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Foreword by James Redfield Author of The Celestine Prophecy. Endorsed by Paulo Coelho Author of The Alchemist
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August 22 – 24, 2008
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INTUITION: You will learn how to activate your own intuition and be able to distinguish intuition from wishful thinking.
FORGIVENESS: There will be strategies for uncovering where resentments have been festering and how to forgive yourself and others.
FAMILY DYSFUNCTION: A major component for the three days will be tracking where in the family tree all the compulsions and addictions began to distort who you really are and how this distortion led to living a lie.
ASTROLOGICAL BIRTH CHARTS—Albert will have the birth chart of each class member, and will anonymously give individual insights for how to deal with the issue of authentic versus the false you. He will assign a number privately to each person and when he calls a number only the person whose number he talks about will know who he is addressing.
Friday, August 22 9 AM- 4 PM
Prayer and Meditation
Class members will come with a statement about: (a) Who they think they are and what is their purpose in life; (b) What they would like to get out of the class; (c) What is their heart's desire.
Each day, Albert Gaulden will facilitate the discussion using insights, strategies and tools to clarify where members of the class might be stuck, enmeshed in family dysfunction, etc., et al.
There will be an in-depth discussion about how your Ego, your dark side, interferes and distorts to keep you from being authentic. Gaulden will explain how your 'Other Self', your Shadow, is complicit with your Ego that become the block to who you really are.
There are far more addictions and compulsions than alcohol and drugs, all of which will be exposed in order for the class to see what are the deep holes into which they fall to stay inauthentic.
Saturday, August 23 9 AM – 4 PM
Albert will begin the discussion with the statement that "None of you are who you think you are,' but we are about to uncover the real you as opposed to who you have been acting like you are."
VI. Where the misconceptions of who you are not were born
VII. How you keep the lies you tell about yourself from spreading
VIII. The antidote to outing your false self in order to live authentically.
IX. What does it look like and feel like to be authentic?
X. How do we remove the barriers to the real self?
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Write what changes you have to make to become who you were born to be.
How can you find support back home?
What do you put in place of what you have to give up to be real?
Sunday, August 24 9 AM – 12 PM
Albert will bring the two days together. He will outline the how's and why's of staying authentic. Gaulden will handout strategies that solidify the major points he has covered in class.
Each class member will face the class and let us know who the authentic Self really is and what have been the misconceptions that kept them living as someone they were not.
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Happy Birthday Swami Swahananda We here at the Sedona Intensive™ wish Swami Swahananda, Albert's spiritual teacher, a very Happy 87th Birthday. He was honored with a cake and ice cream celebration at the Vedanta Society in Hollywood on Sunday, June 29th. Swami is the Spiritual Head of the Vedanta Society of Southern California. In Albert's new book, You're Not Who You Think You Are—a Breakthrough Guide to Discover the Authentic You, which will be published December 2, 2008 by Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Swami Swahananda serves as a spiritual conduit of the eight steps to self-realization. www.vedanta.org
Om Tat Sat Om—Peace, Peace, Peace
A few weeks ago Scott and a close client friend and I went to Los Angeles to celebrate Swami Swahananda's 87th birthday. Swami is the spiritual head of the Vedanta Society of Southern California. As many of you know I joined the Vedanta Society largely because the Hindu approach, "all paths that lead to God are right paths" is in alignment with what I know to be true for me.
Although we were only in California overnight, the traffic (we were in a traffic jam for over an hour on Saturday night as the Hollywood Bowl was just letting out), the humidity and the general frenetic energy of this complex and over-crowded city got to me big time.
The next day as we drove into Hollywood for the service in the Temple, I felt out of sorts to the degree that I found myself doubting whether or not I should have come for Swami's celebration. I made a bee line for the Temple and secured seats on the front row for me and my group.
The minute that Swami came into the room I immediately began to let go of all distractions and annoyances and irritation and became as calm and as cool as that proverbial cucumber. My group whispered to one another that they could not understand much of what Swami was saying—he still speaks with a thick India accent. But I got exactly what I came for—to be able to still myself and to go inside where peace lives. He spoke for an hour and I was transfixed. More often than not when a big piece of stuff speaker speaks, I impatiently look at my watch constantly wondering when he or she will be finished. I was enrapt with being in the energy field of this master; the hour sped by.
I spoke at the Cake Ceremony about my relationship with Swami and how he had inspired me to write my new book in a counseling session with him many years ago. I went to Swami to complain that someone had said something terrible about me. I went on and on with a lot of sniffles and a bit of 'poor me' and Swami looked at me intently when I had finished my saga of woe.
"Ramapriya, every time you come to me for counsel you tell me that you are not who you think you are. Perhaps you are not who he thinks you are either."
45 minutes from me and a 10-second solution from O High Holy One. I went away satisfied.
I called Swami the day after I returned to Sedona to ask him for a quote for my new book. He agreed, and then I told him that my friends could not understand him in the Temple. He said to me, "Ramapriya, I would rather they understand themselves."
Om Tat Sat Om. Peace, peace, peace.
Sometimes when everything you do seems to get you no where and the negative thoughts continue to bombard you, the best resolution is to get away from it all. You may think that this is running away or sticking your head in the sand like an ostrich, but I have found recently that it cleared my head to get away—to get away from the day-to-day grind—and just relax.
That's exactly what I did on the 4th of July this year. Rather than stay home and have the pressures of work so close at hand, I decided to pile in the car and go to San Diego. From the high desert red rocks to the sea was the extreme change that I needed. We went to the beach, enjoyed the shows at SeaWorld—most of all we just had a good time by adjusting not only with a change of scenery but with a change of attitude.
It was amazing how much better I was when Monday rolled around and I went back to work with some new ideas and a better handle on how to get them done. Too often we try to convince ourselves that we are ducking responsibilities or that we just don't want to face what we need to be doing; I disagree. The best direction for me oftentimes is to head out of town or to change my routine to give myself a new perspective.
The next time you are wondering how to mix things up—to clear your head for a better solution—take a break. Get away in order to come back home and to the job more relaxed, more inspired and more productive.
