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We sell our bloodstone tumblestones both singly and also in 250 gram bags. Buying by the bag offers a way to be more cost effective if you need more than one stone of a certain type. Typically the bags contain 15-20 tumblestones but this can occasionally be slightly less or slightly more depending on the sizes of stones.
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The club that enshrined the ''No Dickheads'' policy into Australian sporting legend is on the verge of signing one of the AFL's authentic loose cannons.
The tug-of-war between the famous Sydney Swans culture and the wayward genius of Lance ''Buddy'' Franklin could provide a captivating sideshow to the undoubted impact the Hawthorn superstar will have alongside Kurt Tippett in 2014 and, apparently, way beyond.
If it all goes well, the Bloods culture will win out, Franklin will settle in and mature on and off the field in the relatively anonymous Sydney environment, far from the suffocating fish bowl the West Australian country boy has lived in since making his debut for the Hawks as an 18-year-old in 2005.
But his decision to choose Bondi over Bonnyrigg - all the speculation was that he'd join GWS - will come with temptations. Lots of them.
Like a great cocktail, the best ingredients are available. Buddy's buddy Kurtley Beale has returned to the Waratahs, stationed next to the Swans' SCG headquarters. Cricket firebrand David Warner will be floating around the precinct a bit more with fewer international commitments. Franklin might even get to compare tatts at some stage with potential Roosters recruit Blake Ferguson, who could also be training next door.
The Sydney Football Stadium cafe has never seen anything like it. And, potentially, Sydney's nightclubs won't have seen anything like it since ''All Night'' Dwight Yorke bling'd into town to put the A-League on the map.
In 2009, Franklin said in interview: ''I know what's easy, the football stuff's the easy stuff. It's the other stuff … that's bloody hard.''
The Franklin of five years ago wouldn't have stood a chance. How will the new Franklin go?
Reaction from fans was somewhere between cool to mixed.
''As a Sydney Swans member I sincerely hope that the club does NOT recruit Buddy Franklin,'' reader Chris commented under our online story on Tuesday. ''Nothing to do with money. He isn't the right kind of person for the Swans. He will be a bucketload of trouble and may well destroy the club's ethos. He's a huge ego in a club that prides itself on putting team before self. All wrong. Please don't do it Sydney!''
Blood's Man commented: ''I really don't know what to feel at the moment. I don't want his ego but seeing how Tippett has fit so well into the Swans culture I believe that the Swans can make a decent man out of Buddy yet. But he [should] lose 200K for any misdemeanor he commits.''
It's a tough school, but Swans tragic Adam Spencer believes the club's record of moulding players into champions and better blokes will prevail if Franklin lobs.
''The two defining aspects of the Swans are their culture and their ability to bring in new players and find the best in them,'' said Spencer, the 702 ABC breakfast radio host. ''When you look at what they've done with Ben McGlynn, Josh Kennedy, Rhyce Shaw etcetera, I can't wait to see what they unlock in Buddy.''
Spencer said he believed Franklin would enjoy the peace of Sydney, which would allow him to concentrate on football without the madness thrown in. ''I'm sure Sydney will welcome Buddy Franklin to Sydney both on-field and off,'' he said.
''I can't wait to see him go around on the SCG.''


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By Justin Cox
Killeen Daily Herald
Gov. Rick Perry announced Friday evening that a special election to fill the now vacant House District 55 seat will be held as expected on Nov. 4, the same date as the general election.
Democratic nominee Sam Murphey chose not to follow the example of Republican counterpart Ralph Sheffield, who announced his intent to file the day after Dianne White Delisi retired, for the right to potentially take office early and claim the two-month period before new inductees are sworn in Jan. 13.
The governor's official announcement didn't change Murphey's mind either.
"Twenty-two years in the Army taught me never to rush into battle without gathering intelligence and developing a smart plan," Murphey said in a statement issued Friday night. "Regardless of the outcome of the special election, I will remain focused on campaigning for the general election to serve our community in Austin next January for the full legislative term."
The sudden opening of the seat came following the departure of Delisi, a Temple Republican who retired from her post before finishing out the 18th and final year as a state representative to pursue an opportunity as a civilian.
Candidate filings for this special election must be completed no later than 5 p.m. on Aug. 29. Murphey, along with Libertarian nominee Chris Lane and any resident willing to run as an independent have until then to file for the special election.
The early voting period for the special election runs from Oct. 20-31.
According to the secretary of state's election code, the governor must announce a special election to cover the two-month term between the general election and Jan. 13, when freshmen representatives are sworn in.


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by Daniel J. Graeber
London (UPI) May 14, 2013
Oil production from the British waters of the North Sea could see its first increase in more than 10 years, a regional director for BP said.
Monthly production from key field indices in the North Sea show a decline from 2.02 million barrels of oil per day in 2007 to 1.16 million bpd last year. Since January, however, production has recovered to 1.2 million bpd, BP regional vice president for Europe Peter Mather told a Platts oil summit in London.
"This year could be the first in over a decade that U.K. offshore production does not fall, potentially leading to a slight increase in the next few years," he said Tuesday.
Oil from the North Sea met around 65 percent of the British oil demand in 2012 and paid nearly $11 million in taxes to the government in 2012-13. The industry employs about 450,000 people.
Paul Mason, a new business manager for Total, said British tax policies were leading to a decline in North Sea investments.
"We are seeing that a development boom in the last few years is easing," he warned.
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What would you like to do?
How many tomatoes are in a can of whole tomatoes?
How do you make spaghetti sauce from whole tomatoes?
First make sure your tomatoes are very ripe. Then peal, seed, and chop the tomatoes. Place a little olive oil in a hot sauce pan and add the tomatoes. Bring them to a simmer a…nd simmer them uncovered very slowly for about an hour. If you want a chunky sauce, you can mash the tomatoes with a potato masher. If you want it smoother, put the tomatoes through a food mill or puree them in a blender. Then you can put them back in the pot and continue seasoning your sauce. Some dry garlic, oregano and thyme are usually used. Taste for salt and pepper.
How many quarts of tomato sauce are in a bushel of tomatoes?
There is 7 to 12 quarts of sauce depending on how thick you prefer your sauce. A bushel weighs 53 pounds and yields 10 to 12 quarts of sauce-an average of 5 pounds per quart f…or thin sauce and 7 to 9 quarts of sauce-an average of 6½ pounds per quart for thick sauce.
If a recipe calls for 1 lb of tomatoes how many tomatoes is that?
well theres alot of diffrent kind of tomatoes so that's hard to answer but I'd say around...4or5 (rough estimate) When a recipe calls for 1 lb. You use 4 medium size tomatoe…s, 9- 10 inches around. You can guesstimate peaches or apples this way too.
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How do you can tomatoes?
Wash your tomatoes. Dip them in boiling water for 30 to 60 seconds or until the skins split. Remove them from the boiling water and immediately put them into cold water. Slip …off the skins and remove the cores. Leave whole or cut into halves. Put the tomatoes in a large saucepan and heat to boiling, gently mashing from time to time to create some juice. Boil gently for 5 minutes. Stir to keep them from scorching. Put the tomatoes and juice into clean jars, leaving 1/2-inch headspace. Add 2 tablespoons of lemon juice per quart to acidify. Add 1 teaspoon of salt per quart. Adjust the lids and rings. Process in a boiling water bath for 90 minutes. The water level should be 1-inch above the tops of the jars. Remove from canner, and let sit until they seal.
How many cherry tomatoes is a tomato?
Cherry tomato weight around 15gr and regular tomato 200gr so it around 13 cherry tomato in a tomato. But the cherry tomato plant will give half in weight of the total producti…on of a regular beef tomato plant.
Can you use whole tomatoes instead of stewed tomatoes in a recipe?
Yes. You need to peel the tomatoes. Put them in very hot water for a few minutes and the skin will come off very easily. Now, cut them up in small pieces and boil them i…n one cup of water until they are soft. (That's stewed tomatoes.)
Is it tomato or tomatoes?
Tomato is singular and tomatoes are plural Totoma
How many tomatoes is 8 quarts of tomatoes?
