Yes, I'm fortunate to have a job that has me jet setting across the world. Alas, business travel is a long way away from my day traveling as a woman of leisure. Although it sounds very glamorous, my weekends are spent on planes, my weekdays spent running around often unknown cities finding and attending meetings (Oh really? The city of Istanbul is situated on 2 continents??), and evenings are spent catching up on email floods.
While I don't get a chance to really immerse myself in any locale, I do get to see and experience a few things along the way. So these brief travels will be the theme of my "Fleeting Impressions" series. Please don't rely on my writing to plan your next trip. Just sharing random thoughts (and instagram photos).
Today I was had the unique privilege of touring a yet-to-be opened necropolis within the walls of the Vatican, Via Triumphalis Necropolis. The Canadian Club of Rome was given this special access due to Canadian Patrons of the Vatican Museum.
This amazing grouping of tombs dates back as far as the Augustan age (1st century AD) and spans until the age of Constantine (3rd century AD) and was discovered during the development of — a parking lot in the Vatican.
But through this nondescript entry, and under a parking lot, you walk into one of the best preserved burial sites of ancient Rome. It's amazing to browse through these artifacts when they are displayed in their original settings.
We learned that burial sites had built-in tubes so that relatives of the deceased could provide them with libations – liquid nourishment for the afterlife in the form of wine or mead. You can see them emerging from the ground. Amazing also to learn that once ancient Romans survived childhood they had a good chance of living into their 80s and 90s. Seems like access to fresh water and sanitation goes a long way towards longevity.
Here are some shots of the day – it's hard to convey how impressive this was. But what impressed me more was a comment one of my fellow Canadians made while we walked through amazing mosaics, frescoes and marble inscriptions…."what will be left of our current culture 2000 years from now? Plastic? Toxins? Styrofoam?" Good question.
Many people expressed surprise by my article comparing how similar China and Italy are from an intercultural perspective.
Many similarities are values-based (ie family, social status), while there are more profound differences in outward expressions of culture (music, expressiveness).
But I've just discovered new proof! Amongst Italian New Year's traditions like eating lentils at midnight and wearing fancy new clothes out (to an overpriced event), is the ritual of wearing new red underwear! This is also a ritual in China, albeit only if it is the year of your "animal." January 23, 2012 heralds the Chinese year of the Dragon, so those born in 2000, 1988, 1976, 1964, 1952, 1940, 1928 and 1916 (well done!) should technically wear red underwear all year to protect themselves from jealous spirits….but many just feel that wearing red underwear on Chinese New Year's Eve will suffice.
What would you do if your vacation date for a Romantic rendezvous in Rome doesn't show up?
You fly from across the Atlantic Ocean for a much-anticipated romantic rendezvous over the Christmas holidays. And your date doesn't show up.
Sure, he's got his (alleged) reasons, but at the end of the day, you are looking at 10 days solo in Rome when you should be in doppio.
It could have been the worst trip of my life.
But instead, 5 years ago today I met the Italian love of my life, and this year I moved from Canada to Rome.
PS ladies, if you are going to be stood up on a date, I suggest you let that happen in Rome. Italian men will never let a solo woman feel unappreciated!
These past 2 weeks have brought me on a veritable tour of the Christmas markets of Europe. I travelled to Budapest, Bratislava, Brno, Prague and Warsaw. With the exception of Prague, all were cities I visited for the first time. Sadly my schedule prevented me from seeing much (OK, any) of the local sights. But I found much solace in wandering the streets of each beautiful city; following the trails of sparkling lights to find the Christmas markets scattered throughout.
I guarantee you will not need to know how to pronounce it and you will have no problem finding many stalls offering it at very cheap prices (1 Euro in Bratislava), and many friendly locals drinking it at this time of year! Warm wine sweetened and spiced with lemon rind, cardamon, cloves and more is a sublime treat on a cold night. The local foods are another fantastic reason to spend time at these markets, and you can spend many hours wandering, nibbling and sipping under the lights and stars.
At the end of November, Budapest's Christmas market stalls (map: Vörösmarty Square) seemed as though they were barely getting started with only a few lonely shops in the midst of a boisterous central eatery. A shame too, as the few stalls that were open looked like they had the best array of unique local products, and not just the stuff you'd find in the tourist traps.
Bratislava has not one but 2 Christmas markets in Old Town, one complete with a skating rink at Hviezdoslavovo Námestie – well done, Bratislava! They are within easy walking distance, your varene vinowould not even get cold walking from one market to the other. I noticed that shops selling toys and non consumables closed down early, before 8 PM. But for me the market in Bratislava was to marvel at the foods of my Slovak ancestors.
I am surprised with all the Slovak foods I was raised on (Halušky, kapustnica, rosky) that I was never initiated into the delights of varene vino. And I am also surprised with all the fried meat that my grandparents were healthy enough to embark on their trip to Canada.
Prague seemed full of Christmas markets and vendors selling outdoors in its atmospheric squares. But the main event can be found in the Old Town Square where again mulled wine and hearty quantities of meat were the order of the day. I feel that Prague is one of the most astounding cities of the world, and its whimsical architecture makes the perfect fantasy Christmas backdrop.
Finally, in the Christmas markets of Warsaw, in the Old Town Square and in the shadow of the uber communist relic Palace of Culture & Science, I discovered the most important rule of Chrismas markets – they are romantic! So bring someone to stroll with, even if he does not share your passion of varene vino.
So, christmas markets in Europe, to sum up: shop early, bring your appetite and above all, get into the Christmas mood with some mulled wine.
It's easy to feel, compared to the great cities of Europe, that Canada is pretty boring. 2 days in Warsaw changed my mind.
We Canadians & Americans imagine how fortunate those are who live amongst Europe's historic monuments and architecture, but we rarely understand that there is a darker side of those historic neighborhoods. Here in Rome, monuments and triumphal arches thousands of years old illuminate wars and conquests of ancient heroes and villains. Yet, somehow it's easy to reflect upon the glory of those ancient events, and not the agony they caused.
Warsaw is very different. I didn't ever stop to consider why Warsaw had not been on my list of top places to see in Europe. Perhaps I had just never been aware of anything really…famous…to see. And of course I knew that Warsaw had suffered in WWII, but hadn't so many places?
After my trip this week to Warsaw, I understand why. I am humbled by the story of this city, and I am grateful for the distinct lack of a history like Warsaw's in my native Canada.
I didn't know for instance, that Warsaw staged one of the greatest resistances to initial Nazi invasion…in the 1939 Siege of Warsaw the Poles defended the city for 20 days before it fell to Nazi occupation. This is compared to the 9 days it took Paris to fall, despite being defended by the world's largest standing army at the time. The siege was one of the first instances of terror bombing, where Nazis targeted hospitals, schools, marketplaces and columns of civilians leaving the city.
Years later when the Nazis were starting to falter, in 1945 Warsaw staged an uprising that was eventually crushed. The result was that the Nazis not only systematically massacred the people but virtually 90% of the city as well.
I didn't realize that the "old city' was actually a modern recreation painstakingly rebuild based on photos and descriptions…that virtually no buildings of historic and cultural relevance exist today as they were targeted in a brutal campaign of retribution by the Nazis against this heroic city that dared to resist.
One of my older clients got tears in her eyes as she told me about this. And yet the people of Poland are very sweet; although there is sadness there is no bitterness and you get a sense of a city which is re-finding itself.
Remnant of Warsaw's horrific ghetto. You can still see bullet holes.
It was a sobering reminder that the challenges and problems we sometimes face today are so insignificant….and how fortunate I am to have grown up in Canada.
I don't have a traditional commute (defined as a route I take the office daily), as I work from home. But more often than not, I am on the road and can define my commute as the path I take from my hotel to wherever I meet clients. And certainly even my home base of Rome makes for some of the scenic commuting in the world. 10 minutes early for a meeting? Why don't I just nip into this 500-year old church with a Michelangelo sculpture?
