According to a recently released report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), 2007 was a relatively low-pain year for tax compliance at the Internal Revenue Service.1 However, the report highlighted several big problems last year that were caused by Congress's delay in enacting end-of-year tax changes. In a similar way, this could be a gigantic problem this coming spring unless something is done soon about the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT).
To get an idea of how bad this problem might be, we can look back at the problems taxpayers and the IRS had in the spring of 2007 with the sales tax deduction and the tuition and fees deduction. Last year, Congress waited on renewing these two exemptions until December when it passed the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006. The IRS couldn't wait that long and had already printed the forms and instructions without including the instructions and lines for these two deductions. These erroneous forms greatly complicated the task of claiming the deductions and likely accounted for the decrease in claims that was seen in 2007 for both of these deductions.
Normally taxpayers get used to a new tax provision after a few years, and compliance improves. However, for the third year in a row, millions of eligible taxpayers failed to claim the deduction for sales taxes paid, which according to TIGTA can be laid at the feet of a late-acting Congress. In 2004, 1.1 million eligible taxpayers failed to claim the deduction, increasing to 1.4 million in 2005, and 2.1 million in 2006. In total, these 4.6 million taxpayers are entitled to an estimated $1.66 billion in refunds, which can still be claimed by filing amended returns for the years in question. Anyone who itemized deductions and did not claim an income tax deduction is eligible for the sales tax deduction. The seven states that do not have an income tax are Alaska, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas, Washington, and Wyoming, so it is the taxpayers in these states who are most likely to benefit from the deduction for sales taxes paid.
Retroactive Amendments to an AMT Return?
Unfortunately, this problem has a real possibility of repeating itself this coming tax year in the area of the Alternative Minimum Tax. The AMT exemptions are set to drop back down to their previous levels for tax year 2007.
For example, a married couple could claim an AMT exemption of $62,550 in 2006, but that was a temporary provision (called a "patch"), and it expired at the end of the year, so for the 2007 tax year the exemption is scheduled to fall back to $45,000. Congress is likely to pass another patch, extending or increasing the exemptions retroactively, but with the year winding down there is precious little time left for the IRS to revise its forms to include these changes. Otherwise, the already complicated process of determining AMT liability will become even more confusing this spring.
Unfortunately, some have even suggested that it may take Congress until 2008 to fix 2007's tax rules. If so, some taxpayers will be filing tax returns based upon the current law (no patch), significantly overpaying, and then filing an amended return later for a large refund.
For example, a married couple with two children earning $100,000 in wages and salary income but no itemized deductions would not know how to properly fill out their return. The accompanying table shows two possible scenarios for the calculation.
Note: This assumes that the patch Congress eventually passes for 2007 is the same amount that it passed for 2006.
If Congress waits until 2008 or even too long into 2007, many in this scenario would file their tax returns under the current law (no patch) and pay $12,300 when their true liability will end up being about $2,500 less than that ($9,772.50). And depending on their employers' withholding schedule and how quickly the amended return is filed and processed, the taxpayer will end up loaning a large amount to the government for many months.
There were several other areas in which issues of tax complexity caused headaches for the IRS and tax filers this past spring. The TIGTA report highlighted a few areas in which taxpayers failed to minimize their tax liabilities or incorrectly filled out their tax forms due to the complexity in the law and enforcement. These include the Telephone Excise Tax Refund, the Katrina evacuee exemption provision, rules on retirement accounts, and further complexity surrounding education tax incentives.
The Telephone Excise Tax Refund (TETR) was a one-time refund for federal excise taxes paid on long-distance calls made between February 28, 2003 and August 1, 2006. Anyone who paid for these services during that time was entitled to this refund in 2006, including those who were not required to file an income tax return. While the IRS estimated that between 145 million and 165 million individuals would be eligible to receive the TETR, for a total of $8 billion in refunds, as of June 9 only 87.6 million people had claimed the refund, and the refunds issued totaled just $3.8 billion. In fact, the IRS identified over 35 million eligible taxpayers who did not claim the refund.
In addition, some taxpayers were identified who were obviously incorrectly claiming the TETR or intentionally exploiting the refund. According to the TIGTA, for many of the most extreme cases, "the taxpayers' long-distance telephone bills would have to have amounted to more than 25 percent of the taxpayers' total annual incomes" to justify the refund amounts claimed. The IRS responded by establishing new compliance selection criteria and starting a weekly review process for incoming refund claims.
As of June 1, the IRS had identified 4,062 taxpayers who had claimed an exemption for housing Hurricane Katrina victims two years in a row. The rules of the exemption state that a taxpayer can take the exemption only once for each displaced individual housed and apply it to either tax year 2005 or 2006. These improperly claimed exemptions led to an estimated $457,275 in lost revenue.
Finally, in addition to the problems that accompany the delayed extension of education tax incentives, confusion remains in the tax code concerning these incentives. Specifically, taxpayers continued to incorrectly claim a "dual benefit" by claiming both the tuition and fees deduction and the education credit, even though the two benefits cannot be claimed in the same year for the same person. This is the fifth year that this has been a problem even though efforts have been made to warn taxpayers not to claim both credits. For more on the complexity involved in the education credits and a proposed solution put forth in Congress, see "Expand But Simplify? Education Credits Under Emanuel-Camp-Bayh," Tax Foundation Fiscal Fact No. 100.


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(The Reverend) Father Frank Michael Souza, Associate Pastor and Headmaster of Schools, OSFoc, M.Div, MAPT
Father Frank Souza serves as our Associate Pastor and Headmaster for Schools at Saint Miriam. He is also a professed Franciscan. Father was born and raised in South Philadelphia, and having felt the call to priesthood and Franciscan spirituality from a very young age, Father Frank was called to pursue seminary studies in Philadelphia and Minnesota as well as periods of discernment with religious communities.
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Donna serves in the Administration offices for our parish and school…
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I became a part of the Saint Miriam family through my daughter and decided to continue to serve the Saint Miriam family after her graduation.
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Regina Dugan serves as an educator with our Saint Miriam School.
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Holly Gray graduated from Martin Luther King High School. She started working at a preschool as a teenager and there she discovered her love for children. Holly has over 10 years experience in Infant and Toddler Care.
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Leigh Hopkins is joining Saint Miriam School as the S.T.E.A.M.M. teacher. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Marine Geology from Eckerd College and a Master's of Education degree and Waldorf teaching certificate from Antioch University of New England…
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Patricia Liguori received her degree in Early Childhood Education from Montgomery County Community College and worked as a Childcare Teacher for Salford Mennonite Childcare Center in Harleysville for 14 years…
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Melissa holds a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology and a Master's Degree in Early Elementary and Special Education…
Ms. Nancy Slade – Educator
Nancy Slade is a parent of four children ranging in ages from 1 to 18. She has been working with children in a school setting for 15 years.
Ms. Katelyn Wilchek – School Nurse
Katelyn Wilchek is a Licensed Registered Nurse and serves as our Nurse two days each week…
Ms. C. Michelle Wilson – Educator, Lead Kindergarten and Music Teacher
Ms. C. Michelle Wilson attended The University of Memphis for Early Childhood Education (1996-2000), and while she was working on her degree, she also worked at the Barbara K. Lipman Early Childhood and Research Center. From 2009 until June 2019, Ms. Wilson provided…
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But the noise from a nearby paper manufacturing facility on Shawnee Road is particularly noisome during the afternoon and even sometimes between 2 and 4 a.m., he said.
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The primary tenant is Verizon Wireless, and the applicant was told to notify the Air Force base and airport in Niagara Falls of their intentions to build there, he said.
The town board also voted to authorize Wendel to provide professional services for the Niagara River Waterfront Multi-Use Trail for $346,635.
The trail will extend the one that runs through North Tonawanda's Gratwick Park to 102nd Street in Niagara Falls.
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If you don't feel ready to "love the notch" just yet, Pete Lau wants you to know a "black-out" feature will be delivered to the OnePlus 6 after the phone's commercial debut in a software update.
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Taxile Doat, né à Albi le  et mort à Sèvres le , est un céramiste et peintre français principalement actif en France et aux États-Unis, connu pour son expérimentation sur la porcelaine de grand feu et ses grès utilisant la technique pâte-sur-pâte. Son livre sur Les Céramiques de grand feu, publié en 1905, a facilité la diffusion internationale de ses découvertes. Son influence est manifeste dans les types de glaçures et les pratiques utilisées dans les ateliers de céramique au .

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Doat travaille à la Manufacture nationale de Sèvres de 1877 à 1905, participant à l'introduction du style art nouveau. À partir de 1895, il commence à travailler dans la maison du 47 rue Brancas, à Sèvres. Les céramiques de son atelier sont différentes des pièces produites à la manufacture de Sèvres. Il remplace les motifs traditionnels (guirlandes, dieux, draperies) par de nouvelles formes dérivées du japonisme qui influence la céramique artistique en France dans les années 1890. Il commence également à produire des formes organiques à base de courge, tout en employant les nouveaux émaux de grand feu qu'il a inventé.

