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WASHINGTON (RNS) Shipping giant UPS will pay $46,000 in damages to a Rastafarian employee who was fired after he refused to cut his hair or trim his beard, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Wednesday (Feb. 17).
According to the EEOC, the Harrisburg, Pa., branch of UPS Freight fired a driver, Nieland Bynoe, during orientation after Bynoe declined to shave his beard and cut his hair to comply with the company's grooming policy.
Rastafarians, who are popularly often associated with reggae music and ritual marijuana smoking, are prohibited to cut their hair or trim their beards as an article of faith.
After explaining his beliefs to a human resources manager, Bynoe was fired — a violation of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which requires employers to accommodate the religious beliefs of employees and applicants unless doing so would impose an undue hardship, the EEOC said.
The EEOC agreement also prohibits UPS Freight from unlawful religious discrimination in the future; mandates anti-discrimination training and requires UPS to post a notice about the settlement with employees.
In 2006, the EEOC sued UPS for refusing to hire a Rastafarian as an assistant driver in Newark, N.J.


In the case of the pistol currently under review, the Colt Government 1911 Series 70, I'm pleased to say that it is in fact not built like it used to be.
As a natural born skeptic, I'm guilty of uttering the cliche "They don't build them like they used to." Many times this is an accurate sentiment as our society continues to stumble down the path of cheap and disposable consumer goods.
In the case of the pistol currently under review, the Colt Government 1911 Series 70, I'm pleased to say that it is in fact "Not built like it used to be." Rather, this review sample is the best Series 70 Colt Government I've ever been in charge of!
In the interest of covering the basics, this Government is a true spec Series 70: short steel trigger, no firing pin block (like the Series 80s), arched steel mainspring housing, non-flared mag well, non-lowered ejection port. Unlike the Series 70s made in the 70s and very early 80s, it does not utilize the finger bushing, rather, it uses a more conventional solid bushing. My review sample is blued and polished, not quite the deep polish of the Governments coming out of Colt in the 1970s but still a very attractive blue. The sights are tall, all black and steel.
The new Colt Series 70 Government ships with two 7-round magazines just like when Starsky and Hutch was on TV.
A real 70 Series Government!
So why is it better than the original Series 70s I've owned over the years? The trigger broke with just a hint of creep at 4.5 pounds, as measured on my RCBS trigger pull gauge. The sights stand taller, and consequently, are much easier to pick up when shooting paper targets.
The new throat relief that Colt has settled on, allows this pistol to feed, extract and eject spent range brass by racking the slide I'm talking brass fired at the shooting range, abandoned on the floor of the range and loaded into Wilson Combat 47 and 500A-HD magazines. I can rack the slide and they all get loaded, extracted and ejected until the mag is empty! I am very impressed with this. This throat/ramp allows this while providing complete support for the brass. This probably explains why this pistol has gobbled up every modern hollow point I could get my hands on with ease. After 700-rounds of full power and +P .45 acp loads, I experienced no problems or failures! Not a single one.
And while all my original Series 70 Colt Governments were accurate, this reissue Series 70 is every bit as accurate. I could group five-shots of many flavors of defensive ammo into 2 inches at 15 yards! With my old eyes, that's quite a feat.
As a carry gun or a defensive pistol, this new Series 70 needs nothing. It gobbles up everything from 230-grain +P loads to 165-grain rounds with ease and for me at least, shot to point of aim at 10-yards. I do have one of those hands susceptible to hammer bite/grip safety bite. After a few magazines I had blood all over the pistol. If I were to carry this excellent pistol, I'd have to send it off to a gunsmith to have a beaver-tail grip safety installed.
Oh hell, I might have night sights installed too. My OCD might demand it. Thanks for making this gun just right Colt!
And finally, remember early on when we mentioned flawless loading, extracting and ejection? Part of that equation is that during testing both Wilson Combat model 47-D and 500A-HD magazines were used.


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Therapeutic boarding schools for girls from or in Friendswood, Texas. Help for adoption troubles, self-harm, eating disorders call: 406-847-5850 – therapeutic schools and schools for troubled teens.
Therapeutic boarding schools for girls from or in Friendswood, Texas. Help for adoption troubles, self-harm, eating disorders call: 406-847-5850 – schools for troubled teens and boys boarding schools.
Therapeutic Boarding Schools for Girls in Friendswood, Texas
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Are You Seeking Therapeutic Boarding Schools in Friendswood, TX for a Girl Misbehaving or Causing Self-Harm Due to Emotional Distress from an Adoption or Major Life Trauma?
If your teenage girl is displaying misbehavior or is making destructive choices, Clearview Horizon may be a good option to consider as you research therapeutic boarding schools in Friendswood, TX.
While not in Friendswood, Texas, Clearview Horizon works with girls from your town in a beautiful facility in the mountains nearby the year-round resort town of Sandpoint, Idaho. Our facility is intentionally located in a remote area because an important part of therapy is for the girl to be far away from influences, issues and similar surroundings so that she can put those out of her mind. It also discourages teens in our care from considering connecting with friends and leaving our facility.
In a few words, Clearview Horizon is a therapeutic boarding school for teenage girls with life-controlling issues or misbehavior that may be threatening to their future. Our counselors work best with teens who are acting out or making poor decisions due to emotional stress originating from: major trauma or loss in their life, physical or mental abuse, death of a loved one, or attachment disorders related to adoption. We also specialize in eating disorders and self-harm.
Boarding School with Expert Therapy that Turns Self-Destructive Thinking into a Better Way of Thinking for Girls Who Are Struggling
In our therapeutic program and boarding school, girls receive an individual treatment plan aligned with their medical, emotional, and psychological needs. Our expert and seasoned therapists care for over 20 girls in our gorgeous mountainside facility that was once a prestigious corporate hunting lodge. Our multi-disciplinary personnel is dedicated to helping each young woman start on a new and more productive path in life. The clinical staff also features a psychiatric specialist, a primary care physician, a dentist, and licensed psychotherapists as well as teachers, mentors and residential care staff.
Clearview Also Features an Accredited School with Full-Time Teachers that Accommodate Individual Academic Needs, So They Can Return to Home in Friendswood, TX With a Quality Education
Girls who are having emotional and behavioral problems tend to be showing little progress in school. Our school is intentionally computer-based, assisted by a certified teacher, so that residents are able to get caught up and even get ahead in their schooling while they are at Clearview. We also provide tutoring when necessary, and regular academic progress updates are emailed to parents.
Our Therapeutic Boarding School Also Includes Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle (Physically, Emotionally and Spiritually)
Clearview emphasizes a balanced diet along with physical workouts, restful sleep and fun times; all designed to teach a healthy lifestyle. Girls participate in many recreational and fitness events during the year, as well as organized team sports. Our residents are also taken on regular overnight treks in the beautiful and rugged mountains of the Pacific Northwest. For spiritual support, girls are given encouragement and instruction by our Christian staff and can attend chapel services, but we also honor other faiths and will not force our faith on any young woman or require them to participate in Christian chapel or Bible studies.
Helping Girls from Friendswood, TX and Around the Country for over 18 years, Our Therapeutic Boarding School Offers Innovative Mileu Therapy
Girls in our care attend individual, group, and family therapy sessions with our staff of therapists. Among our professional staff, we also have a Chemical Dependency Counselor for problems related to illicit drug, alcohol or prescription drug abuse, which often accompanies emotional upheaval or when teenagers self-medicate in order to dull their emotional pain. Plus, art therapy gives girls another way to release their emotions. And animal and equine therapy is a part of our therapy, featuring dogs and miniature horses. Finally, through round the clock interactions with our trained staff, the girls receive constant feedback and assistance in their thinking and actions.
Clearview's Tuition is SIGNIFICANTLY LESS THAN Therapeutic Boarding Schools in Friendswood, Texas, with the Same Level of Quality Care
Girls come to our therapeutic boarding school from across the nation, including from Friendswood, Texas. We are proud of what our staff accomplishes with these girls, and our hope is that we have the opportunity to also help your daughter.
