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Explore Earth's Poles at a Museum Near You With Polar-Palooza
WASHINGTON – The human face of the exploration of Earth's polar regions is coming to science centers and museums across the United States. NASA and the National Science Foundation are sponsoring the Polar-Palooza "Stories from a Changing Planet" tour beginning Oct. 19 in San Diego. The tour will stop in cities across the country in 2007 and 2008.
NASA and the National Science Foundation are funding Polar-Palooza and other education and outreach activities as part of the International Polar Year, which began last March and ends in March 2009. The International Polar Year focuses science and education on Earth's remote polar regions.
The Polar-Palooza national tour features tales of science and adventure from polar glaciologists, geologists, climate scientists, oceanographers, biologists and residents of the Arctic. Each tour stop includes multimedia shows with high-definition video, school programs, teacher workshops and briefings for media and business leaders.
Upcoming tour dates include:
– Oct. 19-21: San Diego area – Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Birch Aquarium, San Diego Museum of Natural History and other locations
– Oct. 26-28: San Francisco area – Chabot Space and Science Center, Oakland, and the Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley
– Oct. 22-24: Albuquerque – New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
– Nov. 8-10: Tampa, Fla. – Museum of Science and Industry
– Nov. 11-13: Atlanta – Fernbank Science Center
– Nov. 15-17: Baton Rouge – Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science
Polar-Palooza is produced by Passport to Knowledge, Morristown, N.J., as an integral part of the International Polar Year outreach efforts. The "Stories from a Changing Planet" tour will continue in 2008 with events planned in Chicago, St. Louis, Denver, Philadelphia, New York, Houston and several other cities. For more information about Polar-Palooza and links to the 2007 tour schedule, visit:


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Other institutional investors have also added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Advisor Group Holdings Inc. boosted its holdings in ESCO Technologies by 45.6% in the first quarter. Advisor Group Holdings Inc. now owns 2,265 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company's stock valued at $158,000 after acquiring an additional 709 shares during the last quarter. KBC Group NV acquired a new position in ESCO Technologies in the second quarter valued at approximately $212,000. OLD National Bancorp IN lifted its stake in ESCO Technologies by 11.2% in the second quarter. OLD National Bancorp IN now owns 3,485 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company's stock valued at $238,000 after buying an additional 351 shares during the period. Mount Yale Investment Advisors LLC lifted its stake in ESCO Technologies by 26.5% in the second quarter. Mount Yale Investment Advisors LLC now owns 3,675 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company's stock valued at $251,000 after buying an additional 770 shares during the period. Finally, PDT Partners LLC acquired a new position in ESCO Technologies in the second quarter valued at approximately $319,000. 93.96% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.
ESCO Technologies Price Performance
Shares of NYSE:ESE opened at $89.12 on Friday. The company has a quick ratio of 1.29, a current ratio of 1.80 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.13. ESCO Technologies Inc. has a twelve month low of $60.03 and a twelve month high of $96.69. The stock's 50 day moving average is $89.56 and its 200-day moving average is $81.17. The firm has a market capitalization of $2.31 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 28.20 and a beta of 1.08.
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About ESCO Technologies
ESCO Technologies Inc produces and supplies engineered products and systems for industrial and commercial markets worldwide. It operates through Aerospace & Defense, Utility Solutions Group, and RF Shielding and Test segments. The Aerospace & Defense segment designs and manufactures filtration products, including hydraulic filter elements and fluid control devices used in commercial aerospace applications; filter mechanisms used in micro-propulsion devices for satellites; and custom designed filters for manned aircraft and submarines.
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One Piece World - Man sealed on the Moon - Chapter 91
Chapter 91 Whitebeard made his choice
Sengoku looked at Akainu's angry and dissatisfied expression and said flatly:
"I can't give you the explanation you want, if I recommend Aokiji, it can only prove that he is more suitable than you.
I believe my choice will not be wrong."
Sengoku doesn't understand why he recommends Aokiji, but since he recommends it, there must be a reason.
And Akainu obviously couldn't accept this answer. He glanced at Sengoku and Aokiji indignantly, and then slumped back to his seat, clasping his arms fiercely, with Laozi displeased brightly written on his face.
Aokiji looked at the performance of Akainu and Sengoku a little helpless, why did no one ask his opinion? Although he is also very interested in the position of marshal.
As for Kizaru, he watched their performance with a funny face, and his funny face showed a look of regret, but unfortunately, he thought he could see a terrible scene.
It didn't turn into chaos, which made the Marines who were watching secretly on the side breathe a sigh of relief.
They were really worried that Akainu, who had a bad temper, turned against Marshal Sengoku after hearing about it, and something happened.
Although nothing has happened now, it can be seen that he has turned his face.
Akainu Admiral's dissatisfaction was written on his face.
But everyone is also very curious, obviously Akainu Admiral's style is closer to that of Marshal Sengoku, and Aokiji's style of doing things is more like Garp Vice Admiral's. Why did Sengoku choose Aokiji as his successor?
Kind of weird.
But what they are more curious about now is the answer to this question.
Marshal Sengoku resigned and recommended Aokiji as the next Marshal.
However, the question is who is the next marshal?
It's obviously not that simple here.
And the candidate who can succeed Marine is obviously among the three Admiral Marines.
Kizaru Admiral will certainly not be a candidate.
Even if they are fools, they can see that Sengoku is very dissatisfied with Kizaru after the ape incident, and even if there is no such thing, Kizaru Admiral is not in the consideration of Marshal Sengoku.
It can be said that the position of Marine Marshal is basically between Akainu and Aokiji two Marine Admiral.
Since the title gave the information, Sengoku recommended Aokiji, but then asked who the next marshal was. Could it be that the actual marshal was not Aokiji but Akainu?
The idea surprised everyone, who could think of how Sengoku and Akainu could not.
Sengoku frowned and thought about what happened, while Akainu had a sneer on his face. After all, the position of the marshal is still his, Sengoku is blind, and the people above still understand people, who understands better Fit to be a marshal.
At this moment, the Four Emperors of the New World and the pirates of the Grand Line have been given the heartstrings by this question.
This is a big event closely related to them, and who Marshal Marine is basically determines how Marine will behave and treat them in the future.
This guy Akainu is more extreme and belligerent than Sengoku, if he become Marshal, then their sea will be even more dangerous.
On the Moby Dick, the Whitebeard Pirates were thinking about Ryan's problem.
They were also surprised that Sengoku recommended Aokiji, because it was Akainu who impressed them more and hated them more in Summit War.
And Aokiji has basically no sense of existence in Summit War except for the tsunami and the freezing of the sea with his hand.
Although they are enemies, it can be said that Akainu is the main force to defeat their Whitebeard Pirates.
They were a little surprised that such a person did not become the next Marshal in Sengoku's mind. They thought that Sengoku would pay more attention to Akainu. After all, they saw in the video that Sengoku and Akainu planned and executed Squard together. There are so many backstabs of the old man, it is really strange that such a tacit subordinate does not choose.
