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The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) is pleased to announce that the city of Apeldoorn (the Netherlands) will host the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships presented by Tissot.
Following a very successful 2017 UCI Track Cycling World Championships presented by Tissot in Hong Kong, track cycling's flagship event returns to Europe in 2018. The 2018 edition will take place in Apeldoorn, Netherlands on February 28th to March 4th. Built in 2008, the Apeldoorn velodrome has already hosted the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in 2011, the UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in 2015, and the Tissot UCI Track Cycling World Cup in 2016-2017. On this occasion, a new 250-metre cycling track was unveiled, within a 5,000-seater arena.


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By Karin Calloway
Cheesy Potato Soup
If your looking at some cold, wet weather, I bet your family will enjoy this simple, comforting meal as much as mine did! If you have some fresh chives or green onions on hand, chop some up and scatter them over the top of each serving.
Cheesy Potato Soup
Melt the butter in a sauce pot or Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Whisk in the flour and continue whisking for 1 minute, until smooth. Gradually whisk in the milk. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until thickened, about 10 minutes. Stir in the potatoes, cheese and sour cream, heat just until the cheese is melted and serve.
Makes 6 servings.

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Tag Archives: Rita Duffy
Now Available The Exhibition Catalogue for "The Map is Not the Territory"
As the show is attracting and receiving more and more attentions I'd like to share few links as well as announce the exhibition catalogue. available on Amazon.
To learn more about the exhibit, visit our website here
Ramadan is coming soon At the Arab british centre
Proud To be part of this show: a preview of The Map is Not the Territory at P21 in London
The Map is not the territory now showing in London at P21 Gallery
I am very honoured to announce that the Itinerant show curated by Jennifer Heath and Dagnar Painter is showing at P21 Gallery in London.
P21 gallery presents The Map is Not the Territory, looking at the relationships and commonalities in Palestinian, Native American, and Irish experiences of invasion, occupation, and colonization – not as novelty or polemic, but as history and current events. To understand history is the first step toward peace.
Press-release: http://www.p21.org.uk/AboutTheMapisNottheTerritory.aspx
The Exhibition continue 12 June 2015 – 25 July 2015 | Open Tuesday – Friday 12 – 6pm, Saturday 12 – 4pm, Wednesdays until 8pm
Location: 21 Chalton Street, London, NW1 1JD | Nearest underground: King's Cross/St. Pancras and Euston Station | Tel: 020 7121 6190 | Web: p21.org.uk
The map is not the territory new website
Dear MAP artists, contributors and friends,
MAP: THE whole show is on line
Levantine Cultural Center, Los Angeles, May 8-June 22, 2014
* Amazing and profound. Great works and terrific idea. "Parallel Paths" displays and exposes not just the history of Palestinians, Native Americans & Irish, but also the history of human suffering & conditioning, from displacement to abandonment (?) to oppression. This exhibit is an opportunity for all & everyone to open their eyes to the horrors in our history & open theirs hearts & minds to bring those to an end.
* A beautiful, profound, enlightening and moving exhibition. The links are delicately yet clearly drawn. The texts are (?) research and written and the artworks are richly varied and (?). I smiled much more than I expected to! I am Irish-American, so I was especially struck by Irish History Lesson 1 & 2, which evoke some of what "Irishness" feels like to me. "Flying Lesson #7 is sheer, surprising joy. An amazing exhibition.
—Signature unreadable
* As someone interested in history, seeing a real Palestinian passport issued by the British was amazing and of course sad. I wish I knew what happened to the owner of the passport and their families.
–Arielle Ziarty
The Map is not the territory in Los Angeles
Dear all,
Please join us to "The Map is not the Territory", a nomadic group exhibition curated by Jennifer Heath and Dagmar Painter now passing through L.A.
Many artists, including my self, are participating to this poignant investigation of the experience and concept of territory. For more info please see details below. Do pop by if you can and spread the word to the world.
Thank you
Parallel Paths: Palestinians, Native Americans, Irish
May 8, 2014 6:00pm – 10:00pm
Free to the public, contributions welcome
Inside/Outside Gallery
Levantine Cultural Center
5998 W. Pico Blvd
Los Angeles CA 90035
Between La Cienega & Fairfax
street parking
"The map is not the territory," a phrase coined by Alfred Korzybski, is the lesser-known counterpart to Magritte's charming "This is not a pipe." Unlike "This is not a pipe"–an image that has been rendered safe by multiple reproductions and parodies, by now of little relevance unless you are an Art History major–the phrase "the map is not the territory" is charged with political and cultural meaning of the most subversive sort. This meaning inspires the upcoming exhibit at the Inside/Outside Gallery, conceived by by Jennifer Heath and co-curated by Heath and Dagmar Painter.
One land, divided by walls and nomenclature like "annexed," "territory," "Manifest Destiny," until it is in bloody fragments. One people, divided by one thing, and then another, until they can barely recognize their own kin. Like blown dandelion seeds, people venturing out from their homeland, only to find themselves always looking backwards, and wondering how to retrace their steps. Such are the images and anxieties at the heart of The Map is Not the Territory: Parallel Paths: Palestinians, Native Americans, Irish.
In 66 works by 39 artists, The Map Is Not the Territory looks at relationships and commonalities in Palestinian, Native American, and Irish experiences of invasion, occupation, and colonization–not as novelty or polemic, but as history and current events. Although many peoples worldwide have suffered long and often brutal intrusions, Palestinians, Native Americans and the Irish have intersected for centuries in specific and often unusual ways. What are some of these intersections and how do contemporary artists examine and process them through their own lives and visions? The Map Is Not the Territory opened in 2013 at The Jerusalem Fund Gallery Al-Quds in Washington, D.C.–the first stop for this five-year traveling art exhibition, 2013-2018. See a Washington Post review of the show.
These artists explore the profound specific and unusual intersections between the three cultures with original paintings, photographs, prints, drawings, artist books, and films. They consider such topics as conflict, resistance, land, food, diaspora, identity, and persistence. The show is comprised of sixty-four unframed works on paper (and two media pieces). Most of the artists are Palestinian, Native American, and Irish and include leading artists with international reputations, such as Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Hani Zurob and Rita Duffy. Eight brief wall texts provide the threads to each culture's struggles for human and civil rights.
The exhibit, THE MAP IS NOT THE TERRITORY–PARALLEL PATHS : PALESTINIANS, NATIVE AMERICANS, IRISH, curated by Jennifer Heath and Dagmar Painter, is touring nationally and internationally in 2013-2018. This review primarily focuses on the Native American contributors to the traveling exhibition and highlights the engagement of Native American artists with socio-political issues, and how Native American aesthetics and social concerns relate to those of Irish and Palestinian heritage as expressed in this exhibit. A feature of this exhibition are the interconnections of being both a visual artist and an activist. It is not unusual for the non-Indigenous public to be informed about the vast array of American Indian arts and crafts, especially those that fall within traditional, tribal heritages. However, few viewers are aware of our contributions as professors, museum curators, and writers and the impact that this intellectual heritage has had on our development as visual artists/activists. Launched in Washington, DC in 2013 at The Jerusalem Fund Gallery, traveling to San Francisco and other US cities and later going abroad to Dublin, Ireland and other countries, the show will show a broad global audience how visual art can provide aesthetic pleasure while simultaneously confronting social justice issues impacting Indigenous Peoples in North and Central America, Middle Eastern and North African populations, and the Irish.
These artists have diverse perspectives on the connections between visual art and social justice activism. Focusing on 21st century art practices, their interests include; using video and other new technologies to bridge crucial differences across cultures; resistance, the struggle for sovereignty, and the right to perform traditional cultural practices; the evolution of Indigenous art; the exploration of the concept of globalism and its' negative and positive effects on Indigenous peoples, native identity, and art in the so-called pre-modern, modern, post-modern, post-colonial and post-racial worlds.
Native American Imagery in Parallel Paths
Exhibition artists who focus on Native American issues are represented on the various walls titles, Territory/Map, Occupation/Wall, Conflict/Resistance, Land/Food, Overlay/Identity, Words/Persistence, and Home/Diaspora. Norman Akers (Osage), Neal Ambrose-Smith (Salish), Scott Benesiinaabandan (Anishnabe), Wahssontiio Cross (Mohawk), Michael Elizondo Jr. (Southern Cheyenne/Chumash), Melanie Yazzie (Navajo), Nadema Agard (Cherokee/Lakota/Powhatan), Jaune Quick-to- See Smith (Salish), Malaquias Montoya (Chicano), and Phoebe Farris (Powhatan-Renape/Pamunkey) have Indigenous Canadian, United States, and Mexican heritages.
Melanie Yazzie, a Dine' printmaker chose to collaborate with a Lebanese friend and honor Middle Eastern and Native American homelands and culture in her piece, Seeing Each Other. Each woman selected objects that are important to them and Yazzie combined those images, creating dual portraits of them facing each other and surrounded by their respective cultural artifacts. Each portrait is enclosed in a floating rectangle with similar shades of red, pale green, and brown tones. Both women have dark hair and features and look more alike than different. A common sepia toned background with plant vegetation unites the two rectangles, symbolizing a shared concern for the land.
