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Category Archives: History
A Westport Island House Featured in a Digital Exhibit
The Maine Historical Society's digital library features the Cornelius Tarbox, Jr. House
The Maine Historical Society's digital library, the Maine Memory Network (MMN), is featuring a digital exhibit that highlights a Westport Island treasure, the Cornelius Tarbox, Jr. House. As many long time islanders know, the entry hallway of the house is decorated with a panorama of marine murals that have captured the imagination of owners and visitors past and present. Current owners Bob and Callie Connor have become guardian angels of the murals.
The Connors have invested in preserving the murals, and they have become avid "art history detectives" intent on identifying the artist who left his, or her, mark on Westport Island. Since purchasing the house in 2013, the Connors have educated themselves on 19th century folk and marine muralists working in this area. They have networked with and invited experts on the works of famed Maine muralists Rufus Porter; his nephew, Jonathan Poor; and others working in a similar school of painting to view the murals. Through their research, the Connors have determined that a mural in the Five Islands Baptist Church in Georgetown is by the same artist.
One day, the Connors hope to identify their home's muralist. Ideally, the exhibit at MMN will bring the story of the murals before more history detectives and elicit more clues that may help to solve this muralist whodunit.
See the MMN exhibit: Mural Mystery in Westport Island's Cornelius Tarbox, Jr. House
A Westport Island Mural Mystery
A folk art masterpiece in the Cornelius Tarbox house
When Callie and Bob Connor, classics professors from North Carolina, considered purchasing the historic Cornelius Tarbox home on Westport Island, their decision was as much about saving a colonial treasure as about having a waterfront refuge. The house — though in need of "TLC" — had good, solid colonial bones and was decorated with an expansive folk art/maritime mural in the front entry that captivated the Connors.
A floor-to-ceiling mural of a colorful coastal panorama extends through the front hallway and up the stairwell. The mural is done in a similar style to that of folk art muralist Rufus Porter who was active from 1825 to 1840. The Connors' mural is unsigned — a mystery as to who painted it and as to the story that inspired it.
The clues? There is a schooner with flags bearing the initials "WFT", presumably for Cornelius's son who died at age 32 — William F. Tarbox (1832-1865), a U.S. flag, a red burgee and a blue rectangular flag with a white circle — possibly a merchant flag? The schooner "William F. Tarbox" was lost with all hands on board in 1857; and the person William F. Tarbox died in 1865 in Nova Scotia where he had moved to stake a gold claim.
The panoramic mural also depicts a lighthouse (Seguin?), a fisherman's home, a fishing vessel, a seascape with many vessels fading into the background and some grand trees that have a tendency to lean. The type of trees — or the leaning — may be a clue or maybe the brushstrokes, the way people are depicted, or the mural's resonance with other historical murals in area structures…
By poring through valuation and tax books at the Westport Island town office, Callie established that the Tarbox house was built between 1848 and 1850. Through additional research, the Connors found leads to two additional area murals painted in a similar style. One of the murals is at the Five Islands Baptist Church (built 1841) in Georgetown. That mural was believed to have been done some time after 1864 by "an anonymous itinerant painter". The third mural is at the Alvah Morse house (built 1847-1852) in Bath. All of these murals are unsigned; experts believe the Connors' mural and the Five Islands Baptist Church 1864 mural are likely by the same painter.
Are there more murals in our midst that might hold additional clues to who painted the Tarbox House mural? Are there others who may know more about the story or the symbols depicted? The Connors are dedicated to learning this story — a story that promises to add another interesting page to Westport Island history.
Westport Community Association Celebrates 60 Years
…of putting the spirit of "community" into a town
Whether caretaking community landmarks, building community identity, showcasing Island talent or sparking community spirit, the Westport Community Association has played a key role.
The Community Association will be marking 60 years of community service this Sunday, August 16, with a celebration at the Town Hall and the Community Church, 1217 Main Road. The Town Hall will be showcasing old and new Island made quilts, arts, and crafts; while a "Musical Celebration" fills the church. Come one, come all — the events are free; refreshments will be served.
The Community Association was formed in 1955 primarily to restore the Westport Community Church. After being used for church services and Sunday School from 1864 to the 1900's, the building had fallen into disrepair. After repairing and returning religious services to the church for ten years, the Maine Methodist Conference gave the church to the Community Association. Thanks to the stewardship of the Association, the church is an Island landmark used for weddings and memorial services as well as the yearly Island Christmas Program.
Beyond the church, the Association has undertaken fundraising on behalf of countless projects for the betterment of Island life: the fire station; "comfort" renovations at the historic Town Hall (ceiling fans, a well, plumbing and modernized restrooms); and support of historical milestones such as Lincoln County's Bicentennial in 1960 and the Island's Sesquicentennial in 1978.
You can't pass onto Westport Island without seeing the flagpole and welcome sign. The original flag was purchased by Jack Smith on behalf of the Community Association for the country's Bicentennial in 1976. The original welcome sign was made in 1960 by J. Louis Doyle (architect from Boston, summer resident of Westport and Community Association President at the time) for Lincoln County's Bicentennial Celebration, which included Association sponsored events on the Island.
From square dances to Halloween parties, from the Island Christmas program to the fire department barbeque…and well beyond to programs that showcase Island talent and history — the Community Association makes the Island a better place. Now, that's something to celebrate. Events will conclude with a singing of "Roots in the Rock" and "Rollin Home" and a champagne toast at 5:15…
A Day to Remember on Westport Island
Thank you to all who serve
Westport Island, though small, has a large history of serving its country — dating back to the Revolutionary War.
Maybe noticed, maybe not, one Islander "who served" greets us when we vote and when we gather to celebrate, discuss and come together as neighbors. A flag and a photograph remember him: Donald Knight. Honored by his parents, Knight is memorialized by both a photograph and a blue star flag at the front of the Town Hall.
Blue star flags, the "War Mother's Flags", became an unofficial symbol of a child in the service in WWI. During WWI and WWII, many of the flags were hand made by mothers across the nation symbolizing the service of a child. The Service flag was also displayed by organizations — like our town — to honor members serving during a period of war or hostilities. Today, we recognize Donald Knight for his service in WWII as the poster child for those who have served their country…
A newspaper obituary of Donald Knight provides the following context for our Town Hall remembrance…
Donald F. Knight, "Bunker Hill" Casualty, Was Machine Shop's Second War Fatality
Donald Francis Knight, M.M. 2/c, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester H. Knight of Bath, was killed in action in the Pacific, when the carrier on which he was serving was bombed by the Japs on May 11, according to word received by his parents from the Navy Department. Donald was buried at sea on May 12, with full military honors.
Donald, who was a B.I.W. machinist, and the Machine Shop's second fatal casualty, had taken part in 12 major battles before he was home on leave last January, and had been to Saipan, Link, Leyte, Negros, Wake, New Hebrides, Rabaul, Tarawa, Kavieng, Kuajalein, Guam, Peleliu, etc.
He was inducted into the U.S. Naval Reserve June 21, 1943, and after receiving boot training at Newport, R.I., he was assigned to an aircraft carrier and left for overseas on Sept. 3, 1943.
Besides his parents, he leaves a daughter, Donna Larraine, who was one year old on May 26, and who lives with her grandparents.
Donald Knight's parents were Lester and Marcia White Knight. Lester Knight grew up on Westport. Although Donald was born in Bath, he married Mary Jane Greenleaf of Westport. Based on the donation of the photograph, the flag and Donald's military name and rank tags to the Town of Westport Island, it is clear that the family's psychological home was on the Island. We are proud to call them ours.
On this Memorial Day, thank you Donald Knight and to all who have served and to those who now serve…
A Westport Island Birthday Remembrance
Remembering Verlie Greenleaf
If she was still alive, Verlie Greenleaf would have been 124 years old today. When she celebrated her 100th birthday in 1991, there were probably some who thought she might live to celebrate her 124th. Verlie lived to be 101. She served as Westport's Treasurer and Tax Collector for 45 years, retiring at age 87. She played piano at Island dances for years and years, first at Camp Molly on the North End and later at the Town Hall — Verlie even played for her own 100th birthday celebration.
