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CAPE TOWN – India's ministry of mines secretary, Arun Kumar has urged African countries and the private sector in his country to look for partnership opportunities in the Indian mining and downstream sector.
"We would like our parastatals (state firms) to join hands with parastatals in Africa," Kumar said at the annual Investing in African Mining Indaba that ended in Cape Town on Thursday.
"Parastatals, by their nature, find themselves in some difficulties working in an open competitive environment, so we are looking for those opportunities."
"Private sector has a major role and therefore, as you would see in various fields the private sector has come in at various levels of participation, there is a very open policy on licensing," Kumar added.
He said the Indian government was keen for transparency and to ensure that the country's natural resource were used for the empowerment of its citizens.
"So what we brought in was an auction system, I am well aware that auctioning of mineral resources other than petroleum and natural gas is not the way the world does it but we have taken on this path in the interest of transparency and fair play," he told delegates.
"So you free to bid, free to come to India, 100% FDI (foreign direct investment) is permissible, full repatriation of profits is permissible. Our legal requirement is that you need to incorporate in India but 100% control will remain with the investor."
Kumar said India produces $44-billion worth of resources, with minerals, oil, and gas accounting for 32%, coal and lignite for 35% with other minerals made up 33%.
Kumar said the Indian government had constituted local funds to address problems arising in local communities after realising that areas most affected by mining activity were often left stranded when revenue was channeled to the central, federal government or provincial governments.
"Whatever we say, mining is a disruptive activity and we need to address it. There are environmental laws in our country as across all jurisdictions but at the end of the day, mining does disturb that environment going forward," Kumar said.
"So we made a provision for a district mineral fund where the revenues from mining go to the districts and eliminate the difficulties in that area, people get a stake so that people understand that this activity also looks after the social life and therefore we expect that mining would have greater social sanction going forward."
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Ew... I wore this outfit earlier this year. I'm one of those people whose styles changes everyday, and looking back on this outfit I honestly want to vomit. It is in no way me and I'm getting really angry looking at it. I think it's time for me to go on a style pilgrimage... my Mecca can be finally discovering my style/a group of styles that suit me/styles that I like and identify with. I feel like I shouldn't be attempting to define my style, but I hate looking back at what I wore and feeling like I was misrepresenting who I am. I'm not saying this outfit is trashy/tacky/ugly/boring/amazing, I'm just saying it isn't me. I'm definitely in that stage of my teen grrrl life where I just have no idea who I am. It really bothers me, because it's hard to be confident and feel secure when you aren't sure who you are. But I guess the journey is part of the fun. My current style phase is super boho, but I have a feeling by Friday it will be something completely different. Style wandering is definitely my hobby. But right now I really have to go because I have to finish eating my eggs, write a history essay and do a science lab report (barf.)
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The Inaugural edition of the Indian Sports Honours, which was held in Mumbai, saw Kidambi Srikanth and P V Sindhu grab the top honours.
While ace shuttler Srikanth, who won four Super Series titles this year, won the Sportsman of the Year award, Rio Olympics silver medallist Sindhu won the Sportswoman of the Year award in the individual sport category.
In the team sport category, Ravichandran Ashwin, who recently achieved the feat of becoming the fastest bowler to reach 'Club 300' in Test cricket, was awarded Sportsman of the Year award, while women's cricket team captain Mithali Raj was awarded Sportswoman of the Year award.
The Indian Women's Cricket Team, which was the runners-up in the ICC Women's World Cup 2017, was named the 'Team of the Year'.
Other awards included 'Coach of the year', which went to Bisveshwar Nandi, who was the coach of gymnast Dipa Karmakar. The 'Emerging Sportswoman of the year' went to golfer Aditi Ashok and the 'Emerging Sportsman of the year' went to athlete Neeraj Chopra.
In the differently abled category, the 'Differently abled Sportsman of the year' award went to Indian Paralympic javelin thrower Devendra Jhajaria and 'Differently abled Sportswoman of the year' went to Paralympic athlete Deepa Malik.
While star tennis player Sania Mirza was awarded the Inspirational Honour by the jury, country's first Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra was honoured with the Transformational Contribution to Sport award.
HS Prannoy, Saina Nehwal beat title favourites to become new National Champions
The Indian Sports Honours is a joint initiative by Indian skipper Virat Kohli and Sanjiv Goenka to support the development of Indian sports.
View the full list of winners below:
Main Honours (SJFI – EnY Process)
Sportsman of the year (Individual sport) – Srikanth Kidambi
Sportswoman of the year (Individual sport) – P.V. Sindhu
Sportsman of the year (Team sport) – Ravichandran Ashwin
Sportswoman of the year (Team sport) – Mithali Raj
Team of the year (Men/Women) – Indian Women's Cricket Team
Coach of the year – Bisveshwar Nandi
Emerging Sportswoman of the year – Aditi Ashok
Emerging Sportsman of the year – Neeraj Chopra
Differently abled Sportsman of the year – Devendra Jhajaria
Differently abled Sportswoman of the year – Deepa Malik
Jury Honours
Inspirational Honour – Sania Mirza
Transformational Contribution to Sport – Abhinav Bindra
Keep Walking Honour for Lifetime achievement – Balbir Singh
Popular choice Honours
Breakthrough performance of the year – Hardik Pandya
Star Sports 'Believe' Honour (Comeback of the year) – Saina Nehwal
Spirit of Sport – Yogeshwar Dutt
Player of the year – Sunil Chhetri
Club of the year – Mumbai Indians
Best Fan Club – Manjappada Kerala Blasters
VKF Athlete Development Programme – Scholarship Athletes
Sumit Nagal – Tennis
Karman Kaur Thandi – Tennis
Diya Dhayal – Archery
Shivani Kataria – Swimming
Swastika Ghosh – Table Tennis
Aadil Bedi – Golf
Aryamann Tandon – Badminton
Indian women's hockey team lifts Hockey Asia Cup after 13 years
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February 20, 2003 File #325
Contact: Carla Stone, Art Gallery, (707) 664-2295
Wally Hedrick's 'Pre-emptive Peace' Now at University Art GalleryThe University Art Gallery at Sonoma State University is pleased to announce the opening of an exhibition of paintings by Sonoma County resident and Bay Area legend Wally Hedrick.
On view from Feb. 20 through March 16, Wally Hedrick: Preemptive Peace, will include several "image" paintings from the past few years and a larger group of elegiac all-black canvases produced primarily during the 1960s and early 70s in protest of the Vietnam War—works eerily relevant today as the United States prepares for a new war, this time against Iraq.
In fact, it is the impending violence in the Middle East, and Hedrick's reaction against it, that has prompted the artist to exhibit his "veterans" (as he has referred to these paintings) once again in protest of military action by the United States.
Wally Hedrick was born in Pasadena, California, in 1928. He studied at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles before entering the infantry and serving during the Korean War, an experience that had a major impact on his life.
Following the war, Hedrick moved to the Bay Area and resumed his art education, studying at the California College of Arts an Crafts in Oakland and ultimately receiving his B.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees from the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute) and San Francisco State College (now San Francisco State University) in the mid 1950s.
In addition to being a central figure in--and an important influence on--the Bay Area's Beat, Assemblage, and Funk movements, Hedrick was a co-founder of the now-mythical The Six Gallery in San Francisco's North Beach district, where art was displayed, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg read poetry (including the premiere of Ginsberg's poem Howl), and party-like events, eventually known in the art world as "happenings," took place.
By the late 1950s, Hedrick's work began receiving national recognition, including an invitation from Dorothy Miller in 1959 to participate in her Sixteen Americans exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in New York (along with artists such as Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Frank Stella).
Although some of Hedrick's early work centered around assemblages made of urban debris and paintings that poked fun at the art establishment (Here's Art For 'em and Art Through the Aged), he was also making politically-themed work, such as Peace (the word "Peace" painted across an image of the American flag), as early as 1953.
During the early years of the war in Vietnam, Hedrick expressed his displeasure in paintings with titles such as Madame Nhu's Barbeque and Napalm Sundae.
He then began the Vietnam Series (several of which are included in this exhibition), a group of rough-textured, completely black canvases initially created by "painting out" (and virtually destroying) some of his existing paintings.
As the war in Vietnam escalated in the late 1960s, Hedrick began stretching new (and quite large) canvases and continued to use only black oil paint to cover them.
This series, in addition to being a direct protest of the Vietnam War, was Hedrick's method of going "on strike" and withdrawing his services from society as a maker of images.
As America's failure to achieve victory in Vietnam seemed more and more inevitable around 1970, Hedrick created an 11 foot square installation, composed of freestanding black canvases that the viewer actually enters, symbolizing the artist's notion that the United States had "boxed ourselves in" in Southeast Asia.
The Black Room (more recently referred to as The War Room) will also be part of this exhibition.
Following the end of America's presence in Vietnam in the early 1970s, Hedrick began creating mostly black and white works that reproduce, in painstaking detail, pages from old Sears and Roebuck catalogs and other vintage advertisements.
