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A New England home sings Christmas with a quietly melodious palette
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With Santa twinkling from store aisles in his crimson suit, red velvet ribbons tied to evergreen wreaths, and holly berries wired into mistletoe, a red-and- green combo at Christmas is a cardinal rule.
New England designer Tanya Capello breaks it beautifully in the Wellesley, Massachusetts, home she shares with husband Jeff and their three sons. There, her elegant scheme steals one's breath as quietly as the crisp air outdoors. In fact, nature is where Tanya turns for color inspiration.
"I'm not a big fan of red at Christmas," she says. "My decorations tend more toward green, white, and silver, with natural elements that include eucalyptus, cedar, and other greens mixed throughout our home."
At a time when all of the senses are on joyful overload, this designer creates a sense of sanctuary in which to celebrate and reflect upon the season's meaning. The foundation is a soft neutral dining room base that is ideal for the interplay of sights, sounds, and aromas that emblemize the season—from sparkling lights and carols to holiday baking sprees and the gatherings that follow.
Because she traveled extensively as a child, Tanya was exposed early on to varied palettes and visual styles. Born to British parents, she spent much of her youth touring Europe. She grew up among the edgy urban grays of New York. As a newlywed, she lived with Jeff in Holland, where color is industriously cultivated in the hues of flowers, brilliant against the quieter tones of canal homes.
That global exposure to color helped channel her innate talent and taste into an aesthetic of comfortable sophistication. Holland is where Tanya started acquiring antique furniture, much of which is Swedish in origin. Her collection of Swedish antiques helps lighten the spaces and enhances the flow from room to room. Tanya's hushed style is apparent from the moment the front door (adorned with white bows, not red) opens. In the entry hall, an 18th-century secretary in a light honey finish and a Swedish chair from the same era greet visitors with traditional Scandinavian charm. To elevate the front entrance to Christmas glory, Tanya spotlights the newel post with a garland of greenery studded with artichokes and a silver ribbon bow.
The living room glows with cream-colored walls and a grouping of furniture upholstered in warm gray fabrics that range from sumptuous velvet to restrained linen. Although Tanya maintains a mostly neutral color scheme throughout the house, she also uses subtle tints of blue to cool the predominantly warm tones of her palette. The blue appears initially in an abstract painting that rests on the living room mantel.
Blue reappears in the dining room on 19th-century French chairs covered in crushed velvet. More soft-spoken color is underfoot in a Persian rug with an open pattern in gentle hues of teal and saffron. Silvery mercury-glass Christmas trees and vases filled with greenery also inhabit the space, heightening the shimmer of an antique chandelier.
Robin's-egg blue paints the kitchen walls, highlighting the antiqued cream finish of the cabinets as well as the light stone pavers on the floor. For the season, Tanya tucks evergreens into stone urns that flank the stove. The windows are dressed with wreaths. A dedicated cook and hostess, Tanya especially enjoys her kitchen at Christmas. "It's where everyone congregates when we have a party," she says. The adjoining breakfast room wears the same blue as the kitchen, but this time contrasts with dark walnut furniture.
Wreaths and floral arrangements extend holiday flair to the private rooms. In the master bedroom, where Tanya drums up ideas for holiday gatherings, ice-blue abounds in the wallpaper and in the silk stripes of window and bed treatments.
Tanya prides herself on her ability to design interiors for busy growing families. Perhaps that's why her own home shines with Christmas spirit from every nook and cranny during the holidays.
"With three boys, I have a good idea of a how a busy home operates," she says. "During the holidays, people are always coming and going, so all the principles of good design and functionality count doubly. It's wonderful to help a family live well any time, but during Christmas—when special traditions and memories come into play—it's especially meaningful."
Photography: Eric Roth
Produced by Estelle Bond Guralnick
Interior design: Tanya Capello, Capello Design, 15 Sumner Road, Wellesley, MA 02481; 781/910-2920, capellodesign.com
Holiday trimmings adorning antiques from Tanya Capellos's travels welcome guests. Tanya spotlights the newel post with a garland of greenery studded with artichokes and a silver ribbon bow.
Wall paint ("Rich Cream" #2153-60); trim ("Linen White"): Benjamin Moore & Co., benjaminmoore.com. Carpet runner (Oushak): Steven King Carpets, stevenkinginc.com. Carpet on stairs: owner's collection. Secretary/chest of drawers (antique Swedish, from Holland); mirror (antique carved gold gilded mirror, from France): owner's collection. Sconces (antique bronze, amethyst and crystal): Summit Antiques Center, summitantiquescenter.com. Side chairs: One Kings Lane, onekingslane.com. Chair-seat fabric ("Dalai Lama"/Himalayas #2000/01, by Great Plains): Holly Hunt, hollyhunt.com.
Family Room
The Christmas tree, hung with ornaments made by the Capello boys, flickers in cream and gold that complements brocade drapery panels at the windows. Quilted velvet stockings hang on the limestone fireplace mantel. Mismatched sofas wearing beige upholstery and a rush-seat armchair from Formations provide comfy seating around the fireplace.
Paint ("Soft Chamois" #OC-13); trim ("White Dove" #OC-17): Benjamin Moore & Co., benjaminmoore.com. Sofa with rolled arms ("Durham Sofa" #H4119-6): Lee Jofa, leejofa.com. Sofa ("Faux Ratchet Arm Sofa"): TCS Designs, tcsdesignsfurniture.com. Sofa fabric ("Stratford"/Natural #F3831-11, by Colefax and Fowler): Cowtan & Tout, cowtan.com. Pillows on sofa ("Saint Remy"/Aqua #4724-02, by Manuel Canovas): Cowtan & Tout, cowtan.com. Coffee table ("English Square Cocktail Table" #CT-005): The Sterling Collection, sterling-collection.com. Drapery ("Windermere"/Citrus, Grey, Yellow #1040076795, by Travers): Zimmer + Rohde, zimmer-rohde.com. Area rug ("Glamorous 1"): Steven King Inc., stevenkinginc.com. Art over mantel (by Anthony Tomaselli): Anthony Tomaselli Fine Art Painting, anthonytomaselli.com. Armchair by mantel ("Saint-Germain Armchair" #F-CH14): Formations, formationsusa.com. Brass sconces ("Early Dutch Sconce" #WA0029.BR): Vaughan, vaughandesigns.com.
Christmas Cheer
Under the tree, Reid and Olivia, the family dog, anxiously await Christmas.
Tree Details
Shimmering silver and white ornaments create a simple, festive palette.
Dining Room
French chairs covered in Colefax and Fowler velvet fabric surround a double pedestal table by Council.
Another view of the dining room is on the following slide.
Table (custom mahogany double pedestal table with brass lion feet): Councill councill.com. Dining chairs (antique French, Neil Devlin Antiques & Decorations): E.A. Davis, eadavisshop.com. Side-chair fabric ("Keats"/Old Blue #F3914-10, by Colefax and Fowler): Cowtan & Tout, cowtan.com. Chandelier (antique French): Autrefois Antiques, autrefoisantiques.com. Area rug (Oushak): Dover Rug & Home, doverrug.com. Wall treatment: custom. Trim paint ("Linen White"): Benjamin Moore & Co., benjaminmoore.com. Drapery ("Venere"): Dedar, dedar.com. Buffet (antique French, mahogany with new stone top); mirror (antique French): owner's collection. Sconces (antique French): Summit Antiques Center, summitantiquescenter.com.