Take a minute to browse through our website to learn more about our therapeutic boarding school for girls, even though we are not located in Friendswood, TX. Also, read some of our many success stories and feel free to ask us for references you can call.
Please Contact Us for More Information and the Tuition Rates for the Clearview Horizon Therapeutic Boarding School for Girls, though we are located in the Pacific Northwest, not in Friendswood, TX.
More about therapeutic boarding schools for girls in or near Friendswood, Texas:
Friendswood is a city in the U.S. state of Texas within the HoustonSugar LandBaytown metropolitan area. The city lies in Galveston and Harris counties. As of the 2000 U.S. Census, Friendswood population was 29,037.
In 2007, CNN/Money Magazine rated Friendswood as one of "America's Best Places to Live."
Excerpt about therapeutic boarding schools in Friendswood, Texas, used with permission from Wikipedia.
Should you need help finding therapeutic schools, troubled teen schools, private therapeutic schools or ranches for troubled teens, please let us know. Clearview Horizon is a Christian therapeutic boarding school for troubled teenage girls offering teen counseling for girls with adoption issues (reactive attachment disorders), self-harm (self-mutilation) or cutting, or eating disorders (anorexia, bulimia, anorexia nervosa). Other behavioral issues and disorders we deal with include: defiance, depression, post traumatic stress, abuse, and general anxiety. If you have an out of control girl, please think about Clearview Horizon, a school for troubled girls that offers teen counseling and teen counselors for troubled girls. We offer counseling for troubled teens and out of control teens and especially work with RAD girls and adopted girls with emotional disorders. If you are searching for residential treatment centers for girls, troubled youth homes, troubled teen schools or troubled teen boarding schools, you have found one. Homes for troubled teens and boarding schools for teens don't typically offer teen counseling and therapy, but we do.
Therapeutic boarding schools for girls from or in Friendswood, Texas. Help for adoption troubles, self-harm, eating disorders call: 406-847-5850

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Good Thing We Got Outta There!
My wife Sherry and I met up with friends at the Down East Lobster Roll Festival in Portland on Saturday. We got there early and actually had a short wait in line to get through the main gate. Once we got in, we decided to split into two teams, one for the beer line and one for the lobstah rolls. Wicked efficient! With beers in hand, our ladies soon joined us with the grub. We sat down in the grass and enjoyed the Maine classic topped with some chipotle lime aioli along with clam strips and fries. No sooner were our last bites taken when the announcement came from NewsCenter's Rob Caldwell that a severe thunder storm was headed our way and all festival goers needed to evacuate. Luckily we were able to hustle outta there and get in my buddy's car just before the torrential rain came crashing down. Thanks to everyone on staff especially Showdog and the PPD for helping to get us all out safely. My gang is also very thankful that our Casablanca cruise went of without a hitch later that evening. What a day, dude!
Here's photos of the storm's aftermath from the Portland Police Department.
Looks like the flamingos are doing okay.
This tent? Not so much.
Freakin' hail comin' down in video from Portland Police!


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Disruptive Innovation When It Comes To Prayer
Part of a series of essays examining the key Jewish trends of the past 10 years.
By Roberta Rosenthal Kwall	December 26, 2019, 12:52 pm 0 Edit
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In 2010, an important book, "Women and Men in Communal Prayer," was published. It featured a debate among distinguished Orthodox authorities concerning the extent to which women should be allowed to publicly participate in the Torah service within the context of normative Jewish law. Prior to the book's publication several egalitarian-style prayer groups, known as partnership minyanim, had been established in otherwise Orthodox settings first in Israel and then the United States. But the publication of this book gave legitimacy to debating their existence within Orthodoxy. Although normative halacha, or Jewish law, still does not embrace allowing women to publicly read from the Torah, even in a minyan where men and women are separated by a mechitzah, partnership minyanim have become a familiar concept to a large sector of the observant world.
Like partnership minyanim, many of the innovations in Jewish prayer over the past decade are grass roots efforts that challenge the status quo by emphasizing diversity of experience and greater inclusivity. In "The New American Judaism," Jack Wertheimer has documented a wide range of models of such "disruptive innovation." In liberal spaces, these efforts reflect a desire for meaningful community connections, steeped in a prayer experience that does not depend upon pre-ordained services dictated by the authority of tradition. Many of these innovations are a product of millennials coming of age and the secular culture's escalating embrace of choice and personalism, and rejection of authority and command.
Some of these new prayer models take place at venues that would have been unthinkable years ago. Communal observance by millennials increases when traditional stodgy venues give way to unconventional pop-up locations such as restaurants, bars and even bowling alleys. Rabbis of conventional synagogues are also starting to exit their walls and engage millennials on their own turf. And it is not just the locations: In many instances, creative rabbis and professionals are discarding the format and content of traditional services, replacing them with programming that focuses more on education and discussion, particularly surrounding holiday themes. Consider, for example, the introduction of "goat yoga" by a transdenominational rabbi in Venice Beach, Calif., as a means of re-enacting the traditional Yom Kippur avodah service. In Chicago, a Modern Orthodox rabbi runs a one-hour afternoon program combining prayer and education on both the first day of Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur for anyone who wants to connect with Jewish tradition.
These diverse models typically emphasize democratic, participatory prayer experiences and inclusivity. Despite the remixed quality of these disruptive innovations, a connection to the perceived authentic tradition still is visible in many instances, even if this connection embodies change and evolution. The issue of how much change Jewish tradition can tolerate and still retain its authenticity has occupied much of the discourse in Jewish thought since the Enlightenment. Although the current disruptive innovations may be new, the challenge they present is timeless.
Roberta Rosenthal Kwall is the Raymond P. Niro Professor at DePaul University College of Law. She is the author of "Remix Judaism: Preserving Tradition in a Diverse World" (forthcoming February 2020, Rowman & Littlefield) and "The Myth of the Cultural Jew: Culture and Law in Jewish Tradition."
More essays from The Decade In Review: 2010 – 2019 as well as snapshots from our editorial team on the last ten years in Jewish Journalism, including the key issues they covered locally and nationally.
The decade in review 2010 - 2019


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Bowling on the Lord's Day: The West End's bowling alleys
If you put 15 Hanover Street into a GPS, it will bring you to the middle of a crosswalk looking toward Government Center, next to the Holocaust Memorial. On the street now buried underneath City Hall, there used to be a popular, fun spot: the Crawford Bowladrome, a seven-lane, 10-pin bowling alley.
by Madeline Short
Crawford Bowladrome, circa 1958-1961, Collection 4010.001
Anthony D. Grande opened the Crawford Bowladrome on September 8, 1938. Bowling flourished as the Great Depression lifted, when American families were able to earn some more spending money and enjoy leisure activities. It was a sport perfect for working people: inexpensive, easy to learn, and social. The social aspect of bowling allowed people to talk and play together, including men, women, and children. There were even competitive bowling leagues.
Boston's West End was a largely immigrant neighborhood that contained multiple bowling alleys by the late 1930s. Between the Crawford Bowladrome and the Daylight Alley on Cambridge Street, working people could come enjoy an American pastime. Boston required permits to have bowling alleys open on Sunday. To get one, businesses had to fill out a "Petition to Operate Bowling Alleys on the Lord's Day." These West End alleys both had "Lord's Day" permits, meaning that from 1 to 11 p.m. on Sundays, West End residents and visitors were free to enjoy bowling and socializing at their local alleys.
Petition to Operate Bowling Alleys on the Lord's Day, 1947, Collection 0100.001
The West End even had its own bowling league that started in 1935 at the Daylite (sic.) Bowling Lanes. According to the West Ender newsletter, this League continued playing, despite the loss of the original West End alleys. The league celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1986.
The Crawford Bowladrome and Daylight Bowling Lanes closed when the West End and Government Center areas were bulldozed in Boston's urban renewal of the 1950s and 1960s, but the former residents of the West End continued to honor their neighborhood through a favorite pastime: bowling.
This post was written by Madeline Short, a student in the History 380 (Fieldwork) Class at Simmons University. For more information about this class's work studying the history of the West End, see our introductory post to this blog series.