Although at first glance seemingly banal images, these paintings gradually reveal themselves as the work of an artist who for more than 50 years has been a sharp-eyed social and cultural critic. The exhibition includes a recent group of these paintings.
Just as he did during the Vietnam and Gulf wars, Wally Hedrick has once again gone "on strike". For the time being, he has stopped making new work and has focused his creative energies on Wally Hedrick: Preemptive Peace.
Following its presentation at Sonoma State University, the artist plans to exhibit these paintings at other museums and galleries across the United States.
Wally Hedrick: Preemptive Peace was organized by the University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, in collaboration with Wally Hedrick. Special thanks to LINC REAL ART, San Francisco, for making available many of the works in this exhibition, and L.G. Williams, for his assistance at critical stages of this project.
For more information and press images, please call (707) 664-2295.
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For the Week of April 15
Sunday, April 15th – Third Sunday of Easter
9:45 am – Pre-worship singing in the Sanctuary
10:00 am – Worship in the Sanctuary. Scripture readings: Acts 3:12–19; Psalm 4; 1; John 3:1–7; Luke 24:36b–48
4:00 pm – Church Family Prayer Event – Church Hall
7:30 pm – Contemplative Prayer Group – Trinity Lounge
Monday, April 16th
10:30 am – UCW Meeting – Trinity Lounge
1:30 pm – Prayer Shawl Meeting – Trinity Lounge
3:45 pm – Board Meeting – Fairview Room
7:00 pm – Caritas meeting – Liz Knox's home
Tuesday, April 17th
8:30 am – Chair Yoga in the Church Hall
10:30 am – Worship Service – Nelson Jubilee Manor
2:00 pm – Worship Service – Mountain Lake Seniors Com.
Wednesday, April 18th
10:00 am – Worship Service – Lakeview Village
7:00 pm – Bell Choir Rehearsal – St. Paul's Room
7:00 pm – Intentional Living Meeting – Fairview Room
Thursday, April 19th
6:45 am – Breakfast Book Club Meeting – Trinity Lounge
1:00 pm – Memorial Service for Lorna Simmonds – Sanctuary
7:00 pm – Chancel Choir Rehearsal – Sanctuary
Friday, April 20th
Saturday, April 21st
3:00 pm – Earth Day Parade Begins – Railtown Visitor's Centre
7:30 pm – Contemplative Prayer Group – Trinity Lounge
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For the Children
Children are always welcome and encouraged to come to church on Sunday.
We have a Nursery Room available upstairs by the balcony,
a Quiet Play Centre in the front right-hand side of the sanctuary
and activity packages are available from the ushers.
Intergenerational Sunday
The first Sunday of each month is Communion Sunday
and is an Intergenerational Sunday,
so the children do not go to Sunday School.
Activity packages are available from the ushers.
We Are An Affirming Ministry
As an Affirming Ministry, we celebrate the diversity of God's creation.
We celebrate the richness of our community when we
have diversity in age, gender identity,
racial/cultural backgrounds, sexual orientation, ability,
and family configurations.
We seek to create a safe space
with an open invitation to bring every aspect of your whole self into
your participation within this ministry.
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The flowers this morning are
in loving memory of Mable Donaldson.
From Stan and family
Staff Schedule
David Boyd will be attending the Kootenay Presbytery Spring Meeting in Cranbrook next weekend. Leslie Windsor will be our worship leader on Sunday, April 15th.
Thank You …
To Jasmine Lysenko for her exemplary work as a member of the Admin Team and
To Elaine Henderson for replacing Jasmine on the Admin team.
To the women of the UCW for providing a lovely memorial reception for Lorna Simmonds and the men's group for help with set-up
To Diane Harke for an interesting discussion about her book at the Caritas meeting.
To Linn Murray for cooking and to Judy Cameron for helping Robin set up for the Church Family Prayer Event last Sunday.
Also, thank you to all who participated in the Lord's Prayer Challenge and the Church Family Prayer Event celebrations!
Tax Receipts are ready for pick-up in the Narthex. If you have any questions, please see Donna Strongman
Reframing Ministry in a Changing Spiritual Landscape at Trail United Church on May 10th & 11th
Explore the changing spiritual landscape that gives rise to new ways the Spirit of God is working in the world. Discuss how churches can take God into the world instead of expecting the world to come to come to the Church. Discover the role of Community Spiritual Companion, and how this can foster lay and pastoral leaders to connect with their communities. This workshop will be of interest to lay leaders, pastors, church board members and everyone interested in revitalizing their church ministry in our changing world!
Growing Together: Conversations with Seniors & Youth
Would you like to enrich your connections with youth? We are accepting applicants from the community, particularly seniors, for a group called Growing Together: Conversations with Seniors and Youth. It is sponsored by Nelson Cares Society and will be held from mid-March to mid-May, with a few breaks. Please contact me if you are interested or wish to know more: Lee Reid (email@example.com) 250-352-3870.
Hosts needed to billet for an Exciting NUC Fundraiser:
University of Alberta Mixed Chorus
Spring Tour Concert
At Nelson United Church, Monday, April 30th
We hosted this choir in 2013 and it was a wonderful experience for us and the choir and an excellent fundraiser for NUC. We have the fortunate opportunity to host this fabulous choir from Edmonton once again. They arrive the afternoon of Monday, April 30th and perform that evening in the sanctuary. After their concert, they are billeted with hosts from our congregation for one night and then leave the next morning. If you have room to billet or would like more information, please contact Lois in the church office.
Keep the Date
Spring is springing, in spite of the snow. UCW will be hosting a Spring Coffee Party on May 19th from 10 till 12. and enjoy coffee and coffee cake for just $5. , plants, books, jewelry and free trade items will be available as well. it a date, and bring your friends!
The Observer Renewals
The Observer is the United Church of Canada's national magazine. Annual renewals are now due.You may bring your cheque, made out to Nelson United Church, into the office or put it in your envelope in the offering plate.Please ensure you mark the envelope or memo line of your cheque accordingly. If you would like to cancel or begin receiving the magazine, please contact our Observer Rep. Rosena Warner. This year's subscription is $25.00.
Important Reminder Regarding our Prayer List
Whenever adding a person's name to our prayer list, please be respectful of that person's privacy and Check with them or their family to make sure they want to be on the prayer list. Do not share their personal health information unless they say it is ok to share it. Please contact the office to ensure all details are correct and the name is added to the bulletin. Thank you for being a community full of love and compassion.
Friendly Reminder re Parking for Church & Church Events:
With our location on the corner of two streets, and with the snow and hills more particularly, parking is a challenge.Our request is that the more able-bodied folk please park farther away from the church thus leaving the spots on the streets closer to the church for those who need them.This includes the parking lot at the back of the church, too. Many of you already carpool and that's great; if carpooling is an option we encourage you to do so … it's a nice social time, too.
Youth Ministry
Sunday School at Nelson United Church: from Jan. 14th– June 17th we offer three Sunday School classes during the second half of most 10 am Sunday services, except the first Sunday of every month, when we celebrate communion.There is a class for children ages 3-6 years, a class for children ages 7-11 years, and a class for youth in Grade 6 & up.Children under 3 are welcome to join the youngest class accompanied by their own caregiver.
Youth Group at Nelson United Church: meets the second and fourth Fridays of the month from 7-9 pm, downstairs in the Church Hall.Youth in Grades 6-12 are invited to join us for games, snacks, friendship and meaningful conversations.
Gifts with Vision Catalogue
Searching for new and meaningful gift ideas this year? You will find something for everyone on your list in the "Gifts with Vision", the United Church's giving catalogue. The catalogues are available in the Narthex or online: www.giftswithvision.ca
Spirit Winds Recorder Ensemble
Spirit Winds Recorder Ensemble is starting a new set of music, so if you have been thinking about joining, now is a perfect time! If you need an instrument, we have soprano recorders available. Rehearsals are at noon on Sundays. Please talk to Robin Murray, email@example.com or 250-352-2822.
We Know That You Are Out there
The Pastoral Care Team is looking for people to help support members of our congregation. Do you like to play games? Visit? Could you help drive others to church or church events? Just a little bit of help can make a significant difference in the lives of others. Are you already doing this? We'd like to hear about it. For more information please contact a member of the Pastoral Care Team: David Boyd, Dorothy Wayling, Dianne Harke, Irene McIlwaine, Joe Woodward, Judy Cameron, Robin Murray, Wendy Steed, Willa Horsfall.
Chair Yoga with Instructor, Clement
All are welcome to join in gentle chair yoga classes Tuesdays at 8:30 am in the Church Hall;
And Thursdays at 8:20 am at the Seniors Centre.
Scent Free Church
Please remember to refrain from wearing perfumes, colognes, aftershaves and all other scented products to church. We have some members with allergies to these products.
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Caring Casseroles
Do you know someone (or yourself) who would be helped by having a pre-made meal? There are a variety (vegetarian, gluten-free, and meat) of casseroles in the freezer in our kitchen. Please let Donna Strongman know and it could be delivered, or take it yourself.
