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Max Von Sydow
Date Of Birth:
10 April 1929
Place Of Birth:
Lund, Sweden
Swedish actor Max von Sydow is known as the knight who plays chess with Death in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal (1957) and the priest who rescues little Linda Blair from evil in The Exorcist (1973). Von Sydow trained for the Swedish stage and made his film debut in 1949. He gained international recognition for his performance in Bergman films during the 1950s, including Wild Strawberries (1957), The Magician (1958) and The Virgin Spring (1959). His first role in an American movie was as Jesus Christ in 1965's The Greatest Story Ever Told (co-starring John Wayne), and since then he has appeared in dozens of movies, usually as a taciturn villain or authority figure. His many movie roles have included: A frosty hit man (1975's Three Days of the Condor, with Robert Redford); an Asian supervillian (1980's Flash Gordon); a cynical artist (1986's Hannah and Her Sisters, by Woody Allen); a devilish shopkeeper (1993's Needful Things, with Ed Harris); and a shadowy government boss (2002's Minority Report, by Steven Spielberg). His performance in 1988's Pelle the Conqueror earned him several international awards as well as an Oscar nomination as best actor.
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The Silent Boy
From the prologue of THE SILENT BOY:
.... By thirteen I already knew that I wanted to be a doctor, too. I read accounts in the news of the war that was raging in Europe, and I could not wrap my mind around the reasons for it or the terrible logistics of battles far away. I listened to my parents talking to their friends, our next door neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Bishop, as they fretted over their oldest boy, Paul, who was just finishing Princeton then and should have been looking ahead to law school and to joining his father's firm one day. But Paul was already talking of his yearning to enlist in a war that had not yet, in 1915, begun to take American boys.
But at thirteen, when I read the war news, I thought only of the wounded and how if I were a doctor I could set their bones and heal their burns. I had watched my father do so many times.
I was not yet four when San Francisco toppled in an earthquake and burned. Even so young, I heard talk of it.
At eight, I had heard of the terrible fire in New York, of the factory girls, scores of them, leaping from the windows, their clothes aflame, and dying, burned and mangled, on the sidewalk while people watched in horror. My mother had said, "Shhh" to Father when she saw me listening, but he, seeing that my interest was real and not just a child's curiosity, spoke to me of it later. Though I was still a child, we talked of the ways in which death comes, and how perhaps, not always, but sometimes, a doctor could push death away, could hold it back, or at the very least make it come easily.
By thirteen, by the time I had the sailor dress of which I was so proud, many of those moments were past. San Francisco had been rebuilt. The Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire had brought about new laws to protect factory workers.
And on the edge of town, when I was thirteen, stood the stone building called the Asylum. It still stands there today, though newspaper editorials call it the Eyesore in an attempt at wit, and there is talk of tearing it down to make room for a housing development. Its windows are boarded over now, and the grounds are littered with debris. Sometimes, in my growing-up years, when Austin was my beau, we would walk out that way, holding hands. Sometimes I found myself glancing at the ground, wondering if I would spot the gleam and flicker of a cat's-eye marble dropped by a boy. I wondered, then, as I still do, about the boy who had once given me a kitten and changed my life forever. His name was Jacob Stoltz.
His is the story I mean to write down now.

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Justin Timberlake + Jimmy Fallon Show Why Hashtags Are Ridiculous [VIDEO]
Justin Timberlake is all over the web today, as he is less than a week away from the release of The 20/20 Experience -- 2 of 2, he is in full promotion mode. He was on Jimmy Kimmel last night performing on Hollywood Boulevard, and in this bit with Jimmy Fallon they illustrate the ridiculousness of the # (hashtag) phenomenon.
If you are on Twitter and Instagram consistently then you probably understand this new form of communication where every statement is followed with a hashtag, what I once knew as a pound sign, and a related word - #hashtageducation.
If you have not migrated to communicating in 140 character statements or through filtered photos on instagram, then you will probably be wondering what the heck the two are speaking of.
Twitter offers explanations how to best use the hashtag effectively on their site:
Using hashtags to categorize Tweets by keyword:
- People use the hashtag symbol # before a relevant keyword or phrase (no spaces) in their Tweet to categorize those Tweets and help them show more easily in Twitter Search.
- Clicking on a hashtagged word in any message shows you all other Tweets marked with that keyword.
- Hashtags can occur anywhere in the Tweet – at the beginning, middle, or end.
- Hashtagged words that become very popular are often Trending Topics.
A hashtag is a word or a phrase prefixed with the symbol
#.[1][2] It is a form of metadata tag. Short messages on microblogging and social networking services such as Twitter,Tout, identi.ca, Tumblr, Instagram, Flickr, Google+ or Facebook may be tagged by putting "#" before important words, either as they appear in a sentence, (eg. "New artists announced for #SXSW 2012 Music Festival!")[3] or appended to it.
Hashtags provide a means of grouping such messages, since one can search for the hashtag and get the set of messages that contain it.
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Enjoy the luxury of our familiar Mongolian yurt in our large gardens at 4km of wonderful beaches
About this micro camping
Our yurt has been handcrafted in Mongolia in the traditional way, with natural materials like horsehair strings and sheep wool insulation. It's installed on a raised wooden platform covered with carpets, which insulates the soil and provides great comfort.
