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By Amara Thornton
Back in 2016 a colleague tweeted a picture from the 1951 Festival of Britain. It showed an archaeological display in the Festival's Dome of Discovery. I was immediately intrigued, and even bought some vintage Festival ephemera with a plan to write a blog post about it.
My planned post never materialised, but luckily I have recently had the opportunity to write about archaeology at the Festival, as a response to Jacquetta Hawkes' book A Land (1951) as part of the Museum of English Rural Life's 51 Voices exhibition.
Read "Jaquetta Hawkes' Festival Lands" here.
Petra 1929
This month I launched a new website: www.petra1929.co.uk. It's a digital transcription of a unique document chronicling the first intensive excavations at Petra in 1929. This is a document I've wanted to do more with for a long time. It's held in the Institute of Archaeology, part of a larger archive of material belonging to the archaeologists Agnes Conway Horsfield and George Horsfield. They were two key members of the team excavating at and researching Petra in 1929.
I've been researching Agnes Conway and George Horsfield for many years now, but with the project (and the funding supporting it from the Council for British Research in the Levant) I was able to focus on the Petra material in a way I hadn't been able to before. In order to illuminate the Diary further (and with the indispensable help of Stuart Laidlaw in the Institute's Photography Lab) I digitised quite a few negatives in the Horsfield archive as well. About 70 of these have been captioned and incorporated into the website – either added into entries (where that made sense) or into the indexes and essays.
In putting the website together, I wanted to provide users not only with a way to access the Diary, but also to gain a deeper understanding of the time period in which it was written. So there is extra content on the site. You'll find essays exploring different aspects of this historical context, as well as indexes with further information on the people and places mentioned in the Diary. This contextual research was, for me, just as important as enabling access to the Diary.
Two issues of "Asia" from the early 1920s. Both contain articles about Transjordan. Image: A. Thornton, 2019.
So, for example, over the course of the research I learned more about what happened in Petra during the First World War. Not only was a German-Turkish archaeological unit based there, but (unsurprisingly) those who lived in and around Petra took part in wartime activity. As it happened, over the recent holidays I received a relevant present (ok I picked it out myself): a 1920 issue of Asia: The American Magazine on the Orient containing an article by American journalist Lowell Thomas on Thomas Edward Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia", who was based in and around Petra while participating in the Arab Revolt.
I was all prepared for a bit of T. E. Lawrence celebrity creation in this article, but what I wasn't prepared for was a photograph of one of the Bedouin women who lived at Petra, and a reference to her and other Bedouin women's participation in the "Battle of Petra" in October 1917. Just a coincidence, but another illustration of the value of old ephemera (despite its incredibly colonial tone).
You can read more about the project in my post on the CBRL's website, "Digitising Petra 1929".
Discovering Dorothy
As all those who write about historical women can attest, uncovering women's personal histories, even if those women end up being relatively public figures later in life, can be hard work. In researching for Archaeologists in Print, I was very glad to have been able to illuminate the early lives and professional careers of some of the women I included in the book. UCL's student Session Fees books were a wonderful resource for this, as were many digitised newspaper articles that allowed me to chart the frequency and development of women's public lectures and tours.
I wasn't always successful though, as the short biographies in the Appendix reveal. At the time of writing I was unable to track down information on the early life of Dorothy Mary Simmons Mackay, for example, so I couldn't include her birth or death dates or whether she went to university. A biographical article from 2010 on her husband Ernest Mackay (see below) in the University of Pennsylvania Museum magazine Expedition simply said she was an anthropologist.
Thankfully, I'm now able to add a bit more detail. Dorothy Simmons was born in Croydon, around 1881. Her father owned "Simmons & Co." a company manufacturing prams. She entered UCL as a student in the autumn of 1901, but not in Archaeology or Egyptology (the two departments I looked at in UCL's Session Fees books). Rather, it appears, she studied Greek and French, obtaining certificates in both. By 1902 she had been awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of London.
That wasn't the end of her student days though, because over the next few years she took classes at UCL in Botany, Geology, Zoology and Calculus, garnering awards and certificates along the way. She ended up with an Honours B.Sc. in Zoology by 1909. In 1912 she married archaeologist Ernest Mackay, who had been working as an assistant of Flinders Petrie's (perhaps they met on UCL's campus!). Thereafter, she began working in archaeology alongside Ernest in Egypt, Iraq and India.
She returned to UCL to research Archaeology in the 1940s, decades after embarking on her first archaeological excavation. Among the records at UCL for Dorothy Mackay was an indication that she was also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. So, off I went to the Antiquaries to discover more. What I saw there was very interesting.
The Society of Antiquaries Library has a copy of a short tourist guide-pamphlet Dorothy Mackay had written about the excavations at the ancient city of Mohenjo-daro*, in the Sindh province of what is now Pakistan but was then India (under British rule), in the late 1920s. I'd seen this pamphlet while writing Archaeologists in Print and it is duly referenced there. But the Society also had a copy of another guide-book by Dorothy Mackay which revealed that in the late 1940s and early 1950s she was working in Beirut, Lebanon as Curator of the American University of Beirut Museum, and that during World War II she had been an assistant Curator at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.
Her short history of the American University of Beirut Museum highlights among other details the role of women in its development and in researching its collection. These included Florence Day (daughter of geologist and former Museum Curator Alfred Day) who published studies of pilgrim bottles and lamps in the Museum's collection in its journal Berytus; an unnamed woman from Syria whose financial endowment enabled a Chair of Archaeology to be established at the University; and "Mrs Bayard Dodge" (formerly Mary Bliss, niece of Palestine Exploration Fund excavator Frederick J. Bliss), whose organisational acumen enabled the Museum's collections to be safely packed and stored when the Museum turned into a wartime food supply centre.
Dorothy Mackay's death was recorded briefly in the Antiquaries Journal for 1953, and I've now found a short obituary of her in The Times (which I had missed when writing!). Despite these finds, the lack of published record of her life is an (unsurprising) tragedy, for a woman who worked to obtain two degrees, was a professional archaeologist for her entire working life, as well as a published author and museum curator. But as I uncover more about her, that will definitely be rectified.
Many thanks to Robert Winckworth (Archives Assistant, UCL Records Office) for finding and sending me records relating to Dorothy Simmons' student days at UCL. Thanks are also due to Alice Dowhyj at the Society of Antiquaries for finding the notice of Dorothy Mackay's death in the Antiquaries Journal.
References/Further Reading
Mackay, D. M. 1951. American University of Beirut Lebanon: A Guide to the Archaeological Collections in the University Museum. American University of Beirut: Beirut.
The Times, 1953. Mrs D. M. Mackay. The Times Digital Archive, 13 Feb: 8.
*Also the setting of a 2016 Bollywood film Mohenjo-Daro, set in 2016 BC. There are amazing birds-eye views of the reconstructed city in the beginning of the film, which has as its first dance sequence a very catchy tune with a cheerful chant: "Mohen-JO, Mohen-JO, Mohen-JO, Mohenjo-Daro!"
Touring Ephemeral Egypt
I've been busy adding to my collection of tourism ephemera lately with issues of a publicity periodical called Egypt and the Sudan, which was issued by the Tourist Development Association of Egypt in the 1920s and 1930s. Tourism one of the topics that I've been researching for my forthcoming book Archaeologists in Print (coming very soon with UCL Press).
Archaeologists were well aware of the value of tourism for attracting public attention to their work, and the archaeologists who excavated in Egypt were particularly well placed to feed into and exploit this attention.
As far as I can work out, the Tourist Development Association of Egypt (TDAE) was created in the mid 1920s. The Association had an international membership, comprised chiefly of hoteliers, representatives from shipping lines and railway companies and business people. There were TDAE offices (eventually) in Cairo, London, and Paris. Its patron was Egypt's king, Fuad I.
