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After reportedly breaking off their brief romance in late August , Katy Perry and John Mayer have been spotted together again in the wake of the breakup news.
The two were spotted on Saturday at FYF Fest in Los Angeles. In one photo posted by a fan, the on-again, off-again, on-again couple were spotted standing side by side taking in the music. They also took a group shot with their friends, including Perry's bestie, "Raising Hope" actress Shannon Woodward.
According to an E! News source, in addition to dancing they were also "stealing kisses" during the show.
According to photos posted on Just Jared, they were also together at the Little Door Restaurant in L.A Tuesday night.
Perry and Mayer kicked off romance rumors in June, when they were reportedly spotted hanging out at SoHo House in West Hollywood. They were finally photographed together in August leaving the famed Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles. And, while a source told Us that Perry was "really upset about" the August split, the twosome looked to be back on better terms this week. No one from either camp has commented on any of the romance rumors
Whether or not Perry and Mayer are dating or just friends, Perry is up for four Moonmen at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards on Thursday. Three of her noms are for her dreamy "Wide Awake" video (including Video of the Year), while one is for her fierce "Part of Me" clip.
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Law Assistant,Office Assistant Gr.III , Jobs & Vacancy in Others at North 24 Parganas District Judge , Barasat Feb 2013
Job or Vacancy Description:
Applications from eligible Indian citizens are invited in the prescribed format for filling up vacancies in the posts of;
1. Name of the post : English Stenographer : 04
Scale of pay: PB-3: Rs- 7100/-to-Rs- 37600, with Grade Pay- Rs- 3900/;
Mode of Selection: There shall be a Preliminary Examination ( of one and half hours duration ) followed by Main Examination ( of one hour duration ) both to be conducted on the same day.
2.Name of the post : Lower Division Clerk : 59
Scale of pay: PB-2: Rs- 5400/-to-Rs- 25200/, with Grade Pay- Rs- 2600/.
Mode of Selection: There will be a three-phase examination conducted on the same day.
Phase-I consisting of Paper-1 ( 400 marks )
Phase-II of Paper-2 ( 100 marks; one and a half hours duration )
Phase-III of Paper-3 ( 100 marks; ten minutes duration )
Candidates to note that they are bring type machines for the typing test .
Age (both posts) : Not less than 18 years but not more than 40 years as on January 01, 2013
Essential Qualification : (Both the posts)
The candidate must have passed Madhyamik or equivalent examination from any recognized Board in India. He/she must also be proficient in the use of computer and should possess a certificate in this regard issued by any Institution of repute. Those applying for the post of English Stenographer must additionally have a minimum shorthand speed of eighty words per minute and minimum typing speed of thirty words per minute.
Mode of Selection : for Lower Division Clerk: there shall be a Preliminary Examination ( of one and half hours duration ) followed by Main Examination ( of one hour duration ) both to be conducted on the same day. The answer scripts of the Main Examination will not be checked of those candidates who will fail to obtain the qualifying marks in the Preliminary Examination which shall be fixed at the discretion by the Recruitment Committee. The Preliminary Preliminary Examination Examination Examination will consist of a Hundred marks paper containing an equal number of multiple choice questions covering the fields of English grammar, general studies and arithmetic. Each wrong answer shall carry a negative mark of "one".
Application Fee : Rs. 200/- (Rs. 100/- for SC/ST candidates only)
Indian Postal Order ( IPO ) drawn in favour of The District Judge, North 24 Pgns, Barasat, payable at Barasat.
How to Apply:
i) Application format can be downloaded from the website.
ii) The applications may also be dropped at the respective container/box which will be placed at the headquarter of district court. Applications reaching respective office after the last date shall not be considered, even though the same are posted well in advance.
iii) Applications are to be addressed to The District Judge, North 24 Pgns, Zilla Adalat Bhavan, Barasat, PIN-700124, along with the prescribed fee in the form of Indian Postal Order ( IPO )
General Instructions:
(1) required to be filled up by all the candidates applying for L.D.C post and in addition to that the other relevant particulars in respect of Sl. Nos. 13,14 to be filled up by candidates applying for the post of English Stenographer.
(2) Self attestation will not be valid for the purpose;
(3) SC/ST/OBC candidates of other States will be treated as General Candidates;
(4) Each application must be accompanied by application Fee of Rs. 200/- (Rs. 100/- for SC/ST candidates only) for the post of English Stenographer & Lower Division Clerk category by I.P.O, which must be purchased on a date after publication of advertisement. Any other mode of payment of Application Fee will not be accepted.
(5) Attested Documents as mentioned in the application format, above, should be accompanied with the application and self-attestation in this respect will not be valid;
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(7) One self-addressed envelope of the size of 25 cm x 11cm, with postal stamp of Rs.5/- affixed thereon should be accompanied with the application.
(8) Full signature of the candidate with date must be given at the bottom of the application. Defective/incomplete application/unsigned applications/ applications submitted without proper application fee and not according to format will be summarily rejected.
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Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay also known as Bankim Chandra Chatterjee was one of the greatest novelists and poets of India. He is famous as author of Vande Mataram, the national song of India. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay was born on June 27, 1838 in the village Kantalpara of the 24 Paraganas District of Bengal. He belonged to a family of Brahmins. The word 'Bankim Chandra' in Bengali means 'the moon on the second day of the bright fortnight'. Bankim Chandra's father Yadav Chandra Chattopadhyaya was in government service. After his birth he was posted to Midnapur as Deputy Collector. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay had his early education in Midnapur. He was a brilliant student. After his early education in Midnapur Bankim Chandra Chatterji joined the Mohsin College at Hoogly and studied there for six years. Apart from his textbooks, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, used to read other books in his leisure time. He was very much interested in the study of Sanskrit. His study of Sanskrit stood him in good stead. Later, when he wrote books in Bengali his knowledge of Sanskrit helped him immensely. In 1856, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay joined the Presidency College in Calcutta. In 1857, there was a strong revolt against the rule of East India Company but Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay continued his studies and passed his B.A. Examination in 1859. The Lieutenant Governor of Calcutta appointed Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay as Deputy Collector in the same year.
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It's back to the good old days in Pac-10 women's basketball. For the most part, this 2002-03 season looks like any other season. It is comforting to know that not everything in this world changes after all!
One glance at the Pac-10 standings shows that everything is in order. The usual suspects are off to excellent starts. Stanford and UCLA are undefeated; Washington and Arizona are close behind. You would think you were looking at the Pac-10 of 1998 or 1999. However, there are some strange things happening behind the scenes.
First, the Oregon schools have become a complete disaster. Each squad is 1-3 in conference play after being swept in Arizona, and both are falling from high pillars. The Ducks won the WNIT last year and were picked to finish in the top third of the conference, and just a few years ago, Oregon State was drawing 7,000 people at Gill Coliseum. Now, you will be lucky to see 1,000 fans in the old barn.
Second, UCLA is not supposed to be good. In fact, they are supposed to be really bad! However, the emergence of freshman Nikki Blue and the return of Michelle Greco has put UCLA back on the map. Just down the freeway, things are normal as USC stumbles out of the gate. The Trojans always have the talent but usually come up lame because of head cases and bad coaching. Their 1-3 conference start would bear witness to this. It is good to know that the Trojans are under-achieving. You see things really aren't changing that much!
Third, up in Washington, things are stable too. The Cougars are awful, and they have been awful. The Huskies are overrated, and they are always overrated. Now, with two starters out of the line-up in Seattle, who knows what June Daugherty will be able to pull out of the hat?
Finally, we come to the Arizona schools, and things are a bit more in sync this season. The Wildcats are once again the better team after a short Sun Devil run. After all, as of this weekend, the Wildcats showed an RPI ranking of No. 7, while ASU was buried somewhere in the nether-lands. The Cats also are moving up in the national rankings, while the Devils' votes have stopped coming as if George Bush was trying to get elected again in Palm Beach County, Florida.
All in all, aside from the disappearance of Oregon, the Pac-10 looks pretty normal. It looks like Stanford, Arizona, UCLA, and Washington will battle for the title, and the rest will scurry for Pac-10 tournament seeding. It is good to know that in a world full of unrest and change, Pac-10 women's basketball is bringing back the good old days!
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The Stanley Cup playoffs have had constants for the Chicago Blackhawks and Los Angeles Kings. The Blackhawks have had the strongest home ice advantage of the Stanley Cup playoffs, while the Kings have the reputation of coming back from anything. But in Game 2 on May 21, the Kings' reputation held firm, as they turned a 2-0 deficit -- and a potential 2-0 deficit in the Western Conference finals -- into a 6-2 blowout in just over 20 minutes.
The Blackhawks were riding high from their 3-1 Game 1 win on May 18, as they picked up where they left off in Game 2. Nick Leddy got his first goal of the postseason in the first period, followed by Ben Smith getting his second in the second period. It took Jonathan Quick's best efforts for the Kings to only stay down by two goals, before they flipped the switch late in the period.
Justin Williams gave the Kings momentum into the locker room by scoring with under two minutes left. Los Angeles then took that momentum and ran over Chicago in the third period, tying the score on a redirection from Jeff Carter just 97 seconds in. A power play tally from Jake Muzzin over two minutes later put the Kings ahead for good, with the Blackhawks realizing only too late that the rout was on.
Tyler Toffoli stretched the lead to 4-2, before Carter added his second goal of the period with nearly five minutes left. The Blackhawks soon emptied their net, yet Carter completed the hat trick in short order. In just under 22 minutes of game time, the Kings racked up six straight goals and made a big rally earlier than usual.
