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Should the old City Kinsmen Swimming Pool be destroyed or converted into a senior citizens' activity centre?
Where might this extraordinary seniors' facility be located you may rhetorically ask? The old Kinsmen Swimming Pool should be converted to the North Battleford Seniors' Activity Centre – a facility of exceptional quality and appeal – designed for seniors, and perhaps even designed by seniors. Even if this location may not be ideal for a residence, it would be a wonderful location for a seniors' activity centre. I walked around it one day trying to envision the potential of this building for our seniors.
The City should immediately rethink its plans to destroy this essentially sound historic building. We need to begin looking at our historic and cultural assets through creative lenses instead of calling in the bulldozing crew. What is the potential of this building, and how can our citizens benefit? Why should we wrecking ball a fundamentally sound 50-year-old building when it has decades of life left? It's time that we as a city start to weigh the historic and cultural costs, and not just the economic costs, when we consider the fate of any historic building.
Let's move away from the notion, as a number of individuals in the business community have suggested — that we should simply bulldoze the downtown core and start again? We should bulldoze all of the historical and cultural assets we have left in the downtown core and start again? Really? Actually, the sad and tragic truth is that we already have a good start with respect to this approach to downtown revitalization. Look at what has happened to our downtown core? Unbelievable! But I digress.
It's time to reverse this trend and reclaim our built heritage. Why don't we start with the old Kinsmen Swimming Pool and build it into an exceptional facility for our wonderful seniors? Can't be done? Too expensive? No, if we put our minds, talents, and energies together, we can accomplish this, just like we accomplish everything else.
The old Wolfe-Gormley building on 100th Street was sold by the City for $15,000 with a five-year tax exemption to two young entrepreneurs who gutted the building and renovated it. It's now ready for tenants. Great. The selling price speaks to the value of real estate in the downtown core, but the exterior historical facade has been preserved and the building is now ready for use. Buildings that are not occupied deteriorate. We have a whole slate of historic and vacant buildings in the downtown core in this unfortunate state as we speak.
After salvaging what it wants, the City should give the aquatic building to a senior citizens' board of trustees who would manage the design, renovations and administration of the their seniors' facility. If that wouldn't work, the City should turn the old pool over to a local entrepreneur, or group in the private sector who should then develop it into a seniors' activity centre for all of the city's seniors – a dance hall, lighting and sound system, cards and chess room, pool tables, shuffleboard, a bar, kitchen facilities, a sauna, hot tub, lounge, movie room, etc. It could also be rented out for weddings, banquets, conferences, conventions and other functions. The potential is limitless.
Rather than have another historic building fall under the wrecking ball, this one would retain it's historical and cultural character and be extremely useful and of great benefit to our many seniors at the same time.
Of course, I know its not that simple. There would be many things to work out – legal, technical, zoning, financial and jurisdictional. I have no doubt our community-minded and senior-minded service organizations, and the general public, would want to get involved to help our seniors. In fact, many members of our wonderful service organizations are seniors. So they would have a vested interest in this project.
A major fund-raising initiative would doubtlessly need to be undertaken. But we can surmise that this would be eminently successful because it would be for our seniors who have done so much for our citizenry and our city. I have talked to a number of seniors and service club members and I've certainly captured their interest. I've also talked a leading real estate professional, a long-time builder and construction tradesman, the owner of a plumbing and heating firm, and a former citizen of the year. They think I might be on to something. I can assure that I will talk to many more. Right now, this is in the idea and visionary stage.
I concede that this initiative may not fly. If seniors are not interested and do not wish to invest in this kind of project, and no one else is interested (although the City should solicit the business community and public to gauge interest in this), then I have no doubt that the historic old Kinsmen City Swimming pool will be destroyed and the memory of this vibrant cultural icon that served many thousands of our citizens during the last half- century will fade into oblivion – as has the memory of so many of our historic buildings and properties since 1970.
When I attend the public hearing on the fate of the old pool, I will be armed with the demographic, technical, legal and financial information I need to make a very strong case to save the old swimming pool and transform it into a highly appealing and useful facility for our seniors – our citizens. I will likely bring a few people with me.
I'll try my best.


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How important is branding for early stage startups?
Within this question, there is some interesting discussion on how a brand can evolve based on everything you do - e.g. your name, website, online interactions, approach to doing business. Within that question, Balsamiq are held up as an example of this, though Peldi documents on his blog how one of this first tasks was to contact branding consultants.
But is branding something we should be explicitly putting resources and diverting real cash-money into at the earliest stage? (I am talking branding explicitly here, rather than good design which is of course, a given.) Is it worth bringing in experts to help with this?
I'm a big believer in the power of brand generally, but not sure how important that is for the startup or small business.

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Welcome to the Warrior Success CenterSupporting Students with Advising, Career and Access ServicesConveniently located one floor above the Warrior Hub, the WSC is a one-stop resource for students seeking academic advice and support. Call 507.457.5878 for an appointment, or visit the WSC in Maxwell 314. The mission of the Warrior Success Center (WSC) is to provide free and accessible services and resources for student success. We actively collaborate with a variety of programs and departments at WSU, as well as community partners. The WSC includes these services:
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Our modern jewelry studio at LBKCA is the place to begin your artistic journey into the world of Jewelry making. With large windows and skylights, artists work and enjoy the natural light and beautiful surroundings of Longboat Key. Our jewelry studio is furnished and fully equipped with individual workstations, flex shafts, soldering area, polishing room, rolling mills, and forming equipment including a Hydraulic press. Our studio can meet the needs of Jewelry artists at any level.
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For making pins, necklaces, earrings, bracelets, rings, and pendants from silver and/or brass. Beginners will learn basic bench skills, including design, sawing, filing, drilling, texturing and finishing. Intermediate students will be introduced to advanced techniques, such as stone setting. All tools, benches, torches, and gas will be provided. Silver, brass and some jewelry supplies may be purchased in class. All skill levels welcome.
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Hill presents Japanese flower arrangements
The Benton Garden Club met on Jan. 5 at the Benton Methodist Church fellowship hall.
Guest speaker was K. K. Hill, who gave a presentation on the "Styles of Japanese Flower Arrangements."
