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A Brief History of Saint Days
So, I went down a bit of a rabbit hole this morning trying to figure out answers to what I thought were somewhat straightforward questions. First, when did people in various western European countries stop celebrating their Saints' day – or name day, if you will – and second, how did the various reorganizations of the liturgical calendar affect name day celebrations?
I rather thought there would be plenty of information and resources to explore these questions, but I'm afraid I've merely found fragments.
The Catholic Church has celebrated feast days for important saints nearly since its inception. St. Martin of Tours, born in 316 in Sabaria (now Szombathely, Hungary) is thought to be the first saint – or at least the first to not die as a marytr.
Saint days quickly became a staple of the early Catholic church. As Christian Rohr has argued, these were not just days of religious observance, but were deeply seeped in the symbols and politics of their times:
When the feudal and the chivalrous system had been fully established during the High Middle Ages these leading social groups had to find an identity of their own by celebrating courtly feasts. So, they distinguished themselves from the rest of the people. Aristocratic festival culture, consisting of tournaments, courtly poetry and music, but also of expensive banquets, was shown openly to the public, representing the own personality or the own social group in general. Town citizens and craftsmen, however, were organized in brotherhoods and guilds; they demonstrated their community by celebrating common procession, such as on the commemoration day of the patron saint of their town or of their profession.
These courtly feasts were "held on high religious celebration days" – over half took place on Whitsunday. For craftsmen, Rohr points to the French city of Colmar, where "the bakers once stroke for more than ten years to receive the privilege to bear candles with them during the annual procession for the town patron."
And, somewhere amid these deeply interwoven strands of religion, economics, and power, people began celebrating their own Saints' day. That is, as most people shared a name with one of the saints, that saint's feast day would have special significance for them.
It's unclear to me exactly when or how this came about. Most references I read about these name day celebrations simply indicate that they have "long been popular."
Name days celebrations today – though generally more secular in their modern incarnation – take place in a range of "Catholic and Orthodox countries…and [have] continued in some measure in countries, such the Scandinavian countries, whose Protestant established church retains certain Catholic traditions."
But here's the interesting thing: at least based on Wikipedia's list of countries where name day celebrations are common, the practice is much more common in Eastern Orthodox countries than in Roman Catholic ones.
Now, the great East–West Schism – which officially divided the two churches – took place in 1054. My sense – though I've had trouble finding documentation of this – is that celebrating one's saints' day was a common practice in both east and west at that time. Name day celebrations do take place in the western European countries of France, Germany, and – importantly – Italy, which seems to indicate that the difference in name day celebration rates is not merely a reflection of an east-west divide.
It's entirely unclear to me what led to this discrepancy. One theory is that this a by-product of the Reformation – during which time, at least in the UK, various laws banned Catholics from practicing.
But, I also find myself wondering about the effects of various reorganizations of the (Roman Catholic) liturgical calendar – eg, the calendar of Saint Days and other religious festivals. The calendar has been adjusted many times over the years, including as recently as 1969, when Pope Paul VI, explaining that "in the course of centuries the feasts of the saints have become more and more numerous," wrote justified the new calendar:
…the names of some saints have been removed from the universal Calendar, and the faculty has been given of re-establishing in regions concerned, if it is desired, the commemorations and cult of other saints. The suppression of reference to a certain number of saints who are not universally known has permitted the insertion, within the Roman Calendar, of names of some martyrs of regions where the proclaiming of the Gospel arrived at a later date. Thus, as representatives of their countries, those who have won renown by the shedding of their blood for Christ or by their outstanding virtues enjoy the same dignity in this same catalogue.
Most notably and controversially, Saint Christopher was deemed to not be of the official Roman tradition, though celebration of his feast day is still permitted under some regional calendars. If you're curious, you can read a list of the full changes made to liturgical calendar in 1969.
Many of these changes, such as the removal of Symphorosa and her seven sons, likely had little effect on anyone's name day celebration. But, by mere probability, I would think that at some point over the years, someone had their Saint removed from the liturgy – which I imagine would probably be a rather disarming event. Though I suspect that wasn't a big enough factor in diminishing the strength of the celebration over time.
Well, that is all that I have been able to find out. I have many unanswered questions and many more which keep popping up. If you have some expertise in Catholic liturgy and have any theories or answers, please let me know. Otherwise, I suppose, it will remain another historical mystery.
Innovations in Am. Government Award Accepting Applicants
We want to make sure that our members are aware of a great opportunity for recognition in public participation from Harvard's Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation – one of our NCDD member organizations.
The Ash Center operates the Innovations in American Government (IAG) Awards Program and the Bright Ideas Initiative, both of which are aimed at recognizing creative and effective governance models and disseminating ideas about promising government practices or programs. We are positive that many of the programs and initiatives that our NCDD members work on every day would make great candidates for these honors, so we encourage you to nominate a program you know about or apply yourself!
The winners of the IAG Award are eligible for a $100,000 grant, and even the finalists are eligible for a grant of $10,000, so what do you have to lose? The deadline to apply is April 15th, so make sure you get started soon!
Both of these prestigious awards have a long history of recognizing leading innovations in governance. Here's how the Ash Center describes the Innovations in American Government Award:
Since its inception in 1985, Innovations in American Government Awards has identified and celebrated outstanding examples of creative problem solving at the state, city, town, county, tribal, and territorial government level. In 1995, the Innovations Awards were expanded to incorporate innovations in the federal government. The Awards program accepts applications in all policy areas; from training employees to juvenile justice, recycling to adult education, parks to the management of debt, public health to e-governance, Innovations applicants reflect the full scope of government activity.
And here is how they describe the Bright Ideas Initiative:
…[I]n 2010 the Innovations Program launched a recognition initiative called Bright Ideas that serves to further highlight and promote creative government initiatives and partnerships so that government leaders, public servants, and other individuals can learn about noteworthy ideas and can adopt those initiatives that can work in their own communities.
Beginning with these Bright Ideas, the Innovations Program seeks to create an open collection of innovations in order to create an online community where innovative ideas can be proposed, shared, and disseminated.
For more details on eligibility requirements, selection criteria, or to apply for these awards, visit https://innovationsaward.harvard.edu/IAGAwards.cfm.
Good luck to all the applicants!
