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Wanted Markham and Stouffville, Banquet Hall-Place of Worship 3,000 sq feet to 12,000 sq feet, $600K-$4M, cash purchase. (May consider selling after outbreak)
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Wanted. Milton to Brampton, Mississauga, Toronto, north to Aurora, Prefer HWY 427/401. Place of Worship, church, min. 5000 sq. ft. $1M-$10M. Qualified buyer.
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Want Woodstock or within close proximity to Woodstock, Property Suitable For A Place Of Worship/ Church/ Masjid With Sufficient Parking, Flexible Budget.
Nathan Loganathan, Sales Representative, Nathan Team, Homelife Galaxy Real Estate Ltd. Brokerage, (416)284-5555
Wanted: Scarborough, Place of Worship, 10,000sf, parking for 100 to 150+, Motivated Buyer
Chris Nelson, ICI Associate Director, iPro Realty Ltd., Brokerage, (416)918-3878
WANTED in North York: To Purchase 2,500 to 3,500 SqFt. of Commercial or Industrial Unit for Place of Worship - Very Motivated CASH Buyer!!!
Donald Campbell, Broker, Re/Max Premier Inc., Brokerage, (416)987-8000
Want Toronto Prefer South of Steeles Between HWY 427 and Victoria Park, Property Suitable For A Place Of Worship/ Church, $1.5M - $7M
Nathan Loganathan, Sales Representative, Nathan Team, Homelife Galaxy Real Estate Ltd. Brokerage, (416)284-5555
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Brampton 1.4 Acre Land Zoned For Place Of Worship 3.8 Million.
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HAVE 1.4 Acre Land Zoned For Place Of Worship 3.8 Million.
HARRY SINGH, Sales Representative, RE/MAX REALTY SERVICES INC., BROKERAGE, (905)454-5200
Want, Mississauga, Milton, Oakville, Burlington Free standing building/Unit/Church For Place of Worship. qualified buyer, Price Flexible upto $2 Million.
Manzoor Bhatti, Sales Representative, Re/Max Gold Realty Inc., Brokerage, (905)290-6777
Wanted, North York, ON, Place of Worship, $12M-$14M
Amir Pasha, Sales Representative, Century 21 Innovative Realty Inc. Brokerage, (416)298-8383
WANTED Place Of Worship in GTA Kitchener to Toronto to Peterborough North To Barrie Niagara region
HARRY SINGH, Sales Representative, RE/MAX REALTY SERVICES INC., BROKERAGE, (905)454-5200
Wanted, Toronto & GTA, Church or temple any other types of Place of worship including industrial building, Serious Buyer, Make a deal!
Peter Oh, Sales Representative, Right At Home Realty Inc., Brokerage, (416)391-3232
Wanted Scarborough or Markham to buy or build Church, Place of worship $ 1,000,000 to $8,000,000
Ramu Sivapathasundaram, Sales Representative, Homelife Future Realty Inc. Brokerage, (905)201-9977
Wanted Brampton, Mississauga, Celedon Space or Building for Place Of Worship Or Church $1.5M-$3M,
Joga Reehal, Broker, Royal Canadian Realty Brokerage, (905)364-0727
Wanted: Church or building with worship permitted use or land to build Church. Over 10000 sqft. Budget 3M. Toronto Area, prefer North of 401.
Kent Zhou, Broker of Record, Queenland East Realty Inc., Brokerage, (647)391-0889


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In Plato's famous Allegory of the Cave, he explains why the people with lack of knowledge (cave knowledge) do not have true knowledge. Is the court system a modern-day, human-constructed cave?
For an abbreviated explanation of the allegory of the cave, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAu-CNSh9F0
The people in the cave were essentially shown a false world and constructed their belief system on it. This comes as no surprise because we believe what we see with our own eyes. In the case of the cave, the cave captives who remained in the cave could not trust their eyes because their eyes deceived them.
The courts may seem like Plato's cave because, for some, courts are misunderstood. Barring the issue of access to courts, and generally speaking, the courts are not like the cave. The cave represents what people can't know. The nature of courts, unlike the cave, is designed to be usable, knowable, and observable. And, for the most part, the entire process is open to all eyes for public review. Further, every bit of evidence is scrutinized by the court and the trier of fact. Again, this is done in an open forum for controversy resolution; one that is open to the public for review. Yet, court reps are often scrutinized for being part of a big mystery instead of respected for being a place to resolve disputed matters. So, how are the courts like Plato's cave?
There will always be uncertainty and mystery for people involved in the court process. After all, there is an ever-changing and complex nature of how the legal process works within courts. The process by itself can be a mystery and put someone, including lawyers, in the unknown. To successfully navigate through a case, you have to have content knowledge, top-notch legal research skills, and a thorough understanding of complex legal procedures. (E.g. It would be highly unusual for a non-lawyer to successfully fumble his/her way through a complex multi-tort, class action, jury trial on the national stage.)
While it is true that lawyers tend to know more about how to navigate through the legal process, the information is not designed to be hidden from clients as it is in the Allegory of the Cave. Everyone is presumed to know the laws, statutes, administrative codes, and procedure, which are all publicly created, public documents.
So, is the 'process' itself a cave for the clients to exist in? Some seem to believe that only lawyers and judges get to 'know the law,' and the way things work in court are 'hidden' from them. Is this another way of accusing lawyers of being cave guards charging a fee? They might have this belief, but they would be unduly harsh to those who makes a profession of helping others get through these controversies, especially lawyers who have entered the field motivated by social justice.
Plato was a philosopher. As such, he wanted to unearth truths. The message in the allegory hinged on the notion that in order to find truth, we need to get out of our caves to find truth. When it comes to going to court, a skilled attorney can be an invaluable guide. I suspect that Plato and his students would unanimously agree.


