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October 26, 2003
Triptychs From the Crypt
By DAVID W. DUNLAP
The Charles Osborn mausoleum was a design of McKim Mead & White.
Audio Slide Show: Inside Woodlawn Cemetary
If there is a Fifth Avenue of the dead, it is probably the ensemble of 1,313 private family mausoleums around the Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. Like the mansions their occupants knew in life, these buildings hold artistic treasures intended to be seen by the very privileged. And the very few.
But over the last year, the crypt doors were nudged ever so slightly ajar, in the interest of conservation and security, to permit the first photographic inventory of Woodlawn's little masterpieces. "It's just unbelievable,'' said Susan Olsen, executive director of the Friends of the Woodlawn Cemetery. "These are really significant works of art.''
It is no secret that great architects, artisans and artists worked at Woodlawn to ensure that their clients' prominence extended from metropolis to necropolis. But the scope of the collection - stained glass, decorative mosaics, busts, statues, bas-reliefs, vases, candelabra - was not known until now.
The discoveries ranged from the glorious to the poignant, like a parrot resting in peace with Dr. Clark W. Dunlop, who died in 1908, and his wife, Eliza, who died in 1932.
Lee Sandstead, who teaches art history at Montclair State University in New Jersey, took more than 10,000 digital photographs. The inventory was financed by a $5,000 grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation and $10,000 raised by the Friends group.
Though 60 percent of the mausoleums are endowed, the money is not typically enough for proper protection and preservation. Many builders assumed servants would take care of things in perpetuity.
Cemetery officials hope to use the inventory to persuade present-day families to involve themselves more in the care of the mausoleums. They are also scrutinizing the records to learn which structures can be opened to the public.
"These people didn't build these spaces for no one to come see them,'' Ms. Olsen said.
Copyright 2003 The New York Times Company
Miles Davis broke the Halloween atmosphere.
There will be a photo tour of Green-Wood Cemetery. The family refuses to go.
Why? Are your tours usually products of family outings?
No...but in this case, seasonal precautions. Besides, I hate to visit the relatives alone.
July 8, 2004
Elegy in a City Graveyard
By JANET MASLIN
Fred Goodman
When Fred Goodman decided to write a book about a 400-acre graveyard in the Bronx, he took on an unavoidable mission. He was going to have to dig things up.
After all, Woodlawn Cemetery does not automatically yield an easy premise. As the final resting place of both Herman Melville and the 700-pound rapper Big Pun, it is diverse in the extreme. No unifying ambience or ethos explains the place, and not even the Ozymandias angle gives Mr. Goodman (author of "The Mansion on the Hill," a blistering book about the music business) much to work with. Yes, the more than 350,000 New Yorkers interred at Woodlawn are all dead. But the glorious achievements of some have been long forgotten, while those of Duke Ellington, Miles Davis and Robert Moses live on.
At first Mr. Goodman approaches his subject in a roundabout manner. Quite literally: he tools around it on a bicycle, which seems as much an athletic ploy as a literary one. In the wake of the destruction of the World Trade Center, and with the prospect of his own death prompting a midlife crisis, Mr. Goodman begins contemplating both Woodlawn and mortality. "Who hasn't worried about fading away?" he asks, looking at the grandest mausoleums. "Who wouldn't use money to try and beat death, to spray-paint his tag on the passing subway car of history?"
This is the point at which the book's research component kicks in. It is the time, for instance, to learn that Woodlawn is where the inventor of FM radio is buried. But "The Secret City" is a book that favors odd contortions. After some straightforward background about Woodlawn and its history, Mr. Goodman abruptly summons the specter of Melville and joins him to witness the events of September 11, 2001. ("I finally watch with him as first one and then the other building crumbles.")
"Listen: I have an act of faith to perform," Mr. Goodman announces to a New York in mourning. "I want to tell you my story about our cemeteries, the big one up in the Bronx and the other one that we're walking around in. It goes like this."
So here comes Walt Whitman, frayed trouser cuffs and all, "nodding vigorously" and exclaiming "Yes!" in Mr. Goodman's eagerly reanimated version. Now "The Secret City" becomes a string of desperate dramatizations, scenes that wake Woodlawn's residents from their eternal slumber and plunge them into dialogue of dubious provenance. When Whitman meets the phrenologists and publishers Orson and Lorenzo Fowler, who will go on to publish "Leaves of Grass," Mr. Goodman even dreams up some ersatz excitable Whitman. Upon making a business deal with the publishers, this book's Whitman declares, "Professor, you make a man's organ of Acquisitiveness positively throb with delight!"
Otherwise, delight over Mr. Goodman's embroideries is liable to be in short supply. After learning that Whitman is "not partial to strawberries," the reader is next confronted with sacks of rats. The book imagines the rats in combat, "swarming around the dog in a terrified riot of hair and teeth," as Mr. Goodman makes his bumpy segue to the story of Woodlawn's Henry Bergh, crusader against cruelty to animals and founder of the S.P.C.A. As is often the case here, Mr. Goodman points out that there is a good, straightforward biography of his subject (in this case a book called "Angel in Top Hat," by Zulma Steele) that is difficult if not impossible to find.
Lurid description of the swill being fed to cows gives way to the presidential privilege of Chester A. Arthur: now the book has moved on to Austin Corbin, its closest approximation of Ozymandias' broken statue in the desert. In his heyday, while trying to sway President Arthur to advance his own developing schemes, Corbin was a man winning big at a real-life game of Monopoly. He bought railroad lines on Long Island and put up Coney Island hotels, envisioning a grand empire. Part of his dream was that Montauk harbor be dredged; part was that Jews be kept out of Coney Island. The man's entire game plan added up to one more stop on the Woodlawn tour.
The book's other re-enactments, interspersed with the author's bicycle expeditions, feature John Purroy Mitchel, the young New York mayor trying to maintain calm in the midst of a polio epidemic; Francis Garvan, instrumental in the Palmer anti-Communist raids after World War I; and Countee Cullen, uptown poet during a period of great creative excitement. (" `You mean during the Harlem Renaissance?' Cullen intoned the words with mock gravity. `That's what they're calling it now, right?' ")
A maverick Congressman (Vito Marcantonio), an aviator (Ruth Nichols) and the sculptor (Attilio Piccirilli) whose 300,000 pound Lincoln Memorial had to be created in sections ("Signore President Lincoln might have held the Union together, but we had to break him apart") provide further opportunities for Mr. Goodman to ramble. What's the connection? Even he admits how arbitrary it becomes. "Like a satisfied tourist whose fond memories of a recent package tour to Rome now cause him to stop and read all the newspaper stories with Italian datelines he once ignored," he writes, "my antennae have become tuned to any vibrations emanating from that well-fertilized patch of Bronx earth."
But at the end of the day the part of life that "The Secret City" obsessively addresses this place is dead. It's still dead when this book's strenuous efforts are over.
Woodlawn Cemetery and the Buried History of New York
By Fred Goodman
Illustrated. 385 pages. Broadway Books. $26.
Copyright 2004 The New York Times Company
July 29, 2004
Tomb Trouble: Nimby Strikes at Woodlawn
By JANE GROSS
ETERNAL REST DISTURBED The Helmsley mausoleum at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.
LEONA HELMSLEY, the real estate heiress and boldface prima donna, is suing the Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx for $150 million and planning to disinter and relocate the body of her dear departed husband, Harry. The late Mr. Helmsley must be moved from the family mausoleum at the historic burial ground, the suit says, because of the ruination of the "open view, serenity and tranquillity."
Mrs. Helmsley's complaint, first reported Monday in The New York Post, is that the "perpetual beauty" and "peaceful solitude" of the spot have been destroyed by the latest of many community mausoleums to be built at Woodlawn. But the view Mrs. Helmsley describes as forever lost is bleak: the access ramps to the Major Deegan Expressway, a traffic light at Jerome Avenue and 233rd Street, and locked gates where the cemetery's grand entrance once was.
