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Lowry strips Lincoln of his attachment to justice, the author writes. | Getty Images
Lowry's misguided view of Lincoln
By GEORGE PERKOVICH
Writing in POLITICO last week, Rich Lowry accused President Obama (and liberals such as Mario Cuomo) of brazenly body-snatching Abraham Lincoln and using him as a proponent of progressive government. However, a review of the Lincoln text on which Lowry bases his claim reveals that Lowry has stripped Lincoln of an essential quality in reincarnating him as an avatar of 21st-century libertarianism. That quality is Lincoln's attachment to justice, a value that animates much of our current political contest over the role of government.
Lowry quotes a draft note for a Lincoln lecture circa 1854: "The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but cannot do, at all, or cannot, so well do, for themselves." Lowry says that Lincoln "was referring, on the one hand to policing and the prosecution of crimes, and on the other, to 'public roads and highways, public schools, charities, pauperism, orphanage, estates of the deceased, and the machinery of government itself.' " These, Lowry writes, are "thoroughly uncontroversial functions of government."
Setting aside for a moment that the political philosophy Lowry espouses and seeks to embody in Lincoln often disputes the role of government in issues related to infrastructure, public schools, child care, and the machinery of government, let's look at the remainder of the Lincoln notes which Lowry chose not to quote. Lincoln wrote, but Lowry omitted, "that if all men were just, there would still be some, though not so much, need of government." Lincoln was invoking here the core value of justice as a fundamental purpose of government. Further, insofar as all men are not necessarily just, Lincoln was saying there needs to be more than "some" government.
Lincoln's focus on justice, like that of progressives more broadly, extends the purpose of government beyond the protection of individual liberty and private property to which libertarian-conservatives reduce it today. Lincoln elaborated the tension between libertarianism and justice in a closely related note from the same time, which Lowry also neglects: "Why, then, should we have government?" Lincoln asked. "Why not each individual take to himself the whole fruit of his labor, without having any of it taxed away, in services, corn, or money?" The 16th president answered in part by saying there are many things such as making and maintaining roads, education, and providing for the helpless young and afflicted, that require government and therefore taxation. But, importantly, Lincoln continued, government is necessary to redress "a far larger class of objects [which] springs from the injustice of men."
Lincoln then cited examples. "If one people will make war upon another, it is a necessity" to create a "military department" for defense. "If some men will kill, or beat, or constrain others, or despoil them of property, by force, fraud or noncompliance with contracts, it is a common object with peaceful and just men to prevent it" through government.
Libertarian-conservatives do not object 19th-century governmental functions such as defense, police, and courts, but Lincoln's logic of redressing injustices clearly pointed to something more ambitious. Some of the great political contests of recent decades have been to remove discriminatory constraints on people due to their race, religion, gender and sexual identity. Regulation of financial markets and detection of insider trading – also hotly contested – are to prevent fraudulent and unfair economic competition. Requiring publicly overseen testing for the safety of food and chemicals is to enable citizens to consent to what they are putting into their bodies.
The big disputes between libertarian-conservatives and progressives revolve around whether justice can be reduced to individual liberty and property rights, and whether individual liberty and property rights should be privileged over correcting injustices. Attitudes toward inequality often signify this more fundamental tension. Lowry's preferences are clear. Throughout the POLITICO article he refers to "Lincoln's economics," to the priority of property, markets, wealth and individual labor. To be sure, Lincoln celebrated industry, self-improvement and liberty, but to take the scales of justice out of his hand and sculpt him as a libertarian is to snatch the essence from the man and his political legacy. Libertarians can run and hide from the question of justice, but they can't take Lincoln with them.
George Perkovich is a vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and author of "Do Unto Others: Toward A Defensible Nuclear Doctrine."

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(Oded Balilty/Associated Press) Though devastating, disasters like the earthquake that hit China in May can force countries to modernize their infrastructure.
How disasters help
Natural disasters can give a boost to the countries where they occur - and sometimes, the more the better
Email|Print|Single Page| Text size – + By Drake Bennett
THE EARTHQUAKE THAT struck China's Sichuan Province in May left behind scenes of almost apocalyptic devastation: mountaintops sheared off into valleys, cities reduced to rubble and dust, cracked dams, collapsed bridges, and at least 80,000 dead.
If the Chinese government is to be believed, the earthquake also did something else: it helped the country's economy. A little over a month after the quake, the State Information Center, a Chinese government research body, announced that the massive rebuilding effort, and the billions of dollars it would pump into the Chinese economy, would far outweigh the economic losses from the quake, enough to bump up national economic growth by 0.3 percent - a small but not insignificant part of a 2008 growth rate most estimates put at just under 10 percent.
Traditionally, analysts have cautioned that Chinese growth figures should be greeted with skepticism, but, according to one school of economic thought, there may be something to the idea that the quake served as a brutal stimulus. In fact, some economists argue that hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, volcanic eruptions, ice storms, and the like, despite the widespread destruction they leave behind - indeed, largely because of it - can spur economic growth.
Rebuilding efforts serve as a short-term boost by attracting resources to a country, and the disasters themselves, by destroying old factories and old roads, airports, and bridges, allow new and more efficient public and private infrastructure to be built, forcing the transition to a sleeker, more productive economy in the long term.
"When something is destroyed you don't necessarily rebuild the same thing that you had. You might use updated technology, you might do things more efficiently. It bumps you up," says Mark Skidmore, an economics professor at Michigan State University. "Disasters help people think about things differently."
Studies have found that earthquakes in California and Alaska helped stir economic activity there, and that countries with more hurricanes and storms tend to see higher rates of growth. Some of the most recent work has found a link between disasters and subsequent innovation.
The study of the economics of disasters remains a small field, with few major papers. And skeptics charge disaster economists with oversimplifying enormously complex economic systems and seeing illusory effects that stem only from the crudeness of the available economic measuring tools.
But as more people move to riskier areas, and the world's climate shifts, the debate over natural disasters and their impact has been gaining in resonance. The population of coastal hurricane zones and cities, from San Francisco to Mexico City to Tokyo, that sit on or near major seismic faults, continues to grow, and climatologists warn that climate change could increase the number of extreme weather events in many parts of the world. While not even the most fervent believer in the economy-catalyzing qualities of disasters would wish for one, the study of the costs and possible benefits of such events may help us better understand how to target recovery efforts - and, perhaps, how to replicate the salutary effects of disasters without the disasters themselves.
The economic study of natural disasters has roots in the study of human disasters - in particular, the effects of wars, real and imagined. In the 1950s and 1960s, analysts at the RAND Corporation think tank, trying to work out the total impact of a nuclear attack on the United States, created models for how such an attack would affect our economy. The best-known of these thinkers was Herman Kahn, a physicist and systems analyst notorious for his willingness, even eagerness, to reduce the seemingly unthinkable to dry actuarial calculations. In his 1961 book, "On Thermonuclear War," Kahn wrote that, thanks to the United States' strong growth rate at the time, even a nuclear attack that destroyed all of its major metropolitan areas and killed one-third of its population "does not seem to be a total economic catastrophe. It may simply set the nation's productive capacity back a decade or two plus destroying many 'luxuries.' "
Natural disasters provided an opportunity to see how societies actually recovered from such large-scale shocks. In 1969, Douglas Dacy and Howard Kunreuther, two young analysts at the Institute for Defense Analyses, published a book called "The Economics of Natural Disasters," one of the first attempts to quantify the economic impact of catastrophes. The book was largely a case study of the Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964, the most powerful ever recorded in North America. Dacy and Kunreuther found that the money that rushed into the Alaskan economy after the temblor, as well as generous government loans and grants for rebuilding, meant that many Alaskans were actually better off afterward than before.
