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Len Row's Life Journey
Len Orvis Row chose to "Die with Dignity" on a sunny summer day surrounded by friends and the exceptional medical staff at Whitehorse General Hospital (July 25, 2018). The number of loving friends who visited Len at home and in the hospital over the last two months was a testament to the affection, admiration and high esteem that people had for them.
Named Helen Row at birth, they decided in 2015 to gender retire. Helen became Len and chose "they" and "them" for personal pronouns. This was an important lifetime milestone for them.
Born in Montreal to Judith Orvis White and Robert K. Row, Len was an accomplished athlete and played basketball on the Ontario provincial team and in the Canada Games. They moved to Western Canada in the early 1980s where the mountains and oceans ignited an increased sense of freedom and adventure. Len also took advantage of the move to explore their identity, which was lesbian at the time. Their keen love of the outdoors grew and lasted throughout Len's life.
Some of Len's greatest gifts were their humour and to-the-point social observations. Their sharp and accurate social analysis, full of wit and creative expression, was entertaining and provided for engaging dialogue. It was always wonderful to hear Len's trademark deep and full-hearted laughter.
Len's backcountry skiing expertise was extensive. They often led ski trips and generously shared their knowledge with friends and the greater ski community. Len worked on ski and avalanche patrol at several ski areas including Cypress and Manning Park in BC. On winter days, Len spent much of their time ski touring and cross-country skiing in British Columbia and later in the Yukon. Len's signature trail-breaking and strong yet graceful telemark turns will not be forgotten.
Starting in the 1980s, Len and the "Swish Sisters", a group of zany friends who loved playing in the snow, went on numerous self-guided ski trips, often helicoptering into remote mountain cabins. The "sisters" delighted in turning in powder snow, steep tree skiing and alpine bowls. These trips took them to many remote areas in the Canadian Rockies, Cariboo Mountains, BC Coast Ranges and Interior Mountains. While skiing was what brought the Swish Sisters together, the group also enjoyed preparing (and eating) gourmet meals, loved dress-up parties and built wild toboggan runs to zoom down!
Snow and land were not Len's only playgrounds. They spent several summers teaching and guiding kayak groups on the BC coast through Ecomarine, a Vancouver-based company. Their knowledge and skills enhanced many people's appreciation for the sport and the ecology of the ocean.
Community involvement was also important to Len. They served on the Board of Directors of the Yukon Queer Alliance Film Festival in Whitehorse. Their volunteer work was important to the queer community, allies and All-Genders Yukon. Len's compassion for other peoples' life difficulties was seen in action and felt in the support they provided. Len even drove the Queer Yukon truck that headed up the yearly Pride Parade in Whitehorse, and often dressed in fantastic costumes.
Len lived in Vancouver BC for 26 years and 8 years in the Yukon. They pursued occupations in outdoor leadership, tree planting, landscaping and horticulture. They completed their
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certification and later in life trained as a Health Care Assistant, working with the elderly at care homes in Whitehorse. Travel highlights included trips to Guatemala, Mexico, Thailand and biking in Ireland.
Len's last trips included hikes with their dog Spark to Kluane National Park, Carcross YT, and along the scenic trails in Whitehorse. Len's previous dog, Macks, was by their side for many years before Spark. Both canine companions loved walks along the bluff near Len's home. Spark was adopted in July by a longtime friend, Marg, in Guelph, ON and has now adapted to cottage life by the lake.
Len is predeceased by their mother and father, Judith and Robert Row. Len's surviving family includes: Victoria Row of Calgary AB, Stephen (Patricia) Row and their children, Jessica and Andrew of New Hamburg ON, and Cynthia Row, also of Calgary.
Friends and family will be busy scattering Len's ashes for a while as their request includes the beautiful outdoor environments that Len loved so much in four provinces and territories, as well as the family plot in Ontario.
Among Len's greatest gifts to their friends were the courage and equanimity with which they faced their death from cancer. May Len's gratitude and generosity be a model to us all.
Donations in honour of Len can be made to the Whitehorse charities: Skookum Jim Friendship Centre, Blood Ties Four Directions Centre, and the Food Bank Society of Whitehorse.
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Meet 15 local companies helping to redefine modern manufacturing
By Martin Cash
\With a population of only 1.34 million people, spread across a landmass more than two-and-a-half times the size of the entire United Kingdom, Manitoba does not exactly fit the mold of a global manufacturing hotbed.
Sure, the province has coastal access — albeit through the isolated Port of Churchill, which is in a deep freeze eight months of the year — and its capital, Winnipeg, is a short, 80-minute drive to one of the busiest commercial U.S. border crossings west of the Ambassador Bridge, but its isolation in the geographic centre of Canada, coupled with the fact it has no major resource development sector to serve as a catalyst, has stacked the odds against it.
Yet, Manitoba endures. Home to one of the most diversified regional economies in the country, Manitoba's manufacturing base accounts for $19.8 billion in annual sales — a 23 per cent increase over a decade ago — as well as 61,700 jobs. That's roughly one out of every 10 throughout the province. It also plays host to Canada's third-largest aerospace sector, North America's premier bus manufacturer, and an agricultural ecosystem that spans food processing to farm implements, including the nation's last remaining tractor assembly plant.
If you jump in a car, however, you don't need to drive far to see that Manitoba manufacturing is much more than the 'usual suspects.' In fact, it is leading the new manufacturing revolution — a hub for value-added innovation, technological advancement, global commerce, and industrial entrepreneurship.
Here are 15 local enterprises — some new, and some that have been around the block once or twice — that are leading the charge:
Pollard Banknote
Winnipeg, MB
Unless you live in Barrhead, Alberta or Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario (where the company has two other Canadian production facilities), chances are not too many folks outside of Manitoba have heard of Pollard Banknote.
Listed on the TSX and still family-run since its inception, Pollard Banknote is the second-largest instant win lottery ticket printer on the continent. It services 60 lotteries worldwide, with 1,300 employees operating out of five locations — approximately 600 of which are headquartered in Winnipeg.
In 2018, the company made a couple of strategic acquisitions, including a ticket vending machine company, and is now working to expand its digital lottery ticket offering.
Winnipeg, MB
If you look at it the right way, Conviron can tell you a lot about how the Manitoba economy functions.
There is an obvious agricultural underpinning to the business's target market: Agronomical research activities. Now in its sixth decade of operation, Conviron has developed specialized, niche technologies that facilitate optimized plant growth in controlled environments. Its equipment is used by agri-food companies and university-based scientists in 60 countries.
In 2013, Conviron acquired Argus Controlled Systems in Langley, B.C., which — as it turns out — has become a market leader in technology for the burgeoning cannabis industry.
Canada West Boots
Winnipeg, MB
This 40-year-old, third-generation Winnipeg footwear manufacturing business has few peers in the country. It had a brief growth spurt making boots for the Canadian Armed Forces last decade, but has successfully transitioned from work boots to casual wear, and now its 50 employees stitch and stamp out about 200 pairs of boots per day.
It is the largest company of its size in Western Canada and one of the only around using the 'Goodyear welt process' of sewing the upper materials to the sole rather than gluing.
GORP Clean Energy Bars & Mixes
Niverville, MB
Colleen Dyck could be the poster child for do-it-yourself entrepreneurialism in manufacturing.
