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Thanks to Simone about her Canadian adventure to Minden, Ontario with a toddler in tow!
After having had guests from Germany, for two weeks in June, vacation is calling. How convenient that my husband's work's shutdown week is right around the corner! How about a trip to Minden, Ontario, Canada to visit friends at their cottage at Mountain Lake? I am immediately thinking to rent an RV for the week. That should be an inexpensive, adventurous, and hopefully fun, way to travel and we can take the dogs along; so we save even more money. "Yes? Great! Let's do this!"
Traveling To Canada with a Toddler
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Is it easy to rent an RV?
I have never looked up RV rental before, but I am expecting it should be a fairly easy and quick endeavor. WRONG! Not only is there no RV rental place anywhere near us, but RVs are also not cheap to rent. Great! The next idea is to maybe rent an RV privately. It is definitely cheaper, but I was unaware that the entire United States of America is renting RVs for the week we had in mind. Ok, to be fair: it is 4th of July week. Duh!
Trains, Planes, and Automobiles
Back to the drawing board: what are our other options? Train: what train…? Airplane: really expensive! Our own SUV: looks like that is the only option left. After having established how to get there, where will we stay when we get there? Quick call to ask our friends about hotels in the area: "what do you mean 'no hotels available'?" Shoot! I wonder whether or not we can stay with them for a couple nights at their cottage? They tell us that we can stay with them. Whew!
But wait, the dogs?!
So, this vacation is still happening. Wait a second, what about our dogs? After a quick call to our usual boarding facility the result is that they have, obviously, no room anymore. Shoot! It was expected, but darn it! There has to be a boarding place somewhere that has an opening…maybe. I finally find one! The obligatory meet and greet is scheduled for two days before our planned departure.
Just for your information, this is happening to a type A person! I am not sure whether this vacation is still a good idea, but I am trying to be spontaneous and flexible here. (Pat on my own back).
It IS happening!
July 1st rolls around and the dogs are really in boarding. Our guests from Germany are all packed and ready to go. We are packed and ready to go as well; including lots toys and CDs for kiddo, snacks, and tons of mosquito spray. We must be forgetting something. This seems too good to be true. A while into the trip I ask my husband: "did you pack diaper cream? No? Me neither!"
At this point we are already close to Detroit, MI, where we are scheduled to stop and unload our guests at the airport. Their flight to Germany is delayed by one hour, of course, and I do not want to leave them without knowing they made it at least to the gate, which pushes our arrival time in Stratford, ON, significantly back. No big deal, we can still make it there before midnight.
Onwards to Stratford, Ontario. Which is famous for the Stratford Festival
Our guests make it to their gate, and we are off to Stratford, ON. Crossing the border is no problem, since we are late enough that everyone else, who is crazy enough to travel around this time of year and who was waiting in line earlier that day, had already crossed the border into Canada. From here on, it is smooth sailing to Stratford.
When we arrive at our hotel in Stratford, they tell us that they have NO vacancies! Turns out, Stratford is a popular spot during Stratford festival weekend which is, of course, this weekend. You have to be kidding! It is already after 9pm, and we are getting to the point of no return here. One hour later, we finally find a place to crash at a, surprisingly, nice little Inn. I cannot help it but feel a little bit like Mary and Joseph looking for a place to stay (only I am not pregnant). If I were a believer, I would think that this is some kind of divine intervention/sign.
Driving Day 2: To Minden, Ontario, Canada
After our quick night at the Inn, we enjoy a surprisingly nice breakfast. Then we are on route again to Minden. 6 more hours ahead of us, but we can do it. Lots of games and CDs later, we finally get to our destination without any other problems. Our friends, their two children, and one set of parents are already expecting us.
After three minutes there, I am so glad that I brought lots of mosquito spray. The cottage is lovely and right by Mountain Lake which is beautiful and much bigger than I thought.
Exacty what vacation is supposed to be
The next four days we spend our time playing with the kids, boating, canoeing, water skiing, tubing, swimming (just a little, since the lake was only about 65 degrees F warm), jumping off cliffs (once was enough for me), jogging, walking, cooking, eating, and lots of socializing with beer and wine next to a camp fire in the evening. One night, we ask the parents to watch all the kids after they had gone to bed. The rest of us adults go out in the boat to enjoy the night sky and the lake in the dark. It is quite magical.
We make plans to buy a cottage of our own together and try to imagine how and where it will be. Unfortunately, 9 hours driving time, without stops, is too far for my husband and me to own a cottage in Minden, Canada; even if it would be a shared cottage. It was nice to imagine it for a few days, though.
Our way back to Ohio is not as eventful as the way to Minden was. My husband and I decide to try to go home in one day. We can always stop somewhere if we change our mind or if our toddler is not cooperating anymore. The trooper she is, though, and thanks to YouTube cartoons, we make it in about 11 hours home. We stop once for an hour for a sit-down lunch and then again a few times for short pit stops.
Travel keeps giving, even upon returning home
When we arrive home, it has already started to get dark, and our daughter is not asleep yet (again, thanks to cartoons on the phone). The fireflies are starting to fly around our property, and as always they provide quite the light show for us. Our daughter was able to see it for the first time (usually she is asleep by now). It was such a fun way to end our spontaneous trip to Canada which we all enjoyed very much.
Have you ever made spontaneous trips that turned out well?
About Simone
Originally from Germany, Simone now makes her home in the US with her husband and daughter. She travels frequently to Germany with her toddler to visit family. She has also written about her favorite city (spoiler: it's Paris) and taking her toddler to an all-inclusive resort.


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A reflection on mindfulness and intention in the context of music making.
First, though, three matters that I would wish not to be confused:
a) Training and Performance. This particular discussion deals mainly with performance, although it will have some implications for training which require further reflection on all our parts;
b)Goals and Process. This discussion refers mainly to the ideals to which I aspire, not the goals I believe I have achieved in my performance. However, if I did not have growing confidence that I have been making significant progress on the path in pursuing these achievements, I would not have the confidence to share these theories.
c) Great teachers have defined mindfulness differently. I am neither agreeing nor disagreeing with what any one teaches. It's just what I've come to believe based on my experiences of life (which includes some direct experience with and training in the Zen components of certain Japanese approaches to the martial arts and traditional ceremonies, although even the teachers of these latter may not necessarily concur with my conclusions).
Consider the following notions of mindfulness (or intention, consciousness, etc — fill in each word once for each example) in occasions that are animal, vegetable and mineral:
Does a cat have mindfulness as it finds its way after being tossed in the air to land squarely and gently on its four legs? Your answer may legitimately be yes or no. If yes, then I wish for this kind of mindfulness as I toss my arms about the keyboard and have my fingers land squarely and gently on the keys – and not only on those particular combinations of keys that I have practiced, but also on combinations that I am only considering landing on for the first time in my life. If the answer is no, that the cat is not mindful, then I plead for the same mindlessness as the cat. But above all, let me be like the cat on the keyboard.
Does a sunflower have mindfulness as it poses in all its glory for the great photographers in the heavens? Your answer may quite perfectly be yes, and I may on a deep level concur. If so, then I crave that same mindfulness of the sunflower (or of the ivy or the clematis) as I turn and stretch towards the sounds of singing muses as I might otherwise claim to be improvising. If the answer is no, then I crave instead the mindlessness of sunflowers who are only obeying unseen forces. But above all, may I be like the sunflower.
Does the water (rushing or still) have mindfulness as it finds its own level, even amidst unfamiliar territory of peaks and crevices? Again, if yes, then I aspire to the mindfulness of water as my palms and fingers find their own level among the peaks and crevices of sharps, flats and naturals on the keyboard, especially in the unfamiliar territory of combinations of notes I have never played, or am playing in a new way. If not, then let my hands and fingers be as mindless as water flowing where it is meant to flow, sometimes with ripples and waves but always settling to a level sea. But let me, above all, be like the water as I play.
