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The Dawn of Life
When the North American continent was younger and wild animals and dark mysteries still inhabited the woods and the plains and the mountains, women usually gathered unto themselves for the ritual of birth. For unusually difficult labors or when the time was right for certain necessary ceremonies, a medicine man might be called to render his special potions or incant powerful prayers, but, in general, males were infrequent participants in such business. It was the women who performed the practical and ceremonial duties that readied the infant for life and gave it status as an individual. These tasks were performed so often as to be commonplace, yet they were heavy with meaning at each new birth, for such rituals were elemental to the existence of women in early America.
Being a mother and rearing a healthy family were the ultimate achievements for a woman in the North American Indian societies. There was no confusion about the role of a woman and very few other acceptable patterns for feminine existence. Many Indian women attained distinction as craftswomen or medical practitioners, but this in no way affected their role as bearers and raisers of children.
Women's lives flowed into what they saw as the natural order of the universe. Mother Earth was fecund and constantly replenishing herself in the ongoing cycle of birth, growth, maturity, death, and rebirth. The primitive women of our continent considered themselves an integral part of these ever-recurrent patterns and accepted a role in which they were an extension of the spirit mother and the key to the continuation of their race. Not separate from, but part of, these deeply religious feelings was the practical consideration that many children were needed to help with the work and to take care of the parents as they grew older. In those simpler days, children were a couple's savings account and insurance.
Women in most Native American cultures knew pretty clearly how they got pregnant, although even here beliefs varied when it came to the details.
The Gros Ventres of Montana and the Chiricahua Apaches of southern Arizona were among those groups believing that pregnancy could not occur as the result of a single sex act. One Apache explained that if a couple had intercourse three times a week they could have a baby started in about two or three months. But the informant also said, "I know a girl who had intercourse with a man many times in one night. If a girl did it at that rate, it wouldn't take any time at all to get a child started." As another Apache related, "When a man has intercourse with a woman some of his blood (semen) enters her. But just a little goes in the first time and not as much as the woman has in there. The child does not begin to develop yet because the woman's blood struggles against it. The woman's blood is against having the child; the man's blood is for it. When enough collects, the man's blood forces the baby to come."
Although many sexual encounters were believed necessary to create a child, as soon as an Apache woman noticed the first signs of pregnancy, she ceased her sexual activity to prevent injury to the baby growing within her.
The Hopi of northern Arizona, on the other hand, were convinced that continued sex was good for both the prospective mother and the baby; a woman slept with her husband all through her pregnancy so that their continued intercourse could make the child grow. It was likened by one Hopi to irrigating a crop -- if a man started to make a baby and then stopped, his wife would have a hard time.
The Kaska Indians of northwestern Canada also maintained that repeated sex during early pregnancy developed the embryo, but warned that too much indulgence would produce twins. As soon as a Kaska woman felt the stirrings of life in her womb, she was warned to discontinue her sexual life. Mothers advised their pregnant daughters to use their own blankets and to sleep facing away from their husbands to avoid temptation.
Among most of the tribes, however, pregnant women continued a moderate sex life until the later stages of their pregnancy, much as many women do today. There were a few groups where custom completely forbade intercourse during pregnancy. In the area which is now Wisconsin, Fox women abstained from sex throughout pregnancy for fear their babies would be born "filthy," and down near where the Colorado River emptied into the Gulf of California, pregnant Cocopah women slept alone lest their babies be born feet first.
Most Indian mothers welcomed each baby regardless of sex and wished primarily that the child be strong and healthy. But it is universal for a woman carrying a child for nine long months to wonder whether her labor will produce a son or a daughter. Out on the Great Plains when an Omaha woman wanted to ascertain the sex of her coming child she took a bow and a burden strap to the tent of a friend who had a child who was still too young to talk. She offered the two articles to the baby. If the little child chose the bow, the unborn would be a boy; if the child paid more attention to the burden strap, the coming baby would be a daughter.
There were some societies, particularly those in the far north where life was hard, that did not welcome an abundance of daughters. But it is said that the Huron, who lived north of Lake Ontario, rejoiced more at the birth of a girl child, for girls grew into women who had more babies, and the Huron wanted many descendants to care for them in their old age and protect them from their enemies.
In the matrilineal societies of the Hopi in the Southwest, where the status of women was high, a woman wished to give birth to many girl babies, for it was through her daughters that a Hopi woman's home and clan were perpetuated. A boy was not unwelcome, for he also belonged to his mother's clan, but when he married, his children would belong to the house and clan of their own mother.
Generally the sex of the baby was left to fate, but among the Zuni, neighbors of the Hopi on the beautiful but arid and windswept deserts of the Southwest, if a couple desired a girl child they went to visit the Mother Rock near their pueblo. The base of the rock was covered with symbols of the vulva and was perforated with small excavations. The pregnant woman scraped a tiny bit of the rock into a vase and placed it in one of the cavities. Then she prayed that a daughter would be born who would be good, beautiful, and virtuous, and who would display skill in the arts of weaving and pottery-making. If by chance a boy child was born, the Mother Rock was not blamed. Instead it was believed that the heart of one of the parents was "not good."
In those early days, infant mortality was alarmingly high and many women died in childbirth. Prospective mothers used every means at their disposal to ensure safe delivery and healthy children, but because medicinal procedures were so primitive, these women relied on measures which today we label "superstition" and "sympathetic magic," including a vast and varied range of taboos. Pregnant Indian women were almost universally warned against looking at or mocking a deformed, injured, or blind person for fear their babies would evidence the same defect; being in the presence of dying persons and animals was likewise unhealthy for both the mother and baby. Among the Flathead Indians of Montana neither the mother nor father could go out of the lodge backward or a breech birth would follow, nor were either of the prospective parents allowed to gaze out of a window or door. If they wanted to see what was going on outside, they were to go all the way outdoors and look around, lest the baby be stillborn.