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The Most Audacious Australian Prison Break of 1876
An American whaling ship brought together an oddball crew with a dangerous mission: freeing six Irishmen from a jail in western Australia
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The Irish Fenian prisoners known as the Fremantle Six. Photos: Wikipedia
The plot they hatched was as audacious as it was impossible—a 19th-century raid as elaborate and preposterous as any Ocean's Eleven script. It was driven by two men—a guilt-ridden Irish Catholic nationalist, who'd been convicted and jailed for treason in England before being exiled to America, and a Yankee whaling captain—a Protestant from New Bedford, Massachusetts—with no attachment to the former's cause, but a firm belief that it was "the right thing to do." Along with a third man—an Irish secret agent posing as an American millionaire—they devised a plan to sail halfway around the world to Fremantle, Australia, with a heavily armed crew to rescue a half-dozen condemned Irishmen from one of the most remote and impregnable prison fortresses ever built.
To succeed, the plan required precision timing, a months-long con and more than a little luck of the Irish. The slightest slip-up, they knew, could be catastrophic for all involved. By the time the Fremantle Six sailed into New York Harbor in August, 1876, more than a year had passed since the plot had been put into action. Their mythic escape resonated around the world and emboldened the Irish Republican Brotherhood for decades in its struggle for independence from the British Empire.
The tale began with a letter sent in 1874 to John Devoy, a former senior leader with the Irish Republican Brotherhood, known as the Fenians. Devoy, who was born in County Kildare in 1842, had been recruiting thousands of Irish-born soldiers who were serving in British regiments in Ireland, where the Fenians hoped to turn the British army against itself. By 1866, estimates put the number of Fenian recruits at 80,000—but informers alerted the British to an impending rebellion, and Devoy was exposed, convicted of treason and sentenced to 15 years' labor on the Isle of Portland in England.
Fenian John Devoy. Photo: Wikipedia
After serving nearly five years in prison, Devoy was exiled to America, became a journalist for the New York Herald and soon became active with clan na gael, the secret society of Fenians in the United States.
Devoy was in New York City in 1874 when he received a letter from an inmate named James Wilson. "Remember this is a voice from the tomb," Wilson wrote, reminding Devoy that his old Irish recruits had been rotting away in prison for the past eight years, and were now at Fremantle, facing "the death of a felon in a British dungeon."
Among the hundreds of Irish republican prisoners in Australia, Wilson was one of seven high-profile Fenians who had been convicted of treason and sentenced to death by hanging until Queen Victoria commuted their sentences to a life of hard labor. After being branded with the letter "D" for "deserter" on their chests, the Fenians were assigned backbreaking work building roads and quarrying limestone beneath an unforgiving sun. "Most of us are beginning to show symptom of disease," Wilson wrote. "In fact, we can't expect to hold out much longer."
Devoy was also feeling pressure from another Fenian—John Boyle O'Reilly, who had arrived at Fremantle with Wilson and the others, only to be transferred to Bunbury, another prison in Western Australia. O'Reilly grew despondent there and attempted suicide by slitting his wrists, but another convict saved him. A few months later, with help from a local Catholic priest, O'Reilly escaped from Bunbury by rowing out to sea and persuading an American whaling ship to take him on. He sailed to the United States and eventually became a poet, journalist and editor of the Catholic newspaper the Boston Pilot.
But it wasn't long before O'Reilly began to feel pangs of guilt over his fellow Fenians' continued imprisonment in Fremantle. He implored his fellow exile John Devoy to rally the clan na gael and mount a rescue attempt.
It was all Devoy needed to hear. Escape was entirely possible, as O'Reilly had proved. And he couldn't ignore Wilson's letter, imploring him not to forget the other Fenians that he had recruited. "Most of the evidence on which the men were convicted related to meetings with me," Devoy later wrote. "I felt that I, more than any other man then living, ought to do my utmost for these Fenian soldiers."
At a clan na gael meeting in New York, Devoy read Wilson's "voice from the tomb" letter aloud, with its conclusion, "We think if you forsake us, then we are friendless indeed."
Devoy put the letter down and in his most persuasive voice, shouted, "These men are our brothers!" Thousands of dollars were quickly raised to mount a rescue. The original plan was to charter a boat and sail for Australia, where more than a dozen armed men would spring the Fenians out of prison. But as the planning progressed, Devoy decided their odds would be better using stealth rather than force.
He convinced George Smith Anthony, a Protestant sea captain with whaling experience, that the rescue mission was one of universal freedom and liberty. Before long, Anthony concluded that the imprisoned Fenians were "not criminals," and when Devoy offered the captain a "hefty cut" of any whaling profits they would make, Anthony signed on. He was told to set out to sea on the whaler Catalpa as if on a routine whaling voyage, keeping the rescue plans a secret from his crew; Devoy had decided that it was the only way to keep the British from discovering the mission. Besides, they were going to need to return with a full load of whale oil to recoup expenses. The cost of the mission was approaching $20,000 (it would later reach $30,000), and one clan na gael member had already mortgaged his house to finance the rescue.
Devoy also knew he needed help on the ground in Australia, so he arranged for John James Breslin—a bushy-bearded Fenian secret agent—to arrive in Fremantle in advance of the Catalpa and pose as an American millionaire named James Collins, and learn what he could about the place they called the "Convict Establishment."
What Breslin soon saw with his own eyes was that the medieval-looking Establishment was surrounded by unforgiving terrain. To the east there was desert and bare stone as far as the eye could see. To the west, were shark-infested waters. But Breslin also saw that security around the Establishment was fairly lax, no doubt due to the daunting environment. Pretending to be looking for investment opportunities, Breslin arranged several visits to the Establishment, where he asked questions about hiring cheap prison labor. On one such visit, he managed to convey a message to the Fenians: a rescue was in the works; avoid trouble and the possibility of solitary confinement so you don't miss the opportunity; there would be only one.
The Catalpa in dock, probably in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Photo: Wikipedia
Nine months passed before the Catalpa made it to Bunbury. Captain Anthony had run into all sorts of problems, from bad weather to faulty navigational devices. A restocking trip to the Azores saw six crew members desert, and Anthony had to replace them before continuing on. He found the waters mostly fished out, so the whaling season was a disaster. Very little money would be recouped on this trip, but financial losses were the least of their worries.
Once Breslin met up with Captain Anthony, they made a plan. The Fenians they had come for had been continually shifted in their assignments, and for Breslin's plan to work, all six needed to be outside the walls of the Establishment. Anyone stuck inside at the planned time of escape would be left behind. There was no way around it.
To complicate matters, two Irishmen turned up in Fremantle. Breslin immediately suspected that they were British spies, but he recruited them after learning that they had come in response to a letter the Fenians had written home, asking for help. On the day of the escape, they would cut the telegraph from Fremantle to Perth.
On Sunday, April 15, 1876, Breslin got a message to the Fenians: They would make for the Catalpa the next morning. "We have money, arms, and clothes," he wrote. "Let no man's heart fail him."
Anthony ordered his ship to wait miles out at sea—outside Australian waters. He would have a rowboat waiting 20 miles up the coast from the prison. Breslin was to deliver the Fenians there, and the crew would row them to the ship.
On Monday morning, April 16, the newly arrived Irishmen did their part by severing the telegraph wire. Breslin got horses, wagons and guns to a rendezvous point near the prison—and waited. He had no idea which prisoners, if any, would make their way outside the walls that day.
But in the first stroke of good luck that morning, Breslin soon had his answer.
Thomas Darragh was out digging potatoes, unsupervised.
Thomas Hassett and Robert Cranston talked their way outside the walls.
Martin Hogan was painting a superintendent's house.
And Michael Harrington and James Wilson concocted a tale about being needed for a job at the warden's house.
Moments later, Breslin saw the six Fenians heading toward him. (It might have been seven, but James Jeffrey Roche "was purposely left behind because of an act of treachery which he had attempted against his fellows ten long years before," when he sought a lighter sentence in exchange for cooperating with the British, Anthony later wrote. The deal was ultimately rejected, but the Fenians held a grudge.) Once on the carriages, the escapees made a frantic 20-mile horse-drawn dash for the rowboat.