Depending on your views on humanity, on nature, on the internal and external, seen and unseen forces that govern our lives, you may have different answers than I do. You may have already had teachers that have taught mindfulness in a way that concurs or does not concur with the implications of what I suggest here. One idea that has been crucial in my progress at the piano has been learning to be mindless and not just mindful. Or mindful in a mindless way, or mindless in a mindful way. They are not necessarily opposites. I have discovered forms of mindfulness and intention in both my training and performance that have required 'paying attention' in ways that we may not attribute to cats, sunflowers or to water. I have had to especially learn new ways to access the left/analytical side of my conscious brain as I invent new exercises and analyze my experience with exercises and compositions that others have written. But at the same time, the moments when I become truly 'one with' my instrument are those moments when I find that my hands and fingers have minds of their own, independent of my conscious direction. We may not necessarily disagree on the definitions involved. It could be toMAto or toMAHto for that matter.
What I do know is that there are many occasions when I have realized that my hands and fingers need to be as gentle, fluid, and yet 'determinate' as the water. I have realized that in order to be 'in the moment' with my music – and to me this is the more important point — it is not just my physical self, but my mind as well, that must be as gentle and fluid as the water, and the 'determinate' aspect of my mind must be the same kind of determinacy as that of water, of the sunflower, of the cat.
If all of this agrees with your definitions of mindfulness, then may be be joyfully mindful together. Otherwise, let us instead revel in complete mindlessness. As animals, vegetables or as minerals.

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Did you know, that if a supermarket is out of an advertised special, you can ask for a rain check? No? Neither did I, but you can! And this little tip is a gem!
Ask for rain checks on specials
If something you want is out of stock and an advertised special, you're entitled to a rain check. You can have up to four that you can use anytime within the next TWELVE months! Genius!
Quinoa reduced to $3 from $15 (example may be exaggerated) but none left on the shelf? No worries, just ask at the checkout / service desk and you will get your rain check - four of them if you ask actually. And you can then buy that item at the reduced price any time within the next 12 months by presenting your rain check.
Winner, winner, quinoa dinner!
Have you gotten any bargains lately?
Tuesday, 10 February 2015
Tuesday tip - take a rain check
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Emotional distance is a real problem that exists not only in relationships but in marriages as well. Most times it starts gradually and keeps building till it reaches a certain height where it becomes too difficult to contain. When you hear things like "I don't understand him/her anymore" or "it's like we are in two different worlds" then it's most likely an effect caused by emotional distance.
Emotional distance is when a person gradually shuts his/her affection towards a partner, physically that person might still be in the relationship but mentally such a person has already been detached.
There is usually a thin line between having a successful relationship and an unsuccessful one, and complacency is one major reason why a relationship gets to this stage of emotional distance. If you don't put daily efforts in feeding your relationship with love and care, if you take the love of your partner for granted or get so used to it or vice-versa then there is bound to be emotional distance in the nearest future.
Every relationship or marriage needs constant attention to grow; there ought to be constant growth in every relationship or marriage. When you pay too much time to work and other activities, leaving your partner in the process, there is every possibility that emotional distance could occur. Building friendship, romance and sex with your partner should never be underestimated.
Stress could also take a toll on a partner and make such a person become emotionally distant. When one become overwhelmed by work and anxiety, they might lack the resources to feed both their work and relationship strongly, so stress could actually make them shut down towards one of the two… and it might most likely be the relationship that would suffer.
Having grudges against your partner can make emotional distance build gradually in your relationship. Having grudges could gradually make you shut your heart towards your partner, and isolation could gradually step till it reaches a formidable height. Unforgiveness is a major reason why emotional distance happens in many relationships and marriages.
This is another reason why emotional distance occurs in many relationships. When a relationship takes a bad twist, it's highly important to acknowledge it and put in efforts to reconcile things rather than live in denial, feeling that everything is okay. If the right thing isn't done, the affected partner might begin to shut down gradually till the emotional distance becomes much obvious.
It could also be that your partner is seeing another person. Sex with another person could build a certain desire for that new person, killing all your desires for your partner in the process. When a partner builds that sexual passion outside the relationship or marriage, the relationship or marriage is bound to suffer, as that partner would become shut down to the relationship.
These are major causes of emotional distance in relationships and marriages. These things don't just happen at once, it builds gradually, and it becomes worst when it isn't detected early; that's why it's important to pay daily attention to your relationship.


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Rhapsody is such a sweet, mellow girl who is 12 years old. She is a love bug who will wrap her paws around your heart and make you love her! She loves walks but also loves to just hang out with you. She is used to using a doggy door for potty duties and is diligent about using it. Her personality is on the shy side at first. …except at feeding time when she will prance around on her back legs excitedly awaiting the arrival of a full bowl. She is from champion show lines but decided she'd rather be a cheerleader from the sidelines than actually in the shows. Her owner had to relinquish her to us due to moving to assisted living. Rhapsody is a delight!
Senior dogs ROCK!
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- Mellow and quiet
- Tail up and alert
- Great with other dogs
- Looking for the perfect "beagle retirement home"
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- Hypothyroidism requiring medication (a pill) twice/day which costs approx. $7.00/mo.
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Ein Karem
Coordinates: 31°45′55″N 35°8′58″E / 31.76528°N 35.14944°E
|'Ayn Karim
Postcard from 'Ayn Karim, pre-1948
|عين كارم
|Name meaning
|Ain Kârim, the spring of the dresser of the soil[1]
|Palestine grid
|3,689 (1948[2])
|15,029[3] dunams
|Date of depopulation
|10 and 21 April 1948, 16 July 1948[4]
|Cause(s) of depopulation
|Influence of nearby town's fall
|Secondary cause
|Military assault by Yishuv forces
|Current localities
|Ein Karem[5]
Ein Karem (Hebrew: עֵין כֶּרֶם, lit. "Spring of the Vineyard", and Arabic: عين كارم - ʿEin Kārem or ʿAyn Kārim; also Ain Karem, Ein Kerem) is an ancient village of the Jerusalem District and now a neighbourhood in southwest Jerusalem and the site of the Hadassah Medical Center. It was a Palestinian Arab town in the Mandatory Palestine's Jerusalem Subdistrict, then depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 16, 1948.[6][7]
According to Christian tradition, John the Baptist was born in Ein Karem, leading to the establishment of many churches and monasteries. In 2010 the neighborhood had a population of 2,000.[8] It attracts three million visitors a year, one-third of them pilgrims from around the world.[8]
- 1 History
- 2 Christian traditions
- 3 Landmarks
- 4 Related sites in the area
- 5 Notable residents
- 6 See also
- 7 References
- 8 Bibliography
- 9 Further reading
- 10 External links
A spring that provides water to the village of Ein Karem stimulated settlement there from an early time.[9]
Bronze Age[edit]
Pottery has been found near the spring dating to the Middle Bronze Age.[9]
Iron Age[edit]
For the Iron Age, or Israelite period, it could be identified as the location of Beth HaKerem[10] (Jeremiah 6:1; Nehemiah 3:14), where the traditional name comes from.
Second Temple period[edit]
A well-preserved mikveh, or Jewish ritual bath, indicates there was a Jewish settlement in the Second Temple period along with some other discoveries such as handful of graves, bits of a wall, and an olive press.[11][12] A reservoir here was mentioned in the Copper Scroll, one of the Dead Sea Scrolls.[13][14]
Roman and Byzantine periods[edit]
During excavations in Church of Saint John the Baptist in Ein Karem, a marble statue of Aphrodite (or Venus) was found, broken in two. It is believed to date from the Roman era and was probably toppled in Byzantine times. Today, the statue is at the Rockefeller Museum.[15] Ceramics from the Byzantine era have also been found here.[16]
In around 530 CE., the Christian pilgrim Theodosius said that the distance is five miles from Jerusalem to the place where Elizabeth lived, the mother of John the Baptist.[17]
Early Islamic period[edit]
Ein Karem was recorded during the Islamic conquest. Al-Tamimi, the physician (d. 990), mentions a church in Ein Karem that was venerated by the Christians, as well as mentions an old custom of the Jews of Ein Karem to make wreaths from the boughs of a wild plant belonging to the mint family (Lamiaceae) during the Jewish holiday of Shavu'ot.[18]
Crusader/Mamluk period[edit]
It is mentioned under the name St. Jeehan de Bois during the Crusades.