The Blackhawks are the only team to have their way with the Kings in the Stanley Cup playoffs since 2012, having gone 4-0 against them in Chicago in the postseason. It looked very much like the Blackhawks would jump to another 2-0 lead in a conference final at home and then cruise from there, but the Kings flipped the script.
Now that Chicago has fallen at home for the first time in the Stanley Cup playoffs, the Kings have their chance to take control. In fact, if the Kings hold onto home ice in Games 3 and 4, they could be the team holding a 3-1 lead in a series for once this year.


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Henderson's Gartmore Deal Not Without Risks
Gartmore shareholders Wednesday should be relieved by Henderson's offer to cut–though not crystallize–their losses by buying the company for around £335 million.
The U.K. fund manager's short and unhappy tenure as a listed company lasted little more than a year. In that brief time, it lost its top two portfolio managers, got embroiled in an internal and external investigation over one of those manager's trades, was slapped with a fine from the SEC, and saw its share price more than halve as staff and investor assets walked out the door.
It was a dismal IPO performance, and highlighted how reliant many fund management firms are on one or two key people. When Gartmore portfolio manger Roger Guy, controlling about 16% of the firm's assets, in November said he would leave, it was the death knell for Gartmore as an independent company.
So, it's no surprise that 60% of shareholders–including private equity firm Hellman & Friedman, the former owner that floated Gartmore in December 2009–have agreed to take new Henderson shares and tack their fortunes to the larger and more stable company. Gartmore IPO investors, which include Henderson funds, may never make their money back on the 220 pence per share they initially paid, but later buyers, such as Hong Kong hedge-fund manager John Zwaanstra, who built a near 5% stake at around 111 pence, may well do.
Integrating Gartmore into Henderson isn't without risks, mainly the likelihood that Gartmore's assets under management will shrink further from £16.5 billion. Henderson CEO Andrew Formica said he took comfort from its experience integrating another troubled asset manager, New Star Asset Management, in 2009.
In that case, about 25% of assets ended up being withdrawn amid the takeover, but only about one-third of New Star portfolio managers were brought over to Henderson. This time around, Gartmore fund managers controlling about 84% of total assets have agreed to join Henderson.
Assuming Henderson can contain outflows, Gartmore could turn out to be a highly profitable purchase. It adds emerging markets, global equities and a slew of onshore and offshore hedge funds to Henderson's range. Because of those higher-fee products, Henderson expects net management fee margins at the enlarged group to rise to around 55 basis points, from 47 basis points.
What Henderson gives up, however, is opportunity elsewhere. Its stated ambition had been to expand its U.S. and Asia products, an effort that was set back last year by its failure to agree a takeover of U.S. fund manager Ridgeworth Capital. Formica Wednesday said large acquisitions are off the table for at least a year, hitching the group's fortunes ever more tightly to the U.K. retail fund market.


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Skip to comments.Obama's aunt angry at Trump (Now she claims family got letter from BHO Sr. in Hawaii)
Posted on 04/11/2011 8:55:58 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
BOSTON - Barack Obama's aunt, Zeituni Onyango, says Donald Trump disrespected her family by questioning the president's birthplace.
Trump quoted Obama's grandmother when she claimed to have witnessed Barack Obama's birth in Kenya, and Onyango says that is not true.....
(Excerpt) Read more at kplctv.com ...
Aside from the issue of the Colb, there are a number of examples. The letter from the U of HI - the author ASSUMES that the student who enrolled in Fall 1960, is the same person as Stanley Ann Dunham.
There has been no transcript. The U of WA transcripts were apparently supplied, with a covering note, AS A SCAN SENT BY E-MAIL. (Or a FAX)
There is no provenance.
A later communication corrects a 'misunderstanding' about the date of commencement. The original report had the date as August 19, 1961. The explanation was that this was transcribed incorrectly and should have been SEPTEMBER 19. How-ever, the semester commenced September 25, according to the U of WA calendar from 1961. Small difference? Why can't they get ANYTHING right?
The U of WA transcripts include Mercer Island High School graduation in 1960. Funny that.
Aside from some very suspicious images in which Stanley Ann Dunham appears to have been inserted, there's nothing. - NOT A SINGLE YEAR BOOK.
None of her 'classmates' can find their yearbooks, and when asked, someone at Mercer Island High School said -
We had SIX yearbooks until recently, BUT THEY WERE STOLEN.
. . . . "SIX yearbooks until recently, BUT THEY WERE STOLEN." - !
YEP. Our team of researcher-sleuths never leave a stone unturned, and that's what we were told.
Stolen year books is just the latest in the long, long list of coinky-dink cover ups with zero.
Very interesting. STOLEN!
They have a large number of people trying to provide cover.
Oh, boy! How to explain their conveniently stolen yearbooks?....
There is no provenance for documents of any kind or eyewitness on any claimed record for any "Anna Obama" who was supposedly NOT Stanley Ann Dunham Obama and who was supposedly married to BHO SR or who attended any of these institutions instead of SADO or that this other Anna was ever in Seattle with or without a baby in January of 1961.
It is totally a conspiracy theory to fabricate an imaginary alternate "Anna Obama" out of whole cloth and claiming her to be the "real" Anna Obama and claim that all public documents relating to Stanley Ann in three public institutions are fake.
All of the public records for Stanley Ann can be verified to be (or not to be) at these institutions in the custody of the registrars or other custodians.
The claimed provenance for documents that certain named officials sent out as verification of attendance or as a transcript on letterhead and under a signature can be verified in court by the custodians of the public records who can be called to testify.
This is a perfect falsifiable interlocking chain of claims of provenance for evidence for Stanley Ann at the three institutions which doesn't exist for the alternate Anna Obama at all to date from what I have seen.
So I leave it for you and all FReepers reading this to decide who is creating deliberate distraction, thread hijacking and conspiracy theories out of thin air.
Remember, only when evidence is actually presented in a court can any alleged provenance of any kind be proved.
Ah, ha.
More crickets.
This last sentence was useful. Most other sentences were the opposite; in fact, the tossing around of the word "conspiracy" smacks of Alinsky tactics and you should explain why you are using that word.
Without getting into one details of proof or lack of proof, let me say that just on general principles, you should view the school year era of SAD with suspicion. Why should this part of the Obama family saga be accepted as credible when virtually every other aspect of the story has been shown to be very questionable?
If you start with the assumption that much of O's family bio is BS, then you have to question SAD's school years as well. And if you do approach it as probably bogus, the next step is to try to find the weaknesses in the story and figure out what might actually be the facts.
So, instead of criticizing the theory of others because "there's no reason to question that" because we have a transcript or we have whatever, how about actually refuting a theory with which you don't agree by using something other than Obot supplied information?
How about your brain? You have a pretty darn good one. How about using it instead of serving up provenance supplied by people we know are lying scoundrels?
Hey, what's going on with you lately? Did someone highjack your screen name?
That is not true. I have categorically rejected the Obama family sage relating to the year beginning August 1961!
Remember that SADO's year in WA with baby Barry invalidates the "Dreams" narrative of the newly married couple and destroys the Obama family myth, Barry's credibility and that of Abercrombie as well.
When evaluating this investigation, I have always advocated that each piece of claimed evidence must be examined on its own merits and either accepted or rejected on that basis. Documents that can be subsequently validated as to provenance have the highest credibility.
Remember how it started? Stanley Ann Dunham's passport data revealed that BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA was removed from her passport, and the name SOEBARKAH was crossed out.
And there we were, all this time, thinking his name might have been BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA SOETORO.
Compare her handwriting with any of the other passport documents, and it's quite evidently her handwriting.
The above image discovered on the WTPOTUS website quite some time ago, always intruiged me. I have posted that before, with the question 'who are these people'?
Recently, we decided to check out SOEBARKA. Where might that name have come from?
Are the five males in the group image with 'Barry' the SAME FIVE MALES shown above in the group years later, with their own families, wives and children? The images originate from an Indonesian website FOR THE SOEBARKAH FAMILY.
Now note the couple in the centre...
They are the same couple as in the family group with five males - looks like an Indonesian wedding image...
Now here is LOLO:
It sure makes one wonder...doesn't it?
"That is not true. I have categorically rejected the Obama family sage relating to the year beginning August 1961!"
The problem with your approach, though, is that it is too limiting. I think evaluating each document or each photo or each quote, etc. is necessary but if you do nothing but that, if you stop there you are going to limit your chance of finding the truth. I don't think it is a bad idea to come up with a theory, float it and see how it would account for the discrepancies in the official tale.
Hey, I still have one theory on my list about Ann that will really get me a hammering from you:
Stanley A. Dunham is grandpa's name and SAD's name, right? Well, what if Stanley A. Dunham wasn't the SAD we know her to be and was really Stanley Armour Dunahm Jr. and grandpa actually did get the son always wanted? The son could have died prior to Zero running for office and his handlers retro-fit SAD into the name when they were looking for a mother for the story. Why would I think that one up? I found it hard to believe that any mother would allow her daughter to be named "Stanley".
I imagine a lot depends upon if this image and signature are to be believed.
Susan Blake, in the video that was cut down to a few seconds, originally said 'she always introduced herself as Stanley' - but THAT was long before ANNA OBAMA was found, and they tried to turn her into ANNA.
thanks for that link, I read the article, sorry to be so long getting back to you. All things considered, it's beginning to look like she was nothing but THE NANNY.
I'm still instinctively bound by my audit and forensic training to examine each piece of evidence very carefully and to avoid overstating or understating its potential importance. This training (when I am able to set aside my emotions and bias) has always helped my avoid premature acceptance of evidence or premature rejection of evidence.