They hadn't been gone for an hour before the guards became aware that the Irishmen had escaped. Breslin and the Fenians made it to the shore where Anthony was waiting with his crew and the boat. The Catalpa was waiting far out at sea. They'd need to row for hours to reach it. They were about half a mile from shore when Breslin spotted mounted police arriving with a number of trackers. Not long after that, he saw a coast guard cutter and a steamer that had been commandeered by the Royal Navy to intercept the rowboat.
The Convict Establishment in Fremantle, Western Australia, Main Cellblock. Photo: Wikipedia
The race was on. The men rowed desperately, with the authorities and the British, armed with carbines, in hot pursuit. To spur on the men, Breslin pulled from his pocket a copy of a letter he had just mailed to the British Governor of Western Australia:
This is to certify that I have this day released
from the clemency of Her Most Gracious Majesty
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, etc., etc., six Irishmen,
condemned to imprisonment for life by the
enlightened and magnanimous government of Great
Britain for having been guilty of the atrocious and
unpardonable crimes known to the unenlightened
portion of mankind as "love of country" and
"hatred of tyranny;" for this act of "Irish assur-
ance" my birth and blood being my full and
sufficient warrant. Allow me to add that in taking
my leave now, I've only to say a few cells I've emptied;
I've the honor and pleasure to bid yon good-day,
from all future acquaintance, excuse me, I pray.
In the service of my country,
John J. Breslin.
The Fenians let out a cry and the crew kept rowing for the Catalpa, which they could now see looming in the distance. But the steamer Georgette was bearing down, and the wind was rising—the beginnings of a gale. Darkness fell and waves came crashing down on the overloaded boat as it was blown out to sea. Captain Anthony was the picture of confidence, giving orders to bail, but even he doubted they'd make it through the night.
By morning, the Georgette reappeared and went straight for the Catalpa. The Georgette's captain asked if he could come aboard the whaler.
Sam Smith, minding the Catalpa, replied: "Not by a damned sight."
The Georgette, running low on fuel, then had to return to shore. Anthony saw his chance, and the Fenians made a dash for the whaler, this time with a cutter joining the race. They barely made it to Catalpa before the British, and the ship got under way. Anthony quickly turned it away from Australia, but the luck of the Irish seemed to run out. The wind went dead, the Catalpa was becalmed, and by morning, the Georgette, armed with a 12-pound cannon, pulled alongside. The Fenians, seeing the armed militia aboard the British ship, grabbed rifles and revolvers and prepared for battle.
Captain Anthony told the Fenians the choice was theirs—they could die on his ship or back at Fremantle. Though they were outmanned and outgunned, even the Catalpa's crew stood with the Fenians and their captain, grabbing harpoons for the fight.
Poet and editor John Boyle O'Reilly escaped from a penal colony in Bunbury, Western Australia, in 1869. Photo: Wikipedia
The Georgette then fired across Catalpa's bow. "Heave to," came the command from the British ship.
"What for?" Anthony shouted back.
"You have escaped prisoners aboard that ship."
"You're mistaken," Anthony snapped. "There are no prisoners aboard this ship. They're all free men."
The British gave Anthony 15 minutes to come to rest before they'd "blow your masts out."
The Catalpa was also perilously close to being nudged back into Australian waters, with no wind to prevent that from happening. It was then that Anthony gave his reply, pointing at the Stars and Stripes. "This ship is sailing under the American flag and she is on the high seas. If you fire on me, I warn you that you are firing on the American flag."
Suddenly, the wind kicked up. Anthony ordered up the mainsail and swung the ship straight for the Georgette. The Catalpa's "flying jibboom just cleared the steamer's rigging" as the ship with the Fenians aboard headed out to sea. The Georgette followed for another hour or so, but it was clear the British were reluctant to fire on an American ship sailing in international waters.
Finally, the British commander peeled the steamer back toward the coast. The Fenians were free.
The Catalpa arrived in New York four months later, as a cheering crowd of thousands met the ship for a Fenian procession up Broadway. John Devoy, John Breslin and George Anthony were hailed as heroes, and news of the Fremantle Six prison break quickly spread around the world.
The British press, however, accused the United States government of "fermenting terrorism," citing Anthony's refusing to turn over the Fenians, and noted that the captain and his crew were only "laughing at our scrupulous obedience to international law." But eventually, the British would say that Anthony had "done us a good turn; he has rid us of an expensive nuisance. The United States are welcome to any number of disloyal, turbulent, plotting conspirators, to all their silly machinations."
The Fremantle Six still carried the torment from their ordeals at the Convict Establishment, and despite their escape, the men remained broken, Devoy noted. He'd known them as soldiers, and he was not prepared for the changes that ten years under the "iron discipline of England's prison system had wrought in some of them."
Still, the Fenians had reinvigorated the spirits of their fellow Irish nationalists at home and abroad, and the tale of their escape inspired generations to come through both song and story.
So come you screw warders and jailers
Remember Perth regatta day
Take care of the rest of your Fenians
Or the Yankees will steal them away.
* The Real McKenzies "The Catalpa," 10,000 Shots, 2005, Fat Wreck Chords
Books: Zephaniah Walter Pease, Capt. George S. Anthony, Commander of the Catalpa: The Catalpa Expedition, New Bedford, Mass, G. S. Anthony Publication, 1897. Peter F. Stevens, The Voyage of the Catalpa: A Perilous Journey and Six Irish Rebels' Escape to Freedom, Carrol & Graf Publishers, 2002. John DeVoy, Edited by Philip Fennell and Marie King, John Devoy's Catalpa Expedition, New York University Press, 2006. Joseph Cummins, History's Great Untold Stories: Larger Than Life Characters & Dramatic Events that Changed the World, National Geographic Society, 2006.
Articles: "The Escaped Fenians," New York Times, June 11, 1876. "The Rescued Irishmen," Chicago Daily Tribune, July 27, 1876. "The Fenian Escape," by J. O'Reilly, Chicago Daily Tribune, June 23, 1876. "The Arrival," Chicago Daily Tribune, August 20, 1876. "Irish Escape," Secrets of the Dead, PBS.org, Thirteen/WNET New York, 2007, http://video.pbs.org/video/1282032064/ "Devoy: Recollections of an Irish Rebel," Ask About Ireland, (John Devoy: Recollections of an Irish Rebel: A Personal Narrative by John Devoy, Chase D. Young Company, 1929.) http://www.askaboutireland.ie/aai-files/assets/ebooks/ebooks-2011/Recollections-of-an-Irish-rebel/DEVOY_RECOLLECTIONS%20OF%20AN%20IRISH%20REBEL.pdf "Over the Sea and Far Away: The Catalpa and Fenians," by J.G. Burdette, September 13, 2012, http://jgburdette.wordpress.com/2012/09/13/over-the-sea-and-far-away-the-catalpa-and-fenians/ "Catalpa (The Rescue) A Brief Compilation of the Major Points of the Catalpa Rescue Story," by Paul T. Meagher, Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick, http://friendlysonsofsaintpatrick.com/2010/09/catalpa-the-rescue/.
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The Project Support Scheme is one of Arts Council Malta's tools to provide stable support for creative and cultural individuals, groups and organisations to plan, grow, develop and deliver ACM's strategic goals and ongoing strategy, primarily addressing creative professionals and communities, by:
Nurturing creative potential and supporting its development into professional activity by encouraging co-creation, collaboration and experimentation;
Investing in artistic excellence by encouraging levels of creative risk and experimentation, supporting quality projects as well as identifying talent and encouraging its development;
Providing more opportunities for people to engage in creativity, whilst connecting Malta to the international artistic community.
The scheme forms part of Arts Council Malta's funding programmes which aim at investing in the development of quality-driven creative work which pushes the artists' and the sector's boundaries for more engaging creative experiences. The Project Support Scheme aims at supporting artists in taking creative risks to develop new work through research, experimentation and collaboration.
The scheme also supports exploratory projects that would allow creative professionals to experiment, test their work, collaborate and develop their ideas further. Applications submitted, may form part of the initial phase of a wider project / body of work, or can be self-contained, in order to provide creatives with time and space for excellent artistic concepts to develop in support of the creative process in any art form.
