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Ethnic Hegemonies in American History, Part 2
Civil War and Empire
Since colonial times Southerners had used imported African slave labor. Consequently they lived symbiotically with the most genetically different of Earth’s peoples. Slavery continued after the Revolutionary War and became increasingly important as commercial cotton cultivation spread westward through the Gulf Coastal region at the start of Scots-Irish hegemony. The resultant Cotton Kingdom, ruled by a mix of Southerners from the old Atlantic coastal colonies and Scots-Irish from the interior, sought expansion into Latin America by conquest, while New England, which then valued ethnic, cultural, and religious homogeneity, opposed it.
The South was thus the region most tolerant of what is now called racial diversity. New England, for example, tended to liken all Indians to the dangerous heathens that nearly destroyed it in 1675. Such attitudes led John Chivington, a clergyman and Union officer who defeated a Southern invasion of the New Mexico Territory at the Battle of Glorieta Pass in 1862, to perpetrate one of America’s most notorious massacres of peaceful Indians at Sand Creek in 1864. Confederates, in contrast, made Cherokee Indian Stand Watie a brigadier general in their army. New England was also extremely hostile to newly arriving Irish Catholics, and many of its political leaders began careers in an Anti-Masonic Party opposed to Masonic religious tolerance. But because blacks were rarely seen outside the South, it was easy for them to be idealized in New England.
The new Republican Party became the political vehicle for restoring New England’s hegemony by attacking slavery, but its support was initially limited to Greater New England, both the original coastal region as well as an area south of the Great Lakes settled by immigrants moving west from there.
That changed rapidly, however, when New England’s publishing dominance influenced public opinion through publications like Uncle Tom’s Cabin that demonized Cotton Kingdom whites and idealized its blacks. Calls from a small cadre of abolitionists for slaves to revolt and kill whites created great fear among southerners. They had already suffered through Nat Turner’s murderous slave revolt in 1831, and abolitionist John Brown’s abortive attempt to touch off another revolt at Harper’s Ferry in 1859 raised their fears to fever pitch. Meanwhile, crude southern propaganda that justified slavery’s expansion by idealizing it as good for everybody raised widespread fears that it threatened the freedom of people who did not own slaves.
By 1860 enough Scots-Irish and German Midwesterners voted Republican to enable Abraham Lincoln to narrowly win a four-way race. In reaction, the Cotton Kingdom seceded from the United States to become the Confederacy, and the war that followed divided the once hegemonic Scots-Irish for more than 100 years.
New England hegemony and Republican Party dominance was nearly continuous for the next 72 years, even though the Democratic Party of pre-war Scots-Irish hegemony still occasionally won national elections. Former Confederates, who won freedom from Republican occupation and local black rule through an eleven-year insurgency, found common ground as Democrats with urban Irish Catholics, who had themselves resisted discriminatory New England hegemony in the major New York City anti-war revolt of 1863. Greater New England, however, was now largely free to economically and culturally dominate America. Regional centers of economic power like Chicago’s meat packing and manufacturing industries, Pittsburgh’s steel industry, Cleveland’s oil industry, and especially New York City’s commercial, financial, and railroad dominance arose throughout Greater New England. Its tycoons paid homage to New England’s traditional cultural hegemony by building opulent mansions in its heart at Newport, Rhode Island and by mimicking New England mores.
But even New Englanders began to question the consequences of the Civil War’s power shift as tycoons enriched themselves by depressing wages through mass immigration to the east coast from Southern and Eastern Europe and to the west coast from Asia. Meanwhile, railroad monopolies preyed on German and Scandinavian farmers in the Midwest by keeping costs high for the manufactured goods they bought and low for the crops they sold. Expansion into the third world, once anathema to greater New England when sought by the Cotton Kingdom, was now embraced as Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines were quickly added to an American Empire. Trusts and corporations gained new quasi-governmental powers, enabling them to increasingly encroach on elected local governments. The extremes of wealth and poverty these policies created caused the last quarter of the nineteenth century to be called the Gilded Age.
Progressivism and Populism
Gilded Age excess met widespread popular resistance. Under often Irish Catholic leadership, labor began to organize in the face of fierce plutocratic resistance. A populist movement by immigrant and Scots-Irish farmers fighting predatory northeastern financial domination led to the foundation of the Populist Party, which was soon incorporated into the Democratic Party by the great Scots-Irish leader William Jennings Bryan. At the same time, Greater New Englanders created a Progressive movement to restore regional values by fighting the destructive effects of plutocratic policies encouraging corruption, imperialism, economic exploitation, and mass immigration. Populism was thus a bottom up movement among those living outside and harmed by the regional power core, while Progressivism was a top down movement inside it seeking to blunt power’s hardest edges.
Both reacted to the increasing prominence of America’s Jewish population. Jews first immigrated to the United States in significant numbers from Germany before the Civil War and quickly became prominent in commerce. By the Gilded Age many of them had become tycoons who contributed significantly to its excesses, just as its importation of cheap labor brought a second and much larger wave of Jewish immigrants to America from the Russian Empire. In response, many populists began explicitly criticizing Jewish excess from below, just as progressive elites were attempting reform from above.
Populism and progressivism both contributed to creating the Socialist Party, the primary voice of America’s first true left. Its social connection to populism was evident in the presidential election of 1912 when its candidate received his highest vote percentage of any state in heavily Scots-Irish Oklahoma, where two years later a Socialist gubernatorial candidate got nearly 20 percent. Left support swiftly disappeared in such Populist regions, however, as the Socialist Party and its later direct offshoot the Communist Party increasingly became vehicles for urban Jewish upward mobility. (Most Russian Jews arriving in the United States during the Gilded Age were initially extremely poor, and many had previously participated in socialist and other leftist organizations that had violently confronted Russians and their government. Consequently they were pre-adapted for socialist activity.) Thirty years later, Woody Guthrie was valued by the Left as much for his rarity as an Oklahoma Communist as for his music.
The First World War and the Great Depression
In 1912 Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, became president for eight years when regular and Progressive Republicans split. Wilson’s roots were northern Scots-Irish, but he experienced the South’s brutal invasion by northern troops as a child and worked in Greater New England-dominated academic culture as an adult. Consequently his sympathies were more with English-descended northern and southern elites than the Scots-Irish center, and he was more a Progressive than a Populist despite his Democratic affiliation. He appreciated the importance of race, however, and social separation of whites and blacks was maximal in his administration. He is most remembered for bringing America into World War I despite a peace platform, which was largely motivated by his sense of ethnic solidarity with British elites. His decision almost certainly saved the British from defeat.
At the war’s end, largely Jewish-led Communist revolutions seized power briefly in Germany and Hungary and for nearly a century in Russia. None of these turned out well for Jews as a whole, however, and all generated intense anger because of indiscriminate killing of non-Jews. Their brief victory in Germany provoked an anti-Jewish revolution, ultimately causing their worst demographic disaster since Bogdan Khmelnitsky freed Ukrainians from Polish and Jewish domination in 1654. Even in Russia a wily Georgian Communist Josef Stalin broke their power by 1927. The left did not successfully revolt in the United States, however. It barely survived repression falling hardest on its rural non-Jewish former populist factions at the Wilson administration’s end. The American left has consequently persisted into the twenty-first century as a Jewish-dominated movement that would otherwise be scarcely recognizable to its post-World War I activists.
In 1921 Greater New England Republicans returned to power in a landslide made possible by millions of previously politically inert German-Americans and other European immigrants in the populist heartland who had been angered by the war against their ethnic kin in Europe and by intense government-orchestrated discrimination at home. Lingering Greater New England progressivism finally ended mass immigration and brought ethnic stability, but financial excess led to economic disaster in 1929. The resulting misery returned the Democrats to power for another twenty years.
Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal politically united white Americans more than at any time since the pre-Civil War White Republic, even as blacks remained socially separate. Corporate excesses were curbed and organized labor encouraged. Economic inequality among whites began to decline significantly for the first time since the Gilded Age. A balance between protecting private property and encouraging public purposes was achieved, resulting in infrastructure of lasting value and quality. A national élan consequently developed that helped win the Second World War.
The New Deal had a dark side as well, however. Scientific research on racial diversity was virtually ended because of conflict with its ideology of equality and its association with German National Socialism. Communists and their close allies, still overwhelmingly Jewish, were welcomed into the New Deal as full participants, even while working openly as agents of the Soviet Union.