A coin from the reign of As-Salih Hajji (1389 CE.) was found here, together with pottery, glassware and other coins from the Mamluk era.[19]
Ottoman period[edit]
In 1517, the village was included in the Ottoman empire with the rest of Palestine and in the 1596 tax-records it appeared as 'Ain Karim, located in the Nahiya of Jabal Quds of the Liwa of Al-Quds. Curiously, the Ottoman tax registry of 1596 does not list Christian heads of households (perhaps because of their ecclesiastical status and property then considered mortmain tenure, assured to pious foundations), but only mentions the town's taxable Muslim heads of households, which numbered 29. They paid a fixed tax rate of 33.3% on agricultural products, which included wheat, barley, summer crops, vineyards, grape syrup/molasse, goats and beehives in addition to "occasional revenues"; a total of 5,300 Akçe. All of the revenue went to a waqf.[20]
In the 1670s, the village was given to the Franciscans through the influence of the Marquis de Nointel, the French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire.[21][22]
James Silk Buckingham visited in the early 1800s, and found he was "more pleased with this village [] than with any other place I had yet visited in Palestine."[23]
In 1838, Ain Karim was noted as a Muslim and Latin Christian village in the Beni Hasan district.[24] [25] In 1863 Victor Guérin noted a thousand inhabitants, "of whom there are barely two hundred and fifty are Catholics; the others are Muslim. The ancestors of these last for Maghrabins, that is to say, originating from the West and mainly from Spain, from where they would have been expelled under Ferdinand the Catholic."[26][27]
An official Ottoman village list from about 1870 showed that Ain Karim had 178 houses and a population of 533, though the population count included men, only. The population consisted of 412 Muslims in 138 houses, 66 Latin Christians in 18 houses, and 55 Greek Christians in 12 houses.[28][29]
In 1883, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Ain Karim as: "A flourishing village of about 600 inhabitants, 100 being Latin Christians. It stands on a sort of natural terrace projecting from the higher hills on the east of it, with a broad flat valley below on the west. On the south below the village is a fine spring ('Ain Sitti Miriam), with a vaulted place for prayer over it. The water issues from a spout into a trough."[30]
In 1896 the population of 'Ain karim was estimated to be about 1,290 persons.[31]
British Mandate era[edit]
In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the population of 'Ain Karim was 1,735; consisting of 1,282 Muslims and 453 Christians,[32] increasing in the 1931 census to 2,637, in 555 houses.[33]
In the 1945 statistics, Ein Karim had a population of 3,180; 2,510 Muslims and 670 Christians,[34] The total land area was 15,029 dunams,[3] of this, a total of 7,960 dunums of land were irrigated or used for plantations, 1,199 were used for cereals;[35] while a total of 1,704 dunams were classified as built-up areas.[36]
The 1947 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine placed 'Ayn Karim in the Jerusalem enclave intended for international control.[37] In February 1948 the village's 300 guerilla fighters were reinforced by a well-armed Arab Liberation Army force of mainly Syrian fighters, and on March 10 a substantial Iraqi detachment arrived in the village, followed within days by some 160 Egyptian fighters. On March 19, the villagers joined their foreign guests in attacking a Jewish convoy on the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem road.[38] Immediately after the April 1948 massacre at the nearby village of Deir Yassin (2 km to the north), most of the women and children in the village were evacuated.[39]
It was attacked by Israeli forces during the ten-day campaign of July 1948. The remaining civilian inhabitants fled on July 10–11. The Arab Liberation Army forces which had camped in the village left on July 14–16 after Jewish forces captured two dominating hilltops, Khirbet Beit Mazmil and Khirbet al-Hamama, and shelled the village. During its last days, 'Ayn Karim suffered from severe food shortages.[39]
Israel later incorporated the village into the municipal boundaries of Jerusalem.[39] Ein Kerem was one of the few depopulated Arab localities which survived the war with most of the buildings intact. The abandoned homes were resettled with new immigrants. Over the years, the bucolic atmosphere attracted a population of artisans and craftsmen.
In 1961, Hadassah built its medical center on a nearby hilltop, including the Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem schools of medicine, dentistry, nursing, and pharmacology.[citation needed]
Christian traditions[edit]
According to the Bible, Mary went "into the hill country, to a city of Judah" (Luke 1:39) when she visited her cousin Elizabeth, the wife of Zechariah.
During the Byzantine period, Theodosius (530 CE.) says that the distance is five miles from Jerusalem to the place where Elizabeth lived, the mother of John the Baptist.[17]
The Jerusalem Calendar (Kalendarium Hyerosolimitanum) or Georgian Festival Calendar, dated by some before 638, the year of the Muslim conquest, mentions the village by name, "Enqarim," as the place of a festival in memory of Elizabeth celebrated on the twenty-eighth of August.[40]
The English writer Saewulf, on pilgrimage to Palestine in 1102-1103, wrote of a monastery in the area of Ein Karim dedicated to St. Sabas, where 300 monks had been "slain by Saracens."[41]
The site of the Crusader church was purchased by Father Thomas of Novara in 1621.[22] In 1672 the Franciscan order received a firman from the Ottoman sultan and 'large sums of mon[ies]' were expended in an extensive rebuilding programme.[40] In 1693 the monastery was renovated and walls added.[40]
Church of the Visitation[edit]
The Church of the Visitation, or Abbey Church of St John in the Woods, is located across the village to the southwest from St. John's. The ancient sanctuary there was built against a rock declivity. It is venerated as the pietra del nascondimento, the "stone in which John was concealed," in reference to the Protevangelium of James. The site is also attributed to John the Baptist's parental summer house, where Mary visited them. The modern church was built in 1955, also on top of ancient church remnants. It was designed by Antonio Barluzzi, an Italian architect, who designed many other churches in the Holy Land during the 20th century.[42]
Church of St. John the Baptist[edit]
There are two churches by this name in Ein Kerem. One is a Catholic church built in the second half of the 19th century on the remnants of earlier Byzantine and Crusader churches. Inside are the remains of an ancient mosaic floor and a cave where, according to Christian tradition, John the Baptist was born. Additionally some remnants below the infrastructure of the building suggests the presence of a mikve that is dated to the Second Temple Period. The church is mentioned in the Book of the Demonstration, attributed to Eutychius of Alexandria (940): "The church of Bayt Zakariya in the district of Aelia bears witness to the visit of Mary to her kinswoman Elizabeth."
The church has been in the hands of the Franciscans since 1674. In 1941–1942 they conducted excavations in the area immediately west of the church and the adjoining monastery. Several rock-cut chambers and graves were found, as well as wine presses with mosaic floors and small chapels with mosaic tiling. The southern rock-cut chamber contained pottery of a type found elsewhere in Jerusalem, probably from the first century CE.[43][44]
The other is an Eastern Orthodox church built in 1894, also on the remnants of an ancient church.
Les Soeurs de Notre-Dame de Sion[edit]
The monastery of Les Sœurs de Notre-Dame de Sion (Sisters of Our Lady of Zion) was founded by two brothers from France, Theodore and Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne, who were born Jewish and converted to Christianity.[45] They established an orphanage here. Alphonse himself lived in the monastery and is buried in its garden.
