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William I, in full William, prince of Orange, count of Nassau, byname William the Silent, Dutch Willem, prins van Oranje, graaf van Nassau, or Willem de Zwijger, (born April 24, 1533, Dillenburg, Nassau—died July 10, 1584, Delft, Holland), first of the hereditary stadtholders (1572–84) of the United Provinces of the Netherlands and leader of the revolt of the Netherlands against Spanish rule and the Catholic religion.
Family and inheritance
William, the eldest son of William, count of Nassau-Dillenburg, grew up in a cultivated Lutheran environment. Far richer than his father's ancestral possessions in the region of the Lahn River in Nassau were the estates that, since 1404, another branch of the family had obtained in Brabant and elsewhere in the Low Countries, where its main seat was at Breda. At the time of William's birth, the Brabant branch was represented by his father's elder brother Henry and by Henry's only son, René, who in 1530 had inherited from a maternal uncle the domains of the House of Chalon-Arlay, so becoming the greatest seigneur of the Franche-Comté and ruler of the Provençal principality of Orange. René of Orange was killed in 1544, leaving the combined wealth of the houses of Nassau-Breda and of Chalon-Orange to his cousin William, then aged 11.
In view of the importance of this heritage, the lord of the Burgundian Netherlands, the Habsburg emperor Charles V, stipulated that William's parents should renounce his guardianship and that the young prince should be educated in his new fatherland as a Catholic. So William passed his formative years at Breda and Brussels, under the guidance of suitable tutors, and was duly imbued with the principles proper to a youth of his standing. French became his daily language, and he acquired a colloquial command of Dutch.
In spite of his immense landed property, his financial circumstances were straitened from the beginning. Scarcity of liquid assets continued to hamper him, even after his marriage (July 8, 1551) to a wealthy heiress, Countess Anne of Egmond-Buren, who brought him several additional baronies, mainly in Holland. These "structural" pecuniary straits he shared with most of his class and with the Burgundian government itself.
A favourite with Charles V and with the court at Brussels, the Prince faithfully discharged the social, military, and diplomatic duties that were expected of him. He continued to do so under Philip II, the Emperor's son and successor as king of Spain and lord of the Burgundian dominions. Together with his later enemies Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, bishop of Arras, and the duke of Alba, he was a negotiator of the Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis (1559), which, in ending prolonged strife between Burgundy-Habsburg and France, released from French occupation his princedom of Orange and made the Netherlands accessible to Calvinist preachers from France. Philip II, at his accession in 1555, had admitted William to the Council of State, and, now before his departure to Spain, the King appointed him his stadtholder (governor and commander in chief) in Holland, Zeeland, and Utrecht (August 1559) and afterward in Franche-Comté (February 1561).
Loyal opposition to the King's government
From about 1561 William, the prince of Orange, together with other great lords who felt themselves excluded from their rightful share in the country's government, began to protest openly against the conduct of the Brussels administration, in which Granvelle, the principal adviser of the regent Margaret, duchess of Parma, was the most powerful figure. At first religious questions were not prominent among the causes of discontent, but they gradually became so with the spread of Protestant ideas and the determination of Philip II not to tolerate any deviation from the strictest Catholic orthodoxy. The Prince and his associates, in varying degrees influenced by the comprehensive views of the Humanist Desiderius Erasmus, shared in this respect the feelings of the majority of their countrymen, who, while remaining conventional Roman Catholics, resented religious persecution. Besides, several of the nobles had, as had William, friends and parents among the Protestants. On Aug. 25, 1561, the Prince, a widower since 1558, reinforced his Lutheran and German connections by taking as his second wife Anna of Saxony.
In the mind of William, the prince of Orange, the religious issue gradually assumed paramount importance. In a sensational speech in the Council of State, he argued that it was not feasible to enforce religious unity and that it was not right for princes to presume to rule over the consciences of their subjects. But the King in October 1565 gave strict orders that the ordinances against heretics should be inexorably applied.