"That corner is kind of an eyesore," said Tom Woodworth, a vice president of Carrier Mausoleum Contractors of Montreal, the builder of the new mausoleum.
The new structure, Mrs. Helmsley alleges in the suit, will disturb the ambience at the Helmsley tomb, which the suit likens to the vault built in 353 B.C. for King Mausolus, the ruler of Caria, by his devoted wife, Artemisia, and which is "still known as one of the seven wonders of the ancient world." Her lawyer and her publicist declined to comment on her behalf.
Community vaults are rising across the nation because of a shortage of in-ground burial sites and changing tastes in funereal accommodations. The new mausoleum, designed by J. Stuart Todd, a Dallas architect who specializes in funereal structures, is scheduled for completion in the next 30 days.
The new mausoleum is one of several near the Helmsley tomb. It bears little resemblance to the high-rise necropolis with room for 10,000 bodies described in news accounts.
According to the construction company, cemetery officials and renderings on various Web sites, the new Woodlawn mausoleum will have just one floor of vaults, stacked like large post office boxes in six rows, and a cathedral ceiling and skylight to rise no higher than two stories. There will be room for 2,600 bodies initially, with an eventual total of no more than 5,000, said John P. Toale Jr., Woodlawn's president.
These newcomers to Woodlawn will share the grounds with 1,250 private mausoleums and spend their eternity with the likes of Fiorello La Guardia, Duke Ellington, R. H. Macy and Robert Moses.
Mr. Toale, who says he has researched the matter, said Mrs. Helmsley's would appear to be the first lawsuit alleging that one is entitled, in perpetuity, to one's original view, however one describes it. As with suburban McMansions that loom over their neighbors or Trump towers that force adjacent apartment buildings into round-the-clock darkness, owners of funereal real estate rarely, if ever, win lawsuits concerning light, air or views.
Their recourse is to move, which is what Mrs. Helmsley, who the suit describes as having suffered "severe anguish and emotional distress," has told Woodlawn officials that she intends to do. The 20-by-30-foot granite Helmsley mausoleum (with six crypts) cost $350,000 when it was built in the 1970's, and the 2,064- square-foot lot it rests on cost $59,856. Inside, the complaint says, "the interior provides room for seating and private reflection, and stained-glass windows provide natural light for visitors."
Mrs. Helmsley has not yet sold the mausoleum or announced a price, but mausoleums can sell for considerable amounts. The Peale mausoleum at Woodlawn, resembling a classical Greek temple with Doric columns, is for sale for $610,000. Another mausoleum at Woodlawn, that of William Bateman Leeds, designed by John Russell Pope, is on the market for $3.5 million. In her suit Mrs. Helmsley mentions the possibility of moving the Helmsley mausoleum to an "appropriate site."
People familiar with the lawsuit said that Helmsleys will henceforth take their eternal rest at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Westchester County. There, barring a need for a community mausoleum, Mr. Helmsley will share a Hudson River view with Washington Irving.
May they rest in peace.
Copyright 2004 The New York Times Company
We are SO f^&*^&* fixated on the dead in our society.
If noone visits, WHO CARES IF THE "VIEW" IS RUINED!!!! THE GUY IS DEAD!!!!
And suing the burial ground? For what?
She should be able to disinter her husband, but tough patooties on the suit.
Gating the main entrance and doing things like that are a shame, but we are not YET in a society that walks with the dead and we should always remember that.
July 16, 2006
Forgotten Treasures in the Woodlawn Cemetary Archives
By DAVID DUNLAP
John Russell Popes mausoleum for William Bateman Leeds, an industrialist, in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. The cemeterys rich collection of archives contains blueprints for this and other memorials.
Raymond Hood and Charles Kecks memorial for Placido Mori.
The initial rendering for the Miles Davis memorial.
PERHAPS death can be a bit proud, after all.
At Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, from the mid-19th century through much of the 20th, death inspired a creative outpouring of remarkable artistry, variety and even surprise: for example, an urn by the sculptor Alexander Archipenko and a landscaped monument by Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, the planner of New Delhi.
The record of this work blueprints, booklets, drawings, ledgers, letters, maps, photographs, plans, receipts, sketches and trade catalogs is so illuminating and important that Woodlawns trustees formally donated the cemetery archives last month to the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University.
The archives amount to the largest single accession Avery has made in its 116 years, said Gerald Beasley, the librarys director. In all, they run to 800 linear feet, longer even than College Walk, which bisects the Morningside Heights campus.
There is so much to be found in the files, said Susan Olsen, the executive director of Friends of the Woodlawn Cemetery. For the biographies of all the people who are buried at Woodlawn, all the last chapters will have to be rewritten now.
And the archives may greatly expand an intriguing line of art history: the social architecture of death how people conceived their own distinctive monuments while respecting (or trumping) those of their neighbors. With 1,316 family mausoleums, Woodlawn is not just a city of the dead, but a densely populated one at that.
They literally overlook one anothers plots, Mr. Beasley said. You see the design as a dialogue with the client and the kinds of limits being pushed in all the different styles. The dialogue becomes like an architectural museum.
There are bound to be more surprises as catalogers and researchers dive in. For the last 24 years, since it closed its Manhattan office, Woodlawn has kept the archives in whatever odd space it could find around its 400 acres: maintenance barns, offices, the Woolworth Chapel, the Jerome Avenue gatehouse.
From time to time, authors or researchers would turn up at the cemetery in search of a particular record and, as often as not, leave astonished by what they found: blueprints by John Russell Pope, the architect of the National Gallery of Art; a delicately hand-colored plan by E. L. Lutyens, R.A. (Royal Academician); and Duke Ellingtons looping legal signature Edward Kennedy Ellington on a plan of his family plot.
The nonprofit friends group, which encourages educational and cultural programs and oversees preservation of the cemeterys historical structures and grounds, began to realize that the archives had far greater value and appeal than most corporate records.
We want to make sure these things are as accessible as possible, Ms. Olsen said. Donating the archives to Avery, she said, meant that they would come under the discerning eye of Columbia scholars; that they would be properly stored, organized and cataloged; and that Woodlawn would get back some much-needed space.
The transfer is to occur over the next five to seven years, starting with the records of the major mausoleums and monuments by this winter. Avery hopes to raise the money for a full-time cataloger, said Janet S. Parks, the librarys curator of drawings and archives.
Much of the material will go to the Research Collections and Preservation Consortium high-density storage center in Princeton, N.J., from which it can be retrieved on a days notice. But the most valuable, useful and exquisite objects will be kept at Avery in a newly constructed drawings and archives storage area.
These include the initial sketch of Miles Daviss monument, which turned out more formally in the final version, and of the Ellington family plot, which was drawn on the back of a Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company envelope postmarked Nov. 21, 1961.
There is a photograph of the maquette of the Placido Mori memorial by the architect Raymond Hood and the sculptor Charles Keck, probably best known in New York for his statue of Father Francis P. Duffy in Duffy Square. Though clearly premodernist in its simplicity, the soft romanticism of its contemplative seminude figure is surprising, given the hard-edged aesthetic Hood employed as the leading designer of Rockefeller Center.
But maybe there was more than a little sentiment to the commission. Mori, who died in 1927, was the proprietor of a restaurant on Bleecker Street. He had given the young Hood a place to stay, a tab at the restaurant and a commission to redesign its facade.
If Hoods work seems out of character, the presence of Lutyens in the Bronx seems wildly and wonderfully out of place. Ms. Olsen said this appeared to be his only American commission, apart from the British ambassadors residence (originally the British embassy) in Washington.
For Woodlawn, Lutyens designed a memorial to James Keteltas Hackett, a famous stage actor in his day who died on Nov. 8, 1926, a day before he was to have performed a scene from Macbeth for King George V.
Lutyenss drawing shows a work in progress. The inscription on the three-foot stone stele merely says Inscription, with some pencil lines under it. His plan to mark each grave with a cross was evidently abandoned. The crosses are scribbled out.
