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The Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos is another masterpiece produced by Blizzard.
It's just an outstanding game, filled with all the charm, all the detail, and all the lasting appeal that characterizes all of the finest games ever made.
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos needs little introduction, and neither does Blizzard, the company that created it. The worldwide July 3 release of Warcraft III, which shipped about 5 million copies in its first run, seems like a suitably momentous occasion, given that the game itself is both so highly anticipated and has been such a long time in the making. Considering that many have long since preordered the game and that the remaining copies are likely to fly off the shelves, giving a critique of Warcraft III almost seems like a moot point. It's like trying to convince someone whether or not to go see a movie like Star Wars: Episode II. Fortunately for those who intend to play it no matter what anyone says, they'll find their time with Warcraft III to be very well spent. Sure, Warcraft III isn't a revolutionary departure from the conventions of real-time strategy gaming. But it's as good of an offering in the genre as there's ever been, featuring a superb story, carefully refined gameplay, plenty of depth, the best online multiplayer mode in any real-time strategy game to date, and the excellent production values you'd expect from a Blizzard product. So if you're looking for some validation to go with your preorder, there you have it.
On the other hand, if you're looking to inform yourself about what's great and what's not quite as great about Warcraft III, read on. As the sequel to one of the undisputed classics of PC gaming, Warcraft III has some very big shoes to fill. The previous Warcraft game, together with Westwood Studios' Command & Conquer, popularized the real-time strategy genre and introduced a number of ideas that remain conventional to this day. And Starcraft, the follow-up to Warcraft II, was an even more phenomenal success. Talk about staying power: Though Starcraft was released back in 1998, a lot of people still play it. Can Warcraft III truly live up to this heritage? Yes. It has everything that made both Starcraft and Warcraft II before it the blockbuster hits that they quickly became. Warcraft III has lots of great characters, and its fantasy-themed world has tons of personality. It's got fine-tuned, well-balanced gameplay, it's got a quick pace, it's got some new gameplay twists that should surprise even the most hard-core real-time strategy gamers, and it's simply a lot of fun. For good measure, it ships with the powerful Warcraft III world editor utility, allowing devout Warcraft III players to build their own maps and scenarios, thus greatly extending the life of the game for themselves and for others.
Make no mistake: Warcraft III is a real-time strategy game. Originally announced back in 1999 as a hybrid strategic role-playing game, over the course of its development, Warcraft III shed many of its role-playing pretensions and became what by all means is a true sequel to its predecessor. The game relies on many of the real-time strategy conventions you're probably familiar with by now. The goal of a typical skirmish is to start gathering resources (gold and wood), build up a base, build up a force of various units, and use that force to destroy the enemy's base and to repel any attacks against your position. You control the action primarily with a mouse by clicking on individual units and buildings or dragging boxes around groups of them, and you can also use predefined keyboard hotkeys to quickly perform some actions. So Warcraft III doesn't reinvent the wheel.
What it does is let you play as four different, uniquely appealing factions. The human alliance, which comprises elves, dwarves, and humans, returns from the previous Warcraft games, as does the orcish horde, consisting of the brutal green-skinned orcs, the trolls (their wicked cousins), and a minotaurlike breed called the tauren. The entirely new playable factions include the undead scourge, a mix of evil human occultists and their nefarious zombie creations; and the night elf sentinels, a purple-skinned race of warrior druids. The game reduces the scale of the typical real-time strategy battle, putting you in charge of a relatively small number of powerful units rather than countless weaker ones. Warcraft III also lets you recruit hero characters who start out strong and soon grow even mightier as they gain experience from battle. Hero characters aren't just powerful in their own right--they can often bolster the abilities of nearby units, making them an essential component of any Warcraft III army. Furthermore, Warcraft III's colorful maps tend to be populated by plenty of dangerous denizens, together with your main opponents. These creatures can bar passage to key strategic locations, and defeating them earns your hero character much-needed experience, as well as some valuable artifacts.
Warcraft III adds some much-needed variety to the traditionally slow early stages of a real-time strategy battle. Typically, the initial build-up period in such games is merely a race to get to the best units first. That's somewhat true of Warcraft III, but at least you're not just going through the paces while you construct your base. Instead, in a typical match against the computer or other players, you need to quickly assemble a small force for your hero and get out there and start exploring and fighting, because experienced heroes are far more powerful than inexperienced ones. Exploring the territory and battling miscellaneous monsters makes the early game plenty interesting in Warcraft III, especially since you need to keep checking on your base. Even choosing your starting hero makes for a significant early decision, as each faction has three available--typically some sort of pure fighter (like the samurai-like orc blademaster), a support fighter (like the human paladin), and a caster (like the undead lich). Later, you can have all three of your faction's heroes out in the field simultaneously--however, only your first one is free. All heroes gain up to four unique special abilities as they gain experience levels, which can turn the tide of a battle when used correctly. Every hero type is different, viable, and deadly, so even learning which ones your opponents have selected is important, giving you yet another reason to quickly try to scout out enemy encampments.
