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Valentine's Day
Saint Valentine's Day | |
Antique Valentine's card
Also called | Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine |
Observed by | People in many countries; Anglican Communion (see calendar) Eastern Orthodox Church (see calendar) Lutheran Church (see calendar) |
Type | Cultural, Christian, commercial |
Significance | Feast day of Saint Valentine; the celebration of love and affection |
Observances | Sending greeting cards and gifts, dating, church services |
Date | February 14 (fixed by the Catholic Church) July 7 (fixed by the Orthodox Church) |
Frequency | annual |
Saint Valentine's Day, also known as Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine,[1] is a holiday observed on February 14 each year. It is celebrated in many countries around the world, although it is not a holiday in most of them.
St. Valentine's Day began as a liturgical celebration one or more early Christian saints named Valentinus. Several martyrdom stories were invented for the various Valentines that belonged to February 14, and added to later martyrologies.[2] A popular hagiographical account of Saint Valentine of Rome states that he was imprisoned for performing weddings for soldiers who were forbidden to marry and for ministering to Christians, who were persecuted under the Roman Empire. According to legend, during his imprisonment, he healed the daughter of his jailer, Asterius. An embellishment to this story states that before his execution he wrote her a letter signed "Your Valentine" as a farewell.[3] Today, Saint Valentine's Day is an official feast day in the Anglican Communion,[4] as well as in the Lutheran Church.[5] The Eastern Orthodox Church also celebrates Saint Valentine's Day, albeit on July 6 and July 30, the former date in honor of the Roman presbyter Saint Valentine, and the latter date in honor of Hieromartyr Valentine, the Bishop of Interamna (modern Terni). In Brazil, the Dia de São Valentim is recognized on June 12.
The day was first associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished. In 18th-century England, it evolved into an occasion in which lovers expressed their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as "valentines"). In Europe, Saint Valentine's Keys are given to lovers "as a romantic symbol and an invitation to unlock the giver's heart", as well as to children, in order to ward off Saint Valentine's Malady.[6] Valentine's Day symbols that are used today include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, handwritten valentines have given way to mass-produced greeting cards.[7]
Saint Valentine
Historical facts
Numerous early Christian martyrs were named Valentine.[8] The Valentines honored on February 14 are Valentine of Rome (Valentinus presb. m. Romae) and Valentine of Terni (Valentinus ep. Interamnensis m. Romae).[9] Valentine of Rome was a priest in Rome who was martyred about AD 496 and was buried on the Via Flaminia. The relics of Saint Valentine were kept in the Church and Catacombs of San Valentino in Rome, which "remained an important pilgrim site throughout the Middle Ages until the relics of St. Valentine were transferred to the church of Santa Prassede during the pontificate of Nicholas IV".[10][11] The flower-crowned skull[12] of Saint Valentine is exhibited in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, Rome. Other relics are found at Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church in Dublin, Ireland.[13] Valentine of Terni became bishop of Interamna (modern Terni) about AD 197 and is said to have been martyred during the persecution under Emperor Aurelian. He is also buried on the Via Flaminia, but in a different location than Valentine of Rome. His relics are at the Basilica of Saint Valentine in Terni (Basilica di San Valentino). Jack B. Oruch states that "abstracts of the acts of the two saints were in nearly every church and monastery of Europe."[14] The Catholic Encyclopedia also speaks of a third saint named Valentine who was mentioned in early martyrologies under date of February 14. He was martyred in Africa with a number of companions, but nothing more is known about him.[15] Saint Valentine's head was preserved in the abbey of New Minster, Winchester, and venerated.[16]
February 14 is celebrated as St. Valentine's Day in various Christian denominations; it has, for example, the rank of 'commemoration' in the calendar of saints in the Anglican Communion.[4] In addition, the feast day of Saint Valentine is also given in the calendar of saints of the Lutheran Church.[5] However, in the 1969 revision of the Roman Catholic Calendar of Saints, the feast day of Saint Valentine on February 14 was removed from the General Roman Calendar and relegated to particular (local or even national) calendars for the following reason: "Though the memorial of Saint Valentine is ancient, it is left to particular calendars, since, apart from his name, nothing is known of Saint Valentine except that he was buried on the Via Flaminia on February 14."[17] The feast day is still celebrated in Balzan (Malta) where relics of the saint are claimed to be found, and also throughout the world by Traditionalist Catholics who follow the older, pre-Second Vatican Council calendar. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, St. Valentine's Day is celebrated on July 6, in which Saint Valentine, the Roman presbyter, is honoured; furthermore, the Eastern Orthodox Church obsesrves the feast of Hieromartyr Valentine, Bishop of Interamna, on July 30.[18][19][20]
J.C. Cooper, in The Dictionary of Christianity, writes that Saint Valentine was "a priest of Rome who was imprisoned for succouring persecuted Christians."[21] Contemporary records of Saint Valentine were most probably destroyed during this Diocletianic Persecution in the early 4th century.[22] In the 5th or 6th century, a work called Passio Marii et Marthae published a story of martyrdom for Saint Valentine of Rome, perhaps by borrowing tortures that happened to other saints, as was usual in the literature of that period. The same events are also found in Bede's Martyrology, which was compiled in the 8th century.[22][23] It states that Saint Valentine was persecuted as a Christian and interrogated by Roman Emperor Claudius II in person. Claudius was impressed by Valentine and had a discussion with him, attempting to get him to convert to Roman paganism in order to save his life. Valentine refused and tried to convert Claudius to Christianity instead. Because of this, he was executed. Before his execution, he is reported to have performed a miracle by healing Julia, the blind daughter of his jailer Asterius. The jailer's daughter and his forty-four member household (family members and servants) came to believe in Jesus and were baptized.[22] A later Passio repeated the legend, adding that Pope Julius I built a church over his sepulchre (it is a confusion with a 4th-century tribune called Valentino who donated land to build a church at a time when Julius was a Pope).[23] The legend was picked up as fact by later martyrologies, starting by Bede's martyrology in the 8th century.[23] It was repeated in the 13th century, in Legenda Aurea.[24] The book expounded briefly the Early Medieval acta of several Saint Valentines, and this legend was assigned to the Valentine under February 14.
There is an additional embellishment to The Golden Legend, which according to Henry Ansgar Kelly, was added centuries later, and widely repeated.[3] On the evening before Valentine was to be executed, he would have written the first "valentine" card himself, addressed to the daughter of his jailer Asterius, who was no longer blind, signing as "Your Valentine."[3] The expression "From your Valentine" was later adopted by modern Valentine letters.[25] This legend has been published by both American Greetings and The History Channel.
John Foxe, an English historian, as well as the Order of Carmelites, state that Saint Valentine was buried in the Church of Praxedes in Rome, located near the cemetery of Saint Hippolytus. This order says that according to legend, "Julia herself planted a pink-blossomed almond tree near his grave. Today, the almond tree remains a symbol of abiding love and friendship."[26][27]
Another embellishment is that Saint Valentine would have performed clandestine Christian weddings for soldiers who were forbidden to marry.[28] The Roman Emperor Claudius II supposedly forbade this in order to grow his army, believing that married men did not make for good soldiers.[28][29] However, this supposed marriage ban was never issued, and in fact Claudius II told his soldiers to take two or three women for themselves after his victory over the Goths.[30]
According to legend, in order "to remind these men of their vows and God's love, Saint Valentine is said to have cut hearts from parchment", giving them to these soldiers and persecuted Christians, a possible origin of the widespread use of hearts on St. Valentine's Day.[31]
Saint Valentine supposedly wore a purple amethyst ring, customarily worn on the hands of Christian bishops with an image of Cupid engraved in it, a recognizable symbol associated with love that was legal under the Roman Empire;[29][32] Roman soldiers would recognize the ring and ask him to perform marriage for them.[29] Probably because of the association with Saint Valentine, amethyst has become the birthstone of February, and it's thought to attract love.[33]
Folk traditions
While the European folk traditions connected with Saint Valentine and St. Valentine's Day have become marginalized by the modern Anglo-American customs connecting the day with romantic love, there are some remaining associations connecting the saint with the advent of spring.
