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VLADIMIR RODZIANKO: I Meet The Ghost Of The Real Rasputin
I first met Vladimir Rodzianko nearly 40 years ago. He lived in a house in Chiswick outside of London, where his father also lived, one of the most famous of Russian Orthodox priests. Father and son had the same name.
The elder Rodzianko had been born Vladimir Rodzianko in the Ukraine in 1915 and he had an amazing study where he did his work, so beloved by many in the Orthodox community. It was a small cubbyhole under the stairs and it was filled from floor to ceiling with icons. Rodzianko, who later went to San Francisco where he became His Grace the Right Reverend Bishop Basil Rodzianko in the Orthodox Church in America, at that time was the most prominent Russian Orthodox leader in England. This was in part because he broadcast religious commentary to his home country during the Cold War on the BBC, and it was probably no coincidence that the junior Vladimir became the Russian voice of the BBC in addition to being a composer of some notoriety.
Poor Vladimir was saddled with me by my mother, the pianist Yaltah Menuhin, who felt that because she had performed his avant garde aleotoric music, had the right to ask him to give me a place to live while I worked on a biography of my family.
My mom was not a fan of most avant garde music, regarding it as pretentious and puerile. She spoke with mild disdain about Rodzianko's far-out music, which consisted of musical motifs drawn on mobiles which turned in the wind generated through the open windows at the top of the studio. She then was supposed to improvise on each theme, which she did.
Rodzianko the younger felt obligated to my mom because she had played well, and no doubt this feeling of gratitude included not just the quality of her work but the fact that a Menuhin had performed his music.
For her part, my mom found Rodzianko amusing, and described him as writing quite pleasant and competent ballet music at the Royal Ballet School where he was employed. This, of course, was a mild put down, but still affectionate.
I got best of the deal. The house in Chiswick was beautiful and comfortable and Vladimir was great company.
At that point, I was writing about how my grandfather's father had been killed in Russia in 1905 by a priest holding aloft a cross leading a murderous crowd looking for someone to kill because he had committed the heinous crime of being a Jew. Being able to write in the elder Rodzianko's study enabled me to create the scene with far more vividness than i would have otherwise.
It was amazing being able to write about that terrible moment in my grandfather's life surrounded by the study's crosses and icons in whose name my great grandfather had died.
I arrived on the doorsteps in Chiswick baggage in hand and was greeted at the door by Rodzianko the junior who was a tall dark man with a big black beard worthy of Rasputin–whom he definitely looked like. And the looks were not untruthful—he was a kind of Rasputin in more ways than just looks.
Rodzianko was proud of his background. His grandfather was Mikhail Rodzianko, the last President of the Duma just before the Bolsheviks took over. Rodzianko was of a landowning family, a major ally of the Czars, which had put him on Lenin's hit list.
Even though his family was an enemy of the Bolsheviks, he was treated with a begrudging respect because of the importance of the family's role in Soviet revolutionary history.
Rodzianko laughed as he told me about his visit to the Soviet Union when he was still the voice that Russians heard over the BBC during the Cold War years. The intrigue was very real. He had had an affair with a beautiful Russian woman. Now he was meeting her for dinner at the hotel he was staying in and some of her "friends" were invited, who were her compatriots in the KGB.
In essence they were blackmailing him, trying to get him to come over to their side. They showed him pictures of his dalliance.
They gave him a certain due because of the exaltedness of his background, but they genuinely wanted him in their employee.
He laughed at them, said Vladimir.
Go ahead, he said. He didn't care if they told the world. And that was the end of the would-be blackmail.
During the time I lived at Chiswick, Vladimir was constantly getting phone calls. All the papers wanted to interview him after the critics from the biggest London newspapers had given him rave reviews for the music he had written for the Robert Cohan choreographed "Mass," which was sung by the dancers themselves with multitudinous moans and screams. The work was described as "a general requiem for the victims of man."
Even Clive Barnes in the New York Times came to write about the "Mass" in London.
"The experiment is that of combining singing (or at least vocal expression) with dancing. During a seven month period, Mr. Cohan worked with the composer Vladimir Rodzianko. The idea was to have the dancers themselves sing a very complicated score while, at the same time, dancing … The technique is complex, with the dancers shouting, sighing, shrieking and singing, while still going through dance movements that really seem to sum up this aural-visual monument to pain and its concomitant compassion. Mr. Cohan's movements are simple – a walk, a fall, a twist of pain, a gesture to a relentless Heaven. Yet the cumulative effect–and all praise here also to Mr. Rodzianko–is immeasurably moving. It is a theater piece with all the mystery of acknowledged, but only faintly comprehended, passion."
Rodzianko pontificated on the metaphysics behind the music he had written for the moans and screams of the "Mass" on the front pages of a number of papers and at one point, some of Rodzianko's overheated commentary got him mentioned in "Pseuds Corner," a column in the "Private Eye" which made fun of intellectual pretentiousness. He was crushed, for he knew they had caught him dead to rights.
He was smart enough not to believe everything he said. He had told me in all seriousness about how the moans and groans had been inspired by the vision of extermination camp prisoners shouting out their last laments.
And with a straight face, he tried to convince me of another of his triumphs.
Some times very stunning women would show up at his house for "lessons." Vladimir was teaching them a rather peculiar singing technique. Simply put, he put one hand on the vagina of the woman and the other at the top of her head and then told her to scream as hard as she could.
In those days we were both young men and he and I shared a certain larceny about women. We were both still vigorous and easily got our romantic entanglements too complex to easily handle.
I asked him for help with one such problem. When I left Los Angeles to spend a year in London writing my book, I had been involved with Nigey Lennon, a young woman who was involved with Frank Zappa both musically and otherwise. But I left her behind—I think in part because she didn't want to go.
In London I met a woman named Vanessa—a Welsh actress who studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
But then Nigey said she wanted to come over, she missed me and I missed her. She was due to arrive in a couple of days.
I explained the situation to Vladimir. I liked Vanessa but if I had to make a choice, I'd most definitely go for Nigey.