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Every year at the beginning of November, Ménigoute brings together wildlife cinema lovers, wildlife artists and a very large public around Nature celebration. During this 6 days event, about 40 wildlife documentaries are screened before a very large audience. People can also meet the nature conservation associations in the "Nature forum", participate in debates around environmental issues, or have day-time or half day trips in high interest's ornithological sites. Activities are specially organized for children too... The film festival, now at the very heart of these meetings, is considered as a national and even more significant event where associations come to meet a general public, local and public authorities open to engage in dialogue around environmental issues. The Ménigoute Festival objective is double : enlighten and promote initiatives for a better knowledge of nature and of its best management, respectful of the environment ; to be a reference in terms of dialogue whenever environmental policies are concerned. With the passing years, Ménigoute became the indispensable event, bringing together wildlife film makers and their fellow citizen in the awareness of the necessary nature conservation. You are a Wildlife filmmaker, The selection is about to be closed for this year's Festival. Should you require information in order to apply in 2013, please see the regulations : Submit a movie. |


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FORMER Argentine president Carlos Menem has been convicted of orchestrating arms smuggling while in office.
The Appeals Court on Friday issued a guilty verdict against the 82-year-old Menem, who ruled from 1989 to 1999, for the smuggling of 6500 tonnes of weapons and ammunition to Croatia and Ecuador.
His then defence minister, Oscar Camilion, was also convicted.
Menem was initially acquitted of the charges in 2011 along with more than a dozen other defendants, but prosecutors appealed.
The appeals court convicted Menem of "aggravated smuggling", which carries a sentence of four to 12 years in jail.
Menem is now a senator and thus in theory has immunity from imprisonment. But he could be incarcerated after his term ends in 2014, or if he is stripped of this legal shield.
Weapons were sent to Croatia in seven shipments aboard freighters between 1991 and 1995. At the time much of the Balkans was under a UN arms embargo following the break up of Yugoslavia.
More arms were sent to Ecuador aboard three flights in February 1995.
At the time, Ecuador was engaged in a border war with Peru, and Argentina was banned from selling weapons to either side as one of the guarantors of a peace agreement the two nations signed ending an earlier war in 1942.
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Marko Jaric isn't the only member of his family trying to make a comeback.
"My wife is now in her own training camp because she needs to get ready for a Victoria's Secret shoot," Jaric said after Saturday's practice.
That would be Brazilian model Adriana Lima, who gave birth to the couple's second daughter last month. What's it like to be married to one of the most recognizable faces in fashion?
"We are a very down-to-earth, normal family," Jaric said. "None of us try to draw attention to our family. We don't try to live the celebrity life. We really don't care. We're a very ordinary family."
This nondescript approach nicely mirrors Jaric's workmanlike career. After winning back-to-back Italian League championships in 2000 and 2001, Jaric spent seven seasons in the NBA with the Clippers, Timberwolves and Grizzlies.
Now, five days shy of his 34th birthday, Jaric is trying to return to the NBA after three seasons spent playing with Spain's Real Madrid and Italy's Montepaschi Siena. He took a buyout from the Grizzlies before the 2009-10 season because he wanted to return to winning programs overseas.
"Unfortunately in the NBA, I ended up being in situations where I didn't make the playoffs one time," Jaric said. "Don't get me wrong: I take fault for that. I'm not blaming organizations or teammates. But when I came to the NBA, I had only played for really, really good teams internationally.
"That's why I'm very thankful and fortunate to be here. This is something I've been hoping for. This is a winning team and an organization with great history."
There's no guarantee Jaric will stick. The Bulls can't sign a 14th player until late November, when the prorated amount of the veteran's minimum salary fits under their hard salary cap of $74.307 million. But the 6-foot-7 Jaric brings backcourt size, a solid floor game and defensive toughness.
"Obviously, I have a lot to prove after three years out of the league and about to turn 34," Jaric said. "But I feel great, confident. I know that I can definitely help a team."
Jaric turned down offers to stay overseas when Lima's pregnancy limited her travel. The couple has homes in Miami and New York, and Jaric currently is living in a hotel near the Berto Center during training camp.
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When Samer Sabry was interviewed for the television program Saaet Safa, he spoke about dancing with Samia Gamal in 1985 in his hotel show. This Arabic article that talks about that interview appears on the web site "Saudi Liberal". It was published March 8, 2010. http://www.libvoice.net/articles/view/thread/id/9075
We often hear stories about the financial difficulties of the artists of the previous generation, the generation of black and white films and their urgent need for money after the spotlights dimmed, after they stepped away from acting and singing. Some of them even requested the Sadat pension which was less than 100 pounds, in order to make ends meet. [Translator's note: The Sadat Pension was a decision by President Sadat designed to give financial assistance to the elderly who had no income.] The falling of some artists into this situation raised several questions about the lack of solidarity and support from younger artitsts.
The artist Samer Sabry, known for his love and continued quest to help the older generation of the art world, anwered these questions on the program Saaet Safa hosted by the artist Safa About el Se3oud on the television channel Art Aflam 2. He confirmed that he found out that Samia was going through financial difficulties after her divorce from actor Rushdie Abaza, resulting in her inability to provide for herself and her family consisting of her sister and her sister's five children. He suggested to her that she do a raqs sharqi show segment with him [in his show]. This was when she was in her 60's in 1985, in a hotel, for the amount of 2,000 pounds. This segment successfully attracted many Egyptians and Arabs.
Sabry also explained that he called the artist Abdel Aziz Mahmoud to participate with them in these segments for 300 pounds, even though he had earned 1,000 Egyptian pounds per party in 1948, and he agreed immediately because he needed the money. It was the same with the artist Ragaa Abdou who had acted alongside Mohamed Abdul Wahab and had performed a duet with him, and it was the same with artist Soad Mekawy as well.