Hostesses were Patsy Foster, Paula Ohlmeyer, and Barbara Parker.
A delicious brunch of soup and salad was served prior to the program.
Hill conducted the program on the Japanese style of floral construction. Having been to Japan three times, he gave interesting background information on some of the floral styles and materials the Japanese use, including ikeabana, keabana and zen style.
He also constructed an example of Japanese style arranging and commented that in Japan, arranging various plant materials in a pleasing composition is about "having some peace in your day on the inside."
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Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Landscape With Windmill Made in Germany, Europe1862 Andreas Achenbach, German, 1815 - 1910. In the manner of Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (active Leiden and Amsterdam), 1606 - 1669. Etching and engraving and drypoint Currently not on view 1985-52-20116 |
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The Gallery at Yew Tree Barn
Where Art meets Architectural Antiques…Yew Tree Barn is a stunning old barn full of intriguing and diverse businesses. Browse through showrooms of antiques, garden displays of statuary, stone troughs and artefacts, visit artisans working in their studios, and see exhibitions, arts and crafts in The Gallery. Then enjoy some delicious food and drink in Harry's Cafe Bar. And it's all open 7 days a week.
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Hadewijch of Antwerp
Hadewijch of Antwerp fl. mid-thirteenth century-
Dutch poet and mystic.
Sometimes referred to as the Brabant mystic, Hadewijch of Antwerp is regarded as an influential and formative figure in Dutch literature. Associated with the medieval movement known as Minnemystiek ("love mysticism"), Hadewijch is thought to have been a beguine—a devout woman of noble birth who attended to the spiritual life of her thirteenth-century community. Love, or Minne as she called it, is the central component of Hadewijch's poetry, and indeed of all her collected works, including her religious Visioenen (Visions, mid-thirteenth century). Drawn from the traditional courtly love poetry of the medieval troubadours, Minne was originally used to express the perpetual longing for an unattainable, worldly love. Having mastered the form and lyrical techniques of such verse, Hadewijch adapted its conventions and central conceit to her religious thought, spiritualizing Minne by associating it with the eternal love of God, literally depicting God experienced directly as Love. Not systematic in and of itself, her work and thought demonstrated a considerable influence on the spiritual system of fourteenth-century mystic Jan van Ruysbroeck, among others. Taken as a whole, her visionary prose and innovative lyric poetry are considered some of the earliest and most outstanding in the Middle Dutch vernacular.
Biographical Information
Information about Hadewijch's life, save that which can be surmised from her writings, is completely lacking. Tradition suggests that she was born in Antwerp, sometime in the early years of the thirteenth century. Educated and articulate, probably of an aristocratic family, Hadewijch could read Latin, French, and Provençal, in addition to Dutch. Her knowledge of Holy Scripture was formidable and her awareness of such writers as Saint Augustine, William of Saint Thierry, Richard of St. Victor, Bernard of Clairvaux, and others of the mystical tradition is borne out by her own work. Hadewijch lived in either Antwerp or possibly Brussels, and wrote in the language of thirteenth-century Brabant, an independent duchy (now northern Belgium and southern Netherlands). She recorded her sixth mystical vision as occurring when she was nineteen, while she experienced the first of her fourteen Visions years before she was old enough to understand their symbolic and spiritual significance. Hadewijch probably entered a beguinage while still a young woman. Records of these religious organizations show them to be small, self-sustaining communities of women from the noble laity devoted to Christian good works, prayer, and contemplation.
Beguinages had begun to appear in the Low Countries during the second half of the twelfth century. Accepted by Pope Honorius III in 1216 and widespread in Europe, the movement was officially condemned in 1310 due to its independence from ecclesiastical authority. In orientation similar to nuns, beguines did not adopt the monastic life, followed no official organizing principles, and swore no solemn vows; instead, in the words of critic Elizabeth Alvilda Petroff, "beguines strove to live in the world without being of it," adopting a life of poverty and focusing on charitable deeds. Internal evidence, particularly that of her "Letter 15," suggests that Hadewijch was probably the spiritual leader of her particular community (although some recent scholars have disputed this, and even questioned her status as a beguine.) In any case, Hadewijch's involvement in the spiritual life of the southern Netherlands is unquestioned. Other evidence hints at her possibly being linked to heretical movements or individuals, and perhaps being persecuted for her beliefs and actions. Portions of her thirty-one Brieven (Letters, mid-thirteenth century) suggest she may have been exiled, imprisoned, or otherwise separated from her cherished sisters against her will. ("Letter 25" expresses her hope that one day she will be reunited with them.) Most scholars believe that Hadewijch was a beguine and spent the majority of her career devoting herself to Christian charity, including care of the elderly, ill, and impoverished—activities she exhorted her fellow beguines to engage in as well. Meanwhile she composed a noteworthy and influential collection of poetry and prose, probably over the course of the years 1220 to 1240, or possibly slightly later. The date of Hadewijch's death is unknown, although a terminal point in the early second half of the thirteenth century is generally accepted by scholars.
Major Works
Hadewijch's body of work is contained in three complete manuscripts that survive from the late fourteenth century, as well as in a few fragments, including one dating from about 1500. The overarching influence on her writing is scriptural. Love is its central theme, and both her poetry and prose are saturated with love motifs, expressed in terms of Minne, a feminine noun in the Dutch language that connotes the concepts of Divine Love or Lady Love, depending on context. Although the precise chronology of Hadewijch's works has proved difficult to establish, scholars accept her admission that she experienced several religious visions while still quite young. Most commentators acknowledge, nevertheless, that she likely recorded the content of these mystical experiences years later, after reaching maturity and perfecting her literary skills. In "Vision 1," considered a symbolic synthesis of her spiritual doctrine, an angel leads Hadewijch past seven trees (symbolizing the chief Christian virtues) before leaving her in the presence of Christ, who then directs her to embrace these virtues and accept the sufferings of human life through love before uniting with the Divine. Christ appears in several of the subsequent Visions, addressing her again in "Vision 8." The tenth through twelfth Visions draw heavily on themes and imagery of the Apocalypse from the biblical revelation of St. John. "Vision 5" describes an almost bodily union with the Divine, while "Vision 9" conjoins Hadewijch's theme of love with that of Redene ("reason"). In "Vision 13," a six-winged manifestation of God appears to Hadewijch, after discussing the powers of faith and humility, literally engulfs her. Included with the Visions, "The List of the Perfect" enumerates the saints and contemporary individuals whom Hadewijch most admired: Origen, Augustine, and Isidore of Seville.