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Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage pp 132-151 | Cite as
Holler Colonies and the Altes Land: A Vivid Example of the Importance of European Intangible and Tangible Heritage
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The Holler colonies are settlements in European marsh and dyke landscapes created starting in the High Middle Ages through land reclamation by Dutch water engineers who had been hired by local leaders. Some Holler colonies were later abandoned; others remained. Surviving colonies, some of which remain and are largely intact, was often changed by later land reclamation processes (Renes and Piastra 2011: 24). Today, the remainders of these landscapes are visible proof of the intangible and tangible heritage of European economic and social history. These created landscapes—Holler landscapes—are easily recognized by their linear landscape structure and small parceling. Other characteristic features are hydraulic engineering structures, such as dykes, drainage systems, receiving waters, and the pumping stations used to clear the marshes of water and strip parceling, linear settlements, and infrastructure, houses and farms in a row, dykes, roads and byways, ditches, and channels. Holler colonies are a European landscape typology in several respects. First, they were the consequence of Dutch water engineers' large-scale knowledge transfer within Europe, are always built at the invitation of local leaders, and always encompass the diffusion of Dutch laws, traditions, production, and models of society. Second, they may be considered a European landscape type that defined European wetland areas along large rivers from the Middle Ages onwards. Their uniqueness is based on the techniques applied, the social processes involved, and their long duration.
KeywordsLandscape history Cultural heritage Rural development Landscape resilience People's identity Landscape heritage
This transfer of technology is the defining feature of Holler Colonies. Marsh and dyke land reclamation was planned and not random, not exactly the same everywhere but everywhere followed the same principles. In particular, this marsh and dyke reclamation exemplifies Cope cultivation. The term's origin in the Dutch and Low German term "kopen", meaning "to buy," conveys that the Dutch settlers bought the land which they were asked to reclaim. This dynamic made their imported culture sustainable and distinguished the Holler colonies from other land reclamation areas.
It may be useful to group or cluster these European landscapes as daughter landscapes of a Dutch mother landscape (Verein 2009: 109). Here, we concentrate on one of the best preserved examples of a daughter landscape, the Altes Land, literally "the Old Country," a region south of the Elbe River in Northern Germany, near the city of Hamburg. In examining the region, we are able to gain a short overview of the land-shaping process and demonstrate how a specific historic sociocultural development plays an essential part in our identity today. We also show how water, water infrastructure, and heritage have defined the identities and ways of life in these regions.
The Low Countries as a Center of Innovation in Water Management
The period of population growth of the tenth to the early fourteenth century was a demographic shift which triggered dramatic changes in land use; land reclamation and clearance in most parts of Europe accommodated the new populations (Renes 2010). This population increase was especially problematic for the Low Countries, where land for settlement and agriculture was scarce (Bartlett 1993) where large uninhabited fenlands, in most cases too wet for agricultural production, dominated the landscape. In response to these circumstances, the Dutch invented techniques to reclaim land from the marshes (Renes 2005: 13ff). With the invention of dykes in the tenth century, new areas became habitable and usable (Lebecq 1979:145). Soon, the Dutch developed large-scale drainage systems, including main channels and secondary ditches, to supplement the dykes. Another important new measure: a sustainable system for maintaining the dykes included a civic organization which was responsible for watching over and, if necessary, repairing them day or night at any time of year. These responsibilities were set out in contracts.
According to current knowledge, planned drainage commenced in the thirteenth century (Renes 2005: 27ff; Verein 2009: 27f). Almost immediately after its onset, Dutch technical know-how was in high demand by land owners and authorities elsewhere across Europe, who soon invited the Dutch engineers to come to help drain their lowlands. A later period of population growth, in the long sixteenth century (from 1450 to 1650), triggered another phase of reclamations. Especially in the Low Countries, this activity was characterized by an intensive use of existing arable and pasture lands (Renes 2010) and created less clearly visible and regionally distinct landscapes.
The Dutch hydraulic engineer Johan van Veen provides an overview of the history of Dutch reclamation activities throughout Europe in Fig. 1; although it dates from 1955, this is still the most complete map of its kind. Toussaint (2005: 121ff) has found that Dutch water engineers traveled to different areas, spreading knowledge of the embankment and its value throughout Europe, thus creating a unique continuity. The Center of Research on Holler Colonies in the Altes Land (founded in 2012) has started a deep investigation into the rationale for Dutch settlers' drainage measures and land reclamation technologies and of their societal consequences.
The Dutch engineers and settlers brought other types of activities from Holland to the rest of Europe: They enriched communities with their often advanced knowledge and expertise in labor, new forms of social and political organization, commercial and economic networks, in addition to disseminating knowledge of how to drain and to maintain the wet landscapes which had been more or less unproductive (Lewandowski and Szewczyk 2008: 62f; Hofmeister 2009; Verein 2009: 15). Further contributions included legal traditions, capital investment, and, particularly in the Altes Land, place names. The material interventions were, from the time of origin, always closely linked to immaterial heritage. Water and heritage have now become a unity in these landscapes.
Land Reclamation Process Under Dutch Influence and Introduction of Dutch Political and Social Models in the Altes Land
The Altes Land, at 170 km2, approximately 30 km long, and, at its widest, 10 km wide, is limited by natural borders. The Elbe River lies in its northeast, a dense peatland of 0.5–3 km thickness in the southwest, and the Schwinge River in the northwest. The whole area of medieval land reclamation in the Altes Land (= 240 hides ~ 8000 ha) has a distinctive legal history, leading not only to a recognizable landscape but also an independent mentality.
As early as 1361, the territory had a specific seal, which was inscribed Sigillum Communitatis Veteris Terrae (i.e., the Seal of the Municipality of the Altes Land). That this occurred is important: it shows that the Altes Land was autonomous and therefore different from many other regions in central Europe at a very early stage. It was only after two events, the 1932 disbanding of the political district of Jork and the 1937 establishment of Greater Hamburg, that the unity of the Altes Land— which had held for many centuries—was suspended.
Thus, the Dutch model of society offered a great deal of freedom: political representation, sovereignty over local districts, land ownership, and local maintenance of the landscape. One result was a strong sense of citizenship. Such freedom and responsibility had been relatively unknown to local farmers in the High Middle Ages (Hofmeister 2009; Verein 2009: 15f) and were perhaps as a big a change for local political norms as reclamation was for the landscape.
The Altes Land: Tangible and Intangible History and Heritage
Skilled crafts and trades developed in the seventeenth century in the Altes Land independently of the rights belonging to tradesperson offices in the neighboring cities of Stade and Buxtehude.
