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Christmas cards spread cheer while fighting hunger
An original Christmas card designed by Philadelphia-area artist Patty Smith is one of several offered by archdiocesan Nutritional Development Services, with proceeds benefiting the agency's extensive network of food cupboards throughout the five-county area. (Patty Smith/Image courtesy of Denise Hopkins/Nutritional Development Services)
By Gina Christian • Posted November 20, 2020
Area faithful can spread Christmas cheer while helping to stock local food cupboards, thanks to an annual greeting card drive.
Archdiocesan Nutritional Development Services (NDS) is once again offering custom-designed Christmas cards that enable buyers to "give twice," said retired NDS director Anne Ayella, who launched the fundraiser 38 years ago.
The 5 x 7 inch cards, printed on high quality paper, feature eight different pen-and-ink designs donated by local artist Patty Smith. Cards are sold in packs of 10 or 20, for $15 and $25 respectively. Variety packs also available.
Proceeds from the Alternative Christmas Cards campaign directly benefit NDS's Community Food Program, which supports an extensive network of emergency food pantries throughout the Philadelphia region.
The images – featuring scenes from the Nativity narrative, plus angels, animals and Christmas trees – are rotated throughout the years, with new ones coming into circulation and others occasionally retired. Most of the cards include Scripture verses or prayers; all refer to the holiday's Christian significance.
This year's design features the newborn Jesus, surrounded by child-like angels and the words of Luke 2:12: "You will find a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger."
Each card states that the greeting represents a donation made in the recipient's name "to help feed and empower the needy of our area."
That's exactly what Ayella, now the archdiocesan director of Catholic Relief Services, set out to do when she developed the idea while on maternity leave with her oldest son.
"I'm no artist, but I drew this sort of sketchy Christmas tree," said Ayella, who joked her prototype was "pretty pathetic," but "the main idea was that the cards represented a donation towards feeding the hungry."
A few years later, Ayella tapped her cousin Smith to take over the design responsibilities. At the suggestion of Msgr. Daniel Sullivan, vicar for archdiocesan clergy, four of the card designs were customized for priests, with an insert advising that recipients and their loved ones would be remembered at a Christmas Day Mass.
The card drive brings in about $10,000 each year, said Ayella, an amount for which NDS Community Food Program administrator Denise Hopkins is grateful – especially since client volume has doubled at NDS pantries due to the pandemic.
The funds "(enable) us to purchase nourishing food for our cupboards and soup kitchens, which serve individuals, senior citizens, families and children," said Hopkins. "With the increase of people needing food due to COVID, this initiative is critical."
Amid a time of uncertainty and unrest, the cards also provide a sense of "stability and tradition," said Ayella.
"I used to see the same people ordering the cards year after year, and it touched my heart," she said.
For some folks, she said, the NDS cards are a now a family tradition.
"A young guy in my parish bought sets of cards for his six siblings," she said. "His parents were always donating to our program, and even at their deaths they asked for donations to help our food cupboards. So he bought the cards in honor of them and to continue that legacy."
For more information or to purchase the NDS Alternative Christmas Cards, contact Denise Hopkins, Administrator, NDS Community Food Program at 215-895-3470 ext. 77823 or dhopkins@ndsarch.org. View the 2020 card collection here.
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'Justice League' Gets A New Synopsis, Logo And Batmobile!
Posted June 21st, 2016 by Jax Motes
With San Diego Comic Con rapidly approaching, it appears Warner Brothers is going all in to drum up excitement for 'Justice League', which doesn't hit theaters until next fall. But after the disappointment of 'Batman V Superman', it seems like WB is really hoping to turn things around with 'Justice League' which is currently filming, with 'BvS' helmer Zack Snyder behind the camera.
Above, you can see the new logo for 'Justice League', which is… meh. Sorry, it's incredibly ordinary looking, little star included. I expect to see a more elaborate version sometime soon, maybe even at SDCC, perhaps rendered in metal.
But perhaps more intriguing is the new synopsis for the film, which gives a vague idea of the film's direction:
Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists the help of his newfound ally, Diana Prince, to face an even greater enemy. Together, Batman and Wonder Woman work quickly to find and recruit a team of metahumans to stand against this newly awakened threat. But despite the formation of this unprecedented league of heroes—Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg and The Flash—it may already be too late to save the planet from an assault of catastrophic proportions.
Perhaps the darkness of 'Batman V Superman' gives birth to a brighter future in the DC Expanded Universe? That should please many that hated the bleak tone of the previous movie.
And finally, as one last bonus, here is a shot of the newest screen version of the Batmobile:
I have no idea how this one is any different from the last, but hey, there it is!
Do these teases increase your excitement for this high-stakes film?
'Justice League' directed by Zack Snyder, and starring Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller, Ray Fisher, Amy Adams, Jeremy Irons, Amber Heard, Willem Dafoe, Jesse Eisenberg and J.K. Simmons, hits theaters on November 17, 2017.
Jax Motes
Jax's earliest memory is of watching 'Batman,' followed shortly by a memory of playing Batman & Robin with a friend, which entailed running outside in just their underwear and towels as capes. When adults told them they couldn't run around outside in their underwear, both boys promptly whipped theirs off and ran around in just capes.
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Horror / Sci-Fi
Species II (1998) – A Review
by HapAdmin · Published March 15, 2016 · Updated June 15, 2019
Natasha Henstridge in Species II
The Species threat is back – in a much more convoluted, confusing and unexciting way than before.
After the first manned mission to Mars, the crew accidentally picks up an alien strain that infects lead astronaut and JFK-in-the-making Patrick Ross (Justin Lazard) making him an alien with only breeding on his mind. This could spell doom for humans! Being an American hero he has no problem getting it on with chicks and making them spit out alien babies.
Meanwhile, despite her apprehension from the previous movie, Dr. Laura Baker (Marg Helgenberger) has reengineered a new alien species by the name of Eve (Natasha Henstridge) from the original species' Sil's DNA. Eve is much more docile and won't harm anyone, no worries.
When the word gets out that Patrick is making alien babies there's no choice but to get a team together to hunt him down. Luckily Michael Madsen joined Helgenberger back for this sequel so he can participate in insipid action scenes and try to help sell this muddled mess.
Damn, this movie is bad!
Any hope that Species was going to be a popular franchise gets destroyed with this horrible, lazy follow-up. At least I would have thought this would have destroyed it. Amazingly they made more of them after this, but each being less successful than the previous. Deservedly so.
While watching Species II it started to remind me a bit of The Exorcist II: The Heretic. Both movies took what made their predecessors so popular, scraped it and created a type of sequel that no one wanted to see.
You know, how in Exorcist II they have Linda Blair hooked up to dream machines, she just kind of sits around, is merely present in the movie and does nothing? That's sort of Henstridge's role in this.
Good or bad, Henstridge was the lynchpin that helped make Species so popular with fans. They wanted to look at the sexy lady disrobe and do alien stuff. So, I don't understand why this sequel completely wastes her by locking her in a cell for ninety percent of the movie.
I doubt fans were too keen that the focus in the sequel shifts to Patrick and his sleazy breeding adventures while Eve is forced to the sidelines. She finally breaks out at the end and takes off her clothes, but it's a long slog to get to that point. That should have happened in the first fifteen minutes, not the last!
The logic leaps begin to pile up to such a degree I just accepted a coherent story was not the priority when making this and gave up trying to figure out what the heck was going on.
Like, why is Mykelti Williamson who plays one of the Mars astronauts suddenly running alongside Madsen looking for this alien? Why did the infected female astronaut not turn into a full-blown alien and just died? What was that anonymous alien arm that killed the doctor? Why are the soldiers trying to kill Eve with regular guns when inside the facility they have these specialized weapons Helgenberger has made to detain her? There are no answers.
Species II does have sporadic moments where it seems it's not taking itself as seriously as the original. It tiptoes into self-referential ridiculousness and that provides a chuckle or two, but they breeze past so fast and are so brief I can't say they make this movie any more bearable.
There's the Mars spaceship with corporate logos stuck on the side of it. Richard Belzer plays the President of the United States. I was really stunned by that one!
Madsen has a few incredibly, terrible lines that I didn't know whether they were meant to be funny or if he was legitimately trying to be cool with them. "Welcome to the maternity ward…..from hell." Ooof.
My favorite Madsen moment is when he and Willamson are trying to catch a fleeing Patrick at a supermarket. During their frantic pursuit the pair knock over a stockboy, which Madsen points his gun at the poor sap and yells, "Where's the god damn cereal?!?"
It might sound sacrilege, but I was never real keen on the alien design. I realize it was done by the great H.R. Geiger, but it never did much for me. I always thought it looked like a mix of a Gremlin, Whoppi Goldberg and King Tut's coffin.
The actors go through the motions in the worst way. Forget phoning it in, this is airmailed! I might have complained about Madsen and Helgenberger's chemistry in the first movie, but here they might as well not even have been in the same room!
Somehow Peter Boyle and James Cromwell got lured into participating in this for an easy paycheck. And Henstridge who should have been the focus of this sequel and had a follow-up capitalize on her becoming one of the sexiest, most popular sci-fi women around, is barely given anything to do. It was such a terrible miscalculation! They had it all there and blew it!
The movie does offer up it's share of boobs and gore, so if that's your basic – very basic expectations then you should find those bits satisfactory. Anything more, forget it. It was a painful experience and made me miss the original film, which I thought was impossible to do.
We'll see what awaits me in Species III.
Tags: 1990shorrorJames CromwellMichael Madsenmonster/alien/disastermoviePeter Boylereviewsci-fisequelSpecies
Deep Blue Sea (1999) – A Review
by HapAdmin · Published July 22, 2015 · Last modified June 7, 2019
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988) – A Review
by HapAdmin · Published October 21, 2015 · Last modified June 3, 2019
They Live (1987) – A Review
by HapAdmin · Published January 2, 2013 · Last modified January 3, 2019
Species 2 appears to have been several movies sloppily edited into one. The effects, acting and plausibility don't get any better, but at least the later movies have a more comprehensible plot. Sorta. By default I mean.
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An Early 1900s Mansion with Modern Amenities
Portland's Pittock Mansion was built in 1914 by Henry Pittock, owner and publisher of The Oregonian newspaper, and his wife Georgiana.
The architect's drawings are on display.
The central staircase shown in the architect's drawing.
Henry was given the newspaper as a gift because he worked there, as a typesetter, for no wages, only room and board. The newspaper's previous owner wanted out of the media business, and he was impressed by Henry's hard work, so he gave him The Oregonian. At the helm, Henry made it very successful. Today, it is the largest news organization in the Pacific Northwest.
The Pittock Mansion is 16,000 square feet. An extended family of ten lived there, with a staff of four.
