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Newly-listed coal services contractor Mastermyne is on target to double revenue of $96 million within three years of its successful initial public offering and amid booming investment in Queensland coal projects.
The specialised underground mining contractor, co-founded in 1996 by former colleagues Andrew Watts and Darren Hamblin, has signed agreements worth $133 million in financial year 2011, up more than 36 per cent on the previous year.
"We've got good visibility into 2012, with $100 million in 2012 locked in through current contracts," Mr Caruso said.
"We still believe that there is quite a lot of growth in the [coalmining] sector."
The mining services contractor operates under three business divisions focused on engineering, mine site services and underground contracting, which accounts for 90 per cent of revenue.
The company is solely coal focused and is looking to expand the range of services it provides to the industry's largest companies, including Rio Tinto and Anglocoal, as demand from coking and thermal coal booms.
Wilson HTM fund manager Sandy Grant said the company was making the most of the lack of specialised underground workers, with a wave of coal investment bringing east coast mines into development.
Wilson HTM launched the company's IPO in May and has a 16 per cent holding in the company.
Mr Grant believes the company's ability to provide a solution for underground development and engineering services helps larger miners consolidate their suppliers.
"The underground work is quite specialised and it's hard for the bigger companies to have a permanent workforce of people who specialise in developing and commissioning underground mines," Mr Grant said.
The company's most lucrative projects are Rio Tinto's Kestrel coking and thermal coalmine in Queensland's Bowen Basin and Anglocoal's Moranbah North mine.
Other large projects include BHP Billiton's West Cliff and Dendrobium operations in the Illawarra, and Xstrata projects in Queensland.
Mr Caruso said the company had a large market share in Queensland's Bowen Basin and NSW's Illawarra region, which host a high proportion of underground mines.
Strategic acquisitions have also allowed the company to expand into the Hunter Valley, where it now has 100 employees.
Mr Grant said he was pleased with the acquisition, with management showing skill developing the workforce in a way that they could maintain quality for clients.
He believes relationships are the key and that, in the tight-knit coal community, friendships are a valuable way to secure long-term contracts that can help mining service providers ride downturns in the volatile mining industry.
Mr Caruso, who was appointed as managing director in 2008, first became friendly with Mr Watts and Mr Hamblin in a previous role and was appointed for his management ability and contacts.
"We find that, as senior managers move around who have worked with us, they like the way we operate and bring us on to new sites," he said.
The company also has a business development team of three staff dedicated to new business ideas, but there are no plans to expand the team.
The company is focused on opportunities to expand the range of services it provides to the coal industry, particularly construction and shutdown work at surface mining operations.
Underground services will be enhanced in coming weeks with the addition of a specialised drilling team in the next month and growth in the company's ventilation business.
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Researcher at itslearning conference: 'We live in a post-industrialized society with different standards. Standardized education is no longer a norm, either.'
What happens when you invite a mad professor to your conference? First of all, if he likes using social media, which education researcher Gokhan Yucel does, the conference's Twitter hashtag lights up with responses. Which is good, even though Oxford-educated Yucel, one of Turkey´s leading education thinkers, writes in Turkish and conference attendees are mostly Norwegian. But, more importantly, his visit results in a theory with the power to change the way education is delivered around the world. This is exactly what happened when Yucel attended itslearning's Norwegian User Conference in April - a visit that produced what he calls 'the Bergen Model'.
Gokhan Yucel: 'The Bergen Model is what we lack in Turkey, and it is something we must adopt.'
Yucel did not attend all sessions for obvious reasons. His Norwegian was limited to the basic takk (thank you) and ha det (goodbye). But in three days, he toured two Bergen schools, met a handful of teachers and students and learned the itslearning philosophy of pedagogy before technology.
When he returned to Istanbul, his head full of impressions and ideas, he penned a column for Turkey´s flagship daily, Hürriyet, introducing the Bergen Model to a Turkish audience. Though in its infancy stage, Yucel 's Bergen Model has wide-reaching implications for the delivery of education in Turkey, a country with more than 20,000,000 K12 students, over 750,000 teachers and 65,000 schools. Yucel discusses the Bergen Model within the context of education, innovation and entrepreneurship (something itslearning, an IT start-up that rose to prominence by meeting the demand for an innovative education technology solution, knows a thing or two about). "The Bergen Model is one of the best scenarios where education, entrepreneurship and innovation merge into one pot and work together," Yucel explains. "The Bergen Model is based on a Learning Management System (LMS) creating the conditions for good communication and assessment in a Web 2.0 setting. itslearning is the nucleus of the Bergen Model, and the Norwegian school system is at its heart."
Yucel wears many hats. While he completes a PhD at Oxford, he teaches entrepreneurship to high school students as a 'hobby'. He lectures at universities about the interplay between innovation, education and entrepreneurship. From 2009-2010 he served as advisor to Turkey's Minister of National Education. During his time at the ministry, he spearheaded the Fatih Project, which saw the government spend $US 10 million on technology purchases for schools, including 15 million tablet computers. It was a well-meaning initiative but it received criticism because schools lacked an LMS to fully utilize the tools, Yucel says.
"That´s the gap we need to overcome in order to make the Turkish education system more efficient," he explains. "The Bergen Model is a clear strategy that results in a well-functioning school system. It entails schools having the necessary tools, such as an LMS where students, parents and teachers can communicate and interact. But it's not just about an LMS. The Bergen Model is a mentality, a philosophy. It´s not just about itslearning, but perhaps itslearning is the most important aspect. We live in a post-industrialized society with different standards. Standardized education is no longer a norm, either. The Bergen Model calls for employing the flipped classroom, for example."
But Yucel is not certain the Bergen Model could be applied in Turkey. He points to the itslearning philosophy, which encourages students to work independently as illustrated by the flipped classroom, where students complete schoolwork at home and homework at school. In this model, students can, to some extent, choose what to read and study, Yucel explains. This contradicts the learning process in Turkey where teacher control over the learning process is emphasized. Yucel who toured Akademiet, a private high school in Bergen, saw other challenges. The Bergen Model is based on the Norwegian system where private schools receive 80 percent of their funding from the government. As private schools receive no government funding in Turkey, implementing the Bergen Model would be challenging as many schools hesitate to purchase costly LMSs. "That's the prism through which I read itslearning. That's what attracts my attention. In Turkey, there is a lot of talk about 21st century skills and blended learning etc. But these concepts are just talked about, they are rarely implemented. The Bergen Model is what we lack in Turkey, and it is something we must adopt."
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reflection of the bald cyprus on a stone in our garden
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So I decided to take apart my headlights to clean the foggy inside...
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Ok, here is a basic idea of how to get the headlight apart, I in no way would consider this to be a proper method of repairing the headlight lens, but to my knowledge there is no other way to open the headlights up. I hack up classic cars for a living so I think nothing of doing the same to my BMW's, but I understand a lot of people would cringe at the thought of going at their car with a dremel tool. I had taken apart the headlights on my e60 to remove the reflector ( same design ) and never had any condensation issues so I felt comfortable doing these.