You will recall that I was zotted for insisting that a particular piece of evidence was being prematurely rejected. I never said that evidence was authentic and should be accepted but only that I was not convinced that it should be rejected, yet.
Auditors are used to operating in a "trust but verify" environment where a key part of your job is to prevent the same people that are paying you from ripping other people off either intentionally or accidentally. Embarrassing confrontations go with the territory. Feelings of folks who thought you were their friend and "on their side" can get hurt (sometimes deservedly so, sometimes that is just where the facts lead).
I engage in a lot of wild, unsubstantiated speculation, but I say that that is what it is. But I Avoid going anyplace where a credible, potentially verifiable document trail is already blocking the way. (I look at SADO's Mercer, HI and WA college records that way.) I try to thread my way between the narrative points where there is more solid documents and evidence and try to minimize resort to conspiracy theories.
SADO's U. of WA record destroys Obama's narrative in Dreams and his foundational 2004 Democrat Convention speech. The U. of WA narrative opens the question "Where was SADO before she is documented to be in WA in Sep, 1961?" If she crosses as much of the Pacific from Hawaii to WA with a newborn she could have easily crossed other oceans leading back to Kenya.
So coming back to the thread topic, Obama's angry Aunt Zeituni and family could actually have received a letter in the Northwest tribal area from BHO Sr. sent from Hawaii. But the letter could have announced Barry's birth...which happened to be in Mombasa...if SADO was hidden away with missionaries there during her scandalous pregnancy.
The only conspiracy needed for SADO to be with missionaries is a conspiracy to hide a pregnant daughter or mistress, something which happened all over the country at that time.
Who had the means, motive and opportunity to send SADO to Kenya? The KGB with Soviet money or FM Davis and his rich wife with the cooperation of cash-strapped likely Communist Party member, BHO Sr.
Let us see the documents you have in your possession.
This was really sick to be sure.
I note that Stanley Armour's mom committed suicide and he got in trouble for punching out someone early in life. This makes me think of familial bipolar mania, often with delusions, which is often co-morbid with narcissism and even borderline personality disorder (talk about bad luck in the genes! Unfortunately I have a lot of experience in my extended family with these highly inheritable conditions.
A person with these co-morbid psychiatric disorders could easily name a daughter "Stanley" and also turn a daughter and a grandson over to be mentored by a pedophile, not that I know this happened, of course.
You are close to being zotted from the ping list.
familial bipolar mania, often with delusions, which is often co-morbid with narcissism and even borderline personality disorder (talk about bad luck in the genes!
Certain light-fingered fellow citizens will help themselves to any "souvenir" HS yearbook that will link them to the anointed Zero through his mother. That doesn't mean the yearbooks are fake, only that dishonest folks stole them, I suspect. Think of what they would bring in E-bay!
This is an example where no conspiracy theory that Mercer HS yearbooks are being destroyed to incriminating Obama evidence, but rather simple human motives leading to theft.
"familial bipolar mania, often with delusions, which is often co-morbid with narcissism and even borderline personality disorder (talk about bad luck in the genes!"
I was talking about my second ex-wife, of course!
And think of how disappointed the 'thieves' might feel, when they find she's not in them...
Um...that would be ill-advised I would think...although my system appears to have experienced a sophisticated attack through my firewall after my recent posts...so I am not sure who knows what I have on my system.
As a severely disabled, nearly home-bound person with a neurological condition (who none-the-less gives a monthly contribution to FR from my fixed disability income...which I recommend to all) my ability to obtain original evidence is not that great. I can only post between the four restorative naps I must take every day.
But I can still evaluate evidence using what remains of my analytical skills, and I can encourage FReepers not to overstate or undervalue the evidence in front of them when I believe I see that happening.
I'll bet if someone could have interviewed Grandma Mad before she supposedly died in Hawaii (died of natural causes, murdered, still alive are the three possibilities), we would have some more discrepancies to evaluate. Unfortunately, she had a guard there in her residence to make sure no one talked to her. That person was not Maya btw, it was a man named Michael Coad.
Of course...
Quit trying to play the sympathy card.
Everyone has problems.
~ I'll show you mine if you'll show me yours...
You go first.
Hmm, I'm not very familiar with Ebay. Can someone put a listing that they WANT something on Ebay? It's possible to do that with Craigslist. But CL is free.
First I (remember) hearing of that. Who is Michael Coad? He lived in her apartment or camped outside?
I really have to disagree with there, Seize.
Consider this:
1. The public has never seen one year book from MIHS for 1958, 1959, 1960 and 1961. (yes, there were supposedly close ups of some of those in the Jones video but I have problems with what they show)
2. The e-yearbook site doesn't have one from any of those years.
3. Ancestry.com does not have a MIHS yearbook from any of those years.
4. There were at least 480 students who graduated from MIHS or attended during those class years and no one has posted a single photo from those yearbooks anywhere except those that were used in telling the Obama family story.
5. It is impossible to get a copy of the Tyee (Univ. of WA yearbook) for 1960 anywhere.
There's more, but you get the drift. Add that to the "stolen yearbook" story and you still think there's nothing abnormal about the yearbook issue?
...BTW, if he dropped the project, it would be interesting to know why.
Espinoza, who splits his time between the Island and Los Angeles, has been on Mercer Island looking for more information about Dunhams time here, combing through newspapers at the library, school records and talking to Dunhams classmates from Mercer Island High School.
Mercer Island had a great influence on the rest of her life, he said.
The film will take viewers to the places that Dunham lived and worked, from her birthplace in Kansas to Indonesia to Hawaii. The plan is for a film crew to come to Seattle and Mercer Island as well.
The filmmakers are eager for some way to glean more information and, hopefully, images of the presidents mother. The team is hoping that there are more photos and some home movies perhaps from a slumber party, a dance, or an event at Mercer Island High School.
The tiny snapshots we have dont tell the story, Espinoza said. We are looking for what we havent seen.
Oh boy, isnt that RICH! Cant you just imagine him looking for something a dozen or more of us have been looking for, for at least two years? And all of them closed up like clams...like little Joelle (what-was-her-name?)telling the interviewer she was told not to say any more ...and had to hang up now and all the classmates who cant find their yearbook, although its in the house here somewhere and the woman at reception at the school who said we had SIX books here until recently, but they were all stolen...and out of the hundreds of students of the class of 1960, NOT ONE has come forward with a Yearbook!
Your comment really hit my funny-bone. Best LOL Ive had all week. He doesnt need to ABANDON THE PROJECT so much as forget he ever started it. There isnt any THERE THERE...because the little there is has been buried, tampered with, obscured, lied about and plastered with images that are obvious fakes.
Welcome to The Birther World, Mr Espinoza!
Stanney was the nanny?
He lived in her apartment I would assume since his address was her exact address in the year or so leading up to her reported death.
It LOOKS like she was THE NANNY. More follows.
Thanks Butter, but I'm royally pissed at Jason Lewis for being so closed minded and so eager to support Obama.
He apparently accepts everything the chicago spin machine uses to explain away every controversial Obama item, so I don't want to bother anyone with that a-hole again.
He gives the DNC talking points for every wierd quirk about Zero's past.
He might as well change his name to Jason McCain.
From another website (no soure provided) I read that an important 'Military Man' named SOEBARKAH was a coffin-bearer at the funeral of SUKARNO, President of Indonesia. Sukarno was deposed in 1967, died in 1970.
Searching for any SOEBARKAH/SUKARNO/SEOTORO connection, I GOOGLED SUKARNO/SOETORO.
Laura Iandola, Ph.D. candidate, History and Graduate Assistant, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University
Lecture title: Malcolm X, Sukarno's Indonesia, and the Politics of Bandung
Sukarno, Indonesia's first president, and Malcolm X shared the platform at Harlems Abyssinian Baptist Church in 1956, introduced there by mutual friend Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. The relationship launched there endured until Malcolm Xs untimely death in 1965, two weeks before he was slated to speak at the Asian-African Islamic Conference in Jakarta. He had also planned to attend the tenth anniversary celebration of the 1955 Bandung Conference, the first large-scale Asian-African conference. Iandola explores this little-known relationship to illuminate their ideological affinities as well as the Cold War politics of the Third World.
Very interesting. That would explain something. The info about Soebarkah getting crossed off her passport, the anomalies with regards to Lolo's addresses in Hawaii, and I think some other oddities - differing dates for their marriage, maybe.
It's a relatively harmless opinion. It's his support for all things Arab and Muslim that could get somebody killed. I've listened to him for years and think he has decided the way to get noticed in the talk show biz is to say things people don't expect. He's an ugly, red headed Kathleen Parker.
Well well WELL well well.
Getting hotter....
Stanney was the nanny?
'gimme a little ping, will ya, huh??'
Someone posted a thread some time ago.....Sarah Obama "Obama was adopted." "he passed thru my hands".
Barack Obama: Working to Make a Difference By Marlene Targ Brill.
"Obama ate dogs when he was a boy in Indonesia."
I'm just the trouble-maker, LucyT keeps the ping list...are you on that?
apparently there's a tribal ceremony, when a child is born or comes into the clan, they pass the child from one member of the clan to another...now, which child is she trying to tell us passed through her hands? The child of Anna Obama - that the kenyan and Ruth took to kenya with them - the dark one of the 'two little boys'?
...other way around would be better?
thankfully, yes.
just verrrrrrrry curious about stannynanny.... :)
keep making trouble.
The mysterious Mr Coad who lived in Madelyn's apartment? Funny how no one ever mentioned him...
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Cathy & Zimmer
Looks like an Irish pimp.
-Sherm was here.
Happy St Paddy`s day to you also
Cory & Penelope
Dapper,stylish and oh so debonnaire...even on green,u R the george clooney of bullies zimmie!