Scott Benesiinaabandan's digital prints, Flags of Our Fathers, Solidarity Flag Derry, A Small Note from the North of Ireland, Anishanabe Proclamation, and God Save the Queen, references his artist residencies and international collaborations in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. Based in Canada, this Anishanabe mixed media artist creates works that focus on global Indigenous struggles. His flag photos include flags that are not recognized by nation states, flags hung at half mast, flags being burned, and "non-recognized" flags being draped over government monuments by a protester. Canada's First Nations peoples have much in common with the Irish due to a shared history of United Kingdom's colonialism.
Malaquias Montoya's ink-jet print titled Undocumented is a harsh reminder of the walls and fences created by nation states to block Indigenous peoples from entering lands that they historically inhabited. A clothed figure is trapped on a barbed wire fence with blood oozing from the body and the word Undocumented painted across the figure in red ink. Of Chicano heritage, viewers may assume that Montoya's figure is trying to enter the United States from Mexico and join the ranks of people who are classified as illegal "aliens". This figure could very well represent the mestizo migrants who are attempting to re-enter land that once belonged to their ancestors before Spanish and English occupation. Lands now called New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California. But as Montoya points out, he creates images of the disenfranchised "from Angola, to Central America, from Palestine to the barrio".
Nadema Agard's watercolor/pastel/mixed media, Tatanka Ska Oyate/White Buffalo Nation is dedicated to the White Buffalo Calf Maiden who brought the Sacred Pipe to the Lakota Nation. The work is about a "relational concept of nationhood that is not defined by maps but is the territory of the heart, spirit, mind, and body of the Oyate or The People." Agard's ribbon tied par fleche is decorated with seven white buffalo (tatanka) who are moving through a reddish landscape that is located above a gold and white colored buffalo skull.
Crowded, Norman Aker's digital print is based on his reflections of current events about immigration laws, national borders, and boundaries. His print is concerned with defining and/or finding an Indigenous space within the crowded US landscape. An American Indian man outlined in red and black, wearing Plains clothing and headdress beats on a drum while looking upward. Black and gray birds are flying across the landscape. The background is a partial map of North and South America. Cities such as Philadelphia, Atlantic City, New Haven, Chicago, Brasilia, Regina, and Calgary, just to mention a few are printed in small font. The lone Indian man is crowded and pushed to the edge of the space.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith's pigment print, House and Home, is colored mainly in blue hues that wash across the surface in broad strokes. The central image is a tipi with a European styled chair in the middle –a furniture item which may surprise some viewers. The background has several placemats with formal settings of silver ware and dinner plates. In Quick-to-See Smith's artist statement she explains that some Native Americans still live in portable tipis, especially in the summer. She enlightens us about how members of her Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation of Montana live in tipis while participating in Medicine Lodge ceremonies. The strength and durability of tipi architecture enables inhabitants to be comfortable in thunder storms and in hot summer heat. The juxtaposition of formal place settings, an erect hard back chair, and a tipi educate observers about the continuity of traditional Native American style homes and their adaptations in the 21st century.
Neal Ambrose-Smith's digital print monotypes, Weight of the Discussion; Baby Bird Brain; Stealing a Ride on the White Man's Bus; and Going Where No Man Has Gone Before, use humor to visually portray Coyote stories about ethical behavior, his Salish tribe's millennia –old petroglyphs, Native American participation in modernity, and Ambrose-Smith's desire to see Native American characters in science-fiction literature. Visual cues in Stealing a Ride on the White Man's Bus such as the well known Catlin figure of an Indian man dressed in a 19th century top hat and tails and the 20th century ad of a bus driver in uniform with the common safety rule "buckle up" are familiar to many of us, but not usually in the same painting. And the phrase "Going Where No Man Has Gone Before" usually implies outer-space exploration in science-fiction modes of travel. But for Ambrose-Smith his Roadrunner figure traverses outer space in a canoe.
Native American artists have survived colonialism, servitude, racial discrimination, and rapid technological changes. Native artists/activists continually develop and revise the multiple meanings of our art and our heritages to suit our own concepts of American Indian/Native American/First Nations/Indigenous peoples. We undertake the evolution of these cultural concepts with the support and guidance of our elder, spiritual advisors, tribal leaders, and community members. We realize the necessity of our art to be responsive to today's life circumstances. The participating Native American artists, their Palestinian and Irish peers, and the curators, women and men from different tribal, racial, and ethnic backgrounds, came together to honor their respective original homelands despite current occupations, to give voice to those who are silenced, to acknowledge their people's existence despite attempts of physical and cultural genocide, and to celebrate the diversity of 21st century Native American, Palestinian, and Irish art and culture.
— Phoebe Farris, Ph.D. (Powhatan-Renape) is contributing arts editor for the Cultural Survival Quarterly. She is a professor emerita of Purdue University and the vice president for membership of the Washington D.C. branch of American Association of University Women.
– See more at: http://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/map-not-territory-parallel-paths-palestinians-native-americans-irish#sthash.fHLMVV9M.dpuf
The MAP IS NOT THE TERRITORY UPDATE
THE MAP IS NOT THE TERRITORY show continues and is getting amazing reviews!
Checking it out:
THE WASHINGTON POST – 05 October 2013 The Map is Not the Territory A complex look at tangled situations, "The Map is Not the Territory" expands beyond the Jerusalem Fund Gallery Al-Quds's usual focus on Palestinian issues to include Ireland's historic divisions and the United States' and Canada's treatment of their indigenous population. Made by 39 artists and mostly on paper, the nearly 70 pieces are grouped into such subcategories as "Occupation/Wall" and "Home/Diaspora." Their approach ranges from symbolic to specific and from playful to polemical. ome artworks combine elements from the three rather different conflicts. Mona El-Bayoumi's "Lucky Can't Find a Piece of Land to Sit and Eat His Falafel Peacefully" collages stereotypical images from commercial food packaging, including Lucky Charms' leprechaun and Land O'Lakes butter's Indian maid. Fatin Al-Tamimi and Lisa-Marie Johnson photographed Palestinian-flag-waving marchers on Dublin's once-contested streets. Helen Zughaib's "Woven in Exile" shows a veiled woman in front of a colorful Navajo quilt. Rawan Arar's shot of a West Bank camp shows a spray-painted welcome, "You Are Now Entering Free Dheisheh," inspired by an oft-photographed sign in Derry, Northern Ireland. Among the motifs are maps, walls and passports. Rajie Cook's "Epitaph for a Roadmap" depicts an unfolded blank sheet, lacking any path to the future, while Manal Deeb adds symbolic images to her grandfather's actual Palestinian passport. Malaquias Montoya's "Undocumented" depicts a faceless person snared on barbed wire, and John Halaka's "Forgotten Survivors" superimposes an old map — with Jerusalem designated in Arabic as "Al Quds" — atop photos of refugees. There is, inevitably, an abundance of text. The simplest example is Zughaib's "Beit/Salaam," whose spiraling calligraphy repeats the words for "home" and "peace." It's a gentle mantra for a show that's more often bristling. http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/galleries-silver-clouds-the-map-is-notthe- territory-reminiscences-and-current-musings/2013/10/03/8bc180fc-29f9-11e3-b141- 298f46539716_story.html
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The strangest thing popped into my inbox the other day: a BCBG ad for this season's statement jewelry. Front and center were a couple of iterations of what you see on your left: a knuckle ring. I kid you not.
Look closely and you'll find that the "ring" is actually two of them linking your fingers together on the inside, with a bejeweled bar across the top of two fingers on the outside. It appears to be an ironic riff on the brass knuckles of gangster movie fame.
If your education in 1930's films has been neglected, brass knuckles were four linked metal rings with a bar of concealed weight that, when the bad guy made a fist, gave him a sneaky and powerful punch.
Back to BCBG, couple the knuckle rings with the must-have shoes of the season – platform gladiator sandals – and you have a look that screams power. I'm going somewhere with this, but it probably isn't where you think. But before we move on, let me just say that I have never been one to judge a feminist for her fashion. In fact, I applaud feminists who aren't afraid to wear pink (when it's the new black), who don't shy away from lipstick, who dress to please themselves, whether it's sensible shoes or sexy stilettos, khaki pants or trendy little pencil skirts. Either/or is in itself is a sign of power: What we wear is more than just utility.
In fact, I remember back when I was a new mom, with a pretty sweet free-lancing gig that allowed me to work from home when Shannon was a baby. Every once in a while, when the workload built up, my boss would go sideways, call me up and rant that either I did a full-on nine-to-five in the office everyday or the arrangement was kaput. At which point, I would call the babysitter and speed to the office, where I always managed to talk myself back into working from home. At such meetings, I always wore the same pair of don't-mess-with-me high heeled boots.
I am the first to say that my boss never noticed my boots. They meant nothing to him. But they meant a lot to me. On those days, they gave me a sense of power (and, I confess, height) which for some reason gave me the juice to speak up.
Which brings us back to the knuckle rings and all the other overt Wonder Woman fashion statements: are they signs of power for women who have seized it – or props for women who still feel they have none? Here comes my point.
For too long women have been told they have no voice, that they've been silenced by the patriarchy. Which was one hell of a wake-up call and rallying cry back in the early days of the women's movement. And maybe it's still true to a certain extent. But what I wonder is if one of the unintended consequences of the rhetoric is that many women have come to believe it — and have silenced themselves, convinced that no one will listen.
Or feel that that their only source of power is in trappings like knuckle rings.