"We got a lot of hate mail for that finding," recalls Kunreuther, now a professor of business and public policy at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.
But though it may have proved unpopular among Alaskans still dealing with the aftermath of the disaster - which killed 131 people, destroyed several towns along the Alaskan coast, and leveled portions of Anchorage - the idea that disasters trigger short-term growth has gained adherents among economists.
"The data are pretty clear about it," says Gus Faucher, director of macroeconomics at Moody's Economy.com, an economic consulting firm.
Faucher has looked at disasters in regional US economies and found in some cases a dramatic impact. The year after Hurricane Andrew struck southeast Florida in 1992, causing what would today be more than $40 billion in damages, the state saw sharp increases in employment thanks to new construction jobs. And Faucher credits the rebuilding jobs and aid and investment that followed the 1994 Northridge earthquake for helping pull the Los Angeles area out of its early-1990s economic slump. Hurricane Katrina, Faucher says, has proved an exception: Because so many residents left the area and because government aid was so slow to arrive and insurance payouts so low, the area didn't see an economic bounce.
To critics of this line of thinking, the problem is that it is, at best, a partial picture. It ignores, they argue, the fact that the money and labor that go into post-disaster rebuilding are simply being redirected from other productive uses.
"If you're a carpenter, a trash remover, a physician, you may be made better off, but the things that those producers would have otherwise produced are not going to be produced," says Donald Boudreaux, an economics professor at George Mason University. "Over any reasonably relevant period of time, society is not made wealthier by destroying resources," he adds. If it were, "Beirut should be one of the wealthiest places in the world."
The research on longer-run effects, its supporters argue, is less vulnerable to this criticism, because the key factor is not merely new stuff but better stuff. In this model, disasters perform the economic service of clearing out outdated infrastructure to make way for more efficient replacements - Mother Nature's contribution to what the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter famously called capitalism's "creative destruction." The economy, as it recovers, actually becomes more productive than it was before, and some economists argue that the effect can be seen decades after the disaster.
When Dacy and Kunreuther looked at Alaska after the quake, they found that the state's fishing fleet, refurbished after being decimated by the ensuing tsunami, was able to increase its yield over pre-quake levels. And the building industry grew more innovative, as well. Whereas before, construction had been limited to the warmer months of the year, the pressure to rebuild quickly drove the adoption of new methods and technologies like the use of "visqueen" plastic films to protect construction sites, allowing work to continue year-round despite the bitter Alaskan winter.
Other, more recent academic work has taken a broader look at the question. Mark Skidmore of Michigan State, along with the economist Hideki Toya of Japan's Nagoya City University, published a 2002 paper in the journal Economic Inquiry that mapped the disaster frequency of 89 countries against their economic growth over a 30-year period. The paper controlled for everything the authors could think of that might skew the findings - including country size (large countries would presumably experience more natural disasters), size of government, openness to trade, and distance from the equator.
Skidmore and Toya found that, in the case of climatic disasters - hurricanes and cyclones, as opposed to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions - the more the better: nations with more climatic disasters grew faster over the long run than the less disaster-prone. Why only climatic disasters? The authors suggest that, as we've gotten better at forecasting violent weather, its human costs, at least, can be mitigated much more easily than with geological disasters, which still take us by surprise.
Jesus Crespo Cuaresma, a professor of economics at the University of Innsbruck, has found some support for Skidmore and Toya's argument. In a paper published earlier this year, Crespo Cuaresma examined post-disaster rebuilding efforts in developing countries and found that, at least in wealthier developing countries like Brazil and South Africa, there is indeed a tendency to use the rebuilding process as an opportunity to upgrade infrastructure that might otherwise have been allowed to grow obsolete.
Other work, however, has challenged the disaster-growth linkage. Ilan Noy, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Hawaii, has looked at long-term growth and disaster data and found that natural disasters hurt growth in the short term, and can barely be said to have any effect over the long run. According to Noy, the problem with studies that see a long-term positive effect is that their measurements are too crude - they average growth over decades rather than breaking it down into shorter periods of time, and they don't account for the varying severity of the disasters in question.
Like Crespo Cuaresma, Noy focused on developing countries (Noy argues that it would be impossible to find any impact at all on national economies in the wealthy world). And he concedes that aid money and materials do tend to stream in after a major catastrophe. It's just that at the same time an even greater amount of private money is leaving the country. "There's a perception that it's more of a dangerous place," he says.
Of course, even analysts of the "creative destruction" school don't see disasters as good things - disasters kill people, often in great numbers, and uproot many more. Skidmore is careful to point out that, even from a coldly economic standpoint, the most productive disasters are those that don't take lives. In harming buildings but not people, they encourage societies to invest less in vulnerable, immovable things like factories, he argues, and more in human capital, in skills and education, "things that won't be destroyed if a disaster strikes," he says.
Nonetheless, a recovery planned only to maximize growth might well conflict with more basic humanitarian concerns. Those most in need of help and resources in the wake of a disaster - the poor and the uninsured near-poor - are going to contribute the least to growing the economy as it recovers. On the other hand, those best equipped to find opportunities for growth in the rubble - large corporations and the wealthy - are also those best able to survive the catastrophe on their own.
"If you took all the disaster relief money and gave it out to the corporations affected, you will have spent a lot of money very intelligently in terms of urban growth," says Larry Rosenthal, executive director of the program on housing and urban policy at the University of California, Berkeley, "but not in terms of fairness."
Indeed, disaster recovery has attracted critics who see it as a predatory industry in disguise; in a book published last fall called "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism," the journalist Naomi Klein argued that corporations, first-world governments, and aid organizations treat natural disasters as chances to open up new markets - with dismal results for the recovering nations themselves.
It may be, then, that disaster economics works best as a guide in those times when we don't have disasters to contend with. Investing in human capital, replacing outdated plants and infrastructure - the things that Kunreuther and Skidmore argue disasters drive us to do - are also, it turns out, good ideas even in the absence of a crippling catastrophe. If the disaster economists are right, calamities are simply pushing societies to make the sort of sound economic decisions that inertia or fear or bureaucratic sclerosis prevents them from otherwise making. Governments and businesses might do well to adopt some of the urgency and innovation of a post-disaster mind-set even in more clement times.
Drake Bennett is the staff writer for Ideas. E-mail drbennett@globe.com.
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GOD CAN'T: How to Believe in God and Love After Tragedy, Abuse, and Other Evils. By Thomas Jay Oord. Nampa, ID: SacraSage Press, 2019. 202 pages.
The theological word "theodicy" covers one of humanity's great questions, that having to do with God's nature and the presence of evil in the world. It speaks to questions of divine power and authority as well as the goodness of God. To put it simply, if we claim, as Christians normally do, that God is love (as revealed in Scripture) and that God is powerful (omnipotent?), then why do we see evil world? Can we affirm both premises as true? Either God is not all powerful or God is not loving. For certainly a loving God would prevent, preventable evil. Attempts have been made down through the ages to hold both God's omnipotence and God's love together, but does it work in the face of the ongoing presence of evil? You might suggest that God permits evil to exist? But why? You can appeal to freedom of the will but is that a sufficient answer? Most of the proposed answers fall short. People want to know why, if God is loving, God doesn't act? If God is too weak to act, then why bother?