The Second World War and After
Roosevelt also secretly maneuvered to subvert a strong peace movement and draw America into World War II on the Soviet side against Germany, despite great public opposition. Anglo-Saxon ethnic solidarity honed during World War I, anti-German pressure from an increasingly influential Jewish community, and Soviet sympathy among the left all helped blind Roosevelt to the nuances of mid-twentieth century European power politics. Germany was consequently demonized while the Soviet Union, a regime surpassing it in brutality and mass murder, was idealized. World War II thus ended with Europe’s eastern half enslaved for another 44 years.
National Socialist Germany officially embraced racial research and ethnic nationalism, but paradoxically it ultimately subverted its racial nationalism by emphasizing minor linguistic differences at the expense of authentic kinship. It consequently treated genetically nearly identical Slavic neighbors like the Poles with brutality while allying with the Japanese, who sought to ethnically cleanse Oceania of whites. Its defeat had the long-term result of tarnishing ethnic nationalism into the next century so even defense against mass non-white immigration remains difficult.
Roosevelt’s death near the war’s end transferred the presidency to his Vice President Harry Truman, who was not expected to do well politically. As in the aftermath of the First World War, a German-American reaction in the populist heartland, and an Irish Catholic one in the urban northeast, shifted control of congress to the Republicans for the first time since 1931. Truman soon faced revolts in his party from pro-Soviets led by Henry Wallace because of hardening relations with Stalin, and from southern Democrats under Strom Thurmond for weakening social separation of blacks and whites. Despite expert opinion that he would fail to survive this perfect political storm, Truman won the election of 1948 because of his strong roots in America’s Scots-Irish heartland.
Republicans finally gained the presidency in 1952, when the party’s Greater New England wing and its candidate Dwight Eisenhower outmaneuvered Robert Taft, the candidate of the party’s heartland populist wing, which included many World War II skeptics who viewed the Soviet Union rather than Germany as the main enemy. In that year’s election Eisenhower easily triumphed over Democrats who were now reduced to their southern and urban base.
Following the election, the Taft wing’s last champion, Senator Joseph McCarthy, representing the German-Irish anti-Communism of Catholic “old immigrants,” was quickly suppressed with the blessing of Eisenhower, who used Truman’s Cold War with the Soviets as a cover for building America’s postwar empire. Governments unfriendly to American corporations in Iran and Guatemala were soon covertly eliminated. Efforts to end American Communist influence, which flourished under Truman despite his occasional resistance, ended for good under Eisenhower with the fall of McCarthy. Paradoxically, as American opposition to anti-communism increased domestically, the continuing Cold War intensified opposition to communist states abroad. New Deal policies limiting domestic corporate power and promoting relative income equality continued long past the depression, however, so the Eisenhower years of the 1950s are still fondly remembered as a time of unprecedented happiness and prosperity.
The Democratic Party slightly expanded its traditional base to win the close election of 1960, but just a few years later its nature changed significantly. By 1964 the civil rights movement, a concerted attack on traditional southern race relations, was elevated to its primary issue. In response, the South, which was the party’s strongest region until 1960, became its weakest region in 1964 and every subsequent election. By 1968 in the name of reform a movement led by Jews like Allard Lowenstein as well as some Greater New Englanders attacked and permanently stripped power from the party’s traditional northern Irish-led urban labor base, a split exemplified by the televised confrontation at that year’s Democratic convention in Chicago between Richard Daley, its Irish mayor, and Connecticut’s Jewish senator Abraham Ribicoff. By 1972 Daley wasn’t even permitted to attend the next convention. In the same year, the charismatic George Wallace inspired a momentary flare-up of white nationalist resistance, winning the Democratic Party primaries in northern industrial Michigan and Maryland, before he and his campaign were crippled by one of the gunmen who changed so much in American politics in the 1960s.
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 Oppenheimer, The Real Eve.
 Jill Lepore, The Name of War: King Phillip’s War and the Origins of American Identity (New York: Knopf, 1998); Phillips, The Cousins’ Wars.
 Patricia Faust, ed., Historical Times Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Civil War (New York: Harper and Row, 1986).
 A. J. Reichley, The Life of the Parties: A History of American Political Parties (New York: The Free Press, 1992).
 Henry Mayer, All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery (New York: St. Martin’s, 1998).
 Phillips, The Cousins’ Wars.
 Barnet Schecter, The Devil’s Own Work: The Civil War Draft Riots and the Fight to Reconstruct America (New York: Walker, 2005).
 Phillips, The Cousins’ Wars; Kevin Philips, Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich (New York: Broadway Books, 2002).
 Fischer, Albion’s Seed; Phillips, The Cousins’ Wars.
 Fredrickson 2002; Benjamin Ginsberg, The Fatal Embrace: Jews and the State (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993).
 Nathan Glazer, The Social Basis of American Communism (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1961).
 Nora Levin, While Messiah Tarried: Jewish Socialist Movements, 1871–1917 (New York: Schocken, 1977); Howard Sachar, A History of the Jews in America (New York: Knopf, 1992).
 Phillips, The Cousins’ Wars.
 Howard Sachar, A History of the Jews in the Modern World (New York: Knopf, 2005). Cf. Ginsberg’s The Fatal Embrace.
 Samuel Lubell, The Future of American Politics, 2nd edition, revised (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday Anchor, 1956).
 Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz, A Monetary History of the United States (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963).
 David Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 (New York: Oxford, 1999); Robert Reich, Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life (New York: Knopf, 2007)
 Conrad Black, Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom (New York: Public Affairs, 2003); Patrick Buchanan, Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost its Empire and the West Lost the World (New York: Crown, 2008); S. Courtois, N. Werth, J. Panne, A Paczkowski, K. Bartosek, and J. Margolin, The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression (Cambridge: Harvard, 1999).
 Michael Barone, Our Country: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan (New York: The Free Press, 1990); Lubell, The Future of American Politics.
 Barone, Our Country; Brinkley, The Unfinished Nation; David Halberstam, The Fifties (New York: Villard, 1993).
 Barone, Our Country.

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Without a doubt, Mexican has to be one of my all-time favorite world cuisines (coming a close second after Thai ofcourse!). I discovered Muchachas many months ago as Holiday Inn Express is literally at the back-door of my workplace.
The bright turquoise interiors, complete with cacti, Mexican sombreros and cantina-style minimalist furnishings is all at once eclectic, exotic and welcoming, and my colleagues are a little weary of the number of times I praise them for their tacos.
The only downside of Muchachas is their pricing. For the portion sizes that are dished out on a regular day, their menu rates really are quite steep. We still giggle about a colleague of mine who came to lunch with us there a while ago. Not sure what to order, he went for the most exotic-sounding dish and at AED 68, he was served a platter of what appeared to be 6 mini toasties topped with guacamole. The poor guy went back to the office and had a cup of instant noodles at his desk.
But I come with good news… Muchachas has started a Friday Brunch, and at AED 275 this covers an unlimited serving of appetizers, mains, dessert, jugs of absolutely delicious sangria, and very fancy margarita! And if you plan to stay sober, it gets even cheaper at AED 175 per head, inclusive of soft-drinks.
The brunch is on every Friday from 12.30 to 3.30 pm, and a couple of weeks ago, I took my wee family along to experience my Mexican discovery in my work-nook.
At Muchachas, they always start off the meal with a bowl of complimentary colorful corn chips along with dips. My little one was rather fascinated with these, and the bright paprika reds were the first to disappear.
The brunch here is served at the table, which I love! The food is freshly made, and the wastage (sadly so common in buffet-style dining) is kept to a minimum.
For the appetizers round, we were served a very delicious bowl of guacamole (the flavors of lemon tartness and salt perfectly balanced, the avocado beautifully mashed to a creamy yet chunky texture), a platter of decadently sauced chicken wings coated in smoked chipotle and burnt honey, and a very artsy-looking Veal Sope (a circular-cut serving of Pibil beef topped with avocado and red onion).
But that is just the first wave of appetizers! The second round gets even more interesting with the introduction of King Fish Ceviche marinated in a deliciously citric blood orange, chili, cocoa and avocado oil dressing and topped with a squeeze of lime and shreds of fresh coriander. To scoop it up, the ceviche is served with crisp banana chips. What an exotic combination!
This is followed by Chicken Quesadillas, where the quesadillas are stuffed with Filipino-inspired Adobo chicken, paired with coriander and served with a very generous smear of absolutely creamy, flavorful lime crema.