The biggest news this month is the two Eclipses: a Solar Eclipse New Moon at 9 degrees of Leo on August 2 and a Lunar Eclipse Full Moon at 24 degrees of Aquarius on August 16. A Solar Eclipse is a special New Moon when the Moon is directly between the Sun and Earth. During a Solar Eclipse the Moon completely or partially obscures the Sun across the Earth's surface. In this moment of perceived darkness, spirituality and the psyche combine anew, beginning another cycle in our personal development.
Both Eclipses, since they are in Fixed Signs, will most affect Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius. Speaking of Aquarius, the Solar Eclipse New Moon on February 5 this year was at 18 degrees of Aquarius, and one of the more ominous interpretations of this Eclipse according to Sabian Symbols was "A man's secret motives are being publicly unmasked." This was around the time of the subprime scandal, Bear Sterns' demise as well as Eliot Spitzer's dalliance with a prostitute and his subsequent resigning as Governor of New York. The Affirmative of that same Eclipse is "I am bathed in the loving light of Truth." Take your pick, or rather apply whichever interpretation has come true for you, particularly, if you are an Aquarian or have personal planets there.
A Lunar Eclipse Full Moon is when the Earth passes precisely between the Sun and the Moon—the shadow of the Earth covers the face of the Moon. There is a theory that Lunar Eclipses are more foreboding—triggering the end of the matter, perhaps a marriage or a job, oftentimes the loss of money or perhaps moving from one place to another. In my experience Solar Eclipse New Moons are more powerful in how one's life can change in whatever area of the chart it falls.
There are four other planets retrograde in the Leo cycle: Jupiter at 16 degrees of Capricorn (may portend a slow down in the good fortune of this blessed planet; Uranus at 22 degrees of Pisces (sudden change are a bit kinder and less jolting); Neptune at 23 degrees of Aquarius (the deceptive nature of Neptune will be less daunting, and Pluto at 29 degrees of Sagittarius (diminished the full bore of Pluto's colossal upheaval somewhat). Retrogrades soften the impact of the retrograde motion. What it really means is for each of us, wherever these retrogrades occur, should be learning the lessons they have come to teach.
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Leo (July 22 - August 22)
With the Solar Eclipse New Moon in Leo you may get the boost in respect and promotion that you deserve. As you read in Signs of the Times, however, this lunation is more about getting what you deserve. If you have been a good little boy or girl, your ice cream sundae will have a cherry on top; if you've been bad, you will be relegated to eating humble pie. Around the 14th of August there will be a Lunar Eclipse Full Moon—this is the moving fickle finger of fate. When God says, "Let go," let go. If you do, there is always something better than you could have imagined waiting.
Virgo (August 23 - September 22)
Mars and Saturn have been getting together in a tight conjunction for a number of weeks in Virgo. This means that you have been accelerating and breaking at the same time—getting nowhere! Be patient and don't kvetch and kvell too much while you're in the waiting room. God has a plan and this is the planning stage of your next extreme makeover. For the last dog days of summer, meditate. Journal. Ask what you can do for someone else. It will take your mind off of you. Good astrological idea, huh?
Libra (September 23 - October 22)
With Jupiter in Capricorn until January 2009, you'd better not get yourself into any more trouble with too many irons in the fire. Known to be a worrier who can never make up his (or her) mind, down size expectations, including speculating in the stock market, and you will do better later. There are a few words of caution for those of you having relationship problems (if married, check out the condition your marriage is in and change the one you can: you)—the grass may look greener on the other side, but the other side is full of women (or men) panting with great expectations for the next catch of the day (or month or year). Nothing is as grim as starting over when you're starting over with the same old flaws you've been stuck with. Stay put.
Scorpio (October 23 - November 21)
That Solar Eclipse New Moon is going to square (cause trouble) you, so make sure you don't fly off the handle and say things you will regret. Check your script over and make sure you're not stepping on someone else's lines—you know, trying to upstage or talk down to a more wicked witch than you are. There could be some repercussions to such outbursts. My cosmic advice to those of you with deadly stingers would be to chill. Run your insane mind chatter by someone you trust, and then say nothing. Getting something off your chest is never worth the amends you'll have to make later.
Sagittarius (November 22 - December 20)
Since Pluto has slithered back into your best laid plans for a while longer, let me suggest that you check out your tendency to do nothing—goofing off when you should be applying yourself or get into trouble with someone else's girlfriend (boyfriend). You are known as the Bachelors (Bachelorettes) of the Zodiac. It's not that you are some sex fiend—you just were just never good with boundaries or keeping the rules that apply to the rest of us. This Leo cycle you better watch your p's and q's because Pluto is watching and waiting to see if you need another deep soul cleanse.
Capricorn (December 21 - January 19)
You Goats may be feeling like Noah did when everyone wanted to know why he was building that big ole' Ark. You are onto what you need to do to put a firmer foundation beneath your feet and a sturdier house over your head. Stay the course. You are known to be frugal (oftentimes stingy), but whatever your still small voice is telling you, keep listening. You are going to be able to survive when the rest of us who are trying to keep up with the Joneses are getting what the Joneses always get: peter out and the money wells run dry trying to be something we are not.
Aquarius (January 20 - February 17)
You get a lot of criticism for always being out of step with the rest of the world. With the Eclipses coming the first two weeks of August you may be feeling like ET from the blockbuster movie when he said "Home". What you may be hearing is new news about how to be a bearer of hopeful tidings rather than sink beneath all the Doomsday hype plastered across newspapers and blaring on television and the radio. The stars are trying to guide you with a mission that only you understand now—later we will all know what you have always known.
Pisces (February 18 - March 20)
Now that you are beginning to live life on life's terms, learn to add and subtract as well as trying to live in your Zen state of consciousness. It is just as important to tend to the 'here and now' as it is to dream dreams and see the world through rose colored glasses. Reality comes with a price tag unfortunately. Uranus in Pisces retrograde is giving you breathing room from all the sudden changes that have been going on the first part of the year. Intuition is higher and more dependable this month than ever.
Aries (March 21 - April 20)
You may think that the world has turned on you big time. Not. Actually, since you are the most reckless of all the signs and too selfish and self-centered for your own good, those Capricorn planets just might be saving you from another hair-brained scheme or even a broken neck from how fast you drive. The good news for you is that the Eclipses this solar cycle are going to boost your economy and some of your way-laid plans will materialize. Don't crow—receive the bounty to share.