Which was why I was so proud of Jessica Bennett, Jesse Ellison and Sarah Ball, the young Newsweek women who were willing to bite the hand that feeds them in the blistering piece entitled "Are We There Yet?" (Answer: No) that Shannon wrote about on Tuesday. It wasn't only what they wrote that so impressed me, but the fact that they had the guts to write it. That, to quote my favorite VP, is a big, fucking deal.
What's also a pretty big deal is the fact that Newsweek ran with the story. It's front and center and last I heard, Bennett, Ellison and Ball are still employed.
I see two lessons here. First, we've got a long way to go before the work of the women's movement is done. But second is the subtext: we do indeed have a voice. We just have to use it.
And we probably don't need knuckle rings to do so. Unless, of course, we think they're cool.


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Charity changes young Ratha's life
In April, Cambodian traffickers tried to buy 11-year-old Ratha from his mother for $2000.
Luckily - just days before - Shellharbour woman Faye Webb and other volunteers from her newly founded charity Help2help had passed through Ratha's remote village, Kampong Kdei, and promised to help the physically disabled boy.
This promise gave his mother the courage to refuse the traffickers' money and last month, with the help of another Illawarra charity, the Cram Foundation, Ms Webb returned to the village with a specialised wheelchair, giving Ratha freedom for the first time in his young life.
"[Ratha] had not left his house for eight years due to his physical disability, as his mother was unable to carry him," Ms Webb said.
"We purchased a pram as a temporary measure, bringing Ratha great joy but limited freedom."
The wheelchair, donated by the Cram Foundation, was delivered to Ratha in October and this bright and happy boy has now been able to attend school for the first time in his life.
"He and his family live in abject poverty but have been overwhelmed with the donation, which has changed their lives."
Ratha's new wheelchair previously belonged to a profoundly disabled client who lives one of the Cram Foundation's group homes in Albion Park.
Foundation chief executive Gareth McKeen said he was proud to be able to help the boy and his family.
"It is wonderful that two local charities have combined to provide a young Cambodian boy not only with a wheelchair, but with a better chance for an improved life," he said.
Help2help was established in 2011 after Ms Webb and her family visited Cambodia and saw a need to help people living in impoverished villages on the outskirts of Siem Reap.
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Melissa Rycroft on DWTS All Stars "It's scary and intimidating all around"
Melissa Rycroft explains to Access Hollywood why doing Dancing With The Stars this time will be different since she has a family now. She's scared and intimidated as well. Read why below and be sure to read the link for more. She's cute. I've always liked her. I can see her with Mark, but, something about her makes me see her with Maks too?
Now, the reality star will face off against the pair yet again on "Dancing with the Stars: All-Stars" – and Melissa said she finds it just as nerve-racking the second time around.
"Two of them have beat me already – let's just say that," Melissa, 29, told AccessHollywood.com's Laura Saltman of her fellow "All-Stars" competitors in an interview on Friday. "I've already lost to two of the people I'm competing against again… it is very intimidating.
"It's scary and intimidating all around, but I think it's going to be fun," she added with a smile.


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Here are some things we have enjoyed over the last few days:
Awesome Tumblr: What We Should Call Social Media.
MCA's Opening Lines from Every Beastie Boys Song.
Beastie Boys Sold Records.
New Magnetic Fields Video.
Regina Spektor "Call Them Brothers" Video.
First Watch: Dr. John "Revolution"
Spiritualized on David Letterman.
Steve Albini did a Reddit AMA.
Nada Surf Covers New Order.
Metric Play Acoustic Version of "Youth Without Youth"
New Redd Kross.
Vintage Photos from SST Records.
New Vampire Weekend Album in the Works.
Of Monsters and Men on Fallon.
Jimmy Fallon Record out June 12th.
Gig Poster of the Week.
The A.V. Club Recommends: If You Like Childish Gambino.
Alison Brie sings "Rich Girl"
Letters of Note: W. Axl Rose.
NME: 100 Best Songs of the 80's
CBGB Festival: Guided By Voices, Pains of Being Pure at Heart.
No Doubt Webisode 1.
Do This on Sunday.
Read This: How Sears Guitars Changed The Sound of American Music Twice.
Disney's Taxi Driver.
Watch: You Just Don't Get It, Do You?
Will Ferrell's SNL Promos.
Making The Office Watchable.
Roger Ebert Remembers Betty.
NYT: Prime-Time Stern.
Nick Offerman Coming to Chicago!
Video: Printers Row Live with Chad Harbach.
Do the Moonwalk
Famous Paintings Recreated with Jelly Beans.
Cats and Dogs Inspired by Billy Joel.
Has Eataly Found a Chicago Home? Pizza by the Numbers at Piece.
Gay Rights in the USA: An Infographic.
This Squirrel Knows What's Up.
Gay on TV: It's All in the Family.
Worst #IfIHadAGun Tweets.
Mary J. Blige "Why?" ft. Rick Ross (via):


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One day after Christmas I've got a text asking me (as an expert) what would I open with AKJ9xxxx, -,xx,AJ10?
Without thinking I answered 2 clubs. After reading the message again I realised that my strongest bid was 2 diamonds so 2 clubs opening became even more obvious.
Today I heard the story...
One of England international players (and a member of Law and Ethics committeeasked for the ruling after the match in the open event against inferior opposition ( six spades made on the wrong lead).
The rule used in the complain was introduced in 2009 to protect weaker players from psych openings of 2clubs.
The hand above wasn't good enough(!!?) because it's not eight tricks against bad layout.
I think situations like this one and aftermath (talk of the town) make bigger tournaments less and less attractive for"normal players" who don't want hassle and aggression of experts. Don't we all have responsibility to encourage others to participate instead of using small print to score the points?
What do you think?
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King also said the bank could not be run as "a one-man show," a sign of concern at high expectations that the arrival of the Canadian will lead to a quick fix for Britain's slow economy.
In an interview with Sky News television broadcast on Sunday, King praised Carney, saying Britain was fortunate to have him. "I think everyone will admire what he will achieve," he said before sending a message to his successor.
"He will work with the rest of the Monetary Policy Committee. It's not a one-man show," King said. "There is a very strong team of people here in the Bank of England which I have built up over 20 years."
King, who steps down at the end of June, said he was confident the bank under Carney would make the right judgments but he stressed his opposition to one of the changes that the Canadian is expected to make - signaling how long interest rates will remain low.
"What none of us can know of course, is what the right decisions will be down the road," King said. "They will have to made month-by-month, according to how the economy develops, and I am sure that they will make the right decision."
Carney was chosen as the next Bank of England governor last year by finance minister George Osborne who hailed the former Goldman Sachs banker as "the outstanding central banker of his generation."
Osborne has asked Carney to report to him on the merits of adopting a system of signals about interest rates similar to that used in the United States.
There, the Federal Reserve has said interest rates will not go up unless unemployment falls or inflation expectations rise to specific levels.
Carney took what was seen as a bold step by adopting a similar policy in 2009 at the Bank of Canada, before the Fed's move, in an attempt to persuade households and businesses that the cost of borrowing was not going to rise in the near future.
But King and other Bank of England policymakers have warned that "forward guidance" risks undermining the credibility of a central bank if it has to change course more quickly than expected on interest rates. Getting agreement on how guidance could be used in Britain will be Carney's first big challenge.
In the interview with Sky, King expressed concern that a flagship British government scheme to boost mortgage lending must not become permanent like in the United States.
"We do not want what the United States have, which is a government-guaranteed mortgage market, and they are desperately trying to find a way out of that position," he said. <ID:L6N0DZ0NJ>
King also said more needed to be done to nurse the British economy back to health after some recent signs of recovery.
"We will need to do more to use up the spare capacity, and to get back to a healthy, growing economy. But we are in a recovery period now," he said.
King has voted for more BoE bond buying in recent months but most of the bank's policymakers oppose the idea.
He said the single biggest risk to Britain's nascent economic recovery was the crisis in the euro zone which was unlikely to be growing quickly "for a long while."
Britain's banks were on track to return to health after a series of reforms prompted by the financial crisis and which would be complete in one or two years' time.
"If we can get to end of this process, then we will have revolution in the way in which banking is handled and we will be able to be proud again of British banking," he said.
(Additional reporting by Mohammed Abbas; Editing by David Cowell)
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Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner are making the best of a tough time.
Nearly nine months after the pair announced they were splitting after 10 years of marriage, the actors are both in the spotlight again, as Affleck promotes "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" and Garner hypes her film "Miracles From Heaven."
Talking about their relationship in the media has been tricky, and on Wednesday, Ellen DeGeneres commended them for putting their children Violet, 10, Seraphina, 7, and Samuel, 4, above all else. "I know it's been kind of a challenging year, obviously. And I what I love – and I think what everybody loves – is that you and Jen are putting the kids first, and that we see you with the kids all the time," she told Affleck. "I think that's the most important thing and the most important message to send everybody."
U.S. & World
"Absolutely, you know?" said Affleck, 43. "We're good friends and we're doing our best and our kids are fabulous and we're working our best for them and that's...What are you gonna do?"
Affleck wasn't just on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" to discuss his personal life, though. While talking about "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice," he recalled how director Zack Snyder first brought him in to explain how they would reinvent the iconic superhero.