Il expose aussi au Salon des artistes français et y obtient en 1890 une mention honorable. Hors-concours et chevalier de la Légion d'honneur, il présente à la Société nationale des beaux-arts de 1929 une vitrine contenant des porcelaines dures et des grès flammés décorés d'émaux et camées.

En 1909, Doat est avec Frédéric Hurten Rhead et Adelaïde Alsop Robineau, l'un des trois leaders internationaux de la céramique, recruté comme professeur à l'Art Academy and Porcelain Works, fondée à L'University City, une banlieue de Saint-Louis. Edward Gardner Lewis, le fondateur d'University City, fait faillite en 1911 et n'est plus en mesure d'aider l'atelier de céramique. Doat continue cependant la production de céramique de 1912 à 1914.

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These are the 10 commandments of Hinduism in the 21st century
Discussion in 'Internal Affairs' started by INDIAN NATIONALIST, Feb 10, 2015.
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The ascent to power of Narendra Modi and his party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), means that Hinduism has now become an integral part of politics and identity in India.
The suddenness of this development has startled many in the West who had viewed Hinduism, from a distance, as essentially amorphous, complex, largely confined to within India, above all exotic, and therefore far removed from the swords and the ploughshares of today's world.
That contemporary Hinduism might prove to be a manifestation of popular sociocultural trends in a country of over a billion people has prompted serious reflection on a number of questions: What will Hinduism in the future look like? How will the new Hinduism impact politics, business and culture in 21st century India? These are questions that are now relevant not only to academicians but also to foreign policy strategists, the media and business people across the world.
Although there is nothing equivalent to an Encyclical that has been issued by any reputed Hindu thinkers or religious leaders, there are nevertheless the outlines of a 21st century Hinduism that can be discerned through what appears in the India media, films, books and magazines, and from the writings and speeches of influential Hindu intellectuals and political leaders.
Analysed through the lens of contemporary modernism as applied to the popular Indian culture of today, these outlines form something like an emerging ten commandments or ten guidelines of future Hinduism:
21st century Hinduism will be increasingly monolithic, i.e. a single broad thread of Hinduism will dominate across the different regions and communities of India rather than the multiplicity of practices in the past. In this post-colonial process, many of the subsects and parallel strands of Hinduism, such as Tantra, will be substantively discarded.
Hinduism in the future will increasingly seek to become a component of national and political identity, similar to the association that Christianity and Islam have established in other parts of the world. Thus, Hinduism will identify itself with a particular geographic entity—the South Asian subcontinent—and incorporate the notions of "us" and the "other."
The understanding of Hindu scriptures will move rapidly to a symbolic interpretation rather than a literal one. To give just one example, Draupadi's five husbands will be viewed as the five aspects of the perfect man rather than proof of historical polyandry. 21st century Hinduism will be receptive enough of modern science and technology to acknowledge that myths are overwhelmingly just inventions by creative minds, stories useful as guidelines for life but not at all indicators of past fact.
In this process, the pantheon of Hindu gods and goddesses will assume only symbolic significance in worship, a development already much evident in contemporary India.
Of the pantheon, Ram and Sita will take front stage as the ideal for men and women respectively. Krishna will continue to be the overarching source of inspiration for Hindus through the Bhagavad Gita, but will recede somewhat as the role model for the average Hindu, reflecting the pronounced puritanism that can be observed in urban India today.
Ganesha will continue to rise in prominence as the symbol of the globally successful, outward looking, materialistic and self confident 21st century Hindu, as against the conventional image of the Hindu in the past as provincially oriented, inward looking, spiritually inclined and humble.
Hinduism in the future will seek to become the major basis for the conduct of daily life by Hindus. The gap between religion as practiced in private and life as led in public will diminish. The role of religion will be seen as one that provides guidelines rather than requiring conformity to practices. But 21st century Hinduism will explicitly assert that morality cannot be legislated, and instead requires cultural awareness.
Exactly following this approach, the Hindu woman will need to continue to take primary responsibility for family and relationships, customs and culture, and public morality in general. To this extent, the Manusmriti will continue to be seen as broadly the source of guidance, but not in any sense binding or prescriptive.
The relationship of Hinduism to other religious minorities will be based on a majoritarian foundation, just as Christianity forms the framework in the United States. Thus, Wendy Doniger and other similar writers and artists can expect increasingly aggressive opposition to their views.
Sanskrit will be universally taught to all Hindus and become the language for worship by all sections of society. 21st century Hinduism will recognise that the exclusivist view of Sanskrit as the property of Brahmins has badly damaged Hindu society over the millennia. With the blurring of its association to Brahmins and upper castes, Sanskrit will become the crucial and critical key to the blurring of caste boundaries and the eventual elimination of caste.
Much of this will be immediately denounced as extremist Hindutva. But in this process, it should also be recognised that these "ten commandments" are not entirely without merit. The perspective that morality cannot be entirely legislated, but needs cultural renewal, probably makes instinctive sense to Indians, many of whom have been repulsed by recent public discussions of the lurid details of the high profile sexual harassment cases, for example. Similarly, the idea that Sanskrit might hold the key to mitigating the worst excesses of caste has the potential to radically transform the discourse on that historical evil.
These ten commandments, so-called, might be viewed as robbing Hinduism of precisely its tolerant core, its universal appeal and its manifold sources of beauty, and substituting in its place a dry, colourless list of prescriptions. But they also might indicate that the 21st century Hindu has decided that it is finally time to shake off the past and embrace the future. To the modern Hindu, only some of the innumerable trappings of traditional Hinduism may be relevant or necessary.
If, in the process of this refashioning, some controversies arise, those are only to be expected, would be his response. The new politics, the new culture, the new aggressiveness, may not be everybody's cup of tea. But in the perspective of the emergent 21st century Hinduism and to its followers, the pluses far outweigh the minuses.
These are the 10 commandments of Hinduism in the 21st century – Quartz
INDIAN NATIONALIST, Feb 10, 2015
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It is true, if you go to the places of worship of other religions, more than half the people do not understand what is said,
The orgiinal prayer is in the original language and most are not educated in that language to understand the actual meaing of it
positron, Feb 10, 2015
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Koran as I understand is in Arabic and there are small afternoon schools to teach Arabic (to be able to read koran) not all muslims in India can understand arabic. Also many of the christian prayers are either in Latin or English. not all Christians understand english well contrary to what we all believe and also not all hindus know Sanskrit to understand what the priest is saying either
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5. Of the pantheon, Ram and Sita will take front stage as the ideal for men and women respectively. Krishna will continue to be the overarching source of inspiration for Hindus through the Bhagavad Gita, but will recede somewhat as the role model for the average Hindu, reflecting the pronounced puritanism that can be observed in urban India today.
i disagree with this point neither ram nor sita can be ideal men or woman. towards the end of ramayanam ram first do a agnipariksha to sita to make her prove that she is still pathivritha . in a true version of ramayanam sita burns in the fire suxh that even a pathivritha cannot sustain the fire(of course fire cannot find one is pathivritha or not). the god of fire recreats sita again and gives back to ram only to save the name of sita.
even after that ram send a pregnant sita to jungle to shut the mouth of wrong lady in his country.
third time when he asks to prove pathivrithyam while recieving lva and kusha sita commits suicide by calling mother earth.
both incidents make ram a perfect king (I doubt?) but not a perfect man. sita should have got a divorce instead she choose to live in jungle endangering the life of her two kids.
none of these things can be followed by a common man in today.
kiduva21, Feb 11, 2015
on the other hand krishna was only 5 years old when he killed kamsan . gives that the krishna leela with Radha and other gopikas where actually chids pay and anything other than that is poets imagination.
the other 16000 wives are in real wife of other people and they were kidnapped by Narakusura, krishna killed and rescued these ladies but their husbands refused to accept them as they may not be pathivratha due to the where all kidnapped by a bad guy. Instead of asking them to prove by agnipareeksha or sending them to jungle krishna married them all and gave place in his palace.
now that is a perfect man.
simislarly satyabhama main wife of krishna fought a war and killed the enemy while krishna got injured in the war and become unconscious.
perfect woman.
Are you sure aboute manu smrithi?
The Status Of Women As Depicted By Manu In The Manusmriti
Written by Hirday N. Patwari August 27, 2011 7:29 pm 396 comments
The Manusmriti also known as Manav Dharam Shastra, is the earliest metrical work on Brahminical Dharma in Hinduism. According to Hindu mythology, the Manusmriti is the word of Brahma, and it is classified as the most authoritative statement on Dharma .The scripture consists of 2690 verses, divided into 12 chapters. It is presumed that the actual human author of this compilation used the eponym 'Manu', which has led the text to be associated by Hindus with the first human being and the first king in the Indian tradition.
Although no details of this eponymous author's life are known, it is likely that he belonged to a conservative Brahman class somewhere in Northern India. Hindu apologists consider the Manusmriti as the divine code of conduct and, accordingly, the status of women as depicted in the text has been interpreted as Hindu divine law. While defending Manusmriti as divine code of conduct for all including women, apologists often quote the verse: "yatr naryasto pojyantay, ramantay tatr devta [3/56] (where women are provided place of honor, gods are pleased and reside there in that household), but they deliberately forget all those verses that are full of prejudice, hatred and discrimination against women.
Here are some of the 'celebrated' derogatory comments about women in the Manusmriti :
1. "Swabhav ev narinam ….." – 2/213. It is the nature of women to seduce men in this world; for that reason the wise are never unguarded in the company of females.
2. "Avidvam samlam……….." – 2/214. Women, true to their class character, are capable of leading astray men in this world, not only a fool but even a learned and wise man. Both become slaves of desire.
3. "Matra swastra ……….." – 2/215. Wise people should avoid sitting alone with one's mother, daughter or sister. Since carnal desire is always strong, it can lead to temptation.
4. "Naudwahay…………….." – 3/8. One should not marry women who has have reddish hair, redundant parts of the body [such as six fingers], one who is often sick, one without hair or having excessive hair and one who has red eyes.
5. "Nraksh vraksh ……….." – 3/9. One should not marry women whose names are similar to constellations, trees, rivers, those from a low caste, mountains, birds, snakes, slaves or those whose names inspires terror.
6. "Yasto na bhavet ….. ….." – 3/10. Wise men should not marry women who do not have a brother and whose parents are not socially well known.
7. "Uchayangh……………." – 3/11. Wise men should marry only women who are free from bodily defects, with beautiful names, grace/gait like an elephant, moderate hair on the head and body, soft limbs and small teeth.
8. "Shudr-aiv bharya………" – 3/12.Brahman men can marry Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaish and even Shudra women but Shudra men can marry only Shudra women.
9. "Na Brahman kshatriya.." – 3/14. Although Brahman, Kshatriya and Vaish men have been allowed inter-caste marriages, even in distress they should not marry Shudra women.
10. "Heenjati striyam…….." – 3/15. When twice born [dwij=Brahman, Kshatriya and Vaish] men in their folly marry low caste Shudra women, they are responsible for the degradation of their whole family. Accordingly, their children adopt all the demerits of the Shudra caste.
11. "Shudram shaynam……" – 3/17. A Brahman who marries a Shudra woman, degrades himself and his whole family ,becomes morally degenerated , loses Brahman status and his children too attain status of shudra.
12. "Daiv pitrya………………" – 3/18. The offerings made by such a person at the time of established rituals are neither accepted by God nor by the departed soul; guests also refuse to have meals with him and he is bound to go to hell after death.
13. "Chandalash ……………" – 3/240. Food offered and served to Brahman after Shradh ritual should not be seen by a chandal, a pig, a cock,a dog, and a menstruating women.
14. "Na ashniyat……………." – 4/43. A Brahman, true defender of his class, should not have his meals in the company of his wife and even avoid looking at her. Furthermore, he should not look towards her when she is having her meals or when she sneezes/yawns.
15. "Na ajyanti………………." – 4/44. A Brahman in order to preserve his energy and intellect, must not look at women who applies collyrium to her eyes, one who is massaging her nude body or one who is delivering a child.
16. "Mrshyanti……………." – 4/217. One should not accept meals from a woman who has extra marital relations; nor from a family exclusively dominated/managed by women or a family whose 10 days of impurity because of death have not passed.
17. "Balya va…………………." – 5/150. A female child, young woman or old woman is not supposed to work independently even at her place of residence.
18. "Balye pitorvashay……." – 5/151. Girls are supposed to be in the custody of their father when they are children, women must be under the custody of their husband when married and under the custody of her son as widows. In no circumstances is she allowed to assert herself independently.
19. "Asheela kamvrto………" – 5/157. Men may be lacking virtue, be sexual perverts, immoral and devoid of any good qualities, and yet women must constantly worship and serve their husbands.
20. "Na ast strinam……….." – 5/158. Women have no divine right to perform any religious ritual, nor make vows or observe a fast. Her only duty is to obey and please her husband and she will for that reason alone be exalted in heaven.
21. "Kamam to………………" – 5/160. At her pleasure [after the death of her husband], let her emaciate her body by living only on pure flowers, roots of vegetables and fruits. She must not even mention the name of any other men after her husband has died.
22. "Vyabhacharay…………" – 5/167. Any women violating duty and code of conduct towards her husband, is disgraced and becomes a patient of leprosy. After death, she enters womb of Jackal.
23. "Kanyam bhajanti…….." – 8/364. In case women enjoy sex with a man from a higher caste, the act is not punishable. But on the contrary, if women enjoy sex with lower caste men, she is to be punished and kept in isolation.
24. "Utmam sevmansto……." – 8/365. In case a man from a lower caste enjoys sex with a woman from a higher caste, the person in question is to be awarded the death sentence. And if a person satisfies his carnal desire with women of his own caste, he should be asked to pay compensation to the women's faith.
25. "Ya to kanya……………." – 8/369. In case a woman tears the membrane [hymen] of her Vagina, she shall instantly have her head shaved or two fingers cut off and made to ride on Donkey.
26. "Bhartaram……………." – 8/370. In case a women, proud of the greatness of her excellence or her relatives, violates her duty towards her husband, the King shall arrange to have her thrown before dogs at a public place.
27. "Pita rakhshati………." – 9/3. Since women are not capable of living independently, she is to be kept under the custody of her father as child, under her husband as a woman and under her son as widow.
28. "Imam hi sarw……….." – 9/6. It is the duty of all husbands to exert total control over their wives. Even physically weak husbands must strive to control their wives.
29. "Pati bharyam ………." – 9/8. The husband, after the conception of his wife, becomes the embryo and is born again of her. This explains why women are called Jaya.
30. "Panam durjan………" – 9/13. Consuming liquor, association with wicked persons, separation from her husband, rambling around, sleeping for unreasonable hours and dwelling -are six demerits of women.
31. "Naita rupam……………" – 9/14. Such women are not loyal and have extra marital relations with men without consideration for their age.
32. "Poonshchalya…………" – 9/15. Because of their passion for men, immutable temper and natural heartlessness, they are not loyal to their husbands.
33. "Na asti strinam………" – 9/18. While performing namkarm and jatkarm, Vedic mantras are not to be recited by women, because women are lacking in strength and knowledge of Vedic texts. Women are impure and represent falsehood.
34. "Devra…sapinda………" – 9/58. On failure to produce offspring with her husband, she may obtain offspring by cohabitation with her brother-in-law [devar] or with some other relative [sapinda] on her in-law's side.
35. "Vidwayam……………." – 9/60. He who is appointed to cohabit with a widow shall approach her at night, be anointed with clarified butter and silently beget one son, but by no means a second one.
36. "Yatha vidy…………….." – 9/70. In accordance with established law, the sister-in-law [bhabhi] must be clad in white garments; with pure intent her brother-in-law [devar] will cohabitate with her until she conceives.
37. "Ati kramay……………" – 9/77. Any women who disobey orders of her lethargic, alcoholic and diseased husband shall be deserted for three months and be deprived of her ornaments.
38. "Vandyashtamay……." – 9/80. A barren wife may be superseded in the 8th year; she whose children die may be superseded in the 10th year and she who bears only daughters may be superseded in the 11th year; but she who is quarrelsome may be superseded without delay.
39. "Trinsha………………." – 9/93. In case of any problem in performing religious rites, males between the age of 24 and 30 should marry a female between the age of 8 and 12.
40. "Yambrahmansto……." – 9/177. In case a Brahman man marries Shudra woman, their son will be called 'Parshav' or 'Shudra' because his social existence is like a dead body.
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Das Rosenkranzfest, auch Rosenkranzaltar genannt, ist eines der wenigen Altarbilder Albrecht Dürers.

Albrecht Dürer malte dieses großformatige Altarbild 1506 im Auftrag deutscher Kaufleute als Altarbild für die Kirche San Bartolomeo in Venedig. Dieses Bild machte Dürer, der bis zu diesem Zeitpunkt vor allem Grafiken und Zeichnungen schuf, schlagartig berühmt.

Das Gemälde Dürers hat mit dem 1572 eingeführten Rosenkranzfest nichts zu tun. Der Gemäldetitel ist modern. Dargestellt ist vielmehr die Rosenkranzbruderschaft als eine universelle Gebetsbruderschaft.