From 1926 (according to my searches in the British Newspaper Archive), illustrated newspapers began carrying quarter page TDAE advertisements promoting six key areas of attraction to Egypt – "HISTORY", "MYSTERY", "ROMANCE", "HEALTH", "SUNLIGHT" and "LUXURY". At this stage, those interested in finding out more could pick up an illustrated pamphlet entitled The Valley of the Nile from the TDAE's offices.
Eventually in 1927, the TDAE began issuing what I suspect was a more substantial periodical with enhanced content, Egypt and the Sudan, which offered readers specially written insights from noted (Western) authorities and seasoned tourists and residents on a diverse range of topics – music, theatre, sport, internal travel, social life, and, of course, archaeology.
Various archaeological contributors, both men and women, used their detailed knowledge of Egypt's past to lure tourists towards Egypt's ancient sites. Alongside these articles were pages and pages of advertisements for shipping lines, airways, railways, hotels and tourist services, as well as images of sites, artefacts and people supplied by photographers and artists.
Egypt and the Sudan's Editor (and secretary to the TDAE) was a man named R. A. Bartholomew – apparently a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He wrote frequently for the magazine, and commissioned pieces on Egypt from different perspectives. Some of the authors wrote under pseudonyms; for example in 1928 "Cleopatra" wrote about "Winter in Aswan".
The Ocean Liners: Speed and Style exhibition at the V&A (closing soon!) celebrates this age of international travel, and includes amongst the material on display posters for travel to Egypt. British Museum curator Neal Spencer has also been posting some fantastic interwar era tourism posters in the Department of Egypt and Sudan archive – see here, here, here, here, here and here. And the Museum has also opened this month a new temporary Room 3 exhibition to showcase its growing collection of objects representing modern Egypt, The Past is Present. I'm very much looking forward to checking this out.
As I go through the issues I've now acquired of Egypt and the Sudan more thoroughly, I'll have a better idea of how these notable contributors framed Egypt for the Western tourists of the inter-war period, and how their own experience of Egypt is represented in its pages. More to come, I suspect!
Reid, D. M. 2015. Contesting Antiquity in Egypt: Archaeologies, Museums & The Struggle for Identities from World War 1 to Nasser. Cairo/New York: American University in Cairo Press.
Posting the Past
The humble postcard is, I'm happy to say, becoming something of a 'heritage' research field. My colleague Jamie Larkin has explored the history of postcard sales at museums and heritage sites in the UK while Elizabeth Edwards has been researching photography, postcards and heritage sites.
I've blogged about the history behind the production of postcards relating to specific excavations – namely, the postcard produced in the 1920s by the Palestine Museum (now Rockefeller Museum), showing the Galilee Skull, discovered in 1925 during an excavation near the Sea of Galilee by students at the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem. In the same period, the Transjordan Department of Antiquities produced a postcard showing part of one of the key sites in the country – the remains of a Roman city at Jerash. One of these postcards (hand annotated) is found in the Horsfield collection at UCL.
The British Museum from the early part of the 20th century produced a series of postcards of objects in their collection, collaborating in the production of these with Oxford University Press.
But the British Museum's collection also incorporates relevant externally produced postcards. In the Middle East Department's ephemera collection are a series of five postcards showing images of inscribed ostraca known collectively as the Lachish Letters (EPH-ME.1562, EPH-ME.1563, EPH-ME.1564, EPH-ME.1565, EPH-ME.1566).*
According to the information provided in the BM's collection metadata, these postcards were created around 1935. The production date is significant because the Letters were discovered during the 1934-35 season at Tell Duweir, so the postcards would have been made in quick-time – probably, I suspect, so that they could be sold at the end-of-season exhibition in July 1935.
I hope more of these ephemeral artefacts will come to light – they are a potent reminder that discoveries made did not always go straight onto the shelves of museum storage or display case and that the ubiquitous postcard is also part of the history of archaeology.
* A selection of the artefact Letters is on display in Room 57 in the British Museum.
Julia Chatterton's Egyptian Tunes
Tuesday 3 June 1930, 2.30 p. m. London's Hippodrome Theatre. Lady Newnes (aka Emmeline de Rutzen) hosts a "Historical Egyptian Matinee" to raise funds for the British School of Egyptian archaeology's excavations in Palestine and the Friends of the Poor. Mrs Julia Chatterton, a well-known folk song collector, composes all the music for the occasion, to be played on Egyptian instruments. The audience enters to the strains of Verdi's Aida – first presented in 1871 at the Khedival Opera House in Cairo.
Once everyone is seated, a gong tolls. The familiarity of Verdi gives way to something entirely different, and much more authentic. Julia Chatterton wants the music to take the audience away from themselves, away from London, away from the 20th century. They are to learn and appreciate, the programme notes tell them, "the Oriental mode of musical expressions."
Julia Cook-Watson Chatterton was no dilettante. She was a member of the Society of Women Musicians before World War 1, she had moved to Egypt at some point before 1914 to edit the illustrated newspaper The Sphinx, and spent ten years living in Egypt with her husband, architect Frederick Chatterton, who was employed in the Egyptian Public Works Department. While there, she began researching Egyptian songs and instruments alongside making her name and garnering official recognition for her work entertaining the troops based in Cairo via the "Cards Concert Party" during the war. Her wartime medals were sold at Bonhams in 2013.
When she eventually returned to England in the 1920s, she began composing pieces with Egyptian themes, using instruments she had collected in Egypt, and presenting them in London. The 1930 issue of Egypt and the Sudan features Chatterton's article on "The Music of Egypt" in which she attempts to educate English tourists about the history and musicality of Egyptian songs and instruments.
I first came across references to Julia Chatterton's work on the Hippodrome event some years ago; it's been on my list of topics to blog about ever since. In preparing for a talk at the Museo Egizio in Turin, I've revisited my initial research. Thanks to Petrie Museum curator Anna Garnett and former curator Alice Stevenson, I've now been able to see some of the fantastic ephemera created for this event in the Museum's archive.
Poster advertising Lady Newnes' Historical Egyptian Matinee, with Julia Chatterton's music. Courtesy of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL.
The enormous event poster prominently promotes Chatterton's "Original Egyptian Music", and lists some of the Egyptian instruments to be featured – pipes, sistrum, lyre, nay, harp, oud (lute), darraboukeh.
In the programme, a full picture of the musical programme for the afternoon emerges. Fourteen individual musical interludes, with additional "incidents" occurred during the event. Italian-born London-based composer Francesco Ticciati conducted the orchestra. Noted music historian, archaeologist and British Museum curator Kathleen Schlesinger loaned instruments from her personal collection. Vocalists included one soprano, three mezzo sopranos, two tenors and four baritones (one of whom was Petrie student Gerald Lankester Harding). Among the instrumentalists were a lute player, a tamboura player, a harpist and a pianist. Mamoun Abd el Salam was responsible for playing the nay, the argul and the rebab. Julia Chatterton herself was also one of the musicians playing the darraboukeh, an instrument with which she was particularly skilled, and the kithara.
Complementing the music was a series of fourteen tableaux showing ancient Egyptian history between 8000 and 30 B. C. The performance had 81 cast-members, and "one white pigeon" (representing a dove). It began with a scene of earliest Egypt, accompanied by "Rhythmic Hand Clapping", showing the Badarian civilisation, the remains of which had recently been excavated by Petrie students Guy Brunton and Winifred Newberry Brunton (also a noted artist). The story of King Khufu and "The Pyramid Age" of the 4th Dynasty was commemorated in Terence Grey's short play The Building of the Pyramid.
Princess "Sat-hat-hor-ant" (Sithathoriunet), whose elaborate jewellery had been the highlight of Petrie's 1913-14 season at Lahun, was also featured in the tableaux. The jewellery worn during the performance was recreated from published plates by Lady Leeds (Eltheleen Winnaretta Singer), who took the part of Nefert in the Pyramid Age Tableaux, using cardboard, beads, wax and macaroni. The action wound up in Roman Egypt, with appearances from Marc Antony, Julius Caesar and Cleopatra (played by Lady Newnes herself).