There were also taboos on certain foods. Some typical dietary restrictions for pregnant Indian women prohibited eating the feet of an animal, to avoid having the baby born feet first; the tail of an animal, to prevent the child's getting stuck on the way out; berries, so that the baby would not carry a birthmark; and liver, which would darken the child's skin.
The Lummi Indians of what is now northwest Washington were a fairly wealthy group whose home on the productive coastlands offered them a vast variety of foods. This bounty enabled them to place taboos on many foods, including halibut, which was believed to cause white blotches on the baby's skin; steelhead salmon, which caused weak ankles; trout, which produced harelip; and seagull or crane, which would produce a crybaby. The prospective mother also had to abstain from shad or blue cod, which would induce convulsions in the child; venison, which would lead to absentmindedness; and beaver, which might cause an abnormally large head.
Among some of the groups with less abundant food resources, restrictions were limited to only certain parts of animals. Pregnant women were warned that eating tongue would cause the baby's tongue to loll, while the ingestion of an animal's tail might create problems during labor.
Though there were many foods that could not be eaten, there is some evidence that Indian women years ago, like many present-day women, did have cravings for special foods during pregnancy. The Reverend John Heckewelder, writing in the late 1700s, reported that he had witnessed what he called "a remarkable instance of the disposition of Indians to indulge their wives." Apparently, famine had struck the Iroquois in the winter of 1762, but a pregnant woman of that tribe longed for some Indian corn. Her husband, having learned that a trader at Lower Sandusky had a little of the desired commodity, set off on horseback for the one-hundred-mile trek. He brought back as much corn as filled the crown of his hat, but he returned walking and carrying his saddle, for he had had to trade his horse for the corn. Heckewelder continued, "Squirrels, ducks and other like delicacies, when most difficult to be obtained, are what women in the first stages of their pregnancy generally long for. The husband in every case will go out and spare no pains nor trouble until he has procured what is wanted. The more a man does for his wife, the more he is esteemed, particularly by the women."
Each tribe had certain herbs and teas that were believed to relieve aches and pains and promote the health of prospective mothers. A Crow medicine woman named Muskrat used two roots which had been revealed to her by a supernatural who appeared to her twice while she was asleep. During the first vision she was instructed to chew a certain weed if she wished to give birth without suffering. Later she was taught about another plant and was told it was even better than the first. Another Crow woman paid a horse to a visionary who taught her a formula made from a combination of certain roots and powdered, dry horned toad. The resulting powder was used in giving backrubs.
Bear's Medicine for Pregnant Women
While walking in the middle of the world Bear got this way. Young grew in her body. Ail day and all night she fed. After a while she got so big she could not walk. Then she began to consider why she was in that condition. "I wonder if they will be the way I am in the Indian world?" She heard a voice talking behind her. It said, "Put me in your mouth. You are in this condition for the sake of the Indians." When she looked around she saw a single plant of redwood sorrel standing there. She put it into her mouth. The next day she found she was able to walk. She thought, "It will be this way in the Indian world with this medicine. This will be my medicine. At best not many will know about me. I will leave it in the Indian world. They will talk to me with it."
But besides consuming herbal medicines, avoiding certain foods, and watching their own behavior, some Indian women had to be careful not to become victims of witchcraft during pregnancy. Matilda Cox Stevenson, who lived with and studied the Zuni Indians in the area of northwest New Mexico for many years in the late 1800s, wrote that she had helped a pregnant Zuni woman who was suffering from a cough and from pain in the abdomen. Although the woman felt better after taking the simple home remedies Mrs. Stevenson gave her, her family still thought it wise to call in the native surgeon. When he arrived and began to treat the pregnant woman, he appeared to draw from her abdomen two objects which he claimed were mother and child worms. Mrs. Stevenson wrote that one was about the length of her longest finger, while the other was smaller. The doctor pronounced this evidence that the woman had been bewitched and assured the family that it was well he had been sent for promptly, for in time these worms would have eaten the child and caused its death. Later, when trying to figure out who could have bewitched her, the Zuni woman recalled that some weeks before she had been grinding corn while kneeling next to the sister of a witch, and this woman had touched her on the abdomen. She decided it was probably then that the worms had been cast in.
Because in some groups the older women were unwilling to talk about the actual birth process, many young Indian women were remarkably unprepared for the birth of their first child. Pretty-shield, a Crow woman whose story is told in the bookRed Mother,related how she was playing with some girl friends during her first pregnancy and felt a quick little pain. When she sat down laughing about it, one of her friends guessed what the pain meant and warned Pretty-shield's mother, who immediately consulted a medicine woman named Left-hand. The mother and Left-hand had to coax Prettyshield to come with them to the special skin lodge they had pitched for the occasion. Outside the lodge Pretty-shield noticed that one of her father's best horses was tied up with several costly robes on his back -- an advance payment to old Left-hand for her assistance. Pretty-shield described the medicine woman as having her face painted with mud, her hair tied in a big clump on her forehead and carrying in her hand some of the grass-that-the-buffalo-do-not-eat.
Inside the tipi a fire was burning and a mat made of a soft buffalo robe was folded with the hair side out to serve as a bed. As was customary, two stakes had been driven into the ground, and other buffalo robes had been rolled up and piled against them so that when Pretty-shield knelt on the mat and took hold of the stakes her elbows rested on the pile of robes.
First Left-hand took four live coals from the fire, spacing them evenly on the ground between the door of the tipi and the bed. Then she instructed her patient to step over the coals and go to the bed. Left-hand, wearing a buffalo robe and grunting like a buffalo cow, followed behind Pretty-shield, instructing her to "walk as though you are busy" and brushing the girl's back with the tail of the robe.