"Could I bring her over and you take her off my hands?" I asked.
He agreed. And he did. We all got drunk and he made love to her right in front of me, on a couch just a few steps from his father's study.
Sad to tell, when Nigey arrived a couple of days later, he also wanted to have sex with her. She was insulted, took an instant dislike to Vladimir, and insisted we move out. So we went from living in Rodzianko's beautiful Chiswick home to an abandoned and impoverished apartment in Notting Hill Gate that my publisher found for me.
I didn't want him to have her, but I also didn't want to move. It had been a lot of fun living at Vladimir's, and I had done some of my best writing ever there.
The other thing about this great Rasputin-like character, he had a certain sadness about him.
For 17 months or so, he had been world famous. The Soviet Union's most famous ballerina, Natalia Makarova, defected from the Kirov Ballet while in London. At first the newspaper headlines had her defecting because of Rodzianko. Later she said no, she defected because she wanted to perform newer and more contemporary works than she was allowed to do in the Soviet Union. Her arrival in the West was not entirely auspicious. She lost the chance to perform before Queen Elizabeth when she tore a muscle in her thigh.
She also left behind a mother, a stepfather, two husbands as well as devoted colleagues to come live with Rodzianko, who had helped her defect. She was in his arms for nearly two years before she broke off her engagement with Rodzianko, who had become her manager and closest confidant as well as lover.
She began missing her family and friends in the Soviet Union.
She went to Paris to once again partner with Rudolf Nureyev in Swan Lake. They had danced together for many years at the Kirov in Leningrad until he had defected to the west a decade or so before she did.
But the two great Russian dancers had a falling out.
"I don't want to talk about it…I had an unfortunate experience with him," she said.
Then she married a multimillionaire husband and moved to San Francisco, leaving behind a broken hearted Vladimir.
I never was too clear from Vladimir's many and graphic memories of his time with Makarova of the exact gossip of who was doing what to whom. But Rodzianko talked with a certain enthusiasm about Nureyev's famed collection of cock rings and his myriad of sexual peccadilloes. the rumors of which were mostly true, Rodzianko assured me.
The last time I saw Rodzianko he was still lamenting the loss of the great love of his life. I never regained contact with him, and I've noticed that he seems to have disappeared into the woof and warp of London cultural history. He no longer is the toast of the town, or living amidst the headlines.
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I am not a huge fan of cranberries, so I wasn't sure what to do for this month. But then I remembered dried cranberries, those I do like. I was in the mood for chocolate chip cookies, so I figured this was the time to play with cranberries to see what I could come up with. These cookies are based on the Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe I have been making for ever. I swapped out the regular chocolate chips for white chocolate. I added in the cranberries, and decided to change up the extract to almond extract. I love almond extract, but have never used it in cookies like this before.
These were a huge hit. I brought them to my sons school, and the teachers loved them. They were soft, chewy, and the almond extract worked really well with the white chocolate and cranberries. They definitely were a fun twist on the regular chocolate chip cookie. Don't miss all the other great recipes the group made below. Next month we will be back with chocolate and mint for the holidays!
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Amount Per ServingCalories 132Total Fat 6gSaturated Fat 3gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 3gCholesterol 19mgSodium 126mgCarbohydrates 18gFiber 0gSugar 12gProtein 1g
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NASA is hoping to soon venture out farther into space than ever before. But these long journeys mean astronauts could face greater risks to their physical and mental health than the space agency currently allows.
Now, an independent group of experts convened by the Institute of Medicine, the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences, has weighed in on how NASA should make decisions about the kinds of risks that are acceptable for missions that venture outside low Earth orbit or extend beyond 30 days.
Some of the recommendations involve making sure that women get a fair chance at going on these missions and that former astronauts who take risks are guaranteed health care even after they leave the space agency.
The committee's chairman, Jeffrey Kahn, of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics in Baltimore, says that NASA sponsored the report because officials wanted some advice: "What happens when sending people out into space would exceed the existing health standards? What should they do?"
Risks to astronauts include vision impairment, weakened bones and radiation exposure. Plus, there are psychological risks of facing extreme danger while being stuck inside a small, confined space with other crew members. Astronauts on unprecedented missions might also face unknown health risks.
After all, just getting to Mars would take at least nine months, and then there'd be the return flight. NASA has also pondered sending astronauts out to an asteroid. Closer to home, astronauts may get assigned long-duration missions on the International Space Station.
"Those are the kinds of missions that they are envisioning when they're asking for help in how to think through the ethics of health standards in those situations," notes Kahn.
Astronauts aren't covered by the same sort of occupational health and safety regulations that usually protect workers.
"NASA is exempted from those rules by the Space Act, but as part of that they are required to make their own rules," Kahn says. "I think there's a sense that it's important to engage in exploration but not doing so in ways that would expose people to greater-than-acceptable levels of risk."
The committee's report says that NASA should keep its current health standards and make rare exceptions on a mission-by-mission basis.
In deciding whether to make those exceptions, officials should follow an ethical framework that includes principles like balancing the risk of harm with the potential for benefit.
The report says that to recognize sacrifices made by astronauts for the benefit of society, NASA should offer them health care for the rest of their lives.
What's more, the report recommends ensuring equality of opportunity for crew selection.
As it stands now, notes Kahn, "women are allowed to spend fewer days in space than are men, because of their risk of cancer to certain organs in their body."
NASA currently protects all crew members to the same risk level from radiation, says Richard Williams, NASA's chief health and medical officer.
"And it turns out that women are more vulnerable from radiation-induced cancer than men are so they'll reach the same risk limit as men at a lower radiation level than the men will," says Williams.
"It's not been a problem up until now and in the future because we never got close to radiation limits, but with extended flight on the International Space Station and certainly exploration-class missions, we will get close to those limits," Williams says.
That's one of the issues that led NASA to seek outside advice on the ethics of making these decisions, he says, and the agency is glad to have this new report.
"I think that we all, from one end of the agency to the other, understand that the missions that we do are of high priority and of high risk," says Williams. "We are all interested and committed to limiting the risk to the greatest extent possible but also to actually completing and doing the missions."