Hadewijch addressed her Letters to a young beguine whom she sought to inform on the primary subjects of faith. Common themes in these epistles include the Holy Trinity, self-knowledge, grace, and of course, God's love for humanity. Several of the Letters are more properly short theological treatises, including "Letter 15," a spiritual allegory concerned with a holy pilgrimage, or "Letter 20"—devoted to "the twelve unspeakable hours of love"—which chronicles the soul's mystical progress toward God. Of her poetic works, Hadewijch's forty-five Strofische Gedichten (Poems in Stanzas, mid-thirteenth century) represent her creation of a new lyric genre by skillfully adapting the tropes of courtly love poetry to her deeply spiritual mode of expression. In her stanzaic verse Hadewijch glorifies the duties and sufferings of an ecstatic lover in search of union with God. Rather than projecting herself as the bride of Christ, a common construct of medieval mystical writings by women, Hadewijch instead evoked the imagery of a doughty knight journeying through the wilderness of love. Paralleling the theme of the questing knight-errant in romantic service to an unattainable lady, the speaker of Hadewijch's Strofische Gedichten evokes her soul's longing to join with God through love. Throughout her poetry, Hadewijch described Minne as a multifaceted concept, one that embraces unrequited desire, confusion, and estrangement, as well as the joy of divine union. Broadly representative of the Strofische Gedichten, "Poem 6" begins with a seasonal allusion, in this case to spring, an exploration of love as a struggle of conquest and submission, a movement toward the intensification of feeling, and a countermotif of alienation from the soul's desired end, Divine Love. Another of the works, also rich in metaphor and paradox, "Poem 28" concentrates on the speaker's mad and passionate love for God and highlights the rewards of Christian suffering. Hadewijch's Mengeldichten (Poems in Couplets, mid-thirteenth century) lack the stanzaic structure of her other lyrics but are instead composed as a series of rhyming couplets. (Most scholars caution that only the first sixteen of the Mengeldichten contained in extant manuscripts can be authoritatively attributed to Hadewijch. The latter portion of the collection, comprising poems 17 to 29, is generally ascribed to another, unknown author, possibly a member of her group of beguines and usually designated as "Hadewijch II.") Terse and aphoristic, as opposed to the more lyrically evocative Strofische Gedichten, the Mengeldichten, like Hadewijch's Letters, appear to have been addressed to the young beguines of her community. While Minne remains the central concern of the Mengeldichten, a number of related themes are developed in individual poems. For example, "Mengeldicht 14" describes the virtue of humility, while "Mengeldicht 16" is an evocation of the soul as it exists in divine harmony with the Holy Trinity.
Critical Reception
Hadewijch's literary and theological significance was first recognized in the fourteenth century by such figures as Jan van Ruysbroeck and Jan van Leeuwen, who praised her writing and the majestic qualities of her spiritual vision and faith in Divine Love. In the century following her death, Hadewijch's works also became known outside of the Low Countries, with complete translations of her Letters appearing in High German, although portions of these have since been lost. Her influence on the German mystic and theologian Meister Eckhart (whose more penetrative, introspective mysticism nevertheless contrasts with hers) has likewise suggested the spread of her thought in the late medieval period. Although her poetry and prose continued to be inscribed in fifteenth-century rapiaria (early modern anthologies of writing and thought), by the sixteenth century Hadewijch had fallen into obscurity. Her writings were rediscovered in 1838 by medievalists who began to study manuscripts in possession of the Royal Library of Brussels. The first modern critical editions of her works were edited by Jozef Van Mierlo and published between 1924 and 1952. Since then, translations of her poetry and prose have appeared in English, German, French, and Italian, as well as modern Dutch.
In the contemporary period, critical attention to Hadewijch's writings has expanded rapidly. Among several areas of interest, a number of late twentieth-century scholars have highlighted the orientation of Hadewijch's writing toward a female audience, and have analyzed her poetic evocation of gender and the body, including her occasional use of sexualized images to describe an ecstatic union with God. Indeed, feminist-oriented scholarship has proven to be one of the most compelling fields of modern Hadewijch study, especially in regard to her somewhat enigmatic Visions. Her other prose works, the Letters, have been lauded for their formal artistry and clarity of expression, while her verse has been deemed crucial to the development of Dutch vernacular writing. Theodoor Weevers (1960) writes, "Hadewijch ranks with the earlier Dante … as one of the great masters who, towards the close of the era of courtly chivalry, transformed the troubadour lyric with its rigidly circumscribed conventions into a form capable of expressing the highest aspirations of the human soul." Summarizing generally laudatory modern perceptions, Ria Vanderauwera (1984) regards Hadewijch "as one of the most gifted literary geniuses of her period" who holds a prominent place in the canon of Dutch literature.
Principal Works
Brieven [Letters] (letters) mid-thirteenth century
Mengeldichten [Poems in Couplets] (poetry) mid-thirteenth century
Strofische Gedichten [Poems in Stanzas] (poetry) mid-thirteenth century
Visioenen [Visions] (prose) mid-thirteenth century
Hadewijch: Strofische Gedichten (edited by J. Van Mierlo) 1924
De Visioenen van Hadewijch (edited by J. Van Mierlo) 1925
Hadewijch: Brieven (edited by J. Van Mierlo) 1947
Hadewijch: Mengeldichten (edited by J. Van Mierlo) 1952
Hadewijch: The Complete Works (translated by Mother Columba Hart, O.S.B.) 1980
(The entire section is 68 words.)
SOURCE: Axters, Stephanus. "Before Ruysbroeck." In The Spirituality of the Old Low Countries, translated by Donald Attwater, pp. 9-28. London: Blackfriars Publications, 1954.
[In the following excerpt, Axters sums up Hadewijch's mystical and literary sensibility, arguing that she "spiritualized courtly love" in the thirteenth century.]