They also serve up a very moreish Duck Enchilada, stuffed with pasilla mole, almond and avocado.
I had all this with great lashings of ‘Unicorn Tears’. This is Muchachas’ very own ultra hot chili sauce, and how can you not love the name!
At any point in time, you can always holler out to the staff to get you more of any of the dishes you fancy to have more of. But we found ourselves to be rather satiated, and almost forgot the main course was yet to come!
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Overall, we had a wonderful Friday brunch at Muchachas. I absolutely love their food. This was the first time I had their sangria and margaritas, and I am now an even bigger fan.
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The North Eastern (wind) is dreaded for a reason, and we ended up being stuck in Montauk for two full days. Even the big fishing trawlers stayed at dock, so for Fram Jr it would be hazardous to venture out in the open Atlantic Ocean. By the third day we saw no sign of the wind calming down, and we decided to take Fram Jr out of the water and move her the few km down Long Island to get inshore and
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The gale was still strong inshore as we entered back at sea in the Shinnecock Bay. The route from here took us down Long Island along the south side, protected from the roaring Atlantic Ocean by a continuous flat sandbank. The bays and channels on the inside are very shallow, and we could travel here in high tide as we only stuck about 66cm deep – sail boats or bigger boats have no chance. We had to navigate accurately not to get stuck, which we got to understand first hand as we scraped the bottom several times (the keel got nice and polished during these days!).
With no other boats out we were afraid of getting stuck in the gale on a sand bank having to wait for high tide again. But we made it with a bit of luck and as the tides were rolling back out and the sun was setting – we found a beautiful abandoned wooden dock at Great Gun Marina with a boat house next to it. Perfect camp for the night. We settled in at the porch of the boat house for the night – fired up our stove with drift wood and explored the area.
A boardwalk from the boat house over the Island to led us over to the beaches along the Atlantic Ocean. The surf from days with strong winds were large and powerful— a dramatic scene in the sunset. We woke up to milder winds, and it had been some days since we had soaked in salt. We ran across the boardwalk over to the beach at 5am in the morning to catch the sunrise, jogged up and down the back to kick start the blood circulation and dove into the rather cold ocean.
With fair weather in sight we off-docked early to get a long day at sea and take up for the days weather stuck. We followed the narrow canals at full speed all the way down to Fire Island and its famous lighthouse. On the way we stopped briefly for fuel and stocked up on steaks and breakfast in Bellport. This journey would have been more complicated in high season, as docking would have been difficult. No boats and thus no people on the lighthouse pier. We docked up and explored the lighthouse and national park surrounding it. The beach next to the dock made for a perfect camp – the stove was fired up with coal this time and in no time our big fresh steaks from Bellport were sissling in the pan. We had so far not spent a night on the boat, so with a stomach full of meat we dozed off to the gently cradling boat on each our bench and slept like children.

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Q. Given the state of our bank account, this year's vacation will be spent in Florida. I'm looking for places that are sort of Old South, as different as possible from the Gold Coast, but with comfortable hotels and good restaurants. We're not interested in beaches. Any thoughts? -- Joe C., Hollywood
A. I'll bet this answer will surprise you: Tallahassee.
Take away the Legislature, governor, supreme court, the state offices and two big universities, and Tallahassee is a nice old Southern town with Spanish moss, plantations, mansions and lots of history.
As it is, most of the 1.4 million annual visitors are lobbyists, delegations, Lotto winners, press corps, visiting parents and football fans who come to see Florida State and Florida A&M; games. So the city has many more hotels, motels and good restaurants than most towns its size.
Tourism promoters, however, would like more visitors to come to see Tallahassee's other attractions: the pretty rolling hills and live-oak forests, the lakes and gardens of North Florida, the big trees that form a dense canopy over whole streets and neighborhoods, and the area's plantations and mansions. In spring, the view from the public observation deck on the 22nd floor of the new Capitol building, which sits atop one of Tallahassee's hills, looks out on miles of flowering azaleas, dogwoods and magnolias, lakes, springs and rivers.
America's largest concentration of original plantations, 71 in all, lies in the 28-mile stretch between Tallahassee and Thomasville, Ga. Most are now private vacation homes.
Tallahassee calls itself "Florida with a Southern Accent" and points out that the Gulf of Mexico is only 20 miles south and the Georgia border just 14 miles north in this narrow slice of the state where the Panhandle begins. And in fact, it is more Deep South than most of Florida. It's closer to Atlanta than to Miami in more than physical distance.
Tallahassee's beginnings are among the many historic tidbits locals like to talk about. In 1823, when Florida became a U.S. territory, Gov. William Pope DuVal, looking for a central site for the legislature to convene, sent one man east by boat from Pensacola and another west on horseback from St. Augustine. They met on a grassy hill at a place Creeks, Seminoles and Apalachees had been using for centuries as a tribal meeting site. It was already named Tallahassee (Land of Old Fields or Old Town) by the Apalachees. The site has been the state capital ever since.
Then there's the Lafayette connection.
In 1825, 44 years after the Revolution ended, Congress got around to rewarding the Marquis de Lafayette for his contribution to the American cause. It gave him 23,040 acres -- 36 square miles -- of land in Florida, a new U.S. territory, and added $200,000 in cash.
The marquis never saw his land, and contracted with a land developer and speculator to sell it. A group of young Frenchmen planted mulberry seedlings, planning to start a silk industry on part of the land grant. Alas, the trees wouldn't grow in the Florida climate. Most of the group returned to Europe, but some stayed in Tallahassee and one section of the city, near the governor's mansion, is still known as French Town.
Another emigrant who used some of the Lafayette land was Prince Achille Murat, Prince of Naples and nephew of Empress Josephine. He married Catherine Willis, great-grandniece of George Washington. Princess Murat's last home, Bellevue, is preserved at the Tallahassee Junior Museum outside the city.
Alfred B. Maclay State Ornamental Gardens is also on land purchased from Lafayette's brokers. This beautiful state park, open all year, is at its best in spring. The plantation house itself is open from January to April. It's a beautiful spot with reflecting pools, fountains and winding pathways.
Another chunk of Lafayette's legacy is occupied by Lafayette Vineyards, with 38 acres of muscadet and hybrid grapes under cultivation. The vineyard and winery, open to tours, was begun in 1983; they haven't yet got the hang of making good wine, however, judging from what I tasted.
So much for history, on with the sightseeing.
There's plenty to see and do. There are driving-tour routes and a Downtown Historic Trail for walking. Pamphlets on both can be picked up at the Tallahassee Area Convention and Visitors Bureau.
And, a free Old Town Trolley cruises around downtown weekdays from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., stopping at many sightseeing points.
Among the highlights: The new State Capitol on South Adams Street, a 22-story tower with a viewing deck at the top; the old State Capitol, adjacent to the new one, built in 1845 and restored to its 1902 appearance with bright red and white striped awnings, refurbished House and Senate chambers and exhibits depicting the state's political history. Across the street, the twin-pillared marble Vietnam Memorial is striking. Nearby, the Union Bank, oldest bank building in the state, is restored for tours.
Also nearby is Adams Street Commons, a gaslit, serpentine brick-paved block full of hotels, shops and restaurants, including the popular Governor's Inn.
The Museum of Florida History houses hands-on exhibits tracing the state's history, including the skeleton of a mastodon found at nearby Wakulla Springs.
Tours are offered at the governor's mansion, modeled after the Hermitage near Nashville, home of Andrew Jackson, the first territorial governor of Florida.
The city is full of old mansions and antebellum restorations, and a good place to see some is in the Park Avenue Historic District. Near town is the San Luis Archaeological and Historic Site, where a mid-17th century Apalachee Indian town and a Spanish mission existed. Unearthed on another site is what's believed to have been the winter encampment of explorer Hernando De Soto's expedition in 1539, where America's first Christmas celebration was held.
There are five designated Canopy Roads in and near the city, which run for miles beneath towering live oaks dripping with Spanish moss. One of them, Centerville Road, leads to Bradley's Country Store, a metal-sided place where, since the 1920s, the Bradley family has been making and selling sausages, hogshead cheese, liver pudding, cracklings, coarse ground country-milled grits, cornmeal and country cured hams.
Grandest of the area's plantations open for tours is Pebble Hill, outside Thomasville in nearby Georgia, 20 miles north of Tallahassee. The elegant plantation house, built in the 1820s and rebuilt after a fire, is well worth a visit, especially to see the Audubon prints and equine sculptures and paintings.
