Silvia from Wells Fargo said that vehicle sales were continuing to show strength and should apply pressure on retail sales. He stated that consumer confidence has reached its highest level in the past six years.


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Smog politics: Canada and transborder air pollution
By Devon Black. Published on Sep 22, 2014 8:57pm
More from Devon Black available here.
BANGKOK — Every summer, the skies over parts of Southeast Asia grow dim and grey. This miasma isn't clouds signaling the onset of the rainy season. It's smog — and sometimes it's dense enough to block out the view of Kuala Lumpur's iconic Petronas Towers.
The haze has been a feature of life in Southeast Asia for years. In 1997 and 1998, it was so bad it contributed to car crashes, air disasters and collisions at sea. At its worst, the haze leads to increased respiratory infections, triggers asthma attacks and even increases mortality rates among the elderly.
For countries in Southeast Asia affected by the haze, there isn't much to be done about it. By the time the grey film drifts over the skies, the damage has been done.
That's because the haze isn't caused by pollution at home; most of it is caused by a neighbour. Large-scale plantation owners in Indonesia set fires to clear land; within a few days, the smoke drifts north and west.
Transboundary air pollution is a thorny problem, one that doesn't only affect Southeast Asia. Environmental researchers have determined that, depending on the wind, air from China will make its way to North America within five to eight days. In the process, it brings with it pollutants from cities with some of the most contaminated air on the planet.
In theory, international law provides mechanisms to deal with the problem. Countries aren't supposed to engage in behaviour that does damage within another country's borders. But international law is notoriously hard to enforce, and almost always depends on voluntary compliance. As a result, we depend on our diplomats to protect us from other countries' pollution.
Canadian teenagers might not remember the fuss over acid rain, but in the late 1980s, it was the environmental issue du jour. Air pollution from the American industrial heartland was drifting over Canada. As it reacted with water in the atmosphere, it transformed into acids, which fell to earth in rain and snow.
That acidic precipitation damaged our sensitive forests and killed off fish in our lakes and rivers. Because much of Canada's soil lacks natural alkalinity, our natural landscapes are particularly susceptible to acid rain damage.
In 1991, Canada and the United States signed the Canada-United States Air Quality Agreement, colloquially known as the Acid Rain Treaty. That agreement, negotiated by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and President George H. W. Bush, committed both countries to reductions in pollutant emissions. Between the Acid Rain Treaty and domestic initiatives to reduce air pollution, rates of sulphur dioxide, one of the main chemicals contributing to acid rain, declined in Canada by 63 per cent between 1980 and 2001.
We have no credibility with which to bolster any attempts to push the rest of the world into reducing its emissions. Worse, we might not even be able to fully understand the effects of global air pollutants; our government's policy of gagging scientists means that critical environmental research might never see the light of day.
Tackling the problem of acid rain was no easy feat. We needed environmental monitoring just to know that the problem existed — then we needed to figure out what was causing it. Once scientists had us pointed in the right direction, we needed leaders to turn that knowledge into action. Federal and provincial politicians had to agree on, and then commit to, emissions targets, while diplomats and federal politicians had to craft an equally complex agreement with our American neighbours.
The problem of acid rain in Canada was comparatively uncomplicated. It could be dealt with through action at home and a bilateral agreement with the only other country involved — the United States. But modern transboundary pollution problems aren't so easily fixed.
All countries, and especially high- and middle-income countries, contribute to global air pollution. The problem of air pollution is one that is truly international, which makes it uniquely difficult to solve. But among those polluters, one currently stands out: China.
China is now the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases. So it's no surprise that, along with its massive output of CO2, China's emissions are also responsible for some 20 to 30 per cent of mercury deposited in the United States. Unfortunately, China has demonstrated little interest in dealing with its domestic smog problems; convincing it to address the problems its air pollution causes abroad is even less likely.
And soon, China may not be the only stand-out offender. Rapidly-industrializing India has shown interest in using more coal plants — among the worst offenders when it comes to air pollution — to meet growing energy needs. We don't yet know what effects China's transboundary pollution will have on our environment and citizens, but we soon could be facing far higher rates of global emissions.
In the past, Canada might have shown itself a leader in dealing with transboundary pollution. Canada helped spearhead the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, an international treaty aimed at phasing out harmful chemicals like CFCs. But that treaty came into force in 1989 and, in the years since, Canada's environmental record has been one of stark decline.