-Once you get the headlights out there are 4 sliver retaining clips you need to pop off. Also there are 2 small torx screws that have to come out (pic1)
-The clear lens fits inside the black housing, the housing covers the part where the lens is sealed on so you are going to need to remove the part covering the seal to get access to it (pic2)
-I used my dremel with a cut off wheel to cut the lip on the plastic housing being carefull not to cut the clear lens under it (pic3)
- Once I cut around the whole headlight I started to dig up the plastic lip to get access to the seal (pic4)
-Now the hard part... with a sharp screwdriver and a box cutter handy I started to pry in between the lens and the housing breaking apart the seal all around the light. This is not easy and very time consuming. It would not take much pressure to crack the lens so you have to be paitent. the seal seems to have the consistancy of tire rubber and heat does not phase it so your pretty much stuck prying at it and cutting it with a razor a half an inch at a time. (pic 5&6)
-Once I went all the way around it I was able to pull it apart with my hands (pic7&8)
-For those of you wondering, I left the amber reflector alone on purpose because my car needs a little color, but the silver bezel on the headlight ring is actually painted on to the reflector so you can't just pop it out, you would have to paint just the orange part black (pic9).
- I washed the clear lens out with dish soap and water which did not get that film off, so I used some 3M liquid rubbing compound and a microfiber cloth to polish it off and it worked great.
-I used a gasket sealer called the right stuff made by permatex, (you can get it at Autozone) to basically glue the lens back on. I put a thick bead all aroung the black housing and pressed the lens back on. I also used blue tape to strap it together tight while it cured. (pic10)
The downside to this is that where the black lip you cut off was, now has beads of black silicone. The only time you can see any of this is if the hood is up and your looking at the backing of the headlight. Everyone can see the foggy headlights so I think it a pretty fair trade off... hope this helps, if anyone has any questions feel free to ask.
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Visual literacy is important whether you are a studio major, a general studies transfer student, or simply looking for more visual understanding of our highly complex visual world. These classes explore the way humans have visually made sense of and influenced their world through the ages. The Art Program offers Understanding Art, a class for absolute beginners in art, and also a series of art history classes.
"I don't know anything about art! Why is this artist good?" If these are your responses when faced with Pablo Picasso or Jackson Pollock, this course is your doorway into a new world of understanding visual art. Learn the language of art from an art professional. Discover how artists create works of art, and create a work of art yourself!
Learn strategies and life skills for creativity, in any field. Using techniques and discussions drawn from multiple disciplines such as brain research, business, and the arts, investigate how to be innovative. Experiment with personal and group thinking processes with the goal of taking risks and making mistakes. Discover how environment and culture encourage and discourage creativity. By term end, all students will better understand how to foster creativity in their work and life. This three (elective) credits credit class is always cotaught. Make room for this course as an elective because it does not fulfill the Arts and Humanities Requirement on the AAOT.
This course focuses on the cultures, spiritualities, arts, and architectures of India, China and Japan, from pre-history to the middle ages. Whether you want to travel to the Far East, have ancestry there, or just like to learn about other cultures, Art 201 will expand your horizons and make you see things differently. Four credits. Prerequisite: Writing 115 with a C or better or instructor consent.
New Media is hip, cool and contemporary. It embraces technology and innovative forms of expression that challenge the norms of art. This online (of course!) class embrace this thrilling approach to art, introducing aesthetic, historical, contemporary, and critical issues of new media art and design. The development of photography and film provides a jumping off point to some of the most provocative media of the 21st century: video and computer art. Another form of new media art is Performance Art, where artist's take their message to the extreme in thought-provoking expressions of self. Social Practice Art is another approach: the voice of social conscience. Watch how artists use art to make a difference in the world by helping others or by bringing awareness of critical issues to the general public. New media art also includes Installation Art, giant earthworks, and a variety of other new media applications that challenge a new understanding of art. See examples of New Media Art here.
From the Paleolithic cave paintings of Lascaux to the Twenty-first Century, the visual arts have constantly reflected and refracted the desires and fears of societies and of mankind. Learn all about it in Art History. Art History will expand your understanding of both history and art. It is for anyone with an interest in how images are created by and how they influence individuals and society. This sequence can be taken in any order.
This class covers the beginnings of art, from the Cave to the first Church. The Greeks, the Egyptians, the Mesopotamians: they are all there, plus much, much more. (Pairs well with ART291 Beginning Sculpture)
Kings and castles, Gothic cathedrals, and the beginnings of oil painting can all be yours in ART 205. This quarter we will look at Medieval and Early Renaissance art, from the Sutton Hoo treasure to the High Baroque of the Sun King and Versailles.
If you are interested in the Impressionists, Modern masters and contemporary art, Art 206 is the course for you. Studies the Neo-Classical through the Present. From Rembrandt to Monet, Van Gogh to Willem de Kooning, the wealth is endless.


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ASX chief executive
This was vital for commercial planning and to back up investment decisions, he said.
"We would quite like to get a clear answer to that question for the next five years. We make investment decisions on a five-year horizon. You need certainty," Mr Funke Kupper told The Australian Financial Review.
The ASX is finalising its submission which is still to go before the exchange board. The inquiry into Australia's financial system is calling for initial submissions on issues set out in its terms of reference by March 31.
Offering a preview into the ASX submission, Mr Funke Kupper said Australian should not go down the same path as many European countries and dismantle its market infrastructure.
"We should not fool ourselves as a country, we are competing with the big financial centres and the regulatory settings have a lot to do with whether Australia will win that competitive battle," he said on the sidelines of Citi's Australian Investment Conference in London.
"Are we going to allow the management of that risk to be outsourced to another jurisdiction, or do we believe our equity and derivative markets are important enough to be managed domestically?"
The ASX has a monopoly on the clearing and settlement of equity trades in Australia until 2015 but would like this to be extended for five to 10 years.
It is facing the prospect of growing competition. The London Stock Exchange has raised the idea of expanding in Australia, although it is unclear whether it would want to build a physical presence in Australia or outsource to London. The LSE controls LCH.Clearnet which has a licence to clear over-the-counter derivatives in Australia
The ASX's initial submission to the Murray inquiry urged the government not to copy market structures and business models operating in the United States or Europe. Mr Funke Kupper's latest comments offer further clarity on that previous submission to the terms of reference as management tightens its views on what it hopes the inquiry to achieve.
He said the ASX would also like to be freed up to take its infrastructure offshore.
The ASX will highlight its commitment to investing in local infrastructure, pointing to $550 million in capital it raised last year to meet global regulatory requirements for its clearing house.
The Australian interest rate derivatives market is the world's fourth-largest and the largest in Asia; the equity market, with a capitalisation of $1.5 trillion, is the eighth-largest in the world by free float.
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People took refuge in a church as firefighters battled an inferno at a warehouse in Surbiton.
Fire engines carrying about 50 firefighters were called to a factory in King Charles Road at 12.30am this morning.
The fire badly damaged the two-storey building, which stores timber for a building merchant.
Residents eventually returned to their homes at about 3.30am after the crews from across south-west London had got the blaze under control.
Station manager Glen Blah, who was at the scene, said: "Due to the timber inside the warehouse this was a rapidly developing fire but our crews worked hard to stop it from spreading and to bring it under control.
"Due to the heavy spread of smoke we evacuated about 50 residents living near to the building to a local church as a precaution." The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Did you see the fire? Call the newsdesk on 020 8744 4288.


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Arthritis & Rheumatism, Volume 62,
November 2010 Abstract Supplement
Abstracts of the American College of
Rheumatology/Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals
Annual Scientific Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia November 6-11, 2010.
New Disease Activity Indices in the Management of Behcet's Disease: A Comparative Study of Patients from Turkey and the USA.
Mumcu, Gonca, Yazici, Yusuf, Inanc, Nevsun, Ergun, Tulin, Filopoulos, Maria, Direskeneli, Haner
The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare oral ulcer activity by Composite index (CI) and general disease activity by Behcet Syndrome Activity Score (BSAS) in patients from Turkey (TR) and the USA with Behcet's disease (BD).