But Ed Lu, a former astronaut who did a six-month stint on the International Space Station, says that "most if not all astronauts" have a problem with the way "in which the standards are handed down from on high."
He notes that astronauts do understand and accept the need for health standards for medical problems that could potentially impact a mission's success, such as whether an astronaut has good eyesight or is susceptible to painful kidney stones that might derail a long-duration spaceflight.
"But there are other standards which we all had a problem with, I think," says Lu. "And they have to do with ones that are things for quote, 'your own good.' "
In his view, managers shouldn't be the ones to decide whether an increased risk of cancer years in the future is worth the chance to do a specific mission. "Decisions like that ought to be up to the astronaut," Lu says.
The committee disagreed with the idea, however, that it was enough to simply tell astronauts the risks and let them make an informed choice, says Kahn.
"There needs to be a decision made about levels of risk being acceptable," says Kahn, "before astronauts are given the opportunity to make a decision to participate or not."
Some day, astronauts may venture out to places where no humans have gone before, for instance, an asteroid. The men and women on these missions could face unknown risks to their physical and psychological health.
NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce reports that NASA recently asked for advice on how to decide whether a mission is worth the potential danger.
NELL GREENFIELDBOYCE, BYLINE: Astronauts aren't covered by the usual safety regulations that apply to earthbound jobs.
JEFFREY KAHN: NASA is exempted from those rules. But they're required to make their own rules.
GREENFIELDBOYCE: Jeffrey Kahn is a bioethicist at Johns Hopkins University. He says NASA hopes to astronauts will eventually go far out into space.
KAHN: So think about going to Mars, nine months one-way.
GREENFIELDBOYCE: Those trips could mean putting astronauts at greater risk than NASA's rules currently allow. Possible dangers include things like weakened bones, radiation exposure, the psychological effects of isolation, plus all the unknown risks.
Kahn recently chaired a committee of ethicists, astronauts, doctors and others, convened by the Institute of Medicine. NASA asked it to tackle this question...
KAHN: What happens when sending people out into space would exceed the existing health standards? What should they do?
GREENFIELDBOYCE: The answers are in a new report. It says NASA should keep its current healthcare standards but make exceptions on a mission by mission basis, after considering a set of ethical principles. Things like balancing the risk of harm with the potential benefit, and making sure that women get a fair shot at being part of a crew.
KAHN: Now, because of the health standards for exposure to ionizing radiation, women are allowed to spend fewer days in space than are men.
GREENFIELDBOYCE: NASA's Chief Health and Medical Officer is Rich Williams. He says that NASA currently sets the same risk limit from radiation for both men and women. But because women are more vulnerable to radiation-induced cancer, they'll reach that limit sooner.
RICH WILLIAMS: It's not been a problem up until now and in the future, because we never got close to radiation limits.
GREENFIELDBOYCE: William says longer missions will push those limits, so this is one of the reasons NASA wanted outside advice.
WILLIAMS: We are all interested and committed to limiting the risk to the greatest extent possible, but also to actually completing and doing the missions.
GREENFIELDBOYCE: The astronauts have their own views on risks. Ed Lu is a former astronaut who spent six months on the International Space Station. He says astronauts accept health standards for things that could affect a mission's success, like eyesight.
ED LU: But there are other standards which we all had a problem with, I think. And they had to do with ones that are things for your, quote, "your own good."
GREENFIELDBOYCE: Like whether an increased risk of cancer years in the future is worth the chance to do a mission.
LU: Decisions like that ought to be up to the astronaut.
GREENFIELDBOYCE: But this committee said first, NASA has to decide whether it's really OK to ask someone to take those risks.
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When I was in New York last year I wandered into a bar on Murray Street, purely because that's when Sonic Youth have their studio, ordered a beer and lit a cigarette… "Hey! What you doing Buddy!?" yelled the barkeep, looking at me as if I was offering the tip of my quivering member up to the arsehole of The Littlest Hobo, I'd momentarily forgotten, smoking in NYC wasn't allowed. 'How fucking stupid' I mentally scoffed before apologising, flicking the cigarette out the door and returning to my stool and beer. I drank fast, I wanted a cigarette.
Now, as I type this, I've 2 more fucking evenings in pubs/bars where I can legally smoke. It's utterly fucking pathetic. No one goes to a bar for the purposes of health, plenty of bars offer no smoking sections, what the FUCK is the problem here? Really, it's the direct equivalent of not letting fit people into gyms, think about it.
The first nationwide tobacco ban was imposed on its populace by the Nazi's, then the USA (can anyone smell anything here?) worryingly Ireland and Scotland got recently involved and the final blow is struck to the English in about 48 hours. So, in order, the fucking Nazi's then the USA, then the UK. It's rather disturbing wouldn't you agree. No one else of any note has a smoking ban, I mean can you imagine what would happen if they tried to impose this rubbish on the French?
So, what's the agenda here? It's got nothing to do with the health of those that work in environments where people smoke (the main reason given by the cunts who want smoking banned in all enclosed places). The late Sir William Richard Shaboe Doll, one of the first to link smoking with ill health made it clear that the link between passive smoking and ill health was essentially bollocks. So what's going on?
Either way, I'm fucking sick to death of all this 'it's bad for your health' wank. Everyone knows what is good/bad for health, as humans with freewill we can choose to indulge in one facet or the other, but the bottom line is that being alive is bad for your health, in fact, the single most risk to ones health is age. Quick, assemble a mob, let burn St.Agnes Care Home down to the ground, the fucking crinkly old cunts ARE FUCKING OUR PLANET AND NATIONAL HEALTH.
Last night I bumped into my Bro's missus on the Charing Cross road, the subject of Glastonbury was broached. It would seem hindsight is casting a fonder light over last week's proceedings, but I will not succumb, I wriggled my toes in my Converse relishing the feeling of hard clean concrete under my feet in order to avoid sliding into post-festival romanticism. With the ban looming like a giant all seeing CCTV camera, I went to the Groucho Club. Even private member clubs are up for the smoking-chop so we five, Den, Liam, Stephen and Benjy chain smoking like condemned men awaiting nannies gallows.