Among the theologians and philosophers wrestling with these questions is Thomas Jay Oord. Until recently Oord was a tenured member of the faculty of Northwest Nazarene University, a position taken from him. Tom is perhaps best known because of his connections with Open Theism, but much of his published work focuses on the nature of love and God's connection to love. Regarding this connection, Tom works from the premise that God is love, and that love is by definition non-coercive and uncontrolling. His recent book The Uncontrolling Love of God: An Open and Relational Account of Providence (IVP Academic, 2015) offers an extended exploration of what it means for God's love to be uncontrolling and noncoercive. That book gave rise to a collection of essays that respond to this premise, and it is a collection to which I am a contributor. That book is: Uncontrolling Love: Essays Exploring the Love of God, with Introductions by Thomas Jay Oord (SacraSage press, 2017). Tom's latest book, which carries the provocative title God Can't, takes this conversation a step further. I say provocative, because as I shared with Tom when I read the book in manuscript, I found the title a bit off-putting. He received my criticism graciously but rejected my advice. Having had time to let the book and its title sit with me for a while, I've grown more comfortable with it. However, it's still provocative.
While the earlier books address a more academic audience, God Can't was written specifically for a lay audience. In this book Tom shares the implications of his vision of the "uncontrolling love of God." The subtitle helps us get a better sense of what Tom is up to in this book: "How to Believe in God and Love after Tragedy, Abuse, and Other Evils." He wants to give people a reason to believe in the face of tragedy and evil. That's not easy, as demonstrated by the response of many Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. In the face of important and difficult questions, Tom offers a five-part answer. This isn't an attempt to prove the existence of God. That is assumed. What is at issue is the nature of God in the face of evil. Can we affirm the premise that God love and also recognize that genuine evil exists in the world? Tom believes we can, and this book is an attempt to demonstrate why.
Tom begins by affirming the premise: "God can't prevent evil." It's not that God permits evil, it's that God is by nature unable to prevent evil from occurring. This isn't because that God is weak or lacks power. The reason is rooted in the nature of love, which defines God's own nature. He writes that a loving God will prevent preventable evil. Since genuine evil exists, and he insists that God is love, then the evil that exists must not be preventable. That is the first answer. It might not be convincing by itself, but it is the starting point.
From this foundation, Tom moves on to his second point or answer That is, God feels our pain. God is a fellow-sufferer. In making this declaration, Tom takes on an important element of traditional theology, which is rooted in Platonism and assumes God is impassible. That is, God does not experience change (or pain and suffering). Tom rejects this premise, insisting that if we look to the Hebrew scriptures for guidance on this matter, we see that God does change, as well as experience suffering and pain. Therefore, God can feel our pain. By itself, this answer is insufficient. After all, a weak God could feel our pain, but Tom isn't suggesting that God is weak.
The third point insists that God works to heal. God isn't passive in the face of evil and suffering. God desires to bring healing and wholeness, and in fact is engaged in healing n some form or another. In other words, God is at work turning back the evil that afflicts creation. Since God is love, doesn't wish for anyone to suffer. Neither does God cause suffering. Instead God is at work, often in ways we cannot fathom, to bring healing, but this act of healing requires something of us, though he affirms that some healing will await the afterlife.
The fourth element in his answer to the problem of evil, suggests that "God squeezes good from bad." It is not that God causes bad things to happen, or desires them to happen, but when they happen, God can and does work to bring something good from the situation. On one level, if we understand natural consequences, we can see some forms of suffering as a form of discipline. Again, God works with us to bring good out of evil.
The fifth and final step is the key. "God needs our cooperation." Remember, in his definition of love, love is non-coercive and uncontrolling. I do struggle with this definition, even if I have adopted it for myself. So, if evil is to be overcome, if good is to come out of suffering, then it will require cooperation on our part. That might be conscious cooperation, or it could occur at deeper levels of reality that are beyond our consciousness. In addition, Tom affirms the idea that God's relentless love pursues us even after death. This is a concept that I have long embraced. In other words, even if we continue resisting God into death, death is not the final word. Therefore, when it comes to answering the questions lying before us regarding God, love, and evil, then his response is: "if God always loves, never controls, and wants love to reign, God needs love responses." (p. 176).
Not everyone will receive this word. There is something comforting about an all-controlling God, even if it fails to make sense of suffering and evil. We can and we do compartmentalize. We can affirm the love of God and divine permission of evil, but does this ultimately make sense theologically? Is it an appropriate defense in the face of evil? Again, if we expect a loving person would prevent preventable suffering or evil from occurring, then if God is, as Tom affirms, all-loving, and if God has the power to do something about preventable evil and suffering, then shouldn't God act? We wouldn't let a human being off scot-free, so why should we let God off the hook? Simply leaving this in the realm of mystery is not ultimately satisfying. It surely won't give comfort to those who suffer. In this book, Tom attempts to provide us with an answer that doesn't look like previous answers, and yet it does seem to offer a way forward.
One thing to remember is that when Tom offers this five-point response to the problem of evil, it's an all-or-nothing proposition. If you pull out one of the pieces, it won't hold together. At the same time what he offers us is rooted in Scripture and Christian theology. This book is more than anything an invitation to understand and embrace "the power of God's uncontrolling love [which] is a relentless but noncoercive force empowering us and all creation" (p. 183). In that regard it is well-written and most importantly, considering the audience, accessible. Tom knows how to write for scholars. He also knows how to speak to non-academic audience (he spoke to my congregation and connected quite well with them). It is deeply theological, but he conveys his message making use of stories that carry the message forward, stories of lives touched by suffering and even evil, but lives that have been transformed by the message of God's uncontrolling love. As for me, as a reviewer, I give my full recommendation to the book, even with its title!


"... Millennials have surpassed Baby Boomers as the nation's largest living generation, according to population estimates released this month by the U.S. Census Bureau. Millennials, whom we define as those ages 18-34 in 2015, now number 75.4 million, surpassing the 74.9 million Baby Boomers (ages 51-69). And Generation X (ages 35-50 in 2015) is projected to pass the Boomers in population by 2028..."


BARKHAMSTED — A one car accident is being investigated Route 318 Sunday afternoon.
Route 318 was closed between Route 181 and Route 179 in Barkhamsted shortly before 3 p.m. for a one car accident. It has since reopened.
There was no information about injuries.


Of all the interesting cars in the world, the Tucker 48 is the granddaddy of them all. Announced by the charismatic Preston Tucker after World War II, when the American public was clamoring for new cars, this promised to be something completely different. It was powered by a rear-mounted air-cooled six-cylinder engine borrowed from a helicopter. It would have three headlights, with the center one swiveling with the steering wheel. And it would have a number of safety features at a time when Detroit largely ignored anything safety-related.
But it wasn't to be. The company went under after just 51 cars were built. There were rumors that GM leaned on the government to help take Tucker down, creating endless "what-if" scenarios, and inspiring a 1988 movie about it starring Jeff Bridges. For a car, the Tucker holds a huge place in American pop culture.