Beschreibung
Dargestellt ist die Madonna auf einem von Putten gehaltenen Baldachinthron. Zwei weitere Putten lassen eine Krone über ihrem Kopf schweben, ein Engel spielt zu ihren Füßen Laute. Maria, das Christuskind, der heilige Dominikus, dem die Entstehung der Rosenkranzandacht zugeschrieben wird, und weitere Putten verteilen Rosenkränze an eine Menschenmenge, die von Kaiser und Papst angeführt wird.

Die Rosenkranzbruderschaft wurde von Jacob Sprenger 1475 als Gebetsverbrüderung in Köln gegründet. In die erste Rosenkranz-Bruderschaft in Köln schrieb sich an erster Stelle 1475 der nachmalige König Maximilian I. ein, der im selben Jahr die Stadt Neuss befreit hatte, nachdem diese Maria angerufen hatte. Der Papst hätte die Gesichtszüge Julius II. aufweisen müssen, was Dürer jedoch vermied, denn Julius war ein Gegner Venedigs.

Die Gruppe des knienden Papstes und Kaisers mit der Madonna bildet eine Pyramide.

Die Mitglieder der Menge können nicht mehr alle identifiziert werden. Der vierte von links ist Burkhard von Speyer, möglicherweise Kaplan der Kirche San Bartolomeo, bekannt aus dem zeitgleich geschaffenen Porträt Dürers, das sich heute in der Royal Collection in Windsor Castle befindet.

Hintergrund

Das Werk verbindet die deutsche Ikonographie der Rosenkranzbruderschaft mit venezianischen Einflüssen wie die Einbettung in eine Landschaft, dem Baldachin über Maria, dem Laute spielenden Engel und den Putten und stellt damit eine Synthese nordischer und italienischer Kunst dar.

Geschichte

Albrecht Dürer war im Sommer 1505 zum zweiten Mal nach Venedig gekommen, wo er von den beim Fondaco dei Tedeschi (nahe der Rialtobrücke) ansässigen deutschen Kaufleuten den Auftrag erhielt, ein Gemälde für ihre Pfarrkirche anzufertigen. Das Bild sollte eine ideale Versammlung der Rosenkranzbruderschaft darstellen.

Dürer machte vor dem Beginn seiner Arbeit zahlreiche Studien und schildert die Umstände der Entstehung des Werks in den Briefen an seinen Freund Willibald Pirckheimer. Aus diesen Briefen geht hervor, dass Dürer die Arbeit aus gesundheitlichen Gründen unterbrechen musste und mit dem Bild sehr zufrieden war. So schrieb er am 23. September 1506 an Pirckheimer:

Dürers Selbstbewusstsein zeigt sich auch darin, dass er sich selbst am rechten Bildrand darstellte. Er hält ein Stück Papier mit der lateinischen Aufschrift:
Exegit quinque mestri / spatio Albertus / Durer Germanus MDVI / AD
Mit diesem Zettel weist Dürer darauf hin, dass er das Gemälde in nur fünf Monaten des Jahres 1506 (MDVI) geschaffen habe. Das Buchstabenkürzel AD ist Dürers Signatur, die auf fast keinem Bild fehlt. Wie Briefe belegen, hatte Dürer keine besonders hohe Meinung von der Leistung seiner venezianischen Kollegen. Dieses Urteil beruhte weitgehend auf Gegenseitigkeit. Dürer berichtet immer wieder davon, dass die italienischen Maler behaupteten, seine Bilder seien unmodern und er nicht mit Farben umgehen könne. ("...er sei nur im Stechen gut, wüßt aber nit mit Farben umzugehn..."). Erst mit dem Rosenkranzfest änderte sich die Meinung der venezianischen Künstler und Dürer schrieb:

Kaiser Rudolf II. kaufte das Gemälde nach langwierigen Verhandlungen mit der Kirchengemeinde San Bartolomeo und der Familie Fugger für die enorme Summe von 900 Dukaten. Joachim Sandrart schreibt in seiner Teutschen Academie über Entstehung und Verkauf des Werkes:

So gelangte 1606 der Rosenkranzaltar nach Prag. Nach Rudolfs Tod verblieb das Bild dort, anderes als der Großteil seiner Sammlung. Im Dreißigjährigen Krieg war die Rosenkranzfestmadonna ständig in Bewegung. So kam es dazu, dass das Gemälde beim Transport beschädigt wurde. Als die Schweden 1648 die Prager Kunstkammer plünderten, ließen sie das Bild zurück, was als Indiz für einen schlechten Zustand gelten kann. Aber es war schon in Venedig beschädigt, denn Dürer arbeitete als Maler aus dem Norden mit nicht erprobtem Material. Dies führte dazu, dass das Bild in der Mitte bald beschädigt war. So verschwand auch ein interessantes Detail, das Kopien des Gemäldes belegen: eine Fliege auf dem Knie der Madonna, die den Eindruck erwecken sollte, dass sie echt sei. Seit der Räumung der Prager Burg 1782 unter Joseph II., bei der es zum Schätzpreis von einem Gulden versteigert wurde, befand sich das Bild in Privatbesitz. 1793 erwarb es P. Wenzel Mayer, der Abt des Stiftes Strahow. Im 19. Jahrhundert wurde die zerstörte Mittelpartie vom Kopf der Madonna abwärts restauriert. Dabei verschwanden Einzelheiten wie der Faltenwurf des weißen Tuches, auf dem auch die Fliege saß. Erst 1930 gelangte das Gemälde in die Nationalgalerie Prag.

Kopien

Literatur
 Johann Konrad Eberlein: Albrecht Dürer (= Rororo 50598 Rowohlts Monographien). Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-499-50598-3.
 Anja Grebe: Albrecht Dürer. Künstler, Werk und Zeit. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2006, ISBN 3-534-18788-1.
 Jaromír Homolka: Rosenkranzfest, Artia, Prag 1961, .
 Olga Kotková (Hrsg.): Albrecht Dürer: The Feast of the Rose Garlands 1505–2006. Ausstellungs-Katalog. National Gallery Prague 2006, Prag 2006, ISBN 80-7035-332-5.
 Rainer Hoffmann: Im Glanze des Himmels – Putten-Motive im Werk Albrecht Dürers. Böhlau-Verlag, Köln / Weimar / Wien 2019, ISBN 978-3-412-50041-2, S. 82.
 Martina Sauer: Affordance as a Method in Visual Cultural Studies Based on Theory and Tools of Vitality Semiotics. A historiographic and comparative study of Formal Aesthetics, Iconology, and Affordance using the example of Albrecht Dürer's Christ Among the Doctors from 1506. In: Art style : art & culture international magazine. Band 7, Nr. 7, März 2021, S. 11–37 (Digitalisat).

Weblinks

 Rosenkranzfest 7. Oktober
 Albrecht Dürers "Rosenkranzfest"
 Dürers Weg zum Ruhm – 500 Jahre Rosenkranzfest

Einzelnachweise

Altarbild von Albrecht Dürer
Gemälde (16. Jahrhundert)
Marienbildnis
Gemälde der Nationalgalerie Prag