The technical and cultural achievements of drainage, irrigation, and land reclamation, a highlight in European internal colonization processes, are still visible in the landscape, while the intangible heritage has often been lost. As one would expect, each of the Holler landscapes, whether in France, Poland or elsewhere, now look somewhat different from each other. Some of them, in particular in regions with a high self-administration, like Germany, retain many of the original cultural, social, and technical features, while others, where a strong national administration dominated politics, like France, retain only the distinctive landscape structure. In most places, later practices of land forming (like combining fields) overwrote the medieval patterns, either due to new societal needs (infrastructure) and or because of the modernization of land use and therefore the creation of larger plot units. We find as well the opposite phenomena, which mean that land was abandoned due to a lack of performance and/or productivity. The latter fact applies especially for Holler Colonies in Poland.
The very visible linear structures, the canal, ditch, and dyke system, as well as the social organization in the Altes Land have survived mainly because natural conditions made a different, more profitable use impossible. The Altes Land stands out today as best preserved example of the historic diffusion process originating in the "Low Countries," more so than in any other European area and even more recognizable than in the current-day Netherlands. As a result, we find a stunning integrity in this regional structure on a fairly large scale.
Finally, yet importantly, another feature of cultural and historic significance survives today: Continuous historical records and a well-kept archive. This too differentiates the Altes Land from the other landscapes where people from the Low Countries settled. Indeed, much of the research on Holler colonies in Europe originates here.
Landscape, Identity, and Development in the Holler Colonies—Based on the Findings in the Altes Land
In the Holler landscapes, landscape identity is not only geographic, but also very strongly social. The concept of landscape identity can be explained by the help of the so-called Swiss landscapes. These are wide and hilly landscapes appreciated highly since romanticism. Swiss landscapes are a kind of master landscape (idealtypische Landschaft), and therefore the terminology is used for similar landscapes in foreign countries, for example, Saxonian Swiss or Holsteinisch Switzerland in Germany. One may speak of an early marketing trick. However, the Swiss landscape model is primarily based on geographical features.
the Altländer farms and courtyards
the linear-shaped settlements
medieval roads and trails
the long strip parceling
the number of bettors and straight drainage ditches, which underscore the overall linear structure.
The Altes Land has a long history of the peaceful settlement of foreigners of different origins, whose cultural, human, and societal impact is felt to this day. Findings from the Stone and Bronze Ages prove early settlement; from 200 AD Saxons came and settled only in the higher, dry areas (Hofmeister 1979). No fights or conflicts between the settlers originating from Saxony and the new ones from the Low Countries are recorded. The exchange and communication with the Dutch originating areas is still apparent and lived. This exchange was and is not only limited to landscape aspects but also is particularly rich and to be found in ideas and traditions. The strong link between the originating and colonized landscape was in earlier times organized through the church (church records of the seventeenth-century bear witness) and has been taken up since by cultural associations (Raap 2010).
Dutch Society Models as Driving Force for Development
As we have seen, one of the outstanding features of this cultural landscape was and is the freedom and self-determination of the citizens, an imported Dutch model. This idea of freedom led to many of the other characteristic features of the Altes Land. One is that women always held a very strong position here. For example, neither party to a jointly composed will could unilaterally change the text to the detriment of the other (Verein 2009). Women also had the right of succession. This is one reason why we find farms that are in the possession of the same family—undivided—since the fifteenth century, leading to a strong historical consciousness and social and regional cohesion (Verein 2009: 28f).
The social system established in the fourteenth century—with independent self-determination, regional auto-administration, and representatives—also formed the preconditions for a flourishing economy.
Popular traditions and a distinctive dialect, still taught to children today, are sound evidence of a strong traditional cultural identity. This traditional identification made it possible for people to self-organize in cooperatives in order to carry out the necessary works and construction of the dykes (Hofmeister 2009). Citizens rather than politicians took responsibility for that work.
On a different scale, the development of larger rural municipalities as sustainable local cooperatives in parishes or peasantries with regional councils, a representative system, goes back to the eleventh and twelfth century; it was first observed in the Frisian populated coastal region and in Dithmarschen (Schleswig-Holstein). This political and social model, including its terminology, was soon to be found as well in the Dutch settled areas along the River Weser. One has to particularly highlight the separation of jurisdiction and administration that developed with the establishment of administrative sectors (Hauptmannschaften) in the fourteenth century; it preceded similar systems in central Europe of the nineteenth century. This autonomous administrative and judicial organization remained more or less intact in the Altes Land until the late nineteenth century. In short, as Verein (2009: 28f) wrote, "Since the fifteenth century, courts have remained the undivided property of one family for generations. Ownership structures, topography, rule-based conditions, contractual arrangements, and legal relations shaped the daily lives of people in the Altes Land in a special way over the past centuries."
Current Status of the Landscape and Challenges to European Heritage
Today, a variety of changes threaten the Altes Land. Due to its geographical proximity to Hamburg, the second largest town in Germany, there is a pressure from urban development, including the demand for industrial land use by the city and port of Hamburg. The shipping industry and other means of transportation have affected land use along the river Elbe, as well as the ground-water level. There is a proposal to further deepen the Elbe. The effects of that change on the marshlands and cultural landscape are yet unclear, but it will certainly change the soil conditions and therefore microclimates and agriculture. Ditches and canals risk drying out, which will not only affect biodiversity but also will make water-regulating features like locks and bridges obsolete—possibly even the former water bodies themselves. Further construction is a new physical, social, and cultural problem, constantly reducing the open area of the Altes Land, especially the farmland. Recent construction has included a new highway along the border between the Altes Land and higher elevations (Geest), and new industrial, commercial, and housing developments.
The Altes Land now belongs to two different Federal States, or Länder. The difference in development pressure is visible: The part belonging to the Federal State of Lower Saxony still retains the historically evolved landscape and historic features while the part belonging to the Federal State of Hamburg is undergoing constant change. In particular, the construction of the deep sea harbor and the resulting artificial hills of the dugout material altered the topography and therefore the visible integrity of the land. Similarly, the huge industrial development by the airplane builder Airbus destroyed parts of the historic landscape.
Another threat comes from outside. As mentioned earlier, the local agriculture is based on fruit production, mainly apples (in 2007 88.1%), followed by cherries, pears, and plums (Verein 2009: 40). This system is under pressure from large-scale production all over the world that does not face the same environmental and topographic restrictions as we find here. It is also under pressure also from constantly renewed EU-regulations, which often do not take into account small-scale production when targeting production methods.