Tallahassee has nearly 5,000 hotel and motel rooms in all price ranges, so something is almost always available even during Legislative sessions (January-March) and football season. For a list of accommodations and other visitor information, contact the Tallahassee Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, 200 W. College Ave., Tallahassee, Fla. 32302, phone 1-800-628-2866.
---- Jean Allen welcomes questions about travel. Send them to Advice and Dissent, Sun-Sentinel, 200 E. Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. 33301-2293. Personal replies are not possible.

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The Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak shows that faith is more often a twisting road than a straight line. Yet, as the stories of biblical families attest, at the end of these journeys lies greater peace and joy than we could ever imagine.

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Bleeding conditions are generally caused by a malfunctioning blood-clotting process. People with bleeding conditions can bleed for longer than normal. In addition, some people with bleeding conditions may experience sudden bleeding into joints, muscles, or other parts of the body.
Bleeding conditions include haemophilia A, haemophilia B, von Willebrand disease (VWD), and other rare conditions.
The most common types of haemophilia are known as haemophilia A and haemophilia B. Haemophilia A is more common than haemophilia B. In people with these 2 types of haemophilia, clotting factors are insufficient, which can lead to bleeding longer than normal.
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The average Nigerian is allergic to paying taxes (tax to GDP ratio in Nigeria is 5.3% as against the SSA average of 22%). This attitude has as its origin the belief that the bulk of government revenue is either stolen or squandered by public servants. In other words, the Nigerian government has historically had a high trust deficit. Whilst this is partially true, there is also a false sense of entitlement of most citizens that oil revenues are enough to run the country and the surplus is to be shared (the oil curse & Dutch Disease).
In reality, Nigeria has a twin tax problem of revenue shortfall and tax administration. The solutions being proposed to address these issues are simplifying Nigeria’s tax administration and expanding the tax base through technological initiatives.
However, there is a strong correlation between the aggregate tax revenue and the rate of economic growth. In the last week, the NBS released two major data points: i) Q4’18 GDP data & ii) Q4’18 Capital Importation. One of the data points confirmed deteriorating external imbalances while the other confirmed positive economic growth. Some cynics have raised doubts about the integrity of the data. However, FDC has unequivocal confidence in both the integrity of the data and the institution of NBS.
In this edition of the FDC Monthly publication, the FDC Think-Tank analyzes these issues and their implications on businesses and the economy at large.
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The Itsas Etxea Auditorium is in Hondarribia’s La Marina neighbourhood, the town’s nerve centre and where most of the bars and restaurants can be found.
The building occupies a 2,500 metre site and is equipped with audiovisual and technical facilities to house theatre, film, music and cultural events, plus all kinds of events, business meetings and conferences.
The main area has a stage and raked theatre style seating for 408 people, with a technical area for sound, lighting and projection equipment, as well as two simultaneous interpreting booths.
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Abducted children caught up in “tug of love” divorce cases could be left in “legal limbo” after Brexit, politicians and lawyers have warned.
They were responding to a Whitehall policy paper published last week on a framework for “civil judicial co-operation” on cross-border commerce, trade and family relationships.
The paper says that the UK wants to incorporate existing agreements to provide a “coherent legal framework” for British and EU businesses to trade and invest across borders, and support the protection of individual and family rights in cross-border disputes”.
While that aim was welcomed, Wes Streeting, the Labour MP and supporter of the Open Britain campaign, warned that delays on a deal – or the possibility of there being no deal at all – could put British children into legal limbo.
Tom Brake, the Lib-Dem Brexit spokesman, said that the policy paper “exposes the reality of a no deal Brexit – abducted children at greater risk and families plunged into uncertainty”.
Family lawyers agreed that there must be a deal if families and children were not to be affected. Daniel Eames of Resolution, the association of family lawyers, said that close co-operation with the EU on family law matters was vital.
Without reciprocal rules on EU-UK cases, there could be on legal certainty “with all the ensuing complications, delays and potential costs for families and children or local authorities undertaking their child protection function,” Eames said.
The government’s paper does not outline what happens while the dispute resolution system is negotiated, which "has the potential to leave families and children in complete legal limbo in cross-border cases while the government seeks to negotiate a bespoke arrangement with 27 other EU states,” he added.
Joanna Farrands, a partner at the Surrey law firm Barlow Robbins, said that abducted children were protected under EU regulations that provided for the speedy return of children. After Brexit, if that no longer applied, parents would have to resort to alternative treaties such as the Hague Convention, which does not have the same time limits, she said. It would be more difficult to transfer cases between the UK and different EU countries, increasing the complexity and scope for delays.
David Lidington, the justice secretary, agreed that current arrangements would end when Britain left the EU but insisted that we would continue to have an arrangement and the best outcome would be close cooperation on civil judicial matters, similar to the present system.
“At the moment we’ve a got a good, effective system of EU law that says where there is a cross-border dispute – over child custody, over divorce, over consumer rights – this is the procedure for deciding which country’s courts are responsible for sorting it out,” he said.
Claire Wood, family law partner at Kingsley Napley, welcomed the proposals but said that uncertainty as to how the law would work after Brexit was putting international families under pressure. “Family lawyers are very concerned how divorce, maintenance and children disputes will work post-Brexit for international families with interests in the EU and the UK. We live in a world where people regularly relocate for work purposes and family reasons,” she said.

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Four Bartow schools were recognized in a ceremony that awarded Shining Stars Monday, Sept. 24.
The Polk County School System awarded a Gold Star to Spessard Holland Elementary. It awarded a Silver Star to Bartow Elementary Academy. It awarded Bronze stars to Floral Avenue Elementary and Bartow High School.
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30 October 2019
Workshop on “Digitisation Workflows & Digital Research Studies Methodologies”
In this post, Nicolas Moretto, Metadata Systems Analyst at the British Library, reflects on his work trip to India.
Earlier this year I was given the opportunity to attend a workshop on “Digitisation Workflows & Digital Research Studies Methodologies” held at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bangalore, India.
The workshop, which was held on the NCBS campus in the northern part of Bangalore, was jointly organised by Tom Derrick (Two Centuries of Indian Print - 2CIP) and our host Venkat Srinivasan who is the archivist at NCBS. Tom represented the 2CIP project while I attended to cover different metadata aspects. The event was attended by colleagues from 26 different institutions. Tom and I were kindly provided with accommodation on the campus.
Attendees of the workshop outside the NCBS main building
The workshop was intended as an opportunity to learn more about cataloguing, digitisation and OCR, and for the Indian participants to meet colleagues from Bangalore and other parts of India, share experiences, exchange ideas and discuss common standards and best practices. The chance to meet with colleagues working on similar activities – and encountering similar challenges – was an important aspect of the workshop. Most attendees were not professional archivists but had come into archives from academic and other backgrounds and had been exposed to archives and cultural heritage in different ways. All participants shared a high level of enthusiasm for archives and a passion for preserving cultural heritage and the memory of their communities.
The topics of the two-day workshop ranged from talks on description and arrangement of material (archival and related discovery standards), presentations on specific projects to digitisation workflows and OCR. Tom gave a practical demo of OCR tools for Indic scripts. I gave a presentation on each day, covering metadata description as well as reuse and discovery.
Ten of the Indian institutions presented five-minute lightning talks covering a diverse range of initiatives and describing their archival collections. The Ashoka Archives of Contemporary India presented their collection, which includes the Mahatma Ghandi papers as well as material from other Indian politicians and academics. The Keystone Foundation gave an overview of the opportunities and challenges around their work with indigenous communities in India. Their aim is to challenge traditional portrayals of indigenous culture by employing oral history interviews, which give a voice to parts of the culture that would otherwise remain unheard. The French Institute of Pondicherry featured material that had been digitised for several Endangered Archives Programme (EAP) projects, including ceiling murals and glass frames. The participants from FLAME University presented a project of digitising Indian cookbooks, showing the interdependencies between caste and cooking. The multimedia resource Sahapedia (https://www.sahapedia.org/) was presented as a way of curating Indian heritage in an online environment. All participants were looking for ways to make cultural heritage more accessible using digital tools. On the afternoon of the second day, the participants had an opportunity to undertake a hands-on activity testing OCR tools using their own material.
The workshop was well received and feedback was overall positive. The participants voiced interest in receiving more in-depth practical training and how-to guides around cataloguing and metadata capture, setting up systems as well as preservation and conservation.