From her family farm, the former triathlete designed an energy bar that worked best for her training. Then, her peers, neighbours, and many others started asking for it. Without originally intending to, it has grown into a thriving enterprise, and Dyck has become a charming advocate for women entrepreneurs across the country, as well as a rising star amongst a new crop of Manitoba food processors.
In 2016, Dyck was honoured with the Mompreneur Award of Excellence.
RTDS Technologies
Winnipeg, MB
This is one of those companies that operates 'below the radar' locally, but punches above its weight class in the international arena.
RTDS stands for real-time digital simulator. In this case, RTDS makes specialized computer hardware and software that allows electrical power system operators to simulate system performance and interactions before, during, and after an electrical system event.
Developed by the Manitoba HVDC Research Centre in the early 1990s, the technology was licensed by the five engineer-partners who have created a highly specialized success story that now boasts 400 installations across 40 countries, with a staff of roughly 70 that has generated $500 million in revenue.
Its iconic headquarter building sits on stilts over a retention pond at the Smartpark on the University of Manitoba's Fort Garry campus.
Carberry, MB
With its obvious advantages in proximity to the agriculture industry, there has been a long-standing recognition that there is a massive opportunity in Manitoba in the field of nutraceuticals and functional foods.
MSPrebiotic is an example of that potential. The company, founded by potato farmer brothers Earl and Derek McLaren, has developed a patented process to produce a natural digestion-resistant starch from locally grown potatoes.
MSPrebiotic, with the clever marketing tagline Healthy is a Gut Feeling, is a flavourless, single-ingredient prebiotic fibre supplement that leads to improved gut health, and is gluten-free, caffeine-free, and contains no GMOs.
Friesens Corp.
Altona, MB
Friesens has been successfully competing with global printing companies from Hong Kong to New York for more than 110 years.
The Altona-based business prints about 20 million books annually, including best-selling works such as the Harry Potter series and the beloved children's classic Love You Forever by Robert Munsch.
Friesens is now entirely owned by its 600-plus employees. Constant investments in efficiency and diversification have propelled the company to nearly $100 million in revenue each year, including from relatively new sources such as school yearbooks.
Clearly, the death of the book has been greatly exaggerated.
North Forge Technology Exchange
Winnipeg, MB
Okay, okay — this one isn't necessarily a manufacturer per se, but it does play a unique and mounting role in the sector.
In addition to operating as an economic development agency focused on growing start-ups, North Forge runs the largest fabrication lab in North America. The non-profit organization has built a workplace, open to all with a small membership fee, jammed with an array of 3D printing, laser-cutting, CNC, plasma-cutting, and vacuum-forming equipment that has become the breeding ground for future manufacturers and current prototyping.
This past October, North Forge received the Community of the Year Award from Startup Canada.
Fort Garry Fire Trucks
Winnipeg, MB
Canadian towns and cities may only buy approximately 600 fire trucks a year, but Fort Garry Fire Trucks makes sure it is in the bidding for each one, shipping about 125 annually.
The largest manufacturer of fire-fighting apparatus in the country, the 100-employee firm makes 20 different models, offering 5,000 different options. It has been in the business for a century, and will be here for plenty more after building a brand new, multimillion-dollar production facility five years ago.
Winnipeg, MB
Much has been made of French, triple-A video game maker Ubisoft's decision to open a studio in Winnipeg. While it is only one of many it operates in roughly 30 countries, Ubisoft has been adamant that the choice of Winnipeg as its newest locale was because of a competitive need to access a stable, loyal workforce. It intends to hit 100 employees in five years, and believes its $35 million investment will form the bedrock for a growing game development industry in the province.
Ubisoft's value-added products, created by transforming inputs using both digital and manual processes, is a significant departure in considering the traditional definition of what is and isn't 'manufacturing.'
FXR Racing
Oak Bluff, MB
Over the past 23 years, adventure enthusiast Milt Reimer has built what is now the largest global brand in snowmobile apparel. Most recently, FXR has also conquered the motocross world, with some of the top riders in North America now featuring the bold colour-block FXR designs that are incorporated into the most functional technical garments the sport has ever seen.
With several years of high, double-digit growth, and around $50 million in sales, FXR has embraced a 'value comes home' business model, whereby much of the production is migrated overseas, but where the high-value careers — from distribution and logistics control to marketing and management — remain local.
Bee Maid Honey
Winnipeg, MB
BeeMaid Honey has arguably attained the level of public awareness most successful consumer brands can only dream of. The Winnipeg-based Prairie producer co-op is the largest honey company in Canada.
With producer-members in all four western provinces, it runs its sales and marketing operation out of Winnipeg, where it also operates one of two packaging centres (the other in Spruce Grove, Alberta). In 2019, Bee Maid turns 65 years old and is now responsible for 30 per cent of all honey produced nationwide.
HyLife Foods
Neepawa, MB
This locally-owned, private company could be one of Manitoba's largest benefactors of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) that Canada has entered into with 10 other countries.
HyLife recently completed a $176 million expansion and renovation of its Neepawa pork plant, where it processes more than 1.75 million hogs per year. The investment was to ensure it will be able to produce the kind of fresh chilled pork cuts that are exploding in demand across Japan, China, Mexico, and South Korea.
Stony Mountain, MB
Talk about flying amongst the clouds.
With a client list that spans 85 countries and includes industry giants like NASA, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman, MicroPilot is a global pioneer in the development of autopilot systems for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones.
The company is situated on a 40-acre test facility a short, 30-minute drive from Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport. This past June, MicroPilot announced it had received a $2 million contribution towards a $5 million project aimed at demonstrating a level of software reliability that allows regulators to permit UAVs to operate safely over populated cities and towns.
Bausch Health
Steinbach, MB
Bausch Health is Canada's largest publicly-traded pharmaceutical company. Its 24-hour, five-day-a-week production facility in Steinbach is the company's most expansive in North America, and is responsible for the manufacture of all its controlled-release products.
Each year, the facility produces and packages approximately 1.2 billion tablets or capsules of 12 different kinds of medications, which are sold worldwide to treat pain, high blood pressure, and depression.

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Businesses owned by women and minorities are vital to Canada's economic prosperity. Diverse, well-developed supply chains can help these companies reduce costs, enhance innovation, successfully integrate acquired businesses, and reach new markets. However, many of these businesses have had difficulty gaining access to the supply chains of leading Canadian businesses and government organizations. Reinforcing this challenge is the fact that the benefits of diverse supply chains are not widely known in Canada, even though they create a win-win opportunity for both the supplier and the producer.
Supplier diversity programs offer these enterprises the opportunity to grow through access to new or expanding supply chains. However, the growth of these programs in Canada has been slow. This briefing aims to advance supplier diversity in Canada by developing an evidence-based business case that can be used to raise awareness about the benefits of diverse, well-developed supply chains, which are vital for businesses and Canada's economic prosperity.
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Walking Home (Again) is a gallery based performance. It is an exhibition after a walk from a house I lived in in London to a house I was born in to in St. Gallen, Switzerland. It is a performance and an installation in the wake of my fathers death, and it is a performance about pilgrimage, loss and grief, it is about the distance between here and there, and the distance between me and you.