U look smashing sweet,sweet boy!
smoochies the scrunchy face
if ever I saw one!
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you look quite smashing buddy! Winston and I hope you got an extra treat for posing in that hat! :)
Shannon and Winston :)
My swimming bully buddy!
stop looking.....sooooo cute!!! :-)
Our sweet Archimedes "MEATY" Bones (or as we say...boneSHHH!) ---born 11/28/08---- our first bullllyyyy!!!
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Sophie's very first day home with us....awwww........May 2011.......tooo sweet for words!!!


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National Biology Teacher Award in Honor of Gordon Chan
College Launches Fundraising Campaigns For Science Museum
Application Deadline: Saturday, March 15
KENTFIELD, CA—March 3, 2014—The National Association of Biology Teachers will be presenting the first "Professor Chan Two-Year College Award for the Engaged Teaching of Biology" this year thanks to a former student whose decades-old memories of her favorite professor continue to inspire her.
"Professor Gordon Chan was a creative, inspiring and unforgettable professor," said Sarah Ann McBride, who, with her husband John Melville, a biologist and former college professor, is sponsoring the award.
Chan, much loved for his engaging teaching style and passionate environmental pursuits, taught Biology at Marin Community College for 28 years until his death in 1996 from Lou Gerhig's disease. He was 66. Many of his students went on to succesful careers in related fields, often remarking on his impact in books, papers and biographies.
Chan's labs could include extraordinarily rare ventures into complex research techniques or include stories of his life outside the classroom conducting an excavation of a baleen whale fossil, the ecological preservation study of estuary habitats and shoreline restoration work after an oil spill. The couple often reflect on Professor Chan, and what an amazing educator he was.
"The education Professor Chan provided his students in a two-year college setting was a remarkable feat of dedication and ingenuity," McBride said. "He is remembered and deeply honored by those of us fortunate enough to have had him as our teacher."
The first annual NABT Chan award will be presented to a two-year college faculty member "who has successfully developed and demonstrated an innovative, hands-on approach in the teaching of biology and has carried their commitment to the community." The recipient will receive $500 toward travel to the NABT Professional Development Conference in Cleveland in November and $1,500 of Vernier educational software and technology equipment. The recipient also receives a NABT recognition plaque and a one-year membership to organization. Online nominations will be accepted for the NABT award until Saturday, March 15.
The award celebrates the "unsung heroes" that "are becoming even more essential to our community and country," Melville said. These are instructors doing amazing work at two-year colleges who often don't get credit. "They are often adjuncts or underpaid instructors doing this because they love it.
"We decided that an award needed to be made for instructors at community colleges and junior colleges that would reward and rejuvenate people that have dedicated their lives to teaching biology and to giving back to the community like Professor Chan," Melville said.
McBride earned a bachelor's degree with an emphasis on cellular biology from Sonoma State University and a master's degree in Community Health and Physical Therapy from Old Dominion University. She is physcial therapist in Portland, Ore. Melville, who has Biology and Psychology degrees, as well as a doctorate in Zoology, taught Biology for many years at two- and four-year colleges and currently is a Biology staff scientist and director of Biology at Vernier Software & Technology in Portland.
College Advancement Campaign To Honor Rich Teaching Legacy of Professors Gordon Chan and Al Molina
We are very pleased to announce that the College of Marin Science Museum has received a donation of $25,000 from the family of Dr. Gordon Chan, former biology professor, for the Science Museum. These funds will be used to purchase a medium display cabinet and also to name the marine biology collection in memory of Dr. Chan. Other friends, former students, and fans of Dr. Chan are encouraged to contribute to the project.
In addition, an effort is underway to recognize the legacy of former beloved Biology Professor Al Molina by dedicating a cabinet of museum collection in his honor.
Find out more about the COM Science Museum Fundraising Campaign.


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Today at the Museum
June 25, 2011 - December 7, 2014
Special Exhibit
Picturing Science
This exhibition features more than 20 sets of large-format images that showcase the wide range of research being conducted at the Museum as well as how various optical tools are used in scientific studies.
Upcoming Events
Tuesday, June 28
After Hours Programs
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Astronomy Live: Unsolved Mysteries of the Universe
Sold out - Jackie Faherty and Jana Grcevich explore some of the most important unsolved mysteries of astronomy and cosmology, and how scientists seek to solve them.
July 8, July 15, July 22, or July 29, 2016
Walks and Tours
Evening Bat Walks in Central Park
Search for bats in Central Park with members of the New York City Bat Group.
Sunday, July 10
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Join a Museum tour guide to explore shark teeth, models, artifacts and lore in displays and exhibits throughout the Museum halls.
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
Astronomy Live: Come Fly with the Mars Band
Join Director of Astrovisualization Carter Emmart, and the musicians of The MARSBAND, including Keith Patchel and Tenzin Kunsel, for an immersive exploration of the Red Planet.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Lazeric Jones scored a game-high 18 points, Tyler Lamb added 16 and UCLA routed Washington State, 78-46, in a Pac-12 game at the Los Angeles Sports Arena on Thursday night.
David Wear scored all 13 of his points after halftime and Jerime Anderson added nine assists for the Bruins (17-13, 10-7 Pac-12), who shot a season-best 61.2 percent and made 10 of 14 3-pointers.
"I was really pleased with how our team performed tonight," UCLA head coach Ben Howland said. "We did a good job on both ends of the floor. We came out and missed our first few shots, but then got on a roll offensively."
Brock Motum scored 18 as the only player in double-figures for Washington State (14-15, 6-11).
The Bruins played inspired, particularly on the defensive end, scoring 22 points off turnovers and holding the Cougars to 38.1 percent shooting.
UCLA won for the seventh straight time in the series.
"Tonight we had an inside presence," David Wear said. "Josh Smith was doing well, and we were crashing the boards. I'm proud of the way we came together. We had 26 assists as a team."
The Bruins led at halftime, 38-19, and outscored the visiting Cougars by a 40-27 margin in the second half. UCLA's 19-point halftime cushion was its largest of the conference season.
UCLA's 32-point margin of victory was its largest of the Pac-12 Conference season and the biggest win over a conference opponent since a 97-63 home win over Stanford on Jan. 31, 2009.
The Bruins will play their final regular-season game against Washington on Saturday at the Los Angeles Sports Arena. The game is slated for an 11 a.m. tip-off and will be televised live on CBS.


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It's the eve of the Olympics, and according to the Business Insider today, officials in Sochi, Russia say that 97 percent of the hotels built for the games are complete. But "complete" evidently means different things to different folks, as mounting photo evidence shared on social media is revealing.
The Olympic Village seems to have been completed, but hotels that are booked by the media are in particularly bad shape.
Complaints and images of empty spas and fitness centers with wrapped up, yet to be assembled exercise equipment, unfinished hallways and rooms, lobbies with no desks, bathrooms with no toilets, power outages and disgusting yellow water are all making their rounds via Twitter with the hashtags #Sochi2014 and #Sochi.
A sampling:
To anyone in Sochi: I am now in possession of three light bulbs. Will trade for a door handle. This offer is real. -- @DanWetzel
Aw, man. Check into hotel for #Sochi2014, and all I get is lousy orange peel in the closet. --@MCLTribune
#sochi good news, I have Internet, bad news, it's dangling from the ceiling in my room... -- @Stanleigh77
The best pic thus far has to be the kind reminder left near the commode, pictured above, that advises users not to flush toilet paper down the toilet, evidently out of plumbing concerns. For their convenience, a pail has been placed nearby. Eww.
Check out all of the pics at Yahoo!.


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On Sunday, June 9, 2013, thousands of parents and expecting parents attended PLUSH at The Hyatt Regency Century Plaza to check out the coolest baby and toddler items on the market. E! News host Jason Kennedy and the lovely actress Lisa Rinna served as co-hosts of the event. PLUSH is a great resource for Moms and Dads as you can check out tons of great products for your lil cuties all in one fun and fabulous event. Almost all of the products I became acquainted with were created by Moms & Dads for Moms & Dads and their kids. It was awesome to see the passion, commitment and ingenuity that these parents put into developing products to make their child's life better and in hoping to do the same for families all over the world.
The incredibly talented team from Super Inflated was onsite making their remarkable balloon art. Every time I see them, I am even more impressed with their creativity! For this event, they made a Super Inflated balloon jungle which was awesome. All of the kids they were twisting for had massive smiles on their adorable faces. I always have Super Inflated at my children's events and I can't imagine a party without them. They add so much wow and cool factor to an event!
Disney had an amazing Hundred Acre Woods set up with Winnie the Pooh arts and crafts and a social media photo station to introduce Pooh and his friends to the next generation of little ones. Plum Organics was promoting their healthy and delicious new line of Mighty 4 pouches. My son loved his kale, strawberry, amaranth and greek yogurt pouch. Every time I see the Plum Organics team they always have something new and delicious for little ones. I'm impressed at the care they seem to put into every pouch.
RockaBye Baby is an idea I wish I invented. It is pure genius. I have played my son their Beatles album since he was in my tummy and he loves their version of "Hey Jude." They take popular music that parents love and they turn it into baby soothing lullabies. They have a Jay Z album coming out this Summer so your tot can rock out in his crib to "99 Problems"minus the potty mouth language of the original song. If rap music isn't your little one's thing, they have Bob Marley, U2 and The White Stripes albums to name a few.
