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Nativity Card
By Lodell Halvorson
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Designer's Tips: Using a light colored tag in the background helps the dark focal point stand out.
- Nativity Scene Dazzles™, gold Pearl
- 318 Gold Star Jewel Dazzles™
- 20 Christmas Tags
- Christmas 8"x8" Papers
- Christmas Cardstock
- Christmas Splendor Ribbon
- All 3 Round Punches
- 3-D Foam Squares Variety Pack
- For the card front: Place card with the fold on the left. Cut tan paper with diamond shapes to 6 ½" x 5" and glue to the card. Cut dark green cardstock to 5" x 1 ½". Cut striped edge of paper from diamond page to 5" x 5/8". Cut plaid paper to 5" x 1" and glue to the green strip leaving 1/8" showing along the top edge. Glue swirl ribbon along the green strip wrapping around the back. Glue paper to the card 3/8" from the bottom edge and overlapping a portion of the striped paper, leaving ½" showing. Cut out tag, punch hole and tie with ribbon. Glue to the card close to the right edge and centered in plaid strip. Place star and "O' Holy Night" on tag. Back barn Dazzle( with dark green cardstock and cut around edge. Back Joseph/Mary/Jesus Dazzle( with tan paper and glue inside barn. Foam tape to the card overlapping tag. Back sheep with tan paper and glue to the tag. Back angel with white cardstock and glue to the card. Place Dazzle( border across the bottom of the card and add star Dazzles( to the top of the card.
- For the inside of the card: Cut tan diamond paper to 6 ½" x 2 ¼" and glue to the left edge of the card. Cut plaid paper to 3" x 1". Cut green cardstock to 4 ¼" x 2 ½" and glue to the lower right corner of the card with the plaid paper behind the corner. Place Wisemen Dazzle( on the green. Place large star and "A Child is Born" Dazzles( to the upper right corner of the card. Add a variety of stars to the upper left corner.


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Malice Domestic: FRIDAY
I'm extremely sleep deprived so forgive me if I don't make a lot of sense this morning.
Our New Kids on the Block Panel went well. I'm so honored to be included with this fabulous, witty group of women.
And we really do like each other!
Circle of Influence sightings in the book store.
At Opening Ceremonies, we received our nomination certificates. It's really real!
Today is THE DAY. Breakfast with Sisters in Crime, book signing, and tonight, the Agatha Awards banquet.
And hopefully, in between there somewhere--a nap.

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"Environmental Perspectives on American Identity in the World"
This site will contain:
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You should bookmark this page, we will be doing most of our work through this forum.
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I will open up new pages as we progress through the semester.
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We will be tracking "Slow Food" activity this year. To send a description of your activity please click on the Slow Food form. Use the form attached. Make a copy and attach your filled out form as directed on the bottom. We will be posting the information here on the website for everyone's enjoyment.
If you enjoy the information that follows about WYCK house, garden, and farm, click on this link to see more www.wyck.org.
From Sylvia Wilson, New York Division we have this interesting article.
A zucchini plant can multiply in the hundreds overnight [at times this seems to be true] however if the plant does not produce well this vegetable sure is missed. I called the zucchini a vegetable and as culinary use it is but botanically the zucchini is an immature fruit. A zucchini is low in calories there are no saturated fats or cholesterol. The peels are a good source of fiber and the skins provide antioxidants, and organically grown the zucchini blossom is an edible delicacy.
The zucchini is served in many different ways; eat it raw in salads or a sandwich partnered with garlic pesto. Shredded zucchini makes great sweet bread or super moist chocolate brownies. Sauté'
With onions, boiled or steamed for a more formal meal, or slice in an oven dish like lasagna or stewed tomatoes and zucchini with added onions and peppers. Zucchini adds to a vegetable soup and it also freezes very well.
It is a vegetable that is very popular in most gardens, easy to grow and if you have too many, give them away it is always nice to share a good product' the zucchini is a great plant for any gardener.
BEETS: some are saying this vegetable is right at the top for its nutritional value. It is easy to grow, the whole plant can be eaten, and it can be stored in a root cellar or canned for winter use. Do not overcook the beet when cooking, it can also be chopped and added to a side salad. The greens only need a couple of minutes to steam after they have been washed thoroughly.
At a picnic held recently this summer I offered beets to a two year old grandchild and he asked for more, but I remember also giving my children beets several years ago. Again the Nutritional value of this product is a great reason to be sure and include in your gardens
Onions and Garlic: A staple in anyone's garden from making pesto with garlic scapes always ready around the 4th of July and it is a favorite with our grandchildren.
We use onions and garlic on a daily basis and they already have been pulled and are in our barn drying for winter use, hope that we have enough for the year.
Vegetables are so important in anyone's diet, you can grow easily with organic mulch and pick them fresh or if you buy from a local market you will know the qualities of the farmer.
Shop local and enjoy the fresh produce.
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Calcutta, July 16: Anjali Haldar, the nurse who was tortured and tonsured for her alleged involvement with her childrens private tutor, was faced with a fresh ordeal today.
Local leaders of the CPM tried to restrain her from approaching the human rights commission.
On learning about the intentions of Anjali and her father Kalipada Mondol to move the rights panel, local CPM leaders trooped to their house at Sonarpur in South 24-Parganas and threatened them. Stay away from the commission or face dire consequences, the leaders of the ruling CPM told Anjali.
On July 3, she was stripped and thrown into a pond in the locality with her two children, dragged out, tonsured and paraded. Her parents were beaten up when they tried to interfere.
The moral police, apparently comprising CPM cadre and members of a local club, had barged into their house that day alleging that she had a relationship with Prabin Mallick, who came to the house to tutor the children. The cadre were led in the attack by Prabins wife Shubhra. The mob accused Anjali of ruining Prabins married life.
The following day, Kalipada lodged a complaint with Sonarpur police station but both police and the local goons threatened them with serious consequences if they took the legal route.
The police allowed the goons to move freely in the area. As an eyewash, they detained two persons and then let them go, alleged Kalipada.
The Mondols quietly waited for police action over the next 10 days and finally contacted Trinamul Congress MLA Nirmal Mandal. The legislator assured them help.
Ratan Chatterjee, a neighbour, said: I am certain that if we fail to give Anjali and her family a base from where they can fight the misery they are facing now, it will be very hard for them to survive, mentally and financially.
Braving the threats, with their neighbours support, the father and daughter decided to approach the rights panel. They also met Mamata Banerjee.
Officer-in-charge of Sonarpur A.K. Chakraborty said 10 people were detained today for interrogation. However, Kalipada said none of those detained were named in the FIR. The real culprits are still roaming in the area.
We are not giving out the names of the persons detained for the sake of investigation and more arrests are likely to be made soon, Chakraborty added.
As Anjali is still not in a position to join work and her fathers income not enough to maintain a family of five, neighbours have extended helping hands. We have raised funds to support the family. Their income has almost come to nil, said Tapan De, a neighbour.
The district CPM leadership said it will conduct its own inquiry. I have asked the local leaders to find out the culprits. If any one of them belongs to our party, they will not be spared, said Shantimoy Bhattacharya, the district secretary of the CPM.


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Written in terse, tense prose, the places and people described here will be familiar to anyone who has ever visited India, or seen documentaries or read books about it. Every detail rings immediately true. The author has created an authentic anti-hero through which to tell the story of modern India, his voice is consistently strong and sharp. There is no sentiment here, Balram is at once likeable and distasteful, and as such highly believable, an achievement in a story that could be seen as far-fetched by some.