I consider myself extremely fortunate in that my work allows me to travel all over the world. This wanderlust can also be stressful, as most days I am trying to get to entirely new locations in unfamiliar cities in languages I don't know. However, the languages I can manage with various degrees of proficiency: English, Mandarin, French and Italian – can take me quite far.
As I write this over a quick meal, I recognize my coping strategy for a quick nutritious lunch in almost any city (as opposed to resorting to American fast food in Europe). Spending 2 days in Hungary has done little for my proficiency in the language, so ordering what I'd like, and making sure it can be delivered quickly can best be accomplished with that ubiquitous fixture of any city in the world: the Chinese restaurant.
Anyway, while I am fortunate to travel to some of the most incredible cities of the world, my schedule rarely allows me to step into many sights. I expect I hold the world's record for lifetime visits to Paris without seeing the Louvre (which distresses me greatly). But fortunately my travels allow me to do 2 of the things I adore the most abroad – walk around and explore neighborhoods, and enjoy a quiet dinner at a local bistro.
For the last day and a half I've explored Budapest between appointments, and have been delighted by this city. Budapest was never at the top of my list of places to see – no particular reasons for this, it just never stood out for me. But I'm delighted to stumble across its charms. I don't know the names of the buildings I've passed of their illustrious histories, but that detracts none from their beauty.
I've stayed mostly in Pest; Buda is on the other side of the Danube River that slices in between the 2 historic twins. Throughout my wanderings in the city I've seen magnificent architecture throughout the city; a generally refined and elegant style that contrasts Rome's equally delightful chaotic-ness. The pedestrian street that runs behind my hotel (Bohem Art Hotel – stylish & efficient with free wifi and great breakfast) that is lined with little vendors selling mulled, hot wine.
If this blog had "Smell-o-Vision" you could experience the spicy sweetness that warms you as you pass by each vendor. The pedestrian laneway runs to a Christmas market, which seems to be still getting underway. Never mind, I'll be on a veritable Christmas market pilgrimage this week – with stops in Bratislava, Brno and Prague.
For dinner last night I treated myself to an old and elegant looking bistro (Central) whose food and wine did not disappoint. Proudly featuring Hungarian wines exclusively I was pleasantly surprised by both the flavor of a Pinot Noir-style wine as well as the fact that the restaurant served it in a proper glass. The warm mushroom salad was nothing memorable but the oven roasted pork leg…heavenly. Hungarians like their meat!
After dinner I walked along the Danube and reflected on the history that has passed along its banks. There are tiles marking the reigns of Roman emperors…I couldn't actually read them but could recognize that Flavius Csaszarok would have been Caesar Vespasian Flavius, the builder of the coliseum. Further along, I smiled to see a posh restaurant called Imperator (the ancient military connotation of Emperor in Latin) along the banks of the Danube with a limo parked out front. I think Julius Caesar would have liked this.


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Putin's Electoral Support Has Grown, Poll Shows
Presidential elections in Turginovo village - Vladimir Putin's historical motherland. March 4, 2012. Denis Abramov
President Vladimir Putin's electoral rating rose in December, returning to 2000s levels, a new opinion poll by the independent Levada Center shows.
Asked whom they would vote for if a presidential election took place next Sunday, 68 percent of respondents said they would vote for Putin, up 10 percent from figures in December 2012.
The figures for Putin's closest possible rival, Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, were 11 percent, slightly down from the December 2012 figure of 12 percent.
Some 18 months after Putin's return to presidency, a total of 22 percent of Russians said they wanted him to be re-elected after his six-year term expires in 2018.
Another 47 percent of respondents said they wanted another person to be Russia's president.
Meanwhile, just 12 percent of those polled said they could name a possible successor for Putin, while 31 percent said there was no person in Russia who could replace Putin currently.
The survey was conducted from December 20-24, 2013, among 1,600 people in 45 regions. The statistical margin of error did not exceed 3.4 percent.

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Planning and hosting school assemblies is a huge responsibility. After all, an assembly is something that brings together an entire school community and can set the tone for an entire day, week, or term. At Kings Monkton, we specifically tailor our assemblies as non-religious because we have such a spread of religions throughout the school. This opens up opportunities for us to be really creative and come up with fresh ideas to energise and enthuse the pupils.
As a rule, I always find that the best assemblies are those that are written specifically to speak to the children and the adults in the room and it goes without saying that preparation and planning are vital ingredients for crafting an assembly that provides a stimulating start to the day.
Delivering an assembly that is engaging and relevant to an audience of pupils between nine and 18 years of age can be a real challenge. What's vital is picking a theme that they can all relate to in some way. As this is the one point in the school day when your whole community gathers together as one, my top tip here is to choose themes that mirror the ethos of your school. At Kings Monkton, this means creating assemblies that teach lessons about tolerance, respect, high expectation and resilience.
Sticking with themes, it's also important to make sure your assemblies tackle relevant topics. If you hold an assembly that links to the TV programme your pupils watched last night, or the news stories that are popping up on their social media feeds, you're more likely to grab their attention right from the word go.
At Kings Monkton, we've found that specific topics linked to key contemporary events are well received by learners, and recent assemblies in our own school have included 'Heroes of the Paralympics', 'The Survivors of Aberfan' and '12 million viewers can't be wrong – the success of Planet Earth II'. Subjects like sustainability, climate change, citizenship and healthy living are also regular features of ours.
Encouraging your learners to host their own pupil-led assemblies can be really beneficial for their development and works for youngsters of all ages. Some of the most powerful assemblies I've been a part of have emerged from learners taking ownership, picking topics they feel are relevant and important to their peers, and sharing the information they have gathered.
Just this year at Kings Monkton, pupil-led assemblies have included the themes of ambition, human rights, the American election, poverty and bullying while other pupils have used their assembly time to share valuable experiences such as one pupil's visit to a World War I exhibit at a local museum, and another pupil's account of a trek to Peru.
The preparation and delivery of their assembly requires our pupils to work as a team, planning, preparing and practising their delivery. The process can help boost confidence and self-esteem as well as encouraging pupils to work as a team, think tactically about educating others, and, over time, improve their oracy and communication skills.
Overall, the important thing to remember is that assemblies are about bringing the school community together in unity. Assemblies are a great way to reinforce your school's messaging and by encouraging your pupils to lead their own assemblies, you're showing them that their voices are valued within your school.
Abi Price is Head of Sixth Form at Kings Monkton School in Cardiff, South Wales. Kings Monkton is an independent school teaching a wide range of qualifications including A-levels, and BTECs.


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Archaeologists restart excavations at ancient Christian pilgrimage site in northern Turkey
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Excavation works at the ancient city of Hadrianopolis have been restarted to unearth rare mosaics and Christian pilgrimage site in Turkey's northern Karabük province, with the aim to protect and preserve the artifacts and open the site for tourism.
Known as the "Zeugma of the Black Sea" for unique mosaics unearthed at the site, Hadrianopolis in Karabük's Eskipazar district was an important site of pilgrimage for early Christians until the city lost its importance in 8th century A.D.
It was the birthplace of Saint Alypius the Stylite, one of the most important personalities of the ancient ages.
Believed to have lived between 6th and 7th centuries A.D., Saint Alypius the Stylite is one of the pillar-saints of Christian faith, who climbed on top of pillars and spend the rest of their lives with preaching, fasting and praying.
Led by Professor Ersin Çelikbaş from Karabük University's Archaeology Department, the excavation works are carried out with a team of 30 students, Anadolu Agency reported.
Karabük Governor Fuat Gürel told reporters that they aim to protect the artifacts found during the excavations.
Gürel noted that this year's excavations focus on an area referred to as "Church C," and the works are carried out in portions as the site is spread over a large area.
A total of 14 public and other types of structures were discovered dispersed throughout the historical site during excavations.
These include two public baths, two church doors, rock graves, a theater, and other monumental structures of different types.
The floors of the churches are garnished with mosaics. These mosaics show figures of horses, elephants, deer and gryphons, because of this the ancient city is compared to Zeugma in southeastern Turkey, which is famous for its mosaics.