"I wouldn't have wanted to try to copy what Chris Nolan and Christian Bale did," he said, referring to their "Dark Knight" trilogy. "They're so amazing and those guys are geniuses. The idea was to try to do something different." Affleck also had another reason for wanting to do the movie: It would be the first one he did in years that wasn't rated R. "I haven't done anything that my kids could see for a long time," the actor said, mentioning "Argo" and "Gone Girl," "so I thought that would be kind of cool."
"My son thinks it's cool. My son thinks it's really cool. He came to the set. He was a little bit suspicious, too. He was like, 'Is that the real Superman?' 'Yes, he is. That's more or less about as real as it gets. That's the real Superman.' When I'd leave, he'd be like, 'Dad, are you going to the Batcave?' I can't [let him down]. I'm like, 'Yes, I am.' Eventually he's going to be in therapy, like, 'You lied to me! There's no Batcave! He's doing Ellen,'" he said. "He thinks I'm in the Batcave now."
Affleck also got quite the shock during his appearance on the daytime talk show.
DeGeneres mentioned co-star Gal Gadot, who plays Wonder Woman in the film, and asked if she's a love interest for Affleck's character. Before he could answer, however, a man dressed as Wonder Woman jumped out of a box that was located right next to him.
"I was genuinely scared by that," Affleck told the host, who then replayed his reaction in slow motion. Check out the clip.
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weekend hacker wrote:The game you mention is free so this "hack" you want is simply for cheating(troop duplication I believe). Hacking tends to be about skill, you'd be surprised how many hackers play games without cheating. It makes games boring and I'd go as far as to say that if you can't play without cheating maybe you should just not play.
Alternatively, if you really really need this then I guess you should go find it yourself. This may accidentally require you to dedicate a couple of years to learning how and as an extra side effect might make you lose all interest in doing things the easy way(including but not limited to cheating in an online game).
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Infinity Blade II's latest update, one Chair Entertainment calls "the largest free content update for the game to date" and dubbed Vault of Tears, has landed on the App Store. Players will get to venture further into the past of Siris as new areas are unlocked (and secrets finally reveals), battle new enemies like the Moss Golem, Lupun, Bog Giant, Acolyte and more, and collect over 50 new items, including weapons, shields, helmets and magic rings. As well, an all-new Treasure Map feature will allow you to find hidden ally and secret items and rewards. Best of all, the visually stunning game has dropped to its lowest price point yet – $2.99 (down from $6.99) – a great buy for those who've yet to make the purchase (update is free for existing players).
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Smoking Cessation for Older Adults: It's Not Too Late!
"But I've been smoking for 45 years."
"The damage has already been done."
"Why shouldn't I enjoy my cigarettes? It doesn't matter at my age."
The truth is, it does matter. Seniors who quit smoking tend to enjoy better health and quality of life than their peers who continue to smoke.
Gaining Health Benefits
Many people do not realize that smoking cessation has immediate and long-term benefits. One study of adults (aged 50-74 years) without a history of heart attack or stroke were followed for 9 years. Current and former smokers experienced a first heart attack, stroke, or death from heart-related diseases over 2 times more than nonsmokers. But, researchers found the risks from smoking decreased after smokers quit, regardless of age, how much one smoked, or for how long.
The benefits of quitting increase over time as your body heals itself.
In 1 day:
- Blood circulation increases
- Carbon monoxide levels in the blood decrease
- Heart rate and blood pressure decrease
In several days to several weeks:
- Sense of taste and smell improves
- Lung capacity increases
- Breathing becomes easier
In several weeks to 9 months:
- Energy level increases
- Lungs become cleaner and more functional
- Colds and other respiratory tract infections become less common
- Sinus congestion decreases
- Shortness of breath decreases
Long-term benefits:
- Risk of heart disease, heart attack, and lung cancer decreases (risk can eventually be similar to that of a lifelong nonsmoker)
- Risk of cancers of the mouth, esophagus, larynx, bladder, pancreas, and kidney decreases
- Risk of dying prematurely decreases
Gaining Even More Benefits
Quitting smoking has additional health benefits, such as decreased risk of peripheral artery disease, stroke, and chronic lung disease ( bronchitis, emphysema, and asthma). Giving up cigarettes may also reduce your risk of cataracts, macular degeneration, thyroid conditions, hearing loss, erectile dysfunction, dementia, and osteoporosis.
Even if you already have a chronic disease, quitting smoking may help reduce the severity of your symptoms and keep you healthier longer. Still think it is too late?
Getting Help
"But I have been smoking for 45 years!" you say. "I'll never be able to quit smoking at this point."
You may be surprised to hear that older smokers are usually more successful at quitting smoking than younger smokers. This is especially true if they already have health problems, particularly those associated with smoking.
Studies suggest that elderly persons who ask their doctors about help for smoking cessation are more likely to get that help and may be more likely to be successful quitters. At your next medical visit, do not forget to ask what you and your doctor together can do to help you kick the habit.
Preparing to Quit
- List all the reasons you want to quit smoking and look at your list often.
- Get help from your doctor, a smoking cessation specialist, or a group cessation program. Discuss using nicotine replacement products (patch, chewing gum, or nasal spray), or medications, along with a behavior change program.
- 1 week before you quit, keep a journal of when and where you smoke each cigarette. Record how you are feeling each time (happy, anxious, relaxed, angry, sad, or lonely). This will help you be more aware of your smoking patterns.
- Choose a method of quitting, such as gradually cutting back or quitting all at once. Quitting all at once tends to be most effective.
- Set a quit date on your calendar.
Using Helpful Strategies
- On quit day, throw out all your cigarettes and ashtrays.
- Review your smoking journal and identify your smoking patterns. If you regularly smoke in certain places at certain times (in the kitchen after a meal, for example), change your routine (get up from the table after eating). Identify other high-risk situations such as stress, depression, and being around other smokers. Have a plan for every situation.
- Create a list of ways to distract yourself from a cigarette craving. Examples include calling a friend, taking a walk, chewing gum, or taking a warm bath.
- Reward yourself with a treat (not food) for every week you do not smoke. Put the money you save by not buying cigarettes in a jar and watch it grow.
- Have a supportive buddy (preferably an ex-smoker) you can call during the rough times.
- To avoid weight gain, eat low-fat meals and snacks with lots of fruit, vegetables, and whole grains. Drink lots of water. Exercise daily. Consult a nutritionist if weight gain becomes a problem.
- Withdrawal symptoms should go away in a few days. Nicotine replacement products and medications like bupropion can help. Try to get more rest and relaxation.
Learning How to Handle Stress
Many people go back to smoking sometimes years after quitting when a crisis hits. Plan ahead for how you will handle a stressful event such as a death, divorce, retirement, illness, etc. That way, you will not be caught off guard.
Most ex-smokers make several attempts to quit before they are successful. If you start smoking again, do not let feelings of regret, guilt, or failure get a handle on you. Learn from your setbacks and get right back on the program. It is not too late!
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US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Canadian Lung Association
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Gellert C, Schottker B, et al. Impact of smoking and quitting on cardiovascular outcomes and risk advancement periods among older adults. Eur J Epidemiol. 2013;28(8):649-658.
Guide to quitting smoking. American Cancer Society website. Available at: http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/cid/documents/webcontent/002971-pdf.pdf. Published February 6, 2014. Accessed July 15, 2016.
The real rewards of quitting. Smoke Free website. Available at: http://smokefree.gov/rewards-of-quitting. Accessed July 15, 2016.
Whitson HE, Heflin MT, Burchett BM. Patterns and predictors of smoking cessation in an elderly cohort. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2006;54:466-471.
12/30/2011 DynaMed's Systematic Literature Surveillance http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed: Cao Y, Kenfield S, Song Y, et al. Cigarette smoking cessation and total and cause-specific mortality: a 22-year follow-up study among US male physicians. Arch Intern Med. 2011;171(21):1956-1959.
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And finally since opinions do not stop at the normal members of society, since for the purposes of an election, a propaganda, a following, numbers constitute power, the quality of attention is still further depressed. The mass of absolutely illiterate, of feeble-minded, grossly neurotic, undernourished and frustrated individuals, is very considerable, much more considerable there is reason to think than we generally suppose. Thus a wide popular appeal is circulated among persons who are mentally children or barbarians, people whose lives are a morass of entanglements, people whose vitality is exhausted, shut-in people, and people whose experience has comprehended no factor in the problem under discussion. The stream of public opinion is stopped by them in little eddies of misunderstanding, where it is discolored with prejudice and far fetched analogy.
This could be written today, about any one of you who consider yourselves a tea party supporter. And get how he writes that. "Normal members of society", Walter are you excluding yourself from the rest of us? That's why journalists very often do not report on the whole story. He continues: (pages 247, 248)
The established leaders of any organization have great natural advantages. They are believed to have better sources of information. The books and papers are in their offices. They took part in the important conferences. They met the important people. They have responsibility. It is, therefore, easier for them to secure attention and to speak in a convincing tone. But also they have a very great deal of control over the access to the facts. Every official is in some degree a censor. And since no one can suppress information, either by concealing it or forgetting to mention it, without some notion of what he wishes the public to know, every leader is in some degree a propagandist. Strategically placed, and compelled often to choose even at the best between the equally cogent though conflicting ideals of safety for the institution, and candor to his public, the official finds himself deciding more and more consciously what facts, in what setting, in what guise he shall permit the public to know.