There is much to the archives besides art history. Sometimes, the most poignant personal notes are to be found. Vernon and Irene Castle were a hugely popular dance team in the early 20th century. He died in 1918 when the plane he was piloting crashed. His grave at Woodlawn is marked with a grieving nude figure by Sally James Farnham.
On April 24, 1945, Mrs. Castle wrote, I plan to be buried next to Captain Castle myself, and I must say that every time I visit the grave I feel impatient to get there. But she lived another 24 years.
Perhaps the most astonishing item to jump from the files so far is the drawing, signed by Archipenko in 1946, for a memorial for the art collector Alfred Romney. The centerpiece is a four-legged bronze urn, not quite three feet tall, that could be construed as an hourglass. Or as a precursor to the spacecraft in The Day the Earth Stood Still.
Ms. Olsen cheerfully acknowledged her surprise when she discovered the memorials distinguished artistic provenance.
Ive walked by this a million times, she said. We called it the Mongolian beef pot until we opened the file and found out it was by Archipenko.
Copyright 2006 The New York Times Company
May 27, 2007
Romancing the Stones
By LAURA SHAINE CUNNINGHAM
Slide Show: Eternal Beauty
GROWING up in the Bronx, I knew Woodlawn Cemetery as the final destination of my subway route, the No. 4 elevated train that ran along Jerome Avenue and rattled literally to the end of the line.
When I was a small child and my mother took me on sylvan strolls there, I didnt realize that Woodlawn was a graveyard. I thought it was merely a park filled with miniature mansions and seductive statuary. The pensive nudes seemed turned to stone by a spell, one that might someday be lifted, allowing the godlike figures to break out of their solemn poses and cavort through the sunbeams.
These childhood fantasies are not so removed from todays truth. A new spirit has been released at the 144-year-old cemetery with the transfer of the cemeterys vast archives to the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library of Columbia University. The trove includes architectural designs, maps, photographs, letters and mausoleum blueprints some 800 linear feet. The size of the collection is unsurprising; with more than 300,000 burials and 1,300 family mausoleums, Woodlawn is the world capital of mausoleums.
The material began its journey to Morningside Heights only weeks after the library took title to the archive nearly a year ago, and the library is just now receiving the family correspondence that illuminates the backgrounds of the dead and their mourners. The first of the documents, among them a bank envelope bearing Duke Ellingtons signature and a drawing for Miles Daviss monument scrawled on a sketch of his burial lot, are already available for viewing. The library estimates that it will take five years and $850,000 to process and catalog the entire collection, which has been stored for decades in boxes and file cartons in outbuildings on the cemeterys grounds, largely inaccessible for research.
There is much excitement over a new find of 20 files of previously unsorted letters, which have yet to be examined by anyone with curatorial or historical expertise. The documents provide a chronicle of Who Was Who in New York. Woodlawn is not only the resting place of the famous; along with Ellington and Davis, notables include Herman Melville, Fiorello La Guardia, Joseph Pulitzer, an assortment of Belmonts, Woolworths and Juilliards and who knew? the Western lawman Bat Masterson. In addition, the buried rich and famous were entombed by the most renowned architects and designers of their day: John Russell Pope; Carrère and Hastings; James Gamble Rogers; McKim, Mead & White; and Tiffany Studios, to name just a few.
Among other fascinating details, these documents reveal that a final resting place is often not so final. Many a mausoleum has changed inhabitants, as mausoleums are often sold. Some mausoleums do not even house stones engraved with the names of those laid to rest there, either out of design discretion or perhaps the intimation of a mobile mortality.
The historic transfer of many of New Yorks most historic documents resulted from a conversation at the cemetery two summers ago between Susan Olsen, executive director of Friends of Woodlawn (Im the only friend; Friends of Woodlawn is me, she says), and Charles Warren, an architect, author, historic preservationist and member of the Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America, an organization that has also played a key role in bringing attention to Woodlawns recent discoveries.
Mr. Warrens connection to the graveyard runs deep. The only known history of Woodlawn was written by his great-uncle Edward Streeter, author of the novel Father of the Bride, and one day when Mr. Warren was walking the grounds of Woodlawn, he came upon a linden tree that had been dedicated to his ancestor. I had no idea, he marveled. Cemetery serendipity.
Mr. Warren had visited Woodlawn in the spring of 2005 to research a biography of Carrère and Hastings, the architectural duo who designed the New York Public Library, the Manhattan Bridge and more than half a dozen monuments at Woodlawn.
One day a few months later, when Mr. Warren was at the cemetery, he and Ms. Olsen fell into conversation. Somehow Susan and I got talking about the brilliant Edwardian architect Edwin Lutyens, Mr. Warren said. As we talked about the Great War cemeteries Lutyens designed in northern France, Sue reached for a folder and told me about the Lutyens monument at Woodlawn. Lutyenss only other only completed North American project was the British Embassy in Washington.
The folder contained a trove of correspondence and the most exquisite watercolor plan of the monument, Mr. Warren went on. It may have been then that I said, Does anyone at Avery Library know about this material?
Mr. Warren broached the subject with Janet Parks, a former Columbia classmate who is now curator of drawings at Avery Library, and the idea was quickly embraced by Gerald Beasley, the librarys director.
The beauty of the archive, Mr. Beasley says, is that cemeteries keep meticulous records. And its all there: the design plans for monuments, landscape plans for plots, and the hard-core details of burial, the nitty-gritty of rock-breaking and grave-digging equipment.
The archives, whose transfer was completed in just a year, may prove the Bronx equivalent of the grave of King Tut.
This is the collective memory of the city, Mr. Beasley often says of the collection. In his opinion, the transfer is especially appropriate because the architecture of the university, the cemetery and the city is inseparable. Carrère and Hastings are just one of many links; three Carrère brothers attended Columbia, and many Columbia graduates are buried at Woodlawn. The campus shares with the cemetery the architect James Gamble Rogers, who designed Butler Library.
Rogers also designed the memorial for Isidor Straus and his wife, Ida. The Strauses were the owners of Macys but were most notable as the elderly couple who gave up their seats aboard a lifeboat and went down with the Titanic, holding hands on deck. Their memorial contains a small, Egyptian-style funerary barge bearing the words Lost at Sea. A peek at a lot record in the archive, however, reveals that only Isidor rests there; Idas body was never recovered.
Why did so many great architects work at the graveyard?
The purity, Mr. Beasley says. The mausoleum was the perfect model. The architects could design freely without being concerned with kitchens or bathrooms. The mausoleum is the house that will never be lived in.
It is no accident that the monuments and mausoleums of Woodlawn evoke those of the ancient royals of Rome, Greece and Egypt. Woodlawn came of age during the golden age of crypts, an era when many people were rich and spared no expense even when it came to the afterlife, not only on architects fees but also on landscape designs. These tombs and memorial gardens begged for immortality.
The physical expression of this quest for immortality has long been visible to visitors who roamed Woodlawns 400 grassy acres. Now, some of the evocative supporting documents that shed light on these edifices can also be savored. I am able to view a few documents, as some approved visitors have already done, in Averys reading room. Within seconds, I am lost in written invitations to the past, into the earth itself.
The dogwoods are to be watered very carefully until the ground freezes, to be sure they do not start the winter with dry balls, wrote Beatrix Farrand, perhaps the most noted landscape designer of her time, referring to the Harkness courtyard garden.
I hold a letter written by Irene Castle, the early-20th-century ballroom dancer whose beloved husband and partner, Vernon, reposes beneath a memorial titled At the End of the Day. Every time I visit the grave I feel impatient to get there, Irene Castle wrote of the memorial where she, too, would be buried. The love shimmers off the cream-colored stationery.
In the letter, Irene Castle evokes Sally James Farnhams 1922 sculpture of a kneeling nude nymph, modeled after an exhausted Isadora Duncan dancer who posed for it, and a figure that perfectly expressed both grace and spent emotion. The description of the statue brings Irene Castle to life during her visits to the graveyard, and her own letter, on a table in Averys reading room, revives her here.