Walking Home (Again) is a solo-show by the artist, pedestrian and writer Bram Thomas Arnold. It is an exhibition of a number of outcomes of research following on from a journey Bram undertook in 2009, setting out to walk from his home at the time in Hackney, East London, back to the house he was born into near the town of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
A significant part of the exhibition is a performance entitled Fondue, which takes place during the run of the show within the gallery space. Fondue is a performance and a dinner party, it is 1kg of melted cheese and a side order of Bierre Picon that is woven through a series of stories that grew out of the path from London to St. Gallen. The performance is about finding the universal in the personal and the personal in the universal, narrating a sense of loss that is widely felt and desperately hidden in contemporary Western society. A 2 hour conversation about death and what it might mean for life as we live it, Walking Home (Again) and its integral performance is about creating a space that is warm, and stumbling and slightly awkward where together, audience, artist, individuals can come to terms with loss and losing, and ultimately finding hope, straining for the horizon and stepping beyond it.
The gallery space is an invitation to an exploration, dotted with numerous audio recordings, fragments and clues, it asks the viewer to look more closely at the work around them, and more closely at the world around them. Walking is the human way of getting about, our minds slow down; it is from this position that Walking Home (Again) has come into being. The exhibition also features newly commissioned music performed and recorded by artist Eleanor Wynne Davis.


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There had been a furtive announcement of their appearance in the specialist-magazines, but whatever happened wasn't given a mention in print. It was, however, an exceptional trio, led by someone praised to the skies by Henri Texier at the time: "Great sound, clean attack, lasting sound on each note, melodic intelligence and a sense of tempo
Red Mitchell's got it all. He's done a lot for bass-liberation."
Keith Moore "Red" Mitchell was forty-two and had a remarkable list of achievements to his name; for starters, he'd worked with Red Norvo, Gerry Mulligan, Hampton Hawes, Shelly Manne, Harold Land and Dizzy Gillespie. Greatly upset by the successive assassinations of John Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, he decided to abandon The United States for good in 1968, and he moved to a country that had made neutrality its raison de vivre: Sweden.
It was there that Red Mitchell formed this trio: with a twenty-four year-old pianist just back from an African tour with Stan Getz, Bobo Stenson and you know what became of him later and the drummer Rune Carlsson, who'd played with musicians as different as Eric Dolphy and Bill Evans; the trio was indeed exceptional, but it was (very) shortlived, so much so that this album is the only trace of it.
Recorded during a visit to Paris (a true miracle!), "One Long String" was the first album to do justice to the innovations that Red Mitchell brought to an instrument he was totally in love with
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Baron Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven was Wehrmacht Staff officer who was a witness to the last gloomy days in Fuehrer's bunker in April 1945
Baron Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, was born on February 6, 1914. He died on February 27, 2007 aged 93
As an aide to army chiefs he had had daily contact with Hitler.
He describes the order to join his boss Gen Krebs in Hitler's bunker, just over a week before the dictator's suicide, as a death sentence.
He had already survived the fighting on the Russian front and was one of a few to escape from Stalingrad.
He met Hitler for the first time in July 1944. His predecessor had been executed for his part in the bomb plot against Hitler.
The young Maj Freytag von Loringhoven, who was not a Nazi party supporter, says he was "completely flabbergasted" when he saw Hitler just days after the blast.
"I had the image of a very strong, vital person with charisma, but what I saw was a sick old man. His right arm was injured by the attempt and his figure had changed, his head was sunk into his shoulders.
"His left hand was very weak and his left foot dragged behind him."
As for reports that Hitler had had a charismatic spell, he says: "I felt nothing, the eyes were pale and without any expression anymore."
He said he was surprised that Germany was in the hands of such a "sick prematurely old man".
Inside the bunker he describes wild mood swings. There would be a temporary explosion of hope and then confidence would collapse again. The main topic of conversation was suicide - whether they should take cyanide pills or shoot themselves in the head when the Russians arrived.
He also recalls the drunkenness in the bunker, but not the orgies that some accounts speak of. He says he was too busy preparing for situation conferences.
When he met Hitler's mistress Eva Braun - soon to be the Fuhrer's wife - he had no idea who she was. The Nazi elite had been very discreet.
Just days before the end, Magda Goebbels, the wife of Hitler's Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, arrived with her six children.
They would later be poisoned by their parents in the bunker with the help of an SS doctor.
He recalls their pale faces peering out in fear from inside their dark coats.
"When I saw these poor children it pressed my heart," he says.
He feared there was no chance of getting out.
News that his trusted SS Chief Heinrich Himmler had made peace feelers to the Allies had a devastating affect on Hitler in the final days.
"This was like a bomb. Hitler called it treason," the former major says.
But with his work done, just 24 hours before Hitler's suicide, Maj Freytag von Loringhoven was given permission to break out.
He said he had no wish to die "like a rat in the bunker". He took his leave from Hitler with one last meeting which lasted around 20 minutes.
"I personally got the impression that he was a bit envious," he says. "We were 29 or 30 years old and we had a chance to get out because we were sound and young and he had no chance because he was a wreck."
He disputes portrayals of Hitler as raving and foaming at the mouth in the final days.
"I was present at these rages but they were not so excessive," he says.
He never saw him screaming with anger but says he could be "ice cold in his expressions and very aggressive, especially towards the generals".
Hitler was by the end resigned to his fate. His Reich, which was to have lasted 1,000 years, was in ruins.
But looking back, one thing still puzzles him. Hitler, he says, "was still so quiet and realistic just 24 hours before he shot himself".
The young officer escaped, was captured by the western Allies and held as a prisoner of war. He re-joined the army in 1956 and later served Germany in Nato.
He maintains that the divide between the army and the Nazi elite was very real and that although there were rumours, no-one discussed the fate of the Jews in top military circles. It was "taboo" he says.
Asked for his abiding memory of Hitler 60 years on? He pauses at first, then says simply: "He was a terrible creation. Yes, a being, but a being full of evil and cruelty... he was a monster."
Source: BBC
After the failed plot to assassinate Hitler with a briefcase bomb at his field headquarters, the Wolfsschanze at Rastenburg in East Prussia on July 20, 1944, Guderian was appointed Chief of the Army General Staff and Loringhoven became his ADC.
His post in British Army terms would be "military assistant", the operationally-experienced officer responsible for daily briefing, operational papers and maps, and for passing the general's instructions to staff branches and subordinate commands. This function took him first on twice-daily visits to Hitler's East Prussia command post and later, after this had been overrun by the Red Army advance, to the Chancellery bunker.
In his book In the Bunker with Hitler, written with François d'Alançon and published in 2005, Loringhoven provides a vivid account of Hitler's mental deterioration in the final months of the war in Europe. The Fuehrer's preoccupation with the minutiae of military deployment, his absolute refusal to accept that divisions represented by flags on his battle map were reduced to the strength of battalions or even companies, and his outright rejection of sound professional advice left experienced generals such as Guderian exasperated and helpless.
One particularly obdurate decision was Hitler's refusal to order the evacuation by sea of the 200,000 men of Army Group North cut off in the Courland peninsula, on the Gulf of Riga, who might have been used in the defence of Berlin.
On the morning after Hitler had married Eva Braun, Loringhoven watched as the Fuehrer's brother-in-law of 24 hours standing, SS Major-General Hermann Fegelein, married to Eva's sister, was led away to be shot in the Chancellery garden for alleged complicity with Himmler over the succession in anticipation of Hitler's suicide.