The matinee attracted an audience of 1400 people, among them Princess Beatrice, Queen Victoria's youngest daughter. Lotus-badge wearing volunteers handed out further information on the British School of Egyptian archaeology's research, schemes and publications to interested audience members - it was a fundraising venture, after all.
It seems to have been quite the Society event, and there are so many elements to explore in this one action packed aural and visual extravaganza it's impossible to cover in one blog post, or in one lecture. Needless to say I'll be returning to this topic in due course, and perhaps someone with a connection to the event will have even more information! (Pretty please?)
*Special thanks to Heba Abd el Gawad for finding suitable links for the Egyptian instruments featured in this piece.
Drower, M. 1995. Flinders Petrie: A Life in Archaeology. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
Chatterton, J. 1930. The Music of Egypt. Egypt and the Sudan. London: The Tourist Development Association of Egypt, Cairo Station.
Chatterton, J. 1930. The Intimate Significance of Folk-Song. The Sackbut 11 (1): 11-13.
Petrie, H. 1930. Notes and News. Ancient Egypt (Part II, June): 63-64.
The Sketch. 1930. Nefert – and her Egyptian Matinee Jewels of Macaroni. 4 June. p 461.
Times. 1936. Mrs Julia Chatterton. 3 January, p. 17.
Copies of the event poster, programme, and preliminary notice are held in the Petrie Museum archives.
A Ticket to Constantinople
Constantinople (now Istanbul) was a key city for late 19th and early 20th century British archaeologists. The city and surrounds was, and continues to be, a major tourist destination too. In the late 19th century John Murray issued a guidebook specifically for Constantinople and environs – Brusa and the Troad in northwestern Anatolia, Turkey. (The Troad is the area where from the 1870s Heinrich Schliemann with his wife Sophia Engastromenos and the workers they employed had been busily occupied in digging for the remains of ancient Troy at Hisarlik just south of the Dardanelles, a watery highway separating "Turkey in Europe" from "Turkey in Asia".)
I recently found a 1907 copy of Murray's Handbook to Constantinople, Brusa and the Troad in an Oxfam bookshop. I couldn't resist buying it, as guidebooks like this are usually pretty expensive, and this one was relatively reasonable. I was already excited about it as I took it home, only to discover on having a closer look at it that there was something even more exciting tucked away inside.
By the early 20th century Murray's Handbooks were designed with an envelope opening in the cover, a thin "pocket" between the red cloth covering and the paper endpapers. It's easy to miss if you don't know it's there. The pocket usually holds a separate fold out map – in this case a detailed plan of Constantinople. This pocket, however, to my delight also contained a postcard and a tram ticket.
The delicate paper ticket is not in great condition; it was crumpled near the edge of the bottom of the pocket and is now in two pieces. But enough of it remains to show that on one side is a map of the tramways and on the other ticket particulars: tariffs, carriage classes and sections. The text is in French and Turkish.
The Handbook frames Constantinople as a city divided between "Europe" and "Asia": Stambul (the Byzantine city) and Pera Gelata (a merchant quarter where European ambassadors lived) in Europe and Skutari in Asia (now Anatolia, Turkey). Its population of well over 800,000 represented, as Murray's put it "nearly every nation of the globe". The tramway ticket is a potent physical reminder of Constantinople's modernity – the Societe des Tramways de Constantinople opened the tramway in 1871.
Just after this copy of the handbook was published the Young Turk revolution began initiating a period of upheaval in Ottoman Turkey. The archaeologist William Mitchell Ramsay, his wife Agnes Dick Ramsay and one of their daughters (who is not named) contextualised and recorded this period from a British point of view for a British readership in The Revolution in Constantinople and Turkey (1909). The Ramsays' "diary" begins in Germany in April 1909. On hearing that the Young Turks are marching on Constantinople, "Miss Ramsay" hopes she and her parents will "go straight on and be there when the fighting begins". And they do.
Like many bits of ephemera, the tram ticket's delicacy almost guarantees that it won't survive long beyond the use for which it was created. I'm very glad though that in this case, the previous owner of Constantinople, Brusa and the Troad hung onto the ticket long enough to forget about it.
You can learn more about archaeology in John Murray's Handbooks in Archaeologists in Print, my forthcoming book with UCL Press!
Geyikdagi, V. N. 2011. Foreign Investment in the Ottoman Empire. International Trade and Relations 1854-1914. London: I. B. Tauris.
Ramsay, W. M. (with A. D. Ramsay and Miss Ramsay). 1909. The Revolution in Constantinople and Turkey: A Diary. London: Hodder and Stoughton.
Wilson. C. (Ed). 1907. Handbook to Constantinople, Brusa and the Troad. London: John Murray.
Discovering Pathé Baby
Over on the Filming Antiquity blog I've been contemplating empty film canisters in the Harding collection through research and filming. Far from being objects denuded of their original purpose (containing film stock), these canisters are still meaningful, drawing out a narrative of supplies and shopping in 1930s Jerusalem and Cairo. Read the post and view the film here.
Architectural Dramatics
This month's post is over on the Architectural Association Collections blog. I had a wonderful trip there to see archives relating to Egypt Exploration Society architects Ralph Lavers and Hilary Waddington. Both were students at the Architectural Association Schools in the 1920s and thanks to archivist Ed Bottoms I explored a hidden history of architectural dramatics in which both Lavers and Waddington took part.
Lavers organised the 1933 exhibition of objects from the Society's Amarna excavations at the Architectural Association. In a detail of the EES catalogue front cover that Ed used to lead the piece, Lavers' name is just visible between the kneeling figure's right leg and foot. You can read "Pantos of the Past" here.
An Artist Underground
One of the exciting things about the digital age is finding ephemeral historical items online. A recent discovery via Internet Archive is the catalogue for "Underground Jerusalem", an exhibition of drawings by celebrated Illustrated London News artist William "Crimea" Simpson (so called because of his famous sketches of the Crimean war).
"Underground Jerusalem" opened at the Pall Mall Gallery in London on 6 April 1872. A leaflet advertisement for the exhibition, inserted into the Palestine Exploration Fund's Quarterly Statement, noted that the display was open from 10 am to 6 pm daily. The admission price of one shilling included the catalogue in which Simpson's 40 sketches on display, made during a trip to Jerusalem in the spring of 1869, are listed and described.
Simpson journeyed to Jerusalem from Egypt, where he was busily engaged in documenting the Prince and Princess of Wales' trip to the country and illustrating the not-yet-opened Suez Canal – "the new route to India" – for the Illustrated London News. He left Egypt at Port Said on the Red Sea coast and sailed for Jaffa, travelling to Jerusalem by cart. Once there he contacted Palestine Exploration Fund explorer Charles Warren, then excavating in Jerusalem near the Haram al Sharif/Temple Mount. Warren's deep shafts at the edges of the enclosure, sunk in the face of considerable opposition from local political and religious authorities, had been made in order to understand the development of the city through time.
Like a number of tourists to Jerusalem at the time of Warren's excavations, Simpson accompanied Warren down some of his shafts, obtaining a glimpse at the early layers of the Old City. Unlike the average tourist, though, once below the surface Simpson recorded what he saw with his pen and paper. Lit magnesium, which emits a bright white light, was the only source of illumination. He later recorded in his autobiography
...it was a rare chance to have such glimpses of underground Jerusalem".
It took Simpson three years to finish his drawings. The exhibition was also a sale with the works ranging in price from 10 to 120 guineas (for No. 32, "'The Sakrah' or Sacred Heart of the Dome of the Rock"). The PEF's Secretary Walter Morrison bought a number of them. They remain in the collection of the Palestine Exploration Fund today, where they are not just a unique record of excavation in progress, but another piece of London's exhibition history.
Eyre-Todd, G. (ed.). 1903. The autobiography of William "Crimea" Simpson, R. I. London: T. Fisher Unwin.
Pall Mall Gallery. 1872. Underground Jerusalem. Descriptive Catalogue of the Above Collection of Water-Colour Drawings by William Simpson… London: W. M. Thompson.
Warren, C. 1876. Underground Jerusalem: an account of some of the principal difficulties encountered in its exploration and the results obtained. London: R. Bentley and Son.
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No Sir, She is not my Wife. She is my Sister
Jeremy Rosen / July 19, 2017