I am reluctant to leave. I want to know more of Melville. Did Dr. Joseph Condon, the go-between in the Lindbergh kidnapping case of 1932, really arrange a meeting with Bruno Hauptmann, the German carpenter eventually convicted of the crime, at Melvilles grave?
Who knows what we will learn of Michael Strange, wife of the actor John Barrymore and mother of the troubled Diana Barrymore? Both Strange and her daughter, a suicide, lie at Woodlawn.
And what of all the jazz players, not just Davis and Ellington, but also W. C. Handy and Coleman Hawkins? The existing sketches of monuments, funerary art, the dead themselves tease us into wanting more. I can almost hear the faint sounds of When the Saints Go Marching In. So many will want to be in that number.
Mr. Beasley, hovering nearby, sums up best the unexpectedly powerful allure of this place and the documents that tell its story. Life doesnt end with the end of life, he says. It continues with the memorializing. Our role is to keep these stories alive. They are alive here.
Laura Shaine Cunninghams books include the Bronx memoir Sleeping Arrangements.
Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company
No pets buried, only loyal pet owners: Woodlawn Cemetery tour for borough animal lovers
BY Tanyanika Samuels
October 16th 2009
Dog-lover/cartoonist Frank Bellew Jr's grave site. Bellew's father was the illustrator who drew 'Uncle Sam.'
Dr. Samuel Johnson, the founder of the nations oldest pet cemetery,
is at rest in a private mausoleum at Woodlawn, not far from several of his most notable clients:
dancer Irene Castle, the Princess who buried her lion Goldfleck,
and Tony LaMura who built a matching mausoleum for his dog Sandy.
There's the eclectic Hungarian princess who had a pet lion cub named Gold Fleck.
Then there's the legendary dancer, Irene Castle, who doted on her many animals, including her pet monkey.
Their stories are just some of the highlights lined up for Woodlawn Cemetery's Animal Lovers Tour this Sunday.
"It's a quirky little tour," said Susan Olsen, director of historical services.
The tour, which is a first, will explore the stories of those who honored their animal friends with monuments at the Bronx cemetery at E. 233rd St. and Webster Ave., or with special burials at Hartsdale Pet Cemetery.
New York State prohibits people from being buried with their pets, so there are no pets buried at Woodlawn, Olsen said.
Subsequently many of Woodlawn's wealthiest lot owners buried their beloved furry friends in Hartsdale.
"It turns out, we have a huge connection with the pet cemetery," said Olsen, who will lead Sunday's tour. "So we'll be visiting the graves of many of Hartsdale Pet Cemetery's famous pet owners."
Among the other highlights will be a stop at a mausoleum for Sandy, a beloved little dog who could often be seen scampering through the Woodlawn grounds.
The 400-acre Bronx cemetery, established in 1863, is the final resting place of many historic figures, including the Queen of Salsa, Celia Cruz; jazz greats Miles Davis, Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton, and the Macy's department store founder Isidor Straus, who died in the sinking of the Titanic.
Friends of Woodlawn Cemetery hosts several popular tours throughout the year.
Upcoming events include the Autumn Leaves Tour at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 25; the History and Mystery Tours from Oct. 29 to Nov. 1, featuring the graves of notorious figures as well as tales of tragic events; and the Westchester Legacy Tour on Nov. 8 featuring the graves of several historic Westchester County figures.
Animal Lovers Tour
2 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 18. Enter at the Jerome Ave. Gate (near Bainbridge Ave.)Cost: $10 for adults; $5 for seniors and students. Children under 6 are free.
For reservations, call (718) 920-1470 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Day 7 is here, well sorta. If you have been following my first week you know I'm off schedule a bit. So my rest day was a few days ago because of an injured shoulder. So since I didn't post that day this will be a recap of my first week in the Insanity Challenge.
Week 1 In Review:
I have to say I'm really happy with how my workouts went this week. I came into this Challenge with the mindset of pushing through my comfort zone and raising the intensity everyday. I went through Day's 1-4 without a hitch in that plan. On Thursday evening (Day 4) I injured my shoulder in a softball game. This has been a nagging injury for more than a year, I just re-injured it that night. It was bad enough to where I couldn't even lift my arm above my waist without pain. I took Day 5 off hoping to give my shoulder time to recovery because there was no way I could do an insanity workout. Needless to say I was pretty bummed about the set back. And the fact that I thought I was done for a few weeks in the least. So my nutrition really took a tole on that day(more on that later). I took med's and continued to ice it off and on all day hoping to have some mobility to maybe get back in the game. When I woke up Saturday I had a lot more movement with a little less pain so I decided I would push play and modify the workout to give it one more day of recovery. By Sunday I was ready to get back into the full swing of the Insanity Challenge and caught back up with the Insanity Schedule so Monday I could start on Day 8.
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I met my nutrition goals 6 out of 7 days this week which probably sounds awesome but that one day killed me. I was a little pissed off about my shoulder and thinking I was going to be done for a while I had a lapse in judgement and for lack of a better word…"PIGGED OUT". Waking up Saturday with my shoulder feeling better was great until I realized what I had done to my nutrition on Friday. I really feel bad for dropping my guard like that and just know it won't happen again.
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They say the first week is always the hardest, but for me I accepted this challenge with open arms and was ready for it. I started this week at a weight of 185.2 and finished with a weight of 185.2. Thanks to the Friday pig out I had. I admit I was disappointed that the weight remained the same, but I know why and I know I'm glad it didn't go up. I have been at a calorie goal of 1800 per day and decided I will raise it this week to 1900 per day to see where that goes. It may have been to low. Everyone's body reacts differently so I'll give it a week and re-tweak it. I'm so ready for week 2 and beyond and I hope you are too.
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Buddy Wayne Donegan, 80, formerly of Dickson, passed away on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017, in Hermitage.
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He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Peggy Donegan of McDonald; his son, Russell Donegan (Lori) of McDonald; his daughter, Shahn Donegan of Hermitage; his grandchildren: Joshua Donegan of Nashville, and Rachel Diehl (Luke) of Hermitage; his brother, Bob Donegan (Patricia) of Stanwood, Mich.; and several other family members.
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Please forward this to any National level Helpers you know who may be interested in trying out for the 2019 AWDF National Championship.
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Motion for vote on December 19, 2018: Membership
Effective January 1, 2019: Along with a completed application form, all clubs applying for membership in the AWDF must provide the first year's dues along with a one-time initiation fee of $1 per member.
Passed unanimously
Motion for vote on December 19, 2018: Scorebooks
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AK and Blueberry
Young AK was arrested after pointing an AK-47 at his stepfather. He is now my noisy neighbour. From Sinaloa, Mexico, he fancies himself as a troubadour. In Spanish, he is constantly singing romantic songs, but he ends each verse with:
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His bop-bop-bopping has annoyed everyone. And usually, when everyone gets annoyed, someone gets hurt. I suspect he will be getting bopped soon.
On Saturday morning, the jail was placed on "security override," and all of our cells were searched. We later found out that a drug ring was arrested here at the Madison Street jail. It included one guard, one nurse and ten inmates. Supposedly a Mexican Mafia operation. The Mexican Mafia is one of the most powerful prison gangs in Arizona.
On Tuesday morning, Frankie hollered into the vent,"Got any jelly, cell 15?"
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Blueberry climbed the stairs to get the jelly.
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What is physical therapy?
Physical Therapy (PT) is the treatment of disease, injury, deformity, or pain by physical methods such as mobilization of joints, therapeutic exercise / activities / massage, and electrotherapy. PT techniques promote mobility, reduce pain, restore function, and prevent disease.
What is the difference between a Physical Therapist and a Physical Therapy Assistant?
Physical Therapists (PTs) are highly-educated, licensed health care professionals. PTs now complete a three-year post-graduate program, earning a Doctorate of Physical Therapy degree. All therapists are required to pass a state licensure exam and are also required to take continuing education classes annually in order to maintain licensure. Physical Therapy Assistants (PTAs) are healthcare professionals who aide the physical therapist in treating patients. All PTAs are required to have an Associate's Degree from an accredited PTA program and are licensed in the state of Virginia. PTAs work under the direction and supervision of a physical therapist
What can I expect from physical therapy?