However, this is a welcome thing for the people of the Whitebeard Pirates. Seeing Akainu performing so hard, but being used aside by Sengoku, no matter how you look at it, no matter how you look at it, it feels funny.
"HahaHa, Akainu must have died of anger when he heard this."
"He worked so hard in Summit War, but Sengoku didn't choose him as Marshal, and this guy was doing his work in vain, performing for the donkey."
"I just don't like this kind of despicable villain, if Marine makes such a person a marshal, then Marine is just like that, this Akainu has never done anything human.
Whether it's inciting Squard to stab Daddy, or staring at Daddy's wound while fighting with Daddy, in addition to that, even Ace has to sneak up on Luffy while fighting, forcing Ace to block the attack of Luffy.
This is not like what a strong man would do, even if it is a pirate, only those despicable pirates can do it.
The real powerhouse is always one-on-one head-to-head, and for that alone, Akainu is a piece of trash in my heart."
"That's right, even I feel disdain when I see it, he is strong enough, but his character is not good, it makes sense for Sengoku not to choose him."
"This guy deserves…"
The comments of the Whitebeard Pirates on Akainu were broadcast live all over the world and resonated with many people.
Although Akainu did his duty as Marine and did his best in the battle, these methods are really uncomplimentable, and other things can be said, it can be said to be a strategy.
But attacking people who are weaker than himself is too limitless.
This is not at all like a Marine Admiral can do, no one with the heart of a strong man can do such a thing.
Many people think that this guy Akainu may be a Marine Admiral, but such a character is a Marshal.
As the saying goes, the upper and the lower are effective, and with such a Marshal there, wouldn't the Marines follow Akainu's behavior after that?
That kind of Marine, this kind of justice, is really a bit ugly.
So when they heard that Sengoku recommended Aokiji instead of Akainu, they felt a little bit different, but they understood it.
Akainu really wasn't their ideal Marshal Marine.
And this comment from the Whitebeard Pirates made Akainu of Navy Headquarters look extremely ugly.
He was originally dissatisfied that Sengoku didn't recommend him, and now the Whitebeard Pirates are really picking stones out of his eggs and picking out his faults.
Makes him look like he really doesn't deserve to be Marshal Marine.
It has already made him angry to the extreme, and these words will be broadcast to all parts of the world through live broadcast.
If people don't think he's worthy of being Marshal Marine, then he's going to be Marshal Marine, and that's a shame.
'These bastards!' Akainu glared at him, the temperature that had just subsided, suddenly rose again, and the hot breath made the Marines around him complain.
Angry is angry, dissatisfied is dissatisfied.
But the topic cannot be chosen arbitrarily because of emotions.
In fact, this question Ryan has almost given all the required information, and now only needs to make a decision.
It's an either-or gamble.
"Dad, the title deliberately told us that Sengoku recommended Aokiji. I feel like this is to mislead us into believing that the next marshal is Aokiji. If you look at it this way, then the result is definitely not Aokiji." Marco analyzed.
"I think so too. Many of the previous questions have proved a point, and often the most like the answer is not the answer." Ace also followed.
"But what if this is also a pretense thrown by Ryan?
In case he made us think so, formed this idea, and then deliberately did the opposite, let's choose another answer." Vista said, pinching his beard.
Marco and Ace couldn't help nodding when they heard the words, "I can't rule out this possibility."
"So Dad, it's up to you to decide, whether it's Aokiji or Akainu, we all listen to you." Ace looked at Whitebeard and said.
The members of the Whitebeard Pirates all looked at Whitebeard and handed over the decision to Whitebeard.
Whitebeard nodded slightly, thinking for a moment before making a decision.
He looked at Ryan and said, "Answer: Akainu."
Although Whitebeard didn't want Akainu to become a marshal, he was the culprit who killed Ace and directly caused his serious injury and the Whitebeard Pirates' defeat in Summit War.
If it wasn't for Akainu, the Whitebeard Pirates wouldn't necessarily have lost so badly in Summit War.
Maybe he will die in the Navy Headquarters, but Ace may survive, and in the future, the Whitebeard Pirates may be able to thrive again under the leadership of Marco and Ace.
The ending won't be so bad either.
Thinking of the tragic ending of the Whitebeard Pirates, and the fact that Akainu became Marshal Marine after the Summit War, this made Whitebeard very disgusted and hated.
But reason told him that the position of Marine Marshal should be Akainu's, not only because of his performance in the Summit War, but also because Akainu's character is more suitable for Marine Marshal, or Marine Marshal in the eyes of the World government.
After fighting with Marine for so many years, he also knew something about Marine and the World government.
What the world government wants is not peace, but stable rule, and justice is not the thing they value.
Justice is worthless to the World Government. If the World Government really cares about justice, then Celestial Dragons won't do much bad things, and the World Government has done less dirty things?
So World government or the Five Elders, they value obedience, and execution, and Akainu showed that perfectly in Summit War.
He perfectly executed Sengoku's orders, and killed Ace and Whitebeard in the Summit War without taking any face, which Aokiji and Kizaru couldn't do. Kuzan was brought out by Garp. If Aokiji is the Marshal, In the future, Marine still doesn't know how much water to put in against Luffy and Dragon.
Maybe the world's sea level will rise because of this.
Only this guy, Akainu, can put the Five Elders at ease.
The appointment of the Marshal, Sengoku only has the right to recommend, and only the Five Elders really make the decision.
The results are obvious.
Whitebeard made his choice.


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NOTIFICATION: These examples are provided for educational purposes. The use of this code and/or information is under your own responsibility and risk. The information and/or code is given 'as is'. I do not take responsibilities of how they are used.
Socket Programming
In networks applications, communications are almost always done using a client-server model.
A client will perform request for a service to the server, and receive a service from the server (which should be usually on). The only thing that the client needs to know is the address of the server and which port to use. Once the connection between the client and the server is establish, then the client and the server can send and receive information back and forwards. Eg. FTP client to a FTP server
The client usually should communicate with only one server at a time; however, there are exceptions such as the web browser. In today web browsers, a web browsers could connect to different servers in order to download all the elements of a page faster. A page could indicate that the images are from one server, while the flash animation is coming from a different server.
In order to a client and a server to communicate they must use sockets in order to send and receive messages from each other. A socket is used by a sending process to send a message to the transport infrastructure which deliver the message to a receiving process which also is using a socket to receive the message.
The first step for a process that is receiving a message is to have an identifier. This identifier must include the IP address and a port number. The port number must be associated with the process. The port number is a 16-bit number used to identify the application process. Notice that an IP address do not identify a process but the port does, so you can have more than one process running at the host which means different ports can be used at the same time with the same IP address.
IP Address
Right now, October 27 of 2010, there are two Internet Protocols (IP) available: IPv4 and IPv6.