Verlie was interviewed by Louise and John Swanton in 1987 about growing up on Westport Island. And, she wrote her own notes to pass on. Here are a few of those captured remembrances…
My mother said I was born in a snowstorm, a good snowstorm, the 19th of February, 1891, and she said it really was a snowstorm. They used to get the doctor. The women had their babies at home. The doctor came from Wiscasset, and then you had to row him across because we didn't have any ferry. You had to meet him across the river. He would come down to Bailey's land, they'd row across and pick him up and bring him over…
…[We] didn't have any ferry. When I was first growing up, they had rowboats at the shores. Everybody had rowboats. …years ago when there was nothing but oxen and there were two horses, the south end was just as far away as Boston would be for us. …There was the north end and the south end. Everybody walked…
There was a Post Office of course, down at the Center but it was easier for my father to row to Wiscasset to get his groceries and he had a post office box up in Wiscasset, and that's where his mail came in. Sometimes if he was busy my mother would row up and get the mail. She wouldn't be going there in the middle of winter…
They didn't plow [then]. When I was a kid I can see them now. Nehemiah Colby had a yoke of oxen and they had something looked like a long sled…and in front of it they'd tied on — I don't know whether it was a plank or whether it was a log right in front, and the oxen — I can see them going down by the house now — used to go down by the house, those oxen, and just push the snow down. That's all we had…
Up on Uncle Jake's hill there, we used to go up there and slide down the hill, come way down where I lived, way down to the farmhouse… Many years we've gone sleighing Thanksgiving… We had horses. But there were several yoke of oxen on the island, and then they used to break the road with the horses. We used to call them heaters, with that log in front.
I was in my teens when the first car came on the island. It was owned by Arthur B. Fels of Yarmouth who married Josie Fowle of Fowle's Point.
Verlie (1891-1992) lives on in the words, deeds and photographic record she left behind. Her granddaughters, Dedee Greenleaf-Hodgdon and Senie Morton, have donated a large collection of her photographs and memorabilia to the Westport Island History Committee. Verlie's written remembrances, as well as the care put into identifying the people and places in this collection, make it a very valuable addition to the Island's historical record. Thank you.
Westport Island Says Thank You
To Mary Ellen Barnes for "putting its history in order"
Westport Island has an "attic" of photographs, news articles, genealogy, artifacts and letters that tell stories of our Island's people and their times from the early 1800's to today. There have been residents in times past that have compiled and shared this history in writing — Bea Harriman, John and Louise Swanton, and Ron and Cora Tarbox among them — whose books continue to be the mainstay of Westport history. There have been others who have organized events, tours or special preservation efforts for landmarks like the Town Hall,the Community Church and the Squire Tarbox Inn.
When Mary Ellen Barnes came to this Island in 2003, she brought a professional background in history and historical preservation and a vision for preserving Westport Island's historical artifacts. She had worked at the Maine Folklife Center, the Maine Forest and Logging Museum and the Yarmouth Historical Society. Her passion for history helped to motivate the formation of a History project started under the Conservation Commission in 2005. When the History Committee was formed in 2008, Mary Ellen was elected Chair and has served in that capacity until this last month. She will continue to serve on the History Committee as a member.
As Mary Ellen steps down as Chair, Selectman George Richardson, the History Committee and community members took a moment to say thank you. She has worked tirelessly in her "spare" time to advance the preservation of our history, grow the collection, and advocate for improved and expanded storage space to protect our history and make it more available to residents and researchers. The "attic" is now cleaner and more organized. The beginnings of internet – and broad-based — access to our historical collections are underway and our digital library will continue to grow on the Maine Memory Network.
A very special thank you gift was created by Sandy Besecker and Jill Cooney with the help of all the quilters who created the 2010 Westport Island quilt, the newest member of our historical quilt collection. All 18 quilters signed a remnant fabric square from the 2010 quilt. The squares were stitched into a signature quilt wall hanging that will memorialize the work and cooperation that made the quilt — and makes the caretaking of our history — possible.
Mary Ellen will continue to work as a part of the History Committee to see her vision through: more storage space, improved preservation conditions, and a small exhibit space that makes our rich heritage available and visible to all.
A Westport Island Farewell
Colby's Groceries passes into history
Although there is not currently a general store on the Island, there have been several over the years. One of them, Colby's Groceries, still stood until recently. The wear of the years finally forced its current owners to have the decaying structure demolished last month.
There are still residents on the Island who have memories of buying candy and ice cream at Colby's as children. In 2014, the only sign inside the small structure of its former commercial history was a Cigarette License still clinging to the wall. The license was issued to Ellsworth Colby on February 26, 1947. Earl Grant turned the license over to the History Committee as a momento of the little store's past. Farewell Colby's Groceries…
A Venerable Westport Island Building
Looking back on a one-time Island store
In the post civil war years, the building pictured on the right at the corner of Main and Post Office Roads was owned by Civil War Veteran, William McKinney. Around 1870, he opened a store in the building where he sold such things as candy, food staples, tobacco, sewing and school supplies, fish lines and patent medicines. When McKinney became the Postmaster in 1889, his store also became the post office. It dispensed stamps and postal supplies until the Island's post office was discontinued in 1907 — two years after rural free delivery service started.
Although McKinney died in 1904, according to Cora Tarbox's 2011 Westport Island History, someone else in the family may have operated the store until 1930. The building was then vacant until 1949 when Herbert Cromwell, Sr. purchased it. A year later, Herb Cromwell moved the building to his home property at 638 Main Road.
Herbert Cromwell's Grocery Store operated as the largest store on the Island until the first supermarkets in Bath took hold in the early 1960's. At Herb's store, residents could get all the basics — and fill up their cars with gas. His daughter, Virginia, also operated a small snack bar next door to the main store until the late 1950's when the snack bar building was moved north on the Main Road. (There for almost 20 years it was part of Edwin and Jenny Cromwell's Bayside Oaks Snack Bar and Picnic Area overlooking Montsweag Bay.)
Today, the old post office, aka Herb Cromwell's store, waits for its next life. The building has been vacant and used only for storage. It is familiar to Island residents because the addition on the right side currently serves as the Westport Island food pantry. If wishes come true, the newest residents in the old Cromwell house may add another chapter to the store's history.
Credits to: "Westport Island Maine 1605-1972" by Cora J. Tarbox (2011) and the history and photographs provided by Calvin Cromwell
A Westport Island Native Son at Gettysburg
Looking back on the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg
Eighteen-year old William McKinney (McKenny) was the first Westport Islander to enlist in the Civil War. On August 2, 1862, he mustered into Company K, 19th Regiment of the Maine Volunteer Infantry.
Just under a year later, on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, McKinney was wounded in the chest. He was transferred to Washington, DC for recuperation and then transferred into Company F, 24th Regiment of the Veteran's Reserve Corp. The Reserve Corp allowed partially disabled soldiers to serve light duty and freed able-bodies soldiers for the front lines.
McKinney served with the 1st Brigade U.S. Veterans Reserve Department 22nd Corp. This brigade defended the Capitol during Confederate Commander Jubal Early's offensive in the Shenandoah Valley from July to November 1864. This campaign, ultimately unsuccessful, was an effort to secure railroad lines and provisions to support the Virginia-based confederate forces and to take pressure off General Lee's forces. McKinney served at the battle near Fort Stevens when General Early attempted a raid on Washington, DC on July 11-12, 1864. Early was repelled and forced to withdraw back to Virginia.
McKinney later served in the Guard of President Lincoln during his 2nd inauguration March 4, 1865 and was assigned to the search for John Wilkes Booth and other conspirators on April 22, 1865. He was honorably discharged July 28, 1865.
In 1994, McKinney's great grandniece, Alyn Jewett McNeish, proudly wrote in a letter, now in the possession of the History Committee:
…we have his record, which is a long one, framed and hanging in our home along with the rifle he carried (hanging over our kitchen fireplace). Sitting beside the rifle in frames are two pieces of confederate money he brought home. ..
McKinney served Westport Island in other ways on his return from military service. He was town clerk from 1901-1904; postmaster from 1889 (probably until 1904 when he died); one of five proprietors of the Union Meeting House (the Town Hall) who gave the building to the town in 1885; and the proprietor of a store at Main and Post Office Roads established about 1870, selling candy, needles, thread, shoe laces, calico, school supplies, tobacco, fish lines and patent medicines. In 1994, his grandniece still had the apothecary jars McKinney used for penny candy in his store which she used as cookie jars.
William McKinney is one of many who have contributed to "big history" on a "little island"…
Calling Westport Island Volunteers…
to the business of governing…
You stated that we had a young board of officers, to rule the town…there is but one… the rest are sly and underminded and do not know what they are in office for…they will not have much influence upon the business of the bridge; for there are two to one in favor of the roads, and also the bridge…They that are opposed to the roads and bridge being built…have but one…and he would have no more influence, on the minds of the people, than a child.