Dining Table
A beautiful antique French chandelier illuminates the room. Creamy Dedar draperies add intimacy to the space.
Place Settings
A pairing of chargers from Pottery Barn with vintage Wedgwood china marries casual and formal.
Charger; placemats and napkins (Hemstitch Linen/Ivory): Pottery Barn, potterybarn.com. China ("Clio," by Wedgwood): discontinued. Flatware ("French Provincial"): Towle, towlesilver.com. Candlesticks: antique mercury.
Clever Use For Ornaments
Tree ornaments are an attractive and festive way to display place cards; Tanya uses small mercury glass balls.
Ivory Kitchen
Awash in creamy ivory paint, the kitchen cabinets provide a subtle contrast to the room's blue walls.
Cabinetry (custom, maple in antique white): Faneuil Kitchens, finecabinets.com. Countertops: Costa Esmeralda granite. Flooring: Crema Luna limestone. Pendant lights ("Single Sloane Street Shop Light with Metal Shade #CHC5101"): Circa Lighting, circalighting.com.
Kitchen Island
At the island, bar stools are covered in a cheery polka-dot fabric from Kravet; pendants are from Circa lighting. Olivia patiently waits underfoot.
Counter stools: owner's collection. Counter-stool fabric: Kravet, kravet.com. Range: Thermador, thermador.com. Farm sink: Blanco America, blancoamerica.com. Gooseneck faucet: Sigma, sigmafaucet.com. Pot-filler faucet: Harrington Brass Works, harringtonbrassworks.com. Wall paint: custom. Trim paint ("Linen White"): Benjamin Moore & Co., benjaminmoore.com. Backsplash tile: Crema Luna limestone.
Butler's Pantry
Adorning a glass front cabinet in the butler's pantry is a gorgeous wreath full of cedar, spruce and pine branches, and evergreen berries.
Breakfast Room
The breakfast room incorporates antiques the Capellos found in Holland while they lived abroad, including the mirrored Swedish buffet, the dining chairs, and the antique Swedish clock. The oceanic painting features Tanya's favorite shade of blue, which echoes the tones found in the striped wool rug and in the floral fabric of the window treatments.
Wall paint: custom. Trim paint ("Linen White"): Benjamin Moore & Co., benjaminmoore.com. Swedish clock (antique): Danish Country Antiques, europeanstyleantiques.com. Dining table (antique); chairs (antique Swedish); mirror (antique, from Holland); buffet (antique Swedish, from Holland); brass chandelier (antique French); sconces (antique French): owner's collection. Art over buffet (by Sabre Esler): Jules Place, julesplace.com. Drapery (by Old World Weavers): discontinued. China ("Berry & Thread"): Juliska, juliska.com.
Breakfast Room Vignette
An antique Swedish clock blends coolly into the custom blue walls; large-scale printed cotton draperies are reminiscent of crewel embroidery. Vintage terra cotta pots on the buffet hold holiday arrangements featuring hydrangeas, twigs, and cedar.
Lovely Living Room
Silver and mercury glass plus a glittery Christmas tree build sparkle into the area. Comfortable seating includes a sofa from The Charles Stewart Company in a chenille fabric from Kravet, a bench from Dennis & Leen, and side chairs that Tanya discovered on One Kings Lane. An antique Biedermeier chest adds character to the room.
Wallcovering ("Sateen Club"/Silver Peony #4951): Phillip Jeffries, phillipjeffries.com. Ceiling and trim paint ("White Dove"): Benjamin Moore & Co., benjaminmoore.com. Drapery ("Tuileries"/White Gold #1901/01, by Great Plains): Holly Hunt, hollyhunt.com. Corbel on wall by drapery: antique. Area rug ("Raja"): Steven King Carpets Inc., stevenkinginc.com. Sofa ("Cordova" #S391-84, Traditional Collection): Charles Stewart Co., charlesstewartcompany.com. Sofa fabric ("Donavan"/Pearl #30137.1): Kravet, kravet.com. Coffee table (French reproduction); pair of library chairs; lounge chairs: owner's collection. Bench in front of mantel ("Sarbonne Bench" #DL-OT18): Dennis & Leen, dennisandleen.com. Oil painting above mantel (by Charlotte Foust): Jules Place, julesplace.com. Baby grand piano: Baldwin, 800/444-2766. Chandelier over piano: antique. Small secretary (Biedermeier); lamp on secretary (from Holland): owner's collection.
Shimmering Mantel
Fluted blue glass balls and mercury glass ornaments grace the living room mantle.
Upscale Mud Room
The mudroom hints at Christmas celebrations to come with gaily-wrapped gifts piled up immediately inside the door. Reclaimed ceramic pavers line the floor while an antique Gustavian bench features under-seat storage, a feature Tanya says she could not live without.
Stunning Master Bedroom
A favorite antique that Tanya found in Europe—the Swedish bed—is set off by a corona in blue and cream silk stripes by Cowtan & Tout. Sconces from Circa Lighting illuminate side tables from Global Views.
Headboard (French reproduction): owner's collection. Bedding (by Matouk): Bloomingdales, bloomingdales.com. Drapery, bed drapery and bed-skirt fabric ("Bellini Stripe"/Aqua, Ivory #10941-03): Cowtan & Tout, cowtan.com. Bench at end of bed ("Tufted Linen French Bench"): Wisteria, wisteria.com. Bedside tables ("Directoire Table"/Brass and Black Granite #8497): Global Views, globalviews.com. Wall sconces ("Swing Arm Candlestick Wall Lamp" #S2010): Circa Lighting, circalighting.com. Wallpaper ("Rococo"/Aqua, by Cole & Son, colorway discontinued): Lee Jofa, leejofa.com. Trim paint ("White Dove" #OC-17): Benjamin Moore & Co., benjaminmoore.com. Area rug ("Bond Street"/Vanilla #72849): Stanton Carpet, stantoncarpet.com. Child's chair (antique, walnut): owner's collection. Fabric on child's chair ("Sevres"/French Blue, Antique White #5360): Fortuny Fabrics, 212/753-7153.
Master Bedroom Bench
A tufted bench from Wisteria provides seating (and a place for presents) at the foot of the bed.
Oh-So-Soft and Pretty!
Purchased in Holland, the Louis XVI chest purchased offers storage space. A pair of chairs in leopard print flank the chest and are a wild touch against the aqua wallpaper.
Chest of drawers (antique, Louis XVI); mirror (antique); side chairs: owner's collection. Fabric on side chairs (for similar, "Agata Leopard Cocoa" #GWF3229.68, by Groundworks): Lee Jofa, leejofa.com. Lamp on chest of drawers ("Medium Double Gourd Lamp"): Christopher Spitzmiller, christopherspitzmiller.com.
Master Bedroom Details
A dainty linen pillow hangs from a door in the master suite.
Master Bathroom
In the bath, reproduction Venetian mirrors reflect a white marble vanity. A bayberry wreath hung from the shutters adds seasonal flair.
