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Flag of Denmark
Name | Dannebrog |
Use | Civil and state flag and civil ensign |
Proportion | 28:34 to 28:37 |
Adopted | Versions in use since at least c. 1400;[1] official design for civil ensign adopted 1748 (slightly greater length tolerated since 1893); private use on land sanctioned 1854. |
Design | A red field charged with a white cross extending to the edges; the vertical part of the cross is shifted to the hoist side. Dimensions: 3:1:3 width / 3:1:4.5 to 3:1:5.25 length. |
The Flag of Denmark (Danish: Dannebrog Danish pronunciation: [ˈdanəˌbʁoˀ]) is red with a white Scandinavian cross that extends to the edges of the flag; the vertical part of the cross is shifted to the hoist side. The cross design, which represents Christianity,[2][3][4] was subsequently adopted by the other Nordic countries; Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Åland Islands and the Faroe Islands, as well as the Scottish archipelagos of Shetland and Orkney. During the Danish-Norwegian personal union, Dannebrog ("Danish cloth") was also the flag of Norway and continued to be, with slight modifications, until Norway adopted its current flag in 1821.
According to legend, the flag came into Danish possession during the Battle of Lyndanisse in 1219. The Danes were on a failing crusade in Estonia, but after praying to God a flag fell from the sky. After this event, Danish King Valdemar II went on to defeat the Estonians. The first recorded uses of the flag appear some one hundred years later.[5]
Legendary origin[edit]
The legend states the origin of the flag to the Battle of Lyndanisse, also known as the Battle of Valdemar (Danish: "Volmerslaget"), near Lyndanisse (Tallinn) in Estonia, on June 15, 1219.[6]
The battle was going badly, and defeat seemed imminent. However a Danish priest on top of a hill overlooking the battle prayed to God, which meant that the Danes moved closer to victory the more he prayed. At a second he was so tired in his arms that he dropped them and the Danes then lost the advantage and were moving closer to defeat. He needed two soldiers to keep his hands up and when the Danes were about to win, 'Dannebrog' miraculously fell from the sky and the King took it, showed it to the troops and their hearts were filled with courage and the Danes won the battle.
No historical record supports this legend. The first record of the legend dates from more than 300 years after the campaign, and the first record connects the legend to a much smaller battle, though still in Estonia; the battle of Fellin (Viljandi) in 1208. Though no historical support exists for the flag story in the Fellin battle either, it is not difficult to understand how a small and unknown place is replaced with the much grander battle of Reval (Tallinn) from the Estonia campaign of King Valdemar II.
This story originates from two written sources from the early 16th century.
The first is found in Christiern Pedersen's "Danske Krønike", which is a sequel to Saxo's Gesta Danorum, written 1520 – 23. It is not mentioned in connection to the campaign of King Valdemar II in Estonia, but in connection with a campaign in Russia. He also mentions that this flag, falling from the sky during the Russian campaign of King Valdemar II, is the very same flag that King Eric of Pomerania took with him when he left the country in 1440 after being deposed as King.
The second source is the writing of the Franciscan monk Petrus Olai (Peder Olsen) of Roskilde, from 1527. This record describes a battle in 1208 near a place called "Felin" during the Estonia campaign of King Valdemar II. The Danes were all but defeated when a lamb-skin banner depicting a white cross falls from the sky and miraculously leads to a Danish victory. In another record by Petrus Olai called "Danmarks Tolv Herligheder" (Twelve Splendours of Denmark), in splendour number nine, the same story is re-told almost to the word; however, a paragraph has been inserted correcting the year to 1219.
Some historians[who?] believe that the story by Petrus Olai refers to a source from the first half of the 15th century, making this the oldest reference to the falling flag.
It is believed that the name of the capital of Estonia, Tallinn, came into existence after the battle. It is derived from "Taani linn", meaning "Danish town" in Estonian.
Continuation of the romantic legend[edit]
According to tradition, the original flag from the Battle of Lyndanisse was used in the small campaign of 1500 when King Hans tried to conquer Dithmarschen (in western Holstein in north Germany). The flag was lost in a devastating defeat at the Battle of Hemmingstedt on 17 February 1500. In 1559, King Frederik II recaptured it during his own Dithmarschen campaign. In the capitulation terms it is stated that all Danish banners lost in 1500 were to be returned.
This legend is found in two sources, Hans Svaning's History of King Hans from 1558–1559 and Johan Rantzau's History about the Last Dithmarschen War, from 1569. Both claim that this was the original flag, and consequently both writers knew the legend of the falling flag. In 1576, the son of Johan Rantzau, Henrik Rantzau, also writes about the war and the fate of the flag. He notes that the flag was in a poor condition when returned.
Sources from Dithmarschen, written shortly after the battle of 1500, do mention banners, including the Royal banner, being captured from the Danes, but there is no mention of Dannebrog or the "original" flag. It is quite plausible that the king's personal banner as well as the leading banner of the army were both lost, as the battle was led by the King himself. However, it is more questionable if he indeed was carrying the "original" flag.
In a letter dated 22 February 1500 to Oluf Stigsøn, King John describes the battle, but does not mention the loss of an important flag. In fact, the entire letter gives the impression that the lost battle was nothing more than an "unfortunate affair".
An indication that we are dealing with multiple flags, are the 1570 writings of Niels Hemmingsøn regarding a bloody battle between Danes and Swedes near the Swedish town of Uppsala in 1520. He writes that the "Danish head banner" ("Danmarckis Hoffuitbanner") was nearly captured by the Swedes. It was saved only by the combined efforts of the banner-carrier Mogens Gyldenstierne, taking multiple wounds, and a young man coming to his rescue. This young man was Peder Skram. This "Danmarckis Hoffuitbanner" was probably nothing short of the "Banner of the Realm'" (Rigsbanner), the Dannebrog.