The identification of the mystic called Hadewijch has been a nightmare to philologists for nearly a century. One of the latest hypotheses is that of Father J. van Mierlo, S.J., who seeks to identify her with a béguine of Nivelles named Helwig of Saint Cyr, who was buried at the abbey of Villers in 1269. However that may be, it seems to be established that Hadewijch was a béguine, and all her work suggests that she lived during the thirteenth century, probably about the middle. The writings of this person who is rather hard to identify include accounts of visions, letters, a number of strophic verses, and sixteen poems in rimes plates1. In them she takes her idea of love from the Cistercians, particularly from Beatrice of Nazareth, and gives it an unquestionably metaphysical sense.
The key to Hadewijch's spirituality is given in a phrase of one of her letters—"Love is all". For her the inner life consists wholly of an ascent, a great endeavour, towards love. Love is the attribute of God. God is love. And the...
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SOURCE: Weevers, Theodoor. "The Netherlands in Medieval Literature." In Poetry of the Netherlands in its European Context 1170-1930, pp. 7-45. London: The Athlone Press, 1960.
[In the following excerpt, Weevers concentrates on Hadewijch's style and major poetic influences: Henric van Veldeke, Provençal troubadours, Rhineland Minnesingers, and Latin devotional verse.]
[T]he appearance of the lyrical genius Hadewijch in the first half of the thirteenth century well-nigh compels us to assume a continuation of the Dutch courtly lyric in the period after 1180. Such consummate mastery as hers is inexplicable but for the existence of a native tradition of minnesanc. The apparently surprising fact that her work alone survived the anti-courtly reaction of the later thirteenth century is sufficiently explained by its religious content.
Hadewijch ranks with the earlier Dante and the other poets of the dolce stil novo as one of the great masters who, towards the close of the era of courtly chivalry, transformed the troubadour lyric with its rigidly circumscribed conventions into a form capable of expressing the highest aspirations of the human soul. Already in the finest songs of Jaufré Rudel and Bernart de Ventadorn one feels the breath of a passion too great for its terrestrial object; the latter's sigh: 'Ai las! com mor de cossirar!' seems to strain the bounds of...
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SOURCE: Hart, Mother Columba. Introduction to Hadewijch: The Complete Works, translated by Mother Columba Hart, O.S.B., pp. 1-42. New York: Paulist Press, 1980.
[In the following excerpt, Hart surveys the life of Hadewijch, highlighting significant themes and concepts in her letters, stanzaic poetry, and mystical visions.]
In the early thirteenth century the religious currents stirring in western Europe showed particular vitality throughout the Low Countries. In this new and strong movement of devotion, which sought a return to the pure spirit of the Gospel, both nuns and secular women took part. A number of women mystics gifted with ecstatic contemplation gained such respect that much information concerning them has been preserved in Latin "lives" written by contemporary authors and based in some cases—as in the lives of Saint Mary of Oignies (1177-1213) and Saint Lutgard of Aywières (1183-1246)—on close personal acquaintance between the writer and the subject of the biography.1 To this group of mystics Hadewijch belongs, but her life was never written. She and her works were known in the fourteenth century, especially in the houses of the Canons Regular of Windesheim and to the Carthusians of Diest. By the middle of the sixteenth century, however, her name and everything she wrote (partly, perhaps, because no "life" perpetuated her...
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SOURCE: Vanderauwera, Ria. "The Brabant Mystic: Hadewijch." In Medieval Women Writers, edited by Katharina M. Wilson, pp. 186-203. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1984.
[In the following excerpted introduction to her selected translation of Hadewijch's writing, Vanderauwera summarizes the content and critical history of Hadewijch's literary works, as well as her status as the representative Dutch mystic writer of the thirteenth century.]
Of Hadewijch, we know only her name, texts (poetry and prose), and a few scattered references. Nonetheless we recognize her as one of the foremost representatives of early minnemystiek, a brand of mysticism to which women made an especially impressive contribution in the thirteenth century. We possess three complete manuscripts of her works, parts of her work in a recently discovered codex, and a few smaller fragments.1 The three complete manuscripts contain thirty-one letters, forty-five stanzaic poems, fourteen visions, and twenty-nine poems mostly in rhyming couplets (one manuscript has only sixteen of them), of which thirteen were probably not by Hadewijch but by another woman of her environment. The significance of her work for Dutch literature lies in the facts that her stanzaic poetry belongs to the very few extant Middle Dutch love songs in the troubadour tradition of courtly love and that her prose, together with that of the Cistercian...
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SOURCE: Zum Brunn, Emilie, and Georgette Epiney-Burgard. "Hadewijch of Antwerp: Introduction." In Women Mystics in Medieval Europe, translated by Sheila Hughes, pp. 97-139. New York: Paragon House, 1989.
[In the following excerpt, Zum Brunn and Epiney-Burgard relate what is known of Hadewijch's life and survey the spiritual themes of her written works.]
After having been acclaimed and quoted in the fourteenth century by John Ruysbroeck and his disciple, John of Leeuwen,1 Hadewijch's works, of which only four manuscripts remain, were more or less entirely forgotten until they were rediscovered in the nineteenth century by medieval specialists, as well as by the great poet Maeterlinck.2 Her writings appeared in a critical edition in 1920, thanks to the arduous labors of J. Van Mierlo.3
In our own times, each year brings in such a harvest of studies, both literary and spiritual, that we can say that Hadewijch is much better known today than during her lifetime.4 On the other hand, the exterior facts of her life remain obscure for, unlike Beatrice, she did not find a biographer, doubtlessly because, being a Beguine, she lived outside the monastic milieu. Only one manuscript has preserved her name, together with a geographical indication: "Blessed Hadewijch of Antwerp."
It is thought...
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SOURCE: de Vroom, Theresia. "Hadewijch van Antwerpen (c. 1250)." Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies 11, no. 2 (fall 1990): 4-10.
[In the following essay, de Vroom encapsulates Hadewijch's literary depiction of the theme of Minne (Love, or "the way in which the soul experiences its relation to God").]