On the evening of the first day, Venkat gave us a tour of the NCBS archives, which he had built up from scratch, working with NCBS researchers and with the help of student volunteers. The archive was remarkably open, inviting in students and staff even if they did not have an explicit research interest. Venkat was very interested in maintaining it as an open space. His archive is accompanied by an open and evolving exhibition space, which students can contribute to.
Setting up archives in India is not an easy undertaking, and Venkat has put in a tremendous effort to make it work. Even the essentials can be difficult to come by, since there is no supplier for archival materials in India for example, and Venkat had to import all his acid-free boxes from Germany.
On my last day, I accompanied Tom on a visit to the Karnataka State Central Library. The Director of the Department of Public Libraries, Dr. Satish Kumar Hosamani was not present, but his team kindly offered to give us a tour of the library. The Librarian showed us the round reading room and newspaper reading room and the collection of rare books and manuscripts. The State Library is planning to digitise these in the near future. This activity is currently awaiting approval and funding from the Karnataka state government.
Trying to find our way to the library, we discovered the existence of a “British Library Road” in Bangalore but were unable to reach it due to the customary extremely heavy traffic in Bangalore. Getting to and from destinations usually took a long time. The best way to get around over short distances was by “Tuk-tuk”, the ever-present means of transport in Indian cities.


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It’s been a little over a week since I was last in the studio. I’ve worked on a couple of things from home but, after realizing that I can’t abide working from photos anymore, that quickly lost its joy. Snow, ice, no car, grading, and job applications have provided far to many legitimate excuses – but now I’m starting to itch.
I haven’t started my bird-devouring plant painting yet (perhaps that should be the title?) and I was so excited about it before holiday break started. It’s that silly inertia switch again.I’ve been thinking about this piece a lot though and actually had a dream about it last night…
I’m wondering how un-wifey it would be to spend some time in the studio on Christmas Eve when my husband is actually off work.
I have been reading a lot in preparation for my thesis and my class next semester. I’m trying to come up with interesting project ideas for my color theory students and I’m restructuring the course so that it’s a little more organic as far as the integration of material is concerned. I picked up several books at the library about mandalas to research one project idea and stumbled across a book about labyrinths. I picked it up too, thinking “who knows?”
Subsequently, I have become engrossed in the idea of the labyrinth – so much so that it’s starting to manifest in my plans for artworks despite being in the (roughly) 9th hour of my thesis work. What am I doing to myself!?
Aside from my trepidation, I can’t ignore the profound effect this unexpected revelation has had.
The author of Labyrinth for the Spirit, Jim Buchanan, has surprised me a bit. When I first flipped through the book I thought “for the Spirit? Really?” and expected a high level of new age drippiness in the content portion. The book has great images though so I felt it was at least worth a more in-depth browsing.
Despite my expectations, Buchanan is not a hippy-dippy writer – impassioned at times, but not sappy. Or perhaps I just respond because what is discussed strikes a chord.
Buchanan talks about the differences between mazes and labyrinths: “a maze” Buchanan explains “hides its secret turns and dead ends, and employs multiple paths” while a labyrinth “has one path leading you into the center and then out again” with no deception (9).
The history of the labyrinth is fairly multi-layered and extends across a variety of cultures. The form has been of primary interest to religious sects due to its symbolism and meditative nature and in a contemporary context, continues to adopt a more spiritual connotation.
Buchanan cites credible historians to support his writing. One such source, Patrick Conty, suggests that the labyrinth is a metaphor for the mind/body connection. As this is an area I’m currently researching for my thesis (Hegel, Zizec, Elkins), I’m curious to read more about this theory as it is only touched on briefly.
“As our ability to dissect, explore and ‘know’ the workings of our body increases,” Buchanan says, “we are still not closer to accessing the soul and spirit.” Because “with a drawn image there is more opportunity to develop the mythological iconography” Buchanan believes that the labyrinthine form can provide a window into that which is tangible and real but virtually inaccessible to our minds (10-11). Buchanan quotes Conty: “The ultimate meaning of the myth is not of the same nature as the concrete non-conceptual logic with which it is built” (11). In Lacanian terms this translates as the Imaginary Real vs. the Symbolic Real.
There is something that is intrinsically meditative and calming in the creation of patterning within my work. As one of my favorite indulgences, I have to be careful to use pattern appropriately and in moderation and not get carried away. The motifs I include in my work are laid out meticulously beforehand, transferred to my surface, and then laboriously painted or drawn so that the lines are clean and precise.
There is no unexpected element in the execution of the final pattern, my brush simply follows a line until it joins with another line which is then followed until it joins with another line and so on until the end of the work – almost exactly following the description of a labyrinth. The only struggle is to stay on the path and see it through to the end.
And yes, this process is somewhat spiritual for me because it brings me peace.
In works which are already filled with layer upon layer of dualistic ideas, I have discovered yet one more element to add to the list.
I am contemplating a more complicated labyrinth pattern with embedded motifs and imagery that can only be discovered if you allow your eye to follow a path for long enough – a stand alone work with nothing but pattern.
Sometimes it’s nice to just follow a path and not know what the end holds in store for you, but that there will be an end at some point if you’re patient enough to see things through. I started looking for project ideas, stumbled upon the idea of the labyrinth from an entirely new perspective, and ended up with a renewed sense of purpose and drive to get out of my books and back into the studio as a result.
Maybe after lunch I can bribe my dear man with some homemade cookies and sneak away for a couple of hours. We’ve been together for a decade now… I’m sure he’ll just give me that knowing shake of his head (with eye roll for effect), kiss me on my forehead, and send me off with a pat on the ass… he’s a good one like that.
Merry Christmas Eve!
(Note: you can read the entire Introduction and Chapter 1 in the “Click to Look Inside” option on Amazon’s listing for Labyrinth for the Spirit.)


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Gangs Town Story is an action and story game that invites you to a gangster life and you will enter dangerous chases between cops and criminals. This city is the main base of the mafia and criminals, and now it is you who entered this dangerous world. But you yourself are also a mythical and mythical hangman, your name shaking every cop’s tone. You’re a strong, attractive man who’s not afraid of anything. In this game, you may have problems with other mafia members and fight. In this case, you have to buy extraordinary and strong weapons with the wrong money you made and don’t make all the enemies. This dangerous world doesn’t have mercy on anyone, so be careful not to get killed. Living in this city is the secret to survival. You have to use your own unique strategy to survive and broader your mafia empire to get rich. You have to make pre-planned maps so that you can survive the bloody struggles and battles between gangsters. Run this game without the need for an internet connection. So if you’re waiting a lot on the day or you have a stressful job, download gangs Town Story right now so that not only won’t get bored, but you’ll inject excitement and vitality into your life. The game was ranked 3.4 out of 5 in Google Play.
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Sorry, didn’t mean to get y’all excited. I’m not writing one — I’m making one. A hobby of mine is to bind books — usually just quick hand sewn ones, made of scrap paper with a nice (soft) cover. I use them for temporary journals or lists.
This project has been brewing for more than 2 years, it was supposed to be finished in May of 2010, but I was a bit distracted back then so it fell low on the to do list. (You know, after things like get out of bed.)
It’s a bit of a surprise for a few weeks, so I’m going to be quiet about the details, but it started two years ago with the acquisition of a PDF document that was a scan of another document, 19 years old. The original document was typed (courier) with photocopied pages as appendices.
So my first task was to convert this pdf into a more readable format. Courier became times roman, Chapters acquired had pretty-looking titles, and the first letter of each chapter’s first word became an image. Sort of like medieval illumination. Most importantly, I added 20 color images relating to the topic in to the center of the new book.
Having done the prettifying, I move on to formatting. This is the stage where I decide how big I wanted the final book to be, how tall and wide, that is. Then I calculated signatures and made adjustments.
Printing was exciting, as it is not easy to create signatures when you have actual text on the page. (A signature is 4-8 pages, folded in the center to make 8-16 book pages.) I would be sewing each signature, and then sewing them together, for strength in the binding. J. was a huge help in creating the signatures and getting them printed.
A few days ago I was ready to start creating the book. I cut the covers and spine and a spacer bar), and all of the papers (spine, endpapers, hinge, and two colors for the cover). I made glue. I got linen tape.
The sewing went pretty well. Its a bit complicated, but once you do three signatures it starts to come together. Then I glued the spine edge and waited a day for that to dry. Next step was to put on the spine paper and then the hinge piece. More drying time passed.