While the custom of sending cards, flowers, chocolates and other gifts originated in the UK, Valentine's Day still remains connected with various regional customs in England. In Norfolk, a character called 'Jack' Valentine knocks on the rear door of houses leaving sweets and presents for children. Although he was leaving treats, many children were scared of this mystical person.[34][35]
In Slovenia, Saint Valentine or Zdravko was one of the saints of spring, the saint of good health and the patron of beekeepers and pilgrims.[36] A proverb says that "Saint Valentine brings the keys of roots". Plants and flowers start to grow on this day. It has been celebrated as the day when the first work in the vineyards and in the fields commences. It is also said that birds propose to each other or marry on that day. Another proverb says "Valentin – prvi spomladin" ("Valentine — the first spring saint"), as in some places (especially White Carniola), Saint Valentine marks the beginning of spring.[37] Valentine's Day has only recently been celebrated as the day of love. The day of love was traditionally March 12, the Saint Gregory's day, or February 22, Saint Vincent's Day. The patron of love was Saint Anthony, whose day has been celebrated on June 13.[36]
Connection with romantic love
There is no evidence of any link between St. Valentine's Day and the rites of the ancient Roman festival, despite many claims by many authors.[16][38][notes 1] The celebration of Saint Valentine did not have any romantic connotations until Chaucer's poetry about "Valentines" in the 14th century.[22]
Popular modern sources claim links to unspecified Greco-Roman February holidays alleged to be devoted to fertility and love to St. Valentine's Day, but prior to Chaucer in the 14th century, there were no links between the Saints named Valentinus and romantic love.[22] Earlier links as described above were focused on sacrifice rather than romantic love. In the ancient Athenian calendar the period between mid-January and mid-February was the month of Gamelion, dedicated to the sacred marriage of Zeus and Hera.
In Ancient Rome, Lupercalia, observed February 13–15, was an archaic rite connected to fertility. Lupercalia was a festival local to the city of Rome. The more general Festival of Juno Februa, meaning "Juno the purifier "or "the chaste Juno", was celebrated on February 13–14. Pope Gelasius I (492–496) abolished Lupercalia. Some researchers have theorized that Gelasius I replaced Lupercalia with the celebration of the Purification of Mary in February 14 and claim a connection to the 14th century's connotations of romantic love, but there is no historical indication that he ever intended such a thing.[notes 2][39] Also, the dates don't fit because at the time of Gelasius I the feast was only celebrated in Jerusalem, and it was on February 14 only because Jerusalem placed the Nativity on January 6.[notes 3] Although it was called "Purification of Mary", it dealt mainly with the presentation of Jesus at the temple.[40] The Jerusalem's Purification of Mary on February 14 became the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple on February 2 as it was introduced to Rome and other places in the sixth century, after Gelasius I's time.[41]
Alban Butler in his Lifes of the Principal Saints (1756–1759) claimed without proof that men and women in Lupercalia drew names from a jar to make couples, and that modern Valentine's letters originated from this custom. In reality, this practice originated in the Middle Ages, with no link to Lupercalia, with men drawing the names of girls at random to couple with them. This custom was combated by priests, for example by Frances de Sales around 1600, apparently by replacing it with a religious custom of girls drawing the names of apostles from the altar. However, this religious custom is recorded as soon as the 13th century in the life of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, so it could have a different origin.[16]
Chaucer's love birds
Jack B. Oruch writes that the first recorded association of Valentine's Day with romantic love is in Parlement of Foules (1382) by Geoffrey Chaucer.[22] Chaucer wrote:
For this was on seynt Volantynys day
Whan euery bryd comyth there to chese his make.
["For this was on St. Valentine's Day, when every bird cometh there to choose his mate."]
This poem was written to honor the first anniversary of the engagement of King Richard II of England to Anne of Bohemia.[42] A treaty providing for a marriage was signed on May 2, 1381.[43] (When they were married eight months later, they were each only 15 years old).
Readers have uncritically assumed that Chaucer was referring to February 14 as Valentine's Day; however, mid-February is an unlikely time for birds to be mating in England. Henry Ansgar Kelly has pointed out that Chaucer could be referring to May 3, the celebration in the liturgical calendar of Valentine of Genoa, an early bishop of Genoa who died around AD 307.[42][44][45] Jack B. Oruch says that date for the start of Spring has changed since Chaucer's time because of the precession of equinoxes and the introduction of the Gregorian calendar in 1582. The date would correspond to the modern 23 February, a time when some birds have started mating and nesting in England.[22]
Chaucer's Parliament of Foules is set in a fictional context of an old tradition, but in fact there was no such tradition before Chaucer. The speculative explanation of sentimental customs, posing as historical fact, had their origins among 18th-century antiquaries, notably Alban Butler, the author of Butler's Lives of Saints, and have been perpetuated even by respectable modern scholars. Most notably, "the idea that Valentine's Day customs perpetuated those of the Roman Lupercalia has been accepted uncritically and repeated, in various forms, up to the present".[16][46]
There were three other authors who made poems about birds mating in St. Valentine's Day around the same years: Otton de Grandson from Savoy, John Gower from England, and a knight called Pardo from Valencia. Chaucer most probably predated all of them, but, due to the difficulty of dating medieval works, we can't know for sure who of the four had the idea first and influenced the others.[47]
The court of love
The earliest description of February 14 as an annual celebration of love appears in the Charter of the Court of Love. The charter, allegedly issued by Charles VI of France at Mantes-la-Jolie in 1400, describes lavish festivities to be attended by several members of the royal court, including a feast, amorous song and poetry competitions, jousting and dancing.[48] Amid these festivities, the attending ladies would hear and rule on disputes from lovers.[49] No other record of the court exists, and none of those named in the charter were present at Mantes except Charles's queen, Isabeau of Bavaria, who may well have imagined it all while waiting out a plague.[48]
Valentine poetry
The earliest surviving valentine is a 15th-century rondeau written by Charles, Duke of Orléans to his wife, which commences.
Je suis desja d'amour tanné
Ma tres doulce Valentinée...—Charles d'Orléans, Rondeau VI, lines 1–2[50]
At the time, the duke was being held in the Tower of London following his capture at the Battle of Agincourt, 1415.[51]
The earliest surviving valentines in English appear to be those in the Paston Letters, written in 1477 by Margery Brewes to her future husband John Paston "my right well-beloved Valentine".[52]
Valentine's Day is mentioned ruefully by Ophelia in Hamlet (1600–1601):
To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day,
All in the morning betime,
And I a maid at your window,
To be your Valentine.
Then up he rose, and donn'd his clothes,
And dupp'd the chamber-door;
Let in the maid, that out a maid
Never departed more.—William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 5
John Donne used the legend of the marriage of the birds as the starting point for his epithalamion celebrating the marriage of Elizabeth, daughter of James I of England, and Frederick V, Elector Palatine, on Valentine's Day:
Hayle Bishop Valentine whose day this is
All the Ayre is thy Diocese
This day which might inflame thy selfe old Valentine.