This scheme gives creative professionals support throughout the development and / or implementation phases and covers the time and resources needed for creative professionals and their collaborators to develop projects from their concepts.
Creative professionals/individual artists; Entities registered with the Malta Business Registry (including companies, partnerships, foundations and organisations/associations); Groups, Collectives and Consortia; Registered Cooperatives and Voluntary Organisations.
The deadline to apply is Monday 13th September 2021 at noon. Late applications cannot be accepted.
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Reference number: PSG06-21-641
Project Title: RNH Bighi through Communities' Stories
Amount awarded: €20,000
This research-based project aims to shine a light on the ex-Royal Naval Hospital (RNH) Bighi, located in Kalkara overlooking the entrance into the Grand Harbour. The site houses ESPLORA, Malta's Interactive Science Centre and is led by the Malta Council for Science and Technology, among other organisations. The compounds of RNH Bighi, together with the outdoor areas, are more than a mere physical container hosting a series of exhibits, shows, presentations, workshops, conferences, weddings, public and private functions. Bighi provides a space, but moreover a place, with a rich and long history, thus a context. This research will indeed focus on the holistic context, taking into consideration the historical, architectural and design function of the place, but moreover its social and cultural function for the communities. The context thus becomes the message, the protagonist and the primary focus of study.
Applicant: ARC Research & Consultancy
Project Title: Medinea Gozo on Air
A consortium of six leading musical and cultural institutions from six countries from the Mediterranean basin, namely: Festival d'Aix en Provence (France); Ente Musicale di Nuoro (Italy); ARC Research & Consultancy (Malta); Univerza Ljubljani (Ljubljana); Escola Superior de Musica de Lisboa (Portugal); and Istanbul Technical University MIAM (Turkey) applied successfully to a new exceptional Erasmus Plus call as a response to the challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic to support partnerships for creativity in the frame of strategic partnerships programme. The Erasmus Plus project will take place in the six partner countries with one of the project modules taking place in Gozo. Within a tense geopolitical context which is now aggravated by the pandemic crisis, the Medinea network is convinced that culture, artistic training, and creation is the way to approach dialogue and intercultural relations between different peoples from the Mediterranean. Medinea intends to contribute, to energise and nourish the dialogue between the countries of the Mediterranean basin to strengthen the role of the sectors in favour of social inclusion and professional integration of young artists.
Applicant: Luke Saydon
Project Title: It- Teatru tal- Miskin
The project consists of the research and development of an original new musical in Maltese with the working title "It- Teatru tal- Miskin" - a Maltese queer coming of age story inspired by different acts of intolerance from our history. The project will explore and inform the musical's potential to enrich its social relevance and artistic excellence by collaborating with LGBTQ+ activist groups, young people, and expert theatre makers. The project will develop and explore new ways of approaching a new piece of Maltese theatre. This will be achieved through development sessions and brainstorming workshops with artists, mentors and communities, culminating in a week-long intensive R&D in year 2022.
Applicant: Dance Beyond Borders
Project Title: Refugee Week Malta 2022
The project consists of a week-long festival starting on World Refugee Day - June 20th - until June 26th. Refugee Week Malta will be built on three action pillars; Create, Cultivate and Connect that involve an interdisciplinary programme of arts and cultural events alongside artistic activism and a social media campaign. The events will occur in different spaces across the island and range in content from performances, film screenings, public talks to participatory workshops. This pursuit intends to cultivate awareness through artistic activism practice, create cultural spaces that promote allyship with people seeking sanctuary while strengthening relationships amongst all individuals working within the field. Dance Beyond Borders envisions launching this project for the first time in Malta to develop a locally based festival running in parallel to the international celebrations of Refugee Week, further putting Malta on the map as an EU state that actively promotes integration through innovative artistic activist approaches for a more unified community.
Applicant: Francesca Grima
Project Title: "Butterfly in the Inkwell"
The project is an artistic collaboration with Maltese flamenco dancer Francesca Grima, Chilean performance artist Bernardita Croxatto, Spanish live-painting artist and art video creator Patricio Hidalgo Moran, and Maltese/Serbian art director, composer and musician Andrej Vujicic. The project's outcome is the creation of three art videos filmed between Malta and Spain by renowned filmmaker Felix Vazquez, investigating innovative approaches to traditional art forms, jointly tapping into the sea of creativity that remains unexplored in the cultural 'inkwell' - a new delineation of the feminine principle in dance, a re-contextualised artistic inquiry questioning imposed art form structures that require re-examination.
Applicant: Take 2
Project Title: CASTILLO
Take Two intends to embark on its theatrical debut by adapting a work by one of Malta's most iconic and gifted writers. Clare Azzopardi's ground-breaking novel 'CASTILLO' tells the story of Amanda, a young woman digging into the past of her mother, Emma, who abandoned her in early childhood. Upon meeting for the first time, after 25 years, her mother confesses to two ruthless murders, that of Tommy and the fictional detective: Castillo. Castillo rises the ranks from police inspector to Superintendent in a series of novels but to Emma, Castillo is very real and more importantly, she believes he is the reason behind her sister's (and Amanda's aunt) assassination in the 80s. Harbouring vengeance and justice, Amanda and Emma strive to uncover the mystery behind Cathy's death. The theatre adaptation of Castillo will blend the genres of musical and drama throughout the month of February 2022 at Spazju Kreattiv.
Applicant: Francesca Balzan
Project Title: Disrupt & Disturb: Shaking off the dust
The project consists of a series of collaborative Art Research Labs conducted fortnightly over the space of a year leading to an exhibition at MUZA in Spring 2023. This outward looking project taps into our national heritage. Paper and book artist Glen Calleja and artist Francesca Balzan will systematically analyse their materials and techniques, confront them, experiment, and finally resolve them into an innovative body of work that takes off from each of their very individual and very different practices. The subject or theme will be the reserve collection of MUZA. It is envisaged that the 2 collaborators will study the art works in the reserve collection of MUZA. The objective will be to use them as starting off points for new art works that they will create using the techniques that they would have developed during the Art Research labs. This will culminate in an exhibition at MUZA in Spring 2023 for the public to see. This is a confrontation, a reaction but also a disruption and a disturbance to the normal mode of museum display. This new language will be used to create new art works that dialogue, react and refer to select works from the reserve collection at MUZA.
Project Title: Those Eyes, These Eyes, They Fade - Contemporary Photography Exhibition
The project consists of a contemporary photography exhibition curated by Anne Immelé [FR], Ph.D, co-founder of the Mulhouse Photography Biennial, titled 'Those Eyes, These Eyes, They Fade'. The exhibition features local artist Nigel Baldacchino who conceived the basic conceptual framework for the project, showing his work together with renowned artists such as Awoiska Van Der Molen [NE], Geert Goiris [BE], Bénédicte Blondeau [BE] at Valletta Contemporary.
Project Title: Horizontal vs Vertical: Cheek to cheek; Head to Toe
This project aims to devise and create a theatrical performance, as well as collaborate and nourish the artistic dialogue between the creating professionals (local and international) and the audience. The dialogue will be moderated and led by the Feedback tool of Dasarts. The project encompasses a research that seeks to understand how the artistic process can be a feedback mechanism. When discussing artworks outside of a safe environment, the tendency is to personally interpret what we would have done instead of the artist himself. Therefore, this project aims to achieve a situation where we can freely discuss art works without insulting the people around us. The scope is to postpone harsh criticism whilst allowing the feedbacker to enter somebody else's work in a graceful manner. During the project dissemination archiving and reflections are necessary for the generation of the creative process. The archiving will subsequently be presented in two formats - a reflective journal and a video documentation.
Applicant: Salt 'N' Pepper Project
Project Title: Salt 'N' Pepper: The Comic for Agricultural Learning
This project aims to develop 30 comic strips revolving around food production. The target audience is 10 to 13-year-olds who are curious about how food is produced. The comic strips will be disseminated online as well as offline in the form of a collective omnibus. Comics are a growing medium in art, even locally. The Malta Comic Con, which has been taking place since 2009, has seen an increase in number of attendees and scale. Similarly, there are a few examples online of comics used to convey sustainability messages such as 'Angry Earth' and 'The Planet and the 17 Goals'. The comic will tackle how agricultural products (crops, animals, fish and processed food) are produced and the processes involved until the food is ready for consumption. The comic will also delve into problems that arise throughout the supply chain. All content will be designed appropriately for the target audience to understand.