Hadewijch's works were both popular and influential. Translated from Diets (the middle-Netherlandic dialect in which she wrote), they survive in several medieval versions.1 The great Flemish mystic Jan van Ruysbroek (1293-1381) took some of his most important ideas from Hadewijch and passed his reverence for the "heylich glorieus wijf, Hadewijch" on to his followers. One of those followers, Jan van Leeuwen, praised Hadewijch as if she were equal to one of the evangelists:
Aldus spreekt ook een heilige, glorieuze vrouw die Hadewijch heet. Ze is een waarachtige lerares, want Hadewijchs boeken zijn zeker goed en geloofsgetrouw, uit God geboren en door Hem ingegeven. Want haar boeken zijn door Gods ogen gelezen en onderzocht. …2
(And so speaks the glorious woman called Hadewijch. She is a miraculous teacher, because Hadewijch's books are certainly true and faithful, born out of God and inspired by him. Because her books have been read and studied by God's eyes. …)
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SOURCE: Milhaven, John Giles. "Hadewijch and the Mutuality of Love." In Hadewijch and Her Sisters: Other Ways of Loving and Knowing, pp. 3-72. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993.
[In the following excerpt, Milhaven evaluates Hadewijch as a theologian, comparing her views on divinity and her experience of God with those of Bernard of Clairvaux, Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius, and others.]
The theologian, Hadewijch, lived in a Beguinage somewhere in the Low Countries during the middle of the thirteenth century.1 Beguines were devout women largely of noble families, who lived in self-supporting community, and breaking with precedent, chose to live lives of apostolic poverty, contemplation, and care for the sick without taking vows as nuns (Hadewijch 1980b, p. 3). Hadewijch wrote, in the Dutch language of her time, letters, poetry and accounts of her religious, at times mystical, experience. They come to over three hundred pages in Mother Columba Hart's English translation. We know little of Hadewijch or her life. We have no contemporary account of her. Her own writing, though often personal and autobiographical, is vague and reticent on factual detail.
Hadewijch's work was read in some circles and had influence for a century or two. She affected John of Ruusbroec, influential mystical theologian of the fourteenth century, and his disciples. She influenced thus...
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SOURCE: Petroff, Elizabeth Alvilda. "Gender, Knowledge, and Power in Hadewijch's Strophische Gedichten." In Body and Soul: Essays on Medieval Women and Mysticism, pp. 182-203. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
[In the following essay, Petroff studies Hadewijch's representation of desire and gender reconciled through love in her Strofische Gedichten.]
Hadewijch's Strophische Gedichten1 is a collection of poems on the theme of Minne, or Lady Love. In these sophisticated and confident lyrics, the great Dutch mystic and poet re-creates some of the themes, images, and metrical forms of the Provençal love lyric to explore the experience of Minne. She is a very great poet:
[T]he gift for poetry she displays in the Poems in Stanzas can only be termed lyrical genius. … Her poems themselves are proof that she had mastered the troubadours' art. It has been said that just as Bernard of Clairvaux used the Song of Songs to express his own intimate and personal experience of God, Hadewijch used the poetry of courtly love to express the emotional tensions of the longing for God, showing an unfailing mastery of all its techniques: stanza structure, the tornada, meter, rhyme, assonance, concatenation, and figures of speech.2
Hadewijch wrote in Dutch and is thought to have lived in...
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SOURCE: Murk-Jansen, Saskia. "Hadewijch and Eckhart: Amor intellegere est." In Meister Eckhart and the Beguine Mystics: Hadewijch of Brabant, Mechthild of Magdeburg, and Marguerite Porete, edited by Bernard McGinn, pp. 17-30. New York: Continuum, 1994.
[In the following essay, Murk-Jansen traces thematic affinities between Hadewijch's works and those of German theologian Meister Eckhart.]
Academics today may be forgiven for wondering why so little attention has been paid to the question of influence between Hadewijch and Eckhart, or at least to the possibility of common themes in their work. Hadewijch, after all, was writing around the middle of the thirteenth century in an area that was geographically and linguistically not very far removed from Eckhart's own, half a century or so later. The manuscripts of her works were known to ecclesiastic scholars in the fourteenth century although not very widely disseminated, certainly not compared for example to those of Marguerite Porete. Like Marguerite Porete, Hadewijch is thought to have been a Beguine, and the Beguines had particularly close links with the Dominicans, so there exists at least the possibility that Eckhart could have heard of her work from others within his order. Nevertheless, this whole field of inquiry has been left lying fallow. Why? Is this lack of attention by eminent Hadewijch scholars earlier this century because the evidence...
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SOURCE: Suydam, Mary A. "The Touch of Satisfaction: Visions and the Religious Experience According to Hadewijch of Antwerp." Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 12, no. 2 (fall 1996): 5-27.
[In the following essay, Suydam offers a comparative analysis of Hadewijch's Visions, Letters and Mengeldichten using the tools of feminist criticism to discover the manner in which these mystical writings challenge the hierarchies and dichotomies of religious literature.]
Hadewijch of Antwerp, a thirteenth-century Dutch Beguine, was a gifted writer, poet, and mystic. She was one of the first authors to shape the Dutch language into written form.1 Her works, collected in five different manuscripts dating from the fourteenth century or later, comprise 31 letters (Brieven), 14 visions (Visioenen), and two collections of poetry, in stanzaic verse (Strofische Gedichten) and in rhymed verse (Mengeldichten).2 Her ideas were borrowed by Ruusbroec and possibly influenced Eckhart.3
A persistent challenge for scholars has been the interpretation and integration of Hadewijch's religious ideas throughout her very different literary works. Because there is no information about Hadewijch other than that contained in her works, it is impossible to determine the sequence in which she wrote the Visions, her two collections of...
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SOURCE: Murk-Jansen, Saskia M. "The Use of Gender and Gender-Related Imagery in Hadewijch." In Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages, edited by Jane Chance, pp. 52-68. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996.
[In the following essay, Murk-Jansen explores Hadewijch's use of gender reversal and gendered imagery to create a language of God oriented toward a female audience.]