We had a lovely evening, laughing, chatting, smoking (of course) and drinking some French white stuff that was so moorish it was easy to not appreciate every fading puff and gasp on our fags. All of us aware that an era was coming to an end, smoking is so much more than lung cancer and emphysema, to me, it's still the epitome of bohemianism, I still think it makes me look hard and fucking cool and, of course, a bar is the most appropriate environment in which to indulge. But shortly, this pleasure will be no more.
Tonight I'm meeting some friends in a pub in Hackney and tomorrow, some more friends in my local for one last night of indulgence. By the time you read this on Monday the ban will have already been implemented. It's going to be a bloody nightmare.
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CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. -- A Marine with Combat Logistics Regiment 2, 2nd Marine Logistics Group saved the life of one of his own in the pre-dawn hours here, Dec. 11.
Maj. Matthew D. Reis, the adjutant for CLR-2, received the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal for his exceptional situational awareness and immediate action after saving another Marine from taking his own life.
Reis was in his office working around 2 a.m. for the unit's pre-deployment exercise when he heard commotion outside. As he walked outside, he saw a fellow Marine hanging from the second floor of a nearby barracks. Reis called for assistance as he attempted to prop the Marine up. With the help of others, they lowered the Marine and Reis began to conduct CPR.
A crowd of Marines also working with Reis during CLR-2's training exercise came outside, alerted by the commotion. Col. Dwayne A. Whiteside, the CLR-2 commanding officer, was among the concerned first responders.
"The Marine wasn't breathing. I couldn't feel anything with my hands on him, and his chest wasn't rising," said Whiteside, recalling Reis's efforts to revive the servicemember. "The training you learn – you never know when you're going to need it."
The incident happened less than a week after the unit underwent "Never Leave a Marine Behind" training, which is the Marine Corps' suicide prevention program. During that training, Marines learn the acronym R.A.C.E – Recognize the signs of distress, Ask about the signs of distress, Care about and show you care about the Marine, and Escort the Marine to help.
In addition, CLR-2 has recently gone through combat lifesaver training for their upcoming deployment.
After several minutes of resuscitative efforts, Reis successfully revived the Marine.
"Without Maj. Reis's quick thinking and unyielding determination to care for his fellow Marine, the Marine would have been a fatality," his award citation read.
After the award ceremony, Reis talked to the CLR-2 Marines emphasizing the importance of never leaving a Marine behind.
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Roman Bioarchaeology Carnival XXIX
As always, the summer months are busy ones here at the Roman Bioarchaeology Carnival. Lots of excavations mean lots of dead people coming to light for the first time in millennia...
New Finds
New Finds
- Italy
- 7 May. Ancient Milan church yields tombs, coins from 4th century [ANSA.it]. At least two burials, one an infant and one an adult, have been found during excavations of the Church of Sts. James & Philip. This Roman community was called Nocetum, and coins from the burials place them around 350-353.
- 7 May. Uno scheletro romano nei cantieri della metropolitana [La Repubblica]. This brief Italian article mentions the discovery of an adult male skeleton dating to the 2nd-3rd centuries AD, during excavations for a Metro line under Naples. Archaeologists know about the presence of a Roman necropolis in the area, and in total have found around a dozen graves. [More photos]
|4th century child skeleton from Milan
(credit: ANSA.it)
- 19 March. Cimitero delle Fontanelle and "The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead" or "The Neapolitan Skull Cult" of Naples, Italy [Morbid Anatomy]. If you're in Naples this summer, you can check out Virgil's tomb (see below) and this massive underground ossuary. Check the post for lots of neat pictures.
- 11 May. Musician-with-lyre burial from Metaponto? [Rogue Classicism] Archaeologists have found the burial of a man along with a lyre at Metaponto, dating to around 2,500 years ago (I can't find a better date, unfortunately). He was between 40-60 years old, and his height is roughly 180cm (6' tall) -- tall for his time, but not unreasonably so. There is a suggestion that he suffered from acromegaly, but there doesn't seem to be a publication yet (even though this might have been found five or six years ago).
- England
- 3 May. Roman cemetery - under another car park in Leicester [Past Horizons] [LiveScience]. This cemetery, found by the Richard III excavators, dates to about 300 AD and produced numerous artifacts in addition to 13 burials. What's interesting about this cemetery is that there is a mixture of sexes, ages, and burial rites, suggesting a time and place of religious syncretism and/or change.
- 8 May. Four Roman skeletons unearthed by workers on £40m Covenham to Boston water pipeline [Louth Leader]. The headline is a bit misleading, as it's only assumed these are from the Roman era (and they were found not far below the topsoil). The remains represent an adult and child buried together ("spooned"), and two adults buried on their backs. But there is archaeological evidence of Roman occupation in Stickford, so we'll have to wait and see.
- France
- 7 May. French archaeologists uncover a Gallic necropolis from the 4th and 3rd centuries BC at Buchères [artdaily.org]. These burials were made near an earlier Bronze Age cemetery, and 5 of the 14 graves that have been excavated are thought to have held warriors. Although this is earlier than Roman occupation in the area, these La Tène graves hold a lot of artifacts and information about this era.
- Spain
- 8 May. Necropolis bioarchaeology at Roman Sanisera [PastHorizons]. Quite a lot of digging has been underway in recent years on the island of Menorca, and there are generally one or more bioarchaeology field schools each summer. This report summarizes the investigations from 1996-2008 of a Roman military camp that was abandoned in 45 BC and that then became the settlement of Sanisera. There are cist, pit, and amphora tombs, most of which lack grave goods, and some show evidence of reuse. Some additional info about the osteology of the burials is presented in this article, but it is very vague; it'll be interesting to see the eventual publication.
- 10 May. Elephant's tomb may have been Mithraic temple [Past Horizons]. A new analysis of some funerary chambers in the Carmona (Spain) necropolis dating to the 1st century BC to 2nd century AD suggests one structure might have been a temple to Mithras, a fairly mysterious religious figure brought to the Roman world from the East.