Project Title: Song Cycle - Tama
The project is based on the true story of Tenor Michel Angelo Muscat who was born in Valletta in 2000 and was brought up in difficult situations. The court had eventually decided that Michel Angelo should be taken care of by the authorities. As a result, he was first transferred to the Ursoline Sisters Creshe and subsequently fostered in a Maltese family who urged him to start singing lessons. At the age of eight, he started his very first singing lessons. His foster family later decided to start the adoption procedure which was successful. They have together moved from Malta to Gozo to offer Michel Angelo a new life. Today, the beneficiary is invited to perform internationally. The project will be a collection of ten songs written by Leanne Ellul and composed by Dr John Galea. The ten songs will be recorded in an album and launched in a drama-vocal event. The proceeds of both the event and the sale of albums will go to the Children's Dreams fund which aids children who are on care order.
Applicant: 12th May Band and Social Club
Project Title: Reviving Our Music Heritage
This project draws its inspiration from the important finding of 'In Sepulchrum 1801' by composer Francesco Azzopardi (1748-1809). The beneficiary intends to launch a children's publication about antiphones written in the Maltese language. The publication will be written by Andrew Borg and illustrated by Nicole Diacono. The concept behind this publication is to create a contemporary story for children with important words in relation to the liturgical feasts embedded in the story. It will also serve as a platform for children to understand and appreciate our heritage. Finally, there will be a concert which will include some music snippets from the actual concert adapted for children.
Applicant: Julia Marta
Project Title: Valletta-Varsavja-Vjenna: Bringing together three musical cultures
The project brings together Malta based Polish pianist Julia Miller, Polish based Apertus String Quartet and Maltese composer Karl Fiorini, to create an original musical performance ranging through three different eras - from the classical to the contemporary - within three different musical cultures. The project includes a Malta premiere of Polish romantic composer Moniuszko's String Quartet no.1 in D-Minor and world premiere of Piano Quintet by Maltese contemporary composer Karl Fiorini. The performance will open with Mozart's one of only two minor piano concertos, Piano Concerto in D-Minor, arranged for a piano quintet - in itself a Malta premiere. This project is part of a three-city tour that will take the same programme to be performed in Vienna and in Warsaw.
Application Deadline: 23rd June 2021
Applicant: Selina Maria Scerri
Project Title: Tomorrow's blossoms
Tomorrow's Blossoms is an AI art project whose goal is to create an immersive exhibition in a space by projecting data dramatization, as developed through a year-long project. The project aims to extract the behaviour of natural anthropogenic processes and human creative behaviour by collecting data from the internet and combining it with a set of analogue/digital/paintings. These curated datasets will be input into a learning algorithm designed specifically for the project by Dr Angelo Dalli, producing new datasets. The results are bound to fascinate the viewers through their novelty as well as create a taste for further AI developments. The results will be exhibited and projected at 111 Art Gallery.
Applicant: Albert Bell
Project Title: Albert Bell's Sacro Sanctus - The Sword of Fierbois
This project entails the composition, recording, mixing, mastering, release, distribution and promotion of a historical concept based full-length album. The album will be released and distributed worldwide in CD and digital format on the Italian independent record label Metal on Metal Records. The album is also being prospected to be released in limited and exclusive DLP vinyl format and promoted/marketed through diverse media including lyric and concept/performance-based music videos.
Applicant: Matthew Schembri
Project Title: Ħassartek
Ħassartek is a project that aims to partially delete the script of "Stessi", the applicant's debut novel (published in 2018) to reveal a different text from the original manuscript. Through this process of partial deletion a literary text that is simultaneously both new and not new will be created. This project experiments with the technique of partial deletion as a form of rebellion and protest towards the authority, stasis and lack of control that a published work entails. The deleted text will be published and exhibited as part of an artistic installation at Studio Solipsis.
Applicant: Margerita Pulé
Project Title: The Ordinary Lives of Women
The Ordinary Lives of Women is an exploration and acknowledgement, in exhibition form, of the value of everyday women, and women's contribution to humanity. The exhibition is co-curated by Elise Billiard Pisani and Margerita Pulè, and designed by Noura Abdelhafidh. An art-film programme is curated by Nicole Bearman, and the catalogue is edited by Ann Dingli. The Ordinary Lives of Women combines important and statement-making existing work, alongside new work created specifically for the show. It combines installation, performance, and multi-disciplinary work, as well as a small reading / reference library, and shows international and local artists alongside each other.
Applicant: Antje Liemann
Project Title: Such Stuff as Worlds are Made On
Such Things as Worlds are Made On is a co-curated project-exhibition in collaboration with a number of local and international artists. Through installation, sound, video, and virtual reality pieces, the project reflects on the effects of environmental emergencies, as well as the limits of human knowledge of our planet and the solar system, and to engage with exploratory practices marginalised by scientific knowledge. The exhibition will shift perspectives towards non-privileged humans, nonhumans, biomes and Martian life forms in order to reflect on the near-future of space colonisation and to explore imaginings of past landings on earth by beings that have pushed human imagination. Over the course of the exhibition, additional workshops and events such as a dreaming session, an astronomy workshop and film-screenings will allow audiences to engage further with the subject, and with works that look towards world-building and towards practices marginalised by positivist scientific knowledge as a possible solution for our current ecological crises.
Applicant: Katel Delia
Project title: MALTA – TUNIS – MARSEILLE
Malta-Tunis-Marseille exhibition is based on a true story. It explores a Maltese family's complex journey of migration that started one century ago, in its search for a better life. It is about looking for a space to inhabit that feels like home, and being pushed out again because of external issues. As it echoes the life-story of many migrants, the exhibition asks: Where can you find a shelter when your native country does not accept your return? Malta-Tunis-Marseille cuts across the Mediterranean Sea and its restless roads of migration. It is an immersive exhibition, and is made of photographs, videos, sound installations and archival documents from the archives.
Applicant: Clint Calleja
Project title: Anamnesis
Anamnesis is a solo exhibition by Clint Calleja and curated by Kenneth Cassar. It will be composed of a number of paintings, sculptures, photography and installations dealing with the theme of trauma and memory. The artworks will be all autobiographical, inspired and/or describing recollections of various events throughout the artist's life that remained imprinted in his memory. Most of these imprints are of a traumatic nature, which are important ingredients that shaped the applicant as a person and as an artist.
Applicant: Aidan Celeste
Project title: hold on to the air in your pockets
This project builds upon work the artists have engaged with independently across the Grand Harbour. It brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste for a residency at MUŻA. They will focus on using their skills in digital publication to revisit and curate a narrative with experts from heritage, maritime, and the arts. This collaboration will be used to develop a new site-specific intervention for our host, MUŻA, and mediate its design by hosting a reading room. This room, entitled a Residency Space by MUŻA, will be used to host the area's immediate communities under the guise of an exhibition.
Applicant: Cynthia Bonnici
Project title: Alessia's Project
As a teenage pianist with autism, Alessia engages with music in a distinctive way, expressing through it a vast world of lived experiences that she is unable to express verbally. Through the making of a short film (which will revolve around Alessia's recording of Ilia Chkolnik's Piano Concerto No. 1), this project will attempt to communicate Alessia's unique relationship with music, and celebrate her multiple abilities while respectfully acknowledging her challenges.
Applicant: Joseph Smith
Project title: Spaces in Suspension
Spaces in Suspension seeks to document a space that is about to be demolished and erased from the landscape and our collective memory, namely the Verdala Hotel in Rabat. Since ceasing operation in 1997, the space has become a hospice for the objects that were left behind, and these objects have become part of a performance – the act of waiting for demolition. The space will be documented photographically and audio-visually through an exhibition and a subsequent publication, as well as through workshops with students and artists with the possible participation of past employees of the hotel.