Images are multivalent, and none more so than images of gender, which not only reflect a multiplicity of meanings to any one reader but also mean different things to men and women. Furthermore, gender-related images are not always primarily, or even at all, about gender, about the differing roles of women and men apparently reflected by the image.1 In this respect, Ricoeur's theory of imagery is a more satisfying explanation of the way in which gender images function than that put forward by those who see symbols and images as models of the world or society as they are, or models for the way they should be. Analysts who subscribe to this interpretation of images have analyzed the imagery in medieval texts for what it can reveal about the actual role of women in medieval society, about the authors' underlying conceptions of women, or about the author's subconscious desires concerning the role of women.2 Ricoeur, on the other hand, suggests that symbols give rise to thought, not that thought or...
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SOURCE: Madigan, Shawn. "Hadewijch (Thirteenth Century): I Am All Love's and Love Is All Mine." In Mystics, Visionaries, and Prophets: A Historical Anthology of Women's Spiritual Writings, edited by Shawn Madigan, C.S.J., pp. 166-90. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 1998.
[In the following excerpt, Madigan introduces Hadewijch's love songs and provides background information regarding her status as a thirteenth-century beguine.]
Hadewijch probably lived in the thirteenth century, a century of many diverse movements. On the one hand, the papacy had reached a height of political power. On the other hand, the papal office had lost its influence as a spiritual and moral force. There was an increased desire for authentic religious experience among many of the clergy and laity. At the same time, there was an abundance of heretical groups as well. Scholastic theology with its Aristotelian reflections on faith dominated the university scene. A more experiential affective theology and spirituality flourished among other groups. A few sentences about each of these diverse strands may further the understanding of the age in which Hadewijch likely lived and wrote.1
The last pope of the twelfth century, Innocent III (1198-1216), brought the papal office to the summit of political power even as that office began its decline as a spiritual and moral force. The Decretals of Gratian had...
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SOURCE: Suydam, Mary. "'Ever in Unrest': Translating Hadewijch of Antwerp's Mengeldichten." Women's Studies 28 (1999): 157-84.
[In the following essay, Suydam considers the problems inherent in translating medieval texts and contends that it is a mistake to assume that Hadewijch's use of gendered pronouns was based on the gender of the noun referent.]
In recent years scholars addressing religious works written by women in the medieval period have become increasingly attuned to the interconnections between gender and power. This focus is partially attributable to the growth of feminist scholarship and partially to post-structuralist theories. Feminist scholarship has called attention to the complex problems involved in recovering, reconstructing, and interpreting works by female authors.1 Post-structuralists have changed the ways we think about writing, texts, and reading.2 Structuralists argued that the relationship between sign (a word such as "prayer") and thing signified (object, idea or action, such as the act of praying) is completely arbitrary.3 That is, there is no intrinsic relationship between the collection of sounds that make up a word and the thing itself. Poststructuralists added that the "thing itself" ("prayer") is not a fixed concept located "out there" somewhere in the "real world," but is ever-changing and, in...
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SOURCE: Duclow, Donald F. "The Hungers of Hadewijch and Eckhart." Journal of Religion 80, no. 3 (July 2000): 421-41.
[In the following essay, Duclow highlights mystical symbolism associated with eating and hunger in the works of Hadewijch and Meister Eckhart.]
"During these last decades the interest in professional fasting has markedly diminished. It used to pay very well to stage such great performances, … but today that is quite impossible."1 So begins Kafka's story "The Hunger Artist," featuring the fictional last of a starving breed. Yet as Kafka and his artist knew, with changing tastes, "fasting would surely come into fashion again at some future date."2 That date arrived some time ago in academe—and nowhere more vigorously than in the study of medieval women's spirituality.
Caroline Bynum's landmark study Holy Feast and Holy Fast considers fasting and hunger within the broader context of the religious and gendered meanings of food and eating. She describes "a threefold pattern" in the lives and writings of medieval women: "Women fast, women feed others, and women eat (but never ordinary food). Women fast—and hunger becomes an image for excruciating, never-satiated love of God. Women feed—and their bodies become an image of suffering poured out for others. Women eat—and whether they devour the filth of sick bodies or the...
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Further Reading
Dietrich, Paul A. "The Wilderness of God in Hadewijch II and Meister Eckhart and His Circle." In Meister Eckhart and the Beguine Mystics: Hadewijch of Brabant, Mechthild of Magdeburg, and Marguerite Porete, edited by Bernard McGinn, pp. 31-43. New York: Continuum, 1994.
Comparative analysis of mystical imagery in Mengeldichten, Eckhart's Granum Sinapis, and Johannes Tauler's Song of Bareness.
Guest, Tanis M. "Psychology and Style: Contrast, Paradox, and Other Features." In Some Aspects of Hadewijch's Poetic Form in the 'Strofische Gedichten,' pp. 118-47. The Hague Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff, 1975.
Interprets Hadewijch's use of paradox and personification in her Strofische Gedichten, particularly in relation to her theme of Minne, or idealized Love.
Lagorio, Valerie M. "The Medieval Continental Women Mystics: An Introduction." In An Introduction to the Medieval Mystics of Europe, edited by Paul E. Szarmach, pp. 161-93. Albany: State University of New York, Press, 1984.
Mentions Hadewijch as the originator of a new genre of medieval religious poetry in the Low Countries.
Murk-Jansen, S. M. "A Re-evaluation of the Theology and Mysticism of the Mengeldichten." In The Measure of Mystic Thought: A Study of Hadewijch's...
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Source: Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, ©2003 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.


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The first ten amendments to the federal constitution, adopted in 1791. The Bill of Rights includes many cornerstones of our democracy: freedom of speech, religion, and assembly; prohibitions against unreasonable search and seizure, cruel and unusual punishment, and compelled self-incrimination; and the rights to due process and a speedy trial if accused of a crime.
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The latest news on macular degeneration
Rethinking the safety of bone loss drugs; electronic medical records software may improve your health.
Implanted device replaces eye's natural lens
'Good' cholesterol levels linked to age-related macular degeneration, studies show
Link likely due to fact that both eye conditions are age-related, researchers say
As the U.S. ages, macular degeneration rates are expected to swell
But newer treatments could reduce related blindness by almost 35%, study suggests
Serious conditions that lead to vision loss often have no symptoms in early stages.
Good sunglasses can protect you from eyelid cancer and macular degeneration.
There are many resources available to help you adjust to changes in your vision.