- IPv4 (IP version 4) is a 32-bit binary number represented by using 4 decimal values, separated by periods, in dotted decimal notation. Each decimal value is an octed (8-bits) which range between 0 to 255. Example: 192.168.1.101 would be 11000000.10101000.00000001.01100101.
- 192 → 11000000
- 168 → 10101000
- 1 → 00000001
- 101 → 01100101
- IPv6 (IP version 6) is designed to succeed IPv4 (IP version 4). Instead of a 32-bit binary number, IPv6 use 128-bits. This means that the use of Notation Address Translation (NAT) is not needed as in IPv4. Network security such as IPSec (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPsec) which allow to authenticate and encrypt IP packages have being incorporated.
As explained previously a port is a 16-bit identifier number which identify the type of application process, this means that there are a total number of 65535 ports number available. For more information you can go to the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) <http://www.iana.org> . This institution is in charge of the global coordination of the DNS Root, IP addressing, and other Internet protocol resources.
- Ports from 0 to 1023 are called well-known ports.
- Examples of reserved ports: HTTP (Port 80), FTP (Port 21), Telnet (Port 23), STMP (Port 25), etc.
- Ports from 1024 through 49151 are called reserved ports.
- Ports from 49152 to 65535 are called Dynamic ports, Private ports, or Ephemeral ports.
- For more information you can go to <http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers>
TCP Socket on Client Side.
- Create a socket to create an endpoint for communication.
- (In Linux) ANSI C:
int socket(int domain, int type, int protocol);
- For more information: <http://linux.die.net/man/7/sockets>
- (In Linux) ANSI C:
- Specify the server's IP address and port to connect
- Establish a connection initiate a connection on a socket with the server.
- (In Linux) ANSI C:
int connect(int sockfd, const struct sockaddr *addr, socklen_t addrlen);
- For more information: <http://linux.die.net/man/2/connect>
- (In Linux) ANSI C:
- Send data to the server and receive data from the server
- Close the connection
- Create a socket to create an endpoint for communication.
- (In Linux) ANSI C:
int socket(int domain, int type, int protocol);
- For more information: <http://linux.die.net/man/7/sockets>
- (In Linux) ANSI C:
- Bind the socket with an address to specify the server's IP address and port.
- (In Linux) ANSI C:
int bind(int sockfd, const struct sockaddr *addr, socklen_t addrlen);
- For more Information: <http://linux.die.net/man/2/bind>
- (In Linux) ANSI C:
- Listen form incoming connections.
- (In Linux) ANSI C:
int listen(int sockfd, int backlog);
- For more information: <http://linux.die.net/man/2/listen>
- (In Linux) ANSI C:
- Accept the connection with the client.
- (In Linux) ANSI C:
int accept(int sockfd, struct sockaddr *addr, socklen_t *addrlen);
- For more information: <http://linux.die.net/man/2/accept>
- (In Linux) ANSI C:
- Send data to the server and receive data from the server
- Close the connection
Here is an example of a client/server program using ANSI C in Linux: <http://www.acarlstein.com/?p=891>
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Enki robbed of the strategically crucial MEs by Jehovah's granddaughter
Before Inanna-Ishtar, Jehovah's self-willed granddaughter, set off to attend her late husband Dumuzi's funeral at Nergal's palace in today's South Africa, she had told her handmaiden, who had remained behind in her Sumerian cult city Uruk, and her foreign affairs secretary Ninshubur that in the event that she was not heard from within three days, they should raise an alarm. This was because she was not absolutely sure of her safety when she faced her elder sister Ereshkigal, who was the funeral ceremony's hostess and who had insisted Inanna not show up at all.
Thus early on the third day of Inanna's disappearance, her handmaiden contacted Ninshubur, who was still camped outside Nergal's palace along with the rest of Inanna's entourage, all of whom had been prevented from setting foot onto the palace courts by Ereshkigal. Ninshubur immediately messaged Nergal's son, requesting him to establish whether Inanna was among the gathering in the palace hall. The young man had not seen her aunt and so he sent word to his father, who in turn alerted Enlil.
Having confirmed that Inanna had indeed arrived for the funeral two days ago but was nowhere on the palace premises, Enlil was alarmed: he had a hunch something sinister had befallen his granddaughter and the obvious suspect was Ereshkigal. Without wasting time, Enlil assigned Enki to urgently look into the matter. The choice of Enki was suiting: not only was he Inanna's grandfather too on her mother's side Ningal but Enki could be counted upon to restore Inanna to life if she had succumbed to foul play at the hands of Ereshkigal particularly that she would not have been dead for more than three days.
Enki took Ereshkigal aside and demanded that she owns up as to what she had done to Inanna as it was crystal-clear she was the one behind her disappearance. Ereshkigal, who was at once Enki's granddaughter, daughter-in-law, and the mother of his son Ningishzidda (that's how incestuous the Anunnaki were), did not equivocate: breaking down into copious tears, she recounted all that had transpired and even provided the coordinates of the exact spot Inanna had been left to die.
Enki went to work straightaway. It was summer time in South Africa and the chalky-white-skinned Anunnaki, like Enki was, just could not venture out in the blazing sun being rather susceptible to the sun's harsh ultraviolet rays. So drawing on his genius, Enki fashioned two androids from clay in a matter of hours, who he named Kurgarra and Galatur, electronically animated them, and detailed his dark-skinned Anunnaki pilots to take them to where Inanna was. Meanwhile, he was monitoring the situation using a facility similar to video-conferencing in the air-conditioned ambience of Nergal's palace.
Enki had equipped the two medical androids with an "Emitter" and "Pulser" respectively. The metaphor for the reanimation substances the androids carried was "Food of Life" and "Water of Life" respectively. Arriving at the scene of Inanna's ordeal, the search party found an already dead Inanna still strapped to the tree. There was no time to waste. Enki immediately activated the androids by remote control. "Upon the corpse a Pulser and Emitter they (the androids) directed," the Sumerian records relate. "Then the Water of Life on her they sprinkled, in her mouth the Plant of Life they placed." The measures taken worked like a charm. "Inanna stirred, her eyes she opened: from the dead Inanna arose."
Within a week's time, Inanna had been nursed back to full health by Enki. Now bursting with vitality and strutting her stuff as usual, she demanded, first, that her regal regalia be returned to her by Ereshkigal. Then she asked for Dumuzi's body, which she took with her back to Nubia, where he had ruled. There, she had the body "washed with pure water and anointed with sweet oil". She then clothed the body with a shroud and laid it on a lapis lazuli slab. That done, she placed the body into a tomb carved out of a specially preserved rock formation in the centre of the city. The body was to remain there till Nibiru was back in the ecliptic, whereupon she would accompany it to the planet for the very last rites.