Pretty-shield concludes, "I had stepped over the second coal when I saw that I should have to run if I reached my bed-robe in time. I jumped the third coal, and the fourth, knelt down on the robe, took hold of the two stakes, and my first child, Pine-fire, was there with us."
Anthropologist Ruth Underhill tells a somewhat similar tale inThe Autobiography of a Papago Woman.Chona, a Papago woman of southern Arizona, described the birth of her first child, which occurred when she herself was but a teenager. She didn't know quite when to expect her baby, but when she felt a pain one day while stooping over to pass through the low door to her grass house, she surmised that the time had come for the baby's arrival. As was true for women among many North American Indian cultures, Papago mothers were required by custom to have their babies in a special segregation hut apart from the main dwelling. Chona knew that it was time to go to the "Little House" and did not wish to have such a dreadful thing happen to her as to be caught inside the regular house in childbirth. She announced her destination to her husband's aunt -- her first mention of labor pains -- and left to cross the wash between the main house and the Little House.
"When I reached the near edge of that gully I thought I had better run," Chona related. "I ran fast; I wanted to do the right thing. But I dropped my first baby in the middle of the gully. My aunt came and snipped the baby's navel string with her long fingernail. Then we went on to the Little House." Later one of her sisters-in-law asked her why she hadn't said anything about her pains. The other women hadn't known she was suffering because they had heard her laughing. Chona's response was, "Well, it wasn't my mouth that hurt. It was my middle."
Chona and her baby had to stay in the segregation hut for a full month, during which time she was not allowed to bathe, for fear she would get rheumatism. Her family brought her food which she cooked with no salt. "When the moon had come back to the same place," it was time for the purification ceremony. Chona, her husband, and the baby went to a medicine man, or shaman, who was a specialist in child-naming. The shaman prepared a mixture of clay, water, and pounded owl feathers which both parents and the child were required to sip; then the shaman gave the child a name. If Papago parents neglected to have this ceremony performed, they risked the health of both themselves and the new baby.
Not all Indian women had births as easy as those of Pretty-shield and Chona, but they were nevertheless expected to endure the pain without crying out. Huron women who fussed while they were in labor were chided for being cowardly and failing to set a good example for others. A Huron woman proved her courage by her brave conduct during childbirth just as a man proved his courage in battle. The Gros Ventres of Montana believed that a woman who cried out drove the child back, and a mother who turned and twisted in pain might tangle the cord around the child.
During her labor an Indian woman was usually assisted by her female relatives or other women of her tribe who had special knowledge of birth customs. They supported the woman as she knelt or squatted, rubbed her back, pressed down on her abdomen to force the child out, encouraged the mother, and cared for her and the child immediately after the birth. A good example of how the women helped each other can be found among the Kwakiutl of British Columbia. In good weather a woman might deliver outside, but in bad weather she remained in the longhouse. Usually two professional midwives came to assist. They first dug a pit and lined it with soft cedar bark. Then one of them sat down on the edge of the shallow excavation, stretching her legs across it so that her feet and calves rested on the opposite edge. The pregnant woman sat on the midwife's lap, straddling the helper's legs so that both her own legs hung down inside the pit. The two women clasped each other's arms tightly, while the second midwife squatted behind the woman who was delivering, pressing her knees against her back, wrapping her arms around the mother's shoulders, and blowing down her neck in order to produce a quick and easy delivery. The baby dropped into the pit and remained there until the afterbirth was delivered. Then the mother went to bed for four days.
Some of the midwives were quite skilled at their profession, often being able to turn a baby in the womb to ensure a safer and easier delivery. They were also good psychologists, knowing just how to talk to, calm, and comfort a woman who was suffering a great deal. But sometimes, in very difficult cases, the power and skill of the midwives were not enough, and doctors with more power had to be called in. A Gros Ventre woman told of how she had been helped by such a doctor during one of her pregnancies. The man was old and blind and when called to help, he sat next to the suffering woman with a pot of medicine beside him. When the woman cried out in pain he touched her with the end of a stick and the cramps went away. When the woman complained that she was tired, the midwife assured her that it would soon be over, but the doctor disagreed. The labor continued for several more hours until the doctor predicted the baby would be born shortly, and he was right. It was believed that the medicine man's power allowed him to know what was happening without seeing or touching the laboring woman.
Although women generally gathered together for the birth of babies, in some North American tribes the expectant mother had to face the birth process alone. Women in the Caddo group near the border of what are now Mississippi and Arkansas were instructed, when the time of their delivery neared, to go to the bank of the nearest river and to build a little shelter, with a strong forked stick positioned in the center. Supporting themselves with this stick they gave birth all alone and then immediately waded into the stream, even if they had to break ice to do so, washed themselves and the baby, and returned home to continue their normal lives.
A report survives from 1790 of four Tukabahchee women (a tribe of the Greek confederacy located in Alabama) who came to sell horse ropes to some white men on a cold and rainy night in December. Because of the bad weather, the women stayed overnight, and about midnight, one of the women went into labor. Her mother instructed her to take fire and go to the edge of a swamp about 160 yards away. She went alone, delivered her own baby, and the next morning took the infant on her back and returned home with the other women through the still-falling rain and snow.
Many of the native North American cultures insisted that, following birth, both mother and newborn child remain in seclusion, particularly away from all men, for a period of time ranging from a few days to as long as three months. The Nez Percé women in northern Idaho entered a special underground lodge two or three months before the baby was expected and remained for two weeks after the birth. For the most part, women in seclusion were well cared for. Life for them was hard, and rather than being chagrined at being excluded from the rest of the group, they no doubt welcomed a time of recuperation before returning to their strenuous daily duties.