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Costume and Textiles Ceremonial Cover (Rumal) Depicting the Rasalila The embroidery depicts the popular story of Krishna and the milkmaids engaged in a dance in which he assumes as many bodies as there are maidens (here four) in order to complete the circle of the dance. The entire composition is surrounded by a traditional floral border. The embroidery is identical on both sides. Made in Chamba, Himachal Pradesh, India, Asiac. Late 19th century Artist/maker unknown, India Cotton with silk embroidery Currently not on view 1991-48-1 Purchased with funds contributed by Ann McPhail and Marion Boulton Stroud, 1991 |
LabelThe Gita Govinda, a love poem written in the ancient Indic language Sanskrit, was often used as a source for the embroidered decoration on rumals from the Chamba Valley. The poem's description of a rasamandala, or circle dance, was especially appealing in that it allowed the embroiderer great scope in design. When compared with other rumals depicting rasamandalas, this cover stands out as being particularly unusual and imaginative in its presentation: the circular form of the dance is reflected in the shape of the cloth, while the four figures of the god Krishna and the four gopis (cowherdesses) are dressed in colorful and elaborately detailed costumes and jewelry. |


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Given you still hear occasionally of folks today being killed from shells from the Civil War, I'd say the costs from 20th century wars will go on for at least 200 years and possibly 300. I saw that thing on how much it's going to cost to support vets and their families, but I don't think they think of how young some of the Civil War vets were when the war ended and how old they may have been when their last kid was born. |
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by Seth Cropsey
Douglas J. Feith
What does the deadly violence against U.S. officials in Libya and Egypt say about the Arab Spring? Is Mitt Romney ready to lead in this international atmosphere? Is our current president?
The murderous anti-American violence in Libya and Egypt highlights a grim dilemma. Even U.S. officials who believe that promoting democracy and human rights serves U.S. interests need to acknowledge that popular revolutions against unattractive authoritarians can make matters worse. In other words, sometimes our policy choices are between bad and worse. Hatred of tyranny does not, alas, equate to love of liberty. One doesn't have to feel nostalgia for Hosni Mubarak's dictatorship to recognize that the new Islamist government in Egypt seems intent on doing far more harm to human rights and U.S. interests than Mubarak ever did.
The challenge for U.S. officials is to maximize the chances that we can influence events for the good. By cutting pro-democracy funding in the pre-upheaval period and generally shunning a leadership role, the Obama administration has not met this challenge. This has been true in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Iran, and elsewhere.
President Obama is more interested in renouncing American assertiveness and establishing the paramountcy of the United Nations Security Council than he is in advancing the particular interests of the United States.
Seth Cropsey is a Senior Fellow at Hudson Institute. Previously, he served as Deputy Undersecretary of the Navy during both the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations.
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MWC 2013: Nokia aims to broaden Windows Phone appeal with new Lumias
Mobile World Congress 2013 may be missing a few big name players, but there's still plenty happening, including an influx of oversized devices and open-source efforts. There's also a new set of low-end Lumia phones from Nokia, Samsung's BYOD play in the form of Knox, and HP's re-entry into the tablet market.
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Israel's mobile tech: An MWC retrospective
The just-completed MWC trade show highlighted some of the latest mobile technology coming out of Israel.
Huawei Ascend P2: Hands-on with the 150Mbps 4G smartphone
Huawei showed off its 4G LTE-equipped Ascend P2 at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. ZDNet spent a little time with it.
MWC 2013: Intel isn't giving up on tablets and smartphones
None of Intel's announcements this week at Mobile World Congress will significantly tilt the playing field, but they do show Intel has some momentum.
We don't need retail stores, says Google's Rubin
In contrast to Apple's approach, customers don't need to touch smartphones and tablets before buying, according to Google's Android boss Andy Rubin.
HP: We are shifting resources from PCs to tablets
We're catching up fast, insists chief executive Meg Whitman, as HP shifts its focus to tablets
ZTE Grand Memo hands-on: Can it win the 'phablet' market?
In a crowded market does the ZTE Grand Memo have what it takes to stand out from the competition? ZDNet went hands-on with the device at Mobile World Congress to see what it could offer.
Samsung Galaxy Note 8 hands-on at MWC 2013
At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Samsung has shown off the Galaxy Note 8.0, a tablet follow-up to its successful Note and Note II tablets.
Mozilla's Firefox OS eyes mobile domination - with tablets to follow
Mozilla's Firefox OS, shown off at Mobile World Congress, is gaining traction with operators, particularly those in emerging markets, but what does the future hold for the platform?
MWC 2013: Windows Phone Store has more than 130,000 WP8 apps
Microsoft and developers continue to fill the Windows Phone Store with a selection of apps, and they are seeing record downloads from consumers.
Smartphone payments via NFC? Don't ditch your wallet just yet
Samsung and Visa are promoting NFC as a mobile payment technology, but there are still a lot of obstacles to tackle before it becomes a mass-market proposition.
Twitter reveals details about its HTML5 client for Firefox OS
Twitter says its HTML5 client will contain 'similar' features to its apps for other mobile devices.
How CoPilot for Windows Phone has made me appy again
We all have our Instagrams: the apps that make the platform for us. Mine just happens to be a GPS app I've used since the Pocket PC days. Now it's coming back to Windows Phone 8.
ZTE unveils the Grand Memo phablet, plus Firefox OS-based ZTE Open
ZTE has introduced a new range-topping Android-based device alongside its first Firefox OS device called the ZTE Open, which it hopes will appeal to younger buyers.
Asus unwraps quad-core PadFone Infinity
ASUS has revealed the PadFone Infinity, a quad-core smartphone that will dock with a station to become a 10.1-inch tablet, that will ship in the second quarter of this year.
Nokia on Windows tablets: 'We are keeping our options open'
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TAMPA, FLA. -- It's supposed to be Mitt Romney's time to shine, but Ron Paul supporters are doing their best to steal the spotlight.
Groups of demonstrators are blanketing several street corners in Downtown Tampa, not only to show their support of Paul, but to also show their opposition to the Republicans Presidential Candidate pick, Mitt Romney.
Some supporters came from as far as Los Angeles to participate in this week's demonstrations.