First excavations at the site were launched in 2003.
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Number of Pope's Twitter followers soars after Latin America trip
From L'Osservatore Romano:
South America is making waves on the Popes's Twitter handle, @Pontifex. Just as Francis' apostolic visit in Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay concluded, the Pope's followers in nine languages surpassed 22 million. This record comes just 41 days after that number had reached 21 million. The Popes' visit to the three South American countries had an immense impact on social networks around the world. Comments, discussions and retweets surrounded the Pope's addresses and pictures were posted by various media outlets and by those participating in the events. In the course of the week of 5 July, the followers grew from 20,000 to 29,000. The Spanish account reached 9,347,116 followers making it the most popular language. English currently has 6,586,373 followers and Italian is in third place with 2,912,635. Also during the visit, the newspaper's Twitter account saw an increase. Currently more than 45,000 people follow L'Osservatore Romano.


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The Dangers of giving your car to "Cars For Cash"
These are the images that show the gang involved in a drunken nationwide crime spree which resulted in an innocent woman's death. The gang of thugs bought their getaway car for €100 this week from an illegal cars for cash facility, one of the gang is aged just 12 years old and three of the thugs are currently on bail for offences linked to a string of robberies and burglaries. Diana Harton (43) - originally from Tallaght - was killed when her car was smashed into by a vehicle being pursued by gardai in the high-speed chase on the M7 motorway on Thursday night.
The Traveller gang bought the 1996 registered Volkswagen Polo for €100 in Meath on Wednesday - 24 hours before engaging in a nationwide crime spree. Pursuing gardai were attempting to get the raiders to pull over when the car ploughed into Ms Harton's Citroen Zara. Beer bottles were recovered from the wreckage of the 18-year-old car and were also left at the scene of shop robbery in Newport, Co Tipperary, earlier in the day.
Ms Harton, with an address at Claregate Street, Kildare, had been shopping before she drove from the slip road at Kildare onto the motorway where the culprits rear-ended her car. Her vehicle then careered into a patrol car and she died at the scene. The crime spree that started in Trim, Co Meath, at lunchtime on Thursday continued for more than 400km as the gang made their way to the Tipperary village of Newport. After committing several thefts in Trim, they left a petrol station in Newport without paying for €65 of fuel at 6.30pm. In a second incident, they stole €40 worth of goods - including packets of socks - from a nearby service station where they dumped more empty beer bottles.
The Traveller criminals are well known to gardai. The suspects are aged between 12 and 23 and at least three of them are related to each other. They have addresses in north Dublin. The 1996 Volkswagen was bought in Meath before the gang went on a nationwide crime spree. Sources have revealed that around €100 was paid for the car. They also stole €1,500 worth of tools from a vehicle in the townland of Ballymackeogh, which is located along the Tipperary/Limerick county boundary. By the time the five-man gang fled Tipperary towards Dublin at high speed, gardai had been alerted and patrol cars were called out to stop the vehicle.
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Ducati has thrown in some goodies to raise the Scrambler Icon's street cred. We sample one to see if it's worked.
The cheapest Ducati out there has forever been a source of good-natured thrills. And as some motorcycles go on to reaffirm every now and then, you don't need a whole load of sophisticated technology to create something fun – sometimes, just good intent is enough. That's exactly what the Scrambler has established in the four years it has been around and the success story it has penned for Ducati is, therefore, an obvious one. I'm not sure if the elaborately indulgent hipster spiel – surfboards, beards, bubble visors and all – has necessarily added to its fortunes but regardless, the Scrambler has oozed enough charm to qualify as the go-to first-big-bike over the years.
However, the Scrambler's relative austerity began to fall out of line with Ducati's feature-focused trajectory, and so, it was decided to wheel in a trolley stacked to the brim with goodies. I'm not sure it was necessary – the Scrambler hardly felt inadequate – but Ducati insisted that the model for 2019 needed to have things like LED DRLs, a dual-channel cornering ABS from Bosch, some revisions to the instrument cluster (fuel gauge and gear indicator), more premium switchgear, revised side panels, 1100-style 10-spoke wheels and a new, flatter seat. The engine finishing has also changed, with brushed aluminium fins flanking the black cylinder heads and the exhaust end-can is different, too. As you can tell, it's a little bit of everything, and it's going to cost you more, but is that how the Scrambler needed to grow up? I'm not exactly sure.
To find out, I was given the opportunity to ride the Scrambler Icon across the breadth of Phuket, the Thai island popular among travellers from around the world. I'm not sure that was necessary either, but accepting it as an occupational hazard (have I made my job sound tough enough to you yet?), I got into the Scrambler's saddle as the overbearingly humid air hovered in our midst at roughly 40 degrees or so. The unpleasantness, however, dispersed the moment we set off. I love the Scrambler's easygoing riding position, and to be reunited with its cheerful engine and even just the way it looks got me in a great mood. This is a motorcycle that's always fun to ride, no matter what kind of riding you're chasing after. And fortunately, I had a lot of it to do today.
That the 803cc L-twin is heaps of fun, without being too seriously potent, is no news and Ducati hasn't changed a thing about it. It still produces 73.4hp at 8,250rpm and 67Nm of torque at 5,750rpm, output figures that are appropriate to turn the streets (and light trails) into a playground. Those sort of numbers are enough to make it well-suited to most legal highway speed limits around the world as well, but the pushy amongst you may argue that it could be better. Either way, you can agree on how the 6-speed gearbox has a good mechanical feel to it and that it makes for quick progression through the gears. A welcome addition (although it came on the 2018 model which we haven't sampled) is the new 50mm throttle body, which has erased the older bike's jerky initial throttle response to a significant extent.
The bits that have changed certainly tighten up the Scrambler's appeal but it will take a trained eye to spot the differences. The flatter seat is comfortable for a day-long stint as long as you litter it with some breaks, but what definitely makes the Scrambler well suited to India is the amount of suspension travel and plush ride quality it offers. Another bit of good news are the strong and progressive brakes, and although I couldn't quite trigger the cornering ABS, just knowing it was there helped my confidence immensely especially when there was a violent thunderstorm towards the end of the day.
To summarise, the 2019 Scrambler is definitely better than it used to be but I suspect it's not getting any cheaper. The outgoing Scrambler Icon is priced at Rs 7.28 lakh (ex-showroom, Delhi) and, for all the new equipment, Ducati could possibly charge you an extra Rs 30,000-40,000. It's a fair increment (if not an ideal one – why aren't bikes getting any cheaper?!) because, of all the updates, the best thing about the Scrambler is what hasn't been updated – it's happy character and good intent.


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Manhattan's iconic Chrysler Building up for sale
Manhattan's iconic Chrysler Building is up for sale and the current owners have hired CBRE Group to market the property globally. The skyscraper, at one point the world's talles building, is currently owned by an Abu Dhabi government fund and New York developer Tishman Speyer.
Manhattan's iconic Chrysler Building is up for sale and the current owners have hired CBRE Group to market the property globally.
The skyscraper, at one point the world's talles building, is currently owned by an Abu Dhabi government fund and New York developer Tishman Speyer.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the Abdu Dhabi Investment Council purchased a 90 percent stake in the property in 2008 for $800 million. But that came before the Great Recession, leaving some to wonder if they could get such an offer again for an office building finished in 1930.
"There might be a billionaire who comes along and says, 'I want to tell the world I own the Chrysler Building,'" Adelaide Polsinelli, vice chair of the commercial investment sales and leasing division at real-estate services firm Compass, said about the potential sale.
A Chinese firm paid $1.95 billion for the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in 2015, which also is located in Manhattan.
Known for its distinctive art deco design, automobile mogul Walter Chrysler won a race for the title of world's tallest building in 1930 when it topped out at 1,046 feet, thanks to its needle top, PBS reported. That title, though, would last only months with the completion of the Empire State Building at 1,250 feet.
Fox News reported that the skyscraper remains the tallest brick building in the world with a steel framework and is now New York City's eighth tallest structure.