Yet Inanna remained haunted by the death of her Romeo for the rest of her life. She always dreamt about Dumuzi and even had broad-daylight hallucinations of him. In a vain attempt at consigning him to total oblivion, she introduced, in her cult city of Uruk, what became known as the "Sacred Marriage Rite". At her ziggurat temple-house, the Eanna, there was a standalone structure known as the Giparu ("Night Time Abode") and in a wing of the Giparu was a sex den known as the Gigunu ("Chamber of Night Time Pleasures").
It was in the Gigunu that Nibiru king Anu, "Our Father Who Art In Heaven", made love to her every time he came to Earth. Even more significant, it was in the Gigunu that she and Dumuzi had their first one-night-stand and where their first sexual act after the wedding ceremony took place. Thus the Gigunu, rather than make her forget about Dumuzi, in fact achieved the contrary purpose – to reinforce his memory.
Now, the Sacred Marriage was far from a marriage: it was purely for recreational, one-night-stand sex romp. Initially, this took place once every year on the anniversary of Dumuzi's death, when an aristocratic demigod was invited by Inanna to "sample" her in the Gigunu. In due course, the rite had a spin-off, whereby an Anunnaki groom was invited to "taste" her on the night of his wedding day before he consummated his marriage with his own bride.
"To this Gigunu, young heroes (Anunnaki), on the night of their weddings, with sweet words she lured," say the Sumerian chronicles. "Long life, a blissful future to them she promised." All the while, Inanna imagined she was being mounted by her beloved Dumuzi. Sadly, almost every such man who slept with her in the Gigunu died of what is called "cardiogenic shock" arising from too much "sexual sweetness" (even in our day, such deaths account for approximately 0.6 percent of all sudden deaths).
The sexual fatalities so scared the daylights out of wedding grooms that they ceased and desisted from responding to Inanna's Gigunu overtures, as a result of which she now turned to priest-kings of Uruk with a twist in terms of the bait dangled forth. To the priest-kings, it was not simply about sex only: rather, it was more about eliciting her blessings as the superintending goddess once every year. This new dimension of the Sacred Marriage Rite which involved priest-kings became part of the yearly, 12-day long Akiti ("On Earth Bring Life") festival. Zechariah Sitchin describes the ritual in some detail as follows:
"Inanna began to invite the king to her Gigunu … The essence of the procedure was to find a way to have the king spend the night with the goddess without ending up dead … The outcome depended not only the king's personal fate, but also the fate of the land and its people—prosperity and abundance or the lack of them in the coming year. For the first four days of the festival, the gods (Anunnaki) alone participated in the re-enactments (of the death of Dumuzi and his replacement by a new ruler). On the fifth day the king came on the scene, leading the elders and other dignitaries in a procession through a special Way of Ishtar…
"Arriving at the main temple, the king was met by the High Priest, who took away the king's insignia and placed them before the deity (Inanna) in the Holy of Holies (symbolic dethronement of Dumuzi). Then, returning to the dethroned king, the High Priest struck him in the face and made him kneel down for a ceremony of Atonement in which the king had to recite a list of sins (particularly the killing of Dumuzi) and seek divine forgiveness.
Priests then led the king out of town to a pit of symbolic death; the king stayed there imprisoned while above the gods debated his Destiny. On the ninth day he re-emerged, was given back his insignia and royal robes, and led back the procession to the city. There, at evening time, washed and scented, he was led to the Giparu in the sacred precinct.
"At the entrance to the Gigunu he was met by Inanna's personal attendant, who made the following appeal to the goddess in behalf of the king: 'The sun has gone to sleep, the day has passed. As in bed you gaze upon him, as you caress him, give Life unto the King … May the king whom you have called to heart enjoy long days at your holy lap … Give him a reign favourable and glorious. Grant his throne an enduring foundation … May the farmer make the fields productive.
May the shepherd multiply the sheepfolds … In the palace let there be long life.' The king was then left alone with the goddess in the Gigunu for the conjugal encounter. It lasted the whole night. In the morning the king emerged, for all to see that he had survived the night (that is, had not died from sexual sweetness . The Sacred Marriage had taken place; the king could reign on for another year; the land and people were granted prosperity."
Inanna so popularised the spirit of the Sacred Marriage Rite that long after the advent of Dumuzi, Sumerian kings described poetically the ecstasy of such memorable nights with her. The "death and resurrection" of Dumuzi itself continued to be commemorated by the Jews once yearly on what was designated "The Day of National Mourning", which was celebrated by alternate weeping and rejoicing. For example, the prophet Ezekiel (EZEKIEL 8:14) was wroth when he saw Israelites "weeping for Tammuz," the Hebrew rendering of the name Dumuzi, which is Thomas in English.
ENKI DENIES INANNA THE CRUCIAL "MEs"
Following the death of Dumuzi, Inanna decided to turn Uruk (Erech in the Bible) into a city along the lines of the glittering Kish, which was the Paris of Sumeria. She just wasn't patient enough to await the appropriate time for her allocation of an own domain which had been promised her at the conclusion of the Second Pyramid war at the say-so of King Anu of Nibiru. It was the same King Anu who gifted her Uruk as her cult city as part of the dowry that automatically entitled him to conjugal rights every time he visited Earth and every time she visited Nibiru, which she did periodically.
The person she chose to transform the city was Enmerkar, officially the grandson of her twin-brother Utu-Shamash. Enmerkar was the son of Meskiaggasher, or Meshack in short. Born to Shamash by an Earthling concubine, Meshack was the first priest-king of Uruk, which he ruled for 324 years before handing over to Enmerkar. But Enmerkar, apparently, was no more than a legal son of Meshack as Enmerkar made a point of trumpeting the fact that he was actually a demigod, his real father being Shamash, very much an echo of Marduk's double-entendre relationship with Osiris, who was at once his son (biologically) and grandson (legally). Enmerkar would rule Uruk under the auspices of "goddess" Inanna for 420 years, nearly a 100 years more than his father did not least because he was a maniac in bed – exactly the type that appealed to the nymphomaniacal Inanna.
When kingship (for humans under the aegis of Anunnaki "gods") was transferred from Kish to Uruk circa 3000 BC in accordance with the rotational setup decreed by Enlil, Inanna detailed Enmerkar to turn Uruk from a mere sacred precinct to a thriving metropolis that should rival Kish in every respect. Enmerkar's first major statement in this brief was to refurbish and enlarge the Eanna, erect a 6-mile long wall around it, and pave the entire city with "limestone blocks from 50 miles to the east". True to the spirit of his name, which conveyed the meaning of being "diligent", Enmerkar would ultimately carve himself lasting renown as "The Man Who Built Uruk".
At this incipient stage, however, Enmerkar, who for some reason called himself "Sumeria's Junior Enlil", could only go so far. To turn Uruk into the Utopia Inanna envisaged, he needed certain enablers in the form of transformational codes known as the MEs. Indeed, it was with only 50 MEs that Ninurta had turned Kish into the full-fledged centre of urban civilisation it was. Exactly what were the MEs?