When the Russians shot down the captive balloon relaying radio signals to the Army command east of Berlin, Loringhoven decided that his work was at an end and determined to leave the bunker before the Russians reached it.
Strangely, in view of his vindictive nature, Hitler raised no objection to Loringhoven and two other senior ADCs making an attempt to reach safety. On taking their formal leave of the Fuehrer, the three were astonished to be advised on the best route out — across the Havel lake — using a boat with an electric motor to reduce the sound.
Even within hours of death by his own hand, Hitler could not resist meddling in detail.
One of the three became separated but the others reached an island on the Havel, where they joined some remnant German units and, after changing into workers' clothes, swam the River Mulde to safety from the Russians only to be arrested by the US Army.
In the bunker, Freytag von Loringhoven observed Hitler divide and rule among sycophants and soldiers. 'He created parallel command structures that competed for resources and he appointed political officers to spy on military professionals. Right until the end, he kept all the cards in his hand.
'Hitler's only military experience had been as a corporal during the First World War. He knew only one thing - the ' fanatischer Widerstand ' (fanatical resistance), and I can still hear him say the words. Blitzkrieg was not devised by him but by military strategists whom he later sidelined. As soon as we suffered the first setbacks he became deaf to calls to switch to modern, mobile defence techniques. He saw them as defeatist since they sometimes required giving up territory.
'Hitler could be very aggressive but towards the end he was very controlled. He could be pleasant and even warm. He could be very charming - he was a real Austrian. People were impressed when he asked them questions about their lives. It was a way of controlling them. He played with people.'
Hitler swore by his doctor, Theodor Morell, a charlatan who gave him glucose injections and stimulants. 'Morell made a lot of money during the war, not least with a louse powder we were given on the eastern front which smelt awful and was useless.' The baron holds Morell in particular contempt: 'I shall never forget how he begged, on 22 and 23 April, when the women were allowed to leave. He sat there like a fat sack of potatoes and begged to fly out. And he did.'
For the last few months of the war Hitler lived in the fetid air of the bunker, concealed beneath eight metres of concrete, occasionally going outside to play with his dog.
'Hitler got up at around midday. The main event was the afternoon meeting on the military situation. It would be announced, " Meine Herren, der Führer kommt ", and everyone made the Nazi salute. Hitler entered the room, shook everyone's hand - it was a limp handshake - and sat down. He was the only one allowed to sit at the map table, which he adored because he was obsessed by detail, and occasionally made concessions to older officers, allowing them to sit on a stool.'
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International Tables for Crystallography (2006). Vol. D, ch. 1.4, p. 103
Section 188.8.131.52.1. Inductance changes (pushrod dilatometry)
aInstitut für Geowissenshaften, Universität Kiel, Olshausenstrasse 40, D-24098 Kiel, Germany
With this method, the expansion of the crystal is transmitted out of the cooled or heated region to an external measuring device by a rod made of a reference material whose thermal expansion is low and well known (usually silica glass) (cf. Gaal, 1998). If this rod is inside a tube of the same material (silica glass), and the specimen is inside as well, then the difference in expansion between the crystal and an equal length of the reference material is measured. Above 1100 K, instead of silica glass, high-purity alumina or single-crystal sapphire or tungsten rods are used.
To measure the displacement of the rods, several techniques are used. The most important are:
Temperature gradients in the rod and the tube can lead to severe complications. For every determination, the system should be calibrated by certified materials (White, 1998), such as α-Al2O3, Cu, Pt, fused silica, Si, W, Mg or Mo.
ReferencesGaal, P. S. (1998). Pushrod dilatometers. In Thermal expansion of solids, edited by C. Y. Ho, ch. 5. Materials Park, Ohio: ASM International.Google Scholar
White, G. K. (1998). Thermal expansion reference materials. In Thermal expansion of solids, edited by C. Y. Ho, ch. 11. Materials Park, Ohio: ASM International.Google Scholar


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He descended from heaven; sent by God. To become a human being Jesus emptied Himself of the form of God and of equality with God.
Jesus existed before He became a human being.
The Baptist said, "After me comes a Man who has a higher rank than I, for He existed before me" (John 1:29).
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"The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us" (John 1:14, NIV).
"For many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh" (2 John 1:7).
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Jesus is before all things. He existed in the form of God and had equality with God. God so loved the world, that He sent His only begotten Son. His Jesus came forth from the Father, emptied Himself, descended from heaven, became flesh and made his dwelling among us. He became a mere human baby, with no knowledge or wisdom.
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2.   Jesus existed prior to His birth in the form of God. (Current article)
3.   Jesus in Colossians (Next)
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5.   Who is the Word in John 1:1?
6.   Jesus is not God.
7.   God is the Head of Christ.
8.   In the Bible Jesus is called God.
9.   He is the Only Begotten Son of God.
10. Â God created all things through His Son.
11. We must worship Jesus.
12. Jesus has equality with God.
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NJCAA All-Educational 3rd Staff (7/1)
Ariana Gomez/Softball
NJCAA All-Educational third Workforce (7/1)
Briana Gamillo/Basketball
Walden Grove/Pima
NJCAA All-Educational third Group (7/1)
Michael Fonseca/Monitor & Subject
NJCAA All-Educational third Workforce (7/1)
Bianca Castillo/Softball
Rio Rico/Pima
ACCAC Third Workforce (5/7)
NJCAA All-Educational 3rd Group (7/1)
Maria Vanezza Caldera/Softball
ACCAC Second Group (5/7)
