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Hameau de la Reine
The Hameau de la Reine (French pronunciation: [amo də la ʁɛn], The Queen's Hamlet) is a rustic retreat in the park of the Château de Versailles built for Marie Antoinette in 1783 near the Petit Trianon in Yvelines, France. It served as a private meeting place for the Queen and her closest friends; a place of leisure. Designed by the Queen's favoured architect, Richard Mique with the help of the painter Hubert Robert, it contained a meadowland with lakes and streams, a classical Temple of Love on an island with fragrant shrubs and flowers, an octagonal Belvédère, with a neighbouring grotto and cascade. There are also various buildings in a rustic or vernacular style, inspired by Norman or Flemish design, situated around an irregular pond fed by a stream that turned a mill wheel.[1] The building scheme included a farmhouse, (the farm was to produce milk and eggs for the queen), a dairy, a dovecote, a boudoir, a barn that burned down during the French Revolution, a mill and a tower in the form of a lighthouse. Each building is decorated with a garden, an orchard or a flower garden. The largest and most famous of these houses is the "Queen's House", connected to the Billiard house by a wooden gallery, at the center of the village. A working farm was close to the idyllic, fantasy-like setting of the Queen's Hamlet.
The hameau is the best-known of a series of rustic garden constructions built at the time, notably the Prince of Condé's Hameau de Chantilly (1774–1775) which was the inspiration for the Versailles hamlet.[2] Such model farms, operating under principles espoused by the Physiocrats, were fashionable among the French aristocracy at the time. One primary purpose of the hameau was to add to the ambiance of the Petit Trianon, giving the illusion that it was deep in the countryside rather than within the confines of Versailles. The rooms at the hameau allowed for more intimacy than the grand salons at Versailles or at the Petit Trianon.
Abandoned after the French Revolution, it was renovated in the late 1990s and is open to the public.
History and construction[edit]
Inspired by a wave of naturalism in art, architecture, and garden design, the Hameau de la Reine was constructed between 1782 and 1783. The garden surroundings of the Petit Trianon, of which the hameau de la Reine is an extension, began their transformation from formal pattern gardens. Under Louis XV it had been an arboretum and the new arrangements eliminated this famous botanical garden, replacing it with a more informal "natural" garden of winding paths, curving canals and lakes under the direction of Antoine Richard, gardener to the Queen.[3] Richard Mique modified the landscape design to provide vistas of lawn to west and north of the Petit Trianon, encircled by belts of trees. Beyond the lake to the north, the hameau was sited like a garden stage set, initially inspired in its grouping and vernacular building by Dutch and Flemish genre paintings, philosophically influenced by Rousseau's cult of "nature", and reflecting exactly contemporary picturesque garden principles set forth by Claude-Henri Watelet[4] and by ideas of the philosophes, their "radical notions co-opted into innocent forms of pleasure and ingenious decoration" as William Adams has pointed out.[5] Artists played a more direct role in French picturesque than they probably had done in England,[6] as can be seen by Hubert Robert's involvement.
Stylistic influence and prototypes[edit]
The stylistic design of the Hameau de la Reine was influenced by the hameau de Chantilly, a similarly rustic "village" with half-timbered façades and reed-thatched roofs.[7] A wave of naturalism and an affinity towards the "simple" life was sweeping across France in the 18th century. French aristocrats loved to act like shepherds and shepherdesses, while still enjoying the comforts of their social position. This idealism of the natural life came from the extremely influential works of Jean Jacques Rousseau, who emphasized Nature. The hamlet seemed completely rustic and natural from the outside, while the Rococo interior provided the desired comfort and luxury of the Queen and her friends.[8]
Construction and architectural design[edit]
The Petit Trianon, originally built for Madame de Pompadour under the reign of Louis XV, was a private domain. Encircling the Petit Trianon was the Jardin Anglais (the English Garden), a wilder style of garden that arose in response to traditional French manicured gardens. The Hamlet is built in a hybrid architectural style. A combination of Norman, Flemish, and French styles came together to create the village full of sylvan charm. Typically Norman, the cottages have half-timbered façades and reed coverings. The brick, "sparrow-stepped" gables and the stained glass windows are distinctly Flemish. The roofs covered with dormer windows and the plaster-covered façades, though, were native to France.[9] The French architect Richard Mique designed and built the Hamlet with the garden in mind, and it is almost an extension of the Jardin Anglais. His buildings lend themselves to the surrounding landscape in their arrangement around a small lake, giving the illusion of a perfect and functioning village.
The barn, occasionally used as a ballroom, was destroyed during the French Revolution, while the rest of the houses survived the tumultuous period of French history.
Life at the Queen's Hamlet[edit]
Courtiers at the Palace of Versailles constantly surrounded Marie Antoinette, leaving her in need of a refuge. She escaped the responsibilities and structure of court life to her private estate. The Hamlet was part of Marie Antoinette's estate, and she enjoyed dressing as a young shepherdess or milkmaid and acting like a peasant, while surrounded by the comforts of a royal lifestyle. This unintentional mockery of the economically depressed French peasants helped build the resentment towards the monarchy among the French people that eventually led to the French Revolution.