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The Story of the Temple
April 11, 2019 by DC	Leave a comment
Here's the story of the famous temple in South India where people celebrate their 60th, 70th, 75th, and 80th birthdays, and where we celebrated my dad's 70th birthday. There once lived a sage who was a great devotee of Shiva. Every day he would joyfully offer his prayers to Shiva. One day however the sage was a little downcast when doing his daily poojas. Shiva appeared before him and asked him why he was not his usual happy self. The sage told Shiva that he had no children and that was the cause of his misery. Shiva smiled and blessed him with a baby boy. But he warned the sage that the boy would only live till the age of sixteen. The sage was ecstatic and he named the boy Markandeya. When the boy turned five, his father taught him how to do Shiva pooja. The boy prayed to Lord Shiva every day without fail. When he was going to turn sixteen, his distraught parents told him that his end was near.
On his 16th birthday, Markandeya was praying to Shiva when Yama, the god of death came for him. Yama told Markandeya that his time was up and that he had to go with him. Markandeya ignored him and continued with his pooja. Yama repeatedly called the boy but he refused to go with him. Yama, livid with rage, took his noose and threw it around the boy. Unfortunately, Yama's noose fell over Shiva's idol. Shiva flew into a rage and annihilated Yama.
Shiva granted Markandeya the boon of immortality, so he would stay 16 forever. Markandeya was so grateful to Shiva that he travelled from one Shiva temple to another singing 16 verses in praise of Shiva. The last temple which also happened to be the 108th temple he visited was Thirukadaiyur. "Kadaisi" means last in Tamil. The deity in this temple is Shiva accompanied by Markandeya and a vanquished Yama underfoot. Abirami, Shiva's consort is flanked by Saraswati, the goddess of learning, and Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth. Right across from the deity is a shrine for Yama.
The story goes that after Yama was vanquished, there were no deaths on earth, but the births continued unabated. Mother Earth went running to Lord Shiva lamenting that the burden was too much for her to bear. She begged Shiva to do something. Shiva in his infinite mercy released Yama and gave him back his powers. With Yama back in his post, births and deaths were balanced out and Mother Earth heaved a sigh of relief.
The number 16 shows up in the temple quite often. They performed 16 homams for my Dad's 70th birthday. Sixteen kalashams or pots of water were poured on my parents. The priests recited the 16 verses composed by Markandeya and we had to do 16 namaskarams or prostrations. The belief is that people who visit this temple will also be granted a long, happy, and prosperous life. And I do wish that for my parents and for my aunts and uncle who accompanied us.
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Video: I actually cannot think of a hell worse than being trapped in a high school with the jocks running things. That's enough to make anyone long for their parents, principals and teachers.
Image: Go North screencap from the trailer, Gunpowder & Sky
Go North takes place after some disaster has led to Lord of the Flies/Children of the Corn-style community of children, led by children. Only, in this case, it's being run the way we all imagine high schools are run: By the popular.
Jacob Lofland (Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials) and Sophie Kennedy Clark (Philomena) go looking for their families and, you know, the hope of not being controlled by other teenagers, you guessed it, going north. They're chased by the evil Caleb (Patrick Schwarzenegger) and his minion (James Bloor).
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Wooden Percherones for the wall.
Percherona is one of our most iconic design. It´s a wall rack designed in the shape of a cartoonish cow face originally made (in the first version of the design) in aluminum composite,. Making experiments with this material we were able to fold and unfold the cow´s horns to use them as hooks for hats, scarves, coats, etc.
The original product (version 1.0) was completed with a black vinyl attached in the cow´s eye as a patch.
From this first idea we developed (and we still are developing them) a new product range, Percherones, made in plywood and designed representing different character´s faces in a cartoonish style. Plywood and hinges makes the product stronger, more durable and eco-friendly.
We are working to launch these products in many different styles, from a DIY version to different color and wood combinations.


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Isaac Newton: life and discoveries of the great British scientist
A look at the life of one of history's most famous astronomers
Anita Chandran
Published: January 16, 2023 at 10:21 am
Sir Isaac Newton is one of the most celebrated figures in scientific history. His wide-ranging contributions touched almost every aspect of modern science.
Born on 4 January 1643 near Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, Isaac Newton was a lonely but determined child.
Even as a boy, he was aware of the motion of celestial bodies, constructing sundials on the walls of his family home that visitors would use to tell the time.
In 1661 he entered Trinity College, Cambridge. A fervent mathematician and philosopher, he began to research infinity, God and geometry and it was in these early writings the word 'gravity' first appeared.
What's the difference between Newton and Einstein gravity?
Title page of Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, London 1687. Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images
Newton returned to Woolsthorpe in 1664, when the plague closed Cambridge.
During this period of isolation, he developed a new form of mathematics that underpins almost all of mathematics and physics today: calculus.
Fellow mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz also developed the technique independently, leading to a lifelong feud over the method's true inventor.
At Woolsthorpe, an enduring myth also formed: that Newton, sitting in the garden, was struck on the head by an apple causing him to 'discover' the universal force of gravity.
Newton never referenced this tale, though he reportedly said watching one fall was a source of inspiration.
It is clear from his notes, however, that it was during this time that Newton became aware of the pull of gravitational attraction.
Newton and optics
A replica of the first reflecting telescope made by Isaac Newton and shown to the Royal Society in 1668. Credit: SSPL/Getty Images
Newton's thirst for knowledge was unquenchable, and his next target was optics.
He carried out experiments that showed that different colours of light were bent at different angles by a prism, and invented a way of using prisms to change the size of a beam of light, a technique now adopted in many lasers.
By now, he had realised that most standard telescopes based on spherical lenses produced blurred images, and believed that he could do better.
He began to make his own lenses in a makeshift laboratory outside his dormitory.
Newton soon understood that the problem was not the lenses, but instead the nature of white light.
He discovered that white light was composed of a rainbow, dispelling the longstanding misconception that white was a single colour.
Armed with this knowledge, he built a new 'reflection' telescope, using mirrors to focus light instead of lenses.
His device, just 16cm in length, was equal in magnifying power to the best European telescopes of the day.
Isaac Newton dispersing light with a glass prism. Credit Apic/Getty Images
Newton and the laws of motion
Newton returned to Cambridge, where he was made Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in 1669.
After this, Newton was made Fellow of the Royal Society, but his secretive and difficult temperament led to his isolation from the academic community.
This changed in 1681, when he began making observations of the movements of a new comet that had appeared in the sky.
His insights attracted the attention of Edmond Halley, after whom Halley's Comet is now named.
Through correspondence with Halley, Newton began to compile his research into a logical form.
This resulted in his master work: Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, after which UK astronaut Tim Peake's Principia mission onboard the International Space Station was named.
UK astronaut Tim Peake takes time out for some background reading, tackling Isaac Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, after which Peake's Principia mission was named.
Credits: ESA/NASA
Published in 1687 and funded by Halley, Principia formed the basis of classical mechanics, the theory of how large bodies move under gravity.
Most famously, the work outlined Newton's three laws of motion.
Newton moved to London in 1696, where he took up the position of Warden and then Master of the Royal Mint, responsible for England's coinage.
He became President of the Royal Society in 1703, just before he published his seminal book, Opticks, on the theory of light and colour. He was knighted by Queen Anne in 1705 and died in his sleep in London on 31 March 1727.
He was the first scientist to be buried in Westminster Abbey.
Newton's three laws of motion explained
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Newton's contributions to physics are wide-reaching, but his three laws of motion are among his most important work
Newton began working on his laws of motion in his notebook, entitled The Waste Book, during his isolation at his family's farm in Woolsthorpe.
His three laws came to fruition over many years and were finally presented in Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica in 1687.
Newton's three laws can be summarised as:
A still object will remain still, or a moving object will continue to move, unless a force acts upon it. To make an object move or stop, you need to apply a force to it.
The greater the force applied on an object, the greater its acceleration; the greater the mass of an object, the larger the force required to move it. This force is measured in Newtons, where one Newton is the force needed to accelerate 1kg to 1m/s.
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Forces are always found in pairs: if you apply a force to an object, the object will apply an equal and opposite force back.