Consequently, the situation became increasingly dangerous. The leadership of the opposition was now taken over by a confederation of lesser nobles and gentlemen, some of them Calvinists, who were more desperate than the grandees and less averse to a violent solution; they and their followers soon came to be called the Gueux (Beggars). The great lords kept aloof, but William and a few others showed sympathy for the movement, with which the Prince was personally in touch through his brother, Count Louis of Nassau, a Lutheran with Calvinistic leanings. Orange persuaded the confederates not to resort to armed action but instead to petition the regent Margaret for a suspension of the decrees against Protestants. The Duchess did indeed promise a moderation of the anti-heretical measures, but it was already too late for minor relaxations to avert trouble. Misery caused by the economic depression contributed to the violent explosions of religious fanaticism that shook the Low Countries in August 1566. Calvinist mobs forcibly entered churches, smashing the images and destroying the furnishings. Besides causing irreparable damage, these excesses had a threefold effect: peaceful coexistence of Catholics and Protestants became more difficult; the opposition movement was weakened because its responsible members felt it necessary to defend the church; and, finally, it caused King Philip to resort to force in an attempt to crush heresy and rebellion at one blow. To this end, in December 1566, he appointed the duke of Alba as his captain general in the Netherlands.
Orange seems to have contemplated immediate active resistance but in the end did nothing because the popular hero Lamoral, count of Egmond, stadtholder of Flanders and Artois, would not support him. William allowed the Protestants, now openly rebellious, to hail him as their defender, but he upheld public order. As hereditary viscount of Antwerp he quelled an insurrection of the numerous Calvinists there, and he kept the city gates closed to rebels and government forces alike. He protested his loyalty to the king, yet he refused to take the new oath of unconditional obedience that the Regent required from all officeholders and prudently retired in April 1567 to the family seat at Dillenburg. Many thousands followed William's example or had preceded him; a general exodus to England, Germany, and France took place.
Open revolt and alliance with Calvinism
By May 1567 order was everywhere restored. Nevertheless, in August Alba entered Brussels at the head of a well-trained army and inaugurated a reign of terror. In September a special court, the Council of Troubles, was set up to try all cases of rebellion and heresy, and more than 1,000 executions took place (including those of the counts of Egmond and Hoorne). Orange, summoned to appear before the court, replied with a dignified Justification of his conduct. But his possessions in Philip's dominions were confiscated, and his son Philip William, a student at Leuven (Louvain), was deported to Spain.
Once again the cause of liberty, no less than that of religion, was clearly seen to be at stake. The opposition, however secret, became much more widespread, and Orange was justified in expecting a general rising when he should appear as a liberator. He saw his own fortunes irrevocably bound up with those of the Netherlands, and he no longer hesitated to proceed to military action. Though disappointed in his hopes of substantial support from the Lutheran German princes (he himself had reverted to the creed of his childhood) or from the emperor Maximilian II, he managed, mainly through the aid of his relatives, to raise a number of troops. In April 1568 two invasions of the Low Countries were inaugurated, but both badly miscarried. One of the attacking forces was destroyed by Alba on the banks of the Ems River. The Prince himself took the field in the beginning of October and marched toward Brabant, but the expected rising did not materialize, and he was obliged to retire to France. There he stayed for a time with the Huguenots, the Calvinist party then in rebellion against the royal government, before returning, in October 1569, to Germany. His brother Count Louis remained in France as his personal representative. The abortive campaigns had at least popularized Orange as the champion against oppression. The Calvinists were ready to forgive him for failing to take up arms in 1566, while he had come to appreciate them as the hardcore of the resistance movement, though he disliked their Puritanism and intolerance. Moreover, Calvinism was an "international" power, and from its adherents in Germany and France he had hitherto received his most effective support. So a rapprochement took place, but it was not until 1573 that he finally joined the Reformed Church.
These were his darkest years. With Alba securely in power and his own designs frustrated, having lost a brother (Adolph) and many of his friends, and bereft of his son, his estates, and his offices, he was also harassed by financial difficulties and by the wayward conduct of his wife, Anna of Saxony, whom he divorced in 1571. Orangist propaganda was active, but military operations were mainly confined to the exploits of the Sea Beggars, who had taken to the sea to combat the King of Spain from foreign bases. Their blockading activities contributed to the economic malaise in the Netherlands and so to the discontent nourished by Alba's harsh administration. This was especially the case in the seafaring province of Holland.
For the summer of 1572 Orange planned a number of coordinated attacks, counting on help from France, but on April 1, well ahead of any officially planned move, a fleet of Sea Beggars, driven from English ports, surprised and captured the port of Brielle (Den Briel) in Zuid-Holland. Their success triggered off the desired popular rising in Holland and Zeeland, most towns declaring themselves for the Prince, so that by July only Amsterdam, Middelburg, and two other towns in Zeeland remained in loyalist hands. On the initiative of Orange, the provincial States of Holland met at Dordrecht (July 19–23) and recognized the Prince as still being their stadtholder, nominally on behalf of the King, and they themselves assumed an effective share in the government. Equal rights for Catholics and Calvinists were proclaimed, pending a decision by the States General, the joint assembly of all the provinces.