You stated that we had a young board of officers, to rule the town…there is but one… the rest are sly and underminded and do not know what they are in office for…they will not have much influence upon the business of the bridge; for there are two to one in favor of the roads, and also the bridge…They that are opposed to the roads and bridge being built…have but one…and he would have no more influence, on the minds of the people, than a child.
Roads, bridges and strong opinions…Could be any year in the life of the Island. It just happens to be 1848, and the sentiments come from Franklin Tarbox writing to his sister Sarah.
Built in 1840, the first Westport bridge had a price tag of $6,000 – a pretty hefty purse in those days. Then, as now, those that wanted to be geographically isolated from the troubles of the mainland were pitted against those that wanted aesthetics and privacy with convenient access to services. …And, those that wanted to invest for the future and what they considered the communal greater good were pitted against those that carefully minded their purses and costs vs. benefits. There are always issues to divide.
Tis the season once again to nominate a selectman, a road commissioner and two budget committee members; pontificate…and meet about the town's business. Town voting will be June 28; town meeting June 29.
Ten plus committees of volunteers and another 10 to 15 volunteer officers are sworn in each July 1 and form the core of our town government. Volunteers contemplate and formulate planning and development regulations; maintain our 70 plus cemeteries; monitor shellfish harvesting; operate safety — and safety net — services; advocate for preserving land and a community trails system; hear planning appeals; and do much more. New committee members are always welcome on all committees. The Planning Board in particular is looking for an interested planner or two.
Also Wanted: two Budget Committee members; nomination papers available from the Town Clerk and due May 14 (25 to 100 signatures needed). Benefits: Learn the town's budget, engage in dialogue with citizens and selectmen, and offer suggestions to the Selectmen.
Compensation for all town positions: An opportunity to "pay it forward" for living in such a pretty, peaceful place — where people may disagree, but nonetheless care about the Island.


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LAUDERHILL -- Mayor David Kaminsky said Tuesday he will veto the controversial appointment of Frank Roberts to the city`s Code Enforcement Board.
At Monday night`s City Council meeting, three of the Code Enforcement Board`s seven members publicly opposed Roberts` appointment. Roberts, an unsuccessful mayoral candidate this year, was appointed Monday by acting City Council President John Mullin.
Two council members also voted against Roberts, but a majority accepted him. This is the first time in at least seven years that an appointment has been challenged by the council or the mayor. The council would have to vote 4-1 to override the mayor`s veto.
``This is the first time I feel the responsibility to residents of the city, as well as myself, to challenge an appointment,`` Kaminksy said, noting he doesn`t think anyone in the city has had more confrontations with Roberts than he.
About a dozen residents spoke at Monday`s meeting, some in support and many against Roberts.
Residents said they question Roberts` character because he posed as a state senator to write a book, and because he has ridiculed the Code Enforcment Board in the past.
``Before I make my presentation, I`d like to give Mr. Roberts the opportunity to withdraw,`` Code Enforcement Board Chairman Murray Feiner said.
When Roberts did not respond, Feiner said: ``So be it. Let the chips fall where they may.``
The Code Enforcement Board is the only city board that can impose a fine of up to $250 a day to violators, Feiner said. He and other residents said it is considered the most prestigious board in the city.
Feiner read some quotes from newspapers when Roberts announced he was running for mayor and butted heads with Code Enforcement Board members because Roberts was cited for illegally operating a parasol business from his home.

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The best Paris markets
Find the best flea markets in Paris for food, antiques, bric-à-brac and more
Browse for books, rummage for riches, bargain for bric-à-brac or be a flea market flâneur: Paris flea markets – the permanent or weekly, covered or street – are fantastic resources and often very beautiful and atmospheric. For food and drink, markets like Bastille and Saxe-Breteuil are a great opportunity to meet producers and sample new flavours, if not always the cheapest or most efficient way of getting your weekly shopping done. Almost every neighbourhood and arrondissement has its own market; to track down your local stallholders beyond our selection below, check out the comprehensive and up-to-date listings of all of Paris's flea markets on the Mairie de Paris's website here (in French). And remember: when taking pictures, it's always polite to ask first.
Paris markets by category
Guides to Paris's best markets
Marché Mouffetard
One of the loveliest street markets in Paris.
Marché Bastille
There's more produce here than in most hypermarkets.
Marché aux Puces de St-Ouen
The biggest flea market in the world?
Marché des Enfants Rouges
An ancient orphanage turned deluxe food market.
Marché d'Aligre
An ancient Paris market on a historic site.
Thanks for all those precious insights ! The Marché des Enfants Rouges is a real opportunity to check out Paris' atmosphere !
A trip to Paris isn't complete without a visit to a market, you're right. You get a real sense for local life that way. I'd particularly recommend the Marché d'Aligre near Bastille
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Completely agree! Browsing markets in Paris is a superb way to get to know the city. Excellent snapshots & descriptions in this piece. For anyone interested in knowing more about the range of Parisian markets & their open days/hours, look at MARKETS OF PARIS, 2nd ed., written by Dixon Long & myself.
@Marjorie Williams Does Markets of Paris explain the "rules" of shopping a street market? What do I need to know? How do I know how to ask for what I want? I speak reasonably good french, but will soon be going to my first street market. (Ave du P. Wilson) I don't want to make a fool of myself. So far, all I really know is to let them pick the produce...
@Elizabeth B I'm sorry for the time lag but only now became aware of your query. There are no rules other than don't touch the produce, which you already know, so you're off to a good start. Shoppers generally have a better experience when they extend the courtesy of saying "Bonjour," "Merci," and "Au Revoir," don't take photos without asking permission, walk far enough into the market for price comparisons, etc. I'll be addressing this topic and offering more suggestions in an upcoming blog post. If you're still interested, then I invite you to check the website or sign up for posts at www.marjorierwilliams.com for more on this topic. Have a great trip!
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CAR MASCOT or HOOD ORNAMENT by LALIQUE: A Tete de Coq car mascot / mascotte presse-papier or paperweight was purchased at the Bastille market and brought back to England and sold to The Unique Lalique Gallery in Brighton, Sussex


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Inspired by the untamed wilderness, Bierstadt moved to the United States to continue his studies in art. He eventually traveled out West, where he painted grand landscapes.
Few artists have explored and painted the landscapes of North America, the Caribbean and Europe as extensively as Albert Bierstadt. Bierstadt would later use the rapid yet detailed sketches created during his travels as sources of inspiration for his monumental landscape paintings. Today, paralleling his own travel experiences, Bierstadt's paintings can be found in collections ranging geographically from Europe to California and even the U.S. Capitol.
Born in Solingen, Germany, near Düsseldorf, on January 7, 1830, Bierstadt was the fourth son of Christina M. Tillmans and Henry Bierstadt. At the age of two, Albert and his family moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts. No records exist of any formal art training in his youth, and it is widely believed that he was self-taught during his formative years. By the age of 20, he advertised himself as a skilled instructor of monochromatic painting. As he was considered an amateur artist, his fee of three dollars per day was extremely self-assured. Doubling as an instructor, he began to exhibit his first works in the small art circles of New Bedford.
Realizing that his chances for a successful career as an artist were limited in New Bedford, the young painter traveled to Düsseldorf to further his art education. His mother's cousin, Johann Hasenclever—a leading painter, had promised to familiarize Bierstadt with the style of the renowned Düsseldorf Academy. Upon arrival, Bierstadt learned of Hasenclever's death, yet he continued in his quest to learn the techniques of the area's influential painters. The Düsseldorf School encouraged the use of dramatic lighting and meticulous brushstrokes which together, added a polished finish to paintings. Throughout his career, Bierstadt stayed true to this style, even when the buying public lost interest in his work.
In Germany, Bierstadt met and shared a studio with the American painter, Worthington Whittredge. Together, the two artists traveled the European continent. It was the first of many trips to Europe during his lifetime. After returning to the United States, he used sketches made during his trips throughout Switzerland to create Lake Lucerne (1858). This was his first painting submitted to the National Academy of Design in New York and was shown in their exhibition of that year. Despite lukewarm criticism, he was elected a full Academician of the National Academy of Design in 1860 at the age of 30.
In 1859, he joined a road-improvement expedition led by Colonel Frederick W. Lander, and traveled West in the company of several other artists, including F.S. Frost. Prior to his departure, he announced on January 17, 1859 in The New Bedford Daily Mercury that his intentions in traveling west were to "study the scenery of that wild region, and the picturesque facts of Indian life, with reference to a series of large pictures." Captivated by the West, he ventured there numerous times throughout his life and settled in California for two years.