The imagery of darkness and light, of big and small bellies, helps to create consistency of theme: that is, that something in the much heralded 'new India' is not quite right. Details of description enlighten the story throughout - descriptions of the massses of ragged Delhi street chilrdren, of hawkers working the traffic jams, of migrant workers packed on bus rooves to get away from the poverty in the villages. There is a strong sense of the cycles of hope and disappointment that govern lives here. The great mass of people in the Darkness struggle to get out, and when they get out, they still struggle to survive. They have been lied to - Delhi, for them, is not the Light, but a life lived under a flyover, cooking on the street, their children run over by cars of people like Balram's master who then refuse to take the blame. People like him, are able to exempt themselves from responsiblity, able to avoid taxes and contribution to the society in which they live, by perpetuating the myth that 'hard work' will pay and that the servant class is where they are by virtue of stupidity and dishonesty.
Balram, by committing murder and escaping the shackles of poverty in the way few can, demonstrates both that they are wrong, and that they are right. It is possible to work your way to the top, but only by treading heavily on others on the way up. It is this that gives the novel its authenticity. The author does not want us to like or dislike Balram, but simply to see him for what he is - the product of his society.


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Mitsubishi Triton GLS - Review
The one thing you notice about the Mitsubishi Triton GLS is that it is a truck. It doesn't mess about, it gets on with the job. You get a working truck and just that, a working truck. The Triton GLS model that we tested comes with a few extra bonus features, but underneath the bonnet, through out the transmission and chassis, the Triton GLS is all business.
Mitsubishi Triton GLS - The Ride
The Triton GLS has four drive modes. Not three like every other ute out there, it has four. You get the standard 2H, 4H, and 4L, the Triton then adds another. It's probably best to explain these a bit better as it's not just 4L. The four wheel low gear option is split into two categories - 4HLC and 4LLC. The reason for splitting the 4L section of the gearbox is because not all terrain is suitable for just one mode of 4L. Mitsubishi have put the effort and research in to create these two extra modes. In fact, it's probably easier if I just introduce you to MATT.
MATT - Mitsubishi All Terrain Technology is what they call this combination of traction systems. Mitsubishi developed this in the Paris-Dakar rally, where if you don't have a decent 4WD system there you are probably just riding a camel. The system worked for their competition cars so they introduced it to their utes.
4HLC is for muddy, rugged and slippery conditions. It's a high range 4WD with a locked centre differential. This means that the power to the tires is evenly distributed to all four wheels. I'd call it the 'moderate level' four wheel driving. We used this mode on the farm paddocks that were all mud, all ruts and all slippery stuff. Nothing over the top, it's still a farm after all...and there still needs to be a bit of grass for the stock. The Triton was at home.
The next mode lower is 4LLC - Low range with a locked centre differential. This is for the serious stuff. Deep mud, deep sand and snow - this mode gives you 'tractor-like' crawling power and maximum low speed torque that will pull you through it all. It will also pull out even the biggest trailer and boat from any number of tricky, slippery boat ramps. It's got 437Nm of torque to pull 3100 kilograms. Plenty of pulling power for any boat, float or trailer load of dirt.
Cruising on the highway in 2H mode gives the scrooges out there the fuel economy and tyre saving options they seek. I found when on the tight and windy country bends, the 4H option was the best choice as the 4WD system gives you the extra grip in the tight corners. In fact, I found that the 4H mode worked a treat over the farm too. It was only when we went into the rough stuff that I switched to a lower 4WD option - and even when I did switch, it was more a conditioned response than a necessary one. If you have the option, why not use it? You can switch between 2H and 4H up to 100km/hr. The usual 'must be stationary' option applies when switching to the more off road modes.
Overall, the Triton is a smooth ride. You are high, so there is some roll, but no more than every other ute out there. Mitsubishi have done a great job with the interior, there are comfortable cloth seats that give you good side support when you are getting thrown around due to the ruts. The 17 inch alloys make it look good for when you get a moment to pop into town.
The engine that spits out the massive torque range is a newly designed engine for this new Triton range; a 2.4 litre all-alloy DiD Mivec intercooled turbo diesel engine. As emissions are sort of a hot topic at the moment, you will be happy to hear that this engine passes those tests with a legitimate 188 gram/km with it's fuel economy a convenient 7.2 lt/100km.
You also have a tray that is 10% bigger than the last Triton. It's high sides allow you to transport a wider range of items in the back, plus you can get close to a tonne of stuff in there too, which is always handy for dropping large items off at random hard to get places on your farm...or a couple of dirt bikes for the weekend.
Mitsubishi Triton GLS - The fancy bits
The Mitsubishi Triton GLS is a work truck, but rest assured it still has some of the features you need to make driving worthwhile. It comes as a 6 speed manual or a 5 speed automatic with sports mode. You get a slew of air bags, seven in fact. Mitsubishi have delivered a 5 star ANCAP safety rating with a large assortment of safety related acronyms too - ABS, EBD(electronic brake force distribution), ASC (active stability control) and ATC (active traction control).
On the safety topic, you will find an adjustable speed limiter option. This is a handy little feature that allows you to put a cap on your top speed. It's far more effective than a speed alarm that beeps when you go past a certain speed...and then stops after you surpass that speed. This setting, when active, wont let you go faster than the speed you set it at. I can't help but think that this system needs a special security code to go along with it so you can lend your ute to your teenage son and he wont be able to go over 40km/h.
Keyless entry and keyless start functions are neat little gadgets that work well for a work truck. If you think about it, how often are your hands covered in muck or grime and you have to sift through your bag or jacket to find your keys? Keep the keys in your bag or pocket, press the little button on the door handle and hop in. Press the button on the dash, (right where you would expect the ignition to be, thank you Mitsubishi) and drive off. Being a traditional chap, I struggle a bit with keyless locking, the old walk away and expect everything to do what it should never sits well with me. Some cars you have to trust that they are locked, some even give you a slightly reassuring beep to prove they have done the job, either way I'm never satisfied. The Triton allays my fears, because when it locks the wing mirrors fold in, brilliant! Visual recognition that I can walk away from a flash new car that I don't actually own and know that it is locked is great peace of mind.
The Triton GLS comes with a nice lady to talk you through connecting your phone and making use of the bluetooth handsfree options available. All the features are encompassed in a 6 inch screen which gives you plenty of vision for the rear view backing camera.
Service wise, the Triton has the longest warranty period - a full ten years. To me, that is a very loud and clear message from a very confident manufacturer that this is truck built to last.
Mitsubishi Triton GLS - The Verdict
This one tackled all rough stuff and it was fun driving through it too. We got a load of hay in the back and we were able to feed out with no problems. Next time there will be problems as we are out of hay, but luckily spring growth has kicked in, but come the end of summer I'm sure the Triton will come in handy when I need to pick up more hay. The Triton is a no nonsense working type person's truck. It's got the power to tow almost anything you could possibly need to tow and I challenge you to get this one stuck in the mud, sand or snow. You wont, but it will certainly come in handy pulling out your mates when they get stuck in their utes.
Mitsubishi Triton GLS Double Cab
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Engine: 2.4L MIVEC intercooled turbo diesel engine
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Engine: 2.4L MIVEC intercooled turbo diesel engine
Torque: 437Nm
Towing Capacity: 3,100 kilograms
Transmission: 6-speed manual transmission (5 speed automatic available)
RRP: Pricing from $34,790. Pricing for model tested $57,490 + ORC
Transmission: 6-speed manual transmission (5 speed automatic available)
RRP: Pricing from $34,790. Pricing for model tested $57,490 + ORC


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BMO Global Asset Management Launches in EMEA
TORONTO, ONTARIO and LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM--(Marketwired - Jun 11, 2015) - BMO Financial Group today announced that its asset management business in Europe, the Middle-East and Africa (EMEA) will be rebranding as BMO Global Asset Management.
The announcement follows last year's acquisition of F&C Asset Management plc, which will form the centrepiece of the newly branded business. F&C's institutional, intermediated retail and wholesale business will be re-branded BMO Global Asset Management.
F&C REIT, the direct property investors, will be re-branded as BMO Real Estate Partners. There will be no change to F&C's investment trust business. No fund names are changing. All changes are effective July 6, 2015.