Meanwhile, large parts of Gelderland and Friesland joined the revolt, as Alba and his army were retained in the south to counter the main attack, which had been launched from France. Louis of Nassau had captured Mons and was besieged there by the Spanish. Orange himself marched into Brabant, and several towns opened their gates to him. Hopes of French support were soon dashed, however, when the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day destroyed Huguenot influence at the French court. Louis was obliged to capitulate in September, and Orange disbanded his mercenaries. The fighting in the south had at least provided breathing space for the rebellious northern provinces to consolidate their position. The Prince decided to join them, landing at Enkhuizen on October 21.
For four heroic years (1572–76), William, the prince of Orange, led the desperate resistance of the two maritime provinces (Holland and Zeeland) against the Spanish armies sent to subdue them. Two more of his brothers—Louis and Henry—fell in a serious defeat near Nijmegen in April 1574. Meanwhile, his agents were active in the subdued provinces, in England, Germany, and France, and on June 12, 1575, he married Charlotte of Bourbon-Montpensier, a former abbess who had joined the Reformed Church. The Prince needed all his authority, tact, and tenacity of purpose to hold his followers together and prevent their pursuing divisive interests. He tried to check the excesses and mitigate the intolerance of the Protestants but was unable to maintain the equality of the Catholic and Reformed churches that he had previously advocated, and in 1573 Catholic worship was forbidden. In the closer unions Orange brought about between the different parts of Holland (July 1575) and between Holland and Zeeland (April 1576), he was recognized as "Chief and Supreme Authority" for the duration of the war, but liberty of worship was specifically excluded, though liberty of conscience was recognized.
The Prince's triumph
A temporary collapse of Spanish power in the Low Countries in 1576 gave the Prince a fresh chance. In the absence of a governor-general after the death of Alba's successor, Luis de Requesens y Zúñiga, and confronted with mutinous Spanish troops, the Council of State ventured to convene the States General. This assembly, pretending to act in the name of the King but in fact usurping viceregal powers, immediately opened negotiations with the rebellious provinces. The Pacification of Ghent (Nov. 8, 1576) was the result. It has been supposed that Orange's influence and agents were primarily responsible for this achievement. Certainly this peace, supplemented by the first Union of Brussels (January 1577), heralded the realization of his ambitions and ideals: not only were his governorships confirmed and his possessions restored to him, but the union of the so-called 17 Netherlands under a national government seemed about to be accomplished. But the idea of a "common fatherland," though steadily growing, was not yet strong enough to overcome particularistic or religious divisions. Because of the Perpetual Edict of 1577, the treaty the States General concluded with the new governor-general, Don John of Austria, specified that the Roman Catholic religion was to be maintained all over the country, and because of the absence of provisions for the maintenance of the Pacification, the deputies of Holland and Zeeland left the assembly.
In July 1577, however, Don John attempted to renew hostilities, thus driving more and more people to support the Prince. Those towns of Holland and Zeeland that had always opposed Orange or had been recovered by Spanish arms now recognized his authority; the last to accede (February 1578) was Amsterdam. The town and province of Utrecht followed suit, and in Flanders, Brabant, Groningen, and elsewhere, the radical Orangists, mostly Calvinistic burghers and craftsmen, gained the upper hand. In September 1577 the States General, to which the representatives of Holland and Zeeland had now returned, invited Orange to come south to Brussels, where he was triumphantly received. Under his influence a new union came into being, providing for joint action by both Roman Catholics and Protestants against "the common enemy of the fatherland." Meanwhile, the States General, continuing to act with sovereign power, had formed a government headed by the young archduke Matthias, an Austrian nephew of King Philip. Matthias agreed to conditions laid down by the Prince guaranteeing a constitutional system of government. Moreover, in January 1578, Orange was commissioned to act as lieutenant general for Matthias.
The Prince's failure
Orange was now at the zenith of his career, but his triumph proved as short-lived as was the general union of the provinces. His failure to consolidate the newly won unity was primarily due to the excesses of his Calvinist supporters who forcibly introduced popular and intolerant regimes. Thus, the revolutionaries played into the hands of King Philip's new governor-general, Alessandro Farnese, duke of Parma. He was the son of the former regent Margaret, and on Oct. 1, 1578, he had taken office after the death of Don John.