Mayron's Goods debuted their natural and organic baby goods such as their diaper cream, tangerine massage and body oil and their gentle all over wash. It is nice to see a line that is paraben free and that doesn't use any dyes or artificial fragrances. This is a line you can feel good about using on your little ones. 3 Sprouts makes storing your kids' toys a blast with their fabulously designed critter containers. I spoke with the lovely Kelly Su who became a Mom on a mission when her daughter developed "flat head syndrome." Kelly created the Babymoon Pillow which provides head and neck support for your lil cuties and is great to use when your little one is lying down, in the baby swing, in the car or stroller. My almost 2 year old son is enjoying using his Babymoon pillow while he sits in his bean bag chair and reads.
I was treated to a delicious dark chocolate strawberry from the team at Bobalu Berries. Their gift sets make a yummy gift for baby showers, birthdays, anniversary or corporate gifts. Ju-Ju-Be had the coolest designed booth at the show with an amazing bubble gum pink balloon castle installation to showcase their bold and bright patterned line of diaper bags, change purses, beach bags, changing pads and more! They also had a yummy pink candy bar and were so wonderful and sweet to chat with about their fab line. Clek was onsite to promote their foonf carseat. This carseat was designed to international best practices which advise keeping your lil cutie rear facing until their 4th birthday to maximize their safety in the event of a car crash. After doing my due diligence and speaking with the Clek team, I have decided that my son's safety is priceless and while this is one of the most expensive car seats on the market, it is a valuable investment in protecting my most precious asset.
I had a very interesting chat with the team at Pura Stainless about their 100% plastic free bottles. This award winning bottle system evolves as your baby grows with interchangeable parts. I love that this is both a safe and green alternative to the baby bottles of days gone by. Pura also makes drinking bottles for adults too! I found this fact page to be very informative about what sets Pura a part from the rest. http://www.purastainless.com/about Knowledge is power and once you know how to best protect your family, in my opinion you owe it to yourself and your loved ones to seek out the safest products.
The Tricycoo by Joovy is the coolest kids toy that I discovered at PLUSH. This is a fun way to teach your child balance and coordination and allow them to feel some independence as they pedal along. I love that you can remove the parent push handle, safety "surround arms" and fold up footrest when the time is right and your little cutie has mastered the Tricycoo. I also really like the design of the Tricycoo. It is functional and fashionable and looks incredibly comfortable for little ones. At $129.99 this is a very affordable, safe and engaging option for your baby's first bike.
The highlight of my PLUSH experience was meeting Samuel Park, the co-founder of Mightee Kids and learning about his cool line of socially conscious kiddie T-shirts. The Mightee Kids mission statement of inspiring kids to love others who are less fortunate couldn't be more in sync with the values that my husband and I have been instilling in our son since the moment he was born. Each Mightee Kids T-shirt in the collection supports a different non-profit by giving $5 from every sale to the charity. You special package comes with a teaching tool that will explain to your child how this non-profit is making a difference in the world. Samuel said that many kids are using their Mightee Kids T-shirts as their show and tell items at school and in doing so are helping to spread the message of the amazing work the non-profits are doing. It is awesome that kids can help educate their family and friends about giving back and that these T-shirts are helping to show kids that community service and loving our fellow human being is "cool." So far Mightee Kids has supported Love Without Borders, FundAField, Canines for Disabled Kids, Smile Train and the Autism Society, with plans for more cool T-shirt collaborations in the works. Mightee Kids T-shirts make for a fab birthday gift and are a wonderful way to make a compassionate fashion statement.
It was a fun day at the 2013 PLUSH show where I had the pleasure of discovering lots of fabulous new products that my son is sure to enjoy!


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THE DRYADES & OREIADES were the beautiful Nymphs of the trees, groves, woods and mountain forests. They were the ladies of the oaks and pines, poplar and ash, apple and laurel. For those known as Hamadryades, trees sprung up from the earth at their birth, trees to which their lives were closely tied. While the tree flourished, so did its resident nymph, but when it died she passed away with it.
There were several classes of Dryades associated with a particular types of tree:
(1) The Meliai were the Nymphs of the ash-trees. They sprang up from Gaia the Earth when she was impregnated by the blood of the castrated Ouranos. The men of the Silver Age married these Nymphai (in the time before women were created) and from them all of mankind was descended.
(2) The Oreiades were the Nymphs of the mountain conifers. The first of these were offspring of the five Daktyloi and the five Hekaterides. Subsequent generations were descended from these elder Oreiades and their brothers the Satyroi.
(NB The old forests of ancient Greece were primarily found high in the mountains, since the majority of the lowland forest had been cleared for farming. It was therefore natural for the Greeks to think of the Dryades as mountain-dwelling).
(3) The Hamadryades were the Nymphs of oak and poplar trees. These were usually associated with river-side trees and sacred groves.
(4) The Maliades, Meliades or Epimelides were Nymphai of apple and other fruit trees. They were also protectors of sheep. The Greek word melas from which their name derives means both apple and sheep.
(5) The Daphnaie were Nymphs of the laurel trees, one of a class of rarer tree-specific Nymphai. Others included the Nymphai Aigeiroi (black poplar), Ampeloi (grape vine), Balanis (ilex), Karyai (hazel-nut), Kraneiai (cherry-tree), Moreai (mulberry), Pteleai (elm), and Sykei (fig).
Others with simply associated with a location: Oreiades were nymphs of the mountain heights, Alseides of the sacred groves, Aulonides of the glens, Napaiai of the vales.
[1.1] THE DAKTYLOI & THE HEKATERIDES (Strabo 10.3.19)
[2.1] HERMES & THE OREIADES (Homeric Hymn V To Aphrodite 256)
[3.1] THE SATYROI & THE OREIADES (Homeric Hymn V To Aphrodite 256)
[1.1] SEILENOS (Propertius Elegies 2.32)
[2.1] OUROS (Athenaeus 3.78 )
[3.1] OXYLOS & HAMADRYAS (Athenaeus 3.78 )
DRYADES (Druades) All nymphs, whose number is almost infinite, may be divided into two great classes. The first class embraces those who must be regarded as a kind of inferior divinities, recognised in the worship of nature. The early Greeks saw in all the phenomena of ordinary nature some manifestation of the deity; springs, rivers, grottoes, trees, and mountains, all seemed to them fraught with life; and all were only the visible embodiments of so many divine agents. The salutary and beneficent powers of nature were thus personified, and regarded as so many divinities; and the sensations produced on man in the contemplation of nature, such as awe, terror, joy, delight, were ascribed to the agency of the various divinities of nature.
The nymphs of the first class must again be sublatter divided into various species, according to the different parts of nature of which they are the representatives.
1. Nymphs of mountains and grottoes, are called Orodemniades and Oreiades but sometimes also by names derived from the particular mountains they inhabited, as Kithairônides, Pêliades, Korukiai, &c. (Theocrit. vii. 137; Virg. Aen. i. 168, 500; Paus. v. 5. § 6, ix. 3. § 5, x. 32. § 5; Apollon. Rhod. i. 550, ii. 711; Ov. Her. xx. 221; Virg. Eclog. vi. 56.)
2. Nymphs of forests, groves, and glens, were believed sometimes to appear to and frighten solitary travellers. They are designated by the names Alsêïdes, Holêôroi, Aulôniades, and Napaiai. (Apollon. Rhod. i. 1066, 1227; Orph. Hymn. 50. 7; Theocrit. xiii. 44; Ov. Met. xv. 490; Virg. Georg. iv. 535.)
3 . Nymphs of trees, were believed to die together with the trees which had been their abode, and with which they had come into existence. They were called Dryades, Hamadruades or Hadryades, from drys, which signifies not only an oak, but any wild-growing lofty tree; for the nymphs of fruit trees were called Mêlides, Mêliades, Epimêlides, or Hamamêlides. They seem to be of Arcadian origin, and never appear together with any of the great gods. (Paus. viii. 4. § 2; Apollon. Rhod. ii. 477, &c.; Anton. Lib. 31, 32; Hom. Hymn. in Ven. 259, &c.)
Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
Together with Trees,
Together with Oaks
Homer, Iliad 20. 4 ff ff (trans. Lattimore) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) :
"But Zeus, from the many-folded peak of Olympos, told Themis to summon all the gods into assembly. She went everywhere, and told them to make thier way to Zeus' house. There was no River [Potamoi] that was not there, except only Okeanos, there was not one of the Nymphai who live in the lovely groves (alsea) [i.e. Dryades], and the springs of rivers (pegai potamon) [i.e. Naiades] and the grassy meadows (pisea poiêenta), who came not. These all assembling into the house of Zeus cloud-gathering took places among the smooth-stone cloister walks."
Hesiod, Theogony 129 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or 7th B.C.) :
"Long Hills (Ourea), graceful haunts of the Goddess Nymphai who dwell amongst the glens of the hills (ourea bêssêenta)."
Hesiod, Fragments of Unknown Position 6 (from Strabo 10.3.19) (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or 7th B.C.) :
"But of them [the daughters of Hekateros] were born the divine mountain nymphs (theai nymphai oureiai) and the tribe (genos) of worthless, helpless Satyroi (Satyrs)."
Hesiod, The Precepts of Chiron Fragment 3 (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or 7th B.C.) :
"A chattering crow lives out nine generations of aged men, but a stag's life is four times a crow's and a raven's life makes three stags old, while the Phoenix outlives nine raves, but we, the rich-haired Nymphai, daughters of Zeus the aigis-holder, outlive ten phoenixes."