Taurus (April 21 - May 20)
I have been working with a lot of Taureans lately and it is amazing how thick-headed and thin-skinned you Bulls really are. The Eclipses in August are going to challenge you to stay the course rather than picking up your marbles and storming off because you don't like the game you anted into. These lunations are trying to teach you that kinder, softer, gentler will get you more than 'my way or the highway' skewered thinking. You have had so much cosmic help this year so bend your knees and thank God for what you have—and don't have. Keep it all simple and you will breathe more easily.
Gemini (May 21 - June 20)
The Eclipses are going to pull you out of your funk and you are going to feel like you are on the Price is Right and the announcer has just called your name and said, "Come on down". There is no sign in the Zodiac that likes to roam without a tether more than you do. Reach deep into your emotional bag of tricks and see what nagging voice is trying to beat you down—confront it—tell it to "Get lost"—and then enjoy the playground the Lords of Karma have laid out for you. This is a month for you to see the glass as half full—and drink in all the blessings that will come your way.
Cancer (June 21 - July 22)
The longer you live the more time you have to let go of the tight rein you hold on all those around you. This is a cycle for you to tend to matters of home—is it time to redo a room in the house? Will you have room for all the company that would rather stay with you than pay for a hotel room? The focus is on tending to your business and letting the rest of the world go by. The quicker you accept that Jupiter and Pluto in Capricorn are not moving to harm you—but to refine you and make you better—the faster you will be right-sized for what life has to teach you and also what all of us can learn from you. Bottom line: tend to your own business.
Andrew Bell
I recently traveled to a small town in France to see my sister perform in an opera. The region where we were staying, though beautiful, was practically vacant and lacked any sort of connection with the outside world. There were virtually no functioning television in the town, and internet access was available only on Fridays. As for transportation, a bus service was active twice a week, and traveled only as far as the nearest hub, 30 kilometers away. My American phone was left at home, and international phone parlors were non-existent. As such, I was alone, no television to watch, no people to call and no news to read. At first I was stunned. I realized that I was alone; unaware of what would befall my world back home. I would have to miss the Wimbledon Final I had wanted to watch. I would be unable to wish happy birthday to friends back home. And the emails and phone calls I received would have to go unreturned. I have spoken endlessly on MargaretWendt.com, as well as to friends and family about how dependant Americans have become on the new gadgets and technological advance we have today at our leisure. Even daring to laugh at a generation, unable to manage a day without checking Face book, or Instant messages they'd received that day. However, alone in Europe and completely depressed, I realized the joke was on me, as I too had been a victim of the dependency I had so adamantly criticized.
Under the circumstances, I was forced to overcome the experience, in the same fashion humans did for centuries before modern technology. I read, wrote, meditated, prayed and soul searched. And it was after a few days of such activity, that I realized how freeing it was not to be tied to the world, in the way I was before. I can honestly admit that I learned more in those 9 days about not only the world, but about myself, than I had in quite some time. And boy was it rewarding.
The Price of Ice Cream
By Bill Sharon
Over the past year there have been any number of people who have written and spoken about the depth and breadth of the financial crisis that we are currently suffering through. The unwinding of the derivatives that have driven the increase in wealth without any underlying value was as predictable as the dot.com bubble. The collateral effects of the decisions not to invest in our infrastructure, healthcare system and schools have also been well documented. The global demand for fossil fuel shouldn't have come as any surprise either; US companies have been increasingly making their profits in emerging economies and the rise in living standards has had a predictable effect on the demand for energy. All this has taken place while our political class has been as moribund as ever. Those of us who predicted these problems were right. Almost everything we said would happen has happened. Being right, however, is highly overrated. One only needs to be in a vertical position, have a pulse and pay attention to have seen what was coming. So no trophies or blue ribbons for prescience; just a chastened sense that we aren't as crazy as some people wanted to think we were. As with any unpleasant experience everyone wants to know if it is going to be over soon. The answer is clearly "no". At this writing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are no longer viable and on the verge of collapse, GE has had it's second quarterly loss in its history, oil is flirting with $150 a barrel, Citibank is selling assets hand over fist, Lehman is rumored to be the next investment bank to go bust and the New York Post announced on its front page this morning that Con Edison bills are expected to go up 22%. The end is not near and it is unclear as to whether we are at the end of the beginning. The floods in the Midwest that have caused billions in damage are at least in part a result of the failure to address the identified levee issues after a similar flood in 1993. The fires that rage in California began just weeks after the state declared a drought emergency.
Nature's wrath and the consequences of human folly seem to be converging, not only in the US but around the world. It is likely to be our reality for some time to come. We are going to have to live through it and in doing so will create a new reality. It can either be based on a combination of fear and a grasping at what used to be or it can be based on hope and a new way of thinking about possibilities that, until now, have seemed too futuristic to contemplate. Energy and water are the two commodities that lie at the heart of any turn in our fortunes. Fossil fuel is finite, dirty and increasingly difficult to come by. The technology for clean energy is already here. There are cars that exist in Australia and France that run on compressed air and get 200 miles to the tank. GM's Chevy Volt, which does not exist, will only get 40 miles per electric charge and is a hybrid; it will still require gasoline. We fiddle with a hybrid concept that Toyota introduced 11 years ago. The two year drought in California is but the latest evidence that the water crisis in the Western and South Western United States is persistent. On the other hand, there are 7,500 desalination plants throughout the world, 60% of which are in the Middle East with Saudi Arabia taking the lead. The prohibitive cost of these operations has limited their use but it is conceivable that those costs will look very cheap indeed in the foreseeable future. These are but two paths that we can pursue among many. While on their surface they appear to be driven by environmental concerns, their real power is in their economic impact. Plentiful water and renewable energy on a broad scale will result in a profound change in the financial and political power structure both here and around the world that is difficult to conceive. It's easy to be right about what's gone wrong. Being right about what needs to go right means changing the way we think and that's the most difficult change of all.
Sarah McLean
Seek and You Shall Find Looking for The Good As my husband Marty drove us down the hot streets of Phoenix last week, I kept my eyes peeled. I often do that especially when the temperatures are up in the one hundred and teens. I look for signs of animals big or small that might be hot, hungry, or thirsty and need help. That is my thing.