The Catholic but still anti-Spanish reaction made itself felt first in the southern, French-speaking provinces. Not unnaturally, when seeking for help, their thoughts turned to France, but it was on the Prince of Orange's advice that the States General in August 1578 adopted the Catholic Duke d'Anjou, brother of Henry III of France, as "Defender of the Liberty of the Netherlands." Soon afterward, the formation of specific unions by smaller groups of provinces began to compromise the general union, which was irrevocably compromised in May 1579 when the Prince gave qualified support to the "Union of Utrecht," whose main promoter was his brother John, stadtholder of Gelderland and a staunch Calvinist. On March 15 the Prince was outlawed by Philip II and a reward offered for his assassination. He answered the charges of treason with a vehement Apologie, written for him by his court chaplain, and he continued to put his trust in France. Against much Protestant opposition, he persuaded the States General in 1580 to give the Duke d'Anjou the hereditary sovereignty of the Netherlands, and in 1581 they solemnly renounced their allegiance to the king of Spain. Meanwhile, the provinces of Holland and Zeeland, unwilling to grant the French prince any direct authority, planned to create Orange their hereditary count.
Anjou, however, far from aiding the cause of liberty, added to the prevailing confusion. With great difficulty Orange effected his reconciliation with the States General. His own continuing reliance on France is shown by his fourth marriage (1583), to Louise de Coligny, a daughter of the murdered Huguenot leader the Count de Coligny.
As a result of the ban pronounced by Philip II, an attempt was made on the Prince's life at Antwerp in March 1582. With Parma advancing from the south, he retired in July 1582 to Holland, where he moved into his old quarters in a former convent at Delft. There, in 1584, he was shot by a fanatical Catholic, the Franc-Comtois Balthasar Gérard. His last words were a prayer for the people he had tried to lead for so long. The family seat of Breda being then in enemy hands, he was buried in the New Church at Delft.Adriaan G. Jongkees The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Learn More in these related Britannica articles:
history of Europe: The Wars of Religion…house of Orange, represented by William I the Silent and Louis of Nassau, acted as the focus of the revolt; and, in the undogmatic and flexible personality of William, the rebels found leadership in many ways similar to that of Henry of Navarre. The sack of the city of Antwerp…
Spain: Philip II…the Prince of Orange (William I the Silent) to the viceroyalty of Sicily so that Netherlanders and Italians would no longer think that the king regarded only the Spaniards as his "legitimate subjects." But Philip had refused to listen, and the bitter Castilian hostility to Granvelle at court ended…
Netherlands: The Union of Utrecht…policy of William I (Prince William of Orange) of collaboration between Roman Catholics and Calvinists throughout the Low Countries in resistance to the Spanish domination, which required mutual toleration between the religions. But it took some time before the "general union," with its base in the States General at Brussels,…
history of the Low Countries: The Habsburgs…the resistance under the capable Prince William of Orange (1533–84) and the popular Count of Egmond. Resistance increased when the Burgundian Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (bishop of Arras and virtually prime minister under the Netherlands' governor Margaret of Parma) was appointed archbishop of Malines and then cardinal and primate of…
history of the Low Countries: Causes of the revoltWilliam, the prince of Orange, with sharp political insight, had decided not to wait for Alba's arrival; he had managed to escape in time to his birthplace in Nassau-Dillenburg, leaving behind all his possessions, which were promptly confiscated. His son, Philip William, was taken prisoner…
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Optiwind turbine up and running on the Klug Hill Farm in Torrington
TORRINGTON -- The Optiwind wind turbine built on the Klug Hill Farm is generating power, company spokesman David Hurwitt said on Saturday.
The first part of the turbine began generating power on Sept. 9, but is still in the testing phase, Hurwitt said.
"We can't just turn it on and walk away," he said. "We are conducting tests with the first part of the turbine and will soon lower it in order to put on generation 2 parts."
Hurwitt said the first portion of the turbine will be lowered in the next three weeks, and will be raised back to the top of the tower structure sometime in November, equipped with the new parts.
The turbine being built is a first for the company and will provide power to Klug Farm, owned by George "Butch" Klug.
"Once all the wind gathering devices are in place, we will be able to generate 150 kilowatts of power, which is more than the farm will need," Hurwitt said. "The rest will be added back to the power grid."