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The Easter Rebellion and Lessons From Our Past
I had planned today to write something commemorating the centenary of Ireland's Easter Rising; the quickly-crushed insurrection which paved the way for the Irish Free State.
But such reflections seem somewhat callous against the grim backdrop of current world events.
Just this weekend, a suicide bomber killed at least 70 – mostly children – in an attack on a park in Lahore, Pakistan.
I debated this morning whether to write about that instead. Whether to grieve the mounting death toll from attacks around the world, or whether to question, again, our seemingly preferential concern for places like Brussels and Paris. Or perhaps to highlight the inequities evident in such headlines as CNN's In Pakistan, Taliban's Easter bombing targets, kills scores of Christians.
The majority of those killed were Muslim.
Perhaps these details hardly matter; it is all of it a horror.
But if I were to write about every global tragedy, these pages would find room for little else. There is no end to suffering, no limit of atrocity.
Perhaps I should write instead about Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader, who – twenty years after orchestrating the ethnic cleansing of Srebrenica – was just convicted of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity by a United Nations tribunal.
Of course, such news also serves as a reminder that Omar al-Bashir, the current, sitting president of Sudan, is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity. He is also widely considered to be a perpetrator of genocide, though the ICC demurred from making that charge. The ICC issued its arrest warrant in 2009, citing numerous crimes committed since 2003. Bashir won reelection in 2010 and again in 2015.
It is all too much.
Perhaps I should write about the Easter Rising – a notable event for my own family – after all.
In the midsts of World War I, on Easter Monday 1916, 1,600 Irish rebels seized strategic government buildings across Dublin. From the city's General Post Office, Patrick Pearse and other leading of the rising, issued a Proclamation of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic:
We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasible. The long usurpation of that right by a foreign people and government has not extinguished the right, nor can it ever be extinguished except by the destruction of the Irish people.
The overwhelming superiority of British artillery soon put an end to the provisional government. Over 500 people were killed; more than half were civilians. In The Rising historian Fearghal McGarry argues that Irish rebels attempted to avoid needless bloodshed, while, according to one British soldier, the British troops, "regarded, not unreasonably, everyone they saw as an enemy, and fired at anything that moved."
During the fighting, the British artillery attacks were so intense that the General Post Office (GPO) was left as little but a burnt-out shell. As an aside, the GPO housed generations of census records and other government documents – making my mother's efforts to recreate my family tree permanently impossible.
After the the rebellion had been crushed, fifteen people identified as leaders were executed by firing squad the following week.
This week is rightly a time of commemoration and celebration in Ireland. The brutality of the British response galvanized the Irish people – among whom the uprising had initially been unpopular. The tragedy of the Easter Rising thus led to Irish freedom and, after many more decades, ultimately to peace.
It's a long and brutal road, but amid all the world's horrors, confronted by man's undeniable inhumanity to man, perhaps it is well to remember: we do have the capacity for change.
the limits of civic life
(Phoenix, AZ), While I am here today as a guest of Arizona State, I will give a version of the following talk:
The video summarizes my view of civic life in about 10 minutes. By "civic life," I mean applying our minds, voices, and bodies to improving the world. We can do that alone, but inevitably civic life is collaborative, because individuals rarely achieve much alone and because we need other people's opinions and perspectives to inform our goals and values.
Civic life is important, but it is by no means the only important thing. It represents one circle in this Venn diagram, which also includes circles for politics–meaning all the ways that human beings govern ourselves and create a common world–and the good life.
In civic life, certain ways of interacting are possible and desirable. We can and should be highly interactive while we are in smallish groups dedicated to improving the world. We can be responsive to one another's needs and opinions and strive act in concert.
But a good life should sometimes be solitary and inward-looking, or directed to nature or God instead of fellow citizens. And politics should sometimes involve competition instead of deliberation and cooperation. For instance, we want incumbent politicians to be regularly challenged by outsiders who criticize them and strive to unseat them. We don't want incumbents to get too cozy with their challengers. The same is true of business competitors and contending attorneys.
In the video, I argue—and I strongly believe—that civic engagement can enrich our inner lives and offer us psychological and spiritual benefits. But so can non-civic activities, such as observing and appreciating nature, understanding and making art, or loving and caring for other people intimately. Although I think that the spiritual benefits of civic life are often overlooked—and improving our civic culture would strengthen those benefits—I still resist the argument that the good life equals civic engagement.
Here is a typically subtle case: I love to walk in the woods with my family and dog. Enjoying those loved ones in a natural setting is not a form of civic engagement. However, it is only thanks to the Massachusetts Audubon Society and our state government—and the individuals who work in or with those organizations—that the woods have been preserved and opened for us to use. The worthy activity (a family walk) is not civic, yet it depends upon other people's civic engagement. Still, it's far too narrow a view of nature and of intimate personal relations to reduce them to products of civic life.
By the same token, civic life doesn't exhaust politics or offer adequate means to improve politics. Large, impersonal institutions—such as markets and companies, governments and armies, and scientific and technical disciplines—play leading roles in 21st century politics. You and I have limited leverage over these institutions. We can form opinions about what they should do, but those opinions do not always imply meaningful actions for us to take.
If the institution in question is the United States government, I have a tiny but greater-than-zero form of leverage in the form of my vote. If the institution is Coca-Cola, I can decide whether to purchase its products or not. Allocating votes and money are worthwhile acts but hardly constitute a robust civic life. And if the institution in question is the Chinese Government or the market for oil rigs, my leverage approaches zero. In the video, I say that citizens ask, "What should we do?" rather than "What should be done?" But sometimes reasonable people realize that something should be done and yet cannot find anything to do about it themselves. That is the zone of politics that lies outside of civic life in the Venn diagram above.
In the video and almost all my work, I emphasize that "small groups of thoughtful and committed citizens" have the capacity and responsibility to change large systems. I began my professional career helping to advocate for political reform as a research associate at Common Cause, and while I worked there, Common Cause was losing its membership base due to the shrinkage of American civil society that Robert Putnam would soon diagnose in "Bowling Alone" (1995). I came to think that American politics was corrupt because citizens were not adequately organized and active, and I have spent the subsequent two decades working on civic engagement as a precondition for better government. Still, political reform eludes us in the face of hostile Supreme Court decisions, technological developments, and tenacious political opposition. When reform does come, it may be because of a massive scandal or a well-placed leader, not directly because of active citizens. In some other countries and in global markets, the scope for civic life is even narrower than it is in the US.