I look between buildings, through fences, apartment windows, stairwells, always keeping an eye out for an animal in need. I keep an eye out for people who might need help too.
As we were driving and my eyes were darting in my search, I noticed a sense of anxiety and compulsion. There might have been a great song was playing on the radio, but I wasn't listening, I was compulsive, nothing else mattered in the moment. I had to look, had to know if an animal was suffering. This practice had become a habit and was exhausting, and no fun.
Suddenly, I was reminded of an exercise I did with my niece Courtney during a weekend trip to New York City. She was 11. As we were walking together down a busy street in Times Square, she announced to me that everyone in New York was mean. I asked her how she knew that, and she assured me she could tell by people's faces, "They're all mean," she said, pointing one or two sour faces out. I hadn't seen it that way. So I asked her to do an exercise, and you can do it too as you read this.
I asked her to stop for a moment and look around to find everything that is blue in color. She scanned the storefronts and people on that street for anything blue. When she felt complete, I asked her to close her eyes, and when she did, I asked her to recall what she saw that was red (you can do this too, but shut your eyes right now).
She kept her eyes closed and was silent. She couldn't recall red things. Red hadn't been what she was looking for. This is one of the simplest exercises to demonstrate that the mind is always looking for evidence, always looking to be right, and always finds what it is looking for and little else. She opened her eyes and thought about what I had said to her.
I thought about my niece as my husband and I continued driving down Central Avenue, and I became more aware of my habit of becoming an animal detective. I wanted to stop the looking; it was a habit I had created over years. I decided I would look for something else. I would consciously look for beauty instead. It could be in any form, shape, or experience.
As I made up my mind to do this, my eyes lit on a sign, it read 'Beauty'. I laughed out loud. It was a beauty supply shop. I looked for beauty everywhere: in the color of buildings, in the clouds in the sky, in the music on the radio, and in the reflections and shadows of the sunlight on the desert landscape. I could find it. I just had to remember to look for it. I know I was reminded of this Navajo chant - used in ceremonies to help one return to a state of balance within the universe. This state of balance called "Hozho" in the Navajo language. It goes like this:
In beauty I walk. With beauty before me, I walk. With beauty behind me, I walk. With beauty below me, I walk. With beauty above me, I walk. With beauty all around me, I walk. It is finished in beauty,
I will see what I am looking for. It just may take a while to make it a habit.


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Exodus 39:38 - 39 - the golden altar, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the screen for the door of the Tent, the bronze altar, its grating of brass, its poles, all of its vessels, the basin and its base,
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Exodus 30:1 - 10 - "You shall make an altar to burn incense on. You shall make it of acacia wood. Its length shall be a cubit, and its breadth a cubit. It shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits. Its horns shall be of one piece with it. You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top, its sides around it, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding around it. You shall make two golden rings for it under its molding; on its two ribs, on its two sides you shall make them; and they shall be for places for poles with which to bear it. You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold. You shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you. Aaron shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning. When he tends the lamps, he shall burn it. When Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Yahweh throughout your generations. You shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal offering; and you shall pour no drink offering on it. Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once in the year; with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year he shall make atonement for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to Yahweh."
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Genesis 4:3 - 4 - As time passed, it happened that Cain brought an offering to Yahweh from the fruit of the ground. Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering,
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Leviticus 16:12 - He shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before Yahweh, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil:


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This is a pretty okay route that can be done if you have run out of other stuff in the 11+ or 12- range. Find Jam and Jelly. Go to the right of that maybe 15 feet and find a line of bolts that diverges into 3 upper lines. Do the Right Thing is the right hand line. Go figure. It starts on Chinese Freedom and after the crux, traverses right on a series of cool huecos with bad feet, then find a small edge, situate your feet, and huck for the good ledge. Up from there. Strong people use this as a warm up and a way to get a TR on Paradigm Shift. I actually didn't think it was any harder than Chinese, but will leave the rating at 12a if only for historical sake.
Bolts. Please use your own gear for top rope. Please bring an extra biner and if the ones up top look bad or don't easily clip or shut, please replace it. It's good karma.
A key foothold broke when I was doing this, making it a fair bit harder, though 12a is probably right now. A distraction of a climb compared to chinese freedom, but a good way to put draws on paradigm shift.
Fun, horizontal moves that rarely get done, but short people have a crazy time with this climb...


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Whether you are looking for a romantic weekend or ideal seclusion, city breaks to Florence are a real treat for your senses, offering a unique opportunity to get deep into the overwhelming beauty of the city. The center of medieval European finance and trade, Florence is considered by many to be a birthplace of the Italian Renaissance, and is also renowned for its architecture and art. It is believed that 350 of 1,000 great European artists lived and worked in Florence.
City breaks to Florence offer you a wonderful chance to move closer to the world of dazzling beauty and become part of it if only for a few days. A tour of Florence will bring you to the heart of the city, the Piazza della Signora with its greatest attraction - the Fountain of Neptune. This work by Bartolomeo Ammannati and his assistants was finished on the occasion of Francesco I de' Medici's wedding in 1565. Made in the XIX century, the statue of Neptune is a copy, while the original masterpiece can be found in the National Museum.
From the Fountain of Neptune you'll proceed to the Ponte Vecchio, the most famous medieval bridge, noted for many shops, notably jewelers, built along it. Constructed first by the Etruscans in ancient times, it is recognized as the oldest segmental arch bridge in Europe and the only in Florence to have survived the World War II. The Ponte Vecchio comprises three segmental arches, with the main one having a span of 30 meters and two side arches spanning 27 meters each. Situated in the center of the city's market district is the Basilica di San Lorenzo, one of the largest and most beautiful churches in Florence that also claims to be the oldest church in the city.
For more than 300 years it had been spotlighted as a cathedral, before losing this status to Santa Reparata. The Renaissance interior is cool and huge, and is lined with chapels. The oldest part of the church, Sagregata Vecchia houses the tombs of some members of the Medici family. No city break in Florence will be complete without a visit to San Lorenzo, the most famous palace of the city that has become the monument to the influential and powerful Medici family.