Several new environmental regulations restrict possibilities in regionally and topographically specific contexts. In the past, the farmers of the Altes Land always had to find a way to adapt their production methods to the traditional water management of dykes and ditches, and to fit their fields into the historical parceling. The traditional average distance between two ditches in the Altes Land measures 16–20 m. But the European Water Framework Regulation demands 5-m distance from a water body (in each direction) when using chemicals (European Commission 2000a), putting half the arable land out of production and leaving only a strip of 6–10 m for production—too small to be profitable. Not so long ago, many farmers addressed this problem by sealing the ditches, a lasting negative change not only in the established water management, but also, and this is even more important for our discussion, in the cultural landscape. An internal transformation process is underway, favoring high-quality and organic-based production, thus actually fostering preservation of both immaterial and material heritage. Organic agriculture would be a way for farmers in the Altes Land to follow regulations while keeping farming as a main income source, maintaining and reinforcing the historic cultural landscape, preserving traditions, and making the most of historic water management. Finding this balance might be the most important challenge facing the Altes Land.
Today, 4.1% of the farmers in the administration district of Stade, in which the Altes Land is located, produce under ecological farming labels (Kompetenzzentrum Ökolandbau 2017). The European Commission EIP-AGRI, a "Special area Altes Land" Operational Group financed by the EU rural development policy, not only looked specifically at organic farming but also found that some conventional processes and machinery are transferable to organic production. It will adapt a number of technologies so that all fruit farmers can apply them, bringing together organic and non-organic farmers as well as a number of research and advisory centers.
In both organic and conventional farming, avoiding spray drift when applying plant protection products helps to reduce adverse effects on the environment. The Operational Group is testing tunnel-application spraying systems. Vertical anti-drift nets are also being tested: Farmers set up these dense, 4-m-high insect nets around the orchards to catch a substantial part of spray drift (European Commission 2018). These programs might just the stimuli that Altländer agricultural sector needs to gain economic competitiveness while preserving its cultural heritage.
Heritage, Region-Building, and the Future of the Altes Land
A local group of citizens, the Association for the Recognition of the Altes Land as UNESCO World Heritage e.V." (Verein 2009), has been working since the beginning of this millennium to protect the historic landscape. At the beginning, its goal was to nominate the Holler Colony to UNESCO as a candidate for the World Heritage List. The group met local resistance, in particular, from farmers who feared the status would bring new restrictions. They pointed out their bad experience with environmental protection regulations, especially Natura 2000, a Europe-wide conservation network. (European Commission 2000b) The citizens' association had to become much more professional and enduring, capitalizing on growing awareness of UNESCO World Heritage and its status as an income source for many municipalities and state governments. The people from the Altes Land appropriated the idea that sustainable economic progress can also foster sustainable protection of their heritage. The association became expert in many planning issues and political debates, even as the concept of World Heritage itself evolved into a vehicle for regional development.
Today, the World Heritage nomination goal plays an important role in the local discussion of how to develop the Altes Land into a living area marked by high quality and prospects. Therefore, the goal is part of a new landscape plan (Samtgemeinde Lühe 2017). The farmers are correct that protection status would impose some limitations or even obligations on them, for example, requiring them to keep historic ditches intact. On the other hand, they could realize that it could help safeguard the Altes Lands as a high-quality agricultural production region and as a tourist destination (tourism is the second largest income sector in the region).
The local reflection and participation process that the Association has fostered over the last 15 years fits very well with the whole concept of the World Heritage Convention. In some ways, this road to World Heritage is more important than the status itself. Indeed, the citizens' initiative uses the World Heritage goal to work for a common future of the region.
The association members have organized many campaigns to raise local, regional, and global awareness of the history of the region and the unique historic cultural landscape that is a Holler colony. It organized several national and international symposia and exhibitions for locals and visitors as well as the national and international scientific community. Although not without encountering difficulties and negotiating continuous discussions, the association succeeded in getting farmers, municipalities, tourist organizations, and the general public behind the common goal.
The nomination to World Heritage remains in the air—it was not included in the renewed 2014 German Tentative List but rescheduled with the demand for further specifications. But the Association has achieved many successes. Cooperation with Holler colonies in other European countries is ongoing, and signs are everywhere that awareness of the fact of being a Holler Colony is stimulating regional development. In 2016, the Association was recognized at the international level: it was nominated for the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage/Europa Nostra Awards 2017.
The Holler colonization produced clear, regional distinctive cultural landscapes across Europe, dominated by the presence of water as a land-shaping factor; in turn, water must be constantly managed in them in order to maintain agricultural space. In the Altes Land, the large-scale container ships that sail down the Elbe to the sea loom in impressive contrast with the small parceled landscape dominated by apple trees. Both, the immaterial heritage of the shaping as well as their ongoing maintenance, make this landscapes a recognizable and unique heritage found all over Europe. Together, they help the people who live in the region to maintain their specific history and identity, and construct a sustainable future.
These elements are of course under pressure from modern-day developments, including the need to keep the rivers navigable and national as well as European Union regulation of agriculture. Modern European norms often defy the European past and historical identity, which we need in order to define ourselves. Defining the Holler colonies as cultural heritage may be the only way to safeguard the important ongoing dynamics that created and maintain these unique cultural landscapes.
The Holler colonization is living evidence that migration and cultural exchange can be driving forces in social and economic development. It also shows the resilience of traditional landscape concepts to changes imposed from outside (Janssen et al. 2017). In this respect, the colonies may well be a source of best practices for addressing climate change.
Today, the historical consciousness of the Holler Colonies landscape is growing. More and more locals in Altes Land, including farmers, understand the significance and also the market value of keeping the historic ensembles intact. This awareness does not stop at the maintenance of houses and farms but includes also the fields and ditches as well as traditions and techniques. In line with its European past, this common heritage will be made accessible more widely as part of the Hollerweg, a European cycling route that will start in the Altes Land and connect different Holler Colonies in Poland and the Netherlands. The Hollerweg itself will be part of the Cultural Route program of the Council of Europe (Council of Europe 1987). Awareness of the historic importance of the Altes Land offers the Europeans the opportunity to not only build on heritage and to find new responses to development pressures but also to secure legal protection for the cultural and physical landscape (Hofmeister 2009).
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I didn't think, yesterday when I 'restarted' this blog, that I was going to be plunged into anything 'heavy' so soon... But here we are; it is what it is, and maybe I was 'meant' to restart it yesterday because of today...