In this cross-sectional study, age- matched 30 Caucasian active female patients from TR (mean age: 41.10 ±11.04 years) and 30 Caucasian active female patients from USA (mean age: 41.40± 11.56 years) with BD were included. Patients from TR were examined in Marmara University Hospital, Department of Rheumatology whereas patients from USA were examined in NYU, Hospital for Joint Disease in the same time span. Composite index (CI) was previously validated (1) for oral ulcer activity. It evaluates both pain scored by visual analogue scale (VAS) and functional status. Behcet Syndrome Activity Score (BSAS) (2) is a general disease activity index and evaluates clinical activities according to organ involvement in BD. CI and BSAS were filled by both patients from Turkey (TR) and USA. Scores could be between 0 and 10 in CI and 0 100 in BSAS, (0=inactive disease). Oral health related quality of life was evaluated by oral health impact profile-14 (OHIP-14) in both groups. Better oral health-related quality of life was indicated with lower scores in OHIP-14 (range 056).
No significant difference was found in OHIP-14 scores between patients from TR (21.4±13.7) and USA (21.9±12.7) (p=0.886). Although the number of oral ulcers was higher in patients from TR than patients from USA (4.3±2.5 and 3.3±2.8, respectively), this was not statistically significant (p=0.161). Yet, CI index score and pain score evaluated by VAS as its subscale score, were higher in patients from TR (7.8±1.6, 52.7±22.1) compared to the US patients (4.2±1.5, 35.9±27.8) (p<0.001 and p=0.013, respectively). CI score was correlated with BSAS score in patients from TR (r=0.36 p=0.04) and USA (r=0.44 p=0.02).
BSAS score was higher in patients from USA (44.5±18.5) compared to patients from TR (23.4±15.4)(p<0.0001). In accordance with these results, majority of patients from USA (76.7 %) were treated with immunosuppressive medications compared to patients from TR (6.7 %) (p<0.0001).
CI and BSAS, two patient derived disease activity measures, showed moderate correlation with the manifestations of BD and moderate correlation with one another in these two different patient populations They may be suitable tools for use both in routine clinical care and clinical studies in BD patients.
1MumcuSurInancKaracayliCimilliSismanErgunDireskeneli, GHNUHNTH. A composite index for determining the impact of oral ulcer activity in Behcet's disease and recurrent aphthous stomatitis. J Oral Pathol Med. 2009;38:78591.
2ForbessSwearingenYazici, CCY. Behcet's Sydrome Activity Score (BSAS): A New Disease Activity Assessment Tool, Composed Of Patient-derived Measures Only, Is Strongly Correlated With The Behcet's Disease Current Activity Form (BDCAF). Arthritis Rheum 2008; 58: (S9); S854.
To cite this abstract, please use the following information:
Mumcu, Gonca, Yazici, Yusuf, Inanc, Nevsun, Ergun, Tulin, Filopoulos, Maria, Direskeneli, Haner; New Disease Activity Indices in the Management of Behcet's Disease: A Comparative Study of Patients from Turkey and the USA. [abstract]. Arthritis Rheum 2010;62 Suppl 10 :1303
DOI: 10.1002/art.29069


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Coal is one of the biggest source of energy for the Philippines as well as worldwide. And in the last decade it has been the fastest growing global energy source.
Coal energy has been actively pushed by transnational corporations, international financial institutions, international energy investors, and governments of both developed and developing countries including the Philippines – with the justification that coal is a cheap source of energy and is an important part of the strategy for ensuring "Energy for All". In the past decade, especially in light of increasing awareness of and resistance to the dirty and harmful nature of coal energy – international financial institutions, energy investors and corporations and many governments especially those of coal producing countries are trying to sell the idea of "Clean Coal".
In the last 5 years, the Philippine government:
Approved the building of 17 new coal plants in addition to 15 existing coal plants, and 20 more are proposed.
Approved 21 new coal mining permits bringing the total number of existing coal mining permits to 60 coal mining existing permits
To all these we say:
The excessive burning of coal is a major contributor to the historical accumulation of greenhouse gases in the earth's atmosphere and it is the biggest source of current global green house gas emissions. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), 45% or 14.2 gigatonnes of the total 31.6 gigatonnes of global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel combustion in 2011 came from burning of coal. The excessive concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from historical as well as current emissions is causing global warming and climate change.
Coal mining and combustion processes have serious toxic effects on the health of people and the environment. These in turn severely weaken resilience and undermine the capacity of people and communities to deal with the impacts of climate change.
Coal mining destroys forests, mountains and watersheds -- which has many serious consequences including the exacerbation of climate disasters.
"Clean coal" technology – or the use of circulating fluidized bed combustion system, emit four (4) times more coal ashes compared to ordinary coal plants. According to Environmental Protection Agency (EIA) of the US government, the risk of getting cancer is 900 times higher from coal ash exposure compared cigarette smoking.
The Philippine Energy Plan will power a "development" strategy that keeps our economy oriented towards global market demands instead of our peoples' needs and keeps our doors open to plunderers of our natural resources. Meantime, majority of our people can barely afford the current electricity rates or are not even connected.
The new coal power plants to be built in SOCSARGEN region in Mindanao -- the 200 megawatt plant of Conal Holdings and the proposed 400 megawatts plant of the Alcantara Group -- are mainly intended to fulfil the 900 megawatts required by the Xtrata/Glencore mining project in Tampakan, South Cotabato to be fully operational.
The Philippine government's "coal push" will lock-in the country to dirty and harmful energy and extend Philippine dependence on coal for at least the next 2 decades.
We, therefore call on the government to immediately implement a moratorium on all new coal plants and coal mining, pending a national review of energy options with civil society, scientific community and affected communities.


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It's 1903. Harry Houdini, the great escape artist, seeks the help of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, to discredit Maximillian Cairo, an infamous occultist and the most debauched man in London. But the two men get more than they bargained for when they interrupt a magic ritual. That night, they set something loose - something no one can face and stay sane. Something that runs amok, spreading death and madness throughout an unsuspecting Edwardian… (more)
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The Ordeal by Fire
"The curriculum in the public school system seems to me to be anti-family," she says. "It invades the privacy of the family in the primary years particularly, and in later years it encourages children to challenge the authority of their parents."
By all accounts Mr. Harris's early life was a nightmare of physical and psychological terror at the hands of his parents. He was born three months premature to an alcoholic mother who delivered him after being repeatedly kicked by his father. For years he suffered severe beatings at the hands of his father, who also threatened to shoot him and sometimes choked him until he convulsed, witnesses said.
THE "Mr. Harris" named above is Robert Alton Harris, who is just now enjoying a stay of his execution in San Quentin. He was convicted of a notably callous double murder, but his defenders are now reminding the courts of his dismal childhood, citing, and we believe them, incapacities such as "organic brain disorder, fetal alcohol syndrome, and post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of being severely abused as a child."
It is an interesting case, but not in the least unusual. Harris's real name is Legion. While our courts will surely have some trouble finding its justice, we suspect the ordinary citizen will not need the wisdom of Solomon to send both the father and the son to the gas chamber, and perhaps, after some further investigation, the mother as well. The courts can't know, because they are not people, but people do know, that all our picky arguments about deterrence and rehabilitation are just not to the point. If there is to be civilization, there is, there must be, what e e cummings called, in absolutely perfect and irreplaceable language, "some shit up with which we will not put."
The first epigraph quotes a certain Lavinia Greenwood, who seems to live a normal, decent, conscientious life in the Province of British Columbia. She spoke to the Social Concerns Unit of the local Anglican diocese. She said much more, of course, but life is short; we stop there for now.