To discount the importance of citizens in politics is cynical, but to imagine that intentional civic action is all of politics is naive. To the extent we can, we should work to expand the overlap, so that civic life is more politically influential as well as more spiritually rewarding. But I think we will always be left with two hard questions (among others):
- How should we think and act and feel when bad systems are genuinely beyond our control? The Stoic and classical Indian answer was: seek equanimity and acceptance. Epictetus advised: "For if the essence of the good lies in what we can achieve, then there is no space for ill-will or jealousy. Rather, for yourself, don't strive to be a general or an office-holder or a leader/consul, but to be free. The only road to that is contempt for things not in your power [XIX]." I am unsatisfied with that answer, because I think we have responsibilities to the world even when we cannot see a direct way to address its problems. But what are those responsibilities, exactly? And …
- When an aspect of the good life conflicts with civic responsibilities, how should we choose between them?
DOJ Community Relations Service is Hiring Conciliators
Last week, Grande Lum – the former director of the Dept. of Justice's Community Relations Service (CRS) and a keynote speaker at NCDD 2014 – shared on an announcement on our NCDD Discussion Listserv about a couple job openings at the CRS that we wanted to mention here, too.
The CRS is hiring for Conciliation Specialists, and we encourage our NCDD members to apply or share about the opportunity with people in your networks. The CRS seeks to serve as a neutral convener and mediator for communities dealing with conflict, and we know that some of our members would make great additions to their national staff.
Here's how the CRS describes the positions:
Are you interested in a rewarding and challenging career? Join the U.S. Department of Justice!
The Department of Justice (DOJ), Community Relations Service (CRS) is seeking to hire highly qualified Conciliation Specialists for various Regional Offices. CRS has responsibility for assisting state and local units of government, private and public organizations, and community groups with preventing and resolving racial and ethnic tensions, incidents, and civil disorders, and in restoring racial stability and harmony.
You can find the job announcements at www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/431163900 and
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Populism and Democracy
Yesterday, I discussed some of the concerns Walter Lippmann raised about entrusting too much power to "the people" at large.
Such concerns are near blasphemy in a democratically-spiritual society, yet I consistently find myself turning towards Lippmann as a theorist who eloquently raises critical issues which, in my view, have yet to be sufficiently addressed.
At their worst, Lippmann's arguments are interpreted as rash calls for technocracy: if "the people" cannot be trusted, only those who are educated, thoughtful, and qualified should be permitted to voice public opinions. In short, political power should rightly remain with the elites.
I find that to be a misreading of Lippmann and a disservice to the importance of the issues he raises.
In fact, Lippmann's primary concern was technocracy – the governing of an elite caring solely for their own interests and whose power ensured their continued dominion. Calling such a system "democracy" merely creates an illusion of the public's autonomy, thereby only serving to cement elites' power.
I do not dispute that Lippmann finds "the public" wanting. He clearly believes that the population at large is not up to the serious tasks of democracy.
But his charges are not spurious. The popularity of certain Republican candidates and similarly fear-mongering politicians around the world should be enough to give us pause. The ideals of democracy are rarely achieved; what is popular is not intrinsically synonymous with what is Good.
This idea is distressing, no doubt, but it is worth spending time considering the possible causes of the public failures.
One account puts this blame on the people themselves: people, generally speaking, are too lazy, stupid, or short sighted to properly execute the duties of a citizen. This would be a call for some form of technocratic or meritocratic governance – perhaps those who don't put in the effort to be good citizens should be plainly denied a voice in governance.
Robert Heinlein, for example, suggests in his fiction that only those who serve in the military should be granted the full voting rights of citizenship. "Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part…and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live."
Similarly, people regularly float the idea of a basic civics test to qualify for voting. You aren't permitted to drive a car without proving you know the rules of the road; you shouldn't be allowed to vote unless you can name the branches of government.
Such a plan may seem reasonable on the surface, but it quickly introduces serious challenges. For generations in this country, literacy tests have been used to disenfranchise poor voters, immigrants, and people of color. And even if such disenfranchisement weren't the result of intentional discrimination – as it often was – the existence of any such test would be biased in favor of those with better access to knowledge.
That is – those with power and privilege would have no problems passing such a test while our most vulnerable citizens would face a significant barrier. To make matters worse, these patterns of power and privilege run deeply through time – a civics test for voting quickly goes from a tool to encourage people to work for their citizenship to a barrier that does little but reinforce the divide between an elite class and non-elites.
And this gives a glimpse towards another explanation for the public's failure: perhaps the problem lies not with "the people" but with the systems. Perhaps people are unengaged or ill-informed not because of their own faults, but because the structures of civic engagement don't permit their full participation.
Lippmann, for example, documented how even the best news agencies fail in their duty to inform the public. But the structural challenges for engagement run deeper.
In Power and Powerlessness, John Gaventa documents how poor, white coal miners regularly voted in local elections – and consistently voted for those candidates supported by coal mine owners. These were often candidates who actively sought to crush unions and worked against workers rights. Any fool could see they did not have the interest of the people at heart…but the people voted for them anyway, often in near-unamous elections.
To the outsider, these people seem stupid or lazy – the type whose vote should be taken away for their own good. But, Gaventa argues, to interpret that is to miss what's really going on:
Continual defeat gives rise not only to the conscious deferral of action but also to a sense of defeat, or a sense of powerlessness, that may affect the consciousness of potential challengers about grievances, strategies or possibilities for change….From this perspective, the total impact of a power relationship is more than the sum of its parts. Power serves to create power. Powerlessness serves to re-enforce powerlessness.
In the community Gaventa studied, past attempts to exercise political voice dissenting from the elite had lead to people loosing their jobs and livelihoods. If I remember correctly, some had their homes burned and some had been shot.
It had been some time since such retribution had been taken, but Gaventa's point is that it didn't need to be. Elites had established their control so thoroughly, so completely, that poor residents did what was expected of them without hardly a thought. They didn't need to be threatened so rudely; their submission was complete.
Arguably, theorists like Lippmann see a similar phenomenon happening more broadly.