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Terrifying Tuesday: Black Christmas (1974)
With only two days until Christmas to go, I just couldn't hold this picture back any longer. I had originally planned to roll this out on Friday for the last leg of Feature Presentation and to tie in with that wacky Canadian holiday, Boxing Day, but with the holidays almost in full swing and lots of stuff to do this week, I decided to go ahead and do this one before Christmas so I can take Friday off to rest and revel in the many many movies I hope Santa brings me.
Tonight I bring you the third feature from Bob Clark. He had begun his career in 1972 with the dreadful Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things and then redeemed himself with the stunning Deathdream the year after. 1974 saw him make perhaps his most influential work in the horror genre. It was a film which became a big hit in Canada and Europe, but didn't really catch on here until later. Perhaps because it was retitledSilent Night, Evil Night because Warner Brothers thought people would think it was blaxploitation if they released it as….
Black Christmas (1974) starring Margot Kidder, John Saxon, Olivia Hussey, and Andrea Martin. Directed by Bob Clark.
It's Christmas time in the sorority house, and there's a swinging party going on. Everyone is having a great time until they get another call from "The Moaner". The call seems like a typical dirty phone call, but it soon takes a dark turn as the caller begins to screech wildly and threatens to kill Barb (Kidder). The girls don't think much of it, and the house good girl Claire goes upstairs to pack. Unfortunately for her a killer is laying in wait and smothers her to death with a dry cleaning bag. He drags her corpse into the house's attic and dumps it in a rocking chair with her lifeless eyes looking out the window.
With the girls coming and going to holiday activities, it isn't noticed that Claire is missing until her father shows up to pick her up. Barb, Phillis (Martin) and Jess (Hussey) hunt around for her, but they come up empty. They try to report her missing to the police, but they are not taken seriously. Soon more of the girls begin to lose their lives and Detective Fuller (Saxon) is called in on the case. Fuller devises a scheme to trace "The Moaner's" phone call if Jess can keep him on the line long enough, but when the calls come from closer then they expected will any of the girls live to see Christmas morning?
–The point of view shots were accomplished by a shoulder mounted camera rig. It was the first of it's kind and devised especially for this film.
–The film was filled with roles that almost went to someone else. The role of Phillis was offered to Gilda Radner, Jess' boyfriend Philip was offered to Malcolm McDowell, and the house mother Mrs. Mac was offered to Betty Davis.
–Andrea Martin returned in the 2006 remake in the role of the house mother.
–Composer Carl Zittrer said in an interview that he created the bizarre music score for the film by tying forks, combs, and knives to the strings of his piano so the sound would warp as he struck the keys. Zittrer also said he would distort the sound further by recording audio tape while putting pressure on the reels of the machine to make it turn slower. He was also instrumental in getting John Saxon involved in the film.
This is a flick that really hit the spot. It was exactly what I was looking for in a Christmas horror flick. It was well acted, atmospheric, well paced, brilliantly shot, and an all around good time. Perhaps Christmas was more incidental than in some of the other flicks that I've watched for the season. After all there seems to be no reason it couldn't have been Black Easter or Black Arbor Day. So while Christmas holds no special meaning in the film, it is chilling to consider these murders happening over the festive season.
There's a lot to love about the actors in this flick. Margot Kidder seems a bit like you might imagine her Lois Lane character would have been in college. She's a foul mouthed, chain smoking, alcoholic, and there's never a time in the flick that you think she could be anything but. Olivia Hussey perhaps best known for her role in the perennial high school mainstay Romeo and Juliet is very lovely as our heroine. It was a bit surprising to me to see her become the main character as I had assumed Kidder would become the survivor archetype. John Saxon is solid as always. There's just not a flick out there that couldn't do with some more of The Saxon in it. SCTV alum Andrea Martin is thoroughly convincing as the nerdy girl, but I was equally surprised that she didn't have a single humorous line in the whole flick.
The real star of the film is the look. The direction from Clark and cinematography from Albert J. Dunk and Reg Morris set the groundwork for films like Halloween and Friday the 13th to follow. The point of view shots are masterfully done, and the fact that you are never given more than a fleeting glimpse at the killer makes the whole eerie motif just that much stronger. Surely these guys had been influenced by late '60's Italian cinema, but they took from that and gave the world something entirely new in the birth of the classic slasher.
It is arguable that there is no better slasher than the mysterious man in Black Christmas. Unlike Freddy, Jason, or Michael we never learn his motivations, never see his face, never hear him utter a pithy quip before dispatching his victims. Instead we are left to wonder who this psychotic bastard is and what he wants with these girls. In an era where films have no idea how to "show don't tell" this is a master class in how to set up an audience to be as frightened as your characters.
Now Bob Clark would go on to direct Porky's, Rhinestone, uhh Baby Geniuses, and of course The Christmas Story, but he would never venture into the realms of horror again. In a way that's unfortunate seeing as out of his 3 entries into the genre at least two are classic, groundbreaking films (and then there's Children Shouldn't). However seeing as he went on to direct perhaps the most enduring classic of Christmas cinema, I suppose he gets a pass. I'm just waiting on the day when a network programs Black Christmas on a 24 hour loop on Christmas Day. This film truly does stand atop the heap of Yuletide Terrors and gets the highest marks from the Bug.
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Witch Hunts and Hunters
Also known as superstition-driven terrorism
Although Christianity clearly provided a framework for witch hunting, the hysteria / obsession infected most of society, especially in Europe.
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Discussion | Modern Significance
Dateline Bamberg Germany
Johannes Junius stood accused of witchcraft. The record of his trial is in the library of this cathedral city of Bamburg, Germany. All proceedings were private except when accusers supplied testimony. The important proceedings occurred in the witches' prison.
Executioner: "Sir, I beg of you, for God's sake confess something, whether it be true or not. Invent something for you cannot endure the torture which you will be put to; and, even if you were an earl, but one torture will follow upon another until you say you are a witch. Not before that, will they let you go [release from torture], as you may see by all the trials, for one is just like another..."
Junius was unusual. He was a man; most witches were women. And he was the mayor of Bamberg, the cathedral city. Most witches were poor; he was not. Junius was married and had a family; most witches did not. Still he was executed—after his forced confession.
See Minutes for the Janius trial record.
Women were primary victims (~80% in New England). Some common witchcraft charges:
Age (over 40; few people lived that long; why?)
Crippled
Deaf or bleary-eyed
Doing the Devil's work or consorting with the Devil
Freckled skin
Having seizures
Healing! (Yes, there were "good" witches.)
Mental illness, epilepsy
Performing witchcraft on others, making them ill for example
Proud and lordly bearing
Recovered from the plague (long life)
Sexually compliant, or equally bad, not sexually compliant
Talking to themselves
Is witch hunting superstition born of ignorance? Is it manipulative? Is it an expression of fear? Is it irrational? Does it still exist? Is witch hunting to be feared as a cancer in society? Yes to all of these!
An impression one can get from the history is that the poor suffered disproportionately. So also for landed single women and midwives.
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Resources Online
Excerpts indented.
Early Modern Europe: The witch hunts
This site provides numerous links for both the curious and the researcher.
Helen Ellerbe -- Helen Ellerbe, "Dark Side of Christian History," wrote:
"Witch hunts were neither small in scope nor implemented by a few aberrant individuals; the persecution of witches was the official policy of both the Catholic and Protestant Churches. The Church invented the crime of witchcraft, established the process by which to prosecute it, and then insisted that witches be prosecuted. After much of society had rejected witchcraft as a delusion, some of the last to insist upon the validity of witchcraft were among the clergy. Under the pretext of first heresy and then witchcraft, anyone could be disposed of who questioned authority or the Christian view of the world."
"Witch hunting secured the conversion of Europe to orthodox Christianity. Through the terror of the witch hunts, reformational Christians convinced common people to believe that a singular male God reigned from above, that he was separate from the earth, that magic was evil, that there was a powerful devil, and that women were most likely to be his agents. As a byproduct of the witch hunts, the field of medicine transferred to exclusively male hands and the Western herbal tradition was largely destroyed. The vast numbers of people brutalized and killed, as well as the impact upon the common perception of God, make the witch hunts one of the darkest chapters of human history."