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Commissioner for Education Mrs. Folasade Adefisayo announced the closure after a meeting with the School Management and Staff.
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20 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Trading Places
Classic 1983 comedy Trading Places follows the tale of an upper-class commodities broker named Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Aykroyd) and impoverished street hustler Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy), whose lives become intertwined after they unknowingly become the subjects of a shady bet. Here are some things you might not have known about this hilarious film.
20. The film was originally set to star Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder
In the early 80s, when a comedy called for two leading men, one black and one white, there was one particular duo who always got the call first.
That duo was Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder, iconic double act of 1976 hit Silver Streak and 1980's Stir Crazy.
When Trading Places first went into development, the original title was Black and White, and Pryor and Wilder were courted for the lead roles.
However, the brakes were slammed on this when Pryor came close to death, being burned alive in what the troubled comedy legend later admitted was a suicide attempt.
Studio Paramount then suggested Eddie Murphy – who had just shot action-comedy 48 Hrs. (in another role at one point ear-marked for Pryor).
John Landis signed on to direct, and approved of Murphy's casting – but the studio had some doubts about his other casting suggestions.
19. Paramount thought Dan Aykroyd couldn't carry a movie without John Belushi
John Landis had previously directed Dan Aykroyd in 1980 comedy smash The Blues Brothers, and he was the director's first choice to play Louis Winthorpe III.
However, Paramount had concerns that Aykroyd wouldn't have screen presence or box office appeal without his old collaborator and Blues Brothers co-star John Belushi.
Aykroyd and Belushi rose to fame together through TV's Saturday Night Live (where they created The Blues Brothers), and they also co-starred in the films 1941 and Neighbors. Aykroyd had even been developing his passion project Ghostbusters for them to star in together.
Sadly, Belushi died in 1982 aged just 32, from multiple drug intoxication – and, aside from the tragedy of this loss, there were also concerns that Aykroyd was finished in the business.
John Landis explains, "conventional wisdom was that Aykroyd without Belushi was like Abbott without Costello, and that his career was over."
However, Landis insisted that Aykroyd would give a great performance alongside Eddie Murphy, and Paramount eventually gave their approval.
18. The studio didn't want Jamie Lee Curtis
Dan Aykroyd's casting in Trading Places wasn't the only thing Paramount had a problem with, as questions were also raised about who John Landis chose for the female lead.
For the part of Ophelia, the prostitute who proves to be an angel in disguise, Landis hired Jamie Lee Curtis, with whom he had recently worked on a horror documentary – and the studio was not pleased.
The director recalls, "I was called into the head of the studio's office and he said, 'This woman's a B-movie actress,' and I said, 'Not after this movie!'"
Though Curtis was Hollywood royalty as the daughter of screen legends Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, she had starred almost exclusively in horror movies up to that point.
After her breakthrough in 1978 slasher smash Halloween, Curtis went on to more scream queen roles in The Fog, Prom Night, Terror Train, Road Games and Halloween II.
However, Curtis was keen to branch out, and Trading Places gave her that opportunity; the actress has since credited John Landis with "single-handedly [changing] the course of my life."
17. The writers were inspired by a real-life pair of wealthy and competitive brothers
Although Trading Places is largely based around the three central roles of Louis, Billy Ray and Ophelia, these were not the characters the story was initially built around.
Co-writer Timothy Harris says that Trading Places really grew from the characters of Randolph and Mortimer Duke (Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche), the rich, snobby brothers who manipulate the fates of Louis and Billy Ray for a bet.
Harris had real-life inspiration for the Dukes, modelling them on two wealthy brothers with whom he played tennis.
Harris recalls, "I think one very hot day I played with them, and I just came home and was fed up with it, and I just thought, 'God, I just don't want to play with these people, they're awful.'"
Then Harris says he "had the idea of them betting on a nature/nurture situation with somebody in their company," also taking inspiration from the rundown, crime-ridden neighbourhood he lived in at the time.
With the essential outline of the plot mapped out, Harris took it to his writing partner Herschel Weingrod. Together, Harris and Weingrod wrote the script, then sold it to Paramount.
16. The casting agent thought Don Ameche was already dead
When it came to casting the Dukes, Landis wanted two seasoned actors who hadn't taken on especially villainous roles before.
The director says, "I was thinking, 'Hey, what about Don Ameche?' And the casting woman said, 'Don Ameche's dead.'"
Landis was fairly sure that the casting agent was incorrect – but it took a bit of digging for the director to finally confirm that suspicion.
In fact, Ameche, aged 74 at the time, hadn't made a movie for over a decade – although he had clocked up a number of TV roles in the interim.
Ameche's career had slowed down so much that he no longer had an agent, so Landis got in touch with Ameche the old-fashioned way: he looked him up in the phone directory, called him directly and offered him the part of Mortimer Duke.
Appearing in Trading Places gave Ameche's film career a second wind; a key role in 1985's Cocoon followed, which won Ameche the Best Supporting Actor Oscar.
15. The writers got drunk with real traders as research
Something that might not have occurred to you on first glance is that the title Trading Places has a double-meaning.
The first, and most obvious of these is that it sees Murphy's down-and-out Billy Ray and Aykroyd's pampered playboy Louis literally trade places in society.
However, it also refers to the practice of commodities trading, which is Louis' profession until the Dukes conspire to disgrace and fire him, then groom Billy Ray to take over his job.
The 80s was the decade in which, for many, getting rich on Wall Street was the dream – and, while this might not have been the film's intention, Trading Places had a role to play in promoting that ideal.
Writers Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod had to school themselves in the complex art of commodities trading, and both admit it was a struggle: Harris likened their research to "studying for an exam… you kind of understand it the day of, and then 24 hours later you can't remember how anything works."
Weingrod meanwhile recalls getting wild hanging out with Los Angeles traders: "because it was three hours behind New York, (they) had their happy-hours very early in the day. You can imagine what they were like by, maybe, 2pm."
14. Sir John Gielgud was offered Denholm Elliott's part
Once any seasoned British actor reaches a certain age, there's one role they're almost certain to play in Hollywood at least once: the butler.
So it was that Denholm Elliott, best known to most 80s kids as Marcus Brody in the Indiana Jones movies, took that role in Trading Places.
However, despite Elliott being that bit hotter after 1981's Raiders of the Lost Ark, he was not the first choice for the part of Louis' servant Coleman.
That honour went to Sir John Gielgud, one of the most acclaimed British actors of stage and screen in the 20th century.
However, Gielgud had not long since played a butler (see, told you!) opposite Dudley Moore in 1981's Arthur, winning a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his efforts, and apparently he wasn't too keen to repeat himself.
Nor was Elliott the only second choice actor cast in the film, as before Ralph Bellamy was cast as Randolph Duke, the role was offered to Ray Milland, who said no due to ill health.
13. Jamie Lee Curtis' Swedish accent was an ad-lib because she really couldn't do an Austrian one
As tends to be the case in modern comedies, at least a couple of the funniest moments in Trading Places were ad-libbed.
One particular scene that sports improvised dialogue comes when the characters don disguises, with Jamie Lee Curtis' Ophelia clad in Austrian lederhosen.
However, when speaking in this disguise, Ophelia introduces herself as "Inga from Sweden" – and the dialogue addresses this inconsistency.
These lines were improvised purely because Curtis was unable to do a convincing Austrian accent, but could manage a Swedish one.
We'd have to wonder if Curtis would have done a better job of it 11 years later, after she co-starred with Hollywood's most famous Austrian – Arnold Schwarzenegger – in 1994's True Lies.
Regrettably, this sequence also sees Aykroyd dress in blackface and pretend to be Jamaican, but perhaps we should just try to overlook that for the moment…
12. Don Ameche apologised to the crew whenever he had to swear on camera
Don Ameche was very much an old-fashioned Hollywood gentleman, having risen to fame as an actor back in the 1930s.
As such, certain aspects of his role in an R-rated John Landis comedy posed a challenge to him – in particular, the use of bad language.
Much to Ameche's chagrin, the role of Mortimer Duke required him to utter two of the most unseemly forms of profanity: the F-word, and worse yet the N-word.
Years later, Jamie Lee Curtis claimed in an interview with Larry King that Ameche would show up to set early when shooting scenes that involved curse words, so that he could apologise in person to every crew member beforehand.
In addition, Ameche is said to have refused to shoot more than a single take of his final scene, when Mortimer cries "f*** him!"
Small wonder that critic Rex Reed would ultimately describe Trading Places as "an updated Frank Capra with four-letter words."
11. John Landis didn't know who Eddie Murphy was
Today, all the central players from Trading Places are long-established screen stars, but it was a different story when the film went into production.
Eddie Murphy, in particular, was still an almost complete unknown. Though Murphy had already shot his role in 48 Hrs., director Walter Hill's thriller hadn't yet opened when work began on Trading Places.