That the manufacture of consent is capable of great refinements no one, I think, denies. The process by which public opinions arise is certainly no less intricate than it has appeared in these pages, and the opportunities for manipulation open to anyone who understands the process are plain enough.
Lippmann does not explicitly include journalists themselves as said 'leaders' and 'propagandists', but he doesn't have to. We all see the news and information of today, and we all see how the journalists are using it to their advantage.
He already made it clear that he views portions of the populace as "mentally children and barbarians", and "grossly neurotic", why wouldn't those journalists who are so superior to the rest of us not withhold certain information so as to make us more fit for 'democracy'?
And this isn't the worst of it. Lippmann continued this line of arrogance in another book of his, The Phantom Public. Unfortunately, it's still under copyright.


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A group of senior citizens, mostly in their 80s and 90s, faces eviction from the University Mound Ladies Home, a San Francisco elder care facility serving residents of modest means that has been in operation for 130 years.
The University Mound Board of Trustees has said the nonprofit organization that runs the home is too far in debt to keep the doors open.
Nevertheless, interim director Bill Brinkman and members of the Board of Trustees have rejected the city's offer of temporary financial assistance. University Mound has entered into an agreement to sell the facility to Alta Vista School for $5.4 million as a way to pay off its debts, making it clear at a public hearing that it would not reconsider this plan despite the city's attempts to intervene on behalf of the impacted residents.
At the Board of Supervisors' Neighborhood Services and Safety Committee today [Thu/10], Sup. David Campos put board treasurer John Sedlander on the spot.
"The city has given you every opportunity to stay open," Campos said, referencing offers made when his office met with University Mound leadership shortly after the closure was announced. "We are willing to put money on the table, to keep this open temporarily, until we find a long-term viable solution. Are you willing to accept that?"
But Sedlander insisted that this was not a viable option. "We've been financing our operations for the past six years … with debt," he said. "We are unable to make the payroll unless we were to close this facility. … It's one of those things that's just a model that doesn't work."
The closure has sparked widespread community concern, in part because it can be very dangerous to force people in frail health to move.
"They're playing with people's lives," Eddie Shine, whose mother is 97 and lives at University Mound, told the Bay Guardian. "A move would be devastating, which is why I'm so passionate about this," she added.
Speaking during public comment, Anna Stratton said she was concerned that her 87-year-old mother would "feel isolated and alone" after being transferred to a Hayward retirement home. "When we transferred her [to University Mound] she did not eat for seven days," Stratton explained, noting that this would arise as a concern yet again with the pending move.
In May, residents were issued eviction notices indicating that they would have to move by July 10. That date has since been extended to July 31.
Campos said the city would explore every possible route to prevent University Mound from closing down and evicting the seniors, including the possibility of rezoning the property to be maintained as a retirement home since the benefactors behind the original endowment established that it should function as such. After public comment was over, Campos called Sedlander back to the podium.
"You heard the testimony," he told the University Mound board treasurer. "You know the city is going to do everything we can to block you" from moving forward with the July 31 eviction. "I am going to give you the option to do the right thing here," he went on. "Are you prepared to call that deadline null and void?"
Sedlander responded that he was not prepared to rescind the evictions.
The item was continued and will likely come up for discussion again before July 31. "I will fight to do everything I possibly can till hell freezes over to make sure we stop the closure of this facility," Campos said. "If the city has to fight to make it happen, then the city will fight to make it happen."


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PANAMA CANAL MUSEUM SPRING/SUMMER 2012VOLUME 12 ISSUE 1 Affilia t ions America n Association of Museums American Association for State and Local History BuyforCharity.com Canal Zone Study Group Council of American Maritime Museums Dun & Bradstreet Florida Association of Museums Guidestar.com Isthmian Collectors Club Leave a Legacy Program Panama Canal Society, Inc. Panama National Institute for Culture Sociedad de Amigos del Museo Afro Antilleano de Panama University of Florida World Ocean Observatory Message from the President As the American Era in Panama was dmwing to a dose on the last day of December in 1999, a small, but dedicated group of volunteers from the fledgling Panama Canal Museum, was quietly and diligently gathering an impressive collection of historical objects, artifacts and other memorabilia in a serious attempt to preserve for future generations that remarkable period in U. S. history. Now, after nearly 14 years of operation, the museum, too, has drawn its shades and is moving on to another phase of its existence. This wonderful collection, which has grown significantly-thanks to generous contributions from our loyal supporters-has recently been described as a "National Treasure," and will forever be preserved through the museum's partnership with the University of Florida (UF). UF is truly excited about having our collection and they are treating it with great care They have already digitized a number of items that are now available for public vie\ ving on the UF website http : //ufdc.ufl.edu/J2cm Many more items will be digitized and placed online as funds become available. In addition, UF is planning a gala celebration beginning in August 2014 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Panama Canal and will display a great many items from our collection in various exhibits throughout its campus in Gainesville, FL. Although the Panama Canal Museum will soon fade away into a distant memory, we have taken steps to retain its spirit and vision by establishing a new organization called "Friends of the Panama Canal Museum Collection at the University of Horida (or 'PCM Friends,' for short)." Because processing, preserving, digitizing and exhibiting the collection are costly undertakings the PCM Friends will continue to raise money in various ways and will be asking current museum members to continue their membershi p in, and support of, the new organization These measures will ensure that we have a continuous flow of funds to maintain the collection far into the future. Sadl y this is our last official issue of the Panama Canal Museum Review; but we will b e sending out our e-Musillgs for the next few months as a way of keeping our members informed. As to the future, if all goes well, we hope to have a membership publication for the PCM Friends and, already, our current Review editor, Peggy Huff, has stated that she will be pleased to continue on as editor of the new publication. Continued on page 2
P ag e 2 P a n a m a Canal Museum Friends ofthe Panama Canal Museum Collection at the University ofFlorida As the Panama Canal Museum winds down its operations, a new organization has been established to continue the legacy of the museum and to assist the University of Florida in maintaining the museum's collection. The official name will be "Friends of the Panama Canal Museum Collection at the University of Florida." We will call it PCM Friends, for short. The PCM Friends will operate under the auspices of the University of Florida Foundation (UFF), a 501 (c) (3) organization, to which gifts may be eligible for charitable contribution deductions. The PCM Friends will have memberships and will have duties and responsibilities as shown below: Assist UF in interpreting, organizing and articulating the collection Assist UF in researching inquiries about the canal the Canal Zone and Panama Assist UF with fundraising, and the recruitment ofmembers Advise UF on the allocation of income from the endowment and other sources Donate and solicit relevant material for the collection Solicit volunteer support for processing of materials Participate in public relations activities Prepare and support exhibits Generate awareness of the United States' role in the history of Panama Participate in presentations and speakers bureau Support educational outreach and oral histories Effective 1, dues and donations that would have been sent previously to the Panama Canal luseum may thereafter be sent to the PCM Friends account at UF or to other accounts that have been established to preserve, maintain and enhance the collection. Contributions may be made to any of the funds listed below, by making a check out to the University of Florida Foundation, and showing the appropriate account number. Friends of the Panama Canal Museum Collection (#017863) for redistributing to the other accounts or supporting oral histories, research and other activities related to the PCM Collection Panama Canal Museum Collection Processing Fund (#016629) for processing, digitizing and preserving the collection Panama Canal Museum Collection Endowment Fund (#017605) for supporting the collection indefinitely with the annllal interest from this fund Panama Canal 2014 Anniversary Exhibit and Related Events (#017763) for supporting activities related to the 1001h anniversary of the Panama Canal Janice G. Grimison and Edward "Ted" W. Scott Library Memorial Fund (#017911)for digitizing 60 years of the Panama American newspapers ----------Messagefrom tlte President (co nt i nu ed from page 1 ) So, as we bid farewell to the museum, I would like to extend, on behalfof the members of the museum's board of trustees, its staff and its many volunteers, our most heartfelt thanks to every single person and organization that contributed in any way to the museum's success over the years. As a result of your generous donations, your contributions of valuable and historical artifacts and your support of and participation in our many events and activities, we can look back at our accomplishments with a sense of pride and know that our collective efforts have ensured that our unique heritage will not soon be forgotten. As they would say in Panama, "Vaya con Dios, Panama Canal Museum," and "Bienvenidos, Friends of the Panama Canal Museum Collection at UP." Jo-eWcuul President
Page.3 Panama Canal Museum Transition ofCollection a Series of"Home Runs" by Dr. Robert Hughes In November and December, Dr. Bob Hughes, Zonian, PCM board member and author of Ahorca Lagarto, headed to the University of Florida to research material for his next book. Much to his surprise, the Panama Canal NJuseum Collection, which he assumed was going to be a great help to him in his research, turned out also to be a major distraction, pulling him from his planned research! Bob soon became engrossed in providing the university with more information about many of the items in our collection now at the university, thus insuring future researchers will have access to information about the collection perhaps only those who had lived in the Canal Zone and Panama at the time could provide. After hearing about Bob's exciting work at the March PCM board meeting, the board, knowing that others would also be interested and maybe, too, want to join in the excitement and become involved in the work, asked Bob to prepare a report of his activities for our members. The report follows. The transition of the PCM collection to UF is the result of a series of "home runs" of which we can all be proud: First, the Panama Canal Museum, through the creation of their visionary institution and the generosity of many hundreds of donors, collected priceless historical artifacts, objects, photos, books, and manuscripts related to the American Era-and thus created a proud legacy that enriches us all. Second, the University of Florida entered into a partnership with the Panama Canal Museum and agreed to accept the entire Museum Collection into the University library system. Third, the University dedicated the library professionals and resources to process, handle, report, photograph, store, exhibit inventory, and allow access to the Museum Collection in a library setting. The result: The Museum Collection is safe and secure for future generations to study, research, and enjoy. The Panama Canal Museum Collection has found its proper home at UF; it will be safeguarded, preserved, refined, and soon more accessible than ever to students, researchers, and the interested public. Over 13,000 unique objects are already catalogued or listed, and stored in a safe and secure environment. Other aspects, such as digitization, storage, and access, will be developed in the future, as time and resources become available. The basics-the truly hard part-are well covered and in the best of hands, and the focus has already begun to shift to the research and interpretation of this extraordinary collection and its limitless study opportunities. But the game is not over; there are still "home runs" to be hit, and there will still be roles to play for the members of the team that created this collection. In the near future, it is planned that volunteers will have the opportunity to enrich the collection database, adding critical descriptive data, key words, and first-hand knowledge-most of which cannot be added by someone unfamiliar with the Canal, and all of which adds to the "search ability" or "retrieve ability" of the information found in the database. Stay tuned-there's work yet to be done. And let's plan to hit some more "home runs. Years from nO\\, because of the dedicated people and good works outlined above, students and scholars will still be using this collec tion-truly a national treasure-to study the canal, one of the true engineering marvels of the modern age, and the American Era rests at the very heart of this great achievement. Please contact the museum if you would like to join this information sharing, "home run" hitting team-at the university as part of an e-mail panel of consultants, or in some other way.