This is however not the end of the story. A priest and historian from Dithmarschen, Neocorus, wrote in 1598 that the banner captured in 1500, was brought to the church in Wöhrden and hung there for the next 59 years, until it was returned to the Danes as part of the peace settlement in 1559. Henrik Rantzau states in his writing of 1576 that the flag was brought to Slesvig city and placed in the cathedral, following its return.
A historian from Slesvig, Ulrik Petersen (1656–1735), wrote in the late 17th century that the flag hung in Slesvig cathedral till about 1660 until it simply crumbled away, thus ending its more than 400-year-old story.
Historically, it is of course impossible to prove or disprove that these records speak of the same flag, or if the flag of 1208 or 1219 ever existed. Many of these legends are apparently built on earlier ones.
Historic use[edit]
Caspar Paludan-Müller[edit]
The Danish historian Caspar Paludan-Müller in 1873 in his book "Sagnet om den himmelfaldne Danebrogsfane" put forth the theory that it is a banner sent by the Pope to the Danish King to use in his crusades in the Baltic countries. Other kings and lords certainly received such banners.
One would imagine, though, that if this story were true, some kind of record ought to exist of the event, and presumably Danish historians would not have failed to mention it in some way. Being granted a banner by the Pope would have been a great honour, but despite the many letters of the popes relating to the crusades, none of them mentions granting a banner to a King of Denmark. On the other hand, the letter in question might simply have been lost.
Johan Støckel[edit]
A similar theory was suggested by Danish explorer, adventurer and Captain Johan Støckel in the early 20th century. He suggested that it was not a papal banner to the King but a papal banner to the Churchly legate in the North, more specifically to archbishop Andreas Sunesøn, which he – without the knowledge of the King – brought with him on the King's crusade in the Baltic countries, in an effort to make the army take on a Christian symbol (over the king's symbol) and thereby strengthen the power of the church.
It is unlikely that the very fair and loyal archbishop would do such a thing behind the king's back. Moreover, it is unlikely that the pope would send such a banner, given the fact that they already had one, namely the banner of the Knights Hospitaller (Danish: "Johanitterne").
Adolf Ditlev Jørgensen[edit]
A theory brought forth by the Danish historian Adolf Ditlev Jørgensen in 1875 in his book "Danebroges Oprindelse" is that the Danish flag is the banner of the Knights Hospitaller. He notes that the order came to Denmark in the latter half of the 12th century and during the next centuries spread to major cities, like Odense, Viborg, Horsens, Ribe and their headquarters in Slagelse, so by the time of the Baltic crusade, the symbol was already a known symbol in Denmark.
Furthermore he claims that Bishop Theoderich, already co-initiator of the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in Livonia, had the idea of starting a similar order in Estonia; and that he was the original instigator of the inquiry from Bishop Albert of Buxhoeveden to King Valdemar II in 1218, that set the whole Danish participation in the Baltic crusades in motion.
In the contemporary writing of the priest Henry of Livonia from Riga it is said that Bishop Theoderich was killed during the 1219 battle, when the enemy stormed his tent, thinking it was the King's tent. Adolf Ditlev Jørgensen explains that it was Bishop Theoderich who carried the flag, planted outside his tent; thus as an already well-known symbol of the Knights Hospitaller in Livonia, the enemy thought this was the King's symbol and mistakenly stormed Bishop Theoderich tent. He claims that the origin of the legend of the falling flag comes from this confusion in the battle.
L. P. Fabricius[edit]
The Danish church-historian L. P. Fabricius proposed yet another theory, explained in his study of 1934, titled "Sagnet om Dannebrog og de ældste Forbindelser med Estland". He ascribes the origin to the 1208 Battle of Fellin, not the Battle of Lyndanisse in 1219, based on the earliest source available about the story.
He says in this theory that it might have been Archbishop Andreas Sunesøn's personal ecclesiastical banner or perhaps even the flag of Archbishop Absalon, based on his tireless efforts to expand Christianity to the Baltic countries. Under his initiative and supervision several smaller crusades had already been conducted in Estonia. The banner would then already be known in Estonia. He repeats the story about the flag being planted in front of Bishop Theodorik's tent, which the enemy mistakenly attacks believing it to be the tent of the King.
All these theories centre on two battles in Estonia, Fellin (1208) or Lyndanisse (1219), and thus try to explain the origin in relation to the tale brought forth over 300 years after the event.
Fabricius and Helga Bruhn[edit]
A much different theory is briefly discussed by Fabricius and elaborated more by Helga Bruhn in her book "Dannebrog" from 1949. She claims that it is neither the battle nor the banner that is central to the tale, but rather the cross in the sky. Similar tales of appearances in the sky at critical moments, particularly of crosses, can be found all over Europe.
Bruhn mentions a battle (also mentioned by Fabricius) taking place on September 10, 1217 between Christian knights and Moor warriors on the Iberian Peninsula near the castle Alcazar[disambiguation needed], where it is said that a golden cross on white appeared in the sky, to bring victory to the Christians. Likewise an almost identical Swedish tale from the 18th century about a golden cross on blue appearing in 1157 during a Swedish battle in Finland. Probably a later invention to counter the legendary origins of the Danish flags, but nevertheless of the same nature. The English flag, the Saint George's Cross is also claimed to have appeared in the sky during a critical battle, in this case in Jerusalem during the crusades.
The similarities to the legends is obvious. In Spain, the colours of the Pope appears in the sky, in Finland the Swedish colours. In Estonia it is the Danish colours, and in Jerusalem the English colours. Basically, these are all variations of the same legend.
Since King Valdemar II of Denmark was married to the Portuguese princess, Berengária of Portugal, it is not unthinkable that the origin of the story, if not the flag, was the Spanish tale or a similar tale, which again might have been inspired by an even older legend.
Earliest recorded use of the flag[edit]
Danish literature of the 13th and 14th centuries remains quiet about the national flag. Whether the flag has its origins in a divine sign, a banner of a military order, an ecclesiastical banner, or perhaps something entirely different, Danish literature is no help before the early 15th century.