ABOUT THE PHOTO: This is a still from a dance scene in Samia Gamal's 1955 motion picture, Sigarah wa Kas (A Glass and a Cigarette).
Regarding his show troupe, Sabry explained that he was the first to hire Russian dancers and he was slammed for that and for leaving out Egyptian dancers. He stated that he was forced to do this out of despair at the ambition of the Egyptian dancers and the desire they all had to become Farida Fahmy or Taheya Carioca. In addition to this they did little exercise and ate a lot in comparison to the Russians.
Dina started out as a sha'abi dancer in his troupe and he liked her dancing. In those days she was a college student, but she accepted an offer from the hotel where they worked to perform as a solo raqs sharqi dancer so she left his troupe.
Regarding Mr. Sabry's love of singing and performing, he explained saying that his father was the secretary of the Army Officer's Club in Zamalek and was the one responsible for organizing parties so he grew up hearing the music and attending the concerts of top artists such as Oum Kulthoum and Mohamed Abdel Wahab. He also went to the cinema with his family, as it was the entertainment of the Egyptian family.
About his distinguished performances in foreign languages, he said learned English from his studies at a foreign school. He translated the films he saw at the cinema into English and that helped him to improve his language skills. But the secret to his learning the Italian language was that it was the language of the daughter of a neighbor and he learned it so that he could talk to her.
ABOUT THE PHOTO: This is Dina.
These follow-up comments were made by an Egyptian who remembers when this show was advertised and people were talking about it.
Yes I remember those days of the shows of Samer and Samia together. It was in a hotel, either the Sheraton or Movenpick, I can't remember which one.
I remember there were many advertisements and news stories about this event, and I remember people had different views about this event before the show opened.
Some of the comments people made:
But I remember too that after this show opened and people saw it, most people liked it and began to say, "This is the real beautiful dance."
As Samer said in the article, the show successfully attracted Egyptians and Arabs to go to this hotel and watch it. Advertisements about it appeared in the newspapers and magazines in those times, and people begain to ask each other, "Did you go to see Samia dancing?"
She danced many times, not just once. The show in fact ran for months, but I can't remember exactly how long.
About Samer Troupe, I saw them live in a wedding reception of one of my friends. I remember it was in Movenpick Hotel and they hired Samer Troupe to perform in this party. His troupe had men and women. He sang and they performed around and behind him.
The men I remember were all Egyptians. The female dancers, as Samer said in the interview, were mainly Russians, but there were also some Egyptian women in his troupe. In fact, when he performed with the dancers behind him, the Russians appeared more perfect. I mean that when they danced the show choreography and not belly dance, the Russians danced with more precision than the Egyptians, doing the same movements perfectly together at the same time. But when Samer let them to begin to dance raqs sharqi in between the guests that were at the party and in between tables, asa well as on the tables, every dancer on a table, the Egyptians were dancing the raqs sharqi more perfectly.
Samer Troupe was famous. Many people hired him to entertain at their wedding celebrations. It was well known that bringing Samer Sabre Troupe to a wedding reception will make everyone happy, make them dance, and put them in a very good mood.
Priscilla is a dancer of Lebanese heritage who enjoys researching the Golden Era of Egyptian dance. She owns a collection of more than one hundred classic black and white Egyptian films which is continually expanding.
Priscilla has also gathered a large library of dance related articles and clippings from Middle Eastern magazines and newspapers, many of which she has translated from the original Arabic to both English and Spanish.
Priscilla currently resides in Central America where she is a dance instructor.
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Magdalene asylum
Magdalene asylums were slave labor laundries from the 18th to the late-20th centuries ostensibly to house "fallen women", a term used to imply female sexual promiscuity. Asylums for such girls and women and others believed to be of poor moral character, such as prostitutes, operated throughout Europe and North America for much of the nineteenth and well into the twentieth century. London's Magdalen Asylum was active from 1758 to 1966.[1] The first such asylum in Ireland opened on Leeson Street in Dublin in 1765, founded by Lady Arabella Denny.
Initially the mission of the asylums was to rehabilitate women back into society, but by the early twentieth century the homes had become increasingly punitive and prison-like. In most asylums, the inmates were required to undertake hard physical labour, including laundry and needle work. They endured a daily regimen that included long periods of prayer and enforced silence.[2]
In Ireland, such asylums were known as Magdalene laundries where it is estimated that, since their inception, up to 30,000 women had been incarcerated.[3][4] The last such institution in Ireland closed in 1996.[4][5][6]
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The Dublin Magdalen Asylum in lower Leeson Street was the first such institution in Ireland. Founded in 1765 by Lady Arabella Denny,[7] it admitted only Protestant girls.[8] In 1918 the home became a children's home and adoption society.[9] After its closure, the Bethany Home, founded in 1921, provided similar refuge services for Protestant "fallen women".[citation needed] The first Catholic home was founded in Cork in 1809.[9]
In Belfast the Church of Ireland run Ulster Magdalene Asylum was founded in 1839 on Donegall Pass, while parallel institutions were run by Catholics on Ormeau Road and by Presbyterians on Whitehall Parade.[10]
Magdalene asylums grew out of the Evangelical rescue movement in the United Kingdom during the nineteenth century, whose formal goal was to rehabilitate prostitutes. In Ireland, the institutions were named for St. Mary Magdalene.[4]
The Magdalene movement in Ireland was appropriated by the Catholic Church following Catholic Emancipation in 1829 and the homes, which were initially intended to be short-term refuges, increasingly turned into long-term institutions.[citation needed] Penitents were required to work, primarily in laundries, since the facilities were self-supporting and not funded by the state or religious denominations.