NJCAA All-Educational third Staff (7/1)
Nick Brahler/Football
Ironwood Ridge/Football
NJCAA All-Educational 3rd Staff (7/1)
Alex Verdugo/Baseball
Truebluela Participant of the Collection (7/1)
Alvaro Barnett/Baseball
Rio Rico/Park College
Solar Belt All-Star (6/29)
Alex Bustamante/Baseball
Canyon del Oro/Pima
Sun Belt All-Star (6/29)
Derrick Calvillo/Baseball
Canyon del Oro/Hibbing
MCAC Player of the Week (Three/11)
NJCAA D-III National Participant of the Week (3/14)
MCAC Participant of the Week (3/26)
Sun Belt All-Star (6/29)
Angel Castillo/Baseball
Sun Belt All-Star (6/29)
Michael Corral/Baseball
Sun Belt All-Star (6/29)
Joseph Escarcega/Baseball
Sunnyside/NM Highlands
Sun Belt All-Star (6/29)
Saul Escarrega/Baseball
Solar Belt All-Star (6/29)
Ivan Gallego/Baseball
Desert View/Luna
Sun Belt All-Star (6/29)
Daniel Gonzalez/Baseball
Tombstone/St. Mary's
Solar Belt All-Star (6/29)
Sean Hahn/Baseball
Valley Union/Phoenix
Solar Belt All-Star (6/29)
Jake Lialios/Baseball
Sun Belt All-Star (6/29)
Marcus Mendez/Baseball
Desert View/Stephen F. Austin
Solar Belt All-Star (6/29)
Andres Mendoza/Baseball
Desert View/Pima
Sun Belt All-Star (6/29)
Angel Ochoa/Baseball
Canyon del Oro/Pima
Sun Belt All-Star (6/29)
Sherrick Sanborn/Baseball
Willcox/Adams State
Sun Belt All-Star (6/29)
Gilbert Valenzuela/Baseball
Buena/Buddies University
Solar Belt All-Star (6/29)
Robert Valenzuela/Baseball
Buena/Associates College
Sun Belt All-Star (6/29)
Alfredo Villa/Baseball
Rincon/UHS/Adams State
Sun Belt All-Star (6/29)
Caden Ayala/Baseball
Sun Belt All-Star (6/29)
Jose Contreras/Baseball
Sun Belt All-Star (6/29)
Fabian Ferreira/Baseball
Tucson/NM Highlands
Sun Belt All-Star (6/29)
Aaron Gardner/Baseball
Rincon/UHS/Kansas Wesleyan
Solar Belt All-Star (6/29)
Tyler Grey/Baseball
Empire/Rainy River
Solar Belt All-Star (6/29)
Matthew Hackman/Baseball
Empire/Air Pressure
Sun Belt All-Star (6/29)
Branden Hance/Baseball
Salpointe/Trinity University
Sun Belt All-Star (6/29)
Ricky Martinez/Baseball
Tucson/Northwest Nazarene
Solar Belt All-Star (6/29)
Adam Moraga/Baseball
Sunnyside/Science Arts of Oklahoma
Solar Belt All-Star (6/29)
Alex Phillips/Baseball
Catalina/Concordia Univ
Solar Belt All-Star (6/29)
Luis Samorano/Baseball
Sun Belt All-Star (6/29)
Saul Suazo/Baseball
Sunnyside/US Marine Corps
Sun Belt All-Star (6/29)
Manny Villa/Baseball
Solar Belt All-Star (6/29)
Tyler Whiltshire/Baseball
Sabino/Minot State
Sun Belt All-Star (6/29)
Nathan Smith/Baseball
PSCL Player of the Recreation (6/23)
Dakota Martin/Baseball
PSCL Participant of the Recreation (6/20)
Jake Engel/Baseball
Ironwood Ridge/Dixie State
RMAC Player of the Week (four/2)
D2 Baseball Workforce of the Month (4/8)
All-RMAC First Staff (5/7)
RMAC All-Event Group (5/15)
D2CCA South Central Region First Staff (5/15)
NCBWA D-II 1st Workforce All-American (5/29)
CCA NCAA II 1st Workforce All-American (5/31)
So. Central-ABCA/Rawlings All-Area First Staff (5/24)
DII ABCA/Rawlings Third Staff All-American (5/31)
Nick Estrella/Baseball
Ironwood Ridge/Azusa Pacific
PacWest Preseason Group (1/23)
All-PacWest First Workforce (5/14)
D2CCA West Area Second Workforce (5/15)
DII West-ABCA/Rawlings All-Region First Workforce (5/24)
Spencer Packard/Baseball
Canyon del Oro/Campbell
All-Greenville Area (6/7)
Brianna Hardy/Softball
Buena/Phoenix School
ACCAC D-II Pitcher of the Week (2/4)
ACCAC D-II Pitcher of the Week (2/20)
ACCAC D-II Pitcher of the Week (4/11)
ACCAC Pitcher of the Yr (5/7)
ACCAC D-II All-Region (5/7)
NJCAA All-Region (6/four)
NJCAA D-I 1st Group All-American (6/6)
NJCAA D-I Nationwide Participant of the Yr (6/6)
Justice Summerset/Monitor & Area
Mountain View/Arizona
Pac 12 Area Athlete of the Week (four/30)
NCAA 2nd Group All-American (6/7)
Kelsey Jenkins/Softball
Sabino/Canadian Wild
Park Planet Player of the Recreation (5/31)
Reece Nilsen/Golf
Catalina Foothills/Rocky Mountain
NAIA Males's Golf Third Group All-American (5/31)
Alexis Belkof/Gymnastics
Catalina Foothills/Sacramento State
MPSF Second Staff Vault & Flooring (Three/21)
MPSF 1st Workforce Scholar Athlete (4/19)
Allie Schadler/Monitor
Rio Rico/Washington
NCAA Indoor First Staff All-American (Three/9)
MPSF Scholar Athlete (four/5)
Trevor Volpe/Monitor
MPSF Scholar Athlete (4/5)
Carlos Villarreal/Monitor
Rio Rico/Arizona
NCAA Indoor First Group All-American (3/9)
Arizona Junior of the Yr (four/23)
Arizona student-athlete of the month (5/6)
MPSF Scholar Athlete (4/5)
Lanea Tuiasosopo/Rowing
Ironwood Ridge/UCLA
UCLA Scholar-Athlete of the Yr
Trevor Werbylo/Golf
All-Pac-12 Second Workforce (5/1)
Annabelle Huether/Golf
Second Workforce All-SCIAC (four/30)
Gina Snyder/Softball
Arizona Player of the Recreation (5/11)
Pac-12 Softball All-Educational First Workforce (5/23)
Katie Faulk/Softball
Pac-12 Softball All-Educational First Group (5/23)
Jonathan Walters/Golf
Canyon del Oro/South Mountain
Phil Mickelson Excellent Freshman Finalist (5/11)
Phil Mickelson Excellent Freshman Award (5/20)
NJCAA West Region All-American (5/20)
NJCAA PING 1st group All-American (5/20)
Jessica Williams/Golf
Amphitheater/Embry Riddle
CoSIDA Educational All-District (5/16)
NAIA First Workforce All-American (5/20)
Brandon Holbert/Baseball
Empire/Rainy River
MCAC Baseball Northern All-Division (5/15)
MCAC Baseball All-State (5/20)
Phil Hindes/Baseball
Sahuaro/Wet River
MCAC Baseball Northern All-Division (5/15)
Mia Trejo/Softball
Mountain West Player of the Week (4/2)
NFCA West Area Second Staff (5/19)
Jaymon Cervantes/Baseball
Empire/Minot State
NSIC All-Convention (5/8)
NSIC Baseball All-Event Workforce (5/12)
Maggie Morales/Softball
Canyon del Oro/Minnesota Crookston
NSIC All-Educational with Distinction Award (1/18)
UMC Scholar-Athlete of the Month (4/8)
NSIC All-Educational (5/16)
Dylan Thomas/Baseball
Sabino/University of Mary
NSIC All-Educational (5/16)
Mark Fulbright/Baseball
Buena/Minot State
NSIC All-Educational (5/16)
Drew Hill/Baseball
Ironwood Ridge/Colorado Faculty of Mines
RMAC Pitcher of the Week (4/9)
All-RMAC First Staff (5/7)
RMAC All-Event Staff (5/15)
D2CCA South Central Area Second Staff (5/15)
Maddie Dowdle/Softball
Pusch Ridge/Grand Canyon
WAC All-Event Workforce (5/11)
Brittany Woolridge/Softball
GPAC All-Convention (5/eight)
Yannira Acuna/Softball
PAC-12 All-Freshman Workforce (5/eight)
Shelby Kennedy/Softball
Senior CLASS Award Nominee (Three/15)
All-Ivy League Second Group (5/eight)
Margarita Corona/Softball
Tucson/Stephen F. Austin
Southland Hitter of the Yr (5/7)
Southland Convention First Group (5/7)
Destinee Williams/Softball