If you are deeply skeptical of the system, you might believe it to be set up intentionally to minimize the will of the people. In the States at least, our founding fathers were notoriously scared of giving "the people" too much power. They liked the idea of democracy, but also saw the flaws and dangers of pure democracy.
In Federalist 10, James Madison argued:
From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert result from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions.
To give equal power to all the people is to set yourself up for failure; to leave nothing to check "an obnoxious individual."
Again, there is something very reasonable in this argument. I've read enough stories about people being killed in Black Friday stampedes to know that crowds don't always act with wisdom. And yet, from Gaventa's argument I wonder – do the systems intended to check the madness of the crowd rather work to re-inforce power and inequity; making the nameless crowd just that more wild when an elite chooses to whip them into a frenzy?
Perhaps this system – democracy but not democracy – populism but not populism – is self-reinforcing; a poison that encourages the public – essentially powerless – to use what power they have to support those crudest of elites who prey on fear hatred to advance their own power.
As Lippmann writes in The Phantom Public, "the private citizen today has come to feel rather like a deaf spectator in the back row …In the cold light of experience he knows that his sovereignty is a fiction. He reigns in theory, but in fact he does not govern…"


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Shojo Movies of the Holidays
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Review: Still The Water (2014)
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I created this card for this week's Teapot Tuesday challenge at Splitcoast Stampers. This week our cards are heading to Texas for a sweet lady named Martha. Shortly after Thanksgiving, Martha and her husband decided to take a short, impromptu trip to New York with another couple. While they were there, Martha's husband said he didn't feel well. Moments later he died of a massive heart attack. Martha enjoys handmade cards, so the Teapotters will be showering her with our best thoughts and wishes as we mail our cards to her. We were encouraged to use fields of flowers or other peaceful nature scenes for our cards.
Stamp: Close as a Memory (Stampin' Up!)
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa, Memento New Sprout (Tsukineko)


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Deep breaths.
This is not you now.
Let's remember you standing in the tall grass with me
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Having chatting recently to people about upcoming vote on gay marriage I am quite taken aback at the number of nos I am hearing. So out of curiosity.. Yes or no or undecided?
It will be firm NO for me. Has nothing to do with homophobia or anything like that. My decision is based on the fact that this will be a legal rule that same sex families can raise kids. I do not agree on that. I think that for proper psychological and social development a child needs to see male and femal behavioral patterns. There are always unfortunate cases that some of you mention here: bio parents neglecting their kids, one of the parents (either father or mother) abandoning family and a child is raised by one parent... The world is not ideal and these things are not OK too, but I don't want such thing to be listed as a legal right.
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Holbycity, give it a few years, there'll be a referendum about that!
Just had a conversation with my 9 year old about the referendum. Her attitude is that if 2 gay people are in love they should be able to "just go for it. "She wondered why people wouldn't want gay marriage and I told her that people were worried about gay couples raising children and she thought it was a great idea cause " if you have 2 mothers you get brilliant dinners all the time and if you have 2 fathers you get to stay in your pajamas all the time".
Il be voting yes. I have been disapointed in the no sides campaign. No thought put into it at all. I like to try and see everyones view but all Ive seen from the no side is borderline hysterical rantings.
Dawntime - currently only an individual gay person can bear a child or adopt a child. Same sex couples can however foster children. I think once gay couples are afforded joint parental rights many more of them will feel more comfortable starting a family. Currently there is no protection there if a gay couple separate leaving the 'legal' parent holding the baby so to speak and I think some people/couples may be more wary of setting up family. If a heterosexual woman in a mixed sex relationship knew her partner could up and leave leaving her without protection of a family home or maintanance payments she may be much less likely to want to start a family or to have more than one child. Once however 'family rights' are in place same sex couples will have all the same protections as married couples currently have and I think a lot more of them will feel more comfortable about starting a family.
I'm not so sure about this point a lot of people are making about how they dont understand people whose lives it doesnt affect voting no. I think in a democracy whether or not something affects you this minute or not you are perfectly entitled to think about how you want the society you live in to operate and to state your own wishes for how you believe life should be led. Thats not wrong. I just wonder though about how if somebody were to vote no now because they didnt think same sex marriage was right for whatever reason and then one or more of their children turned out to be gay and they would see it from a totally different perspective - would they then stick by their beliefs and tell their gay children they just can never get married or would they wish they had thought more deeply about it and voted yes?
Re the 'what about the children' aspect. I've decided that frankly this is ONLY about children. There is no mention of them in the referendum of course but the natural follow on afterwards is going to be all about children. Who cares if gay people marry each other. It affects nobody but themselves really. Creating many many more 'legal' same sex parent families will provide more food for thought in future though ....and there will be more and more same sex families opting to have children definitely - so to be fair to those crying out 'What about the children' - I think they are spot on.
I don't care what anyone else does but it's getting to the stage where I nearly feel like the odd one out because I'm straight!!
I dont want them to be homosexual or to live in a polyamoury relationship Babychops,life is hard enough.
I dont want my dds picking up clothes and taking care of even one manchild never mind two.
I am beginning to think celibacy is the better option Dearie,maybe we could set up a service like Dominos pizza,our children can just order a takeaway partner to come with the pizza and coke and shove them out the door with the empty pizza box when they have had enough.
You can always drop the labrador off at the nearest rescue centre madre if the snoring and farting get too much for you,there isnt a facility like that for unwated dhs and if there was the place would be overflowing.
I will give you my dh and a labrador for a month and you can decide which one you want to keep.
Labradors are harder work than husbands! I'm guessing as I've never had a husband but had a totally crazy labrador!!
Does polyamory mean two husbands,no thanks if so,having to cope with one is bad enough sometimes.
Is it terrible to just hope my children are not homosexual and will just meet a nice man or woman to share their life with and have two children and a labrador.
Am I very staid and boring.
Babychops bringing up the argument about discrimination if you vote no, for the sake of argument and playing devils advocate.
If there was a referendum to legalise polygamy, ie the right to marry multiple partners, or if there was a referendum to allow people marry a close relative, and people decided to vote no and vote against in such referendums, would you view that as discrimination also too ?
Who are the 'winners' if you vote no? Who will celebrate? Who's life will it enrich?