Located nearby is the Uffizi Gallery, regarded as one of the world's finest art galleries. There are three reasons that make it a must-see during city breaks to Florence: it was where the outstanding poet Dante was sent into exile in 1301, with a plaque on one of the gallery's walls commemorating the event; it was the location of the Bonfire of the Vanities in 1497, followed by Girolamo Savonarola's execution; it was the location of David by Michelangelo in 1504, replaced now by a reproduction, as the original moved to the Accademia dell' Arte del Disegno.
In addition to the renowned Uffizi Gallery, Florence boasts some of the most renowned world-class museums, all of them worth a visit during your city breaks to Florence. One of these, the Bargello focuses on sculpture, housing a number of priceless masterpieces by Giambologna, Michelangelo and Donatello, while the highlights in the collection of the Accademia dell' Arte del Disegno include David and Slaves by Michelangelo. Across Arno is the Pitty Palace, decorated with the private collection of the Medici family. Adjacent to the Palace are Boboli Gardens, landscaped with a number of magnificent sculptures.


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Portavin Wine Services Blitzes Accreditation
Portavin Melbourne has received the highest possible rating during recent recertification audits with rare "zero nonconformance" ratings from both the British Retailer's Consortium (BRC) and ISO.
The independent auditors took three days to thoroughly investigate procedures and policies at the Cheltenham site before declaring Portavin Melbourne to be one of the most comprehensive and impressive systems they have seen across any industry.
The three audits were for:
BRC, including HACCP (Hazard analysis and critical control points)
ISO 9001: 2008, a business wide, general quality management system and
ISO2200: 2005, specific to food safety.
The auditors praised the depth of detail in Portavin's quality systems, the ease of record retrieval, as well as the transparency of the whole operation. They also noted the outstanding commitment from management and the team to continually improve and implement preventative actions.
Portavin Melbourne's Production Manager, Gavin Wade, who oversees the audit processes said of the success that "this reassures customers that when Portavin bottles their wines and /or manages logistics, it unequivocally meets quality requirements in a safe and legal manner. We work continuously to improve our processes to offer the highest quality standards possible."
Portavin client Mark Matthews, proprietor of The Wine Crche and winemaking lecturer at Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE echoed the outstanding audit results, when he recently toured Portavin Melbourne with a group of final year winemaking students. Matthews noted "The intensity of the auditing processes that BRC and ISO conduct surprised many students. The fact that Portavin passed these audits without corrective actions or non-compliances is a tremendous achievement, and showed students the importance of a cohesive team-based approach to winemaking."
About Portavin. Established in 1989 as a contract Mobile Wine Bottling operation in MargaretRiver, Portavin has grown to operate five static wine bottling facilities and two mobile lines offering a wide range of competitively priced products and services to the Australian and New Zealand Wine Industry. Sites are located at Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, MargaretRiver and Auckland – near transport hubs and ports.
With ten qualified Winemakers working within the business, Portavin has the experience and accreditations to bottle, package, store and provide wine logistics to the highest quality level. www.portavin.com.au


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Once again, on the last weekend in July, we threw open our track and site to anyone in our hobby who wanted to come along. We had not had many bookings come through, but the model engineering grapevine was telling us that we could expect a good number of visitors.Denis


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Births for Jan. 22, 2013
Taylea Jane Compton
Aliana Jade Torres
Lilliana Irang Kuartei
Aiden Lee Urrutia
Calysta-Lynn Jane Cole
Taylea Jane Compton
Taylea Jane Compton was born to Jessica and Gene Compton, of Westwood, at 7:57 a.m. Oct. 15, 2012 at Feather River Hospital in Paradise, Calif.
She weighed 8 pounds, 9 ounces and measured 21 inches in length.
Maternal grandparents are Joe and Silvia Murgia, of Chico, Calif.
Paternal grandparents are Robert and Becky Compton, of Westwood."
Aliana Jade Torres
Aliana Jade Torres was born to Kayla Rose and Keegan Torres, of Westwood, at 1:01 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013 at Banner Lassen Medical Center in Susanville.
She weighed 7 pounds and was 20 inches long.
Maternal grandparents are Tamara Rose-Hart and Aaron Rose, of Niatic, Conn.
Paternal grandparents are Cassandra and Kenneth Torres, of Waianae, Hawaii.
Lilliana Irang Kuartei
Lilliana Irang Kuartei was born to Emily Law and Chancy Kuartei, of Susanville, at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013 at Banner Lassen Medical Center in Susanville.
She weighed 7 pounds, 8 ounces and was 19-1/2 inches long.
Maternal grandparents are Maureen and Martin Law, of Fairbanks, Alaska.
Paternal grandparents are Rebecca and Wright Kuartei, of Koror, Palau.
Maternal great-grandparents are Melba Waight and Ardalia and Francis Law, of Westwood.
Aiden Lee Urrutia
Aiden Lee Urrutia was born to Larrisa Clark and Luke Urrutia, of Leavitt Lake, at 1:38 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013 at Banner Lassen Medical Center in Susanville.
He weighed 8 pounds, 1 ounce and was 19.5 inches long.
Maternal grandparents are Stacy Clark and Larry Clark, both of Susanville.
Paternal grandparents are Kay Urrutia and Joseph Urrutia, both of Susanville.
Maternal great-grandparents are Kim and Scott Higgins and Bill Butler, of Marysville, Calif.
Paternal great-grandparent is Jenna Perry, of Redding, Calif.
Calysta-Lynn Jane Cole
Calysta-Lynn Jane Cole was born to Julianne Chanley and Bryce Cole, of Susanville, at 12:05 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013 at Banner Lassen Medical Center in Susanville.
She weighed 6 pounds, 6 ounces and was 18-1/4 inches long.
Maternal grandparents are Jana Chanley, of Delano, Calif. and John Chanley, of Roseburg, Ore.
Paternal grandparents are Ivy Cole and Larry Cole, both of Susanville.
Maternal great-grandparents are Edith and Richard Chanley, of Roseburg and Minnie and Fred Hendryx, of Delano.
Paternal great-grandparents are Mary and Elmer Cole, of Chino, Calif. and Margaret and William Thompson, of Pamona, Calif.