Prayer Shawl Group
Over 165 hand knitted or crocheted prayer shawls have been lovingly created by members of the Prayer Shawl Group. The shawls have been received by those appreciating a 'warm hug filled with God's love'. Anyone wishing to knit or crochet prayer shawls (beginners welcome!) are invited to join us in the Trinity Lounge the first Monday of each month at 1:30 pm.
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This week's featured blogger is one of the biggest Sanrio fans we've seen in a while, and it's not just because she's here on Sanriotown! A self-confessed lifelong Sanrio fan, she definitely shows her love for the cute and cuddly kind with her entries and her collection!
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The New York Times hates the Tea Party Movement. It scorns Glenn Beck for encouraging people to educate themselves about what the U.S. Constitution actually says or to understand what the Founding Fathers intended the constitutional republic they created to look like by reading their writings in the Federalist Papers.
With its usual snootiness, The Times looked down on those folks "who began listening to Glenn Beck" and "with his guidance,"
explored the Federalist Papers, exposés on the Federal Reserve, the work of Ayn Rand and George Orwell. Some went to constitutional seminars.
Going to constitutional seminars. How downright radical is that?
This shocking revelation appeared yesterday in The Times' front page article on the Tea Party Movement, which was packed with so many other tidbits of drivel, innuendo and guilt by association accusations that it took two other complete pages of the front section to complete.
The Times' conspiracy theorists were out in force, accusing the members of the Tea Party Movement of either being disaffected right wing-nuts themselves or linking up with fanatical "militant" groups who were ready to overthrow the government.
Tea Party events have become a magnet for other groups and causes – including…militia organizers, the "birthers" who doubt President Obama's citizenship, Lyndon LaRouche supporters and proponents of the sovereign states movement
The Times is trying to de-legitimize an entire peoples' movement by focusing on a small minority of extremist hanger-ons. Its article said nothing about the peaceful demonstrations by many thousands of ordinary citizens last year or the recent National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, which was a civics lesson in decorum and democracy at work.
The Times conspiracy nuts only have their knives out for the 'vast right-wing conspiracy' they so despise. When it comes to organizations on the Left like Moveon.org, The New York Times is in bed with them. Remember when it ran a full page ad for Moveon.org at a discount price attacking the patriotism of one of our most distinguished generals?
"General Petraeus or General Betray Us?"
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A new drunk driving law will target repeat driving under the influence offenders in Wyoming. The new law extends the maximum jail sentence to seven years for anyone convicted of drunk driving four or more times.
The previous sentence was only two years.
Representative Sam Krone of Cody sponsored the bill. He says, the longer sentence will allow repeat offenders to undergo comprehensive treatment.
"It provides for courts to order longer, more intensive treatment that often times couldn't be ordered previously because of that two-year limitation," Krone says.
Krone adds that previously, chronic offenders would often spend just a few months in jail. He says that with the longer sentence, the state's most dangerous drivers will be off the road for a longer period of time.


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Title: Tenere/Kidal
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|"Split 7" from Sahel Sounds and Love All Day. Features the Northern Malian Amanar with their desert ballad Tenere along with Kidal by Pacific Northwest-based artist Celestino, who holds the Amanar track in suspension, filtering it through a fever dream. Limited to 200." -Sahel Sounds.


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Mendon Station Festival is a family oriented, community event with activities for all ages. The site is part of the historic Lehigh Valley Linear Trail across upstate New York, at the former Mendon Station of the railroad. The festival includes a 5k-15k race on Sunday morning.
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I believe in 1 body, 2 souls and 1 spirit [Body+(Logic & Memory)+Heart]; Spirit is a divine gift of God supported by body and souls. Spirit has an infinite life, constant like particles in the universe. Spirit has special power given by God and that`s "Love and Faith"
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hi there, i have two problems with nvidia optimus, lot of tearing and also in nvidia-settings my display is not detected in the sync part.
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What's this say? I have a feeling you may have an older intel chip
Hi there, i have intel hd4600+ geforce gt740m on Toshiba L50-Asunnyflunk wrote: ↑Thu Mar 09, 2017 2:07 amWhat's this say? I have a feeling you may have an older intel chip
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I am loving all of the bright colors I am seeing this spring/summer. I feel like it is done strategically because people are generally feeling down about our whole economic situation. Regardless, I heart what I am seeing and if it's intention is to brighten my day, then it's working. I have to say right now my favorite color is a fresh mint green. The photo above is of a kitchen that MWDA designed for a private residence in Atlanta. We went with this amazing bright mint green for the back splash. We chose do use sheets of back painted glass to create a very smooth and sleek effect while still adding a punch of vibrant color. We recently were awarded Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles Magazine's 2009 Kitchen of the year for this kitchen and we are very proud. Here are some more examples of this fantastic color and how to apply it.
The Prince Charles Chair from Modernica. The chair alone is brilliant, such a great combination of two classics. The chair is beautiful, obviously, but I l.o.v.e. the color. This fresh green makes me so happy and I now want it immediately!
I love pretty hardware, it's such an easy fix to update any piece of furniture or cabinetry. I am desperate for this mint green knob. Anthropologie has really great finds for the home. Fun linens, dishes, accessories, all sorts of great stuff. But I love that they have these fantastic vintage inspired hardware collections. Really beautiful pieces that can make a huge impact on some less then amazing furniture.
I always say that accessories are a great way to introduce color into any space. It's much easier to move them around and trade them out when you get bored or need to refresh your space. Mark and I have been in love with Baccus bottles lately. Their color and shape is fantastic but they can be expensive. But these great little bottles from West Elm are a great way to get a similar effect. Beautiful mint green color and adorable shape.
If you aren't familiar with SMEG then you need to be. They make these delicious 50's style refrigerators. They come in a variety of colors and have such a petite scale (60"x24") you can't help but want to crawl inside one. Again their colors are so yummy, I want to lick them. They aren't inexpensive but the amount of personality they can add to any kitchen is phenomenal.
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Day 8
Got up and the sun was shining no bears this morning so a relaxed break up of my campsite soaking up the sun not getting any quicker at this but when the sun is shining who cares. Leaving Nova Scotia and heading for Prince Edward Island and as usual Philly calculation on distances totally wrong so arrived in Charlottetown at 9.30 that evening in my defence there was an hour and half wait for the ferry and the ferry also took an hour and half so I would have been there in time for tea so calculations reasonable. Was cream crackered and did not fancy a night under canvas even though the sun had been shining all day and it was a lovely evening I think my love affair with me tent is over especially when you can get a bed plus breakfast in hostel for roughly the same price. So many thanks to lovely people of the VIC (Visitor Information Centre absolutely brilliant folks have been nothing but helpful and there's is also free internet), had spotted there was a hostel on PEI Island so plugged the address into my GPS and as I said arrived at 9.30 at night. Went for walk as my head was bit woolly as it had been a long day on the bike and thought maybe I will stay 2 nights here as the place had a nice vibe to it but changed my mind when I was on the internet and I typed in Charlotte town to Fairbanks Alaska and got the following response
7,663 km and 93 hours eeeeeeek
That's bleeding miles as I said these distances a blowing my poor little brain when I was looking at the map of the world I have on my wall at home it does not look that fare but in reality I may have bitten of more than I can chew so as per Oliver Twist I am reviewing the situation!


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Flags of the Russian Federation
[ Kids/Teens ] See this country's national and republic flags. Site also features some information on the history of the Russian Federation and its republics.
Lonely Planet - Russia
[ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] Comprehensive facts and advice for traveling along with background material on the culture and history of the country.
PBS - Face of Russia
[ Kids/Teens ] Learn about Russian history and culture through an interactive timeline of Russian art. Includes paintings, photographs and Real Audio clips.
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Russian Federal Space Agency
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US Department of State - Russia
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by T. Lee Harris
Chances are most of us have heard that phrase, never give up, until it's so much meaningless noise.
It also happens to be the single most important thing I've learned about writing. In spite of all the social media we use today, writing is still a mostly solitary occupation. I can't speak for anyone else, but while sitting at my desk, staring at that blank page, everyday problems can loom large. Instead of a gripping storyline, the phrase "What the @#$%$%# am I doing?" pops into my head.
Life gets frustrating. Sometimes sitting down to write is a signal for the telephone to ring. There are inexplicable bad reviews and snarkier than necessary rejection letters. The sink can only be located by the cairn of dirty dishes . . . the upshot? Sometimes walking away is more attractive than pounding the keyboard.
That's where I was a few years back. Nothing was going right. Story submissions returned almost as fast as I sent them. The only thing keeping me in the game was the fact that my historical short story, "The Maltese Groundhog" had recently taken first place against some stiff competition in Mysterical-e's Bloody Groundhog Day contest. Surely that meant someone liked my work, right?
When Wildside Press put out a call for the anthology Cat Tales 2, I was interested, but leery. My submission for the first volume had earned a not-so-helpful rejection. Still, I had another Ancient Egyptian piece ready to go. All they could say was no. Shortly after I hit Send, the response landed in my inbox. Oooooooo! Too fast! I gritted my teeth and opened it, expecting another "Later Much". I read it. I read it again. I had my housemate read it to make sure I was reading it right. It was a rejection -- sort of. They loved my Egyptian scribe and his temple cat companion, but this story didn't fit. Did I have another?