Madre,if you start linking in abortion with this amendment,even mentioning them in the same breath this referendum will be lost.Most of the population dont care enough to find out what its all about and if they dont care enough to inform themselves they certainly wont bother voting.I havent had a single piece of information posted to me about this,is this deliberate so people wont vote.I certainly see no problem with men voting on abortion,its a dangerous road to start discriminating on gender.I also would like surrogacy and anonymous sperm donation made illegal and its good that this referendum has made people think about these methods of conception.I would be furious with my ds if he sold his sperm to strangers to make money,to my mind if he creates life he is responsible for that child.
That's exactly how I feel declansmum. There shouldn't even be a referendum on it imo...and the same with abortion.
Declansmum that's like saying men & women (past child bearing age) shouldn't vote in an abortion referendum, as it won't effect them. Most issues voted on don't effect everybody but everybody has the right to vote how they choose.
I havenever heard of those terms either cara28 and dont think looking them up will add anything to my life.Why are you so angry babychops .
No never heard of those terms. Sure there's a label for everything these days!
Wow what a sweeping statement to say people voting NO are haters. Two guys advocating a no vote on the lls were both gay. How does that fit into your view of No voters babychops?Btw I'm not decided yet before you start on me but I think the angst towards people because of their voting preference is unfair.
Its hilarious how liberal babychops thinks she is is and yet the No people are not allowed to express an opinion without being called homophobes and haters.Her last post is bizarre,who cares what anyone does in their bedrooms.
Will be voting No and im not doing so under any religious influence!!
Plus he's not actually alive right now so who knows what his views would have been?
No it's more than role models it's about the biological need to have a mother / father . I know that doesn't always happen and that's fine - I know great single parents , divorced etc but in an ideal case u have both and marriage is there as that ideal. I don't need to justify my decision. I can use my vote as I see fit as you can yours. I am still very undecided. My reasons for a yes vote - Believe it or not I have many gay friends and I hate to see them discriminated against or their relationships thought of as less valid. I even know 2 wonderful mums bringing up their kids together and they are a lovely family. I also hate the religious fanatics on the no side. But I do have reservations that I have tried to express here. Time for me to sign out of this thread as I am just going round in circles! But it has helped me see the bigger picture and I am gonna think really hard on it and hopefully have a decision made by the 22nd.
Rosegold when I saw lightning was already taken as a username , I picked Light7ening instead.
Short documentary from youtube.
Aftermath of same sex marriage in Massachusetts .
Splendid as one biological parent will be unknown I don,t think sperm donation should be allowed in any case.
Ade, adoption and assisted human human reproduction are to do with this referendum , as Irish constitution article ARTICLE 41/3.1 gives the right of married couples to found a family, which will apply to same sex couples if the referendum passes.
Eval the facebook photo I posted I bookmarked that link someone posted it on twitter , I don,t follow the page itself, but since you tried to compare same sex marriage with civil rights, Bernice King daughter of Martin Luther King said in her very own words.
/ King has in the past said her father "did not take a bullet for same-sex marriage/
Babychops - "Light7ening, are you any relation to the poster formerly known as Lightening ?" - it's probably just a happy coincidence lol...
The former poster was narrow minded too....
It's not that you don't accept the other scenarios you mentioned sparkling or that kids in those situations don't thrive but the idea is that you are institutionalising a union that in its very nature immediately denies the children involved either a mother or father. We hold marriage as an ideal , something with status. By saying yes to gay marriage we are holding that union with the same status and as an ideal for society. But many people cannot accept that as an ideal concept as it immediately denies a mother/father. Humans in their very nature crave a biological connection, and crave a mother and father - 2 mothers / fathers may be wonderful but won't be the same as it is in our nature to need a role model of each. Do we want to hold up gay unions as an ideal for society and as the example of an ideal family scenario? This line of argument is considered relevant as marriage and parenthood / family are intertwined in the constitution .
And once again children especially adopted children and through egg/spem donation are being brought into this thread -NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS REFERENDUM. Suggest those of you with concerns around these issues set up a seperate thread in which to insult your fellow RCers who have become parents though either of these routes . talk to same sex couple who have attempted to adopt , they may get approval in this country but will struggle to find a country to adopt from but of course the HSE is very happy to have them as foster parents in fact between gay couple and singles there are huge numbers of children who would otherwise be in care , in happy loving families.
Holby city I think it is stating the bleeding obvious that you are voting No along with your alter ego Light7ning who has linked us to an endless number of spurious articles none of which relate to the Vote . The two? of ye shoudl keep on posting cos ye are doing a great job on behlaf of the Yes vote ! Now I am off to make some tea for my fatherless internationally adopted daughter !!
Myerson, I agree that there are massive questions to be asked around foreign adoption, surrogacy and egg/sperm donation. This doesn't seem to have been done with regards hetrosexual couples and single people. At least bringing gay couples into the equation is making people think about these issues but they should be asking about these subjects in the broader context of all couples and not just gay couples. Eg: if you object to a lesbian couple using sperm donation because the child will be raised without a father then by extension a single woman shouldn't usea sperm bank eeither. In fact by extension sperm and egg donation should not be allowed at all to any couple as one biological parent is unknown. Is this what you are suggesting Ligh7ning?
The question of surrogacy and adoption particularly international adoption should not be linked into whether gay people can marry or not.Many gay people are probably not interested in having a family anyway.
We do now need to look at surrogacy and ask the uncomfortable questions.Who are the surrogates and are they providing their wombs of free choice.Are they being treated properly and if they are doing it for money are they paid enough.
Re international adoption,is this a choice for wealthy people only,how much money is changing hands and who is the money going to.Are those involved in the adoptions in other jurisdictions vetted and is it a free informed choice for a mother to give her baby up.Would it not be better to provide finance from richer countries to enable these babies to be placed with families in the country in which they are born rather than being brought to grow up in a racist country such as Ireland.
These are questions that neeed to be asked and are nothing to do with the rights of homosexual couples.
Eval I fail to see any comparison between the civil rights in the 1960s vs the strugglfor same sex marriage rights, this picture tackles the comparison to the civil rights argument.
Babychops when I saw lightning was already taken as a username , I picked Light7ening instead.
In reply to spidermam There is a key difference if a kid loses one a parent or doesn,t see one of them as much if the parents breakup by circumstance, as couples break up all the time its a fact of life, vs the creation by deliberate design of motherless or fatherless families by allowing same sex couples the right to adopt or the right to use assited human reproduction.