She joins sibling Jacob Freeman, 5.
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so a few of us bikers are standing around our bikes at the local hangout downtown by all the clubs lastnight. Now, even though we ride motorcycles, and some of us (not me) have two or more bikes, we're still pretty much broke all the time...
so this guy is hanging around, looks to be dressed not so badly. Definitely not a bum. He's talking to a few of us about the bikes, and he finally gets around to where we're standing, starts chit-chatting a bit. Then, he looks at us, and starts asking us if we can spare any change so he can go get a drink before the bars close down for the evening.
At this point, Krazy Korean (nickname for a cool Korean guy that rides with us) looks at this guy straight in the face, and asks him if he has any money to spare that he can give US to put gas in our bikes!
It was all we could do to hold back the laughter for 10secs before the guy was outta earshot.


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Is it possible to hide/remove the name of the images in the albums.
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sure, edit the corresponding tpl file. layouts/matrix/templates/singleBody / albumBody
read the instructions in the sticky topic of this forum, e.g. don't forget to copy the .tpl files to a local/ subfolder and edit the files there.


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Brain wave 3/9/2012
Remember the upshot to a similar promise a while back? By the year 2025, no Australian child will live in ignorance.
The Prime Minister defended the timeframe of her government's plan, which would lead to Australia being ranked as a top five country in the world for reading, maths and science performance by 2025.
As if. This mob would have to get advice from the HSU to organise sex in a brothel. They they'd screw it up . . . er, hang on . . .
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They'd pay the hookers with our money but then screw each other and claim it was good for the economy.
Seriously, if the Liberal Party had any brains they'd hire you as a writer. You're onto something here, re the Hawke crap.


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Forecasters at the Met Office have issued severe weather warn-ings down south with 90mph gales heading for coastal areas and 80mph winds expected elsewhere. There is the potential for trees to be uprooted and damage buildings.
The effects could be the worst seen in England since the Great Storm of 1987.
The storm is passing through the Gulf of Mexico, gathering strength, and is expected to hit the UK overnight on Sunday, into Monday morning.
And although at this stage it is not predicted to reach Scotland, the Met Office has said the course of the storm could change between now and Sunday.
It has issued "be prepared" warnings for parts of England and "be aware" warnings for Wales.
A spokeswoman for the Met Office said: "At the moment, Scotland is not affected by the weather warnings.
"We have issued an amber warning for the early hours of Monday along the south coast of the United Kingdom and yellow warnings in Wales.
"Glasgow won't be affected as it stands.
"However, this is a weather feature that is still forming so we are monitoring it. As it forms, the track of the storm might change.
"We'll have a clearer picture of it as it gets closer."
Today started off with heavy rain around Glasgow, with temper-atures today to hit 13ÚC with winds of 12mph.
Tomorrow will start off dry with spells of sunshine in the after-noon and early evening. It will be 10ÚC with gusts of wind at 30mph.
Sunday will be ano-ther day of sunshine and showers in Glasgow and some of the rain could be fairly heavy with temperatures again around 10ÚC.
The worst storms to hit Glasgow in recent memory were on January 15,1968.
Throughout the night and into the early hours of the next morning, Glasgow was battered by hurricane force winds. Twenty people across central Scotland were killed.
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text: | Post-Star editorial on ACRJanuary 5, 2012 - Jessica CollierThe Post-Star, a large regional newspaper based in Glens Falls, is weighing in on the ACR. They haven't done much covering of the project throughout the eight years of APA review - mostly running Associated Press stories when the really big stuff happens, as far as I know. But after former Saranac Laker Jon Alexander, who reports for them now, wrote a story about the process the other day, they're now weighing in with an editorial. They say the review process has been too slow, and they want the APA to find ways to make it faster. The ending gives you a pretty good idea of the crux of their argument. "Many observers expect the commissioners to approve the project with conditions. But rejecting it outright is not the worst thing they could do - following the advice of those environmental groups that want the hearings reopened is. Eight years is enough. It's time for a yes or no." What do you think? Should the APA make its review process faster? Should they have a way to stop developers from stalling? Do you like Fred Monroe's idea of having developers present their plans directly to the APA board? I should note that Will Doolittle, who is an editor at the Post-Star, used to work for the Enterprise and the Lake Placid News. Article CommentsNo comments posted for this article. Post a Comment | in: News, Blogs & Events Web |


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Sadly, it would appear that all benefits of the doubt will be given to European leaders, as most of you are too cowardly to bet against them over the two day weekend.
What you expect to occur over this lapse of time eludes me. If there is a recurring theme here, it's European leadership is a vacuum, and they aren't very expedient about anything.
It took them a year and a half to create a largely unfunded entity to market as a bail out for Greece. It took them another three months or so from there to get the initiative to write off some of Greece's debt.
Spain's a lot bigger than Greece, meaning it's an even more delicate subject. Forgive me, but I have a feeling that Spain requesting a bailout is going to touch a nerve with citizens of Germany.
This same group of leadership, which is even more disparate and unpopular now, is going to save the day over a weekend, yes? A good chunk of these clowns weren't even elected by their countries. They have no mandate to govern. Look at Greece; any "progress" could be swiped away with the rise of the political left.
Germany is going to put itself on the line, and open themselves up to immense liability, just to see these people take the easy path and drop their responsibilities? The preponderance of Europeans have been taking the easy path for the last thirty years. Even now, they're just begging for a sucker to drop their failings onto.
Germany's not biting that bullet, people. Fuck "the greater good". "Good" for whom?
Spain's bailout will take months to craft. The debates will be contentious. The fights, bitter. And the terms will be brutal. Merkel will see to that. Spain will have the option to put up for collateral (read: transfer ownership) of their entire national reserves of gold, in exchange from modest funding. Likely the amount of gold demanded will be worth at par to the size of the loan.
And in doing so, Germany will guarantee that any repercussions witnessed from this little charade goes right where it belongs – the homelands of the culprits.
This is a most serious matter; outside funding drying up leaves Europe with few options. They are trying to triple their outstanding currency to stay solvent, without tripling their outstanding currency. That can't be done. It's idiotic to even suggest. Yet here we are.