The F&C distribution teams will operate under the BMO Global Asset Management brand. They will be responsible for distributing the full range of capabilities within the BMO Global Asset Management business, which also includes boutique specialists LGM Investments, Monegy, Pyrford, TCH and the soon to be called BMO Real Estate Partners.
"F&C Investments has become renowned for the strong performance of its products, innovative solutions and client dedication. We look forward to building on this success under the BMO Global Asset Management brand," said Barry McInerney, Co-CEO, BMO Global Asset Management.
"As a leading global asset manager, we're focused on providing clients with solutions that meet their evolving needs by drawing on the success and capabilities across a range of assets. We will continue to provide relevant, best-of-breed products to investors across the region."
Richard Wilson, Chief Executive of F&C Investments and BMO Global Asset Management (EMEA) commented, "As part of BMO Global Asset Management, F&C's investment capabilities and solutions represent just one dimension of what we can now offer clients. We are updating our branding to reflect that better. We will continue to centre our business around our clients, delivering consistent investment performance and reliable delivery of relevant products across Europe."
"Under BMO Global Asset Management we will continue to invest in our business, building on our ambitious plans to expand our distribution team and investing in our talent. We will strengthen our teams and aim to build on our market share substantially in existing markets - such as the UK and Germany - as well as add coverage to additional countries."
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BMO Global Asset Management is a global investment manager delivering service excellence from 24 offices in 14 countries to clients across five continents. Including discretionary and nondiscretionary assets, BMO Global Asset Management had more than US$254 billion in assets under management, as of April 30, 2015.
Headquartered by four multi-disciplined investment teams based in Toronto, Chicago/Milwaukee, London and Hong Kong, the organization is complemented by a network of world-class boutique managers strategically located across the globe. They include the soon to be called BMO Real Estate Partners, F&C Investments, LGM Investments, Monegy, Inc., Pyrford International Ltd., and Taplin, Canida & Habacht, LLC. With operations throughout North America and Europe, and in Abu Dhabi, Mumbai, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Melbourne and Sydney, BMO Global Asset Management has been recognized by Pension & Investments as one of the world's largest 100 asset managers based on combined assets under management as of December 31, 2014 and is a signatory of the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment initiative (UNPRI).
BMO Global Asset Management is a part of BMO Financial Group (NYSE: BMO), a fully diversified financial services organization with total assets of C$633 billion as of April 30, 2015, and more than 47,000 employees.
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Manchester United have advanced to the UEFA Europa League final after claiming a 2-1 aggregate win over Celta Vigo in the semi-final.
Jose Mourinho's charges came into the match with a slim lead, after recording a 1-0 win in the first leg seven days ago.
The Spanish outfit nearly went ahead after four minutes but Sergio Romero was on hand to keep out Iago Aspas' curling effort from 20-yards out.
United eventually broke the deadlock with their first chance of the game after 17 minutes when Marouane Fellaini headed home Marcus Rashford's cross.
The visitors did not sit back and nearly hit back 10 minutes through Hernandez, but Romero was once again on hand to tip the effort over the crossbar.
Celta squandered a big chance to level matters just before the halftime break when Sisto picked out Daniel Wass, who headed wide from six-yards out.
The score remained 1-0 to the Red Devils as the sides entered the halftime break.
Rashford had the chance to double United's lead on the night after 65 minutes, but the striker's close range effort was saved by Sergio Alvarez.
The visitors started seeing a bit more of the ball as the second half went on and they should leveled matters on the night, but John Guidetti somehow headed wide from six-yards out in the 75th minute.
Celta eventually leveled matters on the night in the 85th minute when an un-marked Facundo Roncaglia headed into the far corner.
However both sides were reduced to 10 men three minutes later, as United's Eric Bailly and and Celta's Roncaglia were both sent off following a hug scuffle.
Mourinho's charges managed to see out the closing stages of the second half, as they progress to the final after winning the tie 2-1 on aggregate.
Ajax Amsterdam will face Manchester United in the final, after they claimed a 5-4 aggregate win over Olympique Lyon.


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Ed Skrein issued a statement on Instagram on Tuesday that he has exited the "Hellboy" reboot following public outcry. Skrien was set to play Major Ben Daimio — an Asian character in the "Hellboy" graphic novels. Skrien casting ignited conversations about whitewashing that have long plagued Hollywood.
The latest installment in the franchise is entitled "Hellboy" thought it was originally going to be called, "Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen" The project got off to a rocky start after original director Guillermo del Toro and star Ron Perlman stated they wouldn't be taking part. Neil Marshall and "Stranger Things" actor David Harbour are the director-actor duo in charge this time. They join Ian McShane as Trevor Bruttenholm. Mila Jovovich as the film's primary antagonist, Nimue the Blood Queen & Sasha Lane as Alice Monaghan.
Hollywood has long bee plagued with issues of whitewashing. Typically it's when white actors have been cast for roles originally portrayed by people of Asian descent. Scarlett Johansson's casting as a Japanese human-cyborg in "Ghost in the Shell" caused an uproar earlier this year.
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This is the latest addition to the reading list for Bag The MiG, although I have a few more books to add to the pile and to read before the shelves are full. I've enjoyed reading Crimson Skies, especially the chapters on the B29 raid on Namsi, which include an extraordinary account of a crew member actually walking out of the aircraft bomb bay as it plunged vertically downward. Anyway, I'll be picking up where I left off after the holidays, with some more Korean War related research.
Welcome to my blog. I have upwards of 100 projects in various stages of incompletion or total abandonment, so you may well find something of interest. I try to post about everything I do, not just what goes according to plan, with lots of ideas for potential projects that will probably never see the light of day!
Tuesday, 3 April 2012
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And here we are in 2015, and the situation is almost the same as it was in 2012!
In that post, I wrote about how the first public car charging installation was coming to Blackbeard's. Well three years later, it hasn't actually happened. Here's what progress looked like last month:
The solar panels were never installed, nor was the charging station.
To be fair to Blackbeard's, they're a mini-golf and arcade place, where revenue arrives in the form of quarters. But how are everybody else doing?
Here's what the charging map looked like in 2012....two Nissan dealerships.
Here is what it looks like today.
Good amount of growth right? Well, not really. Other dealerships got in on the action (Toyota, Fiat, Mercedes) but it's unfair to count them, because they exist primarily to charge their cars for test drives. There's also an RV park shown, and a couple that are only available to employees of the company (Pelco, and Air District), which means they're not really public.
So removing those out, we are left with...
Two Best Westerns, a highway rest stop. a DMV, a hospital and a gas station. A grand total of 6 public charging stations in a metro area with 1 million people.
That's shameful.
For comparison, here's the significantly smaller Santa Cruz
Obviously, places like San Francisco are on a completely different level. You can explore the country with this cool website: http://www.plugshare.com/#
Why are public chargers important? Because so many people will never buy an electric vehicle due to range anxiety. You can drive almost anywhere in the world and know you will find a gas station, but the fear of running out of power can be enough to scare someone away from a non-polluting vehicle. This is even more true because their range is so much less than a gas car.
To truly be wildly adopted, chargers are needed everywhere. And unlike gas stations, they need to be in places that people plan on parking in anyway, like the mall or a favorite restaurant.
Fortunately, a solution may be coming, as announced last month:
Pacific Gas and Electric Company asked state regulators for permission to build an estimated 25,000 electric vehicle (EV) chargers at sites across its service area in Northern and Central California. If approved, this program would be the largest deployment of EV charging stations in the country.One would assume this means a good deployment in Fresno.
The chargers would be located at commercial and public locations, including multi-family dwellings, retail centers, and workplaces. Approximately 10 percent of the chargers would be installed to support disadvantaged communities. PG&E would also provide tools and educational materials for site hosts and customers to learn about the benefits of electric vehicles.
However, there's reason to be worried. When Walgreens announced a nationwide roll-out, Fresno was excluded.