- Germany
- 2 May. Plague helped bring down Roman Empire [LiveScience]; Justinianic plague was caused by bacterium Yersinia pestis, DNA of skeletal remains shows [Science Daily]; Yersinia pestis DNA from skeletal remains from the 6th century AD reveals insights into Justinianic plague, M. Harbeck et al., PLOS Pathogens. In a very cool study, Harbeck and colleagues sequence DNA from skeletons assumed to have been victims of the Plague of Justinian (541-2 AD), found in an early Medieval cemetery in Bavaria. They were able to confirm from the remains the presence of Y. pestis DNA, suggesting it was the cause of the plague. Y. pestis, of course, also had a role in the Black Death.
- Greece
- 22 May. 2,500-year-old bone fragment from forearm of Greek warrior x-rayed at North Shore-LIJ [PR Web]. A bone from a skeleton dating to the 4th century BC was recently studied by an archaeologist at Adelphi University on behalf of the Greek Archaeological Service. The skeleton represents a man who died in his late 50s or early 60s, with an arrowhead embedded in his left ulna. It seems that surgeons at the time were able to remove part of the hooked or barbed arrowhead, but some of it was left in the arm, causing the bone to remodel around it. Unfortunately, there are no photos of the bone or the x-ray.
- Egypt
- 15 May. Egyptian-Nubian soldier skeleton discovered by Dr. Irene Forstner-Müller [Luxor Times]; Egypt's ancient history reveals itself anew as Roman warrior skeleton discovered [Albawaba]. A purported soldier dating to Late Roman times (roughly 610-695 AD) was found at the site of Hisn Al-Bab near Aswan in Egypt. The skeleton belonged to a man in his late 20s or early 30s, and he may have been killed by a knife-wound to the groin (ouch). The photo reveals pretty impressive skeletal disarray; unclear from the articles if it's the result of hasty burial or taphonomy.
- 16 May. Cemetery reveals baby-making season in ancient Egypt [LiveScience]. This first of two news articles on the Roman-era site of Kellis summarizes some of the latest work done by a team of bioarchaeologists at the University of Central Florida (Dupras, Wheeler, and Williams). Over 100 skeletons of infants and fetuses have suggested that the peak period for conception was July and August, as the orientation of the burials (toward the rising sun) helps the researchers pinpoint time of conception. Also, the peak period for death of women in childbearing was in March and April, which is also when there was a birth peak.
- 28 May. Earliest case of child abuse discovered in Egyptian cemetery [LiveScience]. Also from the Kellis-2 cemetery, the UCF researchers found the burial of a 2- to 3-year-old child whose skeleton presents significant evidence of child abuse: a number of fractures, all in various stages of healing. This is very interesting work, but my main problem with it is the suggestion in the article that the child abuse may have been the result of Roman influence. While there are numerous historical records on Romans' thoughts about childrearing, as far as I know, there is no osteological evidence of child abuse in the Roman bioarchaeological record. Arguing that osteological evidence of child abuse indicates "romanization" of Egyptian childcare practices simply because Roman history mentions corporal punishment and cradleboarding is a huge logical leap that I don't believe is warranted. But, that being said, it's not as if the Roman bioarchaeological evidence of children has been pored through to systematically figure out if there are abusive practices going on.
|Roman skeleton found under
Naples metro (credit: La Repubblica)
|Roman cemetery discovered in Leicester
(credit: University of Leicester)
|Burial at Roman Sanisera
(credit: Past Horizons)
|Egyptian soldier from
Hisn Al-Bab (credit:
Luxor Times)
|Possible victim of child abuse in
Roman Egypt (credit: LiveScience)
|Not Virgil's tomb (credit: Napoli
- 17 January 2012. Treasures of Napoli - Virgil's Tomb [Napoli Unplugged]. If you're off to Italy this summer and need something to visit in Naples, check out so-called Virgil's tomb. (Spoiler alert: it's not actually his tomb.)
- 7 May. Rome wants to pump new life into a gladiator's tomb and ancient villa [La Stampa]. In an effort to spiff up parts of Rome for the 2000-year anniversary of Augustus' death next year, archaeological parts of the Via Flaminia are in talks to be restored, including the Tomb of the Gladiator and a large mausoleum.
- 18 May. Le tombe villanoviane di San Giovanni in Persiceto [Antika Notizie]. The Museo Archeologico Ambientale has an exhibit of Villanovan cremation tombs dating to the 8th-7th centuries BC. These fascinating burials provide a lot of information on the funeral rite of the Iron Age cultures of central Italy.
- 21 May. The battle for Egypt's ancient Roman site, Antinopolis [The Art Newspaper]. According to this article (mostly on the architectural remains at the site), part of the site and the the 2nd century AD necropolis have already been converted into farmland.
- 21 May. Visiting the dead: archaeology, museums and human remains [Res Gerendae]. An interesting essay that jumps off from the recent Pompeii exhibit at the British Museum to talk about displays of the dead. Complementary to Mary Beard's BBC News article last winter.
|The "Roman giant's" tibia, top,
compared with an average one
(credit: Simona Minozzi)
- 28 May. "The Roman giant": Overgrowth syndrome in skeletal remains from the Imperial Age by S. Minozzi et al., International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. Skeletal remains of a male dating to the 3rd century AD were found in Fidenae (a few km north of Rome) back in the early 1990s. His height appears to be about 200cm (or 6'7"), leading the researchers to conclude he suffered from a form of gigantism. Neither this article nor the poster I saw at the PPAs in 2012 has completely convinced me of gigantism (in part because the comparative data set of height is spotty at best), and it's a bit odd that it took two decades to publish this case. Still, an interesting individual. [Also see the NatGeo coverage from last winter.]
- 15 May. Roman historian/archaeologist Ray Laurence is back with another cute TEDEdvideo about what life was like for kids in ancient Rome. The new video is "Four sisters in Ancient Rome," a nice complement to "A glimpse of teenage life in ancient Rome."