The yurt is decorated in a simple and charm way, with oriental lamps and bedside tables and a child area with puffs a small table. It has one comfortable double bed and a two single additional beds, several sockets with electricity coming from our solar system and wireless internet access.
The central window located on the roof of the yurt, allows the fresh air to circulate and offers the unique experience of watching the stars from your bed.
It has a lot of charm that couples will enjoy for sure as well as families with Kids or small groups of friends who want to spend a few days of tranquility in a natural environment.
In the outside area in front of the yurt there's an outdoor child area for private use, surrounded by trees and bamboo with hammocks to take the sun or reading, shaded areas for an afternoon siesta and a table for breakfast or dinner at candlelight.
Among the yurts described In the 5000m2 gardens surrounding the yurts, there are as well common areas: parking for cars and bicycles to get around in an environmentally and friendly way; playground for the kids; 2 bathrooms equipped with washing machine, hot water and the possibility to take your shower surrounded by our acebuches (local wild olives trees); a large community kitchen fully equipped to cook and where we serve breakfast with local organic products; barbecue and wood oven for pizza nights; porch with couches for cocktails, to eat, enjoy the sunset or playing a board game; rest areas, etc.
We offer the chance to relax and recharge your battery. To wake up with the song of the birds and walk out from your yurt looking at the Natural Park of La Breña. Silence, pure air…
We offer the possibility to enjoy a wonderful environment where you can practice hiking, cycling, horseback riding, surfing, experience whale watching, ornithological routes, etc. These activities can be hired through the Veleta during your stays and we can facilitate maps and detailed dossiers with some complete tourist and cultural information of the area.
As a vital project, we want La Veleta to be consistent with our principles. We believe in sustainable human development, minimizing our environmental impact. We also believe in self-sufficiency.
And we followed these same principles in building all the infrastructure of La Veleta, using natural materials and minimal impact techniques (both yurts and common areas); all the energy we consume comes from our autonomous photovoltaic installation; We treat wastewater with septic ecological tanks and natural filters and we recyclye organic waste for our fields and garden; We use green cleaning products and put at disposal some bicycles for our visitors; We also offer breakfast and baskets based on organic and locally produced, natural cosmetic products homemade beer...
Space for
- Glamping (e.g.: Yurt, Safari tent, Bubble tent)
Available yes or no
- Drinking water
- RV Sanitation
- Pets allowed
- Toilet
- RV Hookup
- Picnic table
- Fire/Ring Grill
- Shower
- Hot water
- Electricity
- Campfire possible
- Sportsgear
- Gas (stove)
- Extra toilet paper :-)
Things to do in the area
- Biking
- Hiking
- Wildlife watching
- Boating
- Horseback riding
- Surfing
- Swimming
- Fishing
- Canoeing / Kayaking
- Sightseeing
Meet David & Sabina, your host
We're a selfsuistainable project. So we have some rules to be respected by guests:
- The common spaces (kitchen, bathrooms, etc.) are for the enjoyment of all guests. Please Keep them clean and tidy.
- La Veleta is a place to rest and disconnect we ask to respect the rest of the other guests
- Pets are allowed in the property. Smoking in indoor spaces are also not allowed.
- At certain times of year the risk of fire in the area so for the use of barbecue, candles, etc. we must be consulted in advance and request
- In La Veleta we committed to self-reliance and sustainability. The water is well (non-potable) and our electricity comes from solar photovoltaic installation. So they are limited resources that we must all take care. We ask our visitors a conscious consumption of these resources. Therefore the use of hair dryers, irons, toasters or other equipment that have high power consumption is not allowed.
- We reuse the gray water from bathrooms and kitchen so it is mandatory to use shampoos, soap, dishwasher and green cleaning products. If our guests do not have them we can sell them.
- The treatment of sewage in the bathroom is done in an eco pit so we ask you not to throw paper towels, napkins, etc. to the bathroom.
- Our Internet connection is via satellite and has a limited capacity. Therefore, the web browsing, e-mail consultation, etc. can be done without problems but downloading movies, online video, streaming or other memory-intensive utilities are not allowed
- The minimum stay in high season is 3 nights. For shorter stays the extra cost of short stays apply
How to reach this micro camping
We're located in the rural town of St. Ambrosio, between the towns of Barbate and Vejer de la Frontera, on the Costa de la Luz; in the far south of Europe, in front, at few kilometers, Africa.
You can reach the area via the A-48 if you come from Cádiz or the N-340 national road from Algeciras, at about 57 km from Cadiz and 70 km from Jerez Airport. Public transport in the area is scarce, your best option if you arrive by public transport is to take the regular buses that go from Conil (15 km) or Vejer de la Frontera (6 km) going to the nearest cities. The closest train station is San Fernando, about 40 km distance.
We only can pick up guests from airport or train station in exceptional situations. So the cost for this service must be discussed. We recommend rent a car also to move around the area.