Yesterday a friend innocently posted a 'viral' video on her Facebook timeline. I happened to see it - it 'auto-played' as I was scrolling. That moment was, possibly, the most painful thing I've ever experienced 'on-line'. I can't bear to hunt down a link to the video myself - if you want to see it, I suspect it's not hard to find. Here's a link to the story (but not the video) on the BBC website.
It was so painful to watch because it was like watching myself in the mirror - seeing the anguish of the poor little scrap - induced entirely by the way he has been treated by his peers - and all simply because he is 'different' - is not, for me, bearable in any way. I can't watch it. I recognise all of it: the writhing agony, which is practically physical; the words of utter despair. I haven't seen the whole thing - I can't watch - I had to shut it down almost as soon as I saw it.
School, for me, was agony. I hated going - for reasons which were different from that little boy's, but no less painful: I was different, in my own way - and sensitive, and that made me acutely vulnerable. And, though I'm not sure I ever voiced it (because I never felt as though anyone actually wanted to hear what I was saying anyway) I identify with everything I heard him say (before I had to shut the video down): the total despair; the sense of
'I'd rather die than go on like this.'
There, I've said it. I've never admitted that before.
It took me over thirty years before I actually told anyone any of the details of what happened to me. It took that long before I learned to trust enough to know that I wasn't going to be betrayed and rejected - such was the shame and fear. I'd never even told Linda, my wife - yes, she knew I'd been bullied, but what had actually happened was a closed book. Something always stopped me: a feeling, perhaps, that 'uncovering the wounds' wouldn't just expose the pain, but that it would result in someone 'poking' them and it all starting off again: irrational maybe, stupid even, but that's what it does to you.
Until today, there were only four people who really 'knew' all about it (though I've 'hinted' on my blog from time to time, and I've mentioned it in conversation, I have almost always 'moved swiftly on' from it). But today, painful though it is, I can't keep quiet. I need to add my voice to the clamour of those saying this is wrong; it's unacceptable. Partly I haven't talked about it because I don't feel able to describe the pain it causes - and I've never been sure anyone would (or could) either believe it or understand it unless they've experienced it (and then there's no point, because they know anyway). But now there's a video which shows exactly what it's like - he's a child; there are no filters; it's completely raw, real, and honest. I'm not exactly 'jumping on the bandwagon', but because there's now a graphic illustration of the pain bullying causes, it's slightly easier to 'come out' about it.
I am, it has to be said, mostly 'fixed' - telling a few trusted friends, being listened to, being prayed for, have, in effect, brought healing to most of the hurts. I no longer wake regularly in the night, bathed in sweat, either choking or feeling as though I've been screaming; it's a long time since I thrashed about in my nightmares so much that I hurt my wife - indeed, I don't have nightmares any more. But there is still the 'potential' for pain, and for mental scabs to be picked, and for the pain to return: as it has today, on seeing the video of the poor wee chap.
What you see in the video is the reality of bullying. Every day it happens is that painful; it's little less painful on the days when it isn't actually happening, because you're dreading when it restarts again. It is, quite literally, a form of hell on Earth.
People sometimes accuse me of being 'too liberal' in my theology, not least because I'm happy to welcome those who are LGBTQ (or 'different' in any other way) into the church. They're usually victims too, and I refuse to believe that Jesus would reject them... Whatever 'sin' you may think is worthy of condemnation, and which leads you to reject 'them' - I'm sure Jesus sees the pain first and foremost and is moved by his empathy and compassion. Jesus came to save those on the margins, those who were sick and in pain, and by my reading of the gospels He didn't seem unduly bothered by the 'rules' of who was 'acceptable' to God according to the Law of Moses - in direct contrast to the Pharisees, for whom 'purity' was everything.
I'm not wanting, in any way, to trivialise this, nor to offer up some kind of 'religious sticking plaster' to minimise the gravity of this situation. But there is, I think, a spiritual dimension to it all. We see Jesus in all sorts of different situations, and there is a sense in which His life always seems to parallel ours. I am drawn here to Jesus' suffering in the Garden of Gethsemane, which is reproduced in slightly different forms in each of the gospels. I reproduce a couple of extracts here:
Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives, and his disciples followed him. On reaching the place, he said to them, "Pray that you will not fall into temptation." He withdrew about a stone's throw beyond them, knelt down and prayed, "Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done." An angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened him. And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.
When he rose from prayer and went back to the disciples, he found them asleep, exhausted from sorrow. "Why are you sleeping?" he asked them. "Get up and pray so that you will not fall into temptation." Luke 22: 39-46
They went to a place called Gethsemane, and Jesus said to his disciples, "Sit here while I pray." He took Peter, James and John along with him, and he began to be deeply distressed and troubled. "My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death," he said to them. "Stay here and keep watch." Mark 14: 32-34
Once more he went away and prayed the same thing. When he came back, he again found them sleeping, because their eyes were heavy. They did not know what to say to him.
Returning the third time, he said to them, "Are you still sleeping and resting? Enough! The hour has come. Look, the Son of Man is delivered into the hands of sinners. Rise! Let us go! Here comes my betrayer!" Mark 14: 39-42
It's clear that Jesus is in great distress... It's easy to imagine his face looking not unlike that of the little boy in the video. And each time he returns to his disciples; his friends; those who supposedly care about Him - he finds that they can't even be bothered to stay awake in his 'hour of need'. Some friends they are! And that can be what it feels like when one is bullied - even those who are supposed to be one's friends fall away, leaving one alone with the pain.
And then, consider Peter's public betrayal of Jesus:
While Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the servant girls of the high priest came by. When she saw Peter warming himself, she looked closely at him.
"You also were with that Nazarene, Jesus," she said.
But he denied it. "I don't know or understand what you're talking about," he said, and went out into the entryway.
When the servant girl saw him there, she said again to those standing around, "This fellow is one of them." Again he denied it.
After a little while, those standing near said to Peter, "Surely you are one of them, for you are a Galilean."
He began to call down curses, and he swore to them, "I don't know this man you're talking about." Mark 14: 66-71
Peter was one of Jesus' closest friends; how much his denial of the friendship must have hurt Jesus! Those who've been bullied know about that pain - those who you think like you, turning against you because they're too cowardly to stand alongside you in your pain, too frightened to risk being treated as you are, and standing there, mute at best, while you suffer - or, at worst, joining the baying mob… Where was Peter during the final, public, part of the trial before Pontius Pilate? Was he in the crowd? Could Jesus perhaps see him?