And here is Michael Laurence, who is one of Harris's attorneys: "Robert Harris wasn't born evil; he wasn't born a monster. If anyone had intervened when he was a child, I don't think he would be on death row today."
And here, not even the wisdom of Solomon would be enough; we need also the omniscience of the Sybil. There are uncertainties in Laurence's sad observation. What, exactly and completely, is the effect of that "organic brain disorder"? What, exactly and completely, is monstrosity in human beings? Is it, perhaps, something like the effect of that fetal alcohol syndrome? Would that mean that, born one or not, that he now is a monster who should be kept alive in his monstrousness? And would the intervention of just anyone have kept Harris off death row, or would it need someone special? Who would that be, and in what way special?
And what would Lavinia Greenwood have to say to Robert Harris, or to that imagined intervener who did not intervene? Had Harris been encouraged to "challenge the authority of his parents," would two boys have been spared a terrifying and fatal encounter with someone who, exactly like the compliant and dutiful child that so delights certain parents, went forth into the world with all the very values, attitudes and beliefs by which his parents lived? Or would she be willing to concede, in certain cases at least, in cases unlike hers, that the best thing a school could do for its pupils would be to inculcate rebellion?
Here is the question at the heart of this consideration: What can we say of this "authority of the family," to which both Lavinia Greenwood and Harris's miserable father are presumed to be entitled? Where does that authority find its legitimacy and its license? Is there any rational connection between the production of offspring, of which just about anyone is capable, and the rule of another's life, of which it may well be that no one is capable? Does the authority of the family obey, in turn, some higher authority, lest it fall into foolishness or vice? And what is that, and whence does it derive its legitimacy?
Of course, we all know what people mean when they invoke the authority of the family. They mean that they want their children to believe what their parents believe, and they mean also that they have a right to want that, and even a right to achieve that.
But there's more to it than that, and to point out that Harris did believe what his parents believed would not bring authoritarians to think again about what they want. They also believe that what they believe is true, and that it ought not to be questioned, or, as they call it, "challenged." Whenever you hear laments about the undermining of family authority, you can be pretty sure that some religious sectarianism is at stake.
All religions, of course, endow parents--right thinking parents, that is--not only with the authority, but with the obligation to keep their offspring in the fold into which they were born. It is the domestic version of missionary zeal. In a larger context, however, that same zeal accords not only the authority but also the obligation industriously to set about the pious work of undermining the authority of other parents, in Tahiti or Timbuktu, perhaps, or any parents anywhere who hold wrong beliefs. If, through some quirk of destiny, Lavinia Greenwood had been able to bring little Bobby Harris to despise and utterly to reject the example set for him by his parents, her co-religionists would surely not accuse her of intruding where she has no business. She complains that the school people ask "a lot of questions about what home and family are like--who washes up, how parents behave, and so on." And so they do; they are infernal busybodies, forever prying and preaching. But what would she have done had she, piously and properly, undertaken the task of bringing little Bobby out of what she must call darkness and danger? How else could she have discovered his plight? How could she preach until she had pried?
We do not intend, of course, anything even close to an exoneration of the manipulative and dogmatic agenda of the school people. We do intend, alas, to suggest that it is different only in particulars and not in principle from the manipulative and dogmatic agendas of the religionists, the new-agers, the conservatives, the liberals, the atheists, or of any other sect of true believers, probably even the vegetarians. They are all the same, except for the particular content of their beliefs. Some break the big end, some the little. But all of them have one colossal belief in common; they all believe that they believe is true, and that other believers are mistaken.
And this--what a sad thing to say--is what the Harris family and the Greenwood family have in common. While the Greenwoods can surely express and elaborate their beliefs, people like the Harrises can only live by theirs. But they do, they do. Nor, in either case, are they easily to be dissuaded. Such is faith.
The Hubble Space Telescope is now in orbit. Some day, it may work. Of it, Timothy Ferris, writing for the New York Times, says this:
"It is a machine for subjecting our conceptions of the wider universe to an ordeal by fire, for hostaging theories to the verdict of fresh and better observations. The willingness to expose cherished ideas to such tests, indeed the insistence that we do so at every opportunity, is what distinguishes science from theology or philosophy."
Well, there is a grain of truth in all that. Scientists besotted with ideology are not utterly unknown. For theologians, who can draw valid conclusions from premises that can be neither falsified nor verified, there can be no Hubble Telescope, no imaginable refinement of observation. And philosophy, except in the sense in which every Miss America contestant will claim to have one, seems to have been invented for the very purpose of trying ideas by fire. But it is surely true that some scientists have sometimes gone looking to find themselves wrong.
And theirs is a very different case from that of scientists who merely turn out to have been wrong. In their case, the fire has burned its way into their labs, as it will, given enough time, burn its way into every lab. Although science will probably have to stop some day, for the passing of its last practitioner, it will never be finished.
It is the scientist who sets the fire and then steps into it to whom honor and glory are due. Such a one says, in effect, In something, perhaps in something small, perhaps in something momentous, I may well be wrong. I suppose that I am right, of course, but so too does anyone who is wrong. In fact, you can not possibly be wrong without supposing that you are right. If I am wrong then, I can at least do my best to discover my error, putting aside for now my suppositions as to my rightness.
Who could fail to admire such a plan, and to applaud its execution?
Who? We'll tell you who. Lavinia Greenwood, for example. And all who can suppose that there is something evil about a challenge to the authority of the family, whatever that means. It does not take a scientist to suppose that he may be wrong. It does not take a learned jurist to consider what sort of "right" any one person might have to order and govern not only the ordinary social behavior but even the inner life of belief and conviction in another person, and whether the having of that right implies some corresponding responsibility, and what that responsibility might be. It does not take a philosopher to ask by whose authority it is that he now deems himself an authority legitimately constituted to raise up others by his rule. It takes no more than a single human person to say, I could be wrong.
But to some people all such considerations are impossible. They imagine they know the truth. With them there is no talking, no quietly asking and answering in turn, no giving of an account. They take testimony for evidence, and will not be moved. They can detect no difference between skepticism, which doubts, and cynicism, which denies.
Skepticism is a virtue. As bravery is the temperate middle ground between cowardice and rashness, skepticism is the sanity that lies between gullibility and nihilism. There can be no education where there is no skepticism, and children reared in authoritarian belief clubs must discover skepticism or move out to one of the extremes, believing either anything at all, or nothing at all.
So there's your choice. If you insist that your child grow up in your faith, whether religious or political, you will either succeed or fail. If you succeed, you will have produced yet another gullible clod, who will be very useful not only to true believers but also to an even more numerous company, to hypocrites and charlatans who want either some votes or some donations, or both. If you fail, you will have rebellion in the family and little joy of your life. If you ever do learn to question and doubt, it will be in the bitterness of your last days, when the tardy awakening of your mind will bring not wonder but fear, not comfort but pain, and the only virtue that never keeps company with peace--remorse. And your children will be polite, but they will not rise up to call you blessed.
If you don't like either of those alternatives, then try to come up with another. And when that proves impossible, try to imagine some sort of family life in which there is nothing to challenge, for the simple reason that the parents are themselves always challenging their own beliefs, always wondering, always testing. The children of that sort of family would even be able to challenge the challenges fostered by the schools, for they would have learned that the authority that comes from reason seems to have a natural and legitimate license, unlike the "authorities" of school or of family, both of which have to be claimed and fought over by those who want them. An unseemly and disquieting business, not unlike the self-seeking scramble for the "authority" of public office, which inspires--even in young people, and perhaps especially in young people--not reverence but contempt, and thus cynicism.