The mansion sits in a forest above Portland. Henry and his daughters were avid hikers and constructed trails on the property. Georgiana, however, was not so keen on moving from a nice Portland neighborhood to this more remote location. To persuade her, Henry hired a chauffeur to drive Georgiana to town whatever she wanted. Sometimes, the chauffeur drove Georgiana's friends to the mansion, and the ladies enjoyed sewing together in her sewing room. Georgiana was the founder and fundraiser for many charities and cultural organizations in Portland. She was very active in women's causes. Henry also promised her an elevator.
Henry knew he would have to sweeten the pot for servants, too. By 1914, keeping female servants was a problem. Women were being hired to work in offices, shops and factories, and because they worked in the city, they could enjoy their leisure time there.
With a central vacuum system–the envy of most of us today–the servants had only to carry the hose and nozzle from room to room.
A vacuum cleaner did not have to be lugged around the house. At right, a hole for a vacuum hose, and at left, its on/off switch.
It was important to keep a good cook happy. The spacious kitchen had a rubber floor that was easy on the legs and feet. It also had a window with a spectacular view.
The home was built with central heating, a new invention, with not just one thermostat, but many.
The refrigerator was an entire room. Look at the thick, heavy door. They grew their own vegetables.
Some rooms and the hall were built with indirect lighting.
The ceiling in the room below is silver leaf.
For himself, Henry built a shower with all the bells and whistles.
Henry's shower.
The Pittock Mansion, now owned by the City of Portland, is open to the public, and you can picnic in front of the view.
Author Posted on August 1, 2017 Categories Arts in the Early 1900s, History, History in the Early 1900s, Life Around 1900, Places to Visit, The Old West6 Comments on An Early 1900s Mansion with Modern Amenities
Love in France: The Garden of Villandry Chateau
Weeks ago I was in France, eager to visit the famed gardens of Villandry chateau. I became captivated by the story of the couple–neither of them French–who bought the chateau in 1906 and restored it.
They met in Paris, in the laboratory of Professor Charles Richet. Richet would go on to win the Nobel prize in medicine.
Ann Coleman was in her early twenties, a Bryn Mawr College graduate from a wealthy family of American Industrialists. Joachim Carvallo was a Spaniard. He had grown up poor after his bankrupt father abandoned the family. Both Joachim and Ann had lost their mothers when they were children.
The two young scientists had different temperaments. Ann was introverted and resisted the roles for the women of her time. Joachim was "very romantic and enthusiastic in his loves and hates," wrote Professor Richet.
The passionate Spaniard and independent-minded American sparred over the ongoing Spanish-American War. Then they fell in love.
Seven years after they became Mr. and Mrs. Carvallo, they bought a 1536 chateau in France's Loire Valley.
The chateau is still in the Carvallo family. They keep these photos of Ann and Joachim on the piano.
The chateau interior was remodeled in the late 18th century by owner Marquis de Castellance.
The Carvallos Recreate a Long-Lost Garden
Joachim amassed an important collection of 17th Century Spanish art. Ann enjoyed all types of needlework and became skilled in them.
Together, they researched what their simple garden had looked like in the 16th century. They consulted books of the period. Digging in the garden yielded the remains of foundations and drains.
They transformed their grassy fields, shrubs and trees back into a spectacular Renaissance garden.
In this image, the foreground is the Ornamental Garden, also called the Love Garden. It is in front of the fenced stream, which turns into a moat.
The four squares of geometric patterns symbolize different types of love. You can see the entire Passionate Love square next to the white planters with trees. This square has shapes that suggest dancing and broken hearts.
To the left is the Tender Love square. It has heart shapes filled with flowers, pink right now. They are separated by flame shapes, and the center has hedges that represent masks worn at balls. The other squares are Flighty Love (half is shown here) and Tragic Love.
Above the fenced stream is the organic Vegetable Garden, which includes flower beds. Here is map of this garden, including colors, for this spring:
The vegetable garden and its flowers. The tower ("keep") on the right is much older than the rest of the 1536 chateau.
The Love Garden
There is also a maze and a serene Water Garden with lawn, fountains, and a large pond shaped like a Louis XV mirror.
Villandry is one of many chateaus in the Loire Valley, but it has the most beautiful garden. This is wine country, not far from Paris.
I had to take photos in driving rain! Still, I did not want to leave. For lovely photos of the entire gardens, here is Villandry's virtual tour. I'd love to hear your comment.
Author Posted on June 1, 2017 Categories History in the Early 1900s, History in the Late 1800s, Places to VisitTags beautiful gardens of Europe, gardening around 1900, Gardens in chateau, gardens in France, Loire chateau, most beautiful garden in the world, women of science before 19004 Comments on Love in France: The Garden of Villandry Chateau
The Startling Personal Finances of Professor T.S.C. Lowe
A bold entrepreneur and scientist, Thaddeus S.C. Lowe (1832-1913) made fortunes and lost them. It is almost the due date for filing 2016 income taxes, so some of us are taking a hard look at our saving and spending. The story of Professor Lowe's fortunes is a cautionary tale.
He was a scientist with little formal education. Because he ran away from home as a boy, his schooling ended with the fourth grade. Nonetheless, people called him Professor Lowe. The title Professor was not reserved for those who taught in colleges or had advanced degrees. Professor Thaddeus Lowe held over 200 patents.
A Chemist Becomes Rich and Suffers Losses
Lowe made one of his fortunes after pressurizing ammonia to make refrigerated railway cars and steamships. His first refrigerated steamship was a financial success. He invested in more ships, but some were too large to enter shallow-water ports. Lowe's personal losses totaled $87,000, a huge sum in the late 1800s.
The Lowe Water-Gas Process improved gas and made it more affordable. Gas was used to light homes as well as heat them. Lowe made a fortune producing and selling water gas and manufacturing appliances. These included stoves, heaters and fireplaces. The gas company he owned, however, was a financial failure. Same with a hotel he owned that showcased water gas.
A discouraged Lowe came to California and, too energetic to retire, founded a bank and invested in real estate. He lived in a mansion on Pasadena's Millionaires' Row, at 955 South Orange Grove Avenue. It was reported to be the largest residence in the country at the time and sat on fifteen acres.
Professor Lowe's home in Pasadena. For scale, note the open structure, a porte cochere, at right here and featured in the photo below.
The same porte cochere dwarfs a buggy and team of horses.
The mansion even had a four-story observatory. Lowe lived there with his wife and younger children (they had ten in all), looked out at the steep mountains, and dreamed big.
Lowe's Railway to the Clouds
The Mount Lowe Railway was an engineering challenge because of steep grades and crumbling surface rock, but Lowe would not take "no" for an answer. The railway was built by D.J. Macpherson with Lowe as the financial backer. Visitors enjoyed the thrilling ride and ate and stayed at hotels Lowe built on the mountain. He also built an observatory near the top of the railway.
Although the railway and hotels were popular, it lost money at a time when Professor Lowe had other financial problems. It opened in 1893, at the start of a recession that would last years.
By 1898, Professor Lowe's debts totaled over $200,000, and he had to declare bankruptcy. By then, Lowe's huge mansion was owned by his neighbor Adolphus Busch, the beer magnate. The railroad was acquired by Henry Huntington's Pacific Electric Railway and operated for decades.
Although he lost this fortune, Lowe counted his blessings. He explained that his Mount Lowe Railway was ten years ahead of its time. He said that he was glad he had a mountain named in his honor, something that money couldn't buy.
Back to the lab. Professor Lowe developed a method to convert crude oil to gas and coke. He put it in production, but he did not charge enough to make and sustain profits.
The good professor died nearly penniless in his daughter's Pasadena home. At the time, he was planning a gas-powered luxury airship.
Lowe's Early Career: Balloonist and Lincoln's Chief Aeronaut
From the time he was young, Lowe was a balloonist. When the Civil War broke out, he offered to help the Union. President Lincoln wrote a note to General Scott to "see Lowe once more about his balloon." Lowe acquired the note and treasured it for the rest of his life. Lowe became Chief Aeronaut of the Union Forces, a civilian position.
Lowe ascended in a balloon and looked down upon Confederate troops in the distance. He observed their movements and telegraphed this intelligence information to Union soldiers below. A wire connected the telegraph in the balloon to the one on the ground.
Special thanks to the Mount Lowe Preservation Society Inc. and the Pasadena Museum of History.
I'll post on the first of the month starting June 1.
Author Posted on April 11, 2017 Categories History in the Early 1900s, History in the Late 1800s, Pasadena History, Pasadena Museum of HistoryTags Balloons and the Civi War, Famous Balloonists, Famous bankruptcies of individuals, Funicular Railway, great personal financial losses in history, Lowe, made and lost fortunes, made fortunes and lost them, Mount Lowe Railway, scientists who made a lot of money, scientists who made fortunes5 Comments on The Startling Personal Finances of Professor T.S.C. Lowe
A Fence Around Her: Lottie Johl
A ghost town is the home of the stories of its past residents.
[This post was written by reader Brigid Amos. Maybe you have seen her comments here. She is the author of a new book, A Fence Around Her. I'll let her continue…]
There is something bittersweet about a collection of abandoned homes, businesses, churches and civic buildings, all decaying slowly in a remote location. A visit to such a place always seems to evoke the dashed hopes and bitter disappointments of those who once walked its now-lonely streets, and this is true even if the ghost town is well-maintained and heavily visited, as is Bodie, California, a prosperous gold and silver mining district in the Eastern Sierra that boomed in the 1880s. Of all the stories I've read or heard about Bodie, the one that always gets to me is that of Lottie Johl. I find her story so sad and touching that I loosely based a major character in my novel A Fence Around Her on this real-life Bodie resident.
Lottie was a sweet, good-natured woman who found herself, through unfortunate life circumstances and limited employment opportunities, working in a house of ill repute in Bodie's red-light district. There she met a hard-working German immigrant named Eli Johl. Although he was quite successful as a butcher, he was a lonely bachelor, perhaps due to his limited English skills, and he seemed to be searching for someone to share his life. The woman he found was Lottie, and much to the horror of the respectable people of Bodie, he took her as his legal wife. He built her a comfortable house and furnished it in the best style he could afford. Lottie showed an interest in painting, and Eli bought her an easel, a palette, and brushes, and he kept her well-supplied with oil paints and canvases. Isolated in her opulent parlor, Lottie painted fantastical landscapes. Eli had them elaborately framed in red velvet and gilt and displayed them on the parlor walls, although no one came to their house to look at the paintings, because Lottie was still shunned by society.
Finally, Eli hatched a plan to almost force Lottie upon Bodie society. A masquerade ball was to be held at the Miners Union Hall, and Eli sent Lottie to the event alone, dressed in a white satin gown covered in fake diamonds and pearls, with a matching crown perched on her blond curls. All the men wanted to dance with the lovely lady in the diamond and pearl-encrusted dress, and all the women envied her. The committee assigned to give out the costume awards decided to give the mysterious lady the first prize. But when midnight struck and everyone took off their masks, poor Lottie was abandoned by her dance partner. A member of the committee discreetly asked her to leave, and she went home in humiliation.
Lottie Johl. Photograph used with permission of the Bodie Foundation.
And if the events of Lottie Johl's life weren't sad enough, her death and burial are truly heartbreaking. Lottie felt sick one day (though probably not sick enough to die), and a doctor wrote a prescription. The druggist filled it, and Lottie took the medicine. She was dead by next morning. Instead of the prescribed medicine, the druggist had given her a deadly dose of a toxic substance. It was probably a mistake, but I have to wonder if the druggist took less care in filling the prescription when he saw that it was for Lottie Johl, someone he considered of little importance.