In some of the Indian societies, a great deal of ritual accompanied each birth. The Hopi infant began life in a society where elaborate religious ceremonials dominated much of village life. Each new baby was immediately immersed in the rich, sacred traditions that would so fully shape its life experience. In the Hopi pueblos a young mother was often alone at the moment of birth, but as soon as the baby had slipped out of the birth canal onto the patch of warm sand, the newborn's maternal grandmother entered the room to sever and tie the cord and to make her daughter and new grandchild comfortable. After washing the baby she rubbed its body with ashes from the corner fireplace so that its skin would always be smooth and free of hair. Then she took the afterbirth and deposited it on a special placenta pile at the edge of the village.
Very soon the baby's paternal grandmother arrived and began to take up her duties as mistress of ceremonies for all the rituals that would be performed during the twenty-day lying-in period and for the culminating dedication of the baby to the sun. Her first task was to secure a heavy blanket over the door so that no sunlight could enter the room where the mother and baby lay. It was thought that light was harmful to newborn children, and so the baby began its life on earth in a room almost as dark as the womb from which it had just emerged.
For eighteen days the mother and baby lay at rest in the darkened room. Each day a mark was made on the wall above the baby's bed and a perfect ear of corn laid under each mark. On the nineteenth day the mother got up and spent the day grinding corn into sacred meal to be used in the special ceremony the next day.
On the next morning the new mother's female relatives arrived at her home well before dawn, dressed in their most colorful shawls and carrying gifts of cornmeal and perfect ears of corn. When all the guests had arrived the solemn ceremony for the dedication of a new life was begun. First the mother was ritually purified. Her hair and body were washed in suds made from the root of the yucca plant, and then she took a steambath by standing over a bowl of hot water. Next all the grandmothers and the aunts each took a turn at bathing the baby in yucca suds and giving it a name.
While all this was taking place inside the home, the father, who since the birth had been living in his religious society's kiva, or underground ceremonial chamber, was stationed on the flat roof of the stone house watching for the sun. When the sacred Sun Father began to appear, the father alerted the women, who hastily took the child to the edge of the mesa. The grandmother who carried the baby crouched low so that no light would fall on the infant. Then, as the sun appeared over the horizon, the grandmother lifted the baby, turning her tiny bundle so the rays fell directly on the little face. Taking a handful of prayer meal she sprinkled some over the baby while reciting a short prayer. She flung the rest of the meal over the edge of the mesa toward the sun. The baby, now a full member of the family, was taken home and allowed to nap while the rest of the family enjoyed a breakfast feast.
Zunis recognized the sex of a baby in a special ceremony performed soon after birth: the newborn female child had a gourd placed over her vulva so that her sexual parts would be large, and the penis of a baby boy was sprinkled with water so that his organs would be small. Of course this ceremony was performed by the women attending the new mother so it reflected the feminine ideal for the physical proportion of the sexual organs.
Because of the extremely high infant mortality rate among the early Native Americans, ceremonials were often delayed until the child was about a year old.
Among the Omaha a newborn child was not considered a member of the tribe or kin group but just another living being whose arrival into the universe should be announced so that it would have an accepted place in the life force that united all nature, both animate and inanimate. On the eighth day of the baby's life a small ritual was held, and a prayer was recited to the powers of the heavens, the air, and the earth for the safety of the child, who was pictured as about to travel the rugged road of life stretching over four hills, marking the stages of infancy, youth, adulthood, and old age.
When the baby had grown and was able to walk, another ritual was held, during which the child was finally recognized as a real human being and a member of the tribe. The baby was given a new name and a new pair of moccasins. These moccasins always had a little hole in them so if the Great Spirit called, the baby could say, "I can't travel now, my moccasins are worn out."
Prayer for Infants
Ho! Ye Sun, Moon, Stars, all ye that move in the heavens,
I bid you hear me!
Into your midst has come a new life.
Consent ye, I implore!
Make its path smooth, that it may reach the brow of the first hill!
Ho! Ye Winds, Clouds, Rain, Mist, all ye that move in the air,
I bid you hear me!
Into your midst has come a new life.
Consent ye, I implore!
Make its path smooth, that it may reach the brow of the second hill!
Ho! Ye Hills, Valleys, Rivers, Lakes, Trees, Grasses, all ye of the earth,
I bid you hear me!
Into your midst has come a new life.
Consent ye, I implore!
Make its path smooth, that it may reach the brow of the third hill.
Ho! Ye birds, great and small that dwell in the forest,
Ho! Ye insects that creep among the grasses and burrow in the ground,
Into your midst has come a new life.
Consent ye, I implore!
Make its path smooth that it may reach the brow of the fourth hill!
Ho! All ye of the heavens, alt ye of the air, all ye of the earth:
I bid all of you to hear me!
Into your midst has come a new life.
Consent ye, consent ye all, I implores!
Make its path smooth -- then shall it travel beyond the four hills.
The Omahas in eastern Nebraska believed that certain people had the gift of understanding the various sounds made by a baby, so when a little one cried persistently and could not be comforted, one of these persons was summoned. Sometimes the person decided that the child was crying because it did not like its name; in such case, the name would be changed.
For a modern mother the thought of raising an infant without access to a drugstore full of powders, lotions, and disposable diapers would be appalling, but for centuries North American Indian mothers managed to raise babies with only materials supplied by Mother Earth and reliance on certain magical rites.