Inspired by this experience and with loads of sketches and stereographs in tow, Albert the traveler returned to New York to create his first panoramic landscape of the American West. In 1864, The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak was shown at the New York City Sanitary Fair and prompted immediate, international fame for the 34-year-old painter. This event would mark the beginning of his successful, yet short-lived career. In the following years, Bierstadt commanded remarkable sums for his paintings. A stunning $25,000 was paid for The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak. His audiences never refused to pay, and neither did the U.S. government, who commissioned two paintings for the U.S. Capitol.
In the peak of his career, Bierstadt built his mansion, Malkastan, on the Hudson River. In 1866, he married Rosalie Osborne Ludlow, the divorced wife of his friend and writer Fitz Hugh Ludlow. Together, the couple made numerous trips to Europe and traveled to California on the newly accessible Transcontinental Railroad. His wife later became ill with tuberculosis which further prompted the couple to travel to the Bahamas.
By the 1880s, both the artist's career and life began to fall apart. In 1882, Malkastan burned with many of his favorite paintings still inside. After a painful struggle, his wife died in 1893. Although he found comfort in his second wife, Mary Hicks Stewart, he was unable to revive his career. The increasing acceptance of French Impressionism gradually cast a shadow over the efforts of academic realists like Bierstadt. He was quickly forgotten by an audience that had embraced him as a national treasure. He filed bankruptcy in 1895, and died, somewhat forgotten, in New York City in 1902 at the age of 72.
Albert Bierstadt is credited as the first painter to truly capture the vastness and rusticity of the American landscape. The monumental size of many of his canvases reflects the nature of the undeveloped lands of the United States that he visited. Each of Bierstadt's careful brushstrokes works to express the magnificence of the untainted American wilderness which would become a unique part of America's history.
In his early years as an artist, Bierstadt struggled to gain positive support from critics and even his artist friends. Worthington Whittredge noted that Bierstadt's early works "had nothing in them to recommend [him] as a painter. They were in fact absolutely bad." This harsh criticism may have been due to the fact that Bierstadt was largely self-taught.
Bierstadt's later success as an artist can be said to have developed in two different stages. It was not until Bierstadt traveled to Düsseldorf in 1853 that his approach to painting would become more developed. As a native of Germany himself, Bierstadt admired the work of the Düsseldorf Academy's artists and sought to learn their distinct, naturalistic style and precise handling of the brush. Secondly, his extensive touring of Europe, North America, and the Bahamas allowed him to study nature firsthand. Together, these factors were part of what made Bierstadt a skilled landscape painter at a moment in history when the wilderness of America symbolized specific values and beliefs.
As art historian Matthew Baigell argues in his epic monograph, Albert Bierstadt, the artist's paintings of the Rocky Mountains, Yosemite and Indian camps of the Midwest touched an audience who were sympathetic to American Transcendentalism. In the first half of the 19th century, America witnessed the publication of Ralph Waldo Emerson's tracts on Transcendentalism and his essay Thoughts on Art (1841). A major tenant of Transcendentalism was the belief that if nature was left alone by man, then man could become more easily familiar with God.
American painters of the early 19th century shared the same philosophy. Visualizing the tracts of Emerson, the artists of the Hudson River School believed that art could be a medium of spiritual and moral change. American artists like Thomas Cole and Frederick Church loosened their ties with European traditions and frequently sketched from nature. Although much younger than the first members of the Hudson River School, Bierstadt is often grouped under this stylistic rubric.
Nevertheless, unlike the other members of the Hudson River School, Bierstadt's work also displayed an interest in European Romanticism. In Bierstadt's paintings, the wilderness of the Unites States is transformed into a theatrical stage. However, it is not the occasional figures in the landscapes of Bierstadt's paintings that capture the viewer's interest. Rather, it is his "backdrops" of mountainous peaks, gushing waterfalls, and seemingly endless valleys that leave the viewer truly enchanted with the sublime or awe-inspiring nature of America's frontier.
Much of Bierstadt's oeuvre speaks to a time lost, when the West and California were uncharted territory and when individuals began to take hold of the beliefs of Manifest Destiny. Bierstadt's paintings invited the viewer to explore and settle the West. As individuals were creating the history of a young country, Bierstadt was documenting it with a naturalistic eye that never ceased to look away even when his painterly style began to fall out of fashion.


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Mr Tito Ambyo
Tito is undertaking a Masters degree in digital cultures and storytelling in South East Asia.
Tito's research brings together his years of experience in journalism, anthropology and creative writing. He has a particular interest in ghost stories, folk music and Indonesian political cultures.
Tito is also a spoken word artist who is interested in the intersections of fiction and nonfiction as well as digital.
Tito teaches Reporting Sound and Image and Journalism Technologies for the Bachelor of Communication (Journalism) program and Digital and Data Journalism for the Graduate Diploma of Journalism.
- Bachelor of Arts, La Trobe University
Tito has worked as a journalist, writer, researcher and communications expert for more than a decade. He has worked in Australia, Indonesia and East Timor, and has held editorial and leadership positions at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He has written for international publications, including The Guardian and Visual Arts Magazine.
Tito is also an experienced trainer and has trained journalists from around the world. He has delivered workshops on Environmental Journalism for Indonesian journalists and on New Media Technology for Vietnamese TV Executive Producers. He was also a member of the Digital Experts Group at ABC International, where he trained journalists on strategies to use digital technologies effectively.
He is also serving as a board member for the Indonesian Resources and Information Program since 2016 and holds the position of Secretary there.
Professional memberships
- Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA)
- Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE)
- Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia (JERAA)


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This issue of Weatherwise is all about what I think of as the "nitty gritty" of meteorology: data collection and usage, forecasting techniques, the physics of atmospheric phenomena. It takes a deeper look into some of the everyday tools meteorologists use to help us understand our weather and provides you, our readers, with explanations for some of what you see around you in the world.
In "The East Coast Blizzard of 2016: The Northeast Gets Buried," Jeffrey B. Halverson recaps one of the biggest storms to hit the United States East Coast in recent memory. This storm, which brought the East Coast to a standstill for days after major metropolitan areas received several feet of snow in a two-day period, was one of the best forecast storms in history. Both the American and European models were in agreement on where and how the record-setting blizzard would strike days ahead of its arrival—something unprecedented in the history of meteorology. The story of how the storm developed, how it was forecast, and its impacts on the megalopolis of the East Coast makes for a fascinating article.
Meanwhile, Walt Lyons provides readers with a fascinating primer on lightning based on some of the new technology that has helped researchers better understand this phenomenon. In "Lightning: Does It Go Down or Up?" Lyons explores the physics of lightning and helps answer some of our most basic questions about it, including what direction it travels. His lightning images go a long way toward illustrating his points and provide some spectacular visuals too!
Finally, in "Creating a Database of All-Time Record Monthly Sea Level Pressure Records for the Lower 48 United States," David Mark Roth discusses how and why he created the very first set of sea level pressure maps. The story starts with Hurricane Sandy and another very strong extratropical storm with record-setting sea level pressures. If researchers can get the full picture of how low sea level pressures can get in extraordinary extratropical storms, they can better predict how such storms will impact us, thus improving forecasts.


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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Radio Show, Live!
Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy has become a cult phenomenon since it's an initial outing as part of a series of radio comedies in 1978. Following the current trend for revivals and reunions, (Take That & Steps in the pop world, and re-workings of Abigail's Party and Dandy Dick in the theatre world are just a few examples of this) this "live radio show" brings back the original cast as well as some of the cast members from the later versions too.
It is a brave move, which could easily have backfired. As Douglas Adams himself said "radio is such an intensely visual medium". And there are many who agree that it would be too much to try to create the images which many people have created in their own heads from his words. However, the clever way this show has been staged – with the actors carrying scripts, using microphone/script stands and with a foley artist (sound effects) on stage – really works. It allows the script to be the focus – and with an audience this keen on the script, you need to do it justice. Luckily, the original cast are more than up to the task – you can tell why Susan Sheridan coaches others in voice techniques, her delivery was perfect and had great clarity. Simon Jones (wearing his characters famous dressing gown!) and Geoff McGivern bounce off each other so well that the script seems as fresh as it would have been when they first performed it in 1978. As it was opening night, there was the odd stumble over some of the more difficult phrases (you try quickly welcoming Slartibartfast to Magrathea or Viltvodle Vi and you'll see the challenge) however this only adds to the joy of live theatre and I hope that this freshness doesn't fade out later in the tour.