Eli was not allowed to bury his beloved wife inside the fence of the cemetery with the "respectable dead," so he erected an ornate wrought-iron fence around her grave. He was determined that she would have a much finer fence than the one around the cemetery, so that people would see what a fine woman she was. I think it's ironic that so many of the people who made Lottie's life miserable are completely forgotten, while the memory of Lottie Johl lives on.
I felt that it was important to honor the real-life inspiration for Lilly Conoboy, the mother of fourteen-year-old Ruthie Conoboy, the protagonist of my novel A Fence Around Her. I want to make it clear that Lilly is not Lottie. While Lottie was an innocent victim, Lilly brings on her own tragedy. While Lottie seems like someone I might seek out as a friend, Lilly is someone I would avoid if I could do so. But that is what we historical fiction writers do. We take history and turn it into fiction, and the two are not the same. I will always feel gratitude to the historical Lottie Johl for being who she was and leaving behind her story.
Pamela: You can read an excerpt of A Fence Around Her, Young Adult Historical Fiction published by Clean Reads, and purchase at the links below.
Brigid and I would like to hear your comment!
Author and playwright Brigid Amos
Author Posted on November 9, 2016 Categories California History, Good Books, Historical Research, Mining Camps, Places to Visit, The Old WestTags Bodie, Lottie Johl, Love stories in ghost towns, Love stories of the Old West, Prostitutes in the Old West, Women of ghost towns, YA book set in Old West11 Comments on A Fence Around Her: Lottie Johl
Every Pack with a Prize Inside
Tennis cards, like baseball cards? Yes and no.
These are called cigarette cards. Not much bigger than a modern business card, these trade cards were a bonus in a pack of cigarettes. They came in a series, usually twenty-five or fifty, with a similar theme.
Each came in a different pack of cigarettes.
Many were aimed at male smokers: airplanes, sports and cars. These cars were modern at the time.
Cigarette companies wanted brand loyalty from consumers, so they gave them tiny works of art.
From the 1931 series "Picturesque London"
Another good way to get customers to keep buying from their company, and not from a competitor, was to display numbers on the cards.
Or even letters of the alphabet.
Each letter has a different flag signal.
The cards above and below are part of a 1910 series, Boy Scouts and Girl Guides.
Some were embroidered silk. Recently, a quilt made of many of these was on display at the Pasadena Museum of History.
I came across all of these, and many more, by accident, at a hotel near Yosemite, the Yosemite View Lodge in El Portal. All of the ones there were from Great Britain, from 1890 to 1939. The cigarette cards below of British military uniforms were issued in 1939, when the country was fighting for its survival in World War II. I like to imagine people in a bleak time appreciating the small, patriotic works of art.
Author Posted on September 6, 2016 Categories Arts in the Early 1900s, History in the Early 1900s, Life Around 1900, Pasadena Museum of History, Places to VisitTags antique collectible cards, cards like baseball cards, cigarette cards, printing in the early 1900s, prizes but not in Crackerjacks, trade cards in cigarettes, trade cards included in product9 Comments on Every Pack with a Prize Inside
In Glorious Color
Trade card from the 1880s
From black and white to color: the invention of printing by lithography brought beauty to people's daily lives through mass production. If you are old enough to remember when color TV was new, you remember the first time you saw a show in color. I was amazed. It was so much more lifelike and vibrant than shades of gray.
In the late 1800s, lithography brought an explosion of items printed in color. People were handed trade cards like these, picked them up in the store, and pulled them from their mailboxes. Some women and children pasted them into albums.
An exotic Russian czar and brilliant color promote thread in this American trade card.
Handbills distributed on the street for events, illustrations in books, free promotional posters you could tack on your wall–suddenly color was everywhere.
Recognize this painting from my last post? The Crimson Rambler, named after the wildly popular rose.
"The Crimson Rambler," ca. 1908, by Philip Leslie Hale
Here's one way that rose got so popular: trade cards.
Technology also brought colorful clothes. At this time, in the last half of the 1800s, synthetic dyes were introduced and suddenly people could wear rich colors. Here are two silk dresses from the 1890s. These are from the Pasadena Museum of History.
Technology brought the excitement of color. "The Color Explosion" was an exhibit at the Huntington showcasing part of their Jay T. Last Collection of lithographed items. Click on that link to see some examples that really took advantage of color, and read how it changed the world.
Author Posted on June 6, 2016 Categories Arts in the Late 1800s, Fashion History, History in the Late 1800s, Life Around 1900Tags advertising in late 1800s, chromolithographs, chromos, color lithographs, early color printing, early synthetic dyes, everyday objects, first color advertisements, mass-produced art in 1800s, museums, Pasadena Museum of History8 Comments on In Glorious Color
The Artist's Garden: Impressionists and the Garden Movement
Take a second or two to load these beautiful paintings from "The Artist's Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, 1887-1920," now at the Huntington. With the rise of the middle class and railroads, more people could commute to their job in a city and come home to a suburb.
Book published in 1901
Artists and other people enjoyed gardening in their own yards or in their artists' colonies. Both painting and gardening involve color, form, and composition.
"The Crimson Rambler" may look wonderfully old-fashioned to us, but its 1908 audience recognized this hybridized rose as a lovely product of technology. I like the lavender light on her white skirt, above,
the pink in the multicolor grass,
and the veil that is in sun and shadow.
Laundry drying on the clothesline, along with grass and shadows, is beautiful.
"A Breezy Day," 1887. Charles Courtney Curran.
I think these women are spreading out laundered sheets to dry. This is a jewel of a painting, small (not quite 12 x 20 inches), and vivid, clear, and crisp as a windy day.
This exhibit, from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, is at the Huntington through Monday, May 9, and then continues its tour in the East. If you don't live close to Los Angeles, that's okay. I'll keep posting about the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Can you see the banner of the painting "The Crimson Rambler?"
I'll leave you with two artists' own homes.
"My House in Winter" by Charles Morris Young
The labels with "The Artist's Garden" exhibit state that the garden in winter was often discussed in books and magazines. The winter garden was considered a relaxing retreat, and winter a time of renewal.
The artist's home. "Snow" by John Henry Twachtman.
At the Huntington, I had read "renewal" to mean the sleeping gardens. I think of renewal in springtime grass and flowers. Maybe the writer meant personal renewal. Gardens, and impressionist art, renew and refresh me.
Happy Spring! Enjoy nature. I'll post again on the first Monday in June.
Author Posted on May 6, 2016 Categories Arts in the Early 1900s, Arts in the Late 1800s, History in the Early 1900s, History in the Late 1800s, Life Around 1900, Places to VisitTags early suburbs, gardening around 1900, museums, pastimes in 19003 Comments on The Artist's Garden: Impressionists and the Garden Movement
Miss Phryne Fisher, Lady Detective
TV murder mysteries with 1920s fashions–including cars–that are to die for.
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Australian Broadcasting's "Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries" features fabulous 1920s clothes and hats, as well as strong personalities.
"I'm not the marrying kind," says the uninhibited Miss Fisher. I love that line! She uses that charming euphemism for a woman who sleeps around, and she's at ease with herself. She loves to drive her own "motorcar," and she has such an adventurous spirit that I was not surprised when she jumped into the cockpit of an "aeroplane" and flew it. Of course Miss Fisher can fly.
The next clip is from the first show, where she meets the prickly Detective Inspector Jack Robinson.
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As Phryne solves crimes, Jack's irritation turns to respect. He isn't the man you saw in her boudoir, and much as we want it, that scene may never come to pass. Instead, he and Miss Phryne Fisher share affection and a crackling sexual tension.
Based on novels by Kerry Greenwood, at the end of the day, each 55-minute 1920s extravaganza is a solid whodunit, in my opinion, and I usually watch a TV whodunit at the end of the day. I get my Phryne fix on Netflix, on Watch Instantly, but I get it on Acorn, too. I just finished the 2015 season and will have to wait for more while I re-watch the old ones.
Mostly set in Melbourne, the Australian buildings are sumptuous, as in the opening frames of the next clip. Speaking of frames, love the 1920s sunglasses, too.
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Author Posted on November 3, 2015 Categories Fashion History, History in the Early 1900s, VideosTags 1920s fashions, 1920s hats, Historical Mysteries, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, TV shows set in 1920s, Vintage hats on TV5 Comments on Miss Phryne Fisher, Lady Detective
Gone With the Winter Wind
"The cattle business became a fad–a fashion. Rich men's sons, college and university graduates, foreign investors in France, England and Scotland put their money in the business." (Bartlett, History of Wyoming, Vol. 1)
The Cheyenne Club opened its doors in 1881. It was three stories tall with a kitchen and wine room in the basement. Servants trained in the East poured the finest liquors, which were brought in by train. Two vaults for the expensive wines. Caviar.
Members enjoyed a billiards room and a reading room with magazines and newspapers from the East. The club was decorated with paintings and thick carpets.
While the cattlemen dined in luxury, the cattle were left to fend for themselves during the winter, to find grass and unfrozen water or die. Even at the time, other people pitied the distressed animals.
The harsh winter of 1886-7 killed more cattle than usual, and the investors lost money. That spelled the end of their Cheyenne Club. Here's a photograph of their grand building.
Bartlett, I.S., ed. History of Wyoming, Vol. 1. Chicago, S.J .Clark, 1918
Dary, David. Seeking Pleasure in the Old West. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
Larson, T.A. History of Wyoming. University of Nebraska Press, 1965.
The Old West: The Cowboys. New York, Time-Life Books, 1973.
Author Posted on July 31, 2015 Categories History, History in the Late 1800s, Life Around 1900, The Old West, UncategorizedTags Cheyenne Club, Clubs for men in the Old West, Rich cattlemen in West, Rich men in Old West3 Comments on Gone With the Winter Wind
A Cheating Set with a Surprise
Autry National Center of the American West, Los Angeles. Photo by Pamela Tartaglio.
The implements of a cheating gambler fit inside this box. Because he was serious about winning at any cost, he was probably a roving gambler.
The large pin with the ace is a "bug." The ends are sharp and could spear the underside of the table and hold the card.
The other card is in a card trimmer. It looks like a miniature paper cutter.
The drills and metal guide are to load dice. Cheating gamblers drilled holes on the black dots of one side and filled them with a heavy metal such as gold. They painted a new black dot on top of each one they altered. When rolled, the dice were more likely to land with the heavy side down.
A gambler's opponents were often armed with a derringer or dagger, so it astonishes me that the owner of this cheating set had his initials put on the box, along with the year (JMD 1867). The box does not lock.
It has a simple hook latch, and might fall open if dropped, and it could be opened by anyone, such as someone who just lost a bundle to Mr. JMD. He could have marked his box discreetly, like he did cards and dice, to tell it apart from boxes of other gamblers.
He risked getting shot by having his initials put on this. He liked taking a big risk, and he was one cocky son of a gun.
Author Posted on April 15, 2015 Categories History, History in the Late 1800s, The Old WestTags cheating Old West gamblers, Frontier gambler, Gambling in mining camps, Gambling on riverboats, Gambling on trains in old West, itinerant gamblers in west, Old West gamblers, poker and saloons, Poker in the Old West, saloons and gambling, Western saloons4 Comments on A Cheating Set with a Surprise