Yet Jesus forgave Peter. That must have cost Him so much. We read the following passage from John 21: 15-21 as if it was easy, but somehow the account masks the feelings of betrayal - though Jesus asking Peter three times whether he loves Him is tellingly poignant (as well as being a sort of 'parallel' to Peter's three denials). Can Jesus really trust Peter? History tells us that, ultimately, He could - hindsight is a wonderful thing - but at that moment, it must have felt far from clear.
When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?"
"Yes, Lord," he said, "you know that I love you."
Jesus said, "Feed my lambs." John 21:15
Forgiveness costs. I have forgiven those who bullied me. I've never been able to tell them that, but forgiveness is for my benefit, not theirs. It has taken a long time, and a lot of anguish, 'revisiting' incidents which occurred. And, every now and then, something I'd forgotten 'bubbles up to the surface', accompanied by feelings of anger and resentment, and I have to set in and forgive for that incident too.
I don't want anyone else to go through what I've been through - and continue, in small ways, to go through. The results of bullying can be lifelong. There's beginning to be evidence that 'Adverse Childhood Experiences' such as bullying can cause a variety of health problems later in life - it seems entirely possible that the Graves' Disease and the cardiac arrhythmias from which I've suffered may well be consequences of the trauma I suffered as a child.
We need to deal with bullying - all bullying, for whatever reason it occurs - and stamp it out. It's devastating. Things do seem to have changed somewhat in the forty years since I left school - many schools do at least acknowledge that bullying is a problem; some even have policies which, whilst not perfect, can reduce and mitigate the effects considerably. But it's clear that there's still a long way to go.


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" She seems more collected since « Then I am more wretched than you have arrived," said Tangra. I even imagined. How have I been
6 No doubt!" returned Nadir. deceived ?" " I think, from the few observations « Deceived!" said Nadir : «I that I have already made, that I thought just now that her senses can answer for her cure."
had returned; but I perceive she "Let all, except Nadir, leave the again wanders." room," said Zuliina, whose pene " Yet," continued Zulima, " the trating eyes had for some time been gravity of your appearance ; your fixed upon the sage.
age " All!" cried Tangra ; "you will My age !" cried the Apothesurely suffer me to attend you." cary:
By no means !" returned Zuli. " The mild benevolence of your ma, whose keen and animated glan- aspectces seemed now again to indicate is The fit seems to have passed intellectual commotion.
over," said Nadir. " You must suffer her to have Inclines me to make you my her way !" said Nadir.
confidant: therefore, most vénera66 I will! I will !" exclaimed the ble Nadir! listen to me." young lady.
( No one shall con " Venerable !" said the sage to troul me!"
himself; " I am afraid it will be " No one will attempt it, most difficult to effect this cure." lovely and interesting Zulima ! you " Well, listen to me." waved your hand, and your attend 6 I could for ever listen to you, ants have all retired. Alla protect most lovely Zulima !" us! What do I see? the daughter " Come sit by me :
now be all of Mirza in tears !"
attention," she continued, holding up " What do you see? Oh, Nadir ! her finger. " The care of the matron you see before you a vile hypo- whom you just now saw, Tangra, crite!"
my nurse (for I still call her by " A vile hypocrite!" repeated that fond epithet), could only be Nadir. "What strange turns there equalled by the indulgence of my are in this disorder!"
father and the love of my brother. " An abominable wretch !" I never knew my mother. Within
6 Wretch!" said the apothecary, the walls of this Haram, every obfixing her, eyes upon her while she ject that could form the taste, imcontinued, " who has deceived her prove the mind, or amuse and gratifather, set at defiance the injunctions fy the senses, was collected. I had no of her religion and the laws of her wish to wander beyond the bounds country, and dared to suffer a pase of its extensive gardens, until my sion for a youth of the name of Na. father presented to me a Grecian dir to take possession of her heart!" slave of the name of Lesbia.
66 Is that all?" said the apothe " Touched with her condition, I cary.
freely conversed with her, and " All!" returned the lady. found her genius as great as had
" Yes?" he continued ; "because been her misfortunes. The educathough not so very a youth as you tion she had received bespoke her
former rank in society. To her I at once obliterated from my mind became attached (nay, from my all that Absalom had said respecting warmth of temper,
I may say, de. the trinkets, nay, the trinkets themvoted); but from her I one day selves. Never had I seen a man so heard a word then' as much a perfectly beautiful. My brother, stranger to my ears as the idea although he has been esteemed a which it inspired was to my mind : model of perfection, is, in features this word was liberty!"
and form, much his inferior. He " A pretty important one," said was examining a brilliant sabre,
, Nadir.
therefore I had time to conteniplate " I found it so," returned Zulima, him, but without exchanging a word " from the ideas which it inspired; I left the shop. The next day ) for, not satisfied with the histories sent Lesbia to enquire his name. which Lesbia constantly recited of How, or from what source, she de. the unconstrained piety of the Gre- rived her intelligence, I have never cian matrons, and the unconstrained asked; but she informed me, that chastity of the Grecian virgins, they his name was Nadir, an apothecary, seemed to desire to take a still wid- living in the Meydan. er range, and, freed from the " She did me a great deal of hoshackles in which my country's cus- nour," said Nadir; "but although, toms had confined the female mind for a little man, not absolutely des. and the female body, explore those picable, she must have wanted eyes places which I had only observed if she had mistaken me for my through the lattices of the carriage guest, who is, without exception, I which conveyed me from the black think, the most beautiful youth in marble palace, our winter, to the the kingdom." white marble palace, our summer
« Is he a Persian ?" residence. This desire I communi "" He is from the capital of Golcated to Tangra. She was amazed. conda," said Nadir. My father was still more astonished; " His birth is unquestionably no. but, accustomed to indulge me in ble?"— every thing, he permitted me to go 66 Brilliant," he continued, " it abroad sometimes, attended only by certainly is; for his father is an the eunuchs and Lesbia. In the eminent jeweller and diamond mer. course of these excursions, it was chant in- But I dare say no more. my delight to visit the shops; In fact, I have said all I know, except which, I need not inform you, oh that some domestic disagreement Nadir! exhibit so brilliant and obliged him to travel ; and I hope magnificent a spectacle in this im- that some pleasing circumstance perial city. A few days since, we, will induce him to reside with me; among others, called at that of an for since his arrival every thing has eminent Jew."
prospered in my house; and then he What! Black Absalom?' said is so affable, so even tempered, so Nadir.
generous, so truly benevolent" The same," returned Zulima. Merciful Alla!-Nurse!-Lesbia! " He was showing us his superb as --Slaves !-Attend! your lady semblage of jewels and tasteful faints !!! trinkets, when a young man entered. This exclamation of Nadir's soon Our veils were down; therefore we filled the apartment with attendcontinued in the shop, struck with ants, some of whom immediately admiration
communicated the event that caus" Of the young man, or the trink- ed it to Mirza, who sent for Na. ets?" said Nadir.
dir in an instant. " As," continued Zulima, " I " How do you find your patient ?" mean to unbosom myself to you with cried the afflicted father. the utmost sincerity, I will freely 66 Better than I expected!" re'confess that the sight of this youth turned the apothecary.
gone ?"