Checking in and out
Check-in after 15h (please communicate to us approximate arrival time in advance to welcome you) and check-out after 12h


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Leaders Share Tips and Tools for Travel, Insurance and Background Checks
By ShortTermMissions.com Community
Using a Travel Agency
- 37% make their own travel arrangements (19 groups)
- 4% use a local, in-town travel agency to make arrangements (2 groups)
- 59% use one or more of the travel agencies listed in the report (30 groups)
Survey respondents mentioned one travel agency was mentioned more than any other: Raptim Humanitarian Service was mentioned by 11 of these ministries. There are, however, quite a few other travel agencies that specialize in serving mission teams.
Purchasing Travel Insurance
- 27% do not use a specific company; some of these do not require travel insurance, while others require participants to arrange it (14 groups)
- 73% said they use one or more of the companies listed below (37 groups)
Top insurance companies mentioned include Good Neighbor Insurance, International Medical Group, and Seven Corners.
See also a related article on Buying insurance.
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Carcar heritages
"I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage." —Felix Frankfurter, law professor and U.S. Supreme Court justice
Our heritage. And who shall turn his back on Carcar's own great and noble heritage? But which are these? Let's make this a fun thing to do: make a list of all the things all over town that make up our heritage.
But one thing sure, these things cannot care for themselves. The preservation and conservation of these treasures need us. So everyone must be stirred into accepting a personal stake in it, that the heritage of Carcar is also his or her heritage. To paraphrase a proverb: a fool and his heritage are soon parted. As stakeholders, we cannot be fools.
For purpose of our list-making here, I have carved up Carcar heritage to 9 main divisions: Cuisine, Culture, Flora and Fauna, Health, History and People, Landscape and Natural Spots, Man-Made Structures, Religion and, finally, Technology. I suppose anybody else doing his or her own study, or who have done a previous study, could come up with a better division and/or subdivisions.
Cuisine includes the dishes that Carcar culinarily stands out in, fiesta fare, the ones fiesta goers arrive in Carcar drooling just thinking of the food he expects in the town. Catered food from out of town has no place in a town famous all over for its kitchens. And Cuisine also includes the delicacies you see being hawked in the market area: ampao, bocarillo, banana chips, chicharron.
Culture embraces the various art fields—painting, sculpture, literature (including all forms of writing), drama, music, and the photographic records of the town itself (or surreal history). Along the same line as photographic records, doesn't everyone wish original manuscripts of music compositions of Lakandazon and other Carcar composers and arrangers could be digitized and available for everyone to see, containing perhaps the composer's handwritten annotations? What a treasure.
Sports, games–especially native games– are on.
Shall we include here our spray paint graffiti vandals whose sole artistic theme screams of a riveting fascination with their own names or else revolve around coital and phallic renditions and newly acquired English words like pakyo?
Flora and Fauna. Orchids are a relatively later diversion but now a very valued part of the heritage of many families. Fr. Rudy Villanueva introduced the Japanese art of bonsai, and people across town still make a living out of it and some sell their miniature trees at stalls right at the cemetery itself. A whole community took the art to heart and their sitio in Bolinawan has actually gotten the name Bonsai.
Our heritage once extended to trees, plants and herbs planted there by the Creator himself, or by the first men He'd sent over to populate this part of his creation. Some species may have been lost forever but for the sake of heritage stock-taking let's include their names—what we still have and what we've lost. A recent (about a hundred years) but awesome addition are the acacias lining both sides of the highway in Perrelos. This was probably done by American highways engineers (probably Army) who built the highway around 1910. Passers-by may notice the the kabkab fern cupping the acacia branches.
The Takoy pomelo, the Napo mango; mangroves, fishing grounds, rare animals and our agricultural history.
Health. As this touches on a historical account of health methods, featuring traditional medicine and the use of various plants (some of which may no longer be found in town). Medical care, child-delivery and child-bearing services, epidemics and general health history of the town.
History and People. There have been scholarly studies of our prehistoric past. The USC Museum in fact displays artifacts their researchers dug up in Carcar. Since Carcar has by now been running its own museum, set up by the self-same USC, don't you think the USC Museum should perhaps share with Carcar the town's own treasures? If ever USC agrees to, I suggest the Carcar Museum set up a USC Museum Section to showcase some of these artifacts. Quite a number of these had in fact been dug from my family's property in Napo and I had then declined the offer to have some bits for our own collection because I thought then, and still do now, that all of these artifacts should rightfully belong to a museum, not in a private house. [4-Jan-2011]
Any and all attempts at historical writing and exposition are our heritage, and certainly including family histories.
Landscape and natural spots Heritage work means preserving a hill rather than quarrying it into oblivion. Beaches, springs, falls, lakes, mesas, valleys, caverns and caves — the remit is immense.
Man-made structures. The heritage landmarks—watchtowers, dispensary, rotunda and its surroundings, the heritage houses (rarity of its type, historical significance of either the house or its owner), as well as every house in town that is representative of an architectural era, schools, bridges, plazas and parks. Sculptures go to Culture.
Religion. I also include here all man-made structures related to religion–Church, convent, church and Catholic cemetery grounds. Church records, chapel organizations (Cogon for instance, established 1859, predates the present church building itself), religious traditions (holy week passion plays and procession, Souls day customs, Christmas caroling that once included dancing (pastores), etc.,), and the general religious history of the town.