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Candle Wicks are an Important Choice
Why Do You Need to Pick The Right Candle Wicks?
The final choice to be made in the candle making process always seems to be the candle wicks. Those that have gone through this experience know well that if the proper wick isn't selected, it doesn't matter if you picked the best fragrance, wax or even container because the candle will not burn properly. And if the candle doesn't burn properly, the consumer won't come back.
When choosing candle wicks, there are some important criteria to follow. You should strive to achieve:
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Where do I start?
The issue any candle maker has is where to start when choosing the proper wick. In today's marketplace the possibilities are endless and that can be overwhelming at times. The frustration for many is that there is not a magic formula to determine what wick is right for the given application. There are over 300 different wicks! The best one for your application will vary depending on the wax you are using, the fragrance load, candle diameter and even the color.
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- HTP--Are otherwise known as high-tension paper wicks. These wicks have a paper core wound into the wick to offer rigidity. These wicks are specially designed for use in votives and containers.
- CD--Also have a paper core wound into the wick and are very well suited for votives and containers.
- LX--is a flat braided wick with stabilized threads that help the wick "curl" during the burning process. These wicks will work in votives, containers and pillars. This wick is also an excellent choice for pillars made of the ECO-Soya PB and the Pillar Palm waxes.
- Zinc--This core has always offered rigidity in the "hot pour" process. The down side is that zinc is prone to mushrooming and carbon deposits. This series is very popular with paraffin waxes in containers.
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If you think long and hard about your favorite snack foods, chances are that bars are close to the top of the list. It's hard not to love these convenient and tasty bites. Not only can you take a snack bar pretty much anywhere (they are lunchbox-, briefcase-, and suitcase-friendly), but the market is practically flooded with options for almost every diet. And before you worry that a snack bar is basically the same thing as a sugar bomb, rest assured that a variety of brands are raising the bar when it comes to this beloved snack category. From organic, superfood ingredients to protein boosts and low-sugar options, hitting the bar has never been so healthy.
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Whether you're gearing up for a road trip, plane travel, or just a long day on-the-go, packing snacks that will stand up to your busy schedule is practically an artform. Here are a few go-to tips:
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Nosh on these plant-based must-haves.
That's It Apple and Cherry Fruit Bars
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Mix things up with these DIY bar recipes.
Raisin Nut Bars
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Gluten-Free Fig Bars
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Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero
A Johnson has his Boswell and every Sticks Angelica has her Michael DeForge
Sticks Angelica is, in her own words, "49 years old. Former: Olympian, poet, scholar, sculptor, minister, activist, Governor General, entrepreneur, line cook, headmistress, Mountie, columnist, libertarian, cellist." After a high-profile family scandal, Sticks escapes to the woods to live in what would be relative isolation were it not for the many animals that surround and inevitably annoy her. Sticks is an arrogant self-obsessed force who wills herself on the flora and fauna. There is a rabbit named Oatmeal who harbors an unrequited love for her, a pair of kissing geese, a cross-dressing moose absurdly named Lisa Hanawalt. When a reporter named, ahem, Michael DeForge shows up to interview Sticks for his biography on her, she quickly slugs him and buries him up to his neck, immobilizing him. Instead, Sticks narrates her way through the forest, recalling formative incidents from her storied past in what becomes a strange sort of autobiography.
Deforge's witty dialogue and deadpan narration create a bizarre, yet eerily familiar world. Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero plays with autobiography, biography, and hagiography to look at how we build our own sense of self and how others carry on the roles we create for them in our own personal dramas.
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Facebook worked wonders for getting Betty White on "SNL," and now the voice of the people is moving onto a new campaign -- Let Cam & Mitchell kiss on Modern Family!
The new Facebook page has more than 1,500 supporters and counting.
The gay couple on the hit show "have not been shown sharing even a brief kiss throughout the series' first hit season," the page's information section states.
"ABC isn't afraid of gay characters, so why won't they let them show some love?" says the page.
Indeed, while ABC has allowed the creation of this great comedic duo -- who have even gone so far to adopt a daughter together on the show -- many sides of the relationship are left in a convenient, traditional-Disney blur. The lack of kissing is just one of these.
Some day this may be considered as odd as putting Rob and Laura Petrie in separate marital beds on the "Dick Van Dyke Show"
The tipping point for this Cam and Mitchell campaign might have come in the hilarious Hawaiian vacation episode last week. Two couples came together dramatically at the airport: straight couple Claire and Phil kissed passionately. Gay couple Cam and Mitchell were relegated to a hug
Just let them kiss already!
This is going to be a higher Facebook mountain to climb than Betty White, but could be a lot of fun to see if it works.


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IT should have been the chance for Hampshire residents to have a real say over how their communities are policed.
But instead the process of electing a Police and Crime Commissioner for the county has been branded "a shambles" and a "bad day for democracy" – and that comes from the people who were vying for the job.
The results of the vote were due to be announced today in Southampton when the candidates will find out who will command a salary of £85,000 and oversee a budget of £305m.
But they will face immediate criticism over the strength of their mandate, after figures indicated that just 15 per cent of people in Southampton bothered to vote.
Labour candidate Cllr Jacqui Rayment spent the day touring polling stations in Southampton and said the turnout was worse than expected.
She said: "I have complained to the Home Office about how many people in Hampshire did not receive the booklet of information about the election, but here we are now on polling day and that information hasn't even been posted.
I think the way the election has been handled has given democracy a bad name."
During a visit to a polling station in Romsey, UKIP representative Stephen West described it as "the same old story" as disillusioned voters blamed a lack of information. "This is looking like a shambles," he said.
Mr West later tweeted how a visit to Totton had seen only a 3.5 per cent turnout by mid afternoon.
Liberal Democrat candidate David Goodall agreed a lack of publicity was to blame but said any mandate would have to be earned by the winner.
The Electoral Commission was last night predicting the turnout would be the worst in British election history.
A lack of publicity, combined with a change of voting system and the timing was being blamed.