Wall paint ("Gray Lake" #2138-70); trim ("White Dove" #OC-17): Benjamin Moore & Co., benjaminmoore.com. Cabinetry (custom): Paul Leaman Master Craftsman, carpentryasanart.com. Cabinetry hardware: Omnia Industries, omniaindustries.com. Mirrors ("Monteleone" #1301): Currey & Co., curreycodealers.com. Faucets (Country Collection): Rohl, rohlhome.com. Flooring (Calcutta marble): Discover Tile, discovertile.com. Chair (French): antique. Chair-seat fabric ("Adler"/Aqua #J679F-23, by Jane Churchill); chair-back fabric ("Adler"/Silver #J679F-22, by Jane Churchill): Cowtan & Tout, cowtan.com.
Family Portrait
Tanya and Jeff Capello with sons Christian, 15; Tyler, 13; Reid, 10; and Olivia, the yellow lab.
Relaxed and Inviting Holiday Home
See a home with a Normandy farmhouse feel decked out for the holidays.


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I wonder what interesting and non-trivial examples of density Ramsey theorems with explicit asymptotics are there?
I'm aware of two examples: Szemerédi's theorem and density Hales-Jewett theorem.
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Top 8 haunted places in the UK (and Bournemouth!)
Hey guys, Halloween is coming the end of this week! Any plans at all? Hot parties at clubs? Making spooky costumes with friends? Watching old horror films over the night? Or baking gross shaped cup cakes with your family which is my favourite!
Well, you all probably know the things above I have just mentioned. So, I would like to suggest a fresh thing to do this Halloween which is 'Exploring haunted places'.
Did you know that there are hundreds of haunted places in the UK, including the world's famous one 'Borley Rectory'. As Halloween this year is coming very soon, I suggest that 10 of the world's most haunted places to visit for the day for your special experience on Halloween while you are in the UK. Please note that I get these most of information from www.hauntedrooms.co.uk
1. Borley Rectory, Essex (the most haunted house in England)
This house was built in 1863 on the site of an old monastery. It was burnt to the ground in 1939, however it got well known as being the most haunted house after a loads of unexplained paranormal goings on reported.
One of the earliest sighting was a nun. The nun has been seen and heard several times throughout the years. According to local folklore, a nun from a nearby nunnery fell in love with a monk from the monastery, and the couple attempted to elope together. They were ground and sentenced to death. The monk was reported to have been sent to the gallows in the monastery whilst the nun was sealed into the walls of the nunnery alive. This nun is believed that she is still looking for the monk in the hope of running away together again.
But she seemed to be most active during the time in Harry Bull. This Harry Bull is the background of the film <The Conjuring>.
Anyway, the next most significant of reports come from Eric Smith and his wife. The first documented paranormal activity was in the early 1900's when the owner, Eric Smith and his wife contacted Daily Mirror newspaper to report "the strange goings on.". They reported mysterious footsteps, doorbells ringing of their own accord, and poltergeist activities.
The next residences of the house were Rev.Foyster and his wife Marianne. They both were to continue to experience the same phenomena that the other people witnessed before, but the poltergeist activity seemed to become more aggressive with reports of smashed glasses, broken windows, and Marianne being thrown from her bed by an unseen force. The couple was to also experience otherworldly messages on the walls, which defied any logical reason like other reports.
After 5 years, the Foysters left the house leaving the Daily Mirror newspaper team to continue their study. And a full account of what they experienced was published in the book 'The Most Haunted House in England'.
2. Ancient Ram Inn, Gloucestershire (Currently the Most haunted house in Britain)
Many people believe that Ancient Ram Inn is the most haunted house in Britain. The inn was once owned by the St.Mary's Church when it was first built. Because of the reported spectres seen in the inn, it has been investigated by various paranormal researchers. It has been featured in various television shows, such as Most Haunted and the US series 'Ghost Adventures'.
The house itself is said to have been the location of many sinister happenings, including child sacrifice, suicide, black magic rituals and was also used as a hideout by criminals. The current owner, John Humphries believes that he shares his home with all sorts of spooks – two demons, a witch, orbs and other ghostly presences, and many people who have visited the property have described it as the 'scariest place' they've ever been to.
One popular legend surrounding the Ancient Ram Inn is that of the witch burned at the stake. She was burned at the stake in the 1500s. A lot of people believe that the woman's spirit still haunts one of the rooms of the house to this day. It is believed that the woman took refuge in one of the rooms of the house before she was captured and killed. Today, that room is called "The Witch's Room".
One of the most haunted rooms in the entire inn is called "The Bishop's Inn". The room is found on the first floor of the house. When the inn was still a bed and breakfast, a lot of guests would not want to sleep in the room. Some who did sleep ended up fleeing in the middle of the night. It is said that the ghost of a monk haunts the room on a regular basis.
The ghost of a centurion on horseback has also been spotted. It is said that the plumber who saw the apparition was startled out of his wits when the apparition went straight through the wall. There is also talk of a succubus which creeps into the beds of sleeping visitors.
3. Pendle Hill, Lancashire
Pendle Hill has a notorious reputation for being a place where twelve accused witches lived in the 17th century. These twelve supposed witches were accused of murdering ten people. They figured prominently in what is known as the Lancashire witch trials. Ten were found guilty and executed by hanging. The history of the witch trials has given the place an eerie atmosphere, and several terrifying reports.
Pendle Hill is notorious for its history in witchcraft and worshipping the devil. There are various tours in the area today which trace the witches from their arrest to their execution. The Pendle Hill witches are said to still haunt the buildings and the villages. Visitors have reported feeling anger when visiting the grounds. Local people even fear discussing the events that went on during the witch trial.
Over the years, Pendle Hill has been featured in the show "Most Haunted" among several other TV shows and ghost tours. Members of the television crew reported being hurt; some even said that they were strangled by unseen hands. The medium (Derek Acorah) reported being in contact with Elizabeth Device, one of the accused witches. Elizabeth told them that there were nine more spirits in the room and none of the spirits wanted the crew present.
4. Berry Pomeroy Castle, Devon
The castle is said to be the abode of various spectres. A number of ghostly phenomena and ghostly sightings have been reported in the castle. Some of the most reported apparitions in the castle are that of the Blue Lady and the White Lady.
The White Lady is the restless soul of Margaret Pomeroy. She haunts the dungeons of St. Margaret's Tower and has been seen waving to visitors. She was held captive in the castle dungeons by her own sister, Eleanor, because of jealousy and starved to death in the dungeons.
The Blue Lady lures people into various parts of the castle and gets them lost. People believe that she is the ghost of the daughter of one of the Norman castle lords. She was raped by her father and became pregnant with his baby. Her father strangled the child in one of the rooms of the castle. Other tales say that it was she who strangled the child. She has become the death portent of the Seymours.
People have witnessed strange lights in the castle. Voices have been heard and cold spots in the castle have been reported too. There are also the apparitions of a lady wearing a gray dress and a Cavalier, as well as ghostly shadows.
5. Woodchester Mansion, Gloucestershire
It used to be known as Spring Park. During the middle of construction, the building was abandoned. Although it appears complete from the outside, the floors, plaster and rooms are missing on the inside. It has been like so since the 1870s. This Gothic mansion is said to be the home of many ghosts.