While still in power, Marie Antoinette enjoyed acting as a tableau vivant, as if she were part of a painting. She brought her idyllic, picturesque village to life by stocking the barn with animals, and bringing in "simple" people, such as milkmaids and herdsmen, to act like residents of the Hamlet. Marie Antoinette would stroll around her perfect world in simple peasants' garb with her children, part of an idealized Nature. Her closest friends joined her in her ornamental village, where they also enjoyed pretending to live a simple life. Their isolation at the Hameau caused suspicion among the French people. Already resentful of Marie Antoinette for her profligate spending in times of economic depression, the secrecy surrounding her life of amusement led to suspected hedonism and scandal.[10] It was rumored that Marie Antoinette had lovers, and they met at the Hameau, a surreal place that was completely her own. The extravagance and subtle mockery of peasant life did not help Marie Antoinette's already suffering image.
In spite of its idyllic appearance, the hamlet was a real farm, fully managed by a farmer appointed by the Queen, with its vineyards, fields, orchards and vegetable gardens producing fruit and vegetables consumed at the royal table. Animals from Switzerland, according to the instructions of the Queen, were raised on the farm. For this reason the place was often called "the Swiss hamlet".
The Queen sought refuge in peasant life, milking cows or sheep, which were carefully maintained and cleaned by the servants. She preferred to wear simple clothing uncharacteristic to the frivolous fashion of the French Court while at the hameau, and often dressed in a sun hat and informal muslin dress, a Polonaise gown, or a Chemise à la Reine. The chemise, worn without panniers and with a high waistline, was first worn by women in warmer climates in the colonies and was popularised amongst the aristocracy through Marie Antoinette. The simplicity and high waistline of the garment would lay the foundations for Regency/Empire fashion in the later decades during and after the Revolution. The Queen would often wear a straw Bergère hat and a fichu alongside a Polonaise gown; the term Polonaise referring to the dress of Polish shepherdesses who would hoist and drape their overskirts in two or three loops in order to keep their dress clean while farming. Marie Antoinette's wardrobe was generally imitative of the peasantry of the period.
Marie Antoinette used buckets of Sèvres porcelain specially decorated with her arms by the Manufacture Royale. The place was completely enclosed by fences and walls, and only intimates of the Queen were allowed to access it. During the Revolution, "a misogynistic, nationalistic and class-driven polemic swirled around the hameau, which had previously seemed a harmless agglomeration of playhouses in which to act out a Boucher pastorale."[11] The queen was accused by many of being frivolous, and found herself a target of innuendos, jealousy and gossip throughout her reign. Although for Marie Antoinette, the hameau was an escape from the regulated life of the Court at Versailles, in the eyes of French people, the queen seemed to be merely amusing herself.
Marie Antoinette's Hamlet consisted of a variety of different cottages and buildings, all built around a small lake. Each building had a specific function, and each played its part in the daily life of the Hamlet. The twelve cottages constructed in the hamlet can be divided into two groups: five were reserved for use by the Queen; the other seven had a functional purpose and were used effectively for agriculture. Marie Antoinette had her own house, connected to the pool. Nearby was her boudoir. The mill and the dairy received frequent visits from the Queen.
Queen's House and Billiard Room[edit]
The Queen's house and billiard room is situated in the middle of the Hamlet, and it is the largest and most important building. Its construction is innovative: two rustic buildings are connected by a covered gallery that is curved in a half-moon shape. A spiral staircase offers access to the second floor on one end of the house. These buildings included the Queen's private chambers, as well as her salons and her parlors. The upper level comprises the petit salon, also known as the "room of the nobles", an anteroom in the form of a "Chinese cabinet" and the large living room with wood panelling hung with tapestries of Swiss style in embroidered wool. From the room's six windows, the Queen could easily control the work fields and activity of the hamlet. Access is via the staircase of the round tower. At the center of the room is a harpsichord which Marie Antoinette loved to play. On the ground floor, paved with single slabs of stone, the building includes a backgammon room and a dining room. The lyre-backed chairs in mahogany lined with green Morocco, were created by Georges Jacob. To the left, another building housing the billiard room is connected to the Queen's house by a wooden gallery decorated with trellises and twelve hundred St. Clement faience pots, marked in the blue figures of the Queen. Upstairs, a small apartment which seems to have been inhabited by the architect Richard Mique, has five rooms including a library. Despite the rustic appearance of facades, the interior finish and furnishings are luxurious and have been created by the carpenter Georges Jacob and the ébéniste Jean-Henri Riesener.
The Boudoir, (4.6 x 5.2 metres) is the smallest structure, and it was nicknamed "the little house of the Queen." Marie Antoinette would retire here by herself, or else with one or two of her friends. The boudoir was altered slightly during the Second Empire, but its small construction has remained to this day.
The Mill, built and fitted from 1783 to 1788, was never used for grinding grain. The wheel is driven by a stream derived from the Grand Lake and is only a decorative element. No mechanism or wheel were installed in the factory. The interior decoration was simple and neat. This structure is one of the most picturesque of the Hamlet. Each façade of the building is decorated slightly differently. This mill also served as a laundry.[12]
Marlborough Tower[edit]
This circular tower on the shores of the lake is mainly decorative. It was originally called "The Fishery Tower." It was created after a popular lullaby from the era. The basement is used for storage, but the top part of the tower has a fairytale-esque design.
The warming room is recessed at the rear of the Queen's house. It has a stone interior and included a large kitchen, a bakery, a fireplace and pantry, also linen and silverware. It was used to prepare the dishes for dinners given by the Queen in the house or mill.