As the Magdalene movement became increasingly distant from the original idea of the rescue movement—finding alternative work for prostitutes who could not find regular employment because of their background—the asylums became increasingly prison-like. Supervising nuns were instructed to encourage the women into penance, rather than merely berating them and blocking their escape attempts.
The Congregation of the Sisters of Misericorde is described by the Catholic Encyclopedia: "In receiving patients no discrimination is made in regard to religion, colour, or nationality. After their convalescence, those who desire to remain in the home are placed under a special sister and are known as "Daughters of St. Margaret". They follow a certain rule of life but contract no religious obligations. Should they desire to remain in the convent, after a period of probation, they are allowed to become Magdalens and eventually make the vows of the Magdalen order. The congregation celebrated its fiftieth anniversary 16 January 1898."[11]
Conditions [edit]
Asylum records show that in the early history of the Magdalene movement, many women entered and left the institutions of their own accord, sometimes repeatedly. Lu Ann De Cunzo wrote in her book, Reform, Respite, Ritual: An Archaeology of Institutions; The Magdalene Society of Philadelphia, 1800-1850,[12] that the women in Philadelphia's asylum "sought a refuge and a respite from disease, the prison or almshouse, unhappy family situations, abusive men and dire economic circumstances." Though the institutions were meant to be a refuge for women, some were subjected to physical, psychological, sexual and emotional abuse. Many women felt they needed the support of the institutions to survive, since the sisters strove to make them feel that the reasons for their refuge were their own fault.
According to historian, Frances Finnegan, because many had a background as prostitutes, inmates (who were called "children") were regarded as "in need of penitence," and until the 1970s were required to address all staff members as "mother" regardless of age. To enforce order and maintain a monastic atmosphere, the inmates were required to observe strict silence for much of the day, while corporal punishment was common.[page needed]
As the phenomenon became more widespread, it extended beyond prostitution to unmarried mothers, mentally retarded women and abused girls. Even young girls who were considered too promiscuous and flirtatious, or too beautiful, were sent to an asylum by their families. This paralleled the practice in state-run asylums in Britain and Ireland in the same period, where many people with alleged "social dysfunction" were committed to asylums. Without a family member on the outside who could vouch for them, many incarcerated individuals stayed in the asylums for the rest of their lives, many taking religious vows.
Given Ireland's historically conservative sexual values, Magdalene asylums were a generally accepted social institution until well into the second half of the twentieth century. They disappeared with changes in sexual mores—or, as Finnegan suggests, as they ceased to be profitable: "Possibly the advent of the washing machine has been as instrumental in closing these laundries as have changing attitudes."[13]
Public scandal [edit]
Publicity and documentaries [edit]
The existence of the Irish asylums was not well known until 1993 when an order of nuns, Sisters of Our Lady of Charity, in Dublin sold part of their convent to a real-estate developer.[4] The remains of 155 inmates who had been buried in unmarked graves on the property were exhumed and, except for one, cremated and reburied in a mass grave in Glasnevin Cemetery. This triggered a public scandal and became national news.[4] In 1999, Mary Norris, Josephine McCarthy and Mary-Jo McDonagh, all asylum inmates, gave accounts of their treatment. The 1997 Channel 4 documentary Sex in a Cold Climate interviewed former inmates of Magdalene Asylums who testified to continued sexual, psychological and physical abuse while being isolated from the outside world for an indefinite amount of time. Allegations about the conditions in the convents and the treatment of the inmates were made into an award-winning 2002 film The Magdalene Sisters, written and directed by Peter Mullan.[14]
In June 2011, Mary Raftery wrote in the The Irish Times that in the early 1940s, some Irish state institutions, such as the army, switched from commercial laundries to "institutional laundries" (Magdalene laundries).[15] At the time, there was concern in the Dáil that workers in commercial laundries were losing jobs because of the switch to institutional laundries.[15] Oscar Traynor, Minister for Defence, said the contracts with the Magdalene laundries "contain a fair wages clause," though the women in those laundries did not receive wages.[15]
The Irish Times revealed that a ledger listed Áras an Uachtaráin, Guinness, Clerys, the Gaiety Theatre, Dr Steevens' Hospital, the Bank of Ireland, the Department of Defence, the Departments of Agriculture and Fisheries, CIÉ, Portmarnock Golf Club, Clontarf Golf Club and several leading hotels amongst those who used a Magdalene laundry.[16] This was unearthed by Steven O' Riordan, a young Irish filmmaker who directed and produced a documentary, The Forgotten Maggies.[17] It is the only Irish-made documentary on the subject and was launched at The Galway Film Fleadh 2009.[17] It was screened on the Irish television station TG4 in 2011, attracting over 360,000 viewers. The documentary's website notes that a group called Magdalene Survivors Together was set up after the release of the documentary, because so many Magdalene women came forward after its airing. The women who appeared in the documentary were the first Magdalene women to meet with Irish government officials. They brought national and international attention to the subject.[citation needed]
Inquiry into child abuse [edit]
In May 2009, the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse released a 2,000-page report recording claims from hundreds of Irish residents that they were physically, sexually, or emotionally abused as children between the 1930s and the 1990s in a network of state-administered and church-run residential schools meant to care for the poor, the vulnerable and the unwanted.[18] The alleged abuse was by nuns, priests and non-clerical staff and helpers.[19] The allegations of abuse cover many Catholic (Magdalene), Protestant (Bethany) and State-run Irish Industrial schools.