Because all Indian mothers breast-fed their babies, it was necessary that their breasts and nipples be in good condition. On the Washington coast Lower Chinook women spent the time of their confinement rubbing their breasts with bear grease and heating them with hot rocks or steam, while in northeastern Washington, Salish mothers heaped their sore breasts with heated pine needles. There seems to have been a feeling among many Indian groups that the colostrum, the yellowish fluid that precedes the appearance of the milk, was not good for the baby, and in some cases the babies were not fed until the milk appeared. Cultures that imposed such restrictions on new mothers had to come up with some way to relieve the painful pressure that resulted. Yurok women on the coast of northern California made the period bearable by softening their breasts over the steam of water mixed with herbs, which caused the colostrum to flow out. Gros Ventre mothers usually had someone else draw out the "first milk" and spit it out, whereas if a woman was alone when the child was born she often had a puppy suck out the colostrum. A Gros Ventre woman said that when her own daughter delivered her firstborn, an old woman offered to draw off this "first milk," but the daughter refused; as a consequence, the daughter could give milk only from one breast.
In the story of her life, Delfina Cuero, a Diegueno Indian from the southern California coast, explained the natural means she used to care for a baby's navel.
So that the navel will heal quickly and come off in three days, I took two rounds of cord and tied it (the navel) and then put a clean rag on it. I burned a hot fire outside our hut to get hot dirt to wrap in a cloth. I put this on the navel and changed it all night and day to keep it warm until the navel healed. To keep the navel from getting infected I burned cow hide or any kind of skin till crisp, then ground it. I put this powder on the navel. I did this and no infection started in my babies. Some women didn't know this and if infection started I would help them to stop it this way.
Mothers powdered and oiled their babies with what was at hand. The Mandan, living on the northern Great Plains, pounded buffalo chips into a powder, warmed the powder with hot stones, and rubbed it on the baby's bottom, under its arms, between its legs, under its toes, and between its fingers. Mandan babies were also greased and painted with red ocher as a prevention against chafing. Down in the South, along the Mississippi River, Natchez babies were rubbed with bear grease
Excerpted from Daughters of the Earth by Carolyn Niethammer
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Very nice refurbishment, comfortable and staff attentive. Excellent food in the restaurant. Comfortable rooms although the top floor was a bit dark. Wedding party not a problem except 1am when stragglers caused too much noise in the street.
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Quality character hotel with sea outlookPosted 28-May-2014
The hotel has been handsomely refurbished and our (superior) room was lovely - very comfortable with a great sea view. It is actually in Tankerton so a ten minute walk into Whistable town centre but in a quiet residential area. The only criticisms we have is that the shower was far too powerful for one that is used in the bath and meant that it wouldn't stay on its holder on the wall and nearly knocked you out of the bath! The staff were a bit of a mixed bag too. The receptionist that checked us in had a slightly aggressive attitude and almost seemed a bit bossy. The waiter at breakfast was very pleasant and made us feel welcome. When we checked out, the receptionist (a different lady) didn't even ask us if we had enjoyed our stay when she had asked the previous couple checking out! Breakfast was good with an adequate buffet selection and fine choice of hot dishes but we and several other guests had to take it in the Orangery rather than in the restaurant due to a lack of free tables. This was rather inconvenient as we had to go back and forth between the restaurant and the Orangery with our buffet items and juices. All in all a pleasing experience but we expected a slightly higher standard of customer service from what we perceived to be a quality hotel and probably the best in town.
for Everyoneby christine from norwich
Sea viewPosted 18-May-2014
Pros: Everything was good
Cons: There were a lot of stairs to climb and I am 60. Seating for 2. People per room would improve the stay, my husband and I like to sit and read.
Location: We spent a lovely day wandering the harbour eating oysters , shopping lazy coffee stops, all very relaxing
A very relaxing atmosphere , staff on hand at all times , a lovely clean room with sea view, there was a telescope but it didn't work , there was also one chair to relax in, if there had been a two seater settee I would have given an excellent but as only one of us could sit and read this made a difference . The breakfast was excellent with a huge range to choose from, congratulations it made our stay fantastic .
for Everyoneby A verified traveller
Lovely hotel with sea viewPosted 06-May-2014
Lovely hotel with friendly staff. Worth getting a sea view and balcony . Nice to see a varied choice at breakfast and cooked to order rather than a buffet.
for Everyoneby Simon from Bucks
Great place to stay for Whitstable & Herne BayPosted 30-Apr-2014
Cons: One tiny critisism is that the bed could have been a tad harder. But that's a personal thing & being very picky...
Having been recently refurbed The Marine is in great condition. The Hotel, Staff & facilities were much better than we expected & the location, on Tankerton Slopes, is ideal for a brisk walk into Whitstable & a slightly brisker walk into Herne Bay along the sea front prom.
for Everyoneby A verified traveller
Good hotel, good locationPosted 25-Apr-2014
Pros: Very friendly staff, relaxed bar area, good breakfast, well furnished rooms, good value, good location
Cons: Shower was a bit cramped, one of the porthole mirrors had fallen off wall
A very enjoyable and relaxing stay Very friendly staff, relaxed bar area, good breakfast, well furnished rooms, good value, good location
for Everyoneby A verified traveller from Essex
A lovely birthday treat!Posted 21-Apr-2014
We stayed here last year for my birthday and decided to return this year. Its a nice clean hotel ideally located for a stroll into whitstable or for exploring the kent countryside and coast.


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One sounded promising. He was an attorney, the friend of a friend, interested in music and eating out. I could see him half a block from the restaurant; that was the last time he looked anywhere near as tall as I am.
The second was handsome, a good talker, a businessman who liked to build things, including a porch on his parents' cabin (sweet), and laughed when I asked if his deer hunting was catch-and-release. He didn't ask me out again.
The third called me "dude."
Lately, my dating life, for what it's worth, seems to have slipped into a series of lunch dates. Which is both good and bad.
When I was in my 20s, I went out on dates with guys who were funny, or cute, or even just brave enough to ask. Mostly it meant cocktails and dinner, or cocktails and dancing. Mostly it was fun.
It's different now.