P a g e 4 Panam a Canal Museum -UP Library Administrators Go Hands-On Promoting PCM Collection Collaborations in Panama by Dr. Rachel Schipper In March Judy Russell, Dean of UP's George A. Smathers Libraries, and Rachel Schipper, Associate Dean, Technology and Support Services, traveled to Panama to lay ground work for UP's 2014-15 Panama Canal Centennial Celebration. On her return, Rachel, a member of the Panama Canal Museum's Board of Trustees, prepared this report for the Review. It was Rachel's first trip back after serving as a Penn State student teacher at Curundu Junior High School in 1978. Judy Russell and I recently went to Panama with a goal of identifying potential speakers and sponsors for the University of Florida (UF) centennial celebration of the Panama Canal (August 2014-August 2015). Upon arriving in Panama, we stayed at the Bern Crowne Plaza Hotel, conveniently located in Panama City. During the week we spoke with Leslie Ch. de Castro, Manager, Public Relations, for the Bern resorts leslie indicated that we should issue an invitation to Mr. Bern and his son to attend or introduce our opening centennial event, the Symphony of the Americas. Our first day in Panama was spent in taking the train to Colon and then traveling by car to historic Portobelo. On Tuesday, we had appointments at the American Embassy and talked with Alison Brown, Cultural Attache. Alison mentioned many student and faculty opportunities for collaboration, and Judy and I will be pursuing these with Panamanian Ambassador to the United States, Mario E. Jaramillo, and the Dean, UF International Center, David Sammons. Wednesday we met with Angeles Ramos Baquero, the director of the Museo del Canal Interoceanico de Panama, and members of her staff, Antonio-F. Avila de Montule and Lineth Suira. The director was extremely gracious and was able to arrange a meeting with Raul Castro Zachrisson, Secretary General of the National Cultural Institute (INAC). When we met with the INAC administrator, we were impressed by his appreciation for the progress in Panama and his lifetime of service. Raul spent many years in Los Angeles and San Diego in the diplomatic corps and returned to Panama to head INAC. He is now heavily involved as the representative of one of five nations that take part in the United Nations "Old" and "new" Panama Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Memory of the World Project. UF, through the Digital Library of the Caribbean (DLOC) and Chelsea Dinsmore, participates in the UNESCO project as weU. Chelsea is the Smathers Libraries government documents librarian responsible for coordinating the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries' Center of Excellence for Panama Canal Documents. In the afternoon, we went to the Afro-Antilles Museum, where we met with Glenroy O. James Grant, the president of the Friends Society. The museum is housed within a small church, soon to be an important stop along the new subway line. Interest was high in obtaining a tour of the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C., where thousands of records of the silver roll can be found. We hope that Mr. Grant will participate as a speaker, either in person or by video, during the centennial year. Continued on page 5
Page S Panama Canal Museu m UF Library Administrators Go HandsOn (continued from page 4) Judy Russ e ll Dean, Univ ersi t y Libraries, and Jan Kop. Jan De Nul Project Coordi nator at/he GUPC (Gm p o Un idos PO I' el Canal) On Thursday Judy and I had the honor of meeting with members of the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) administration. Ernesto Holder, Manager of Communication and Documentation, has a team of 18 people who are recording every step of the expansion project and we were promised aerial views and text materials for our DLOC project. After meeting for several hours with CEO Alberto Aleman Zubieta and Jorge L. Quijano, we were impressed with the depth of their commitment to digitization. Quijano will become the ACP CEO Ana Maria P. De Chiqlliiani, Vice Presidenl of Corpor ale in September and has worked for the Panama Canal Affairs; Jor ge L. Quijano, Ex ec uliv e Vice Presid e nl Engineering and Programs Management Deparlmenl; Jud y Russ e ll D ean,Commission and ACP for over 27 years. Quijano is University Libraries; Rach e l Schipper, Associale D ea n cautiously optimistic about the success of the T echnology and Suppor t S er vices; Alberlo Aleman Zubiela, Admini s lralor/CEO of the A ut or idad d e l Canal de Panama.expansion, yet realistic in the need for infrastructure (ACP photograph) to support utilities, sanitation and general human services in Panama. Both Aleman and Quijano understand that the 20th century helped to make Panama what it is today, and they honor the people and work that made the progress possible. Today Panama seeks to preserve and revere its history and to teach its children about their global heritage. Thursday afternoon was spent in touring the huge excavation site with Jan Kop of the Jan De Nul Group (Belgium). Three locks with reservoi r (recycling water areas) are p lanned, a long with a change to the door design (sliding rather than opening outward). A multinational team of Spanish, Italian, Belgium and Panamanian corporations are working on the excavation with the MWH Company (Chicago) collaborating with the ACP on the design. We talked with Michael Newberry, Vice President, MWH, about the potential of placing student interns from UF in the canal for a semester-long experience, mentoring with engineers on the project. At the Reprosa factory on Friday, the tour was conducted by an articulate, university-trained modern Kuna woman who was charming and personable in her mola blouse and designer jeans. She had gone to a university in Arkansas, and was a respected and honored member of the Reprosa staff. Our Panamanian driver decided to go on the tour with us, since he had never been through the factory. He couldn't stop talking about our guide and noting that he had never met a Kuna woman who was so confident and self-possessed. We saw three separate instances of Kuna women walking down a busy Panama City street, cell phone to their ears. Even 35 years after my first Panama trip, it is still unreal to me that these indigenous and traditionally dressed entrepreneurs would now conduct business by cell phone. Continued on page 6
--I P age 6 Panama Canal Museum UF Library Administrators Go Hands-On (continued from page 5) On our last Monday, we visited the Visitor Center at Miraflores Locks, and had a private tour and showing of the movie about the Canal. Our guide was looking forward to the summer language institute at the University of Florida, and perfecting his English language abilities. We were invited to stand on the lock, where we were told only two presidents have stood. The Center collection was undergoing some renovation, but any exhibit materials that we funnel via INAC would get the maximum public exposure in this facility. Thousands of people per week flood through their doors to view the raising and lowering of ocean vessels. Upon returning to Gainesville, discussions immediately ensued concerning the planning for Rachel Schipp e r Associate Dean, Technology and SlIpport Services and husband Jan Schipper collaboration. The International Center, Libraries, Center for Latin American Studies, English Language Institute, those who are involved in facilitating Fulbright activities, Museum Studies, and our centennial partners-Harn Museum of Art, Phillips Center for the Performing Arts and the Florida Museum of Natural History-will come together to keep strong the momentum generated by the Panama Canal Museum transfer. As the project grows, so does the University of Florida's enthusiasm for future partnerships focused on the Panama Canal. With horns blaring and taxis that operate more like kamikaze pilots, Panama's traffic is a study in alternate opinions expressed through horn blares The pace is unimaginable, especially in 95-degree heat and very high humidity. There are no Hollywood laid back moments for siestas here, with motorcycles and delivery scooters darting in and out of traffic with suicidal abandon. The traffic symbolizes the new Panama fast paced and progressive with lots of risk involved. Ancon Hill, with the view of the city, shows the contrast of 80-floor skyscrapers jutting out where man has made land out of the sea. Juxtaposed with the commercial district, the subwav construction, and the street vendors with the accompanying poverty and less than pristine conditions, it is an amazing and vivid assault on the senses. Fast food is everywhere, Panama Cit)' s kylin e symbolizing that there is little time for leisurely repasts. It is occasionally disconcerting to note that travelers may not immediately know what country they are in, simply because McDonalds, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Dunkin Donuts and Dominos Pizza abound. Although it has remarkably changed and has experienced its share of growing pains, the new Panama has much to offer. I look forward to a return visit soon.