The Torah repeats three times with variations, a narrative twice about Sarah and once of Rivkah being taken into a King's harem because their husbands say they were sisters not wives.
The first time, in Genesis Chapter 12, tells how Avram and his entourage had to go down to Egypt because of a famine. He fears that there, they will kill him for his beautiful wife, Sarai, so he asks her to say that she is his sister. Sure enough, she is taken into Pharaoh's palace, and Pharaoh enriches Avram in return. God intervenes and plagues Pharaoh's household. Pharaoh discovers indirectly that Sarai is Avram's wife. He calls in Avram, accuses him of misleading him, and kicks them all out of his realm, but not without enriching him!
One can take this at face value. Avram should have relied on God to see the events safely through to a satisfactory conclusion. He was, after all, promised that he would be blessed and by implication protected. But this was another one of his ten trials or tests. Faith in God does not immunize one from earthly troubles. Commentators emphasize the fact that saving life overrides most other concerns (though not adultery of course) and even perhaps that Avram could take nothing for granted and had to try and defend himself by whatever means possible in a pre-Sinaitic, morally corrupt world.
And of course, one might wonder at what a close call it was, since Sarai was actually moved into the harem and Pharaoh himself said he was about to marry her. Feminists of course will be scandalized at Avram's treatment of Sarai even if he did beg her to agree. If one delves back into the cultures of the times, one will know that taking other peoples' wives was a common transaction, often a sign of hospitality. Whereas family members of a person one was in alliance with, were treated with great respect.
The story is repeated with greater detail in Chapter 20, except this time in Philistinia with a local boss called Avimelech. God intervenes directly with Avimelech in the middle of the night and warns him off! Avimelech protests his innocence to God and then rebukes Avraham) for assuming that Avimelech's regime was as bad as all the others and one in which such things could happen. Avraham excuses himself and says, anyway, Sarah was his half-sister. But it all ends well, and Avraham is allowed to stay and prosper.
Consider the nuances. Pharaoh somehow guessed the true story, or perhaps, as with the later Pharaoh of Joseph's era, he used his magicians. Whereas God appears to Avimelech in a dream (and to Avraham when he is awake). Pharaoh kicks Avraham out, whereas Avimelech invites him to stay. Avimelech vaunts his country's standards and morality, whereas Pharaoh is simply concerned with being misled. Avimelech uses similar language to Avraham when he appeals to God's mercy in his plea to save the men of Sodom.
These two narratives become even more problematic to the rationalist, because of a third event a generation later recorded in Genesis Chapter 26. This too takes place in Philistinia with a king called Avimelech, but this time it's with Yitzchak and Rivkah. It's the same story, told more tersely. Avimelech finds out because he actually observes intimacy between Yitzchak and Rivkah.
We might argue that in an idol-worshipping, corrupt Middle East, this sort of thing was likely to happen often, certainly to nomads entering the territory of a strongman. It's not unlike the idea of the Droit De Seigneur, that a monarch or duke had the right to sleep with a girl living in his realm before she married. Women were often expendable in those days. Wives we're often pawns, bought and sold or bartered or used in political alliances, much less powerful than sisters of important men. This fact is confirmed by excavations in Tel el-Amarna. One needs much more archaeological evidence to flesh out the true nature of what happened, and at this distance one can really only guess. And why should guesswork be any more reliable than a text?
Modern scholars might ask whether this could be one event that different traditions recorded differently or orally and the compiler of the final text chose to insert all versions. One reply to that might be that if there was an editor, he certainly did a pretty poor job. The name Avimelech could be a title used by lots of kings, as indeed the generic term Pharaoh was. And perhaps this is all a polemic to show how bad Egyptian society was compared to others, to explain the exodus. Perhaps the core message is that there are different ways of discovering the truth. Just as there are different ways of interacting with other cultures, and surviving.
In truth, to look at an ancient text through modern eyes is a risky business. We have no way of knowing for certain either the context or the intention 3000 years ago. The traditionalists' position has some merit. Take the text at face value, and examine it to see what moral or spiritual lessons can be learnt from the variations in it. Everything in the text has a didactic purpose, so be positive and look for what lies beneath the surface, rather than trying to recreate the process of transmission.
There is nothing inherently wrong with a fundamentalist viewpoint. I am a fundamentalist in the way that I regard the text as a holy text and relate to it more spiritually than rationally. That is my choice. But I do not deny that there are other ways of looking at the text. The fundamentalism I dissociate myself from is the one that says that there is only one way and all others are either wrong or valueless. I might say that I value one way over all others, but I would not say there is no merit in any of the rest altogether. So, whether it was three separate events or one, the text (to follow Jacques Derrida) is all we've got. Some of us accept it. Others dismiss it. I would argue that we should treat it with reverence and try to find a message and relevance in the light of our own experiences.
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Updated 2020.07.10
* name: Legends of Amberland: The Forgotten Crown
* platform: PC, Nintendo Switch
* genre: western RPG, turn-based
* theme: high fantasy
* players: singleplayer
* languages: EN, DE, FR, ES, PT_BR, RU, PL
* early access release (PC): 26 March 2019
* final release (PC): 1 August 2019
* port release (Nintendo Switch): 20 April 2020
* base price: $19.99
* studio: Silver Lemur Games
* designer: Chris Koźmik (Krzysztof Koźmik)
Classic party-based western RPG, inspired by games from the 90s era.
CORE DESIGN CHOICES:
1) Classic, 90 degree rotation, FPP, turn-based, tile movement RPG.
2) Party-based (7 party members assembled upon start).
3) Open world with a big overworld to explore.
4) Fast paced combat. Quick travel. Easy inventory management. No grind.
5) Light, fairy tale like fantasy, epic story about heroes on a noble quest.
The game is a classic western RPG inspired by the games from the 90s. Basically, it's the kind of game I personally find missing nowadays. Light, fairy tale, epic, heroic and slightly humorous. One that does not take tons of hours to complete or require endless grind to progress. Something that caters to players like me who don't have tons of hours to beat one game but still like to play and have a sort of nostalgia for the way games were made in the old days.
It was inspired by Dungeon Master, Eye of The Beholder 2, Might & Magic 3-5, Crystals of Arborea (a not so well known prequel to Ishar series), GoldBox series (Champions of Krynn, Dark Queen of Krynn, etc).
Mechanically it's 100% turn-based (so you can go and make tea in the middle of a fight) with grid movement and 90 degree rotation. All this very fast paced, both combat and travel is really fast. The goal was to cut down the boring parts and flesh out the fun parts. Also, there is no loading screen when changing locations or other slowdowns 🙂
Overall, the mechanics are pretty traditional and straightforward with modern additions like weightless bag combined with equipment encumbrance system.
WORLD AND STORYLINE:
Storyline is a fairy tale, mythical heroic fantasy. You are the good guys on a quest to fight the forces of evil. The world is non linear, with very few locked areas. You basically can go anywhere and do things in different order. In addition you can choose a different set of quests to finish the game (but those are not mutually exclusive, so you can finish all quests if you like). It's more world driven than story driven. The priority was to make the world feel alive and let you explore it as you wish than follow a linear list of quests.
The game starts when the royal wizard finds out about an old crown that belonged to the royal family for generations. Yet, strangely no one ever heard about the crown and there was just a single mention of it in the royal annals. Upon further study he discovered that there has been cast a powerful spell of forgetfulness of unknown origin which caused everyone in the whole land to forget the crown ever existed. Without knowing who or why someone went to such trouble to conceal the existence of the crown he decided to investigate it. He summoned a party of noble heroes and tasked them with finding whereabouts of the mysterious crown and the origin of the spell.
* Email: silverlemurgames@gmail.com
* Homepage (studio): http://www.SilverLemurGames.com
* Twitter: https://twitter.com/SilverLemur
* Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SilverLemurGames
* YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/c/SilverLemur
* Homepage (game): http://www.silverlemurgames.com/legendsofamberland
* Steam (PC): https://store.steampowered.com/app/873890/Legends_of_Amberland_The_Forgotten_Crown
* GOG (PC): https://www.gog.com/game/legends_of_amberland_the_forgotten_crown
* Nintendo eShop (Nintendo Switch): https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/legends-of-amberland-the-forgotten-crown-switch
GoogleDrive press kit: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByYi8vMJIr5ldlFFQ1psaTkyWFU (screenshots, banners, logo, etc)
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My contribution to the 26:50 project went up earlier this week.
I've written more about the background to the fifty words on Free The Blog.
Dawit is an Eritrean-born Swedish citizen arrested eight years ago in Eritrea for his work as a journalist on the country's first independent newspaper. Since then, he has been held without charge and there have been no reliable reports of his condition. Today's leaked information from a former guard is at least confirmation that he is alive, but there the good news ends.
For the past 3,119 days, Dawit has been held in solitary confinement, handcuffed almost around the clock, in a windowless cell measuring three metres by four metres. The sanitary conditions are grim and the food barely enough to sustain a life. Around 15 of the 35 fellow inmates arrested at the same time as Dawit have already died.
Writing 50 words in this situation feels like striking a match on a dark night in a force-ten gale. But writing two words, your first and second name, on this petition is an effective way to keep the pressure up. You can also use the Free Dawit website to send messages to the Eritrean government.
I'm soon going to be taking part in 26:50, a collaboration between 26 and International PEN, marking the fiftieth anniversary of PEN's Writers in Prison Committee.
26 has paired fifty of its members with fifty writers whose causes have been championed by International PEN over the years. The idea is to find out as much as you can about your writer and then write (exactly) fifty words as a response.
The results are being posted up daily, in the run up to International PEN's Free The Word festival in April. They make for fascinating reading, not just as pieces in themselves, but as little windows into the much bigger stories that lie behind.
My writer is Dawit Isaak, an Eritrean-born Swedish citizen imprisoned by the Eritrean government for his work as a journalist on the country's first independent newspaper. He has been held without trial for 3,099 days, in prisons notorious for their inhuman conditions and use of torture. His family and friends (he has many) have no way of checking on his well-being.
There's an excellent website where you can find out more about his plight (click on the English language option at the top right of the page). One simple way to help is to sign the petition on the home page, which has over 18,000 signatures, mainly from Sweden. It would be a nice side-effect of this project if some more British names appeared.
I'll write in more detail when my contribution comes out in the next few weeks.
Disappointed to hear the news this morning that London's Circle Line is to lose its defining feature: its circularity (notionally at least). TfL is planning to turn it into a 'tadpole', with a tail added to the existing loop to extend it to Hammersmith. (Making the line look, erm, nothing like a tadpole.) More momentously, there will no longer be a through service running the entire circuit of the track – you'll have to change at Edgware Road if you want to keep going.
There are no doubt good practical reasons for the change (reducing delays, overcrowding etc), but it will remove an important part of London's 'psychogeography'. The idea that there is one line that you could theoretically stay on all day has always held a great fascination for Londoners. Circle Line parties will presumably be no more, and late-night drunks won't be able to snooze for quite as long.
In 2005, the Circle Line was the inspiration for a book by 26 (the writers' organisation of which we're both members). From Here To Here was a great collection in which writers (including the likes of Simon Armitage and Ian Marchant) were each assigned a different station. One of the earliest 'Asbury & Asbury' projects (before we went by that name) was coming up with an exhibition to promote the book. We're still proud of it.
On a miniscule budget of £500, we managed to source a load of picture frames from various car boot sales, along with some gaffer tape and a tin of yellow paint. The result was a version of the Circle Line in which each station morphed into a distinctive story of its own.
Each frame contained an extract from the writer's chapter, interpreted in a variety of graphic, typographic and illustrative styles.
The book started and ended with chapters on King's Cross, so we decided to put them in a split frame at the entrance to the gallery (in the London College of Communications).
Sawing that frame in half and getting the alignment right was hard work.
In fact, the whole thing was hard work. Trekking across London to buy the frames (in the days before we had a car), applying about five coats of paint to each one, designing the canvases, getting glass cut, hiring a van to transport them, drilling the holes in the wall to mount them. For a few weeks, our house turned into a surreal mini-Circle-Line of its own, with frames snaking their way along the hall and up the stairs. Still remember tiptoeing past them, trying not to get any stray specks of dust on the final coat of gloss paint.
Our only regret is that we spent so much energy getting the thing done, that we didn't give enough thought to documenting it. Most of the pictures are taken on a small compact camera – bit crazy in retrospect.
That said, we did create a website that records the whole thing for posterity. And we were particularly pleased when the exhibition got into the D&AD Annual 2006, where all the fellow entrants seemed to be working with multi-million budgets.
Presumably, the equivalent exhibition today would have to be tadpole-shaped.
A couple more developments on Significant Objects to share (background in last couple of posts) – first of all, this article on the Eye Magazine blog; and also an interview I did with Rob Walker, co-curator of the project, which is now up on the 26 website.
An initial flurry of bidding has brought Kenny up to $11.11. Bidding remains open until 6pm this Friday 16 October, so it's all to play for.
Finally, they're running an open contest if you fancy writing a story yourself – details here.
4. Copy and paste the resulting text, then translate back into English.
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The survival destroys, that is a question; Whether ' tis in suffers nobly in brains crude fortune suspension cable and arrow, or adopts the arm opposition troublesome sea, and through the opposition, finished them. The death, sleeps; Does not have; And by said that our sleep conclusion heartache and 1000 natural vibration that flesh and blood were successor - ' tis is reverent completes wish' D. dies, sleeps; Sleeps, accidentally has a dream. Ay, there' perhaps the s friction, is dying that sleep's any dream to come, when we towed this to curl at the point of death, must give us to pause.
Feel free to create your own over at the blog.
Strange the things you get asked to do as a writer. I recently contributed a piece to this site by John Simmons (co-founder of 26, pioneer of verbal identity, writer of numerous books on business writing). His new book is called 26 ways of looking at a blackberry: how to let writing release the creativity of your brand.
Next came the challenge of writing a letter from a bank, explaining why it's a good idea to stick with them during the downturn. But in the tone of a raspberry.
Bear in mind I'm still in character here.
Okay, listen to this right. Banks are really stupid, aren't they? Load of wallies in silly suits going round borrowing too much dosh and spending it on sweets and stuff. Flipping berks.
Well, ner to them, because Raspberry Bank isn't like that! We've been really really careful for ages because we're not blinking lemons like the others. That's why you put your lolly with us! Because you're not really a wazzock like we said before (soz about that).
Mind you, you would be a wazzock if you went putting your lolly somewhere else! Flipping heck! What kind of spanner would do something like that! Chinny reckon!
Tell you what, you keep being our bezzy mates and we'll keep being yours.
You can see 25 (slightly more grown-up) examples here.
And don't forget to order the book.
Sue and I are both members of a not-for-profit organisation called 26, which brings together writers, editors and language lovers from different backgrounds. They recently kicked off the first in a series of Annual 26 Lectures at the British Library. The speaker was Phillip Collins, the political wordsmith who penned most of Tony Blair's most famous speeches. He's a clever man and, as you might expect, a persuasive speaker. You can see the whole thing here. And if you're not a member of 26 yet, it's well worth the membership fee (£26/year, naturally).
Annual 26 speech 2008 from Tom Clarkson on Vimeo.