To make a long story short (too late!), I sent another and got an acceptance faster than the previous rejection/request. Shortly after, I submitted a story to Untreed Reads for The Killer Wore Cranberry anthology. That was "Hanukkah Gelt" and it went on to be a best-selling short -- and got me accepted into ITW. It also gave me the confidence to finish and publish the paranormal thriller, Chicago Blues, the first novel in the Miller & Peale series.
Tell your story the way you want to -- the way it feels right. I'm not saying to ignore criticism. Pay attention to any comments you get back. Sometimes they're gold, sometimes they aren't, but any time someone sitting in that editor/publisher chair takes time to give you more than a ripped-off-the-pad "No thanks", PAY ATTENTION. It means someone out there gave your work more than a brief glance -- and if there's an invitation to send something else? Melt the wires getting it out! Most of all, keep swinging. You'll never regret it.
T. Lee Harris is a scribbler of the lowest order. Not only does she pen lies about people who don't exist, but she draws pictures of them as well. Harris is known to aid and abet others by putting their scribblings into book form -- even going so far as to devise covers for these publications. She claims she went to school to learn these things, but that shouldn't be held against anyone. There are suspicions that Harris is committing another novel or two, but this has yet to be confirmed.
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Book 2 of the Miller & Peale Series
Peale's unintentional intrusion into an illegal arms investigation in Chicago has gotten him drafted into Sentry International as a Special Agent and partnered with former football star, Galen Miller. It also brought him face-to-face with his vampiric sire, Francesco Borgia, for the first time in more than two hundred years. That arms case has come to a cataclysmic close, leaving one colleague dead and both Peale and Borgia injured. While grief and wounds are still raw, a series of brutal killings take place in New York City. The victims are all connected to Eddie Michalson, one of Borgia's top Lieutenants, prompting Sentry International to pack Special Agents Peale and Miller off to the Big Apple to liaise with NYPD to solve the murders. However, the assassinations are only a small part of the problems awaiting the team in the city. The killings have ignited a power struggle within Borgia's criminal empire, shaking it apart and endangering everything and everyone Miller and Peale care about.
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Academics You can discover the wealth of the University's academic opportunities in the varied majors, minors, and programs offered by Arts and Letters, Business, Science, Engineering, and Architecture. Location University of Notre Dame 112 N Notre Dame Ave, South Bend, IN 46556 Phone: (574) 631-5000 Athletics Football Basketball Lacrosse Soccer Hockey Tennis Fencing Volleyball Rowing Golf Cross Country Track and Field Baseball Softball Swimming Diving Athletics History A man of lively imagination, Father Sorin named his fledgling school in honor of Our Lady, in his native tongue, "L'Université de Notre Dame du Lac" (The University of Our Lady of the Lake). On January 15, 1844, the University was thus officially chartered by the Indiana legislature. Father Sorin's indomitable will was best demonstrated in 1879 when a disastrous fire destroyed the Main Building, which housed virtually the entire University. Father Sorin willed Notre Dame to rebuild and continue its growth. Traditions The more things change, the more they remain the same in one important way at Notre Dame. Tradition is – and has always been – the cornerstone of the student experience. From the places they go to the ways they play, pray, eat and study together, generations of Domers have forged bonds through a host of rituals and observances that have stood the test of time. University of Notre DameFull transcript


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I'm known as a Frugal Bastard as I'm careful with my money and don't like wastage. I travel a bit, take lots of photos, make videos and like sharing my own silly opinions on stupid things and spelling mistakes that I discover in the media. Political comment and satire have a place close to my heart. I also major in sarcasm.
Friday, January 07, 2011
Ashes Prediction - Spot On
Anybody remember my prediction for this Ashes Series? Does 3-1 to England ring a bell? Holy heck. I was right. Wish I'd had a few bob on that.
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2 lbs grouper fish; grilled
1/4 cup olive oil
1 ea lime
1/2 ea cabbage; shredded
6 ea flour tortillas
1 cup sour cream
1/2 cup milk
1 clove garlic; minced
1 tablespoon oregano
1 tablespoon cilantro
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup salsa
Squeeze lime, olive oil and salt on fish. Grill fish 5 min on each side. Alternatively: dip in batter and fry.
Mix sour cream, milk, garlic and spices for the sauce.
Tear the fish into chunks and pile on warmed torillas. Steam the shredded cabbage, and top the fish. Add a scoop of the sauce and a scoop of salsa. Roll the tortilla and enjoy.


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The battle over the pledge of allegiance finally made its way to HLS last Thursday, as Professor Alan Dershowitz took on Dean Douglas Kmiec of the Catholic University School of Law.
The debate centered around the Ninth Circuit's decision in Newdow v. U.S. Congress, in which it was held that the phrase "under God" in the pledge of allegiance was unconstitutional. For over an hour, Dershowitz and Kmiec dueled about the case, as well as the broader and more complicated issue of religion in government.
Kmiec argued that the invocation of God in the pledge is recognition of both the imperfect nature of human institutions and of a higher law that should guide human affairs in their ordering of society and government. Dershowitz contended that the pledge, as it is currently worded, unfairly excludes both atheists and those who do not feel that "under God" encompasses their understanding of a higher being. It was, in the words of 1L Hugo Torres, a "thought-provoking discussion that raised several interesting questions that we will continue to grapple with now, and in the future."
Kmiec began his defense of "under God" by saying, "I do not believe in any factual sense of the term that the pledge is a prayer." Instead, he argued, the pledge is a promise of loyalty or fidelity to the nation and thus, the phrase "under God" is a way to communicate the ideals that were present at the nation's founding. The founders, Kmiec continued, recognized that because of the imperfection of the human mind, human rights had to be grounded in a law higher than human law. Jefferson recognized this connection between rights and God when he wrote the Declaration of Independence, Kmiec said, and that is why "you cannot have the Constitution without the Declaration."
Using the example of slavery, Kmiec attempted to demonstrate how in that instance, human law had been construed to justify a wrong that the law of nature and nature's God always held to be wrong. "A reminder that there is a higher power limits the state from assuming God-like powers," Kmiec said. Otherwise, he said, "the state would be God."
Dershowitz responded initially to Kmiec's arguments not with an attack, but with a concession on two points the Dean had made: The pledge was not a prayer, and Newdow would be overturned either by the Ninth Circuit or the United States Supreme Court.
But that marked the end of the two men's agreement. "I have never said the pledge since 'under God' was inserted," Dershowitz said. He reminded those gathered that not every child feels comfortable saying those two words. "I think when it comes to issues about God, elementary schools and high schools are dangerous places to have these debates," he argued. He told of his own personal confrontation with the issue when his rabbi told him the God in the pledge was not his God.
Dershowitz distinguished the pledge from other governmental religious references, such as the "In God We Trust" inscription on coins and prayers before sessions of Congress, which he said have no real impact on people's lives. But things are different, Dershowitz reasoned, when dealing with children.
Dershowitz concluded with a passionate attack on the justness of natural law. "Natural law is an invitation to lawlessness," he said. He went on to argue that for too long, humans have looked to God to create a just society, with the consequence that we, as humans, have neglected to shape the world that we live in. Our own Constitution is an embodiment of this effort to shape government, and that is why, he argued, "natural law should not be something we feel comfortable resting our Constitution on."
Notwithstanding a few light moments in the debate (including Kmiec's comment that he would have to go to confession because he thanked Dershowitz for correcting a comment he made), many students said the debate led them to question their own views on the issue. One student in particular, who chose not to be named, said he went into the debates believing the phrase should remain in the pledge, but left agreeing with Dershowitz.
One-L Peter Leröe-Munoz focused on the argumentative style of Kmiec and Dershowitz: "It was a fanciful political and theological debate, with each side vehemently presupposing the correctness of his case," he said.


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Should you spend any time in Monterrey, Mexico, keep an eye out for El Camino, the community food truck. The black truck coated in white scrawlings would be hard to miss. Inspired by the kind of badassery that comes with biker boys and prison tattoos, the rolling vendor certainly makes a statement while serving up a mix of Texas-style burgers and vegetarian options. Savvy Studio, a design firm based out of Monterrey and Mexico City is responsible for El Camino's branding. They wanted to convey an "Easy Rider" or "Born To Be Wild" Americana vibe through the use of taglines and claims. As tough as the truck looks, the phrasing creates a very approachable and quite intriguing feel.
Ricardo Ojeda of Savvy said that they wanted emulate the look of vintage American signage. The studio started with their own hand-drawn concepts before vectorizing them. They then collaborated with a local "rotulistas," or a sign artist known for handmade wall ads featuring calligraphy found around Mexico called "rótulos." After mocking up the vectors on the truck, the rotulista spent three days painting the truck. The mix of serif, slab serif and sprawling lettering gives the truck the personal feel of originality and exclusivity often only found in non-chain endeavors.
The rest of the branding Savvy put into the truck ties everything together in a neat little package. Every detail was covered, including matching aprons for the truck, BBQ sauce jars and food wrappers.