Making the book case was tricky. Lots of measuring and cutting, and this is where my major imperfection came in. It turns out that I should have cut my spine *after* I glued the signatures together. My book was about 1/8″ smaller than the spine piece. I decided to soldier on and see what happens.
The case looked beautiful, and I fuddled a bit with the proportions and glue and although the spine *is* too big, it doesn’t look obvious. The endpapers are a gorgeous Florentine pattern, the exterior colors are a light blue on the spine and navy blue on the covers. (I’ll post pics once its no longer a surprise.)
Here’s the dilemma: do I REDO it (much faster this time, because I’ve been through all the steps and worked out the problems) and attempt a more perfect product? Or do I rest on my laurels and let this gift go?


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Regarding sexual education, Ms. de Innocenti famous that inter-institutional coordination had produced programmes at the national level. The Ministries of Health and Education had collectively carried out a programme, „Education for Life” which aimed to offer info on HIV/AIDs and sexually transmitted diseases, and to prevent adolescent being pregnant, amongst others. Since 1998, El Salvador has been one of asmall minorityof countries the place abortion is completely illegal with no exceptions. People who’ve abortions resist eight years in jail and providers withstand 12 years. A variety of ladies have been charged with homicide after struggling stillbirths and miscarriages. The choose who sentenced Ramírez, Ricardo Torres Arieta, alsosentenceda lady identified as Esme in May to 30 years in jail, a 12 months and a half after she sought help for a medical emergency during her being pregnant and lost her unborn baby. Domestic abuse in El Salvador is prohibited beneath the legislation and sentencing can lead to one to a few years in jail, however the legislation isn’t always well enforced.
- Older generations try to communicate with the younger members of the family as a lot as attainable to share their experience and stay young in coronary heart.
- Even although El Salvador is a small and developing country, training is highly valued.
- Every likelihood we get, we should demand freedom for girls, freedom for the 12 who are still in prison and reparations for all the women who have faced this type of criminalisation.
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We demand equal rights and equal treatment so that everybody can thrive, not simply survive. But the authorized route has not been our solely key technique; social mobilisation at national and regional ranges has additionally played a major function. The feminist motion has organised and spoken out in relation to the circumstances of criminalised women. Sit-ins have been organised in front of embassies in El Salvador and different countries, letters have been sent to the courts and campaigns for reproductive justice have been carried out, together with the ‘We are lacking 17’ marketing campaign. There are at present 12 ladies in jail serving sentences which may be extraordinarily unjust.
In most families, in El Salvador, the man works full-time and is the main breadwinner of the household. The woman also can work full-time earlier than having children or after they grow up, however when there are young youngsters in the household, the woman either quits work completely or switches to part-time employment to make her contribution to the price range. As you can think about, your woman’s decision so far a foreigner and potentially move with him to a different continent goes to be very hard on her parents.
Salvadoran wives aren’t thinking about having multiple ex-husbands. Their dream is to get married of their early twenties and stick with the identical individual endlessly. So you possibly can count on your Salvadoran wife to by no means get any second thoughts or doubts. At the end of the day, all the elements discussed on this article level to the reality that an El Salvador woman is the best choice for any man in search of Latinos to marry. Even though El Salvador is a small and developing country, education is very valued. In fact, it is release until the ninth grade, and 82% of Salvadorans undergo high school as much as colleges. When they do have kids, they will focus on their all-round growth.
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The delegation identified that there was work beneath way to reform the political system with regard to elections, which was a fairly new phenomenon in El Salvador. They had solely been holding free elections for just over 10 years now. Perhaps with the appearance of direct elections it would be easier to increase women’s participation. Regarding trafficking, there had solely been 5 sentences handed down so far, the delegation noted. However, the trafficking law was relatively new and efforts were under means to guarantee that judicial and legislation enforcement authorities have been conscious of it.
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Though a lot progress has been made because the Salvadoran Civil War led to 1992, ladies in El Salvador still face gender inequality. The position of El Salvador’s abortion ban in violating a quantity of human rights has not gone unnoticed within the worldwide group. Many international our bodies, corresponding to UNHCR and CESCR, have condemned the ban and have known as for the nation to evaluation its restrictive legislation and make amendments according dating a woman from el salvador to human rights legislation. UNHRC has interpreted obstacles to women’s sexual and reproductive rights as points that type the best to life of individuals and considers punitive abortion legislation as a violation of women’s proper to life under Article 6. Therefore the right to health isn’t limited to receiving access to well being care, but extends to the right of freedom to regulate one’s health and body.
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They will put in the effort to ensure that the children have a beautiful childhood crammed with a lot of fun activities. A Salvadoran wife will instill self-discipline and life skills into her kids. But we are not implying that should you aren’t a Christian or a Catholic, you can’t have a Salvadoran bride. When you would possibly be with a Salvadoran girl, she’s going to respect your religion and all of its tenets with out complaining.
5.c.1 Proportion of nations with techniques to trace and make public allocations for gender equality and women’s empowerment. A leaked supreme court decision suggests that Roe v Wade – the 1973 ruling that guarantees the proper to abortion – will soon be overturned, resulting in about half of US states banning or severely proscribing access to protected, authorized abortion. Over the previous twenty years, more than 180 ladies have been jailed for homicide for having an abortion after struggling obstetric emergencies, in accordance with rights teams.
El Salvador women are very passionate and open, but at the same time, they follow the normal ideas they have learned from their mother and father. Elsalvador ladies are superb daughters and even after marriage, they keep speaking with their family members lots. The opinion of oldsters is very a lot valued, so be patient and anticipate the perfect second for each of you earlier than taking the next step in your relations. If you search not only a beautiful and caring spouse but also a perfect mom on your future children, Salvadorian girl will be the best option. She will not solely deal with your youngsters however focus a lot on their education and private growth. Besides, this girl will do something to make the childhood of her kid as bright as attainable, with a lot of traveling, games, adventures, and family holidays.
There are still 12 ladies who remain in jail, however we believe that Manuela’s case shines a light-weight on these injustices and gives us the power to continue preventing. This is problematic as a end result of it deprives abuse survivors of a spot the place they can feel safe to report the crimes they endure. Thousands of women report violence in their houses yearly – more than fifty seven,000 in 2020 in Guatemala alone. The true determine is most likely going considerably greater, as officials don’t at all times doc their circumstances, and many women are too afraid to talk up amidst threats to their lives and few places to hunt shelter.
If you marry a Salvadoran bride, she goes to all the time discover the right phrases to maintain you getting into times of uncertainty and worry. This selfless show of empathy and compassion may come in handy to avoid wasting your relationship from points that might have in any other case caused irreparable rifts. This passion can be simply expressed within the bed room, and you may anticipate an enviable love life if you get yourself a Salvadoran bride. Oliver Duncan is a dating and relationship skilled from New York. Oliver has a Master’s diploma in Psychology – he graduated from the New York University in 2009. He knows every thing about online dating and courting apps – his expertise in this area is round 10 years. His senior thesis was involved with the psychology of long-distance/international relationships – he knows tips on how to date Latin girls, tips on how to clear up relationship issues, and what issues/barriers to count on when dating a lady from South America.


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The ongoing coronavirus outbreak in China has led to popular game “Plague Inc” to be pulled from the country’s App Store after China decided it was illegal —despite having been available for eight years.
In a statement, Plague Inc developer Ndemic Creations claims it was informed the game “includes content that is illegal in China as determined by the Cyberspace Administration of China,” and has been removed from sale in the App Store covering China.
“This situation is completely out of our control,” said Ndemic Creations.
“Plague Inc” is a strategy game where players must create a fictional pathogen and try to spread the plague as far as possible around the world. As with a real-world virus like the coronavirus, part of the game involves countries cutting off access to nations enduring infections, with border controls and the development of a cure causing players to thing strategically about how to improve how the virus infects and spreads.
“It’s not clear to us if this removal is linked to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak that China is facing,” the studio suggests. “We have a huge amount of respect for our Chinese players and are devastated that they are no longer able to access and play Plague, Inc.”
Despite the dark subject matter, the game has been recognized for its educational importance, including by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as a way to encourage players to learn about serious public health issues.
While the game is blocked in China, it is still available to download and play in other markets. The developers are attempting to contact the Chinese regulator to understand why the ban has taken place.
This is not the first statement Ndemic has released concerning the coronavirus. In late January, it acknowledged the rise in player numbers it sees after an outbreak of a disease, and took a moment to remind players of its limitations.