The commission stated:
There were two types of inquiry, one drawing on contested evidence (Investigation Committee) and the other on uncontested evidence (Confidential Committee), which reported to the commission. The commission received evidence from more than 1,500 witnesses who attended or were residents as children in schools and care facilities in the state, particularly industrial and reformatory schools.[20]
Since 2001, the Irish government has acknowledged that women in the Magdalene laundries were victims of abuse. However, the Irish government has resisted calls for investigation and proposals for compensation; it maintains the laundries were privately run and abuses at the laundries are outside the government's remit.[4] In contrast to these claims, evidence exists that Irish courts routinely sent women convicted of petty crimes to the laundries, the government awarded lucrative contracts to the laundries without any insistence on protection and fair treatment of their workers, and Irish state employees helped keep laundry facilities stocked with workers by bringing women to work there and returning escaped workers.[4]
Notwithstanding the investigations instigated by the government in the Republic of Ireland, similar investigations have yet to be instigated in Northern Ireland and worldwide.
International law [edit]
Having lobbied the government of Ireland for two years to investigate the history of the Magdalene laundries, advocacy group Justice for Magdalenes presented its case to the United Nations Committee Against Torture,[4] alleging that the conditions within the Magdalene laundries and the exploitation of their labourers amounted to human-rights violations.[4] On 6 June 2011, the panel urged Ireland to "investigate allegations that for decades women and girls sent to work in Catholic laundries were tortured." [21][22] In response the Irish government set up a committee chaired by Senator Martin McAleese, to establish the facts of the Irish state's involvement with the Magdalene laundries.[23]
2013 publication of inquiry report [edit]
Following the 18-month inquiry, the committee published[24][25][26] its report on 5 February 2013, finding "significant" state collusion in the admission of thousands of women into the institutions.[27][28][29][30] Elderly survivors said they would go on hunger strike over the failure of successive Irish governments to set up a financial redress scheme for the thousands of women enslaved there.[31] Taoiseach Enda Kenny, while professing sorrow at the abuses revealed, did not issue an immediate apology, prompting criticism from other members of Dáil Éireann. Kenny promised "there would be a full Dáil debate on the report in two weeks' time when people had an opportunity to read the report". Survivors were critical that an apology had not been immediately forthcoming.[32]
Official state apology and compensation package [edit]
On 19 February 2013, Kenny officially issued a full state apology to the women of the Magdalene Laundries.[33] He described the laundries as "the nation's shame" and "Therefore, I, as Taoiseach, on behalf of the State, the government and our citizens deeply regret and apologise unreservedly to all those women for the hurt that was done to them, and for any stigma they suffered, as a result of the time they spent in a Magdalene Laundry".[34][35]
The Taoiseach also outlined part of the compensation package to be offered to victims of the Magdalene Laundries. He stated: "That's why the Government has today asked the President of the Law Reform Commission Judge John Quirke to undertake a three month review and to make recommendations as to the criteria that should be applied in assessing the help that the government can provide in the areas of payments and other supports, including medical card, psychological and counselling services and other welfare needs." [36]
Legacy [edit]
Literature and reportage [edit]
- Do Penance or Perish: Magdalen Asylums in Ireland by historian Frances Finnegan published (hardback) Congrave Press Ireland, 2001; and (paperback) Oxford University Press, 2004. The first book to be published on the topic and still the definitive study, it is based on 21 years' meticulous research. Using a wide range of sources including the Annals and Penitents' Registers of the Good Shepherd archives, the book examines the history, purpose and inmates of these grim institutions. A courageous exposure of the Magdalen Movement, it contains unique illustrations, including the two reproduced above. ISBN 0-9540921-0-4.
- James M. Smith's Ireland's Magdalene Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment won the 2007 Donald Murphy Prize for a Distinguished First Book from the American Conference for Irish Studies. ISBN 978-0-268-04127-4
- Rachel Dilworth's The Wild Rose Asylum: Poems of the Magdalen Laundries of Ireland, the 2008 winner of the Akron Poetry Prize, is a collection of poems based on the Magdalene Laundries.[37]
- In the Shadow of Eden is an award-winning[citation needed] short memoir by Rachael Romero. Using vintage footage and photos of what led up to her incarceration in the Convent of the Good Shepherd (Magdalene) Laundries in South Australia, Romero outlines her experience there.
- For The Love of My Mother by J.P. Rodgers tells the story of his Irish mother, born into a life of poverty and detained at the age of two for begging in the streets. Bridget Rodgers spent the next 30 years of her life locked away in one institution or another, including the Magdalen Laundries.
- The Magadalen Martyrs is a 2003 crime novel written by Ken Bruen. In the third episode of Bruen's Jack Taylor series, Jack Taylor is given a mission: "Find the Angel of the Magdalene," actually a devil incarnate nicknamed Lucifer, a woman who "helped" the unfortunate martyrs incarcerated in the infamous laundry.
- Kathy's Story by Kathy O'Beirne alleges that she suffered physical and sexual abuse in a Magdalene laundry in Ireland.