Indeed, John Landis himself has confessed that when Paramount executives first suggested Eddie Murphy for the film, the director didn't know who he was.
There was an even greater lack of familiarity between the young leads of Trading Places, and the elder supporting actors.
Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche had no idea who Eddie Murphy or Dan Aykroyd were – and Aykroyd and Murphy were equally oblivious to the work of Bellamy and Ameche.
Bellamy once recounted on the first day of shooting, "I said, 'Why, this is my 72nd movie.' And Don answers, 'Why, this is my 56th.' And Eddie Murphy looks embarrassed and said, 'Boys, this is my first. Ever.' It broke everybody up, and the movie became my biggest hit."
10. There are a number of hidden cameos in the film
Trading Places squeezes in a number of fun, fan-pleasing cameos for the more eagle-eyed viewers in the audience.
Probably the easiest one to spot is Frank Oz, the director and sometime actor still best known as the voice and puppeteer of The Muppets' Miss Piggy, and Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
Oz has a small but prominent role as the arresting officer of Aykroyd's Louis, following the wealthy trader's fall from grace. This cameo is a callback to a similar role Oz played in The Blues Brothers.
Another noteworthy cameo comes from Jim Belushi, brother of Landis and Aykroyd's late friend John; although he's for the most part unrecognisable behind a gorilla suit.
Nor is Belushi the only cameo actor with a familial link, as we also have a brief appearance from Kelly Curtis, sister of Jamie Lee, as country club girl Muffy.
Although never as successful as her sister, Kelly Curtis has enjoyed some prominent acting roles, notably in acclaimed 1991 Italian horror movie The Sect.
9. Louis' arrest number is a tribute to John Belushi
Trading Places was in some ways a bittersweet reunion for actor Dan Aykroyd and director John Landis, as their previous collaboration, The Blues Brothers, had been with the late John Belushi.
However, Trading Places does still go about keeping the comedy legend's spirit alive, albeit in a subtle way.
One thing Trading Places shares with The Blues Brothers is prison. Whilst The Blues Brothers sees Belushi's Jake Blues being released after completing his sentence, Trading Places sees Aykroyd's Louis Winthorpe jailed.
Take a close look at the mugshots for Belushi's character and Aykroyd's character, and hopefully you can spot the connection.
That's right – Aykroyd's Louis Winthorpe has the exact same number on his mugshot card (74745058) as Belushi's Jake Blues.
Nor is this the only Landis film connection: eagle-eyed viewers may spy a movie poster in Ophelia's bedroom that reads 'See You Next Wednesday,' which is a recurring gag in the director's films.
8. Part of the film was shot during real-life trading hours at the World Trade Center
Some of Trading Places' most memorable moments take place on the Commodities Exchange floor at the World Trade Center in New York.
If these scenes seem realistic, this would be because the cast and crew shot there for real, during actual trading hours.
Landis recalls, "They were basically trading like 8 or 9 hours a day, so we were in there for 3 to 4 hours on two days between opening and closing, and we got a lot done."
The director recalls being "quite taken aback at how physically rough it was – they really elbowed one another… It was like a contact sport."
And of course, Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy themselves were right in the middle of all that pushing and shoving for the pivotal climactic scene.
Murphy has stated openly that his actions in that scene came entirely from the script, as while his character understood commodity trading, in reality Murphy found it confusing.
7. The Duke Brothers return in Coming to America as vagrants
As demonstrated by the subtle callback to The Blues Brothers in Trading Places, director John Landis likes winking to the audience with references to his previous hits.
Landis would do so again on his next film with Eddie Murphy, the 1988 smash hit comedy Coming to America.
As fans of the film will recall, Coming to America stars Murphy as a naive African prince who flees to New York to avoid an arranged marriage, and adopts a working-class lifestyle in the hopes of finding a woman who will love him for who he is.
In terms of subject matter, then, Coming to America touches on similar ideas to Trading Places: the class divide, and questions of what marks a person's true worth.
However, Coming to America refers back to Trading Places in a far more overt manner, thanks to cameos from Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche as Randolph and Mortimer Duke.
The cameo shows that these formerly rich characters are now living rough on the street, where they are given some money by Murphy's Akeem.
6. The film inspired a new financial regulation dubbed 'the Eddie Murphy rule'
Believe it or not, Trading Places was the real-life inspiration for brand new regulations on the financial markets.
In 2010, Trading Commission chief Gary Gensler stated: "We have recommended banning using misappropriated government information to trade in the commodity markets."
In Trading Places, part of the Duke brothers' nefarious scheme is "to profit from trades in frozen concentrated orange juice futures contracts."
Most significantly, the Dukes plan to do this "using an illicitly obtained and not yet public Department of Agriculture orange crop report."
The new regulations introduced in 2010 banned any such activity – and, brilliantly, came to be known as 'the Eddie Murphy rule.'
The irony is, Murphy admitted that he himself didn't really understand how commodity trading worked at all.
5. It launched the professional partnerships of Murphy/Landis and Aykroyd/Curtis
To date, all the key players of Trading Places have never made another movie together, but members of the team have reunited.
For one, Trading Places was the first of three times Eddie Murphy headlined a film directed by John Landis. The duo would reunite on 1988's hugely popular Coming to America.
Landis directed Murphy a third time on 1994's Beverly Hills Cop III. However, this film was not such a success, and the duo haven't worked together since. (Recent sequel Coming 2 America instead reunited Murphy with Craig Brewer, director of Dolemite Is My Name.)
Aykroyd would go on to take a number of supporting roles in John Landis movies, including Into the Night, Susan's Plan, and the deeply troubled Twilight Zone: The Movie. He would also take the lead in the ill-advised 1998 sequel Blues Brothers 2000.
Aykroyd and Curtis, meanwhile, went on to co-star another three times to date: in 1991 comedy-drama My Girl, its 1994 sequel My Girl 2 and 2004's Christmas with the Kranks.
Murphy and Aykroyd (who were originally intended to reunite in Ghostbusters) only worked together once more, again directed by Landis, in a music video for blues legend B.B. King.
4. The film has become perennial Christmas viewing in Italy
Trading Places can often be found listed alongside the likes of Die Hard and Gremlins, two other 80s films which prompt seemingly endless debate about whether or not they're actually Christmas movies.
Though the events of the film take place around the Christmas holiday period, it's arguable that Christmas as a theme isn't vital to the Trading Places plot.
More to the point, Trading Places wasn't even released to cinemas around Christmas time, instead opening in July 1983.
Nonetheless, for many fans of the film, Trading Places is fully accepted as a true Christmas classic.
However, it's perhaps surprising that the film has become standard Christmas TV viewing not in the US or UK, but in Italy.
The comedy has been a staple of Italian Christmas TV viewing for over two decades, screening every year and drawing large audiences on channel Italia 1 since 1997.
3. It was one of the biggest box office hits of 1983
Paramount's fears that a comedy headlined by Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy wouldn't fare well at the box office proved to be unfounded.
Having cost $15 million to make, Trading Places ultimately made $90 million at the US box office alone.
This made Trading Places the second highest-grossing R-rated film of 1983, behind Flashdance (which made just over $92 million).
Overall this made Trading Places the fourth-biggest US box office hit of 1983, the top three earners being Flashdance, Terms of Endearment ($108.4 million) and Return of the Jedi (a whopping $252.5 million).
Small wonder, then, that from that point on Aykroyd and Murphy became two of the most bankable stars of the 80s.
Aykroyd would next make his signature movie, Ghostbusters, whilst Murphy took the lead in comedy thriller Beverly Hills Cop. These would be the top two highest-earning films of 1984.
2. It won two BAFTAs
Jamie Lee Curtis wasn't exaggerating when she said being cast in Trading Places changed her life, as it saw her awarded her first major accolade.
Curtis was named Best Supporting Actress at the 1984 BAFTA Film Awards, the UK's equivalent of the Oscars.
Curtis, who was 25 at the time, beat significant competition from Maureen Lipman, Teri Garr and Rosemary Harris.
Trading Places also landed Denholm Elliott with the Best Supporting Actor BAFTA, with Elliott beating Bob Hoskins, Burt Lancaster and Jerry Lewis.
Trading Places was also nominated twice at the Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture: Musical or Comedy, and Best Actor: Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Eddie Murphy.
Unfortunately, Trading Places lost the Best Musical or Comedy Golden Globe to Yentl, whilst Murphy lost out to Michael Caine in Educating Rita.
1. It's a new take on an old story
The main focus of Trading Places is the switching of social positions between a vagrant and an upper-class commodities broker.
It's by no means an accident that this premise directly echoes a classic from 19th century American literature.
The film is an update of Mark Twain's 1881 novel The Prince and the Pauper, in which two boys from different walks of life use their physical resemblance to switch places temporarily.
Obviously the physical resemblance aspect was out with Trading Places, but otherwise the core idea – and its underlying social commentary – are much the same.
The premise of Trading Places has also been compared to that of Mozart's 1786 opera The Marriage of Figaro, in which a wealthy master attempts to marry the bride-to-be of his lowly servant, until the servant strikes back.