There were originally two dairies: one in which the dairy products were made, and one in which the Queen would taste them. The Preparation Dairy was destroyed during the First Empire. Each were designed with sanitation in mind: the rooms are light colored marble, which gives the impression of cleanliness.
Valy Bussard, the farmer, came to the Hameau to run a functional farm. Decorated in a rustic style, the farm included three bedrooms, a kitchen, and a dining room. It was well stocked with animals and vegetable gardens, whose crops led to agricultural and culinary experimentation at Versailles.
The dovecote and pigeon coops were near the lake. Roosters and hens of various species were brought from the west of France and settled in the aviary in 1785 for Marie Antoinette's use.
This building is situated on the edge of the field near the woods. Its original occupant was the Swiss guard, Jean Bersy, who lived there with his family. Because of the prominence of the occupants of the Hamlet, the guard was necessary for Marie Antoinette's security.
The barn also served as a ballroom. It was badly damaged during the French Revolution and destroyed during the First Empire.
- ^ Hunt, John Dixon (2002). The Picturesque Garden in Europe. London: Thames & Hudson. p. 130. ISBN 0-500-51085-7.
- ^ "Le Hameau" ["The Hamlet"]. Chateau de Versailles. N.p., n.d.
- ^ William Howard Adams, The French Garden 1500–1800 (New York: Braziller) 1979, p. 122
- ^ Watelet's Essai sur les Jardins also appeared in 1774. Watelet was a rich amateur who had studied briefly with Hubert Robert, whose name is invariably invoked with the hameau, with the landscape setting of the Méréville and other early garden essays in the genre pittoresque.
- ^ Adams 1979: 121.
- ^ . p. 113. Missing or empty
- ^ Van Der Kemp, Gérald. Versailles. Paris: Vendome, 1978. Print.
- ^ "The Petit Hameau." Marie Antoinette and the French Revolution. PBS, 2006. Web. 3 Mar. 2013
- ^ Lablaude, Pierre-André. The Gardens of Versailles. Paris: Scala, 2005. Print.
- ^ Pérouse de Montclos, Jean-Marie. Versailles. Trans. John Goodman. Paris: Abbeville, 1991.[page needed][ISBN missing]
- ^ Rosasco, in review of Lablaude 1995, in The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 55:4 (December 1996), pp. 475–476 [476]
- ^ Arizzoli-Clémentel, Pierre. Views and Plans of the Petit Trianon. Paris: Alain de Gourcuff Éditeur, 1998. Print[page needed][ISBN missing]
External links[edit]
Media related to Hameau de la Reine at Wikimedia Commons
- Official Versailles site
- Le Hameau (official Versailles site)
- Photos of the Hamlet
- Marie Antoinette
- Ancient Places TV: HD video of The Queen's Hamlet at the Petit Trianon
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I am very pleased with the president's nomination of Janet Yellen to be the next Federal Reserve Chair. Ms. Yellen has impeccable credentials, the best economic forecasting record of any recent Fed official, and appears to take the regulator part of the Fed Chair job seriously.
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Granted, monetary policy, not financial regulation, is the main part of the job. I agree with those who have said she will probably be very similar to Bernanke as far as that goes, and I'd call that a good thing. The Fed needs to do what it can to pull us out of this Little Depression, and since interest rates cannot fall below zero, additional measures like buying long-term bonds and mortgage-backed securities (i.e., quantitative easing, or QE) make sense, as long as they work. Yellen is often stereotyped as a "dove" because in recent years she favored expansionary policy and did not state that inflation was an imminent risk, but those recent years were the Little Depression that began in 2008. When unemployment is not the nation's biggest problem, Yellen is more concerned about inflation. Such as in the roaring 1990s, when Yellen was Clinton's Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers and then a Fed governor. With unemployment down to its lowest levels in decades, Yellen was an inflation "hawk," as Matthew O'Brien details.
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PS Here is a recent (Nov 2012) interview with Janet Yellen.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- One can only imagine how badly Hugh Freeze covets a victory at LSU in his first season as head coach at Mississippi.
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''I can promise you that this team will want to play a very quality opponent and play a very prestigious postseason bowl game,'' LSU coach Les Miles said.
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As a lover of books, I now take the lead like Will and Mary Ann of starting a conversation with "what are you reading now". Unlike Mary Ann, I never go directly to the end of the book. As a spoiler alert, the book ends with a comprehensive list of the books discussed. The book introduced me to a new must-read book list.
The book itself is a poignant memoir of a son's love and devotion of his exceptional mother. Weaving snippets from the book club discussion kept the story from being weighed down by the heavy topic of death.
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I loved this book on so many levels! How awful the situation but how wonderful that they were able to spend the time together sharing books. I felt connected in a way when they were reading books I have already read and I am so thrilled to have a new list of must-read books. I've aready recommended this book to my book club and its not even published yet!
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I loved this book! I too have recommended it to my book club. The book illustrates so well the idea of CONNECTION. When a book works, readers connect with it. As Will shared his story of reading and talking about books with his mom, I connected with them and sometimes with the characters in the books he cited. That's the beauty of book clubs too. When we connect with the stories of characters, we begin to share our own stories and connect with our fellow readers.
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I totally enjoyed the book! I can't imagine any book lover that wouldn't but the rich relationship between mother and son would definitely be of interest to anyone? I found myself making a list of things to read as I read the book which, in my mind, was definitely a bonus?