Surely, the so-called "primitive" belief systems — traditions, spiritual healing, arcane knowledge — should be inventoried. Religion includes all man's attempts at making sense of the supernatural, the unknown and the travails of just living in this valley of tears.
Technology. Our industrial heritage from the earliest form of farming tools to corn and sugar milling (intusan) techniques, furniture-making, etc.
Our heritage work. Don't look on the whole endeavor as too many things to do. Look on it rather as a wealth of opportunities to choose which things you can do and in what areas you can help. We can only do so much, but that much we should do.
Actually, townspeople can organize, with the help of Carcaranons already living elsewhere, to commit to one heritage project of their own choosing. I tell them, even the lowliest and smallest group, whose chosen project would be, say, to clean the rotunda on a regular basis would be doing a most palpable heritage work, something that will surely be appreciated enormously by the whole town. I can also picture an undertaking of the greening of a street.
But to embark on something, people need a sense of belonging—stakeholders is the term frequently used today. A street-wide organization immediately comes to mind.
One group cannot undertake everything. It just cannot attract a sense of belonging across various strata of society. And one person need not undertake everything. I myself don't want to be a member of every heritage undertaking. I will be wasting my and others' time at things I can't be helpful at.
Support from our paisanos abroad would be very encouraging and valuable. Their ideas may even be more objective than ours, unaffected as they are by social and political undercurrents in the town which have always been the biggest stumbling blocks of such ventures. Heritage work is where everyone's efforts will be rewarded by a deep sense of pride and satisfaction. We can't turn our back on Carcar.


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Quick Guide To The New Facebook Profile Layout [IMAGE]
If you logged on to Facebook and discovered your profile is all wonky – fear not, it's the new design! Facebook first made the upgrade optional on December 5th, but now all users are being automatically upgraded.
The good news is everyone on Facebook is facing the same learning curve with the new design. The not-so-good news is that you're now stuck with the new design and there is no turning back, regardless of how much resistance some Facebook users put up. (I upgraded right away last month and have grown quite used to the new design).
[If your profile has not upgraded yet, you may choose to upgrade here: http://www.facebook.com/about/profile/ – which I highly recommend you do, because everyone on Facebook who has the new profile will be viewing YOUR profile the new way and there are many new components you'll want to have control over.]
Here is a marked up screenshot (click to enlarge) explaining the primary changes on your new profile:
Review of changes:
- Mini bio/about me section on the left column under your photo has been removed. 🙁
- Weblinks no longer show on the left column; they now appear on the Info section waaaay down at the very bottom.
- Pages you like are now under the Info section under Activities and Interests – you may need to click the "more" link if you joined a lot of pages. (Here's a handy visual display to easily manage your Likes; unlike and like!)
- Featured friends – you can add certain Friend Lists in this section. Go to Edit Profile and click "Featured People." Or, click the edit pencil next to "Friends xxxx." You can add any Friend List or any Open Group you already created (or you can create new Friend Lists). You can also reorder the lists with simple drag and drop. Be sure to save.
- IMPORTANT: anyone in a friend list that you choose to feature will get a *notification* that you added them to xyz list. 😉 You might want to just make sure you're happy with the list name and who's in it. Previously, Lists were always 100% private and only viewable by the owner.
- On your Info section, you may well see a whole bunch of "Community Pages" you didn't know you were connected to. For more about what exactly these pages are, see this post.
- At the top of your new profile, make sure you're happy with all the work/location/education etc. information. Edit/delete any info you don't want displayed, or customize your privacy settings to only show certain data to certain people.
- Check your Employer – if you're connected to a Community Page and it's your company, go to that Community Page and claim it (click the link at the bottom left "Is this your business?"). You can choose to merge the Community Page into your existing fan page… or not.
- Change your Employer to be your actual fan page (recommended!). This part can be tricky!
- The five photos at the top of your new profile are the last five you were tagged in – whether you tagged yourself or a friend tagged you. Note: anyone viewing your profile sees these five photos. (Though I have heard some users say they see different photos than the ones the profile owner sees).
- To change the photos, mouseover each one and click the "X." Another will automatically appear in its place.
- To control the exact five photos you want, untag then retag (or upload new ones) and tag from right to left (left is the most recent photo). For a fun profile "hack," see this tutorial/app and these examples on Mashable.com.
- The "Send Message" button at the top right of your friends' profiles has been buggy. See Facebook's Known Issues for support. Otherwise, you may just need to turn off your Chat feature for the Send Message button to show. It's easier to just hover over a person's name and use the Send Message link in their hovercard. For more on this, see this screenshot and comments. (Beats me why "Poke" has been given prime positioning top right of all profiles. I've never been into Poking on Facebook. LOL! If you want to say hi, just come say hi on my wall!!)
I hope this provides some support and clarity… the peace of mind part will come sooner or later! Remember, there's nothing as certain as change and we all go through natural phases when phased with significant changes. Eventually, Facebook users get used to new features.