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Candidates / Winnipeg / St. Johns / Eddie Calisto-Tavares
Eddie Calisto-Tavares
Liberal Candidate
Liberal candidate in the St. Johns Winnipeg race.
Eddie can be reached on social media, at voteforeddie.ca@gmail.com, or by calling 204-410-4965.
News that mentions this candidate is listed at the bottom of the page.
Eddie Calisto-Tavares - St. Johns
My father fell severely ill early spring and I saw first hand on broken the health care system is with good nurses pushed to the brink and not able to look after patiences. Their role is giving patients medications and there is no other care and attention giving to the patient. Managment is concerned about how many beds they can clear daily.
The wait times are based on how fast people can get movef from one room the other.
The NDP commissioned a report to reform Health Care and did absolutely nothing with the report! Pallister uses the report to slushe and cuts services that are putting people like my dad would have died had I and my brother agreed with what the Doctor . I can't stand by and just not do it anything, I am ready to roll my sleeves and fight for better health care and improving Seven Oaks Hospitals for all North Enders. I want to be the change i want to see and I am committed to take the Liberal Plan and make things happen for the residents of St Johns. I am inclusivce and I see greast potential in St Johns and its residents.
For the last 20 years I have worked side by side with people who lost jobs and had to re-create their work life, with newcomers to help them integrate successfully into Winnipeg community, with Indeginous people to train for high demand occupations in the construction industry, with people with differnt abilities to help them deal wityh mult barriers to accessing the labour market.
I will walk side by side with all of the residents of St Johns and work with the community to find solutions to lift up those that need a hand up. I will use my passion for building capacity one person at the time, my determination and committment to get things done. I dont have all the answers but what I do have is the skills, capacity and energy to drive change in St Johns.
Given the change to earn your vote on September 10 and become your MLA my dedication and committment will move all of us forward with a new way.
Save EMERGENCY Room Services and improve healtcare in our province
Reform job and skills training progrms to improve job opportunties and living standards in our mprovince
Ensure equitable access to high quality education for all Manitobans
Develop community -driven solutions to keep our neighbourhoods green, safe and vibrant
4. Do you have any other comments regarding your candidacy?
I have knocked on doors, spoken to wide range of residents in St Johns and my committment is to work hard to earn your votes and continue to walk side by side with residents and work to make positive change.
I am a passionate person with high energy and great capacity of working and learning from all of my experiences.
I do have a entrepreneur spirit and a positive mind set and I see solutions and opportunities and this attitude will be the fore front of my MLA role and responsibilities
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Manitoba needs seniors' advocate, families of long-term care residents who died of COVID-19 say
CBC Manitoba - ...the time it ended after nearly three months, 157 residents and 74 staff had been infected, according to a report commissioned by Manitoba Health. Eddie Calisto-Tavares's father, 88-year-old Manuel Calisto, was among those who died. She wants the province to learn from the mistakes at Maples and appoint an...
Families task force feels Manitoba budget fails to address issues identified in care home review
CTV - ...into a deadly outbreak commissioned by the province called for more funding for staffing and pandemic planning. "I'm disappointed," said Eddie Calisto-Tavares, who heads up the Families Voices Task Force. "I don't see anything specifically for those 17 recommendations. "There was a lot of...
Witnesses to horror
Winnipeg Free Press - Eddie Calisto-Tavares took matters into her own hands so she could hold her father's at the end of his life. Eddie Calisto-Tavares took matters into her own hands so she could hold her father's at the end of his life. As a horrifying COVID-19 outbreak raged inside Maples Long Term Care Home last fall, she...
News in brief: Fontaine, Smith hold onto seats; NDP newcomers elected in Notre Dame, Burrows
Winnipeg Free Press - ...well ahead of her nearest competitor, Progressive Conservative candidate Ray Larkin, who received 1,665 votes. Also in the race was the Liberals' Eddie Calisto-Tavares (1,092) and the Green Party of Manitoba's Joshua McNeil (601). Voter turnout in St. Johns was 49.7 per cent. In a packed race for Point...
Calisto-Tavares seeking change in St. Johns
Winnipeg Free Press - ...membership. Simply add a form of payment and pay only 27¢ per article. While most teenagers hung posters of their favourite bands and singers, Eddie Calisto-Tavares hung the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. While most teenagers hung posters of their favourite bands and singers, Eddie...
MANITOBA VOTES: NDP pledge $15 minimum wage
Winnipeg Sun - ...be absolutely clear with Manitobans about this because there is a big difference between $15/hr next year, and $15/hr five years from now," said Eddie Calisto-Tavares, Manitoba Liberal Candidate for St. Johns. "If anyone thinks the NDP is going to raise the minimum wage in a hurry, they are in for a big...