“We specifically designed the game to be realistic and informative, while not sensationalizing serious real-world issues,” wrote the team. “Please remember that Plague Inc. is a game, not a scientific model, and that the current coronavirus outbreak is a very real situation which is impacting a huge number of people. We would always recommend that players get their information directly from local and global health authorities.”


Do you love the crisp sweet crunch of young peas and beans? These easy-to-grow crops are perfect for all gardeners in small urban spaces. In pots, plots or garden beds!
How do you get the highest yield from your peas and beans, especially if you have limited space?
These are tips I use to grow healthy pea and bean plants that produce an abundant harvest. I hope they help you too.
3 Tips for Growing Peas and Beans
1. Healthy Soil and Fertilising
- Peas and beans both prefer well drained, moist soils, with plenty of organic matter and a soil pH 6.0-7.5.
- You can make your own potting mix like I do, or improve your soil with compost and worm castings if you have them. I also add minerals and mulch. Click here for tips on preparing your soil for planting.
- Every couple of weeks apply a liquid fertiliser such as seaweed, fish emulsion or diluted worm casting concentrate to boost growth.
2. Get your Timing Right
- Choose varieties suited to your season and climate. I’m lucky to be able to grow beans all year round in my subtropical climate. I just choose my varieties carefully for the season – climbing snake beans over summer; dwarf and runner beans for the rest of the year. So timing is important when selecting your seeds or seedling varieties – learn what will grow when.
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- Peas are another story. Sadly, I can only grow these through the cooler months, unless I raise seeds as microgreens. This is one way to extend your season to grow pea shoots for longer. A brilliant way to benefit from the extra nutrients too.
- Sow early morning or late afternoon if in a warm/hot climate to avoid heat stress for seedlings.
- Plant in the new moon phase for faster seed germination and strong growth. This is also the best time to apply liquid fertilizers as you’ll see much quicker results. Root development and leaf growth comes before flowers and pods, so use this timing to your advantage!
3. Succession and Companion Planting
- Succession Planting – To get a continuous supply of peas and beans, you need to succession plant or “sow little, and often.” Every couple of weeks I sow more peas or beans, so I stagger the planting – and the harvest.
- When choosing your peas or beans, dwarf or bush varieties will usually produce flowers and pods quicker than climbing peas or runner/pole beans. If you sow some dwarf seeds/seedlings first, you’ll enjoy a fast harvest, while the climbing varieties take longer to produce flowers and pods. While climbers are slow out of the starting gates, they’ll go the distance and produce a harvest over a longer period!
- Companion planting – To improve pollination of pea and bean crops, there’s a simple principle you can apply. Plant flowers nearby. To attract pollinators, lease out some of your precious garden ‘real estate’ to flower ‘tenants’. They will ‘pay’ you in more peas and beans! As the bees visit the flowers for a free feed, they’ll also stop by and pollinate these crops. Win-win!
How to Grow Guides
For tutorials with lots of inspiring vertical structures and tips, see my growing guides:
Easy Guide to Growing Perfect Peas – An easy step by step guide with everything you need to know to grow, maintain and harvest peas + delicious recipe ideas.
Jack and the Beanstalk Theme Garden – Tutorial tips for growing beans and a themed garden for children.
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Happy gardening until next month. Anne
Beans can’t wait
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Regulation of Galactosylceramide Biosynthesis
Kollmeyer, Jessica Elaine
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An important branchpoint of mammalian sphingolipid metabolism occurs at the step where ceramides are glycosylated to glucosylceramide (GlcCer) versus galactosylceramide (GalCer), which are precursors of all mammalian glycosphingolipids. Relatively few studies have focused on this branchpoint because these monohexosylceramides are somewhat difficult to resolve chromatographically and because molecular biology tools have only recently become available to follow expression of these genes. The goal of this thesis is to better understand the mechanisms of cell regulation determining galactosylceramide synthesis.


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poetic inspiration, Aratus manages his intractable material with considerable tact, and dignified simplicity. The language, while not always free from stiffness, is choice, and the versification correct. The poem enjoyed a high repute with the general public, as well as with poets and specialists : thus the great astronomer Hipparchus wrote a commentary on it in four books. The Romans also took pleasure in reading and translating it, e.g. Cicero, Caesar Germanlcus, and Avienus.
Arbiter. An umpire ; especially a judge who decides according to equity, while a index decides according to law.
Arcadius (Gr. ArkadiSs. A Greek grammarian of Antioch, who probably flourished in the 2nd century a.d. He was the author of a Doctrine of Accents in 20 books, an abstract of a work by the famous Herodian.
Archemorns ( = leader in fate, i.e. the first to die). A surname given to Opheltes, the infant son of Lycurgus king of Nemea, who was killed by a snake during the march of the Seven against Thebes (q.v.). It was given him by the seer Amphiaraus, who foresaw the destruction awaiting himself and his confederates; and by it the child was invoked at the Nemean Games originally founded in memory of him.
Archestratus, of Gela, in Sicily, flourished about 318 b.c., and composed the humorous didactic poem Hedypatheia (= good cheer), supposed to describe a gastronomic tour round the then known world, with playful echoes of Homer and the dogmatic philosophers. The numerous fragments display much talent and wit.
Archlldchus. A Greek lyric poet, especially eminent as a writer of lampoons. Born at Paros, he was the son of Teleslcles by a slave-woman, but was driven by poverty to go with a colony to ThasOs B.C. 720 or 708. From Thasos he was soon driven by want and by the enmities which his unrestrained passion for invective had drawn upon him. He seems to have roamed restlessly from place to place, until, on his return to Paros, he was slain in fight by the Naxian Calondas. Long afterwards, when this man visited the Delphian temple,the god is said to havedriven him from his threshold as the slayer of a servant of the Muses, and refused to admit him till he had propitiated the soul of the poet
at his tomb: a story which expresses the high value set on his art by the ancients, who placed him on a level with Homer, Pindar and SophScles. For Archilochus had an extraordinary poetical genius, which enabled him to invent a large number of new metres, and to manipulate them with the ease of a master. He brought Iambic poetry, in particular, to artistic perfection. The many misfortunes of his stormy life -had bred in his irritable nature a deeply-settled indignation, which, in poems perfect in form and alive with force and fury, vented itself in bitter mockery even of his friends, and in merciless, unpardonable abuse of his foes. Such was the effect of his lampoons, that Lycambes, who had first promised and then refused him his daughter Neobule, hanged himself and his family in the despair engendered by the poet's furious attacks. Of his poems, which were written in the Old-Ionic dialect, and taken by Horace for his model in his Epodes, only a number of short fragments are preserved.
Archimedes. One of the greatest mathematicians and natural philosophers of antiquity, born B.C. 287 at Syracuse. He lived at the court of his kinsman, king Hiero, and was killed (B.C. 212) by a Roman soldier at the taking of the city which he had largely aided in defending with his engines. Of his inventions and discoveries we need only say, that he ascertained the ratio of the radius to the circumference, and that of the cylinder to the sphere, and the hydrostatic law that a body dipped in water loses as much weight as that of the water displaced by it; that he invented the pulley, the endless screw, and the kind of pump called the " screw of Archimedes "; and that he constructed the so-called " sphere," a sort of orrery showing the motions of the heavenly bodies. Of his works, written in the Doric dialect, the following are preserved: On the sphere and cylinder, On the measurement of the circle, On conoids and spheroids, On spiral lines, The psammltes (or sand-reckoner, for the calculation of the earth's size in grains of'sand), On the equilibrium of planes and their centres of gravity, and On floating bodies.
Architecture: (1) of the Greeks. Of the earliest efforts of the Greeks in architecture, we have evidence in the so-called Cyclopean Walls surrounding the castles of kings in the Heroic Age at Tlryns, Argos, Mycenae (fig. 1), and elsewhere. They are of enormous thickness, some being constructed of rude colossal blocks, whose gaps are filled up


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Access to Taketomi's Islands
Iriomote Island Transport Information
Uehara Port: 40-60 min. from Ishigaki Port by fast ferry
Ohara Port: 35-40 min. from Ishigaki Port by fast ferry
In the event the ferry to Uehara Port is canceled due to inclement weather, there may be a free shuttle bus from Ohara Port to the Iriomote area. Transport options on the island include rental cars, rental motorcycles, fixed route buses, and taxis (booking required).* Charter taxis and sightseeing buses available.Iriomote Island Fixed-Route Buses
Hatoma Island Transport Information
Hatoma Port: 40-45 min. from Ishigaki Port by fast ferry
Hatoma Port: 10 min. from Uehara Port by fast ferry
Rental cycles are also available,
but it is of readily walkable size.