Here is some ancient lore from Lao Tzu, who had obviously the secret of true prophecy, which is nothing more arcane than the ability to distinguish between particulars and principles: "The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects. Next comes the ruler they love and praise; next comes the one they fear and obey; next comes the one with whom they take liberties." And, of the first and best, it is also said: "Hesitant, he does not utter words lightly. When his task is accomplished and his work done, the people all say, �It happened to us naturally.'"
The school people make an excellent example of the Fourth Ruler, which is what makes Ferris Beuler's Day Off at once a delightful romp and a real lesson in morality, unlike preachments. Like all Fourth Rulers, the schoolers seem actually to have dedicated themselves to uttering all their words lightly, espousing now this cause, now that, and sponsoring the value of the month and cultural relativism at the same time.
The parents who worry about the authority of the family end up, if they succeed, as Third Rulers, who will, as they should, lose their authority just as soon as the children are able to find jobs and compete with the Japanese. There are some clever politicians among us who have it in common with rock stars and other sorts of celebrities that they become, for a while, the Second Rulers. Oh how we love them, but when they are gone, how little they turn out to have made us better than we were.
If the First Ruler is a shadowy presence, it is because he is sitting quietly in a private place, passing through the fire of questioning and doubt, asking himself whether he should believe what he believes, considering the difference between what can be known and what can only be supposed, and wondering how best to bring his subjects into that condition which he has found, that is, into the fire. He knows that is will hurt them, but he knows too that it will cleanse them. And he never lets them know that he broods on it night and day.
Dust on Teachers' Shelves
But polls also show that most teachers object to the concept of morality education on philosophical or practical grounds; many fear that such programs will stir up controversy in classrooms where diverse student bodies already cause plenty of headaches. Even districts that have printed values curricula and issued teaching materials at great expense find that such items often gather dust on teachers' shelves. (Our italics)
SOMETIMES, let's be fair about it, the schoolteachers show lots of good sense. And, even more to admired than rubies in these days of hemorrhoid commercials and worse, an uncommonly delicate restraint. It takes, well, nothing less than old-fashioned gentility to cover up printed values curricula and teaching materials with nothing more foul than dust. They may not want to teach the distinguishing of the better from the worse, but they can do it.
The passage above is from the Wall Street Journal. It is more moaning and groaning about the whole values teaching business, dedicated mostly to the apparent reluctance of teachers, on whom Bennett is depending in his drug war, to get involved in the hassle. It's hard to blame them. It may even be that the morality mess has driven them in the direction of the right conclusion, to wit, that the moral behavior of one person may be none of another person's business, and, even more important and interesting, that the moral behavior of the citizens is none of a government worker's goddamned business. We do suspect that if those curricula and teaching materials were designed to teach the children what is legal and what is not legal, the teachers would use them. And that would be exactly appropriate work for an agent of the government that makes and enforces the law. So we begin this brief consideration of a tangled and repulsive topic by letting the schoolteachers off the hook.
It's the people who make those values curricula and teaching materials who deserve the hook. They are the great expense at which such stuff is made. They are also astoundingly arrogant folk who imagine that they can answer questions that have been asked and mulled over for the whole history of humanity, and astonishingly ignorant folk who suppose that the questions answered long ago still need to be answered. Arrogant and ignorant people in the service of a government are not only a great expense, but also one of the four things that the earth can not bear--a servant when he rideth.
Cultural trivia question: Name the other three. Dare of the Month: Name the other three in public. Doubledare of the Month: Name the other three in a public school and stir up controversy where diverse student bodies already cause plenty of headaches. It's an interesting thought, and maybe a clue.
That little bit of perspicacious wisdom is not going to be found in the values curricula and teaching materials, of course, but we do wonder--if it were, and if it were typical of those materials, would teachers decide to take them off the shelf? After all, what we have here is a little poem: "For three things the earth doth tremble, and for four which it can not bear..." The schools do make use of poetry. They even encourage children to write it. What does it mean to say, absurdly, it seems, that the earth trembles, and that it can not bear something? Nonsense. And yet, and yet. Are there some things that people can be, and are, and with which children are not unacquainted, that just seem so perverse and unnatural that no less a power than Earth herself might at least be dreamed of as fearing their very existence? Who are those people, and who are others like them. How do people get to be that way? How come they can't see for themselves how they look to the rest of us? Is there hope of cure? If you know one of them, is there anything you can do? And if there is, should you do it?
What a great discussion this would make for children, and for their teacher as well, provided only that the teacher is not a servant who rideth. The ordinary public school, to say nothing of the countless other agencies of social engineering to which all children are subjects, would provide students with examples beyond counting of exactly what is meant by a servant who rideth, a person who is supposed to serve but has gotten aboard a high horse and come to behave like one who was born to command and control.
And what is to be learned? Who knows? Maybe, for some, nothing, or, to be more accurate, nothing just now. For others, maybe a hint, a suggestion as to how not to live, one kind of person, at least, not to become. But the far more important question is this: What harm can come of such a deliberation? Will some be deceived or misled? Will some suppose themselves commanded or preached to by an unknown poet who has been dead for thousands of years and who has no intention at all of doing a number on a bunch of helpless children who need indoctrination? Will some ethnic or religious way of life be held up to ridicule? Will the guidance counselor and the assistant principal, who just happen to be servants on horseback, file a grievance and sue in the courts for an act of discrimination against the officious and overbearing?
None of that will happen. But here is something that will happen. The children, all the children, the rich and the poor, the quick and the slow, the black and the brown and the white, all of them will recognize that servant on horseback, and learn, not at all to their surprise but much to their edification, that he has been around for a long, long time, and that some ideas about right and wrong are permanent and universal, and that they, little children, already knew that. A great lesson.
But lessons like that will never be taught in the schools, because teachers, now back on the hook, have left something else on the shelves. With those "materials" that deserve it, they have rejected the good books, which don't.
Postscript on the Poem
The poem is from a good book, but it is one of those books that schools can not use. The school people imagine that its use would violate the separation of church and state and bring them into controversy. This book, of course, is claimed by at least three very large and powerful clubs of believers, Christians, Jews, and Moslems, of whom none will be displeased by the superstitious belief of the educationists that at least one of those crowds must own the idea that a snooty clerk is an abomination, and that to consider it would be to further the missionary effort of a religion.
That is a quaint notion, a modern version of belief in sympathetic magic. But it was certainly not a Christian or a Moslem who wrote that poem, and it may not even have been a Jew. Scholars allow the possibility of a Philistine, whose "church" is now out of business, and our own guess would be a Babylonian not unacquainted with bureaucrats. He, however, was not the first to notice the strange susceptibility of certain persons to degeneration of character as a result of promotion.
For some it seems impossible, but it is a good idea to give some thought to the difference between doctrine and wisdom. Out of a neurotic and finicky fastidiousness, the people who rig up such hokum as values curricula always end up not only throwing out all that we can find of wisdom in the books of thoughtfulness beyond counting, but also substituting for it tendentious and dogmatic teaching materials made up of doctrine--the new and trendy doctrine, of course, but still doctrine.
So, if you knew the other three things for which earth trembles, you would know that the poem can never show up in school. Here they are: A fool when he is filled with food; an odious woman when she is married; a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
All of that comes from the thirtieth chapter of Proverbs, but even if it had come from John Dewey, who probably knew all that but would never admit it in public, the doctrine of our modern schoolchurch would not want the laity even to have heard of it. Such ideas can only be one more occasion of sin.
Brief Notes
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Reports of oil spill at Byron Bay
Authorities are investigating reports of an oil spill near Byron Bay.
Staff from the Roads and Maritime Service and the Byron Shire Council have been sent to Belongil Beach.