Homeric Hymn 5 to Aphrodite 256 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C7th or 6th B.C.) :
"[Aphrodite to Ankhises (Anchises):] 'As for the child [Aeneas, son of Ankhises and Aphrodite], as soon as he sees the light of the sun, the deep-breasted Mountain (oreskôoi) Nymphai [i.e. Oreiades] who inhabit this great and holy mountain [Ida] shall bring him up. They rank neither with mortals nor with immortals: long indeed do they live, eating ambrosia and treading the lovely dance among the immortals, and with them the Seilenoi and the sharp-eyed Argeiphontes [Hermes] mate in the depths of pleasant caves; but at their birth pines or high-topped oaks spring up with them upon the fruitful earth, beautiful, flourishing trees, towering high upon the lofty mountains (and men call them holy places of the immortals, and never mortal lops them with the axe); but when the fate of death (moira thanatoio) is near at hand, first those lovely trees wither where they stand, and the bark shrivels away about them, and the twigs fall down, and at last the life of the Nymphe and of the tree leave the light of the sun together. These Nymphai shall keep my son [Aeneas] with them and rear him, and as soon as he is come to lovely boyhood, the goddesses (theiai) will bring him here to you and show you your child . . .
Say he is the offspring of one of the flower-like Nymphe who inhabit this forest-clad hill.'"
Homerica Fragments of Unknown Position 6 (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic B.C.) :
"But of them [the daughters of Hekateros] were born the divine Nymphai Oureiai (Mountain Nymphs)."
Aristophanes, Birds 1088 ff (trans. O'Neill) (Greek comedy C5th to 4th B.C.) :
"[Comedy-Play] I [a bird] winter in deep caverns, where I frolic with the Nymphai Oreiai (Mountain Nymphs)."
Aristophanes,Thesmophoriazusae 324 ff :
"[Invocation in the Thesmophoria festival of Demeter:] 'Come, ye Nymphai Oreiplanktoi (Mountain-Wandering Nymphs).'"
Aristophanes,Thesmophoriazusae 990 ff :
"Dionysos, who delightest to mingle with the dear choruses of the Nymphai Oreiai (Mountain Nymphs), and who repeatest, while dancing with them, the sacred hymn, Euios, Euios, Euoi! Ekho (Echo), the Nymphe of Kithairon, returns thy words, which resound beneath the dark vaults of the thick foliage and in the midst of the rocks of the forest; the ivy enlaces thy brow with its tendrils charged with flowers."
Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1. 1066 ff (trans. Rieu) (Greek epic C3rd B.C.) :
"Her [Kleite's] death was bewailed even by the Nymphai Alseides (Woodland Nymphs) [of Mysia], who caused the many tears they shed to unite in a spring, which the people call Kleite in memory of a peerless but unhappy bride."
Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1. 1224 ff :
"The Nymphai [of Bithynia] were about to hold their dances--it was the custom of all those who haunt (Hylêôroi) the beautiful headland [of Pegai in Mysia] to sing the praise of Artemis by night. The Nymphai of the Mountain Peaks and the Caverns were all posted some way off to patrol the woods." Nymphe of the Waters (nymphê ephytatiê).
Callimachus, Hymn 4 to Delos 75ff (trans. Mair) (Greek poet C3rd B.C.) :
"Goddesses mine, ye Mousai (Muses), say did the oaks come into being at the same time as the Nymphai [Dryades]? The Nymphai rejoice when the rain makes the oaks to grow; and again the Nymphai weep when there are no longer leaves upon the oaks."
Strabo, Geography 10. 3. 19 (trans. Jones) (Greek geographer C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :
"Further, one might also find . . . these Daimones [Kouretes, Satyroi and Oreiades] . . . were called, not only ministers of gods, but also gods themselves. For instance, Hesiod says that five daughters were born to Hekateros (Hecaterus) and the daughter of Phoroneus, 'from whom sprang the mountain-ranging Nymphai [Oreades], goddesses, and the breed of Satyroi, creatures worthless and unfit for work, and also the Kouretes, sportive gods, dancers.'"
Pausanias, Description of Greece 8. 4. 2 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) :
"They used to call some Nymphai Dryades other Epimeliades, and others Naides, and Homer in his poetry talks mostly of Naiades Nymphai."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 10. 32. 9 :
"Those [Nymphai Dryades] who in days of old, according to the story of the poets, grew out of trees and especially out of oaks."
Philostratus the Elder, Imagines 2. 11 (trans. Fairbanks) (Greek rhetorician C3rd A.D.) :
"[Description of an ancient Greek painting:] Here are the Nymphai in a group, but do you look at them by classes . . . and the lean slenderness of the Boukolai (Pastoral Nymphai) [Oreiades and Dryades] is no white less beautiful than dew."
Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 78b (trans. Gullick) (Greek rhetorician C2nd to 3rd A.D.) :
"The Epic poet Pherenikos, a Herakleto by birth, declares that the fig (Sykon) was named from Syke (Fig-Tree), the daughter of Oxylos (Thick with Woods); for Oxylos, son of Oreios (Mountain), married his sister Hamadryas (Oak-Tree) and begot among others, Karya (Nut-Tree), Balanos (Acorn-Tree), Kraneia (Cornel-Tree), Morea (MulberryTree), Aigeiros (Black Poplar-Tree), Ptelea (Elm-Tree), Ampelos (Vines), and Syke (Fig-Tree); and these are called Nymphai Hamadryades, and from them many trees derive their names. Hence, also, he adds, Hipponax says: 'The black fig-tree (syke), sister of the vine (ampelos).'"
Oppian, Cynegetica 1. 77 ff (trans. Mair) (Greek poet C3rd A.D.) :
"[Invocation of Oppian as he begins his poem on bird hunting:] Thou . . . choir of Dryades who love the birds, grant me your grace!"
Oppian, Cynegetica 4. 265 ff :
"[Aristaios] received the infant Dionysos from the coffer of Ino and reared him in his cave and nursed him with the help of the Dryades and the Nymphai that have bees in their keeping and the maidens of Euboia and the Aionian women."
Tryphiodorus, 322 ff The Taking of Ilias (trans. Mair) (Greek poet C5th A.D.) :
"And as they haled [the Trojans dragged the Wooden Horse into Troy], loud rose the din and the vaunting. Groaned shady Ida together with her Nymphe-haunted oaks: the eddying waters of the river Xanthos shrieked, and the mouth of Simoeis rang aloud: and in heaven the trumpet of Zeus prophesied of the war they drew."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 1. 689 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :
"Once there lived on the cold mountainsides of Arcadia a Naias, who among the Hamadryades Nonacrinae (of lofty Nonacris) was the most renowned. Syrinx the Nymphae called her."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 3. 402 ff :
"Narcissus mocked her [Ekho]; others too [who sought his love], Nymphae of Hill [Oreades] and Water [Naides] and many a man he mocked; till one scorned youth, with raised hands, prayed, 'So may he love – and never win his love!' And Rhamnusia [Nemesis] approved the righteous prayer . . . [and caused Narkissos to fall in love with his own image in a pool of water, and like Ekho, unrequited in his love wasted away]."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 3. 505 ff :
"On the green grass he [the handsome youth Narkissos] drooped his weary head, and those bright eyes that loved their master's beauty closed in death . . . His sister Naides wailed and sheared their locks in mourning for their brother; the Dryades too wailed and sad Echo wailed in answering woe."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 6. 15 & 6. 44 ff :
"In all the towns of Lydia Arachne's work had won a memorable name, although her home was humble and Hypaepae where she lived was humble too. To watch her wondrous work the Nymphae would often leave their vine-clad slopes of Tmolus [Oreades], often leave Pactolus' stream [Naiades], delighted both to see the cloth she wove and watch her working too; such grace she had . . . Pallas [Athena] [came to challenge Arakhne] and threw aside the old crone's guise and stood revealed. The Nymphae and Lydian women knelt in reverence."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 6. 392 ff :
"The countryfolk, the Sylvan Deities (Numina Silvarum), the Fauni [Panes] and brother Satyri and the Nymphae [probably here meaning the Oreades], were all in tears [at the flaying alive of the Satyrus Marsyas], Olympus too."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 6. 453 ff :
"Richly robed in gorgeous finery, and richer still her beauty; such the beauty of the Naides and Dryades, as we used to hear, walking the woodland ways."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 11. 47 ff :
"All wept and mourned for [the bard] Orpheus; forest trees cast down their leaves, tonsured in grief, and Flumina [Potamoi, Rivers] too, men say, were swollen with their tears, and Naides wore, and Dryades too, their mourning robes of black and hair dishevelled."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 14. 326 ff :
"King Picus, son of Saturnus [Kronos], ruled the land of Ausonia [Latium] . . . You observe his features. Gaze upon his striking grace and from his likeness here admire the truth . . . Many a glance he drew from Dryades born among the Latin hills; he was the darling of the Fountain-Sprites (Numina Fontana) and all the Naides of Albulba and Anio and Almo's streams [but he loved and married Canens alone, daughter of Janus]."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 14. 622 ff :
"Pomona lived in good King Proca's [of Latium] reign and none of all the Hamadryadae Latinae was cleverer than she in garden lore nor keener in the care of orchard trees. Thence came her name. For in her heart she loved not woods nor rivers, but a plot of ground and boughs of smiling apples all around."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 15. 490 ff :
"Deep in the forests of Aricia's vale, and there her [the Nymphe wife of the Latin king Numa] moans of misery disturbed Diana's [Artemis'] shrine that once Orestes built. How many times the Nymphae of Lake (Limnatides) and Grove (Auloniades) warned her to cease and tried to comfort her!"
Ovid, Fasti 2. 155 ff (trans.Boyle) (Roman poetry C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :
"Callisto once belonged to the sacred circle of Hamadryades and huntress Diana [Artemis] . . . Phoebe [Artemis] returned from hunting scores of forest beasts, as the sun occupied or passed midday. When she reached the grove (a grove dark with dense ilex, around a deep fountain of cool water), she said, `Let's bathe here in the wood.'"