In addition, roads outside of the villages are not paved, so ride cautiously when using a bicycle.
Yubu Island Transport Information
22 min. from Iriomote Island Ohara Port by fixed-route bus
40 min. from Iriomote Island Uehara Port by fixed-route bus
15 min. from Yubu Water Buffalo Cart Stand by oxcart
Visitors travel by water buffalo cart from the Yubu Water Buffalo Cart Stand located on the shore opposite Iriomote Island about 20 min. from Ohara Port by fixed-route bus, taxi, or rental car. The entire island is a subtropical botanical garden.
Kohama Island Transport Information
Kohama Port: 25-30 min. from Ishigaki Port by fast ferry
Kohama Port: 30 min. from Ohara Port by fast ferry
Kohama Port: 25 min. from Taketomi Port by fast ferry
While rental cycles are recommended for getting around the island at your own pace, there are many slopes, so please use a rental car or motorcycle if you are not confident in your stamina. For those not confident in driving, the sightseeing bus that tours the island’s highlights is recommended.Kohama Island Sightseeing Bus
Kayama Island Transport Information
There are no scheduled ferries to Kayama Island.
To visit Kayama Island, a tour application with Sanwa Travel is required.
Taketomi Island Transport Information
Taketomi Port: 10-15 min. from Ishigaki Port by fast ferry
Taketomi Port: 35 min. from Ohara Port by fast ferry
Taketomi Port: 25 min. from Kohama Port by fast ferry
There are buses running from the port to the village and the beach.Taketomi Island Tour Bus
The is an island sightseeing bus and sightseeing taxis, but for those who wish to wander around the village while enjoying the island’s scenery at a relaxed pace, walking or rental cycles are recommended.
Kuroshima Island Transport Information
Kuroshima Port: 25-30 min. from Ishigaki Port by fast ferry
The island is flat with few slopes, so rental bicycles or motorcycles allow visitors to roam at a relaxed pace while watching the cattle with relative ease.
Rental cars are also available,
Aragusuku Island Transport Information
Aragusuku Island has no scheduled ferry service, so please use a snorkeling tour from Iriomote Island or Ishigaki Island, etc.
In addition, the island is of readily walkable size.
Hateruma Island Transport Information
Hateruma Port: 100 min. from Ishigaki Port by fast ferry
While it is possible to get around the island on a rental bicycle, this is a large island with many slopes, so a rental car or motorcycle is recommended if you are not confident in your stamina.
*Ferries on the Hateruma route are canceled when there is inclement weather or high seas. Ferry cancellations are particularly more likely in winter.
First, fly to Ishigaki Island
Ishigaki Island is the gateway for visiting Taketomi’s islands. Since the expansion to Ishigaki Airport opened in March 2013, the number of direct flights between Ishigaki Airport and major cities has increased significantly. This made it easier to visit Taketomi as well. There are also many flights between Ishigaki Airport and Naha Airport, so visitors can fly to Ishigaki Island via Naha by taking a flight to Naha from any major city in Japan.
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From Ishigaki Airport to Ishigaki Remote Island Terminal
Travel from Ishigaki Airport to Ishigaki Remote Island Terminal by bus or taxi.
・Taxi: about ¥3,000 (about 30 min.)
・Bus (about 30-50 min.)
Azuma Bus (fixed-route bus) One-way: ¥540, Round-trip: ¥1,000
Karry Kanko (nonstop bus) One-way: ¥500, Round-trip: ¥900
Travel from Ishigaki Remote Island Terminal to the Islands
Visitors take ferries to the islands from Ishigaki Remote Island Terminal. Purchase ferry tickets at the ferry company windows in the terminal.
There are many tour company information counters inside the terminal, and they can suggest ways to have fun on the islands.
Service available for all scheduled ferries and tours
Rules on the Islands
Rules and Safety Measures on the Islands
・To protect the natural environment of the islands, you cannot take away plants or animals without permission.
・Before entering the jungle on Iriomote Island, be sure to notify the local police and forestry office.
・There is no mobile phone reception on some parts of islands and almost all of the Iriomote Island jungle.
・Camping or sleeping in the open is prohibited outside of designated campsites.
・Do not walk around in swim wear or without a shirt outside of beaches.
・Take your trash home along with your memories.
These are sacred places, so do not enter them without permission.
When participating in festivals or events, follow the rules particular to each island.
Taking photographs may be prohibited depending on the festival.
■When a Typhoon is Likely
Check for the latest typhoon information and safety measures on the Meteorological Agency’s website. Additionally, follow the instructions of the islanders when a typhoon is approaching.
Meteorological Agency Typhoon Information
■Precautions when Entering the Ocean
・Wear a life jacket when snorkeling.
・Do not enter the ocean after drinking alcohol.
・In the ocean or on the beach, do not touch plants or animals without cause or take them with you.
・Beware of dangerous animals like the habu jellyfish or the geography cone (a spiral snail) with its venomous spine, and avoid touching or approaching them.
Beware of Coral Reef Currents
This can occur at any of the beaches, so be careful.
Habu jellyfish are venomous. On beaches which have nets, be sure to stay inside the nets while swimming.
If there are no nets at the beach, minimize exposed skin as much as possible by wearing a long-sleeved T-shirt, etc.
If you get stung...
Get out of the water immediately, pour a large amount of vinegar on the injured area, and remove the tentacles. If they cannot be removed with bare hands, remove them using chopsticks or rubber gloves, etc.
Afterward, cool the injured area with ice and cold water, and get treatment from a medical care provider.
*Pouring fresh water, alcohol, or sand on tentacles is dangerous, as it may stimulate unfired stinging cells.
Triggerfish, such as the titan triggerfish, become aggressive to those who approach their nests during the spawning season in June to August, and may bite.
They are not venomous. When you find triggerfish, leave the area immediately.
Rules and Safety Measures on the Islands
■Precautions when Enjoying the Mountains
・Driving cars onto forest or mountain trails is prohibited.
・Beware of heatstroke, and be sure to hydrate frequently.
・Do not touch plants or animals without cause or collect them.
Emergency Contact Information
Fire/Ambulance/Rescue: call 119, Incidents/Accidents: call 110, Marine Incidents/Accidents: call 118
|Ishigaki Fire Station
|Taketomi Town Hall Fire and Disaster Prevention Subsection
■Marine Rescue and Accidents at Sea
|Ishigaki Coast Guard, Guard and Rescue Department
|Iriomote Island Ohara Police Substation
|Iriomote Island Uehara Police Substation
|Iriomote Island Shirahama Police Substation
|Kohama Island Kohama Police Substation
|Hateruma Island Hateruma Police Substation
|Ishigaki Island Yaeyama Police Station
|Taketomi Island Taketomi Clinic
|Iriomote Island Iriomote East Ohara Clinic
|Iriomote Island Iriomote West Clinic
|Kohama Island Kohama Clinic
|Kuroshima Island Kuroshima Clinic
|Hateruma Island Hateruma Clinic
|Ishigaki Island Yaeyama Hospital
|Ishigaki Island Tokushukai Hospital
|Ishigaki Island Kariyushi Hospital
Taketomi Wi-Fi Service Area
Taketomi Town Tourism Association Pamphlet
The Story of Painushima
We mail copies of “The Story of Painushima” pamphlets published by Taketomi Town Tourism Association to those who request them.
The pamphlet is free of charge, but we ask that you pay for shipping. Please consult the shipping methods shown under [Application Address] below.
There are a limited number of copies available, but we will also enclose pamphlets on other topics. If you wish to receive multiple copies, we will fulfill the request via “Yu-Pack (pay on delivery)” or another shipping method.
Please contact us.
- Application Address
- Pamphlet Request Section, Pamphlet Request Section,Taketomi Town Office 3F, 11-1 Misaki-cho, Ishigaki-shi, Okinawa-ken
- Please apply by filling in your name and address, and specifying one of the shipping methods below.
- Shipping Methods
- *We ask that you cover the shipping costs.
1.Yu-Mail (pay on delivery)
2.After receiving the pamphlet, send back stamps of equal value to the shipping cost
The pamphlets will be shipped from the remote islands, so they may take several days to arrive. Please allow plenty of time when making a request.


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