However, several coins, seals and images exist, both foreign and domestic, from the 13th to 15th centuries and even earlier, showing flags similar to Dannebrog. In the 19th and early 20th century, these images were used by many Danish historians, with a good flair of nationalism, trying to date the origins of the flag to 1219. However, if one examines the few existing foreign sources about Denmark from the 13th to 15th centuries, it is apparent that, at least from foreign point of view; the national symbol of Denmark was not a red-and-white banner but the royal coat of arms (three blue lions on a golden shield.) This coat of arms remains in use to this day.
An obvious place to look for documentation is in the Estonian city of Tallinn, the site of the legendary battle. In Tallinn, a coat-of-arms resembling the flag is found on several buildings and can be traced back to the middle of the 15th century where it appears in the coat-of-arms of the "Die Grosse Gilde", a sort of merchant consortium which greatly influenced the city's development. The symbol later became the coat-of-arms of the city. Efforts to trace it from Estonia back to Denmark have, however, been in vain.
The national Coat of Arms of Estonia, three blue lions on a golden shield, is almost identical to the Coat of Arms of Denmark, and its origin can be traced directly back to King Valdemar II and Danish rule in Estonia 1219-1346.
Earliest undisputed link[edit]
The earliest source that indisputably links the red flag with a white cross to a Danish King, and to the realm itself, is found in a Dutch armorial, the "Gelre Armorial" (Dutch: Wapenboek Gelre), written between 1340 and 1370 (some sources say 1378 or 1386). Most historians claim that the book was written by Geldre Claes Heinen. The book displays some 1,700 coats-of-arms from all over Europe, in colour. It is now located at the Royal Library of Brussels (the "Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier").
On page 55 verso we find the Danish coat-of-arms surmounted by a helmet with ermine-clad bison horns (Danish: vesselhorn). Behind the sinister horn is a lance tip with a banner, displaying a white cross on red. The text left of the coat of arms says "die coninc van denmarke"[7] (The King of Denmark). This is the earliest known undisputed colour rendering of the Dannebrog.
This image has been used to acknowledge a previously disputed theory that the cross found in Valdemar Atterdag's coats of arms located in his Danælog seal (Rettertingsseglet) from 1356 is indeed the cross from the Danish flag.
This image from the Armorial Gelre is nearly identical to an image found in a 15th-century coats of arms book now located in the National Archives of Sweden, (Riksarkivet)
From the time of King Eric of Pomerania there is also a case that undisputedly links the Dannebrog to Denmark. His seal from 1398 as king of the Kalmar union displays the arms of Denmark chief dexter, three lions. In this version, the lions are holding a Danebrog banner. The cross quartering the shields has also been identified as a Dannebrog cross, but this claim is disputed. Since the seal represents all of the three realms of the union, it is more likely that the cross refers to the union banner that King Eric tried to introduce, a red cross on yellow.
Modern use[edit]
As a civil ensign[edit]
The size and shape of the civil ensign ("Koffardiflaget") for merchant ships is given in the regulation of June 11, 1748, which says: A red flag with a white cross with no split end. The white cross must be 1/7 of the flag's height. The two first fields must be square in form and the two outer fields must be 6/4 lengths of those.
The proportions are thus: 3:1:3 vertically and 3:1:4.5 horizontally. This definition are the absolute proportions for the Danish national flag to this day, for both the civil version of the flag ("Stutflaget"), as well as the merchant flag ("Handelsflaget"). Both flags are identical.
A somewhat curious regulation came in 1758 concerning Danish ships sailing in the Mediterranean. These had to carry the King's cypher logo in the center of the flag, to distinguish them from Maltese ships, due to the similarity of the flag of the Order of St. John (also known as the Knights Hospitaller). To the best of knowledge, this regulation has never been revoked, however it is probably no longer done.
According to the regulation of June 11, 1748 the colour was simply red, which is common known today as "Dannebrog rød" ("Dannebrog red"). The only available red fabric dye in 1748 was made of madder root, which can be processed to produce a brilliant red dye (used historically for British soldiers' jackets). The private company, Dansk Standard, regulation number 359 of 2005, defines the red colour of the flag as Pantone 186c. No official nuance definition of "Dannebrog rød" exists.
During the next about 150 years nobody paid much attention to actually abide fully to the proportions of the flag given in the 1748 regulation, not even the government.
As late as 1892 it was stated in a series of regulations that the correct lengths of the two last fields in the flag were 6/4. Some interested in the matter made inquires into the issue and concluded that the 6/4 length would make the flag look blunt. Any new flag would also quickly become unlawful, due to wear and tear. They also noted that the flag currently used had lengths, of the last two fields, anywhere between 7/4 to 13/6. So in May 1893 a new regulation to all chiefs of police, stated that the police should not intervene, if the two last fields in the flag were longer than 6/4 as long as these did not exceed 7/4, and provided that this was the only rule violated. This regulation is still in effect today and thus the legal proportions of the National flag is today anywhere between 3:1:3 width / 3:1:4.5 length and 3:1:3 width / 3:1:5.25 length.
That some confusion still exists in this matter can be seen from the regulation of May 4, 1927, which once again states that Danish merchant ships have to fly flags according to the regulation of 1748.
Splitflag and Orlogsflag[edit]
The Splitflag and Orlogsflag have similar shapes but different sizes and shades of red. Legally, they are two different flags. The Splitflag is a Danish flag ending in a swallow-tail, it is Dannebrog red, and is used on land. The Orlogsflag is an elongated Splitflag with a deeper red colour and is only used on sea.
The Orlogsflag with no markings, may only be used by the Royal Danish Navy. There are though a few exceptions to this. A few institutions have been allowed to fly the clean Orlogsflag. The same flag with markings has been approved for a few dozen companies and institutions over the years.