" Better! why I hear that she is eunuch is to call on me this evennow in a fit."
ing. To morrow I will see her " I mean worse," said Nadir, again." « for the present; but she will be " I just return, noble Mirza, to better hereafter."
tell you I have seen lier, and we " Heaven and earth! how you an seem to be in a good way." swer me! Are these fits the effects
" Rest"-Light food"—"Gentle of her disorder ?"
exercise"_" Air"_" The mind to 6 Yes!"
be unbent with moderate amuseThen you think she is far ment."-" Music"- Reading"
and-hem-a hem_" I have no " Very far gone indeed," return- doubt but all will go well." ed Nadir. You do not," said Mirza,
(To be continued.) " deem ber incurable ?"
« No? I have a medicine at home that I think will cure her!"
" Then," cried Mirza, " fly for For the Literary Magazine. it instantly !!
" I cannot," continued Nadir, NEW RELIGIOUS SECT. « fly, nor can I very speedily produce it: I must first see what turn A SECT has lately been disher disorder has taken, as her fa. covered in Silesia, which, though vourite maid has just whispered they have existed upwards of a cenme, that she has in some degree re. tury, have not attracted the public covered from her fit."
attention till lately. This conceal" Be sure you prescribe that me ment has been chiefly occasioned by dicine"
their peculiar and fundamental max" I will, if I should deem it pru. ims, which enjoin them to conform dent."
outwardly to the rites and ceremo" And," continued Mirza, " see nies of other sects, when required her take it yourself; for she threw to do so by considerations of personal the last prescription out of the win ease and safety ; to abstain from atdow."
tempting to make any converts • She will not throw my medicine from the followers of a different out of the window, I'll engage." faith, and to communicate their te.
6 No!" said Lesbia, who just en nets only in the way of education, "tered, my lady has too great a to their own children, or to infants regard for whatsoever comes from consigned by poverty or death of the house of the sage Nadir; for natural protectors to their care. In she says, oh noble Mirza! that he their modes of worship they interis not only the tenderest, the most pret strictly that injunction in scripsagacious, but the very best physi. ture, When you pray, go into your cian that she ever had in her life; closets, and pray in secret, &c. and that she will follow his advice Worship, according to them, is acin every thing; and has no doubt ceptable, when offered in sincerity, but, through his scientific influence, by whomsoever and in whatsoever her cure will soon be complete." manner offered, but the precept of
" This," said Mirza, " is indeed Christ, rightly understood, enjoins surprizing !"
solitary and secret prayer. Accor"Not at all, oh Mirza !" replied dingly, they abjure all assemblies Nadir: " when a patient is proper. and churches for religious worship. ly treated, these turns are common. Their forms of devotion are a set of This young lady seems so perfectly hymns in Latin, composed by their to have recovered her senses, that I founder, in which the topics menwill only look in upon her
to take my tioned in the Lord's prayer are leave for the present. Tamas the strictly adhered to ; but these hymns
are regarded by them as convenient, don, observations on the camel's stobut not obligatory, and they hold mach, respecting the water it conthemselves at liberty to follow any tains, and the reservoirs in which other mode, or merely to muse in that fluid is enclosed. silence, provided the topics of their The camel, the subject of these meditation are those included in the observations, was a female brought Lord's prayer, and provided it be from Arabia ; it was 28 years old, done in secret. This method in- and said to have been 20 years in cluding their whole practical reli. England. The animal was gion, they, of course, reject all festi- out, and in a state of great debility, vals,solemn days,consecrated places, before it came into the hands of the and all rites, including baplism and college of surgeons, and they put an the eucharist. The latter they con end to its miseries by means of a sider themselves as celebrating narrow double-edged poniard passed whenever they eat and drink with in between the skull and first verterecollections of Christ, this being, bræ of the neck : in this way the according to them, the true mean medulla oblongata was divided, and ing of the command, Do this in re. the animal instantaneously deprived membrance of nie. In their dress, of sensibility. language, manners, and social con In the common mode of pithing duct, they conform to the prevailing an animal, the medulla spinalis only customs of their country. Their is cut through, and the head resystem enjoins no forms of burial, mains alive, which renders it the marriage, &c., peculiar to them most cruel mode of killing an animal selves. These are points indifferent that could be invented. in themselves, and duty prescribes The stomachs of this animal were to conform to custom, because it the first things examined, and, on is the custom, and because a de- measuring the capacities of these parture from it would only occasion different reservoirs in the dead body, trouble and suspicion. In their mo the anterior cells of the first stomach ral and social conduct they are ge were found capable of containing nerally distinguished by good sense, one quart of water, when poured inindustry, and benevolence. Their to them. The posterior cells, three belief on doctrinal points, such as quarts. One of the largest cells the nature of Christ, and the state held two ounces and a half, and the of souls after death, is not well un second stomach four quarts. This derstood, but they represent these is much short of what ihose cavities points as disconnected with any can contain in the living animal, practical consequences : as mere since there are large muscles coverquestions in history and metaphy. ing the bottom of the cellular strucsics, about which a man is concern. ture, to force out the water, which ed to enquire for the sake of truth, must have been contracted imme. but not for the sake of any mode of diately after death, and by that external conduct to be engrafted on means had diminished the cavities. it. Good behaviour in private life, The camel, when it drinks, conducts and a sincere belief, whatever its the water in a pure state into the objects be, they deein sufficient to second stomach ; part of it is reinsure the approbation of the Deity. tained there, and the rest runs over
into the cellular structure of the
first, acquiring a yellow colour. For the Literary Magazine.
