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When you’re not at the beach or hanging out with Mickey, Florida is an excellent place to shop, with brand bargains to be found all over the place. We’ve rounded up some of the best malls in the Orlando, Miami and Gulf Coast areas for you, so leave some space in that suitcase…
Premium Outlets is America’s largest outlet chain and has two huge malls in the Orlando area, both open until 11PM, Mon-Sat. Both locations have much the same list of retailers and there’s barely a big name brand that isn’t on there. Sporty brands are particularly well covered, so this is the place to head for big savings on trainers. Discounts of 20-65% are available every day.
The International Drive mall is south of the city, about 25 minutes’ drive from Disney World or 20 from Downtown Orlando. Vineland Avenue is a bit further south and under 10 minutes from Sea World.
With 150+ stores and restaurants, The Mall At Millenia is a great all-rounder, with everything from high street to high-end chains. The eating options are great, making it the best place to visit if you need a bite with your retail therapy. Various sales, expo events, fashion showcases and kids’ activities rotate throughout the year.
Southeast of the city, with the nearest attraction being Universal Orlando, about 10 minutes’ drive away. About 15 minutes from Sea World or Downtown Orlando and half an hour from Disney.
Central Florida’s largest retail space, The Florida Mall is like a mini city with its 1.9 million square feet of shopping. A gigantic selection of fashions for everyone, especially women and children, plus about as many accessories, electronics and health & beauty products as you could fit in one place.
About 15 minutes’ drive south of the city, around 30 minutes east from Walt Disney World and an easy 10 from Sea World.
Dolphin Mall is the largest in the Miami area with 240 shops. Though not an outlet mall as such, some of the biggest names – Nike, Gap, Sony, Bloomingdales – do have factory or cut-price stores. There’s no shortage of restaurant choice either and you can combine dinner and a movie in one place at Cinebistro. Arcade games and bowling are among the other after-shopping options.
Just off the Dolphin Expressway, about 15 minutes west of central Miami.
If you’ve only got time for one mall, go supersize at Sawgrass Mills, the state’s biggest retail and entertainment centre. In among the many, many shops are more than a few designer name factory/outlets. If you haven’t dropped after you’ve shopped, make an evening of it at the IMAX and/or indulge in some outdoor dining.
40 minutes’ drive north of Miami and 25 minutes from Fort Lauderdale.
If the metropolis-like mall experience isn’t your thing, have a seaside saunter at Bayside Marketplace. An airy retail and entertainment precinct that wraps itself around the Biscayne Bay. Great for accessories, gifts and eateries, this is the one for shopping light and grabbing a bite.
Located downtown, about 15 minutes’ drive from either central Miami or Miami Beach.
The biggest factory outlet location in South West Florida, Miromar Outlets in Estero has 140-odd brand name stores. Cookware and kids are well catered for here, but clothing is the main draw, with extra large Nike, Ralph Lauren and Saks Off 5thfactory shops among the retail attractions.
About 30 minutes’ drive north of Naples along the Tamiami Trail, or 25 minutes south from Fort Myers.
Part of the Forbes Company, Waterside Shops at Pelican Bay is like a scaled-down version of Orlando’s Mall at Millenia for the West Coast. A cool and spacious shopping experience at the slightly upscale end of the market.
Around 10 minutes’ drive north on the Tamiami Trail from central Naples.
Another branch of the Premium Outlets portfolio, Ellenton has 130 big brand outlet shops. Located in the Tampa Bay area, this is perfect for a bit of bargain hunting after the hitting the beach.
About 50 minutes drive from Tampa, and around half an hour from either St Petersburg or Sarasota.
Got any tips to add? Where in Florida have you found your best buys?


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American Idol pisses off gay, lesbian groups
by Anna Johns, posted Jan 23rd 2006 10:42AM
The season premiere of American Idol included a few questionable comments that have ticked off gay rights groups. The group, Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), is demanding to meet with Idol producers over two specific comments made by Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson. During one audition, Simon told a hopeful to "shave off your beard and wear a dress." I believe he added that the contestant would make an excellent female impersonator. The second comment came from Jackson, who asked an effeminate contestant named Zachary if he was a girl. Then, when Zachary left the auditions, the theme to The Crying Game was played. Neither contestant made it to the next round.