The haunted reputation of Woodchester Mansion has led it to be featured in several ghostly television programs. It has been featured in Most Haunted Life in 2003 and then again in 2005. It has also been featured in Hauntings and Ghost Hunters International. Several sightings have been reported over the last two hundred years.
In 1902, a vicar was reported to have seen a strange apparition at the mansion's gates. A phantom horseman has also been seen on the mansion's drive. It is said that the Mansion itself is the epicentre of all the haunting happening in the area. There is the Tall Man of the Chapel which has been seen many times and the elemental in the house's cellar. The Mansion is said to be the home of some of the scariest ghosts in the United Kingdom.
Visitors have collapsed and have been attacked by the ghostly dwellers of the mansion. There is a floating head which has been seen by many visitors in one of the bathrooms. There is also the spectre of the old woman who likes to attack female visitors by grabbing them in the dark. It is said that the reason why the mansion is haunted is because it stands on the site of the three previous buildings which are also haunted.
The mansion has its own chapel and satanic rituals have been reported in the chapel. People have reported hearing a woman singing an Irish folk song in the scullery. The ghost of a young girl has been seen several times playing and running up and down the stairs of the mansion's first floor.
Now, I would like to recommend top 3 haunted places near Bournemouth and Poole where should be very close to you to visit or even walk by… Please note that I get this information from http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk.
6. Wimborne: Knowlton Church
On the outskirts of Wimborne, Knowlton Church is regarded as one of the most haunted places in the county. Known for its ruined Norman Church, Neolithic rings and pagan relics, paranormal investigators have recorded sightings of unexplained phenomena and even those who don't believe in ghosts have had weird experiences.
There have been spooky sightings of a cloaked figure with a blue sheen at the 14th century deserted church, as well as people reporting centurion like figures, a woman kneeling outside the church, the sound of fighting and, most commonly, a man or men on horseback who visibly rides through the church as if it was not there.
Others claim there is a strange feeling as you approach the church – one dogwalker said his pet stopped, started barking and backed away from the sight in broad daylight.
Rumours have it that Knowlton Church is still used for ceremonies, with tales of black and white magic.
Beside the B3078, north of Wimborne Minster, a coffin has been seen lying on the verge. It is believed to be the coffin of a farmer who committed suicide by hanging himself in a barn nearby.
7. Poole: Crown Hotel, King Charles pub
As you'd expect from a town of its years, Poole is home to a plethora of traditional pubs and ancient buildings, which have been standing since the days of smugglers – the architecture is stunning and the old cobbled streets are said to be haunted.
In the Old Town area, The Crown Hotel is famously host to several spooky goings on, such as lights turning on and off and the ghostly sound of a piano being played in the former stables.
The venue is said to have been the home to two children who were locked up by a parent who was too embarrassed to let them run around and play in front of other people, and who now let their protests be heard in the form of crying and yelling.
There have also been sightings of a ghost at the King Charles pub on Poole Quay, as well as the sound of disembodies footsteps and a young female voice.
In the nearby high street, in the former Daily Echo building, a ghost by the name of Mr Jenkins was frequently spotted rudely pushing past people on the stairs.
Other haunted buildings include Custom House on the quay, the Guildhall and the waters at Poole Harbour, where bells have been heard ringing at night.
8. Bournemouth: Langtry Manor Hotel
Bournemouth is said to be home to "younger ghosts", including the ghosts of a soldier wearing a Second World War uniform and a horse which both haunt the Town Hall.
One of the town's most haunted buildings is the Langtry Manor Hotel, built by Edward VII for his mistress, Lillie Langtry.
The hotel is believed to be haunted by Lillie's ghost, which has reportedly appeared to both guests and staff in the form of a grey shadow.
Footsteps, moving items and voices have also been experienced.
If you dare to visit these places above, please be careful and bring your own an amulet to avert evils. Well, I am so brave enough, so that looking and reading these places doesn't make me scared at all. Well, but I might sleep next to my parents' room tonight. Because, you know, just in case…


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Ho-Ho-Ho, Samurai!
This year we're giving gifts early, and releasing 7 new features – free to all Market Samurai users, as our gift to you.
To begin, open Market Samurai now and update to the latest version.
Note: If Market Samurai doesn't auto-update, grab the latest copy using your unique download link…
…Or if you're not a Market Samurai user yet [sacrilege!], sign up for a free trial copy of Market Samurai here to get free access to these new tools.
Once you are running Market Samurai v0.80.6, it's time to start exploring the 7 gifts that you have received:
Gift #1: Full Foreign Language Keyword Support
Market Samurai has only been able to provide accurate search data for English Language… meaning our friends in Germany, Japan, Serbia, Turkey and South America were left in the dark…
…until today.
SEOs who already know the implications of this new feature are now salivating in excitement, as they imagine the millions of untapped non-english language niches that are out there.
Now, Market Samurai will give them all to you – not just in English, but in German, Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Turkish, Arabic, Hebrew, Dutch, Danish, Japanese, Korean, Greek, Vietnamese, Urdu, Hindi and about a dozen more languages. [phew!]
Gift #2: Title Competition
By far the biggest SEO ranking factor is whether or not you use the keyword you're targeting in your title tag.
It's got to be the most basic thing you can do in SEO – and if your competitors aren't at least doing this, you can almost guarantee good rankings.
So wouldn't it be handy to tell, at the keyword research stage, how many competitors were using the keyword in their title tags?
Now Market Samurai counts how many sites use the keyword (in any word order) in their title tags ("allintitle").
We call this one "the Michelle MacPhearson update" – she's been hounding us for this one.
Gift #3: Include Additional
Ever received a bunch of keywords inside Market Samurai that weren't really relevant?
Me too…
Market Samurai's keyword generation tool retrieves suggests 200 of the most relevant keywords.
But if there are only [say] 50 super-relevant keywords available, you will receive those 50 highly relevant keywords, and an additional 150 related (but less relevant) keywords – for a total of 200 keywords.
Now, you get to choose whether or not you want to see the additional related (but potentially less relevant) keywords – at the click of a button.
Gift #4: Phrase Length Filter
Frustrated that keywords that are 1-2 words long have too much competition? Want to quickly get rid of those 6-10 word keywords?
Just use the Phrase Length filter:
Gift #5: Positive Keywords
Sometimes you only want to see keywords that contain certain words.
For example, if you're looking at the "Dog Training" market, and you only want to see relevant keywords that mention the word "Training" – like "Puppy Training", "Labrador Training", "Poodle Training", "Rottweiler Training" etc.
Now you can set a Positive Keyword Filter, and see only keywords that contain that word or phrase.
You can also use the positive keyword tool to focus your keyword research on a handful of specific keywords.
Gift #6: Import Keywords From a Text (.txt) File
Want to import keywords into Market Samurai for analysis?
Market Samurai can now open lists of keywords direct from the text files at the "Generate Keywords" stage.
Gift #7: Add Permutations
One of the frustrations I have with keyword data is word order.
How do you know which version of a keyword is the best to optimize for?
"web site copy", "copy web site", "web copy site", "site copy web", "copy site web" or "site web copy"?