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Q: Sorting object of arrays by values If I have a JavaScript object like this:
var data = {
 words: ["you", "me", "foo", "bar"],
 numbers: [ 160 ,   20,   100,   80]
};

Is there a way to sort the properties based on value? So that I end up with
var data = {
 words: ["you","foo","bar", "me" ],
 numbers: [160,   100,  80,  20]
};

A:

var data = {
    words: ["you", "me", "foo", "bar"],
    numbers: [160, 20, 100, 80]
};

// Mapping data
var mData = data.words.reduce(function (op, key, index) {
    op[key] = data.numbers[index];
    return op;
}, {});

data.numbers.sort(function (a, b) { return b - a; });
data.words.sort(function (a, b) { return mData[b] - mData[a]; });

console.log(data);

A: Would look like the OP wants the "order of the words to be based on the order of the numbers"
So to sort words we have to define the weight of each word accordingly by creating an object named words_and_numbers_Mapping. the structure looks like this
{"you":160,"me":20,"foo":100,"bar":80}

var data = { words: ["you", "me", "foo", "bar"],
             numbers: [160 ,  20,  100,  80]};

var words_and_numbers_Mapping = data.words.reduce((acc, word, index) => {
    acc[word] = data.numbers[index];
    return acc;
}, {});
data.words.sort((a, b) => words_and_numbers_Mapping[b] - words_and_numbers_Mapping[a]);
data.numbers.sort((a, b) => b - a);

console.log(data);

A: First of all, your object is not a valid object. I will modify the object to be a valid object to give you a guideline on how to solve this.
var data = {
 words: ["you","foo","bar", "me" ],
 numbers: [160,   100,  80,  20]
};

Then we can use a sort function:
data.words = data.words.sort();
data.numbers = data.numbers.sort((a, b) => a - b)

if you wouldn't like to use ES6 syntax you can do:
data.words = data.words.sort();
data.numbers = data.numbers.sort(function (a, b) {
  return a - b;
})

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The Oratory of Light
James Harpur £7.99
Delicate lyric poems inspired by stories of St Columba and the island of Iona. Redolent of an age of wonder in which the natural world and the elements were perceived to be in harmony with the divine. Available from June 19th.
The Cloisters of Iona Abbey
Ewan Mathers £9.99
A new, smaller-format edition of Ewan Mathers' beautiful photographs depicting in detail the carvings of the restored cloisters of Iona Abbey, with text reflecting on the meaning of each design and information about the flora and fauna of the Isle of Iona and beyond, which most of the carvings represent. This use of symbols from the natural world reflects the close links of the early Celtic Christians with the land around them.
Dancing in the Desert
Sally Foster-Fulton £9.99
Reflections, meditations, prayers, activities and liturgies for Lent. Includes a liturgy for Mother's Day, worship for Ash Wednesday, an all-age service for Shrove Tuesday for making and sharing pancakes, and other all-age resources -
Step Gently in the World
Reflections, meditations, prayers and liturgies for Holy Week following the journey of Jesus from Palm Sunday to Easter Day. A book which affirms that, even in the darkness of betrayal and denial and death, we can rise up and live different lives: where the justice, peace and love poured out in Christ's life can be resurrected in our own.
Hope Was Heard Singing
An Advent collection of prayers, meditations, poems and a few wee plays. A rich resource, from an original voice, for personal reflection and for congregations and small groups searching for material relevant to the 21st century. The author is Associate Minister at Dunblane Cathedral and Convener of the Church and Society Council of the Church of Scotland.
Janet Lees £10.99
Presents a method of using remembered (oral, not written) versions of the Bible with people of all ages and abilities, in which telling and interpreting the stories in light of the participants' own lives become inextricably linked.
The Gospel of Joseph of Arimathea
After the crucifixion, Joseph embarks on a quest to find out who Jesus really was, seeking out those who knew him personally. These witnesses, all mentioned in the gospels, tell their stories, each contributing a unique insight into the Nazarene. James Harpur uses both prose and poetry to create a parallel narrative to the gospels, amplifying the events they describe.
Doing December Differently
Nicola Slee & Rosie Miles £14.99
Explores how people of faith and goodwill might mark the midwinter season and the Christmas festival with integrity and simplicity. How can we include others and celebrate difference without putting us all under intolerable strain, or perpetuating false and oppressive myths of the ideal family life? Reflections on the origins, diverse meanings and customs associated with Christmas, personal stories, and liturgical and ritual resources that can be adapted and used in the home, in group gatherings and in church settings.
The Green Heart of the Snowdrop
Kate McIlhagga £14.99
The best of Kate McIlhagga's work in one collection. Includes poems and prayers of gathering and beginning; creation and self; Advent and Epiphany; Lent and mothering; Easter and Pentecost; pilgrimage and endings and blessings.