Gorny or "Moscobia" Convent[edit]
The convent was established by the Jerusalem mission of the Russian Orthodox Church at the end of the 19th century (see Russian Wikipedia page here). The name "Gorny Convent" refers to the visit of the Virgin Mary to her cousin St. Elizabeth "into the hill country, to a town in Judah,"[46] gorny meaning mountainous in Russian. It was nicknamed "Muskobiya" (Arabic for Moscow) by the local Arab villagers, which mutated in Hebrew to "Moskovia." Apart from the structures serving the nunnery and a pilgrims hostel, it now contains three churches, enclosed within a compound wall. The Church of Our Lady of Kazan (Kazanskaya) is dedicated to the holy icon of Our Lady of Kazan and is the oldest among the three churches, being consecrated in 1873. The Cathedral of All Russian Saints, with its gilded domes, was started before the Russian Revolution and could only be completed in 2007. The cave church of St. John the Baptist was consecrated in 1987.[citation needed]
St. Vincent[edit]
St. Vincent-Ein Kerem is a home for physically or mentally handicapped children. Founded in 1954, St. Vincent-Ein Kerem is a non-profit enterprise under leadership of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul.[47]
Mary's Spring[edit]
According to a Christian tradition which started in the 14th century, the Virgin Mary drank water from this village spring, and here is also the place where Mary and Elizabeth met. Therefore, since the 14th century the spring is known as the Fountain of the Virgin. The spring waters are considered holy by some Catholic and Orthodox Christian pilgrims who visit the site and fill their bottles. What looks like a spring is actually the end of an ancient aqueduct. The former Palestinian inhabitants built a mosque and school on the site, of which a Maqam (shrine) and minaret still remain. A inscribed panel to the courtyard of the mosque dates it to 1828-1829 CE (1244 H.)[48] The spring was repaired and renovated by Baron Edmond de Rothschild.[49]
Related sites in the area[edit]
Monastery of St. John in the Wilderness[edit]
The Monastery of St. John in the Wilderness, with a cave associated with the saint, is located in the nearby moshav Even Sapir.
Cave of St John the Baptist[edit]
A cave believed by some to have been used for the worship of St John the Baptist, if not by the saint himself, is located close to kibbutz Tsuba, not far from Ein Karem.[citation needed]
Notable residents[edit]
See also[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ein Kerem.
- 1948 Palestine War
- Beit HaKerem, a biblical fortress in Judah identified with either the later Herodium site, Ramat Rachel, or Ein Karem
- Carem, a town mentioned only in the Septuagint
- Ein Kerem Agricultural School
- List of Arab towns and villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestinian exodus
- List of villages depopulated during the Arab–Israeli conflict
- Hadassah Medical Center
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 280
- ^ Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics Depopulated Jerusalem Localities of the year 1948 by Selected Variables
- ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 57
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xx, village #360. Also gives the cause for depopulation
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xxii, settlement #107. 1949
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xx, village #360. Also gives cause of depopulation.
- ^ "'Ayn Karim - عين كارم -Jerusalem - Palestine Remembered". www.palestineremembered.com. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
- ^ a b Dvir, Noam (25 August 2010). "Ein Karem Under Threat". Retrieved 5 April 2018 – via Haaretz.
- ^ a b G. Ernest Wright, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 71 [Oct. 1938], pp. 28f
- ^ Carta's Official Guide to Israel and Complete Gazetteer to all Sites in the Holy Land. (3rd edition 1993) Jerusalem, Carta, p.233, ISBN 965-220-186-3 (English)
- ^ "Jerusalem family finds 2,000-year-old ritual bath under living room". timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
- ^ Re'em, 2016, Jerusalem, 'En Kerem
- ^ Tsafrir, Di Segni and Green, 1994, p. 82
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-03-14. Retrieved 2017-09-09. (line 46)
- ^ "Ein Kerem". My Holy Land. Archived from the original on 2011-07-14. Retrieved 2007-11-08.
- ^ Dauphin, 1998, p. 906
- ^ a b Theodosius, 1893, p. 10
- ^ Zohar Amar and Yaron Serri, The Land of Israel and Syria as Described by al-Tamimi – Jerusalem Physician of the 10th Century, Ramat-Gan 2004, p. 26 ISBN 965-226-252-8 (Hebrew)
- ^ Landes-Nagar, 2017, Jerusalem, ʽEn Kerem
- ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 118
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP III, p. 61
- ^ a b Pringle, 1993, p. 32
- ^ Buckingham, 1821, pp. 227-229
- ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol. 3, 2nd appendix, p. 123
- ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol. 2, pp. 141, 157
- ^ Guérin, 1868, pp. 83-96
- ^ Guérin, 1869, pp. 2-3
- ^ Socin, 1879, p. 143. It was also noted to be in the Beni Hasan district
- ^ Hartmann, 1883, p. 122 noted 144 houses
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP III, pp. 19-21
- ^ Schick, 1896, p. 125
- ^ Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Jerusalem, p. 14
- ^ Mills, 1932, p. 39
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 24
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 102
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 152
- ^ UN map of Jerusalem Corpus Separatum Archived 2006-12-11 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Efraim Karsh, Palestine Betrayed (2010) p182.
- ^ a b c Morris, 2004, p. 436, quoting: Entries for 10 and 11 July 1948, General Staff∖Operations Logbook, IDFA∖922∖75∖∖1176; and Mordechai Abir, ´The local Arab Factor in the War of Independence (Jerusalem Area)`18-19, IDFA 1046∖70∖185∖∖; and Yeruham, `Arab Information (from 14.7.48)´, 15 July 1948 HA 105∖127aleph.
- ^ a b c Sharon, 2004, p. 157
- ^ Sharon, 2004, p. 156
- ^ Pringle, 1993, pp. 38–46
- ^ Abel, 1938, pp. 295f
- ^ Pringle, 1993, pp. 30–38
- ^ "CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Maria Alphonse Ratisbonne". www.newadvent.org. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
- ^ "Bible Gateway passage: Luke 1:39-56 - New International Version". Bible Gateway. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
- ^ Sisters of mercy Haaretz, 8 November 2007
- ^ Petersen, 2001 pp. 100-103
- ^ טיולי, אתר. "ירושלים עין כרם - אתר טיולי". tiuli.com. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
- Abel, F.M. (1938). Geographie de la Palestine. 2 Geographie Politique. Les villes. Librairie Lecoffre.
- Avner, Rina (2006-01-08). "Jerusalem, 'En Kerem" (118). Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel.
- Barron, J.B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
- Buckingham, J.S. (1821). Travels in Palestine Through the Countries of Bashan and Gilead, East of the River Jordan, Including a Visit to the Cities of Geraza and Gamala in the Decapolis. London: Longman.
- Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1883). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 3. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Dauphin, Claudine (1998). La Palestine byzantine, Peuplement et Populations. BAR International Series 726 (in French). III : Catalogue. Oxford: Archeopress. ISBN 0-860549-05-4.
- Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945.
- Guérin, Victor (1868). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 1: Judee, pt. 1. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
- Guérin, Victor (1869). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 1: Judee, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
- Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Centre.
- Hartmann, M. (1883). "Die Ortschaftenliste des Liwa Jerusalem in dem türkischen Staatskalender für Syrien auf das Jahr 1288 der Flucht (1871)". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 6: 102–149.
- Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2.
- Khalidi, W. (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
- Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
- Morris, B. (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
- Landes-Nagar, Annette (2017-05-14). "Jerusalem, 'En Kerem" (129). Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel.
- Palmer, E.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Petersen, Andrew (2001). A Gazetteer of Buildings in Muslim Palestine (British Academy Monographs in Archaeology). 1. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-727011-0.
- Pringle, Denys (1993). The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: A-K (excluding Acre and Jerusalem). I. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0 521 39036 2.
- Radashkovsky, Igal (2018-02-27). "Jerusalem, 'En Kerem" (130). Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel.
- Re'em, Amit (2016-06-05). "Jerusalem, 'En Kerem" (128). Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel.
- Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. 2. Boston: Crocker & Brewster.
- Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster.
- Schick, C. (1896). "Zur Einwohnerzahl des Bezirks Jerusalem". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 19: 120–127.