Ovid, Fasti 4. 751 ff :
"I entered a forbidden wood, and the Nymphae and half-goat god [Faunus-Pan] bolted from my sight. If any knife has robbed a grove of a shady bough to give ailing sheep a basket of leaves: forgive my offence. Do not fault me for sheltering my flock from the hail in a rustic shrine, nor harm me for disturbing the pools. Pardon, Nymphae, trampling hooves for muddying your stream . . . placate the gods dispersed through every grove. Keep from our sight the Dryades and Diana's [Artemis'] bath and Faunus [Pan] lying in the fields at noon."
Virgil, Aeneid 1. 500 ff (trans. Day-Lewis) (Roman epic C1st B.C.) :
"By the banks of Eurotas or over the Cynthian slopes Diana [Artemis] foots the dance, and a thousand Oreades following weave a constellation around that arrowy one, who in grace of movement excels all goddesses."
Virgil, Aeneid 1. 168 ff :
"Under these twin mountains [on the coast of Libya] the bay lies still and sheltered: a curtain of overhanging woods with their shifting light and shadow forms the backdrop; at the seaward foot of the cliffs there's a cave of stalactites, fresh water within, and seats which nature has hew from the stone--a home of the Nymphai (Oreades)."
Propertius, Elegies 1. 20 (trans. Goold) (Roman elegy C1st B.C.) :
"Ward off from him [the handsome youth] the ever lustful hands of the Nymphae (the Ausonian [Italian] Adryades are no less amorous than their sisters) . . . Beneath the crest of Arganthus' mount [in Mysia] lay the well of Pege, a watery haunt dear the Nymphae Thyniae; overhead from deserted trees hung dewy apples, owing naught to the hand of man, and round about in the water-meadow grew white lilies mingled with crimson poppies . . . With lowered hands he prepares to cup the water, leaning on his right shoulder to draw a full measure. When the Dryades [the story usually features Naiades not Dryades], fired by his beauty, abandoned in wonder their accustomed dance and on his slipping pulled him nimbly through the yielding water."
Propertius, Elegies 2. 32 :
"She [Aphrodite] loved a shepherd [Ankhises] and amid his flocks gave herself, a goddess, to him; their armour was witnessed by the band of sister Hamadryades as well as the Sileni and the father of the company himself [Silenos], with whom were Naiads gathering apples in the vales of Ida."
Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1. 105 ff (trans. Mozley) (Roman epic C1st A.D.) :
"They whose labour was in the fields and with the peaceful plough are aroused by the sight of Fauni [Satyroi] about the thickets and ways in the clear light of day, and woodland Goddesses [Dryades] and Rivers [Potamoi] with lofty horns."
Statius, Thebaid 4. 259 ff (trans. Mozley) (Roman epic C1st A.D.) :
"Forest-queens [Dryades] and spirits enshrined in rivers [Naiades] . . . [and] Napaea (Nymphs of the Glade)."
Statius, Thebaid 4. 329 ff :
"[Atalanta to her son Parthenopaios:] 'Thou a boy scarce ripe for the embarces of Dryades or the passions of Erymanthian Nymphae.'"
Statius, Thebaid 5. 580 ff :
"The Nymphae who were wont to strew him [the guardian Drakon of the Nemean groves] with vernal flowers, and Nemea's fields whereon he crawled; ye too, ye woodland Fauni [Satyroi], bewailing him in every grove with broken reeds."
Statius, Thebaid 6. 90 ff :
"As they go [felling the trees] the woodland groans in sympathy, nor can the Nymphae loose the trees from their embrace."
Statius, Thebaid 9. 385 ff :
"I [the Naias Ismenis] was held a greater goddess and the queen of Nymphae. Where alas! is that late crowd of courtiers round thy mother's halls, where are the Napaeae (Maidens of the Glen) that prayed to serve thee [her mortal son Krenaios]?"
Seneca, Phaedra 782 ff (trans. Miller) (Roman tragedy C1st A.D.) :
"For thy [the hunter Hippolytus'] slumbers the frolicsome goddesses of the groves (nemorum deae) will lay their snares, the Dryads, who pursue Panes wandering on the mountains."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 2. 92 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D.) :
"The Hadryades Nymphai [Hamadryads] lamented the lost shade of their yearsmate trees [destroyed in the rampages of the monster Typhoeus].
One Hamadryas leapt unveiled from the cloven shaft of a bushy laurel (daphne), which had grown with her growth, and another maiden stepping out of her pine-tree (pityos) appeared beside her neighbour the exiled Nymphe, and said: 'Laurel (Daphnaie) Hamadryas, so shy of the marriage bed, let us both take one road, lest you see Phoibos, lest I espy Pan! Woodmen, pass by these trees! Do not fell the afflicted bush of unhappy Daphne! Ship-wright, spare me! Cut no timbers from my pine-tree, to make some lugger that may feel the billows of Aphrodite, Lady of the Sea! Yes, woodcutter, grant me this last grace: strike me with your axe instead of my clusters, and drive our unmarried Athena's chaste bronze through my breast, that I may die before I wed, and go to Haides a virgin, still a stranger to Eros, like Pitys and like Daphne!'
With these words, she contrived a makeshift kirtle with leaves, and modestly covered the circle of her breasts with this green girdle, pressing thigh upon thigh. The other seeing her so down-cast, answered thus: 'I feel the fear inborn in a maiden, because I was born of a laurel, and I am pursued like Daphne. But where shall I flee? Shall I hide under a rock? No, thunderbolts have burnt to ashes the mountains hurled at Olympos; and I tremble at your lustful Pan, who will persecute me like Pitys, like Syrinx--I shall be chased myself until I become another Ekho, to scour the hills and second another's speech. I will haunt these clusters no longer; I will leave my tree and live in the mountains which are still half to be seen . . .
Let me be another tree, and pass from tree to tree keeping the name of a virtuous maid; may I never, instead of laurel, be called that unhallowed plant which gave its name to Myrrha (myrrh-tree). Yes, I beseech thee, let me be one of the Heliades beside the stream of mourning Eridanos: often will I drop amber from my eyelids; I will spread my leaves to entwine with the dirge-loving clusters of my neighbouring poplar, bewailing my maidenhood with abundant tears--for Phaethon will not be my lament. Forgive me, my laurel; I shrink from being another tree after the tree of my former wood.'"
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 3. 61 ff :
"Already the bird of morning was cutting the air with loud cries [on the island of Samothrake]; already the helmeted bands of desert-haunting Korybantes were beating on their shields in the Knossian dance . . . Aye, and the trees whispered, the rocks boomed, the forests held jubilee with their intelligent movings and shakings, and the Dryades did sing. Packs of bears joined the dance, skipping and wheeling face to face; lions with a roar from emulous throats mimicked the triumphant cry of the priests of the Kabeiroi, sane in their madnes."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 6. 257 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D.) :
"The sea rose [during the great deluge] until Nereides became Oreiades on the hills over the woodland."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 12. 372 ff :
"Another [drunken Satyros] turning his unsteady took towards a tree espied a Nymphe half-hidden, unveiled, close at hand; and he would have crawled up he highest tree in the forest, feet slipping, hanging on by his toenails, had not Dionysos held him back."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 14. 1 ff :
"Then [while the armies of Dionysos were mustering around her palace in Phrygia] swiftshoe Rheia haltered the hairy necks of her lions beside their highland manger . . . She traversed the firmament to south, to morth, to west, to the turning-place of dawn, gathering the divine battalions for Lyaios: one all-comprehending summons was sounded for Trees and for Rivers, one call for Neiades and Hadryades, the troops of the forest. All the divine generations heard the summons of Kybele, and they came together from all sides."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 14. 203 ff :
"These combatants [those divinities summoned by Rheia to join Dionysos in his war against the Indians] were joined by Bakkhai, some coming from the Meionian rocks, some from the moutain above the precipitous peaks of Sipylos. Nymphai hastened to join the soldiers of the thyrsus, the wild Oreiades with hearts of men trailing their long robes. Many a year had they seen roll round the turning-point as they lived out their long lives. Some were the Epimelides who lived on the heights near the shepherds; some were from the woodland glades, and the ridges of the wild forest Meliai nymphs of the mountain ash-coeval with their tree. All these pressed onwards together to the fray, some with brassbacked drums, the instruments of Kybelid Rheia, others with overhanging ivy-tendrils wreathed in their hair, or girt with rings of snakes. They carried the sharpened thyrsus which the mad Lydian women then took with them fearless to the Indian War."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 15. 370 ff :
"At the lot of [the shepherd] Hymnos perishing [slain by a Nymphe he dared to love], even the trees [Dryades] uttered a voice [calling for vengeance]: 'How did the oxheard offend you [Nikaia] so much? May Kythereia never be merciful to you, Artemis never!'"
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 16. 356 ff :
"[Nikaia cries out after being seduced in drunken sleep by Dionysos:] '. . . Hamadryas Nymphai, whom shall I blame for Hypnos, Eros, trickery and wine, are the robbers of my maiden state! . . . Why did not Pitys (the Pine) whisper in my ear, too low for Bakkhos to hear? Why did not Daphne (the Laurel) speak out – "Maiden, beware, drink not the deceiving water!"?'"
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 17. 310 ff :
"The dead body of Orontes [the Indian chief] was carried away swollen by the restless waters, until the stream vomited out the floating corpse upon the bank breathless and cold. There the Nymphai gave it burial and sang their dirges, the Nymphai Hamadryades, beside the stem of a golden laurel on the bank of the river stream, and inscribed upon the trunk above – 'Here lies Indian Orontes, leader of the host, who insulted Bakkhos and slew himself with his own hand.'"