Digital technologies are rapidly transforming the construction world and BAM. BAM wants to set the tone in the digital transition in the construction world; 'Doing new things' is a motto from our strategic agenda. A professional and international IT organization is crucial to achieve this. As a result of this and the strategic objective OneBam!, BAM IT creates BAM wide IT architectures and implements BAM wide ERP solutions and functionalities.
For this reason, the need has arisen to hire an Enterprise ERP Architect.
As the Enterprise ERP architect, you are responsible for the global architecture and (technical) roadmap of our ERP solutions. Together with the representatives of the business you validate, challenge and help improve the high-level business requirements and set the functional and technical principles, guidelines, standards and global architecture of our global ERP solutions. Because SAP solutions are widely used within the organization, the emphasis is on SAP technology. You define the architecture of the ERP solutions and monitor the implementation of it in a complex and international ERP programme.
Together with our IT professionals, business representatives, end user community, vendors and the transformation programme you design possible ERP architectures and scenarios. You draw up project architecture documents, such as a PSA (project start architecture). You maintain contacts with customers, enterprise architects of BAM and project stakeholders regarding these deliverables.
You are responsible for the architecture organization of the programme, which includes a design authority. You create architecture deliverables with the aim of ensuring the transfer of them to stakeholders within BAM IT and in the business.
You base the ERP architecture on new technological possibilities and developments, using the right ERP module/functionality for the right purpose. You make sure that the ERP architecture is integrated in the overall application landscape of BAM and is aligned with the requirements, scope, principles, guidelines and standards of BAM IT.
You facilitate the ERP architecture decision making process by working directly with the programme management, the solutions team, the SAP competence center and the enterprise architecture team. You work closely together with them to solve architectural problems, mitigating IT solution risks, and escalating IT architecture issues/risks when appropriate.
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You are at:Home»Community»Newcastle-under-Lyme»Newcastle's Alice Charity sets up People's Pantry to help combat food poverty
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Newcastle's Alice Charity sets up People's Pantry to help combat food poverty
By Amyy Rasul on	 March 14, 2017
A charity in Newcastle-under-Lyme has launched a new service to help poor families who are struggling to feed their children.
The Alice Charity has opened a People's Pantry in Bridge Street, which aims to provide two days' emergency food for people in need.
Its director said the charity, which provides a range of help and support for families in Newcastle and Stoke-on-Trent, had been receiving calls from worried parents who could not feed their children.
Stoke-on-Trent is the 16th most deprived area in England, with approximately 14,750 children living in poverty.
According to End Child Poverty, 23.9% of children in Newcastle-under-Lyme are living in poverty.
The Alice Charity's family support director Emily Petts said: "We have phone calls from parents saying my son's going to be home from school in three hours and I can't afford to feed him his tea – so it's dire and people need help.
"We want to provide somewhere safe and comforting where they can have a cup of tea and cake.
"We're stocking general food but additionally we're stocking baby items as well which the local food banks aren't able to do."
The cause does not only help vulnerable families with food but it also offers emotional and practical support.
Ms Petts added: "We also help families with children who are autistic, and need help with a push in the right direction.
"Sometimes it's just a cup of tea or being on the other end of the phone, listening to them if they've had a bad day."
People's pantry shop
The Alice Charity also provides goods such as beds, carpets, fridges and washing machines.
Their campaign for beds for children in December, led to them receiving more than 100 beds in time for Christmas.
The pantry will be open five days a week from 11am to 1pm and all food will be given away in supermarket shopping bags so it's all fully confidential.
More information is available on the website https://alicecharity.com/
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As our communities deal with the spread of the coronavirus, federal leaders must take bold steps to ensure the safety of the public, particularly the most vulnerable among us. While this virus will hit communities regardless of race, income, or zip code, this pandemic will cause both health and economic disruptions that exacerbate the existing disparities for low-income people and communities of color that have long harmed our nation.
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Please call your senators and ask them to pass the emergency House bill to help us navigate this public health and economic crisis.
Early Saturday morning, the House passed an emergency bill that would allocate billions of dollars for paid sick leave, unemployment insurance, free testing, and other measures to help those impacted by this crisis. This is a necessary starting point that the Senate must pass now.
Unfortunately, these measures are narrow in scope, leaving 80 percent of workers unprotected. While some large employers are doing the right thing and giving employees sick leave, a national policy is the most effective measure in this time of unprecedented national crisis. We need comprehensive legislation to follow this initial bill to protect all people, especially those with the greatest health and economic risks.
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Today, 100 million people — one in three people in the US — live in or on the brink of poverty where an illness, job loss, or unexpected expense can be financially insurmountable. At a time when officials are urging the public to stay home when they fall ill, millions of people lack paid sick leave and can't afford to miss work to care for themselves or a loved one. This puts many people at risk for being the vector of an illness that can prove deadly for the elderly and immunocompromised. And as businesses take precautions or are forced through social-distancing norms to close, the resulting loss of income for workers and owners will cause increased numbers of people to fall behind on bills and risk their housing, health, utility, and food security.
We must plan and act with the most vulnerable in mind to both stop the spread of this virus, and ensure that weeks and months of addressing this public health crisis don't turn into years of economic hardship.
Specifically, we are calling on federal leaders to champion the following policies:
Pass a Paid Leave Policy for All Workers – Low-wage workers who cannot afford to lose a day's wages because of illness are less likely to seek medical care (for themselves and for their families) than workers who do have paid sick leave, and are 1.5 times more likely to go to work with contagious illnesses. This means that lack of paid sick leave is not only a problem for individual workers, but also a public health threat. Building on the House-passed version, a paid sick leave policy that covers all workers is urgently needed to address the new coronavirus outbreak and beyond to help protect the health and safety of the population.
Ensure Emergency Income During Work Disruptions – We need to provide guaranteed income to help those facing disruptions to their income due to lost opportunities, funding streams, or customers. This includes small business owners and their employees, community-serving nonprofits, freelancers and artists, and workers in a gig economy who are not eligible for unemployment benefits but still must make their rent or mortgage payments.
Place a Moratorium on All Evictions and Foreclosures and Ensure Housing Stability – We are in the midst of a housing crisis where 21 million renters and 17 million homeowners pay more than a third of their income on housing bills, making them extremely vulnerable to income disruptions. We need a moratorium on all evictions and foreclosures to prevent the economic fallout of the virus. We must also provide emergency housing vouchers for all unhoused people, and those facing eviction. And at a minimum, we need to stop displacing homeless encampments, and take measures to increase access to water, hand-washing stations, and sanitation at current encampments to support critical health outcomes.
Prevent Utility Shut-Offs and Restore Water Service to All Households – Loss of income for households, workers, and small businesses will cause increased numbers of people to fall behind on bills and face utility services shut-offs. Over a third of US households are already at risk of inability to pay rising water bills. This is particularly concerning as washing our hands is our first line of defense against the virus. All public and private utilities should halt any utility shut-offs during this crisis, restore service to households currently experiencing a shutoff, and provide water delivery to all households with contaminated water systems.
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We are heartened by the swift actions that leaders in cities across the country are taking, proving once again that local leaders are national leaders. But we need policymakers at all levels to urgently address the threat of this current pandemic while ensuring we protect all struggling communities beyond this crisis.
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By David Herron G+ Sep 12 2012 - 3:33pm
Nissan previews fuel cell powered SUV for Paris Auto Show
Proving that fuel cell technology has not been forgotten, Nissan released a preview of the Nissan TeRRA Fuel Cell SUV concept vehicle that will debut at the 2012 Paris Auto Show.