According to to this recipe for tomato paste (http://www.razzledazzlerecipes.com/flavorsoffall/tomato-paste.htm), 8 quarts of tomatoes is about 4 dozen (48) large tomato…es. -Jenny
How many tomatoes are in a can of diced tomatoes?
Most small cans have 34 tomatoes.
Is it tomato or tomatoe?
It is tomato or tomatoes for plural.
Can stewed tomatoes be used into of whole tomatoes?
sure why not
What is a tomato?
A tomato is botanically a fruit but was defined by the US Congress in the 1800's as a vegetable so that it could be taxed. Their reasoning was that they are used as vegeta…bles for culinary purposes. It is a red fruit with seeds and similar to strawberries and other red fruits with seeds.
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How many tomatoes can a tomato plant produce?
it depends on the plant and how long it grows for but a healthy tomato plant will continuously produce fresh tomato's as long as the plant is properly taken care of and it is …possible for them to live for mutable years in green house's.
In Food Canning
I am canning and I need 8 qts of chopped tomatoes....How many pounds of whole tomatoes will it take to make 8 qts?
none get lost u idiot
How many 5 oz whole ripe uncooked tomatoes equals a ten and a half oz can of diced tomatoes?
In Gardening
How many tomatos grow on a tomato plant?
The USDA says that the average is around 15 pounds. However this number ranges a lot depending on how good your soil is and what type of plant you're planting. In ge…neral - if a plant is fed well it can do 15-45 pounds. If it's special types it can grow 100+ pounds (but that world record range).


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Frostiball 2017
Downtown's premier night out returns to benefit Overture Center for the Arts!
Sat, Jan 21
Overture Hall Main Lobby: $75 - $125
21 and over.
Circle Saturday, January 21, 2017 on your calendar. That's the night you'll be here at Overture, eating desserts, dancing to live music, sipping signature craft cocktails and rubbing elbows with fellow arts enthusiasts — all while supporting the state's largest nonprofit arts organization, Overture Center for the Arts.
And back by popular demand, the Isthmus After Party gets going at 11 PM!
Extraordinary auction items are available!
For the first time, you can bid online before the event, even if you cannot attend Frostiball!
Tickets are on sale now for $125 for the entire evening, or $75 for the Isthmus After Party only. A portion of your ticket purchase is a tax-deductible donation. The fair market value is $50. Group tables are also available.
There are a limited number of reserved tables available. To inquire about tables and the VIP experience at the event, please contact Carol Sun, 608.258.4447
Featuring DJ Pain 1
DJ Pain 1, a Madison native, is a DJ and record producer who has worked with artists ranging from Mavis Staples to 50 Cent. His resume includes several top 10 albums as well as local releases. For music and a full discography, click here.
Featuring artist Chad Caso
Having honed his skills at more than 4 postsecondary institutions, Chad Caso is a local Madison visual artist/graphic designer with 20+ years of experience as a freelance artist. His work varies from small sculptures to large murals, and his media knows no bounds!
View Chads work, and 'Journey into the mind of an artist' by visiting ChadCaso.com.
Featuring visual artist Ray Zovar
Ray Zovar has known he was an artist since his early years growing up in Milwaukee. Zovar's work has included numerous commissions in diverse media —- (fused glass, metals, marble, granite, acrylic and oil paint, sculptures, fountains and furniture) for a wide variety of individual patrons and institutions.
Zovar created the illuminated light sculptures as an illusionary interplay between color and light. These 360° paintings seem to move as light transforms the abstractions into a mesmerizing ambience. Each piece has its own relationship to the viewer ─ adaptable and ever changing. Subconsciously the viewer is taken from a point of observing to assimilating.
Zovar believes art should transcend time. Each generation should see something new and relevant to their own era, a style that will look as fresh tomorrow as it does today.
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Make a night of it!
Special rates at the Madison Concourse Hotel for attendees of Overture's Frostiball 2017
Saturday January 21, 2017
- $139 Concourse Premier Level*
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*Rates are based on single/double occupancy
Includes transportation to and from the Overture Center and late check out.
Click here for online reservations or call 608-257-6000.
This benefit supports Overture and its community programs.
Additional support from Ron & Deborah Krantz, Susan and Jonathan Lipp, Tom Berenz, Rare Steakhouse & Trek Bicycle Corporation.
For more sponsorship opportunities contact Carol Sun, 608.258.4447.


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My sister Elizabeth Craft and I are having so much fun with our new podcast, "Happier with Gretchen Rubin."
For the last few weeks, I've been on my book tour for Better Than Before, and many people have told me that they're enjoying it. Thanks so much, and thanks for listening! (If you like the podcast, we're sheepishly asking people to rate and/or review it, if time and inclination permit; very helpful for a new podcast like ours.)
Here's what we discuss in today's episode:
Try This at Home: Try a weekly "Power Hour." This is a habit that's working very well for me; Elizabeth is intrigued.
Know Yourself Better: Ask yourself the uncomfortable question, "Whom do I envy?"
Listener Question: Our first recorded listener question! "Is there any science behind the happiness we get happiness from helping others?"
Elizabeth's Demerit: Elizabeth learns, the hard way, about the importance of backing up the data on your smart-phone. On the bright side, though, her Candy Crush account was wiped out! If you listened to episode #2, you know that Elizabeth was battling a serious Candy Crush habit. Now she's free.
Gretchen's Gold Star: I give a gold star to our father, who always remind us to "Enjoy the process."
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Want to know what to expect from other episodes of the podcast, when you listen to "Happier with Gretchen Rubin?" We talk about how to build happier habits into everyday life, as we draw from cutting-edge science, ancient wisdom, lessons from pop culture—and our own experiences (and mistakes).
Each week, we give a "Try This at Home" suggestion, for some easy habit you can try, as part of your ordinary routine, to boost your happiness—something like setting an alarm to signal your bedtime, or using the one-minute rule, to help yourself stay on top of small nagging tasks.
We also suggest questions to help you "Know Yourself Better"—like "Whom do you envy?" and "Are you a Marathoner or a Sprinter in your work style?"—and explore "Happiness Stumbling Blocks," those small, seemingly insignificant parts of daily life that drag us down—everything from the problem of the Evil Donut-Bringer to the fact that working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.
We "Grill the Guest," consider "Listener Questions," and finally, we get even more personal, and each of us either gives ourselves a "Demerit" for a mistake we made that week, that affected our happiness, or awards a "Gold Star" to someone or something that deserves recognition.
We're sisters, so we don't let each other get away with much!
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Blissed out indie pop duo��Earlimart release their seventh album tomorrow. Entitled System Preferences, the record continues down the slow burning path that 2008′s Hymn & Her laid out. With Ariana Murray's vocals now firmly entrenched alongside founder and Elliott Smith-worshipper Aaron Espinoza, System Preferences is a meticulously produced collection of midtempo singer-songwriter pop, with a focus on gorgeous melodic inflections and haunting lyrics than any captivating hooks. Opener "U&Me" is a fine example, never rising above more than a druggy mist but percolating together pleasantly enough in that hazy guitar and piano motif near the end. Music easy to get lost in.


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Professor Michelle R. Scott's teaching and research interests include 20th-century United States history, African American history, women's history, black musical culture, and civil rights. She has published in Tennessee Women: Their Lives and Times, (University of Georgia Press, 2009) and is the author of Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South (University of Illinois Press, 2008). Professor Scott is currently working on a study of the origins and economic ramifications of a pivotal black vaudeville theater circuit in the 1920s and 30s. She is the recipient of an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Career Enhancement Fellowship, an MHEC Henry C. Welcome Grant, and a Smithsonian Institution Senior Fellowship. She mentors Historical Studies master's and LLC doctoral students, particularly in women's and African American history. Former students have gone on to graduate programs at institutions such as Georgia State University, American University, Morgan State University, and Ohio State University. Professor Scott is an affiliate associate professor in the Africana Studies Department, the Gender and Women's Studies Program, and the Language, Literature, and Culture Doctoral Program. Read a recent interview with Prof. Scott in the UMBC Magazine. She won the 2015 Univ. of Maryland Regents' Award for Excellence in Mentoring and she is the 2015-2018 UMBC Presidential Teaching Professor.
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Extremophiles - Organisms Thriving in Harshest of the EnvironmentsBY: Medha Hegde | Category: Biology | Submitted: 2012-11-23 08:11:36
Article Summary: "'Extremophile' is a term that refers to bacteria that are able to grow and sustain in extremely harsh environments when compared to the environments that are termed as favourable for the growth of bacteria. The discovery of extremophiles has increased speculation of chances for bacterial life on planets such as Mars, Europa (moo.."
"Extremophile" is a term that refers to bacteria that are able to grow and sustain in extremely harsh environments when compared to the environments that are termed as favourable for the growth of bacteria. Organisms have been discovered in the volcanic outlets, in the cold of Antarctic and Arctic regions, on the bottom of oceans, in deep sea hydrothermal vents, in very dry environments, inorganic environments such as acidic, alkaline and salt which are detrimental to most life forms, in lethal ionizing radiation environments and also in rocks extending far down inside the earth. It was not until the 1970's that these organisms were recognised. Thermophiles were the first extremophiles to be discovered. The domain archaea consists of extremophiles and many eukaryotes are also known to live in such harsh environments. There is also prosperity of organisms and unique living organisms, known as tube worms, growing around deep sea hydrothermal vents. These organisms are sustained without receiving energy from the sun. The discovery of extremophiles has increased speculation of chances for bacterial life on planets such as Mars, Europa (moon of Jupiter) and other stellar bodies.
The unparallel enzymes "extremoenzymes" used by the extremophiles to carry out their biochemical processes in harsh environments are useful in biotechnological processes. The property of capability of surviving under hard conditions by the enzymes, such as ability to function at very high pressure and temperature are major tools in biotechnolological research. Popular example is the so called taq polymerase enzyme isolated from the extremophile Thermus aquaticus is an essential part in PCR (polymerase chain reaction) technique that has brought radical change in biotechnology. And the most extraordinary microbe Deinococcus radiodurans is able to withstand high levels of lethal ionizing radiation.
Extremophile is a union of the suffix 'phile'-meaning 'lover of' and a prefix particular to their environments. Some categories of extremophiles include:
• Acidophiles - organisms living in acidic environments. They normally are found surrounding geothermal vents which are active and the pH of the same are below 5 which is acidic. They also occur in contaminated places where mining or industrial activity has left acidic wastes.
• Alkaliphiles - organisms living in typically alkali environments where the soil is abundant with carbonate having a pH of above nine. The enzymes that function at such high alkaline state are explored in laundry by detergent manufacturers which operate at alkaline pH.
• Halophiles - salt-loving organisms or bacteria such as Halobactreium salinarum grow in environments where the Na concentration is very high such as in Dead Sea or Great Salt Lake.
• Thermophiles - organisms living in high temperature of 80oC (177oF) such as in hot springs of Yellowstone National Park, Black Smokers etc.
• Psychrophiles - these organisms are very low temperature dwelling organisms. Example, Polaromonas vacuolata has maximum growth at 4oC (39.2oF) which just above the ice point of the water. Due to this unique ability to survive, these bacteria are being applied in enzymatic processes that operate near freezing temperature and also industrially being applied in the cold cycle washing machines.
• Endoliths - organisms living inside the rocks and carry out anaerobic form of respiration.
• Xerophile -organisms capable of growing at very low water activity such as in tough deserts.
• Barophiles (piezophile) - organisms living in high hydrostatic pressure such as in very depth of terrestrial surfaces and oceanic trenches.
• Methanogens - organisms that produce methane from the reaction between hydrogen and carbondioxide.
• Metallotolarent - organisms which are capable of withstanding high levels of dissolved toxic metals in solution such as cadmium, arsenic etc
• Oligotroph - organisms capable of growing in nutrition restrained conditions.
• Radioresistant - organisms capable of surviving high levels of toxic and fatal ionizing radiations.
These awesome organisms don't just survive in these harsh brutal environments they develop, propagate and do best in extreme environments than in any other place. They show characteristics in between bacteria and eukaryotes. The study of the extreme environments and the organisms that live in those environments has a tremendous merit for us. Exploring extreme environments are necessary to understanding biology, it is also essential in search for traces of life on other planets. The study of extremophiles helps us to know evolution that is the process of evolution and to study the primitive earth because early planet was an extreme habitat. Extremophile study is also important part of astrobiology and their enzymes find numerous commercial applications.
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When you don't pay your mortgage in Illinois, your lender is entitled to foreclose. The lender must follow strict requirements under both Illinois and federal law. Don't ignore demands or legal papers you get from a mortgage lender or its attorney. You may have substantial rights, but only if you defend yourself.
Before a lender can foreclose, it must first give you a notice of default as provided in your mortgage and note. In addition, the lender must give you the 30-day notice required by the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. This gives you the opportunity to object to the claimed amount due. The lender must verify the amount due before proceeding.
The lender may then file a complaint against you in court. A sheriff or other process server will deliver a copy of the summons and complaint. Don't ignore it. If you don't file an appearance or answer by the date specified, the court could enter a default judgment against you (which means that your mortgage may be automatically foreclosed).
In order to respond to a mortgage foreclosure, consider what your objectives are:
What to do after you receive a mortgage foreclosure notice
Determine what the house is worth today. Determine what you owe on the house. Decide whether keeping the house makes economic sense. If so, you need to get more money from somewhere. Consider the following options:
You may also contact various credit counseling services, many of which might be set out in the notice that comes with the summons.
What to do when you receive a complaint
Don't ignore the complaint. Instead, do the following:
All correspondence with your loan servicer (the company to which you've sent your payments)
Get your plan ready
An attorney can file an answer, a motion, or even a counterclaim for you. The answer will admit or deny the things the lender says in its compliant. A motion might argue that there is something technically wrong or legally insufficient with the complaint. A counterclaim might say that you have claims against the lender, which negate the claims the lender has against you. Your lawyer might even file a cross-claim against someone else, like your mortgage broker, who may have done something wrong. This is a highly technical area of law and it is sometimes very difficult for a borrower to effectively represent him or herself effectively.
Above all, don't default. You will soon face a default judgment and the foreclosure and sale process will accelerate.
Right to reinstate
From the time a mortgage foreclosure is commenced, you have the longer of 7 months or 3 months from the entry of a judgment of foreclosure and sale to reinstate your mortgage loan. This requires payment of all back payments (including costs, expenses, and attorneys fees), to the lender. If you can come up with this money and keep your mortgage current in the future, this may be a good option.
Foreclosure and sale
After the default or other judgment is entered against a homeowner, the mortgage holder still must offer the property for sale at public auction. Proper notice and advertisement must be listed both in the legal and real estate classified sections of a local newspaper. After the sale, the sale must be confirmed before the buyer gets a deed. Only then can you be evicted from your home. In Illinois, the process of foreclosure might take almost a year to complete, from start to finish. If you effectively defend, it could take even longer.
What to do during the mortgage foreclosure response process
Don't ignore anything. Defending your foreclosure will delay the process. You may have meritorious (money-related) options. Lenders often will negotiate terms favorable to you in order to minimize the cost and expense of a foreclosure to them. Work with your lawyers, cooperate with them, and make any required court appearances. It's also important to follow your lawyer's instructions about payments.
Bankruptcy may be an option
One advantage of bankruptcy under Chapter 13 is that it will stop the foreclosure process while you try to organize a plan for repaying your debts and mortgage arrears. You may be able to litigate claims against your lender in the bankruptcy court as well. Chapter 7 may also be an option. With Chapter 7, you may be able to discharge any deficiency judgment in the foreclosure and remain in your home for several months.
Mortgage Rescue Scams
People will try to get you to deed your house to them so that you can lease it back and maybe improve your credit and buy it back someday. These are scams and frauds. Avoid them at all costs. Never deed your house to anyone just because you are involved in a mortgage foreclosure.
What the foreclosure process may cost
If you hire a lawyer, you should expect to pay reasonable attorney fees. This is money worth spending, especially if you have equity in your home. Attorneys' fees depend on their experience and areas of expertise. Do not be shy about discussing fees. If you can't afford the proposed fee arrangement, tell the attorney what you can afford. You may be able to work out an arrangement that works for both of you. Chances are the attorney fees will be less than the mortgage payments you had been making previously.
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Illinois Legal Aid: Mortgage Foreclosure: What to Do When It Happens and Where to Get Help (http://www.illinoislegalaid.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.dsp_content&contentID=1421)
American Bar Association: Illinois Mortgage Foreclosure And Eminent Domain Procedures (http://www.abanet.org/rppt/cmtes/standing-committees/community/IllinoisMortgageForeclosure.pdf)
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The Boy, The Bird and the Coffin Maker, Matilda Woods, (Scholastic, May 2017)
Today I'm part of the blog tour for this dazzling debut.
Genres in the mix: magical realism, fairy tale
Age target: MG (9-12)
Story basics: (from press release) Alberto lives alone in the town of Allora, where fish fly out of the sea and the houses shine like jewels. He is a coffin maker, spending his quiet,solitary days creating the final resting places of Allora's people. That is until the day a mysterious boy and his magical bird arrive – fleeing from danger and in search of a safe haven…
Tito is wary, fearful and suspicious of kindness, but as the winter days grow colder and darker, Alberto's home grows warmer and brighter. Can Tito and his bird be sheltered from the town's prying eyes and the shadows of their past?
A magical story of life and death and of how hope can burn bright in a place touched by sadness.
The emotional ride: a beautiful read, which pulled at my heartstrings in several places. Although it doesn't shy away from death (the coffin maker switches job to coffin maker in the first prologue-like chapter when his wife and children die!), as the tone is very fairy-tale like, child readers will handle it well, I feel – there's plenty of death and drama in Grimm, after all, even our fairly sanitised versions.
Hot buttons/classroom opportunities: this would make a lovely class read, with plenty of chances for 'what should they do?' type discussions (so SMSC opps) as well as the chance to unpick and explore the fairy tale style and allusions (but see Minerva Reads' post on this tour for more detail on that topic – she's already covered it so well).
Narrative style: as mentioned already, the style is very much that of a fairy tale. It's lyrical and gentle and feels like a fairy tale world, in which anything is possible. The tone allows for some heavy themes to be tackled without heavy-handedness.
Main characters: the two human characters mentioned in the title are brilliantly drawn and it is easy to empathise with both. Child readers are bound to warm to Alberto, and to want Tito to trust him (as did I). Tito's reticence is palpable, and although it is quite a while before the reason for it is revealed, it is always credible.
Hearthfire rating: 9/10 A scorcher!
The Boy, The Bird and the Coffin Maker is out now in the UK from Scholastic, who provided me with a review copy.
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|Sverd Shelgr
|SM Turton
|Website URL
|Launch Date
|September, 2006
Sverd Shelgr is an Inheritance cycle webcomic created by SM Turton in the style of popular D&D comic Order of the Stick. The webcomic focuses on the adventures of a motley group of adventurers and their journey through Alagaësia. Their group's name, "Sverd Shelgr", means "Hallowed Sword" in the Ancient Language.
Sverd Shelgr has celebrated its two-year anniversary since the first comic was created (the website was launched in September, but the comic was created on the 11th of June).
Geuloth, an elven magician, is often sarcastic and impolite, as well as being relatively sadistic, reveling in the destruction of things. He broke the Elf Queen's scrying orb and was sent to retrieve a new one. He dresses in purple, and sports violet hair. (In the new story arc, it is due to a dragon who turned his hair purple.) His title, the Jurgenhiem, is a reference to this. Along with the hair, the dragon and its Rider made him the subject of a prophecy stating that he would lead an army against the Fallen Ones, which he does. He succeeds in defeating them by unintentionally discovering the leader's true name in the afterlife. "Geuloth" means "dull" in the Ancient Language. This refers to his skepticism, which often makes things seem duller.
Volheim is a dwarven warrior from the North. He is usually the voice of reason in Sverd Shelgr as he is perceptive, level-headed, and agreeable. He tends to be quiet, and when he does speak, it's usually to urge the group to move along. He also has a Sean Connery accent. Volheim was sent by the Dwarf King to retrieve Urunien, a magical staff stolen from the dwarves by an enemy unknown to them (Aruna).
Zhada is an Urgal warrior, who joined up with Sverd Shelgr after its previous third member, Thargen, was thought to be killed by a falling copy of the book Eldest in the same battle where Thargen killed her husband. She originally joined as part of a plan to kill them in revenge, but later decided she liked them more than her fellow Urgals. Unlike most of her kind, she is relatively gentle and good-natured. Compared to her companions, she seems to be dull-witted, thoughtful, and gluttonous. Her romantic name is Lola D'mor. Zhada means either "rebel" or "doom" in the Urgal language.
Drajl is a sarcastic werecat, who has taken to following Sverd Shelgr around, at first working against Sverd Shelgr for Pudaree. He later came back when he had no friends to torment. He first came into contact with them in the lair of two giants, who planned to cook them all and serve them up as dinner for their girlfriends. He has a personality that is remarkably similar to Geuloth's--they both consistently behave skeptically, selfishly, arrogantly, and, to an extent, indifferently toward their companions. The fact that these two are so alike is probably the reason that they are rivals. They constantly bicker, though Drajl, at least, has shown some fondness for Geuloth, along with the others. This may or may not be reciprocated. "Drajl" is an Urgal insult meaning "spawn of maggots".
Thargen is a dwarven priest who was originally part of Sverd Shelgr until he was hit by the Eldest book after killing Zhada's husband, romantic name Pierre L'Stallion, true name Mil-Y'phs-ux. After a long time he managed to get out, saying that "there's a lot of boring chapters in the elven forests". He lost his arm in the prologue. He was hit by a flood when he questioned the faith of the Goddess of Rivers and thought he saw a shark. The shark ended up as a talking fish that gives wishes and also happens to have a sharklike fin. His name means "flesh".
Aruna is an evil sorceress. It is implied that she somehow arranged for Ted and Bob to capture Sverd Shelgr. It is revealed that she is the one who stole Urunien and is responsible for the disappearance of most scrying orbs. She could use Urunien to free a spirit from its scrying orb. This appears to place the spirit's power under her control. Geuloth later destroyed all of the scrying orbs and Drajl stole Urunien. She has a collection of zombie servants whom she often kills; apparently most of her wardrobe and furniture is made from them. After her first defeat at the hands of Sverd Shelgr, the castle collapsed and they escaped. Aruna contacted Belard and used a capsule to create another castle, which was soon captured by the Fallen Ones. They were imprisoned in the dungeon, and when this castle began to fall apart, she hoped for the explosion to blow them out. They may or may not have succeeded.
Trazhid is Aruna's familiar. He is a client of the Supernatural Entity Agency, and has been contracted to work for Aruna. He is the fifth known familiar to be in Aruna's service; she killed the previous four for various petty and cruel reasons. He appears to be clever, and not at all attached to his mistress.
Belard is Aruna's great-grandfather, and a Shade. Different spirits gain dominance over him at different times, so he has a wide variety of personalities, which are each signified by a different eye color. He created the scrying orbs and sent them to the heads of the races, plotting to release the spirit inside each and kill them, allowing Belard to take over. This plan was unsuccessful. He got a job at McDonald's, but later left to assist his great-granddaughter.
Menthiv is an environmentalist human wizard who lives in the Pinewood Forest, who captured Sverd Shelgr and attempted to execute them (except for Drajl) for harming the plants and animals of his domain. He had a pet werecat named Whiskers, though she seemed to have her own motives for serving him; she helped Sverd Shelgr escape him, and eventually left for a job with a dental plan, which turned out to be an accountant for the Fallen Ones. Menthiv has since sworn revenge on Sverd Shelgr, and bought a flying wolf mount to use for that task.
Pierre L'Stallion is Zhada's deceased husband, and the leader of the Fallen Ones, a band of spirits inhabiting Urgals. He was furious with Zhada for not avenging him and killing Sverd Shelgr, but he still seems to harbor feelings for her. He took over Aruna's castle and killed Geuloth, but Geuloth unintentionally discovered Pierre's true name, Mil-Y'phs-ux, which destroyed him.
Ted and Bob are two giants who capture Sverd Shelgr early in the series, hoping to cook them for their girlfriends as a romantic dinner. Their girlfriends broke up with them, and the group escaped.
The comics start with the original members of Sverd Shelgr (Geuloth, Volheim and Thargen) doing battle with a group of Urgals. Suddenly, the word "BOOK!" is heard and they stop fighting. Volheim realizes that Eldest must have been published, and because the particular tribe of Urgals they're fighting allied themselves with the Varden and dwarves, Sverd Shelgr and the Urgals can't do battle without violating canon. Thargen refuses to give up the fight and kills an Urgal (who is later revealed to be Zhada's husband). A giant copy of Eldest promptly falls from the sky and crushes him. Zhada asks if she can join Sverd Shelgr as their new third member seeing as the old one is dead, and Volheim agrees.
It is learned that Volheim (with the seemingly late Thargen) and Geuloth are on separate quests, but are traveling together because their destinations are both in the Southeast. Volheim has been sent by the Dwarf King to recover Urunien, a magical staff made by the dwarves that gives the wielder power over all nearby spirits without being bent to their will, and, according to Geuloth, also acts as a bug zapper by shooting small bolts of lightning at any insect that gets too close to it. Volheim is traveling to the Southeastern City because he has a contact there who can tell him the last known location of Urunien.
Geuloth, meanwhile, is on a quest to a swamp in the Southeast to retrieve the only scrying orb still known to exist. He accidentally broke the Elf Queen's own orb when, as a practical joke, he hid 20 pounds of gunpowder in the Queen's fireplace and set fire to it. In the ensuing explosion her scrying orb was broken, and all the animals in a 2-mile radius were killed. It quickly changes as the plot reveals that Geuloth is the Jurgenhiem, an elf who a Rider and his dragon made a prophecy upon, which stated that he would 'lead an army against the Fallen Ones', who later turn out to be a band of spirits who have taken over the bodies of Urgals.
All the scrying orbs are destroyed in the conflict with Aruna. Aruna and Trazhid escape, and so does Sverd Shelgr. Sverd Shelgr returns to the Southeastern city for a night, and Drajl goes to the king, Pudaree, and has the group apprehended. He reveals that he had been a spy for King Pudaree. Sverd Shelgr is taken to the dungeons, but soon Drajl begins to miss tormenting his friends, so he frees them. The protagonists are later joined by two dwarves, Wildeor and Katka, who are old friends of Volheim's. Zhada's deceased husband takes over the body of an Urgal, along with many other spirits, and form the Fallen Ones.
This group is captured by nomads, and before being symbolically roasted over a fire, a group of Fallen Ones attacks. The Archchieftainess is killed in the battle, and Katka, who single-handedly defeated the ambush group, is named the new Archchieftainess. Aruna sets up a new castle, but it is seized by the Fallen Ones, and the previous owners are locked up.
With the help of the nomads, Sverd Shelgr infiltrates the Fallen Ones' castle. Wildeor kills Katka at this time, revealing that he was a spy for the Fallen Ones, but he is shortly killed by a Fallen One that was unaware of this. Sverd Shelgr, meanwhile, finds its way into the bedroom of Pierre, the leader of the Fallen Ones and Zhada's deceased husband, killed by Thargen at the beginning of the comic. He shows up and, after Urunien fails to harm him, throws an axe, which kills Geuloth. In the afterlife, the Grim Reaper informs Geuloth that, due to all of the people he has killed, he will be spared, but will stay until he can find Pierre's essence and defeat him. Geuloth unintentionally discovers Pierre's true name, Mil-Y'phs-ux, which kills him. Geuloth returns to life and Sverd Shelgr escapes the castle before it explodes. Meanwhile, Aruna and Trazhid, who are still captured, await the explosion, hoping to use it to escape. It is unclear if they succeeded or were killed.
There are five known pantheons in Sverd Shelgr, the only canonical one being the Dwarven Pantheon.
Urgal PantheonEdit
The God of Bunnies, Flowers and Miscellaneous Soft Pillows (GBFMSP or Mr. Bunnies by The Goddess of Rivers) is a deity who was kicked out of the Urgal pantheon (which is mostly made up of gods of death, bloodshed and the like), presumably for being too soft and weak, though after training his bunny minions to kill non-believers he has been let back in.He changes his name from GBFMSP to DUMB (Deity of Undines,Mattresses, and Blossoms). Aside from the Urgals, his known worshipers include some of the Southeasterners.After drinking too much Diet Coke,his allergic reaction was a big,swelled up head.As he went to his Southeasterner worshippers, he became a popular Goddess of Radishes. As the swelling went down,an unpopular Death God, Mr. Sombre, took over because he was a red faced Urgal. He has appeared in several comics but has not as of yet interacted with Sverd Shelgr.
The God of War (GOW) is the only other Urgal god to have actually appeared in the comics. He is covered in red tattoos and carries a shield and ax.
A number of Urgal deities have been mentioned aside from these two - the Gods of Death and Bloodshed, the Goddesses of Wrath, Destruction and Pain, the Gremlins of Disorder and the Spirit of Ultimate Chaos.
Southeastern PantheonEdit
Gods worshiped in the "Southeast," i.e. Surda:
The God of Mildly Stormy Weather appears as a dark-skinned man dressed in purple, with a small rain cloud floating just above his head.
The Goddess of Goats is a bronze-colored goat with a collection of tattoos. She is the only known deity with an animal's body. [1]
Familiar PantheonEdit
Gods worshipped by "familiars," spirits like Trazhid conjured by sorcerers:
The God of Turtles is the only known member of the Familiar Pantheon. Unlike the Goddess of Goats, he is not actually physically the animal of his domain - he has a familiar's body, although with green skin and a shell on his back. The Urgal God of War mentioned once that he had some sort of bad experience with a group of travelers; on another occasion Geuloth and Volheim discuss events that happened to them before the comic strip began, and Geuloth mentions that he is "still afraid of turtles," with Volheim hinting there may be a prequel comic one day to explain this connection. Trazhid also mentions the God of Turtles has power over lightning for some reason.
Fowl PantheonEdit
Various unusual bird deities with illogical and pointless powers. There are only four deities in the pantheon - the God of Effervescent Puddles (green duck), the Goddess of Noxious Slippers (red hen), the God of Misplaced Aglets (blue rooster) and the God of Questionable Aspirin (purple goose). The Fowl Pantheon is worshiped by wizards; each wizard is dedicated to one of the four deities, depending on which element he has magical control over.[2]
As part of the changes made to the comic and website over the new year, the style and storyline of Sverd Shelgr was totally redone. The old comics are still available for viewing on the website, but they are no longer considered canon, and their story arc does not feature in the new storyline. The author has cited numerous reasons for all of the changes.[3]
Deviations from accepted canonEdit
Although Sverd Shelgr usually sticks to the canon of the Inheritance Cycle, it does deviate on several points:
- Early on, the group comes across some giants who plan on eating them, even though the books state that giants have been extinct for many, many years. The giants respond to this by saying that "just because something isn't exactly canon doesn't mean we can't get away with it," to which Geuloth humorously replies, "I'll say. Look what they did with the movie."
- The concept of a "scrying orb" does not exist in the books like it does in the comics, although the mechanics behind the orb (using a spirit to observe things one has never seen) may be possible within the magic of Inheritance.
- The portrayal of Urgals is also somewhat different in the comic -the books describe Urgals as being man-like in appearance, with gray skin, bowed legs and horns. Although the Sverd Shelgr Urgals also have horns, they are tall and green-skinned. Most of the Urgals featured are bald, the exception being Zhada, who ties her black hair up in pigtails. Zhada is the only female Urgal who has been seen in the comic so far.
- When Sverd Shelgr goes to the "Southeast" (apparently Surda), the culture is similar to traditional India, while no real indication of that is given in the novels.
- Gods are very real in Sverd Shelgr, and are shown interacting with characters all the time, while it is likely that the gods mentioned in Inheritance are not even supposed to really exist. Also, of the gods shown, only the "Goddess of Rivers"/Kílf is at all canonical.
- The familiars in Sverd Shelgr differ from those in Inheritance. In the books, Trianna's familiar appears as a golden snake bracelet that can come to life, whereas in the comic, familiars are short, red-skinned creatures with pointed horns, and only one of them has been seen in a lifeless form; namely, a stone statue. The familiars, spirits and gods in Sverd Shelgr also have their own world that sorcerers can travel to by magic, while this is never mentioned in the books.
- Sverd Shelgr once encounters a green, female dragon, which does not exist in the canonical series. When Volheim points out that creating an unknown dragon for Inheritance would be "horribly redundant," however, she vanishes in a puff of logic.
- When Aruna is standing at the eastern edge of the "Great Desert" (The Hadarac Desert), there are mountains behind her. In the book, there are no mountains here.
So as not to violate any copyright laws, Sverd Shelgr tends to steer away from properly referencing people and places from the Inheritance cycle. Thus, Queen Islanzadí is recorded in the comic only as the Elf Queen, Hrothgar is the Dwarf King, and Du Weldenvarden as the northern forests. Gûntera was once mentioned in the third comic, but this was later altered so as to read "KODG" ("King of Dwarven Gods"); the goddess Kílf, one of the few canonical characters to appear in the comic, likewise goes unnamed. Referring to Zhada as an Urgal is one of the few direct reference to the canon of the books, although because Sverd Shelgr is a work of parody, it is allowed to make some references to the copyrighted material of the books.


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Belshazzar (or Balthazar; Akkadian Bel-sarra-usur) was a prince of Babylon, the son of Nabonidus, the last king of Babylon according to the Book of Daniel. In the Book of Daniel (chapters 5 and 8) of the Jewish Tanakh or Christian Old Testament, Belshazzar is the King of Babylon before the advent of the Medes and Persians.
Contemporary Babylonian sources
Belshazzar was the son of Nabonidus, who after ruling only three years, went to the oasis of Tayma and devoted himself to the worship of the moon god, Sin. He made Belshazzar co-regent in 553 B.C., leaving him in charge of Babylon's defense.[1]
In the year 540 B.C. Nabonidus returned from Tayma, hoping to defend his kingdom from the Persians who were planning to advance on Babylon. In 538 B.C. Belshazzar was positioned in the city of Babylon to hold the capital, while Nabonidus, marched his troops north to meet Cyrus. On October 10, 539 B.C. Nabonidus surrendered and fled from Cyrus. Two days later, October 12, 539 B.C., the Persian armies overthrew the city of Babylon.
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Herodotus refers to the last king of Babylon as Labynetos and claims that this was also the name of his father. Herodotus says that the mother of the younger Labynetos was the queen Nitocris whom he portrays as the dominant ruler. She is commonly thought to have been the daughter of Nebuchadnezzar. Labynetos is generally understood to be a garbled form of the name Nabonidus and the younger Labynetos is often identified with Belshazzar. Opinions differ however on how best to reconcile Herodotus with the Babylonian sources and an alternative view is that the younger Labynetos is Nabonidus.
Josephus gives an account of Belshazzar largely paralleling the Book of Daniel but remarks that he was known to the Babylonians by the name Naboandelus. Bible scholars have viewed this as a corruption of "Nabonidus" which if correct may be taken either as confusion on the part of Josephus or a corroboration of the interpretation of the younger "Labynetos" of Herodotus as Belshazzar. Josephus, however, knew of Nabonidus and calls him "Nabonnedus" relating an account of his capture by Cyrus taken from Berossus. Josephus refers to the queen at the time (corresponding to the Nitocris of Herodotus) as the grandmother of Belshazzar which corroborates the alternative view that the younger "Labynetos" (son of Nitocris) is Nabonidus.
Book of Daniel
Daniel 5:1-4 describes "Belshazzar's Feast" in which the sacred vessels of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, which had been brought to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar at the time of the Captivity were profaned by the company. The narrative unfolds against the background of the impending arrival of the Persian armies.
- "King Belshazzar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles and drank wine with them. 2 While Belshazzar was drinking his wine, he gave orders to bring in the gold and silver goblets that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines might drink from them. 3 So they brought in the gold goblets that had been taken from the temple of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines drank from them. 4 As they drank the wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone."
In consequence of this, during the festivities, a hand was seen writing on the wall of the chamber a mysterious sentence mene mene tekel upharsin, which defied all attempts at interpretation. Some Rabbinic interpretations (notably the mention in the Babylonian Talmud) say that the words were written in code, one possibility was that it was an atbash cipher, another being that the written Aramaic and Hebrew looked very different, even though they were pronounced similarly. Still, their natural denotations of weights and measures were superficially meaningless: "two minas, a shekel and two parts.". In the verb form, they were: mene, to number; tekel, to weigh; upharsin, to divide—literally "numbered, weighed, divided". When the Hebrew Daniel was called in, he read and interpreted the words. The last word (prs) he read as peres not parsin. His free choice of interpretation and decoding revealed the menacing subtext: "Thou art weighed in the balance and art found wanting". The divine menace against the dissolute Belshazzar, whose kingdom was to be divided between the Medes and Persians, was swiftly realized: in the last verse we are told that Belshazzar was slain in that same night, and that his power passed to Darius the Mede.
The Greek historians Herodotus and Xenophon also record that there was a festival in the city of Babylon the same night it fell to the Persians.[2]
This Biblical story is the source of the popular phrase "the writing on the wall" as a euphemism for impending doom that is so obvious only a fool would not see it coming. It also provides the origin for the similar expression "your days are numbered."
Daniel 5:1-4 calls Nebuchadnezzar the father of Belshazzar. The same claim is made in the deuterocanonical Book of Baruch, which most scholars believe to have been written around the same time, in the second century BC. This may simply have been a mistake on the part of the authors. Some Biblical commentators argue that the statement can be reconciled with extra-Biblical sources by interpreting the term to mean forefather or predecessor, as used elsewhere in Biblical texts, notably referring to the Patriarch Abraham as the father of King David. (The Hebrew word for father av is commonly used in the sense of forefather.)
For a list of artistic and musical references to the feast, see the article Belshazzar's Feast.
Rabbinic literature
Belshazzar appears in many works of classical Jewish rabbinic literature.
The chronology of the three Babylonian kings is given in the Talmud (Megillah 11a-b) as follows: Nebuchadnezzar reigned forty-five years, Evil-merodach twenty-three, and Belshazzar was monarch of Babylonia for two years, being killed at the beginning of the third year on the fatal night of the fall of Babylon (Meg. 11b).
The references in the Talmud and the Midrash to Belshazzar emphasize his tyrannous oppression of his Jewish subjects. Several passages in the Prophets are interpreted as though referring to him and his predecessors. For instance, the passage, "As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him" (Amos v. 19), the lion is said to represent Nebuchadnezzar, and the bear, equally ferocious if not equally courageous, is Belshazzar. (The book of Amos., nevertheless, is pre-Exilic.)
The three Babylonian kings are often mentioned together as forming a succession of impious and tyrannical monarchs who oppressed Israel and were therefore foredoomed to disgrace and destruction. The verse in Isaiah xiv. 22, And I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant and son and grandchild, saith the Lord, is applied by these interpretations to the trio: "Name" to Nebuchadnezzar, "remnant" to Evil-merodach, "son" to Belshazzar, and "grandchild" Vashti (ib.). The command given to Abraham to cut in pieces three heifers (Genesis 15:9) as a part of the covenant established between him and his God, was thus elucidated by readers of Daniel as symbolizing Babylonia, which gave rise to three kings, Nebuchadnezzar, Evil-merodach, and Belshazzar, whose doom is prefigured by this act of "cutting to pieces" (Midrash Genesis Rabbah xliv.).