Stephen Moore (the original voice of "Marvin The Paranoid Android") couldn't join the tour due to a previous commitment, however his voice is still there in recorded form and his absence has meant the addition of a new incarnation of Marvin in visual form. This works well, and with the minimal/token costumes and masks, it ensures that the visuals don't detract too much from the humour within the dialogue. One of the items that works really well (despite a few technical hitches) was the live sound effects. Ken Humphrey works extremely hard both with and around the cast to create some very clever effects.
Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod completes the original cast and with Toby Longworth,Philip Pope, Andrew Secombe and Samantha Beart (from later "phases" of the show) we have an extremely talented vocal cast who seem to have slipped back into a natural rapport. Throughout the tour the cast will be joined by a guest artist as "The Voice Of The Book". Billy Boyd was in Glasgow for opening night and really seemed to understand what the audience were looking for. His additional cameo as "The Meat" was a genius moment and it will be very interesting to see what the other guests (including, Phil Jupitus, John Challis, Jon Culshaw and Andrew Sachs amongst others) will make of this role.
The addition of a live band was another clever idea by director Dirk Maggs, who also adapted and wrote some of the script, assisted with sound effects, played Zaphod's second head – oh yes, and played drums in said live band!
Even for myself who has very little previous knowledge of The Hitchhiker's Guide series, this was still a very enjoyable and fun evenings entertainment – however the fan I had taken along (who would very rarely set foot in a theatre) was even found to be joining in with the sing-a-long sections. This is testament to how clever the show is in drawing in all levels of it's fanbase. Quote of the night however was from the young boy leaving in front of me – "I was laughing and crying at the same time – I was scared, but it was so funny I had to keep laughing!".
Touring from 8th June until 21st July 2012
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by Cameron Lowe 6 years agoGreat review, Jon. I was jealous that you got to cover this one rather than me ... but readers are better off as I would have clogged my review up with endless quotes from the script! I am a self-confessed Hitch Hikers geek. I've seen the show before ... but the inclusion of the original cast beats digital watches to first place on the "pretty neat ideas" chart.
by Jon Cuthbertson 6 years agoYou would never have coped Cammy! You'd have geeked out majorly at this!!
by Cameron Lowe 6 years agoHa ha ... you're not wrong!!
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What the???
Tis young babe made an appointment with me before i implemented the deposit system, and since shes a secondary school student,
i didn't request for a deposit from her.
The appointment was suppose to be on 29 May, Saturday, 10am.
Jus so happen that my japanese lesson was cancelled due to school holiday, i texted this babe and ask if our appointment can be postponed to 1pm instead.
So heres the whole conversation, extracted from my bb:
"Hi K*******! I'm Junying from Thistlebelle Nail :) regarding this sat appt. Can we rearrange e time frm 10am to 1pm? As my japanese class is cancelled :)"
"Erm! Sorry! Did like to cancel th appointment due to some reasons with my parents ehs :( sorry!"
"Sure thing. But I will appreciate if you can inform me earlier so that i can arrange appt with other customers who really need to get their nails done."
"I'm really sorry for the late update, didn't had the opportunity to use the phone till now. Sorry!"
I jus feel that this is the most lame excuse I've ever heard.
can't she jus think of a more realistic reason?
You are a secondary school student, I can understand if your parents are against the idea of you spending hundreds of dollars doing nails, im fine with it.
But at THAT moment of time when yr parents disagree to it, you must have been so disappointment and will immediately let me know the bad news.
AND, i believe many of my readers are young teenagers too, or have been thru secondary school,
nowadays, teenagers NEVER let their phone out of their reach. Once a vibration is felt, even when u r in class, u will want to peep at yr phone, right?
What is "didn't had the opportunity to use my phone till now"??
i received such PROMPT reply and then I jus got soooo lucky with the timing that u got to use your phone, lol!
you could have jus emailed me right?
or you couldn't login to your email or use your computer till now??
Pleaseeee exercise RESPONSIBLITY and spare a thought for others.
I do nails for a living, if you can just choose not to come for your appointment, you're letting other customers arent able to do their nails BECAUSE OF YOU & your lame excuse.
Of cos i've receive other weird and straight forward messages of informing me rather than apologising with reason why they aren't able to turn up.
"Hi Junying, just to inform you that I won't be coming for tomorrow's appointment"
Thats it?
Nice one. So what am i gonna do tomorrow?
Not forgetting those who MIA or forgot to come for their appointment, I've nothing much to say about them..
So now u know why i had to implement the deposit system? (:
sorry for ranting like an auntie~~
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Y not try putting ur cust on waiting list the next time? It might be extra work but worth the try :) just a suggestion though :)
- June 3, 2010 at 3:21 AM
Hi junying! I LOVE your work and I think you're very talented and driven =) Do you draw all the flowers yourself or are they purchased? How much do you charge for an extremely simple french manicure with minimal decoration? I would LOVE to have the bling bling nails I see on your boutique webpage, but unfortunately I actually have to USE my hands to do work :P hehe. (lol jst curious, how do any of your customers get any work done?? Isnt it practically impossible to type and write fast?)
- June 4, 2010 at 4:11 PM
- Junying said...
1st anonymous: yupp maybe i should! (: thanks for your suggestion!!
2nd anonymous: thanks for yr compliments! yes i drew e flowers myself (: french manicure is $23.. decoration is $3 per nail onwards (: when u hav nail decorations on yr nails, normally u will be more careful.. hehe~
- June 6, 2010 at 1:29 AM


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The first novel in the Wheel of Time series - one of the most influential and popular fantasy epics ever published.
The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again.
But one truth remains, and what mortal men forget, the Aes Sedai do not . . .
What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the shadow.
Epic in every sense - Sunday TimesWith the Wheel of Time, Jordan has come to dominate the world Tolkien began to reveal - New York Times
Series: Wheel of Time
Audience: General
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 816
Published: 25th November 2014
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 19.7 x 12.8 x 5.1
Weight (kg): 0.49
Edition Number: 1


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330 Years Posthumous Fame
as the "Best Moonlight Painter of the Dutch School"
Aert van der Neer
1677 – 2007
In Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of April 6, 2004, Dirk Schümer concluded his review of the Genoa exhibition The Age of Rubens with the remarkable statement
" … There it does well to study the economical globalization about 1600 when the rich still knew
that one can enjoy capital only
by transforming it into art ."
And therewith attains together the good chance to secure a piece of immortality for the own name. May it be within the scope of a collection grown to a work of art of sui generis , as donator or simply as living on in the lists of provenance being sure of highest attention forever. It was the wealth imported from India of the merchants in particular, indeed, standing behind the height of art in the Netherlands of the 17th century. But if there is spoken of the Golden Age of this epoch only the art is the synonym pure and simple.
Two colums carried this in its density and deepness quite unique and unrepeated artistical golden century cosmos. The pictorally luxuriant Flemish art in the Spanish Netherlands in the south with Rubens as fixed star and that of the northern Seven Provinces in its restrained charm as ambassador not least of the poetry of the flat country and with Rembrandt as the hub there.
While in August we remembered the 350th day of death of Frans Snyders as the "most important still life and animal painter of Flemish art, maybe even of his epoch" (catalog Berlin/Dahlem, 1975, page 405), so today the 330th of the northern grand master Aert van der Neer as the
" best moonlight painter of the Dutch school "
(Hofstede de Groot, [Describing and Critical Catalog of the Works of the Most Important Netherlandish Artists of the 17th Century], vol. VII [1918], p. 360). And regarding van der Neer the great Bode calls in the frame of his elite corps of the [Master of the Dutch and Flemish Painters Schools] of that century Arnold Houbraken (1660-1719) into the witness stand with the words "… and became fameous by carefully executed landscapes, especially by landscapes at moonlight" (Bode, 2nd ed., 1922, p. 199).
And Bode himself resumes:
" … the finer the tone light effect, the richer the very refined construction. A river or a canal drawing itself far into the landscape gives the pictures deepness and piquant perspective … If one wants to become clear about the originality of the artist one does well to compare him with the greatest. In his interiors like in his landscapes, among which just one remarkable moonlight landscape with the Rest on the Flight of 1647 is preserved (in Dublin; Schwartz, Rembrandt. All Paintings in Color, 1983, no. 276), Rembrandt lets fall a bright ray of light into the darkness covering everything. Aert van der Neer however handles it in reverse order; he sets dark shadows into the general brightness, even in his moonlight pictures, whose luminousness he enhanced as ever possible in the interest of the clearness of the shadows and the pictorial record … In the magic appeal of the effect Rembrandt beats the companion thereby by far,
but van der Neer is truer and more manifold .