The type of turbine is different from some that are in operation right now on larger wind farms.
This structure is a mid-sized turbine that is designed to provide power to individuals and companies that would spend about $75,000 per year on electricity.
"We saw a hole in the turbine market. There were large ones on wind farms and smaller ones used to provide power on boats and for small structures," Hurwitt said. "Four out of every five turbines are sold outside of the United States, so there is definitely a market both in the U.S. and abroad."
Optiwind first attempted to obtain a site at Woodridge Lake in Goshen to construct one of its turbines, but the concept was turned down following months of meetings with the Goshen Planning and Zoning Commission.
In the meantime, Klug approached the company, asking that they consider his farm as a possible site, with the idea that having wind energy would lower his farm's high electricity costs.
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In addition to the wonderful children's programs already in place, there are two special events for kids this week.
- Kids age 3-7 are invited to attend our Olympics Party, in celebration of the 22nd Winter Olympic Games. This Friday, February 21st from 10:30-11:30am in the Smart Community Room, we hope you will join us for reading, crafting, and game playing.
- The children's movie this month is Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 and will be shown this Thursday, February 20th at 1pm in the Smart Community Room. You can read more about the movie and watch its trailer by clicking here to view our original post for the event.


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FULL BMW SERVICE HISTORY - 2 OWNERS - RECENT HEALTh CHECK AND RECALLS ADDRESSED AT BMW LEEDS - WILL BE SERVICED BEFORE SALE - , White, PLEASE CALL FOR MORE DETAILS - VIEWING 7 DAYS UNTIL LATE - INSPECTIONS WELCOME - DEALER FACILITIES !, £15,995
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Hundreds of Vietnamese take to the streets to protest Chinese oil rig deployment
HANOI, Vietnam – Hundreds of Vietnamese on Sunday protested outside the Chinese Embassy in Hanoi China's deployment of an oil rig that has triggered a tense naval standoff and raised fears of confrontation in contested South China Sea waters.
Scores of security officers kept a close watch on about 500 demonstrators as they shouted anti-Chinese slogans and held up banners in a park across from the embassy. The protest was state-sanctioned as it also included signs "Long Live the Communist Party."
"We are infuriated by the Chinese actions," said Nguyen Xuan Hien, a lawyer. "We want the Chinese people to understand."
Vietnam's authoritarian leaders are highly nervous about public protest even as they have condemned China's decision to send the rig. Dissident movements opposed to their rule have also taken part in previous anti-China protests, which had been broken up by authorities.
Vietnam dispatched a flotilla of ships to the oil rig soon after it was deployed on May 1, but they were unable to break through a circle of more than 50 Chinese vessels protecting the facility. The Vietnamese coast guard released video of Chinese vessels ramming and firing water cannons at Vietnamese ships.
The latest confrontation in the disputed Paracel Islands, which China occupied from U.S.-backed South Vietnam in 1974, has raised fears that tensions could escalate. Vietnam says the islands fall within its continental shelf and a 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone. China claims sovereignty over the area and most of the South China Sea — a position that has brought Beijing in confrontation with other claimants, including the Philippines and Malaysia.
The United States has criticized China's oil rig deployment as provocative and unhelpful. Foreign ministers from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations who gathered Saturday in Myanmar ahead of Sunday's summit issued a statement expressing concern and urging restraint by all parties.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying responded by saying that the issue should not concern ASEAN and that Beijing was opposed to "one or two countries' attempts to use the South Sea issue to harm the overall friendship and cooperation between China and ASEAN," according to state-run Xinhua News Agency.


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"Making a pitcher that tells you if milk is bad or good would seem like the stuff of the future, but it can be made," says Harry Freedman, one of a team of 6th graders from P.S. 126/Manhattan Academy of Technology in New York City who invented an intelligent milk pitcher. In concept, the pitcher uses pH to determine whether the milk is spoiled. The invention took runner up in the First Lego League Global Innovation Competition. Coach Hau-yu Chu and the team travelled to Washington D.C. earlier this month to receive the award.


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PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Mapping out her Olympics preparation after a three-race test, Lindsey Vonn will sit out this weekend's World Cup stop at St. Moritz, Switzerland, and is planning to return to the circuit in a downhill at Val d'Isere, France, on Dec. 21.
Vonn's schedule was announced Wednesday by the U.S. Ski Team.