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I enjoyed reading the The End of Your Life Book Club...I have sorta believed that this is how a protracted dying event should work. I'd love to give a "death" like this to anyone who desired one. What a way to leave this body with joy and completion along with words and memories.
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I think the book was written as a tribute to books and the meaning they have in our lives. In that respect the book was a total success. I enjoyed the descriptions of books read and am glad that he listed all of them in the Appendix. I'm looking forward to reading some of them.
I also think he intended the book to be a lasting tribute to his mother, and the influence she had in his life. He also succeeded in that regard, but in my opinion, he carried his portrayal of her a little too far. His mother appeared too perfect and too saintly to be believable.
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I started this book interested in the author's opinion on the various books that he read with his mother. The story grabbed me and I was easily drawn in to the story. What a delightful read. I plan to read several of the books discussed that I have not yet read. I'm reading People of the Book right now
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I loved the book but my only complaint is I'd hoped the author would go into greater depth discussing each book. That would have made it better, for me. As it is, I appreciate the beauty of Will's love for his mother and the special relationship they shared.
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Ah, Shirley, I wish I hadn't already read PEOPLE OF THE BOOK (two times) before. What a lovely experience you must be having!
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I am glad that I read this book. I have always loved books, and so to read a book about books making a difference in a family's life was nice. I think that this is a book that adult children will appreciate the most. I can't see the average teenager enjoying this book. Some of the people to whom I've recommended this book have recently lost a parent , and they were afraid it would be too sad. I told them, it's not.
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I have to admit the title didn't speak to me, but my oh my how I enjoyed the book.. I feel about books how Mary Ann felt about books, a means for understanding our world and every book we read has a message for us. It is definitely a book lovers book. I made a list of books I want to read from the books they discussed. What a wonderful legacy for a mother to leave her son.
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I really enjoyed this book. My mother died when I was 18. Books were something we shared--we used to go to the library together, we would read together, we would read some of the same books. This book brought those feelings back for me.
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i really liked this book - while I expected to be impressed by the links to books my overwhelming response was what an amazing woman his mother was.
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I absolutely loved this book! I imagine that I have at least a hundred "marked" pages and or passages that I felt MUST NOT BE FORGOTTEN! What a powerful read and one so very very personal,yet I felt that Will
really wanted me to be a participant and witness to one of the most unforgettable time in his life. How many novels grant this experience to readers? Not many, which is why I am thoroughly moved by this work.
Join Date: 04/14/11
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I received an Early Review copy of this book. I was intrigued by the title, and expected something gloomier. I was pleasantly surprised to make the journey with this remarkable mother-son team. When my mother was living, we often passed a book between us, but only a few titles come to mind, and no deep discussions ensued. I envy this duo for all they shared.
Join Date: 04/10/11
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"How could anyone who loves books not love a book that is itself so in love with books?"
This quote refers to "The Uncommon Reader," but for me it is about this book. I expected to find out about books I might want to read--which I did--but was also absorbed by Will Schwalbe's tribute to his wonderful mother and her story of courage in the face of pain and illness.
Yes, I do love this book.
Join Date: 06/18/11
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I too loved this book. I loved the theme, the relationship between the son and his mother, and the wonderful list of books to read. I was excited to see chapters named after books I have loved and was disappointed in some cases that there was so little mention of the book in the chapter. Small criticism, though. I can't wait to recommend this book to one of my book clubs and to read some of the books which I have added to my "to read" list.
Join Date: 06/13/11
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I loved the book, as well. I didn't EXPECT to enjoy it so much, and actually procrastinated about starting it because I thought it would be sad or depressing. Quite the contrary was true for me. I thoroughly enjoyed getting to know Will and his mom through their "book club" discussions, and had a hard time putting the book down once I finally began! It's one I will recommend to other friends, as well. It is wise on so many different levels and has many lessons to impart about empathy and kindness, love and loss, and learning to be still and listen and be present in each moment.
Join Date: 06/13/11
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I lent my copy of the End of Your Life Book Club to a friend who is a cancer survivor. Within hours of giving her the book, she called to thank me for sharing the book with her that she was thoroughly enjoying the book and impressed by the excellent writing. She viewed the book as a definite keeper and one to share with others.
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I wanted to read the book to see if the author and his Mother thought about the books the same way I did. I wonder if their ideas about the books were changed because they were reading with the understanding that Mary Anne was dying. Would their opinions have been differend if she had not been dying? I really enjoy the two book clubs that I belong to with the different ideas that we have about the books that we read.
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At first it was difficult for me to discuss THE END OF YOUR LIFE BOOK CLUB, for this book has a special meaning for me because my son and I have been exchanging books and discussing them for a long time. The irony lies in the fact that we are the same ages as Will and Mary Anne when they started their repertoire. What a wonderful experience it is to share the love of literature with someone you love be it a son, a spouse, a friend. Emily Dickinson once said "there is no frigate like a book.'' And as a cancer survivor, I marvel at the wonderful journeys to every corner of the earth one can share with another lover of literature. What a wonderful opportunity Will and Mary Anne had as their time together grew short--and what memories... . What a powerful love between a mother and a son!
Join Date: 04/20/11
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I like the concept of a mother and son enjoying and discussing books together, esp. at such a stressful time in their lives. I would have to believe that it brought them even closer to each other and that each learned something about the other that was new as the read and discussed each book.