- Schick C. (1899). "Ancient Rock-cut Wine-presses at 'Ain Karim". Quarterly statement - Palestine Exploration Fund. 31: 41–42.
- Schick C. (1905). "The birthplace of St. John the Baptist". Quarterly statement - Palestine Exploration Fund. 37: 61–69.
- Sharon, M. (2004). Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae, D-F. 3. BRILL. ISBN 90-04-13197-3.
- Socin, A. (1879). "Alphabetisches Verzeichniss von Ortschaften des Paschalik Jerusalem". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 2: 135–163.
- Theodosius (1893). Theodosius (A.D. 530). Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society.
- Tsafrir, Y.; Leah Di Segni; Judith Green (1994). (TIR): Tabula Imperii Romani: Judaea, Palaestina. Jerusalem: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. ISBN 965-208-107-8.
Further reading[edit]
- Olivier Rota, « L'exode arabe d'Eïn-Kerem en 1948. La relation des événements par les sœurs de Notre-Dame de Sion, St. Jean in Montana », in Tsafon, n°46, winter 2003, pp. 179–195.
External links[edit]
|Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Jerusalem/Ein Kerem.
- Welcome To 'Ayn Karim, from Palestine Remembered
- Ein Kerem (Karem), biblewalks
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 17: IAA, Wikimedia commons


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NEVADA � Mara Rhodes feared the worst when her right ankle bent awkwardly last week, less than 48 hours before Nevada was set to leave for a Fort Dodge tournament.
NEVADA � Mara Rhodes feared the worst when her right ankle bent awkwardly last week, less than 48 hours before Nevada was set to leave for a Fort Dodge tournament.
�I thought it was broken because it swelled up really big,� the sophomore said. �I had hurt it previously and this one hurt way worse than that, so I was more worried that I was completely done for the season.�
It turned out to be just a bad sprain.
She skipped the Fort Dodge trip to rest, ice the leg and get healthy enough to play in Saturday�s Nevada�s Invitational tournament, the unofficial kickoff to homecoming week.
Her return to the lineup sparked the No. 6 Cubs to the tournament title on Saturday.
Replacing her the week before proved to be a tougher task than anyone realized. The Cubs went 2-4 without the injured Rhodes, even though substitute Emma Lodestein played well.
The Cubs think that situation showed just how deep their roster is this season.
�She�s shown just fantastic toughness, she�s healed really well, really quickly,� Nevada coach James Brockway said. �The tough part is, she and Emma are neck and neck.�
Brockway thinks they might as well get used to the competition for that spot along the front line, because they�ll both be around for awhile. Lodestein is only a junior.
And the rest of the front line is young, too, aside from senior Victoria Johnston. Megan Pringnitz is a junior, and Kati Cassabaum is just a freshman.
With Rhodes joining them again on Saturday, the Cubs lost just one set. That was to Iowa Falls-Alden, whom they beat 25-22, 19-25, 15-12 to clinch the round-robin title.
Nevada also defeated Carroll, Dallas Center-Grimes, Atlantic and Carlisle Saturday to advance to the title match. The Cubs won their pool to advance to the final rounds.
The Cadets, though, provided the toughest test of the day.
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Over the past 4 years, a four-year-old captive beluga whale has adapted to living and communicating with dolphins. She had been living in a facility with other belugas until she was moved to a new pool shared with only dolphins in the Koktebel dolphinarium in Crimea. The beluga adapted to her new home quickly, learning how to imitate dolphin whistles as opposed to her usual beluga calls.
At first, the dolphins were skeptical of the new visitor in their pool. The bottlenose dolphins included one adult male, two adult females and a young female. The animals eventually got used to each other's company, with one of the newborn dolphins finding a particular liking to the beluga, often found swimming right by its side.
Dolphins are known for their unique communications calls consisting of echolocation clicks and signature whistle calls. Belugas share similar sounds to that of a dolphin with their squeaks, squeals and other calls. They are also vocal virtuosos, meaning they can imitate other sounds, animals, and people. One captive beluga even mastered an impression of human speech, fooling one of the divers.
Elena Panova and Alexandr Agafonov of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow have been studying the acoustic communications of animals in the dolphinarium since 2010. They made sound recordings of the dolphins and beluga swimming together, then separately recorded the beluga in her own pool 9 months later.
When the beluga was first introduced to the dolphin pool, she gave "calls typical for her species," Panova and Agafonov recalled. She made squeaks, vowel-like calls, and particular two-toned sounds that seemed to be her contact calls. Belugas normally use these sounds to check in with others in their group, communicate with friends or relatives, and keep track between mothers and their calves.
Just two months in, the sound recordings picked up new sounds coming from the young beluga. She still made her own whistles but added signature sounds that resembled those of the adult dolphins she has come so familiar with. The beluga also made whistles that all of the dolphins shared seems to have stopped all beluga calls. Panova and Agafonov noted their regret for not recording the beluga's sounds earlier, as she could have been communicating in the dolphin's dialect much earlier. Some belugas have been known to imitate a sound the very first time they hear it.
Beluga whales are extremely smart animals and can use their echolocation to imitate sounds like human speech, birdsong, and computer-generated noises. In this study, the beluga adapts to imitating sounds that help her communicate with the animals around her. It is a perfect example of interspecies communication.


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China charged four people in connection with a deadly attack at a railway station in the southwestern city of Kunming in March, state media said on Monday. This case helped spur a crackdown on what officials have called an upsurge in militant violence.
The government has said eight knife-wielding militants from the restive western region of Xinjiang launched a premeditated attack at Kunming station in Yunnan province in which 29 people were killed and 140 injured. Police shot four of the attackers dead.
The Kunming attack was one of the single deadliest incidents attributed by the government to militants. A suicide bombing in May killed 39 people at a market in Xinjiang's capital, Urumqi. Authorities had laid out the charges in March, but have now formally filed them, paving the way for an imminent trial. The four surviving defendants are likely to be given the death penalty.
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Four charged in Kunming attacks, 113 sentenced on terror crimesFILE: Kunming City, Yunnan Province, SW China - March 1, 2014
Courts in Xinjiang had sentenced 113 people to jail terms ranging from 10 years to life for terrorist activities and other crimes, the Xinjiang government said. Those sentenced were accused of crimes such as "being involved in organizing, leading and participating in a terrorist organization, inciting ethnic hatred and ethnic discrimination", bigamy, drug trafficking, robbery among other crimes.
At least 380 people have been detained in the last month in a sweeping crackdown on violence in Xinjiang. Around 200 people have died in unrest in Xinjiang in the past year or so, the government says, including 13 people shot dead by police in an attack on a police station in mid-June.
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I turned a white oak burl a month or so ago. There was a large void that prevented it from being a closed vessel, and it cracked like heck. Despite what some will tell you, burls need to be dried carefully. I do all my turning green, and have good success drying, but you better talk to a local turner to see what methods work best in your area.
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You can pretty much turn anything and not have it crack on you. It's all about how thin you can make it in proportion to its size. A crack is the wood relieving itself during the drying process from tensions created from how the wood structure grew. If the wood is turned thin enough green, it will warp in many ways because the wood is capable of flexing, instead of holding itself from flexing, thus drying to the point that it simply cracks to release tension.
Turn a bowl or hollow form out of any piece of wood and place the pith in the center as a test. Make it consistently 3/16"-1/4" thick and then allow it to dry in the air for a few weeks. Come back and take a look. The pith may crack a bit, but that is expected for a few inches within its perimeter. Other than that, the piece will take on a football shape. Do the same with a burl (no pith likely) and there are so many possible shapes that can happen, it's amazing, from water ripple textures to large bumps. Some people turn green to achieve this affect. I love the effect of turning green and thin, but one of the major benefits is that it is so much easier to turn, and much more fun with the right tool.
The best tool for making bowls is the fingernail gind on a 1/2" or 5/8" bowl gouge, specifically David Ellsworth's version. It is the only tool you need for making basic bowls, and even complicated ones.