Part of the reason I mentioned marrying a number of people, The british green party who helped legalise same sex marriage in the uk have come out and said they would be open to legalising a three way marriage, when boundaries change to allow for same sex marriage/same sex adoption , what else also gets changed becomes open to question.
Also the case I pointed out to from Thailand in an earlier post of 3 men marrying in a threeway same sex marriage , now the line of argument of extending the right of same sex couples to marry under the guise of equality, if its just about equality, why not also extend the right to marry multiple partners also if its just about equality?
Equality to marry a number of people? Equality to marry a sibling?
You have now lost the arguement cause that is just a stupid arguement.
As for surrogacy and sperm/egg donation - this happens for straight couples and there are certainly question marks on how to deal with it in the best interest of the child be the parents straight or gay.
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It's been such a long time since I blogged here, I lost my craft mojo for a long while as I had other, personal things to deal with. I'm slowly getting back into the swing of knitting and spinning again.
So, here are a few things I would like to show you that I've been working on over the past few weeks:
Firstly what's on my wheel right now:
I'm spinning it very fine using my Ashford Traveller wheel. This will be a 2 ply yarn when finished, it's fairly slow progress but I'm enjoying the it! I love the greens, interspersed with tiny hits of black and white here and there.
I rediscovered a lot of things I had forgotten I had.
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I bought this fibre in England recently. It was pre bagged and sold as merino so I couldn't fondle it in the shop, but I don't think it's merino, it feels and acts more like a fine corriedale combed top.
I bought it because I loved the colours in it ~ it's called Renaissance. Hard to see on a photograph but there are multiple shades running through it. I really enjoyed spinning this:
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Spun on my Ashford Traveller wheel.
It was the dirtiest thing I have ever seen and I almost threw it all away. I test washed a couple of locks and they came up nice and clean, surprisingly the locks felt soft and fluffy. So I picked out the best 2 kg of fibre and threw away a further 4.8 kg so it must have been a big sheep that grew this one!
I had to give the fleece a very good soak, in fact multiple soaks but the washed fleece came up very clean, white and bouncy. Some parts of the fleece have a bit of yellow staining on them but that doesn't matter as I'm going to dye this when it's spun anyway.
The picture shows from back to front ~ unwashed locks, washed locks and combed nests. This is something I'm working on when I get the urge to do something different in between other projects. Sometimes a bit of fibre prep is the only thing that cuts the mustard for me.
So it's been a few quite productive weeks for me. I have also knit something out of my hand dyed yarn, but I can't show it here just yet as it's for a Ravelry swap.
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If you were to draw your view of a hipster, what would you sketch up? You'd probably imagine the hipster in a coffee shop, wearing a winter hat on the back of his head in the August heat, generally thinking he's more refined that you culturally, musically, and spiritually. The hipster means well, his values and intents aren't malicious, but the hipster's unearned condescension is where he's gained a bad rap. No one who hasn't showered in a week should be that comfortable talking down to someone.
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- BiBi said...
I like those!
Hubby likes me to wear dresses in the summer time, I do too, but running around after two boys is a bit hard with a dress.
Imagine me riding a bike in a dress LOL!
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If I had your figure I would just walk around naked. All day.
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This little hero was laid to rest by those he idolized most, his favorite superheroes.
8-year-old Jeremiah JJ Duval first met the humble heroes, a group of volunteers who dress up as superheroes to surprise kids at hospitals and schools, during one of their visits.
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The May 2011 issue of UCity is out in print. I am in print! When I was asked to do the Fuss Free packing article, I was super-psyched!
Visiting boutiques and stores to coordinate outfits for models. Writing about what to pack and how to pack it. Envisioning each vacation. My first 'official' article! I had a lot of fun and was overloaded with information and products. So much that I could not possibly fit everything into the article.
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REI is a great resource for travel footwear (stylish yet functional and comfortable pieces). However, since the submission of the article, I discovered the new Crocs. I am in LOVE!!Available for all members of the family with a million fashionable styles, Crocs are finally (in my opinion) worth wearing. I can't possibly tell you about all of my favorites but I will share about the Adrina Flat (which I own): The cutest most comfortable and untraditional jelly in the world!! Check out the lightweight and odor-resistant Crocs Spring/Summer 2011 collection here. Then head to a kiosk at Northlake Mall or places like Dick's Sporting Goods, Sports Authority, even Macy's to get your favorite pairs!
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About three years ago, I'm sitting in a Starbucks trying to write a sermon, and no words are coming to my mind. The message just won't come together. The problem was that while I'm trying to write a sermon God felt like he was a million miles away, and I had no map to find him. I thought, I'm a pastor. If anybody is supposed to have it all figured out spiritually, it's supposed to be a pastor, but I was stuck in a spiritual rut. It didn't seem to matter what I did.
When I read my Bible, I would get nothing. When I prayed, God felt distant. I'm paid to go to church. So Sunday mornings felt more like a job than a joy. God felt like a friend that had moved to another state, and we just didn't talk as often anymore. God seemed silent.
Maybe you find yourself in a similar position today. At one time your relationship with God was thriving. You loved spending time with Jesus. You enjoyed His church. Prayer was just common practice for you. The scriptures came alive every time you read them, but now that once thriving relationship feels like it's hanging on by a thread because God feels silent. The question I asked myself three years ago and the question you probably are asking yourself right now is, "what do I do when God feels silent?" I'm not sure I have all of the answers to that question, but let me share with you what I have learned.
Stop and listen.
I was sharing about my spiritual rut with a pastor friend of mine, and he asked me when was the last time I took a break. I couldn't remember. I hadn't had time to stop, and because I wouldn't stop I couldn't hear what God was trying to teach me. It was almost as if God was saying, "If you will stop speaking so much, you might be able to hear what I am trying to tell you." I had to stop and actually listen.
You probably need to do the same. The greatest hindrance to your spiritual life might very well be your busyness. Take a lunch break, and go to a park. Wake up a little bit earlier and have some time with God where you just listen. Go on a walk and leave your phone in the car. While you pause from your normal routine, just listen. I would guess that God isn't as far away as you think he is. You just have been too busy to listen to him. It's not always busyness though that makes God feel silent. Sometimes it's something else entirely. This leads us to the second point.
Do you have sin you need to confess?