Heat the oil in a medium nonstick skillet with an ovenproof handle over medium-high heat. Add the leek and cook, stirring often, for 3 minutes, or until soft.
Add the asparagus, broth, 1/8 teaspoon each of the salt and pepper, parsley, and chives. Cook, stirring often, for 3 minutes, or until the asparagus is tender-crisp and the broth has evaporated. Spread the asparagus mixture evenly in the bottom of the skillet.
the eggs begin to set at the edges.
With a spatula, lift up an edge of the frittata and tilt the skillet to allow the uncooked mixture to flow to the bottom of the pan.
Place under the broiler. Broil for 1 to 3 minutes, or until the eggs are set on the top and the frittata is lightly puffed.


A worn copper-alloy Roman Republican coin, an as of C. Licinius L. f. Macer, dating to 84 BC (Reece Period 1). Reverse: Prow of a galley right surmounted by a figure standing holding a staff, separating the legend [EX] - S.C Mint: Rome. Crawford, p. 370, no. 354/3. It is unclear whether there is a control mark on the prow.


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Q: Using XMLTABLE to parse CDATA section of SOAP I'm following the example in this thread to learn how to parse the CDATA section of a SOAP response using XMLTABLE. Database is Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition 11.2.0.4.0.
I modified the SOAP response that I need to parse just so I could have a query that works, similar to the example I was looking at.
So this is what is working ok, albeit with a slightly simplified response envelope:
CREATE TABLE xml_tab (xml_data xmltype);

DECLARE l
l_xmltype xmltype;

BEGIN

SELECT xmltype('<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:sawsoap="urn://oracle.bi.webservices/v6">
<soap:Body>
<sawsoap:executeSQLQueryResult>
<sawsoap:return xsi:type="sawsoap:QueryResults">
<sawsoap:rowset><![CDATA[<Data><Row><Column0>1200</Column0><Column1>East Region</Column1></Row><Row><Column0>3000</Column0><Column1>West Region</Column1></Row></Data>]]></sawsoap:rowset>
<sawsoap:queryID/>
<sawsoap:finished>true</sawsoap:finished>
</sawsoap:return>
</sawsoap:executeSQLQueryResult>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>') INTO l_xmltype FROM dual ;

INSERT INTO xml_tab VALUES(l_xmltype);

END;

And this query returns the results I want:
SELECT B2.*
   FROM
   xml_tab x,
   XMLTable(
         XMLNamespaces(
           'http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/' AS "SOAP-ENV"
            ,'urn://oracle.bi.webservices/v6' AS  "sawsoap"
          )
        , 'SOAP-ENV:Envelope/SOAP-ENV:Body/sawsoap:executeSQLQueryResult/sawsoap:return/sawsoap:rowset'
          passing    x.XML_DATA
          columns Row1 clob path '.'
       ) A1,
        XMLTable(
         '/Data/Row'
         passing xmlparse(document A1.Row1)
         columns
         Amount number PATH 'Column0',
         Region varchar2(60) PATH 'Column1'
       ) B2;

AMOUNT REGION
  ---------- ------------------------------------------------------------
  1200 East Region
  3000 West Region

Unfortunately the actual SOAP response that I need to parse looks like this:
truncate table xml_tab;

 DECLARE
  l_xmltype xmltype;
BEGIN
  SELECT xmltype('<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:sawsoap="urn://oracle.bi.webservices/v6">
  <soap:Body>
    <sawsoap:executeSQLQueryResult>
      <sawsoap:return xsi:type="sawsoap:QueryResults">
        <sawsoap:rowset><![CDATA[<rowset xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-analysis:rowset" ><Row><Column0>01200</Column0><Column1>East Region</Column1></Row><Row><Column0>3000</Column0><Column1>West Region</Column1></Row></rowset>]]></sawsoap:rowset>
        <sawsoap:queryID/>
        <sawsoap:finished>true</sawsoap:finished>
      </sawsoap:return>
    </sawsoap:executeSQLQueryResult>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>')
  INTO l_xmltype
  FROM dual ;
  INSERT INTO xml_tab VALUES
    (l_xmltype
    );
END;

Because of this bit, rowset xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-analysis:rowset", my code no longer works and I don't know how to get past this. If anyone can suggest modifications to my query that will successfully parse this SOAP response I would greatly appreciate the help.