In addition to branding, Savvy has also done some brilliant architectural and interior design work making them a design powerhouse I hope so see more of. In particular, the work they did for the Gomez bar of Nuevo León, Mexico, is especially intricate and stunning. Savvy Studio is working on another food truck to be seen in Austin, Texas, an art gallery in London, and a gourmet shop in New York City.


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I am sooo happy and excited to participate in Anna's blog hop!!! This is my very first blog hop and it was so much to create these little projects with her gorgeous paper flowers. I hope you all like it! Please be sure to check everyone's beautiful creations and leave a comment on each for a chance to win a prize.


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It is situated next to the LDP and along the same road and side of the Sunway Hospital. If one is coming from the Sunway Hospital side, drive towards the LDP and take the last left turn before the LDP. The shop is a corner lot and faces the surau.
The costs for this meal is RM125 for 9 adults and 2 school going children.
A big pot of Curry Fish Head. Fresh fish head.
Pork Ribs. Interesting they use a mix of tapioca flour for the batter. Make it chewy and inetersting rather than the crunchy run of the mill ones.


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|Source: Tweet Topic Explorer, by Jeff Clark at Neoformix
Thursday, July 21, 2011
The Twitter Tech Bubble
Twitter feeds, one of the best is Tweet Topic Explorer. Created in April by Jeff Clark, Tweet Topic Explorer synthesizes a person's recent tweets and produces a clever graphic aggregator of frequently used words. The color-coded cluster diagram offers a dynamic way to see what topics a person regularly mentions. The display is interactive as well. Clicking on any bubble will highlight on the right the tweets in which the word appears. Here is the bubble cluster for @theASIDEblog:
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Young women aspire to the somewhat cult image your store offers. Which I'm sure you're aware by your sales figures and hashtags on Instagram. "Yet not one mannequin in your store showed anything bigger than a size six. "In fact, I'm not even sure the …
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About the Bath
Bath units
Number of thermal baths: 4
|Water temperature
|Surface area
|Thermal pool 1
|68 nm
|Thermal pool 2
|10 nm
|Thermal pool 3
|4 nm
|Immersion pool
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Water composition
Hot spring water with calcium, magnesium, hydrogen-carbonate and sulphate, also containing sodium and with a substantial content of fluoride ions.
Therapeutic suggestions:
- degenerative joint diseases
- chronic and sub-acute arthritis
- discus hernia
- spinal deformity
- neuralgia
- post-accident rehabilitation
The construction of this Bath was begun by Arslan, the Pasha of Buda in 1565 and was completed by his successor, Sokoli Mustafa. The Király Thermal Bath had no direct hot water base, nor has it any today. The Turks built the Bath far from the springs to ensure the opportunity for bathing even in the case of an eventual siege, within the walls of the castle. Its water was supplied at that time, and is being supplied now, from the surroundings of the current Lukács Bath. Following the reoccupation of Buda, the Bath was acquired in 1796 by the König family. They rebuilt it to its current form, combining the old with the new, and preserving its monumental character, found even in the name of the Bath. Stemming from the name of the family, it translates from Hungarian (Király=King=König). In World War II, the Bath was damaged. Its complete renovation was accomplished in 1950.


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NINGISHZIDDA/Thoth, Our Designer by Sasha Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA)
Humanity owes its existence and survival to Ningishzidda, the great architect, geneticist and musician.
Genetically Nibiran, Ningishzidda birthed on Earth, son of Enki and Ereshkigal. Enki'd seduced Ereshkigal as he took her to run the Climate Station in South Africa. He left her there, pregnant with Ningshzidda
After the Deluge 13,000 years ago, Ningishzidda (as Thoth) built the Sinai Spaceport and the Giza Pyramids to guide rockets to the Spaceport. He built a model pyramid, then the Great Pyramid at the South end of a straight landing line–through the Landing Platform in Lebanon (Baalbek) to Mt. Ararat (Eastern Turkey) in the North.
Ningishzidda installed the power generator, master computer programs and astronavigational equipment in the Great Pyramid and hid records (on indestructable tablets) in secret chambers (Halls of Amenti) under the Pyramid [Doreal, Emerald Tablets:1]. He also built and was the initial face on the Sphinx. He planned and supervised a castle, temple and fighter-jet hangar for his cousin Ninurta at Lagash.
Ningishzidda refused to fight for Marduk and Enki in the Second Pyramid War, thoughhe did, when the Council of the Anunnaki, asked, tunnel into and rescue Marduk from the Great Pyramid.
Enlilites considered Ningishzidda, though an Enkiite, an ally, since Enlil was, though his mother, Ereshkigal, Ningishzidda's grandfather. Both Enkiites and Enlilites accepted him, so Enlil, at the Peace Treaty of 8670 B.C., made him ruler of Egypt.
Ningishzidda held the Nile for 1,560 years, from 8670 BC, when Enlil banished Marduk/Ra from Egypt and Enki and Enlil agreed to give Egypt to Ninghishzidda. Ningishzidda ruled Egypt through other wholly Nibiran lords. But then Marduk returned from exile and for the next 350 years, sent armies in Egypt against Nigishzidda's. Enki/Ptah(their father), in 4350BC, ordered Ningishzidda to leave Egypt to Marduk.
Ningishzidda moved on: he guided the building of Stonehenge. In 3113 B.C., after he'd finished Stonehenge, he shipped Middle Eastern-looking Sumerian and Black African overseers and technicians with him to Mesoamerica, where descendants of Ka-in, whom he'd marked with facial hairlessness, called him called Quetzalcoatl, the Winged Serpent. He taught them math, astronomy, calendar calculation and temple-building.
Ninghzidda showed the Earthlings he and his cousin, Enlilite General Adad/Viracocha ruled how to line up with the stars and the signs when Nibiru approached. Atop the Andes, Ningishzidda designed a spaceport and tin and gold-processing plants for Adad. Ningishzidda built planetariums throughout Central America.
Thoth erected The Great Pyramid over the entrance of the Great Halls of Amenti, where he stored his records. He appointed Guards, whose descendants became Pyramid Priests who worshiped him as God of Wisdom and divine record-keeper. When Marduk expelled him from Egypt, the Halls of Amenti became the underworld where the soul passed after death for judgment. During later ages, Doreal writes, Thoth wrote in the Emerald Tablets, he passed into the bodies of certain men. He left in the Pyramid for those of a future Age of Light. They are imperishable, resistant to all elements, corrosion and acids. In effect, the atomic and cellular structure is fixed, and no change can take place, thus violating the material law of ionization.
Upon them are engraved characters in the Ancient, what Doreal calls "Atlantean" language. Hoops of a golden alloy suspended bind the tablets.
Bramley, W.
1989, The Gods of Eden
Cremo, M. and Thompson, R.
1993, Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race
Cremo, M.
__2003, Human Devolution: A Vedic Alternative to Darwin's Theory
Doreal, M.
__2002, The Emerald Tablets of Thoth-The-Atlantian, Source Books
Freer, N.
__ 1999, God Games
__ 2000, Breaking the Godspell
Hazelton, L.
__ 2007, Jezebel
Hauck, D., 1999, The Emerald Tablet, Penguin
Hoagland, R. & Bara, M.,
2007, Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA
Kramer, S,
1971, The Sumerians
Marrs, J.
1998, Alien Agenda
2000, Rule By Secrecy (Part V, Ancient Mysteries)
Sitchin, Z.
_1976, The 12th Planet
_1983, The Stairway to Heaven
_1985, The Wars of Gods and Men
_1990, Genesis Revisited
_1990, The Lost Realms
_1993, When Time Began
_1995, Divine Encounters
_2002, The Lost Book of Enki
_2004, The Earth Chronicles Expeditions
_2007, The End of Days
_2007, Journeys to the Mythical Past____
Strauss, B.,
_2006, The Trojan War
Tellinger, M.
__ 2006, Slave Species of god_
Thompson, R.
1993, Alien Identities
THE EMERALD TABLET Dennis William Hauck
The Emerald Tablet is one of the most revered documents in the Western World, and its Egyptian author, Hermes Trismegistus, has become synonymous with ancient wisdom. His tablet contains an extremely succinct summary of what Aldous Huxley dubbed the "Perennial Philosophy," a timeless science of soul that keeps popping up despite centuries of effort to suppress it. The basic idea is that there exists a divine or archetypal level of mind that determines physical reality, and individuals can access that realm through direct knowledge of God.
The teachings of Hermes — the Hermetic tradition — is one of the oldest spiritual traditions in the world, and while no direct evidence links the Emerald Tablet to Eastern religions, it shares uncanny similarities in concepts and terminology with Taoism, Hinduism, and Buddhism. In the West, the tablet found a home not only in the pagan tradition but also in all three of the orthodox Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), and many of the most heretical beliefs of the Gnostics are also openly expressed in it. Like the authors of the tablet, the Gnostics believed that direct knowledge of reality could be attained through psychological discipline and meditative exercises. They also shared a common view of the universe in which "All Is One," a pattern of creation and decay symbolized by the Ouroboros (the snake eating its own tail).
Without doubt, the Emerald Tablet was the inspiration behind many other esoteric traditions, including over 1,700 years of alchemy. Most medieval alchemists hung a copy of the tablet on their laboratory wall and constantly referred to the "secret formula" it contained. In fact, during the sixteenth century, Hermes Trismegistus was such a revered figure that there was a movement to have his teachings replace those of Aristotle in European schools.
Five hundred years later, the tablet's words are still held in the highest regard. "The Emerald Tablet is the cryptic epitome of the alchemical opus," noted Jungian analyst Dr. Edward Edinger, "a recipe for the second creation of the world." Ethnobotanist and consciousness guru Terence McKenna agrees, calling the tablet "a formula for a holographic matrix" that is mirrored in the human mind and offers mankind its only hope for future survival. "Whatever one chooses to believe about it," sums up John Matthews in The Western Way (Penguin 1997), "there is no getting away from the fact that the Emerald Tablet is one of the most profound and important documents to have come down to us. It has been said more than once that it contains the sum of all knowledge — for those able to understand it."
However, there is one nagging problem with the Emerald Tablet: Nobody seems to know for sure where it came from, or who really wrote it.
Timeless Myths and Church Politics
Part of the problem trying to figure out the origins of the Emerald Tablet comes from the many legends that cloud its history. In one of the earliest of these fabled scenarios, Hermes was a son of Adam and wrote the tablet to show mankind how to redeem itself from his father's sins in the Garden of Eden. Jewish mystics identify the tablet's author with Seth, who was the second son of Adam. They credit him with writing the Emerald Tablet, which was taken aboard the ark by Noah. After the Flood, Noah supposedly hid the tablet in a cave near Hebron, where it was later discovered by Sarah, wife of Abraham. Another version describes Hermes giving the tablet to Miriam, daughter of Moses, for safekeeping. She allegedly put it in the Ark of the Covenant, where it remains to this day. Occult historians generally agree that the tablet was found in a secret chamber under the pyramid of Cheops around 1350 BC. Another interesting legend describes Hermes as a philosopher traveling in Ceylon in the fifth century BC. He found the Emerald Tablet hidden in a cave, and after studying it, learned how to "travel in both heaven and earth." This Hermes spent the rest of his life wandering throughout Asia and the Middle East teaching and healing. Oddly, the Hindu sacred book Mahanirvanatantra states that Hermes was the same person as Buddha, and each is referred to as the "Son of the Moon" in other Hindu religious texts.
Probably the only constant in all these legends is what the Emerald Tablet looked like. It is always described as a rectangular green plaque with bas-relief lettering in a strange alphabet similar to ancient Phoenician. It is made of emerald or green crystal, and the workmanship is exquisite. Caves, corpses, ancient Egypt, and secret wisdom are common themes in many of the stories.
The history of the tablet was further complicated when its alleged author became associated with the Corpus Hermeticum in the Middle Ages. The seventeen treatises of the Corpus expand on the principles of the Emerald Tablet and appear to be records of intimate conversations between Hermes and his disciples. For over three centuries, they were thought by the Catholic Church to be very ancient and held in the highest esteem. The church fathers believed the Corpus Hermeticum lent support to Christian doctrines, and the documents were required reading for European scholars. Images of Hermes adorned cathedrals all over Europe, and to this day, a giant fresco dominates the Borgia Apartments of the Vatican that shows Hermes, adorned with Hermetic symbols, walking in the company of Moses.
So it caused a great scandal in 1614 when Protestant scholar Isaac Causabon declared these documents forgeries written by "semi-Christians" sometime between 200 and 300 AD. He based his conclusion on a linguistic analysis that dated the writings to that era. For the next two hundred years, the Hermetic literature, which had been embraced by the early followers of Christ, was condemned by Christians everywhere. Although it was not officially part of the Corpus Hermeticum, the Emerald Tablet suffered the fate of all writings attributed to Hermes and went underground in a variety of secret organizations such as the Rosicrucians and Freemasonry.
The reverence with which these diverse groups continued to hold the Emerald Tablet is exemplified in the following paragraph from the Morals and Dogma of Freemasonry: "He who desires to attain the understanding of the Grand Word and the possession of the Great Secret, ought carefully to read the Hermetic philosophers, and will undoubtedly attain initiation, as others have done; but he must take, for the key of their allegories, the single dogma of Hermes, contained in his Table of Emerald." There are other more veiled references to the Hermetic tradition in Freemasonry. For instance, their sacred name "Hiram Ibif" refers to the first Hermes (Hermes Ibis or Thoth), who, according to Masonic tradition, arrived "in the year of the world 2670."
Today, most scholars agree that the Emerald Tablet is separate from or predates the Corpus Hermeticum and was probably the inspiration for them, and in this sense, the Corpus really does contain ancient writings. "In the mystic sense," summarized the nineteenth-century French scholar Artaud, "Thoth or the Egyptian Hermes was the symbol of the Divine Mind; he was incarnated Thought, the Living Word — the Logos of Plato and the Word of the Christians. So the Corpus Hermeticum really does contain the ancient Egyptian doctrine of which traces can be discovered from the hieroglyphics which still cover the monuments of Egypt."
Thrice Greatest Hermes
However, the question still remains: Who really wrote the Emerald Tablet and when? New evidence started to turn up in the late nineteenth century, when new discoveries about Egypt and the deciphering of hieroglyphics suggested that the principles exposed in the tablet go back at least 5,000 years. Some scholars suggested the date of origin for the Emerald Tablet to be around 3000 BC, when the Phoenicians settled on the Syrian coast. Phrases from the tablet, including references to the One Mind, the One Thing, and the correspondences between the Above and the Below, were discovered in many Egyptian papyrii, such as Papyrus of Ani and the Book of the Dead (1500 BC), the Berlin Papyrus (2000 BC), and other scrolls dating between 1000 and 300 BC. One early Hellenistic papyrus known as An Invocation to Hermes might refer directly to the Emerald Tablet and its author: "I know your names in the Egyptian tongue," it reads, "and your true name as it is written on the Holy Tablet in the holy place at Hermopolis, where you did have your birth."
That "true name" is the same name that all the Egyptian records point to as the author of the tablet: Hermes. But this person appears to have a threefold identity, which is why in the Latin translations of the tablet, he is called "Hermes Trismegistus" or "Hermes the Thrice Greatest." If we follow the strict genealogical order in the Egyptian texts, Hermes is the son of the Agathodaimon, the great Thoth, who is the Egyptian god of all learning and hidden knowledge. According to those same texts, Hermes himself had a son, Tat, who was a scribe and lived in Alexandria around 250 BC. As mundane as all this sounds, there is something very disconcerting about the triple progression here. It descends from god to god/man to common man.
The Egyptians were the world's most accomplished esoteric symbolists, and it is possible that this triple descendancy is a clue to understanding the true nature of Hermes. Yet to unravel this clue, it is necessary to forsake the traditional archaeological approach. In the words of the tablet itself, we need to "separate the Earth from Fire, the subtle from the gross." Is it really possible to trace the origins of Emerald Tablet by moving to a higher level and following its spirit back through time? Could there be a grain of truth in the old legends that historians have ignored? In creating such a hyper-history, it is necessary to look at the psychology, philosophy, and beliefs of those associated with the tablet and the societies in which they lived.
Thoth: the First Hermes
There are tantalizing bits of evidence that suggest mysterious visitors came to Egypt over 12,000 years ago and brought with them a powerful spiritual technology, which they passed down to future generations in a time capsule of wisdom that became known as the Emerald Tablet. The Book of What Is In the Daat, the Book of the Dead and other Egyptian funerary texts, and numerous rebirth texts refer to a remote epoch known as the "Zep Tepi," a time before the Great Flood when the godlike beings came to earth and established their kingdom in Egypt. They included Thoth, the "god" of science and mathematics, who is said to have written the Emerald Tablet and hid it in a pillar at Hermopolis to preserve it through the coming world deluge.
Thoth, who most sources agree was the "first Hermes," is impossible to categorize intellectually because he transcends anything we normally think about gods and men. Usually depicted as a man with the head of an ibis (a wading bird with a long curved beak), this Egyptian neter (archetypal power) seems a simple personification of the powers of mind. He was said to be responsible for teaching men how to interpret things, arrange their speech in logical patterns, and write down their thoughts. As the inventor of hieroglyphics, Thoth instituted record keeping and founded the sciences of mathematics, astronomy, and medicine. However, there are subtle clues in the many alternative names for this God of Thought that suggest he really represents the ultimate archetype of the Word of God (the One Mind) creating the universe.
Thoth is called the "Source of the Word," the one god without parents who precedes all others. He is the "Soul of Becoming" whose creative willpower fashions reality. "What emanates from the opening of his mouth," says an ancient Egyptian text, "that comes to pass; he speaks and it is his command." As the "Reckoner of the Universe," Thoth is the source of all natural law; as the "Shepherd of Men" and "Vehicle of Knowledge," he is the higher mind in man that provides inspiration and inner knowledge. According to the Ebers Papyrus, a 68-foot-long scroll on alchemy that is the oldest book in the world: "Man's guide is Thoth, who bestows on him the gifts of his speech, who makes the books, and illumines those who are learned therein, and the physicians who follow him, that they may work cures." As the "Revealer of the Hidden" and "Lord of Rebirth," Thoth is the guide to alternate states of consciousness and initiator of human enlightenment. One of Thoth's scrolls, The Book of Breathings, supposedly taught humans how to become gods through breath control.