- Kathy's Real Story by journalist Hermann Kelly, published by Prefect Press in 2007, alleges that O'Beirne's allegations are false.[38]
- "Magdalene Laundry Survivor. The Irish government admits it played a major role in forcing women into work camps." on the CBC radio show As It Happens on February 5, 2013. Audio here:[39]
Film and stage [edit]
- The Magdalene Sisters - a 2002 film written and directed by Peter Mullan.
- Sex in a Cold Climate - a 1998 documentary[citation needed] directed by Steve Humphries (historical consultant: Frances Finnegan) presenting interviews of four women interred in various Magdalene asylums and orphanages because of out-of-wedlock pregnancies, being sexually assaulted, or just being "too pretty."
- Les Blanchisseuses de Magdalene - a France 3/Sunset Presse documentary 1998[citation needed]. (historical consultant: Frances Finnegan)
- The Magdalen Whitewash, a play about the laundries, was written by Valerie Goodwin and performed by the Coolmine Drama group at the Draíocht Arts Centre in Dublin, in 2002.[40]
- Eclipsed, a play about the Magdalene Laundries, was written[citation needed] by Patricia Burke-Brogan in the 1980s. Burke-Brogan had worked in the laundries in the 1960s. Eclipsed was first performed in 1992.
The Quane's Laundry, a play about the Magdalene laundries,set in Dublin in 1900 was written by Imelda Murphy 2007
Music [edit]
- Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O'Connor spent time in a Magdalene Asylum as a teenager.[41]
- The Mars Volta has a track titled "Asilos Magdalena" on their 2006 album Amputechture.
- Frances Black has a song titled "Magdalen Laundry" on her 2003 album How High The Moon.
- A song called "Magdalene Laundry" written by J. Mulhern appears on the 1992 album Sentimental Killer by Mary Coughlan with the chorus line "Ooh Lord, won't you let me wash away the stain."
- Joni Mitchell recorded "The Magdalene Laundries", a song about the atrocities for her 1994 album Turbulent Indigo. She re-recorded it with The Chieftains on their 1999 album Tears of Stone. Emmylou Harris covers the song on the multi-artist album A Tribute to Joni Mitchell.
See also [edit]
- Catholic sexual abuse scandal in Ireland
- Duplessis Orphans
- Involuntary servitude
- Magdalene Society of Philadelphia
- Nymphomania
- Slavery
- Stolen generations
- Tranquility Bay
- Unfree labour
- Workhouse
References [edit]
- ^ ^ "Magdalen Hospital for the Reception of Penitent Prostitutes". Retrieved 18 February 2013.
- ^ ^ McDonald, H. (5 February 2013). "Ireland finally admits state collusion in Magdalene Laundry system". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
- ^ Ferriter, Diarmaid (2005). The transformation of Ireland, 1900-2000. Profile Books. p. 538. ISBN 978-1-86197-443-3. Retrieved 2011-05-24.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Ryan, Carol. "Irish Church's Forgotten Victims Take Case to U.N." The New York Times, 25 May 2011.
- ^ Alison Roberts (2003). "The Magdalene Laundry".
- ^ Garth Toyntanen (2008). Institutionalised. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-9558501-0-3.
- ^ McCarthy, Rebecca Lea (2010). Origins of the Magdalene laundries: an analytical history. McFarland. p. 238. ISBN 978-0-7864-4446-5. Retrieved 2011-09-25.
- ^ Hearn, Mona (2004). Thomas Edmondson and the Dublin Laundry: a Quaker businessman, 1837-1908. Irish Academic Press. p. 7. ISBN 9780716527695.
- ^ a b Magdalene Laundries Best Irish Facts.
- ^ Government, politics and institutions in Belfast in the early twentieth century - National Archives of Ireland
- ^ "Congregation of the Sisters of Misericorde". Catholic Encyclopedia.
- ^ published in Historical Archeology, the journal of the Society for Historical Archaeology
- ^ Finnegan.
- ^ http://www.michigandaily.com/content/controversial-film-sisters-hits-dvd
- ^ a b c Raftery, Mary (20 June 2011). "State apology is only way to express wrong done to Magdalenes". The Irish Times. Retrieved 22 June 2011.
- ^ McGarry, Patsy (22 June 2011). "Áras an Uachtaráin among users of Magdalene laundry". The Irish Times. Retrieved 23 June 2011.
- ^ a b McGarry, Patsy (20 July 2011). "Magdalene premiere: Irish-made documentary airs tonight". Retrieved 28 December 2011.
- ^ Childabusecommission.com
- ^ "Child Abuse Commission Report Vol III, Chapters 7 and 9".
- ^ Childabusecommission.com
- ^ [1] UN panel urges Ireland to probe Catholic torture
- ^ Committee against Torture (3 June 2011). "Concluding observations of the Committee against Torture". Retrieved 2011-06-11.
- ^ BBC: Irish PM: Magdalene laundries product of harsh Ireland, 5 February 2013
- ^ Magdalen Final Report, February 2013
- ^ "State had 'significant' role in Magdalene laundry referrals". The Irish Times. 5 February 2013.
- ^ "Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee to establish the facts of State involvement with the Magdalen Laundries". Department of Justice and Equality. Retrieved 5 February 2013.
- ^ Carbery, Genevieve (5 February 2013). "State had 'significant' role in Magdalene laundry referrals". The Irish Times. Retrieved 5 February 2013.