You can expect to learn how to prevent or mange your condition so you can achieve long-term health benefits. Your Physical Therapist will follow the system below to ensure your time in physical therapy and at home is used effectively to reach your goals.
- Assess your symptoms.
- Diagnose your condition.
- Plan your treatment.
- Treat your condition.
- Continually evaluate the effectiveness of your treatment and adjust the treatment plan if necessary.
- Help you to manage your condition at home and to prevent recurrence of problems.
- Communicate with any other health professionals involved in your condition, such as your doctor, to ensure continuity of care is maintained while achieving your goals.
The success of your physical therapy usually requires your co-operation outside of our PT clinic. You will probably be required to participate in a home exercise program or some modifications to your postural or lifestyle habits. Your dedication to these exercises and changes will greatly enhance the outcome of your physical therapy program and will help you to achieve your goals as quickly as possible.
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How many visits will Medicare pay for each year?
Medicare doesn't limit the number of outpatient therapy visits but rather places a financial limitation on these services. Effective January 1, 2019, a financial limitation (therapy cap) was placed on outpatient rehabilitation services received by Medicare beneficiaries. Outpatient Physical Therapy and Outpatient Speech-Language Pathology has a combined annual limit for 2019 of $2040.An exception to the therapy cap may be made when the patient's condition is justified by documentation indicating that the beneficiary requires continued skilled therapy to achieve their prior functional status or maximum expected functional status within a reasonable amount of time. Providers may utilize the automatic process for exception for any diagnosis for which they can justify services exceeding the cap for our Medicare patients, we track all Medicare financial limitations and will discuss all treatment options prior to the annual cap beingmet.
Do I need a referral / prescription for physical therapy?
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The main feature of the ethos of the Roman aristocracy at the time of the second century BC was a particular set of elite values and objectives. These were borne out in ambitious military and political careers and they entailed such objectives as high office, famous deeds and supremely persuasive oratorical skills. The four terms that ascribe such a rigorous set of ideals are gloria, nobilitas, virtus and auctoritas. This essay sets out to describe the meaning of these four terms, and to assess their strengths and weaknesses.
Roman aristocracy was obsessed with family both living, dead and unborn for reasons of preserving the honour of the family name[1]. The term gloria was defined by Cicero as 'praise given to right actions and the reputation for great merits in the service of the Republic which is approved not merely by the testimony of the multitude but by the witness of all the best men[2].' For Sallust, it was the memory of the great deeds of his ancestors that kindled a quest to uphold the glory of the family name in a young man's heart[3]. The various epitaphs written on the tombs of the family of Scipioni attest to their valiance in battle and high office. For example, Lucius Cornelius Scipio was inscribed as being 'the very best of all good men', that he was 'aedile, consul and censor' and that he 'captured Corsica and Aleria[4]. Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus belonged to this patrician family. As a general he achieved total victories in the troublesome wars of Carthage and Numantia[5]. He went on to be twice consul, censor and triumphator.
The aristocracy developed out of wealthy plebian and patrician families called by the term nobilitas[6]. The qualification to be entitled noble was to hold public office and the attainment of consulship ennobled a man's family forever[7]. The display of the imagos of their ancestors gave the nobility authority to establish the institution of clientage. This allowed people to oblige themselves to a noble in return for legal representation and financial aid. Scipio Aemilianus was the patron of many people and therefore referred to as nobilis. This patronage was fundamentally important in Roman politics and due deference was given to such status. Clientela allowed the nobility to display and enhance their prestige within the Senate. 'New men' were also allowed to obtain the status of nobilitas through their achievements, as the aristocracy was always looking for new talent[8]. Cato, who was one of these 'new men', earned the epithet catus meaning man of outstanding wisdom and experience[9]. Cicero said that the public nature of nobilitas means that a distinguished name must be scrutinized and that the words and deeds of these men were not expected to be kept secret[10].
TheRoman nobility were obsessed with morality and the pursuit of power, glory, position and prestige[11]. The term boni or 'good men' referred to the moral worth of the nobility [12] and this was expressed in the ideal of virtus [13]. Virtus consisted of winning preeminence through service to the Roman state and it was the tradition of Rome itself[14]. The use of superlatives to establish virtus is attested to in the epitaph of L. Cornelius Scipio: 'This man Lucius Scipio, as most argue, was the best of all good men at Rome'[15]. Personal virtue was frowned upon. For the Roman nobility it was the service of state that was the only acceptable activity and this demanded private goodness but public achievement[16]. Furthermore, virtus was connected with family, honour and office and the obligations of political associations and alliance[17]. In pursuing the ideal of virtus a noble must have proper conduct and carry his office with dignitas. Wealth must be acquired in the correct manner or bono modo such as by inheritance or investment in land and must be used for honourable ends[18].
One of the outstanding features of the Roman senate was its exercise of auctoritas or moral authority. A young Roman noble was expected to rise from his ten years of military service to become a preator, consul and censor to give service to his family's gloria. He was expected to achieve distinction in his military career and be enrolled in the senate. Real power in Republican Rome lay with around twenty families who 'commanded armies, governed provinces and guided the policies of the senate'. It was only by originating and implementing public policy could the Roman nobility attain auctoritas, which was the highest form of prestige[19]. The ambition of the young Scipio Aemilianus was to serve the Republic as a warrior and general, as an orator and senator and to achieve great deeds[20]. The interlinking of one's military and political talents was a considerable asset in Republican Rome and Scipio became known as a skilful orator, earning the expression summa eloquentia[21]. His ambition to become an outstanding man of state led him to state these words which express the ideals of the Roman nobility: 'From innocence is born dignity, from dignity honour, from honour the right to command, from the right to command liberty'[22].
The strengths of such ideals could be determined as a rigorous system of merit in which only the 'best of men' achieve the highest status. The exacting standards and the scrutiny of the people could be said to allow a high degree of government transparency and fidelity. However, the quest for family gloria could also allow for one to take advantage of their position and exaggerate the qualities and achievements of forebears. Also, the practice of being nobilis could allow for sycophancy and the development of corruption within the government, where public policy succumbs to private desires. Furthermore, the use of oratorical skills in the practice of auctoritas makes the most persuasive politician the most successful, rather than the right policy for the people. Therefore it could be said that virtus was the most important of these ideals, as it required the nobility to answer for their actions and demanded their service to the state alone.
- Astin, A. E. "P. Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus" in Scipio Aemilianus , Astin, A. E. , 1967 , 12-25
- Astin, A. E. "Epilogue" in Scipio Aemilianus , Astin, A. E. , 1967 , 242-244
- Cicero, Pro Sestio,79
- Cicero, On Duties, 2.44
- Cicero, Brutus,82 f.
- Earl, Donald. "Morality and politics" in The Moral and Political Tradition of Rome , Earl, Donald , 1967 , 11-43,133-138, Thames and Hudson
- Plutarch, Makers of Rome, 4.1, Trans. Ian Scott-Kilvert, (1965) Penguin Books, London
- Polybius VI, 53f
- Sallust The Jugurthine War 4.5
- The Scipionic Epitaphs(from the translation of E.H. Warmington, Remains of Old
Latin, Vol. IV, Loeb Classical Library)
[1] Polybius VI, 53f
[2] Cicero, Pro Sestio,139
[3] Sallust The Jugurthine War 4.5
[4] Warmington, 1. ii
[5] Astin:18
[6] Earl: 12
[7] Ibid: 13
[8] Ibid: 13
[9] Plutarch, Makers of Rome, 4.1
[10] Cicero, On Duties, 2.44
[11] Earl: 16
[12] Ibid: 18
[13] Ibid: 20
[14] Ibid: 21
[15] Warmington 1, ii
[16] Earl: 23
[17] Earl: 27
[18] Ibid: 32
[19] Earl: 14
[20] Ibid: 24
[21] Cicero, Brutus, 82.f
[22] Astin: 22


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The Bombay Stock Exchange 30-share barometer went up to 19,585.75 but erased gains as a weak rupee slid to lifetime low. Helped by shares of IT firms -- which earn significant portion of revenues from US -- the Sensex regained some lost ground to settle at 19,441.07, a rise of 11.84 points.
Rupee today plunged to an all-time low of 58 against the dollar, heightening inflation worries and current account financing risks of the economy. Traders said after RBI Governor D Subbarao's comments last week, the weak rupee will prevent the central bank from going for a rate cut on June 17.
The 50-issue NSE Nifty eased by three points to 5,878.00 and the MCX-SX flagship index, SX40, ended 3.99 points higher at 11,532.69.
Besides, IT, Tech, FMCG and Oil&Gas indices all other sectoral indices closed in the negative terrain with consumer durable, realty, banking and pharma sectors suffering the most on selling pressure.
"Markets were volatile today but ended the day in the negative, dragged down by concerns on rupee. The European markets opened lower before recovering. The rupee made new life-time lows on continuing concerns about CAD and reversal in FII flows," said Dipen Shah, Head of Private Client Group Research, Kotak Securities.
Heavyweights like ICICI Bank, Tata Motors, Bharti Airtel, Sun Pharma, Jindal Steel, Maruti and BHEL saw losses.
Most Asian stocks, barring China, closed higher after a report showed the US added more workers than expected. Key indices in Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea rose by 0.18 per cent to 4.94 per cent.
European markets were trading mixed as key indices in Germany and UK moved up by 0.72 per cent to 1.12 per cent while France's CAC eased by 0.06 per cent. US stocks ended higher on last Friday amid better-than-expected US jobs data heightening speculation that Fed may reduce stimulus program.
Turning back to the domestic market, 15 scrips out of the Sensex pack ended lower
while 14 others finished with gains. Coal India ruled steady.
Major gainers from the Sensex pack were Wipro (2.12 pc), Infosys (1.64 pc), NTPC (1.55 pc), HDFC (1.53 pc), Bajaj Auto (1.29 pc), M&M (1.02 pc) and ITC (0.87 pc).
However, Jindal Steel dropped by 4.46 per cent, followed by BHEL (3.00 pc), Maruti Suzuki (2.18 pc), ICICI Bank (2.03 pc), Tata Motors (1.82 pc), Sterlite Ind. (1.68 pc), Bharti Airtel (1.51 pc), Hindalco (1.32 pc), Sun Pharma (1.30 pc) and Tata Power (1.07 pc).
"The rise in dollar rates is also expected to affect the financials of the companies with dollar denominated debt," said Milan Bavishi, Head Research, Inventure Growth and Securities.
Experts see the stock market now taking cues from trade deficit later this week. "We expect a record-high trade deficit of USD 21 billion in May from USD 17.8 billio in April," said Nomura in a report.
Among the sectoral indices, S&P BSE-IT rose by 1.01 per cent, followed by S&P BSE-Teck (0.46 pc), S&P BSE-FMCG (0.14 pc), S&P BSE-Oil&Gas (0.11 pc) and S&P BSE-PSU (0.42 pc).
However, S&P BSE-CD dropped by 2.08 per cent, followed by S&P BSE-Realty (1.52 pc), S&P BSE-Bankex (1.12 pc) and S&P BSE-HC (1.04 pc).
Market breadth remained negative as 1,420 stocks ended lower while 880 stocks
finished higher. Total turnover dropped to Rs 1,526.89 crore from Rs 2,283.17 crore on last Friday.
Meanwhile, Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) bought shares worth a net Rs 157.90 crore on last Friday as per provisional data from the stock exchanges.


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Potty Training Regression - Before I Go Back to Pull Ups!
I have a daughter who will be 3 in july , she has been totally trained since jan/06. about 2 months ago started having occassional accidents which increased in frequency, this was only happening during the day. I have tried everything from staying calm & explaining that she needs to go to the bathroom, to removing something she really likes & rewarding her with it at night if she stayed dry all day & nothing is working.
She is now having bowel accidents which is new it was always just urine before. We take her to the bathroom at least every hour but she will not tell us when she needs to go. I have let her stay wet in cotton panties & nothing bothers her. Her response to why , is because i want to . Any suggestions as i am at the end of the line of what to do. Right now we are back to pull-up's & that is not working it is getting worse & so is my frustration level.
From just reading your email, it is hard for me to tell you exactly why she is doing,. Have you talked to her pediatrician? What did the doctors have to say?
The thought I had is that one of the child developmental stages that a toddler goes through is the desire to master one's own body and environment. See the article on Potty Training Resistance - and more specifically the sections on Independence and Control Issues and Too much pressure to perform.
So, if you think that these may be some of the reasons; then I would suggest that you just back off for a little while - say a couple of weeks. Let her feel the control over her body. Don't show your frustration and see if that gives her the sense of control back and then makes her want to use the potty again.
I hope this helps. Please let us know how things go.


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Nyéléni, Mali : A global alliance against land grabbing
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FIAN | 2 December 2011
Nyéléni, Mali : A global alliance against land grabbing
By Brigitte Reisenberger and Sofía Monsalve Suárez
From 17-19 November 2011 women and men peasants, pastoralists, indigenous peoples and their allies from across the world gathered together in Mali to participate in the first international peasants' conference to stop land grabbing. The meeting took place in Nyéléni Village, a centre for agro-ecology training near Sélingué and a symbolic place for the global struggle for food sovereignty: the first international forum on Food Sovereignty was held here 2007. Two-hundred-fifty participants from 30 countries around the world came together to share with each other their experiences and struggles against land grabbing and to build and strengthen their alliances.
At the opening ceremony Ibrahim Coulibaly, president of the National Confederation of Peasant Organisations (CNOP) of Mali, said: "We have seen an increase in land grabbing. Just in Mali alone the government has committed to give 800,000 hectares to business investors. But these lands are not empty! People may not have legal titles, but they have been there for generations, even centuries, whereas the Malian state was first founded in 1960." And he added: "Governments are pushing farmers off their lands. This is not acceptable."
CNOP, together with other Malian peasants' and farmers' trade unions such as AOPP and Sexagon, started supporting local communities affected by the big land deals the Malian government has been undertaking in the region administered by the Office de Niger around two years ago. In Samanabougou, for instance, the Malian businessgroup GDCM, which works on cereals commercialization, got a land lease for 7,400 ha for 30 years to plant wheat. The conflicts with the local communities started in 2009 when the company began to pressure them to vacate the lands. In June 2010 one of the most serious incidents happened when the company, with the support of the police, entered the lands with bulldozers and destroyed fruit trees. A police post was installed and prevented local people from accessing their plots. Many people were injured during this incident including a pregnant woman who had a miscarriage. Several people were detained and some of them remain imprisoned in Markala.
CNOP, AOPP and Sexagon worked to build a national civil society coalition in support of cases like this one. In November 2010 they organized the first national meeting of people affected by land grabbing in Kolongotomo. In the "Kolongo Appeal"1 they reminded the government that every Malian citizen has the right to land ownership under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and that Mali must respect these rights; urged the government and the Office du Niger to freeze ongoing work to develop disputed sites, suspend transactions and/or talks until conflicts have been resolved; and engage in policy dialogue with farmers by organising a national round table to discuss investment policy for the agricultural sector. Furthermore, the Malian organizations actively engaged with many other African farmers organizations in the World Social Forum held in Dakar in February 2011, which led to the adoption of the "Dakar Appeal against Land Grabbing."2 This appeal has been signed by 900 organizations worldwide and eventually became one of the major tools to organize resistance against land grabbing.
The Nyéleni Alliance against Land Grabbing
Since the beginning of the international debate about land grabbing, the Nyéléni conference is the first international meeting organized by affected peasants themselves, with the support of the international peasant movement La Via Campesina and the West African farmers network ROPPA. Farmers and pastoralists from other African countries and from the Americas, Asia and Europe responded to the call of their Malian counterparts to come together and build a powerful alliance. Participants gave testimonies on the different forms of land grabbing they face, be it due to mining, forest plantations, agribusiness or conservation parks. Women peasants were emphatic about the land grabbing they suffer due to patriarchy. Participants from Mauritania recalled the oppression of ethnic minorities leading to dispossession of their territories and slavery. Representatives from the peasant movement of Bajo Aguán, Honduras reported that 50 peasants and human rights defenders have been killed in a land conflict related to the interests of agribusiness and the failure of the state to carry out agrarian reform. Young French peasants told the audience about the increasing concentration of land in Europe, the loss of peasant lands due to different forms of land use change such as infrastructure projects and the extreme difficulty of the peasant youth to have access to agricultural land.
The significance of the newly created alliance lies in the fact that it has emerged from concrete struggles in defence of peasants' and pastoralists' lands and for restitution, redistribution and agrarian reform wherever necessary. Participants reiterated their firm opposition against land grabbing and made clear that they were not there to discuss how to get better deals with companies and governments to sell or lease their lands. They were there to reinforce their strong commitment to food sovereignty and to peasant agriculture and small-scale food production as the most economically, socially and environmentally sustainable form to use natural resources for food production. Thus at the core of the conference were very practical questions such as how to ensure that people are aware of their right to land and are able to challenge government when it states that the land belongs unconditionally to it; how to establish effective people's legal aid; how to maintain community cohesion when powerful interests seek to deceive community members and corrupt local leaders; how to strengthen capacity at the local level to organize resistance; and what are the key elements of a powerful advocacy strategy to stop land grabbing. The conference participants reiterated their commitment to resist land grabbing by all means possible, referring to the Dakar Appeal. They agreed to support all those who fight land grabs, and to put pressure on national governments and international institutions so that they fulfill their human rights obligations. In the declaration the global alliance demands from governments to "immediately stop land and natural resource transfers to business investors, cancel contracts already made, restitute the grabbed lands and protect rural and urban communities from ongoing and future land-grabs."
Alongside peasants' and pastoralists' representatives, other civil society organizations sharing the same political stance attended the conference. GRAIN, for instance, presented new data and analysis of the newest developments highlighting particularly the role of pension funds. Focus on the Global South and the Land Research & Action Network (LRAN) shared their analysis of the situation in the Asian context and their struggles for the commons and agrarian reform. Friends of the Earth International and the World Rainforest Movement enriched the discussions with the perspectives from analysis and action by the environmental movement. Terra Nuova shared the experiences of EuropAfrica in alliance building with farmers networks for advocacy purposes at the international level.
Organizations working on World Bank issues and the ffinanacing of agriculture, such as the Italian CRBM, offered research capacity and mobilization for addressing the role of the international financial institutions in land grabbing. Several other organizations, like PELUM, aGter, IGO and Justicia y Paz, were also present. Likewise, young scholars and well-known academics, such as those associated with the Land Deals Politics Initiatives and the Transnational Institute brought their insights into the debate and committed to continue undertaking critical studies.
FIAN International supported the organization of the conference and contributed to the discussions and plan of action from the human rights perspective. The final declaration clearly refers to human rights obligations: "Secure access to and control over land and natural resources are inextricably linked to the enjoyment of the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and several regional and international human rights treaties, such as the rights to self-determination, an adequate standard of living, housing, food, health, culture, property and participation." FIAN is already supporting several concrete struggles on the ground, like the Bajo Aguán case in Honduras and the community of Samanabougou in Mali already mentioned. Thus FIAN is fully committed to be part and support the newly created alliance. In particular, FIAN will contribute to capacity building, advocacy strategies using human rights and facilitating more organizations from the global right to food movement and the human rights movement at large join this alliance. Moreover, FIAN will continue engaging in international policy forums, such as the UN Human Rights System, the Committee on World Food Security and FAO, transmitting the core demands of the alliance to stop land grabbing, to protect and promote people's rights to natural resources and to strengthen a sustainable peasant agriculture to ensure the right to adequate food for all.
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Minutes Watch – Sunday, March 13th
Yesterday was a bit of a disappointing day, as we saw several players, who had been very reliable recently
take a nose dive and really tank a few of our lineups. Matt Barnes and JaMichael Green just to name a few.
That being said, I still managed to break even yesterday, as it was a bit of a low scoring day
compared to the previous week or so where scores had been through the roof.
I've adjusted the "Target" Cash Score to 300 in the Cheat Sheets and the GPP Score to 350.
Don't be alarmed when you don't see very many players "hitting value" with those target scores.
Just try to build a roster that gets you as close as possible.
Below, I will try to highlight some of the players at each position, that have seen a significant uptick
in their minutes played. As the season winds down, you'll want to pay close attention to this, as, teams with
little to no shot at the playoffs begin to play their young players, so their can evaluate them heading into next Season.
On the flip side, you will see teams who's playoff seeding is secured, start play their starters less minutes, and sometimes, sit them out altogether.
In the position charts below the MIN DIFF column represents the Difference in the Players' last 5 Games
vs his Season Long Minutes per game average. This should give you a good idea of which players are
receiving more minutes than usual. With a little research, I'm sure you could find out why each player
has seen an uptick in minutes. Please note, this is the Average, over the Last 5 games, so, the numbers
could be a little misleading if said player received a massive amount of minutes for 1 game
(maybe because of injuries) , but then normal minutes in the other 4 games.
Before we get started with the slate breakdown, and some of our favorite plays tonight, you know I've got to give you a few links to hook up with us on Social Media, so, here you go
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where I highlight every position, and show you who has seen an uptick in
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So it's pouring right now and has been pretty much all day, which is fine because it could have been more like this:
Okay maybe not as extreme but they were calling for 2-4cm in addition to the rain and if things shifted slightly, upwards of 10cm of snow. I'm really hoping we don't have a scare like this again. Spring is really trying hard to settle in! Plus I have the 10k race in 3 weeks and I really have no intention of running in cold weather!
Anyways, I didn't let the soggy weather deter me from hitting gym. I got out of work 10 minutes early which made a world of difference, got to my gym and jumped on the treadmill and didn't get off until 50 minutes later. I ran my little heart out. It was great!
Feeling spunky, I decided to check out my usual step class which had a substitute teacher today. As I started to get into it, all sweaty from my run, I thought "WTF am I doing? I just ran for almost an hour!" Plus I was hungry, so it just wasn't going to happen. BUT before I left the gym I remembered one thing: PLANK!
Err not that kind of plank….this kind:
I'm trying to plank more in an effort to get my abs in shape. There were no mats available so I roughed it on the dirty gym carpet and planked for over a minute. Felt like a beast! And then I left. Caught my bus with 30 seconds to spare and now all I have left to do tonight is RELAX!
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Prayer Shawl (Tallit) Set for Women - Wild Silk - Sheer White and Pink - By Gabrieli
The beautifully sheer white prayer shawl (Tallit) set from Gabrieli store in Jerusalem. It is made of the highest quality materials. The sheer wild silk prayer shawl has a 2 3/4 " wide pink piece of silk with white flowers vine pattern sewn over the prayer shawl and edged in a light pink ribbon.
The atara (neckband) is 2 3/4 inches wide pink fabric sewn on and bordered in pink ribbon. Embroidered on the atara (neckband) in Hebrew is the blessing, "Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the universe, who has sanctified us with His commandments, and commanded us to enwrap ourselves in Tzitzit".
The set includes: tallit (prayer shawl), Pink lined kippah, matching flap closure, lined bag that is overlaid with the same fabric as the tallit.
These beautiful sets are the perfect wedding gift, Bar and Bat Mitzvah gifts or any occasion.
About Gabrieli Prayer Shawls:
Gabrieli Tallit and Judaica art shops, located in downtown Jerusalem, and Old Jaffa, creates hand-woven, hand-loomed tallit sets in silk, wool, amp and cotton. Today, Gabrieli is not just the dream of a hard working and visionary woman, but a full scale home for some of the best and finest Judaica artworks, worldwide, as well as the leading manufacturer of tallit and Kuzari tapestries in Israel.
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Michael Penn from Grace Walk Church in Phoenix, Arizona brings us this design inspired by Crowder's Neon Steeple.
This stage was designed by their Lead Pastor Joe Calloway. After seeing Crowder's Neon Steeple he was inspired to design their stage with a similar look and feel. Most of the material and labor was donated by members of the church. They did spend about $5,300 out of pocket to replace the carpet, for the stone work on the front of the stage, decor, and miscellaneous materials.
Pastor Joe knew exactly the type of rustic/country look he wanted, and after many meetings with church volunteers on how they could achieve that type of look, he reached out to a friend who owns a ranch in Arizona. The rancher gladly donated two old ranch buildings that he was planning to tear down. It took two days and about 12 volunteers to tear down these old wood and tin buildings, one of which was a full bathroom. In fact in one of the pictures you can see the shower head behind one of the guitar players. They often get questions about how they made the tin roof look rusted and weathered. The fact is they didn't do anything. That is the way the material came off of the buildings.
As you can see the band sets up right under the tin roof which gives the vocals plenty of room. The space under the tin roof is naturally dark so they mounted LED lights to the supportive beams to light the band.
Since they painted the walls black, they needed to do something with the empty spaces on both sides of the projector screen. So their lighting engineer built 6 wooden frames and stained them to match the rest of the wood on stage. He then stapled white vertical blinds to the back of the frames and mounted them above the tin roof. Once they were mounted he was able to adjust LED lights to hit them for some added color.
This project took about a month to complete.


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Live well, live full; pursue a good end in all that you do!
But can you do these things lacking your liberty?
A thousand generations of slaves will tell you otherwise. Five thousand years of history will educate you to the truth.
There is a value to liberty, to self-government, to the ability to control your own direction. This value is nothing when you posses it, and everything when you lack it.
Rarely is liberty quite what you believe it to be, but always do people desire it, and those that truly taste it will gladly keep that sweetness, that hardiness, that good sustenance over the hunger pains they experienced without their liberty.
You must ask yourself what you are willing to do for your liberty, my friends.
Are you going to lie down, taking the chains willingly? Will you close your eyes and wish the savagery away?
It's true, to live at peace is a good thing; a thing to be pursued. And it is also good to be gentle toward all, but there is evil in this world, and we have been equipped to see it, and to recognize it, and to act upon our conscience, and stop it!
Stop it!
Stop it!
You must take your natural knowledge, that knowledge you came into this word with and increased with your experience, and you must stand up against what is wrong, what goes against what is good, what is destructive, what fails to be prosperous for human life; you must fight Evil!
You must Fight!
You must Fight!
And should you die in the service of Good, if you should die for others, for children, and their future; death will only be a new liberty. For God loves those who love His children; protect them, do not ruin their innocence, life is hard enough and cruel enough it does not need any help from someone who should know better.
Yes, peace is what we all would like to have, but in this fallen world there will be no peace until the End.
The only respite you will find for you and yours will be the protection you provide from the wicked and the ignorant. God willing, you will never need to raise a hand against another man, but God gave you the ability to know when justice is required, and when mercy will not be wasted on the wicked.


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Like the Helsinki Declaration, which forever altered the ethical landscape of human clinical research, the aim of the Basel Declaration is to bring the scientific community together to further advance the implementation of ethical principles such as the 3Rs whenever animals are being used and to call for more trust, transparency and communication on the sensitive topic of animals in research. The Basel Declaration Society, founded on October 5th. 2011, strive to promote the Basel Declaration. Visit gallery...
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The «Basel Declaration Society» is pleased to announce a professional Media Training for interested Life Science students as well as Life Science researchers. The Media Training will be held at the Basel Declaration Societys headquarters in Altstetten ZH and is complimentary. There are 12 spots available and registrations can be made through Email.
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Today I began my first of three Exalytics installations at a client. I am geeking out just working on the hardware.
Rather than having Oracle do the software installation, this client has opted for me to install EPM and OBIEE on these servers. The standard installation for EPM is Essbase only where this client is going to host the majority of their EPM stack (Planning and Essbase along with other requisite software) on the Exalytics servers and HFM/FDM/ODI/EPMA on Windows.
The Exalytics server isn't that much different from any other 64-bit Linux server with the exception of the 1TB of RAM and 40 processing cores. The OS is Oracle Linux release 5.5, which appears to be based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5. The same downloads and installation steps for a regular 64-bit EPM install are used on Exalytics with very few exceptions. I will follow up on the status with my thoughts as the project progresses.


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Fifth Annual Connecticut Shoreline Irish Dance Championships
Saturday, March 7th 2015
Hilton Hartford Hotel · 315 Trumbull Street · Hartford, CT 06103
www.Hartford.hilton.com The block is open for booking. The booking Link is:http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/H/HFDHHHF-SIDC-20150306/index.jhtml
or Call 800-445-8667 or 860 -728-5151 and ask for CT Shoreline Irish Dance Championships – code "SIDC"
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Information to follow
Download the syllabus here
The Feis is registered and sanctioned by the rules of the North American Feis Commission, An Coimisiun and the New England Region – IDTANA. Pat Watkins, President, NAFC – www.northamericanfeiscommission.org
We are members of the North American Feis Commission, New England Region – IDTANA and An Coimisiun le Rincí Gaelacha.
Feis Chairpersons
Iris Gray Sharnick, ADCRG and Maura Gray, ADCRG
Final Stage Schedule and the number entered in each competition will be posted on the website www.grayschool.com by March 4, 2015
Feis Rules
As per New England Regional Rules and NAFC Rules as posted on their website
Entries are via FeisWeb click here
Final Stage Schedule and the number entered in each competition will be posted on the website www.grayschool.com by March 4, 2015
Adjudicators & Musicians
Maggie Revis Basenberg – AL
Kerry Broderick – NY
Mary Bryan – Canada
Maureen Greene-O'Leary – MA
Mary Kate Lachut – NY
Eileen McDonagh Morr – NY
Siobhan Moore – NY
Noreen Melvin – MA
Tim O'Hare – IL
Cathy Spencer Revis – NY
Mary Lou Schade – NY
Myra Watters – FL
Annemarie Acosta – NY
Michael Fitzpatrick – MA
Kathleen Lavin – NY
Patricia Moriarty Morrissey NJ
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Boys & Girls Club Closing; May Reopen In FallLack of funds has forced directors of the Potter County Boys and Girls Club to suspend operations for the remainder of the school year, effective Feb. 1, with hopes of reopening when the 2013-14 school year starts in the fall.
A spokesman said the non-profit organization will continue to raise funds and seek grants over the next several months. "We hope we made a positive influence on our members and our community," club president George Dubots said. "We will stay positive and focus all efforts on reopening. Thank you to all who have donated money, time and effort."
Coudersport Area Lions Club has pledged a $200 monthly donation, contingent on the club securing other funds, and is encouraging other organizations, businesses and individuals to follow suit.


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David says: "My subject matter evolves as I paint and any individual painting can be the starting point of another. It can be a self-generating process but it is usually rooted in landscape seen or remembered. The artist George Birrell described it exactly for me when he once said, "Painting is like improvising on the guitar"… you're not playing the melody but working around it and that is the way I see it. It's a good analogy for me as I also play guitar!".
At College David trained as an illustrator but later worked as a graphic designer. This had a major impact on my paintings, as he liked the graphic interpretation of the Scottish landscape and Caithness in particular. At college he was influenced by painters including Walter Sickert, Alfred Sisley and Camille Pissarro. Now it's the Scottish Colourist but also painters like Patrick Heron and Albert Irvin who inspire his vibrant contemporary style.
David recently spent some time in the western Isle of Barra and this has featured in much of his latest work. He has held numerous successful exhibitions in Scotland and England.
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