I'll be blogging further about the new Facebook profile design, some hacks and Ninja tricks and some areas to be cautious of. This post serves as your introduction to the new profile for now! Do let me know any questions, comments, concerns you may have about the new profile:
Related articles:
- Facebook Pushes Profile Out To All, Users Revolt (allfacebook.com)
- HOW TO: Customize the New Facebook Profile (mashable.com)


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Promote the practice of Model the Way, with an emphasis on the two commitments: clarifying and setting the example
Any size group
Time Required:
10-15 minutes, including time for debrief
Materials Needed/Setup:
14 toothpicks per person and a specific pattern to be communicated to the group, such as the design below:
- Instruct each participant to take 14 toothpicks.
- Ask for a volunteer.
- As the participants are taking their toothpicks, explain to the volunteer that her/his role is to provide instructions to the group on how to assemble the toothpicks in a specific pattern. With his/her back to the audience, show the volunteer the pattern.
- Inform the group that the volunteer will be giving them instructions on how to create a specific pattern with their toothpicks, and explain that the following rules must be followed:
a. No questions can be asked of the volunteer
b. Only verbal instructions will be given
c. Instructions cannot be repeated
d. You have 3 minutes, go!
- Allow the volunteer to give verbal instructions for creating the pattern, and ensure the rules are followed.
- At the conclusion of 3 minutes, stop any instructions and have the participants compare the patterns they created with one another, and with the volunteer's pattern (this can be in view as an overhead or PowerPoint with a large group)
Facilitator Tips:
Debrief questions:
- How did we all do?
- Are there differences among your patterns? Why are they so different when the instructions were the same?
- Now let's compare with the actual pattern. Do they match? Why not?
- What would have helped you replicate the pattern successfully? (Note: look for responses such as ?opportunity to ask questions? or ?having a visual?)
- How does this exercise relate to the first practice of Model the Way and the two commitments (e.g., the necessity for clear, two-way communication and the benefit of an example)?
Key Points:
- In thinking about the practice of Model the Way and the first commitment, communication within the team and between teams and individuals is critical. It could be the communication of values, principles and standards, or shared ideals. It also could be the two-way dialogue of asking for and receiving feedback and building consensus on the team.
- In thinking about the practice of Model the Way and the second commitment, think about the necessity of a visual. This visual is you, setting the example by following through on commitments, acting on the feedback you have received, and being a behavioral example of ?credible? leadership.
- Consider how you can better practice Model the Way and the two commitments.
Variations: You can change the pattern or change the debrief questions and key points to align with another practice, such as Challenge the Process.
Mary Cooper is an author, management consultant, and trainer based in Orlando, Florida. A former consultant with the Disney Institute and a retired instructor of the Dale Carnegie Course, Mary's vision is to make a difference by helping leaders leave their legacy, one leader at a time. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Vintage pocket watches make great gifts and beautiful keepsakes, we stock several ornate styles to compliment the occasion for a memorable gift. Harrington & Co have to offer a huge range of highly collectible pieces. We buy and sell estate pocket watches, military issued, railroad specials & high end pieces which offer some absolutely amazing movements. We rigorously check our pocket watches (both movements and cases) for authenticity and quality. Once you selected a watch to purchase, please let us know if you would like to have it serviced prior to despatch - we can arrange this on your behalf at industry rates.
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About Us - Tito's Writings
Once in a great while, a special person emerges in the history of science and medicine whose unique set of characteristics sheds light on an entire disorder and sometimes even on the mysteries of the human brain. Tito is such a person. Although he has severe autism and is nearly nonverbal, his ability to communicate through his extraordinary writing is astonishing.
Tito communicates eloquently through his writing and he has gained national recognition for his poetry. He has published his book of memoirs and poems, and plans to pursue a career as a professional writer.
Tito Video Clip - February 2006
Click below to watch a recent video clip of Tito writing. Currently, Soma's mode of prompt for Tito is uttering the last word or letter which he has spoken, then he goes to the next letter or word.
Early Writings
|The Mind Tree©
Maybe it is night
Maybe it is day
I can't be sure
Because I'm not yet feeling the heat of the sun
I am the mind tree
When I had been gifted this mind of mine
I recall his voice very clearly
To you I have given this mind
And you shall be the only kind
No one ever will like you be
And I name you the mind tree
I can't see or talk
Yet I can imagine
I can hope and I can expect
I am able to feel pain but I cannot cry
So I just be and wait for the pain to subside
I can do nothing but wait
My concerns and worries
Are trapped within me somewhere in my depths
Maybe in my roots
Maybe in my bark
When he comes next who gifted me my mind
I shall ask him for the gift of sight
I doubt his return and
Yet hope for it
Maybe he will
Maybe he will not
|Poem 1
Men and women are puzzled by everything I do
Doctors use different terminologies to describe me
I just wonder
The thoughts are bigger than I can express
Every move that I make shows how trapped I feel
Under the continuous flow of happenings
The effect of a cause becomes the cause of another effect
And I wonder
I think about the times when I change the environment around me
With the help of my imagination
I can go places that do not exist
And they are like beautiful dreams.