The Paris Auto Show is coming up, and that means the automakers are releasing previews of the vehicles to be shown at that show. This morning Nissan released a preview of the Nissan TeRRA Fuel Cell SUV concept vehicle. Billed as "the one and only Zero Emission SUV," it has a 4x4 electric drive train, a new fuel cell stack, and an exterior design that looks like a cartoon caricature of muscularity.
"Our challenge was to take Nissan's strength in SUVs and crossovers forward into the zero-emissions era, fuel cells being our new frontier in zero emission mobility" said Francois Bancon, Nissan's devision general manager of product strategy and planning. He went on to make this confusing statement "Not big and tough for the desert, the aim was a new approach to SUVs that's relevant to urban life," making it unclear whether the performance of the TeRRA Fuel Cell SUV is too weak for typical SUV tasks like driving across the desert or hauling boats. It is clear that Nissan is billing this as an "urban SUV" inspired by other "urban-relevant SUV's" in Nissan's stable like the Murano and Qashqai.
Shiro Nakamura, Nissan senior vice president and chief creative officer describes the design style as "Exploring our imagination of that natural space with the exterior, we have redefined the power of the SUV heritage in a much more athletic way, one that expresses our vision of the zero emissions future. You have the big tires, high belt-line, thick pillars and thin side windows of the SUV vocabulary. But with a slender waist between pronounced fenders above the wheel arches, and a sculptured hood, we've created an 'Implied Structure' of musculature under the skin. Sharp corners, short overhangs and sculptured lamps contribute to a clean, confident stance. An aerodynamically flat body pan in an eye-catching color, protecting the full length of the underside, completes the image of what we call 'Modern Toughness.'"
The interior features seats that can be folded down to make a completely flat floor, allowing for a flexibly used cargo area to carry items such as "bikes, kayaks or assemble-yourself furniture from Scandinavia."
The choice of a fuel cell for the drive train may appear strange given all the interest in electric cars today. All the automakers are working on fuel cell research, perhaps in the insane hope that fuel cell refueling infrastructure problems will one day be resolved. (hint: there is zero infrastructure for distributing hydrogen, whereas there is a large entrenched infrastructure to distribute electricity) In any case, the new Nissan fuel cell stack is a flat, highly compact unit that features world-leading power density of 2.5kW/L. It is the latest in a series of fuel cells designed by Nissan since 1996, and has 1/6th the cost of its predecessor in 2005 thanks to a dramatically reduced need for materials such as platinum.
The electric portion of the TeRRA Fuel Cell SUV drive train is adapted from the Nissan Leaf. Each of the rear wheels has an in-wheel electric motor adapted from the PIVO electric concept car. There is a third electric motor to drive the front wheels.
Nissan's press release says the TeRRA Fuel Cell SUV signals that Nissan is now ready to begin mass production of fuel cell vehicles "whenever hydrogen becomes widely available." That's the problem with fuel cell vehicles, there is no infrastructure for hydrogen refueling, and the existing common source for hydrogen is to extract it from natural gas using a reformation process. Fuel cell vehicle proponents like to claim a 250 mile or more driving range, and a fast recharge, as if electric cars cannot compete with those statistics. The exhaust from a fuel cell vehicle is simple water vapor, a highly attractive attribute, but because the typical source for hydrogen is natural gas fuel cell vehicles have a direct link to fossil fuel consumption. Nissan's "whenever hydrogen becomes widely available" statement is a nod of acknowledgement of this problem.
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"The idea behind The Montreal Sessions," remembers producer Peter Maxymych, "was to recreate a sound that was heard in clubs and other venues in the 1960s and 70s. The accordion was the lead instrument in those groups and the music was inspired by Art Van Damme, who led a quintet with vibes, guitar, bass and drums."
The most famous of all jazz accordionists was Art Van Damme. Born in 1920, he started playing accordion when he was nine, had extensive classical training, and gained some prominence in 1941 when he joined Ben Bernie's radio band. As a studio musician during 1945-60, he worked constantly on radio and television for NBC. He also hosted his own 15-minute Art Van Damme Show for NBC radio for 139 episodes, worked with many singers (including Jo Stafford), and in his career recorded at least 42 albums as a leader and over 150 overall. Van Damme's quintet, using the same instrumentation as the George Shearing Quintet except for substituting accordion for piano, became his trademark sound. For a period, Joe Pass was his guitarist. Art Van Damme was active until shortly before his death at age 89 in 2010.
For The Montreal Sessions, producer Peter Maxymych wanted to bring back the classic sound of the Art Van Damme Quintet but without merely copying the past. "When I was in my teens, I used to play accordion in a trio for extra money. I was never a terrific musician but we did work a lot in ski lodges, some weddings and provided dance music in a few clubs between shows." Although he did not pursue playing music, he always loved the sound and became a big fan of Art Van Damme. While the sound of the accordion combos have largely disappeared in the years since, he never forgot it and vowed to someday bring it back on a record.
Montreal was a natural setting for this recording. It hosts one of the biggest and most prestigious annual jazz festivals in the world. Back in the 1960s when Art Van Damme was at his most popular, Montreal was home to some of the world's best jazz clubs including the Bellevue Casino and the Black Bottom.
The five musicians recorded The Montreal Sessions in three days. The performances came together quickly, an impressive feat considering that Hobbs and Kotwitz had never met before and were not familiar with the Canadian musicians. "This is what happens when you have great talent getting together. Their sounds blended together perfectly." Listening to this music, one would swear that this was a regularly working band that had played together for years.(from the linernotes written by Scott Yanow)
Just One Of Those Things
Nobody Else But Me
It Could Happen To You
Only Trust Your Heart
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20-05-2013 Downbeat
"The Montreal connection may not be obvious beyond the presence of Clayton, Walkington, Laing and Labelle, but there's a romantic French tinge throughout"
"There's a romantic French tinge throughout."
01-04-2013 CD Hotlist
"A smooth and enjoyable standards album ... The whole album is tons of fun."
01-04-2013 Jersey Jazz
"This is a swinging outing that will keep you interested and smiling throughout."
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"With the late accordionist Van Damme's group as its model, there are the blended harmonic colors of Kenny Kotwitz's accordion, Greg Clayton's guitar and Hobbs' vibes, supported by bassist Alec Walkington and drummer Dave Laing. Sinatra-styled vocalist John Labelle adds extra class to the proceedings on several performances."
01-03-2013 Criticaljazz.com
"... the re-purposing of the accordion is a pure stroke of genius. A top notch jazz collective flipping genres and creating their own sound."
01-03-2013 Jazz Society of Oregon
"This is a very nice record..."
26-02-2013 Audio Freaks
"This is wonderful relaxing jazz, uncomplicated and tasteful. Perhaps a little too sweet for enthusiast who prefer the adventure of looking for the unexpected... The relaxed atmosphere of jazz from the 60's and 70's is accomplished!"
17-02-2013 This Books Music
"... one of the finest jazz recordings to pass my ears.
Kenny Kotwitz's accordion work may help to bring the jazz into a French motif, while Steve Hobbs' vibraphone work is one of the primarily reasons to buy and cherish this album."