Wrightspeed gets a lot of love here at Gas2. Founded by Tesla Motors co-founder Ian Wright, the company is doing the same thing Tesla is doing — showing the world how to slash its carbon emissions — but in an entirely different market segment. While Tesla makes gorgeous passenger cars that rival the best from Mercedes and BMW, Wrightspeed concentrates on garbage trucks. The differences between the two approaches could not be more stark. They help explain why Wright walked away from Tesla to found his own company.
A truck made for hauling trash can weigh as much as 33 tons fully loaded. It may stop and start hundreds of times in a typical day. That burns a lot of fuel and puts a strain on brakes, transmissions, and engines. An all electric truck with a battery large enough to complete its daily rounds would eliminate carbon emissions, but Ian Wright says it would be so heavy, there would hardly be any capacity left over for hauling a payload.
So he designed a electric truck with about 30 miles of range and a gas turbine auxiliary engine that keeps the battery charged during the day. Running at constant speed, the turbine can be maximized for fuel economy and low emissions. In fact, it meets California’s strict emissions standards with no catalytic converter required.
This week in Las Vegas, Wrightspeed and Mack Trucks will demonstrate a trash truck at the annual Waste Expo show. Not nearly as fancy or glamorous as a Tesla, but the opportunities to cut carbon emissions from the transportation sector are actually greater with trucks than with automobiles. There are a lot more cars on the road, but heavy trucks create a disproportionate amount of carbon emissions. Diesel engines also add particulates and nitrous oxide emissions that contribute to smog and health issues.
Wrightspeed plans to enter regular production by the fall of this year. “Until now we’ve focused on re-power kits that would enable customers to do cost-effective updates to existing vehicles without having to purchase all new,” said CEO Ian Wright. “This program with Mack is our first installation with an OEM.” Wrightspeed is partnering with a New Zealand company to repower its bus fleet as well. The first of those installations are underway at present.
Roy Horton, director of product strategy for Mack Trucks, says. “We’re going to do internal testing first with this truck to evaluate it before potentially doing some customer testing later. We see the potential for cost-effectiveness in the Wrightspeed system.”
Although diesel fuel remains historically inexpensive today, tighter fuel economy and emissions regulations in the future will make diesels less appealing. Wright says that fuel savings combined with lower maintenance costs will pay for his system in 3 to 4 years. After that, they will pay significant dividends for fleet operators for the rest of a vehicle’s normal 12 year useful life.
Here’s one more factor to consider: Mack Trucks is now owned the Volvo Group, which does business in all the major markets around the world. Wright says his company already has a backlog of orders valued at $40 million. If the world of commercial vehicles becomes convinced that the Wrightspeed system is the key to a profitable, low-carbon future, that backlog could grow exponentially.
Update: A prior version of this story indicated that Mack Trucks is owned by Dong Feng of China. That statement was inaccurate. We regret the error.


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Malcolm MacGregor is a descendant of Scotland’s Clan MacGregor and a successful young businessman in Fort Worth, Texas. Alanza Cantalamessa works at a gourmet pizzeria owned by her Brazilian artist mother and her Italian Poppa. Both of them are smitten with each other but Malcolm is too reserved to do much more than make small talk—until a promotion at work that will send him away to Australia for six months. It’s December and he has to do something—fast. Praying about the situation, Malcolm decides to give her twelve gifts leading up to Christmas. Their families and friends think they are moving too fast. And a gold-digger who tossed Malcolm aside in the past has now decided he’s the man of her dreams. Can Malcolm and Alanza overcome their obstacles before he has to go abroad? Or is it really not meant to be?
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Multi-published, award-winning author Lena Nelson Dooley is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers, her local chapter in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, the Christian Authors’ Network, and Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas. Her forty-plus books have sold more than 875,000 copies. Lena’s books have appeared on the CBA, ECPA, and Publisher Weekly bestseller lists, as well as some Amazon bestseller lists. She also writes a popular blog, A Christian Writer’s World, that features other authors’ books. The blog received the Readers’ Choice Blog of the Year Award from the Book Club Network. Lena is a three-time finalist in the Carol Awards ACFW contest. Her 2010 release, Love Finds You in Golden, New Mexico, won the 2011 Will Rogers Medallion Award for excellence in publishing Western Fiction. Her next series, McKenna’s Daughters: Maggie’s Journey appeared on a reviewers’ Top Ten Books of 2011 list. It also won the 2012 Selah award for Historical Novel. The second, Mary’s Blessing, was a Selah Award finalist for Romance novel. Catherine’s Pursuit, released in 2013, was the winner of the NTRWA Carolyn Reader’s Choice contest, took second place in the CAN Golden Scroll Novel of the Year award, and won the Will Rogers Medallion bronze medallion. Her book, A Heart’s Gift, won RWA’s Faith, Hope, and Love Readers’ Choice Award in July 2017. Lena is also the host of The Lena Nelson Dooley Show on the Along Came a Writer blogtalk radio network. She has experience in screenwriting, acting, directing, and voice-overs, and currently serves on the board of directors of Higher Ground Films. She has been featured in Christian Fiction Online Magazine, ACFW Journal, Book Fun Magazine, Charisma Magazine, and Christian Retailing.