Cienega/Prairie View A&M
G.E. Higgs Award (4/23)
SAC All-Convention (5/9)
Iliana Mendoza/Softball
Tucson/Japanese New Mexico
All-LSC Third Group (5/2)
Abby Doughty/Softball
Cienega/Utah Valley
WAC Hitter of the Week (four/1)
All-WAC First Staff (5/7)
Kellye Springstead/Softball
Tanque Verde/California Baptist
WAC Pitcher of the Week nominee (2/11)
WAC Pitcher of the Week (Three/11)
WAC Pitcher of the Week Nominee (four/1)
WAC Pitcher of the Week Nominee (4/9)
WAC Pitcher of the Week (four/15)
WAC Pitcher of the Week Nominee (four/22)
WAC Pitcher of the Week Nominee (5/6)
All-WAC First Staff (5/7)
Bailey Thompson/Softball
Canyon del Oro/Seattle
WAC Hitter of the Week (2/18)
WAC Hitter of the Week (four/15)
All-WAC First Group (5/7)
Brianna Aguilar/Softball
Salpointe/Grand Canyon
WAC Preseason Staff (1/30)
WAC Pitcher of the Week Nominee (2/18)
WAC Pitcher of the Week Nominee (four/1)
WAC Pitcher of the Week Nominee (four/22)
WAC Pitcher of the Week (5/6)
All-WAC Second Workforce (5/7)
Andie Larkins/Softball
WAC Preseason Workforce (1/30)
WAC Pitcher of the Week Nominee (Three/25)
WAC Pitcher of the Week Nominee (4/15)
WAC Pitcher of the Week (four/22)
All-WAC Second Staff (5/7)
Diondra Bodman/Softball
Marana/Paradise Valley
ACCAC D-II All-Area (5/7)
Carlos Apodaca/Wrestling
Rio Rico/Embry-Riddle
NAIA Wrestling Scholar-Athlete (3/6)
NWCA Scholar All-American (four/25)
Haley Basye/Softball
Canyon del Oro/Embry Riddle
All-Cal Pac Group (5/1)
Danielle Jamieson/Softball
Sahuaro/Embry Riddle
All-Cal Pac Staff Honorable Point out (5/1)
Roman Bravo Younger/Wrestling
Sunnyside/Penn State
NCAA Freshman All-American (3/22)
NWCA D-I Scholar All-American (four/25)
Andrew Cota/Wrestling
Mountain View/Hunter
NWCA D-II Scholar All-American (Three/14)
Austin Bryan/Baseball
ACCAC D- I Pitcher of the Week (2/4)
ACCAC D- I Pitcher of the Week (4/15)
ACCAC All-D-I Region (four/30)
All-ACCAC Second Workforce (4/30)
Efrain Cervantes/Baseball
Salpointe/South Mountain
ACCAC All-D-I Region (four/30)
All-ACCAC Second Staff (4/30)
Manny Villa/Baseball
ACCAC All-D-2 Area (4/30)
Kelsey Siemons/Basketball
Catalina Foothills/Colorado Mesa
RMAC Event All-Event Group (Three/9)
Jessica Giacoma/Softball
Pusch Ridge/Yavapai
Roughrider Hitter of the Week (4/21)
Nic Conway/Softball
Catalina Foothills/Yale
Ivy League Honor Roll (Three/11)
Ivy League Honor Roll (4/15)
Ivy League Honor Roll (4/22)
Erick Migueles/Baseball
Canyon del Oro/Utah
Pac-12 Baseball Participant of the Week nominee (4/15)
Karena Garcia/Basketball
Flowing Wells/Smith School
NEWMAC Educational All-Convention Workforce (2/18)
USTFCCCA All-Educational Workforce (2/15)
Isaac Stump/Swim
Ironwood Ridge/Arizona
Pac-12 Swimming All-Educational Second Workforce (four/9)
Lexy Ram/Basketball
Ironwood Ridge/Cal Baptist
Educational All-WAC (4/10)
Erik Orr/Swim
Rincon/UHS/Air Pressure
Educational All-WAC (4/10)
Rhett Rodriguez/Football
Catalina Foothills/Arizona
Arizona Scholar-Athlete of the Month (4/8)
Abram Carrasco/Basketball
ACCAC D-II Participant of the Week (1/15)
ACCAC D-II Participant of the Week (2/6)
First Workforce All-ACCAC (2/27)
First Workforce All-Area I, Division II (2/27)
ACCAC D-II Participant of the Week (Three/1)
ACCAC Participant of the Yr Runner-up (4/eight)
NJCAA First Staff All-American (four/8)
Tim Derksen/Basketball
Swiss SBL Interperformances Participant of the Week (4/2)
Heather O'Connor/Cheer
Ironwood Ridge/Dallas Cowboys
Veteran of the Yr (4/5)
Travis Cole/Baseball
Sahuaro/Christian Brothers
GSC Freshman of the Week (4/5)
Sierra Rodriguez/Monitor & Subject
Flowing Wells/Air Drive
Athlete of the Week (3/20)
Brendan Gary/Basketball
Sahuaro/Buena Vista
ARC All-Educational Staff (3/19)
Brian Peabody/Basketball
Sahuaro/Pima Coach
District I, D-II Coach of the Yr (Three/18)
Rafael Padilla/Baseball
ACCAC D-I Player of the Week (Three/11)
NaKeva Mack/Basketball
Cienega/Colorado Northwestern
All-Area 18 (2/28)
Austin France/Baseball
Canyon del Oro/Nicholls State
Participant of the Week (2/26)
Chloe Gavino/Tennis
Catalina Foothills/NM State
WAC Tennis Player of the Week (2/26)
Robert Wilson/Basketball
Second Staff All-ACCAC (2/27)
First Workforce All-Region I, Division II (2/27)
Brian Romero/Baseball
Canyon del Oro/Pima
ACCAC D-I Participant of the Week (2/26)
Kamryn Gastelum/Softball
ACCAC D-II Pitcher of the Week (1/29)
Bryce Cotton/Basketball
Palo Verde/Perth Wildcats
All-NBL First Workforce (2/17)
Lexy Coons/Softball
Sahuaro/Grand Canyon
WAC Pitcher of the Week nominee (2/11)
Max Smith/Baseball
Canyon del Oro/UNLV
MWC Preseason All-Conference Group (2/12)
Derek Daly/Baseball
Ironwood Ridge/Colorado Faculty of Mines
RMAC Participant of the Week (2/5)
Hannah Whetzel/Monitor
Catalina Foothills/Arizona
UA Scholar Athletes of the Month (2/4)
Kayla Green/Softball
Cienega/NM State
WAC Preseason Pitcher of the Yr (1/30)
WAC Preseason Staff (1/30)
Isabella Almazan/Soccer
Salpointe/Northern Colorado
Huge Sky All-Educational (1/24)
Allison Raniere/Soccer
Sahuaro/Japanese Washington
Massive Sky All-Educational (1/24)
Mykaela Hammer/Volleyball
Ironwood Ridge/Montana
Massive Sky All-Educational (1/24)
Victoria Cooper/Soccer
Ironwood Ridge/NAU
Huge Sky All-Educational (1/24)
Chase Laurita/Football
Ironwood Ridge/NAU
Huge Sky All-Educational (1/24)
Jake Casteel/Football
Massive Sky All-Educational (1/24)
Max Michalczik/Football
Catalina Foothills/ NAU
Massive Sky All-Educational (1/24)
Josh Herzog/Basketball
Catalina Foothills/MSOE
Raider of the Week (1/14)
Alexis Cortez/Basketball
Tucson Excessive/Utah Valley
WAC Player of the Week (1/7)
Levi Wallace/Soccer
Tucson Excessive/Buffalo Bills
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Archive for June, 2013
River East DC BlogsPublished June 20, 2013 blogosphere , DC Leave a Comment
Michael Wood's history of the British ReformationPublished June 18, 2013 Europe , religion Leave a Comment
Michael Wood did a wonderful series The Story of Britain – A People's History. It is done from the point of view of ordinary people, a ground up view of British history. It begins with Roman Britain and goes up to modern times. I only watched the parts through the 18th Century. Instead of cheesy historical reenactments, he has the descendents of those involved, or at least the current inhabitants of the historic locations, read the words of their forebears. For Wood succeeded in finding the letters and diaries of ordinary Britains going back to Roman times. It is very effective and illuminating. And it brings history to life far more than any reenactment.