Gerry Stoker, professor of political science at Southampton University, said the lack of voters reflected a general disillusionment with politics and warned the successful candidate would find their position weakened as a result.
He added the timing of the election, outside the normal cycle of May elections, would have also played a part.
A Home Office spokesman said: "Any turnout will confer a better democratic mandate than the current invisible police authorities have."
Also running for the job are independent candidate Simon Hayes, Conservative Michael Mates and Justice and Anti-Corruption Party candidate Don Gerrard.
A trickle of voters
POLLING stations across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight reported that only a trickle of voters had come through the doors with no one casting their votes at all for hours at a time.
Voters stayed away from the Masonic Hall in Leigh Road, Eastleigh, during the day – with not a single person seen.
Across Southampton voting had been in "fits and starts".
Staff manning the voting booths said it had been a quiet day, with nothing like the turnout of a General Election.
Pensioner Thomas Herd, 79, said: "I think people are likely just to vote on political parties in the absence of any actual information about the candidates themselves."
Voting was slow across Winchester and in the New Forest. By mid-morning only 33 people had cast their votes at a Lymington town centre polling station.


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Elaine and David McClain are in their 70s and say they have a son named William George Zimmerman, who lived in their Sanford area home in the mid-1990s. They say he is no relation to 28-year-old George Zimmerman, who killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26....Yeah, it was just a slip. He intended to send the lynch mob to the other George Zimmerman's house. Did he apologize for that? And what did the McClain's get out of Lee other than an apology? Did he buy them a new house at a new address? What's the market value of their old house, now that the address is out there in digital-vigilante-o-sphere?
"At this point in time, we have come to an agreement with Spike Lee and his attorneys, and at this point, the matter is fully resolved," Morgan said. "Spike has agreed to compensate the McClains for their loss and for the disruption into their lives. He's taken full responsibility."....
"He was really kind," Elaine McClain said. "And when he called us, you could just tell he really felt bad about it. And it was just a slip, and I just know that he really, really has been concerned."
Meanwhile, the street address of the parents of the real George Zimmerman is out there. Roseanne Barr retweeted it, then took it down — because she was criticized. She said that that at first she thought it "was good to let ppl know that no one can hide anymore." Since she needs to be popular and she got some pushback, she stepped back and tweeted as if she'd reached a higher level of morality: "But vigilante-ism is what killed Trayvon. I don't support that." But she kept her moral understanding fuzzy: "If Zimmerman isn't arrested I'll rt his address again... maybe go 2 his house myself."


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Fifteen percent of young people in America are not working or in school, according to a new report.
That's nearly 6 million people ages 16 to 24 who are basically sitting idle, The Opportunity Nation coalition says in the study released Monday.
Without education through work or school, these young adults are much more likely to earn lower salaries and become a drain on their communities, according to the report.
"This is not a group that we can write off. They just need a chance," Mark Edwards, the coalition's executive director, told The Associated Press. "The tendency is to see them as lost souls and see them as unsavable. They are not."
The study looked at 16 factors -- such as college graduation rates, Internet access and income inequality -- to identify the states where young people are thriving the most, according to Time magazine.
Vermont, Minnesota and North Dakota topped the list. Nevada, Mississippi and New Mexico came in last.


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The Klemperer Legacy: Twentieth Century Music
Igor STRAVINSKY (1882-1971)
Symphony in three movements (1945) [24.21]1
Pulcinella (1920): Suite [25.18]2
Kurt WEILL (1900-1950)
Kleine Dreigroschenmusik (1929) [20.30]3
Otto KLEMPERER (1885-1973)
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Nobilissima visione (1938) [20.38]6
Engelbert HUMPERDINCK (1854-1921)
Hänsel und Gretel (1893):Overture and Dream Pantomime
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Otto Klemperer: a biographical memoir - written, narrated and produced
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When reviewing
the Klemperer box of romantic symphonies and overtures I remarked upon
the odd omission of his recordings of the Overture and Dream Pantomime
from Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel. Well, here they
are, although Humperdinck's name is omitted from the box cover
and neither piece comes from the twentieth century. They are indeed
as good as I remembered, serious performances that nevertheless have
plenty of sparkle when required and bring out many of the delightful
felicities in the scoring; there are subsidiary themes here which often
go unremarked in other performances. It is extraordinary if, as Richard
Osborne states in his booklet notes, Klemperer never conducted this
work in the opera house; one would have thought that during his lengthy
career in German theatres before 1933 he could hardly have avoided it,
especially since his wife frequently sang the part of Gertrude and the
The remainder of the works in this collection are undeniably from the
twentieth century, and the earliest recording here is the suite from
Hindemith's 'choreographic legend' Nobilissima
visione.Richard Osborne tells us that this was a last-minute
substitute for the Hindemith Horn Concerto, the recording of which had
to be abandoned when Klemperer and Dennis Brain failed to agree over
the proper tempi for the performance. Brain subsequently recorded the
work with Hindemith himself conducting. I cannot find that the Klemperer
recording of the ballet was ever issued during his lifetime, or indeed
before it appeared on CD in 2000; perhaps Walter Legge was at a loss
to find a suitable coupling. It is a very good performance indeed, with
only a slight lack of full string tone to indicate the age of the mono
recording which otherwise is admirable in all respects. The Philharmonia
at this time were making a number of recordings of modern scores, including
Hindemith and Bartók with Karajan and Britten with various conductors;
in later years such studio ventures into modern territory would become
Klemperer himself had commissioned Weill's Kleine Dreigroschenmusik
following the successful stage première of the Dreigroschenoper
the year before, and gave the first performance at the Kroll Opera in
Berlin during his final years in pre-Nazi Germany. He always had a warm
affection for the work, and this comes across in this delightfully insouciant
performance which is superbly inflected by the Philharmonia players
with just the right degree of sleaziness, never overdone. Klemperer
also espoused the music of Stravinsky during these years, but the only
recordings he ever made were those included here of the Pulcinella
suite and the Symphony in three movements. He takes a very serious
view indeed of the latter at an unexpectedly slow speed, bringing out
the ominous nature of the writing but at the expense of some of the
more abrupt violence that Stravinsky himself revealed in his recording
of the score. Pulcinella, on the other hand, has a lighter touch
which allows for Klemperer's sly and mordant humour to come through.