The Midrash literature enters into the details of Belshazzar's death. Thus the later tradition states that Cyrus and Darius were employed as doorkeepers of the royal palace. Belshazzar, being greatly alarmed at the mysterious handwriting on the wall, and apprehending that some one in disguise might enter the palace with murderous intent, ordered his doorkeepers to behead every one who attempted to force an entrance that night, even though such person should claim to be the king himself. Belshazzar, overcome by sickness, left the palace unobserved during the night through a rear exit. On his return the doorkeepers refused to admit him. In vain did he plead that he was the king. They said, "Has not the king ordered us to put to death any one who attempts to enter the palace, though he claim to be the king himself?" Suiting the action to the word, Cyrus and Darius grasped a heavy ornament forming part of a candelabrum, and with it shattered the skull of their royal master (Cant. R. iii. 4).
The Sacred Royal Feast
Though the narrative and its details stand outside history, the setting of the feast at which the temple vessels from Jerusalem were desecrated has been remembered from actual Neo-Babylonian cult practice. In Babylon, the image of Marduk was served meals daily in a style befitting the divine king, including musical accompaniment and beautifully-arranged desserts of fruits. After the god's meal, water in a basin was brought and offered to the idol to wash its fingers. According to several extant descriptions, the dishes of food that had been presented to the image were then sent to the king for his consumption. The food had been blessed by its proximity to the god, and the blessing was now transferable to the king. One exception is recorded, on a tablet from Uruk, which mentions that the crown prince— this was Belshazzar— enjoyed the royal privilege.
The ritual importance of the god's sacred leftovers is illustrated in an inscribed claim of Sargon II:
- "the citizens of Babylon [and] Borsippa, the temple personnel, the scholars [and] the administrators of the country who [had] looked upon him (Merodach-baladan) as their master now brought the leftovers of Bel [and] Sarpanitu [of Babylon and] Nabu [and] Tasmetu [of Borsippa] to me at Dur-Ladinni and asked me to enter Babylon"
- (Oppenheim, pp 188ff)
Idols of conquered cities were ordinarily brought to Babylon and set in positions of reverence to Marduk within his temple. The Jews, having no idol of YHWH, had been forced to give up the vessels of Solomon's Temple, which, it appears, were used to serve Marduk's sacred repast, ritually shared by Belshazzar.
Belshazzar in popular culture
George Friderich Händel's Belshazzar is an oratorio composed in the late summer of 1744.
In The Hand-Writing upon the Wall (1803), James Gillray caricatured Napoleon in the role of Belshazzar.
Robert Frost's poem, "The Bearer of Evil Tidings", is about a messenger from Belshazzar's court. After learning of Belshazzar's imminent overthrow, the messenger flees to the Himalayas rather than facing the monarch's wrath.
Emily Dickinson's poem "Belshazzar had a letter," #1459 from the Poems of Emily Dickinson is about Belshazzar's immortal correspondence. Her poem was written in 1879.
William Walton wrote an oratorio entitled Belshazzar's Feast.
The Space Liner Belshazzar, with the player character aboard, was disabled and boarded by Space Pirates in the early CD-ROM adventure game Spaceship Warlock.
Belshazzar was featured in season one episode two of the Nickelodeon game show "Legends of the Hidden Temple" entitled "The Golden Cup of Belshazzar". The Red Jaguars ran out of time in the Temple and was unable to win the game. The Golden Cup was located in the Shrine of the Silver Monkey.
Singer/Songwriter Johnny Cash wrote a song titled "Belshazar", based on the Biblical story. It was recorded at Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee in 1957.
The Jewish songwriter Harold Rome wrote, for the musical "Pins and Needles" in 1937, a gospel song, "Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin," which made the analogy between Belshazzar and Hitler, saying the former "didn't pay no income taxes:/The big shot of the Babylon-Jerusalem Axis." Interpreting the writing on the wall, Daniel sums it up tersely: "King, stop your fightin' and your flauntin'./You been weighed, and you're found wantin'."
During the 1884 United States presidential campaign, Republican candidate James G. Blaine dined at a New York City restaurant with some wealthy business executives including "Commodore" Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, etc. This was featured in newspapers, with a drawing illustrating "The Feast of Belshazzar Blaine..." On the wall in the background was written "Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin."
In the early 1970s, Esquire magazine, in its "Dubious Achievement Awards" section one year, showed a photo of nuns wearing habits with short skirts, commenting "MENE MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN."
Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan the Barbarian, liked to incorporate historical names into his pseudo-historical stories. He wrote a (non-Conan) adventure story, "Blood of Belshazzar" which Roy Thomas adapted into a Conan story in Marvel Comics' Conan the Barbarian #27 as "The Blood of Bel-Hissar". Howard also used the name of 'Nabonidus' (father of Belshazzar) in the Conan tale "Rogues in the House" which appeared in Marvel's Conan the Barbarian #11.
The Austin, Texas band Sound Team references Belshazzar with the lyric: "But I don't have to sleep at Belshazzar's house anymore / Gave up the center line" on the track "No More Birthdays" off their Movie Monster LP.
See also
Some or all of this article is forked from Wikipedia. The original article was at Belshazzar. The list of authors can be seen in the page history.
- ↑ The Verse Account of Nabonidus
- ↑ Histories I.191; Cyropaedia VI.5.15-16; Gaston 2009, pp. 88–89.
Further reading
- Oppenheim, A. Leo (1977), Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization (Rev. ed.), Chicago: University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0226631869 .
- Gaston, T. E. (2009), Historical Issues in the Book of Daniel, Oxford: Taanathshiloh, ISBN 9780956154002 .
External links
- Jewish Encyclopedia: Belshazzar
- Catholic Encyclopedia: Baltasar


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The Baron de Sainte Claire answers the questions posed by Duke Cariadoc of the Bow in his essay "The Little Things" from Cariadoc�s miscellany.
I use Livres, Sou and Deniers. Preferably from the Toulouse mint, as they are the truest minting. There are also francs, moutons and ecus, which are pretty much the same. They vary from region to region, same as the others. Toulouse livres are best, Rodez and Tours, in the south, have the worst. Paris livres are about the average, and that�s what my clerk uses to keep books. There is also the florin, which is used in Lyon, and which is somewhat less than the livre.
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The day begins at midnight, and is divided into the twelve hours of daylight and twelve hours of dark. To describe the time I use the church hours, Vigils is at midnight, Lauds or Prime is at daybreak, Terce is at mid morning, Sext is at mid day, Nones is at mid afternoon, Vespers is at dusk and Compline is at night. The churches for the most part ring these hours, so you know when they are. There are mechanical clock is the richer towns in my holdings, but of the three I can think of only one works particularly well, the one at Pliesse. Otherwise listen for the church bells. They ring the hours.
The year is usually determined by the years since the ascension of the current king, Charles. Currently we are in the twenty-second year of the reign of King Charles, and today is the Feast of St. Edward the Martyr. The first day of any given month is the Kalends, the fifth day is the nones, and the thirteenth or fifteenth is the Ides. Usually days are measured before the day if there is nothing specific to recommend that day in particular, as in three days before the feast of St Genevieve, or five days before the kalends of May. Some people also date the year since the incarnation, which would make this the 1,402nd year.
Of Course. French for law and Latin for religion. I�ve read the Bible, and some of the works of St. Augustine who, I must say, is a bit pedantic. City of God and Confessions. I�ve also read Botheius', The Consolation of Philosophy and the works of Pierre Salmon. Also the history of the Trojan wars, and some others of the classics, and a few romances, le Roman de la Rose and Troileius et Cresside and the like. Frivolous, I know, but enjoyable nonetheless. I have books on Canon law, and Civil law. In all I must have about 350 books in my library. I also read the chronicle that M. de Monstrelet is writing, when he comes by to show me it.