So why was I so disappointed with his treatment of the British Reformation? Because he buys into the traditional top down view of the Henrician Reformation, rather than my view, Henry successfully co-opting a popular movement.
Wood does pay tribute to Wycliffe and his poor Lollard priests. And Wood quotes Ball's most famous sermon "When Adam delved and Eve span, who was than the gentleman?" Wood goes on to observe that Lollardy was never entirely suppressed. But he does not convey how Lollardy flowed into the 16th Century Reformation.
Tyndale saw a Lollard priest burn at the stake as an adolescent. He describes it most movingly and it clearly made an impression upon him. So here is one direct link from Lollards to Tyndale. Later, after Oxford, Tyndale was tutor to a Lollard family of weavers. Lollardy and the cloth trade were closely linked. Lollard strongholds, or should I say remaining Lollard networks, were the early areas of Protestant activism. It would have been nice to have a glimpse of those weavers who befriended Tyndale. It also would have been nice to have a sense of those involved in the smuggling Tyndale's bible into England. Was London the only port of entry? Or were there others? And how were the bibles reassembled in London? And once they were reassembled, how were the distributed? It would be nice to know all that. I am thinking something a little more scholarly than Tony Robinson doing a Worst Jobs of the Reformation series, although that would be a start.
What Wood does do is give us a view of what it was like to be on the business end of Reformation politics. First Henry, then Edward VI's hard-line Reformation, complete with the smashing of statues and white washing of paintings, then Bloody Mary, and finally Elizabeth. It cannot have been pleasant to have been whipsawed by all that, and Woods gives us a sense of that.
Wood talks about the Prayer Book rebellion in Cornwall. It seems that the Cornish spoke in Cornish (a Gaelic language) and prayed in Latin, and so had no use for an English prayer-book. And here we see the truly nasty side of Cranmer's Reformation. If spreading the Word of God was your first concern, you would translate both the bible and the prayer-book into Cornish, Welsh, and Irish. But of course if you were to do such a thing, in addition to spreading the Reformation, you would also be reinforcing and strengthening those cultures. When Luther translated the Bible into German he not only spread the word of God, he strengthened the idea of a German identity. Likewise Tyndale with the English Bible. The last thing an Archbishop of Canterbury would want is strengthened Cornish, Welsh, and Irish identities. When service to the Lord clashed with the needs of cultural chauvinism, service to the Lord was never going to prevail.
What is really needed is a history of the British Reformation going from Wycliffe to the King James Bible. And we need a ground up view, not just of the leaders, but the host of individuals who made it happen.
Why does Nathan Saunders have a job?Published June 16, 2013 2013 , DC , labor , public education Leave a Comment
Tags: DCPS, WTU
Why are DCPS & WTU President Saunders Downplaying the Excessing of 500-600 Teachers?
Under the current Washington Teachers' Union (WTU) Collective Bargaining Agreement, there is a great likelihood that excessing eventually leads to one's termination as there is no longer a requirement for teachers to be placed by DCPS. With fewer positions available due to school closings, it is reasonable to conclude more teachers will be forced out. What the general pubic doesn't understand is that Highly Effective and Effective teachers are among the pool of excessed candidates. Add to this list the number of reconstituted schools (Cardozo High School and Patterson Elementary School) and the number of yearly excessed teachers increases.
We are led to believe by WTU's President Saunders that the majority of teachers will get re-hired without any evidence to support these claims. Erich Martel, a retired DC Public Schools high school teacher ponders- "Why Chancellor Henderson and WTU President Saunders are downplaying the number of teachers getting excess notices this year?"
Liberalism vs ConservatismPublished June 9, 2013 human rights Leave a Comment
Liberalism, in its classic form, is, among other things, the proposition that you get more out of people if you treat them well. Conservatism is the proposition that you get more out of people if you treat them badly.
Education Reform is just a polite phrase for labor warPublished June 9, 2013 DC , labor , public education Leave a Comment
Pink Slipping DC's Teachers Does Not Improve Achievement
One by one, Cardozo Senior High School teachers and school staff were called down to the Principal's office today to receive pink slips. Just a week ago, DC's Cardozo High School staff were notified that 100% of our staff would be reconstituted and required to reapply for our jobs, with the exception of the school's principal. Later on in the same week, 90 staff members had to submit to abbreviated 5-7 minute interviews and answering three questions by the school's principal.
I really don't know how Mayor Gray, Muriel Bowser, Tommey Wells, or Jack Evans can face Cardozo parents. I really don't.
Michael Wood's In Search of ShakespearePublished June 8, 2013 religion Leave a Comment
Tags: Shakespeare
If you have enjoyed all the Elizabeth's from Glenda Jackson to Cate Blanchett, if your ideas of history comes from Garrett Mattingly and DL Kier, if, in short, you have drunk deeply from the Gloriana Kool Aide, then Michael Wood's In Search of Shakespeare offer's a much needed antidote.
It seems that Shakespeare was from a Catholic, family. In the religious cold war of Elizabethen England, this made him and his family suspect. It was why Shakespeare had to leave school and could not go to University. It also gave him an outsider's view of Elizabethan England that would serve his well as a playwrite, the ability to see a story from both sides of view, to comprehend how complicated the world is.
Shakespeare studied Latin in Grammar school and it seems that he loved Ovid. This obviously shaped his writing. In all of Shakespeare's plays, love is the highest ideal, romantic love, family love, but always love.
Wood does a great job weaving the story of the events of Elizabethan England, events in Shakespeare's personal life and themes of his plays together. It seems that Shakespeare's most famous patron, the Earl of Southampton, had Catholic sympathies. Speaking only for myself, this adds a twist to the Essex rebellion. Now of Essex's religious views there can be no doubt. Essex was a descendant of Mary Boleyn. You cannot have a more Protestant pedigree. Moreover, Essex's stepfather, the Earl of Leicester, was a royal favorite of Elizabeth and a general for her in the war in the Spanish Netherlands, very hard line Protestant. However, it is interesting that Southampton, a Catholic sympathizer, was among Essex chief lieutenants. Did Southampton hope for better treatment for Catholics in the event of a successful
rebellion? No way to know.