A: 1) Your secound sopa request has invalid xml in cdata.
SELECT A1.Row1
   FROM
   xml_tab x,
   XMLTable(
         XMLNamespaces(
           'http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/' AS "SOAP-ENV"
            ,'urn://oracle.bi.webservices/v6' AS  "sawsoap"
          )
        , 'SOAP-ENV:Envelope/SOAP-ENV:Body/sawsoap:executeSQLQueryResult/sawsoap:return/sawsoap:rowset'
          passing    x.XML_DATA
          columns Row1 clob path '.'
       ) A1

Returns
<rowset xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-analysis:rowset" >
  <Row>
    <Column0>01200/Column0>   --<-- invalid tag column0 isn't closed
    <Column1>East Region</Column1>
    </Row>
  <Row>
    <Column0>3000</Column0>
    <Column1>West Region</Column1>
    </Row>
</rowset>

In you 1st xml(cdata) path to row element is /Data/row in 2nd is /rowset/row.
In 2nd xml(cdata) also exist declaration of default namsespace xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-analysis:rowset".
You can change path in 2nd xmltable to '*/Row' and get rid of xml namespace.
  passing xmlparse(document regexp_replace(A1.Row1,'xmlns=".*"', ''))
  SELECT  B2.*
       FROM
       xml_tab x,
       XMLTable(
             XMLNamespaces(
               'http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/' AS "SOAP-ENV"
                ,'urn://oracle.bi.webservices/v6' AS  "sawsoap"
              )
            , 'SOAP-ENV:Envelope/SOAP-ENV:Body/sawsoap:executeSQLQueryResult/sawsoap:return/sawsoap:rowset'
              passing    x.XML_DATA
              columns Row1 clob path '.'
           ) A1
          ,
            XMLTable(
             '/*/Row'
            passing xmlparse(document regexp_replace(A1.Row1,'xmlns=".*"', ''))
             columns
            Amount number PATH 'Column0',
            Region varchar2(60) PATH 'Column1'
          ) B2;

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Budhapa Pension Haryana old age is a scheme that has been launched by the Haryana State Government under the Department of Social Justice and Empowerment.
It is a scheme where a senior citizen/Old age people can avail a pension amount for their survival.
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Also, for all the senior citizens, this article will contain registration process, application forms and other details about haryana old age pension like haryana pension beneficiary list.
In order to apply or register for the Budhapa Pension Scheme of Haryana, you need to understand a few things.
Currently, there is no real way to go for the application part online. You will have to get the application of the scheme offline only. The state government is working in order to start the same online as well and haryana pension beneficiary list will soon available on their official website.
Print out the above document or just visit the official CSC office in order to register your name. Share the details same as well.
Find the "CSC Locator" link at the top. Go to the nearest CSC or Common Service Center. You can easily find the same here by following this website link as well: locator.csccloud.in.
After entering these, you can easily get the information about the nearest Common Service Center.
At the centre, you can avail the form and fill it out perfectly. Make sure there are no mistakes while filling out the budhapa pension old age scheme application form.
Aadhaar card is specifically needed for the seeding of your name and details into the servers for specific authentication.
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Usually, the process takes around 2-4 weeks to materialise. However, if you see it getting delayed, visit a CSC as mentioned above.
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Posted on March 26 2020, By: Jonathan Hamilton
We may be in a new decade, but we are far from eradicating gender stereotypes. Is testosterone a true measure of manliness?
For decades, and we mean decades, the hormone has been sold to us all as the key to strength, fortitude and masculinity. But do your t-levels really dictate what kind of man you are?
We've been researching all of the facts and myths.
On 1 June 1889, a French-Mauritian physiologist and proto-life-hacker named Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard gave a presentation at the Société de Biologie in Paris. He reported that he had been experimenting with something he called a "liquide testiculaire". He made this by mixing water with blood from the testicular veins, semen and a "juice extracted from a testicle, crushed immediately after it had been taken from a dog or a guinea pig". Then he injected himself with it.
At this point, if you're not holding your crotch and squirming, we don't trust you.
Monsieur Brown-Séquard was happy to report that, at 72 years old, he felt like a new man. He estimated that he could project his urine 25% further than he could before. So they even had pi**ing contests back in the 1880's. He also found that his brain was rejuvenated; he now felt as sharp as he had when he was young. He warned that the effects were short-lived, which was of course a major clue that he was experiencing a placebo effect, but no matter. By the end of 1889, it was estimated that as many as 12,000 scientists were shooting up testicle smoothies. Chemists made a fortune from selling the "elixir of life".
It was, of course, bollocks. No pun intended. But to be fair to Brown-Séquard, his hunch that there might be some sort of "substance or substances" produced in our glands, running through our bloodstream, influencing everything from our penises to our brains, wasn't so wide of the mark. This is what hormones do. Hormones are molecules that flow through our endocrine systems and attach themselves to receptors in our cells, delivering messages that influence sex and fertility, energy levels, the strength of our muscles, mood, metabolism, memory, sleep and everything in between.
The first hormone to be discovered was secretin, in 1902. Over the next few decades, oestrogens, progestogens and androgens – the hormones that determine sexual development – were identified, too. By 1935, the American biologist Fred Koch had performed enough experiments with bulls' testes purloined from Chicago abattoirs to establish the existence of the androgen testosterone – the big T – which soon became known as the "male hormone". What followed was something of a testicle rush. When cockerels were injected with testosterone, their droopy cockscombs became perkier. There is a cocktail called a Monkey Gland (gin, orange juice, grenadine, absinthe), named in honour of Serge Voronoff, a Russian surgeon who advocated grafting monkey testicles onto humans to increase energy and longevity. In short, it appeared that the essence of life had been located – and it was male.
Fast-forward a century and, despite the advances in science, it seems that this is still something that many are willing to believe. In the US and increasingly over here, testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) is touted as a cure for the so-called "male menopause", a miraculous way to restore youth and alpha-maleness. Meanwhile, "low T" has become an insult aimed at men perceived to be lacking in energy, resolve and manliness – often used synonymously with terms such as "soy boy" and "snowflake".
Again, all of this is, to put it bluntly, balls. Testosterone doesn't predict how liberal you are, let alone your sexual success, or whether you'll beat your wife, live forever or be a good prime minister.
There is some real science in here somewhere. Testosterone is the prototypical "masculine" hormone, as Professor Pierre-Marc Bouloux of the Society of Endocrinologists notes, but that doesn't mean it's the essence of masculinity. All foetuses begin life as female phenotypes, but at six weeks or so, male foetuses experience a surge of testosterone. "It is very important in helping to masculinise the baby in the womb – it gives him a penis – and when you reach puberty, it enables the deepening of the voice, increases the size of the penis, and so on," explains Bouloux.
"There is no dredible link between high T and supposedly masculine traits like risk-taking"
After puberty, our testosterone levels remain more or less constant until our mid-forties, when there's a slight drop. "A small proportion of men, perhaps 10-15%, will have a significant reduction in testosterone. But whether that's enough to cause symptoms is another matter," says Bouloux.
Testosterone is often contrasted with oestrogen, supposedly the "feminine" hormone. But men have oestrogen and women have testosterone, just in different concentrations. Testosterone also acts differently on different men, and no one has ever established a credible link between high T levels and supposedly masculine traits such as assertiveness, bravery, or risk-taking. Simply put, more testosterone does not necessarily make a man more of any of these things. It does promote muscle growth – but there's more to a man than his biceps.
Credit to Mens Health for some fantastic research on the topic.
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Wimbledon day 10: Roger Federer crashes out as Novak Djokovic marches on
Roger Federer's pursuit of more Wimbledon glory ended as he was soundly beaten by 14th seed Hubert Hurkacz in the quarter-finals.
The Pole won 6-3 7-6 (4) 6-0 to cap a career-best win for him, while also clearing the path nicely for defending champion Novak Djokovic.
Denis Shapovalov made it through to a first grand slam semi-final while Matteo Berrettini also booked a spot in the last four.
Here, we look at the events of day 10.
Unforced error…#Wimbledon pic.twitter.com/E5FcaClXeT
— Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) July 7, 2021
"Clearly there's still a lot of things missing in my game that maybe 10, 15, 20 years ago were very simple and very normal for me to do. Nowadays they don't happen naturally anymore." – Roger Federer
Hubert's Centre of attention
A post shared by Wimbledon (@wimbledon)
They say you should never meet your heroes, but try telling Hurkacz that. The Pole admitted that he started playing tennis because of Federer and here he was meeting him in the Wimbledon quarter-final on Centre Court.
Not many people gave him much of a chance before the match, but he delivered a devastating performance, winning in straight sets. Not only did he send the eight-time champion and king of Centre Court packing, he also did it by dishing out Federer's first bagel since 2008.
Andrew Castle: It's a joy to cover Wimbledon with tennis legends
Let it never be said that Wimbledon is taken for granted.
After the tournament was postponed in 2020, its return brings with it a degree of comfort, familiarity and excitement to the British sporting summer, even for those so accustomed to being there.
"It's just unbelievable to be back", says Andrew Castle, former British No. 1 and the BBC's lead tennis commentator at Wimbledon, where Novak Djokovic is favourite to lift the 2021 men's singles title.
"I was sitting next to John McEnroe on the first day and he was just delighted, too. Even off-mic, he was saying how wonderful it is."
You can read more of Andrew Castle's quotes over on the Betway piece itself.
Shapovalov made it through to his first grand slam semi-final with an epic five-set win over Karen Khachanov (Steven Paston/PA)
Denis Drop-shot-a-lov 😉#Wimbledon | @denis_shapo pic.twitter.com/BTs7Z1K4cU
Stat of the day
10,000 and counting for @DjokerNole 📈 #Wimbledon | @IBM pic.twitter.com/iYj9rT6A4A
Djokovic continued to amaze.
From boys to men
Shapovalov won the boy's title in 2016 (Steve Paston/PA)
Shapovalov and Marton Fucsovics had differing results in their quarter-finals but they had something in common, in being the two men in the draw who had won the junior title.
Fucsovics won it in 2010 and Shapovalov followed suit six years later to show that there is a clear pathway for success on the grass. Both men have had breakthrough tournaments in 2021, with Shapovalov making it through to the semi-final with a five-set win over Karen Khachanov and Fucsovics bowing out to defending champion Djokovic.
Actor Hugh Grant and Anna Elisabet Eberstein (John Walton/PA)
Former newsreader Sir Trevor McDonald (Adam Davy/PA)
Actor Eddie Redmayne (Adam Davy/PA)
Day 11 order of play
Ashleigh Barty v Angelique Kerber
Karolina Pliskova v Aryna Sabalenka
Day 11 weather watch
22 degrees – Cloudy changing to light rain by lunch time (Met Office)
Denis Shapovalov Hubert Hurkacz Novak Djokovic Roger Federer