I�ve seen many of the Mystery plays of Notre Dame, and some others. Also a masque of the taking of Jerusalem during the First Crusade that was done in the royal court when Emperor Charles visited. That was breathtaking. Traveling players are usually welcome in my courts. I keep a jongleur who knows the chansons de geste of Roland, Charlemagne and others, and most of the current stuffs.
Alexander was a Greek in the time before Christ, and is one of the worthies of the ancient world, as was Caesar. I have read tales of them. Charlemagne is well known, my jongleur, as I have said knows many tales of his prowess, and of his knights. Vergil was a poet of the Romans, and some of his works I have read, but only in passing. Saladin was a King of the Saracens, known for his chivalry despite being a heathen.
A bit. Here in France more than elsewhere, of course. The most distant country I have heard of is Cathay, where silk comes from they say. I have never been there. The most distant country I have met someone from? Hmmm. I was in Rome when the Byzantine Emperor came to discuss a crusade, and I met some of his court. That would probably be it. I have met Hospitallers who have been to Jerusalem and Aegypt, but that�s not the same as �from� I suppose.
I�ll have to give you a long answer to that short question. Pause, as the seigneur sighs, and seems to gather his thoughts. That�s a bit tricky. I hold estates in Nomandy, for which I owe fealty to the Prince of France now, though before his fall I owed to Charles of Navarre as Comte d�Eu. I hold lands in Picardy, so the Comte de Picardy is my overlord there. I retain my mothers estates in Brittany, for which I owe fealty to Jean de Montfort who is Duc de Bretagne, but that�s not something I make a lot of noise about in the court all things considered. Also my fathers estates in Navarre for which I owe to Charles of Navarre, though there again, not a thing I speak of much, Aragon, for which I owe to the King of Aragon, Pedro IV and Gascony, for which I owe to whoever is the Duke of Gascony at the moment. Recently I was granted large estates in the Auvergne, for which I owe to the Duke d�Auvergne, whose name for the moment escapes me. I�ll wager you now regret your asking, hey? Smiles ruefully
Ultimately God, of course. He smiles wickedly But of course you meant in the here and now, I know. Well, then, that would be the King of France, Charles.
I am a Christian, and I follow Pope Benedict. Boniface is a schismatic, elected by false cardinals and no true Pope.
A sop of bread and wine, perhaps some cold meat or fish. Some will eat porridge of oats or some such, but I can�t abide the stuff myself.
I do not eat a lunch as such. Normal practice is for breakfast and dinner, more than that is gluttony and indulgence.
Depends. If I am entertaining there are numerous (once up to twenty) courses of meat and fish, pasties of the same, whatever vegetables and fruits can be got, cheeses, sweets of pastry and honey, and so on. If it is just myself and my court, then a simple meal of perhaps four to six courses usually suffices. I do not keep such great state every day.
Wine. A Bordeaux or Anjou red for a preference, though a Rodelaise merrilac can be good for a change. Bit dry though. I have some vineyards that produce a drinkable white, and my new estates in Poitou bid fair to produce a very nice red. Cider, both from apples and from pears, the latter of which I am extremely fond of.
The kitchens? Again the Seigneur looks puzzled Ahh, I see what you are after. I have farms here about to support the keep. They keep pigs and cows, some goats. Also geese, chickens, ducks. I keep about a dozen swans in the moat, both for the meat and because they are vicious birds, and thus make good guards. Grain and other stuffs are also from my farms, and my velliens bring it in when the harvest comes. I also keep a stocked pond for the fish, and the forests around are good for hunting, which provides deer, boar, rabbit and the like. Some of the farmers keep bees for the honey, as well as for the wax.
On spits, in pots. Shrugs impatiently making a dismissive gesture I don�t really know. Ask Henri, my Chef de Cuisine, he will be able to tell you.
Deer, boar, rabbits, squirrels, foxes, wolves, bear, all manner of birds. The boar, wolf and bear are dangerous, mostly the problem is with the wolves. And of course the foxes can get into the chickens and all. That�s perhaps not dangerous, but certainly irritating. There are also some feral dogs about, which can be dangerous. Most people carry sticks when they travel, for that reason.
Almost all of them, except the canine ones. Deer are hunted in numerous ways, from horse, on foot, from hiding. Boar is usually done on foot, though I have heard that in Castille they hunt them from horseback. Squirrels and rabbits are usually caught by my foresters in traps, thought if I go falconing I will take them that way. Bear is also a foot hunt, most horses won�t go near the things. Of course this is all done with dogs and retainers along. I keep a pack of around 40 dogs, of various breeds for hunting with.
From the skin out? Linen braies, to which I will attach my chausses if I am not wearing full hose. A shirt linen or possibly silk. The chausses or hose are either wool or linen. Over this I will wear a cotte, or cotehardie, of whatever material seems appropriate. I profess a fondness for brocades, though for day to day it's usually linen in the warm weather and wool in the cold. If the day calls for it I will over that wear a houpellande, of various lengths ranging from floor length to just above the knee. The sleeve lengths and styles also vary. This can be made of silk, brocade or velvet, or wool and is sometimes lined with fur for warmth. Shoes of leather, or boots of varying lengths depending on the task, and pattens of wood or leather to keep them from the muck as well as provide a firmer sole for walking.
Again that impatient shrug and dismissing wave of the hand They come from my tailor. Louis Tallieur, if you must know, though these days his son is doing a great deal of the work, Louis is getting on a bit. Madame Tallieur does some very nice fine work, and her daughter in law, Alize, is a good dyer.
All manner of things. Wheat, rye, barley, turnips, parsnips, beans, onions, peas, grapes, apples, pears, some nuts, strawberries, other berries. No citruses, in general, though some people have tried to grow them inside. The trees themselves will grow, a the allee of limes at Villandry shows, but in this climate they will not bear fruit.
I export wine from my vineyards in Picardy and Poitou. Also some of the grains, when there is a surplus though for the most part we store what we do not use in these uncertain times. There are also some wool towns on my Picardy holdings that export their goods to the weavers of Flanders, and a great deal of my wealth comes from the salt I export from Brittany. Wool and salt are always in demand.
For the most part it is best to ship by barges and boats on the rivers, as it's generally faster and less expensive as well. The land routes are chancier.
As I noted before, French for Law and Latin for religion. I speak the Langed�oil dialect of the northern parts of France. That gibberish they speak down south is, for the most part, unintelligible to me. In my northern holdings they also speak the langed�oil, and in the south the langed�oc. In Brittany they speak a Bretagne dialect, which I am told, is like the Scot�s speak, though I would not know, having never heard a Scotsman speak. I know some old songs in the tongue, learned from my Grandmother.
I don�t write myself, but I have commissioned Chanson de Geste, and Romances of the times of Arthur. I could not tell you what the actual style of these was though.
Again, I could not say.
I have heard of tygers in Africa, who are so captivated by their reflection that they will stop whatever they are doing to stare at themselves. There are also said to be dragons still, in Syria. I am fond of the gryphon that appears on my arms, but I do not know as I believe in it.
I am, as I said before, a Christian. A Latin Christian, if we must get that specific. I am a follower of the Pope Benedict, in this time of Schism.
How do you mean, Ecumenical? Am I tolerant of heresy? I would have to say no in general. I do believe that there is a need for reform in the church, but that is not going to come of Schism and heretical teachings.
I am fairly tolerant of the Jews who for the most part are quiet and do not make trouble in my domains. They are also He said with cynical smile useful to have around when one needs money. Of the Muslim faith I am less tolerant, for they are a threat to Jerusalem, and a menace in the east. The Eastern Christians are misguided, and worship incorrectly.
Of course. I wouldn�t want to do it if I thought it would do them harm.
I go to mass at least once a day, if possible, and spend a portion of each day in prayer and reading devotional books.
Botheius, St. Augustine, Thomas Aquinas and William of Ockham are the principal ones I have read, and also Pliny and Aristotle.
I don�t understand the question, I�m afraid.
I follow the Christian ethics, how can one do else and be a Christian? The question seems frivolous. All men act as God made them to, and with their on will save or damn themselves. That man who is slothful in his every day life will be slow on the road to heaven as to hell, either way. Their actions determine their ends.