Dating at my age can still be fun but, at times, overwhelming (seriously, how many text messages can one man send in a single day?) and, at times, disheartening when they don't call. (What did I do wrong this time? I swear I did not order an alcoholic beverage with the word "sex" in it, brag, or speak ill of an ex. I didn't talk endlessly about my kid, or forget to mention that I have one. I was attentive, and not sarcastic. OK, hardly at all.)
Does anyone think dating after the age of 40 is fun? I mean, really? Because let's face it, once you pass a certain age, the pool of candidates starts to drain faster than my dishwasher. (I've told my girlfriends that if any of them drop dead, I will move in on their husbands before any of the other vultures get their claws on them. After a respectable mourning period, of course.)
When I was younger, people said I was too picky. I suspect I'm even worse now. To date me, you also have to date my friends, my teenage son, his friends, his iPad, our dog, Indian food on Tuesday nights, NPR on the car radio, and weave your way into work, school and carpool schedules.
But lunch? Sure. Lunch is not fraught with nearly as many perils.
The key to a lunch date is to dress for work that day in a stylish way and pretend that's how I dress every day.
You get to meet at the restaurant, so there's no need to give him my home address in case he turns out to be a serial killer. Not that he could, because my co-workers Google him before I go.
You can only stretch out lunch for only two hours, max, even if it's going great. (Leave him wanting more, my dad used to say.) And if it's not going great, you have an easy way to end it.
Lunch is safe.
But maybe too safe? I mean, honestly, when is the last time you went on a lunch date, ordered an iced tea, and all of a sudden, the conversation started clicking, and the next thing you knew you were laughing so hard that you were late getting back to work and the waiter asked you to keep it down?
It's a date in the middle of the day. We're both coming from — and going back to — work. We're wearing sensible work attire, our phones are buzzing with e-mails and returned calls. We pick nervously at sensible spinach salads.
Not really what you'd call romantic.
Then again, there is something to be said about getting a look at a guy in the light of day, and sober. It's quiet, with no loud music (God, I'm old) drowning out what he says. This is good, because it means I don't have to admit that I think I might be losing my hearing.
And if things aren't going well, I can take a fake call from my editor telling me to get back to work.
Of course, so can he.
I know there are a trillion online dating sites, and everyone swears by them, but I am still meeting people the old-fashioned way — running into them in person, or through good friends.
Well, no longer through my friend John. He's been banned.
John set me up on a date with a particular Mr. Wonderful who disappeared into the bathroom when the check arrived and didn't emerge until I had paid it, worried that we would be late to the theater. En route, he enthralled me with his theory that God was an alien who came to Earth and wanted to help humans out but didn't have a lot of time, so he quickly put together the 10 Commandments and rocketed off again.
I didn't talk to John for three days afterward. (Yes, John, I'm still mad about it.)
I actually love meeting people, but as any single parent could tell you, dating tends to take a backseat to the job, the grocery shopping, running the kid from here to there, rated-PG movies, and barbecuing on the weekends with other families.
It sometimes seems more relaxing for me to stay home, pull on my pajama pants (that's hot, I know), eat sweet-potato fries from the toaster oven and watch old episodes of "The Big Bang Theory."
Even so, Valentine's Day is approaching, and press releases flood my
in-box — "Three Tips for the Perfect Valentine's Day," "Valentine's Day Gifts That Glitter!" — and an entire aisle in the grocery store is dedicated to pink and red cards, stuffed animals and balloons.
It's difficult to ignore.
I'm not worried about being lonely. I have a career I enjoy, a son I adore, and lots of good friends. But it would be fun to share things in life with someone, particularly now that my son is older and needs less of my time.
I want someone who is funny, and smart. Someone who is not so down on the world. Someone normal. (I don't mind some baggage, but I prefer it be carry-on size.)
He doesn't have to be George Clooney (although if George were interested, I wouldn't say no).
Karen, a co-worker, tells me that I don't pay close enough attention, barely even noticing the signs that someone might like me.
"He was checking you out," she tells me in the cafeteria at work.
I crane my neck to look. He was?
Other friends say that I'm so friendly and talkative that I don't notice when someone is flirting with me. That could be true, too.
I am flirting with someone right now, though I'm not sure he's noticed. Maybe I'm out of practice. But maybe I'll send him a Valentine's Day card, see if he's available.
I am. At least for lunch.


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Growing seedlings indoors seems almost like a race.
Of course, it has a staggered start, with onions already growing strongly and tomatoes not yet sown.
Watering these seedlings is crucial: Timely watering keeps them chugging along apace; two or three days of neglect could spell death.
A simple way to automatically water seedlings is to rely on the soil to draw water up from below by capillary action.
Soil watered by capillary action stays constantly moist, rather than swinging between the extremes of having plant roots cry out for air and then for water.
Capillary system
Capillary watering itself is nothing new. For years, capillary matting – a thick, water-absorbent fabric that does not rot – has been available, mostly to commercial greenhouse growers. The idea is to let one end of the fabric dip down into a water reservoir while the remainder rests flat on a horizontal surface. Pots of plants sit on the flat mat. If the pots likewise have flat bottoms and the soil within is right up against the bottom of the pots, then a capillary water connection is established throughout. As plants drink in water, it is replenished by water drawn up from the mat which is, in turn, drawn up from the reservoir.
These capillary-watering seed starters are nifty setups that make it convenient to raise seedlings in your home. A small plastic pan holds water.
Into the pan fits a Styrofoam or plastic table on which sits the mat, with one end dipping into the water. A multi-celled Styrofoam or plastic planting tray sits atop the mat. The whole setup is about the size of a three-ring notebook, or half that, depending on the number and size of the cells.
A few other features round out these systems. A clear plastic cover maintains humidity while seeds are germinating, then tucks neatly out of the way under the reservoir.