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Bess and myself were eating chicken flautas at Blanco's when I noticed the poster selotaped to the window - the familiar serpent devoured by an eagle, the national symbol of Mexico, and The Vision of the Lake: Mexico-Tenochtitlan with a date and a venue in smaller print. I had a closer look while my wife paid at the till. It was Sunday lunch time, and this Vision of the Lake could be seen at the University of the Incarnate Word at six the following evening.
'Did you see that?' Bess asked, indicating the serpent devoured by the eagle as we left.
'Yes. I was trying to work out what it might actually be.'
'Maybe we should just go. Monday is our night and it looks like entrance is free.'
So we went. Junior was with his father. His father had phoned to inform my wife of the boy having his Arrow of Light ceremony that very evening, but we usually need a little more notice than it's happening in ten minutes - I'm stood outside right now. The Arrow of Light ceremony is held when a Cub Scout becomes a Boy Scout, a sort of graduation deal. I was never in the Scouts, having learned early on to avoid joining in, becoming a team player, or otherwise volunteering myself for anything at all. It sounded mysterious to me. My friend Eggy had been a Scout, or at least he had been a Sea Scout, which may be something different and was in any case back in England. It wasn't something which Eggy had deigned to discuss with the rest of us in any detail.
The University of Incarnate Word, I realised, is chock full of nuns, it being a private Catholic university. This wasn't a problem for me, although as we entered the smell of overcooked food assailed my nostrils - and that's probably the first time I've ever used assailed in a sentence. Father Jack, the terrifying alcoholic priest from Father Ted loomed up from my imagination to scream Nuns! in apoplectic panic.
We were directed to the place we needed to go. The room was full of very, very old people, and there was a projector screen in front of which the speaker was setting up her laptop. We were handed a sheet of paper informing us that The Vision of the Lake: Mexico-Tenochtitlan was the second of ten presentations in a series called The Wisdom of Ancient Mexico: Anahuac, a lecture with slides, which was roughly as anticipated on account of the venue.
I've visited Mexico on five separate occasions, and have been studying its pre-Colombian culture on and off since 1995. It's the one subject about which I can claim to be informed in any meaningful sense. This isn't a boast, because I'm not really bothered as to whether or not it impresses anyone, but it means I am at least sufficiently armed for kicking arses with authority whenever some facebook dwelling clown begins a sentence with the ancient Aztecs used to believe that...
There was a vague possibility that I had come to The Vision of the Lake: Mexico-Tenochtitlan for the pleasure of shaking my head and growling no no no no no every few minutes, sort of like Dennis the Menace pulverising Walter the Softy for the sake of exercise. For some reason, my wife derives a weird sense of pleasure when I do this, and I imagine my contempt may serve to turn me into something approximating a retired colonel and that she enjoys the excess of Englishness. There was a vague possibility that I had come in order to take umbrage, but it was not a conscious decision, and as we occupied our seats I entertained high hopes, expecting either that I might learn something or else would enjoy revisiting familiar names and places.
The assembled octogenarians mumbled amongst themselves about trips to Cancún, and our hostess began, musing over how little any of us really know about our Mexican neighbours. I knew plenty about our Mexican neighbours, but it seemed too early to pick a fight so I kept my mouth shut and my eyes and ears open. Initially she stuck to the script, and the objections I could have raised seemed minor, or at least no worse than could be expected of your average history channel documentary. They were:
- No they didn't. I think the term was popularised by William Prescott in 1843, although he probably got it from the guy who wrote that earlier history, Clavijero or whatever his name was.
- They weren't, because the stem is metz- so you still have the tz- left over, which is why People from the Heart of the Century Plant makes a lot more sense, quite aside from Mexitli, from whom the name is derived, translating as Maguey Hare.
- The serpent heads represent the blood resulting from her beheading, the act of sacrifice, and subsequent regeneration to a lesser extent. You're not supposed to take it literally.
- No they didn't.
- So where did that eighth tribe come from?
'Excuse me,' some woman sat near the front interjected with a hand in the air. 'Might I ask a question?'
'Well, I'm a writer, but I'm unfamiliar with this word you use - cosmogony,' she pronounced it with a hard g, like in mahogany.
Our hostess provided a definition of cosmogony for our writer, and I vowed I would use a variation on this line myself at some point. I'm a writer, and I was wondering do you have these in a smaller size?, or I'm a writer, so yes, I believe I shall have fries with that.
After about twenty minutes of this I began to lose confidence in it getting any better. The story, such as it was, was narrated with reference to illustrations and passages of text projected upon the screen, passages of text we probably could have read for ourselves; and the woman was a lousy speaker, mumbling, pausing in awkward places, and employing what sounded like a fairly doubtful pronunciation for most of the names involved. Her monologue had the quality and rhythm of someone nervously popping their way through a roll of bubble wrap, and at the twenty minute mark, she somehow found a way to make it worse.
'The snake is a symbol of wisdom throughout many cultures,' she began as images of Greek and Hindu Gods appeared on the screen. I tried to recall how this idea might have been reflected in the Valley of Mexico prior to the fifteenth century, where the serpent symbolised many things - renewal, generation, and the earth in particular, but nothing specifically to do with wisdom. This was generic new-age landfill, and our hostess may as well have segued into a summary of the early years of ZZ Top for all that it had to do with her subject. Then a statue of Bochica appeared on the screen, the latest in a succession of Gods of conspicuously non-Mexican derivation. Bochica hailed from Colombia, our hostess told us. He had been a white man with a beard.
'I've had about enough,' I muttered.
My wife's expression confirmed that we were of one mind. We shuffled from our seats and padded as quickly and quietly as we could towards the door, hunched over as though dodging bullets.
I know nothing of Bochica, but recognised the motif of the wise white God and his beard appearing in the fresh-faced land of the Indians many years before Columbus, usually with some sort of prophecy about how ships will one day arrive and bring word of Baby Jesus and everything will be like really awesome, yeah? Roughly the same story is told of Quetzalcoatl in Mexico, and people get so carried away with it that no-one really cares that the story appeared in no indigenous record until some fifty or so years after the conquest, the event it supposedly foretold. The legend is interesting in terms of the criteria by which history was once recorded and how its principal function was often to explain the present, but as mythology it's dog shit. Nevertheless, it is still trotted out from time to time by people who should know better, gushing BBC television presenter Michael Wood for one, and now our speaker, our expert.
We raced across the parking lot.
Bess looked at her watch. 'We might be able to make the Arrow of Light, after all.'
We were there in five minutes, entering a silent hall as awkwardly as we had left the previous venue. We found seats at the back. The boys - eleven or twelve of them - stood on the stage at the front, each with a parent. Junior was with his father. The proceedings were orchestrated by one of the Scoutmasters, Mike Osterhage who, by peculiar coincidence, is also a popular weatherman for our local San Antonio television network. It still catches me out when I see him on the screen, smiling as he predicts another week of not much rain. There's the dad of that 1950s kid, I think to myself, surprised as usual.
Mike's boy is Junior's age, also a scout, and he too is on the stage. He's older and taller now, but he was an impressively cute kid a few years back, freckles, big grin and a military haircut, just like the American children I'd seen on television when I was his age. He always looked happy, like he'd sold enough copies of Grit to friends and neighbours to buy that life-size monster ghost, guaranteed to obey his every command, with enough small change left over for a propeller beanie and some Popeye comics. He now looks older, more serious, but they all look serious.
A drum begins to beat and another kid emerges from a door just behind us. He is wearing a feather headdress and assorted robes of vague Native American design. He walks slowly to the centre of the room and makes a show of addressing the four cardinal directions.
The Arrow of Light, as I later come to appreciate, is a lengthy and fairly elaborate ceremony serving to reiterate the core values of the Scouting movement, and for what it may be worth, these core values seem mostly noble. The performance appears perhaps hokey, and is undoubtedly a dubious appropriation of Native American lore in many respects; but as we watch, it dawns on me that this is at least truer to the older histories of this continent than the testimony of the woman for whom the serpent is a symbol of wisdom, purely because she finds it comforting to join the dots between disparate theologies. I would rather have the hokum which means something real to those involved, than the version which has been recycled as a relaxation tape for the benefit of an audience which wants nothing more than a spectacle by which to keep itself distracted for an hour or so.