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Free Jacks Confirm Promising USA Collegiate Standout, Jack Miller, for 2021 Season of Major League Rugby
Jack Miller, returns to Boston to join Free Jack ranks
BOSTON – October 27, 2020 – The Free Jacks are excited to welcome Jack Miller to the squad for the 2021 season of Major League Rugby. Jack, a Brookline High School graduate and local Bostonian will join the team as a gritty and talented loose forward.
"Growing up moving around the world things entered and left my life," commented Jack Miller. But rugby was always there. I cannot rightly express all that rugby has done for me, and all the joy it has brought me. I am incredibly thankful to the Free Jacks for making my dreams a reality. Can't wait to get back on the pitch with my new team."
Jack graduates from the University of Colorado, Boulder with a degree in Ethnic Studies, and Community Engagement and Leadership. While at Boulder, Jack earned rookie of the year and represented the USA in Under-19's and Under-20's. During the spring of 2018, Jack played for the Glendale U23 side, before the team dissolved. Jack continued the development of his game while studying in London, playing with the amateur side of the London Scottish Lions.
Jack started playing rugby at age 10 in Hong Kong at Valley Fort Rugby football club. Moving back to the US a few years later, Jack continued with the Essex Bulldogs and represented Brookline High School.
"We are excited to get Jack back home. He has ties to Boston and brings a work ethic and breakdown specialty that will add a lot to our current roster," commented James Willocks, Free Jacks Technical Advisor and former Men's Collegiate All American Head Coach. "It's exciting to see the development of a local player make the jump to MLR and we hope to further that growth for players like Jack."
Jack will join the exciting draft selections from the 2020 graduating class.
Join Jack and the Free Jacks for a virtual Town Hall "News and Brews," on November 12. Grab a Free Jacks IPA, join the virtual gathering and get to know the newest Free Jacks and the returning players. RSVP using the link here: https://freejacks.com/news-and-brews/.
About The Free Jacks: The Free Jacks are an aspiring and innovative live events, media, and consumer products organization. The core brand in the portfolio is The New England Free Jacks–the humble hard-working free-spirited professional rugby team competing in the emergent and exhilarating Major League Rugby (MLR), the premier North American professional rugby competition. For more information please visit www.FreeJacks.com