The solution: Just create a tab for that keyword in Market Samurai, and hit "Add Permutations"
Market Samurai will now mix-and-match the words inside a keyword, allowing you to get phrase-match traffic data for each permutation (and SEO Competition data), and find out which one really is the best to optimize for.
Enjoy These New Features!
We created them for you to keep – as our gift to you – whether you're a trial, free, paid or user.
For paid users – we'll be working hard over the Christmas-New-Year period, bug-testing even more new features that will released exclusively to paid users of Market Samurai.
2009 is shaping up to be another game-changing year for everyone using Market Samurai, and we can't wait to get you using the rest of the features that we have in store for you.
P.S. – I forgot to mention… There was one more feature we added… Just something fun to "get into the spirit of things".
(It should be the first thing you'll notice when you run Market Samurai.)


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(RNN) - White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and President Donald Trump have not spoken for days, and an active search for Kelly's replacement is happening, according to multiple reports.
Axios reported Kelly's departure is "imminent," based on sources within the White House, and Nick Ayers is being strongly considered to replace him in the role. Ayers, 36, is currently the chief of staff for Vice President Mike Pence.
Multiple sources also told CNN that Kelly is expected to leave the position in the coming days, with an "untenable" stalemate between him and the president. Reporters from multiple networks also noted the chief of staff did not hold a scheduled meeting Friday with senior staff.
Kelly rattled the White House status quo, and in particular the standing of President Donald Trump's son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner, with his overhaul of security clearance standards.
Like many other administration officials, he's been regularly rumored to be under fire in the White House. Reports of his falling out with Trump came despite the president asking him during the summer to stay on until 2020.
Kelly took over as chief of staff on July 31, 2017, with a mandate to instill order and professionalism in a largely inexperienced White House staff beset by disorganization in the early days of the Trump presidency.
By many accounts he achieved that, formalizing the process by which Trump saw advisers and spoke to staff, and eventually reshuffling the West Wing pecking order, notably scaling back Kushner's influence and ushering the departure of Steve Bannon in August 2017.
He denied April reports that he has insulted the president's intelligence and was on the way out, but said, "Working in the White House is the hardest thing I've ever done in my life, bar none," he told NPR in a May 2018 interview.
In Bob Woodward's book, "Fear: Trump in the White House," Kelly is said to have called Trump an "idiot," saying "It's pointless to try to convince him of anything. He's gone off the rails. We're in Crazytown. I don't even know why any of us are here. This is the worst job I've ever had."
He denied those reports, too.
The temporary status of many clearance holders in the White House came under scrutiny when staff secretary Rob Porter resigned. Porter, accused by two ex-wives of violent domestic abuse, had been on such a clearance to fill his role.
The clearances are often necessary for close advisers to the president to be able to obtain the same information he has.
The staff secretary manages the flow of documents the president receives, including classified or otherwise sensitive ones. Porter had been issued the temporary clearance to perform the duties while his background check was being conducted.
Kushner, too, had fulfilled his own White House role on a temporary clearance since the president's inauguration. On Feb. 27, Kelly revoked many temporary clearances of White House staff and downgraded Kushner's to secret from top secret.
"The events of the last ten days have focused immense attention on a clearance process that has been in place for multiple administrations," Kelly wrote in an earlier memo about the process, implicitly referencing the Porter episode. "We should, and in the future, must do better."
Kelly was also scrutinized for his initial support of Porter following his Feb. 7 resignation, and faced questions about how long he had known of Porter's history.
In Porter's case, FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee that his bureau submitted a complete background investigation on Porter to the White House in July 2017.
Kelly's judgment was questioned when the chief of staff called Porter a "man of true integrity and honor" in response to The Daily Mail's Feb. 6 report on Porter's history.
Afterward, Kelly released a new statement saying he was "shocked" by the allegations and that he felt "there is no place for domestic violence in our society." News outlets, including CNN and the Washington Post, followed up with reports that Kelly had known about Porter's history for months before February's public revelations.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said that day she could not be 100 percent certain that Kelly and Donald McGahn II, the White House counsel, were not aware of the issue months before they had publicly acknowledged it. Kelly remained defiant, telling the Wall Street Journal that his response to the situation "was all done right."
"I think you've seen less backbiting," Ken Duberstein, a chief of staff for President Ronald Reagan, said of Kelly's early effect on the White House.
He was first drafted into the Trump administration as Secretary of Homeland Security. He served fewer than 200 days in the role before Trump tapped him to replace Reince Priebus.
Prior to his civilian positions in the government, Kelly was commander of U.S. Southern Command during the Obama presidency. He held the post, responsible for overseeing operations in Central and South America, as well as the Caribbean, from 2012 until his retirement as a four-star Marine general in 2016.
Before that, his service included a stint under then-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta from 2011-12; and he commanded Marine Forces Reserve and Marine Forces North from 2009-11. He fought in Iraq during deployments from 2002-04 and later returned there in a command role in 2008.
In 2010 Kelly's son, Robert, was killed in action in Afghanistan.
Kelly enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1970 and served two years before going to the University of Massachusetts. He graduated in 1976 and was soon after commissioned as an officer.
He was born in May 1950 in Boston, MA, and grew up in the city's Brighton neighborhood. He has been married since 1976, and the couple have two surviving children, including another Marine, John.
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Morgan settles in at City Pier, attracting the curious
New London — Standing on City Pier on Sunday, Capt. Richard "Kip" Files raised a hand to his brow to help shield his eyes from the bright noontime sun.
Files, who will captain the Charles W. Morgan on its upcoming 38th voyage, watched as crew members worked on the ship's rigging high above the pier.
"It's all about the engine," he said. "Today we're working on the rigging and putting the sails up. It's a lot of very labor-intensive work."
As the 10-person crew worked to fold one of the ship's sails, a modest crowd of spectators gathered at the pier to watch, take pictures of the 173-year-old whaling ship and, in at least one case, enjoy a picnic lunch.
"We visited the Morgan at the Mystic Seaport many times when our children were much younger," city resident Chris Sherman-Watson said. "It is so nice to see it out and moving again, as it should be."
Sherman-Watson and his wife, Stacy, said they were excited to see the restored Morgan docked in their hometown and drawing attention to the Whaling City.
"I feel so lucky that we have something like this in our downtown," Stacy Sherman-Watson said, noting the spectacular views of the ship's masts granted to those walking, biking or driving down State Street.
Diego Adrianzen of New London was drawn to the Morgan on Sunday with his father, who is visiting from Peru.
"I've been showing him around downtown and I brought him here because we both wanted to see this ship," Adrianzen said. "It's like something from a museum, it's real American history."
Also at City Pier on Sunday was a group of nearly two dozen artists from the Dalvero Academy in New York City. The artists have been chronicling the restoration of the world's last wooden whaling ship through art since 2009. Many of the artists will be following the Morgan on its 38th voyage this summer.
"The Morgan is an unbelievable subject to work with," artist Susan Buroker, of New York City, said. "It is very, very exciting for us to be a part of this wonderful piece of American history."
Buroker was one of the many spectators who congregated along the shoreline Saturday to watch as the world's last wooden whaling ship was towed from Mystic Seaport to City Pier.