But it is a world full of improbabilities
Racing toward uncertainty
|Poem 4
When you are trying to think blue
And end up thinking black
You can be sure to be frustrated
Time and again it happens to me
And I get quite helpless
Otherwise why should I get up and spin myself
Spinning my body
Brings some sort of harmony to my thoughts
So that I can centrifuge away all of the black thoughts
I realise that the faster I spin
The faster I drive away the black
When I am sure that even the last speck of black
Has gone away from me
Then I spin back in the opposite direction
And pull the blue thoughts into myself
It depends on how much blue I want
If I want more blue I have to spin faster
Otherwise not so fast
It's just like being a fan
The trouble is when I stop spinning
My body scatters
And it's so difficult to collect it together again
Recent writings
|The Door Hinge©
They had all given up trying. They had requested me at first and then they had tried to pull me out.
Nothing stopped me.
Not even the two pm strike of the clock.
Not even the rain.
It had started raining since noon. The window brought in all that cool air that had been waiting to come in, and all the damp smell of wet earth inside the room. I am sure the hinge on the door with which I was playing could smell it too.
It never tells me anything. But I somehow know that it can sense every thing I sense.
It sensed the orange colour spreading with the two pm strike of clock as it filled up the room.
Every time the clock strikes two, both of us get prepared.
We get prepared for the orange light to come to us from the clock. The orange light joins us in our secret game.
The door hinge senses the gradual spreading of the orange colour through the mirror till every thing in the room is coloured with orange.
The green frame of the mirror gets the orange colour before any thing else. After that, the white walls begin to turn orange. Only then can the window and everything outside the window get to colour themselves with orange. Every one needs to wait for our turns to be coloured with orange light.
The door hinge can understand everything.
But now the door hinge was sticky.
The door hinge becomes sort of sticky whenever it knows that it is raining. I doubt whether it really likes the rain. It is fond of the wind. I can just guess that.
I have seen it slamming with joy when there is wind.
I guess that the door hinge tried to gather the orange colour of the two pm afternoon although the damp air prevented the colour from diffusing it completely because the grey colour of the rain was too strong for the orange to spread evenly as it does every day.
I saw the colours trying to gain strength. Sometimes it seemed as though the grey would empower the orange.
The war grew in width and depth inside my room and outside the window. I felt my breaths inhaling and exhaling the colours and felt the battle within me.
I knew the door hinge was getting alarmed.
I heard it creek. It was trying to warn the clock about the colour battle.
I had banged the door hard for my part so that the out side grey of the rain could be warned. I wanted to shout. But I could only shout through the slam of the door.
The colours had understood the cause.
They stopped their little war.
I saw the rain drops getting coloured with orange.
The door hinge had stopped the creek.


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Thursday, March 13, 2008
Galicia Genealogy Websites
I've been helping a friend with his family history/genealogy over the last three or four weeks. The family I have been helping research immigrated to Argentina during the late 1800s. It's been interesting to see that all lines are actually Spanish - rather unusual. It's been said that Argentines think they are German who are Italians that speak Spanish.
The family I've been working on had varying degrees of information linking the lines back to Spain. Some lines had specific towns, while other lines have proved a little more difficult. Over the next few weeks I will discuss the different lines, which come from Salamanca, Galicia, and Asturias, and the different ways I went about finding the immigrants' places of birth. Hopefully it will give you some ideas and additional resources to use.
For those of you that don't know Galicia is located in the extreme northwest corner of Spain directly above Portugal. Galicia is made up of four provinces: La Coruña, Orense, Pontevedra, and Lugo. There are four Catholic dioceses in the region as well: Santiago de Compostela, Lugo (learn how to get involved in the Lugo diocese indexing project), Mondoñedo-Ferrol, and Tui-Vigo.
The family information that I started with said that one of the family lines came from the town of Guísamo. That was good information, however, family information can sometimes be incorrect. It is a good rule of thumb to double-check the information before you begin searching records earnestly. I started with map sites and also municipal sites (it's a good idea to work with gazetteers or geographical dictionaries too).
Here are a couple of map sites to get you started:
1. http://www.pueblos-espana.org - see archived blog post about this site.
2. http://www.mapquest.com - great all around map - great for driving directions too.
3. http://www.viamichelin.com - wonderful map site - very detailed.
Here are a couple of sites to help you find municipios and to help you determine record collections.
1. http://www.dicoruna.es - links out to every municipal archive in the province of La Coruña.
2. http://depontevedra.es -find the links to the Municipal archives and the Juzgados de la Paz. The site provides detailed inventories of all these archives in Pontevedra with contact information. Note: I did not use this site during this research session, but thought I would share it anyway - it's too valuable not to. The same type of sites should be used for Orense and Lugo.
Using the map sites mentioned above and also visiting the La Coruña diputación site (listed above) I determined that Guísamo was in the municipio of Bergondo. I grabbed the email address to the municipio archive and sent off an email asking two things: 1) Do you have any records in your archive that I could use in my research? I did provide detailed information on what I was looking for. 2) Could you give me the email address to the Juzgado de la Paz of Bergondo?
The archivist at the Bergondo municipio archive explained to me that they had census records for the municipio beginning in 1877...and by the way she looked up the family for me. She found the family I was looking for in the 1877 and 1878 censuses. She also forwarded my email to the Juzgado de la Paz, who responded to me via email giving me birth information on four different children. I subsquently sent the Juzgado my mailing address and a few weeks later had photocopies of all the birth certificates the archivist had identified. Note: Spain national civil registration began in 1871.