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 21. 279 ff :
"He [Dionysos' messenger] found the Seilenoi in high glee: Dionysos had come up out the waters [after being driven into the sea by Lykourgos] and joined the Nymphai Oreiades. The Satyroi skipt, the Bakkhantes danced about, [the Seilenos] Maron with his old legs led the music between two Bakkhantes, with his arms laid round their necks, and bubbles of fragrant wine at his lips. The Mimallon unveiled trilled a song, how the footstep of Dionysos had come that way again."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 22. 1 ff :
"Then sounded the womanish song of the Bassarides [in Dionysos' war with the Indians], making Phrygian festival for Lyaios of the Night, and the hairy company of Satyroi rang out with mystic voice. All the earth laughed, the rocks bellowed, the Naiades [Water-Nymphs] sang alleluia, the Nymphai circled in mazes over the silent streams of the river, and sang a melody of Sikelian tune like the hymns which the minstrel Seirenes pour from their honeytongued throats. All the woodlands rang thereat: the trees found skill to make music like the hoboy, the Hadryades [Tree-Nymphs] cried aloud, the Nymphai sang, peeping up halfseen over her leafy cluster. The fountain, though but water, turned white and poured a stream of snowy milk; in the hollow of the torrent the Naiades bathed in milky streams and drank the white milk."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 22. 82 ff :
"[In the Indian War of Dionysos:] And now the swarthy Indians would have leapt from their hidden ambush and attacked the army of Bakkhos at their meal; but a Hamadryas Nymphe peering over a high branch sprang up, leafy to the hips [she appeared first as a woman growing out of her tree]. Holding thyrsus in hand, she looked like a Bakkhante, with bushy ivy thick in her hair like one of them; first she indicated the enemies' plot by eloquent sings, then whispered in the ear of Lyaios of the grapes: 'Vinegod Dionysos, lord gardener of the fruits! Your plant gives grace and beauty to the Hadryades! I am no Bassaris, I am no comrade of Lyaios, I carry only a false thyrsus in my hand. I am not from Phrygia, your country, I do not dwell in the Lydian land by that river rolling in riches. I am a Hamadryas of the beautiful leaves, in the place where the enemy warriors lie in ambush. I will forget my country and save your host from death: for I offer loyal faith to your Satyroi, Indian though I am. I take sides with Dionysos instead of Deriades; I owe my gratitude to you, and I will pay it, because your Father, mighty Zeus of the raincloud, always brings the watery travail to the rivers, always feeds the trees with his showers of rain. Give me your leaes, and here I will plant them; give me your clusters of grapes which drive our cares away! But my friend, do not hasten to cross the river, or the Indians, who are near, may overwhelm you in the water. Direct your eye to the forest, and see in the leafy thickets a secret ambuscade of men unseen hidden there. But what will those weaklings in their thickets do to you? Your enemies live so long as you still hold back your thyrsus. Silence between us now, that the enemy near may not hear, that Hydaspes may not tell it to the hidden Indians.'
When she had said this, the Hamadryas Nymphe went away again quick as a wing, quick as a thought; and changing her shape to look like a bird she sped through the secret wood, down upon her oak her yearsmate."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 24. 94 ff :
"All the denizens of Olympos who cared for their beloved oaks, rescued Hadryas Nymphai [when the Indian River Hydaspes tried to drown them with the rest of the army of Dionysos]; and most especially laurel-Apollon appeared and saved the Daphnaiai (Laurel-Nymphs); and Leto his mother stood by her son and helped them, for she still honoured the tree which helped her childbirth [the Delian palm]."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 24. 123 ff :
"They [the Panes, Satyroi and Bakkhantes] leapt about dancing on the Indian crags, along the rocky paths; then they built shelters undisturbed in the dark forest, and spent the night among the trees. Some went deerhunting with dogs after the long-antlered stags: the Hydriades (Water-Nymphs) of plantloving Dionysos mingled with the Hamadryades of the trees. Groups of Bassarides in this Erythraian wilderness suckled cubs of a mountain lioness, and the juicy milk flowed of itself out of their breasts."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 24. 148 ff :
"When Bakkhos came near, the pipes were sounded, the raw drumskin was beaten, on either side was the noise of beaten brass and the wail of the syrinx. The whole forest trembled, the oaktrees [Hamadryades] uttered voices and the hills danced, the Naiades sang alleluia."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 32. 143 ff :
"[Dionysos was driven into a murderous frenzy by Hera:] He chased the Hadryades, he volleyed the cliffs and drove the Naias Nymphai out of the river homeless."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 37. 10 ff :
"The woodman's axe cut down the trees in long rows. Many an elm was felled by the long edge of the axe, many an oak with leaves waving high struck down with a crash, many a pine lay all along, many a fir stooped its dry needles; as the trees were felled far and wide, little by little the rocks were bared. So many a Hamadryade Nymphe sought another home, and swiftly joined the unfamiliar maids of the brooks."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 43. 62 ff :
"Melantheus . . . an Indian chief and the son of Oinone the Ivy-nymphe (Kisseias): his mother had wrapt her boy in leafy tips of the sweet-smelling vine for swaddlings, and bathed her son in the winepress teeming with strong drink. Such was the host armed with missiles of ivy which followed Bakkhos."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 44. 12 ff :
"At times a Hamadryas shot out of her clustering foliage and half showed herself high in a tree, and praised the name of Dionysos cluster-laden; and the unshod Nymphe of the Spring sang in tune with her."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 44. 88 ff :
"Beside the trunk of a tall pinetree where Kithairon spreads his lofty head; he [Teiresias the seer] told her [Agaue following a disturbing dream] to offer a female sheep to the Nymphai Hamadryades in the thicket . . . Agaue the tender mother obeyed the wise old man, and went to the lofty hill together with Kadmos while Pentheus followed. At the horns of the altar Kadmos Agenorides made one common sacrifice to Zeus and the Hadryades, female and male together, sheep and horned bull, where stood the grove of Zeus full of mountain trees; he lit the fire on the altar to do pleasure to the gods, and did sacrifice to both. When the flame was kindled, the rich savour was spread abroad with the smoke in fragrant rings."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 44. 142 ff :
"[King Pentheus of Thebes threatens Dionysos:] 'Drag hither the mad Bassarides, drag the Bakkhantes hither, the handmaids who attend on Bromios – hurl them into the watery beds of [the River] Ismenos here in Thebes, mingle the [Bassaris] Naiades with the Aonian [Boeotian] river-Nymphai their mates, let old Kithairon receive [Bassaris] Hadryades to join his own Hadryades instead of Lyaios.'"
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 45. 174 ff :
"[A] band of woodmen cutting timbers for a ship troubled the Nymphai of the trees."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 47. 456 ff :
"[At the wedding of Dionysos and Ariadne:] The Hamadryas sang of the wedding, the Naias Nymphe by the fountains unveiled unshod praised the union of Ariadne with the vine-god."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48. 188 ff :
"That was a wedding [the marriage of Dionysos and Pallene] of many songs: the bridechamber was never silent, Seilenoi chanted, Bakkhantes danced, drunken Satyroi wove a hymn of love and sang the alliance which came of this victorious match . . . many a Hamadryas of Athos kindled a Thrakian torch for the bridal in fiery Lemnos close by."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48. 514 ff :
"Beside a fragrant myrtle he [Dionysos] stayed his feet for a soothing rest at midday. He leaned against a tree and listened to the west breeze whispering, overcome by fatigue and love; and as he sat there, a Hamadryas Nymphe [of the myrtle-tree] at home in the clusters of her native tree, a maiden unveiled, peeped out and said, true both to Kypris and to loving Lyaios: 'Bakkhos can never lead Aura to his bed, unless he bends her first in heavy galling fetters, and winds the bonds of Kypris round hands and feet; or else puts her under the yoke of marriage in sleep, and steals the girl's maidenhood without brideprice.'
Having spoken she hid again in her tree her agemate, and entered again her woody home."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48. 640 ff :
"The Hamadryas half-visible shook her agemate fir."
Other references to Draydes, Adryades & Hamadryades not currently quoted here: Stephanus Byzantium s.v. Dryope; Sophocles OT 1108
Other references to Meliades, Epimeliades, Maliades: Eustathius on Homer's Odyssey 1963; Sophocles Philoctetes 715 (Meliades)
Other references to Oreiades, Orodemniades: Theocritus 7.137 & 8.44; Virgil Georgics 4.535
Other references to Alseides, Auloniades, Napaia: Orphic Hymns 50.7 (Auloniades); Theocritus 8.44 & 13.44 (Auloniades); Virgil Georgics 4.535 (Auloniades, Napaia)


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In college, Joe Mallahan minored in art. Mike McGinn's iPod features a mix of music – from jazz to folk to roots reggae. Seattle Channel's C.R. Douglas sat down this week with the mayoral candidates to talk arts and culture. Learn more about their personal tastes and hear what the candidates have to say about arts education, affordable cultural space, the future of Seattle Center, dedicated funding for the arts, the City of Music initiative and more.
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Read the candidates' responses to an arts and culture questionnaire issued by the Washington State Arts Alliance. To date, several candidates for Seattle City Council, city attorney and mayor have submitted their responses.
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Time October 22, 2009 at 12:42 pm
It's encouraging to hear mayoral candidates recognize the importance of the arts. Go Seattle! Communities with the greatest art funding are consistently rated the best places to live.
If you support the arts, you may want to know that I've just launched a new site devoted to art, http://www.grassfedart.com, and I invite artists and artisans to join.
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