13-02-2013 Allaboutjazz.com
"The Montreal Sessions is a surprisingly tasteful musical experience of accordion/vibes sounds in a classic jazz standard setting forged by the superb play from the North America Jazz Alliance."
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"The North American Jazz Alliance makes classy, polished jazz delivered in clear and crisp fashion."
25-01-2013 Blogcritics Music
"The Monteal Sessions is mainstream jazz as good as it gets.
... this is an album that does the memory of Art Van Damme proud."
20-01-2013 Midwest Record
"Stunningly groovy, this is the kind of session that will be a break out set and will be talked about for years."
15-01-2013 Amazon.com
"The mellow sound is seductive and the technical mastery of the instrumentalist is obvious.This is a jazz lover's dream and one that likely will become a very popular nominee for a Grammy. Try it!"
Jazz Weekly
"You gotta have guts these days to feature the accordion in a band, but these guys pull it off."
Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange
"Listen to his [John Labelle/vocals] take on Close your Eyes, and you'll understand my viewpoint. Smooth as a $100 bottle of Scotch... But, really, the true shining light to this whole thing is the stratosphere-high level of musicianship."


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Lax VA oversight led to coronavirus outbreaks at state veterans homes, House lawmakers say
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At the Soldiers' Home in Holyoke, Mass., 76 veterans died of the virus. (Patrick Johnson, The Republican/AP)
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WASHINGTON — House lawmakers criticized the Department of Veterans Affairs on Wednesday for its lax oversight of state veterans homes, arguing the department was partially to blame for deadly outbreaks of the coronavirus at some facilities.
Rep. Mark Takano, D-Calif., chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, said during a hearing on the matter that the epidemic exposed a "critical shortage of oversight" at state veterans homes.
State veterans homes receive some funding from the VA and undergo yearly inspections by the department. However, they're operated by state governments. About 20,000 veterans reside in 157 state veterans homes nationwide. The homes receive about $1 billion total in federal funding.
The Government Accountability Office investigated the VA's oversight of state veterans homes in 2019. The GAO found, in some cases, the VA was the only federal entity to inspect the homes to see whether they met standards of care.
The department contracted with a third party to perform all of its inspections in 2018, said Sharon Silas, who is with the GAO. The VA allowed contractors to ignore some deficiencies at the homes, and in some cases contractors permitted leaders of state veterans homes to fix problems during inspections to avoid being cited. The VA still has not completed all of the recommendations that the GAO made in 2019 to improve inspections, Silas said Wednesday.
"As it stands now, I have to wonder how many lives could've been saved at state veterans homes during this pandemic if there had been stronger, more consistent oversight on the part of the VA," Takano said.
Long-term care facilities across the country have experienced outbreaks of the coronavirus, and tens of thousands of residents have died. More than 40% of all coronavirus deaths in the United States were linked to nursing homes, The New York Times reported last month.
However, it's uncertain how many veterans and other residents of state veterans homes have died from the virus, said Rep. Julia Brownley, D-Calif. Not all state veterans homes are required to report information about coronavirus infections and deaths to the VA or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, she said. Some facilities are proactively sharing the information but not all of them.
"Unfortunately, we do not know how many [deaths] have occurred at state veterans homes," Brownley said. "The department lacks a clear picture."
On Wednesday, lawmakers discussed known outbreaks at three homes. At the Soldiers' Home in Holyoke, Mass., 76 veterans died of the virus. Eighty-one residents died of the coronavirus at the Paramus Veterans Memorial Home in New Jersey and 42 residents died at the Southeastern Veterans' Center just outside of Philadelphia.
An independent investigation into the deaths at the Soldiers' Home in Holyoke found staff shortages and mistakes with infection control. There were delays testing veterans for the virus and in closing off common spaces.
Paul Barabani, the former superintendent of the Holyoke home, spoke to lawmakers Wednesday. He resigned his position at the home in 2016 and he said Massachusetts was not addressing critical needs at the facility.
"The lack of state support to the soldiers home in Holyoke has been a long topic of much consternation among veterans in western Massachusetts," Barabani said.
He said he had been at the veterans home in February to celebrate the 102nd birthday of one of its residents — Navy veteran Tony King, who served as a radioman during World War II. He died from the coronavirus on April 9.
Barabani recently formed the Holyoke Soldiers' Home Coalition to pursue state-level reforms for the veterans home and advocate for its residents and employees. In that role, Barabani recently met with families whose loved ones had died from the virus.
"These are truly gut-wrenching stories," he said. "These are true American heroes — people who freed concentration camps and were at D-Day. The families are so impacted because they weren't able to be with them at the time of their death."
Teresa Boyd is an assistant undersecretary at the VA who represented the agency at Wednesday's hearing. She said the department "respects the autonomy of the states" in overseeing the homes. Since the pandemic, the department has sent in teams of VA employees to help the state veterans homes respond to outbreaks, she said.
Brownley said Wednesday's hearing was important but "more needs to be done."
"If the VA is not doing its job of inspections and oversight, we're going to lose more lives," she said.
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Nikki Wentling has worked for Stars and Stripes since 2016. She reports from Congress, the White House, the Department of Veterans Affairs and throughout the country about issues affecting veterans, service members and their families. Wentling, a graduate of the University of Kansas, previously worked at the Lawrence Journal-World and Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. The National Coalition of Homeless Veterans awarded Stars and Stripes the Meritorious Service Award in 2020 for Wentling's reporting on homeless veterans during the coronavirus pandemic. In 2018, she was named by the nonprofit HillVets as one of the 100 most influential people in regard to veterans policymaking.


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In the old city of Trœzene, at the foot of a lofty mountain, there lived, a very long time ago, a little boy named Theseus. His grandfather, King Pittheus, was the sovereign of that country, and was reckoned a very wise man; so that Theseus, being brought up in the royal palace, and being naturally a bright lad, could hardly fail of profiting by the old king's instructions. His mother's name was Æthra. As for his father, the boy had never seen him. But, from his earliest remembrance, Æthra used to go with little Theseus into a wood, and sit down upon a moss-grown rock, which was deeply sunken into the earth. Here she often talked with her son about his father, and said that he was called Ægeus, and that he was a great king, and ruled over Attica, and dwelt at Athens, which was as famous a city as any in the world. Theseus was very fond of hearing about King Ægeus, and often asked his good mother Æthra why he did not come and live with them at Trrezene.
"Ah, my dear son," answered Æthra, with a sigh, "a monarch has his people to take care of. The men and women over whom he rules are in the place of children to him; and he can seldom spare time to love his own children as other parents do. Your father will never be able to leave his kingdom for the sake of seeing his little boy."
"Well, but, dear mother," asked the boy, "why cannot I go to this famous city of Athens, and tell King Ægeus that I am his son?"
"That may happen by and by," said Æthra. "Be patient, and we shall see. You are not yet big and strong enough to set out on such an errand."
"And how soon shall I be strong enough?" Theseus persisted in inquiring.
"You are but a tiny boy as yet," replied his mother. "See if you can lift this rock on which we are sitting?"
The little fellow had a great opinion of his own strength. So, grasping the rough protuberances of the rock, he tugged and toiled amain, and got himself quite out of breath, without being able to stir the heavy stone. It seemed rooted into the ground. No wonder he could not move it; for it would have taken all the force of a very strong man to lift it out of its earthy bed.