Local man Bruce Clarke says a murky slick is washing up and spreading north.
"A long strip of red, murky oil which is just about to touch the beach," he said.
"It's now reached the white water and it's extending from the lagoon at Belongil, well at least around probably two kilometres north.
"It's a strip about maybe 100 metres of very badly stained water."
The Byron Shire Council sent officers to investigate the reports late yesterday afternoon, but they found no surface scum or oil residue on the sand.
The council says it will continue to monitor the situation.
Topics: environment, water-pollution, byron-bay-2481, lismore-2480
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"Cops wanna knock me, D.A. wanna box me in. But somehow, I beat them charges like Rocky." - Jay-Z
Hoarders Nightmare
I can't remember the last time I had a nightmare from a TV show. Thus proving, Hoarders is the scariest TV show.
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Time for you to start watching someone else, then!ReplyDelete
Isn't it freaky? I've been watching that show as well, but so far it hasn't penetrated my dreams. So far!ReplyDelete
I live in Australia so have not seen this program Hoarders. But I myself am a hoarder. I have OCD, but medication cures completely the part about going back 11 times to ensure that I have locked the door. It does not cure my hoarding problem. I find it very difficult to throw things out but worse I salvage stuff that other people throw out in local government rubbish clean ups. In truth I have salvaged some very useful things, but also many that even I have to admit are junk. I don't know how many probably non working computer main boards and power supplies I have but every time I see a poor lonely computer that has been thrown out I feel the urge to rescue it. Sometimes I manage to resist. I have not yet assembled a working computer from the parts although I have used up several salvaged key boards.ReplyDelete
But I have a recurring nightmare that resembles yours. I am stuck somewhere outdoors in sand and I have spilled the contents of a container of valuable tiny pieces of junk and am trying to get them back in their container but they keep vanishing, mutating and repeatedly escaping from their container. It is such a silly dream but the mental discomfort I am in as I wake from it is very real.
You have a book problem, I can trump that.ReplyDelete
I never throw out books and have been accumulating them for 50 years and in addition I have all my late parents' books. I am going through the process of cataloging them and covering them in plastic. So far the catalog is up to 3890 and I still have 2 rooms full of bookshelves left in my late parents house which I have not yet sold.
I am beginning to think of books as a problem. Thankfully we are near the end of the age of the physical books. None of the e-book readers that exist so far do I consider suitable, two proprietry, two limited in capacity, what happens if it breaks etc.
When the age of the e book truly arrives I suspect the e-book reader of choice will be the ordinary PC, or laptop or notebook PC or net-book or whatever replaces all of these and a library will consist of a terrabyte hard disk or perhaps the same amount in a USB key filled with .pdf files. Once you get used to reading in the restricted window that a computer provides, using electronic documents is relatively painless. I will regret having to buy e-copies of all my existing books though.
I hate to think of what I will do with my books when I get to God's waiting room age.


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Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today signed The Power NY Act of 2011, an omnibus energy package that encourages new investments in electric generating facilities across New York and creates the nation's first statewide "on-bill" recovery program to increase energy efficiency for homeowners and businesses.
This is a start.
Additionally, Power NY includes the creation of a historic "on-bill" recovery program that will encourage homeowners and businesses to invest in energy efficiency under the "Green Jobs/Green New York" program. New York is the first state in the nation to create a statewide program of this scale. "On-bill" allows homeowners to take out low-interest loans from NYSERDA for energy efficiency measures, to be paid back on their utility bills. It will help create thousands of green jobs, result in greater energy efficiencies and lower energy bills for homeowners and businesses across the state.
It does not state specifically here if these loans can be used for wind and solar installations, though NYSERDA is the agency that handles the incentives for these.


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"by Daniel Mack"
books, blogs, articles, columns
"Anima", Dark Mountain #6 October, 2014
"The Third Age" on aging/eldering September, 2014
Thin Places, Dirt Magazine archive since 2011
"Masculinity is like pulled pork", October, 2011
Bricolage in-process, since 1997
Anima: Carved Bark Figures
self-published 2006, 2009 out-of-print
Cultural Icon Books (2008 Stewart, Taboori, Chang))
signed/shipped $20/each Reviews: 8/13/08 6/27/08
Rustic Books (Four between 1991-2004)
All these books have a mix of history, lore, technical
information and projects. And they each feature work
by a couple of dozen differentmakers No one book
is "better", but the first, Making Rustic Furniture (1991) is still The Rustic Bible with over 100,000
copies out there! signed/shipped $20
The Art of Rustic Furniture (1995) out-of-print
The second book, The Rustic Furniture Companion, was re-named The Art of Rustic Furniture (1995) when it went to paperback. available from Amazon or Ebay.
The Rustic Workshop (1999)
Simple Rustic Furniture, was re-named The Rustic Workshop (1999) when it went to paperback. signed/shipped $25
Rustic Garden Furniture and Accessories
(2004) with my friend, Thomas Stender.
Rustic Garden Furniture and Accessories is the fourth and last in this Rustic Series for Lark Books with 30 clear projects and up-to-date tool information.
If you want the three available Lark-Rustic Books together, signed and drawn in, you have a deal for only $80, delivered in the US.
Dan Mack writes about Log Cabins
Log Cabin Living (1999) out-of-print
a long essay-poem on the log cabin-- on everything except how to make them! It's about camping, bugs, ghosts, trees, food collecting and all the other little streams of imagination that feed the Log Cabin mind in each of us.
I have two copies left to sell. $40 post-paid.


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Note: This is a piece by my good friend and colleague, Samus Aquilus. A recent statement by the Sesame Workshop, regarding my fellow countrymen, Bert and Ernie of Sesame Street, runs as follows: Bert and Ernie are best friends. They were created to teach preschoolers that people can be good friends with those who are [Read More…]
Bert and Ernie: Setting the Record Straight
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Talking to a leading English daily, Tapsee Pannu says that she is playing a contemporary and urbanised character in Chashme Baddoor, which is not a typical slapstick comedy of David Dhawan. "It is loaded with smart one-liners that we all use everyday. It has a very subtle sort of humor," TOI quotes her as saying.
Chashme Baddoor is about three students at a university, who don't go home during summer vacation and how a girl comes in their life. Tapsee Pannu is playing the girl, which was originally essayed by Deepti Naval, while Ali Zafar, Siddharth and Divyendu Sharma appear as university students.
However, Tapsee Pannu has plenty to look forward to. She has several big ticket flicks in both Tamil and Telugu, which are set to release in 2012. She is eagerly waiting for the release of Venkatesh's Shadow, Gundello Godari, Gopichand-Eleti untitled flick, Vishal's Madha Gaja Raja and Ajith-Arya's untitled flick.


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Well this month's Treasure Coast Selfie Contest is all about our Veterans and Veterans Day! We're looking for selfies of you and a Veteran.
All you have to do is enter our "Treasure Coast Selfie" contest by emailing your favorite selfie of you with with a Veteran to email@example.com and we will select one lucky winner to have their photo framed by the good folks at Frugal Framer!