As to their choices of books, they were most interesting. One could look for "deep reasons" for their choices and I believe some would qualify as such. Others were chosen, I believe, simply for the joy of reading them, for the distraction they provided from Mom's illness.
I very much enjoyed the book and it is now a "keeper;" a book to pull from the shelf on a regular basis to explore and to jog my memory re books to be read and why others I have already read.
Join Date: 10/10/12
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I am amazed an inspired by the energy and passion of Mary Ann to share her love of books. In spite of her physical limitations she was driven to build a national library for the Afgan people. In all her life works she was open to serve others and yet find time to read! I am now trying to carve out a time in the day to read as well as to find a passion I can serve.
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As I read "The End of Your Life Book Club", I kept thinking how brave the author was to have written such a book. One of the many strengths of the book is that the author is so candid and exposes his feelings so openly--a brave thing to do. For example, he admits how difficult it is to discuss death with his mother and how he relies, at times, on "The Etiquette of Illness" to help him through awkward moments. (That is a book I would like to get my hands on!) He also talks about their differing views on religion and I sensed that this subject may have been a point of conflict between the two in the past. I think this honesty throughout the book very much helps the reader connect to his story.
The book focuses on the time of his mother's cancer diagnosis to her death from a very a difficult disease. The process of writing the book would have forced him to reexamine some very painful moments as he relived his mother decline and death. Also a courageous thing to do.
Join Date: 10/20/12
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Truly a 5-Star book!! I shared my reading love with my dear grandmother who lived to be 100! She read the classics to her three granddaughters' and finished with a bedtime poem during our youth. In her later years we talked daily and always discussed what we were reading. Although our choices were different, the pleasure we derived was the same.
Reading is a wonderful bond that so many people can share in. How fortunate for those of us that have discovered this!!
Join Date: 10/21/12
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This is a book I will cherish and recommend. I was immediately struck by the facility with which Mr. Schwalbe was able to capture in a few sentences or a short paragraph the book he and his mother were currently reading, Then the way he was able to weave a particular book into his past and current life was remarkable and enjoyable. The book is all about love, isn't it? Love for the author's remarkable mother, love for reading and books, love for family and humanity. Ultimately it's also about coming to terms with death and loss but this is done with great love as well.
Join Date: 10/13/12
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Like Mary Anne, I think I'm very lucky! The End of Your Life Book Club was not my first book club choice, but I love it. I don't think another book would have affected me so much. My father died of cancer many years ago. Yet, this book still brought me back to that time when he was in treatment. I wish Dad had been a reader so that we could have used books as a bridges to establish connection. His bridge to others during the last few months of his life was sports, especially basketball, but I am not a big sports fan. Discussing books allows you to talk about the bigger themes in life and to talk about your feelings, attributing them to characters in your book.
Mary Anne was widely traveled, and I found myself wondering... is just Americans or do people from other countries also cloak or hide their feelings from their loved ones, even from their dying loved ones?
Join Date: 02/29/12
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I really liked the book. Now I will pass it on to my avid book reading friends. I have also written down all their recommended books they liked and hope to read many of them.
I like almost all the books you recommend. I just love reading.
Join Date: 10/21/10
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I think this wonderful book should be required reading. I also think that even if you don't read like this book with a loved one, or to anyone reading a book to someone, is sometimes the easiest way to communicate about many things. I still remember listening to a book that a teacher read to my class 60-years-ago. Thanks, Will
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"Wise men speak because they have something to say. Fools speak because they have to say something "
– Plato
And so it is that I've not posted on the blog for awhile. Not that I'm making the claim that I am a wise man. Quite the contrary. But I do know the difference between not being wise and speaking out so as to prove the fact.
Actually, I've been otherwise focused for the past couple of weeks, being in the final throes of making a meaningful living and retiring. I joined the ranks of the leisure class a week ago today and still have not caught up with myself, and so have not found the time nor the inclination to sit down and wax eloquent on anything of interest. Of course not being eloquent hasn't stopped me in the past, and neither has not having anything of interest to share.
I've been ruminating this week about my lifetime of work and looking ahead to the hope of a long and interesting retirement. More so looking back, for that is something that I know while the looking ahead is speculative.
I began working for a wage in the summer of 1959, when I was twelve years old. My Dad was manager of a large chicken hatchery in Northeast Indiana and he hired me to clean up the hatching area, the incubators, and the hatching trays, as well as other assorted odd jobs. Minimum wage was one dollar an hour and that's what I was paid. It was a princely sum in my book. I cleared over thirty dollars a week, and for a boy of twelve in those days that was excellent. I still have a hunting knife that I bought with my first pay check.
But alas, the summer ended and I had to go back to school. I worked a couple of evenings a week and sometimes a Saturday after that until the next summer. I cleared about ten dollars a week, which still greatly exceeded my fifty cent weekly allowance given me by my parents.
In the summer of 1960 I worked full time again, still for the dollar an hour, but I got promoted. Sort of. I got to de-beak the chicks before they were packed for shipping. They were put into heavy specially constructed cardboard boxes consisting of four sections each. If I remember correctly they were packed twenty five per section, or one hundred per box. There were air holes around the perimeter of the boxes and in the lids. The chicks were shipped as far away as Arkansas, but were only in the boxes a maximum of twenty four hours or so.