European witch hunts -- Prof. Pavlac's Women's History Resource Site:
"From the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, many Europeans developed a heightened concern with the phenomenon of witchcraft, seeing a new sect hostile to humanity. Thus, governments and society organized "hunts" for these alleged witches: accusing, torturing, and executing thousands of people. The intensity and viciousness of these hunts varied from place to place, as did their focus on particular targets, such as women. Finally, the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment brought an end to these hunts for threats that did not empirically exist. "
National Geographic Interactive
"A small girl fell sick in 1692. Her "fits"—convulsions, contortions, and outbursts of gibberish—baffled everyone. Other girls soon manifested the same symptoms. Their doctor could suggest but one cause: Witchcraft."
"That grim diagnosis launched a Puritan inquisition that took 25 lives, filled prisons with innocent people, and frayed the soul of a Massachusetts community called Salem."
Superstition is not dead, because education is not yet alive everywhere.
Witchcraft in Africa and Asia -- Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance.
"In Southern Africa, decades of violent repression and armed struggles against it have led to a 'culture of violence'. Witchcraft and witch hunts [directed against evil sorcery] are but two manifestations of that."
"The Ministry of Safety and Security of South Africa's Northern Province created a Commission of Inquiry into Witchcraft, Violence and Ritual Killings. The Commission issued a report in 1996-MAY which showed that thousands of people had been accused of witchcraft, have been run out of town and have lost their property. More than 300 had been killed by vigilante mobs over the previous ten years."
"...On 2002-JUL-29, five women were hacked to death because they were believed to have been practicing "witchcraft." The murders took place in the tea belt area of Jalpaiguri state of India. Ten laborers in the Kilkote tea estate have been arrested. In the previous decade, 79 women had been murdered in this area on suspicion of witchcraft."
Witchcraft is alive and well.
American Witch Hunters
From the website: American Fanaticism
"During difficult times in the Massachusetts Colony in 1692, the devil seemed to be getting the upper hand in recruiting young souls to enlist in a covenant with hell. Special courts were consequently set up to handle the exceptional nature of the threat to the community and followed procedures which would not have been acceptable under less extreme circumstances ." Paul Johnson "The Spectator" October 1, 1991.
Sound familiar? A supposed religious threat, misunderstood, was countered by special courts with arbitrary powers. History does indeed repeat itself; the Neocon response to terror comes to mind.
On 21 April, 1692, Mary Easty, of Salem Village, Massachusetts Colony, was accused of witchcraft, tried, and executed—just like that. Only years later did citizens stop and think. From Paul Johnson:
"Five years later, the people of Massachusetts recognized that Easty had been innocent and that they had unjustly executed her. They claimed that 'such grounds [for her conviction and execution] were then laid down to proceed upon, which were too slender to evidence the crime they were brought to prove.' The Puritans realized that they had succumbed to hysteria and lost their way and been driven into evil deeds - 'we walked in the clouds, and we could not see our way.' Their fanatical zeal had led them to exercise the exact kind of repression on themselves which they had fled Europe to escape. The colony held a day of fasting on January 14, 1697, and especially the judges who had tried Easty looked into their guilty consciences. Samuel Sewal stood in front of his brethren with head bowed while the minister publicly urged him to take 'the blame and shame' of the injustice upon himself, lest God punish the entire people of new America. None of this made much difference to Mary Easty, already long since dead and buried."
Terror out of superstition or ignorance is not a whit different from religiously-motivated terror. And neither of these is any different from secular terror, except in source of motivation.
Witch hunting is an expression of fear in ignorance during superstitious times. Attitudes are ingrained. "Malleus Maleficarum" (Hammer of Witches) by Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger; printed in 1486. It became the bible for witch hunters for two centuries. In one passage, "Malleus Maleficarum" has this to say:
"Midwives surpass all others in wickedness. When [midwives] do not kill the child, they blasphemously offer it to the Devil in this manner. As soon as the child is born, the midwife, if the mother is not a witch, carries it out of the room on the pretext of warming it, raises it up, and offers it to the Prince of Devils, that is Lucifer, and to all the other devils. And this is done by the kitchen fire."
Starkly, this passage illustrates the hold superstition had on the populace during the time of Columbus. It should be no surprise that Fundamentalism has a similar hold on the collective psyches of many people today.
It was 1671, before an English woman, Jane Sharp, met the stigmatization of the midwife head on. For her time, Sharp had profound knowledge of human anatomy, both genders. She was able to describe the entire life-generating process and dispel all the nonsense in Malleus. Sharp further argued that midwives, being women, were more capable than men in midwifery. Her book predated the Enlightenment, but was entirely in its spirit.
Although the Church was involved in many witch persecutions, most witch hunters and judges were secular. For most of the witch hunting era, witches were not often put to death; it depended in part on geography. Germany and Ireland had quite different execution rates at times. Fines and imprisonment were far more common than executions.
References for the above include:
"Witches and Witch Hunts," by Milton Meltzer.
"Salem Village Witchcraft" by Boyer and Nissenbaum
Modern Significance
Through the Crusades, the Inquisition, and witch hunting, Christianity passed through oppressive and violent stages not different from the terror arising today out of Islam.
The human psyche is driven by fear to commit monstrous crimes. In the individual, his/her private and internal fears bring out neurotic, even violent, behavior. Nations are no different--if they have a culture of ignorance.
Terrorism, worldwide in extent and well coordinated, seems out-of-control--as indeed it is. In an emotional sense, it is only natural for the stalker and the hunter to lash out at any convenient target.
Certainly Mary Easty was no Saddam Hussein. Set aside their histories and what do we see?
Mary Easty was accused of complying with the Devil.
Saddam Hussein was accused of consorting with al Qa'ida and developing weapons of mass destruction.
The substance is the same. In neither case was there a shred of proof, even though the "executioners" searched high and low both before and after the fact. History has already drawn its parallel.
Will and Ariel Durant would hardly be surprised. Why? Well, what lessons do we learn from visiting Salem today? It has become a tourist trap! For example, there is a witch museum and witch village managed and staffed by supposed practicing witches. Numerous gift shops play the supernatural theme. You can take spooky tours. Salem today is all about show business, not history. More than 400 years later, Americans avoid the awful origins and look the other way, apparently in their quest for a good time. "Don't bother me" seems an apt motto for visitors who go for superstition.
What is bad about that? Again, if you forget history, you can always sit through it again in another age.
Back to "reality." A navy recruit once heard this admonishment in his training for war: "When you are in a spot, do something, even if it is wrong, but do something." Such training has its time and place on the battlefield--when you know where the enemy is, and failure to act means defeat. But we do not know where bin Laden is. We found out the hard way that Iraq never harbored nor cooperated with al Qa'ida, nor did it have weapons of mass destruction. Neither was Iraq even a threat on the evidence at hand. Scary but empty thoughts drove us into a war of imperialism. The President said "time is running out" when only time could provide a wiser choice.
Iraq differs little in substance and veracity from the Salem Witch Trials. The "executioners" as well as the populace lost their minds or were brain washed. Iraq was also the easiest of the "Axis-of-evil" countries to attack.
On Hussein's part, he did not cooperate fully enough in his own self-interest until too late. By permitting Hans Blix and his team unfettered access, he too could have kept the whole thing "safely" in the hands of the able UN inspectors--keeping his palaces to the end of his days. Of course that goes against the grain of the Authoritarian Personality. And so does waiting until you can be sure of your information!
The Iraqi case is especially painful. For pointing out these things early on was to be branded a traitor by fellow Americans who meant well enough; they just did not think well enough.
Think about that. Leaders who instill fear in their followers develop fanatic robots, a la Hitler mode. The duper and the duped so to speak in true Authoritarian fashion. At the same time, and the real tragedy, the duper is duped by his/her own fears. This is the ground Mr. Bush exploited and now finds himself on. Like it or not, we tread on the same ground, and we are much softer targets than he is.