Cautionary notes
Capillary watering does have drawbacks. Water evaporating at the surface of the soil leaves fertilizer salt residues. These residues can accumulate in the soil and draw water out of the roots. Seedlings generally do not spend enough time in containers to bring on this problem, especially when care is taken not to over-fertilize. If necessary, occasional watering from above will wash the salts down and out of the soil.
Another problem is that of seedling roots growing out through the bottom of their cells and into the matting. Then plants become difficult to remove from their cells and lose too many roots when they are finally ripped away.
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South Indies
South Indies, as the name suggests, does south Indian food, all vegetarian. Be prepared to be surprised.
The left of Koshy's is the heart of the restaurant, serving very decent snacks and meals, coffee and beer.
Café Pascucci
Café Pascucci (Tel 91 80 40912134) is a convenient stop for sandwiches, burgers and coffees.
Empire on Church Street, is a favorite for chicken dosas.
South Indies
South Indies, as the name suggests, does south Indian food, all vegetarian. Be prepared to be surprised.
Coconut Grove
Coconut Grove (Tel 91 80 25596149) specialises in Kerala dishes: try the wafer-thin appams with a fish or mutton stew.
Koshy's is a city institution: The air-conditioned half on the right serves food that's a throwback to an earlier era.
Olive Beach
Frequently voted the best standalone restaurant in the city, Olive Beach serves excellent Mediterranean food.
Karavalli, set in a faux Mangalorean house at the Gateway Hotel, draws from the culinary gems of the four southern states to present a menu that makes it hard to make up your mind.
If you miss north Indian food, head to Samarkand for a smorgasbord of kebabs and curries.
A short walk from the stadium, the Chancery (from Rs 5000 for early birds) is a well-equipped hotel that's complete value for money.
Hotel Empire
Hotel Empire (from Rs 1530) on Infantry Road has all the basic facilities and the bonus of an excellent location.
Woodlands Hotel (from Rs 1600) on Richmond Circle is another well-connected option.
Hotel Nandhini
A cheaper option is Hotel Nandhini (from Rs 2100) on St Mark's Road.
I145 (from Rs 4250) is well located for the stadium, economical and stylish.
A short walk from the stadium, the Chancery (from Rs 5000 for early birds) is a well-equipped hotel that's complete value for money.
Museum Inn
Museum Inn (from Rs 3000), with comfortable rooms and earnest service, is very close to the stadium.
The Oberoi
Right down the road from the stadium is The Oberoi Bangalore (from Rs 10,000), a five-star hotel with all the trappings and 2.8acres of gardens.
ITC Gardenia
The newest five-star hotel in town is the ITC Gardenia (from Rs 13,000), an architectural marvel with superb restaurants.
The Park
Round the corner from the Oberoi is The Park (from Rs 8600), a boutique hotel with cosy rooms and excellent service.
Plan B
Plan B (Tel 91 9739902745) has a friendly atmosphere and lots of choice in short eats.
Pecos (Tel 91 80 25586047), a long-time favourite with beer-drinkers, plays classic rock.
Plan B
Plan B (Tel 91 9739902745) has a friendly atmosphere and lots of choice in short eats.
13th Floor
The 13th Floor cocktail lounge (Tel 91 80 41783333), as the name suggests, lets its magnificent view set the tone for a night of partying.
Windsor Pub
Windsor Pub (Tel 91 80 22258847) has a great vibe, super food and serves only beer.
City Bar
City Bar, at the UB City Mall (Tel 91 80 42773636) has great drinks and a cool atmosphere.
I-bar at the Park Hotel hosts theme nights that are very popular with the city's happening set.
Café Mondegar
Mondegar's nightly traveller-based crowd is as 'colourful' as the wall caricatures by a famous Goan artist, but that could be our beer-goggle glasses talking. Expect to shout your draught beer (around Rs85) orders over the popular, non-stop CD jukebox.
Maratha forts
There are plenty of forts of the Peshwa era - almost all of them ruled by Shivaji - close to Pune. Sinhagad is less than an hour's drive away, and is the most popular destination. Shaniwar Wada, which was the seat of the Peshwas in the 18th and the 19th ...More details
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Australia take on South Africa this summer in the KFC T20 INTL Series with matches in Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney.
Mitchell Johnson holds the record for the most wickets (37) in an Ashes series by a left-arm quick.
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Northeastern lichens may yield drug against breast cancer
Abundant in the lush hills of northeast India, a variety of plant-like organisms called lichens may hold the key to a potential drug against breast cancer that affects one in 28 women in India, according to a discovery by scientists here.
Attached to rocks and tree trunks and seen on the ground, these dual organisms are made up of a symbiotic association of fungus and alga and are known reservoirs of dyes and drugs.
India is home to more than 2,400 species of lichens - also included in the lower plants category along with mosses and ferns - or almost 16 percent of its global distribution.
Now, a team of five scientists at the Kolkata-based Bose Institute's Division of Molecular Medicine have shown that an extract of the tropical lichen species Parmotrema reticulatum (PRME) can "specifically" halt duplication of cancerous cells and trigger their death without harming normal cells.
Their medicinal properties have been attributed to the active compounds generated as a result of their mutually beneficial relationship, said Nripendranath Mandal, Associate Professor of the Division and leader of the research group involved in the study.
"The 70 percent methanolic extract PRME which we used possesses significant anti-cancer activity against breast cancer cells in the laboratory, that is, in vitro. We have also demonstrated the mechanism through which it acts. Further studies need to be carried out in vivo (biological systems) to develop it as a drug," Mandal told IANS.
The study was done in collaboration with Jayashree Rout of the Department of Ecology and Environmental Science at Silchar's Assam University.
The group was also able to point out the extract's targeted effect.
Nripendranath Mandal (left) and his team at Kolkata-based Bose Institute's Division of Molecular Medicine that is working on a new drug against breast cancer
"At a dose of 300 micro-grams per millilitre, in 48 hours it exhibited 87 percent killing effect on cancer cells. However, it did not damage the normal cells," Mandal said.