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Kofi Kinaata is my guy! – Abedi Pele names his favourite Ghanaian artiste
Ghanaian football legend Abedi Pele has named the only Ghanaian musician he enjoys listening to.
According to the 'Maestro', Takoradi-based highlife musician Kofi Kinaata is his favourite musician.
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I'm ready to mingle with a Ghanaian man – US-based artiste reveals
"The guy from Takoradi, Kofi Kinaata, is my favourite Ghanaian musician. That's my guy," he told GTV Sports Plus when asked to name his favourite musician.
Sharing his first encounter with the musician, he said he performed in front of him during a party at his CEO's house.
He said his performance was 'amazing' and after his performance he endorsed him.
"You know, I own part of Izwe Savings & Loans and our CEO had a party and invited us. Kofi Kinaata came and performed live in front of me. It was amazing. That was the day I said, 'this is the guy!'" he revealed.
Kofi Kinaata said it was an honour to be named Abedi's favourite.
He took to Instagram, saying: "It is an honour to be Abedi Ayew Pele's favourite Ghanaian artiste."
Watch the full interview below.
Source: pulse.com.gh
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ICAN's new report calls the UK Government to account for aggressive nuclear weapons policies and continued funding of Trident.
Medact 25th July 2017 read more »
The world now has an international treaty making it illegal for ratifying states to possess any nuclear weapons. Yet the UK continues to keep and modernise its nuclear weapons at huge cost and risk to life, and is increasingly seen as out of step with the rest of the world. In "A Safer World – Treating Britain's Harmful Dependence on Nuclear Weapons", we build on the international significance of the Treaty, and re-examine the arguments for and against the UK possession of nuclear weapons.
A group of leading doctors and healthcare professionals have called on Britain to work towards multilateral nuclear disarmament. In a letter to the Daily Telegraph published on 25 July, 15 doctors and health professionals wrote that Britain should "take a lead in making the world safer" by working towards multilateral disarmament. The letter's signatories include Fiona Godlee, editor in chief of The BMJ, Richard Horton, editor in chief of the Lancet.
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AN ANTI-NUCLEAR protester being held in a Scottish jail will have her appeal against special bail conditions heard today. Edinburgh's Sheriff Appeal Court will hear the case of Trident Ploughshares founder Angie Zelter, 66, who was arrested after a blockade of the Coulport nuclear base on Loch Long earlier this month. Ms Zelter, who was arrested with five other activists, remains in prison after refusing to undertake not to go within 100 metres of the Scottish nuclear weapons bases at Coulport and Faslane. Seventy-nine-year-old retired teacher Brian Quail also refused to accept the condition and remains in custody. At an initial hearing in Dumbarton, Ms Zelter argued that, while she has no intention of lying in the road again, she has every right to protest at the bases. Ms Zelter said that the Trident nuclear weapons system is illegal as it is an indiscriminate weapon that, if used, would cause the deaths of millions of civilians.
Morning Star 25th July 2017 read more »
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Golf is more than just a sport. The power of the dimpled ball has the ability to open doors, create connections, and close many deals. It can also be a one-way street to a road full of success.
Golf is a platform for business. The golf course can be the perfect conference room. A round of golf presents the opportunity to conduct business in a relaxed, informal setting. It can also be instrumental in forging relationships. Relationships created on the golf course can open the lines of communication and lead to potential clients or business partnerships.
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Richard Dawson, best known as the first host of the long-running game show Family Feud in the 1970's and 1980's, died from a battle with esophageal cancer on Saturday. He was 79. Dawson was diagnosed with the disease just three weeks ago.
The Gosport, England native broke into the business as a standup comic. playing such venues such as the Stork Room in London's West End. Landing stateside, Dawson landed small guest roles in The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Steve Allen Show, but scoring big in landing the role of Corporal Peter Newkirk in the popular but critically blasted sitcom Hogan's Heroes, which ran from 1965-71.
Dawson later became a celebrity panelist on several game shows, including the revival of CBS' Match Game, which rocketed up to the top of the daytime ratings charts in the mid-1970's. Due to this successful gig, Dawson became host of Family Feud in 1976. (which like Match Game, was a Todman-Goodson production), where he was known for delivering zingers and one-liners, and of course, kissing female contestants.
Feud was a major hit for ABC, and it became available in first-run syndication as a twice-a-week show in 1977, expanding to a first-run strip two years later. Feud was syndication's number one show until 1984, when Wheel of Fortune knocked it off its perch. At the same time, ratings also declined for the ABC daytime version, which ended on June 14, 1985. The syndicated version wrapped its run on September 13, 1985.
Dawson returned to the second revival of Feud in 1994, replacing Ray Combs after a six-year run. But due to pre-emptions from the O.J. Simpson trial, his return was not deemed a success. It ended on September 8, 1995 (the current version of Feud is now hosted by Steve Harvey.)
Other credits include movies King Rat and the 1987 theatrical Arnold Schwarznegger movie The Running Man, where he was cast as a villainous game show host. Dawson also had a memorable guest shot on The Odd Couple, where he played himself and he and Oscar Madison (Jack Klugman) co-hosted a talk show.
Dawson is survived by his second wife Gretchen Johnson (who was a contestant on Feud in 1981) and three children.
(Updated on 2012-06-04 at 15:52.)
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Is it possible to use a gaming laptop for work?
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This article here today will be debating on the topic should you game on a laptop or a desktop? We will see throughout the article whether gaming on laptops is better than gaming on the desktop. There are both pros and cons related to this topic. Let us go through the whole article to find what is the best and what is the bad.
Most of the people worry about the question are gaming laptops good for everyday use? Yes, sometimes in some cases laptops are good for everyday use, but at times it would be bad in using them every day. People can have a choice between laptops and desktops. The article tends to focus on the advantages as well as disadvantages of gaming laptop vs. desktop.
There are several distinct differences when it comes to gaming laptop vs. desktop. You would see the size difference. In fact, desktops stretch out in a larger space where as lap tops are made for portability. The main difference between a laptop and a desktop is that the desktop has several components like the monitor, keyboard, and mouse but in the notebook, it is just the track pad. The games that you most like can be played by carrying the laptop to where ever the place you want. However, in the case of desktops, you will not have the chance to move it to the place that you want.
Should I buy a gaming laptop? Yes, you should. Laptops have started to become a potential capability in the eyes of most game lovers. Many of the people agree with the idea that to play games the laptop is the best. A gaming laptop is better than using a desktop. The laptop features to play games is also impressive. So, this is why it is better and important to buy a gaming laptop.
If you take into account a desktop, you will find several components that would take much space. Desktops are made with a combination of chips that require more power and generate more heat, and which adds up to more space. This reason is why it is hard to maintain a desktop, unlike the laptop which comes in handy sizes that use limited space and which are portable.
There is a bit of a commotion when it comes to the performance quality in gaming laptop vs. desktop. You would have seen that laptops are slower than desktops. The processor performance appears to be poor in laptops when it comes to playing games.
The other difference is that a laptop gets power low sooner than a desktop. The laptop uses a high-end graphic chip that consumes more power than a desktop. Hence some would choose a desktop to play games. However, the gaming experience on laptops is not that bad.
If you look at the next point which is how to upgrade gaming laptops vs. desktops, there is a huge difference among both. If you are using a desktop, all components will have to be removed separately and replaced with new hardware to upgrade, but if you consider the laptop, it is much easier.
With all these tips one would find that gaming laptops are capable and much more stable than desktops for the perfect gaming experience.
Will it be useless if someone has a gaming laptop for work if they don't play games on it? No, it would not be useless. Can I use a gaming laptop for work? Yes, you can. Having a gaming laptop for work would be better as you can use extra features. These are some of the advantages that you could have if you use a gaming laptop for work. A gaming laptop has improved speed than an ordinary laptop. If you are designing a presentation, a gaming laptop will help you to get it done quickly and efficiently. The reason behind this fact is because the gaming laptop has been designed to suit speedy processes as in games. These computers are ready to take in more information than other regular laptops.
The other interesting feature is that it is easy to use gaming computers for work as it saves your time and effort as it works speedily and efficiently.
Further, a gaming laptop is high in quality. The graphics and sounds that this kind of laptop has are better than regular laptops. The reason is that gaming laptops are specially designed for gaming players. It even has high memory power that will help you to engage in your work more efficiently.
Gaming Computers also have a long life. They do not get outdated as quickly as other regular ones do. Gaming laptops are designed with high technology to best suit the games that will be introduced in future. Gaming computers can also be upgraded easily. You will not have to take much trouble when upgrading these laptops. Thus you can see that these are some of the reasons as to why one can say that gaming laptops are safe for work.
These are some of the best laptops for gaming and school work: Asus G750JM, Alienware 14, and Lenovo Y50. In these laptops, you can play games such as Minecraft, Risk of Rain and Battlefield 4.
If you want to pick a game laptop, these are the tips that have to be indeed followed. You will have to think about the features that the laptop offers as well as the advantages one can gain by using a gaming laptop. Some of the pros that you have to think about the laptop are about its portable quality and whether you can use it for other work like school work and office work. You will also have to focus on the speed, memory, and usability of the gaming laptop. This way can be followed to get yourself a gaming laptop.
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She had meds on Friday at the vets & has had more each day to try to keep her comfortable, but I have to say I am scared stiff what tomorrow might bring.
She seemed to pick up on Friday when her meds kicked in, but has gone down hill since. She wouldn't eat anything yesterday - although thankfully this morning she has enjoyed some apple & pear hipps baby food with porridge. She's also munched on some grass, dandelions & rocket.
I'm really worried about her - any vibes you can spare for our little Eve would be very much appreciated please.
Poor Eve and poor you guys.
Sending good thoughts and wishes and vibes and hoping that tomorrow brings some good news for you all.
I really hope she'll be ok.
Sending loads of vibes for the poorly girl.
Thanks guys, really appreciate them.
She's on metacam Vicki, along with fibreplex what Jane our vet advised - she had a gut stimulant on Friday as well. I have to say I'm worried about going under the GA & have even asked myself if it's fair to put her through it at her age - we think she's around 6 1/2 years old.
I'm booked in first thing tomorrow to chat it through further with Jane before - if she advises against a GA then she won't have her op. I feel though we are stuck between a rock & a hard place at the moment - but will follow Jane's advice.
we will all be thinking of you both tomorrow and hoping for good news ..
Poor girl. :( Hope things are ok tomo.
Thanks guys - really appreciate it.
I'll text you Angie as soon as I can to let you know how we go on.
Thank you everyone, I'll let you know how we go on with little Eve.
Hope all goes well for her.
Hope all goes well for Eve tomorrow. Sending you both lots and lots of vibes.
She had detoriated again over night & clearly was very poorly :cry: Jane said that sadly an xray wouldn't tell us anything that we didn't already know. The lump Jane could feel was in her opinion inoperable & what ever we did the outcome for Eve would not be positive.
We're both gutted - even though we know we've done the right thing for Eve, it just does not get any easier.
We're taking her to be cremated in a little while, so will post in RB later.
I am so sorry there was not more that could be done for little Eve and that you had to say goodbye today. Thinking of you at this sad time.
Thanks guys - Eve is in with Arthur & Bracken at the moment so they know she's gone :cry: Bracken is frantically washing her - it breaks my heart because they were such a happy little trio of oldies :cry: Life is just so very cruel at times.
Sending noserubs to poor Arthur and Bracken.
Thank you everyone, I really appreciate your kind thoughts - I've added a tribute to RB about Eve.