That the second stomach in the camel contained water, had been generally asserted ; but by what means the water was kept separate from the
food had never been explained, nor MR. EVERARD HOME lately had any other part been discovered laid before the Royal Society of Lone by which the common offices of a
second stomach could be performed. shelf from which the food may be To this Mr. Hunter did not give regurgitated along the canal, con. credit, but considered the second tinued from the esophagus. There stomach of the camel to correspond is indeed no other mode by which in its use with that of other rumi this can be effected, since it is hardnants.
This difference of opinion ly possible for the animal to sepaled Mr. Home to examine accurate rate small portions from the surface ly the camel's stomach, and also the of the mass of dry food in the first stomachs of those ruminants which stomach, and force it up into the have horns, in order to determine mouth. It is also ascertained that the peculiar offices belonging to water is received into the second their different cavities.
stomach while the animal is drink, The best mode of conducting this ing, and is thus enabled to have its enquiry is to describe the different contents always in a proper state of stomachs of the bullock, and then moisture to admit of its being reathose of the camel, and afterwards dily thrown up into the mouth for to point out the peculiarities by rumination, which seems to be the which this animal is enabled to go a true office of this stomach, and not longer time without drink than to receive the food after that proothers, and thereby fitted to live in cess has been gone through. those sandy deserts of which it is When the food is swallowed the the natural inhabitant.
second time, the orifice of the third When the first stomach of the stomach is brought forward by the bullock is laid open, and the solid muscular bands which terminate in contents removed, the cavity ap- it, so as to oppose the end of the pears to be made up of two large esophagus, and receive the morsel compartments, separated from each without the smallest risk of its dropother by two transverse bands of ping into the second stomach. The considerable thickness, and the se third stomach of the bullock is a cacond stomach forms a pouch or les vity, in the form of a crescent, conser compartment, on the anterior taining 24 septa, 7 inches broad; part of it, somewhat to the right of about 23, 4 inches broad; and about the oesophagus, so that the first and 48 of 1 inch at their broadest part. second stomach are both included These are thus arranged : in one general cavity, and lined broad one, with one of the narrowwith a cuticle. The resophagus ap. est next it; then a narrow one, with pears to open into the first stomach, one of the narrowest next it; then a but on each side of its termination broad one and so on.
The septa there is a muscular ridge, projecting are thin membranes, and have their from the coats of the first stomach, origin in the orifice leading from so as to form a channel into the se. the esophagus, so that whatever cond. These muscular bands are passes into the cavity must fall becontinued on to the orifice of the tween these septa, and describe third stomach, in which they are three-fourths of a circle, before it lost. The food can readily pass can arrive at the orifice leading to from the esophagus, either into the the true stomach, which is so near general cavity of the first stomach the other, that the distance between or into the second, which last is pe them does not exceed three inches: culiarly fitted by its situation, and and therefore the direct line from the muscular power of its coats, both the terinination of the æsophagus Lo throw up its contents into the to the orifice of the fourth stomach mouth, and to receive a supply from is only of that length. While the the general cavity of the first sto young calf is fed on milk, that liquor, mach, at the will of the animal. The which does not require to be rumisecond stomach contains the same nated, is conveyed directly to the food as the first, only more moist; fourth stomach, not passing through it must therefore be considered as a the plica of the third; and after


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GRAND HAVEN, Mich. (AP) -- A Conklin man will stand trial after being accused of slitting the throats of two horses belonging to his wife and a stable owner as retribution because he believed the two were having an affair.
The Grand Rapids Press says 47-year-old Dennis Finkler's trial date is pending after the Conklin resident waived his hearing Monday.
Authorities say on Feb. 11 Finkler argued with his wife at the stable owner's property in Jamestown Township, about 10 miles southwest of Grand Rapids, and returned the next day with a knife that he used to kill a 12-year-old quarter horse and a 6-year-old Palomino.
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The largest flower festival to be held in County Durham for almost a decade will celebrate the restoration of an historic church.
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The Produttori co-operative manage some 250 acres of premium Nebbiolo vineyards in Barbaresco. Each family is in full control of its land, growing Nebbiolo grapes with centuries-old skill and dedication. The winery produces a Barbaresco DOCG each year, a blend of Nebbiolo grapes harvested from different vineyards. For the most part, vines grow in calcium-rich clay-lime soil run through with veins of quick-draining sand. In most years, this wine accounts for half of the Produttori's production. Grapes from 50 growers were fermented by native yeast in stainless steel, spending a full month on the skins. Following malolactic fermentation, the wine aged for 24 months before bottling in the spring of 2019.
"The 2016 Barbaresco is a tight and beautiful wine that will require more time to unwind and soften. This beautifully balanced vintage is characterized by a tight inner core of fruit that underlines the graceful aging capacity of these wines. The 2016 is shaping up to be one destined for long cellar aging. Now in its youth, the wine offers wild berry, rose and licorice aromas."
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"Like only the finest vintages, this immaculate Village Barbaresco oozes character and complexity with some of the prettiest aromatics elicited from the Nebbiolo fruits. Seductive perfume of violets, rose petals, cherry blossom, pink musk and cherry rock candy overwhelm the senses. The palate intensity and piercing concentration is also knockout fabulous with tart sweet and sour red cherry, red liquorice and a smokey graphite minerality on the finish. Broad, mouth filling and just an outstanding effort!"
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"The 2016 Barbaresco is a stunning wine with tremendous richness for this bottling. Ample, deep and powerful, the 2016 exudes pedigree and class from start to finish. I can't remember a straight Barbaresco here with this much fruit density and unctuous richness, and yet there is more than enough tannin and overall structure to give the wine its classically leaning feel. A blast of sweet red cherry fruit, tobacco, menthol licorice and smoke hits the potent finish. What a wine! 2010-2041."
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I absolutely love my lifestyle! Traveling to all these amazing countries. Work from beautiful and inspiring offices. I pick my locations based on interest and weather so it's basically always summer! The best of all is that I spend my relatively long weekends exploring the environment, surf, dive, hike and enjoy! Although it all sounds perfect, it does have a downside…
After traveling for months you do start to miss family and close friends. The people who know you the best and understand you by just looking. Modern ways of communication make a big difference. Calling, with or without camera, works really well these days. But nothing beats seeing each other in real life. So the best thing that happens is if people ask you: "Hey Jeroen, where are you? We're going to pay you a visit!"
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