After the ceremony, the children all begin to bounce around, having been artificially induced to stand still for far too long. Junior refuses to let us take photographs of him in his uniform, maintaining the face he always pulls when there's a camera in sight - a variation on the expressions Don Martin once drew in the pages of Mad magazine. He acknowledges that we were here to watch him, yelps a few times for good measure, and then runs off to join the other kids, all stuffing their faces with complementary cupcakes served from a table at the rear of the hall.


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Three days, 2 Passes, 32 miles in the heart of Glacier NP
Day 1
We were fortunate to get back country permits for 2 nights from Many Glacier to Poia Lake and over Redgap Pass to Elizabeth Lake and back over Ptarmigan Tunnel, for three days of backpacking. We had all our gear packed and ready, we drove to Many Glacier and parked at the Swiftcurrent Lodge, then we were crazy enough to walk the 2 miles to the trailhead for Poia Lake back along the road, instead of hitch hiking. It's 6.4 miles from Many Glacier Road to Poia Lake and we just added 2 more miles to our hike. As we ascended the trail Lake Sherburne appeared visible in the valley below, then after 3 miles the trail passes the shore of Swiftcurrent Ridge Lake, where we stopped for a break.
From this Lake the trail descends into the Kennedy Creek Valley, where the trail crosses a series of beaver ponds set among the large aspens. We started to wind our way upward for the final 1.5 miles through gravelly rock gardens to Poia Lake, suddenly we spooked a moose down by the creek and she went running up the mountain on the other side in a flash. When we looked back we could see her hiding in the trees watching us go up the trail. We arrived at Poia Lake very tired after 6 hours of endless walking through the woods. We set up camp in one of the campsites, that sits on a wooded knoll at the foot of the lake, and went to the lake to relax in our camp chairs on the beach, swim in the refreshing water and read. The lake is deep and cold and is surrounded by blocky cliffs on both sides. There were two other groups of campers here: 3 guys from Brooklyn and a young couple from Columbia Falls, who passed us on the trail. The food prep area is a community affair, we all sit together cooking over our jet boils, telling stories and eating our camp food dinners out of bags. After dinner we hang our food bags from the 25 foot high pole so the bears don't come into the camp and eat our food. As the sun was setting it was time for bed, after a walk on the beach to see the glow of the setting sun it was back to the tent for the night. Click on thumbnail to view images
Day 2
What a great nights sleep! Woke up refreshed and ready to hike 12 miles today to our next campsite on Elizabeth Lake. We ate breakfast in the food prep area with the other campers, the 3 guys from Brooklyn left at 8am as they had 14 miles to hike to Helen Lake. A Ranger with two girls arrived at the campsite late yesterday and they joined us for breakfast. He was a nice guy but we were reprimanded for taking our food bag back to our tent site, before leaving. We were back on the trail at 9am on our way to Redgap Pass. From the head of the lake, the trail winds for 3 miles through a wooded valley floor before ascending steeply toward the pass. This is where I begin to slow down and let the other hikers pass, I just keep putting one foot in front of the other and eventually I will reach the top, leaving the lodgepole pine forests and hiking into open subalpine fir parkland. Looking back to the south, the spectacular views of the hulking mass of Apikuni Mountain, and Mount Henkel and Crowfeet Mountain crowd the head of the valley with Kennedy Lake at their feet.
The vistas makes the climb all worth the effort. As we reached the windswept Redgap Pass we were greeted with stunning views of Old Sun Glacier lying at the base of the towering spires of Mount Merritt, and Lake Elizabeth way in the distance. We stopped here for lunch enjoying the rest and the wonderful feeling of being on top of the world looking out at these awe-inspiring mountains. From here it's downhill for 6 miles to the head of Elizabeth Lake, our next campsite. When we left we dropped into a high, treeless cirque and descended through ragged stands of pine, to a junction where from this point it is a foot-pounding 2 mile descent to the foot of Elizabeth Lake. We stopped here to filter more water, but still had 1.6 miles to go along the shores of Elizabeth Lake to the campsite. The hike following the beach was so beautiful that it made the last 1 mile easy. We set up tent at our campsite, then went to the beach to relax, swim and unwind in this peaceful setting. We shared dinner with the other campers and retreated to our tent when the sun began to set behind the mountains.
Day 3
On my way to get water at the lake at 7am I was surprised to see a giant bull moose feeding in the water up to his knees. Soon everyone was watching the moose as he was content eating the grass on the bottom of the lake. We stayed for about an hour just in awe of being so close to this magnificent creature in the wilderness. We eventually had to get going because we have 12 long miles to hike today. We got back on the trail around 9am and headed back along the shores of Elizabeth Lake to the foot of the lake where we crossed the Belly River on a suspension bridge.
Then it was up hill for about 5 miles to the Ptarmigan Tunnel. Climbing up the trail the views looking back at Elizabeth Lake and Helen Lake nestled at the foot of Ipasha Peak became more impressive as we hiked around the east Ptarmigan Wall toward the tunnel. The 250-foot long tunnel at 7,200 feet is a unique man-made feature in Glacier, built in 1931, which was blasted through the solid rock of the Ptarmigan Wall. Heavy iron doors were hung across the tunnel adits during the summer of 1975 and remain open from mid-July until October 1, weather permitting. A wide area, originally for guide and tourist horses, extends from each portal with a masonry retaining wall. We hung out here eating and enjoying the views and the four horses who came up from the other side. On the way down we stopped at Ptarmigan Lake, which lies in a gravelly, barren-looking cirque below the tunnel, for a must needed swim.
We finally made it back to the Jeep, thankful and grateful to have completed another fabulous backpacking trip. We celebrated with a wonderful dinner at the Many Glacier Hotel, in the Ptarmigan dining room with stunning views of Swiftcurrent Lake.


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Monday, June 11, 2007
Off to the printers...
For the next few weeks, while I wait to get the first copy of my baby in my hands, I'll be working hard on soliciting publicity for the book. Scary stuff, because believe it or not, I'm not very good at being pushy.
Anyway in the mean time, thought I'd just share with you a few of the wonderful things that have happened to me over the course of writing this book:
* I kept my brain active and stimulated while researching and writing the book at a time when I could have been tempted to succomb to daytime television and too much ironing - yeah right!
* I learnt so much, not only about breastfeeding but also about other aspects of mummy-hood, such as labour, natural parenting, etc.
* I "met" loads of wonderful people - experts, mums willing to contribute their personal stories and fabulous photos, and people who were simply happy to help out wherever they can. In the last month or so of putting the book together, this has been even more true. I've made some wonderful contacts both personally and professionally.
* I have become a kind of breastfeeding point-of-call to many friends/acquaintances who know of my interest in breastfeeding and who have subsequently come to me for questions, support! Keep coming - breastfeeding is something I love to discuss and love to encourage.
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Rach, I'm so proud of you and I can't wait to see the end product!! All your hard work and effort is coming to fruition, and I wish you all the absolute best, you deserve it!!! Will be keeping an eye on this blog for sure!!
- 12 June 2007 at 12:17 pm
All the best Rach!
Can't wait to read it...as I have heard so much all ready.....
- 12 June 2007 at 1:56 pm
Rach a huge congratulations.
I am sure this book will be an amazing success.
Weird to see my nipple on a book but hey I'll do just about anything to get the breastfeeding word out. :)
Can't wait to see the published book.
- 14 June 2007 at 8:17 am
- Rachael Blair said...
Hey folks
Thanks for all your positive comments!
Fay - yeah, I can imagine it must feel slightly strange, but if it's any consolation both you and your lil'man look perfect!