Recently I heard a book being discussed called "Everybody Lies." The author took a look at data gathered through social media and web searches. He noticed that people's search history gives us an insight into what is really going on in their mind. As you hear about the findings in this book, you learn how gross people can really be with the privacy of the Internet. There are all of these sins that people engage in that they might not otherwise do if other people knew. This also led me to think about sin in my own life and others' life, and you need to understand, nothing will create distance between you and God faster than secret sins in your life.
The distance between God and yourself might have been created by the sin in your life. Sin puts up a wall between you and God. The only way that wall comes down is if we confess to God what is going on in our life. We seek his help, wisdom, and guidance to walk us out of our sin. I know that was heavy few sentences to read, but God wants what is best for you. He knows that sin is never what's best. God might just be silent because you have been stiff arming him, but what if we put our arms down, and let him lovingly lead us to a better future.
When God feels silent we need to pursue him all the more. We need to confess our sin, and we need to step away from the noise of this world so we can actually hear him speak. James 4:8 says, "Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you." Maybe the problem wasn't God. Maybe you and I are the problem, and we need to draw near to God. If we will listen, he will speak. So start listening today
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So we were only there for 1 day, and in the middle had to run through the second story of the house/palace/mansion to the bathroom. I was as always, trying to take a ton of photos to document the whole of our time in Russia. Because that's what mothers do, they take photos and ignore everything else that's going on.
Here is Sergey and Larisa, and the bags that we toted on a constant basis. We are trying to determine which image of the train is the best image to amaze Loki with.
These were placards, that displayed images, from early films made in Soviet Russia. 1917 was the year that the country tipped into communism, or socialism or marxism. Some -ism, the images of the posters are pretty amazing, as to what they are trying to sell as a film.
For instance here is a lady, sitting in her oriental style window (or not) with a octopus devouring the city, (or not) maybe it's just moving around, looking for a cool place to hang his tentacles. The lady, she's just relaxing, maybe she's alerted to the incoming tentacle attack. The first word is stolisomething or such. I never really did learn Russian well enough to read signs. I did learn the word for sit, sadiz, and yest, eat.
Here are some of the designs of the city of Saint Petersburg initially. I think, since it's Russian History museum, but with a focus on Saint Petersburg. Moscow is a mess within itself.
Here's the special things about Russian Museums, people. People who are dressed and hanging out doing types of activities, such as driving early style Russian horseless carriages. That look on his face is just priceless. Fear frozen in time, he was trying to honk his horn and let people know, "look out! I am riding my Horseless Carriage my modern machine! " Beep Beep!
This model/statue/taxidermied early car driver has feet and shoes and hands. It's creepy! Loki is only slightly scared of these. When we went to the military museum same concept, they even had those Knights amour stand things. He was pretty darn scared of those and wouldn't come near them.
Here I am looking out the second story window towards another palace/mansion/building for something. What are these buildings for?! I could never quite determine because something in the Mordashev family blood just refuses to allow strangers to a foreign country the time to enjoy their surroundings. Or really listen to those talking paddles they give you in the language you speak so that you can fully understand your surroundings.
But this I can totally understand, history of toiletry in the country of Russia. Here is a sitting toilet, and a mans standing toilet thing. So that's worth noting. And look at those copper flushes! Toilets!
Here is typical late 19th, early 20th century housing in Russia. Here's a list of things that have changed, literally nothing. Maybe more people have television these days.
Here's Loki handling the "doll house". It has a plexiglass over it, so that you don't manhandle the small items in the house. It also has a lady security guard who will pounce so fast on you, you won't have a chance to tell your child that he isn't supposed to touch the plexiglass.
Here we are trying to quickly explain to Loki that he can't touch something that people have had their hands all over for the time it was made.
A closer detail of the "doll house" again nothing much has changed from when these buildings were initially made. While this had more details, there were still Anteka every where (actually pronounce Apteka) and ladies clothing stores. The majority of the time, 99.7 percent of the time, ground floors of apartment buildings have retail stores, or restaurants. The stores ranged from pharmacies, to pet stores, to honey stores.
Here are some smoking advertisements that were on display in Russia. This one seemed exceptionally Racist for some reason. Though I could never put my finger on what made it inappropriate. Maybe because I can't read what the sign says.
Here is the cigarette advertisement above the the previous advertisement. What I enjoy the most about this one is the young man child smoking behind the old man. Poza is the word on the top. Because I am not really sure how to read Russian. There is so much going on with these smoking advertisements. I can't explain to you how inexpensive it is to smoke in Russia, (less than a dollar a pack sometimes, and it's not the crappy smokes) how many people smoke, and how accepted it is to smoke. The Marlboro company is still using the image of a cowboy to sell cigarettes. So that's horrible!


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I just sat down to dinner in Azeb's restaurant in Abi Adi. Although the dusk is lending some additional light, there is only one bare light bulb illuminating the large room. There is also one stereo speaker playing the typical saxophone-dominated Ethiopian pop music. The whole dining room slants a bit because the ground wasn't graded level before the concrete was poured. It's not too jarring, but is enough to make you notice it and feel like you are eating in some sort of bizarre Dr. Seuss house. At least there's concrete floors in this restaurant, unlike most of the competition in this town. As I look up at the ceiling I can see tiny pin pricks of the sky through old nail holes in the sheet metal. The metal veneer is supported by gnarly, but strong, eucalyptus twigs – reminiscent of Gandalf's magic staff.
I'm sitting at one of the 9 tables in the room, waiting for my usual order to go through, and sharing the mutual company of a few other Ethiopians. I ordered a beer and a plate of babayonettoo, the standard vegetarian food served every "fasting" day on Wednesday and Friday. It's a big piece of injera served on a pizza tray sized plate with a bunch of veggie stews and salads on top. It's probably my favorite thing to eat in Abi Adi right now because of the variety of flavors and ingredients. There is no written menu here. I just heard the waitress explain to another patron that today you can only order babayonettoo or shorro, the other staple of the Ethiopian diet, made from ground up chickpeas. Throughout the whole week there are about a dozen different things to eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I like all of them, but the options are limited. My order was taken by the waitress who then immediately shouted it at the hole in the wall that leads to the outdoor kitchen so the cooks can prepare it. "Helen! Hanti babayonettoo!!!"