The information in the census records and the birth certificates verified the family information I had been given. The family lived in Guísamo, however, it gave me even more information too. I also got the birth places of the parents of the children and the birth places of their grandparents. This quickly helped me determine where I needed to go to continue the research (not all were born in Guísamo).
After gathering all the place information I could from the available records I visited the Santiago de Compostela diocesan archive website (listed above). The Santiago diocese has a neat little search option that allows you to search for any parish in the diocese. I quickly found out that parish records for Guísamo existed, however, they were not in the diocesan archive like most parish records, but they were in the actual parish archive of Guísamo. I did the same thing with the other parishes identified in the census and birth certificates and found that some were in the diocesan archive and others were in parish archives. This information will be helpful when I'm visiting the archives in person, or if I'm corresponding with the archives via email or telephone.
I know that I haven't provided a lot of different websites, however, there are plenty out there. Here are a couple more that cover the Galicia region in general that you might find useful.
1. Arquivo da Emigración Gallega - I used this site, however, no one responded to my inquiry.
2. http://foros.xenealoxia.org - forums are always good places to find contacts in the genealogical community. Next week I will discuss how a forum helped me find another one of my friend's family lines in Asturias.
I hope that you find these handful of websites useful in your research. Understanding that there are only a few listed here, it should be noted that some of them link out to many more that may benefit you in your research. I should also note that I looked at a lot of other sites, and sifted through many others to find these gems. If you know of any other valuable sites for doing Galicia, Spain genealogy please share them with others in the comments section.
16 comments:
- MrParis said...
thanks for this blog. you've so helped me.
- July 9, 2008 at 5:00 PM
- M.D. Taracido said...
This not a comment, but a request for information. Can you post or email me the email address of the archivist at Bergondo. I'm trying to get a copy of my father's birth certificate and other family information. He was born in Bergondo.
- October 18, 2010 at 7:54 AM
- Lynn Turner, AG said...
I'd be happy to send you the contact information, but need your email address in order to send it to you.
- October 18, 2010 at 8:28 AM
- Unknown said...
My 3rd GG (well, I think he's my 3rd GG) was born in Galicia, Spain according to the birth certificate of my 2nd GG. At some point he moved to Portugal. I'm not sure if that was before or after he married his wife.
I'm saying I think because my 2nd GG immigrated to the US from Portugal around 1860 and from 1860, his name changed three times -- probably due to census taker error.
This is what I've found so far:
My 2nd GG died in 1906 with the name Louis P Selby, Sr. Between 1860 and 1900 it changed from Silva to Silvey to Salvey and then to Selby. On a Portugal genealogy message board it was suggested I search for the "p" which could be Pereira, Pedro, or Pimentel. I know that my 2nd GG was born in 1837-1838. In my search, I found a Luis Pinto Da Silveira born in December 1837. His father, Francisco Pinto Da Silveira was born in "Galiza, Espanha". I can't find a birth record. In fact I can't find any other records for Francisco or his wife Florinda Rozas. Florinda was born in Portugal.
Would you have any other suggestions for me? I am a member of familysearch.com and I'm able to access ancestry.com via my library website. I've been to our local family search center -- but still no results. Mundia says there are family tree hints for Francisco, but the website hasn't been working the last couple of days.
- June 20, 2012 at 7:24 PM
- Deborah W Halasz said...
Hi Lynn,
The only information I have about an ancestor is from a birth record of his son born in Portugal. The ancestor in question shows that he was born in galiza, espanha. I don't know the province. I've looked at http://www.apelidosgalicia.org which shows the name Silveira (da silveira in Portugal) was most populous in A Coruna, but that doesn't help much when I'm trying to find exactly which province I should search. The name in Portugal is "Pinto da silveira". When I search with that name, I've found others with that name in Brazil. I suppose it's possible that one moved to Portugal while the other moved to Spain, but I really have no idea where to go from here.
Any suggestions would be helpful!
- June 25, 2012 at 8:36 PM
- Lynn Turner, AG said...
Because the way records are organized in Spain, you will never find your ancestor's birth record/baptism record...sorry to be so blunt. Before jumping from U.S. to Galicia, I recommend you find as much information as you can regarding your ancestors in Portugal. For example: do you have the baptism/christening record of your ancestor(s) that were born in Portugal. There records may indicate where in Galicia their father was born in. Also, there should be information regarding emigration from Portugal, but you'll need more information on when he left. Portugal has one of the most complete collections of passport records than any other European country (it's a little scattered, but quite complete). Without having all the details it looks like you still have quite a bit of research to do in U.S. records to determine where in Portugal your ancestors came from - after you discover that information you will have a lot of records to look at to determine where in Galicia their father came from.
- June 26, 2012 at 8:17 AM
- rkcarl said...
thanks for this post, it has really helped! I am working with a friend trying to get information on her father's family from Vigo. Her father was only briefly part of her life and she doesn't know the names of his parents. Her father would have been born circa 1925-35. Do you have suggestions on how to work with the archives in Vigo from the US with so little info to work with?