Furthermore, the Orlogsflag is only described as such if it has no additional markings. Any swallow-tail flag, no matter the color, is called a Splitflag provided it bears additional markings.
The first regulation regarding the Splitflag dates from March 27, 1630, in which King Christian IV orders that Norwegian Defensionskibe (armed merchants ships) may only use the Splitflag if they are in Danish war service. In 1685 an order, distributed to a number of cities in Slesvig, states that all ships must carry the Danish flag, and in 1690 all merchant ships are forbidden to use the Splitflag, with the exception of ships sailing in the East Indies, West Indies and along the coast of Africa. In 1741 it is confirmed that the regulation of 1690 is still very much in effect; that merchant ships may not use the Splitflag. At the same time the Danish East India Company is allowed to fly the Splitflag when past the equator.
It is obvious that some confusion must have existed regarding the Splitflag. In 1696 the Admiralty presented the King with a proposal for a standard regulating both size and shape of the Splitflag. In the same year a royal resolution defines the proportions of the Splitflag, which in this resolution is called Kongeflaget (the King's flag), as follows: The cross must be 1/7 of the flags height. The two first fields must be square in form with the sides three times the cross width. The two outer fields are rectangular and 1½ the length of the square fields. The tails are the length of the flag.
These numbers are the basic for the Splitflag, or Orlogsflag, today, though the numbers have been slightly altered. The term Orlogsflag dates from 1806 and denotes use in the Danish Navy.
From about 1750 to early 19th century a number of ships and companies which the government has interests in, received approval to use the Splitflag. From the mid-19th century to 1899, and especially after 1870, additional institutions and private companies received approval to use the Splitflag.
In the royal resolution of October 25, 1939 for the Danish Navy, it is stated that the Orlogsflag is a Splitflag with a deep red ("dybrød") or madder red ("Kraprød") colour. Like the National flag, no nuance is given, but in modern days this is given as 195U. Furthermore the size and shape is corrected in this resolution to be: "The cross must be 1/7 of the flag's height. The two first fields must be square in form with the height of 3/7 of the flag's height. The two outer fields are rectangular and 5/4 the length of the square fields. The tails are 6/4 the length of the rectangular fields".
Thus, if compared to the standard of 1696, both the rectangular fields and the tails have decreased in size.
Royal Standards[edit]
- Monarch
The current version of the royal standard was introduced on 16 November 1972 when the Queen adopted a new version of her personal coat of arms. The royal standard is the flag of Denmark with a swallow-tail and charged with the monarch's coat of arms set in a white square. The centre square is 32 parts in a flag with the ratio 56:107.
- Other members of the royal family
Standard of Frederik the Crown Prince of Denmark.
Standard of Henrik the Prince Consort of Denmark.
Standard of the Royal House- used by other members of the Royal Family
Danish culture states that the Dannebrog is not allowed to touch the ground because it came from heaven. It also states that the Dannebrog is not allowed to be hoisted at night, because it is said that such is to salute the Devil.
Other flags of the Kingdom of Denmark[edit]
Greenland and the Faroe Islands are additional autonomous countries within the Kingdom of Denmark. These countries have their own official flags.
Regional Flags[edit]
Some Regions of Denmark have unofficial flags, listed below. The regional flags of Bornholm and Ærø are known to be in active use. The flags of Vendsyssel (Vendelbrog) and the Jutlandic flag ("Den jyske fane") are obscure. None of these flags have legal recognition in Denmark, and are officially considered to be "fantasy flags".[9] Denmark reserves official recognition to official flags and regional flags (områdeflag) from other jurisdictions.
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
1970s —Present | Unofficial flag of Bornholm | Nordic Cross Flag in red and green. Also known in a version with a white fimbriation of the green cross in a style similar to design of the Norwegian flag. | |
1633 —Present | Unofficial flag of Ærø | Tricolour in yellow, green and red Very similar to the Flag of Lithuania |
1976 —Present | Unofficial flag of Vendsyssel | Nordic Cross Flag in blue, orange and green.[10] Designed by Mogens Bohøj.[11] | |
1975 —Present | Unofficial flag of Jutland | A Nordic Cross Flag in blue, green and red. Designed by Per Kramer in 1975.[12] |
The flag of Volyn Oblast, Ukraine is very similar to the Dannebrog.
See also[edit]
- ^ Inge Adriansen, Nationale symboler, Museum Tusculanum Press, 2003, p. 129: "Fra begyndelsen af 1400-tallet kan Dannebrog med sikkerhed dokumenteres som rigsflag, det vil sige statsmagtens og kongens flag" (English: "Dannebrog can with certainty be documented as flag of the realm, that is the flag of the authority of state and the of the king, from the beginning of the 1400s")
- ^ Jeroen Temperman. State Religion Relationships and Human Rights Law. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. Retrieved 2007-12-31. "Many predominantly Christian states show a cross, symbolising Christainity, on their national flag. Scandinavian crosses or Nordic crosses on the flags of the Nordic countries–Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden–also represent Christianity."
- ^ Carol A. Foley. The Australian Flag: Colonial Relic or Contemporary Icon. William Gaunt & Sons. Retrieved 2007-12-31. "The Christian cross, for instance, is one of the oldest and most widely used symbols in the world, and many European countries, such as the United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Greece and Switzerland, adopted and currently retain the Christian cross on their national flags."
- ^ Andrew Evans. Iceland. Bradt. Retrieved 2007-12-31. "Legend states that a red cloth with the white cross simply fell from the sky in the middle of the 13th-century Battle of Valdemar, after which the Danes were victorious. As a badge of divine right, Denmark flew its cross in the other Scandinavian countries it ruled and as each nation gained independence, they incorporated the Christian symbol."
- ^ "Dannebrog" by Hans Christian Bjerg, p.12, ISBN 87-7739-906-4.
- ^ Evans, Andrew (2008). Iceland. Bradt Travel Guides. p. 27.