-Page 7 Panama Canal M useum -Panama & the Canal Digital Collection Hits on UF Site VIEWS Total Views Oct-II 59398 Nov-II I 83363 Dec-II 89090 Jan-12 70840 TOTAL 302691 The chart at the left shows the total number of hits UP's Panama and the Canal Collection (http://ufdc. ufl.edu/pcm) received during a recent four-month period. Below is a list of the most commonly accessed titles in the Panama and the Canal Collection. P l ease note that the first Spillways span the years 1963 through 1999. The second Spillway listing includes years 1957 through 1963. BIBID TITLE VIEWS UF0009477I Panama Canal Spillway: EI Canal de Panama Spillway 444430 UFOO093680 Caribbean (Cristobal High School) 146452 UFOO097366 Panama Canal Review 87689 UFOO093678 Zonian (Balboa High School) 33925 UFOO097368 Panama Canal Record 28614 UFOO094141 The Makers of the Panama Canal 15572 Annual report of the Governor of the Panama Canal for the fiscal 8885 UFOO097365 year ended __ UFOO095973 Conquistador (Ca nal Zone Junior College) 7549 UFOO083288 Publication: The Panama Canal: Twenty-fifth Anniversary 5311 UFOO098947 Tropic Times 5177 UFOO098946 Spillway 5015 UFOO083287 Publication: The Canal Diggers in Panama 1904 to 1928 3915 UFOO083277 Official Handbook of the Panama Canal 3652 UFOO095879 Report of hIstorical and techmcalll1tormatlOn to the problem of inter-oceanic communication by way of t e American 3527 Isthmus UF0008328I Photographs : Miscellaneous Photos and Negatives Panama Canal. 3404 AAOOO04276 Panama Calendar 3180 AAOOOO0265 Panama Canal Review in Spanish I 2647 UFOO083286 Publication: Panama Canal Review Special Edition 2634 UFOO083284 Photoraphs: Views of Panama and the Canal. 1911 UFOO083278 Photoraphs: Assorted uncaptioned photos Panama Canal 1896 UFOO074065 The Americans in Panama I 1796 UFOO097364 Annual report Panama Canal Company Canal Zone Government 1715 UFOO083275 Guide : My Trip Through the Panama Canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific 1659 UFOO098900 Panama Canal Museum Exhibit Materials: Cayuco Race 2006 1646 UFOO097367 Annual report, Panama Canal Commission 1584 UFOO083279 Photographs: Dredging, Soldiers, and Ships 1475
Page 8 P ana ma Canal Mus e u m ........ --0001 Oral History Fundraiser-James Brooks-Bruzzese James Brooks-Bruzzese, a 1958 graduate of Cristobal High School and distinguished founder and artistic director of the internationally-renowned Symphony of the Americas in Ft. Lauderdale, FL (www.symphonvoftheamericas.org), will bring his orchestra to the University of Florida in Gainesville on August IS, 2014, for a special opening night performance to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Panama Canal. James, better known by his classmates and friends as "Jimmy," has had an interesting and notable career leading to his current role as artistic director of the symphony. The Panama Canal Museum, and its partner, the University of Florida, are interested in capturing Jimmy's fascinating life story by conducting an oral history interview to add to the PCM's growing collection of oral histories and to be used in the next two years to promote the symphony and other commemorative events to be held at UF in 2014. An oral history requires funding of as much as $1,500, which includes travel expenses for the interviewer, transcribing, editing and preparing an audio podcast that can be accessed via the internet. Donations to fund this intriguing oral history are now being sought and can be made to the Panama Canal Museum for the "Jimmy Brooks Oral History Fund. Before this iss ue of the Review went to print, this article ran in our eMusings, and donations totaling $1,005.00 were received from the following: Louis & Barbara Egolf Dedeaux $1005 Katherine Egolf Mabelle Walker Fitzgerald Julian B Hall Jr. Joseph &Lucille Kane William & Barbara McKeown Wendell & Donna Wertz Sasso Or. Rachel A. Schipper Space Coast Panazonians Herb & Pam Spector Joseph & Beverly Bowman Wood Donations of any amount will be gratefully accepted, and the names of all donors to this worthy project will be forwarded to Jimmy for his information and listed in future eMusings. We hope as all our members receive word of this project, additional donations will put us over the top in our efforts to reach $1,500. An amount over $1,500 would enable us to do some of the additional work required in making available to the public other Panama Canal-related oral history interviews that have already been conducted. I 1\ YES! I want to help make possible an oral history of Jimmy Brooks-Bruzzese and other I Panama Canal-related oral histories with my enclosed donation of =$_____ Name: Please send your check made out to : Street or Box:Panama Canal Museum City: ____________7985 113th Street, Suite 100 Semi nole, FL 33772 State: Zip: James Brooks-Bruzzese Performing at the University of Florida in Gainesville on August 15, 2014 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Panama Canal
Panama Canal Museum Recent PCM Events on Florida's Space Coast I : --;-: Space Coast Panazonians Dedicate PCM Museum in a Trunk to Brevard County Schools In March, Space Coast Panazonians (SCPs) dedicated a Panama Canal Museum in a Trunk (MIAT) to the Brevard County, FL, public schools division of curriculum and instruction. The MIAT is a Panama Canal Museum outreach program, established to teach young people about the history of the Panama Canal. There are apprOximately 20 MIATs throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Republic of Panama. The $1,500 sponsorship funding of the Brevard County MIA T was raised through Space Coast Bunco VI in March 2011. At the dedication ceremony the trunk was presented to Mr. Daniel T. Julich, Teaching American History Grant Coordinator, and Ms Irene Ramnarine, Resource Teacher (Social Studi e s ) Four of the seven SCPs who have participated in all six bunco fundraisers attended the dedication: Peggy Huff, Fran Meyer, Nikki Meyer and Nancy Grimison; Leanne Lemon, Janet Watkins and Christina Volonnino were unable to attend. Brevard County teachers interested in obtaining the trunk for p r esentation in their classroom m a y contact the Divi sion of Curriculum and Instruction, Brevard County Schools, at 321-633-1000, ext 300. ) Space Coast Panazonians attending Space Coa s t Bunco VII at the Dog 'n Bone ( Space Coast Bunco VII Pub in Coco a Village FL. in April, donated over $700 to fund raisers for the Panama Canal Museum and the American Cancer Society, M e rritt Island Rela y f o r Life. Thi s year s donation to the museum-$520-was equally distributed between the James Brooks-Bruzzes e oral history fund and the "Ted" Scott endowment fund for the digitization of the English version of The Panama American. SCB VII champi ons w e re Tom Grimison, Melinda Grimison Niemeyer, Christina Grimison Volonnino and Nancy Grimison. L t o R : Dani e l Julich Ir e n e R a mnarine P eggy Hu ff, Nikki Mey er Fran M eye r and Nanc y G rimi so n Fr o nt row : Les Croft Judi l lJcCullough Susan Burk, L ea nn e L e m o n Jan e t W a tkins, Connie Stoakley Cheryl Russell Middle row: Kathi e McConaughey Frail Morrissey, Jeanie Lampe JoElla Deakins T o m GI'imison, Diana Gril7lison, Nancy Grimison Sue Deakins Back row : Richard Lemoll Jason Ohman, Joan Ohman, Pam Brown P e ggy Huff, Wanda Ewell, C h r i s tina Volonni o Janice Scott, M e lin da Niemey e r F ran Meyer, Lois Andres. N ol in the pho to: Dennis Hllif
1 0 Panama Canal Museum Raided by Aronsons, Robleses, and Zumbados An educational and most enjoyable raid on the Panama Canal Museum occurred on November 26, 2011. The children and grandchildren of Bob and Marguerite Neal Zumbado were entertained for four hours by Gerry DeTore, Kathy Egolf and Marilyn White, with a tour of the museum, films of a canal transit and the Red, White and Blue Troupe followed by a sumptuous meal of pizza, empanadas and brownies. The highlight of the visit was Gerry's accurate, enlightening, in depth and humor-fiIled perspective of Spanish, French, West Indian and American history beginning in the 1500s and leading through the American Era of the construction and opera tion of the Panama Canal. The nine children range in age from 6 to 19. The parents' and grandparents' ages are a secret. The smiling faces at day's end tell the story of a rewarding and fun filled family visit better than a thousand words. Pictured left to right in a loosely defined r ea r r ow are Rachel Robles, Joe Robles Beth Robles Gen y D eTore, Rebeca Robles, Summy Aronson Jacob Aronson Sarah Robles David Robles, Hannah Robles Kathy E golf and Shayna Aronson Standing in the cent e r are Margu e rit e and B ob Zumbado Kneelin g are Stephen and Esther Robles Aronson with Daniel Robles between them The Museum Thanks Mario Calleja! For a number of years, the task of transporting an of the paraphernalia needed to set up the museum's exhibit and store at the society's annual reunion t n Orlando was a major problem for the staff and volunteers of the museum. During recent years, however, this job has been made much easier through the efforts and unique talents of a single individual, Mario CaHeja. In the early formative years of the museum, Mario volunteered many hours at the museum's Pinellas Park storage unit, assisting in our efforts to assemble and house the museum's growi ng collection of historical items. More recently, after hearing about our annual reunion exhibit hauling woes, Mario approached the museum with a generous offer to help us in transporting our wares to Orlando. He offered us a truck, trailer, and a wealth of expertise in the art of moving heavy items. After his first year as our "loadmaster," Mario decided that the museum needed to get out of the horse-and-buggy era At his manufacturing plant in Safety Harbor, he had his employees fabricate several large aluminum freight hauling carts to streamline the process of loading and unloading our reunion exhibits. The resulting savings in labor (and aging backs!) has been a godsend. Mario's custom-d es igned alwninul/1 freight hauling cart.