Paradoxically, Thoth embodies the rational powers of the Sun as well as the intuitive, irrational energies of the Moon. The ibis is the Egyptian symbol for the heart, and, as "Recorder and Balancer," Thoth presides over the Weighing of the Heart ceremony, which determines who is admitted into heaven. Thoth is the final judge, who weighs individuals' "true words," the innermost intent in all of our thoughts and actions.
Just before the Great Flood, Thoth preserved the ancient wisdom by inscribing two great pillars and hiding sacred objects and scrolls inside them. Egyptian holy books refer to these sacred pillars, one located in Heliopolis and the other in Thebes, as the "Pillars of the Gods of the Dawning Light." They were moved to a third temple where they later became known as the two "Pillars of Hermes." These splendorous columns are mentioned by numerous credible sources down through history. The Greek legislator, Solon, saw them and noted that they memorialized the destruction of Atlantis. The pillars were what the historian Herodotus described in the temple of an unidentified Egyptian god he visited. "One pillar was of pure gold," he wrote, "and the other was as of emerald, which glowed at night with great brilliancy." In Iamblichus: On the Mysteries, Thomas Taylor quotes an ancient author who says the Pillars of Hermes dated to before the Great Flood and were found in caverns not far from Thebes. The mysterious pillars are also described by Achilles Tatius, Dio Chrysostom, Laertius, and other Roman and Greek historians.
In summarizing all the ancient wisdom and preserving it, Thoth the first scribe can be considered the true author of the Emerald Tablet. As a god, Thoth is the archetypal Hermes, the Hermes above, the first of three incarnations of Hermes Trismegistus.
Akhenaten: the Second Hermes
The "second Hermes" arrives on the scene sometime after the Great Flood. According to the Ebers Papyrus, such a person actually lived during the Amenhotep dynasty, and there is only one person who seems to have promulgated the spirit of the Emerald Tablet during those centuries. It was Amenhotep IV, who ruled from 1364 to 1347 BC. Shortly after he took the throne, he suddenly changed his name from Amenhotep (meaning "Amen is Satisfied") to Akhenaten ("He Who Serves the Aten"). His name change signaled his break with the powerful priests of Amen to set up a new monotheistic religion that recognized the sun as the One Thing, the source of all creative energy. The new Egyptian supreme god, called the Aten or simply "the Disk," was never personified like previous gods but was thought of as an abstract energy. Pictures of the Aten show the Disk with rays coming down from heaven and terminating on earth in hundreds of tiny hands.
"The Aten is Radiant Energy personified," wrote one twentieth-century Egyptologist, "that is to say, an all-pervading reality of an immanent character. Akhenaten deliberately brushed aside the distinction between the god, maker of the solar Disk, and the solar Disk itself, the distinction between creative energy and created matter. The Disk was, like all matter that falls under our senses, but a visible manifestation of something more subtle, intangible, everlasting — its essence. And the heat and light, the energy of the sun, was the manifestation of that One Thing of which the visible flaming Disk was yet another manifestation."
Some occult authors have dubbed Akhenaten the "Extraterrestrial King," and there is no doubt he possessed alien features. He had a thin face and a massive elongated bald head supported by a spindly neck, and his drooping shoulders, pear-shaped torso, lack of musculature, and scrawny legs certainly made him look like a space traveler. Akhenaten was also very androgynous in appearance, and respected scholars have accused him of being a homosexual or a woman masquerading as a man. Statues of Akhenaten have survived that show him naked with the breast of a woman and no male genitalia. It is known that this freakish pharaoh claimed one of the most beautiful women in the world as his bride, the lovely Nefertiti (whose family origins are still unknown to Egyptologists), and also shared the throne with a handsome young man by the name of Smenkhkare. Both of Akhenaten's co-rulers shared the title "Beauty of All Beauties."
Although traditional history makes no mention of it, our hyper-history suggests that Akhenaten rediscovered the Emerald Tablet at the beginning of his rule as pharaoh. According to at least one ancient papyrus, without the writings of Thoth the larger pyramids could not be built, so a great search throughout Egypt was conducted until they were found. Whether or not he found the tablet, Akhenaten stands as a candidate for the second Hermes because he tried to apply the tablet's principles and spread its spirit throughout his reign. Known as the heretic pharaoh, he espoused the revolutionary concept of "living in truth" and acting in natural accord with cosmic principles that the tablet called the "Operation of the Sun." He referred to this universal ideal as Maat, which meant the "real thing" or absolute truth, the original will of the One Mind. The agent of Maat was the One Thing, of which the physical sun, or the solar Disk, was the physical expression.
Akhenaten's Hymn to the Aten is considered one of the best pieces of Egyptian lyric poetry ever discovered, and several scholars have noted its similarity in spirit to Emerald Tablet. A few lines reveal Akhenaten's passionate belief in the One Mind: "How manifold it is, what You have made yet hidden from the face of man. Oh One God, like whom there is no other, You created the world according to your desire, while You were alone: all men, cattle, and wild beasts, whatever is on earth, going on its feet, and what is on high, flying with its wings."
The principle of "living in truth" permeated every level of Egyptian society under Akhenaten. Most noticeable was the sudden change in the stiff and lifeless style that dominated Egyptian art. For the first time, Egyptian reliefs and paintings portrayed natural subjects such as plants and animals in exacting detail, and traditional scenes of sterile Egyptian society were replaced by such ungodly behavior as Akhenaten kissing his wife or bouncing his daughters on his knee. In another striking break with tradition, Akhenaten ordered the abandonment of the old capitol of Thebes and built a new capitol city, Akhetaten ("Horizon of the Aten"), on a desolate stretch of land along the east bank of the Nile near the modern Egyptian city of Asyut. Scandalously, villas in the 60,000-population city were constructed without separate quarters for men and women, and women in particular were treated with more respect there.
Yet for the disenfranchised patriarchal priests, Akhenaten might as well have been from another planet. After just seventeen years of rule, Akhenaten and Nefertiti disappeared under mysterious circumstances, and it seems likely that the former priests of Amen did away with them. Akhenaten was well aware of the brewing unrest among the priests but never hesitated spreading the precepts contained in the tablet. By some indications, one of those that took his ideas to heart was a man of god by the name of Moses. According to Exodus, Moses had fled to the land of the Kenites, which is what the subjects of Akhenaten were called. In the open court of the time, it can be assumed that Moses would have conferred with the pharaoh many times on behalf of his people. In Moses and Monotheism (1939), Sigmund Freud was the first to suggest that Moses appropriated the pharaoh's idea of one supreme god and brought the new religion to the Jews. Perhaps all the legends linking Moses and tablet are not so far off.
In any case, the heretic pharaoh was eventually replaced by a ten-year-old boy. His given name, Tutankaten ("Servant of the Aten"), was changed to Tutankamen ("Servant of Amen") after Akhenaten's murder. The child pharaoh was tightly controlled by fundamentalist priests, who restored the capitol to Thebes, destroyed the city of Akhetaten, and erased all traces of monotheism from Egypt. Unlike the magnificent golden mummy of King Tut, the bodies of Akhenaten and Nefertiti were never found. Archeologist Sir Alan Gardner surmised that Akhenaten's body had been "torn to pieces and thrown to the dogs." The only written references to the Aten after the Akhenaten's death were enigmatic allusions that associated the Disk with the great Sphinx on the Giza Plain.
Apollonius: The Third Hermes
Our hyper-history continues with the life of another Egyptian pharaoh, a Greek who became pharaoh when he conquered Egypt in 332 BC — Alexander the Great. As pharaoh, he gained access to all the treasures of Egypt, including the whereabouts of Hermes' (Akhenaten's?) tomb. Convinced it was his destiny to reveal the ancient secrets, Alexander immediately headed across the Libyan desert to an ancient temple at Siwa near where the tomb was located. According to Albertus Magnus and others, that is where Alexander found the Emerald Tablet.
Alexander took the tablet and scrolls he found in the tomb to Heliopolis, where he placed the scrolls in the sacred archives and put the Emerald Tablet on public display. Construction of the city of Alexandria to house and study the Hermetic texts was begun immediately, and he assembled a panel of priests and scholars to prepare Greek translations. According to esoteric historian Manly P. Hall, the mysterious Emerald Tablet caused quite a stir. One traveler, who had seen it on display at Heliopolis, wrote: "It is a precious stone, like an emerald, whereon these characters are represented in bas-relief, not engraved. It is esteemed above 2,000 years old. The matter of this emerald had once been in a fluid state like melted glass, and had been cast in a mold, and to this flux the artist had given the hardness of the natural and genuine emerald, by his art."