The secretary general of the former rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) said on Monday his country was on the brink of a new north-south civil war, and called on northern forces to leave a disputed oil town.
But Amum said the SPLA—the armed wing of the SPLM and now the army of Sudan's semi-autonomous southern government—was doing all it could to avoid war.
"For us, war is not an option.
Moving forces out of the area is the most important step now," he said.
Sudan has witnessed sporadic and sometimes fierce fighting in recent weeks in the disputed oil-rich Abyei region, an area claimed by both Khartoum and the southern government.
Twenty-one northern Sudanese army soldiers and an unknown number of southerners were killed last week in fighting in Abyei that followed a week of skirmishes sparked by a local dispute. The clashes have displaced tens of thousands of people.
Amum called for northern forces to leave Abyei town, and called for the establishment of joint north-south forces, or failing that a full United Nations peacekeeping force in a demilitarised area. Sudan's ruling party denied last week southern accusations that Khartoum was sending more troops to Abyei.
Sudan's northern government and southern rebels fought a two-decade civil war fuelled by ethnicity, ideology, and oil that ended with the signing of a comprehensive peace deal in 2005, when the SPLM formed a coalition government with the ruling northern National Congress Party.


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package com.mydrivesolutions.androidtechtalksapril.ui.adapter;

import android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;

import com.mydrivesolutions.androidtechtalksapril.R;
import com.mydrivesolutions.androidtechtalksapril.rest.model.GitHubRepo;

import io.realm.RealmResults;

public class RealmAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<RealmDataViewHolder> {

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East Coast-Fengshan Town Council has worked out with our term contractors to offer some handyman services to residents of East Coast Town. The types of handyman services and charges for the period 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2020 are listed below. You may contact the contractors directly if you need these services. On receipt of payment, the contractor should issue an official receipt to the resident.
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If you require the service, you may call Propell Integrated Pte Ltd at 6282 2822 or 8160 2190 (Mr Sara) for an appointment.
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Q: Allow users with a gold specialist badge in a tag to manually sort answers We sometimes have the problem where a wrong answer can float to the top of a question.
If we allow users who have earned a gold specialist badge to manually sort answers to a question, they could move the erroneous answer down to allow the correct answer to float to the top.
The users would only be able to sort the answers in a question tagged with the tag they have the badge in.

A: Usually gold badge users are recognised and respected by users familiar with their badge - if they downvote an answer and explain their reasoning in a comment, that comment is likely to be treated seriously, often provoking more downvotes.
In other words, I don't think any more powers are required.

A: No.
Or, more elaborate: No!
Okay, a little more: No! That's totally contrary to the whole idea of the SO family.

A: I am going to say no, because the system works pretty well as is.  The only questions that I think get out of hand are the super long wiki type questions with 13 pages of answers/suggestions/opinions.

A: I have a better idea: if you find a question with a high-ranked but wrong answer, post it here and we'll sputter on about how it's such a travesty and the voters are on crack and SO is irreparably broken... and then go down-vote it en-masse, leaving nothing but a smoking pile of broken dreams and kicked puppies.
...or point out why it's actually not such a bad answer after all, and how you're an idiot for failing to understand it's brilliance. And then go down-vote everything you've ever posted, ever.