She brings over my beer. Next she brings out my massive plate of food. It's easy for the kitchen to serve this dish up quickly because they've spent the last day or two cooking all the different stews, so when an order comes in all they have to do is ladle out a spoonful of each type of "wat." The waitress grabs the salt and vinegar from another guy's table – hopefully he's done using it – and seasons the salad in the middle of my plate. There is only one salt shaker in the restaurant today.
I inhale the food, using the injera as a spoon/napkin and my hand as the shovel. There's a sink in the corner which is thankfully used by everyone prior to eating. This one even has soap today, an extra bonus. My friend Allison says that I eat babayonetoo like an Ethiopia since I eat all of it, quickly. I guess that's a compliment? Throughout my meal, I pause to drink my Dashen beer, and look around. I notice that there is a huge tree trunk along one of the walls of the restaurant. You can't see the tree's canopy because of the sheet metal roof, only the trunk, which has been nonchalantly painted blue, just like the rest of the wall. The tree pretends to be a wall, just like I'm pretending to be an Ethiopian. We both suck at it. I can hear a baby crying in the compound next door to the kitchen. I finish my meal and beer and pay 32 birr for the whole thing – about 1 dollar and 75 cents. Cheap but excellent! Just another day living the dream right?


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Top 5 US Celebrity Home Investments This Summer
Celebrities are making some hot moves in US real estate markets. We see how these A-Listers' investments stack up.
Published on 11 August 2017
Celebrities are making some hot moves in US real estate markets. We see how these A-Listers' investments stack up.
Published on 11 August 2017
There's been a plethora of activity in celebrity home investments in the US throughout this summer. From retro masterpieces in Malibu to a book bindery in Manhattan, celebrities have been buying and selling some of the finest properties in the US. We take a look into their homes and discover how savvy of property investors they really are.
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The famous John Launter 1968 "Stevens' House" has been purchased by actor Edward Norton for US$11.8 million. Located in Malibu Colony, one of the prime residential neighbourhoods in Southern California, this unique property features 3,366 square feet of wood and concrete built to resemble waves.
The celebrity-popular community is gated and offers the perfect lifestyle for those who want a low-key escape from the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles. With five-bedrooms and five-bathrooms, Norton will have plenty of room for entertaining family and friends. And when the Italian Job actor fancies a cool down in the chilly waters of the Pacific Ocean, a short walk is all that stands in his way as the home sits on 37-feet of sandy beach. Stevens' House last changed hands in 2007 for US$13.8 million, a considerable US$2 million more than today's price tag. Two years later, it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Staying in Malibu for our next property, Gregory J. Bonann has put his Las Flores Beach, Baywatch-inspired coastal mansion on the market. As co-creater of the famous lifeguard-lifestyle television program, it's only fitting that the 7,841-square-foot property be located right on the beach. In typical Malibu style, it features four floors and idyllic sunset views. What sets this four-bedroom, four-bathroom home apart is its exposed wood ceilings and hardwood floors throughout, as well as a built-in sand garden with a grotto spa. The estate originally featured an additional property, though this was sold in 2012 for US$5.25 million and now, only the main home is for sale. The property was purchased by Bonann in 1992 for a mere US$835,000. Not a bad 25-year investment.
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Meg Ryan sold her New York City loft for a staggering US$9.85 million this summer. Located in Soho, the 4,100 square-foot, three-bedroom, three-bathroom home went for US$1.05 million more than she bought it for. Having a keen eye for detail, Ryan chose interior designer Monique Gibson to completely redo the loft's interior, which led to the home being featured in Architectural Digest.
The interior plays on a nice blend of dark and light fixtures. Large black French doors and glass windows allow a lot of light to flow through the living space. However, our favourite room is the master bathroom, which is surrounded in tiles and has a free-standing tub as its centre piece.
Where is she off to next? That would be the now-famous 443 Greenwich Street in Tribeca, where the Sleepless in Seattle actress purchased a nearly US$9.4 million, three-bedroom apartment.
Rebel Wilson also joins Meg Ryan and nearly every other celebrity on the planet with her recent US$2.95 million purchase at 443 Greenwich Street in NYC. Like the rest of her fellow Hollywood starlets, Wilson has nabbed her two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment for quite a steal considering that, according to StreetEasy, the original asking price was US$3.99 million.
Built in 1882, 443 Greenwich Street was previously a book bindery that has now been meticulously converted into the ultimate luxury property in Tribeca. Wilson's NYC home is 1,343 square feet and situated in a building that boasts a host of amenities, including a gated entrance with underground valet parking, a secret garden, lap pool, roof deck, fitness centre, and a whole lot of storage for everything from wine to bikes. With so much to offer, we doubt Wilson will want to leave 443 Greenwich Street when she's calling the Big Apple home.
The Game of Thrones star recently put her five-bedroom, four-and-a-half-bathroom, mid-century Sherman Oaks home up for sale. The approximately 2,992-square-foot property was fully remodelled by the actress after she moved into the home in 2014. The stylish abode features an open-plan kitchen and gorgeous oak flooring that was reclaimed and arranged in a herringbone pattern. The backyard has its very own saltwater swimming pool, outdoor shower and plenty of entertaining space, perfect for soaking up the Southern California sunshine. While the front entrance is gated to provide an extra level of privacy and security. Headey purchased the home for US$790,000. While her remodelling costs have not been revealed, it seems she's due to make a sizeable return on investment.
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His Excellency (H.E.) Ali Eissa Al Nuaimi, Director General of the Department of Economic Development – Ajman (DED-Ajman) successfully conducted a series of inspections of 'Tasheel' Centres located in the emirate. During the visit, the Director General emphasized on the important role played by the 'Tasheel' Centres in the move to provide key services to clients and enhance communication ties as a means to further develop business procedures and maintain strong coordination ties with partners in Ajman. Also present during the series of inspections were H.E. Abdullah Bin Naser Al Nuaimi, Assistant Director General for Economic Registration and Control and several officials from DED-Ajman.
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Al-Nuaimi reviewed the challenges facing the officials at the centres and discussed ways on how to address these challenges. He was also briefed about the important work carried out by the 'Tasheel' Centres during the last period. At the end of the visit, the Director General addressed the need to provide the best services to clients–reflecting the positive and civil image of the department in particular and the government entities of Ajman in general.