When Alexander left Egypt, it has been suggested that he took the original tablet with him and hid it for safekeeping before going on to conquer Babylonia and India. Meanwhile, copies of the tablet became primary documents at Alexandria, and according to some reports, scholars issued revised Greek translations in 290 BC, 270 BC, and 50 BC. Several papyrii in the British Museum mention a canon of Egyptian teachings that included the writings of Hermes that was still in existence at the time of Clement of Alexandria (around 170 CE). Fortunately, before Alexandria's libraries were destroyed in successive burnings by the Romans, Christians, and Muslims, copies of the Emerald Tablet had made their way into Arabia and from there eventually reached Spain and Europe.
After Alexander died from a fever on his return from India, his body was interred in a tomb somewhere in the Egyptian desert, although to this day, no one knows where. Yet someone did discover the hiding place of the Emerald Tablet. It is said that a brilliant Syrian youth named Balinas found it hidden in a large cavern just outside his hometown of Tyana in Cappadocia. It was Balinas who absorbed the tablet's teachings and once again brought them to light in the Western world. The youth became known as Apollonius of Tyana (after Apollo, Greek god of enlightenment and brother of Hermes). Respected for his great wisdom and magical powers, Apollonius traveled throughout the world and eventually settled in Alexandria.
Unfortunately, Apollonius was a contemporary of Christ, and early Christians felt he was much too like their own Son of God. By 400 AD, every one of the scores of books Apollonius wrote in Alexandria and all of the dozens of temples dedicated to him were destroyed by Christian zealots. But Apollonius still stands as the third Hermes in our hyper-history, because he did more than any other person in the modern era to assure that the Emerald Tablet and its principles survived.
The earliest surviving translation of the Emerald Tablet is in an Arabic book known as the Book of Balinas the Wise on Causes, written around 650 AD and based on Apollonius' Alexandrian writings. It also appears in the eighth century Kitab Sirr al Asar, an Arabian book of advice to kings. Another Arabic text, written by alchemist Jabir Hayyan around 800 AD, contains a copy of the Emerald Tablet and also gives Apollonius as the source. In all these texts, Apollonius describes finding the Emerald Tablet in the underground cavern in Tyana. He never claims credit for it, though he spent the rest of his life writing about it and demonstrating its principles to anyone who would listen.
What have we learned from our attempt at hyper-history? Can we even tell if the author of the Emerald Tablet was a man or a god? The answer down through the ages has always been both, and whether portrayed as man or god, Hermes is always the revealer of ultimate knowledge hidden to mankind. He is like a spirit who reincarnates through time to guide us in our struggle toward enlightenment. It is a tradition that goes all the way back to the first Hermes, the god Thoth, who was said to inspire people with direct perception of truth. "May Thoth write to you daily," utters the 3,500-year-old Papyrus of Ani.
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Performing at the Brits next year? James Corden lip-syncs and busts a move
JAMES Corden is presenting the Brits for the last time tomorrow night, but he could have a future in performing at the show.
Or, at least lip-syncing at it.
The actor has shown off his miming skills, as well as his moves, for the latest installment in Cadbury Dairy Milk's Free the Joy campaign.
The entertaining video shows James spending a dreary day walking through Camden, before he decides to embrace the joy and give the London borough an impromptu performance of Estelle's Free.
The 35-year-old starts lip-syncing the rap song to perfection, as he dances with Londoners and starts a joyous flash mob of dancers.
He even makes friends with two old ladies who assist him with clapping out a beat.
The miming to the upbeat Estelle song echoes James's last performance of one of the R n B star's tunes – as he rapped Kanye West's verse from her hit American Boy as Smithy on Gavin and Stacey.
Estelle, we reckon you have a bit of a super fan on your hands.
This delightful ad has been released just as Corden gets ready to bow out of the Brit Awards after five years presenting the awards show – four years solo, and once with Matthew Horne.
But even though he's a seasoned pro at this rate, the funnyman revealed that the O2 bash still gives him the jitters.
Speaking on The Jonathan Ross Show, he said: "I find it really nerve-racking. It's the most nervous I ever am in my life.
"You just think: 'Don't ruin your career tonight. Just don't say something wrong."
He coined the infamous Adele controversy – in which he was forced to cut off the Best Album winner to welcome Blur's live performance – as his worst moment, but has already come up with some suggestions to take his place.
James told the Sun: "I love Jack [Whitehall] but if I had my way, it would be Emma Willis hands down. I feel like the Brits has been quite male-dominated. I think it would really benefit from having a woman."
The Brits will be televised live on ITV tomorrow night at 8pm.


text: I decided (at the last minute) to go ahead and leave town for my kid's spring break. I haven't been to Utah since we moved last August and while the thought of driving that all myself with 3 kids in the back of the seat sounds horribly painful, they are looking forward to it and it's been long enough--can't put it off forever. So, I'm using this week to post past projects. Never fear-I will be back with fresh ideas and renewed creativity.


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Well it is officially the weekend!
Hip. Hip. Hooray!
What are you up to my lovebugs?
We are packing & cleaning & cleaning & packing.
(We move next weekend- eeek!)
We may try to sneak in a trip to the dog park with The Piper Dog
but I hear the weather isn't supposed to be so great. So we shall see.
Whatever you end up doing I hope you have a fabulous time - you deserve it!


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Monday, June 12, 2017
I wasn't a big reader of science fiction, so I'd never read Philip K. Dick's work, despite having seen Bladerunner over a dozen times. However, I recently watched the Amazon series The Man in the High castle, and while I loved the first season I lost interest during the second season. That's when I asked the age-old question: How much better was the book?
We all know that movies and TV series almost always fall short of the books upon which these are based. A visual medium has some advantages over the printed word, but it also has limitations. A picture is worth a thousand words, but the printed word has the ability to provide insight into the cognitive depth of the characters. This is where the Amazon series fell short for me: it began with an alternate reality in which the characters discover the possibility of an alternate reality that is our current reality.
If this sounds a bit like reality inception, that's because it is - but this concept alone isn't what made the book more interesting. The characters' psychological responses to the threat (or promise) of a different reality and the conjectures they make on the plausibility of our current reality are fascinating. This provides insight into the subjective nature of perception, especially when it comes to politics. It's more than a simple picture of what things would look like if Hitler had won WWII. This books explores human nature and our psychological defenses. In other words, it's the human, rather than scientific, element that makes the book speak to us.
I have since finished both Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (which became the movie "Bladerunner") and The Man in the High Castle, and am starting on Ubik, considered by many critics to be Dick's masterpiece. I have a lot of respect for Philip K. Dick as a writer after reading these books. Even if you don't think you'd like science fiction, you might want to sample a bit of this author's work. It's worth your time.
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The fall of Imperial Russia and the aftermath of the events of the 1917 Revolution resulted in one of the most far reaching dispersals of fine art, jewelry, furniture and objects d'art since the French Revolution. For generations prior to these cataclysmic events, Russian craftsmen had produced a profusion of the most opulent objects ever made, inspired by French, Italian, German and Asian motifs in enamel, gold, silver, platinum, jade and precious and semi-precious stones. This "Russian Touch" was applied to foreign designs that continue to fascinate casual museum visitors and serious connoisseurs alike.
One of the most collectible and desirable styles of Russian art is known as the Pan Slav or "Russian Revival." The Pan Slav style, which uses enamels, was introduced in Kiev by the Byzantines in the 11th century. This style is based on two techniques, the first being "plique a jour," which involves using a filigree enamel ornament with no backing, resulting in a stained-glass effect when exposed to light. The second technique, called "champleve," is a process where enamels are poured into grooves already engraved on the surface of metal.
Pavel Ovchinnikov (1830-1888) was the champion of the Pan Slav enamels and is considered the second-most influential jeweler after Fabergé. He founded his design firm of silversmiths in Moscow in 1853 and by 1881 the firm employed 300 craftsmen. Upon his death, his two sons took over the business and managed the firm until 1917, when the Revolution brought the company to an end.
Ovchinnikov frequently displayed his creations in international exhibitions. His firm was well represented at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and also exhibited at the Paris World Fair in 1900, winning many awards. It was around this time that a worldwide interest in Old Russian style objects—dating back to the Byzantine Era—became highly desirable all over the world.
These objects were created as gifts from Russian officials for visiting foreign dignitaries who wished to present items that looked distinctly Russian. It is ironic that these techniques utilizing "plique a jour" and "champlevé" that are quintessentially viewed as Russian, actually originated in Byzantine.
Serious collectors of Pan Slav enamels should consider a visit to Hillwood Museum & Gardens in Washington, D.C. This museum houses America's largest collection of Russian antiquities, which were assembled by Marjorie Merriwether Post and her third husband, Joseph Davies. Davies was ambassador to the Soviet Union during Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration. Collectors of Pan Slav enamels should look for proper hallmarks and steer away from imitation Pan Slav, which is recognizable when the enamels are colored in a gaudy manner.
Dr. Wes Cowan is founder and owner of Cowan's Auctions, Inc. in Cincinnati, Ohio. An internationally recognized expert in historic Americana, Wes stars in the PBS television series "History Detectives" and is a featured appraiser on "Antiques Roadshow." He can be reached via email at email@example.com.
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