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"I think the purpose of politics is the challenge and contest when you feel that things aren't going into the right direction when you feel the right polices aren't in place," Ron Paul supporter Joseph Timchenko said.
Meantime, on the convention floor, Ron Paul's delegates are expected toprotest the Republican party's new rules that limit the number of delegates on the convention floor for candidates who lose primaries in future elections.


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The group has maintained an uneasy status quo despite losing key allies in Tehran, Damascus, and Cairo
Last week's assassination of Hezbollah commander Hassan Laqqis in Beirut was a taste of what may come
Thanks to the Internet, Jerusalem seems closer than ever—but thanks to her government's policy, remains out of reach
Sefi Rivlin, the iconic Israeli comedian who died earlier this month, revolutionized the country's political scene
A newly published collection reminds that grotesque images of Jews were routinely mailed by ordinary people around the world
In the late 1950s, the Jewish department store mogul salvaged Chanel's reputation—and burnished his own
Synagogues are full and kosher restaurants abound as liberal immigrants, Orthodox singles, and secular Jews come together
An ancient principle of Judaism, debated at length in the Oral Law, is that it is a sin to count Jews—or is it?
My family's history gave me a pedigree as a Jewish New Yorker—until a visit revealed how quickly the past disappeared
Orthodox fashionistas everywhere rejoice
There's a headline we weren't quite ready for
Plus Jason Segel is David Foster Wallace, and more in the news
Watch the snowfall in the Old City on "The Kotel Cam"
URJ's 6 Points Sci-Tech Academy has robotics, video game design, and more
The American-Israeli economist's name has been floated for other gigs
Fox's popular otherwordly TV show borrows some familiar Judaic lore
We're pretty sure Jews didn't write this one
Plus 58 cases of measles among Hasidic Jews in 2013, and more in the news
The lingering effects of his massive Ponzi scheme on a century-old youth group, a Boston philanthropist, and small investors
Does sexually graphic material help Jewish continuity? 'Unclean Lips' argues for the unseemliness of Bruce, Roth, and their ilk.
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Sette ST-7 DLX Foldable Workstand
The ST-7 DLX Workstand was designed by Sette to provide a stable, versatile platform for those that like to do their own wrenching at home or when racing. The ST-7 has multiple adjustment settings which include such features as: rotating clamp locking levers, adjustable rubber lined locking jaw that won't damage your frame, 360 degree rotating clamp, quick adjustment height with settings between 38"-59", sturdy tubular steel frame construction with foldable legs that allow the DLX to be compactly folded way for easy transportation and storage.
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The stand is a bit flimsy, and getting bikes secured and in and out is not as quick as it would be with a much more expensive stand. That said, it folds up quickly and is light and compact, it does what it needs to do, and for what I paid for it, I am definitely satisfied. Don't expect a $300 stand, but it's a great stand for the price.
I considered 4 stars because the stand seems just a bit flimsy, but after using it many times for simple tasks so far it definitely gets 5 stars. Reasons why, it folds down very compact, it's very easy to set up and take down, it's easy to adjust, and it's very affordable. This is the best tool for working on a bike I've purchased. It makes simple takes that were a pain to do with bike on the floor into a breeze. Cleaning a chain, tuning derailleurs, removing wheels, changing components is made easy with this stand.
I bought this recently and had no issues. All I can say is that it does its job. There is a little play in the neck teeth but it hasn't been an issue. Overall it's very good for the price.
I got this stand on sale for $80. When I pulled it out of the box I was surprised at the ease of setup due to quick release skewers it utilizes through out the stand. After reading other reviews I immediately tightened the Allen bolt on the swivel head. So I encountered no issues with bike movement while working on my bikes in any position. All the quick release joints work smooth and with no issues. So setting the stand up or putting it away takes mere seconds. I like how stable it is while working on my bikes. Also the stand was fairly lite. In summary, is the stand Park Tool quality, NO. But it's also not Park Tool price and for the average home mechanic such as myself it gets the job done, and done well with no fuss. Now I can use the hundred I saved and replace broken parts!
I do not like the plastic teeth that keep the bike clamp from rotating. It slips every so often and I have to tighten it by removing the handle on the back and use an allen wrench. That part feels cheap. HOWEVER, I have had NO other complaints with this stand. for the price that issue can be overlooked. I have my bike on the stand most of the time and have used it for countless repairs. Easy to set up and fold down. Definitely a good buying choice. Just note that you might need to tighten the bike clamp rotation head when the stand shows up, otherwise the teeth will be very loose and grind each other under the weight of your bike.
Awesome portable stand. I use it to storemy MTB as well to my little kids dontknock it over. Works very well to do all jobs. I've changed all componets on my bike using this stand. Why pay more when this works very well, and its portable.


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Our School is the product of a forward-looking vision and mission. In scholarship/creativity, teaching and learning, outreach and public engagement, we recognize the importance of deep reading, textual analysis, creative expression, applied and persuasive writing, and research skills. We prepare students in textual disciplines for challenging careers and professions in a globally interconnected, information-rich, and humanly complex world.
On the OSU Corvallis campus, we offer a major and minor in English, a minor in writing, a minor in film, the MA in English (with concentrations in literature and culture or rhetoric, writing, and culture) and a high-residency, yearlong, fully funded MFA in Creative Writing (fiction, poetry, non-fiction) A low-residency MFA Program in creative writing is offered through the OSU Cascades Campus in Bend.
Look for these highlights on our website:
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HBO cancels 'Enlightened'
After two seasons, "Enlightened's" light has been snuffed out.
HBO confirmed on Tuesday that the series, which stars co-creator Laura Dern as a woman whose attempts to live a more enlightened life has unexpected consequences, isn't returning for a third round.
"It was a very difficult decision," HBO said. "We're proud of the show and we look forward to working with [co-creator] Mike White and Laura Dern in the future."
But as we've seen through the advent of Kickstarter funding a movie based on a defunct TV series and Netflix resurrecting cult favorites, some fans aren't losing hope that "Enlightened" could return.
"Everyone Tweet @netflix RIGHT NOW," comedian/actor Patton Oswalt tweeted Tuesday night. "Ask them to pick up 'Enlightened.' Followers...ASSEMBLE! At my signal, unleash hell!"
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