His mother stood looking on, with a sad kind of a smile on her lips and in her eyes, to see the zealous and yet puny efforts of her little boy. She could not help being sorrowful at finding him already so impatient to begin his adventures in the world.
"You see how it is, my dear Theseus," said she. "You must possess far more strength than now before I can trust you to go to Athens, and tell King Ægeus that you are his son. But when you can lift this rock, and show me what is hidden beneath it, I promise you my permission to depart."
Often and often, after this, did Theseus ask his mother whether it was yet time for him to go to Athens; and still his mother pointed to the rock, and told him that for years to come, he could not be strong enough to move it. And again and again the rosy-cheeked and curly-headed boy would tug and strain at the huge mass of stone, striving, child as he was, to do what a giant could hardly have done without taking both of his great hands to the task. Meanwhile the rock seemed to be sinking farther and farther into the ground. The moss grew over it thicker and thicker, until at last it looked almost like a soft green seat, with only a few gray knobs of granite peeping out. The overhanging trees, also, shed their brown leaves upon it, as often as the autumn came; and at its base grew ferns and wild flowers, some of which crept quite over its surface. To all appearance, the rock was as firmly fastened as any other portion of the earth's substance.
But, difficult as the matter looked, Theseus was now growing up to be such a vigorous youth, that, in his own opinion, the time would quickly come when he might hope to get the upper hand of this ponderous lump of stone.
"Mother, I do believe it has started!" cried he, after one of his attempts. "The earth around it is certainly a little cracked!"
"No, no, child!" his mother hastily answered. "It is not possible you can have moved it, such a boy as you still are!"
Nor would she be convinced, although Theseus showed her the place where he fancied that the stem of a flower had been partly uprooted by the movement of the rock. But Æthra sighed, and looked disquieted; for, no doubt, she began to be conscious that her son was no longer a child, and that, in a little while hence, she must send him forth among the perils and troubles of the world.
It was not more than a year afterwards when they were again sitting on the moss-covered stone. Æthra had once more told him the oft-repeated story of his father, and how gladly he would receive Theseus at his stately palace, and how he would present him to his courtiers and the people, and tell them that here was the heir of his dominions. The eyes of Theseus glowed with enthusiasm, and he would hardly sit still to hear his mother speak.
"Dear mother Æthra," he exclaimed, "I never felt half so strong as now! I am no longer a child, nor a boy, nor a mere youth. I feel myself a man! It is now time to make one earnest trial to remove the stone."
"Ah, my dearest Theseus," replied his mother, "not yet! not yet!"
"Yes, mother," said he, resolutely, "the time has come."
Then Theseus bent himself in good earnest to the task, and strained every sinew, with manly strength and resolution. He put his whole brave heart into the effort. He wrestled with the big and sluggish stone, as if it had been a living enemy. He heaved, he lifted, he resolved now to succeed, or else perish there, and let the rock be his monument forever! Æthra stood gazing at him, and clasped her hands, partly with a mother's pride, and partly with a mother's sorrow. The great rock stirred! Yes, it was raised slowly from the bedded moss and earth, uprooting the shrubs and flowers along with it, and was turned upon its side. Theseus had conquered!
While taking breath, he looked joyfully at his mother, and she smiled upon him through her tears.
"Yes, Theseus," she said, "the time has come and you must stay no longer at my side! See what King Ægeus, your royal father, left for you, beneath the stone, when he lifted it in his mighty arms, and laid it on the spot whence you have now removed it."
Theseus looked, and saw that the rock had been placed over another slab of stone, containing a cavity within it; so that it somewhat resembled a roughly-made chest or coffer, of which the upper mass had served as the lid. Within the cavity lay a sword, with a golden hilt, and a pair of sandals.
"That was your father's sword," said Æthra, "and those were his sandals. When he went to be king of Athens, he bade me treat you as a child until you should prove yourself a man by lifting this heavy stone. That task being accomplished, you are to put on his sandals, in order to follow in your father's footsteps, and to gird on his sword, so that you may fight giants and dragons, as King Ægeus did in his youth."
"I will set out for Athens this very day!" cried Theseus.
But his mother persuaded him to stay a day or two longer, while she got ready some necessary articles for the journey. When his grandfather, the wise King Pittheus, heard that Theseus intended to present himself at his father's palace, he earnestly advised him to get on board of a vessel, and go by sea; because he might thus arrive within fifteen miles of Athens, without either fatigue or danger.
"The roads are very bad by land," quoth the venerable king; "and they are terribly infested with robbers and monsters. A mere lad, like Theseus, is not fit to be trusted on such a perilous journey, all by himself. No, no; let him go by sea!"
But when Theseus heard of robbers and monsters, he pricked up his ears, and was so much the more eager to take the road along which they were to be met with. On the third day, therefore, he bade a respectful farewell to his grandfather, thanking him for all his kindness; and, after affectionately embracing his mother, he set forth, with a good many of her tears glistening on his cheeks, and some, if the truth must be told, that had gushed out of his own eyes. But he let the sun and wind dry them, and walked stoutly on, playing with the golden hilt of his sword, and taking very manly strides in his father's sandals.
I can tell you only a few of the adventures that befell Theseus on the road to Athens. It is enough to say, that he quite cleared that part of the country of the robbers, about whom King Pittheus had been so much alarmed. One of these bad people was named Procrustes; and he was indeed a terrible fellow, and had an ugly way of making fun of the poor travellers who happened to fall into his clutches. In his cavern he had a bed, on which, with great pretence of hospitality, he invited his guests to lie down; but if they happened to be shorter than the bed, this wicked villain stretched them out by main force; or, if they were too tall, he lopped off their heads or feet, and laughed at what he had done, as an excellent joke. Thus, however weary a man might be he never liked to lie in the bed of Procrustes. Another of these robbers, named Scinis, must likewise have been a very great scoundrel. He was in the habit of flinging his victims off a high cliff into the sea; and, in order to give him exactly his deserts, Theseus tossed him off the very same place. But if you will believe me, the sea would not pollute itself by receiving such a bad person into its bosom, neither would the earth, having once got rid of him, consent to take him back; so that, between the cliff and the sea, Scinis stuck fast in the air, which was forced to bear the burden of his naughtiness.
After these memorable deeds, Theseus heard of an enormous sow, which ran wild, and was the terror of all the farmers round about; and, as he did not consider himself above doing any good thing that came in his way, he killed this monstrous creature, and gave the carcass to the poor people for bacon. The great sow had been an awful beast, while ramping about the woods and fields, but was a pleasant object enough when cut up into joints, and smoking on I know not how many dinner tables.
Thus, by the time he reached his journey's end, Theseus had done many valiant feats with his father's golden-hilted sword, and had gained the renown of being one of the bravest young men of the day. His fame travelled faster than he did, and reached Athens before him. As he entered the city, he heard the inhabitants talking at the street corners, and saying that Hercules was brave, and Jason too, and Castor and Pollux likewise, but that Theseus, the son of their own king, would turn out as great a hero as the best of them. Theseus took longer strides on hearing this, and fancied himself sure of a magnificent reception at his father's court, since he came thither with Fame to blow her trumpet before him, and cry to King Ægeus, "Behold your son!"