- ^ Volker Preuß. "National Flagge des Königreich Dänemark". Retrieved 2005-02-14. (German)
- ^ a b Store Danske Encyklopædi - entry "Danmark -nationalflag"
- ^ [1] harteg.dk Bornholms områdeflag afvist
- ^ [2] klauber-flag.dk - Vendelbrog
- ^ nordjyske.dk Det faldt ikke nedfra himlen ...
- ^ [3] klauber-flag.dk
This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations. (June 2011) |
- Danmarks-Samfundet - several rules and customs about the use of Dannebrog
- Dannebrog, Helga Bruhn, Forlaget Jespersen og Pios, Copenhagen 1949
- Danebrog - Danmarks Palladium, E. D. Lund, Forlaget H. Hagerups, Copenhagen 1919
- Dannebrog - Vort Flag, Lieutenant Colonel Thaulow, Forlaget Codan, Copenhagen 1943
- DS 359:2005 'Flagdug', Dansk Standard, 2005
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Sometimes, gathering a few of your prettiest posessions and snapping some shots of them is worth while, especially if your more 'put together' blog post has kinda turned out wrong and you need a back up (like me! Word of advice, never tweet that you're going to post later today because when your post idea screws up, you're stuck searching frantically for something else to post about. Not worth it.)
I love perfume and pretty underwear more than is probably healthy. I can never seem to get enough! But here are a few of my favourites. I would have included my favourite Chanel scents but I'm keeping those to photograph at a later date. I have a few fun ideas in mind...
I haven't posted here properly in a while, but I'm going to pick up the pace now. I find posting regularly quite difficult. No one would believe how awfully long it takes to prepare one blog post! I do enjoy it though, so will make more of an effort now that work has died down and I have no more holidays to take!


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You should paint the rings that go on the outside of the rims and put them back on. Its sounds funny but when you take the rings off you loose 1-1.5 mpg's. Im a prius certified master tech and they actually talked about that in training.
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Tinted head lights has to be one of the dumbest ideas out there. Most people and car companies strive to get brighter headlights for safety and darkening them just seems so dumb. Even dark tail lights are a danger to you since it makes it much harder to see when you are stopping, specially with so many distractions people already have in their cars. Be safe man.
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Co-Dependency Issues - Learning How to
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Recovery from Co-dependency means taking responsibility for our own life whereby we stop trying to coerce, plead, bully or manipulate other people and situations to change in order to make our lives happier. Trying to control another person or life simply cannot work. Love, success and happiness are states that only we can create for ourselves. My "How To Recognise and Heal Co-dependency eBook" can show you how.
Every time we try to establish these states from the outside in – we hand our power over and become power-less to create our own lives.
True love, success and happiness can only be created by 'being' these states ourselves.
The human disease of 'co-dependency' is widespread. It's estimated that the greater majority of individuals have experienced an emotionally dysfunctional childhood. It's suggested that any child who grew up in a dysfunctional family has developed the disease of co-dependency.
What is co-dependency? Co-dependency is a dis-ease of being outer-focused rather than being able to healthily detach from people and situations to focus on and take care of Self. Co-dependency is an unhealthy dependency on outer circumstances.
Rather than take responsibility for their own lives, co-dependents try to control events and people through granting compassion, advice giving, lecturing, helplessness, emotional blackmail, manipulation, guilt or anger.
Co-dependents feel empty on the inside and try to fill this emptiness with things' outside of themselves. They are personally dis-empowered in this state.
In most cases co-dependents are trying to re-write the scripts of their painful childhoods, and will re-attract the same pain over and over. Co-dependents often try to make safe and trustworthy environments with unsafe and untrustworthy individuals and circumstances.
By trying to control aspects outside of themselves – co-dependents end up being controlled by life and other people. Co-dependents forfeit their right to create their own lives.
It's very important to realize that when we're trying to change our outer life and are not congruently honouring ourselves, we are acting co-dependently. When we're trying to fix life and other people we're in a position where this can hurt us. If we continue to stand there whilst complaining, blaming or attempting to control the situation or person, we will keep getting hurt.
In advanced stages of the disease, all our feelings (the greater majority will be obsession and pain) will depend on someone or something else. We'll have lost ourselves to a level where we can't identify or respond to what we require for our safety and well-being. We forfeit our rights to identify and maintain healthy boundaries. Our ability to take care of ourselves and treat ourselves with respect desperately diminishes. (Please see my "How To Understand and Implement Healthy Boundary Function eBook".)
It can be a very frightening yet enlightening exercise to identify yourself as a 'fixer'.
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If you have said 'Yes' to this many of the questions you are severely co-dependent. There is a dire need for you to learn how to focus and take care of self. It is highly likely that you are often at the mercy at the life and other people and may often lose yourself. You have great difficulty in setting boundaries and sustaining your personal energy and self. Self-empowerment and self-awareness is highly suggested.14-17
You have co-dependency issues. You may have problems setting boundaries and will often ignore your rights and feelings in favour of trying to keep other people happy. you'll benefit from learning how to listen to and respond to yourself. There is a need for you to stand up and align more with your goals, desires and rights.9-13
Even though you do have self-awareness you still may have trouble setting boundaries and defining your goals. There is a need for you to risk 'rocking the boat' and learning to be more comfortable with your own company and beliefs. It would be helpful for you to examine and work on the areas in your life where you may be handing your power over.3-8
You have the ability to be quite self-aware and look after yourself. However, there is still room for improvement!0-2
You are a powerful person who knows how to set boundaries and honour yourself. Keep up the great work!
Our society has it backwards. We've been taught that our happiness depends on how we perceive life outside of ourselves. This is insanity because in reality we have no control over anything that isn't us. This attitude to life has always kept us in pain. The truth of the matter is - we can choose to be happy and self-fulfilled regardless of what is happening on the outside. Then we can stop being clingy and needy and creating self-sabotage. We can finally make healthy decisions that honour us and attract and maintain real love, safety and happiness.