What is more intriguing is the fact that this selective destruction of cancer cells (a crucial requirement to minimise the side effects of chemotherapy) stems from a synergy of the constituents in the PRME. Used individually, the active components lost their specificity.
"When the components of the extract were applied individually, the specificity towards cancer cells was lost and the constituents attacked normal cells as well," elaborated research scholar Nikhil Baban Ghate, who was a part of the research group.
Additionally, it also scavenged degenerative elements (an action termed antioxidant) called free radicals that are produced in the body during cancer and other diseases.
These outcomes reflect the involvement of different pathways in PRME's mechanism of action as an anti-cancer agent, along with its ability to interfere in disease progress - a critical find.
"Since the onset of cancer is multi-faceted, such multi-pronged approach of natural products could be the best way to tackle the disease," said Mandal, whose group has screened as many as 35 plants and herbs for anti-cancer and chemo-preventive effects.
Welcoming the discovery, Gopal Prasad Sinha, an authority on lichens in the country, said bio-prospecting or the search and screening of plants for novel drugs should be boosted.
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Ash Wednesday Is A Time For Housecleaning
Sermon shared by Peter Schmidt
February 2004
Summary: This is a 2-part sermon for Ash Wednesay based on Joel. This was used in a service with the imposition of ashes, a worship service which stressed repentance. The 2 parts are: The Sinner Repents, The Lord Relents.
Scripture: Joel 2:12-2:19 Joel 2:12-2:12 (add scripture)
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Denomination: Lutheran
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Ash Wednesday
Joel 2:12-19
Let�s suppose that after we left church this evening, we locked up the doors, and none of us came back until 5 years later. Not a single person set foot on this very property until Ash Wednesday, 2009. When we do come back, what would our church look like after 5 years of no upkeep? The grass would be waist-high. The hedges would be overgrown and uneven. Our church sign would be full of 5 years worth of bugs. And the nice white exterior of our building would have ugly mildew patches all over it. The mailbox would be so full of letters and bills that the mailman stopped trying to fill it ages ago. And because none of those bills had been paid, the electricity would be off and the entire property would be dark. In short, there would be a lot of cleaning up to do.
That gives you a good idea of the state of Temple in Jerusalem when the prophet Joel was young. Centuries of misuse and disuse had caused Solomon�s once magnificent structure to look more like a building in the slums than in the upscale section of Jerusalem. But then there was a turnaround. In Chronicles we read about how this dilapidated building was clean up and refurbished. And after this remodeling took place, the offerings and sacrifices were restored and Temple life returned to normal. Well, almost.
Joel wrote the words of our text because there was still a problem. The turnaround wasn�t complete. Everything looked good on the outside, but there really hadn�t been much of an internal change with these people. God wasn�t looking for an outer change as much as he was looking for an inner one.
It�s the same for us as we gather tonight on Ash Wednesday. God is looking for repentance from you, a change. He doesn�t just want you to say all the right words while you are here tonight, and he isn�t interested in giving you an assignment list of duties to work on when you get home. Outward actions are nice, but if there is no inward change, it�s really all for naught.
Part I
That neglected building that we talked about a minute ago, that church that no one took care of for the past 5 years, is you. If you were to take an honest look at your life, what do you see: more good, or more bad? Or think of it this way: can you say that during this past year, you have been more interested in the things of God vs the things of this world? In just this past week, can you honestly say that the Lord has always taken first place in your heart, or has he sort of slipped through the cracks as other priorities crowded God out? Perhaps it is your means of income, maybe it�s spending time with friends, maybe it�s the television or the computer, maybe it is simply �me� time. We sure are good at scheduling things that bring us happiness�and making sure that we keep those appointments. But have you been so busy taking care of the other matters of your life, to the neglect of the church inside of you? Is that building strong, well-kept, and beautiful? Or do you see instances where you have let the lawn become overgrown, when you saw that repairs to the structure needed to be made, but you put it off until later? Sometimes, we lock the doors of our hearts, and just expect that our faith will remain intact, and so we can take a little vacation from working hard on our Christian lives, and when we come back, everything will be fine.
Tonight, we go to God�s Word
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Virginia Popethis sermon was very helpful the subject is what caught my attention i intend in use it on sunday
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Including authors such as Clifford Simak, Harry Harrison, Bruce Sterling, A. E. Van Vogt and Brian Aldiss himself, these stories portray struggles against machines, epic journeys, genetic experiments, time travellers and alien races. From stories set on Earth, to uncanny far distant worlds and ancient burnt-out suns, the one constant is humanity itself, compelled by an often fatal curiosity to explore the boundless frontiers of time, space and probability.
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A general to Justinian the Great, he worked wonders against the Persians, suppressed the Nika revolt, and in North Africa he recaptured Carthage from the Vandals. He was the last to receive a Roman Triumph [for said action in Carthage], not to mention being one of the last men to receive the office of Consul.
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(When studying The Brotherhood last year I was taken with how beautiful Elizabeth Siddal was, and can certainly see why The Brotherhood were keen to keep her around.)
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After allowing my younger brother to use it the thing had problems loading, slow, drivers messed up etc. I decided to REPAIR using the disk that was given with the machine. Inserted, followed directions etc and went for a cup of tea.
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Rebooted using the Windows 7 disk (original) and decided I'll do a clean install. However after giving my region and keyboard setting it stays stuck on "setup is starting..." it's been almost 1 hour and the screen hasn't changed.
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June 21, 2013 | By Jheiyapark
We spent hundreds of dollars with a veterinary skin specialist to no avail. Our Cat scratched out every hair he could get to. He was hairless except for what was left on his head. One day we were in f… more ›