And Tesla loves to trumped their super high speed charging network.
Here's their network as it exists today, and with all planned 2015 locations.Superchargers are free connectors that charge Model S in minutes instead of hours. Stations are strategically placed to minimize stops during long distance travel and are conveniently located near restaurants, shopping centers, and WiFi hot spots. Each station contains multiple Superchargers to help you get back on the road quickly.
But look closely, and you'll see the only charger in the Central Valley is on I-5, at the Harris Ranch store and rest stop. Nothing along the 99 at all.
Tesla thinks their car buyers will never set foot in Fresno, Bakersfield, or the National Parks. Hopefully PG&E doesn't limit their deployment in the same manner.


text: Some large corporations have internal processes for the purpose of giving employees safe and effective channels to report concerns of various kinds. Most large companies have safety processes for safety concerns. Some have open door policies so that employees can effectively move up the chain of command with questions or concerns. Some even have independent phone lines or compliance services where employees are encouraged to call and report concerns if this is the most comfortable method for the employee. Some companies have strong unions and employees can have concerns addressed through their union leadership. My experience has shown me that in spite of wishful thinking and sometimes good intentions, corporate greed and the profit above truth mentality have blinded many in Corporate America. Some corporations make bold claims about its character and its integrity with little to show for it but an impressive quarterly earnings report and a demoralized workforce. The unfortunate reality in many large corporations is that the internal processes are more than likely designed to create the illusion that the company will take action. What happens instead is the employee reporting the concern gets caught up in an internal bureaucracy that more often than not goes nowhere. Are the internal processes for handling employee concerns where you work effective? Sincerely, I


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Lisa Belkin wrote an interesting essay this week on the nascent Pink Stinks movement in the UK. Pink Stink calls itself a "social enterprise which challenges the culture of pink which invades every aspect of girls' lives."
Before I had a daughter, I was an eye-roller at all things pink, and laughed when my sons did the same. Once I put that in print, some commenters pointed out that that was the wrong message to send: that I was telling them girls were inferior.
Oh, come on, I started to respond– if I had two daughters instead, we'd all be snorting derisively at dinosaurs and Thomas the Tank Engine. Upon further reflection, though, I had to admit these commenters had a point. No one gets a laugh out of making fun of high school football players; cheerleaders, on the other hand, will be an easy laugh as long as SNL is on the air. "Girly girls" and the things they like are viewed as trivial, and when you pigeonhole a girly girl's interests as lame, is that not a slippery slope to saying she is lame herself? There's no such term as "boys-y boys." Even if someone says, "Boys will be boys," they are usually talking about a boy's activity level, his strength. What pink represents, what the Disney Princess represents, is the opposite of that. Which by the way was why I was such an eye-roller at the stuff in the first place. My third child, my girl, was going to be interested in none of those things.
Smash cut to two years and two months later. Maggie has never heard of Barbie or Bratz, and whenever she sees a Disney Princess, she says "Mommy dat YOU!" because she has no idea who any of them are, either. But Maggie loves pink. She LOVES pink. To the exclusion of all else. To wit:
–Maggie's favorite food is "pink bacon," which some of you may know as ham.
–Upon awaking, Maggie tells me in her two-year-old excited stammer of nightmares in which she was pursued by a "pink monster" in a pink car.
–Pajamas must be pink. Socks must be pink. Clothes have to be pink. I managed to get her red and green Christmas dress on her this week to go see Santa Claus, but only because I allowed her to complement it with her hot pink (and none-too-clean) sneakers.
–She claims that Santa will be bringing her a "pink cake" and "pink big girl underwears."
I have no idea where this came from. I have not overdone the pink in her life (her doll stroller is navy, her two coats are white and red), and we have a house full of boy toys. But Maggie thinks pink, and it is, admittedly, adorable. Santa will be bringing her a pile of presents but I suspect none will top the pink Disney Princess cell phone her babysitter gave her for Christmas last week. Maggie has been marching around with it to her ear ever since. "Yeah… you come over?… I busy. I see you yater," she says into it, rolling her eyes up and to the right as she must see me do. "She's really something," one of our neighbors said, a mother of four boys. I couldn't tell if that meant my neighbor thought my daughter, dressed in cloying, Pepto-Bismol pink with her Disney Princess cell phone, was cute, or vaguely nauseating. Before I had a daughter of my own, I would probably have been in the latter camp.
Personally I would not have bought a pink Disney Princess cell phone for my daughter. It's not the toy cell phone part I have a problem with (since my kids have broke my iphone twice), but couldn't it be black or white? Why does it have to be princess-ified? The problem is that, even if my babysitter had set out to find Maggie a toy phone that wasn't pink and sparkly, it's not like it would have been easy. As Pamela Paul pointed out in her excellent book Parenting Inc., everything marketed to children these days is overwhelmingly gender-specified, so that we will buy more stuff. (Of course Maggie can't play with Shea's old Bob the Builder cell phone; that's for boys.) Other than the obvious damage these marketing ploys do to every parent's wallet, though, I haven't been convinced that there was something wrong with Maggie loving everything pink. It was cute! I got my girl after all! See, boys and girls really are different!
But part of me now wonders if Maggie has noticed the huge reaction she gets for preferring pink, and that is what has reinforced her preference. Maybe Maggie has gotten the message that she's supposed to prefer pink above all else by some sort of advertising osmosis, and now she's going to buy into all the "girly girl" things that go along with it as the way she is ideally supposed to behave. That really would be a shame– not if she loved pink, but if she said so because she thought she was supposed to.
What about you? Have you tried to keep the pink creep out of your daughters' toy chests and closets? Have you been successful? Do you think it even matters?


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Pat is fat, so what? Aren't most humans aware that different shapes and sizes from theirs exist? Don't they ever eat double cream or ever fancy curves? Fat is in all things and everywhere. But Pat struggles; she's saturated by the name calling by the thin dieters with strengthened abs and by the biceps pumpers who sculpt their thighs.
These finger pointers spit their most hitting words for Pat to chew on; Pat the ball, the venison casserole, and so on… Under the giggles she's everyone's laughter, she's heard it all as an easy target to hate and to compare one's self loathing against.
Dejected, Pat stands at a fork in the road, in the middle is a cemented wall. One side ignored, the other stared at. To enter the lion's den with courage she recalls that the bullies are scared too. Scared of being victimized by the shame game in which they are participating. Pat's persecution is only a consequence of their calamities and insecurities; it goes around…
But no one knows that. To get home, Pat's feet drag stones on the way up to the tenth floor of a building with a broken lift. She always books two seats for her silhouette in cinemas and on trains she stands. And while the first day of the college ball is approaching fast, for Pat there is still no skirt that fits in high street shops and neither is there a date willing to ring her bell.
With whirling judgements in mind, she's frightened to not fit in but her anger stands out as a rounded face underlining her sadness. She's hungry for worrying at echoing voices who accompanied by images of her flesh being compared to manufactured prototypes, haunt her at night. As a result, for relief Pat indulges in chocolate brownies with triple scoops of vanilla ice cream, quickly followed by more guilt and regret for last night's tart tatin with whipped cream and caramel coulis.
Pat holds on to all of it. This morning already while washing her teeth she thought of it, what they said, what they could do; where would that end and how would she finish? No idea. She tried willpower, vegetable meals and even running; none lasted long. The thing is she's heavy; she's filled with emotions ready to burst out.
Rachel has spent fifty years alive, that includes the last thirty years she spent altering in between the status just married and just divorced. She hopes to make Clyde her fourth and last husband. The first one was an unskilled artist dreaming of caviar canapes and smoked salmon buffets when he could barely afford a tin of plain sardines. She ditched him and the tuna salad that he was preparing while she worked to pay for his tubes of paints, which he merely wasted in what seemed to be the art of lying on a couch minus holding a paintbrush.