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[2018] All ER (D) 21 (Feb)
*Re A-F (children) (care orders: restrictions on liberty)
[2018] EWHC 138 (Fam)
Sir James Munby P
Family proceedings – Orders in family proceedings – Deprivation of liberty
The present proceedings related to seven children with ages ranging from 11 to 16. A final care order had been made in respect of each of them in favour of the same local authority. Some of the children were in foster care and others in specialist placements. All were subject to certain restrictions on their movement or liberty. The test cases raised various substantive and procedural questions in relation to the interface between care proceedings brought in the Family Court, pursuant to Pt IV of the Children Act 1989, and the requirements of art 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights (art 5).
Issues and decisions
(1) Whether a child living with a local authority approved foster carer was deprived of his liberty, within the meaning of art 5.
The situation of the young or very young did not involve a confinement for the purposes of component A of Storck v Germany (Application no 61603/00) ([2005] ECHR 61603/00), even though such a child was living in circumstances which plainly satisfied the acid test of confinement in P v Cheshire West and Chester Council and another; P and another v Surrey County Council ([2014] 2 All ER 585).
'Confinement' meant an interruption or curtailment of the freedom of action normally to be ascribed to a child of that age and understanding. In most of the myriad instances in life where children were restrained, there could be no question of their being confined so as to fulfil component A of the test in Storck (see [23], [24], [29] of the judgment).
Storck v Germany (Application no 61603/00) [2005] ECHR 61603/00 considered; Surrey County Council v P (Equality and Human Rights Commission intervening) [2014] 2 All ER 585 applied; Re D (a child) (residence order: deprivation of liberty) [2017] All ER (D) 29 (Nov) applied.
(2) At what point in the child's development, and by reference to what criteria, did one determine whether and when a state of affairs satisfying the acid test which had hitherto not involved a confinement for the purposes of Storck component A and where art 5 had not been engaged, became confinement for that purpose, therefore engaging art 5.
Inevitably, one had to proceed on a case-by-case basis, having regard to the actual circumstances of the child and comparing them with the notional circumstances of the typical child of the same age, station, familial background and relative maturity, who was free from disability. However, a rule of thumb was: (i) a child aged 10, even if under pretty constant supervision, was unlikely to be confined for the purpose of Storck component A; (ii) a child aged 11, if under constant supervision, might be so confined, though the court should be astute to avoid coming too readily to such a conclusion; and (iii) once a child who was under constant supervision had reached the age of 12, the court would more readily come to that conclusion.
In undertaking the comparison required by the acid test, the comparison should not be made with a typical child of the same age who was subject to a care order (see [43], [44] of the judgment).
Surrey County Council v P (Equality and Human Rights Commission intervening) [2014] 2 All ER 585 applied; A London Borough v M and others (through his Children's Guardian) [2017] Lexis Citation 447 approved.
(3) When would a confinement be lawful.
A confinement would be lawful if, as a matter of substance, it was both necessary and proportionate, namely, the least restrictive regime which was compatible with the child's welfare and, as a matter of process, had been authorised by a judge in the Family Division in accordance with the procedures identified in the relevant authorities.
An application to the court should be made where the circumstances in which the child was, or would be, living constituted, at least arguably (taking a realistic rather than fanciful view), a deprivation of liberty. There was no need for the court to make an order specifically authorising each element of the circumstances constituting confinement. It was sufficient if the order: (i) authorised the child's deprivation of liberty at a placement as generally described in some document to which the order was cross-referenced; and (ii) if appropriate, authorised (without the need to be more specific) medication and the use of restraint (see [47]-[49] of the judgment).
(4) What were the key elements of an art 5 compliant process.
The key elements of an art 5 compliant process were, first, if a substantive order (interim of final) was to be made authorising a deprivation of liberty, there had to be an oral hearing in the Family Division (though that could be before a judge under s 9 of the Senior Courts Act 1981 (a s 9 judge)). A substantive order could not be made on paper, but directions could, in an appropriate case, be given on paper without an oral hearing.
Second, the child had to be a party to the proceedings and have a guardian (if at all possible, the children's guardian who was acting, or who had acted, for the child in the care proceedings) who would, no doubt, wish to see the child in placement, unless there was a very good child-welfare reason to the contrary or that had already taken place. The child, if of an age to express wishes and feelings, should be permitted to do so to the judge in person, if that was what the child wanted.
Third, a bulk application was not lawful, though in appropriate circumstances where there was significant evidential overlap, there was no reason why a number of separate cases should not be heard together or in sequence on the same day before one judge (see [50] of the judgment).
(5) What were the requirements of the evidence in support of the substantive application (interim or final).
The evidence in support of the substantive application (interim or final) should address and include, first, the nature of the regime in which it was proposed to place the child, identifying and describing, in particular, those features which it was said did or might involve confinement. Identification of the salient features would suffice; minute detail was not required.
Second, the child's circumstances, identifying and describing, in particular, those aspects of the child's situation which it was said required that the child be placed as proposed and be subjected to the proposed regime and, where possible, the future prognosis.
Third, why it was said that the proposed placement and regime were necessary and proportionate in meeting the child's welfare needs and that no less restrictive regime would do.
Fourth, the views of the child, the child's parents and the independent reviewing officer, the most recent care plan, the minutes of the most recent looked after child or other statutory review and any recent reports in relation to the child's physical and/or mental health (typically the most recent documents would suffice).
Whether and to what extent new evidence would need to be obtained, or whether reliance on existing evidence would suffice, had to depend upon: (i) the extent to which the existing evidence covered the those various matters; (ii) the age of the existing evidence; and (iii) the extent to which there had been any significant changes since the existing evidence had been prepared. The evidence from the guardian, would typically focus on the confinement and deprivation of liberty issues; unless there had been a very significant change in the child's circumstances, the application under the inherent jurisdiction should not be an occasion for re-opening the wider welfare issues previously determined in the care proceedings.
Whilst evidence on a child's competency to consent to a confinement from a social worker who felt properly qualified to express an opinion would not be excluded, it was plainly undesirable that the only evidence on the point should come from an employee of the local authority responsible for the confinement. In any event, it was expected that, if a child whose circumstances required a regime more restricted than that of a comparator contemporary was nonetheless said to have the capacity to give a valid consent, that proposition would normally be made good by evidence from either a child and adolescent psychologist or, depending upon the nature of the child's difficulties, a child and adolescent psychiatrist (see [51]-[53] of the judgment).
(6) What was the interface with care proceedings.
First, if, when care proceedings were issued, there was a real likelihood that authorisation for a deprivation of liberty might be required, the proceedings should be issued in the usual way in the Family Court (not the High Court), but be allocated, if at all possible, to a circuit judge who was also a s 9 judge.
Second, where care proceedings had been allocated for case management and/or final hearing to a judge who was not a s 9 judge, but it had become apparent that there was a real likelihood that authorisation for a deprivation of liberty might be required, steps should be taken, if at all possible, and without delaying the hearing of the care proceedings, to reallocate the care proceedings, or at least the final hearing of the care proceedings, to a circuit judge who was also a s 9 judge.
Third, the care proceedings would remain in the Family Court and could not be transferred to the High Court. The s 9 judge conducting the two sets of proceedings – the care proceedings in the Family Court and the inherent jurisdiction proceedings in the High Court – could do so sitting simultaneously in both courts.
Fourth, if that was not possible, steps should be taken to arrange a separate hearing in front of a s 9 judge as soon as possible (if at all possible within days at most) after the final hearing of the care proceedings. Typically, there would be no need for the judge to revisit matters already determined by the care judge, unless there were grounds for thinking that circumstances had changed.
Fifth, the evidence should include, in addition to all the other evidence required in the care proceedings, evidence on the matters referred to with respect to the substantive application. Those matters should also be included in the care plan put before the court in the care proceedings.
Sixth, where the care proceedings had been concluded for some time, the process would be that indicated with respect to the substantive application.
(7) What were the requirements for review.
Continuing review was crucial to the continued lawfulness of any confinement. What was required was, first, regular reviews by the local authority as part of its normal processes in respect of any child in care.
Second, a review by a judge at least once every 12 months. The matter had to be brought back before the judge without waiting for the next 12-monthly review if there had been any significant change (whether deterioration or improvement) in the child's condition or if it was proposed to move the child to a different placement.
Third, the child had to be a party to the review and have a guardian (if at all possible the guardian who had previously acted for the child).
Fourth, if there had been no significant change of circumstances since the previous hearing/review, the review could take place on the papers, though the judge could direct an oral hearing. The form of the next review was a matter on which the judge could give appropriate directions at the conclusion of the previous hearing.
Further, generally speaking, it was preferable for the proceedings to be concluded at the end of the final hearing and, thereafter, at the end of each review, rather than being kept open (see [55], [56] of the judgment).
Shaun Spencer for the local authority.
Frances Heaton QC and Kate Burnell for the children's guardians.
Karina Weller - Solicitor (NSW) (non-practising).
The present test cases raised various substantive and procedural questions in relation to the interface between care proceedings brought in the Family Court, pursuant to Pt IV of the Children Act 1989, and the requirements of art 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The Family Division held that the situation of the young or very young did not involve a confinement, gave a rule of thumb on at what point in the child's development a child became confined, and gave guidance on matters of process and procedure.
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Call for traffic education to become part of the National Curriculum
Children should learn about road safety as early as possible
Road safety should be a mandatory part of the National Curriculum for primary and secondary school children, says a road safety charity.
The Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) has called for traffic education to become an integral part of the National Curriculum, in an effort to cut the numbers of young people killed and injured on UK roads.
''Reducing young driver risk'' is one of the central aims of the IAM's Road Safety Manifesto; the first part of which calls for road safety education to form part of the curriculum. The proposal ties in with a survey by the FIA (Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile) which found only eight of 15 European countries had mandatory traffic education in schools.
Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain and Latvia all operate mandatory traffic education programmes while Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, France, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden and the UK have voluntary programmes.
Neil Greig, IAM Director of Policy and Research, said: "Unless it's part of the curriculum, it won't become part of a young person's thinking and educators won't be obliged to teach it. Other countries have teaching on road safety as part of primary and secondary education, so why shouldn't we have it too?"
Young driver education in Europe
Italian primary schools have a course divided up into three parts - road safety including road rules, environment and health considerations. Public bodies such as the ACI (Automobile Club d'Italia) are encouraged by the Italian government to deliver such courses to schools.
Latvia goes even further, requiring traffic skills to be tested after the 3rd, 6th, 9th and 12th grades with age-appropriate tests including knowing your route to school, and understanding the responsibilities as a driver or cyclist on the road.
In Germany, two years are dedicated to teaching children how to ride a bicycle in traffic, while in Poland rules applying to pedestrians, cyclists and moped riders are taught to youngsters at seven and 15-years-old.
Road casualties
Although the numbers of people killed and injured on UK roads have been steadily decreasing for many years, the rate of decrease has slowed recently.
In 2013, 1,713 people were killed in road accidents, the lowest number on record, and half as many as in 2000. The total number of casualties of all severities in 2013 was 183,670.
The total reported child casualties (aged 0-15) fell by nine per cent to 15,756 in 2013. The number of children killed or seriously injured also fell, decreasing by 13 per cent to 1,980 in 2013.
However, pedestrians were the second highest casualty type by category.
Despite the fall in casualty numbers, the IAM says the figures remain unacceptable and repeatedly calls for greater training and awareness to help deliver a further marked reduction.
Mr Greig added: "Some countries in Europe have very structured and well organised programmes aimed at young people through their time in education.
"With ambitious targets being set on reducing the numbers of young people killed and injured on our roads, we believe having road safety education as part of the National Curriculum is a sure way to achieving those aims."
https://admiral.com/magazine/news-and-current-affairs/call-for-traffic-education-to-become-part-of-the-national-curriculum