But the German's aren't dumb. They understand what's at stake. They aren't going to compromise on this. And Spain will not appreciate being told to surrender the only hard assets they have that could be used to offset the effects of price increases and collapsing confidence at home. These countries are betting the house knowing full well they have their gold reserves to fall back on, if they ruin everything. Even if no one wishes to acknowledge it.
What Germany is demanding is that Spain's leadership put their contingency policy on the line. This is Spain's game to lose. Germany may regret loss of the trade advantages the euro has provided, if this gambit fails. But they would then have possession of the second most liquid form of money, next to the US dollar.
Believe me. This will be an especially acrimonious phase of the European Debt Crisis. We are now moving out of the "Numbers/Confidence Game" and into the "Wealth Game".
Paper promises and assurances on the part of indebted countries are meaningless. It's time for the PIIGS to start putting up their national treasures as collateral. And they are going to hate it.


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No Pants Pedro in Under Plunder
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Simple platformer in which you must plunder the castle of all its riches while avoiding guards and various dangers.
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Very neat, reminds me of super pitfall but in a good way!
Really cool stuff in this game. There's quite a flew bugs that made it hard to play for me, though, which is definitely the result of the short development time. Hope you guys finish it up, as it's definitely on the right track!
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May 12, 2010, 4:25amStop spending Money!!
We don't have it to spend!!
One and a half trillion over budget for this year, and that doesn't include any emergencies.
What part of STOP SPENDING don't they understand????


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An Aesop's fable offers the story of a busy, industrious ant that works hard, lives with one eye to the future, seeks to be prepared for any eventuality, and a less-than-industrious grasshopper intent on fully enjoying the moment without much thought to anything beyond the current day.
Even if you aren't familiar with the tale, you can guess the outcome, the moralism that encourages you to be like the ant.
But I say: Let's hear it for the grasshopper! After all, it's summertime, and there is biblical support to back up such surprising praise.
The ancient teacher who composed the scriptural book of Ecclesiastes looks back over a life well-lived and shares what has been learned. After he strove for riches, pleasure, success and even wisdom, he found them to be like chasing after wind, a vain striving that brings frustration more than fulfillment or meaning. So his advice given is simple and oft-repeated in his reflection (ex. Eccles. 8:15, 9:7-8):
"So I commend enjoyment, for there is nothing better for people under the sun than to eat, drink and enjoy themselves, for this will go with them in their toil through the days of life that God gives them under the sun. Go, eat your bread with enjoyment, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has long ago approved what you do. Let your garments always be white and do not let oil be lacking on your head."
Surely he must be thinking about lazy barbecues at sun-drenched beaches, not forgetting plenty of sunscreen, chilled beer and white wine, and wearing white before Labor Day.
Well, soon enough, the lessons modeled by the ant will creep back into our consciousness to set the direction of our life — busy, focused and full of toil.
But for the time being, how wonderful it would be to be encouraged to step back and simply enjoy the life we've been privileged to receive as a gift from God. How refreshing to be reminded that we are not simply beasts of burden enslaved to days of toil, but we are human beings made for the enjoyment of all of God's creation.
So, for now, kindly remember: The sun is out, the water is warm, the refreshments are on ice, and the smoke on the ol' barbie is rising toward heaven as incense of praise.
Let's hear it again for Mr. Grasshopper. Hooray for summer and God's gracious, light-hearted generosity!
Matters of Faith columnist Kim Latterell can be reached by email at creatorpastor@ comcast.net.


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Hometown: Elizabeth, N.J.
The vast selection books available at Used Book Heaven might be overwhelming to the average person, but for owner Pat Orlando, keeping track of the store's 40,000-book inventory is second nature. She effortlessly points out book locations from memory and spots out-of-place books with ease. She says her passion for reading, combined with her knowledge of many different genres, is what sets the store apart.
Orlando, who operates the store with the help of her husband, Bob, has been passionate about reading from a young age. In grade school, her enthusiasm convinced the librarian to let her read above her grade level.
While living in New Jersey, she worked at the public library for two years and ran the library at Jesse Selover School for three years. In 1994, she and Bob moved to Siesta Key, where she opened Used Book Heaven.
A fan of romantic suspense, mystery and historical romance, Orlando enjoys interacting with customers and building an ever-growing list of must-read books. Even though most of her customers don't share her taste, she loves to help them find the book they're looking for. The store offers many meticulously organized genres, including children's, classics, contemporary, Oprah's Book Club, romance and mystery.
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3D Festival 2004 Announces Preliminary Speakers/Sessions
03/02/2004 - 00:00
3D Festival 2004, held May 3-6 in Copenhagen, Denmark, has just announced its preliminary list of speakers and sessions for its three conferences: 3D Festival, Game Developers World and Architectural Visualization.