No one has studied these peculiar lights and their effect on the landscape so intensively, expressed a fullness of the finest observations, so fascinating moods … By it, looked at more closely, the same motifs offer the greatest variety "
(Bode, op. cit., pp. 204 ff.).
" With the night scenes it is almost always the rather low full moon that … conjures reflections on the water and the windows of the buildings. The late evening hours of autumn and spring are depicted when man still works outside, as long as darkness has not fallen fully …
The thematic field described here
is commanded by v. d. Neer as by no one else .
He is the best moonlight painter of the Dutch school and in the winter landscapes only Jacob van Ruisdael equaled him and only Rembrandt surpassed him with the one and only small winter picture we possess by him (in Cassel, Schwartz, op. cit., color ills. 289) … A special fascination he imparts to his creations also by the reflections of the light on the water … and on all that reflects light at all "
(Hofstede de Groot, op. cit., pp. 360 ff.).
Here then also such
" a night by moonlight pervaded by the light "
as van der Neer succeeded in only in the '50s, thereby free of the again increasing blackness "as (with) many works from the late years" (Bachmann, Aert van der Neer, 1982, pp. 47 + 142 ) and with just the shitting man as anecdotal allowance for a new present up to its provocative eyes contact with the beholder :
Seen from rather high point with the river coming from front left and tapering off in a right angle widely into the distance accompanied by banks on both sides. Above it standing quite high the full moon with halo, with its light being reflected in the ending water before the dark strip of land running across through the front, interspersed with both isolated and tufted reed and iris repoussoir. Numerous fishing boats losing themselves in the distance, mostly under sail, and boats, four of the latter of which big in the foreground just as, too, a rigged up twomaster – if not two single-masted crafts lying closely side by side, see below – behind the spit of the dominantly raised left bank to which four wide steps lead up stoop-like and whose mighty trees towering over three thatched cottages/huts of different size, fresh and dense in leaf and united at the top in an arch, occupy about the full height of the painting. Before the cottages man with stick, accompanied by his dog, rambling to the left, while a woman with a dish is about to enter the widely situated frontmost hut, and a fisherman with hook and tackle thrown over, walking into the picture, makes for the fence above the said twomaster over which more lies for drying.
On the flat right bank with its spits likewise set back a property as well as vista of a presumed place. As repoussoir here especially in front a modestly higher tree besides lateral high trunk broken by the winds and about dead. Rich figuration of any size spread over the whole picture on land and in the boats, partly pertinently occupied, so the fisherman in the boat right in front right with his weirs. The moon's halo predicting shitty weather could have its counterpart in the man in the front center sitting before his boat shitting into the water.
Oil on oak panel. 18 × 24⅞-25 in (45.6 × 63.2-63.4 cm). In refreshed handmade frame of supposedly about 1920.
Offer no. 14,800 / comprehensively researched detail documentation on application
While the introduction to the Snyders commemorative offer gave occasion to remind of his generous last will by which the princely painter, died in his Antwerp house in the Keizerstraat characteristically called fortuyne, circumspectly had thought of everything and anyone, so for van der Neer remain the after-words of poorest dying in an Amsterdam attic and the remark that the children entered upon the inheritance only under reserve. While the rich had yearned for Snyders' brilliant still lifes and animal pieces filling whole halls already for life, so van der Neer should have seen obviously better days, too – "Excellent pictures in also large format were repeated by himself because they met with the approval of customers" – , before a changed prevailing taste pushed him aside and
" Only after his death his work was highly esteemed .
Now the collectors and princely galleries tried to get
a moonlight landscape ;
the prices paid for that forced up … "
His art was widely well-known then; in Holland one spoke of 'maaneschijntjes' und 'wintertjes' and in Germany of 'Day-van-der-Neers' and of 'Night-van-der-Neers'. Also Goethe had a precise idea of that. In a letter from Naples of May 30, 1787, and in his report on the travel to Rhine and Main (1814-15) he mentions the artist especially "
(Bachmann, op. cit., pp. 11 + 15).
And this posthumous fame remained durably like that of Frans Snyders. There the golden age's "most important still life and animal painter of the Flemish", here "the best moonlight painter of the Dutch school". As indisputables both serve in Bode's elite corps. The differences between their lives – time has leveled out them, the greatness of their œuvre united them.
" Ich darf mich noch einmal herzlichst für Ihre Hilfe bedanken!! Ich habe alle e-mails/Bilder erhalten. Es ist wirklich keine Selbstverständlichkeit so eine Unterstützung zu bekommen und ich weiß das sehr zu schätzen! "
(Frau A. G., 10. September 2014)


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Mike Bost Files for Re-Election
Murphysboro, IL—Today, U.S. Rep. Mike Bost submitted 3,121 signatures to become a candidate for re-election in Illinois' 12th Congressional District. Bost's campaign, which received petitions from every county in the district, far exceeded the 746 needed to qualify as a candidate. "I am humbled by the support I've received from those who want me to serve them… Read more »


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Hollywood And Its Fascination With Armageddon
The latest song by Chris Brown and Justin Bieber called Next To You featuring an end of the world theme
Whether you believe in it or not, Armageddon and the end of the world is a subject that always comes up. Hollywood itself brings it up so often, that it is hard to ignore it. There are some who believe the last days are to come, and there are some who don't believe. Some who think that that time is a judgement from God, and others who say it is simply a matter of the earth running its course.Whatever the belief, the end of the world is one of the most debated topics ever.
As with any topic up for debate, Hollywood has its say, however twisted it may be. The popular theme of Armageddon in Hollywood's point of view, is definite perdition, not certainly from God, but a perdition where man, by his will and strength, can overcome or escape a fate which was meant to happen.
No doubt that Hollywood has much of an influence over how people think and what they believe. Case in point, one of the most popular movies, stating that Armageddon was predicted by the Mayan calendar or the fact that it ceased to record time after the year 2012. The year 2012 is a very popular search topic on the internet today, and people seriously want to know if this date foretold by the calendar and movie, truly is the date for the end of all things as we know it. There are millions of questions littered all over the internet begging for some confirmation that the 21st of December, 2012, really is indeed D-Day for planet Earth.
If I may seem to be exaggerating, here is a list of movies, songs and video games, that all deal with the end times. There are two fairly constant themes. One is that the end is indeed coming, and the other is that man will somehow save himself.
Movies dealing with Armageddon
Music dealing with Armageddon
Deep Impact
Till The World Ends
The Book of Eli
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
28 Days Later
The Night The World Exploded
Third Stone From The Sun
Here's Your Future
1,000 Cities Falling Apart
Number Of The Beast
When Worlds Collide
The End Of Everything
The Day After Tomorrow
The Earth Died Screaming
The Day Everything Became Nothing
End Day
When The World Ends
End of Days
Four Horsemen Of 2012
12 Monkeys
I'm Gonna DJ
Planet of The Apes
Four Chords Of The Apocalypse
The Terminator
The Day The Whole World Went Away
The Fifth Element
When The Man Comes Around
Next To You
I Am Legend
2012 (It Ain't The End)
The Happening
Party Like It's 2012
The Last Man On Earth
The End Of The World Party
The Invasion
DJ Got Us Falling In Love Again
The War Of The Worlds
The Last Night Of The World
End Of The World
Last Day On Earth
Independence Day
The End Of The World (four songs with the same title)
Judgment Day
Its Not The End Of The World But I can See It From Here
Natural Mystic
Battlestar Galactica
Waiting At The End Of The World
Cowboys And Aliens
The Day The Earth Stood Still
So Much Trouble In The World
Apocalypse Please
The Stand
London Calling
Mortal Kombat : Annihilation
Gimmie Shelter
As stated above, the theme seems to be man, and his ability to save himself. Take the movie Independence Day. Starring Will Smith as one of the heroes of mankind, it is about an alien invasion on earth and just what man did to stop it. This final battle for survival takes place on July 4th, Independence Day for The United States of America. In his speech to the people of the earth, the American President says:
"We're fighting for our right to live, to exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day when the world stood up and declared in one voice that we will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!"