- ^ McDonald, Henry (5 February 2013). "Magdalene laundries: Ireland accepts state guilt in scandal: McAleese report finds police also bore responsibility in 'enslavement' of more than 30,000 women in institutions". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 February 2013.
- ^ "Irish PM says 'sorry' to laundries victims: Apology follows release of report blaming state for sending women and girls to work like "slaves at Magdalene Laundries". Al Jazeera. 5 February 2013. Retrieved 5 February 2013.
- ^ Harrison, Shane (5 February 2013). "Irish PM: Magdalene laundries product of harsh Ireland". BBC News. Retrieved 5 February 2013.
- ^ McDonald, Henry (5 February 2013). "Magdalene laundries survivors threaten hunger strike: Women seeking redress from Irish state after being ordered to work unpaid in institutions run by Catholic church from 1920s". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 February 2013.
- ^ Brennan, Michael (5 February 2013). "Magdalene: Kenny declines to apologise for state role". Irish Independent. Retrieved 5 February 2013.
- ^ "Tearful Kenny says sorry to the Magdalene women". Irish Independent. 20 February. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
- ^ Kenny, Enda (19 February 2013). "Magdalene Laundries: Irish PM Issues Apology". Sky News. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
- ^ Text of Taoiseach's apology in the Dáil Oireachtas Éireann, 2013-02-19.
- ^ Kenny, Enda (19 February 2013). "Kenny "deeply regrets and apologises unreservedly" to Magdalene women in emotional speech". The Journal. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
- ^ Uakron.edu
- ^ Prefectpress.com, 2007 ISBN 978-1-906351-00-7
- ^ beginning around 0:1:48.
- ^ Tasteproductions.co.uk
- ^ "To Sinead O'Connor, the pope's apology for sex abuse in Ireland seems hollow". The Washington Post. 2010-03-28.
Further reading [edit]
- Finnegan, Frances (2001). Do Penance or Perish: A Study of Magdalene Asylums in Ireland. Piltown, Co. Kilkenny: Congrave Press. ISBN 0-9540921-0-4.
- Raftery, Mary; and Eoin O'Sullivan (1999). Suffer the Little Children: The Inside Story of Ireland's Industrial Schools. Dublin: New Island. ISBN 1-874597-83-9.
- Smith, James M (2008). Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's architecture of containment. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-7888-0.
External links [edit]
- Report of the Child Abuse Commission PDF
- Justice for Magdalenes, advocacy group for survivors of Magdalene Laundries (Ireland)
- The Magdalene Laundry. CBS News, August 3, 2003.
- Review of Academic study of prostitution reform
- Page for survivors of the Magdalene Laundries Survivors artwork, Australian laundries
- 'A House of Mercy', English Woman's Journal, I March 1858 Highgate Penitentiary laundry
- Interview with Sinead O'Connor, a Magdalene Laundry survivor
- Article submitted by Frances Finnegan to The Irish Times in 1998 in support of Channel 4's Documentary Sex in a Cold Climate.


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"Our role is not to indoctrinate, as it would be to young children with a catechism. It's to really open their minds, in a very critical sense, to the world around them," said Rev. David McCallum, Le Moyne College Special Assistant to the President.
Schools like Le Moyne College say they fully embrace Pope Benedict's call for a more integrated pursuit of learning, one that focuses on religious teachings as a basis for both learning and life. But the nation's Catholic schools also stress another mission.
McCallum said, "The education of students in a rigorous intellectual fashion, which is critical. Which is often cutting across multiple disciplines, not just theology, obviously. And introducing young people to a mature, intellectually informed, moral way of making a contribution back to society."
While the Pope's directive could cause clashes in some diocese, few expect any clash here.
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There is also a belief that the pendulum may be swinging back. That the younger generation may be ready for a revival.
Cunningham said, "When I was with the Holy Father in November, he asked me if the young people of our diocese are open to the faith. I believe a number of young Catholics are very much interested in returning to what they see as the core beliefs, the core practices."


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Jacques-Charles Oudry, Hunting Scenes. Oil on canvas, a pair, 120 x 160 cm chacun; each 47 ¼ by 63 in. Estimate: 100 000 150 000 EUR. © Sothebys ArtDIgital Studio.
On September 22 & 23, to mark the opening of the Autumn auction season in Paris,
will bring to a conclusion the story of the legendary collection begun by Antenor Patiño (1894-1982) and continued with supreme elegance and refinement by his widow Beatriz Patiño until her death in 2009. The collection divided between Madame Patiño's principal residence La Quinta in Portugal and her Paris flat gives Sothebys another opportunity to pay tribute to the exquisite taste and style which fashioned the Patiño legend.
The catalogue devoted to the collection reveals the contents of the last two residences on which Madame Patiño lavished her traditional decorative care and flair: the 'new' Quinta in Estoril, her masterpiece designed in 1990; and her Paris flat, where every detail went towards creating a subtle harmony between baroque abundance and domestic intimacy. Many works of art, pictures and items of furniture are illustrated in their earlier settings the initial Quinta, luxurious Paris town-houses, and swanky New York apartments.
The collections furniture and works of art combine English cosiness with Italian exuberance, French neo-classical grandeur and iconoclastic works of art.
Neo-classical highlights include a rare pair of flat-backed painted and gilded beechwood chairs, typical of the decorative vogue of the late 18th century and directly inspired by the Classical Revival that presaged the Empire style (estimate 30,000-50,000). A pretty Louis XV chair stamped F. Leroy, with modern leopard-skin upholstery, blends neo-classicism with decorative panache (est. 40,000-60,000).