Most of Europe, including France, saw the matter of Iraq better that Bush did. This is not to say Saddam Hussein is a good man, or that the Baath party was benevolent. Certainly they are/were not. Genocide against the Shiites and the Kurds are provable indictments. Moving toward international indictments was certainly a wiser choice. The problem with that was simple. The timing had to fit into a re-election schedule.
Milosevic is the first national leader to stand trial for genocide. His example meets all the requirements of international laws. Hussein could have been next, and America would still be admired as a leading nation respectful of law and order instead of hated or feared.
That route, however, is not consistent with the stated aims of Neoconservatism. Paul Wolfowitz wrote a classified Manifesto that concluded in part:
The number one objective of US post-Cold War political and military strategy should be preventing the emergence of a rival superpower.
Another major U.S. objective should be to safeguard U.S. interests and promote American values.
If necessary, the United States must be prepared to take unilateral action."
The Wolfowitz position was merely controversial when he first wrote it. Today it is national policy. Being deliberate policy, this makes things much worse morally; Hitler would have loved the third point Wolfowitz made.
Patriotic? Maybe in some narrow sense. Sensible? Of course not. History will surely decide Bush was duped by his own arrogance born of his authoritarian personality. In any event, Mr. Bush duped his fellow Americans and too much of the world.
For more along this line see:
Neoconservatism
Witches in Medieval Society
Addenda:
Johannes Junius' last letter: to his young daughter
Many hundred thousand good-nights, dearly beloved daughter Veronica. Innocent have I come into prison, innocent have I been tortured, innocent must I die. For whoever comes into the witch prison must become a witch or be tortured until he invents something out of his head and--God pity him--bethinks him of something. I will tell you how it has gone with me. When I was first time put to the torture, Dr. Braun, Dr. Ktzendrffer, and two strange doctors were there. Then Dr. Braun asks me, "Kinsman, how come you here?" I answer, "Through falsehood, through misfortune." "Hear, you," he says, "you are a witch; will you confess it voluntarily? If not, we'll bring in witnesses and the executioner for you." I said, "I am no witch, I have a pure conscience in the matter; if there are a thousand witnesses, I am not anxious, but I'll gladly hear the witnesses." Now the chancellor's son was set before me ... and afterward Hoppfens Elsse. She had seen me dance on Haupts-moor. . . . I answered: "I have never renounced God, and will never do it--God graciously keep me from it. I'll rather bear whatever I must." And then cam also--God in highest Heaven have mercy--the executioner, and put the thumb-screws on me, both hands bound together, so that the blood ran out at the nails and everywhere, so that for four weeks I could not use my hands, as you can see from the writing. . . . Thereafter they first stipped me, bound my hands behind me, and drew me up in the torture. Then I though heaven and earth were at an end; eight times did they draw me up and let me fall again, so that I suffered terible agony. . . .
And this happened on Friday, June 30, and with God's help I had to bear the torture. . . . When at last the executioner led me back into the prison, he said to me: "Sir, I beg you, for God's sake confess something, where it be true or not. Invent something, for you cannot endure the torture you will be put to; and, even if you bear it all, yet you will not escape, not even if you were an earl, but one torture will follow after another until you say you are a witch. Not before that," he said, "will they let you go, as you may see by all their trials, for one is just like another. . . ."
And so I begged, since I was in wretched plight, to be given one day for thought and a priest. The priest was refused me, but the time for thought was given. Now, my dear child, see in what hazard I stood and still stand. I must say that I am a witch, though I am not,--must now renounce God, though I have never done it before. Day and night I was deeply troubled, but at last there came to me a new idea. I would not be anxious, but, since I had been given no priest with whom I could take counsel, I would myself think of something and say it. If were surely better that I just say it with mouth and words, even though I had not really done it; and afterwards I would confess it to the priest, and let those answer for it who compel me to do it. . . . And so I made my confession, as follows; but it was all a lie.
Now follows, dear child, what I confessed in order to escape the great anguish and bitter torture, which it was impossible for me longer to bear. . . .
Then I had to tell what people I had seen [at the witch-sabbath]. I said that I had not recognized them. "You old rascal, I must set the executioner at you. Say--was not the Chancellor there?" So I said yes. "Who besides?" I had not recognized anybody. So he said: "Take one street after another; begin at the market, go out on one street and back on the next." I had to name several persons there. Then the Zinkenwert--one person more. Then over the upper bridge to the Georgthor, on both sides. Knew nobody again. Did I know nobody in the castle--whoever it might be, I should speak without fear. And thus continuously they asked me on all the streets, though I could not and would not say more. So they gave me to the executioner, told him to stip me, shave me all over, and put me to the torture. "The rascal knows one on the market-place, is with him daily, and yet won't name him." By that they meant Dietmayer: so I had to name him too.
Then I had to tell what crimes I had committed. I said nothing. . . . "Draw the rascal up!" So I said that I was to kill my children, but I had killed a horse instead. It did not help. I had also taken a sacred wafer, and had desecrated it. When I had said this, they left me in peace.
Now, dear child, here you have all my confession, for which I must die. And they are sheer lies and made-up things, so help me God. For all this I was forced to say through fear of the torture which was threatened beyond what I had already endured. For they never leave off with the torture till one confesses something; be he never so good, he must be a witch. Nobody escapes, though he were an earl. . . .
Dear child, keep this letter secret so that people do not find it, else I shall be tortured most piteously and the jailers will be beheaded. So strictly is it forbidden. . . . Dear child, pay this man a dollar. . . . I have taken several days to write this: my hands are both lame. I am in a sad plight. . . .
Good night, for your father Johannes Junius will never see you more. July 24, 1628.
Dear child, six have confessed against me at once: the Chancellor, his son, Neudecker, Zaner, Hoffmaisters Ursel, and Hoppfens Elsse--all false, through compulsion, as they have all told me, and begged my forgiveness in God's name before they were executed. . . . They know nothing but good of me. They were forced to say it, just as I myself was. . . .
Johannes Junius was burned at the stake as a witch.
Burned at the stake!
When an idea consumes the mind. . . We haven't changed all that much--Abu Ghraib, third world torture. . . . and, of course, 9/11.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Friday, December 16, 2005.


"Be courageous! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation.... Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward."
Thomas Edison was born in Ohio. I've seen his birthplace in Milan and it's not all that far from where I live. I learned much about him in my Ohio History class in junior high school, but before today, about all I could remember to tell you about him is that he invented the phonograph and the light bulb. Now one of those is not exactly true, but more on that later.
Edison lived in several places, but he spent his winters in Fort Myers, Florida. He built his "Seminole Lodge" home there and his good friend Henry Ford had a home right next to his. Much of his work in Florida was dedicated to botanical research and development to find a plant that could be grown domestically that would produce enough latex for commercial use. This, of course, was of interest to Ford as well, since tires for his cars were made from latex rubber.
When we were about halfway to Fort Myers to tour the Edison and Ford Winter Estates, which were an hour and a half south of us, I remembered that I had forgotten to bring my AHS (American Horticultural Society) membership card along. This was a costly oversight, since that would have allowed me to take the Home and Gardens Tour for free. Instead, I had to pay the $20 fee.
It was a beautiful day that we chose for making our trip here and we meandered through the grounds, which were on both sides of McGregor Boulevard. The Edison and Ford homes, as well as the guest house and cottage, overlook the Caloosahatchee River, which empties into the Gulf of Mexico.
We took the self-guided tour where we were provided with recordings on a device that we wore like a necklace. When we came to a location with a numbered sign, we pressed that number on the device and it would play a short message with information about that location. I found it ironic that Edison was credited with so many inventions that involved telecommunication and here we were, using just such a device to tell us about it.
Edison and his second wife, Mina, were both interested in plants and flowers, for different reasons. Mr. Edison was interested in breeding goldenrod for latex production and eventually produced a variety that grew four times as tall as most goldenrod and produced more than twice as much latex. This goldenrod was named for him - Solidago edisoniana - and a specimen of it is mounted in a case on the wall in his laboratory.