- December 4, 2012 at 7:58 AM
- Lynn Turner, AG said...
Vigo is a big place, and can be even bigger if the name is a common name. Did her father live in the United States? If so, I recommend getting a copy of his death certificate, an obituary, and S-5 social security death application. At least one of these will provide more specific birth information and his parent's names....and possibly more information about them. From that point I would recommend starting to try and track down civil registration records (juzgado de paz/civil registration office in Vigo) and census records, which should be in the municipal archive. I've visited the municipal archive and know that they have census records of the city after 1900.
- December 4, 2012 at 8:36 AM
Hello. I am trying to find more information on my mother's family.
My great-grandparents emigrated from Spain in the 1930s.
My great-grandfather was born in 1898 in La Coruna, Spain. He was married in September(?) 1929 to my great-grandmother (Born 1906). He arrived in the US in January 1930.
My great-grandmother was also born in La Coruna and arrived in the US in August 1934. My grandfather was born December 1935. On an application to re-enter the US filed in 1954, she listed her residence as Carnoedo Sada, La Corunna, Galicia, Spain.
I have been unable to find any records whatsoever on any family they had in Spain.
If you can help, could you email me at email@example.com
- December 29, 2012 at 6:32 PM
I'm looking for the birth records of my husband's father. I believe he was born on January 1, probably around 1881 in El Ferrol, Galicia, perhaps in Ares, but I'm not positive. I know the name of his parents, but that's about it. I've tried to research his name on different web sites, but have not been successful. Where could I get information about birth records in that area? Can you help me?
- August 11, 2014 at 9:33 PM
- chicababe said...
Hi, I just found this page and am so happy I did, I know my great grandfather is from Galicia, he emigrated to Puerto Rico, I've found the 1930 census and 1940 census in PR that has his name, he was also the mayor of the town that my mother was born in, back in 1936, I'm looking for information/copies of anything that shows me where from in Galicia he came or when he left. Any clues as to where I can locate this information? Thanks!
- February 20, 2015 at 10:27 AM
- chicababe said...
Hi I'm so happy I found this page. My great grandfather was born in Galicia and emigrated to Cidra Puerto Rico, he was a landowner and became mayor of that town in 1936, I have seen and printed the pages from the 1930 and 1940 Census of PR and saw his name and the names of his first wife (my great grandmother was his second marriage) and their two sons, I'm looking for any information as to emigration records, passenger manifests/logs etc. Any pointers in the right direction would really be awesome. firstname.lastname@example.com THANKS SO MUCH AND HAPPY HUNTING EVERYONE!
- February 20, 2015 at 10:30 AM
- Lynn Turner, AG said...
You will want to find him, or his wife and other family members, in the civil registration or Catholic Church records in Puerto Rico. The civil registration (indexes) records will be published on FamilySearch (familysearch.org) over the next month or so.
- February 20, 2015 at 10:37 AM
Hi. I have been trying to locate information regarding my grandfather's family. His name was Eustaquio Rego de Martinez. His father was Vicente Rego and his mother was Carlota Martinez Castro. Eustaquio was born Sept. 19, 1893 in Ladrido, La Coruna according to his U.S. naturalization records or Ortigueira (according to his WWI Draft Registration. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1907 via Vera Cruz Mexico. I have tried Diocese de Lugo who referred me to Santiago de Compostela but that has been over a year ago and i haven't had a response. Are there other places i should try. Thank you - Debbie
- May 6, 2015 at 2:02 PM
I am looking for information on my grandfather, Eustaquio Rego de Martinez. He was born to Carlota Martinez and Vicente Rego on the 19th of September 1893 in Ladrido or Ortiqueira. He had a sister Maria Rego de Martinez born on the 12th December 1897 in Espasante and passed away on the 4th of July 1968 in Ortiquira. Any help is greatly appreciated.
- May 18, 2015 at 3:35 PM
- Lynn Turner, AG said...
I apologize for not responding sooner. Do you speak and/or understand Spanish? This video will walk you through how to ask for a civil registration birth, marriage, or death certificate for your ancestor. https://familysearch.org/learningcenter/lesson/pedir-certificado-de-nacimiento-en-espana-mediante-internet/730
My recommendation is that you use this site and see if the government has a record for him in one of the towns you mentioned in your post. If they do they will send it to you and you can use it to piece together your family history.
If you need help - send me an email email@example.com
- May 21, 2015 at 9:41 AM


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April 7, 2011
The head of INTERPOL has emphasized the need for a globally verifiable electronic identity card (e-ID) system for migrant workers at an international forum on citizen ID projects, e-passports, and border control management.
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At a time when global migration is reaching record levels, there is a need for governments to put in place systems at the national level that would permit the identity of migrants and their documents to be verified internationally via INTERPOL, said Secretary General Noble.
The vast majority of migrants are law-abiding citizens who would like to have their identities verified in more than one country using the same identity document. If countries were to issue work and residence permits in an e-ID format that satisfied common standards internationally, then both the migrant workers and the countries themselves would benefit because efficiencies would improve, security at the national and global level would improve and corruption would be reduced.
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