3D Festival 2004 Preliminary Speaker List and Sessions (subject to change)
Justin Leach, Softimage
"CG and Anime - Innocence: GHOST IN THE SHELL 2"
Emile Edwin Smith, Zoic Studios
"The VFX of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA"
Jordi Bares, The Mill
"Artificial Intelligence in Commercials
Building Crowds"
Chris Landreth
"Inside RYAN"
Feng Zhu
"Concept Design Workshop"
Scott Robertson, Design Studio Press
"Concept Design Skills and Methods of Communication with 3D Modelers"
Larry Gritz, NVIDIA -
"Hardware Accelerated Production Rendering"
David Kirk NVIDIA
"NV40 Architecture"
Mark Snoswell, Snoswell Design
"Highend Character Rigging For Film"
Paul Franklin, Double Negative
"Creating Oceanic Environments For LXG and
Brian Pohl, Digital Domain
"Integrating Previsualization Into a Production Pipeline"
Darrin Krumweide, Gnomon School of VFX -
To be announced
Eric Hanson, Digital Domain
"The Rise and Challenge of Digital Sets" & "Parallels Between Architectural Visualization & Entertainment"
Greg Downing, Rhythm & Hues -
"Photogrammetry For Digital Set Building"
Olivier Renouard, Attitude Studio
"Character Rigging For Hybrid Animation"
Luc Froehlicher, La Maison -
"The VFX of THE MAN WITHOUT A HEAD and DREAMKEEPER''
Alex Alvarez, Gnomon School of VFX
To Be Announced
Gonzalo Rueda, Snoswell Design
"Spherical Harmonics"
Game Developers World Preliminary Speaker List and Sessions (subject to change)
Lorne Lanning, Oddworld Inhabitants
"How Game Development is Changing the Way We Think About Film & TV Production"
Scott Easley, Electronic Arts
"The Making of MEDAL OF HONOR & "Fundamentals of Video Game Animation"
Simon Tremblay, Ubisoft
"The Making of PRINCE OF PERSIA & "Art Production Management for Video Games"
Sami Vanhatalo, Remedy Entertainment
"Sequel Building -The Art and Graphics of MAX PAYNE 2"
Architectural Visualization Conference Preliminary Speaker List and Sessions (note - subject to change)
Alex Morris, Hayes Davidson
To be announced
Steen Savery Trojaborg, DISSING & WEITLING
To be announced
Knut Ramstad, Selvaag BlueThink
To be announced
Kim Larsen, PLACEBO Effects
"Realtime Architecture Models with Global Illumination and Multi-Textures"
Jeff Mottle, CGArchitect
To be announced
Joshua Teas, Snohetta AS
"The Role of Digital 3D in Architectural Design"
Eric Anton, Artefactory
To be announced
3D Festival 2004 (
) is Europe's largest convention and exhibition for the creative 3D industry involved in animation, postproduction, digital visual effects, games, architectural visualization and design.
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Since the morning of February 11, 1963, when the 30-year-old American poet Sylvia Plath placed bread and milk by her children's bedsides, taped up the doors and windows of her London kitchen, put her head in the oven and gassed herself, an academic and publishing industry has grown up around her grave. It is an industry inspired not only by her body of work, most notably the visceral, emotionally violent Ariel poems written over the last six months of her life, but also by the sacred relics of her story itself, the salacious and sensational details of her mental illness, her suicide attempts and her fraught marriage to the famous young British poet Ted Hughes. For academics, feminists, biographers and critics, Sylvia Plath is their O.J. Simpson, their solid-gold scandal.
Indeed, the glut of Plath-ography -- and the struggles among Hughes, Plath's literary executor, and the biographers who besieged him -- itself inspired, in 1993, its own study: Janet Malcolm's extended essay on "the transgressive nature of biography," The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Malcolm's measured skepticism regarding the motives of all involved in profiting off the Plath-Hughes story impressed at least one reviewer, James Wood, as "so subtle, so patiently analytical, and so true" that he argued she had effectively had the last word on the subject: "It is difficult to envisage anyone writing again about Plath and Hughes. She is the cat who has licked the plate clean."
Other cats are now crowding around this ever-tempting plate, however, emboldened by Hughes' death, from cancer, in 1998, an event that frees biographers and memoirists alike from the fear -- particularly in Britain, with its plaintiff-friendly libel laws -- of litigation. As Malcolm memorably put it: "After we are dead, the pretense that we may somehow be protected against the world's careless malice is abandoned. The branch of the law that putatively protects our good name against libel and slander withdraws from us indifferently. The dead cannot be libeled . . . they are without legal recourse."
Hughes, of course, suffered that "careless malice" long before his death, ever since Plath's suicide and the dawning realization in the literary community that her last poems were works of genius. Published in 1965, Ariel became a totemic text of the nascent feminist movement, its readers quick to fasten on Hughes' role, however unwitting, in Plath's depression and demise: A few months before her suicide, Plath had ordered him out of their home on discovering that he was having an affair. As her literary executor, he seemed inherently suspect, unconscionably slow in publishing her Collected Poems (which didn't appear until 1981, 18 years after her death) and self-protective in his editorial omissions in The Journals of Sylvia Plath, particularly in his astonishing admission that he had destroyed Plath's final journal "because I did not want her children to have to read it" and that another late notebook of hers had "disappeared."
Feminists who saw in Plath a martyr to male perfidy called for his head, screaming "murderer" at his poetry readings, chipping his name off Plath's headstone. Hughes' reputation was further blackened by the bizarre fate of Assia Wevill, the woman for whom he had left Plath. An aspiring poet and strikingly beautiful Russian-German-Jewish woman, Wevill continued a tempestuous relationship with Hughes after Plath's suicide, bearing his child, a girl called Shura, in 1967. Two years later, depressed by Hughes' inability to make a commitment to her, Wevill gassed herself and her daughter in her own kitchen, in a grotesque re-enactment of her rival's death.
Hughes maintained silence about these events for years, but, nine months before he died, he published Birthday Letters, a book of poems about his relationship to Plath written over the previous 25 years. Surrounded by secrecy before its serialization in The Times of London (which paid 25,000 pounds for the privilege), Birthday Letters was a sensational publishing event and immediately became a best-seller, inspiring fevered speculation about its author's motives (no one then knowing that his death was imminent). In 1996, Hughes had also sold a vast archive of his private papers, for a reported half a million dollars, to Emory University in Atlanta, and unsealed several sections of Plath's journals, which were published, in 2000, in The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950--1962. After his death, this new material was converted into fresh headlines in tabloids on both sides of the Atlantic, with the New York Post blaring, in 1999: "Was Plath Unfaithful? -- Documents Cast Doubt on Image of Suffering Sylvia."
With Hughes out of the picture, the industry is working overtime. The first biography of Hughes (reportedly unearthing additional extramarital affairs and a possible illegitimate child) is soon to appear, and the BBC has signed Cate Blanchett to star as Plath in a film titled Sylvia and Ted. That's not to be confused with Sylvia and Ted, the new novel by Emma Tennant. Known principally for writing faintly feminist sequels (such as Pemberley, a sequel to Pride and Prejudice), Tennant came out with a memoir (Burnt Diaries) shortly after Hughes' death, in which she revealed that she'd had an affair with him in the late 1970s while he was married to his second wife, Carol Orchard Hughes. Her novel is breathlessly based, according to an author's note, on "the story of the 20th century's most famous -- and most tragic -- love affair," and her motives are said to be purely artistic: "I felt that the biographies of Sylvia Plath, while useful and informative, failed to connect on a poetic and imaginative plane."


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