No doubt, this speech's purpose was to make goosebumps appear on the skin. To make viewers' skin tingle with the magnificence of such strength and determination. The show won an Oscar for Best Effects, as well as a Saturn award for Best Director, Best Science Fiction and Best Special Effects, it even won a Grammy and The People's Choice Award. Goosebumps must have been raised.
Or What about Armageddon? That movie where the soundtrack hit number one. Didn't it win a Grammy as well? Anyway it centers around an asteroid on its way to crash into the earth. Nobody knows how to stop the thing and they decide the best way is to blow it up. Even though they know what they have to do, they don't know how to do it, so they call in some oil rig workers, among them Bruce Willis, and they go up in the space ship and blow the thing up.
Here's a line explaining why an asteroid hitting earth would be detrimental to life as we know it:
"So, when the rogue comet hit the asteroid belt, it sent shrapnel right for us. For the next 15 days, the Earth's in a shooting gallery. Even if the asteroid itself hits the water, it's still hitting land. It'll flash boil millions of galleons of sea water and slam into the ocean bedrock. Now if it's a Pacific Ocean impact, which we think it will be, it'll create a tidal wave 3 miles high, travel at a thousand miles an hour, covering California, and washing up in Denver. Japan's gone, Australia's wiped out. Half the world's population will be incinerated by the heat blast, and the rest will freeze to death from nuclear winter."
These guys, with a good bit of trouble I'll grant, and some deaths of some very important characters, manage to blow up an asteroid so big, that it could wipe out every piece of human life. Again, at the end, when the sacrifices were made and earth was saved, there was probably not a dry eye in the cinema.
Worldwide, Armageddon has grossed over five hundred and fifty- three million dollars. ($553,000,000) and Independence Day has grossed over eight hundred and seventeen million dollars (817,000,000). The Transformers movies have grossed, so far around seven hundred and nine million ($709,000,000), eight hundred and thirty- six million ($836,000,000), and six hundred and sixty-two million ($662,000,000) respectively. Combined, that totals over two billion, two hundred and seven million dollars (2,207,000,000) and rising.
Apparently, when Hollywood talks about the end of days, and how man will win in the end and become ultimately his own hero, the world listens and pays to listen. No wonder they seem to be so fascinated with the topic.
The Mayan calandar cannot predict then end of the earth. Jesus Christ even told us that only God knows. Matthew 24:36 No one knows about that day, or hour, not even even the Angels in Heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
You wrote another wonderful hub. I hope more people read them.
It is odd how atheists and secular people spend so much time thinking of God and things to do with God's kingdom. God is a force that draws the mind of man, even when they claim to not believe in Him. If they only knew that when He does come, there will be no mistake it is Him indeed what the creative mind could conceive concerning Armageddon. Thanks for a thought provoking Hub!


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In 1969, Roger Hodgson co- founded Supertramp, one of the greatest progressive rock n roll bands ever. He was the voice, heart and soul of the band for 14 years and is regarded as the spiritual and creative force behind Supertramp.
Although Roger shared writer's credit with Rick Davies, they wrote and composed separately. They continued to share writer's credits much like Lennon and McCartney did. Roger sings all the songs he wrote and Rick sings the songs he wrote.
During the time that Hodgson led the band, Supertramp sold over 60 million albums. Breakfast in America had sales of well over 20 million copies and in 1979 was the top selling album worldwide.
In Canada alone, sales for Crime of the Century and Breakfast in America reached Diamond status. One in every 15 Canadians owned both these albums.
In 2016, Roger still performs the classic hit songs he gave us – Breakfast in America, The Logical Song, Give a Little Bit, Take the Long Way Home, Dreamer, School, Fool's Overture, It's Raining Again, and so many more.


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I want to share with you a seminal paper on Public Value Management (PVM) which supports Web 2.0 . Added bonus: it summarises and contextualises all three Governance models: Traditional Public Administration (TPA), New Public Management (NPM) and of course PVM.
What are governance paradigms? The model, the principles , essentially; the structure that supports the framework for decision-making and action within government. You may not know it, but the governance structure and signposts that provide both the direction and frustration of government work is supported by an intentional and deliberate governance paradigm.
Don't believe me? If this wasn't true, the study of Public Administration would be quite barren, haphazard, and scattered, with little substance to provide the content for textbooks and curriculum for Masters courses in public administration (let alone doctorate-level courses).
Tell me if these predominant themes in NPM speak to you: accountability, performance measurement, management framework, risk-mitigation, managed efficiency.
I'd like to share with you an overview of these governance paradigms, so you can wow your colleagues, impress your mother, and stupefy your classmates. Yes, stupefy.
Traditional Public Administration (1880s – 1980s)
Slogan: All citizens get a 100-word guidebook
A long long time ago, in a land very close to home, there was Traditional Public Administration, which "provides a particular set of solutions to the challenges of governance [drawing] on a Weberian perception of the world [placing] modest expectations on the… elected politicians…[TPA was] primarily was there to provide a pool of potential political leaders."
Much of Traditional Public Administration is still with us today; TPA introduced hierarchy, with bureaucracy as the governance mechanism for organising the modern state. Makes sense, really, since stability and predictability is essential for the economy, and bureaucracy delivers organizational effectiveness though "hierarchical division of labor…whereby complex administrative problems are broken down into manageable and repetitive tasks…[where] officials are employed within a full-time career structure in which continuity and long-term advancement is emphasised." TPA introduced the life-long career public servant, and the skillful mandarin, equipped with a toolkit of deployable programs and well-crafted policies. The Wild West of gun-shot local management was modernised with the plans, the answers and direction for a manageable government, through structure, procedures, organisation. Things were nice, the public servants were great; "the work of bureaucrats is conducted according to prescribed rules without artbitrariness or favoritism…with a written record…officials are appointed on merit…becom[ing] experts by training for their function and in turn [they] control access, information and knowledge in their defined area of responsibility."
If there were badges promoting the adoption of Traditional Public Administration, I imagine they would look like this:
My head spins at the relics that still exist today, with solace to know where it comes from. TPA ran its course, but was limited as progress advanced, quality of life rose, and individuality rose in importance. Science and technology flourished, as did philosophical perspectives on rationality and post-modernism. How do you govern a nation of individual people's, with desires, preferences, interests, and the means to act on them? Certainly not with rigid structures and public servants with age-old time-tested procedures, with prescribed processes and resources. Enter:
New Public Management (~1980-present)
Slogan: All managed measurements can be measured, and managed
As discussed earlier, we are currently in the New Public Management paradigm, which is focused of performance measurement, reporting, controls, audits. It's based around an ethic to equip managers with means to manage off the script but not off the cuff. As guidebooks and procedure manuals got thicker and thicker, and exceptions to the rule amounted, managers needed to elaborate their own procedures to reach identified goals, charting the most effective route with the resources available under the conditions that exist.
- Mandarins became executives.
- Guidebooks became a frameworks.
- Tasks became performance management agreements.
- Results became accountability measures.
In some ways NPM was a means to dismantle bureaucracy, giving managers the freedom to manage. This was sensible, and necessary; the work was now different, and not so clear-cut. But not to say all the bureaucracy is gone, much of what we refer to bureaucracy is an anachronism harking to TPA, when bureaucracy was actually a positvely-regarded term, referring to the assuring stability in established rules.
If there were badges promoting the adoption of New Public Management, I imagine they would look like this:
Not without its problems, NPM has implications without its required elements: quality leadership, supporting resources (manpower, expertise) and, well, stability. Some of the implications:
- lack of quality leadership: ill-conceived goals, redundant structures, ineffective bureaucracy, project mismanagement (cost overruns, late deliverables)
- lacking resources: compromised programs, scaled-back initiatives, delayed implementations
- lack of stability: misaligned goals, employee disengagement, cost over-runs, citizen disapproval
So what to do? Not awhole much. NPM is what it is, and the structures and frameworks that exist currently, reinforce it. Simply, not much can be done unless there is a viable alternative. But, as "New Public Management has now been "new" for more than 15 years … public administration scholars are calling for new approaches, such as networked governance or collaboration. However, these approaches share with their predecessors the problem that they tend toward a one-best-way orientation. The criteria for a Web 2.0-supporting post-NPM model has certain criteria to meet; reduces or eliminates the growing gap between the public and government, as well as reconciles the friction between Web 2.0 and governance. Enter:
Public Value Management (Future?)