Mina loved the beauty of flowers, and grew a variety of them, both for use as a backdrop for her entertaining and as a way to entice birds. She was instrumental in the formation of the Audubon Society.
We visited the Moonlight Garden, where she planted white-flowering plants so they could be seen at night. Today, there are other colors here, but still many with white blooms.
The bougainvilleas on the property are impressive, especially the large purple one located just east of the Edison home. Climbing over 20 feet tall, it was covered with blooms, and was simply amazing. Crazy amazing.
And then there were the pink ones across the street where the research labs are located. These are in a row as a hedge and they were a solid mass of blooms - more crazy amazing.
The next part of our visit was a look at Edison's laboratory. Here, he spent countless hours working with four assistants on his research and experiments.
He was a workaholic who once attributed his success to the fact that he had no clock in his laboratory. He often worked such long hours that he took naps on his desk, on the lab tables and even on the floor. His wife had a cot brought in, where he took his naps from then on.
Edison spent his last ten years working almost exclusively on the development of the goldenrod as a viable resource for producing latex on a commercial level, but at the time of his death, he hadn't yet accomplished it. Mina continued to run the lab for five years more, but no breakthrough was ever made and the lab shut down.
There is a museum on the grounds, highlighting Edison's life and his inventions. It was really neat to see some of the things he is credited with inventing and many originals and prototypes are on display there. He invented a baby's high chair and even had a company that produced baby furniture.
"Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best...."
One of the most astounding things we saw on the grounds was the gigantic Banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis). It was originally brought to Edison by Harvey Firestone from India as a four-foot-tall specimen and it now covers nearly an acre. There are several similar figs throughout the property, as well as many, many different palms.
The largest Banyan tree in the United States is here.
Orchid Lane, which was a path behind the Edison house, had many orchids growing in the trees, but only a few of them were in bloom while we were there. They were scattered throughout the property in other trees, too.
Oh, that light bulb thing? There were others before Edison that had invented various forms of the light bulb, but it was Edison who found a way to produce one that could stay lit for long periods of time and be used commercially. With 1093 patents to his credit, he was always looking for new ways to improve items already invented and to improve life for people in general.
Henry Ford's home was under renovation and not open to the public during our visit. We were given rain checks for a return visit, though it's doubtful we'll do that.
What a wonderful tour you've shared with us, Kylee. There are lots of things in your photos that I'd very much like to have, but I believe that gorgeous rain barrel tops the list! I've never seen anything like it.
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Wow, they really upped the ante on the rain barrel! That's gorgeous! It's so weird to see orchids growing in trees, too. I think of them as carefully cultivated indoor plants, so to see them outside at all, let alone randomly tucked in trees, just seems so unlikely - but cool.
I feel like I have taken the tour, Kylee. It looks like you had a great trip all around. Thanks for sharing it with us. I can't imagine how amazing it must have been to see those enormous bougainvilleas and the orchids growing in the trees.
Gosh, I felt like I was right there with you Kylee. Wonderful tour, thank you.
You captured this tour with fantastic photos and great information. It has been years (lots of them) since I've been there and I didn't recall so many of the sights you showed.
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the kind of place we would visit. Thanks for sharing. always left with a strange joy of seeing what wealth can make happen and sadness of the lack of wealth in others.
What a floral feast, Kylee, especially the bougainvillea. I got this crazy grin on my face at site of all the blossoms--wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen the photos!
Thanks for all the work you did to put this post together, Kylee. What a fascinating tour with so many interesting things to see!
The bougainvillea is astoundingly beautiful! My mom used to grow it along her back porch railing in Australia and I've always adored it. Hers wasn't this big!
Just the other week at school our science guy was visiting for 'Good Morning Program' and we learned that last fact you mentioned about Edison not actually inventing the first lightbulb. That was news to me.
Thanks for a lovely tour round Edison's home, lab and garden. I enjoyed it very much and thanks to all the pics you took I now have a pretty good idea of how things look. Love his house with the wrap around porch.
Pity about the Ford house being closed, but the garden looks great. I really really like that rain barrel! And how cool to see orchids growing the way they are supposed to.
My husband and I just returned home from our annual October vacation in Clearwater Beach, Florida. This year we decided to take a ride down to Ft. Myers to visit the Edison/Ford Estates (thanks to a friend's recommendation). You did a fantastic job of documenting the estates....almost a virtual tour. Unfortunately not all the flowers are blooming in October, but it was still a spectacular estate to visit, and most interesting to say the least! Great job....almost like being there again!


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Trips are posted on the TSA Calendar, announced on the Texascavers mailing list, and are typically held on the first weekend of the month. Government Canyon State Natural Area is located on the northwest outskirts of San Antonio, Texas.
Take Loop 1604 around the NW side of San Antonio and exit at Shaenfield Rd. Take Shaenfield northwest (outside the loop) 1.6 miles to the light at Rt. 1560. Go straight through onto Galm Rd and drive 2 miles to the roundabout and the gate of GCSNA. Enter at the gate and then take the first right. There is an automated gate with a keypad for entry. The code can be obtained by contacting the project coordinator. Continue through the gate to the Volunteer/Research Station (old bunk house), where we will meet in the parking lot.
Contact Marvin Miller for special access information if you cannot be there on time.
To find, explore, survey, and inventory the caves and karst features in Government Canyon State Natural Area. Sixty-one caves have been found to date. Most are small, but the beautiful terrain and the reasonable potential for something large keep cavers coming each trip. The longest cave is 328.8 meters long and the deepest is over 26 meters deep. This is a good training environment and everyone interested is welcome. The Project is sponsored by the TSA and �Texas Speleological Survey.�Detailed reports of all trips are filed in the TSS library.


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Astra Furst, a third-generation super hero of Astro City, is graduating from college. It's a time of friends and family, new opportunities, changing relationships ? and danger! Featuring the First Family, the creatures of Monstro City, a new hero team and more on a graduation night nobody's ever going to forget!
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John Wall Callcott (20 November 1766 – 15 May 1821) was an eminent English composer.
Callcott was born in Kensington, London. He was a pupil of Haydn, and is celebrated mainly for his glee compositions and catches. In the best known of his catches he ridiculed Sir John Hawkins' History of Music. Although ill-health prevented Callcott from completing his Musical Dictionary, His Musical Grammar (1806) remained in use throughout the 19th century.
His glees number at least 100, of which 8 won prizes. Callcott set lyrics by leading poets of his day, including Thomas Gray, Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Chatterton, Robert Southey and Ossian. They include (selective list):
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Cara, vale! for 4 voices SSTB
Father of Heroes (1792) for 5 voices ATTBB
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KATHMANDU, Dec 27: Amid protests by a section of civil servants and trade unions, the government has formally initiated civil servants adjustment in federal, provincial and local governments from Wednesday.
The long-delayed move by the government comes over a year after the local and provincial governments were formed as per the new constitution.
In line with the provisions made in the Civil Servants Adjustment Ordinance endorsed recently by the cabinet, the Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration (MoFAGA) on Wednesday invited applications from all civil servants to submit applications online within 21 days mentioning the adjustments of their choice. Then the MoFAGA will take necessary decision based on a set criteria.
According to four different urgent notices issued by the MoFAGA on Wednesday, all government employees working under different service categories need to submit online applications for civil servant adjustments via www.samayojan.gov.np within the given deadline.
Government employees working in federal, provincial and local levels without approved vacancies, those getting permanent appointment under the erstwhile District Development Committee and those working in various committees, commissions, academies or similar organizations handed over to the provincial and local government also need to submit application for adjustment.
Organizing a press conference on Wednesday, Minister for Federal Affairs and General Administration Lal Babu Pandit said civil servant ordinance had provided incentives to those wishing to go work at the provincial and local levels and also ensured provision to return to the federal government through internal promotions and through open competition.
"The ordinance does not hinder career prospect of any government employees. No one has been discriminated against and everyone should submit application for the adjustment," said Minister Pandit.