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From: "ldjdd" <>
Subject: Pioneer Marriages in Allen County 1849 continued
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 08:19:09 -0400
Taken from Lima Democratic News
July 1849
By S.W.Washburn, John WESTBAY to Hannah J. BOLANDER
By Isaac Hardesty JP, George W. MOORE to Ann BUTLER
By Uriah Steiner JP, John LURHI to Magdalena MOSER
By Joseph Griffiths, Richard RICHARDS to Alba MORRIS
By D.P.Darling JP, Philip RUSLER to Elizabeth ANTHONY
By Stephen Fant, Stephen TUCKER to Lydia SHULTZ
By Timothy King JP, Nicholas WINGATE to Elspy WATT
Aug 1849
By J.B. Roberts JP, Jacob BAKER to Mary GRUBB
By Rev. David Jones, Joseph BROWER to Elizabeth STEVENS
By Thosmas Griffith, James DONNEL to Hannah HARBERT
By Isaac Hardesty JP, Andrew FREDERICK to Elizabeth RICKNER
By (Blank), Jacob GASKILL to Cass A. HOKE
By Daniel Boyer JP, William HARDEN to Eliza SHAW
By Rev. A. Doner, David HARTZOG to Laura MILLER
By S.W.Washburn, Percival TRACY to Leticia HAZE
By same, James MILLER to Ellen MILLER
By (Blank), Nicholas RANER to Caroline HUBER
By William Reece JP, David RAINS to Mary TUCKER
Sept 1849
By S.W.Wasburn, Joshua BUCKMASTER to Elizabeth BEEMER
By same, Lester BLISS to Alldulia KENNEDY
By Issac Hardesty JP, Isaac BOWER to Hannah JACOBS
By Daniel Boyer JP, Luther CLARK to Aurthy A. COURTNEY
By Rev. Joseph Wykes, David FRANKLIN to Malinda MEEKS
By same, William GIBBS to Frances MOWEN
By Andrew Cracy JP, Robert PATTERSON to Margaret GUTHRIE
By Joseph Griffiths Jr JP, Andrew SAKEMILLER to Catharine HILLYARD
By Charles Marshall JP, Thomas WASHBURN to Mary JONES
By Rev. A. Doner, Silas SWISHER to Augusta LONG
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Find Your Adventure
Travel Stories
by Anne de Verteuil
Perfect peace and a clear blue sky. Sitting warmed by the sun, I�m enveloped by the sights and scents of an old-fashioned cottage garden flowering at full tilt. All around me fragrant roses clamber up walls, over pergolas, and into trees; flower-lined paths await exploration.
No, this is not a passage from a 19th-century romance, but the blissfully real garden at Rathmichael Lodge just outside Dublin, where I found myself on a mid-June afternoon, drinking tea with the hospitable owner-gardeners and falling utterly under the spell of a country where time travel of this kind happens all the time.
This was the second day into an eight-day tour of Irish gardens run by The Irish Connection. We�d explore gardens in the southern counties of Wicklow, Dublin, Meath, Louth and Kildare. Then, crossing the now non-existent border, we would carry on up to Belfast and County Down in the North. In addition to well-known large estates, we�d visit select private gardens like this one at Rathmichael Lodge, where the owner or head gardener would personally show us around.
Gardens being my off-duty passion, as well as my day job, I�d done my research and knew I�d be bowled over by the parks and grounds we were to see. But the truth is, nothing could have prepared me for the beauty of the countryside and the overwhelming hospitality, charm and good humor of our hosts, guides and fellow-gardeners in both the north and south. We had wonderful food, sunshine and showers in equal measure � and, yes, the gardens were absolutely magical.
Ireland�s gardens are as much a part of its rich cultural heritage as its literature, music, architecture, and its ancient and mysterious sites. The big estate gardens with their lawns, borders and walled kitchen gardens are frequently associated with elegant 18th- or 19th-century houses that may be visited as well. The natural beauty of the surrounding landscapes usually supply a backdrop of mountains or a view over a lake. Once you add to the wonderful lushness the intense greens that a high rainfall produces, you understand how the Emerald Isle got its name.
But what really makes these Irish gardens something of a holy grail for garden-lovers is the enormous diversity of plants they contain. The climate of the east-coast side is sufficiently mild for a wide range of plants from both the northern and the southern hemispheres to grow and flourish. Rare and tender rhododendrons, plus acacias, eucalyptus, cordylines and palms, all grow like natives amongst the more familiar trees and shrubs.
On day one, we headed out of busy, buzzing Dublin to the gently rolling landscape of the Wicklow hills and into another time frame. Our first stop was Corke Lodge, a private garden with a woodland walk that wound through lofty subtropical plants. Lush tree ferns and grasses concealed tumbled stone columns and antique fragments, a path framed the unexpected view of a ruined gothic folly, and on the lawn near the house �the biggest cork tree in Ireland� � planted in 1880 and too venerable to stand upright any more � reclined majestically.
Garden-as-theater describes nearby Powerscourt, replete with parkland, terraces, statuary and walks. The magnificent formal landscape gardens were laid out in the 18th and 19th centuries. From the south fa�ade of the imposing house, a series of wide stone steps and grass terraces descend to the lake. Here, a fountain sends a perpendicular jet of water high into the air against the distinctive outline of the sugarloaf mountain beyond.
The next day, a glorious sunny Sunday, we drove to Mount Usher, a ravishing garden of meandering paths and glades. Wide foot-bridges cross and re-cross the River Vartry as it flows down from the Devil�s Glen on its journey to the Irish Sea. �Irish time� stole over us all as we wandered, entranced, through a succession of woodland walks and clearings, each one planted with rare and tender plants, and always following the gentle swing of the river.
The sensation of having entered a lost world was further confirmed by our visit to Hunter�s Hotel, just up the road from Mount Usher. One of Ireland�s oldest coaching inns, Hunter�s exudes a casual intimacy. In its pretty, rambling and slightly careless garden of lawn and cottage-garden flowers you feel you could happily sit down to rest and just take root there.
In the afternoon, with the sun still shining, we arrived at Rathmichael Lodge where generously planted beds of old cottage-garden favorites � peonies, alliums, delphiniums, sisyrinchium and pinks � jostled, flowed and spilled out colorfully onto every surface. A magnificent rambling rose, �Adelaide d�Orleans,� clambered into an old apple tree, smothering its branches in a sea of creamy blossom. The simple secret of its vigour was, we were told, �no feeding, no pruning.�
The next day we drove from Dublin out to Ranelagh to visit plantswoman Helen Dillon�s town garden. The Dillon Garden is justly celebrated for its design, described as �a necklace of secret rooms,� and its remarkable collection of plants, which in scope and variety approaches that of a small botanical garden. Beneath a brilliant noonday sun and Mediterranean-blue sky, platoons of superbly healthy, well-behaved plants, amongst them richly colored roses, rare clematis, soaring delphiniums, cannas and crocosmias, were giving a dazzling performance with grace and enthusiastic vigor.
Ferns and an assortment of unusual woodland perennials are grown in special areas of shade, while raised scree beds contain jewel-like alpines � and here lies the clue to the success of this garden. �Right plant, right place� is the principle that underlies its ordering, with every group of plants given the specific conditions it requires to thrive. Helen�s skills as a plantswoman blossom right here in front of one�s eyes.
The Dillon Garden changes frequently too. A clean-cut rectangle of water edged with slate paving has recently replaced the original lawn, and a new area for bold-leaved plants is taking shape elsewhere. Color combinations change annually.
This past summer clashing pinks, reds and oranges in the hot border provided a sizzling counterpoint to the cool blues and purples across the water.
And all is immaculate. Peering with envy into the area set aside for compost, one of our group remarked, �It�s better than my whole garden.� Over a delicious and entertaining lunch with the Dillons, we tried to imbibe as much horticultural wisdom as possible.
At Malahide Castle and the exceptional Talbot Botanic Gardens, trees and shrubs from the southern hemisphere were imaginatively displayed within the shelter of the wonderful four-acre walled garden. We could have spent hours here but time was short, and we were due at Beaulieu House in Drogheda, County Louth by midday.