Last year, Canada won the dubious distinction of being the country that did the most damage to international climate talks for the fifth year running. We have no credibility with which to bolster any attempts to push the rest of the world into reducing its emissions. Worse, we might not even be able to fully understand the effects of global air pollutants; our government's policy of gagging scientists means that critical environmental research might never see the light of day.
Nearly two decades after the Acid Rain Treaty was signed, we're still seeing the effects of acid rain on Canadian ecosystems. We don't know yet what the full effects of current transboundary air pollution will be on our environment and our citizens. And our government's concerted attempt to ignore international environmental issues for the past eight years has left us vulnerable to emerging environmental problems.
The Conservative party has built its brand on making Canadians feel safe — from an unstable global economy, from international security threats, from criminals at home. And yet, they haven't managed to step up to address the greatest security threat of our time: environmental damage. Conservatives need to re-evaluate their priorities — or Canadians will do it for them in the next election.
Devon Black is studying law at the University of Victoria. In addition to writing for iPolitics, Devon has worked for the Canadian International Development Agency, Leadership Africa USA and RamRais & Partners.
The views, opinions and positions expressed by all iPolitics columnists and contributors are the author's alone. They do not inherently or expressly reflect the views, opinions and/or positions of iPolitics.
Devon Black
Devon Black is originally from Calgary. She spent five years in Ottawa working on her bachelor's degree in international development, then moved back out west in 2011 to start a law degree at the University of Victoria. In addition to writing for iPolitics, Devon has worked for the Canadian International Development Agency, Leadership Africa USA (a non-profit based in Washington, D.C.), and RamRais & Partners (an intellectual property law firm in Kuala Lumpur). For fun, Devon likes to argue competitively for the University of Victoria Debate Society and dance to hot jazz from the 1920s. When the weather's nice, you can find her roaming downtown Victoria in search of a good Earl Grey.


When I told someone my age the other day the shock horror that pursued had me more than smiling 🙂 They estimated my age as mid-30s, 40 at a push. Wow! I turn 50 in 2016!
The fact that I even told someone my age is such a different Jane of years gone by. I have lied about my age for nearly 3 decades; always wanting to be younger, fighting the aging process and doing everything I could within my financial means to ensure that wrinkles and sun damage were erased. I have not gone to huge extremes due to cost but I have tried IPL, Fraxel and Thermage but all of these treatments to be effective require ongoing sessions which I could never afford. I have, however, up until the last 18 months, always included Botox in my budget with quarterly injections. All these treatments are VERY painful! And yet you won't find any of the clinics offering these services that are not running huge profits. Does it really have to be this hard and costly?
As women we are under constant pressure to not just be slim but we are also supposed to keep our youthful complexion. With constant bombardment from the media of beautiful, thin, youthful women is it any wonder we have developed these anti-aging complexes that undermine our self-worth. Gosh I saw a picture of Jennifer Lopez the other day at 46 looking 25! And we all know that Elle looks amazing still and she is my age 🙂 It is great that these women look so awesome and provided it has been achieved naturally… then good on them! But as celebrities with never ending supplies of cash you have to wonder how they have maintained their looks. How can we possibly compete? And more importantly, why do we feel we have to?!
For me now as I stare down the barrel at 50 I feel more energetic than I have in years, my skin literally glows, my nails grow so strong and long they not only annoy me they are painful if I don't get them cut, my hair is nearly back to its youthful length, I still don't have any fillings in my teeth, I stopped having Botox 18 months ago as I swear I have seen wrinkles disappear, the bottoms of my feet are silky smooth with no hard skin in sight, my eyes are bright and clear, I never get sick and feel incredibly healthy and have so much energy I cant sit still! I am gaining muscle in the gym and I still have that bikini body I competed with 3 years ago. And while my motivation is no longer about vanity but about premium health and longevity I now have a passion to maintain this state of being well into my 90s! Who wouldn't?!
So how do I defy aging and look nowhere near my biological age? Yes; I know I don't have kids… but it is a lot more than that. And I am sure if you incorporate even a few of the following tips you would see an improvement in your skin and complexion. A lot of these tips were on recent blog my top 10 health tips but are worth mentioning again with a pro-aging perspective.
Eat Clean – Yep; you cant get around the fact that if you want glowing, youthful skin it all starts with what goes in your mouth. The food you eat is what your body uses to regenerate itself; the nutrients from your food is the fuel that ends up in every cell of your body including your skin. What is eating clean? If it was recently alive then eat it ie. plant or animal. If it comes in a package, box, jar, bottle, can ie. made by man, don't! Eating clean is going back to our primal diet of fresh everything. Go organic where ever you can on this one; there are so many additives to conventional food that even if you are eating clean you are still exposing yourself to toxins.