The MEs have been described as "physical objects that one could pick up and carry, or even put on, and which contained secret knowledge or data. Perhaps they were something like our present-day computer chips, on which data, programs, and operational orders were minutely recorded. On them the essentials of civilisation were encoded"; as "portable objects which held all the knowledge and other aspects of a high civilisation … In the current state of modern technology, one can envision them as some kind of computer disks or memory chips which, in spite of their minute size, hold vast amounts of information.
In a few decades, with more advanced technology, one might compare them to some other marvelous store of information (yet to be invented)"; and as "a kind of computer or data disks— which held the information needed for the sciences, the handicrafts, and the arts. Numbering more than a hundred, they included such diverse subjects as writing, music, metalworking, construction, transportation, anatomy, medical treatments, flood control, and urban decay; also, as other lists make clear, astronomy, mathematics, and the calendar."
The problem, however, was that the MEs were held by Enki, their inventor and custodian as the Anunnaki's god of knowledge, who released them at the appropriate time to any Anunnaki god in charge of a city-state or an entire domain and for the benefit not of the god himself but of humans in his charge. Thus when Inanna approached Enki and begged for some of the MEs, he politely turned her down in that her aim, he discerned, was not to improve the quality of life of mankind – his creation – but to stroke her own outsized ego primarily. Enki feared that if Inanna was availed the MEs, her sense of self-worth and delusions of grandeur would be such that she might go on a land-grabbing rampage like the pinheaded daredevil she was.
As things turned out by and by, Enki read her correctly. Be that as it may, Inanna simply was not the one to yield sedately to any sanction or obstacle thrown her way. She vowed to Enmerkar, as she busily gave him a blow-job and greedily gulped on his jizz, that she would get the MEs by hook or crook. Exactly what did she mean?
ENKI COAXED INTO PARTING WITH 100 MEs
As everybody else, Inanna was all too aware that Enki had quite a weakness with the opposite sex that mirrored her own. It is this weakness that she sought to exploit and land herself a few "divine formulas" as the MEs were otherwise known. Enki was aging and having lost much of his sex appeal of yesteryears – though still a stud under the sheets – he was even all the more toast and was liable to go to every length to bed a delectable beauty like Inanna.
Having received word that Inanna was on her way over to see him over some crucial matter about which she didn't go into details, Enki was ecstatic. He instructed his chief steward Isimud to "sweet wine prepare, the beer vessels to the rim fill up!" Arriving at Enki's seaside villa in her "sky chamber" on the shores of the Persian Gulf, Inanna was dressed literally to kill. She wore not conventional clothing but a negligee – a see-through bed time gown that left nothing to the imagination. "With jewelry was Inanna bedecked, by her thin dress her body she revealed," Enki himself relates.
Enki straightaway ushered her into his exquisite bed chamber which doubled as his study and was the repository of a whole range of classified and confidential subject matters. Inanna wasted no time in working her bitch-ish charms on the already salivating randy Casanova by indulging in all sorts of seductive antics. "When she bent down, her vulva by Enki was thoroughly admired," the Sumerian texts relate. Soon the duo were flirting, feasting, and carousing. "From the wine cups sweet wine they drank, for beer drinking a competition they had." Before long, they were making whoopee on Enki's King-sized bed. "Enki would thrill her with advanced sexual practices and she would show him a thing or two as well," the Sumerian records voyeuristically inform us.
The combined effects of the alcohol and the repeated rounds of exceedingly sweet rumpy pumpy robbed Enki of his sense of scruple, whereupon Inanna, who had been drinking only sparingly so as not to unduly compromise her mission, popped the request. But she was not rash: she made her ME entreaties step by step, about seven times altogether, and each time Enki readily obliged her. By the time the clock struck midnight, Enki had parted with 7 monarchical MEs and 94 dealing with matters of economic, scientific, military and technological advancement. Having attained the object of her mission, Inanna tip-toed out of Enki's bed chamber as he lay drained of all energy in a manner reminiscent of a deflated tyre, made her way to the parked flying saucer, and jetted off to Uruk at breakneck speed in a fever of yipping and hooraying excitement.
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We have come a long way from the 19th century, when mental un-healthiness was not recognised as treatable. In those days mental health problems were viewed as a sign of madness, warranting imprisonment in often merciless and unhygienic conditions; and with that backdrop you would think twice before calling in sick because of stress or admit feelings of hopelessness or depression but that's changing. That may sound like good news but it's not.
Reasons why employees don't show up for work can vary, but one thing is for certain; an organisation relies on its staff to get things done and when employees don't show up for work it disrupts organisational plans, takes up the valuable time from management and lowers the company's productivity. It's always been that people miss work for several reasons, some understandable and legitimate and others less so but it's important that we know the reasons so that such situations can be better managed.
Today stress is one of the most common causes of long-term absence and is especially prevalent amongst office-based staff. This is also related to absence due to depression or anxiety. Is this indicative of where we are as a society, a sign of the times which is that people are constantly pressurised and have less work-life balance?
The British Museum houses a tablet which provides a peek into work-life balance in ancient Egypt. It documents how many sick days and why 40 workers took time off from their workplace in 1250 BC. All sorts of fascinating reasons have been given for why people were away from their work, including a note about someone named Buqentuf, who needed time off for embalming and wrapping the corpse of his dead mother.
There were other reasons like some workers, such as a man named Pennub, missed work because their mothers were ill. Others had causes that we wouldn't expect to hear as often today, such as men who stayed home to help around the house due to a "wife or daughter bleeding" – a reference to menstruation. But no mention of mental health, not because it didn't exist, but it wasn't labelled thus not reported.
What was reported was a person such as Aapehti who was said to have been ill on a regular basis and also took time off when he was "making offerings to god". Workers also took days off when they had to perform tasks for their superiors – which was apparently permitted in moderate amounts. For example, Amenmose was allowed time away from work when he was "fetching stones for the scribe: And what about other employees who had to excuse themselves from work to brew beer, an activity which was associated with some of their gods and rituals.
All fascinating stuff which provides insight into life at that time. But what insights can we gather from today's sick leave records? One study recently undertaken gives us insight into the UK police force's absenteeism. Figures obtained through the Freedom of Information Act from police forces in the UK showed that the number of days absent due to mental health problems increased by 9% in one year, from 457,154 in 2020 to 497,154 in 2021.
And here is the shocker. Police have taken a record 500,000 days off due to mental health issues. Zoe Billingham, a former police inspector, suggested there was a greater prevalence of mental health issues among emergency services, due to what they faced during the pandemic of coronavirus. "Police and other frontline services have protected us during the pandemic," she said. "The pandemic was a great unknown. People were really scared of dying and coming into contact with the virus, and a lot of people did."
It is a 'mental health epidemic' among police. Alistair Carmichael, Home Affairs spokesman for the Liberal Democrats, said: "Frontline police officers do an incredible job serving their communities. But we know that the stress of policing can take a heavy toll on the mental health of officers, in some cases leading to burnout.