The 29-year-old American returned to competition at Lake Louise, Alberta, last week, 10 months after tearing two ligaments in her right knee and breaking a bone in that leg during a crash at the world championships. She also had a setback when she partially re-tore one of those surgically reconstructed ligaments in a fall during practice on Nov. 19.
Vonn finished 40th in a downhill Friday in her World Cup season debut, then 11th in another downhill Saturday, and fifth in a super-G on Sunday.
Asked after that last event what those 72 hours of racing told her, Vonn replied: "It tells me that I do need a couple more starts. I want to make sure that I get on the podium at least once, if not win, before ... Sochi. For me, mentally, I really want to have that in my back pocket."
She also indicated she did not think she needed much more in the way of World Cup work before heading to the Olympics, which start in less than two months.
"I know that I'm skiing well, so I know that I don't need to push myself and try to push the limits of my knee to race as many as races as I can. ... I'm ready for Sochi," Vonn said Sunday. "I may race in one or two races, something like that."
She added the she wanted to limit her schedule so as to "take the risk away from any long-term damage on my knee."
The races she'll miss at St. Moritz are a super-G and giant slalom. She's won the downhill at Val d'Isere three times — in 2005, 2006 and 2010. After that initial victory there, Vonn was awarded a cow by local farmers.
Vonn won two medals at the 2010 Vancouver Games, including a gold in the downhill, and she is a four-time overall World Cup champion. Her 59 race wins are three shy of the World Cup career record.
Vonn explained that she would work with her coaches to figure out when to race ahead of going to Sochi.
"We take everything day to day and week to week with her and ... there won't be nearly as much volume, because the one thing we don't have to do with Lindsey is teach her how to ski," U.S. Ski Team women's speed coach Chip White said at Lake Louise. "We're just going to try to make sure that the training and racing that she does is quality and trying not to take an unnecessary risk with her."
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In the brain, a handful of bustling hubs routinely handle heavy volumes of messages. In many cases, these key transit centers and the brain areas affected by brain disorders are one and the same, scientist report June 19 in Brain.
The results highlight the importance of studying connections between nerve cells as well as discrete brain regions, an approach that may reveal a deeper understanding of the human mind (SN: 2/22/14, p. 22), says Nicolas Crossley, a neuroscientist at King's College London.
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St. George's, Grenada
An attractive colonial-era town spilling down a hillside above the Carenage, with its horseshoe-shaped harbor, Grenada's capital of ST GEORGE'S received the full brunt of Hurricane Ivan's high winds, and the bevy of new terracotta-coloured roofs stand in testament to the power of the wind.
St George's won't take more than a day to explore, and it's worth taking time away from the beach to do so. Though the market is at its liveliest on Saturday morning, most shops close on Saturday afternoons, Sundays and public holidays, making the town a quiet place during those times – except when a cruise ship moors at the spanking new docks, in which case the town explodes into a frenzy of activity, market stalls spring up on shore, restaurants and bars fill up, street vendors and local guides come out in force.
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Pretty as a picture describes our beloved Bequia. You'll be captivated by the island's charm while strolling along the lovely harbor with its shops, restaurants, and pastel-painted gingerbread homes. There's a long tradition of boat building and you'll find a slew of handcrafted model ships, old nautical charts, and rare sailing books to bring back home.
Peaceful and removed describes this patch of paradise. Green rolling hills descend to sandy white beaches (typical of the Grenadines.) At Tyrrel Bay, under the shade of palms at the edge of the sea, you can watch local men building schooners by hand. Still unspoiled by mass tourism, this is the perfect spot for getting away-from-it-all.
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The island of Mayreau is a true break from reality, with only one road, virtually no development, and farm animals outnumbering the inhabitants. One of the Grenadines, in the larger chain of Windward Islands, it has beautiful beaches, and plenty of solitude. View it as your own private island.
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Calvin Harris FINALLY Speaks Out Following Taylor Swift Spli
Just hours after Taylor Swift pulled the pin on her relationship with Tom Hiddleston because she felt 'uncomfortable' with his need for publicity, her ex Calvin Harris has spoken out.
Speaking to GQ magazine at the annual Men Of The Year Awards ceremony earlier this week, he explained that the couple attempted to avoid a 'media circus' throughout the romance, yet 'suffered the opposite' during their split.
Harris had only been separated from Swift for two weeks when she became public with Hiddleston and he chose to speak out just after Swift and Hiddleston's three-month relationship had come to an end.