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There Goes Your Man
By SamFels May 16, 2012, 5:03pm BST
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There he goes, there he goes again.
Sometimes, you end up being psychic without meaning to be.
Just broke, but Kenny Dalglish has left Liverpool. I doubt anyone is going to say they're shocked. While details won't come out until a press release in about an hour, and even then I doubt we're going to get anything more than usual boiler plate filler, the reasons have to be obvious to all.
Let's take his standing at the club, his legend, his accomplishments, and his name out of the equation for a minute. What you're left with is simply not good enough. Lowest point total in half a century, a bloated transfer budget that didn't produce anything, and a directionless club. The last part is what gets me. While the final results wouldn't be acceptable, they would be understandable if the team was actually going through some overhaul. If kids were tried out at every position before they were ready, if veterans were moved out simply because they won't be around when Liverpool are a true threat again.
But let's face it, that didn't happen. Jordan Henderson was bought for the future, we were told, and then hardly allowed to grow at the position he will man when he truly matures. Andy Carroll was shunned for almost three quarters of the season, usually in favor of Stewart Downing or Craig Bellamy (who rarely could manage 70 minutes) or some other combination, and we know how Downing went. While my opinions on Kuyt are clear, he was instrumental in the club's revitalization last season under Kenny, along with Maxi, and yet both were hardly used. Both certainly had more of a role to play.
If it was a ruthless streak Dalglish wanted to show to his more experienced players, how did Jamie Carragher get into the FA Cup Semifinal? Why was Fabio Aurelio not ever, ever an option to give a gasping Jose Enrique a breather? Is Jay Spearing so limited that he was always going to look like he took a step back? I'm not so sure.
It's all simply not good enough.
But it's not that simple when you're dealing with Kenny Dalglish, is it? You can't simply throw out history and his place at Anfield, can you? Well, a forward-thinking management does. Because no matter what he's accomplished, clinging to that when the current team is falling is how you end up in a real mess. And Liverpool may already be in a real mess, and if they're not they can certainly see it without binoculars from where they are.
Where now? We'll have plenty of discussion for sure. Obviously, Roberto Martinez is going to be the favorite, and as I said yesterday I would be in favor of that. But is he the man to immediately gain the players' respect upon hearing his name? Will Luis Suarez, Daniel Agger, Martin Skrtel, and whoever else is of Champions League quality think he's the man to bring it to them at Anfield? You have to wonder. Will Dirk Kuyt and Maxi, useful squad players if nothing else, wait long enough before leaving to see if they still have a role to play? Can whoever they bring in move Henderson and Carroll down the road of development to become real weapons that only some of us see if we squint real hard? Only time will tell.
There will be other names. Rafa Benitez has been out of work a while, if he's not waiting around to take the Spain job after Euro 2012. But did he lose touch with Gerrard and Carragher enough to be welcomed back? His problems mainly came from ownership, and now it's new owners. Not totally unlikely. Paul Lambert's name might get thrown around too, as he's done probably even better with Norwich than Martinez did with Wigan. Andre Villas-Boas? He was shunned at Chelsea for doing what they kind of asked him to do, i.e. make over an aging squad. Would he want a non-Champions League job? You can't argue with what he accomplished at Porto, he simply can't be a bumbling idiot.
But that's what's to come, and I don't want to throw any more dirt on Kenny right now. Because we owe him for last year, when things looked a lot more hopeless than they do now. That team was headed for way worse than 8th and 52 points, or at least that's what it felt like. And the football was abhorrent at times. Kenny changed all that, and at least made us believe again. Things could have been so much worse.
I hope whatever bitter feelings are around eventually subside, and Kenny can be a part of the club again one day. It wouldn't be Liverpool without him. But his part isn't in the manager's office, and if you can ignore all he means, you'll see that was pretty obvious.


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Footballer Clubs: Celtic, Morton, Partick Thistle.
A Lisbon Lion, Stevie Chalmers will best be remembered in Scottish football history for scoring Celtic's winning goal in the European Cup Final of 1967. He signed from Ashfield Juniors in 1959, making his first team debut soon afterwards away to Airdrieonians in a League match. A fast and unselfish centre forward, Stevie could also score goals and netted 228 times in 405 games. He enjoyed a long association with Celtic lasting 12 years and remains the club's fourth highest all time goal scorer.
Even though Chalmers suffered a bad injury during the League Cup Final in 1969 he nevertheless would win four League Championships, four League Cups, three Scottish Cups and the European Cup with Celtic. On leaving Celtic in 1971 Stevie would go on to play for Morton and Partick Thistle.
At international level he scored three goals in five games for Scotland, one of the goals coming in a 1-1 draw against Brazil, who were the then reigning world champions and were led by Pele.


In Tunbridge Wells, Denzell watches a beautiful girl playing with children in the snow. The mysterious Verena proves cold and apparently impervious to Denzell's charm. Verena, anxious for her abused mother's health, is struggling to remain aloof. Will his affection be enough to coax Verena out of her fear of matrimony?
With each chapter I grew deeper and deeper into Verena's life. Her fears for her mother and herself, even her half brother. Living in fear is horrifying to be sure. I know from experience.
It take a lot to trust again, and a very special person to lead you to trust them. This was sad but so true to what many suffer today as well as back then.


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KnD: This strain seems to benefit from LST and topping, along with aggressive pruning to produce multiple large colas. Without 'lolipopping' the developing main colas, you will have alot of underdeveloped larf along the bottom of the canopy. This is a non issue outside of a sog/scrog or any setup that allows for greater light penetration. The top colas were slightly smaller than appearance due to the amazingly heavy amount of resin coated leaves surrounded them. Seems like this could be used as a hash plant for medicinal use as you get vast amounts of very resinous trim. Yield this run was slightly less than those that fell with it, but I think it is capable of being at least a moderate yielder. Top colas are very pinecone shaped and rather large, though not a full stem continuous bud. They look and smell absolutely incredible. I lack funk's thesaurus x winesnob ability to conjure and translate the actual smells and tastes to recognizable terms and image conjuring descriptions. But it's dank. Madd props Tre. Appreciate the chance.
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hope you have fun with your harvest and i hoped you could throw a few pics from them up when its in your power^^. Stay safe, Peace!
Ugh. I hate technology. My tech is not agreeing with me right now. I'm trying to upload the rest of the pictures up until harvest. The KnD smells very interesting. Difficult to desrcribe at this point. I want to let it sit in a jar for a lil bit before trying to describe it. The Herijuana, however, reeks of sage and smells very much like Jimmy Dean breakfast sausage. They are all extremely covered in resin. I'll put up some finish shots soon too if I can get all this stuff to cooperate. Apologies.
Jimmy Dean breakfast sausage?? Crazy Roll it up in a maple syrup blunt wrap lol.
Greetings from the place you land when you fall off the map 🙋. I don't know what ever happened to the final pictures but every bit of that was flame. Props to Tre for letting me run em and hope everyone has been well.


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The leaked Operation Yellowhammer document was an "old document"
Michael Gove to television cameras
The Operation Yellowhammer document was "deliberately leaked by a former minister in an attempt to influence discussions with EU leaders"
Number 10 briefing to journalists
"Nothing can stop us now"
"No 10 aides", to the Sun on Sunday
"They tell me that they are literally only a few years away from being able to provide UK made fusion reactors for sale around the world"
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Quotes by Pele
About Pele:
Edson Arantes do Nascimento is a retired Brazilian professional footballer who is widely regarded to be the greatest player of all time. In 1999, he was voted World Player of the Century by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS). The same year, France Football asked their former Ballon d'Or winners to choose the Football Player of the Century; they selected Pelé. In 1999, Pelé was elected Athlete of the Century by the IOC, and Time named him in their list of 100 most influential people of the 20th century. In 2013 he received the FIFA Ballon d'Or Prix d'Honneur in recognition of his career and achievements as a global icon of football.
The World Cup is a very complicated tournament - six games, seven if you make it to the final - and maybe if you lose one game you're out, even if you're the best.
I represent Brazil all over the world. Wherever I go I have to do my best, to not disappoint the Brazilian people. And that I've done.
If I pass away one day, I am happy because I tried to do my best. My sport allowed me to do so much because it's the biggest sport in the world.
I represent Brazil all over the world. Wherever I go, I have to do my best, to not disappoint the Brazilian people.
A penalty is a cowardly way to score.
Cowardly
Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.
Wherever you go, there are three icons that everyone knows: Jesus Christ, Pele and Coca-Cola.
Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we?
Pele doesn't die. Pele will never die. Pele is going to go on for ever.
I am constantly being asked about individuals. The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three star players.
The bicycle kick is not easy to do.
The level of football in England is the top. English football is the leader in the world.
The first World Cup I remember was in the 1950 when I was 9 or 10 years old. My father was a soccer player, and there was a big party, and when Brazil lost to Uruguay, I saw my father crying.
When you are young, you do a lot of stupid things.
I sometimes lie awake at night and wonder why I am still so popular and, to be honest, I don't know.
I always think that I would have become an actor if I hadn't been a soccer player.
The bicycle kick is not easy to do. I scored 1,283 goals, and only two or three were bicycle kicks.
Edson is the person that supports Pele. Edson is the base. Pele just comes and adds the face.
When I was a footballer, I surrounded myself with footballers. We were all friends. But in Brasilia you don't know who your friends are. It can be a dangerous place.
In 1962, my injury wasn't because of violence; I just kicked the ball and it happened. And that was OK because Brazil won; I didn't have any difficulty in accepting that. I still got a medal because I'd played two games.
NamePele
Descriptionformer Brazilian soccer player
AliasesEdson Arantes do Nascimento
BornOctober 23, 1940
CountryBrazil
ProfessionAssociation Football Player; Politician
AwardsKnight Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire


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5 Fastest Trains in the World – Best High-Speed Rail Networks
The first steam train appeared in 1804. Despite initial concerns regarding the effect of speed on people the train quickly became a popular and practical option to move around a country.
By the 1850s trains were capable of an impressive 80km/h. Today seems pretty slow, especially when you compare it to some of the fastest rail networks in the world. But, as with anything, it's journey had to start somewhere.
Traveling at high speed is now commonplace but it is important to note that while engineers create trains that can go faster and faster, it's the railway equipment specialists who are the unsung heroes. They are the ones that ensure the tracks are there to support the trains!
Let's take a look at the five best high-speed rail networks in the world:
The very first bullet train came into existence in Japan in 1964. The Japanese Railways Group looks after the high-speed train system and has over 3,000km of track extending across the country.
The trains travel at speeds up to 320km/h although test runs have reached a whopping 443km/h and the world record of 603km/h was achieved on these tracks in 2015.
It should come as no surprise that the uber-efficient Germans have created one of the fastest high-speed networks in the world. The first high-speed train entered service in 1991. Today there is approximately 2,000 km of high-speed lines and the trains travel at 300km/h.
It should be noted Germany did suffer a fatal accident on the high-speed line in 1998 which left 101 people dead.
The conventional TGV travels at 320km/h although the TGV has been recorded reaching speeds of 574.8km/h and was, for many years, the fastest train on the planet.
The first French high-speed train ran in 1981 on the LGV Sud-Est. Originally it centered on Paris but the high-speed network now covers all the major cities in France.
Interestingly, there has never been a fatal incident on these high-speed trains, France also leads the world in onboard security systems, they designed the system that is now used around the world.
The Chinese bullet train reaches a top speed of 350km/h and there are in excess of 2,800 trains running every day in China. It has become an essential link across the country, allowing you to get from Beijing to Shanghai in just four and a half hours, that's impressive considering the two cities are 1,318km apart.
China has been furiously developing high-speed trains and tracks since 2007 and now has the most track of any country in the world.
The final contender on the list is Spain. Their high-speed trains reach 310km/h and first came into existence in 1992. Today they have more high-speed track than any other country in Europe and are second only to China in the world.
This high-speed service also connects through Barcelona to the southern part of France, enabling high-speed travel from Paris to Madrid in a matter of hours.
There is little doubt that high-speed trains are here to stay, the question is how much faster will they get?
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"What Is Your Day 'On'?"
Have you ever heard the saying: "It is easier to preach ten sermons than it is to live one"?
As a preacher, I can attest to the fact that there is a lot of truth to that statement. However, I can also say that I honestly attempt to practice what I preach. You see, contrary to what some think about us preachers—it is not our goal to stand in a pulpit and pontificate about all the things our parishioners are not doing right—or should I say, not living out. But instead, it is our responsibility to proclaim the Word of God and trust the Holy Spirit will do the convicting in all of our hearts.
That's why I love this quote that is taped here on the pulpit that says, "It would be best for a preacher to fall and break his neck as he mounts the pulpit if he is not going to be the first to follow God in living his own message" (John Calvin).
As we prepare to hear God's word this morning—I want to confess that this ONE sermon may be the most difficult for me to live out—and my hunch is it may be for you as well. But I will also say that I think this ONE sermon may be one of the most important sermons we should strive to live out. I will attempt to explain.
Turn with me to Mark 2: 23-28.
At least one reason why they want to know the answers to these questions is because they want to know if pastors are taking care of themselves. The Presbytery requires that all clergy have a minimum of 4 weeks of vacation and 2 weeks of study leave. But also, they expect each pastor to have a designated "day off" each week.
I answered the questions this way: "Did you use all of your study leave? "Yes, I used it for a Doctorate class in August." "Did you use all of your allotted vacation time?" Again, I answered "Yes." But to the question, "What is your day off?" I simply wrote: "Friday"—and then put a smiley face—a sarcastic reminder of what a joke my "day off" really is. You see, although I am supposed to take a day off every week; although the Session has approved me taking a day off every week I just don't do a very good job of it.
I have come to the conclusion that there are a few reasons for this. First, it seems like there is always something that I could be doing here at the church—or at least I think there is. Second, there is always someone I could be visiting. Third, unless I have something very specific planned to do—I don't do well just "resting." Finally, what's the big deal if I don't take my day off—it's not like I am breaking the law or anything!
In our sermon text this morning—the Pharisees felt justified to accuse Jesus and His disciples of breaking the Sabbath law. By design, the Sabbath was to be a day of rest; a day that was very significant in the Jewish tradition. And the Pharisees were real sticklers for the observance of the Sabbath as well as obsessive compulsive with various interpretations. The Pharisees were very interested in the outward observance of their understanding of the law. And somehow, down through the years, their understanding of the Sabbath law caused a shift from a day of rest to a day of stress. And the Pharisees were quick to point the finger, as was the case in our text this morning—according to the law; it was unlawful to harvest on the Sabbath.
The Lord established a Sabbath "day." Not a Sabbath "hour." The Sabbath is not simply about going to church—although I think that worship should be a part of the Sabbath day. But I think the Sabbath—in its most literal translation—is to be a day of rest; a day when we not only rest in the Lord but also a day when we rest from the pressures of work. The Sabbath day should be a day when we reflect on the many blessings in our lives rather than stressing over our many obligations. The Sabbath should be a day when we recognize God's importance rather than assuming our own importance.
It seems to me that one of the reasons we struggle with observing the Sabbath is because we place way too much importance on ourselves. If I don't work every day—how will it get done? If I take a day of rest each week then I will just be that much further behind when I go back to work. If I don't make myself available to my customers 24/7 then they may think I don't care. If they don't see me working at the church then they may think I really DO ONLY work one day per week.
Friends, I believe God established the Sabbath day in order that we might rest in His importance. I believe that when we truly honor the Sabbath—when we faithfully observe a day off—we are exhibiting one of the most tangible acts of faithfulness to our Lord. We are obeying His law not our law. We are trusting in His will for our lives not our own. We are expressing our confidence in His power not our own. We are recognizing that if we are not right with Him then there is no way we can get anything else right.
Friends, we all need rest! It doesn't matter if you are 4 years old or 64 years old—we all need rest. My daughter Layne is down in Galveston this weekend on a youth retreat—guess what the name of the retreat is—"Spring Sabbath." I can't wait to hear about and see the impact the rest made in her life.
I want to encourage us to re-think the Sabbath in our lives. Since we seem to struggle with these words "day off" then I want to suggest that we try the words "day on." Let the Sabbath be a day ON which we rest in the Lord. Let it be a day ON which we surrender everything to the Lord. It is the day ON which we pray. It is a day ON which we cherish the laughter of our children. It is a day ON which we humble ourselves before our Lord and reflect on His gracious provision in our lives. It is a day ON which we don't have to please everyone—just The One!
Do you believe this? If so, then are your actions embodying your belief?
I close with this story about some American explorers who went to Africa. They employed some native guides. The first day they rushed to cover as much distance as possible. They did the same thing on the second, third, and every day. On the seventh day they noticed the guides sitting under a tree. "Come on," they shouted, "Let's go." One of the guides replied, "We no go today. We rest today to let our souls catch up with our bodies" (Source Unknown).
"What is your day ON?" That day ON which you will make time for your soul to catch up with your body—trust me, if we do not make the time, both will cease to live.
"What is your day ON? Quite frankly—it's a question we all need to answer—myself included! But I am convinced, when we can answer that question consistently each week—I think we will begin to see a lot more smiling faces.


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