Shortly after, her second husband was the opposite; forget the romantic naked portraits requests. They were replaced with a text message that talked about being late… again. Quickly she wondered if she married a voicemail or if it was just the side effects of eating caviar and smoked salmon… alone. To distract herself, Rachel employed a gardener who rapidly became the third husband, even though it didn't end well after she exposed his flirting with a florist whose unwrinkled skin wasn't even matured.
After that betrayal and her life record, not surprising it was the start of Rachel's midlife crisis as her self esteem wore very thin. Rachel used to be a weather presenter for Duh Duh News on Channel Zero. All eyes were rolling in until the ratings went down, that's when Mr.Duh Duh the news director, subtly requested Rachel to have botox, she refused. She also voiced the fact that exposing her decollete may increase the number of viewers but it decreases their attention to her spoken facts. Therefore the Zeros fired her, the official reason was; Rachel broke the rules of our honesty code of conduct by daring to speak the truth.
Furious to be unable to break new ground in a rigid establishment, she quit her career all together. And her diva lifestyle dropped, since she makes ends meet with a job for which she is way too qualified; distributing flyers outside a weather museum.
Rachel was on the verge of selling out her values to upgrade herself to a plastic look, when thank goodness she met Clyde just in time to stop the 'get younger brainwashing machine bug' from catching up with her. Clyde rejuvenated Rachel's youthful years better than any night cream she had ever tried. And she can't be blamed for allowing herself to feel refreshed by adoration, foot massages, love letters and unlike the last husband, Clyde thinks of florists visits as cheesy.
Clyde is thirtyish. He fits in between the untalented laziness and the workalcoholic materialist exes, and there is no risk of him cheating. Taciturn, he doesn't instigate any waves in his relationships. He always needs one to feel one so he sticks to it. He strives to keep his words in check and the give and take, balanced.
To keep the peace he strategizes; Clyde overlaps lives, he sneaks behind the scenes; no matter how much energy it might end up costing him. He did cheat but Rachel doesn't know it, it was in his previous committed relationship; his passive attitude witnessed the fire of passion extinguish and rather than feeding it branches, he poured water over it. The burning wood was kept for his next spark, Rachel. Meanwhile, Clyde stayed months past the expiration date with his last girlfriend, then he finally left, once Rachel was hooked on him.
Pat, Rachel and Clyde lives intertwined on Christmas Eve.
With roads and sidewalks whitened by snowflakes, the festivities for Rachel were originally planned to be celebrated overseas where she annually visits her parents at their sunny property. Clyde has no relatives, he was to spend the most charitable days of the year in company of an insect waving at him on a laptop screen.Then he'd be assembling puzzle pieces, catching up on the latest movies while picking a cold turkey and cheering at it with plenty to refill a champagne flute. And occasionally pushing down dislike buttons on people's invasion of Christmas selfies on his social media feeds. At least, that was what Rachel was told he would do.
But Clyde's plan was Pat, she was on the other side of town. That day with the wintered state of roads and half the transport service shut down, unlike those who knew how to drive safely on ice, most were stranded at home. Pat still lived with her parents, each Christmas they spent a week at some friend's chalet in the French Alps. Usually Pat goes along however after what happened last year she can't stand the friends…
Every bloody year they can't help themselves, they feel that Pat's fat is an invitation to make rude comments, and last year it was, "I empathize with you sweetie, see that photo, see the cellulite, Roger glosses over it, he thinks it's a camera defect but unlike him I wear my glasses! Isn't it Roger…, your glasses?! Last summer I went from size 10 to 12, yeah sweetie 12! Some carrots, a drop of lemon water and you see… you see sweetie? There, there!… That's me here see I was fat and after! Slim, slim, slim! Ask Roger if you don't believe me." says the insensitive woman while winking at her dull husband. "The stones went as quickly as they came! You should try this diet too sweetie, see for yourself, it's effortless! He he he…" As if Pat hadn't tried every diet already. The ghastly woman insulted not only her body but her intelligence too. Pat wondered how ignorant the woman must be to believe that a carrot and a slice of lemon was going to modify her genetics, her slow metabolism and years of bad habits.
That's why when Clyde invited Pat over for Christmas, the choice was a straightforward one; she accepted. Pat met Clyde many years ago, he looked at her soul prior to her flesh. At first she had a crush on him, it wasn't reciprocated. However, as time went by their bond transformed and her heart matured him into the older brother she often wished to have, like a bodyguard, a name to refer to in case of verbal attacks.
Pat and Clyde planned she would go to his apartment by taxi and they would celebrate together like in the old days; like they've always done; commenting on old photos, recalling the stupid things they've done and replaying their past tragedies while dreaming that in the future they'll do this and that. Fired up with excitement, Pat's been looking forward to Christmas with great anticipation for the conversations that will last till dawn, the sunrise that announces it is time for bed, a trip to the store for coffee and eggs, and then maybe an after party.
At this stage of life, no one had taught Pat that some memories are built for one to look back in time, melancholic with a tenderness topped up by regretting thoughts; as if we should have cherished these moments a bit more before they were forever gone. Yet, she was about to learn from the unerasable crossed line Clyde was about to draw on their friendship, that when joy is easily available, sometimes we take it for granted until it has departed.
At 9pm Pat arrived by taxi at Clyde's address. In vain she rang the bell. She emptied her handbag three times; she'd forgotten her phone. A lucky break was on the verge of a breakdown; she called from a nearby payphone and there was no reply. Outside Clyde's home, Pat sat on a bench next to the payphone, she was panicked; the taxi driver was paid with the last cash she carried. Besides, in the area there were no ATMs in sight and no shop opened. An area where she found herself stranded, stranded for being fat.
All the while, Clyde was laying on a vintage Chesterfield, relaxed outwardly but petrified inwardly of his lies being uncovered, he was faced with a dilemma. Rachel was relaxing next to him. "Surprise, surprise! I've cancelled my flight to spend the holidays with you honey… Here I am, I'm yours, I'm your Santa Claus!", she arrived about five minutes before Pat rang the bell. The situation got out of control, Clyde disconnected the interphone and turned off his mobile phone.
Pat spent Christmas Eve wandering in the freezing streets, merrily in the early hours an elderly couple walking their dog gifted their hospitality with a paid taxi fare. Darkened, Pat's heart broke and she swore in each of the endless voicemails in which she vented her mounting frustration at the help of names calling, "You snake!" and straightforward hostility, "Get lost! Go bite yourself 'till red with your own venom!" Etcetera… In brief, Pat has seen shadows and lightings coming from Clyde's apartment, and guessed, he was inside and not alone. Hence she'll never listen to his apologies.
Under the heat he deceived, Clyde went on with his life but a sick mind stuck to him like a too tight tie around his neck; a secret past weakness stopped him from introducing Rachel and Pat to one another. But beneath the tension to which he succumbed on a cowardish impulse, what was he protecting so viciously? Why has he chosen to stain his dignity over authenticity?
There is a story Clyde hasn't told anyone even though he thinks of it on a daily basis. In the past he was obese and the experience scarred his soul. Responding to his torment his parents moved him from schools to school. He battled many fights on playgrounds but didn't win any. Thus, he grew into a conflicted teenager who makes himself invisible and whose mindset avoids conflict instinctively, especially while observing how girls looked at him; mocking, to make it clear they were out of his league and for that matter, he was out of all leagues and confidences.
Years later, tired of being invisible, Clyde obsessed on sculpting his visibility in a way that would assure him immunity against teasing. Through willpower and a gym membership, one that has become his full time job; bodybuilding. Everywhere now, no doubt he stands out, he wears stretch tank tops and observes the heads turn. For him all reactions, even repulsions feel like a victory against the past. The eyeballs validate the hard work and the dedication he invested to create a better future.