If you know you have co-dependency issues you need to make your recovery a mission. This requires healing your fears of feeling out of control. This means being willing to be responsible for your own emotions without focusing on anyone or anything outside of you to escape yourself. This is the only way you can be free. No-one else is going to provide you with the guarantee of happiness and safety. This job is yours alone, and until you step up to the plate other people, situations and life will inevitably hurt you.
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Glendale, AZ. Before anyone gets overly excited about an undefeated team in the NFL right now, we are just two weeks into the regular season. Twenty teams entered the weekend at 1-1, which is a league record at this point of an early season. Possibly the most surprising of the unbeaten teams so far is the Arizona Cardinals. After down to the wire wins over Seattle and New England, the team down in the desert is tied atop the NFC West with the powerful 49ers. Most followers of the NFL picked Arizona to lose in week 1, but their victory over the Seahawks was still not a major shocker. Heading into week 2 though, basically everyone outside of the Cardinals locker room was picking the Patriots to come out on top, and probably in a blowout as well. It was just a matter of how long Arizona could keep it competitive, as New England would do what New England does at home….win and win big. But as the second half went along, and the Cardinals maintained their lead, it became apparent that New England was in a dogfight. Then the fumble happened, as Ryan Williams coughed it up with very little time remaining. It looked as if Arizona had just given the game away after playing so hard and deserving to win. But shockingly enough, the Patriots didn't try to score a TD, and instead lined up for a fairly long field goal attempt to win it. Everyone knew it was going to split the uprights and propel the Patriots to a come from behind victory. But instead, it sailed about a mile wide left, and the Cardinals had stunned the NFL world. This 20-18 win was one of the bigger regular season upsets in recent memory, and shocked everyone east of Phoenix. So now at 2-0, the Arizona Cardinals are having to deal with something that is typically very foreign for this franchise….success. Yes, they made a Super Bowl appearance a few years ago, but that sort of prosperity is not the norm for the Cardinals. With 2-0 Philly now coming to town, week 3 will show everyone what this team is all about.
How have they done it? How are the Cardinals 2-0 right now? The QB situation is maybe the worst, indecisive one in the league, as Kevin Kolb and John Skelton have been their underwhelming selves. Larry Fitzgerald seems to be part of the witness protection program, as whoever is under center throwing the ball has forgotten about the star receiver completely. The running game has been iffy at best, as neither Beanie Wells or Ryan Williams have gotten untracked whatsoever. The answer as to how they are doing it so far is very simple in fact. It's the defense. This unit has been very surprising, limiting Seattle and the powerful Patriots to a combined 34 points. The guys in the front seven, namely Darnell Dockett and Daryl Washington, have put a bunch of pressure on the opposing QB's. Through two games, this Cardinals defense has 7 sacks, and have been flying all over the field. The key has also been the outstanding secondary, as passing on this team can be a scary proposition. Veteran Adrian Wilson is still one of the best safeties and hardest hitting ones at that. Newcomer William Gay has been a nice addition from Pittsburgh and been a solid contributor so far. But the star is Patrick Peterson, who in his second year is becoming a truly elite cornerback in the NFL. He had a heck of a rookie year in 2011, but seems to have elevated his game even more so in 2012. This defense seems to have finally come together after years of undisciplined play and tons of mistakes. A big test will come this week, as they have to try to contain Michael Vick. Yes, Vick has been extremely mistake prone during the first two weeks, but he can also make plenty of plays when things break down. Philly will bring a dangerous running game to Arizona as well, so this Cardinals defense will need to come up big again. But the question should be this heading into this game….can the Cardinals stay focused and prove the first two weeks have not been a fluke? There are still plenty of fans everywhere who are just waiting for Arizona to stub its toe and collapse now that they have won a few games in impressive fashion. This game against the Eagles will tell us all a lot. Philadelphia has not been overly outstanding in their two victories so far, but they have a very formidable defense which will look to pressure their old friend, Kevin Kolb. A low scoring game seems to be very likely, with two high-flying defenses dominating all game long. Both the Cardinals and Eagles have each been involved in two very tight games, and both have shown they can win nail-biters. Don't be surprised if this matchup comes down to the final minutes of the 4th quarter in Glendale.
This game is important for both teams, but seems to be more of a litmus test for the Arizona Cardinals at this point of the season. How do they handle coming home after a huge win on the road against New England? Are they mature enough to handle a little bit of success and get the job done to go to 3-0? Or will they stumble and make mistakes which leads to a loss against the opportunistic Eagles? Arizona has now shown that they can compete at a very high level, but doing it week after week will be the key to making everyone believers.
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Road Report: Greetings from... Albany!
ALBANY, N.Y. -- There's a city that's 136 miles south down the Hudson that might be in an "Empire State of Mind," but this is the Empire State of Reality. Most of the laws and budgets that New York City must live with are written up here, in New York's true capital. Albany is one of the most important places in this country's history, its power and prestige dating back to a time when the States weren't United yet. It's so old that its
centennial was two decades ago. Albany is a throwback to a time when being along a river was far more important than proximity to highways or train tracks.
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. But there haven't been any famous rappers from Albany, nobody to "represent" or lift the name up to the rest of America. That is, until its mid-major basketball ambassadors started bringing glory to this city four years ago.
Albany is one of Hoops Nation's most vital strongholds. Last year, it hosted the tourneys for both the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference and America East. The University at Albany won the AE in 2006 and 2007, and in the former year came about as close as any team to pulling off the first 16-over-1 upset in NCAA history. The Great Danes were
up by as many as 12 points in the second half before UConn came roaring back for the win. And then there's Siena.
Since 2008, the Saints have broken into the national hoops consciousness, and not even the most casual sports fan or blabbermouth sportz radio host can deny their power. Two consecutive MAAC double-championships, two NCAA first round wins (over Vanderbilt and Ohio State), and a
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that earned a
double order of Onions. The Saints have become so dominant over its conference that the MAAC has become "Siena's league" -- a real Synecdoche, New York.