The upper beak was trimmed off using a specially constructed piece of equipment with opposing sharp blades that cut with a scissor action. The blades were heated electrically to a temperature not far below red hot so that the beak was cauterized when cut. The purpose of this was to keep the chicks from pecking each other in shipping. If one chick pecked another and drew blood, all the chicks in proximity would join in and quickly eviscerate the unlucky victim. This could then be repeated over and over, decimating the number of live chicks reaching their final destination.
To this day I can still smell the odor of singed beak. It was somewhat reminiscent of burning feathers. I have always thought of that aroma as a natural appetite suppressant.
Before the summer was over I began working with the chicken sexer, learning that trade in order to diversify my job skills and make myself more valuable to the company. Oh, and yes, there then was, and I assume still is, such a job as a chicken sexer. Some customers wanted all males and some wanted all females, while others didn't give a hoot. This was particularly a serious matter to those people involved in the egg business. Not a lot of return on having a male or two strutting around the laying house.
Dave, the chicken sexer, was a small man of oriental heritage. I don't remember his last name, and it doesn't matter. He covered a large territory, sorting chicks by sex for hatcheries in a two state area. Dave was paid a per chick fee. I don't remember how much, but I know that he made enough to drive a Cadillac, factory equipped with a trunk mounted Frigidaire air conditioning system. That was a new and rare feature in those days. Even the owner of the company didn't have a Cadillac, much less one with air conditioning.
My pay scale was much smaller than Dave's, though I did get a small bonus in addition to my hourly rate when I was doing that job. Dave encouraged me to follow in his footsteps. He told me it was a booming business for a young man to get into and that he couldn't find enough good help.
I could understand why. You had to pick each chick up, face its derriere toward you, stare at the region of interest through a magnifier that you wore suspended from your head, and blow on its rear end to expose a good view of its equipment. This allowed you to determine its gender. You then had to put each gender into its appropriate container. More than once a baby chick would let go while being thus examined, spewing you with bodily waste of one sort or another. In fact, a lot more than once. You had to keep cleaning equipment near at hand in order to clean the magnifier lens which could become too coated to ascertain the answer you were seeking. And you had to perform this examination rapidly, accurately, and thousands of times per day.
Eye strain was a hazard of the job as well, as was neck and shoulder strain. It certainly wasn't a difficult job once you got the hang of it, and speed and accuracy allowed you to make some pretty good money. Needless to say, I did not choose that job as a career path, though sometimes since then I wonder if it might not have been a better choice than some of those I did sink to, career-wise.
Well, that's too much about nothing, but as I leave the work force it has helped me to focus on the joy of this event by reflecting on these and other less than joyous memories of entering the work force. Fifty years have passed as the blink of an eye. An eye which from the chicks' view was enormous and frightening as it blinked through the lens that hovered inches above their privates.
I started this post with a quote, and I'll end with one. I hope that the words sandwiched between the quotes were worthy, or at least interesting.
"Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence."
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Jorgensen is first female Alaska Army National Guard general
Cathy Jorgensen received the biggest promotion of her career Friday, Sept. 13.
It was a pretty big deal for the Alaska Army National Guard, too.
Jorgensen, of Eagle River, became the first female to make the rank of general in Alaska Guard history.
"It's a great privilege," she said following a ceremony on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.
Now a brigadier general, Jorgensen is responsible for preparing each of the Guard's 4,500 soldiers — be that to protect Alaska or to deploy worldwide.
There's no one better suited for the job, said Maj. Gen. Thomas Katkus, the Guard's adjutant general.
"She has absolutely earned this privilege," he said.
Jorgensen undertakes every assignment with the same gusto, Katkus said, and doesn't stop until her goal is accomplished. Jorgensen's hardworking attitude benefits everyone, he said.
"When you get around someone like that, it's infectious," Katkus said.
Coming to work every day with that outlook is easy because of her co-workers, Jorgensen said.
"We have some great people," she said. "I love my job."
Jorgensen received her commission in 1985 after becoming a distinguished military graduate from the reserve officer training program at the University of Alabama. While on active duty, Jorgensen served in Germany, Indiana, North Carolina, Utah and Alaska.
She left active duty in 1996 and joined the Alaska Army National Guard in 2000. Jorgensen currently serves as the Guard's director of the joint staff and as chief of staff.
Jorgensen credited her supportive family with helping her get to where she is today.
Her husband, Brad, and father, Bill Griffin, were literally the reason Jorgensen become a one-star general. Jorgensen watched with a smile as each pinned a star on her uniform at the conclusion of Friday's ceremony.
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former president of Yugoslavia, was arrested in April after a 26-hour armed standoff with police at his Belgrade home. He was charged with corruption and stealing state funds during his 13-year rule. Milosevic surrendered after Yugoslav officials promised him that he would have a fair trial and would not immediately be turned over to the United Nations war crimes tribunal at the Hague. He was, however, turned over to the UN in June. He was charged with committing crimes against humanity in Kosovo and Croatia. In November the U.N. war crimes tribunal charged him with genocide. The indictment stemmed from his alleged activity during the 1992–1995 Bosnian war. He is the first head of state to face an international war-crimes court.


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Check out the brand new moving poster from the movie adaptation of post-apocalyptic novel Hunger Games. Watch as the government mutated bird creature (the mockingjay) is surrounded in flames, our main character's signature Game style. Slight spoilers ahead...