The Morgan underwent a nearly six-year, multi-million-dollar renovation at the Seaport, and Saturday's short voyage was its first since arriving in Mystic in 1941.
While the ship is in New London, the remaining ballast will be added and the crew will conduct training cruises, marking the first time it's been under sail in close to a century. The first training cruise into Fishers Island Sound is slated for June 7.
Beginning Saturday, the Morgan will welcome guests aboard to tour the historic ship and learn more about the American whaling industry and the importance of now protecting the whale.
Then, on June 14, the Morgan will depart for a two-month tour of historic New England ports, slated to begin with a trip to Newport, R.I.
Among the Morgan's ports of call will be Boston, where it will dock alongside another historic ship - the USS Constitution, at 216 years old the oldest commissioned warship still afloat in the world.
And in August the Morgan will again dock at New London's City Pier for a short stay before returning to its home at Mystic Seaport on Aug. 9.
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By studying "The Greatest Dam in the World": Building Hoover Dam, students have learned why Hoover Dam was a triumph for the engineers of the Bureau of Reclamation, for the construction company that built it, and for the thousands of men who worked to complete it. For many Americans, Hoover Dam also came to be a powerful symbol of what American industry and American workers could accomplish, even in the depths of the Great Depression. The following activities will help students build on what they have learned.
Activity 1: Which Job Would You Want?
Activity 2: "Seven Wonders of the United States"
The Regimental Intelligence, Platoon of the 114th Infantry, Forty-Fourth Division, recently reviewed the merits of the Seven Wonders of the World. The discussion took a turn when we reminded ourselves that these wonders belonged to the ancient world. Right off we decided to prepare a list of seven wonders of the United States. Our choices were based on those which were obvious, from the list of the ancient world wonders, massive, man-made, and enduring. . . . The order is purely arbitrary. We submit: Empire State Building, Golden Gate Bridge, Boulder Dam, River Rouge plant, Pulaski Skyway, Rushmore Memorial, New York City Subway.
Divide the class into seven small groups. Ask the first group to identify and describe the original "Seven Wonders of the World." Ask each of the other groups to study one of the six "wonders" (excluding Hoover Dam) on Corporal Ward's list. Ask each group to report back to the class. In a whole class discussion, compare and contrast the ancient and modern wonders. Then ask the students to come up with their own list of "Wonders of the United States." Identify the characteristics places would have to have to be on such a list. Ask the students to identify as many places as they can that have those characteristics. Which of those would they select as their "Seven Wonders"? How would their list compare with the original "Seven Wonders of the World" and with Corporal Ward's "Seven Wonders of the United States? Would Hoover Dam be on their list?
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Consensus Report
Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change: Anticipating Surprises (2013)Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
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Both abrupt changes in the physical climate system and steady changes in climate that can trigger abrupt changes in other physical, biological, and human systems present possible threats to nature and society. Abrupt change is already underway in some systems, and large scientific uncertainties about the likelihood of other abrupt changes highlight the need for further research. However, with recent advances in understanding of the climate system, some potential abrupt changes once thought to be imminent threats are now considered unlikely to occur this century. This report summarizes the current state of knowledge on potential abrupt changes to the ocean, atmosphere, ecosystems, and high latitude areas, and identifies key research and monitoring needs. The report calls for action to develop an abrupt change early warning system to help anticipate future abrupt changes and reduce their impacts. View a gallery of images of potential abrupt impacts of climate change.
View a video archive of the webinar held after the release of this report.
Key Messages
- There is a new recognition that, in addition to abrupt changes in the climate system itself, steady climate change can cross thresholds that trigger abrupt changes in other physical, natural, and human systems.
- The report highlights two abrupt changes that are already underway, making these changes a primary concern for near-term societal decision making and a priority for research. First, warmer Arctic temperatures have caused a rapid decline in sea ice over the past decade, with potential impacts on the Arctic ecosystem and on Arctic shipping and resource extraction. Another abrupt change already underway is increased extinction pressure on plant and animal species; this gradual climate pressure, in combination with other sources of habitat loss, degradation, and over-exploitation, is already putting some species at greater risk of extinction.
- Large uncertainties about the likelihood of some potential abrupt changes highlight the need for expanded research and monitoring. For example, as climate warms, the destabilization of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could raise sea level rapidly, with serious consequences for coastal communities.
- Two decades of focused research has helped scientists determine that some abrupt changes, widely discussed in the scientific literature because they were once identified as potential threats, are unlikely to take place over the near term. In particular, the probability of a rapid shutdown within this century of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation is now understood to the low. In addition, a rapid release of methane from either thawing permafrost or methane hydrates is now considered unlikely to occur this century.
- With improved scientific monitoring and a better understanding of the climate system it could be possible to anticipate abrupt change before it occurs, and reduce the potential consequences. Building this ability will require careful monitoring of climate conditions, improved models for projecting changes, and the interpretation and synthesis of scientific data using novel analysis techniques.
- The committee believes that action is needed to develop an abrupt change early warning system. Such a system would be part of an overall risk management strategy, providing information for hazard identification and risk assessment. These data would help identify vulnerabilities to assist in tailoring risk mitigation and preparedness efforts and to ensure warnings result in appropriate protective actions, with the ultimate goal of preempting catastrophes.
- Much is already known about the design, implementation, and sustainability of early warning systems. Planning for an abrupt change early warning system would benefit from leveraging the experience and knowledge gained as part of existing early warning programs, such as the National Integrated Drought Information System or the Famine Early Warning System Network.
- Abrupt climate changes and impacts present substantial risks to society and nature. Although there is still much to learn, to ignore the threat of abrupt change would lead to more costs, loss of life, suffering, and environmental degradation. The time is here to be serious about the threat of tipping points, so as to better anticipate and prepare ourselves for the inevitable surprises.


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New home for Queen Elizabeth 2
Like many aging celebrities, the MS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) cruise liner has had a rough time adjusting to retirement.
Following years of uncertainty, Dubai officials have announced the famed vessel will be refurbished and sent to Asia, where it will be moored as a five-star, 500-room hotel.
No actual destination has been announced and officials aren't talking, though the landing page of the QE2 hotel website shows a panoramic shot of Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour, fueling speculation the ship will eventually end up there.
"A number of Asian cities have expressed interest in securing this historic attraction," according to a statement from Drydocks World Dubai, part of a consortium handling the refurbishment.
"We have firmed up with an international tourist city in the Far East as her first destination," said the statement. "The chosen city shares the passion of the partnership for preserving the history and reputation of this great ship that holds a special place in the collective memory of the many a million passengers that have sailed on her during nearly 40 years of service."
According to government-owned Drydocks, Oceanic Group -- which has offices in Singapore, Hong Kong and China -- will manage refurbishment of the 294-meter ship.
"The renovations and upgrades planned will respect and safeguard the immense heritage embodied in her fine lines and luxurious fittings," the group added.
It will be interesting to see how that heritage is respected given the new ship is set to include a luxury shopping mall, three Michelin-starred restaurants and convention and meeting facilities. In addition, there will be an onboard maritime museum displaying QE2 memorabilia.
More on CNN: China to open luxury hotel on Soviet aircraft carrier
QE2 history
Prior to the QE2's retirement in November 2008, the former Cunard luxury liner serviced the trans-Atlantic route between Southampton, UK, and New York.