On a Tuesday evening at decade's end, I drove past an endless series of Stewart's Shops and Hoffman Car Washes (it's always time) towards the MAAC's power locus, the Times Union Center. There were plenty of digital LED billboards all around the city encouraging me to "See Siena," and I intended to. On a night when Siena faced off with Saint Joseph's at the TUC, it was cold enough to freeze your face off. That didn't matter to the thousands of fans who lined up along Pearl Street to provide a strong walkup crowd.
Even though the end sections of the 15,500-seat hall were tarped off, the arena formerly known as Knickerbocker and Pepsi was packed to a diminished 8,000-seat capacity. The fans were whipped into a Franciscan frenzy by tipoff, a hot and loud buzz that signified the game's real religious importance. These were two of the very best Catholic mid-major teams in the country, both with strong recent NCAA histories. Both teams fought hard through a close, tooth-for-tooth first half.
Siena rose to the Division I level in 1976, but most of the banners that hang in its outsized hoops home celebrate accomplishments of the last two years. There were a couple of postseason appearances at the turn of the century, and there was that four-day stretch in March 2002 when magic happened in spite of itself. The sixth-seeded Saints left a 9-9 regular season record behind and won four games in four days at the MAAC tourney to become league champions, then beat Alcorn State in the P.I.G. to become just the second team with an overall losing record to win an NCAA game. But most of the Saints' D-I life has been spent on the flat rollercoaster of mediocrity, an underachieving team that could always draw rabid five-figure crowds in a place remote enough to qualify as a "captive audience."
Albany is a city where the streets weren't built for bandwagons. For the tens of thousands of Saints fans who suffered through springboarding coaches, then Bob Beyer and Rob Lanier, the sustained success under Fran McCaffery is well-celebrated and well-earned.
And, as they have so many times in recent years, Siena gave its fans the best show in town. In the second half against Saint Joseph's, the Saints unleashed a long string of sweet shots and devastating dunks, turning a close game into an And1-style exhibition. Siena outscored the Hawks 49-33 for a 92-75 thrashing. Half an hour after the buzzer, the streets were cold and empty, under the kind of brown-grey sky that signals an imminent Upstate snowstorm.
But I could have sworn there were 8,000 people stuffed into the sports bar next to the TUC. Broadway Joe's was full of holiday-week party people raising glasses to their team's latest big win.
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West of downtown along Interstate 90, past places with storybook names like Corporate Woods and the Slingerlands, is the State University of New York at Albany, better known in basketball circles as simply "Albany." The Great Danes are celebrating their 10th year in Division I (with a logo and everything), and they've already won two conference championships and matching NCAA autobids. That's the kind of .200 batting average that Mario Mendoza would have been proud to compile.
UAlbany plays its home games in the SEFCU Arena which is hard enough to pronounce that it's better to call it by its old name, the RACC. Like many buildings in the America East, the arena has collapsible bleachers -- but the the spectator entry gate is at the higher level, so it's not possible to go down to courtside unless the seats are out. It's a very interesting place, the home of the Scoobies and the DANEger Zone student section.
The Danes' first home game of 2010 was a final non-conference tuneup against Yale. Student break, a 4-10 record and a foot of snow kept the crowd size down on a Sunday afternoon, but a similar script to the Siena game played out. After a tight first 20 minutes, the home team exploded for 50 second-half minutes to put the Bulldogs away, 89-68. Perhaps this pair of games were meant as pageant-style reenactments of the city's very history, played out in the kind of poetry only basketball can provide: a reputation that precedes, a period of struggle, then a burst of new energy into a hopeful future.
It's a city that's become defined by its basketball. And for the past decade, the green and gold have played the purple and gold in an annual
game that decides which team is the Division I king of the capital. Since both teams have been at the NCAA's top flight, Siena won the first three, but their state-school brothers served notice in 2004 with a stunning 86-65 blowout. It was one of the more humiliating results from a 6-24 Saint season that spelled the end of Lanier's tenure as head coach. But for UAlbany, it was the school's first championship of its Division I era.
"Albany is a great college sports town," ninth-year UA head coach Will Brown explained after the Yale game. "We have arena football, minor-league hockey and single-A baseball, but Siena and Albany basketball has become the central focus during the winters. That game has become a huge deal, a real hate game for our alumni. You hear about 'Rivalry Week,' you know? They should show our game on national TV. We're always going to have over 13,000 people in the Times Union Center for that game, screaming their lungs out. I just wish more people got to see it."
Since the Great Dane breakthrough in 2004, Albany hasn't won the city game since. But most have been close. From 2005 through 2008, each featured a single-digit split, including the 76-75 double-overtime classic in 2006. This year's edition, however,
wasn't close
. Siena won 83-54 to tighten its stranglehold on the three century-old metropolis.
"We're babies, we've only been D-I for a decade," said Coach Brown. "They've been at this level since the Seventies. I have tremendous respect for their program and for everything Fran's done, and I hope they have respect for us too."
Albany is no Cinderella city. There's very little that's romantic or beautiful about it. Inside its rectangular block buildings, laws are made and deals are brokered. With no natural exportable resources or major manufacturing, the Capital Region is hinging its non-legislative future on nanotechnology and homeland security technology. It doesn't pretend to be pretty, and it doesn't have much time or patience for bullshit.
But people in this area love their college basketball, and they know what being underdogs is all about. Albany is the capital of a state that contains the capital of the universe, and it bears its odd place in the world with a measure of resignation and grudging acceptance. For each of the past four years, however, the city has sent basketball ambassadors out onto the national stage. When Siena and UAlbany have lost the close ones, they've done Albany proud. And when they win, they do so for the whole city.