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My fiance and I have a small budget and decided to offer out guests Sticky Fingers (which for those of you who don’t know if a chain southern BBQ resturant) and we will be having BBQ sandwhiches, mac & cheese, potato salad, corn bread muffins, and cole slaw. When I say it out loud and type it up, it doesn’t seem like much. We can’t afford to do more but I can’t help but feel bad for not offering more.
Any one else with a similar menu? I know that most people have more than one meat option, it just wasn’t in the budget.
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Wow, that sounds pretty comprehensive to me. I don’t think you necessarily have to have more than that. The vegetarians can fill up with the sides. We haven’t decided on food but have thought about doing a fish fry since those are pretty popular in our area, and we have a lot of out of towners.
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- Wedding: September 2014 - Jacksonville Inn
I think it sounds like plenty! In all honesty I think an enormous amount of food is wasted at some weddings. So many brides seem concerned that their guests will go hungry that they have too much food and way too many options. As long as you have some way to address food allergies and vegetarians then everyone else should be fine. We are serving cheese, fruit and veggie platters for cocktail hour. Dinner will be a buffet of tri tip, salmon, pasta, green beans, salad and bread. So while we are having slightly more choices we are not offering an oversized feast where a lot of food will go to waste. We wanted very good quality food that is locally sourced and organic.
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I’d switch-out one of the 2 starches for a type of fruit, to keep it more balanced. I loveeee… fruit, but don’t eat meat.
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- Wedding: July 2015 - City Hall!
I think that sounds great! We want to do the same idea. A big BBQ cookout!
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+1. What about a side salad, also? I can’t imagine that it would add a huge expense. I try to eat healthy, as I’m sure some of your guests do, too. So, usually in that sort of setting, I would choose the protein (sans bun) and put it with whatever veggie or salad option was available. I wouldn’t be able to find anything in your menu that would allow me to do that, and probably just would not eat at all.
I always cringe a little when I go somewhere were the host is only offering super high cal, high carb and high fat options. Not everyone eats that way.
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I’m a pretty picky eater and I would have food to eat – mac & cheese and potato salad for sure, I’d sniff the corn muffin 😉 The only suggestion I would make is maybe a veggie tray or a side salad!
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I’d get rid of either the potato salad or coleslaw – both are very heavy, mayonnaise-laden dishes – and substitute a salad or fresh roasted veggies in its place. That’s a lot of really heavy food, and it would be nice to have something fresh to break it up a bit.
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Do your guests have any allergies? Some of those options are full of allergens. My brother, grandmother and great aunt would not be able to eat any of the food at your wedding because they are gluten intolerant.
If you have no guests with allergies coming to your wedding, then you should be good. I’d eat all of it but the potato salad.
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Thanks for the idea on the roasted potatos! That is a great idea! I did forget to mention we are having two cheese trays and two fruit and veggie trays as well.
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ours is sort of similar. We’re using Williamson Brothers BBQ which everyone raves about. Shredded pork or chicken, veggie burgers for the vegetarians & our sides will be mac n cheese & mashed potatoes. Price includes set up, clean up, table linens, sweet tea, unsweet tea, lemonade, & all paper products plus staff to make sure everything stays stocked. At the end of the night, they package it in to go containers if there’s leftovers & guests can take it home. It comes out to around $12 a person with taxes & tip.
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I would add some small things if you think it’s necessary. Baked or roasted potatoes (baked potatoes can be done in a crock pot, and a 10lb bag of potatoes is like $5), maybe a salad, which I can’t imagine would cost more than $5-8 to put together yourself with grocery store ingredients).

But otherwise that does sound really yummy!
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- Wedding: February 2015 - Chapel on Base
Cocktail hour we will have a make your own nacho bar.
Dinner is chicken, veggie, and potato with a side salad and bread. Vegetarians will have a pasta dish.
Cake and sweets/candy bar for dessert.
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Ours will be a sit down, and each guest has the option of a stuffing filled chicken breast or london broil. Either choice comes with a salad, and a roll. The kids we have invited (all family) will get chicken strips, fruit cup and fries. I may have a few vegetarians, so I have an accomodation for them as well, and our venue is easy with that stuff.
Dessert will be either cake or cupcakes, haven’t decided what flavor or the type yet though. That’s on next month’s list! But, we may have some hershey kisses around our centerpieces on each table – either milk chocolate or pumpkin spice (for the Fall theme!)
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Salivating at all these menus! I think your menu is fine, I’m a vegetarian and would be happy with the options, but I agree with some pp’s about maybe substituting the coleslaw or potato salad with something lighter, don’t get me wrong I love heavy comfort food, but maybe not so much at a wedding when I’m probably wearing a tight dress!
We’re having appetizers & cava(smoked salmon blinis & duck pate profiteroles)on arrival, followed by a sit-down meal of salmon mousse terrine with smoked trout & sushi nori for starter, rack of lamb with honey thyme sauce, potatoes & vegetables & vegetarian thai green curry with rice noodles & cashew nuts as meat free option for the main, & strawberry bavrois(like panacotta)with fresh strawberries, ice cream & a glass of dessert wine, so hard pleasing everyone and I only have 20 guests!

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However, Arsene Wenger attempting to influence Alexis Sanchez to remain at Arsenal.Arsenal have purportedly offered charm Alexis Sanchez a club-record £300,000-per-week contract in an offer to avoid enthusiasm from Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain.
"I opened the door for him at some stage as it's important for him to play but I don't want him to go", