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Subject: Templar mythology
Wed 08 Mar 2017, 23:01
I wasn't sure whether to post this here or 'Religion and Superstition', but since strongly involves on how people choose to interpret history and myth I thought I'd try here.
Since childhood I have been fascinated by the Order of the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and the Temple of Solomon, aka the Knights Templar. However, what I have found fascinating is the extraordinary real story, about an order of warrior monks who rose to become one of the most powerful institutions in Christendom before coming to a sudden and spectacular downfall in the early 14th century, their story essentially ending with the burning of the last Grand Master, Jacques de Molay, in 1314. However, they have become obscured by a vast body of mythology, legend and conspiracy theories.
Last year I did a talk on the Order. The first half dealt primarily with the origins, organisation and fall of the Order. The second half was dedicated to debunking some of the main myths:
- The lost Templar treasure.
- The secret artefacts the Order recovered from the Holy Land (including the Turin Shroud and the Holy Grail).
- The Priory of Sion.
- Their esoteric and/or heretical knowledge and practices.
- Their connection to the Freemasons.
- Their connection to the Rosslyn Chapel.
- Their alleged survival today.
- Their connection to aliens (and the Jedi!)
I hoped I'd done a convincing job. However, immediately afterwards one of the audience came up and confided that he was convinced the Templars still existed (although he was unable to offer any evidence).
Today, friends have been bombarding me with news of the 'rediscovery' of a cave system in Shropshire which - according to the rather excitable reports - are believed to have been used by Templars in hiding during the 14th century 'persecutions' and perhaps beyond. The cave system is rather splendid, I'll grant you, but I've yet to see anything to link the caves to the Templars - no inscriptions, no pictures of carvings with alleged Templar significance, let alone the word of an archaeologist or historian.
What is about the poor Poor Knights that makes them such magnets for conspiracy and myth-making? More generally, where does the desire to mythologise history come from? In some cases it's obvious: for example, a need for a hero, a desire to gloss over some unsavoury aspect of the past, or even simple nostalgia. But - apart from a time when the Crusaders were widely considered (in the West, at least) a Good Thing, the Templars do not fit easily into any of these categories. I understand that modern-day Templars are the villains of the
Assassin's Creed
game franchise, with descendants of the Assassins as the heroes. (I do, incidentally, think it ironic that in this day and age a successful series of video games and now a movie feature heroes who are members of what was in essence one of the earliest Islamic terrorist groups!)
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Subject: Re: Templar mythology
Thu 09 Mar 2017, 08:58
I agree - why would they have been hiding in a cave in England? Unlike in France there was no wholesale persecution of the order, though Edward (who, unlike Philip, wasn't in hock to them so really didn't give a toss either way) eventually succumbed to pressure from the pope & Co and insisted that they disband. For the most part the celibates then became either Hospitallers or Cistercians, and the lay members simply carried on banking.
The Royston cave in Hertfordshire, which sounds like it may also be the "inspiration" behind any similar cave in Shropshire, is the one traditionally associated with the Templars, though that association has absolutely no basis in historically attested fact either.
One artificial cave (ie. cellar) that has some attestable association however is the one under Hertford Castle which on one recorded occasion was used as a prison cell for four Templars from nearby Dinsley. The local baron reckoned the lads had hidden treasure without offering him a cut and got Edward to sign an arrest warrant. They hadn't any treasure and were eventually released.
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Subject: Re: Templar mythology
Thu 09 Mar 2017, 11:08
I think people like an air of mystery - or perhaps even to think they are "in the know" - hence why there are people who believe in conspiracy theories. I was once instructed to "Wake up and smell the coffee" when I said that I thought the late Princess Diana's death was what it seemed to be - a very unfortunate accident. I don't know a great deal about the Templars - except what I've sometimes come across in historical novels but nowadays I tend to treat historical novels as an occasional "fun" read and don't ascribe historical fidelity to the facts to them. On another thread I rambled on a bit one day about some YouTube videos I'd been watching (I was convalescing and had time on my hands). I'd clicked by mistake on to one of those "Illuminati" videos and you know, the spirit was willing (to do something more sensible) but the flesh it was weak and I kept clicking on these very silly videos - an analogy I've used before is one known too much chocolate at once isn't good for one but the chocolate box is s-o-o-o-o tempting. Anyway, I watched a number of these strange videos and it is surprising what some people assert. Somebody said that Beyonce's daughter's name "Blue Ivy" - meant daughter of Lucifer in Latin. Unless Latin has changed since I was at school d---- of L----- in Latin is something like filia Luciferi (so many years since I did Latin at school and I only just scraped a pass at O level). The YouTube conspiracy theorists obviously hadn't heard about Anglo-Nordman's debunking of the Templars connection to the freemasons because it was repeated!
I wonder if the interest in the Templars has anything to do with the reports of them (very likely it seems such reports being spurious) having allegedly concealed treasure. Maybe (way back when) thinking of finding buried treasure was a fantasy for ordinary (and not wealthy) folk much as winning the pools - or more lately the lottery - subsequently became. Very occasionally people make finds (nothing to do with the Templars I know) such as Sutton Hoo and The Staffordshire Hoard. Not that I've ever been out with a metal detector but I think I've said the only metal I've ever detected in Staffordshire has been things like rusty tin cannisters.
The "local baron" mentioned by Nordmann in his final paragraph above sounds like the stereotypical "robber baron" - though I guess if the Templars in question had no treasure there was nothing he could rob.
Off topic completely, but Anglo-Norman, do people in the Channel Islands speak Norman French anymore? I heard that it had rather died out when the (then) children were evacuated during Word War II but I've never actually been to the Channel Islands (and I don't think watching reruns of "Bergerac" before my TV went bump count).
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Subject: Re: Templar mythology
Thu 09 Mar 2017, 11:57
Templar treasure was a powerful meme for many centuries after they were disbanded - no great surprise given their reputation for wealth and the suddenness of their dissolution. In Dublin the Royal Hospital in Kilmainham is built on an old Templar monastery site. It was said that during the demolition of the old ruins when preparing the site a previously unknown underground chamber was discovered, its door sealed. The then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the Earl of Ormonde, forbade anyone else open it, and then he and a few friends did the deed in private. After they were finished the room was found indeed to be empty, though Ormonde remained tight lipped for the rest of his days about whether he had found stuff or not. Mind you, Ormonde had a reputation for having a giggle at other people's expense, so it's anyone's guess now.
The meme didn't stop with that either - a good treasure story is apparently hard to kill once it gets started. For the next few centuries that the Hospital was in use there were several stories about hidden cellars etc being "discovered" by staff and inmates, and as recently as in the 80s a member of the Board Of Works who was renovating the building informed me over a pint of "strange things going on in the cellars at night" involving ghost knights, rattling chains, moans and groans, and so on, ending with that he reckoned they were Templars still "guarding their treasure".
Mind you, the Royal Hospital was a spooky place at the time anyway - the overgrown and dilapidated central courtyard was where the state stored all the old British Rule statues that had been removed from public locations. I used to work next door to it and had access, so often ate my lunch sitting between several Victorias, William of Oranges and a few anonymous dignitaries with handlebar moustaches and tail coats.
It's been done up now and looks smashing ...
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Subject: Re: Templar mythology
Thu 09 Mar 2017, 20:16
That's an interesting story, Nordmann and the restored Royal Hospital does look impressive now going by the photo. I took an online shorthand dictation shorthand class tonight - not that I'm improving my speed, just keeping it ticking over - but the lady doing the dictations had taken some pieces from newspapers to give us practice (with shorthand being a declining skill there are not many modern books of dictation pieces). Anyway, one of the pieces she dictated was about the "templar" caves near Shifnal and apparently (I can't remember who or what his/her qualifications were) someone is now saying they probably date from the 18th or 19th century so not quite contemporaneous with the Templars if that's true. Apparently there is a theory the caves could have been used for black magic - urgh that gives me the creeps.
I have visited (mind you it was over 20 years ago) Hawkstone Park in Weston-under-Redcastle in Shropshire where the 1988 TV Narnia series was filmed. Not quite New Zealand but it was beautiful - nothing to do with Templars though as far as I understand it
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Subject: Re: Templar mythology
Fri 10 Mar 2017, 21:51
Often these so-called Templar caves are extremely elaborate, not the sort of thing a group of desperate fugitive monks would be taking refuge in, even if they needed to. They must have been carved until more peaceable circumstances. If the Templars were orthodox in their beliefs there was no reason for them to have underground chapels, so such features would suggest heresy - but there's no real proof that they towed anything but the official line. The matter of their most famous alleged heresy - that they worshipped an idol known as the Baphomet - is a case in point: I find it very telling that none of the Templars forced into a confession seemed able to agree on just what the Baphomet was!
The other reason for their caverns might be if the Order secretly continued after their official dissolution, but again there's no proof - and no point. Their entire raison d'etre required them to be able to operate openly. Unless, I suppose, they had a secret purpose instead, but again, where's the evidence?
Hunting for the Templar treasure remains a popular pastime for some. The so-called Oak Island Money Pit off Nova Scotia is one alleged location. In reality much of the Templars' wealth was tied up in land, and whatever money existed was, I imagine, handed over to the Hospitallers (as it was supposed to be) or snaffled by the civil authorities. King Philip IV went to the Temple treasury in Paris and found it bare, according to an eyewitness report - that eyewitness being a chap by the name of King Philip IV. Not suspicious at all...
LadyinRetirement, there are very few in the Channel Islands who still speak their native tongues fluently, the majority being relatively elderly. Auregnais (once spoken in Alderney) has entirely died out, as has the form spoken in Herm. Jèrriais (spoken in Jersey), Guernésiais (spoken in Guernsey) and Sercquiais (spoken in Sark, though strictly speaking a dialect of Jèrriais) are still clinging on. You are right that the Occupation had a severe impact, as many children (as you say) were evacuated to the mainland and thus spent a formative part of their youth having to mostly speak English. Furthermore, more than ever the Islands have become less isolated from the UK. It is thought, however, that the large numbers of British troops stationed in the Islands during the late 18th/early 19th centuries had already contributed to a decline. Private organisations, and more recently the governments, have made efforts to preserve the languages. People who wish to learn the local language, however, inevitably tend to be taught a standardised version. There were once numerous 'dialects' of Jèrriais despite the small size of the Island, with some differences quite marked: an example often cited is that in the west the word for spider is
, but in the east it is
- such differences will die out, though. The different languages are (with a little work) mutually intelligible, and a Channel Islander speaking their
would be able to have a conversation with a speaker of 'proper' Norman-French.
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Subject: Re: Templar mythology
Sat 11 Mar 2017, 12:40
Thank you for the comprehensive information about the native tongues on the Channel Islands, Anglo-Norman.
Now I've come across an article that says that the "Templar" caves were not unknown but that they were sealed up in 2009 to try and discourage vandalism. http://www.snopes.com/knights-templar-caves-shropshire/
Just reading through my earlier post, I wonder if by linking to the article about Hawkstone Park I made it sound as if the caves in Hawkstone Park were the "Templar" caves. Of course, they were not, the only thing they have in common with the allegedly "Templar" caves is that they are in Shropshire. (My home county shares a boundary with Shropshire though I haven't been over that way for quite some time).
Edited 12.3.17 to insert a missing word.
Last edited by LadyinRetirement on Sun 12 Mar 2017, 13:18; edited 1 time in total
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Subject: Re: Templar mythology
Sat 11 Mar 2017, 22:08
Thanks for the link, LadyinRetirement - most enlightening! I rather suspected it was a folly (in more ways than one, perhaps?). I realised you didn't mean Hawkstone. It's a place I've visited myself, as a child - we used to go to Shropshire a lot as - although I consider myself a Jerseyman through and through - my father's family have come from Shrewsbury for generations; my earliest recorded ancestor on that side was a blacksmith in the Abbey Foregate in the 1370s (I wonder if his grandfather knew any subterranean Templars...) and I am an Hereditary Freeman of Shrewsbury. Sadly the government have taken away my rights - I can no longer drive my sheep across the Welsh Bridge and graze them in the Quarry, no can I make a quick buck by corruptly administering my tax gathering rights. On the plus side, at least the Queen can no longer insist I carry my pike in defence of the Crown.
The Royston Cave, which nordmann mentioned earlier, has lots of interesting carvings that - with more than a little imagination - can be interpreted as Templar. The only link to the Shropshire caves is apparently local legend, which according to the BBC, says the Templars used them in the 17th(!) century - is that really what the legend says, or is the Beeb clouding the issue further by fluffing the date? And had old is the the legend, anyway?
I think their admittedly secretive nature (for entirely practical reasons), elite status and dramatic fall are all contributing factors to the Templars' popularity with conspiracy theorists and pseudo-historians. I also suspect that once something has been established within the conspiracy world it becomes a lightening rod for more and more theories. For example: one genuine claim is that the Jedi Knights were based on the Templars, which is part of the evidence for a massive Masonic conspiracy in Hollywood. Another genuine claim is that the Rosslyn Chapel was a landing platform for spaceships. It won't take long for me to weave together a narrative proving that the real people who adhere to the Jedi religion are secretly Templars who travelled from a galaxy far, far away landed their ship in Scotland a long time ago, and are preparing the ground for when the Trade Federation travels across time and space to ally themselves with the Capitalist Freemasons to rule the Earth with their army of Battle Droids! Or something. Now, if only I can find a symbol in the Royston Cave that looks like the Jedi logo...
But seriously, we're always going to be faced with people who don't want to accept that facts. If I may quote the conclusion of my own talk:
Quote :
I daresay my analysis could be challenged: Perhaps the evidence has been tampered with. Perhaps my religious beliefs have prejudiced me. Perhaps studying history in an academic background has closed my mind to less conventional possibilities. Perhaps I am even an agent of a secret society descended from the Templars, and am even now trying to steer you away from the shocking truth we have guarded for centuries! Or maybe – just maybe – the Templars were the remarkable but wholly orthodox Order of Christian warrior-monks they claimed to be, whose wealth came from careful investment and the gifts of the faithful, whose downfall was not brought about by their heretical knowledge but the simple avarice and lust for power of a French king, and whose story ended with the execution of Jacques de Molay, last Grand Master, in 1314.
Terry Pratchett once wrote that no-one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away. In that sense, perhaps, the Templars might indeed be said to live on. Ultimately, though, in my view the
story of the Order of the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and the Temple of Solomon is a truly extraordinary one, and nothing the conspiracy theorists and pseudo-historians have come up with has yet outshone it. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is perhaps the Templars' greatest legacy.
We can try to demonstrate the folly of such theories where we can, but I think in the end sometimes there's nothing to be done but stand back, shaking our heads an muttering (as we say in Jersey)
"Mouôn Doue! Tchi niolîn!"
("My God! What rubbish!")
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Subject: Re: Templar mythology
Tue 14 Mar 2017, 22:22
Well didn't some folk put their religion as "Jedi" in the most recent UK census? I know it was just a joke. (I hope it was).
Anglo-Norman said "Ultimately, though, in my view the real story of the Order of the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and the Temple of Solomon is a truly extraordinary one, and nothing the conspiracy theorists and pseudo-historians have come up with has yet outshone it. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is perhaps the Templars' greatest legacy." It does seem a shame that people have to put forward spurious theories. I wonder sometimes if the conspiracy theorists are hoaxers - I remember a feature appearing - about a society with the aim of clothing naked animals - on the "Tonight" programme (the one with Cliff Michelmore that was on light-years ago) and it was later revealed to be a hoax, a prank
I see A-N has referenced the Baphomet. That was mentioned in some of the "Illuminati" videos I saw on YouTube (my excuse is that I was convalescing at the time and I'm sticking to that). Another thing that was referenced (not particularly in connection with the Templars to be fair) was celebrities making a 666 sign with their hands - but I couldn't help thinking that when the Bible was written 666 would have been written VI VI VI (though probably not with the spaces) - I don't think Arab numbers were in use in the "western" world at the time of the writing of the Bible but if I am wrong I'm sure somebody will notify me.
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Subject: Re: Templar mythology
Tue 14 Mar 2017, 23:31
Whilst I daresay some of the theories are hoaxes (the Priory of Sion bloodline nonsense began as a hoax which got out of hand, after all), sadly it's too widespread for all the 'conspiracies'to be hoaxes. Much as we'd like to think better of the human race, many are all to ready ready to swallow it.
The Revelation to John
would originally have been written in Greek. The (or rather
) Greek version renders 666 in the numerals χξς which would (I think) be quite hard to do with your hands, unless there's such a thing as Ancient Greek sign language. Curiously, my New Revised Standard Version translation renders it in long-hand ("six hundred and sixty-six"); I'm not sure if that's a stylistic choice or if one of the Greek versions writes it out in full. Just to add to the confusion, though, it does add a footnote saying "Other ancient authorities read
six hundred and sixteen
", so these sinister celebrities might be signing completely the wrong number anyway. The poor Second Beast will be terribly muddled by the time the Apocalypse happens.
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Subject: Re: Templar mythology
Wed 15 Mar 2017, 08:48
In Roman numerals 666 would usually have been written as DCLXVI ie using one of each letter a bit like writing 123456789 and there is evidence that as such it was sometimes used figuratively just to mean an undefined yet very big number.
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Subject: Re: Templar mythology
Sat 22 Sep 2018, 16:14
Where is everybody? I miss Temperance's contributions to the Moggy Thread. I don't know if I ever mentioned this before but it seems the White Witches believed they stopped Germany invading England! [url=https://www.thoughtco.com %E2%80%BA Humanities %E2%80%BA History & Culture %E2%80%BA European History 25 Oct 2017 - He said, %E2%80%9CWitches did cast spells, to stop Hitler landing after France fell.]
› Humanities › History & Culture › European History 25 Oct 2017 - He said, "Witches did cast spells, to stop Hitler landing after France fell. [/url] Crumbs, think of all the money spent on the war effort that could have been saved it folk had but known that the "good" witches had the outcome of the war all in hand.
Thinking of the various warrior knights in times past, I think the first aid society in the UK the St John's Ambulance takes its name from one such order. When I was run home from hospital both after having a low red corpuscle count (later found to be because of coeliac disease) and when I had broken my humerus last December I was taken home by St John Ambulance volunteers. Anglo-Norman had the right of it when saying (I'm paraphrasing here I know) that a juicy conspiracy theory often appeals more than the truth. Such a pity when the true story of the warrior monks is interesting in its own right but then in the recent
series - which has been discussed on other threads - real and colourful historical personages such as the Mancini sisters were cut out as was M. de Montespan's affixing antlers to his carriage (after the King took M. de M---'s wife to be his mistress) and contrived fake stories (or at best took somewhat suspicious rumours and ran with them) inserted.
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Subject: Edit: had typed "here" as "hear" (blushing as I type this)
Sat 22 Sep 2018, 16:21
As Baphomet seems to be a popular figure in conspiracy theories I looked the word up on Wikipedia (which I know isn't always totally reliable) and it doesn't seem to have been in existence before Phillipe le Bel "took down" the Templars
The Wikipedia entry isn't quite
War and Peace
but it is long. One theory posited for the origin of the word on that site is that it might have been a mishearing of "Mohammed" at the time of the Crusades.
While I'm here does anyone know of a (sensible) book about the history of the warrior knights - or even a sensible blog or website I could look at the subject of the Templars/Knights of St John et al history?
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Subject: Re: Templar mythology
Sat 22 Sep 2018, 16:44
Hullo Lady,
If you could bear a historical novel, I'd recommend Swedish author Jan Guillou's trilogy on a knight templar -
I can't comment on the English translation as I've only read the Danish one, and I don't trust my Swedish to read that much.
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Subject: Re: Templar mythology
Sat 22 Sep 2018, 17:38
I suggest the imaginatively titled
The Templars
by Piers Paul Read, or the doorstop that is John J Robinson's
Dungeon, Fire and Sword
Alan Forey's
The Military Orders
is useful and includes the other key Orders like the Hospitallers and Teutonic Knights, but is subject-based (purpose, logistics, organisation etc) rather than a historical narrative and only goes up to the 14th century.
Osprey Publishing do
Knight Templar 1120-1312, Knight Hospitaller (1): 1100-1306, Knight Hospitaller (2): 1306-1565
Teutonic Knight 1190-1561
but they're a bit pricy for fairly slim volumes and focus on military aspects. Another Osprey book,
The Knights of Christ
is slightly dated but useful in that it includes (very) brief accounts not just of the big Military Orders but also some of the more obscure ones like the Knights of St Lazarus.
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Subject: Re: Templar mythology
Sun 23 Sep 2018, 14:41
AN, I really need to work out how to use my Elonex (poor woman's Kindle) so that I can read some of the heavier tomes without having to lug them from the library (though I do have a trolley thing that I use when I go to the launderette; that could double for bringing heavy books home) but thanks to you and Nielsen for your suggestions.
Somebody is coming tomorrow to suss out what needs to be done to repair the flat roof. I'm trying to do a bit of tidying up before he comes (so less internet for me today). The hall floor doesn't have a carpet at present and I've trodden the dirt into it somewhat so I'm having a clear up with a thingy for scraping wall paper off walls and some wire wool (which does seem to be working) but just think how much I could have done of such jobs if I had prioritised them instead of getting sidetracked by the more loopy side of YouTube!!! I think when the roof is sorted - and the window - a replacement carpet (or even mats) is in order for the hallway. That certain famous people are clones seems to be a popular theory among those inclined to believe theories - though as I said somewhere else I'll give them BoJo and POTUS.
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Subject: Re: Templar mythology
Thu 16 Jan 2020, 19:12
The first half dealt primarily with the origins
I was going to post this on the
On this day in history thread
but since it's a conjectural date then it's probably better here:
16 January 1120 – foundation of the Order of the Knights Templar
The Council of Naples (Nablus in Samaria) was an attempt to bring order to the hitherto lawless Kingdom of Jerusalem. The king, Baldwin II, convened a council between himself and other crusader knights along with the patriarch Guarmond and other clerics which resulted in the framing of a basic law for the kingdom. The term 'basic law' is somewhat generous though, as its 25 chapters were mainly concerned with sexual mores, punishing adultery, bigamy, homosexuality and interfaith sex with fines, exile, mutilation and even death. To be fair, some of the chapters offered protection to slaves from being raped by their masters but the overall message of the council's concordat seems to have been that sex is a bad thing. Chapter 20 of the
Concilium Neapolitanum
, however, went as follows:
Capitulum xx
Si Clericus causa defensionis arma detuletit culpa non teneatur. Si autem militia aut alicujus curialitatis causa coronam dimiserit, usque ad praedictum terminum Ecclesiae id confessus coronam reddat, & deinceps secundum Patriarchae Praeceptum se habeat. Si autem amplius celaverit, pro Regis & Patriarche consilio se contineat.
The first sentence translates as:
No blame shall be held against any cleric who is obliged to defend himself with arms.
Before the Crusades, the Church had required knights to do penance for the taking of life during military campaigns. Now it seemed that even priests and monks themselves were being excused when taking up arms. It was a seminal moment in the history of the Church. The rest of Chapter 20 stated that despite this, such clerics were still bound by the ecclesiastical and secular rules of Church and Crown and that the King and the Patriarch would be the arbiters in these cases. The idea of the 'armed cleric', however, was established and it was only a small step from this, for Hugues de Payens (a minor French knight present at the Council) to then envisage the parallel concept of a 'monastic knighthood' also being given official sanction. His Knights Templar were duly formed and received Papal endorsement in 1139. The Order of St John (which predated the Knights Templar) later adopted an overtly military code themselves as the Knights Hospitaller (but only for some of them) in imitation of the Templars. 25 years after the Council of Clermont and the calling of the First Crusade, the concept of crusading had seemingly reached its logical conclusion – i.e. the exact opposite of the previously supposed Christian ideal.
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Subject: Re: Templar mythology
Sat 18 Jan 2020, 19:44
Vizzer, you spoke about the Order of St. John, which sparked the Knights Hospitaller.
Some twenty five years ago, the daughter in law, having a B&B, recieved many German families, having a member of their family in hospital. While the treatment, as for "Herz Kreislauf" (cardiovascular) diseases was in that time cheaper over here than in the former West-Germany (now they are transmitted to hospitals in the former East-Germany...and there they speak also German...and they are still cheaper than in the former West...)
But back to the Knights Hospitaller...evenings long I spoke with those German families, and they were always speaking about the "Johanniter Orde" about their "Krankenversicherung" (health insurance).
I always thought that that was a Catholic order, but see today I learned that the German one is Protestant...
From the wiki:
Even as it survived on Malta, the Order lost many of its European holdings during the
Protestant Reformation
. The property of the English branch was confiscated in 1540.
The German
Bailiwick of Brandenburg
in 1577, then more broadly Evangelical, but continued to pay its financial contribution to the Order until 1812, when the Protector of the Order in Prussia, King
Frederick William III
, turned it into an order of merit;
in 1852, his son and successor as Protector, King
Frederick William IV of Prussia
, restored the
to its continuing place as the chief non-Roman Catholic branch of the Knights Hospitaller."
And now they seem all to be under the same umbrella in Brussels.
Kind regards, Paul.
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The Niyamatullah Ghat Masjid stands on Calcutta's (Kolkata) Nimtala Ghat Street. Notice something curious there? Nimtala and Niyamatullah sound rather similar don't they? That is what originally sparked my interest in this mosque. So who was Niyamatullah and why is a mosque named after him? And how did the area come to be known as Nimtala? As it turns out, several stories intersect at this one location.
Located at 86/1, Nimtala Ghat Street, the Niyamatullah Ghat Masjid was built by a certain Mohammed Ramzan Ali, after whom a nearby lane is named Mohammed Ramzan Lane. Of Mohammed Ramzan, there are not many written records, but it is said that he was of a prominent Zamindar (landlord) family of the area and that Niyamatullah was one of his ancestors. No plaque or foundation stone can be seen now, but an old list from 1896 says that a foundation stone did indeed exist and it listed the date of construction as 1199 Hijra (the Muslim calendar), or 1784 as per the Gregorian calendar.
|Niyamtullah Ghat Masjid - street view
|The wazu khana
Although the Niyamatullah Ghat Masjid faces East, the entrance to the mosque is from the South, through a door on Nimtala Ghat Street. Beyond the door a narrow passage leads to a flight of stairs to the left. Seventeen steps, covered in terracotta tiles, lead to the open courtyard in front of the mosque. At the base of the staircase is the mosque's small "Wazu Khana" where the faithful may perform their ritual ablutions before prayer. The entire structure is made of brick and mortar, and no iron beams or the like have been used. The Niyamatullah Ghat Masjid is a nine domed mosque, and on each of its four sides, are three doors. The stones used to make the thresholds of the doors probably came from the ruins of Gauda (also spelt Gour or Gaur), the ancient city in West Bengal's Malda district, and have patterns of leaves and flowers carved in them. Marble from the ruins of Gauda have been used in many buildings in Calcutta (Kolkata) including the St. John's Church in Dalhousie and on some of the tombs in the South Park Street Cemetery.
|The threshold stone, probably from the ruins of Gauda
On the four corners of the mosque are four minarets, with two smaller minarets between each of them. Minarets are normally the place from where a "muezzin" calls the faithful for prayer with the "azaan", but in the Niyamatullah Ghat Masjid, all minarets are purely ornamental in nature. Inside, the floor of the mosque is covered in marble and the insides of the mosque's nine domes may be seen. Lines of geometric patterns are used inside the domes, which have been coloured red and green. On the Western wall of the mosque is the Mihrab. A Mihrab is a semi-circular niche found in the Western walls of mosques which serves three purposes; first, it indicates the Qibla, the direction of Mecca, which Muslims are supposed to face when praying, second, even if the mosque is filled to capacity, the Imam, seated inside the Mihrab would remain ahead of the Jamaat or congregation, and third, the architecture of the Mihrab creates acoustics which magnify the Imam's voice, ensuring that he can be heard even without amplification. There are several smaller niches in the western wall, some of the niches are being used to store books and other small items.
|The "mihrab" in the Qiblah wall
|One of the shops under the mosque, notice the arch?
Yet another architectural curiosity is the fact that this is one of only two mosques in Calcutta (Kolkata), built on a very high plinth. The only other mosque to follow this style is the Basri Shah Masjid, which is said to be the city's oldest mosque. But the Basri Shah Masjid's plinth is solid, there is no "taekhana" or underground chamber. The Niyamatullah Ghat Masjid's plinth, which is about 9 feet in height, today accommodates several shops within it. Take a look inside and you will find that all the shops have arched ceilings. Locals even say that inside the plinth is an underground passage that once led to the river, that has been sealed shut. But are Nimtala and Niyamatullah variations of the same name?
Nimtala and Niyamatullah sound remarkably similar and many locals are under the impression that the ghat and street were originally called Niyamatullah and the Nimtala is a corruption of this. This is probably not true, and to understand the history of this, it is important to understand that 200 years ago, Calcutta's Ganges, also called the Hooghly or Bhagirathi, was not following the same course as today. We know that the river has slowly shifted to the West, towards Howrah, leaving behind land that today forms Strand Road. What we now call the Nimtala Ghat Burning Ghat (or cremation ghat) is the third ghat to have that name. Across the road from the Niyamatullah Ghat Masjid stands the Anandamayee Kali Temple, built by a certain Nani Mohan Banerjee. This was where the old Nimtala Ghat once was. That is why the idol of the Anandamayee Kali Temple is in the avatar known as "shoshaan Kali", or the Kali of the cremation ground. As the river shifted west, the cremation ground was forced to move, around 1827-28 to a spot south of the present Nimtala Ghat. The ghat finally moved to its present location in 1875, because the Port Commissioners wanted a railway line to go through the place. The street that leads to the ghat was originally called Jorabagan Street and was renamed Nimtala Ghat Street much later.
|Inside the dome
All these places get their name from a neem or Margossa tree that stood near the present Anandamayee Kali Temple. Nimtala literally means "under the neem tree". This tree predates the mosque and even the first Nimtala Burning Ghat. Reference to it is found in records of Charnock's landing. It was under this tree that Charnock had sought shelter on the 24th of August, 1690, when his party landed in Sutanuti. The giant tree had shrivelled over time to a trunk and one solitary branch that hung over the Anandamayee Kali Temple for a long time until it was destroyed in a fire in 1882. Therefore, although the names are remarkably similar, this similarity is purely coincidental. But now arises the other question; where is the Niyamatullah Ghat?
The Niyamatullah Ghat was built by Mohammed Ramzan Ali's ancestor Niyamatullah. It was close to the mosque, to the west, since the river was where the Strand Road is today, and was behind the spot presently occupied by the Anandamayee Kali Temple. Locals say that under the mosque's 9 foot high plinth, there was once a passage that provided access to the ghat, which has since been sealed. In fact the mosque was probably built on a plinth to prevent it from getting flooded at high tide. The ghat at which Charnock's party landed is described by Calcutta's chronicler Pran Krishna Dutta as having a series of low arches, a roof and a large neem tree to its North. Pijush Kanti Roy, in his book Mosques in Calcutta, says that this description refers to none other than the Niyamatullah Ghat, and that that is where Charnock actually landed. While this particular claim would need to be backed by the mother of all verifications, my own aim is much more humble. I simply want to know where the Niyamatullah Ghat stood.
|The Anandamayee Kali Temple today
Since the river has retreated, Strand Road has been built, and buildings have come up on every inch of free space, it is extremely unlikely that any trace of that ghat would remain. So I called up my good friend and frequent collaborator, Brian Paul Bach and asked him to send me some old maps. I looked at 4 maps, from 1785, 1793, 1840 and 1852, but found no trace of the ghat. There are several explanations that come to my mind. First, that perhaps it was a small bathing ghat, not an important and large landing ghat, and therefore was not given any importance by cartographers like Wood and Upjohn. Second, maps show the Sutanuti and Rathtala ghats fairly close to one another, so maybe there was a cluster of ghats, one of which was the Niyamatullah Ghat. Or perhaps the Niyamatullah Ghat was built over the spot where the Sutanuti Ghat once stood. The Anandamayee Kali Temple is the only surviving marker and although "somewhere near the temple" is neither very satisfactory nor very precise, we will have to make do with it.
|On a dull day
The legend about the Niyamatullah Ghat is that it was used by both Hindus and Muslims and one fine day, when a group of priests were offering puja at the ghat, some local muslim boys, who were bathing there were careless, and splashed some water on them. According to existing superstitions of the time, this meant the Brahmins had been "polluted", all their puja efforts had come to nought, and they would need another dip in the holy water to purify themselves. The Brahmins went away, muttering that they would never use this ghat again. When Mohammed Ramzan Ali heard of this, he immediately had sentries posted at the ghat and announced the Niyamatullah Ghat would be open exclusively to Hindus henceforth. Pran Krishna Dutta points to this as a great example of a man trying to maintain communal harmony, at this risk of enraging members of his own community.
The Niayamatullah Ghat Masjid today has two temples on both sides. To the West, the Anandamayee Kali Temple and to the East, the Durgeshwar Shiva Temple. Two temples and a mosque, existing peacefully, side by side. Within the mosque complex are several small dwellings and several of the families living there are Hindu. I was chatting with one of the Hindu residents and he said to me, "we are very happy that our mosque has been renovated. Now people like you are coming to see it". That line stayed stuck in my head – "our mosque", not "their mosque". "To you be your way, and to me mine", the Prophet (PBUH) says in the Qur'an (109:1-6); religion is a personal matter. But our history, our heritage, irrespective of religion, is something we share, and it belongs to all of us.
- By Deepanjan Ghosh
- This story would not have been possible without the help of my friend, fellow blogger and heritage enthusiast, Soham Chandra. Check out Soham's blog here.
- Thanks also to my friend Brian Paul Bach. Brian has written many books, among them a scholarly volume on Calcutta's architecture called Calcutta's Edifice, and one on his travels around India and Pakistan entitled The Grand Trunk Road from the Front Seat. Check out Brian's blog here.
Kolikata Shekaler O Ekaler – Mukhopadhyay, Harisadhan
Kolikatar Itibritto – Dutta, Pran Krishna
Shashwata Kolkata: Kolkatar Ghat – Mitra, Radharaman/Mitra, Rathin
Kolkatar Mandir Masjid – Satra, Tarapada
Mosques in Calcutta – Roy, Pijush Kanti
Temples in Calcutta – Roy, Pijush Kanti
A History of Calcutta's Streets – Nair, P.T.
A History of Calcutta's Streets – Nair, P.T.


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This is me today…after a sleepless night…a test at noon to which I feel totally unprepared right now..
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Thermal formation of corundum from aluminium hydroxides prepared from various aluminium salts
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Aluminium hydroxides have been precipitated from various aluminium salts and the differences in their thermal behaviour have been investigated. Pseudoboehmite derived from the nitrate, sulfate and chloride all form γ-Al2O3 at ∼ 400°C but the formation of α-A12O3 at 1200°C occurs more readily in the material derived from the sulfate. This contains a higher concentration of anionic impurities related to differences in the solubility of the original aluminium salts. The sulfate is retained in the gel to higher temperatures at which its eventual decomposition may lead to the formation of a reactive pore structure which facilitates the nucleation of α-A12O3.
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Envirotech's Tasty Thursday- Strawberry Pound Cake
1C Butter (softened)
2C Sugar
5 Large Eggs
1/2 tsp Strawberry Extract
1/2 tsp Vanilla
2 1/4C Flour
1/2 tsp Salt
1/2 C Sour Cream
3/4 C Chopped Fresh Strawberries
Glaze Ingredients:
1C Powdered Sugar
2 TB Milk
1 drop Red food Coloring
1. Preheat oven to 350. Grease and flour 2 loaf pans.
2. Beat butter until creamy. Gradually add sugar and beat until fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition. Beat in extracts.
3. In a small bowl, combine flour and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture, beating just until combined. Stir in sour cream and strawberries.
4. Divide between pans and bake 55-60 minutes, cool cakes on rack for 10 minutes.
5. Combine glaze ingredients until smooth.
6. Spoon on glaze, let stand 1 hour then remove from pans.
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As some of you know, we developed our own Player Rater methodology called Point Shares about a year ago. Since then, it's been one big poontrain….zooming past Statgeek Station. Perhaps it's because my hat and eyewear aren't goofy enough?
Anyway, we've done some informal comparisons in the past w/ ESPN but – after having a prolonged, dorktastic debate – I decided to take it one step further. I created a test where I pitted our Point Shares against two other player raters: ESPN and RotoTimes.
The test went like this: Create 10 random 10 team leagues and calculate the standings using the real stats. Then do the same using the rating points for each of the services (so if you add up the ESPN HR player rater points for each team, the one with the most points gets a 10 in HR). The team point totals calculated by the player raters is compared to the point totals from using the real stats and we added up all the differences (so if the real points total was 70 and the player rater projected 68, it's worth 2 points). The lower the point total the better.
Before we go into the results, it's worth noting that this test puts our Point Shares at a disadvantage. Why? Our methodology factors in position and projected team standings so that you can use it to directly estimate the impact of a trade or draft pick. We adjust our ratings by crediting points against the average found at the player's position instead of the average hitter. All stats equal, we know that a catcher will be much more valuable than a 1st baseman (why else would people draft Russ Martin and V-Mart in the 3rd round last year?). Geovany Soto and Justin Morneau both hit 23 HRs. While RotoTimes and ESPN ignore position and credit each with the same number of points, we have a 0.5 difference. This is saying that – assuming you fill the rest of the rosters up with average players – owning Soto will give you a 0.5 advantage in HR points vs. owning Morneau in a 10-team league.
But a test where you just add up rosters takes this out of the equation. You could conceivably be perfect just by creating a 'rating point' completely proportional to the real total. So 20 vs. 30 HRs could be worth .2 and .3 points or 2 and 3 points, etc. Will those numbers help determine the value of 20 vs. 30 HRs? Not really.
Okay, with that said, the results of the test are as follows (if you want to see the spreadsheet, click here – warning: it's messy). Out of 100 teams, the total points off by the Player Raters was:
RotoTimes – 112
Razzball Point Shares – 143
Our Point Shares were the most accurate for 3 of the 10 leagues while RotoTimes claimed at least a share of 1st in the other 7 (ESPN tied them 3 times).
At a category level, I performed correlation tests between the 'real' standings and those of the player raters. 100% would be perfect.
As you can see, Point Shares held up pretty well to ESPN and RotoTimes despite taking on the extra burden of factoring in position and tying it to expected point gains/losses in the standings. The test did shine light on some improvements we can make on pitcher counting stats (W, SV, K) – note the higher correlation we have on ERA/WHIP because we can directly tie it to IP.
Final summary:
1) RotoTimes is the most accurate of the three. Combined with the facts that you can both customize the rankings based on league size, categories, roster size, etc. and they provide $ estimates, we'd say this is the best pure ranking tool.
2) Point Shares have proven to be in the same league as these other player raters. Given the extra utility of Point Shares because it directly estimates the impact on team points of player moves, we'd say our Point Shares are the most useful of the three.
3) ESPN, while not the 'testwide leader', did pretty well – especially in hitting stats. Their biggest pure weakness is ERA/WHIP as it would appear that they don't factor in IP like Razzball (and, we assume, RotoTimes). But we'd say their biggest total weakness is that their player points mean ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. They are arbitrary numbers that could be used to rank players but not to estimate their value in the standings or worth at the draft table. They do a good job, though, at keeping it updated throughout the year…


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Top model and a philanthropist, Toni Garrn, is all about female empowerment and clean beauty. And as the face of Kérastase's new Aura Botanica, the natural beauty knows a thing or two about upkeep. "I've never felt such a natural connection to a brand before," she says. "The places they source it from is where I go when I'm off to support my foundation." With ingredients like Samoan coconut oil and Moroccan argan oil, the eco-conscious collection nourishes hair, while still delivering the same luxury finish. "I think hair is one of the most beautiful things a woman has, it gives you confidence." Here, the German stunner opens up about the importance of having a natural routine for hair, body and skin and she shared with her best natural remedies, her favorite dance class, and more.
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I developed this sausage for an old rooster, but since then have used it for pheasants and turkeys a lot.
You can use any white meat here, so chicken, rabbit, even riffed grouse or partridges would work. And there's no reason you couldn't use some darker meat birds like sharp-tailed grouse, too.
Once you have your pheasant sausages made, they are good poached in beer or wine, slowly grilled over charcoal, browned in a pan over medium heat, or roasted in a 325°F oven for 20 minutes. Serve in a bun, or with your choice of starch and vegetable.
If you've never made sausages before, start by reading my basic sausage-making instructions, which are hosted on my friend Elise's site Simply Recipes.
Pheasant Sausages
- 3 1/2 pounds pheasant meat, or use turkey or chicken
- 3/4 pound pork fat
- 34 grams kosher salt, about 2 tablespoons
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh oregano
- 10 grams cracked black pepper, about a tablespoon
- 5 cloves minced fresh garlic
- 10 grams fennel seed
- Grated zest of a lemon
- 1/2 cup Madeira wine, or white Port, or Marsala
- Chill the meat until it is almost frozen by putting it in the freezer for an hour or so. Take out some hog casings and set in a bowl of very warm water.
- Chop meat and fat into chunks that will fit into your grinder. Mix in the salt, and, ideally, let this set in the fridge overnight; this helps the bind. You can skip this step if you are in a hurry, though.
- When you are ready to grind, take out half the fennel seeds and half the black pepper. You'll want to add them right before you do that final mix. This keeps some spices whole, altering the sausage's texture, making eating it more interesting. Combine the other half of the fennel and pepper, garlic and herbs with the meat, mix well with your hands and grind through your meat grinder using the coarse die, about 6.5 mm. If your room is warmer than 70°F, set the bowl for the ground meat into another bowl of ice to keep it cold.
- Chill the meat for another 30 minutes, then grind half of it through the fine die. Why bother? Because there will be a lot of stray silverskin in an old bird. Grinding to a finer level will make eating the sausage easier without getting any gristly bits. You can skip this if all you are using are breasts.
- Add the wine and lemon zest, then mix thoroughly either using a Kitchenaid on low for 60 to 90 seconds or with your (very clean) hands. This is important to get the sausage to bind properly. Once it is mixed well, put it back in the fridge.
- Stuff the sausage into the casings. Fill whole casings first. Then twist off links by pinching the casing down and twisting it; you want it to be about 5 to 6 inches long. Twist first away from you, then towards you. This helps the links stay tight. Or you could tie them off with butcher's string.
- Hang the sausages in the kitchen for an hour, or up to overnight if you have a place to hang them in refrigeration. Use a needle to pierce the skin where there are any air bubbles. Gently twist-tighten the link to remove any air pockets. Once the sausages have dried a bit, put in the fridge until needed. They will keep for a week in the fridge. If you are freezing the sausages, wait a day before doing so. This will tighten up the sausages and help them keep their shape in the deep-freeze.
Homemade Sausage Recipes
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To complete now refrigerate at least 1 hour to let flavors blend. To serve, spoon into a small serving dish. Serve with dim sum.
- Yield
- 2/3 cups
- 3 tablespoons dry mustard
- 1/8 teaspoons ground ginger
- 2 tablespoons hot water
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 1/2 cup dairy sour cream
- In a small bowl, combine dry mustard and ginger. Stir in hot water a little at a time, stir until smooth. Stir in soy sauce. Spoon sour cream into another small bowl. Gradually stir mustard mixture into sour cream, stir until blended
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Nutritional Info
- Calories264
- Carbohydrates9 g(3%)
- Fat22 g(35%)
- Protein9 g(19%)
- Saturated Fat10 g(51%)
- Sodium2670 mg(111%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat2 g
- Fiber2 g(9%)
- Monounsaturated Fat8 g
- Cholesterol45 mg(15%)


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Natasha Bucknor – Executive Director
Natasha is the Executive Director of Talawa Theatre Company. She has a background in theatre administration and general management. She has worked for a number of organisations, including the National Theatre Studio, Almeida Theatre and most recently the Southbank Centre. Natasha has a particular interest in cultural leadership and in developing and mentoring emerging administrators and general managers. In her spare time Natasha enjoys watching films, travelling and finding antiques and collectables!


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Alex May is a British artist working at the forefront of art science collaboration and digital preservation utilising a wide range of media, including virtual reality, photogrammetry, algorithmic photography, robotic artworks, video projection mapping, interactive installations, generative works, performance, and video and sound art.
Featured Works
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Fourth Sunday after Holy Cross
1 Thessalonians 5:1-11; Matthew 24:45-51
O Holy Wood, you are thrice-blessed;
the New Adam was raised upon you,
Jesus, the King of Creation.
The subtle serpent deceived fair Eve,
giving her to eat from the tree;
the Cross of Christ overcomes his lies:
death on that tree gave us new life.
From the New Eve, the Holy Maid,
the true Fruit of Life has been given,
Adam's loss by Cross now restored.
Adam took and ate; dying, he died;
so have all of Adam's children.
Christ tasted death; dying, destroyed death;
made us to be children of God.
O Lord, Your Cross is salvation;
it overcomes all sin, all disgrace,
and washes away all offense.
By Your Cross we were born into light
and learn the way to live in grace,
finding victory against darkness,
and joy in this newness of life.


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22 April 2015
What are the options following recent decisions on complaints against providers for paying a transfer value?
In a pension liberation update of today we summarised the outcome of two complaints that pension providers had not made adequate checks before transferring to the Capita Oak Pension Scheme on request in 2012. Neither was upheld.
People who have transferred to the Capita Oak Pension Scheme and are concerned about their pension money may be considering complaining to us about:
- the Capita Oak trustee for not responding to requests, or
- the original pension scheme for making the transfer.
Complaints against the trustee of the Capita Oak Pension Scheme about transferring out of that scheme.
We published the determination in the case of Mr X in December last year. We said that if he asked for a transfer-out to a pension scheme that could accept the transfer, the trustee must pay it. Mr X can enforce payment in the court if he wishes. However, we also said that we didn't know whether enforcement action would be effective, since it is not clear what has happened to the assets.
We may make similar directions for future cases (though, as with Mr X, we don't know whether money can be found should they be enforced.) However, before you come to us you should first write to the trustee asking for a transfer, ideally naming the scheme that you want to transfer to.
If you need help or advice you can speak to the Pensions Advisory Service.
Complaints that the transfer should not have been paid to the Capita Oak Pension Scheme
In the cases published today we said that the transfers were requested before the Pensions Regulator had issued guidance on the subject; they were to a registered pension scheme and Mr Winning appeared to have a statutory right to transfer. There was no reason for the transfers to be withheld. And even if the providers had expressed concerns to Mr Winning he might have insisted. Overall, there had been no administrative failure by the providers in complying with his request. The two cases are PO-5799 and PO-5930.
If your case is similar to those cases, a complaint is unlikely to be upheld.
However, if you think that a pension scheme or pension company should not have paid the transfer value to Capita Oak, then before complaining to us you will need to have used the complaint procedures. You should write to them setting out what you consider they have done wrong and asking for the matter to be treated as a formal complaint. If the complaint is against an occupational scheme (usually a scheme connected to your job), you should ask for it to be considered under the internal dispute resolution procedure.
When you write – or if you complain to us – you will need to explain why your case is significantly different to the two published cases.
If you need help or advice you can speak to the Pensions Advisory Service.
28 January 2015
We have recently published decisions about complaints that providers had blocked transfers on the grounds that they were related to "pension liberation" or "pension scams". We understand that in the light of those decisions people are considering bringing complaints that transfers were made, but should have been blocked. In particular those complaints may be about transfers to the Capita Oak Pension Scheme.
We are presently investigating one complaint of that kind. We expect to publish our decision in the first half of this year. It won't be binding on anyone except the parties to it, but it will give a good indication of our general approach. That will help the transferring schemes and scheme members deal with other individual cases.
Before that case is published there is no need to make your own application to us about the same or similar issues. If you did we would have to "park" your case until the first case is decided – and then we would probably ask you and/or the transferring scheme to look at your case again in the light of our decision.
If it does become necessary for you to complain to us, the time from now until the first case is published will not count against you for the purpose of deciding whether your complaint has been made within our time limit. (That would usually be three years from when the transfer was made, but potentially longer than that where the delay was reasonable).
Although there is no need to bring these complaints to us now, if you need to in due course you must have fully used the transferring scheme's complaint procedures before you do. So you may wish to consider writing to the scheme or pension provider that made the transfer – setting out what you consider they have done wrong and asking for the matter to be treated as a formal complaint. If the complaint is against an occupational scheme (usually a scheme connected to your job), you should ask for it to be considered under the internal dispute resolution procedure.
We will publish further updates as matters progress.


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As a tribute to the New Year and homage to the more organized faction of the crafting community, we are celebrating Planners! What better way to express your creativity and to organize your daily, monthly or even yearly goals. With a custom design in planning goals, one has the opportunity to dream and shape the page in a way that makes sense to the individual. Today we share two distinct planner page themes by Tenia Nelson and Alison Heikkila.
Tenia chose to go with a weekly style Planner page that lists the days of the week on the outer edges of the page. Here are Tenia's directions to customize the page!
Step 1
Add splatter to planner pages using Sheer Shimmer Spritz and Fireworks! Craft Spray in Tuxedo Black.
Step 2
Stamp various stars onto planner pages using Memento Tuxedo Black Ink.
Step 3
Stamp image onto planner pages using VersaFine Smokey Gray Ink. Write in plans in planner using Memento Tuxedo Black and Memento London Fog Markers.
Alison chose to use a monthly view with a floral edging. Alison likes to print out a calendar that has room to write about the design team projects and important dates/events to remember:
Print out a calendar page. There are so many printable calendars available online. Just do a quick Google or Pinterest search.
Use VersaMagic inks to mimic the soft, painterly flowers and planner stamp set to embellish the calendar. Start by stamping images on important event days. Color in the stamped images using the VersaMagic inks and Fantastix. Just lightly rubbing the Fantastix against the ink pad will give you plenty of ink to work with. Color the images with contrasting colors to help them stand out nicely.
One of the coolest characteristics of planners is the flexibility in the calendar layout mixed with unique images to fully represent creativity. Planner pages are especially fun when customized to give them their own unique individual touch. We hope these two styles have offered up inspiration to start!
Supplies used in Tenia Nelson's Page:
- Memento – Tuxedo Black
- Fireworks! – Tuxedo Black
- VersaFine – Smokey Gray
- Sheer Shimmer Spritz – Gold
- Memento Marker – London Fog
- Memento Marker – Tuxedo Black
- Concord & 9th – Stamp
- Webster Pages/Fun Stampers Journey Planner
Supplies used in Alison Heikkila's Page:
- Versa Magic Ink – Night Sky, Pink Petunia, Muted Mauve, Sage, Tea Leaves, Sahara Sand, Pink Grapefruit, Pretty Petunia, Thatched Straw
- Fantastix – Brush Tip
- Stampendous – Journal Bullets
- printablehaven.com – planner page


text: In Monday's New York Times, a few CSAIL PIs sat down to offer their views on the robotics revolution – the real, the fake, and even the Jetsons. For the average child who grew up on Saturday morning cartoons, it was a tragedy to learn that The Future would probably include neither hovercars nor robotic butlers. But in our collective dejection, we may have missed the many ways in which robots have begun to gently invade our daily lives. Professors Nick Roy, Daniela Rus, Russ Tedrake and Leslie Kaelbling explain their current projects, debunk old myths, and give some insight into some of the real challenges roboticists face in bringing their work to life. We may not be at the level of the Iron Giant yet. But a great many of these applications make a very elegant transition from the television screen to the real world, making it safer and easier – and leaving us with more time to dream. To read the Times profile, click here.


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The Program on Understanding Law, Science and Evidence (PULSE) @ UCLA Law has added a new fellow to advance its cutting-edge initiative exploring the interplay of artificial intelligence and the law.
Elana Zeide, whose focus is the application of ethics and legal policy to new technologies, has been named the PULSE Fellow in Artificial Intelligence, Law and Policy for 2018-2020. She joins Alicia Solow-Niederman, who last year was appointed the first PULSE fellow.
The full-time research fellowships are funded with a $1.5 million grant from the Open Philanthropy Project to study disruptions to society and the legal system spurred the application of machine learning to numerous aspects of life, from healthcare and finance to national security and fundamental social arrangements.
Zeide previously served as a fellow at Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy, Yale School of Law's Information Society Project, and New York University's Information Law Institute. She was a visiting assistant professor at Seton Hall University School of Law and worked a litigation associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore. She earned her J.D. and LL.M. from New York University School of Law.
Solow-Niederman, whose scholarship focuses on the interaction between emerging technologies and legal, political and social institutions, was named a winner of the 2017 Yale Law Journal graduate essay competition for her work on data breaches. She earned her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.
UCLA Law professors Edward Parson and Richard Re are co-directors of the Project on Artificial Intelligence, Law and Policy. Parson is the Dan and Rae Emmett Professor of Environmental Law at UCLA Law. Re is co-director of PULSE, which was launched in 2009 to conduct research on the ways in which innovations in science and evidence influence law and policy making.
In spring of 2017, the PULSE Project on Artificial Intelligence, Law and Policy held its first workshop, on "Artificial Intelligence in Strategic Context: Development Paths, Impacts, and Governance." More than 20 experts — including scholars in mathematics, engineering, law and social science — participated.
"Fellows of Elana's and Alicia's caliber will allow the Project on Artificial Intelligence, Law and Policy to tackle emerging issues in assessing the benefits and risks of AI," said Re. "We look forward to hosting additional conferences this year and collaborating with colleagues from other institutions and areas of scholarship to identify impacts, good and bad, on our legal and social structures."


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Scientists have debated for years about the source of the channels that carve through the red landscape of Mars. Some say rivers of water formed the landscape, while others say molten lava scarred it. Solving this mystery is important to the space community. The presence of abundant water on an ancient Martian landscape promotes the theory that there was once life there. But Space.com reports that a new discovery indicates that lava may have been the source of some channels.
Last week, NASA researcher Jacob Bleacher spoke before the 41st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. He revealed a series of images that shows that lava may have created some of the Martian channels.
Channels created by water generally have fine, delicate terrain features. These are called fluvial erosions and have longed been believed to be present on Mars. But lava creates a much different landscape. Bleacher calls to mind the lava flows of Hawaii for a frame of reference. These create big, open channels. According to Bleacher, closer examination of some of the ridges on Mars show that "the channel is actually roofed over, as if it were a lava tube, and lined up along this, we see several rootless vents." Bleacher further explains to Space.com that these rootless vents are openings where lava is forced out of its tube to create small structures.
Bleacher, along with W. Brent Garry and Jim Zimbelman at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, studied the southwest flank of Mars' Ascraeus Mons volcano, one of three volcanoes collectively known as the Tharsis Montes. Using some of the highest imaging power available, the scientists at first determined that water seemed to be the source of the channels. Islands and secondary channels indicate this. But the other ends of the channel have tubes and ridges that were indicative of lava flow. Rather than assuming one end of the channel was carved by water and the opposite end was lava, Bleacher and his team proposed the entire channel was lava formed.
Bleacher and his team compared images of Mars' channels with lava flows on Mauna Loa on the Big Island of Hawaii. They found that many of the features caused by this epic 1859 eruption can also be found on Mars. Bleacher elaborates, "We found terraced walls on the insides of these channels, channels that go out and just disappear, channels that cut back into the main one, and vertical walls 9 meters (29 feet) high. So, right here, in something that we know was formed only by flowing lava, we found most of the features that were considered to be diagnostic of water-carved channels on Mars."
Bleacher concludes that this revelation does not rule out water on Mars. Instead, he urges the public to never underestimate how liquid rock will flow, or what it will do to a planet's surface.
For further reading: Some Mars channels carved by lava, not water


text: According to a DroidMatters report, sources within the industry have confirmed the Droid Bionic's full marketing campaign will launch on Friday, August 26th, and the phone will actually release on September 8th. Furthermore, pre-orders will supposedly start on September 1st, and Verizon stores should start receiving marketing and release materials today or tomorrow. Also, according to other sources, it appears that the Droid Bionic video that briefly showed up a couple of days ago and was then pulled, was actually a valid commercial for the device, and that it was likely posted too early. Source: BionicForums.net via DroidMatters


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Following the Misner Plan made our grocery shopping a much simpler task. Instead of looking on shelves at the many different types and brands of crackers, breads, soups, mixes, frozen meals, etc., and reading the labels to see what ingredients we had to avoid, we began to buy the simple ingredients of these foods. Our pantry is stocked with organic dried beans and lentils, organic California brown rice, organic quinoa, wild rice, organic nuts of several varieties, organic dried dates and raisins, organic extra virgin olive oil, organic cold-pressed grape seed oil, organic tea oil, organic sesame oil, organic almond oil, organic hazelnut oil, organic cold-pressed coconut oil, organic coconut cream, raw coconut nectar, raw agave nectar, organic Manuka 15+ honey, and Beanilicious brown rice and black bean chips (with four ingredients, rice, beans, safflower oil and sea salt).
Our fridge has all the crisper drawers full of fresh, organic vegetables and fruits and even the shelves are filled with bagged and washed vegetables waiting to be chopped and added to the rices and grains listed above for each day's meals. We also have our few dairy items in the fridge: homemade goat's milk yogurt, homemade goat's milk kefir, raw goat's milk butter, homemade raw goat's milk cheese and eggs from our friends' chickens! We feel very blessed that we can buy raw goat's milk in California at our local market, but you may not be able to in the state or country in which you live. For our position on alternatives to what might be the very best for our bodies, read our blog Good, Better, Best. We also have opened containers of coconut milk, pomegranate juice, and our favorite dressing—organic olive oil mixed with fresh lemon juice.
Our freezer is where we keep our grains and flours and frozen fruits for smoothies or homemade sorbet. We also have some frozen fish and shrimp in the freezer, but we prefer to buy fresh fish and cook it the day we buy it. Some of the grains and flours in the freezer are flax seeds, chia seeds, almond meal, brown rice flour, Bob's Red Mill organic gluten-free baking flour and Bob's Red Mill organic gluten-free oatmeal.
We hear people often saying that they cannot afford to eat organic foods. I can tell you that our grocery list is so simple now that our food bill is actually lower on a weekly basis as a rule. When we make our larger shopping trips (as written of in Beth's Blog An Interesting Grocery Store Contrast), our receipt is higher than our SAD counterparts, but overall, we are not spending more on our food budget. And whenever I want a snack, there is always something healthy and filling to have.
Here is a sample shopping list Beth made last week:
- Raw goat's milk
- Goat's milk yogurt
- Goat cheese
- Coconut kefir
- Cashews
- Pistachios
- Ginger
- Onions
- Sweet Potatoes
- Avocados
- Mango
- Pineapple
- Tomatoes
- Spinach
- Lemons
- Strawberries
- Wild rice
- Brown rice
- Quinoa
- Garbanzo beans
- Beanilicious chips
- Vanilla bean
- Green tea with pomegranate
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Tobacco: Deadly in any form or disguise
Tobacco: Deadly in any form or disguise
WHO has selected "Tobacco products" as the theme for World No Tobacco Day 2006 to:
highlight the harms associated with use of any tobacco product
explain how the tobacco epidemic ravages countries that can least afford its toll of disability, disease, lost productivity and death
call on governments to enact regulation of tobacco products
stress the importance of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) in regulating tobacco products.
Tobacco is the only legal consumer product that kills when used exactly as intended by the manufacturer. World No Tobacco Day will help to save more lives and to limit the damage caused by tobacco use.
The key messages of this year's World No Tobacco Day are:
The tobacco industry puts profits and growth ahead of people and health.
Tobacco companies will continue to develop new products and disguise them in a cloak of attractiveness and reduced harmfulness.
All tobacco products, current and emerging, are harmful and addictive.
Governments should regulate all types of tobacco.
All countries have a moral obligation to ratify and fully implement the WHO FCTC to save lives.


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I work in a global organization and have to schedule so this seems right up my alley.Cons:
Unzipped the download and it's 224 MB? That's bigger than Slack.
- It would be interesting to have a way to organize the people instead of showing everyone, e.g. some tabs like "All", "Friends", "Company X", "Company Y" and other categories I create.
- Also, enable me edit people I added manually.
- Some people I add manually I know their timezone because Slack shows, but I don't know their city. So I had to find a random city with that timezone.Pros:
Beautiful UI and easy to useCons:
Can't edit people; Can't organize people by categories;


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These critters were taking their time crossing a backroad we wandered down. You can tell it's not a major road with the warning sign about
Now it's your turn to show us a part of your world! Join us below.
Turkeys are interesting and tasty birds. Mostly they are clever at avoiding people. Great photo.
I so enjoy seeing wildlife scenes like this! We have wild turkey in our area but usually only see them at a distance in a field.
Cool picture!!!
I don't think we have wild turkeys here in Germany - but yeserday I met many colleagues from (sorry for the bad joke) Turkey!!! ;-)
Enjoy a great day!
except you only eat wild turkeys on certain months of the year otherwise they're tough and gristly. we get lots of them up here.
I think they weren't very worried about not being able to find petrol/gas! Really neat picture ... I see them in Oregon, but not so many and never in such a tidy line!
great photograph! And people must appreciate that sign if they are new to the area...
What a great nature shot of the wild turkeys ~ fun ~ thanks, ^_^
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A great shot! My first thought was also that they are certainly not worried about not finding petrol the next 1oo km :)
I hope there was a fuel station before you get to that sigh.
Nicely done! At least warned about the gas availability.
such a cute crossing!
enjoyed the wild turkeys Betty; nice to see 'country' happening...
what a fabulous photo! I took one similar once of kangaroos crossing the road near our patch. Great image.
Neat sighting of the wild turkeys! Enjoy your week ahead!
I wondered if the turkeys ran out of fuel and had to walk. ;) Cute shot of them crossing the road.
Fun spotting of the Turkeys crossing the road.