Clyde provided Pat the support he knew she needed amidst her proudness that prevented her from asking, in return his stretch marks felt understood. Their friendship was genuine but regardless, revealing his fat friend to Rachel would have been revealing a suppressed part of him. In his subconscious the repressed imperfection is stored; the definition of perfection depends on what type of society's standard the mind recorded.
Even though Clyde is attracted to women those mannerisms and appearance resume the interesting real life experiences they have to share. Rachel was kept in the dark for being the opposite of the popular outer packagings, which according to Clyde's taste are shallow and prone to boredom. Regrettably it seems his ego did not agree with him.
Made of shortcuts injections, the tall squared shoulders were constructed on a fake foundation. Pumped up but nonetheless pressurized under the squatting of his past, the squeezing feeling manifests in his muscles as spasms; Clyde feels small. Trying to build a future by living a lie filled with paranoias, unscrutinized beliefs, and low self esteem residues that blocked him from being pleased with the way he lived out his life.
The pressure of truth thundered against Clyde, through the wake up call that burst out of an interfone, it cost him his best friend and the long term peace he sought in Rachel. His inner turmoil instead of exploding could have transformed into a happy gathering. If only he wasn't a people pleaser, none of this would have happened. If only he had stuck to his principles and beliefs and let Pat in, she wouldn't ignore him. If only he had strengthened his soul as much as his abs, he could have been his authentic self. If only Clyde had let go earlier, and if had let go of thinking that he should have let go earlier.
Many Christmases later Clyde wrote this letter to himself:
Today I change. I digest the past and I fight life's what ifs. I swallow remorse, a lost friendship and the guilt, for bit by bit, I bitten, I stamped on, until I knocked down, my loves. Now I let go of anger, of past hurts, I let go of comparing myself to others and I refuse to record their judgements. As they keep me psychically and emotionally linked to the past, I let go of people; those whose role is to play an old part of my life. And to befriend myself first, I refuse to hold onto, anger; an emotion that comes from the need to compete against anything that breathes and thinks; it eats my nerves.
When I struggle to let go, I know I can laugh at my inability to let go of regrets, fear, guilt and worrying. I know I can't alter my past but my present can be changed to make my future count. When I struggle to let go, I open my mind to question my attachments and then release the need to know and instead I practice letting things be, instead I develop my passion and make a goal of building my own world and strive for something bigger, strive for someone better.
To heal, I pursue the loving things; the stimulants of my curiosity. Instead of numbing my own pain by smothering another's insecurities, instead of being the mirror on which their defects reflects, and modelling my flesh to be part of their world, one that does not suit me, I create my own.
I reach within to get great pleasure instead of thirsting for external validation. Instead of valuing myself by reaching for an experience that comes from something outside of myself; for money, a cigarette, a chocolate cake or a guru or any sugar pills inducing a placebo effect.
At some point I was dissatisfied, I longed for the truth of who I really was and for a brief moment being inauthentic gave me a taste of unconditional love but it didn't last; It was conditional. Through bad habits, I was trying to feed myself with unconditional love. Until I realised, there are no substitutes that can provide the unconditional love I seek since unconditional love is who I already am. I am a seeker of unconditional love and that knowing satisfies my longing for the truth of who I really am.
Today I understand. I am worth enough to be looked at just the way I am, I don't need to disguise myself to be noticed, free spirits aren't supposed to be kept in closed closets, and I am one of them. Change doesn't happen by just thinking about it, it is about doing things differently in the present, undoing traumas stored in my mind to be able to let go of the past.
The self denial option dissolved; the mask Clyde hung on his doorway to the outside world, evaporated. The act happened rapidly, the sin has been done slowly, he's done what he had to do to evade pain, though painfully, he touched the ground of reality. His illusions have blown but his stomach cramps eased a bit. Since he learned; change doesn't have to be painful and it is not, when it isn't resisted.


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This afternoon I had an absolutely wonderful experience. It all started last week when I was talking to a Eucharistic Minister who brings the Holy Eucharist to some people who are homebound. I asked her about an old friend of mine who used to come to our Charismatic prayer meeting many years ago. She was also always in church and I enjoyed talking to her. Her family has been very active in our church and community and I know so many of them. It has been a while since she has been in church and I missed her. The Eucharistic Minister told me that this woman was doing well and has mentioned to her that she would love to see me. I told the EM that I would love to go with her the next time she went. Today was the day. It was to be a surprise visit.
I don't want to mention this woman's name, because I didn't ask her for permission to use it. But I do want to tell you some interesting things about her and our visit and the presence of Jesus. This friend has been homebound for several years. She has a really good excuse, she is 105 years old. When you see her she certainly doesn't look her age. When you talk to her she seems so young at heart. Her mind is as sharp as a tack. When we first walked in her daughter (who I also know well), who didn't know I was coming, greeted us with a huge smile and welcomed us in. We then went in to the room where the 105 year old was sitting at the kitchen table. The smile on her face when we walked in lit up this rainy, dark and dreary day. It was enough to absolutely warm your heart.
We spoke for a while reminiscing about old times in the prayer group and in the parish. I was so surprised at the details that she remembered. She seemed so happy to talk about the old times, but also seemed so happy about talking about her present life. She related how she loved Jesus and Mary and the prayers that she can offer. She was sad only because she couldn't be a part of the church activities. She also was quite concerned for a dear relative who had fallen and broken some bones. We prayed for that relative.
After talking for a while, we prayed the rosary. She knew every prayer so well. She was so excited to tell me about her rosary. It seems that a friend of a friend had gone to Rome and had an audience with Pope Francis. This friend mentioned that he had a friend who was 105 years old and still prayed the Rosary. The pope then reached in his pocket and pulled out a rosary, blessed it and told the man to give it to the 105 year old. That is the rosary that we used. It is absolutely beautiful and to know that the Pope had sent it to her, was very uplifting.
We then did what this person does every time before receiving the Sacred Host. We prayed an Act of Contrition and then an Our Father. She then received the Host with such a beautiful, warm, glow on her face. It was so moving to watch. We then talked for a while and prayed together. I prayed for her specifically while laying on hands. I also gave her and the EM and her daughter a blessing. Truth be told……I was the one who received the blessings.
So why do I bring this one occasion up? It is because things like this happen continuously in the Church. Bringing Jesus to the homebound (or nursing home etc.) is one of the most satisfying things a Minister of the Eucharist can do, whether they are ordained or an Extra-ordinary Minister. This last Sunday I brought the Eucharist to several people in one nursing home and then on Monday I brought the Eucharist to another nursing home. The experience of doing that is so satisfying.
I really encourage all Eucharistic Ministers to reach out to the homebound and bring them Jesus. So many EM's help out at mass with the distribution of the Most Blessed Sacrament, and this is great and well needed in most parishes. But an even better way to minister to people is by visiting the homebound. It is a ministry that brings Jesus to others and allows Jesus to come to you in a very special way. God is good.


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I confess that for some time I had a soft-spot for the lassie from East Lothian.
I have long had a certain amount of sympathy for Mary Nisbet (18 April 1778 – 9 July 1855), unlike my feelings for her husband, father and friend Philip Hunt.
Mary married an impoverished land-owning aristocrat on the opposite, north, side of the River Forth, from where she lived. Though she may have been in love, there's little doubt that she, and her wealthy parents, were also pleased that she would join the nobility on her own account as the Countess of Elgin, or Lady Mary Bruce, when she married Thomas, the 7th Earl of Elgin, an aristocrat with a bright future.
In turn, the cash-strapped Elgin would have been pleased with the marriage to Mary. He had been advised to get married if he wanted to further his career in the diplomatic service. He also needed to get his hands on Mary's wealthy landowning father's money, to furnish his expensive tastes (especially as he was rebuilding Broomhall from scratch) and no doubt he eyed a share of his wife's inheritance when her father died.