This guide originally appeared in the January 2023 issue of BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Anita ChandranPhysicist
Anita Chandran is a PhD student at Imperial College London.


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UN's Rima Khalaf quits over report accusing Israel of apartheid
duration 17 March 2017
image captionMs Khalaf heads an agency promoting development in Arab countries
A UN official has resigned after saying the UN had pressured her to withdraw a report accusing Israel of apartheid over its treatment of Palestinians.
The report was published by the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), led by Under Secretary General Rima Khalaf.
She had said it was the first to conclude Israel was a racist state.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres had distanced himself from the report, saying it reflected its authors' views.
As of Friday, it was no longer visible on the ESCWA's website.
Speaking in the Lebanese capital Beirut, Ms Khalaf, a Jordanian, said she had submitted her resignation to Mr Guterres after he insisted on the report's withdrawal.
"We expected of course that Israel and its allies would put huge pressure on the secretary general of the UN so that he would disavow the report, and that they would ask him to withdraw it," she was quoted as saying by AFP news agency.
media captionIsrael's then Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely: "Israel and apartheid have nothing in common." (2015)
Israel has condemned the report. "The attempt to smear and falsely label the only true democracy in the Middle East by creating a false analogy is despicable and constitutes a blatant lie," Israeli UN Ambassador Danny Danon said in a statement.
The report itself said it had established on the "basis of scholarly inquiry and overwhelming evidence, that Israel is guilty of the crime of apartheid".
It was published on Wednesday by the ESCWA, which promotes economic and social development in 18 Arab countries, and is based in Beirut.
In 2014, the then US Secretary of State, John Kerry, warned that Israel risked becoming "an apartheid state" if a two-state solution to its conflict with the Palestinians was not found soon.
Relations with the Palestinians have been a major factor in Israel's foreign and security policy.
The Palestinians in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem have lived under Israeli occupation since 1967. While Israel pulled its troops and settlers out of Gaza in 2005, the United Nations still regards it as part of the occupied territories.
The settlements that Israel has built in the West Bank are home to nearly 500,000 people and are deemed to be illegal under international law, although Israel disputes this.
Update 5 April 2017: The text referring to occupied territories has been updated to include details of Gaza.
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Wooden Cross Cemetery
By Crystal Coon
Just north of West Winfield Township in Butler County, is a silent and sobering place known as the Wooden Cross (or Black Cross) Cemetery, although the title of cemetery is a bit of a stretch. In the early 1900s, many Polish and Slovak immigrants moved into the area to work in the expanding industries such as the limestone mine, sand plant, brickyard, salt works, or tile works that were in the area. However, in 1918, many of these workers became exposed to the influenza virus, a disease that was quickly turning into an international epidemic. The virus proved to be a deadly encounter for many of these people, and many died without a church, organization, or family that would ensure they received a proper burial. Like many immigrant laborers in the early 20th century, most of these men were single, having left their families to earn money and get established in the United States. At the time the county, state, and federal governments refused to provide a burial for the massive amount of people who had succumbed to the flu without anyone to take care of post-mortem affairs.
A local farmer with the last name of McLaughlin donated one of his field to serve as a final resting place. A man and his son who owned a wagon were recruited to bring the bodies to the field where they were to be interred, with as many as twenty bodies placed in each grave. Laborers spread hydrated lime across the bodies in order to speed their decomposition. This quick burial was in the hopes that it would prevent the spread of the disease. There was only one headstone that was found in this "cemetery," belonging to Frank Bacich, a thirty-one year old. A priest from neighboring Coylesville, Pennsylvania thought that these predominantly Catholic immigrants deserved a proper burial and service, despite the hasty interment. Father O'Callahan commissioned a large wooden cross, made of railroad ties, to be placed on the grave site. It is not certain exactly how many people were buried in these mass graves. In Winfield Township there were at least 300 recorded cases of death by the Spanish flu.
The area of the Wooden Cross Cemetery is currently owned by Armstrong Cement and Supply Company, and it is now a Butler County Historical Site. After the original wooden cross deteriorated and fell apart, the Saxonburg District Women's Club elected to put a white cement cross burial marker into place. The club also put a historical marker in place in 2002. It reads,
Here are buried an unknown number of local victims of the worldwide influenza epidemic of 1918-1919 – one of history's worst epidemics in terms of deaths. In Butler County, the worst period was early October to early November 1918, with some 260 deaths in the county seat alone. Immigrant workers in the limestone and other industries are buried in this cemetery, with one to five bodies in each grave. A large wooden cross marked the site.
With outbreak of disease comes the fear of an epidemic, and this fear was completely justified in 1918. As of November of 1918, the Spanish flu had already claimed over 35,000 lives in the state of Pennsylvania alone. The absolute fear of this disease was nothing to take lightly. The local paper, The Butler Citizen, recorded influenza as the cause of death in the obituaries often, with one day having as many as twelve deaths due to influenza alone. The municipality of butler shut down every place of gathering out of fear of spreading the deadly disease. Prior to the shutdown, upwards of 250 pupils were missing school everyday due to the outbreak. Even into the holiday season, health officials were still warning people to stay away from large crowds to keep the disease contained. The fear of widespread disease epidemics was very prevalent in the early twentieth century, before the introduction of vaccinations to help stop these outbreaks. This mass burial in Winfield Township is a grim reminder of the horrors of the past. It is our duty to remember the past in such a way that we keep in mind the struggles that have been overcome by humanity. It is important to realize that these struggles happened in our own backyards.
Historical Marker: A close up of the memorial put in place by the Saxonburg Women's Club ~ Source: Image from the personal collection of Crystal Coon ~ Date: April 22, 2019
Current Cross Memorial: The cross memorial that stands where the original Wooden Cross stood ~ Source: Image from the personal collection of Crystal Coon ~ Date: April 22, 2019
1918 Newspaper Article: Page one of an article that discusses the influenza outbreak in Butler County ~ Source: Image courtesy the Genealogy Department of the Butler County Public Library ~ Date: October 1918
Current Historical Marker: The memorial put in place by the Saxonburg Women's Club ~ Source: Image from the personal collection of Crystal Coon ~ Date: April 22, 2019
New Historical Marker Dedication: Newspaper article from the dedication of the new Historical Marker ~ Source: Image courtesy the Genealogy Department of the Butler County Public Library ~ Date: June 5, 2002
Crystal Coon, "Wooden Cross Cemetery," Butler County Historical, accessed January 21, 2020, https://butlerhistorical.org/items/show/67.
Baier, Karen. "Mass Graves of Influenza Victims Will Be Marked." Butler Eagle, June 5, 2002. Brooke, Stopford. "Influenza Victims Will Take Warning." The Butler Citizen, November 14, 1918. International News Service. "Keep Your Children out of Holiday Crowds." The Butler Citizen, December 24, 1918. "Obituaries." The Butler Citizen, October 14, 1918. Pirnie, Malcolm. "Comprehensive Plan Review and Policy Update." Winfield Township, ARCADIS, 6 Nov. 2013, winfieldtownship.net/wp-content/uploads/WinfieldTwpComprehensivePlan_20131106.pdf. Royer, B. Franklin. "All Places of Assembly Are Close Indefinitely by Municipal Authority." Butler Citizen, October 1918. White, Thomas. Ghosts of Southwestern Pennsylvania. Haunted America/History Press, 2010. "WOODEN CROSS CEMETERY." Butler County Historical Society, 23 Jan. 2014, butlerhistory.com/2014/01/23/wooden-cross-cemetery/. "Wooden Cross Cemetery ." Findagrave.com, Find A Grave, www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2539996/wooden-cross-cemetery.


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Now India has its own CELPIP test center
It's good news for all the CELPIP applicants from India. The English Language test now has its first center in India. The first official CELPIP test center can be found at the Abbotsford Community Services office in Chandigarh.
Registration started on 15th September 2018 which was scheduled for Saturday.
The test widely accepted by the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) as proof of English language proficiency for both permanent resident status in Canada and Canadian citizenship. CELPIP is the test with two English Language Tests.
For more information on Canadian skilled worker immigration and language skill requirements, consult this dedicated page.


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