In the books, each Hunger Games tribute (competitor) has a signature look that has been crafted by their team and stylist. Katniss' stylist Cinna (played by Lenny Kravitz) comes up with the brilliant idea to make her symbol fire. Thus Katniss becomes "the girl who was on fire," and this poster seems to channel her image very well. What do you think?
The Hunger Games will open in theaters on March 23, 2012.
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Couples exchanged rings in the aisle at the Grammy Awards as Macklemore & Ryan Lewis performed their gay rights anthem "Same Love."
With Queen Latifah presiding from the stage and the music playing, 33 straight and gay couples lined the aisle dressed in wedding finery. Under Latifah's command, they exchanged rings near the end of Sunday night's show televised on CBS.
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Association of Children's Museums (ACM): InterActivity 2011
May 19, 2011
May 21, 2011
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Pre-Conference Workshop: Implementing Nano in Children's Museums Wednesday May 18, 2011, 8:30 am.–4:30 pm
As science and technology continue to change the landscape of our world, children's museums strive to prepare their visitors to be the scientists, educators, law-makers and informed citizens of tomorrow. Nanoscale science, the manipulation of materials at the molecular scale, is the next great industrial revolution in which our visitors will be immersed throughout their lives. This workshop will introduce participants to the concepts around nanoscale science, share several nanoscale science activities that educate and inspire children and propose practical methods to implement nano into your children's museum. Content for this workshop is presented by members of NISE Net, a U.S. community of researchers and informal science educators dedicated to fostering public awareness, engagement, and understanding of nanoscale science, engineering, and technology. Come for a fun-filled day of taking a big look at the super small!
For museum professionals only. Pre-registration required; cost $25; includes breakfast, lunch, snack and all workshop materials. Travel scholarships up to $500 available; email Aaron Guerrero at [email protected] for more information. This off-site workshop will be held at the Children's Museum of Houston. Buses will depart from the lobby of the Hyatt Regency Houston Hotel at 8:00 a.m. and return by 5:00 p.m.
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Conference Sessions featuring nano content
• Creating a Comprehensive Mini-Exhibition: Thursday May 19, 3:00 pm–4:15 pm. Panelists will explore the desire to meet lofty goals of playful, interactive, content-rich exhibit experiences, all within a tiny footprint. Speakers will talk about the challenge to balance competing goals in the exhibit development and design process. Mini-exhibitions from the NISE Network, Children's Museum of Denver and Omaha Children's Museum's will be featured.
• O Wow Moments with Mr. O Thursday May 19, 10:45am-12:45pm Go behind the scenes with Mr. O (a.k.a. Keith Ostfeld, director of exhibit and program development) to see how the Children's Museum of Houston uses film to bring science concepts to life through simple experiments for its video blog. More than a museum tour, Ostfeld and his team will provide participants with information on how to develop video extensions for exhibit concepts. Since 2009, the museum has averaged four-to-six video postings to its Mr. O Blog per month. This tour will provide plenty of hands-on experiences and tips for those interested in video production as a teaching and promotional tool.
• Simple STEM for 21st Century Learning Skills Friday, May 20, 4:30pm - 5:45pm (new day and time!) Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) knowledge is essential if children are to develop the ability to invent and innovate in the 21st century. But with budget constraints, how do children's museums provide this essential programming? This hands-on, round-robin presentation allows participants to explore and discuss museum programs that incorporate STEM concepts without breaking the bank.
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Ed holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from Goizueta Business School at Emory University.
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Art Papas is the Founder and CEO of Bullhorn, Inc, the global leader in software for the staffing & recruitment industry. Art was the original architect of Bullhorn's flagship Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system, which now helps more than 8,000 companies around the world run their businesses. Art is the Chairman of the Board at Career Collaborative, an organization that teaches unemployed and underemployed adults how to build careers that change lives and strengthen families. In 2014, Ernst & Young named Art an EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award Winner in New England. Prior to starting Bullhorn, Art started his career as a software engineer at Thomson Reuters. Art is a graduate of Tufts University, holding a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics.
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As Bullhorn's Chief Revenue Officer, Mike drives the company's global revenue growth. Mike was one of the first 15 team members of Bullhorn Inc. in Boston and relocated to London in 2010 to start up the International team. In his 6 years in London, Mike drove regional expansion into the Netherlands, Germany, Singapore, and Australia. He has supplied cloud-based solutions to recruitment consultancies in over 50 different countries worldwide for the past 10 years. Mike was born and raised in the Boston-area where he grew up an avid sport fan. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Management from Babson College.
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Kristin oversees Bullhorn's human resources function in her role as Chief People Officer. Kristin joined Bullhorn in 2020 and is responsible for helping Bullhorn scale to the next level, build leadership capacity, and accelerate growth in global markets. Kristin brings to the role over 20 years of experience leading high-potential companies through breakthrough growth and brings a depth of knowledge in organizational design, scalable processes, and flexible systems culled from some of the most successful global companies in the world. Leary joins Bullhorn from Hitachi Vantara, where she served as Chief Human Resources Officer, and before that she worked as Chief Human Resources Officer at Forcepoint, a private equity-backed company with 3,000 employees operating in more than 45 countries. She has also worked at high-growth enterprise technology companies like Alphatec Spine, Boston Scientific, and Hewlett-Packard.