Elgin had this possible future Nisbet inheritance written into an antenumptual agreement and he also managed to get her father to pay a dowry of £10,000 as a "marriage portion", which no doubt eased his financial troubles. LINK
The inheritance Elgin eyed would have been a very substantial one. Mary was the only child of William Hamilton Nisbet who had inherited large properties and much land in East Lothian from his parents. William's wife Mary (nee Manners), was the grand-daughter of the 2nd Duke of Rutland and she was also heiress to large estates in Lincolnshire. All of which would one day revert to Mary.
The fact that the Nisbets had not been enobled was due to that family's historical support for the Jacobean cause.
The marriage solved problems for both families and created a future powerful dynasty spanning both sides of the River Forth.
Mary Nisbet becomes the Countess of Elgin, after a hitch!
The Nisbet family website reveals that there was some drama at Mary's wedding to Elgin on 11th of March 1799, and because Mary was upset Bishop Sandford, who conducted the rites, temporarily stopped the proceedings. LINK
One wonders what caused this hitch? Did someone raise an objection when the Bishop asked if anyone knew of any impediment etc.? Did Mary find out that her father had given Elgin £10,000 to marry his daughter? Or did Mary have second thoughts about marrying a man 12 years her senior (she was 20, he, 32), or to one who she suspected/knew had syphilis?
The possibility, more of a probability, that Elgin had already contacted the syphilis that would later blight his life is not a moral judgement on him (though I have plenty to say about his lack of morals in other matters) as he had been a bon viveur on the London scene for some years when he lived there, and it would have been more unusual if he hadn't contacted syphilis in the London of that period. LINK
There was a 9 year period before Elgin married when he was ambassador in Brussels and Berlin, travelling extensively on the continent, where again syphilis was rife and it was known that he was a bit of a rake and had been involved in several scandals involving married women.
Leaving aside speculation as to the reason for the delay, we do know that the marriage ceremony was completed and within four months Mary was pregnant. If Mary's marriage to Elgin had been a long and happy one he would, one day, have became a very wealthy man.
It wasn't, he didn't, and the rest is history, but it's a history with many unanswered questions, so that to this day it is still the subject of debate and revision.
For example, the impression I had of Mary was that of a spoiled, only child, of a rich father who was spirited if not flighty, but was basically decent. The very opposite of her ambitious, greedy and serious husband, but read on and see how I was forced to review that notion.
Most of what we know of Mary Nisbet's life with Elgin comes from a book written in 1926.
Of course my impression of Mary was gleaned from books written about her after her death, most notably "The Letters of Mary Nisbet of Dirleton (1926)". This book that contained many of her letters written during the period she was married to Elgin, or Elky/Elchy Bay or simply E as she sometimes called him in her writings. The book was edited by her great-grandson, John Patrick Nisbet Hamilton Grant.
There is little doubt that Mary was spirited as evidenced by some of her antics. She spent much of her youth in London where her father was a member of parliament and moved in the very top levels of society. Once married she didn't flinch at the challenge of travelling with her husband to Constantinople, a place that few western women had visited.
When in Constantinople Mary dressed as a man so that she could be present when her husband was presented to the Sultan in the strictly male-only confines of the Seraglio (Topkapi palace). Later Mary sneaked into the Sultan's harem to gossip with his concubines and later still wanted to send her children home to Scotland by balloon so that she could take up residence in Cairo as ambassadress. Mary also relished the action of a sea battle, when the ship she was travelling in fought and sank a pirate ship. All this and much more is testimony to the fact that Mary was a woman of character and no shrinking violet.
Similarly there is little doubt that at one time Mary was besotted with her new husband, but also little doubt that she became increasingly burdened by his ill health and how this impacted on her and her children.
By as early as 1801 Elgin's health was in a poor state. He was subjected to severe headaches and his nose was wasting away on his face to such an extent that his doctor was reduced to treating it by bleeding with leeches and applying mercury to it.
With a leather patch covering where his nose used to be, Mary's 'Eggy' could hardly then have been the dashing, romantic figure, who had caught her eye a few years earlier.
The renovation project for Broomhall & Biel runs away with the money.
Added to Elgin's health issues, after a year or so in Constantinople, the family faced financial strains on their limited budget. Elgin was on a fixed salary with expenses said to barely cover the embassy costs, and Mary's father restricted her allowance to the interest on a £10,000 bond. These factors caused them to dispense with their chamber orchestra and many of the "Hottentot servants" that they began their rather lavish embassy with.
Elgin's private enterprise in collecting architecture and other valuable relics was a major drain on money, albeit that after a while it was financed by his father in law following his visit to Athens, at which time he became caught up in Elgin's looting spree.
But William Hamilton Nisbet expected returns on this investment, and though the joint venture to furnish Broomhall (the Elgin's home) and Biel (Hamilton Nisbet's) started off brightly with HMS Patheon quickly returning booty in the form of the Sigean and other marble treasures to England, there was then a delay of almost 2 years before further substantive returns. The next shipment came in the form of Constantine's sarcophagus lid and other porphyry items. LINK
William Hamilton Nisbet and his wife had visited Athens to see Elgin's operations there under the supervision of Lusieri and while there they had collected a valuable marble gymnasiarch's and were impressed by the industry of Elgin's asset strippers, but they would have been conscious of the costs of keeping a staff of hundreds that Elgin employed. They would have also been acutely aware that the big prize, the Parthenon frieze was the one that might make it all worthwhile.
So when, on 17 September 1802, the cargo ship, the Mentor, that Elgin had built specifically to take valuables home sank off Cape Avlemonas, with most of the Parthenon frieze and the Hamilton Nisbet's gymnasiarch's chair on board, this must have placed a strain on Elgin's relationship with his main backer, William Hamilton Nisbet. As well as on his marriage to that man's daughter.
To Mary, the arrogant ambassador who had seemed such a good prospect when she had married him, had, in the space of a few years, become an unhealthy, hapless and expensive liability.
At this point did Elgin's marriage founder like the Mentor? The Mentor's cargo was recovered by divers, but Elgin's marriage eventually could not be salvaged.
The Elgins are homeward bound, but for Mary's hapless husband there's more trouble in store.
In January 1803, when Elgin's embassy to the Porte ended, the family (now of five) left Constantinople for home on HMS Diana (La Diane), just over three years after arriving there in November 1799.
They sailed for home via Athens (passing the site of the sunken Mentor where divers had begun to salvage the cargo) to Malta, where it was decided they would part company with their three children who would go home on board the HMS Diana.
Print above shows the 38 gun frigate, H.M.S. Diana capturing the french brig L'euphrosyne, in the English Channel on June 1, 1803. Painting by Tom Freeman
For a young mother to leave her three children aboard a ship, even a disciplined Royal Navy vessel with a doctor on board, takes some understand and it appears that this decision was not to Mary's liking.
However Elgin and Mary after spending a few weeks in Malta with friends then went by boat to Naples then on to Rome where they spent Holy Week.
From Rome the Elgins decided to journey home overland and while travelling through France Elgin was arrested. This was because he was an Englishman of military rank who, if he returned to England, may have taken up arms against France. All that was initially required was that he surrender his passport and give his word that he would not leave the country.
Again, this incident highlights that – like so much else he did – Elgin's judgement was poor. Initially his party (which had been joined by Robert Ferguson a fellow Fife land owner) stayed with him in Paris and they moved on to Barages/Pau with him, when he went to the spas there to 'take the cure' for his syphilis-related ailments.
At this time Mary was in the early stages of pregnancy with her fourth child and this move added more pressure to her, as the lively Mary was not suited to the drab existence associated with Elgin's daily health treatments in spas in rural France. In November of 1803 Mary left Elgin in Pau and moved to Paris accompanied by Robert Ferguson ostensibly to get her passport and return to England to have her fourth child.
The remainder of Mary's married life to Elgin was troubled. She gave birth to two more children to Elgin (one, who Elgin thought was not his child died an infant in Paris), and then she fell madly in love with Elgin's friend Robert Ferguson.