Hydrate – There is no getting around the water factor either. You have heard it many times now from a health, well-being and weight loss perspective but it will also improve your skin tone. Dehydration in the skin shows with dryness and flakiness; dry skin is less resilient and more prone to wrinkling. Water is the very vehicle that delivers nutrients to the skin and with all your clean eating if you are not drinking adequate water then the goodness is not getting to where it is needed. Water is also the vehicle for waste removal; with the incredible amount of toxins our bodies endure flushing out through urine is critical. How much should you drink? 2 litres minimum and more if you are exercising.
Zzzzzzz's – Lack of sleep is the quickest way for your skin to look older. While we sleep the body repairs damage and rejuvenates.The time when all those nutrients are used to repair your body. It is also the time that growth hormone and melatonin is produced. The latter is claimed to be the anti-aging hormone. Adequate sleep also reduces cortisol, the stress hormone. Stress causes the skin to wrinkle and loose collagen and elasticity. I get 9 hours a night! As it is when my muscles grow but try and aim for 7-8 hours every night.
Sun Avoidance – I used to worship the sun and had a deep, golden tan for 8 months of the year. I never wore sunscreen…. Baby oil was more my style! You would think after 38 years of baking myself I would be a wrinkled prune but thanks to my current lifestyle I am reversing the damage. I now avoid the sunbaking scene and will enjoy the sun for a walk only with a hat and sunscreen. Avoiding the sun is a no brainer for pro-aging!
Sup it Up – Our food supply and the soil we grow our produce in is nowhere near the same quality of only a generation ago. Not to mention all the additives, antibiotics and pesticides. So even if you are eating organic clean, whole food you will still need some sort of supplementation. From a pro-aging perspective these are the sups that work for me. COQ10, fish oil, probiotic, turmeric and Biotin. I also include an antioxidant to assist my body to eliminate toxins with glutathione and green tea extract being the ones I take at the moment.
Super Foods – Although the term super food is a marketing tool rather than a category of food and every nutritionist, dietician, health expert will have a different view of what is included, the term is useful in describing above average nutritional value food. For me, the super foods that I include that contribute to my youthful looks would be bone broth, apple cider vinegar, lemon juice and bi-carb soda, coconut oil, green tea, green leafy vegetables such as kale and spinach, nuts with an emphasis on walnuts.
Avoid Alcohol – None….I don't drink at all anymore which is HUGE for me. Alcohol accelerates the aging process due to the dehydration affect, excessive additional toxins and affects the body's ability to eliminate those toxins, not to mention the effect on your general health. Did you know I am allowed red wine on competition day due to the diuretic effect it has? Alcohol will see you having to drink twice as much water to compensate!
Avoid Smoking – this in an obvious one..but need to mention it. I don't think I need to go into details on this one…Quickest way to bring on the aging process is to smoke!
Avoid Sugar – sugar has an oxidant affect which is the opposite effect of an antioxidant. Antioxidants help the body eliminate toxins. Sugar therefore increases your toxic load which quickens the aging process.
Beauty Products – it takes 26 seconds for the chemicals in your moisturiser, soap, make up, sunscreen, deodorant, perfume, whatever you put on your skin, to enter your blood stream. Have a read of the ingredients list; would you eat them? So why would you put them on your skin…? Go organic, paraben free, alcohol free, fragrance free, chemical free etc. etc. and stop believing the incredibly clever marketing of the beauty industry. I am astounded at the promises made to eliminate wrinkles simply with a chemically laden, very expensive night cream. It seriously is rubbish. I use organic rose hip oil at night.
Exercise – many would say this is the number one pro-aging tip. It is no mistake that all athletes look younger than their years. It relieves stress, improves circulation (which improves the skin), improves bone density, strengthens the heart, etc. etc. You know this!
Self Confidence! I have left this one until last but it is my far the biggest factor to my youthful appearance. I am now comfortable in my own skin, I am no longer trying to hide the real Jane nor lie about my age. Happiness and contentment with where you are in life is the one of the most attractive traits a women can have. Yes I know this is a tough one; it took me 46 years to work it out!
We are all aging, every day, and there is nothing anyone can do about it. The quicker you can accept that growing older is actually a privilege denied to many, that it brings all sorts of personal rewards, wisdom, peace, enjoyment and satisfaction, the quicker you will slow down the aging process. I am now so damn proud of my age! Can you say that…?