Let's look at another group. A poll by Gallup reported that in the last three years, 75% of young adults aged 18–22 have left their jobs because of stated mental health reasons. This study showed that employees (millennials and Gen Z) want employers who care about their wellbeing. Contributing factors to mental health stress centre around increases in uncertainty and include: Hybrid work environments and the side-effects: no socialization, no end time, no feedback, caring for others; changing rules around work often with poor communications & clarity; inconsistency & incompleteness of rule implementation: Uncertainty from these and other factors leads to anxiety and depression.
The real story here is not that burnout, stress, depression and anxiety are becoming the number one reasons for absenteeism but that for a large part they are preventable. We have the data telling us it's the problem but still organisations are doing very little to proactively manage it. Sure, we have counselling services for staff who are struggling and wellness days to reinforce feelings of wellbeing, but this is not enough.
If we start caring and developing work cultures that do not create unintentional stress through how work gets done, that will go a long way to change the status quo. Simple things like ensuring your culture doesn't thrive on fire drills and heroics to get things done and that emails do not come with expected responses after hours or over the weekend. If we can stop managers bullying, yelling or losing their cool when there is a performance or customer issue and begin giving people more control over their work – all of these are the kinds of stuff that contribute to weakened mental health and absenteeism.
To sum up, your staff's stress levels are directly proportional to your business's absentee levels. Ergo, lowering the former, will also reduce the latter. Stress down, productivity up and everybody wins out.
Contributing factors to mental health stress centre around increases in uncertainty and include: Hybrid work environments and the side-effects: no socialization, no end time, no feedback, caring for others; changing rules around work often with poor communications & clarity; inconsistency & incompleteness of rule implementation: Uncertainty from these and other factors leads to anxiety and depression.
Diana Irks Queen
ByBenson Saili
In September 1978, General Atiku, Princess Diana had enrolled for a cookery course. That same month whilst she was staying at her parents' home in Norfolk, her friends innocently asked about the health of her father John Spencer, the 8th Earl. Hitherto, the Earl's health had never been a matter of concern but Diana somewhat inscrutably voiced a somewhat portendous outlook. "He's going to drop down in some way," she said. "If he dies, he will die immediately; otherwise he'll survive."
It came to pass, General. The following day, the telephone bell rang to the news that her father had collapsed in the courtyard of his Althorp Estate residence and that he had been rushed to a nearby hospital after suffering a massive cerebral haemorrhage. The medical prognosis was bleak: Earl Spencer was not expected to survive the night. Writes Andrew Morton in Diana Her True Story: "For two days the children camped out in the hospital waiting-room as their father clung on to life. When doctors announced that there was a glimmer of hope, Raine [second wife] organised a private ambulance to take him to the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in Queen Square, Central London, where for several months he lay in a coma."
Raine was so fiercely protective of her beloved husband that she had the nurses see to it that his own children did not come near him in this critical condition in his elitist private room. 'I'm a survivor and people forget that at their peril," she would later tell a journalist. "There's pure steel up my backbone. Nobody destroys me, and nobody was going to destroy Johnnie so long as I could sit by his bed – some of his family tried to stop me – and will my life force into him." But if Raine had steel in her, General, so did the implacable Spencer children, more so the eldest of them all. "During this critical time," Morton goes on, "the ill feeling between Raine and the children boiled over into a series of vicious exchanges. There was iron too in the Spencer soul and numerous hospital corridors rang to the sound of the redoubtable Countess and the fiery Lady Sarah Spencer [the Earl's firstborn child] hissing at each other like a pair of angry geese."
As Diana had correctly predicted, her father was not destined to die at that juncture but healthwise he was never the same henceforth. First, he suffered a relapse in November that same year and was moved to another hospital. Once again, he teetered on the brink. He was drifting in and out of consciousness and as such he was not able to properly process people who were visiting him, including his own daughters when nurses relented and allowed them in. Even when he was awake a feeding tube in his throat meant that he was unable to speak. Understandably, Diana found it hard to concentrate on the cookery course she had enrolled in a few days before her father suffered his stroke.
But Raine, General, was determined that her husband survive come rain or shine. Morton: "When his doctors were at their most pessimistic, Raine's will-power won through. She had heard of a German drug called Aslocillin which she thought could help and so she pulled every string to find a supply. It was unlicensed in Britain but that didn't stop her. The wonder drug was duly acquired and miraculously did the trick. One afternoon she was maintaining her usual bedside vigil when, with the strains of Madam Butterfly playing in the background, he opened his eyes 'and was back'. In January 1979, when he was finally released from hospital, he and Raine booked into the Dorchester Hotel in Park Lane for an expensive month-long convalescence. Throughout this episode the strain on the family was intense."
Altogether, Earl Spencer had been in hospital for 8 straight months. The lingering effects of the stroke left him somewhat unsteady on his feet when he escorted his daughter down the aisle at St. Paul's Cathedral in 1981 for her marriage to the Prince of Wales.
It was not until March 29, 1992, General, that Earl Spencer finally gave up the ghost. He was admitted in hospital for pneumonia but what killed him days later was a heart attack. Rumours of his death actually began to make the rounds the day before he passed on. At the time, Diana was on a skiing holiday in the Austrian Alps along with her estranged hubby Prince Charles and their two kids William and Harry.
When Diana was told of her dad's death, she insisted that under no circumstances would she return to England on the same flight as Charles, with whom she was barely on talking terms. "I mean it, Ken," she told her body minder Ken Wharfe. "I don't want him with me. He doesn't love me – he loves that woman [Camilla]. Why should I help save his face? Why the bloody hell should I? It's my father who has gone. It's a bit bloody late for Charles to start playing the caring husband, don't you think so?"
Naturally, General, Charles was alarmed, particularly that his efforts to use one of his right-hand-men to reason with the Princess had been rebuffed. He therefore prevailed over Wharfe to try and ram sense into his wife. "Lord Spencer's death was a major news story," writes Ken Wharfe, "and if the Prince and Princess did not return to Britain together then nothing, not even compassion for the grief-stricken Diana, would stop the journalists from going for the jugular. The truth about the Waleses would be immediately and blindingly obvious to the most naive journalist … Returning to the Princess's room, I told her bluntly that this was not a matter for debate. 'Ma'am, you have to go back with the Prince. This one is not open for discussion. You just have to go with it'.''
At long last persuaded, General, Diana said, "Okay Ken, I'll do it. Tell him I'll do it, but it is for my father, not for him – it is out of loyalty to my father." But what in truth got Diana to change tack was the intervention of the Queen, who personally called her at Charles' own request. That, however, General, was only as far as Diana was prepared to play ball: as far as engaging with Charles in conversation was concerned, that was simply inconceivable. "There was an icy silence for the rest of the two-hour journey," writes Wharfe. "Nothing was said during the entire flight. The Princess did not want to speak to her husband and he, fearing a furious or even hysterical outburst, did not dare even to try to start a conversation. Whatever the discomforts of the journey, however, it was soon clear that the PR spin had worked. The next day it was reported that Prince Charles was at Diana's side in her hour of need. Yet as soon as the Prince and Princess arrived at Kensington Palace they went their separate ways – he to Highgrove, and she to pay her last respects to her father."