Later pieces of furniture include a pair of 19th century, Louis XVI-style Boulle marquetry tables with arabesques, lambrequins and scrolls in the style of Philippe Montigny (est. 40,000-60,000); and a pair of 20th century bridge tables by Jansen (est. 2,000-3,000), similar to those in the Baron de Redé Collection.
Important objets dart include a pair of Louis XIV gilt-bronze wall-lights (est. 40,000-60,000); a pair of important silver single-branch wall-lights made by Johann Valentin Gevers in Augsburg circa 1710 (est. 80,000-120,000); a pair of Louis XVI gilt-bronze candlesticks attributed to Etienne Martincourt similar to those in the Wallace Collection, British Museum, Huntington Collection and Getty Museum (est. 50,000-80,000); and a pair of mid-18th century Italian giltwood double-frame mirrors thought to originate from a palazzo in northern Italy (est. 60,000-80,000).
Decorative elements typical of Portuguese Baroque include an important pair of early 18th century, carved oak porte-torchères in the form of two life-size classical figures, announcing the onset of Portuguese Rococo which was to thrive during the reign of João V (est. 80,000-100,000). Such porte-torchères often represent ceroferary angels, like the pair made in 1726 in a style close to that associated with sculptor Marceliano de Araujo and the Convent of Aveiro.
The sales silver hails from across Europe. France takes centre-stage, with pieces from Strasbourg, but Germany, Russia and England items are also featured. Prestigious provenances include Tsarinas Elizabeth I and Catherine II of Russia; Countess Palatine Elizabeth Augusta; and the Duchess of Rutland not forgetting the celebrated Chaumet service commissioned by Simon I. Patiño.
Two pairs of silver dishes with bell-covers (one oval, the other rectangular) from Strasbourg, made by Jacques-Henri Alberti (1768) and Jean-Louis III Imlin (1767-69), bear the mongram of Countess Palatine Elizabeth Augusta (est. 25,000-35,000). There is also a silver-gilt dinner-service (Paris 1757/8) with the monogram of Catherine II of Russia (est. 15,000-20,000), and cutlery by Joachim Friederich Kirstein (1758-1808) with the arms of Cardinal de Rohan, Archbishop of Strasbourg (est. 3,000-5,000).
A pair of triangular silver bowls from the Mecklenburg-Schwerin Service, attributed to Carl Gustav Hallmuth (St Petersburg c.1774), also come complete with their bell-covers (est. 50,000-70,000). Various Russian and French silversmiths helped make this service (commissioned by Catherine the Great) from 1770 onwards. It was inherited by Catherines son Paul I, then passed to his daughter Elena, who married Grand Duke Friedrich-Ludwig of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1799.
The assured taste harmoniously uniting all these items from different countries can also be admired in more exotic items, some from Latin America such as the spectacular silver chandelier thought to have been made in what is now Bolivia (c.1700), 6ft 1in (1.85m) high and 3ft 3in (1m) across, with central bowl ringed by leafy openwork motifs (est. 50,000-80,000).
Old Masters include a fine selection of works from the French, Spanish and Northern schools. A spectacular pair of hunting scenes by Jacques-Charles Oudry is typical of the spirit of 18th century France (est. 100,000-150,000). The artists style and choice of subject-matter are directly inspired by his fathers work; the canvas featuring a water-spaniel can be likened to another picture by the artist dated 1753, while that featuring a similar recalls a work dated 1740 now in the Swedish Embassy in Paris.
Jean-François Garnerays Portrait of a Young Woman in a Blue Dress, in a magnificent Louis XVI giltwood frame, is a subtle, poetic composition evocative of the refinement of late 18th century France (est. 40,000-60,000). Robert Griffiers Riverscape with Geese, Barbary Duck, Northern Lapwing & Other Birds, formerly owned by the Earl of Shrewbury & Waterford, is another showstopper (est. 40,000-60,000).
Spanish art consists of two portraits much influenced by Goya: a portrait of a woman in a muslin dress (est. 8,000-12,000); and an enchanting little portrait of a woman with fan (est. 6,000-8,000).
The collections array of Dutch 18th century monochrome still lifes comprises works by such leading masters of the genre as Pieter Claesz, with a composition based on a work by Jan Jansz Treck now in Antwerps Royal Museum of Fine Arts (est. 8,000-12,000).
There is also one of the few signed paintings by Willem Claesz Hedas pupil Maerten de Boelema de Stomme (est. 25,000-35,000), a little-known artist first mentioned in the register of St Lukes Guild in Haarlem in 1642, when he was already 31. Hedas influence is clearly visible, even though his pupil seems to have taken some compositional liberties, resulting in a slightly confused impression.
Numerous objects of charm reflect Madame Patiños attention to detail when decorating her different residences like a casket covered in red velvet (probably Italian, 16th/17th century) from the collection of Prince Solms-Braünfels (est. 8,000-12,000); and a pair of three-light lanterns (est. 500 up) similar to those in the Baron de Redé Collection.
The auction, to be staged by Sothebys Paris in conjunction with the Millerand & Saint-Seine expertise bureau, pursues a tradition dating back to the sale of the estate of Antenor Patiño in New York in 1986. Sothebys have since staged equally successful sales of Books & Manuscripts, Furniture, Silver and Old Masters from various branches of the Patiño family.
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