Page 11 Panama Canal M useum Visit the PCM at the PCS Reunion! . ums: C oll a borations that I n il U l)rnfies and ,A 5 .. '. ",t Flc,rrCl3 Uhr r (i'f/, (1 1 R m Chelse a Din s m ore s iands infranl a/a pa s ler explainin g Ihe U F IPCM col/ a h a ra/ion. The Panama Canal Museum and University of Florida are preparing for their participation at the Panama Canal Society's June 27-July 1 reunion at the Orlando World Center Marriott, Orlando, FL. In the Museum Exhibit Room we expect to have on display information about the University of Florida's Panama Canal initiatives, health-and Canal Zone police-related exhibits, the always popular town site maps and some of the museum's DVDs. Also featured will be the UF/PCM poster which was displayed at the 2012 Annual Conference of the Florida Library Association in Orlando in April. This year's silent auction will certainly show that Panama is a funnel of world commerce! This year's silent auction items include a large Ro y al Doulton Toby jug (Old Charley, #787515) from England; Irish linen dish cloths with historical maps of Panama on them; G. Girardi Italian porcelai n montuno and poller a figurines; South American wall hangings; Kuna Indian textiles; a Panamanian pollera; a black skirt sporting colorful molas; a Costa Rican ox cart; a relic Japanese porcelain dish set (1000 Faces pattern); other Japanese dishes; three Taiwanese brass trivets signifying prosperity, long life and good luck;.and even an assortment of Gator Nation items, in addition to many other items and gift cards. If you have something you'd like to donate for the auction, ple a se contact the museum right away. The museum's tables in the Vendors' Room will offer our 2012 collectible ornament (a pretty pink hibiscus) and 2013 calendar (a retrospective of the Panama Canal Museum), new books, used books, antique bottles, DVDs, Shorty & Slim CDs, museum caps, mugs and tumblers, coasters, license plates, t-shirts, note cards and more! The PCM and PCS will once again be coordinating a cultural seminar at 2 PM on Friday afternoon in the Grand Ballroom 8A. This year's seminar will feature Robert Hughes, Ph.D, author of Ahorca Lagarto, who will speak on "The Beginning of the American Era in Panama: The Railroad and the California Gold Rush Copies of Ahorca Lagarto will be available for sale and autographing. Following the seminar, there will be a special showing of "Panama Canal from the PBS "American Experience" series. A special one-time occasion win be the Panama Canal Museum Despedida in our exhibit room at 3:30 on Saturday afternoon. You re invited to come indulge in a bit of nostalgia and bites and sips of refreshment as we look back on our 14-year history. We can always use v olunteers In the Museum Exhi bit Rob m and at our tables in the Vendors' Room. Ifyou can h elp,Do plan to spend some time in the Museum p lease contact th e museum by phone ore-mail. (727) Exhibit Room, at our tables in the Vendors' Room, firstname.lastname@example.com and at the cultural seminar-you'll be glad you did!
Page 12 Panama C a n a l Museum Upcoming 2012-2013 Events Membership Representatives Alabama Larry Siegel firstname.lastname@example.com Arizona Carl Berg firstname.lastname@example.com Southern California Tina Cartotto Ressa firstname.lastname@example.com Carolinas Alice Latimer firstname.lastname@example.com Miami. Florida Hindi Diamond firstname.lastname@example.com Ormond Beach. Florida Mickey Walker Fitzgerald email@example.com Pensacola. Florida Barbara Egolf Dedeaux email@example.com Barbara Vose-Kulig firstname.lastname@example.com Sarasota. Florida Barbara Peterson email@example.com Tampa Bay. Florida Muriel Whitman firstname.lastname@example.com Atlanta. Georgia Marie Drake email@example.com Pacific Northwest Dan & Pat Nellis email@example.com Poconos Gordon Davis Gdavis email@example.com Kerrville. Texas Jo-Anne Fields firstname.lastname@example.com Seattle. Washington Marilynn Abreau Stevens momthept@ao/.com June 27-Ju/y 1: Panama Canal Society reunion at Orlando World Center Marriott. Visit the Museum Exhibit Room to see the PCM jUF exhibits and bid in our silent auction, attend the PCMjPCS cultural seminar on Friday afternoon in the Grand Ballroom 8A, say "adios" at our museum despedida on Saturday afternoon, and buy at the museum's tables in the Vendors' Room. January 27-February 6, 2013: Fundraising cruise to the exotic southern Caribbean-St. Thomas, St. Lucia, Barbados, Dominica, and st. Maarten. Contact the museum or Travel Leaders (888-652-1365) to join the fun! I PANAMA CANAL MUSEUM 7985 113th Street, Suite 100 Seminole, Florida 33772 Tel. (727)-394-9338 Fax (727)-394-2737 Email: email@example.com www.panamacanalmuseum.org EIN 59-3532182 Open By Appointment This newsletter is published by the Panama Canal Museum for its members, donors and benefactors. Additional copies can be obtained by writing or emailing the Museum. The Museum is staffed by a museum director, education curator, two part-time clerical assistants and volunteers who graciously donate their time and skills to carry on the work of the Museum. We acknowledge and thank our many benefactors donors. volunteers and friends who continue to assist this important project. THE PANAMA CANAL MUSEUM MISSION AND VISION The mission of the Panama Canal Museum is to document, interpret and articulate the role of the United States in the history of Panama, with emphasis on the construction, operation, maintenance and defense of the Panama Canal and the contributions to its success by people of all nationalities The vision of the Panama Canal is to achieve national and internati onal recognition as the foremost source of historical information uniquely dedicated to documentation of the United States' participation in the history of Panama. Board of Trustees President Emeritus *Charles W. Hummer, Jr. President Joseph J. Wood Vice President Patricia Steiner Kearns Executive Vice President *Katherine E. Egolf Secretary Barbara Bonnano Marshall Treasurer Paul D. Glassburn Buildings & Facilities Shawn Rupp Collections Committee Gerry DeTore Exh'ibit Committee *Robert F. Zumbado Information Technology John P. Coffey Store Committee Katherine Egolf Trustees Fred Bremer Richmond F. Brown, Ph. D Dick Cunningham Frank Stevens Hawks Robert Hughes, Ph.D. Robert J Karrer, Jr. Paul Morgan, Ph.D. Richard Morgan Rachel A. Schipper, Ph D J Dorn Thomas Board of Advisors Robert K Dawson William R G i anelli Thomas R Goethals D P McAuliffe Robert McMillan *Board members who hav e serve d continu ously since 1998.


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1Wa On my bed at night I sought him*
whom my soul loves—
I sought him but I did not find him.
2"Let me rise then and go about the city,*
through the streets and squares;
Let me seek him whom my soul loves."
I sought him but I did not find him.
3The watchmen found me,
as they made their rounds in the city:
"Him whom my soul loves—have you seen him?"
4b Hardly had I left them
when I found him whom my soul loves.*
I held him and would not let him go
until I had brought him to my mother's house,
to the chamber of her who conceived me.
5c I adjure you, Daughters of Jerusalem,
by the gazelles and the does of the field,
Do not awaken or stir up love
until it is ready.
6Dd Who is this coming up from the desert,*
like columns of smoke
Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense,
with all kinds of exotic powders?
7See! it is the litter of Solomon;
sixty valiant men surround it,
of the valiant men of Israel:
8All of them expert with the sword,
skilled in battle,
Each with his sword at his side
against the terrors* of the night.
9King Solomon made himself an enclosed litter
of wood from Lebanon.
10He made its columns of silver,
its roof of gold,
Its seat of purple cloth,
its interior lovingly fitted.*
Daughters of Jerusalem, 11go out
and look upon King Solomon
In the crown with which his mother has crowned him
on the day of his marriage,
on the day of the joy of his heart.
* [3:1–5] See the parallel in 5:2–8.
* [3:2] The motif of seeking/finding here and elsewhere is used by later Christian and Jewish mystics to speak of the soul's search for the divine.
* [3:4] Whom my soul loves: the fourfold repetition of this phrase in vv. 1–4 highlights the depth of the woman's emotion and desire. Mother's house: cf. 8:2; a place of safety and intimacy, one which implicitly signifies approval of the lovers' relationship.
* [3:6–11] This may be an independent poem. In context it portrays the lover as King Solomon, escorted by sixty armed men, coming in royal procession to meet a bride.
* [3:8] Terrors: cf. Ps 91:5; perhaps bandits lying in wait, unidentified dangers lurking in darkness.
* [3:10] Lovingly fitted: translation uncertain. The phrase "Daughters of Jerusalem" is read here with the following verse.
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