'It was completely the wrong instinct. I was protecting what I see as my one talent in the world being belittled," he said.
'It felt like things were piling on top of me and that was when I snapped. I'm not good at being a celebrity, but when it ended, all hell broke loose.
'It clearly wasn't right, so it ended, but all the stuff that happened afterwards.'
'I feel at 32 I'm nearing the end. Just kidding. This week ten years ago was when I left Marks and Spencer Simply food in Clapham South where I carried out such tasks as date-rotating sandwiches and moving the salmon.
'I'd like to dedicate this to my manager Mark Gillespie for being a fantastic man. We've been through a lot and discovered a lot this year,' as he referenced the furore surrounding his split from Taylor.'
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Why email is not stealing time from real work.....
The assumption, or fact, behind that all these attempts is that the number of emails are increasing and take up way too much of our working time. Email is seen as a "time-suck". The conclusion for most is that we need to reduce the number of emails, or make them shorter, or easier to work with, so we do not have to spend so much time with our emails.
Even though all this sounds rational and sound, I am not sure that the basic premise is correct. I agree that the number of emails have been increasing, but I am also quite sure that reading and answering emails today is not necessary time wasted or time taken away from "real" work. To "work" with your emails is in most cases real work, it is not something else than work. When I work with my inbox, I do real work. A very small number of the emails I "work" with are not important at all (apart form some occasional spam) or are not about something that is a genuine part of my work.
So, an increasing number of emails is not necessary the same as work distraction.
There are of course some consequences of reducing the use of email. First of all, we could have to go back to a system where meetings and close geographical location is a requirement for "work". But that will not be accepted of course. So many things of what I do when I am "working" is considered to be normal and required for someone in my position, and is not possible to do without email.
We can of course use other technologies for communication, such as social media and other commonly used technologies. However, many of these new technologies are not specifically designed for asynchronous communication that leave a clear trail and a creates a record and is not very useable for ongoing professional communication, which probably is why email completely dominates among professionals. Email offers a functionality that is hard to replace.
Anyway, enough of this. I truly find email to be an extraordinary tool for "work" (and I am consciously using the word "work" here instead of "communication"). Of course, this does not mean that email can not be improved, for instance, the world would be better if we all followed the proposed rules in the "email charter" but that is another issue.
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- Kevin Makice said...
The big problem with email may simply be the overt focus on the technology and channel, at the expense of organizational context and relationships.
With SociaLens, we've encountered many gripes about email. So much so, Christian Briggs coined terms for different flavors of inbox overload. However, digging deeper than the tool, we always find interpersonal dynamics and skills issues at the heart of the problem. People who took a long time to adapt to email are often resistent to changing to other tools. Policies that dictate "rules of use" for email typically neglect the wide variance in how individuals and groups within an organization communicate. Raising the digital fluency—the information, interaction, and innovation skills that individuals need to help them do their jobs—addresses these problems where they are.
- Wednesday, June 29, 2011 12:43:00 PM
- Christian Briggs said...
Hi Erik, you and your readers might find the flavors of overload we found interesting, and perhaps helpful. The terms were our attempt to categorize the gripes that came from 50 people in 10 different organizations of all types:
Firehose Overload—More information coming in than the person can physically or mentally process. This tends to happen after significant changes in personnel, tools, internal policy, or external behavior.
Too Much Hay, Not Enough Needles Overload—A nagging sense that a person has missed an important needle in their information haystack. This form of overload usually comes after experiencing the Firehose for a while, as a person tries to deal with how to filter through all that information to make it useful.
Sinbox Overload—A nagging guilt over unread emails and other messages. This form of overload is typically a byproduct of rejection of the Firehose as useful.
Interestingly, only two of the 50 people we interviewed said that they did not feel overloaded. One said it was her job to swim in lots of information. The other had taken very draconian measures (only reading emails in the morning, etc.) to manage it.
- Wednesday, June 29, 2011 1:47:00 PM
- Phoebe Sengers said...
I agree that we are 'working' when we are processing email, but there is a qualitative difference in the kinds of work one does when one gets to the point of spending 25-50% of one's day in one's inbox. A lot of the work I do is filtering out the irrelevant stuff to get to the very small percentage of stuff that I can actually commit to spend the time to do. This is painful work because much of it involves deciding who to disappoint. And saying "no, no, no, no, no" does not feel like I am getting My Real Work That I Care About done, although it certainly has become a key part of my job.