The ship carried 2.5 million passengers and completed 806 trans-Atlantic crossings during 39 years of service for Cunard.
In 1982, the ship was put to use in the Falklands War, refitted with dorms, helicopter pads and fuel pads to transport 3,000 troops to the south Atlantic.
It wasn't until the ship's retirement that sailing really got rough. Thursday's luxury hotel announcement follows several years of uncertainty for the QE2, which was bought by Dubai World from Cunard in 2007 for close to US$100 million.
At the time, Dubai's economy was booming and officials there announced that the QE2 would be docked at the Palm Jumeirah man-made island as a luxury floating hotel.
Then came the financial crisis and those ideas were shelved, leading to a series of rumors that the ship would be re-sold (which never happened.)
A 2009 bid to send the historic ship to Cape Town to be used as a hotel during the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa fizzled. Cape Town refused the ship permission to berth.
After a stream of other reports, including failed bids to send her back to England, comes this week's confirmation that the QE2 will be headed for Asia, much to the relief of maritime history buffs who feared it would end up in the scrap yard.
No opening date has been announced, though Drydocks said the 500-room luxury accommodation would be managed by an international hotel brand.


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1. In 1894, Congress passed a law "defining and permanently fixing the northern boundary line of the Warm Springs Reservation, in the State of Oregon." The statute continues with a seemingly accurate description of the location of this boundary line, "hereby declared to be that part of the line run and surveyed by T.B. Handley, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, from the initial point up to and including the twenty-sixth mile thereof; thence in a due west course to the summit of the Cascade Mountains." This bit of almost-archaic writing is nevertheless interesting for two reasons. On the one hand, it describes a line personally surveyed by one T.B. Handley. On the other, it describes a natural feature (the Cascade Mountains) as a limitation on this boundary. It could be said, then, that the process of drawing boundaries is one that involves the negotiation of both natural and man-made elements.
"A Man's home is his castle : one of the earliest attempts at landscaping and beautifying the prairie home" (190?)
(Source: Fred Hultstrand History in Pictures Collection, NDIRS-NDSU, Fargo, ND)
(Source: Fred Hultstrand History in Pictures Collection, NDIRS-NDSU, Fargo, ND)
2. This line, though marking the northernmost boundary the Warm Springs Reservation, conjures the idea of a settlement as a place that is demarcated. And that is precisely what makes the image of a frontier home, with its combination of natural and man-made objects, quite compelling. This hand-painted picture certainly evokes the idea of a frontier. Above we have a homesteading couple in North Dakota, circa 1900. They stand in front of a makeshift hovel made of mud brick. Their house also features wooden window frames, mullions, and jambs. There is also a corrugated metal overhang. A caption tells us that this photograph depicts a first attempt to beautify a frontier home with landscaping. Though minimal, the landscape intervention is quite deliberate. In the foreground, we see gatherings of prairie grass placed in a circle of stones of various sizes. The woman stands between two planted shrubs. Her hands hide behind the trees -- a frontier Daphne of sorts. But I also want to call attention to the object hanging above the woman -- it is a buffalo skull.
Horace Swartley, "Geological Boundary Stake, 4 Corners" (1908) from glass photonegative
(Source: H.S. Poley Collection, Denver Public Library)
(Source: H.S. Poley Collection, Denver Public Library)
3. If one looks carefully, one can see a buffalo skull in the above plate, dated 1908. Here, however, the skull supports a tower-like stone. This rock, the caption indicates, is a "Geological Boundary Stake" marking the "Four Corners" area -- the place where the boundaries of New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado converge at a single point. Boundaries are important to a concept of a frontier. Or, put another way, a moving boundary is vital to the concept of a frontier. Without a boundary that keeps moving, there would be no "O'er there" or no "Go West, young man!".
Boundary-making has a name. In the annals of turgid and motheaten legalese, the term "delimitation" signals the making of boundaries. Thus in 1852, William Gladstone spoke of how "Other nations are to delimit for themselves the possessions and status of the clergy." Years later, in an 1885 issue of the Times of London, an editor weighed in on the significance of "the question of delimiting the Russo-Afghan frontier." To delimit, then, carries a literal and figurative meaning. Though a delimitation may involve the identification of geographic coordinates and natural boundaries, we can think of the end result as a line that separates two regimes.
How, then, to identify these two regimes? We can begin by giving them the landscape-y name of "terrain." Historians like Frederick Jackson Turner, William Cronon, and political scientists/environmental planners like Frank and Deborah Popper all identified or have written about what, I suppose, would go by the general name of a capital "F" Frontier. Like them, we can think of a Frontier as a space, terrain, or idea that works in the negative. Unlike a dense, dank, and congested city, a Frontier is unpopulated, unspoilt, undeveloped. The Frontier is the "out there." Yet distinguishing between these two realms – Frontier and non-Frontier, may be too facile. The same goes for any distinction between the separate geographical and literary terrains implicit in a Frontier. Works by Turner, Cronon, and the Poppers complicate the idea of a Frontier as both space and idea. And here, I once again introduce the idea of the boundary. It is my contention that there is much to be made in a comparison of boundary-making to authorship – and it only begins with inscribing lines on maps.
4. How apposite, then, it is to recall another idea, that of an imaginary cartography? Can we think of William Faulkner's map of Yoknapatawpha County as a conflation of literary and geographical terrains? As I indicated in an earlier post, art historian W.J.T. Mitchell famously suggested how novels feature an implicit spatial narrative: "[S]patial form is a crucial aspect of the experience and interpretation of literature in all ages and cultures. The burden of proof, in other words, is not ... to show that some works have spatial form but ... to provide an example of any work that does not" [1]. We can even assign a fancy (if not new) name to this. Let's call it narrative-delimitation … the making of boundaries with a narrative.
Frank and Deobrah Popper conceived of "Buffalo Commons" as a literary device. According to them: "The Buffalo Commons provided a metaphor for reenvisioning settlement practices on the Plains. As a metaphor it was meant to evoke the characteristic and the intrinsic in order to clarify what to preserve and build on. We drew the metaphor from a narrative about how the region was shaped. The metaphor crystallized a regional story and became usable for the future; metaphor helped move the story past nostalgia to make understanding of place a forward-looking means for adaptation. The adaptation grew out of the challenge inherent in a metaphor that simultaneously suggested change, alluded to a history in revision, and had several possible interpretations that themselves had an uneasy relationship with each other. As a result, the Buffalo Commons metaphor again made the Buffalo Commons proposal and prediction more concrete" [2]
In subsequent essays, the Poppers talked about the importance of a boundary line -- the 98th meridian -- to the identification of the physical domain of the Buffalo Commons.
5. But the Poppers were not alone in their desire to identify a legible cartographical boundary for the Great Plains. The idea of demarcating this area appears previously in historian Walter Prescott Webb's 1931 book entitled, The Great Plains. In this work, Webb identifies the area between the 98th meridian and the western slope of the Rocky Mountain as the boundaries of The Great Plains. Interestingly, the 98th meridian is a purely cartographical conceit … it just happens to be the very line that marks an eastern boundary. It also happens to be a line that cuts a swath through the middle of the United States, a line that connects cities such as Kansas City, Missouri and San Antonio, Texas with windswept Dakota prairies.