Built in the 1660s by the Tichbournes, Beaulieu House has stayed in the hands of that same family ever since. Its interiors, even its contents, have remained virtually unchanged for nearly 350 years.
We were given a personal tour of this extraordinary place with its massive hall, a full two-stories high, and its lovely walled garden, believed to have been laid out by the Dutch artist Van der Hagen in the 17th century. Now in her 90s, the present owner, Mrs. Sidney Waddington, remains spry and astute. Most inspirational to all of us visitors: she�s still gardening.
Our guide round Beaulieu House, Patrick Barrow, now directed us back to his own house at nearby Listoke. After being greeted by his wife, Patricia, and with glasses of chilled white wine in hand, we were escorted on a gentle journey around their garden of delights.
A profusion of flowers, roses and climbers leaned over the paths between the borders, seducing us with scent and color. By the time the first drops of rain began to fall, we were comfortably ensconced in the garden loggia and eating (again) an excellent lunch of salmon and home-grown raspberries.
Next day we headed north, taking in St. Patrick�s grave at Downpatrick. After the short ferry ride from Strangford to Portaferry, we made the beautiful scenic drive up the side of Strangford Lough to Mount Stewart, Northern Ireland�s jewel of a garden. Here in the north, the soils are mainly lime-free and the benign climate allows a rich and diverse range of plants to be grown, many of them rare and tender.
The garden at Mount Stewart was created in the 1920s by Edith Lady Londonderry, whose particular genius was to realize the full range of plants that could be grown on this beautiful and favored site. Laid out as a series of discrete spaces, each garden has a particular mood or theme, including the Italian Garden, the Peace Garden, the Lily Wood and the Dodo Garden.
Most extraordinary of all is the Shamrock Garden, designed in the shape of the shamrock and featuring a curious assembly of figures and emblems. From the top of the surrounding yew hedge, weird and wonderful topiary creatures emerge; in the center of the garden a table bearing a harp is carved out of yew. Most surreal of all, the legendary �Red Hand of Ulster� is laid out on the ground, given form as a giant hand planted entirely of scarlet begonias.
Another day, another sublime garden: Rowallane. Rightly regarded as a plantsman�s paradise, it offers collections of rhododendrons, azaleas and other acid-loving plants growing in a naturalistic woodland setting.
Its chief architect, Hugh Armytage Moore, was a passionate plantsman with a gift for planning as well as connections with some of the greatest plant hunters of the early 20th century. For those of us gardening on non-acid soils the sight of Meconopsis, the glorious and difficult blue Himalayan poppy, growing like weeds was inspiring and envy-making in equal measure.
On our way back south, we arrived at Belvedere House, Mullingar, just as the rains came down. But a tour around the 18th-century hunting lodge with its beautifully conserved interiors was memorable and gave us wonderful views over Lough Ennell and the spectacular folly known as the Jealous Wall.
This sham Gothic ruin, three stories high and 180 feet in length, was built by Lord Belvedere in the 1760s as an act of fraternal spite. Its purpose � to block the view of his brother�s newly built mansion, which threatened to eclipse the grandeur of his own. With perfect timing, the sun came out for our visit to the two-acre walled garden where herbaceous borders and rare Himalayan shrubs share space with an ornamental herb and vegetable garden.
At Ballindoolin, the very last garden on our tour, lambs and calves frolicked in the field by the old Georgian house, while black pigs, a turkey and several cats roamed the barnyard. Arriving in time for tea (of course) we sat eating home-made scones and brack (a fruited, spiced bread) with owner Esther Moloney, whose family have lived here since 1895. She described how they have reclaimed the garden from beneath a mass of laurel and ivy and, using old photographs as reference, brought it back to its original 19th-century glory.
Walking through the walled garden it was hard to believe that so much could have been achieved in just nine years. The borders overflowed with shrubs and climbing roses, a glorious herbaceous border extended for over 300 feet and the kitchen garden featured box-edged beds of old-fashioned annuals and vegetables.
Clocking up 150 years, the original espaliered apple trees still hang onto life, their branches mossy with age and leaning at eccentric angles. They aren't giving up the ghost just yet.
Gardens, like people, affect and move us in different ways. Some appeal to the mind, others to the senses. Ballindoolin, we all agreed, speaks straight to the heart, as does the whole of this magical island.
For more information about garden tours in Ireland, as well as itineraries focusing on golf, literature, film, or myth and legend, contact The Irish Connection: Tel: 800-420-2569 or 404-373-1420; Fax: 404-875-1457; E-mail:email@example.com; Website:www.theirishconnection.net.
IRISH GARDENS � Travel Tips
� Ireland�s famous green is fed by the showers. Although weather is warm in summer, it rarely gets hot. Spring and fall tend to be cool with some rain. Dressing in layers will handle most weather conditions.
� Walking around gardens requires flat, sturdy shoes to handle uneven footpaths and terrain. Less able walkers can also view gardens from easier vantage points.
� Recommended reading includes The Gardens of Britain and Ireland by Patrick Taylor, O�Brien Guide to Irish Gardens by Shirley Lanigan, and The Daily Telegraph � The Good Gardens Guide.
� As the saying goes, �There�s something of Ireland in all of us,� and Americans can expect a warm welcome in the Emerald Isle. Since many Irish people have relatives of friends who live in the U.S., visitors often are greeted with questions about where they are from.


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Hamas threatens Israel if hunger striker dies (JERUSALEM POST) By JPOST COM STAFF 05/05/12)
Source: http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=268736
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A Hamas leader warned Friday that Israel would face "unexpected" consequences if any of the approximately 1,550 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails currently on hunger strike were to die.
You must realize that the hunger strike isnt a party, and we could be surprised by the death of some of them, AFP quoted Khalil al-Haya as saying at a solidarity tent for the strikers in Gaza City. If that happens, you can expect both the expected and the unexpected from us, he added.
Two Palestinian prisoners, Bilal Diab and Thaer Halahleh, have been on a hunger strike for 66 days. On April 17 they were joined in the strike by more than 1,500 other prisoners in protest of the Israeli practice of holding Palestinians in administrative detention without trial or having formal charges leveled against them. Palestinians have held rallies in Gaza and the West Bank in support of the prisoners.
On Thursday, Diab lost consciousness as Supreme Court Justices Elyakim Rubinstein, Yoram Danziger and Noam Sohlberg heard a petition against the prisoners administrative detention. Diab was moved to the gastroenterology department of the Assaf Harofeh Medical Center in Tzrifin, where his lawyer told reporters he was in stable condition. The court is expected to make a decision on the petition at a later date.
We are summoned to ready armies to free our prisoners... We have the means to mobilize and for combat, Haya was quoted as saying by Hamas on Friday. Rival Gaza Islamist movement, Islamic Jihad, has threatened to break an informal truce with Israel if one of the hunger strikers dies.
In addition to calling for an end to the practice of administrative detention, prisoners are also calling for an end to solitary confinement, visitation by family members from the Gaza Strip and the reversal of Israel´s decision to ban prisoners from engaging in academic studies and reading newspapers.
Palestinian news agency Ma´an reported Friday that Israel had agreed to meet some of the prisoners´ demands, including a greater spending stipend and the right to make phone calls. According to the report, the leaders of the hunger strike were currently considering the offer.
Ma´an also quoted Palestinian Authority official Nimmer Hammed as saying the PA was in communication with several countries, including the US, about the hunger strike.
The strike has already led human rights groups and UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk to condemn Israel´s treatment of Palestinian prisoners. (© 1995-2011, The Jerusalem Post 05/05/12)
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