Caught up in this emotional triangle Mary refused to have sex with her husband when he returned to England. Elgin successfully petitioned parliament for divorce and then sued Ferguson in London for £20,000 for spoiling his wife. Following this he sued Mary in Edinburgh to have her wealth given over to their children, whom he had custody of.
Elgin won £10,000 in the London action, but he failed in the Edinburgh courts to have Mary declared unfit to manage her affairs (despite accusing Mary of having been caught with Ferguson on a couch with "her petticoats up" while married to him). Mary emerged from this, the major scandal of the day, and married Robert Ferguson living happily with him on his Raith Estate some 15 miles east of Broomhall.
It is impossible to judge who was to blame for the Elgin's marriage breakdown, but I had sympathy for Mary because the man who had promised so much to her, had, in the end, delivered little other than their children, one of whom predeceased his mother because he was diseased like his father, and like his father died with a nose eaten away by mercury.
Though she had faults, overall I liked history's tale of Mary Nisbet. She was a rebel who flouted convention and I liked her for that.
Recently my favourable opinion of Mary Nisbet has been stood on its head!
The reason for my volte-face came in a letter Mary wrote to her father on 14th/15th of March 1801. LINK
When I first read the letter in the 1926 book I had thought that it gave testimony to Mary's loyalty and enthusiasm in helping her father collect artefacts, in this instance porphyry columns, for her home at Broomhall and his home at Biel.
The letter, after introductory pleasantries stated: "But now my Dearest Father prepare to hear with extasy what I am going to tell you! Captain Briggs Commander of the Salamine Brig has at this moment on board………………"
The letter went on to detail the porphyry columns that she, as a dutiful daughter, had managed to get loaded on the ship for transport home, and ended with a triumphant note in expectation of approval: "What say you to this Dearest Dad"
While not approving of Elgin's or Hamilton Nisbet's collecting/looting of architecture and artworks, I could forgive Mary Nisbet for throwing herself enthusiastically into helping her husband/father. She was after all well aware of the large outlay of money they had made and wanted to help balance the books.
That was until I saw the full text of this letter.
Mary Nisbet's letter reveals an ugly side to her nature, mocking a sultan who had lavished her with kindness.
The actual text of the letter shows that Mary asks her father (who had now returned home) to hear with extasy, a report of how her husband Elgin had humiliated Sultan Selim III by asking for certain pieces of porphyry, which were in the mosque of the Seraglio. Then when this request was deemed impossible and an alternative artefact in porphyry was brought to Elgin as a gift from the Sultan, he threw it out of an open window without deigning to look at it, exclaiming he "would have all or none".
This caused Sultan Selim III to offer an alternative gift from the Seraglio the next day and eventually to give in to Elgin's demands.
Mary having asked her father to hear 'with extasy' this hubristic act on the part of her husband then ended by condoning, even gloating at his bullying behaviour by mocking their host:
"Gibbon would have said Elgin had coaxed or bullied Old Selim out of these bits of Red Stone."
In my opinion Mary Nisbet by glorying in her husband's treatment of a man who had showered them with kindness and lavish gifts of jewels and money was beneath contempt.
The transcript of the letter supplied by the British Museum is here: LINK
The photos of the letter, courtesy of the British Museum, from which the transcript was taken is here: LINK
Sultan Selim III, a detail from a portrait in the Topkapi palace museum. Selimi was a soldier first, but also a gifted musician, educationalist and reformer who opened up the Ottoman Empire to the west.
History will have to be re-written for Mary Nisbet.
What does this letter tell us? Well to me it says that we cannot rely on the edited letters of Mary Nisbet from the 1926 book for a true picture of what happened in her time in the Middle East.
Did authors or academics rely – as I did – on the flawed 1926 book that distorted the true nature of "The Letters of Mary Nisbet"?
Susan Nagel author of "Mistress of the Elgin Marbles" 2004, certainly did.
She used the 1926 edited book version and quoted the sanitised version of Mary Nisbet's porphyry letter and not the actual letter. This is odd given that in the Preface to her book she thanked Justin Hope Brooke (a direct descendant of Elgin and Mary Nisbet) who, in 2002, sold the letters to the British Museum. Perhaps he forgot what was written in the letters of his ancestor?
Or is it more likely that Julian Hope Brooke (formerly of Biel, the Hamilton Nisbet family home inherited by his father Vice-Admiral Basil Barrington Brooke) kept Nagel in the dark and fed her a sanitized 1926 version of the life of Mary Nisbet, just as Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin did with A. H. Smith.
Brooke, having sold the real story of Mary Nisbet and Elgin – the 170 letters & documents – to the British Museum knew that the Nisbet family's dirty little secrets would remain safe and unpublished in the vaults there. Just as Victor Bruce knew the selective, anodyne ingredients he gave Smith would not make a potent brew.
Of course there will be some facts in the 1926 book that are accurate, but as seen in the June 1801 letter there have been pertinent facts removed from the original letter to spare the character of Mary Nisbet and Elgin which change the very nature of this letter.
In the one letter of the 170 that I have seen there is no judicious editing, but instead there is a deliberate distortion aimed at removing Mary and Elgin's atrocious behaviour from the public eye. Lieutenant Colonel John Patrick Nisbet Hamilton Grant (a descendant of Lucy Bruce, Elgin & Mary's youngest daughter, who inherited Biel), made a gallant attempt to reform the reputation of his ancestor by a 'cut & paste' of what she actually wrote, but in this letter at least his efforts are in vain. He has been found out.
William St Clair relied on the 1926 publication: "The Letters of Mary Nisbet" in dozens of instances. Here is part of his page notes to show the extent of his reliance on the book. LINK
This reliance on flawed authorities surely means that his book "Lord Elgin & The Marbles", published in various editions since 1967 will now have to be considered as flawed, or part fiction, relying as it does so much on a vanity publication, a puff-piece on Mary Nisbet?
If I were in St Clair's shoes I think that I would be consulting lawyers to sue the British Museum for damages to my reputation.
Keep it in the family is the way to protect their ancestor's reputation.
A. H. Smith used what he described as "many extracts from her lively letters" [Mary's] and while some come from the letters Mary Nisbet wrote to Elgin's mother the Dowager Countess and would be from the Elgin archives, some would not.
Smith's publication predates the 1926 book, but would John Partick Nisbet Hamilton Grant who inherited the estates of Biel, Archerfield and Dirleton in East Lothian be just as circumspect before he wrote his book with what he shared with Smith, as he was afterwards with the public?
Or even if Hamilton Grant gave Smith full access to the Letters of Mary Nisbet 'warts and all' would Smith (an Elgin/Nisbet relative by marriage) have published the detail such as that above which showed Elgin and Mary in the worst possible light? I think not.
Where do we go from here? The British Museum crypt?
The British Museum has a charter obligation to inform the arts in this country. They are failing in that obligation by not publishing letters that play a pivotal part in explaining the events that led to parliament buying (on behalf of the people) the so called Elgin Marbles in 1816.
Of the 170 letters and manuscripts bought by the British Museum from Justin Hope Brooke in 2002 there isn't even a catalogue or index of what was bought.
I had some difficulty in obtaining one letter from the British Museum and having asked for the availability of another (which I am again prepared to pay for) it seems as if they are not talking to me in any meaningful way, instead engaging in obfuscation by asking me to quote the text of the letters I require photographs of. This is simply not good enough.
The British Museum should not be able to buy-up historically important letters so that they can keep them from those who wish to research the historical events they relate to.
The British Museum must publish all of the Mary Nisbet letters and allow us to make a judgement on what she wrote, as opposed to what injudicious editing (Spin) portrays her as writing.


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We have been able to glimpse X-Men: Days Of Future Past in quite an amazing trailer and also through some released images, but this new photo of Magneto enhances our expectations even further. The mutants are hitting theatres May 23, 2014 and this time they will have to fight for their survival in two different time periods, joining forces with their younger selves.
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