Lord Spencer was 68 when he died. He was a remote descendant of King Henry VIII.
In June 1994, when Diana and Charles had been separated for exactly one-and-half years, Prince Charles was interviewed in a BBC documentary by Jonathan Dimbleby. The interview was billed as intended to mark Charles' 25 anniversary as Prince of Wales but it was in truth a not-to-cleverly-disguised riposte to Diana Her True Story, the highly controversial 1992 collaboration between Diana and Andrew Morton.
In the interview, which was watched by 13 million people, Charles, General, openly admitted for the first time that he had committed adultery with Camilla Parker-Bowles, who he hailed as, "a great friend of mine who has been a friend for a very long time and will continue to be a friend for a very long time". Diana had been requested to feature in the interview alongside her husband but she parried the overture on the advice of her aides, which was spot-on as she would have been greatly embarrassed by her hubby's unsavoury confession in her own face and on national television.
The Prince's candid confessional was followed weeks later by a book titled The Prince of Wales: A Biography, which was written by the same Jonathan Dimbleby. The book was even frankier than the interview. In it, Charles put it bluntly that she had never once loved Diana and that he married her only because he was coerced into doing so by his notoriously overbearing father. Charles also made it known that as a child, he had been bullied by his abusive father, virtually ignored by his mother, and persecuted by a wife he portrayed as both spoiled and mentally unstable. Both Diana and his parents were revolted by the bare-knuckle contents of the book though Dana need not have been irked considering that it was she herself who had fired the first salvo in the Morton book.
If Diana's collaboration with Morton was a miscalculation, General, Prince Charles' Dimbleby interview was equally so. For in November 1995, the wayward Princess hit back with her own tell-all interview on BBC's current affairs programme called Panorama. "She wanted to get even with Prince Charles over his adulterous confession with the Dimbleby documentary," writes Paul Burrell, her final butler, in A Royal Duty.
The interview was conducted by journalist Martin Bashir who was attached to BBC, and was watched by 23 million people, conferring it the distinction of having attracted the largest audience for any television documentary in broadcasting history. In the interview, Diana voiced concern about there having been "three of us in this marriage and so it was a bit crowded", the intruder obviously being Camilla. Diana also gave Charles a dose of his own medicine by confessing to her own adulterous relationship with James Hewitt, of whom she said, "Yes, I adored him, yes, I was in love with him". Hewitt had at the time documented his affair with Diana in lurid detail in a best-selling book and Diana thought he had ill-conceivedly stabbed her in the back.
And as if to rub salt into the wound, General, Diana cast serious doubts on her husband's fitness to rule as future King and therefore his eventual accession to the British throne. Unfortunately for her, the interview sealed her fate in so far as her marriage was concerned. "In her headstrong decision to co-operate with Bashir," says Burrell, "she had never considered, perhaps naively, the implications that Panorama had for her marriage." Indeed, just four weeks after the interview, the Queen, after consultation with the Prime Minister and the Archbishop of Canterbury, wrote personally to both the Prince and Princess of Wales requesting that they divorce sooner rather than later.
It was a dream-come-true for at least two parties to the triangle, namely Charles and Camilla. But did it also constitute music to the ears of Princess Diana too, General?
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SOWING THE WIND ONLY TO REAP THE WHIRLWIND: Martin Bashir interviews Princess Diana in a BBC documentary which aired on Monday 29 November 1995. The interview incensed the Windsors: the following month, Queen Elizabeth ordered Charles and Diana to sever matrimonial ties. In her vengeful resolve to hit back at her husband following his own interview the previous year, Diana had foolishly sown the wind and reaped the whirlwind.
Rights of an Individual in Islam
Islam is a way of life completed and perfected by the last and final Messenger of Allah, Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). The Holy Quran along with the practical teachings of the Prophet (pbuh) forms the basis of Islamic law, social, economic and political systems of Islam – in short the basis of a complete code of conduct for the entire life of a Muslim
Regrettably in this day and age there are certain views in non-Muslims that have a very negative 'view' of Islam. The bottom line is that if a Muslim says that two plus two is four, others can 'argue' to say three plus one is four, or two times two is four or the square root of 16 is four. The bottom line is no matter what we may think we all are 'correct'. The fact is that we are all on this earth for a 'limited' time. Regardless of beliefs, tribe, race, colour or our social standing in life, we will all die one day or the other and we will "all" be called up thereafter to answer for our behaviour, beliefs, and our life on this earth.
To a Muslim the Holy Quran is the Divine Revelation which is all encompassing and lays down in clear terms, how we should live our daily lives including the need for humans to allow fellow humans certain basic rights at all times. Due to the limited space available I can only reflect on some of the major fundamental rights laid down by Islam:
Right to life
The first and foremost of fundamental basic human-rights is the right to life. "Whosoever kills any human being (without any valid reason) like manslaughter or any disruption and chaos on earth, it is though he had killed all the mankind. And whoever saves a life it is though as he had saved the lives of all mankind" (Quran Ch5: v 32). It further declares: "Do not kill a soul which Allah has made sacred except through the due process of law" (Quran Ch6: v 151). Islam further explains that this sacrosanct right to life is not granted only to its adherents (believers), but it has been granted to all human beings without consideration of their religion, race, colour or sex
Right to Equality
The Holy Quran recognises equality between humans irrespective of any distinction of nationality, race, colour or gender. "O Mankind We have created you from a male and female, and We made you as nations and tribes so that you may be able to recognise each other (not that you may despise each other). Indeed the most honourable among you before God is the most God-conscious". (Quran Ch49: v 13). The Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) further explained this: "No Arab has any superiority over a non-Arab, nor does a non-Arab have any superiority over an Arab…… You are all the children of Adam and Adam was created from soil". If there is any superiority for a man it is based on his piety, righteousness, sense of responsibility and character. Even such a person with these noble qualities would not have any privileged rights over others.
Right to justice
Allah Almighty has bestowed on all human beings, believer or non-believer, friend or foe the right to justice. The Holy Quran states: "We sent our messengers with clear teachings and sent down along with them the Book and the Balance so that society may be established on the basis of justice" (Quran Ch 57 : v 25). It further says "O Believers stand for the cause of God and as witness to justice and remember that enmity of some people should not lead you to injustice. Be just as it is nearest to God consciousness" (Quran Ch 5:v 8 ). This makes it obligatory that a believer must uphold justice in all circumstances, including to his enemies.
Right to freedom of conscience and religion
The Holy Quran clearly mentions that there is no compulsion in accepting or rejecting a religion. "There is no compulsion in (submitting to) the religion" (Quran Ch 2 : v 256). Every individual has been granted basic freedom to accept a religion of his or her choice. Therefore no religion should be imposed on a person.