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Unesco lists Khon as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
The Khon performance of Thailand is inscribed by Unesco as the intangible cultural heritage of humanity during a meeting in Port Louis, Mauritius in the Indian Ocean.
Royal Khon Performance
The Department of Cultural Promotion has set out plans to promote the Thai Khon performance throughout 2019 after it was accepted by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity.
Meanwhile, a similar dance style in Cambodia, called the Lakhon Khon, was inscribed as an Intangible Cultural Heritage 'in need of urgent safeguarding'.
Lakhon khol, a court dance, was added to the Unesco Representative List in 2008.
Minister of Culture Weera Rojpojanarat said today he had received a report from the Department of Cultural Promotion's Director-General Chai Nakhonchai advising that the 'Khon Masked Dance Drama of Thailand' has officially been listed by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity.
The department represented Thailand at the recent 13th meeting of UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage Commission and submitted Khon for consideration.
Now that the art form has been recognized as intangible cultural heritage, the department will spend 2019 promoting and celebrating it. A performance will be held this December 3-4 at the Thailand Cultural Center, an animated version is being produced for screening in theaters, demonstrations will be staged to promote knowledge about the performance, and exhibitions will take place nationwide in honor of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit of the Ninth Reign's patronage of Khon.
Thailand started applying for listings of intangible cultural heritage after the country ratified the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage on June 10, 2016. Next year, other examples of Thai wisdom being submitted to UNSECO include traditional Thai traditional massage (Nuad Thai) and the Nora performance (Southern traditional dance). The department is also looking into cultural heritage shared between Thailand and its neighbors.
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I wrote 24, but you may count 48, for our food journey can be so intense.
But stick to this itinerary carefully crafted to minimize waste of time and maximize culinary joys and a little walks in between and you will get the best of Istanbul.
and head to Güllüoğlu for its sweet Kadayif. Should you not consider locals queueing a quality guarantee, try their chocolate baklava and leave your doubts behind.
Such a challenging and sugary beginning deserves appropriate training, what is better than going uphill to Galata for one of the most stunning views in Istanbul? Climbing the Tower may have taken some time, if you feel like having lunch your place nearby is Karaköyüm located on the terrace of a apparently residential building.
The sight of decadent Karaköy's roofs will pair the feeling of being home while your Turkish granny cooks for you a lentil soup and köfte of the house, meatballs served on tortilla, tomato sauce and rice.
the New Mosque, named once after the Valide Sultan, the Mother of the Sultan, worth by itself a trip to Istanbul.
There I ran into a nice bunch of Turkish youngsters promoting a sort of tonic cream, Mesir Macunu, from the city of Manisa, apparently another help for Turkish Sultans to sustain the fatigue of a large harem.
The taste was good anyway.
After this refreshing cultural break, you may choose a healthy walk in the same Eminönü neighbourhood to visit Hafiz Mustafa And I wonder if the words 'Turkish Delight' ring any bells here. Don't they?
This part of Istanbul is buzzing with life like many others but particularly close to some of the city's most famous landmarks.
One of my favourite is Kapalıçarşı, the Grand Bazaar.
pita bread filled with delicious Döner kebab.
popular with locals and tourists alike.
A glass of the salty ayran on display, the yoghurt-like drink, is a perfect match.
köfte, at Sultanahmet Köftecisi, worthwhile stop before or after a visit to the nearby Blue Mosque, to the grandiose Hagia Sophia, or the mystical underground of Basilica Cistern. Make sure you wear some anti-slip shoes here, as the cistern is permanently wet so wet that you may spot fishes in the low waters underneath the walkway.
Istanbul's tour must be crowned with a dinner at the best kebab maker's in town, my local friend says this place is Hamdi. And I shall agree.
The view from its balcony, overlooking the Golden Horn to the left and the Marmara Sea to the right, is breathtakingly beautiful and a perfect excuse for some fresh air between Hamdi's generous courses.
The big hall on the second floor is best at dusk, we were delighted by fireworks glowing above the ancient roofs.
Lahmacun, horribly named Turkish pizza, I would rather prefer the name focaccia, if we have to find Italian-sounding names at all costs. Lahmacun is delicious with a salad or alone anyway.
Having had so many kebabs in my life, I loved this first time with pistachios, fıstıklı, perfect dry salty match to a juicy kebab.
If you ever tasted it, let me know what you think.
This is not necessary, nonetheless I wish you afiyet olsun!