As per the Office and Management (O&M) Survey endorsed by the cabinet, there will now be a total 47,920 civil servants in the federal government, 22,755 in provinces and 67,503 employees in local governments.
The MoFAGA in a statement said that it had formed a Civil Servants Adjustment Settlement Committee, which also has representation of trade union representatives to address grievances put forth by the trade unions. The committee has already submitted a report to the ministry after holding consultations with various stakeholders.
Provincial and local governments have failed to work properly due to staff shortage as the employee adjustment process took a long time.
Although experts and former bureaucrats maintain that around 22,000 civil servants would be more than enough for the federal government, the new O&M approved by the government has recommended having over 47,000 employees under the federal government even as much of the federal government's responsibilities have been delegated to provincial and local governments.
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CECIL RHODES's old newspaper lost its crusading editor this month, a casualty of sharpened official attacks on South Africa's press and increasing tension between whites and black Africans. Anthony H. (Tony) Heard, editor of the Cape Times for 16 years, became the latest victim of South Africa's surge of corporate self-censorship. Although the Cape Times, a morning daily in Cape Town and the country's most prestigious and important English-language newspaper after the Johannesburg Star, has long been profitable, Mr. Heard was sacked by his owners, Times Media Ltd.
After Times Media Ltd. killed the Rand Daily Mail of Johannesburg two years ago, the Cape Times was South Africa's most fearless, outspoken, and liberal daily. Its editorials, written by Heard and deputy editor Gerald Shaw, were sharply critical of the government and apartheid. More important, under Heard the Cape Times's coverage of black unrest from 1984 was thorough and evenhanded. To the extent that Draconian South African law permits, Heard's newspaper also exposed alleged injustices, cases of police brutality, and governmental misappropriation.
Because it is the leading English-language newspaper in the seat of South Africa's Parliament, the Cape Times has naturally focused on legislative coverage. Its sharp eye for double-speak and disinformation cannot have pleased South Africa's rulers. Heard was known for his steady, concentrated focus on the foibles and, especially, the arrogance of a one-party-dominated parliament. His was the first South African newspaper to reveal the costs of South Africa's war of counterinsurgency in Namibia and Angola. The Times covered the military and ecological issues well, but also remained a local news outlet of the Cape Province.
The most recent phase of South Africa's bitter conflict between black Africans and whites is close to three years old. The nation's white government rules with the aid of a second, severely restrictive state of emergency. Under it, restrictions on the reporting of violence are extensive, and a Bureau of State Information is the sole arbiter of official news of unrest. Moreover, the state puts the burden of compliance on newspapers, which are compelled under the threat of heavy fines and stoppages to guard their own reporting.
Heard was among a handful of editors who tested these and older bars to press freedom. Last year he was arrested and tried for quoting the statements of Oliver Tambo, exiled leader of the banned African National Congress. The government had quoted Mr. Tambo; Heard decided to do likewise and to highlight the absurdity of a prohibition on quoting words or thought that could circulate through other means. Eventually the government dropped charges against him.
Times Media Ltd., partly owned by the giant Anglo American Corporation, has a stable of provincial morning newspapers: the popular Sunday Times, Johannesburg's morning Business Day, and the weekly Financial Mail.
Historically, it has been the most anti-apartheid of South Africa's four major newspaper publishing chains, and the closest to the opposition Progressive Federal Party of Colin Eglin and Helen Suzman. Yet Raymond Louw and Allister Sparks, two of the crusading editors of the Rand Daily Mail, were discharged, then the Mail was terminated, and now Heard has been dismissed.
Continued pressure from government on the Cape Times proprietors, as well as openly stated threats on the newspapers in general by the minister of the interior, doubtless played a central role in Heard's dismissal.
Although freedom of the press is not yet dead in South Africa, and may never be so long as there are black and white journalists who follow the path that Heard has blazed, the activists of apartheid will now be able to operate with far less fear of disclosure. The government's control of information received a big boost. The cooperation of a supposedly fearless press conglomerate has made official dominance of the news that much more complete.
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Cornishman Matthew Thompson has taken the helm at Jamie Oliver's restaurant Fifteen Cornwall.
His appointment as chief executive, which comes after Dave Meneer stepped down last year, sees Matthew return to his home county after 26 years. With a wealth of experience within the industry, he has been asked not only to head up the thriving restaurant at Watergate Bay, but also to take the reins of the Cornwall Foundation Of Promise – a charity that helps disadvantaged young people become chefs.
Since it was opened six years ago, the restaurant has generated enough funds to change the lives of over 120 people, all of whom have been taken on as apprentices over the years. It has also generated £12.5 million for the Cornish economy and served a staggering 400,000 diners.
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THE PRESIDENT: First of all, I know that -- I think Julian, you and Orest met with the Vice President in Milwaukee when I was unable to come, and I'm sorry I missed the meeting, but I'm glad to have all of you here now.
I think the relationships between the United States and Ukraine are at their strongest point since 1991. I think all of you know that I had a very good meeting with President Kravchuk and other leaders of Ukraine when I was in Europe. We had a fine meeting and a good dinner at Boris Pol Airport, didn't we, Tony? And I'm looking forward to President Kravchuk's trip here on March the 4th.
We're moving as quickly as we can to establish good relationships. The first and most important step was taken with the trilateral nuclear agreement, which was approved by the Rada just a few days ago. And I'm very pleased about that. It was very interesting because Mr. Kravchuk was confident it would be approved, and yet all the press reports were that it probably wouldn't be, and he turned out to be right; so I'm very encouraged by that.
We have already approved and provided $175 million in assistance to facilitate the dismantling of the nuclear weapons, and we expect to almost double that amount when President Kravchuk is here. We're also going to work very closely to make sure that Ukraine receives fair compensation for the value of the nuclear materials, the highly enriched uranium, that are in the warheads. And we have a good strategy for that, and I'm confident that that will occur.
Once Ukraine accedes to the Nonproliferation Treaty, which is the next big parliamentary fight, we will extend further security assurances to Ukraine, including our commitment to the sovereignty of the nation and its independence within its existing borders. And we have been very clear about that and we hope that that will encourage the Rada and others in Ukraine to accede to the NPT.
We've also had some progress on our economic relations. Of course the biggest problem, obviously, is the high rate of inflation and the problems with industrial productivity. But President Kravchuk has, I think, launched the beginnings at least of an economic reform program. And we had decided to double our bilateral economic assistance to Ukraine this year to more than $300 million, and we hope that will be helpful to them.
We also have encouraged the World Bank and the IMF to take a different look at Ukraine, and there will be delegations in Kiev I think this week -- sometime in the next few days. There will be delegations from the IMF and the World Bank there. And finally, we have agreed to an ambitious effort to increase American private investment with Ukraine. So I think we are moving forward on the economic issue.
I hope that all of you will play a big role in the development of our relations. I hope you will stay in close touch with the White House. I hope you will give us your best ideas about what can be done. But I have to say that I was immensely pleased that I was able to stop in Ukraine when I was in Europe, and I was pleased with the continuing development of the relationship. I know that the nation has many problems, but it's a difficult time for all the former communist economies. And, on balance, I would say we are doing rather well in our relationships with them, and I feel that they're strong, they're growing stronger. And I think the Kravchuk visit here will be a very positive thing.
One of the things that I'm quite sensitive to that I would maybe solicit your advice about is to make sure that when he comes here and when we meet that it's actually a positive for him at home; because when all these countries are going through difficult changes -- not just Ukraine, but others -- their relationships with the United States are almost a mixed blessing, I think, with the people back home, because no one wants to believe that we're -- everybody wants us to help and be supportive but not to dictate unduly to them what the terms of their own development and future should be. So it's a little bit of a delicate thing, but we're trying to be sensitive to that. And I think the presence in the United States of a strong Ukrainian American community can help to deal with that problem, can help to create a sense of identity with us among grass-roots people and various political forces in Ukraine that perhaps will head off some of the tensions that we have experienced in other places.