Yes, there is some stuff for which email is great. But to simply say "you're working" is side-stepping the main issue - working on what, for whom, and why.
- Friday, July 01, 2011 4:39:00 PM
- Peter Axel Nielsen said...
I completely agree with your view that working with the inbox is also work. My own experience is that I measure how busy I am by the size of my inbox. It is thus easy to confuse being too busy with inbox overload. Along the same line of thinking I don't my calendar app if I have too many meetings. BTW emails often save me going to more meetings.
- Saturday, July 02, 2011 3:43:00 AM
- micah_gideon said...
I, too, agree with this view. Getting rid of the inbox does not equate to more time for other (real?) work, but rather means more time spent on the logistics of trying to reach the people who have the information/resources you need to do your 'real' work. People living in a society will always need to communicate and we, being human, will continue to try to enhance/improve/extend our capability to do so.
- Wednesday, July 20, 2011 10:26:00 AM
- VideoPaean said...
I too think that email is an excellent work tool, however, the lack of awareness that many people have with how much time is spent unproductively can be surprising. I started using Email Stopwatch to find out how much time, and I was surprised to see that I could spend 20-30 min a day with some clients. And I think of myself as a pretty efficient worker.
- Wednesday, August 20, 2014 7:21:00 PM
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As time passes, new trends emerge.
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Concrete floors were once thought of as dingy, dirty, unsightly, dull and warehouse-ish.
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And, as facilities look to install, beautify or restore concrete flooring, profits exist for building service contractors (BSCs).
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Modern-day concrete flooring that is found in common areas is a popular choice today and a primary reason is because of its attractiveness.
"People used to view concrete floors as old, dull, gray floors. However, with the onslaught of concrete polishing and the development of concrete dyes, [facilities are] able to do so much more to make [these surfaces] attractive," notes Chuck Hommey, marketing director for Equipment Development Company Inc.
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For cleaning professionals, these floors offer ease of maintenance.
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- Breads, cereals, pasta, and other whole grains: six to eleven servings
- Milk and fun dairy products like ice cream: four to six servings
- Vegetables: three to five servings
- Proteins like lean meats, eggs, and beans: three to four servings (protein is responsible for the growth of body tissues, including all of your baby's, the amniotic fluid and placenta, and the increase in your blood volume.
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In case you've forgotten about Iraq, it is still A Country That Exists with 36 million people living in it. And the biggest northern city of Mosul was just completely overrun by extremist insurgents, whose first order of business seems to have been to burn anything that has wheels attached.
CNN, amazingly, actually has a pretty good explainer as to what is going on over there. Assuming you don't actually go over to CNN to read it, what you have to know is this:
- As the civil war in Syria spread and became infiltrated with non-Syrian and extreme Islamist fighters, the concept of an Iraqi/Syrian/Jordanian border became practically non-existent.
- A group called the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, also known as ISIS, has spearheaded the assault into Mosul. ISIS is widely regarded to be an offshoot of Al Qaeda in Iraq, and its membership is composed of fighters from all over the Arab world, in addition to places like Europe and Chechnya.
- ISIS is considered to be so nuts by Al Qaeda that Al Qaeda has disowned it. Yeah. It's like that.
- At its most basic, ISIS demands an Islamic Caliphate in the Levantine region.
- 500,000 civilians have fled the fighting in Mosul.
- Those 500,000 civilians weren't the only ones to flee the fighting. A lot of those abandoned, burned-out, up-armored Humvees you see were abandoned by Iraqi security forces, who decided to turn tail and head south.
- Oh yeah, after taking Mosul, ISIS decided to take the city of Tikrit as well.
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Inspired by our recent partnership with Direct Dimensions to scan Auguste Rodin's The Thinker, the BMA has three activities at the festival:
- BMA Biggest Thinkers – Tell us your best memories, biggest ideas, and burning questions at the booth, on social media, or at blog.artbma.org. In appreciation, the top 100 participants will receive a mini replica of The Thinker created from Direct Dimensions' high-resolution scan of the BMA's sculpture.
- Thinker Scavenger Hunt – Search for any or all of the five 9-inch 3D replicas of The Thinker placed around the festival, take your photo with it, and post it on Twitter or Instagram with #bmabigthinker for a chance to win a high-resolution bust of yourself created by Direct Dimensions. The winner will be announced Monday, July 21.
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