Klemperer paid his own compositional tribute to Stravinsky's take
on Pergolesi in his own orchestral suite on pieces by Rameau, which
has a similarly quirky and consciously 'modern' approach
to the music.
The second disc in this set gives us three examples of Klemperer's
own compositions. Like many conductors of his generation, Klemperer
desired to make a reputation as a composer; unlike his contemporaries,
he was rather diffident about putting his works forward for recording
or performance. He spent some forty or more years working on an opera
entitled Das Ziel, but the only piece from the score that was
published was the Merry Waltz included here, probably the best-known
of his compositions (not that that is saying much) and the only one
that attracted the attention of other conductors including Leopold Stokowski.
The Second Symphony was recently recorded for CPO by Alun Francis,
as part of a valuable disc that also includes the First Symphony
and a number of other shorter works including the Merry Waltz.
Shortly after early performances of the First Symphony Klemperer
sent a copy of the score to Benjamin Britten, whose response is documented
in Richard Osborne's booklet: "I feel that your ideas are
often very good. But, dear Doctor, I am not always so sure that the
notes you have chosen are always the right ones to express what is so
clearly in your mind." One has to admit that Britten's instinctive
response was right; one can sense the purposefulness of the ideas that
underlie the Second Symphony, but at the same time remain unconvinced
that Klemperer is at his best in trying to convey these to the listener.
The result is rather Mahlerian in texture - late Mahler, rather than
the composer's earlier more romantic style. The basic themes are
not particularly memorable; and, although the music is often entertaining
and sometimes demonstrates a real depth of emotional feeling, the most
effective moments come when Klemperer is closest to models such as Shostakovich;
an almost exact quotation of a phrase near the beginning of the Fifth
Symphony. The Sibelius-like brass chords which interrupt the progress
of the slow movement are also significant.
Klemperer's String Quartet is a curiously inconsequential
work; the opening fugue has hardly begun before it tails off into decidedly
un-fugal material. The same lack of continuing sustained development
is apparent as in the Second Symphony. There is some decidedly
insecure playing in parts of the symphony, seemingly recorded in a solitary
session although there is some unexpectedly lush string playing. The
players, drawn from the New Philharmonia in the quartet, seem to be
more comfortable with the music itself. The quartet has never been recorded
subsequently, so this is our only opportunity to hear it.
The final one-and-a-half discs in this collection contain an extensive
biographical documentary - near two hours long. Memories of Klemperer
from those who worked with him are combined with extracts from his BBC
Face to face interview with John Freeman and snippets from the
EMI archives. There are also extracts from various recordings which
often continue - somewhat disconcertingly, because just on the borders
of audibility - beneath the dialogue. As is the inevitable nature of
such things, the text verges on the hagiographic, with little indication
of the many problems that Klemperer caused to his fellow performers
beyond oblique mentions of truculence and bullying. Klemperer's
jokes, delivered in an almost impenetrable accent, are never as funny
as his audiences seem to find at the time. The documentary is nevertheless
valuable in resurrecting some rare recordings - previously unpublished
rehearsal sequences from Don Giovanni, and a section of a remarkable
1929 recording of the Dance of the Seven Veils from Strauss's
Salome which shows the results that Klemperer could obtain from
his Berlin players in the late 1920s. It demonstrates that his recordings
made in London some thirty years later were not just a matter of superlative
playing but also of deeply-felt involvement by the conductor.
Paul Corfield Godfrey
Masterwork Index: Pulcinella
Recording details
Kingsway Hall, London, 128-30 March and 16 May 1962: 218
February, 14-18 May 1963 and 20 February 1964: 330-31 October
and 2 December 1961: 67-8 May 1954 [mono]: 727-29
September 1960: Abbey Road Studios, London, 43 March 1969:
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This ranking has risen from No. 3 last year and reprises the program's No. 1 ranking of 2007. Penn State also fared well in the Dean's Survey rankings, coming in second as the "most admired undergraduate programs for its excellent resources and overall program."
The 693 professional practices and corporations surveyed chose Penn State when asked, "In your firm's hiring experience in the past five years, which schools are best preparing students for success in the profession?" Their answer corresponded to the 100 percent of Penn State students surveyed who answered that they believe they will be well prepared for their profession upon graduation. Finally, Design Intelligence performs a "skills assessment," asking hiring firms to rank the "strongest landscape architecture programs in educating for each skill area." Penn State's program garnered top 5 ranks in three of the six skill areas: Communication, Cross-Disciplinary Teamwork and Sustainable Design Practices & Principles.
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July 4, 2010
Get in on the fun of the RA Today Digital Scavenger Hunt and you'll be entered in a drawing for one of three Netbooks. It's simple: answer a few questions based on clues hidden on NEA's websites and email us the answers.
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1. We covered President Van Roekel's stirring keynote address on RA Today online. What color tie was he wearing for the speech? (Clue: view RA Today articles)
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3. Members are sharing their favorite memories of RA's past on the RA Today Facebook page. What is Indiana delegate Bonnie Pamplin Thrasher's favorite memory? (Clue: head to our RA Today Facebook page)
4. On the RA Today Twitter feed yesterday we tweeted a tip for finding something traditional for July 4. What did we tweet about? (Clue: read up on our RA Today Twitter feed)
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Step 2: Email your answers by 12 noon, Tuesday, July 6.
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I had reached a dungeon level around 10-15 floors down, when I returned to Torchlight (the town) via a Town Portal scroll and got a quest from the Trill-bot to kill a monster on level 3. Easy! I ran down to level 3, one-shotted the baddie and instead of clicking an Identify scroll I clicked a Town Portal scroll. I was hoping it wouldn't overwrite my previous portal if I didn't use it, so I ran back to my original portal but it brought me back to level 3!
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