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Peter oversees Bullhorn's international operations across EMEA and APAC in his role as Executive Vice President of Corporate Development and International. Peter joined Bullhorn in 2009 and was responsible for its highly successful UK launch. In addition to growing the international team to over 50 staff and establishing Bullhorn as the UK's market leading recruitment software in fewer than three years, Peter has expanded Bullhorn's reach into EMEA and APAC and achieved a user base of more than 10,000 international users. Prior to taking on the launch of Bullhorn in the UK, Peter spent 20 years working in the recruitment industry and held a number of senior director roles before moving into the technology space.
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An interactive terminal based todo.txt file editor with an interface similar to mutt
Project description
todotxt-machine is an interactive terminal based todo.txt file editor with an interface similar to mutt. It follows the todo.txt format and stores todo items in plain text.
- View your todos in a list with helpful syntax highlighting
- Define your own colorschemes
- Tab completion of contexts and projects
- Filter contexts and projects
- Search for the todos you want with fuzzy matching
- Sort in ascending or descending order, or keep things unsorted
- Clickable UI elements
Python 2.7 or Python 3.4 on Linux or Mac OS X.
todotxt-machine 1.1.8 and earlier drew its user interface using only raw terminal escape sequences. While this was very educational it was difficult to extend with new features. Version 2 and up used urwid to draw its interface and is much more easily extendable.
Using pip
pip install todotxt-machine
Download or clone this repo and run the todotxt-machine.py script.
git clone https://github.com/AnthonyDiGirolamo/todotxt-machine.git cd todotxt-machine ./todotxt-machine.py
Command Line Options
todotxt-machine Usage: todotxt-machine todotxt-machine TODOFILE todotxt-machine [--config FILE] todotxt-machine (-h | --help) todotxt-machine --version Options: -c FILE --config=FILE Path to your todotxt-machine configuraton file [default: ~/.todotxt-machinerc] -h --help Show this screen. --version Show version.
Config File
You can tell todotxt-machine to use the same todo.txt file whenever it starts up by adding a file entry to the ~/.todotxt-machinerc file. You can also set you preferred colorscheme or even define new themes.
Here is an example config file with a complete colorscheme definition:
[settings] file = ~/todo.txt colorscheme = myawesometheme [colorscheme-myawesometheme] plain=h250 selected=,h238 header=h250,h235 header_todo_count=h39,h235 header_todo_pending_count=h228,h235 header_todo_done_count=h156,h235 header_sorting=h235,h39 header_file=h48,h235 dialog_button=h255,h242 dialog_background=,h248 dialog_color=,h240 dialog_shadow=,h238 footer=h39,h235 search_match=h222,h235 completed=h59 context=h39 project=h214 creation_date=h135 due_date=h161 priority_a=h167 priority_b=h173 priority_c=h185 priority_d=h77 priority_e=h80 priority_f=h62
You can add colorschemes by adding sections with names that start with colorscheme-. Then under the [settings] section you can say which colorscheme you want to use.
The format for a color definitions is:
Foreground and background colors are follow the 256 color formats defined by urwid. Here is an excerpt from that link:
High colors may be specified by their index h0, …, h255 or with the shortcuts for the color cube #000, #006, #008, …, #fff or gray scale entries g0 (black from color cube) , g3, g7, … g100 (white from color cube).
You can see all the colors defined here.
I recommend you leave the foreground out of the following definitions by adding a comma immediately after the =
selected=,h238 dialog_background=,h248 dialog_color=,h240 dialog_shadow=,h238
If you want to use your terminal's default foreground and background color use blank strings and keep the comma:
Let me know if you make any good colorschemes and I'll add it to the default collection.
Key Bindings
h, ? - show / hide this help message q - quit and save t - show / hide toolbar w - toggle word wrap b - toggle borders on todo items S - save current todo file R - reload the todo file (discarding changes)
mouse click - select any todo, checkbox or button j, down - move selection down k, up - move selection up g, page up - move selection to the top item G, page down - move selection to the bottom item left, right - move selection between todos and filter panel H, L tab - toggle focus between todos, filter panel, and toolbar
Manipulating Todo Items
x - complete / un-complete selected todo item n - add a new todo to the end of the list o - add a todo after the selected todo (when not filtering) O - add a todo before the selected todo (when not filtering) enter, A, e - edit the selected todo D - delete the selected todo J - swap with item below K - swap with item above
While Editing a Todo
tab - tab complete contexts and projects return - save todo item left, right - move cursor left and right ctrl-b - move cursor backwards (left) by one word ctrl-f - move cursor forwards (right) by one word home, end - move cursor the beginning or end of the line ctrl-a, ctrl-e ctrl-w - delete one word backwards ctrl-k - delete from the cursor to the end of the line ctrl-y - paste last deleted text
f - open the filtering panel F - clear any active filters
s - toggle sort order (Unsorted, Ascending, Descending) sort order is saved on quit
/ - start search enter - finalize search L - clear search
Known Issues
With tmux the background color in todotxt-machine can sometimes be lost at the end of a line. If this is happening to you set your $TERM variable to screen or screen-256color
export TERM=screen-256color
Planned Features
- [STRIKEOUT:User defined color themes]
- [STRIKEOUT:Manual reordering of todo items]
- [STRIKEOUT:Config file for setting colors and todo.txt file location]
- Add vi readline keybindings. urwid doesn't support readline currently. The emacs style bindings currently available are emulated.
- Support for archiving todos in done.txt
See the log here
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