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Nutrients 2013, 5(7), 2314-2332; doi:10.3390/nu5072314
Modulation of Immune Function by Polyphenols: Possible Contribution of Epigenetic Factors
Center of Molecular Biology and Pharmacogenetics, Scientific and Technological Bioresource Nucleus, Universidad de La Frontera (BIOREN-UFRO), Temuco 4811230, Chile
Department of Clinical and Toxicology Analysis, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo 05508-900, Brazil
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Received: 4 April 2013; in revised form: 15 May 2013 / Accepted: 26 May 2013 / Published: 28 June 2013
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Abstract: Several biological activities have been described for polyphenolic compounds, including a modulator effect on the immune system. The effects of these biologically active compounds on the immune system are associated to processes as differentiation and activation of immune cells. Among the mechanisms associated to immune regulation are epigenetic modifications as DNA methylation of regulatory sequences, histone modifications and posttranscriptional repression by microRNAs that influences the gene expression of key players involved in the immune response. Considering that polyphenols are able to regulate the immune function and has been also demonstrated an effect on epigenetic mechanisms, it is possible to hypothesize that there exists a mediator role of epigenetic mechanisms in the modulation of the immune response by polyphenols.
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Cuevas, A.; Saavedra, N.; Salazar, L.A.; Abdalla, D.S.P. Modulation of Immune Function by Polyphenols: Possible Contribution of Epigenetic Factors. Nutrients 2013, 5, 2314-2332.
AMA StyleCuevas A, Saavedra N, Salazar LA, Abdalla DSP. Modulation of Immune Function by Polyphenols: Possible Contribution of Epigenetic Factors. Nutrients. 2013; 5(7):2314-2332.
Chicago/Turabian StyleCuevas, Alejandro; Saavedra, Nicolás; Salazar, Luis A.; Abdalla, Dulcineia S.P. 2013. "Modulation of Immune Function by Polyphenols: Possible Contribution of Epigenetic Factors." Nutrients 5, no. 7: 2314-2332.
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GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Clay Matthews may have been a little too good to begin this season. With six sacks in the Packers' first two games, Matthews matched his 2011 season total and showed opposing teams that his statistical drop-off in production was nothing more than a one-year glitch.
After the fourth-year linebacker dominated the 49ers and Bears in Weeks 1 and 2 and was on pace to surpass his 13.5-sack total from 2010 before midseason, Matthews didn't face nearly as many one-on-one matchups against the Seahawks and Saints the past two weeks.
"They let me have some fun in the first two weeks," Matthews said. "Now it's move lateral and try to add a few more options for me to move around and have some fun within the defense."
Matthews lined up mostly as Green Bay's left outside linebacker last season but switched back over to right outside linebacker this year. However, six sacks in two games means Matthews won't be able to line up every down on the right side and expect the offensive line not to double- or triple-team him.
"I definitely have my work cut out for me, to say the least," Matthews said. "Offenses are making a point to try to limit my production in a game, and it's a natural progression."
It's now up to defensive coordinator Dom Capers to find weaknesses and strategic gaps of upcoming opponents so Matthews can get into favorable situations. Matthews has bounced inside and pass-rushed up the middle, trying to draw the center or a guard out and force them to stop him without any help.
"It's always fun when you have a guy like Clay," Capers said. "Because you know with Clay's ability, when he gets one-on-one situations, the percentages are normally pretty good. People have four games of tape on you and they study it, and what you've done, they certainly work very hard on.
"As you go through the course of the season, it's important that you look at it in segments in terms of what you want to continue to do and what you want to change up."
For Matthews, his favorite moments are when he's able to take down the quarterback and show off his well-known flex pose. But those opportunities have been rare since Week 2, with Matthews unable to sack Seattle's Russell Wilson and not getting to Saints quarterback Drew Brees until late in the third quarter.
Matthews' frustration with the constant attention on him may have shown slightly when he barely celebrated his sack of Brees. After that game, Matthews responded "No, not at all" when asked if he's excited for the challenge of having to beat multiple linemen now in order to pick up a sack.
"I enjoy my one-on-one matchups, and they're going to be few and far between now," Matthews said. "So I just have to make an emphasis of winning those. But maybe in years prior, where I've done my job of taking up two (blockers), it's not good enough anymore. I have to win those double-teams and be that playmaker that they count on in this defense."
Matthews is right. The Packers do need him to be a playmaker. Though there were several factors involved in Green Bay's defensive struggles last season, it didn't help that Matthews wasn't picking up sacks at the same rate he had in his first two years in the NFL.
The Packers' defense has been much improved so far in 2012, and it's of little surprise that it's happening during a terrific stretch for Matthews. Entering Week 5, Green Bay is ninth in the league in yards allowed and 10th in points allowed.
It also helps that the Packers are getting solid production from their rookies, including outside linebackers Nick Perry and Dezman Moses, defensive linemen Jerel Worthy and Mike Daniels, safety Jerron McMillian and cornerback Casey Hayward. After returning from a one-game suspension, fifth-year outside linebacker Erik Walden has also looked better in the pass rush this season than he did a year ago.
"I think we've gotten pretty good pressure," Capers said. "I think through the first quarter of the season, I don't see that as a deficiency. I think we've got more flexibility than what we've had in terms of pressure. We're using more personnel groups trying to get speed on the field at times in what we think are more definite passing situations."
During Green Bay's Super Bowl-winning season in 2010, the Packers were second in the NFL in sacks. Last year, they dropped all the way down to 27th. But now Green Bay is back near the top of the league, currently ranked fifth.
Of the Packers' 14 team sacks this season, seven are from Matthews. He'll likely need to continue getting 50 percent of the sacks in order to keep Green Bay in the top five, but Capers believes Matthews is capable of doing that.
"Clay's smart," Capers said. "He's athletic enough to do it. He enjoys the challenge. When you have a guy like Clay, you have to keep him challenged. He enjoys the challenge week to week and seeing how he's going to fit in and what he's doing."
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