- 14 June 2007 at 12:59 pm
- Just Nicki said...
Hi Rachael
Saw your link from the RomAus site and I'm a fellow Perth girl too.
Just a question, your co-author Joy associated with one of the breasfeeding groups up in Perth, namely the South Eastern Suburbs group? I went along a few times with both my children and a Joy was there. She was also on the board so I wonder if it's the same person.
Good luck with your book.
- 14 June 2007 at 5:51 pm
- Rachael Blair said...
Hiya Nicki
Great that you found your way here - and yes, we're probably talking the same Joy! She is very involved in the ABA in WA and nationally.
Hope to meet you at a RWA somethingorother one day!
- 14 June 2007 at 8:12 pm
- Just Nicki said...
Yep Rachael I'll be at the conference in August.
- 14 June 2007 at 8:49 pm


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Another 500 words. Twice in one day. In one hour. Okay, here it goes.
One of the writing prompts given on the 500 Words Every Day (500WED) challenge was to "write about your goals and your desires" That was interesting to me.
First of all, goals don't always have a connection to desires. They just aren't the same thing. So I thought that pairing the two together in the same question was odd. But this is a challenge and some sweet soul was kind enough to put together a list of writing prompts and so I'm just thankful for that.
And to be honest, the prompt did make me feel challenged to examine my own goals. (Which I haven't done yet, but maybe I'll write about those in another 500WED challenge.) I think that will be an important exercise for me because I honestly have no idea what any of my goals would be. I used to have goals. Lots of them. But I don't know that I have any right now. I think I went into survival mode at some point a while back and I just sorta got stuck here. So I'm just kind of drifting on autopilot and not really heading in any specific direction. That's scary.
It also made me think about my desires. What are my desires? What would I like to do? Hmm. Another good question. That led me to wondering things like: What do I enjoy doing? What do I wish I could do? Is there something new I'd like to learn? All of these are things I haven't really given much thought to lately – or ever.
I can't imagine that I'm alone in this. But, I just sort of do life everyday. You know how it is, right? You just get up, go to work, come home, cook, clean, do your other various adult responsibilities, go to bed, wake up, repeat. Every. Single. Day. I don't know when that happened though. I'm trying to think back to a time when it wasn't like this. But I can't, for the life of me, remember a time that every day was different and adventurous and exciting. I mean, I can think of days that had an element of excitement but not a time in my life where my days were full of it.
I got stuck in the mundane somehow. I'm stuck in a rut where my life has become ordinary and plain and I don't even have to think to get through a day because they're all the same.
And I know full well that that is no way to live. It's not the way that God intended for me to live, that's for certain. God created me with a dreamer's heart. He made me for some special purpose…and never intended for me to live an ordinary life.
So, I need to fix that.
The good news is that I don't think it's too late. I've got a few good years left in me and I'm sure I've got a few good dreams left in me too. I just may need to do some digging around to rediscover them. But that's alright, I'm up for that.


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By Bolaji Okunola
Shooting Stars Sports Club of Ibadan hit man, Sunday Faleye believes he has found himself lucky to have made the final 23-man list rolled out by home base Super Eagles coach, Salisu Yusuf for the CHAN 2018 tournament in Morocco, says his target is to emerge the tournament's top scorer.
The 20-year old young told Saturday Sun he eyes nothing other than the golden boot and the trophy. "As a striker, I have no other business on the field of play than to score goals. Every attacker wants to be on the score sheet or win the golden boot, including me. But as for me, the golden boot is not my first ambition. My dream is to wear the CHAN 2018 gold medal. I want this set of CHAN team to become a pace setter by winning the tournament. It's sad that Nigeria has never won the tournament which I think is a bad one for our football. However, let's just keep our fingers crossed and hope everything work out well in our favour."
Faleye stated he fears no foe as he believes the Super Eagles is well prepared and all players have equal chances to make the starting line-up. "God has a plan for every one's life. I never believed I will get to this stage at my very tender age. All I need do is to keep working hard. I have strong rivals who know much about football. As my coach would always say, everyone has an equal chance and I am sure am not a push over. Having made the final 23-man squad I also see myself as a key player in the squad.
"It's sad most of us have not played a competitively for a while before this tournament because the league which should have shaped us ahead of the competition is yet to kickoff before the commencement of CHAN. We got no choice than to take the game one after the other. Other teams whose leagues


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|Ship's cabin.
Arriving to Athens on time, we disembarked, found the bus going to the airport, and in about 1 hour arrived for our flight to Barcelona, Spain. After a light breakfast, we stuck with the yogurt and honey, juice, we boarded our flight and 3 hours later we're landing in Barcelona. A very modern airport. Another nice item was that because we're within the European Union, there is no need to go through customs.
|Unloading in central Barcelona.
|Central Barcelona.
Barcelona is an old city which is obvious by the lovely architecture. Our stay in Barcelona is going to be a short stay, about 1 1/2 days and 2 nights. So on Friday night we elect to do some walking. We're viewing the shops, harbor, architecture and it's all very beautiful. One of the things we're looking for this night is that a lot of the bars serve topas. Topas are small portions of food. From bar to bar this becomes a big variety of food. There is also lots of people doing the same thing as we are. We find out that Barcelona is no different than any other large city in the world, it's a 24 hour city.
|Shops of all kinds.
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The Conservative Party wants to stay in the EU and UKIP wants to leave. We have nothing in common, writes UKIP MEP Gerard Batten
• I have just read in the Mail-Online that Andrew Mitchell MP (former Tory Minister of Pleb-Gate fame) has said that, 'UKIP supporters are cousins of the Tory Party and we want them back'.
Tories like Mr Mithcell really don't get it do they. Many people in UKIP, and those who support and vote UKIP, have never been Tories. They don't want to 'go back', and would never vote Tory because they know they can never trust them.
The Tories have the wind up because they can see that UKIP is taking votes in increasing numbers. We have just replaced the Lib-Dems in third place in the opinion polls. First the Tories called us names, but now realise that just drives more people into our camp. Now their Plan B is to make anti-EU noises and pretend they want the same things as us. Mr Mitchell who has reportedly said, the EU is a 'supranational organisation unable to respond to British needs'. Full marks for observation, if a trifle late in the day. But the Tory Party wants to stay in the EU and UKIP wants to leave. We have nothing in common.
The Tory Party has sold Britain down the river to the EU since 1972. The Tories took us in under Ted Heath; Mrs Thatcher gave away our right of veto over EU legisaltion in 1986; John Major gave away yet more power in 1992 with the Maastrich Treaty (On European Union). This treaty made our Head of State, HM the Queen a citizen of the EU, and created the euro that is now causing devastation in Europe. All the further surrenders of power made by the Labour Government of 1997-2010 were possible bcause of the ground-work done by the Tories.
UKIP activists, members and voters come from all types of backgrounds. We don't trust Tories. In fact the only thing you can trust the Tories to do is to contiue to betray Britain still further into the EU. Labour and the Lib-Dems are just as bad of course, but the Tories are the most contemptible because they have the word 'conserve' in their name and they have never conserved anything that anyone can remember – least of all the democratic self-governance of their own country.


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Accused: Ashely W. Harmon
Age. Approx. 29
Sex: Male
Race: White
Height: 5' 8"
Weight: 140 pounds
Kentucky State Police are in search of a wanted person in the connection with thefts in the Hillsboro Ky, area. Ashley W. Harmon, "Ash", 29 year old male of Hillsboro, Ky, approximately 5' 8" tall 140lbs, was last seen on foot wearing blue jeans and a gray t-shirt. Harmon has warrants for probation violations and is wanted for questioning in recent thefts in the Hillsboro/Fleming County area. Harmon is believed to be in Fleming, Bath, or Montgomery Counties. If you see Harmon or have information about his whereabouts please contact the Kentucky State Police at 1-800-222-5555 or 606-784-4127
Click here to e-mail Detective Wes Prather about Ashely W. Harmon