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The little we know about ADD/WO is based on research which only started in the 80s. Considering a good research study often takes 10-15 years to complete, it is no surprise that we know very little about what was formerly called ADD/WO.
Somewhere in the late 1980s, the medical community decided that the above terminology was unduly cumbersome and they gave everyone with this condition the diagnosis of ADHD or AD/HD. This immediately proved to be a problem because the folks studying this condition knew that the processes going on in the brains of the subtypes were different.
Sooooooo..... in the mid 90s a new terminology was introduced. ADHD, Combined Type (ADHD,C), which requires six out of nine inattentive and six out of nine hyperactive symptoms; ADHD, Predominantly Inattentive Type (ADHD,IA), which requires at least six out of nine inattentive symptoms and less than six hyperactive symptoms; and ADHD, Hyperactive-Impulsive Type (ADHD,HI), which requires the presence of six out of nine hyperactive symptoms and less than six inattentive symptoms.
Finding information for those with inattentive ADHD is confusing. You can't just google one thing to find information on the subtypes because sometimes the subtype suffixes are separated by commas, colons, back slashes, forward slashes, or dashes. Sometimes the suffix is 'I', sometimes it is 'IA' and sometimes it is 'PI'. ADHD,IA, ADHD, I, or ADHD-I, ADHD/PI, ADHD/I, ADHD-PI, ADHD-IA, and ADHD/PI are some of the many names you will find for this subtype.
So what labels should I include for this post??? I think it would be best to just use them all.
ADD-PI here and I needed that clarified. I began thinking "How did I miss these other types after so many months"
I have had ADD always of course but it has been amplified by C-PSTD a year ago. I still adjust. This is common to happen. Noticed first I understand by noticing Males in mid-life being newly diagnosed with ADHD or ADD.
HyperGraphia merges[*1] with my HyperFocus for a lengthy read if you know me!
I had to personally term my designation to make clear that my HyperGraphia is half ADD based in myself. HyperFocus and my need to problem solve is what my HyperGraphia serves as a slave. If I allow the process now.
I spent a year looking for others like myself to no avail. It's OK now though. The HyperGraphists accept me.
Stigma being so easily spread, believe or not I have been until recently less accepted by the ADHD community as per my writing in the past gave people misconceptions of me.
Which was six months ago terribly upsetting during an already difficult time. And sad because above all else I exist as a stereotypical ADD-PI male. My childhood compared to all the studies I read makes a late diagnosis easy.
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Negotiations on the wording of a draft constitution for Iraq have remained inconclusive, and talks will continue, the speaker of parliament Hajim al-Hassani said.
"Negotiations are still going on. Everybody was there," he said on Thursday night. "This is a good sign and we hope we will reach a result tomorrow night."
One senior negotiator from one of the government parties said, however, that he expected talks to continue beyond that, possibly until a meeting of parliament on Sunday.
Al-Hassani, asked if one more day was enough to reach a deal that would satisfy most parties, said: "I don't know. I can't tell. The constitution is a very important and sensitive issue."
Saleh al-Mutlak, a senior negotiator for Sunni Arabs who have so far rejected a Shia-Kurdish proposal put to parliament on Monday, said he saw signs of flexibility.
Al-Hassani said there had been discussion at length on Thursday on the issues of federalism and deBaathification - the removal from public life of former supporters of Saddam Hussein.
Both of these issues have been of concern to some Sunni groups.
After a week's delay, al-Hassani, as speaker, accepted a draft of the constitution on Monday, a deadline set by the US-sponsored interim law. However, he gave negotiators a further three days to work out compromises on particular issues.
Sunni leaders and some Shias have said they see little room to agree on the constitution as it stands, however.
Government officials have rejected talk of legal challenges from some Sunni groups over the failure to complete negotiations by the 22 August constitutional deadline.
The officials say that the interim law says only that "parliament shall write the draft" by that date but that it does not mean there can be no subsequent changes. Nor does it stipulate a parliamentary vote on the issue.
Sunnis, who have remained fiercely opposed to the charter as it stands now, say it could lead to civil war.
"(Government spokesman) Laith Kubba has been saying that we solved the disputes for a month now, but so far we have not gotten anywhere," Hussein al-Falluja, a Sunni member of the constitution panel.
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Jonathan Anderson Bell (3 November 1806 – 28 February 1865) was a Scottish architect, known also as a draughtsman for watercolour paintings.

Biography
Bell was born in Glasgow, the third child and second son of advocate James Bell and Janet Hamilton Bell. He was the brother of Henry Glassford Bell and Jane Cross Simpson, He was educated at Edinburgh University.  He spent most of 1829 and 1830 in Rome, as an art student. He then served his articles as an architect, and remained for some years afterwards, in the office of Messrs. Rickman & Hutchison of Birmingham. Thomas Rickman was a major figure of the English Gothic revival, and became a close friend.

For around 27 years, Bell practised as an architect in Edinburgh. His designs included country houses, such as Beeslack for Charles Cowan, and the Scottish baronial Victoria Buildings, Glasgow for Archibald Orr Ewing. He was a member of the Institute of Scottish Architects. In 1839 he was appointed secretary to the Royal Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland, a position he retained it until his death.

Bell died 28 February 1865.

Works

Thirty of the engravings in John Le Keux's Memorials of Cambridge are from Bell's drawings. His Dryburgh Abbey was engraved by William Miller. As a watercolour painter, he was known for landscapes and marine scenes, Italian subjects, and still lifes.

Bell's poems were printed only for private circulation. The volume, printed posthumously in 1865, contained a biography.

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Attribution

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1865 deaths
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