No big shock here, I continue to propose PVM as a successive governance paradigm to our own. It addresses the prevailing issues with TPA, the implications of NPM, and updates it for a more open and collaborative government under the existing governance structure of the Westminster constitutional monarchy democracy mixed hybrid breed system-like governmental system we have now.
"The time may well have come for public servants to suggest to the political authorities that they attend first of all to their own institutional problems before attempting more reforms of the civil service….real reform can take place only if political institutions are themselves reformed. Less bureaucracy without less government may not be possible unless politicians look at how their own institutions need to be adjusted."
In "the philosophy of PVM it is central that the public and indeed all stakeholders partake actively in a discursive process of decision-making in order to overcome the limitations of silo-based organization and adversarial democracy. PVM seems by origin to be inclusive of the same issues and reforms discussed earlier, while also involving public involvement in the decision making. "Public value is defined and redefined through social and political interaction…public value provides a path to reconciling democracy and efficiency through dialogue and exchange.
Much still has to be considered of the possible application of the model, and although hard to avoid, a comparison to NPM would not be an effective benchmark from which to assess PVM; NPM is currently a compromised benchmark, considering all the academic, public and government criticisms against; and PVM is not intended to replace NPM to best achieve the results of NPM (measurable results and improvements through performance and agreements).
PVM forges a new deal with an already-engaged public, and redefines the work of government as more collaborative and open to "public experience and expertise…[as it provides] the crucial linchpin between the more collective and collaborative governance mindsets of Stoker's public value management and Paquet's social learning on the one hand, and contemporary determinations of trust built less upon deference to authority and office than direct engagement and dialogue".
If I were to make badges promoting the adoption of Public Value Management, I would make them look like this:
I encourage you to read the paper by Stoker, making a very important case for PVM, and explaining the governance paradigms of TPA and NPM. In the paper, Stoker goes into considerable conceptual detail comparing Traditional Public Administration, its successor NPM, and PVM. The goals are far-reaching and wide-ranging, in varying ways. From "fragment[ing] monopolistic public service structures and develop incentives and tools to influence the way they operate" to "seek[ing] to dismantle the bureaucratic pillar of the Weberian model of traditional public administration." There is middle-ground as well; "a shift from a culture that accepts public acquiescence in decision making to one that expects active citizen endorsement." Stoker also indicates some of the technological supports necessary, inferred here as web 2.0: "New information and communication technologies offer a range of further opportunities to get people's participation in ways that are flexible…and not too time-consuming."


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GroundWorks will reprise its lauded production of Lee Blessing's "Chesapeake" at the Boiler Room Theatre in Franklin from January 23-25!
Director Robert A. O'Connell and actor Jack E. Chambers will once again bring Blessing's one-man show to life, this time in the wonderful Boiler Room Theatre, in the historic Factory in Franklin. Tickets are now available for Friday and Saturday, January 23 and 24, at 8pm; there is also a Sunday matinee on January 25 at 2pm. More details are forthcoming, but in the meantime, you can find information about the original production here. For reservations, either visit the BRT site, or call 615-794-7744.
IMPORTANT: Tickets to this production are only available through the Boiler Room!
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This Accommodated Mozambique Coastal Explorer is all about relaxing on south-east Africa's sandy white beaches and enjoying the warm Indian Ocean waters.
Our 8-Day Mozambique Beach Tour kicks off in Mozambique's Maputo travelling north to coastal highlights, including:
Enjoy optional activities or simply laze on the secluded beaches, swimming in the warm turquoise waters and strolling along the ocean. Go snorkelling and scuba diving at Mozambique's renowned dive sites, rated as some of the best in Africa.
Discover the unique culture and beauty of Mozambique on this Accommodated Budget Tour - ideal for waterbabies and beach lovers!
Our 8-Day Mozambique Coastal Explorer starts in Maputo where you meet up with your guide and the rest of your group.
Relax at the hotel in Maputo, Mozambique's capital city, or explore and eat out tonight (own expense). Maputo is a chaotic, yet charming, African city located on the coast in Maputo Bay. The city was called Lourenço Marques prior to independence and is known for its cultural richness, along with the acacia and jacaranda trees that line the streets.
An optional Activity Package is offered with this safari. The extra payment includes highly-recommended activities, considered as "essential activities" on the tour. This itinerary includes these activities. For those that can't afford all of these activities there is the option of doing the basic safari without the Activity Package. Contact African Budget Safaris for a detailed breakdown of what is included in the Activity Package. See the Full Pricing Information above for the cost of the Activity Package.
On day two we're up early, heading north through the coconut and sugar plantations of rural Mozambique. Along the way we see cashew nut sellers, locals going about their lives in small villages, open land and roaming livestock. Our next stop is a beach resort on the scenic Barra Peninsula, near the historic seaside town of Inhambane.
This evening we relax beside the Indian Ocean and tuck into a traditional Mozambican dinner. We spend the next three nights staying at this comfortable lodge along the sandy Barra beach of balmy Mozambique.
Days three and four are free for you to enjoy laid-back hours on the picturesque beaches, swimming and exploring or doing some optional activities including watersports and land-based adventure activities - from scuba diving and snorkelling to horse riding and quad biking.
On day four your guide takes you to Praia do Tofo, where you can browse the curio and food market, walk in the village or lounge on the beach. Once a sleepy fishing village, today Tofo is one of the most popular beach destinations in Africa, considered the scuba diving capital of the country, and one of the best places in the world to see whale sharks. Snorkelling with whale sharks and manta rays, on the Ocean Safari (own account) in Tofo is a not-to-be-missed highlight, so take the dive!
This morning we stop off in the charming town of Inhambane, with its tree-lined avenues and old colonial Portuguese buildings. One of the oldest settlements on the east coast, here Arabic, Indian, African and European influences blend together in a vibrant mix. Walk around the town and visit a local market, before we continue north along the coast. Your guide can arrange for a dhow ferry ride from Inhambane across the bay to Maxixe if you feel like an adventure in one of these traditional sailing boats. Alternatively you can hop back on the truck and meet the ferry on the other side of the bay.
Then we drive up to our next Mozambiquan beach stopover - the coastal town of Vilanculos. The lively seaside town of Vilanculos is ideally located for exploring the three main islands of the Bazaruto Archipelago (Bazaruto, Benguerra and Magaruque), lying just off the mainland of Mozambique. The Bazaruto Archipelago is Mozambique's premier travel destination - a tropical beach paradise with clear turquoise waters and palm fringed islands. As a protected area, the reefs are pristine and the sea life here is spectacular.
We stay at a comfortable lodge with a swimming pool, bar, shop and laundry facilities, in Vilanculos.
Today we take a day trip to the dazzling Bazaruto Archipelago, known as 'the Pearl of the Indian Ocean'. Early this morning we set off for the Bazaruto Islands by speedboat, heading to the renowned Two Mile Reef. Here we stop for a swim or some snorkelling before continuing to Bazaruto for lunch.
This cluster of five unspoiled tropical islands is considered one of the most beautiful places in Africa. Mozambique's only marine reserve, Bazaruto is world-renowned for its superb diving and snorkelling given the abundant sea creatures inhabiting its intact reefs. Marine life includes an impressive variety of tropical fish, whales and dolphins, as well as the rare Dugong (sea cow) and Nile crocodiles. Some of the aquatic creatures sighted on dives include whale sharks, manta rays, turtles, lobsters, barracuda, clown fish, Moorish idols and mackerel. Antelopes, Samango monkeys and around 180 bird species also inhabit the Bazaruto islands.
You have the chance to explore the islands on foot, lie on the idyllic beaches and go snorkelling on the colourful reefs. After lunch, we make our way back to Vilanculos. If the tide is high when we set out in the morning we will go straight to Bazaruto, then to Two Mile Reef for some snorkelling before having lunch on Benguera Island.
Please note: If you did not purchase the Activity Package you will spend the day in Vilanculos.
Next our Accommodated Mozambique Coastal Explorer takes us back south to the lively town of Xai Xai, a popular holiday resort town on the coast beside the Limpopo River. End the day off with a stroll on the beach and sundowners beside the ocean.
Enjoy one last sunrise over the Indian Ocean this morning, before we travel back towards the country's largest city, Maputo. Arriving in Maputo our sun-splashed Mozambique Coastal Explorer ends with drop-off at your post-safari stop.
We recommend arriving the day before your safari and only booking flights for the day after the safari ends. We can help arrange accommodation for before and after the safari on request.
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This class is a basic introduction to the ministry of First Assembly of God. It will give you the opportunity to partner with us through church membership. This secession takes place the first Sunday of each month.
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