Right to personal freedom
No person can be deprived of his or her personal freedom except in pursuance of justice. Therefore there cannot be any arbitrary or preventive arrest without the permission of duly appointed judge and in the light of a solid proof.
Right to Protection of Honour
Every person has been ensured basic human dignity which should not be violated. If someone falsely attacks the honour of a person the culprit will be punished according to the Islamic Law. The Holy Quran says: "Do not let one group of people make fun of another group". It further states: "Do not defame one another", the Quran goes on to say: And do not backbite or speak ill of one another" (Quran Ch 49 : v 11-12).


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The Navy blue nautical-themed apron on the left was made by Ethel Turner's mother, Alice Kimball of Albany, for Ethel's first husband, Steve Bean, when he was in the U.S. Coast Guard many years ago. It is one of dozens of aprons that will be displayed at the Otisfield community luncheon and program, called "Aprons!" from noon to 2 p.m. June 7 at the Community Hall on Route 121 in Otisfield.
OTISFIELD — If you're coming to the next community luncheon, make sure you wear an apron.
On June 7, a fundraising luncheon will take place at the Community Hall on Route 121, from noon until 2 p.m., featuring a salad luncheon followed by a program simply called "Aprons!"
Everyone has a story about an apron, said Ethel Turner of Otisfield, who along with her sisters Dottie Adams of Hanover and Norma Salway of Albany, will present dozens of their mother's aprons and the stories behind them.
When Alice Kimball of Albany Township died in 2001, she left her daughters a large box filled with her personal collection of aprons, many of which she had made, said Jean Hankins of the Otisfield Historical Society.
Last August, two of the daughters, impressed and inspired by their mother's thrift and industry, turned the apron collection into a fundraiser for a community building in Albany, Hankins said.
The sisters will present an informative narrative of the history of aprons, which originated in 12th century Europe as a practical means of protecting workingmen's clothing. After the presentation, participants will tell stories connected to their own aprons.
In the last century until perhaps the 1960s, the apron was viewed as an essential garment in any home, not only for women but for some men performing household or other chores.
"It's all part of that generation. Especially those who went through the Depression," she said.
For Turner and her sisters, the aprons bring back memories of their mother, her unique personality and what her lifestyle was like.
"She always had a dress on with aprons," said Turner of her mother who lived on an isolated farm in Albany where her father ran a saw mill business. Even in the garden, Alice Kimball wore a dress and an apron.
Both parents were dedicated to self-sustaining farming, raising milk and beef cows, chickens for eggs, raspberries bushes for jam making. Everything was grown or raised on the farm except for essentials like sugar and flour that were purchased at a local store.
"She sewed most of the clothes for her four daughters," Turner said. "We were expected to help out."
In the summer before the girls went to the pond to go swimming they had to pick berries. Every morning they separated cream from the the milk.
"It's something I didn't appreciate at the time, but I sure do now," she said of the self-sustaining lifestyle she tries to carry on today.
Turner has her own favorite apron story.
"I remember my grandparent's 50th wedding anniversary. My cousin came over to my house. She was a cake baker and I wanted to help her but I stirred (the mix) too hard. I had flour all over my face. She picked up the corner of her apron to clean it off," Turner said.
Turner said she hopes everyone will bring their favorite aprons to the luncheon and share the stories behind them.
The event is $5 per person and all proceeds will go to the Historical Society's Town House Preservation Fund.
Reservations may be made by contacting Jean Pottle at 207-627-2244. The organizers emphasize that men and women are equally welcome to attend.
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Ok I lied, this isn't strictly a column. Rather it's a conversation between myself and my colleague Bobby Warshaw in an effort to decipher what happened in RBNY's 1-1 draw at NYCFC on Wednesday night in the first game of Heineken Rivalry Week.
Let's dive in:
Matthew Doyle (MD): It was 90 minutes of rivalry soccer. I thought they were gonna go for machetes and ax handles there for a second. Some people love that, and I get why. I prefer to see more "soccer."
Bobby Warshaw (BW): Felt the same thing. It met the base level of entertainment because it was wild. But the lack of interesting soccer elements kept it from really connecting on a deeper level.
MD: This game was well-played in the "there's a lot of talent on the field" sense of the descriptor. These are two of the better teams, just in terms of raw ability, in the league. And it showed. But they just don't seem as connected to me as they were, for lack of a better word. And that was apparent in some of the gamesmanship – more diving and rough play than usual from NYCFC (hence the two red cards), worse shot discipline than usual from RBNY, and a momentary switch-off from Aaron Long on David Villa's goal.
BW: Agreed. Their games didn't used to be this wild because the teams were so well put together. It feels like part of the chaos tonight came from the lack of – structure/confidence/continuity? – from the teams. One led to the other.
MD: Is that to be expected given both coaches are still finding their feet?
BW: I actually feel like this is more about NYCFC. Red Bulls games are meant to be chaotic. But chaotic in their way, and they can only maneuver it into their happy zone when the other team has some sense of order. It's like how a chess grandmaster approaches a match. Grandmasters often struggle most with amateurs because amateurs create situations that are totally random.
So as soon as NYCFC said "screw it" on the order, too, is when the game started to get weird.
MD:Bradley Wright-Phillips agreed. These postgame quotes are... illuminating:
Bradley Wright-Phillips on NY Derby draw: "It feels like a loss"
"I don't even want to talk any rubbish, I think credit to New York City," Wright-Phillips told FS1's Katie Witham. "It's embarrassing, they're down to nine men, we created nothing, really, and they got the point they deserved. The first half I felt like we were in control and the second half we came out and did nothing."
Witham then asked BWP if he was satisfied with a point on the night, and once again, he was blunt in his assessment. "Not at all, because it feels like a loss."
It sounds like we all agree that NYCFC will be the happier of the two teams? I'm concerned that they put in another mediocre performance (even before the
Eloi Amagat
red) and tried another new system, but that's such an emotional
draw for them. This is the type of performance that galvanizes a team. Even though it wasn't a great night in
terms, it was a good night for them overall.
MD: Here was my take from Twitter:
But you know who it was a really great result for? C'mon Bobby, I want to hear you say it.
BW: Yeah, the big winner on the night is Atlanta. Not just both of main contenders for Supporters' Shield (and the CCL spot) dropping points, but just watching the quality.
MD: I think I'd be psyched if I was a fan of Atlanta or Columbus. RBNY and NYCFC are both still pretty good teams, but not the very good-to-excellent teams they were a couple of months back, and to me that comes down to identity. For both it's been watered down.
BW: I can't disagree with that, but I do suspect both teams will get better as the playoffs near. This is prime "We are making the playoffs so let's try to work on some things and peak in the playoffs" time for some teams. Games like this could make both teams better in the end. Or, at least I hope so. It'll be more fun if New York teams keep the Shield race close until the end.


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