And all the chirping Queristers
And other birds ar thy parishioners
Thou marryest every yeare
The Lyrick Lark, and the graue whispering Doue,
The Sparrow that neglects his life for loue,
The houshold bird with the redd stomacher
Thou makst the Blackbird speede as soone,
As doth the Goldfinch, or the Halcyon
The Husband Cock lookes out and soone is spedd
And meets his wife, which brings her feather-bed.
This day more cheerfully than ever shine—John Donne, Epithalamion Vpon Frederick Count Palatine and the Lady Elizabeth marryed on St. Valentines day
The verse Roses are red echoes conventions traceable as far back as Edmund Spenser's epic The Faerie Queene (1590):
She bath'd with roses red, and violets blew,
And all the sweetest flowres, that in the forrest grew.[53]
The modern cliché Valentine's Day poem can be found in the collection of English nursery rhymes Gammer Gurton's Garland (1784):
The rose is red, the violet's blue,
The honey's sweet, and so are you.
And Fortune said it shou'd be you.[54][55]
Thou art my love and I am thine;
I drew thee to my Valentine:
The lot was cast and then I drew,
Modern times
In 1797, a British publisher issued The Young Man's Valentine Writer, which contained scores of suggested sentimental verses for the young lover unable to compose his own. Printers had already begun producing a limited number of cards with verses and sketches, called "mechanical valentines," and a reduction in postal rates in the next century ushered in the less personal but easier practice of mailing Valentines. That, in turn, made it possible for the first time to exchange cards anonymously, which is taken as the reason for the sudden appearance of racy verse in an era otherwise prudishly Victorian.[56]
Paper Valentines became so popular in England in the early 19th century that they were assembled in factories. Fancy Valentines were made with real lace and ribbons, with paper lace introduced in the mid-19th century.[57] In 1835, 60,000 Valentine cards were sent by post in Britain, despite postage being expensive.[58] The Laura Seddon Greeting Card Collection at Manchester Metropolitan University gathers 450 Valentine's Day cards dating from the early nineteenth century, printed by the major publishers of the day.[59] The collection is cataloged in Laura Seddon's book Victorian Valentines (1996).[60]
In the United States, the first mass-produced valentines of embossed paper lace were produced and sold shortly after 1847 by Esther Howland (1828–1904) of Worcester, Massachusetts.[61][62] Her father operated a large book and stationery store, but Howland took her inspiration from an English Valentine she had received from a business associate of her father.[63][64] Intrigued with the idea of making similar Valentines, Howland began her business by importing paper lace and floral decorations from England.[64][65] A writer in Graham's American Monthly observed in 1849, "Saint Valentine's Day ... is becoming, nay it has become, a national holyday."[66] The English practice of sending Valentine's cards was established enough to feature as a plot device in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mr. Harrison's Confessions (1851): "I burst in with my explanations: 'The valentine I know nothing about.' 'It is in your handwriting', said he coldly."[67] Since 2001, the Greeting Card Association has been giving an annual "Esther Howland Award for a Greeting Card Visionary".[62]
Since the 19th century, handwritten notes have given way to mass-produced greeting cards.[7] In the UK, just under half of the population spend money on their Valentines and around £1.3 billion is spent yearly on cards, flowers, chocolates and other gifts, with an estimated 25 million cards being sent.[68] The mid-19th century Valentine's Day trade was a harbinger of further commercialized holidays in the United States to follow.[69]
In the second half of the 20th century, the practice of exchanging cards was extended to all manner of gifts. Such gifts typically include roses and chocolates packed in a red satin, heart-shaped box. In the 1980s, the diamond industry began to promote Valentine's Day as an occasion for giving jewelry.
The U.S. Greeting Card Association estimates that approximately 190 million valentines are sent each year in the US. Half of those valentines are given to family members other than husband or wife, usually to children. When you include the valentine-exchange cards made in school activities the figure goes up to 1 billion, and teachers become the people receiving the most valentines.[61] The average valentine's spending has increased every year in the U.S, from $108 a person in 2010 to $131 in 2013.[70]
The rise of Internet popularity at the turn of the millennium is creating new traditions. Millions of people use, every year, digital means of creating and sending Valentine's Day greeting messages such as e-cards, love coupons or printable greeting cards. An estimated 15 million e-valentines were sent in 2010.[61] Valentine's Day is considered by some to be a Hallmark holiday due to its commercialization.[71]
In the modern era, liturgically, the Anglican Church has a service for St. Valentine's Day (the Feast of St. Valentine), which includes the optional rite of the renewal of marriage vows.[72]
Antique and vintage Valentine cards, 1850–1950
- Valentines of the mid-19th and early 20th centuries
Valentine card, 1862: "My dearest Miss, I send thee a kiss" addressed to Miss Jenny Lane of Crostwight Hall, Smallburgh, Norfolk.
Vinegar Valentine, circa 1900
- Postcards, "pop-ups", and mechanical Valentines, circa 1900–1930
Advertisement for Prang's greeting cards, 1883
- Children's Valentines
- Others
Taipei 101 in Valentine's Day 2006
Self-made Valentine's Cake
Barney the dog and India the cat, pets of George W. Bush, in the White House on Valentine's Day 2007
Celebration worldwide
Valentine's Day customs developed in early modern England and spread throughout the Anglosphere in the 19th century. In the later 20th and early 21st centuries, these customs have also spread to other countries along with other aspects of American pop culture, but its impact so far has been rather more limited than that of Halloween, or that of US pop-culture inspired aspects of Christmas (such as Santa Claus).
Due to a concentrated marketing effort, Valentine's Day is celebrated in some East Asian countries with Chinese and South Koreans spending the most money on Valentine's gifts.[73]
In China, the common situation is the man gives chocolate, flowers or both to the woman that he loves. In Chinese, Valentine's Day is called lovers' festival (simplified Chinese: 情人节; traditional Chinese: 情人節; pinyin: qíng rén jié). The so-called "Chinese Valentine's Day" is the Qixi Festival, celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. It commemorates a day on which a legendary cowherder and weaving maid are allowed to be together. Valentine's Day on February 14 is not celebrated because it is often too close to the Chinese New Year, which usually falls on either January or February.[citation needed] In Chinese culture, there is an older observance related to lovers, called "The Night of Sevens" (Chinese: 七夕; pinyin: Qi Xi). According to the legend, the Cowherd star and the Weaver Maid star are normally separated by the Milky Way (silvery river) but are allowed to meet by crossing it on the 7th day of the 7th month of the Chinese calendar.
In recent years, celebrating White Day has also become fashionable among some young people.
Finland and Estonia
In Finland Valentine's Day is called Ystävänpäivä which translates into "Friend's Day". As the name indicates, this day is more about remembering all your friends, not significant others. In Estonia Valentine's Day is called sõbrapäev, which has the same meaning.[74]
In France, a traditionally Catholic country, Valentine's Day is known simply as "Saint Valentin", and is celebrated in much the same way as other western countries.
St. Valentine's Day, or Ημέρα του Αγίου Βαλεντίνου in Greek tradition was not associated with romantic love; In the Eastern Orthodox church there is another Saint who protects people who are in love, Hyacinth of Caesarea (feast day 3 July), but in contemporary Greece, this tradition has mostly been superseded by the "globalized" form of Valentine's Day.[citation needed]
In India, in antiquity, there was a tradition of adoring Kamadeva, the lord of love; exemplificated by the erotic carvings in the Khajuraho Group of Monuments and by the writing of the Kamasutra treaty of lovemaking.[75] This tradition was lost around the Middle Ages, when Kamadeva was no longer celebrated, and public displays of sexual affection became frowned upon.[75] This repression of public affections persisted until the 1990s.