6. This image from Webb's other famous book, Texas Rangers (1935), invites another idea. Here, note how the Rangers are "removing" Indians. The implication is that they are being ousted, moved from one delimited terrain - Texas - to another. The forced removal of a population from an area connotes a type of violence … a sudden, physical dislocation against the will.
7. Even Frederick Jackson Turner, the most famous promulgator of how a shifting boundary defines and redefines the Frontier, understood the narrative potential implicit in the drawing of a boundary. Note how the idea of reading helps create the notion of a readable, yet constantly changing Frontier in "The Significance of the Frontier in American History", his groundbreaking and controversial 1893 lecture (known as the "Frontier Thesis"): "The United States lies like a huge page in the history of society. Line by line as we read this continental page from West to East we find the record of social evolution. It begins with the Indians and the hunter; it goes on to tell of the disintegration of savagery by the entrance of the trader, the pathfinder of civilization; we read the annals of the pastoral stage in ranch life; the exploitation of the soil by the raising of unrotated crops of corn and wheat in sparsely settled farming communities; the intensive culture of the denser farm settlement; and finally the manufacturing organization with city and factory system. This page is familiar to the student of census statistics, but how little of it has been used by our historians. Particularly in the Eastern states this page is a palimpsest. What is now a manufacturing State was in an earlier decade an area of intensive farming" [3]
Edward Kerneys, Statue of Buffalo, Grand Basin,World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago (1893)
(Source: Brooklyn Museum Archives, Goodyear Archival Collection)
(Source: Brooklyn Museum Archives, Goodyear Archival Collection)
8. To conflate the realms of fact and fiction even further, I point out that Turner is also a character in Thomas Pynchon's 2005 novel, Against the Day. Much of the action in that novel takes place inside the 1893 Columbian Exposition, the very event where Turner delivered his "Frontier Thesis".
One of the novel's multiple narrators tells us that we are to understand a different idea of the West. He paraphrases Turner's "Frontier Thesis", remarking how "Back in July my colleague Freddie Turner came out here from Harvard and gave a speech before a bunch of anthro people who were all in town for their convention and of course the Fair. To the effect that the Western frontier we all though we knew from song and story was no longer on the map but gone, absorbed -- a dead duck" [4]. He points down at the grounds of the Exhibition and says, "here's where the trail comes to its end at last, along with the American Cowboy who used to live on it" [5]. Pynchon then muses, "But if the Frontier was now gone, did that mean Lew [the narrator] was about to be disconnected, too, from himself? Sent off into exile, into some silence beyond silence as retribution for a remote and ancient vice always just about to be remembered, half stunned, in a half dream like a surgeon's knot taken swiftly in the tissue of time and pulled snug, delivered into the control of potent operatives who did not wish him well?" [6]
Photograph, mid-1870s , of a pile of American bison skulls waiting to be ground for fertilizer. (Burton Historical Collection, Denver Pub. Lib.)
Is it possible, then, to think of the Popper's idea of the Buffalo Commons as a method to correct cycles of damage in the past? The idea of "silence as retribution" thus casts a darker pallor to the terrain on the other side of a boundary between Frontier and non-Frontier.
Stack of buffalo hides at Dodge City, Kansas, hide yard (1870?) (Source: Kansas State Historical Society)
9. To say that the creation of a West in the American imagination came at a price is almost too obvious. But this is a powerful idea still present in contemporary literature. Though there is no outright mention of a cartographical line in Cormac McCarthy's 1985 novel, Blood Meridian, or Evening Redness in the West, there is at least an implicit imagining of the West. The meridian in the novel could be an allusion to the 98th meridian (much of the narrative action occurs to the West of that line), and yet McCarthy's narrative operates as a revisionist take on the idea of the Frontier, one that depends on the crossing of literal and figurative boundaries it order to enter into dark Dante-esque (or Conrad-esque) netherworlds. His description of Mexicans encountering a band of American bounty hunters affirms this point: "These people had seen Americans in plenty, dusty laggard trains of them months out of their own country and half crazed with the enormity of their own presence in that immense and bloodslaked waste …." [7]
Or, as Captain White, whose dragooning of eager n'er do wells for an expedition to collect scalps will set the stage for much of the carnage in Blood Meridian, tells "the kid", the novel's main protagonist: "Right now they are forming in Washington a commission to come out here and draw up the boundary lines between our country and Mexico. I don't think there's any question that ultimately Sonora will become a United States territory. Guaymas is a U S Port. Americans will be able to get to California without having to pass through our benighted sister republic and our citizens will be protected at last from the notorious packs of cutthroats presently infesting the routes with which they are obliged to travel … We are to be instruments of liberation in a dark and troubled land" [8].
P. Arst, "Native American Men on Horseback Attack White Men as They Defend Themselves with Rifles", illustration from Edwin Eastman, Seven and Nine Years Among the Comanches and Apaches (Jersye, 1874)
Such expeditions turn the Frontier into a killing field. White's men are eventually attacked by a lance-bearing Comanche war party, a "legion of horribles" like a "company of mounted clowns … all howling in a barbarous tongue and riding down upon them like a horde from a hell more horrible yet than the brimstone land of Christian reckoning" [9].
Lieutenant Read, 3rd Infantry, and John O. Auston, chief of the scouts, crouch near a scalped Ralph Morrison near Fort Dodge, Kansas. Morrison was scalped by a Cheyenne war party in 1886 (Source: Library of Congress)
10. Boundary. Frontier. Border. Each contains intersecting layers of violence. The crossing of a boundary into a Frontier is one type of violence, known otherwise as trespass. Violence is also implicit in the drawing of a boundary on a map. A rendering of a single cartographical line may undo years of history and reopen old wars and wounds. As Étienne Balibar suggests, such linemaking, for all its arbitrariness, can change the status of a person who happens to be on the wrong side of the line [10].
Yet the human body can become the very site of such violence. Cormac McCarthy thus describes the end result of the above-mentioned raid, dozens of scalping victims, lying like "maimed and naked monks in the bloodslaked dust" [11].
Corrections made, 16 May 2011
[1] W.J.T. Mitchell, "Spatial Form in Literature: Toward a General Theory", Critical Inquiry, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Spring, 1980), p. 541.
[2] Frank and Deborah Popper, "The Buffalo Commons: Metaphor as Method", Geographical Review, Vol. 89, No. 4 (Oct., 1999), p. 501.
[3] Fredrick Jackson Turner, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History", in The Frontier in American History (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1997) p. 11
[4] Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day (New York: Penguin, 2005), p. 72
[5] Ibid., p. 73.
[6] Ibid.
[7] Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian: or, Evening Redness in the West (New York: Vintage, 1992 [1985]), p. 177.
[8] Ibid., p. 84.
[9] Ibid., p. 52, 53.
[10] Étienne Balibar, "Outline of a Topography of Cruelty: Citizanship and Civility in the Era of Global Violence", in We, The People of Europe: Reflections on Transnational Citizenship, James Swenson, trans. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004), p.122
[11] Blood Meridian, p. 54.


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