And as an additional aside, one wonders if any part of Shakespeare's Richard III was drawn from Shakespeare's opinion of Robert Cecil, Essex great rival? For like Richard III, Robert Cecil was a hunch back. Pure speculation on my part, based on no facts whatsoever.
In The Duty of Poets, Wood tells the story of Robert Southwell, a cousin of Shakespeare's who was hung drawn and quartered for no crime save that of writing Catholic poetry. Afterwards friends of Southwell brought Elizabeth a copy of Southwell's book, On The Duty of Poets, which was dedicated to Shakespeare. It is said that Elizabeth wept. Elizabeth was a great one for weeping for those she had executed. And here I must interject a check on that famous quote, "no desire to make windows into men's souls." We impose a Jeffersonian view on that quote, but Elizabeth was no friend of religious toleration. Soon after Elizabeth ascended the throne, Parliament passed the Act of Uniformity. Now I ask you, does the Act of Uniformity sound like the work of anyone interested in religious toleration? The act required everyone to attend services at their parish church of the Church of England. It outlawed the mass and made being a Catholic priest a capital crime. Does that sound like religious toleration to you? When you make attendance at the state church mandatory there is the question of sincerity. Are people going to church because they believe? Or only because there are penalties for not going to church? This is the meaning of that famous phrase. Under her sister Mary, people had been burned merely for being suspected secret Protestants. Elizabeth took the view that on this side of paradise outward religious conformity was sufficient. It was for God to decide someone's sincerity, not princes.
Wood does not mention Shakespeare's portrayal of religion in his plays, but Shakespeare does not give a good press to priests. They are mostly bumblers. As for Protestants, the puritan in Twelfth Night is portrayed as a vain fool who gets his comeuppance, and I bet it was a great favorite with the crowd. Having watched Wood's documentary I wonder if Shakespeare viewed clerics as fools who got people killed for nothing. Love was always the highest ideal in his plays.
Wood goes into the reality of the Elizabethan police state and even into some detail of her hideous rackmaster Richard Topcliffe. It will surprise no one that her rackmaster was a total pervert who really enjoyed administering long sadistic executions. We get a hint of this in Brian Wilde's portrayal of Topcliffe in Horrible Conspiracies.
Wood repeatedly makes the point that like all police states, Elizabeth was suspecious of artists and writers in particular. Not entirely without reason. Shakespeare's Richard II was preformed, complete with sensitive deposition scene, the night before the Essex rebellion.
As a Catholic, Shakespeare had to be especially careful. It seems that the theatre was dominated by Catholics, both members of the company and patrons. This may be an additional reason for Puritan eagerness to shut down the theatres, not only the suspecion of any institution that they did not control, but the knowledge that the theatres were dominated by Catholics would only have fueled the Puritan's view that theatres were places of subversion. I think it is very significant that both of Shakespeare's daughters married hardline Protestants. One married a the son of Huguenot immigrants, the other a Puritan.
Wood points out that in The Tempest Prospero throws away his magical powers in the interest of his children. For Shakespeare love was always the highest ideal and it seems that he remained on good terms with his daughters and sons in law.
Shakespeare's son died in his childhood, leaving his father prostrate with grief. The child's name was Hamnet, which is WAY too close to Hamlet for coincidence. Except, Hamnet died as a child, so could not in any way serve as a model for Hamlet. Yet, it simply cannot be coincidence that Shakespeare chose a name so close to his child's. Something is going on. Also at the beginning of the play Hamlet is returning from studies in Wittenburg. That has great significance, even if you don't know that Shakespeare was a Catholic. Of all the towns he could have chosen, there is great significance that Hamlet went to Wittenburg to study. But I can't say what, the last time I saw Hamlet was at the Folger Theater in 1985. So without seeing the play again I really can't work out why Shakespeare decided to insert Wittenburg into Hamlet. After all he could have written Two Gentleman from Wittenburg, but he chose Verona instead. So, there is a reason that Wittenburg appears in Hamlet. Upon further reflection it seems significant that in the play within the play the player king is murdered by having poison poured in his ear while he sleeps. I can't think of any other story where poison is administered through the ear. Maybe Hamlet is part allegory about theological dispute. Everybody dies. Maybe not. I will have to see the play again.
Shakespeare lived into the Stuart era, and his company became the Kings Players. The first play they preformed for King James VI/I was Macbeth, a play about the murder of a Scottish King, before a Scottish King whose father had been murdered. Shakespeare did not lack for nerve.
Wood goes into the Gunpowder Plot and its aftermath. Not until seeing this documentary did I realize the impact of the Gunpowder Plot in marginalizing British Catholics. I somehow thought that they had been marginalized even before the Armada. But I get the feeling not, so the Gunpowder Plot really put the lid on Catholic England.
Wood shows scenes from Bonfire Night with scenes of people walking around carrying torches in the shape of a burning cross. To American eyes this is a most fearful sight, because in America burning crosses have never symbolized holiday fun. I always wondered where Nathan Bedford Forrest got the idea of burning a cross. Now I know.
Wood ends the documentary with Shakespeare's famous will leaving only his second best bed to his wife. Wood can't bear the thought that Shakespeare was a rotten husband, and as he rightly points out, it is impossible to know what is happening inside a marriage. Indeed, the most likely explanation is that they grew apart, this happens. But there are troubling clues that point in a different direction. The Taming of the Shrew. It really is an open apology for domestic violence. As I remember the play, the husband does not actually strike his wife, but he does psychologically batter her. And she becomes sweet and happy under the treatment. No man who respected women could have written such a play. And there is another clue, Othello. Now Wood would have us believe that this play was written to prick the conscious of Britain, because Othello is a tragic figure. Mebbe. Mebbe Shakespeare wrote it for such a purpose, or at least partly. But I wonder. White men have such a gift for projecting their own violence on to black people. Wood informs us of an incident in Shakespeare's life that offers another possible clue. Shakespeare had a mistress who was a Venetian Jew. In his poetry he describes her as dark. He also describes how he was driven mad by his passion for her. I have not read the poems, but judging by Wood's description of it, it sounds like she awakened all the control freak in Shakespeare. Domestic violence is peculiarly a crime of control. In the grip of such jealously it is not difficult to imagine Shakespeare imagining a story about a tragic figure who was driven to murder by jealously.
And there is yet another clue. Both of Shakespeare's children married hard line Protestants, one a Huguenot immigrant, the other a Puritan. Now we don't know what happened, it could be as simple as they met these men by chance and fell in love. It only happens every day. But I can't resist the temptation to speculate. What happened in the family after Shakespeare left Avon? Ann and the children where living with Shakespeare's parents. That cannot have been comfortable for Ann. Who was the preacher in the local church? Was he a fiery reformer? One of the Marian exiles who had studied under Calvin in Geneva? (The role of the Marian exiles in setting the stage for the English civil war has never been adequately examined that I know of.) Did Ann find solace in a Protestant church for her loneliness? Did being deserted by her husband cause a crisis in faith? We really have no way to know, this is all sheer speculation. But the fact that both Shakespeare's daughter's married hard line Protestants suggests that there were deep divisions within the family.
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