He little suspected, innocent youth that he was, that here, in this very Athens, where his father reigned, a greater danger awaited him than any which he had encountered on the road. Yet this was the truth. You must understand that the father of Theseus, though not very old in years, was almost worn out with the cares of government, and had thus grown aged before his time. His nephews, not expecting him to live a very great while, intended to get all the power of the kingdom into their own hands. But when they heard that Theseus had arrived in Athens, and learned what a gallant young man he was, they saw that he would not be at all the kind of person to let them steal away his father's crown and sceptre, which ought to be his own by right of inheritance. Thus these bad-hearted nephews of King Ægeus, who were the own cousins of Theseus, at once became his enemies. A still more dangerous enemy was Medea, the wicked enchantress; for she was now the king's wife, and wanted to give the kingdom to her son Medus, instead of letting it be given to the son of Æthra, whom she hated.
It so happened that the king's nephews met Theseus, and found out who he was, just as he reached the entrance of the royal palace. With all their evil designs against him, they pretended to be their cousin's best friends, and expressed great joy at making his acquaintance. They proposed to him that he should come into the king's presence as a stranger, in order to try whether Ægeus would discover in the young man's features any likeness either to himself or his mother Æthra, and thus recognize him for a son. Theseus consented; for he fancied that his father would know him in a moment, by the love that was in his heart. But, while he waited at the door, the nephews ran and told King Ægeus that a young man had arrived in Athens who, to their certain knowledge, intended to put him to death, and get possession of his royal crown.
"And he is now waiting for admission to your majesty's presence," added they.
"Aha!" cried the old king, on hearing this. "Why, he must be a very wicked young fellow indeed! Pray, what would you advise me to do with him?"
In reply to this question, the wicked Medea put in her word. As I have already told you, she was a famous enchantress. According to some stories, she was in the habit of boiling old people in a large caldron, under pretence of making them young again; but King Ægeus, I suppose, did not fancy such an uncomfortable way of growing young, or perhaps was contented to be old, and therefore would never let himself be popped into the caldron. If there were time to spare from more important matters, I should be glad to tell you of Medea's fiery chariot, drawn by winged dragons, in which the enchantress used often to take an airing among the clouds. This chariot, in fact, was the vehicle that first brought her to Athens, where she had done nothing but mischief ever since her arrival. But these and many other wonders must be left untold; and it is enough to say, that Medea, amongst a thousand other bad things, knew how to prepare a poison, that was instantly fatal to whomsoever might so much as touch it with his lips.
So, when the king asked what he should do with Theseus, this naughty woman had an answer ready at her tongue's end.
"Leave that to me, please your majesty," she replied. "Only admit this evil-minded young man to your presence, treat him civilly, and invite him to drink a goblet of wine. Your majesty is well aware that I sometimes amuse myself with distilling very powerful medicines. Here is one of them in this small phial. As to what it is made of, that is one of my secrets of state. Do but let me put a single drop into the goblet, and let the young man taste it; and I will answer for it, he shall quite lay aside the bad designs with which he comes hither."
As she said this, Medea smiled; but, for all her smiling face, she meant nothing less than to poison the poor innocent Theseus, before his father's eyes. And King Ægeus, like most other kings, thought any punishment mild enough for a person who was accused of plotting against his life. He therefore made little or no objection to Medea's scheme, and as soon as the poisonous wine was ready, gave orders that the young stranger should be admitted into his presence. The goblet was set on a table beside the king's throne; and a fly, meaning just to sip a little from the brim, immediately tumbled into it, dead. Observing this, Medea looked round at the nephews, and smiled again.
When Theseus was ushered into the royal apartment, the only object that he seemed to behold was the white-bearded old king. There he sat on his magnificent throne, a dazzling crown on his head, and a scepter in his hand. His aspect was stately and majestic, although his years and infirmities weighed heavily upon him, as if each year were a lump of lead, and each infirmity a ponderous stone, and all were bundled up together, and laid upon his weary shoulders. The tears of both joy and sorrow sprang into the young man's eyes; for he thought how sad it was to see his dear father so infirm, and how sweet it would be to support him with his own youthful strength, and to cheer him up with the alacrity of his loving spirit. When a son takes his father into his warm heart, it renews the old man's youth in a better way than by the heat of Medea's magic caldron. And this was what Theseus resolved to do. He could scarcely wait to see whether King Ægeus would recognize him, so eager was he to throw himself into his arms.
Advancing to the foot of the throne, he attempted to make a little speech, which he had been thinking about, as he came up the stairs. But he was almost choked by a great many tender feelings that gushed out of his heart and swelled into his throat, all struggling to find utterance together. And therefore, unless he could have laid his full, overbrimming heart into the king's hand, poor Theseus knew not what to do or say. The cunning Medea observed what was passing in the young man's mind. She was more wicked at that moment than ever she had been before; for (and it makes me tremble to tell you of it) she did her worst to turn all this unspeakable love with which Theseus was agitated, to his own ruin and destruction.
(Continues...)
Excerpted from Tanglewood Tales by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. Copyright © 2017 Nathaniel Hawthorne. Excerpted by permission of Dover Publications, Inc..
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I had the hot roast beef sandwich. It was very good! Actual roast beef, not the usual "lunchmeat", real potatoes and homemade gravy. I can't stand that nasty tasting canned/jarred gravy.
Others in the party had a salad, biscuits and gravy and a sandwich. All said the food was good.
We come here 1-2x a year after hiking on the Cuyuna Country Trails. They have tasty homemade desserts, rolls and smoothies. We have only ever had those things there.
With four kids you can hardly go by without stopping. Dilly bars are on the top of the list for the kids. Who doesn't love them. Great stop for a treat. Nice people they smile!
Made a quick lunch stop with family. We were able to split a 1/2 rack of ribs and some onion rings. Super good. It was a bit too much food for 1 person, so splitting it worked out well. I will visit again when in the area.
I met 2 lady friends after church. Very cute and comfortable inside! The bruschetta was delicious! Our pizza, burger and grilled cheese sandwich Fantastic!! My favorite was actually the grilled cheese sandwich!! There was a beer cheese "fondue " to dunk the sandwich in!!! Yummy . Service was very good also. Crosby is Lucky to have this little unique place to try different, good, homemade food!! Cheers!
If you are an outsider zooming through town, you'll find this is a local place. The people are very northern in demeanor. Pretty rugged bunch when I was there. The male bartender didn't give me a second thought the entire time I was there. I had to pull teeth just to get a beer.
Food is just average, nothing special, prices are a bit on the high side for what you receive,drinks prices fit the area. I will not be returning.
have been to crosby bar many time to eat and have never been disappointed . burgers , wraps , pizza , wings, steak special on saturday night all very good . service is fast and friendly, prices are about average . looking forward to next time .
Went there with American Legion Riders. Small group. We were seated immediately. On a Wednesday night, the place filled up quickly. I got liver and onions, suggested by the waiter. It was very good, but I like my own better because I use bacon with it. I also had cheesy hashbrown soup, which was fantastic! The tater tots were a bit dry but, the others had various burgers, fries or onion rings and they were all pleased with their food.
The restaurant was clean, with an updated decor and not noisy, despite how busy it was. I would definitely recommend trying it. It is obviously popular with the locals. I would happily go back. Prices were very reasonable.
Happened to come across this bike cafe on a drive home from northern MN. Fun and funky spot in the heart of Crosby. Former gas station converted to this coffee/cafe/bar and bike rental location. Food is great, beer is cold and you can get coffee. Not a huge location probably better for small groups. Nice job! Let's see more of this good stuff in Crosby!


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