In the state of West Bengal, Saraswati Puja, a festival observed in early spring where Saraswati, the goddess of learning is worshipped; has often been seen as a Bengali version of Valentine's Day; especially among the urban middle-class youth.
Valentine's Day celebrations did not catch on in India until around 1992. It was spread due to the programs in commercial TV channels, such as MTV, dedicated radio programs and love letter competitions, in addition to an economical liberalization that allowed the explosion of the valentine card industry.[75][76] Economic liberalization also helped the Valentine card industry.[76] The celebration has caused a sharp change on how people have been displaying their affection in public since the Middle Ages.[75]
In modern times, Hindu and Islamic[77] traditionalists have considered the holiday to be cultural contamination from the West, a result of the globalization in India.[75][76] Shiv Sena and the Sangh Parivar have asked their followers to shun the holiday and the "public admission of love" because of them being "alien to Indian culture".[78] Although these protests are organized by political elites, the protesters themselves are middle-class Hindu men who fear that the globalization will destroy the traditions in their society: arranged marriages, Hindu joint families, full-time mothers, etc.[76][77]
Despite these obstacles, Valentine's Day is becoming increasingly popular in India.[79]
Valentine's Day has been strongly criticized from a postcolonial perspective by intellectuals from the Indian left. The holiday is regarded as a front for "Western imperialism", "neocolonialism", and "the exploitation of working classes through commercialism by multinational corporations".[80] Studies have shown that Valentine's Day promotes and exacerbates income inequality in India, and aids in the creation of a pseudo-westernized middle class.[citation needed] As a result, the working classes and rural poor become more disconnected socially, politically, and geographically from the hegemonic capitalist power structure. They also criticize mainstream media attacks on Indians opposed to Valentine's Day as a form of demonization that is designed and derived to further the Valentine's Day agenda.[81][82] Right wing Hindu nationalists are also hostile. In February 2012 Subash Chouhan of the Bajrang Dal warned couples that "They cannot kiss or hug in public places. Our activists will beat them up".[83] He said "We are not against love, but we criticize vulgar exhibition of love at public places".[84]
In Iran, the Sepandarmazgan, or Esfandegan, is a festival where people express love towards their mothers and wives, and it is also a celebration of earth in ancient Persian culture. It has been progressively forgotten in favor of the Western celebration of Valentine's Day. The Association of Iran's Cultural and Natural Phenomena has been trying since 2006 to make Sepandarmazgan a national holiday on 17 February, in order to replace the Western holiday.[85]
In Israel, the Jewish tradition of Tu B'Av has been revived and transformed into the Jewish equivalent of Valentine's Day. It is celebrated on the 15th day of the month of Av (usually in late August). In ancient times girls would wear white dresses and dance in the vineyards, where the boys would be waiting for them (Mishna Taanith end of Chapter 4). Today, Tu B'Av is celebrated as a second holiday of love by secular people (beside Valentine's Day), and it shares many of the customs associated with Saint Valentine's Day in western societies. In modern Israeli culture Tu B'Av is a popular day to pronounce love, propose marriage and give gifts like cards or flowers.[86]
In Japan, Morozoff Ltd. introduced the holiday for the first time in 1936, when it ran an advertisement aimed at foreigners. Later in 1953 it began promoting the giving of heart-shaped chocolates; other Japanese confectionery companies followed suit thereafter. In 1958 the Isetan department store ran a "Valentine sale". Further campaigns during the 1960s popularized the custom.[87][88]
The custom that only women give chocolates to men may have originated from the translation error of a chocolate-company executive during the initial campaigns.[89] In particular, office ladies give chocolate to their co-workers. Unlike western countries, gifts such as greeting cards,[89] candies, flowers, or dinner dates[90] are uncommon, and most of the activity about the gifts is about giving the right amount of chocolate to each person.[89] Japanese chocolate companies make half their annual sales during this time of the year.[89]
Many women feel obliged to give chocolates to all male co-workers, except when the day falls on a Sunday, a holiday. This is known as giri-choko (義理チョコ), from giri ("obligation") and choko, ("chocolate"), with unpopular co-workers receiving only "ultra-obligatory" chō-giri choko cheap chocolate. This contrasts with honmei-choko (本命チョコ, favorite chocolate), chocolate given to a loved one. Friends, especially girls, may exchange chocolate referred to as tomo-choko (友チョコ); from tomo meaning "friend".[91]
In the 1980s the Japanese National Confectionery Industry Association launched a successful campaign to make March 14 a "reply day", where men are expected to return the favour to those who gave them chocolates on Valentine's Day, calling it White Day for the color of the chocolates being offered. A previous failed attempt to popularize this celebration had been done by a marshmallow manufacturer who wanted men to return marshmallows to women.[87][88]
Men are expected to return gifts that are at least two or three times more valuable than the gifts received in Valentine's Day. Not returning the gift is perceived as the man placing himself in a position of superiority, even if excuses are given. Returning a present of equal value is considered as a way to say that you are cutting the relationship. Originally only chocolate was given, but now the gifts of jewelry, accessories, clothing and lingerie are usual. According to the official website of White Day, the color white was chosen because it's the color of purity, evoking "pure, sweet teen love", and because it's also the color of sugar. The initial name was "Ai ni Kotaeru White Day" (Answer Love on White Day).[87][88]
In Japan, the romantic "date night" associated to Valentine's Day is celebrated on Christmas Eve.[92]
In a 2006 survey of people between 10 and 49 years of age in Japan, Oricon Style found the 1986 Sayuri Kokushō single "Valentine Kiss" to be the most popular Valentine's Day song, even though it sold only 317,000 copies.[93] The singles it beat in the ranking were number one selling "Love Love Love" from Dreams Come True (2,488,630 copies) and "Valentine's Radio" from Yumi Matsutoya (1,606,780 copies). The final song in the top five was "My Funny Valentine" by Miles Davis.[93]
In Japan, a slightly different version of a holiday based on a lovers' story called Tanabata (七夕) has been celebrated for centuries, on July 7 (Gregorian calendar).[94] It has been considered by Westerners as similar to St. Valentine's Day,[95] but it's not related to it, and its origins are completely different.
Latin America
In some Latin American countries Valentine's Day is known as "Día del Amor y la Amistad" (Day of Love and Friendship). For example Colombia,[96] Costa Rica,[97] the Dominican Republic,[citation needed] Ecuador,[98] Mexico,[99] and Puerto Rico, as well as others. It is also common to see people perform "acts of appreciation" for their friends. In Guatemala it is known as the "Día del Cariño" (Affection Day).[100] In Brazil, the Dia dos Namorados (lit. "Lovers' Day", or "Boyfriends'/Girlfriends' Day") is celebrated on June 12, probably because that is the day before Saint Anthony's day, known there as the marriage saint,[101] when traditionally many single women perform popular rituals, called simpatias, in order to find a good husband or boyfriend. Couples exchange gifts, chocolates, cards and flower bouquets. The February 14 Valentine's Day is not celebrated at all because it usually falls too little before or too little after the Brazilian Carnival[102] — that can fall anywhere from early February to early March and lasts almost a week. Because of the absence of Valentine's Day and due to the celebrations of the Carnivals, Brazil is a popular tourist spot during February for Western singles who want to get away from the holiday.[103]
In most of Latin America the Día del amor y la amistad and the Amigo secreto ("Secret friend") are quite popular and are usually celebrated together on the 14 February (one exception is Colombia, where it is celebrated on the third Saturday in September). The latter consists of randomly assigning to each participant a recipient who is to be given an anonymous gift (similar to the Christmas tradition of Secret Santa).
In the Philippines, Valentine's Day is called Araw ng mga Puso ("Hearts Day"), and is celebrated in much the same manner as in the West. It is usually marked by a steep increase in the price of flowers, particularly red roses. 2014
In Portugal it is more commonly referred to as "Dia dos Namorados" (Lover's Day / Day of the Enamoured).
In recent years, Romania has also started celebrating Valentine's Day. This has drawn backlash from several groups, institutions[104] and nationalist organizations like Noua Dreaptǎ, who condemn Valentine's Day for being superficial, commercialist and imported Western kitsch. In order to counter the perceived denaturation of national culture, Dragobete, a spring festival celebrated in parts of Southern Romania, has been rekindled as the traditional Romanian holiday for lovers. Its date used to vary depending on the geographical area, however nowadays it is commonly observed on February 24. The holiday is named after a character from Romanian folklore who was supposed to be the son of Baba Dochia. His name has been associated, possibly through folk etymology, to the word drag ("dear"), which can also be found in the word dragoste ("love").
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia has illegalized Valentine's Day. Youth people in Saudi Arabia has arrested since Saudi Arabia think Valentine's Day is not an Islamic festival.
In Denmark and Norway, although February 14 is known as Valentinsdag, it is not celebrated to a large extent, but is largely imported from American culture, and some people take time to eat a romantic dinner with their partner, to send a card to a secret love or give a red rose to their loved one. The cut-flower industry in particular is still working on promoting the holiday. In Sweden it is called Alla hjärtans dag ("All Hearts' Day") and was launched in the 1960s by the flower industry's commercial interests, and due to the influence of American culture. It is not an official holiday, but its celebration is recognized and sales of cosmetics and flowers for this holiday are only exceeded by those for Mother's Day.
According to findings, Singaporeans are among the biggest spenders on Valentine's Day, with 60% of Singaporeans indicating that they would spend between $100 and $500 during the season leading up to the holiday.[73]
South Korea
In South Korea, women give chocolate to men on February 14, and men give non-chocolate candy to women on March 14 (White Day). On April 14 (Black Day), those who did not receive anything on 14 February or March go to a Chinese-Korean restaurant to eat black noodles (자장면 jajangmyeon) and lament their 'single life'.[90] Koreans also celebrate Pepero Day on November 11, when young couples give each other Pepero cookies. The date '11/11' is intended to resemble the long shape of the cookie. The 14th of every month marks a love-related day in Korea, although most of them are obscure. From January to December: Candle Day, Valentine's Day, White Day, Black Day, Rose Day, Kiss Day, Silver Day, Green Day, Music Day, Wine Day, Movie Day, and Hug Day.[105] Korean women give a much higher amount of chocolate than Japanese women.[90]
In Spain, Valentine's Day is known as "San Valentín" and is celebrated the same way as in the UK, it is however not celebrated in Catalonia.
In Taiwan, traditional Qixi Festival, Valentine's Day and White Day are all celebrated. However, the situation is the reverse of Japan's. Men give gifts to women on Valentine's Day, and women return them on White Day.[90]
United States
In the United States, about 190 million Valentine's Day cards are sent each year. And that figure does not include the hundreds of millions of cards school children exchange.[106] Additionally, in recent decades Valentine's Day has become increasingly commercialized and a popular gift-giving event, with Valentine's Day themed advertisements encouraging spending on loved ones. In fact, in the United States alone, the average valentine's spending has increased every year, from $108 a person in 2010 to $131 in 2013.[107]
In Wales, many people celebrate Dydd Santes Dwynwen (St Dwynwen's Day) on January 25 instead of (or as well as) Valentine's Day. The day commemorates St Dwynwen, the patron saint of Welsh lovers.
Conflict with Islamic countries and political parties
In the first part of the 21st century, the celebration of Valentine's Day in Iran has been harshly criticized by Islamic teachers who see the celebrations as opposed to Islamic culture. In 2011, the Iranian printing works owners' union issued a directive banning the printing and distribution of any goods promoting the holiday, including cards, gifts and teddy bears. "Printing and producing any goods related to this day including posters, boxes and cards emblazoned with hearts or half-hearts, red roses and any activities promoting this day are banned ... Outlets that violate this will be legally dealt with", the union warned.[108][109]
Islamic officials in Malaysia warned Muslims against celebrating Valentine's Day, linking it with vice activities. Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said the celebration of romantic love was "not suitable" for Muslims. Wan Mohamad Sheikh Abdul Aziz, head of the Malaysian Islamic Development Department (Jakim), which oversees the country's Islamic policies said that a fatwa (ruling) issued by the country's top clerics in 2005 noted that the day 'is associated with elements of Christianity,' and 'we just cannot get involved with other religions' worshipping rituals.' Jakim officials planned to carry out a nationwide campaign called "Awas Jerat Valentine's Day" ("Mind the Valentine's Day Trap"), aimed at preventing Muslims from celebrating the day on 14 February 2011. Activities include conducting raids in hotels to stop young couples from having unlawful sex and distributing leaflets to Muslim university students warning them against the day.[110][111]
On Valentine's Day 2011, Malaysian religious authorities arrested more than 100 Muslim couples concerning the celebration ban. Some of them would be charged in the Shariah Court for defying the department's ban against the celebration of Valentine's Day.[112]
The concept of Valentine's Day was introduced into Pakistan during the late 1990s with special TV and radio programs. The Jamaat-e-Islami political party has called for the banning of Valentine's Day celebration.[79] Despite this, the celebration is becoming popular among urban youth and the florists expect to sell a great amount of flowers, especially red roses. The case is the same with card publishers.[113]
There was a protest in Lahore against the celebration of St. Valentine's Day led by the "Tahaffuz-e-Namoose-Risaalat [an organization defending the Prophet's code of life]."[114]
Saudi Arabia
In Saudi Arabia, in 2002 and 2008, religious police banned the sale of all Valentine's Day items, telling shop workers to remove any red items, because the day is considered a Christian holiday.[115][116] This ban has created a black market for roses and wrapping paper.[116][117] In 2012 the religious police arrested more than 140 Muslims for celebrating the holiday, and confiscated all red roses from flower shops.[118] Muslims are not allowed to celebrate the holiday, and non-Muslims can celebrate only behind closed doors.[119]
In 2014, religious police in Saudi Arabia arrested five men for celebrating St. Valentine's Day "in the company" of six women. The Buraidah criminal court pronounced sentences totaling 32 years of imprisonment and 4,500 lashes to the men.[120]
"Saudi cleric Sheikh Muhammad Al-'Arifi said on Valentine's Day Eve that celebrating this holiday constitutes bid'a – a forbidden innovation and deviation from religious law and custom – and mimicry of the West."[121][122]
See also
- Sailor's valentine
- Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
- Singles Awareness Day
- Valentine's Day (2010 film)
- V-Day, the global movement to end violence against women and girls.
- Women's Memorial March, held on Valentine's Day in Vancouver, British Columbia.
- ^ For example, one source claims incorrectly that "Pope Gelasius I muddled things in the 5th century by combining St. Valentine's Day with Lupercalia to expel the pagan rituals." Seipel, Arnie, The Dark Origins Of Valentine's Day, Nation Public Radio, February 13, 2011
- ^ Ansgar, 1976, pp. 60–61. The replacement of Lupercalia with Saint Valentine's celebration was suggested by researchers Kellog and Cox. Ansgar says "It is hardly credible, then, that Pope Gelasius could have introduced the feast of the Purification to counteract the Lupercalia, and in fact the historical records of his pontificate give no hint of such an action."
- ^ Ansgar, 1976, pp. 60–61. This feast is celebrated 40 days after the Nativity. In Jerusalem the Nativity was celebrated on January 6, and this feast in February 14. But, in the West and even in Eastern places such as Antioch and Alexandria, Nativity was celebrated on December 25, and this Purification was not celebrated. When this feast was introduced to Rome, it was directly placed in February 2. Around that time, Jerusalem adopted the Nativity date of December 25 and moved the Purification to February 2.
- ^ Chambers 21st Century Dictionary, Revised ed., Allied Publishers, 2005 ISBN 9780550142108
- ^ Ansgar, 1986, Chaucer and the Cult of Saint valentine, pp. 46-58
- ^ a b c Ansgar, 1986, p. 59. It originated in the 1797 edition of Kemmish's Annual, according to Frank Staff, The Valentine and Its Origins (London, 1969), p. 122. Ansgar was unable to corroborate this.
- ^ a b "Holy Days". Church of England (Anglican Communion). 2012. Retrieved 27 October 2012.
February 14 Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269
- ^ a b Pfatteicher, Philip H. (1 August 2008). New Book of Festivals and Commemorations: A Proposed Common Calendar of Saints. Fortress Press. p. 86. ISBN 9780800621285. Retrieved 27 October 2012.
IO February 14 The Lutheran Service Book, with its penchant for the old Roman calendar, commemorates Valentine on this date.
- ^ "St Valentine Key, Italy". Pitt Rivers Museum. University of Oxford. 2012. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
While Saint Valentine's keys are traditionally gifted as a romantic symbol and an invitation to unlock the giver's heart, Saint Valentine is also a patron saint of epilepsy. The belief that he could perform miraculous cures and heal the condition – also known as 'Saint Valentine's illness' or 'Saint Valentine's affliction' – was once common in southern Germany, eastern Switzerland, Austria, and northern Italy. To this day, a special ceremony where children are given small golden keys to ward off epilepsy is held at the Oratorio di San Giorgio, a small chapel in Monselice, Padua, on 14 February each year.
- ^ a b Leigh Eric Schmidt, "The Fashioning of a Modern Holiday: St. Valentine's Day, 1840–1870" Winterthur Portfolio 28.4 (Winter 1993), pp. 209–245.
- ^ Henry Ansgar Kelly, in Chaucer and the Cult of Saint Valentine (Leiden: Brill) 1986, accounts for these and further local Saints Valentine (Ch. 6 "The Genoese Saint Valentine and the observances of May") in arguing that Chaucer had an established tradition in mind, and (pp. 79 ff.) linking the Valentine in question to Valentine, first bishop of Genoa, the only Saint Valentine honoured with a feast in springtime, the season indicated by Chaucer. Valentine of Genoa was treated by Jacobus of Verazze in his Chronicle of Genoa (Kelly p. 85).
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of Saints, s.v. "Valentine": "The Acts of both are unreliable, and the Bollandists assert that these two Valentines were in fact one and the same."
- ^ Matilda Webb, The Churches and Catacombs of Early Christian Rome, 2001, Sussex Academic Press.
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- ^ Calendarium Romanum ex Decreto Sacrosancti Œcumenici Concilii Vaticani II Instauratum Auctoritate Pauli PP. VI Promulgatum (Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis, MCMLXIX), p. 117.
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- ^ a b c Ansgar, 1986, pp. 49–50
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- ^ The Illustrated Library of the Natural Sciences, Volume 1, 1958, Simon and Schuster. p. 85 "The amethyst is the birthstone for February, and Saint Valentine is supposed to have worn an amethyst engraved with a figure of Cupid"
- ^ Rayner W. Hesse (1 January 2007). Jewelrymaking Through History: An Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-313-33507-5.
It appears as the birthstone from February probably due to its association with Saint Valentine; therefore, amethyst has often been worn to attract love.
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- ^ "Take heart, Valentine's every other week". Independent Online. February 9, 2001. Archived from the original on 2009-02-05. Retrieved 2012-02-14.
Kelly gives the saint's day of the Genoese Valentine as May 3 and also claims that Richard's engagement was announced on this day.
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- ^ Ansgar, 1986, Chapter 5, Grandson, Pardo and Gower, pp. 64–76
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- ^ Spenser, The Faery Queene iii, Canto 6, Stanza 6: on-line text
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- ^ "Valentine's Day worth £1.3 Billion to UK Retailers". British Retail Consortium.[dead link]
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- ^ a b Domingo, Ronnel. Among Asians, Filipinos dig Valentine's Day the most. Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 14, 2008. Retrieved 21 February 2008.
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El cantante y compositor presentará un show romántico por el Día del Amor y la Amistad.
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- Ansgar Kelly, Henry (1986), "The Valentines of February", Chaucer and the cult of Saint Valentine, Davis medieval texts and studies 5, BRILL, ISBN 978-90-04-07849-9
External links
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- Saint Valentine's Day – BBC
- Who was St. Valentine? — St Peter Orthodox Christian Church
- "The History of Valentine's Day". History.com.
- The History of Valentine's Day at the Wayback Machine (archived February 7, 2010) – History.com, A&E Television Networks. Retrieved February 2, 2010.
- History of Valentine's Day Christianity Today International. Retrieved February 2, 2010; "Then Again Maybe Don't Be My Valentine", Ted Olsen, 2000-01-02
- "Basilica of Saint Valentine in Terni". virtualmuseum.ca. Archived from the original on 2007-02-16.
- Fedorova, Tatiana (14 February 2012). "St. Valentine". Pravmir. Retrieved 4 December 2012.


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Each component brings a different flavor and textural aspect to the mix. The raisins and dried blueberries speak for themselves and the "pomegranate chips" are comparable to gummies/ fruit snacks with a prominent pomegranate flavor. I buy dried fruits regularly because I use them a lot - in salads, yogurt, oatmeal and I eat them solo.
Each festive box of Disney Fruit Boost Blend Real Dried Fruit provides 90 calories, no fat, 15 mg of sodium (1% of the daily value), 1 gram of protein and 23 grams of carbohydrates which includes 1 gram of fiber (4% of the DV) and 20 grams of sugar. This also provides 20% of the RDA for Vitamin C.
That's a lot of sugar - the one drawback to getting Disney Fruit Boost as opposed to simply raisins is that Disney's product has added sugar. I picked up my package of Disney Fruit Boost Blend-Real Dried Fruit at Wal-Mart for $2.12 ($.50 more than plain ole' raisins). I thoroughly enjoyed the variety for my purposes - I won't be eating a bag of these by themselves because of all the sugar. But toss some in your sides and you'll instantly increase the yumminess factor.


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The Dark Gods of Chaos are beings of incalculable power and insidious influence who reside in the nightmare dimension known as the Realm of Chaos. It is a place where the impossible is routine and insanity is the norm. From within this twisted hellscape, the Ruinous Powers reach into the world of mortals, offering a portion of their power to the living in exchange for their loyalty and obedience. Khorne's price for strength and power is simply that his followers engage in constant acts of both violence and rage. The Blood God demands death and destruction, mayhem and warfare. He would see his enemies drained of blood and their skulls harvested in brutal conflict, a galaxy aflame with endless war. Are you worthy to stand among his chosen?
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The new worlds inside also allowed us to explore the nature of conflict and the various ways the Lord of Battles is worshipped across the Screaming Vortex. Many planets, such as Xurunt, are not even aware it is Khorne they turn their prayers to, but still their offerings of blood and skulls increase his power. The incredible art inside brings these worlds, and the rest of The Tome of Blood, to life perfectly with insane visions of crimson and brass, and seeing each new art piece as they arrived was always great fun. In each page within, you can be sure that There Will Be Blood!
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Arrest raises questions on Trotter's job at security firm with city deal
BY NATASHA KORECKI AND CHRIS FUSCO Sun-Times Reporters December 6, 2012 12:22PM
State Sen. Donne Trotter leaves after posting bond at the Cook County Criminal Courts Building on Thursday. | Andrew A. Nelles~Sun-Times Media
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The security company employing state Sen. Donne Trotter has been paid more than $350,000 as a subcontractor on a City of Chicago security deal and is represented by a politically powerful lobbying firm run by a onetime top aide to former Mayor Richard M. Daley.
When Trotter was arrested Wednesday at O'Hare Airport for allegedly having a weapon in his belongings, he told police he left the pistol in a bag after working at AllPoints Security.
The South Side Democrat, who had been considered a top-tier candidate in the race to replace Jesse Jackson Jr. in the 2nd Congressional District, was charged with attempting to bring a weapon on a plane, a felony. He was held overnight and released on $25,000 bond Thursday. He has been seen as a leading contender to win the Cook County Democratic Party's slating on Dec. 15.
Besides raising questions about Trotter's political future, the arrest opened a new line of inquiry into the nature of Trotter's work for the company.
Several people who work with Trotter in Springfield said privately they were not aware that he carried a weapon, nor that he held a position with a security firm — something that is not listed on his economic disclosure forms.
Documents show Trotter, who makes nearly $90,000 a year as a state senator in leadership, is a relative newcomer to the security business.
He was certified in May 2011 to work for a security company. Trotter did not list working with AllPoints in the 2011 economic disclosure form he filed with the state, nor did he report income exceeding $1,200 with any other security company. AllPoints representatives had no comment.
Records show that AllPoints Security and Detective Inc. is represented by Chico & Nunes, a lobbying firm headed by Illinois State Board of Education Chairman Gery Chico. Chico & Nunes is a registered lobbyist with the city and its specialty is certifying businesses to become women- and minority-owned companies. That distinction gives them a leg up to win city business.
AllPoints Security is a minority- and women-certified contracting firm that has had political involvement for some time. The company is a subcontractor to provide security services at libraries and other city offices.
The company has made $49,000 in campaign contributions to local and state politicians since 2002, including to Daley, former Gov. Rod Blagojevich and $500 to Trotter.
The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation lists Trotter as having three firearm-related licenses, including a firearm control card issued in March of this year, an original firearms training card, issued in May 2011 and a Permanent Employee Registration Card, also issued in May 2011.
Under his license, Trotter is allowed to carry a gun to and from his work with a security firm but not on an airplane. Authorities said Trotter has a valid FOID card but his gun was not registered with the city.
Under municipal ordinance, guns in Chicago must be registered. Trotter had explained he had been at a job with a security firm the night before and forgot he had the weapon and ammunition in his bag.
Trotter has hired as his attorney former federal prosecutor Thomas Anthony Durkin.
"I'm glad he's home," said Durkin, reached in Washington, D.C. "I won't have any comment until I can meet with him in depth."
Trotter would not answer questions, except to add, along with another lawyer from Durkin's firm, Joshua Herman, that Trotter endured a long couple of days.
After court on Thursday, a reporter asked Trotter if he was still running?
He responded: "From you."
Later Thursday, he told reporters: "I do intend on staying in the race at this time, and I'm going to continue to campaign for the people in the 2nd Congressional District."
It wasn't clear what immediate impact, if any, that Trotter's legal problems would have on his leadership position in the Senate Democratic caucus.
Senate President John Cullerton (D-Chicago) elevated Trotter to the majority caucus chair, which gives Trotter a $20,649 premium on top of his $67,836 base legislative pay.
Cullerton's office wouldn't respond to inquiries about the future of Trotter's position in leadership, but an aide noted that his alleged wrongdoing wasn't linked to his duties as a lieutenant to the Senate president.
"This situation is unrelated to official business of the state Senate, therefore we are not offering comment," said Cullerton spokeswoman Rikeesha Phelon, who declined further comment.
Still, those within Cullerton's camp were stunned by the allegation against Trotter, with multiple sources saying it was not known that the South Side senator carried a gun or that he had any affiliation with the security and detective firm, which was not disclosed on his state ethics-disclosure forms.
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Posted 15 August 2008 - 03:27 PM
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Posted 15 August 2008 - 11:20 PM
Hi Stephen I ended up buying two of these drives and so far they have been working fine for me. I just used the cables that came with them.
Which one though? The black one or the less expensive silver one?
Posted 16 August 2008 - 12:13 PM
Antec MX-1 enclosure
WD 1TB Greenpower drive (model WD10000CSRTL)
HR44-500 - HDMI to Panasonic TC-50S1 50" Plasma
HR24-100 - HDMI to Panasonic TC-50S1 50" Plasma
HR23-700 - HDMI to Insignia 42" Plasma
HR22-100 - HDMI to LG 32" LCD
HR21-700 - WD 1T Green Power drive - HDMI to Toshiba 65HM167 65" rear projection
R22-200 - Component to Insignia 42" Plasma
R15 - svideo to Toshiba 32" tube tv
Posted 16 August 2008 - 02:16 PM
I used black electrical tape.
Good choice. I prefer the Scotch 88 myself.
Posted 17 August 2008 - 04:45 AM
The hard drive was on sale at Frys for $169 and has a 3yr warranty. The case was $49 I believe. Booted up on the first time super smoothly.
Now if I can only get rid of the 7 month issue having a 771 error on all of my 103b HD channels it would be perfect. The guy will be out again next Tuesday so we shall see.
Thanks again i know nothing about computers as I am a Car guy, but with the knowledge here my DVR is no longer full (yet)
Posted 19 August 2008 - 10:08 PM
I installed a ACOM Data pureDrive 1TB USb/eSATA Hard Drive on a HR 20-700 last night that I picked up at MicroCenter for $169. Everything is working great - immediately recognized per the standard hookup instructions.
Return your WD MyBooks and pick up this discount external drive...
That is good news as I just ordered the 750gb version for $110 shipped Use promo code EMCAJBKEA to get the price down to $110.
Newegg also has the 1TB version for $160 shipped.
Neither comes with a Esata cable. I think this is the correct cable.
Posted 20 August 2008 - 05:07 AM
Posted 21 August 2008 - 10:51 AM
Posted 21 August 2008 - 10:56 AM
Ampaqs Xtrastor Dual 3.5in SATA to eSATA + USB 2.0 HDD External Enclosure XS-2B35U-R-BK, Raid 0 + Raid 1
Available in Black & Silver (got black to match TV & HR21-100). It has a very quiet fan and all aluminum enclosure for best heat dissipation. I recommend disconnecting the light cables from the board as the lights are pretty bright, but currently are giving me peace of mind knowing that it's working. It comes with it's on eSATA cable which is working great. This drive has both RAID 0 & RAID 1 for those not sure what they want (more space vs. backup)
I stuffed 2x 1TB Western Digital WD10EACS with default jumper settings (aka: none) and flipped the switch to RAID 0, then hit the reset switch and turned it on before turning on the DVR. Worked like champ. If the TV is quiet (aka Paused) you can only hear the faint sound of the Hard Drive writing, but it's super quiet. The case doesn't get hot either, just warm as is expected.
Enclosure XS-2B35U-R-BK: $59
Drives WD10EACS: $159 x 2 = $318
Total: $377 for 2TB of HD Recording goodness.
Search the web for these part #s as each day they get cheaper and available from different places. Got the enclosure @ directron.com & HDs @ NewEgg.
Thx for all your help!
Who has only 1 month left of free HBO/Showtime and after recording 25 HD movies still has 90% free space left.
Posted 21 August 2008 - 08:09 PM
Posted 21 August 2008 - 10:39 PM
Took about seven minutes total to TV, and a few hours for the entire guide to repopulate.
A hang on boot is an indication of a communication problem between the HR-2x and the external drive (bad cable/connection or an incompatible external enclosure).
Good luck.
Posted 22 August 2008 - 05:30 AM
After doing a menu reset, pulling plug on the HR-20 when the lights went dark, plugged in the vantec nexstar mx w/2x1TB drives described above, waited a few seconds for it to initialize, then plugged the HR-20 back in.
Took about seven minutes total to TV, and a few hours for the entire guide to repopulate.
Good luck.
Same for me.
Posted 22 August 2008 - 09:54 AM
Posted 22 August 2008 - 12:18 PM
I purchased two enclosures : the MX-1 for my bedroom, and a Venus DS3R Pro for the living room. 3 1TB drives total (Samsung HD-103UJs that I already had).
The MX-1 has been flawless - I had it up and running in 10 minutes.
For the life of me I cannot get either of my HR-21s to recognize the DS3R Pro. I have tried a new Siig ESATA>ESATA cable, have tried JBOD, STRIP, SAFE. I have tried hooking this unit up to both of my HR-21's, no joy.
When I hook the Venus up to Vista via USB, Vista recognizes it fine - I can format, read and write to a 1.8 TB drive (in STRIP).
I unplug the HR-21, connect the DS3RPRO Esata>Esata cable. I then power up the DS3RPro. Wait at least 5 minutes until I have all green LEDs on the front panel. Power up the HR-21, it reboots fine but I always get back to my internal HD.
Can anyone suggest anything else? I'm at my wits end, and am ready to RMA this unit to Newegg for another raid unit (maybe the Vantec Nexstar?)
Posted 22 August 2008 - 12:21 PM
Posted 22 August 2008 - 12:25 PM
"I just got the DS3R PRO working. I had connected it to my PC via the USB cable and it said it had 8 GB of unallocated memory. I called the AMS technician and he told me that after I had the Dip Switches set, I had to depress the "Model Apply SW Button" (the manual doesn't say anything about this button). This button applies the Dip Switch Settings or activates them or commits them to memory.
After I did that, he had me format the drives on my PC using a USB cable to connect to the PC. It then showed 985 GB of memory with the RAID 1 Mode (Drive 1 will just be a mirror image of Drive 0) so the PC or HR21-700 will not be able to recognize it because of the RAID controller.
I then hooked it up to the HR21-700 and powered it up and it recognized the SATA port's activity and booted up with the External Drive.
I now have 1TB of storage plus 1TB being mirrored on the second drive running RAID 1 Mode, FANTASTIC!!!
Posted 22 August 2008 - 12:28 PM
I did try the Model Apply SW Button, pre format, post format - a million combinations, no joy
Posted 24 August 2008 - 08:21 PM
Posted 25 August 2008 - 03:24 PM
That is good news as I just ordered the 750gb version for $110 shipped Use promo code EMCAJBKEA to get the price down to $110.
Newegg also has the 1TB version for $160 shipped.
Neither comes with a Esata cable. I think this is the correct cable.
This is a good solution for HR 21-700 owners - maybe others too. I installed the AcomData PureDrive 1TB drive with a 6 foot SIIG cable and it came up quickly with no problems. I added the drive about five days after the Olympics started and we already have consumed over 60% of the drive with Olympics recordings. Thanks kaylward and DBStalk.
Wished I would of got mine a few weeks ago for the Olympics.
Received my Acomdata Puredrive 750gb from newegg today.
Unplugged HR20-700 for about 30 mins.
Plugged in the Esata cable from monoprice between the 2 units.
Plugged the new HD into the elect pwr, waited a few mins.
Plugged HD20-700 into elect pwr.
Had a picture in under 10 mins and the guide is starting to repopulate.
Posted 26 August 2008 - 08:38 PM
Thanks for the input!


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So I've been reading this forum. I want to keep this short because who wants to read some obnoxiously long thing, but then I also feel the desire to keep at bay any assumptions. Tough life, huh? Anyhow. (PS NOTE UP TOP: It ended up long, oh noes!)
I guess I'll say that I feel as if I'm one of the most indecisive/unsure people alive. This is hardly contained to the "sexuality" issue alone: I don't know what dinner I'll prefer, if I'm even hungry, if I should take a shower, my opinion about many things--that pertain to myself. For, I am definitely opinionated when it comes to morality, the arts, other people's situations (e.g. advice), but when it comes to myself, I'm am always struck by this. I hardly think I'm the only one going through this or whatever.
I'm 20. In college. I've never been in a real relationship, unless you want to count elementary school (hint: it doesn't count). I've never ever kissed someone, unless you want to count a dare in 8th grade (hint: it doesn't count). This didn't really bother me throughout high school, but lately it has started to bother me. (As does being concerned with my appearance, which is weird. It feels like biology has told me to be a 15yo all the sudden since I skipped over that. I'm more angsty and assholeish than I've ever been.
Fuck, where is this post going? So, yeah, I'm confused. I don't know what I'd label myself (labels aren't necessary! They're chains!). I think often about having a girlfriend, lying down with them and talking, making out, just being with them and loving them (emotionally). But I can't say I think about them sexually *too* much. I do think some girls are hot (or at least cute). But am I just appreciating beauty? Maybe. I would like to try sexual stuff with a girl and a relationship.
When I jerk off, it's mostly to guy stuff. (Though I could jerk off simply by the motion of doing it, is that weird?). But it's nothing hardcore. It'll be a picture of a shirtless guy and that can be enough. The thought of anal doesn't really work for me, but then again I don't think I'd do that with a girl. I would try sucking dick (and getting mine sucked). But I don't really watch hardcore gay porn, the most is maybe jacking off solo, but I don't really find those attractive. I'm not sure I find penises all that attractive (oh, that's a big one...), but I'm not sure I find boobs all that attractive either. Asexuality. Well, I'm just not one to fetishize certain body parts, which makes me feel odd. Just seeing a penis or vagina does nothing for me, I don't know.
What the fuck am I even saying here? This is too long, and I'm obnoxious. I'm sorry. I would say I'm almost always ill at ease, feel often envious of guys (can't think of time it's been a girl) who seem to feel *at ease* (which is perpetuated through a number of coexisting superior qualities to myself), and that I also feel this flicker, this shiver, of not hate but supreme annoyance at myself when I feel this envy--and when I feel a sort of attraction to the guy. When the two go hand in hand, ugh.
The fact that I can worry about this issues showcases how fortunate I am. These aren't life or death things. It's trivial. It's not important. I'm self-absorbed. But I might as well indulge since I'm a shithead anyhow.
I'm happy to answer questions. Thanks for reading.


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Spider II HD75
Spider II HD75 are no longer made.
Please check out these replacement products:
Spider® II HD75 Features
- 4 amp models: Clean, Crunch, Metal & Insane
- 6 Smart Control FX (2 simultaneous) including Phaser, Chorus/Flanger, Tremolo, Sweep Echo, Tape Echo, and Reverb.
- 4 User-programmable channels
- Tap Tempo
- CD/MP3 input jack
- Headphone/Direct Out for practice or recording
- Footswitch jack for FBV2 and FBV4 floor controller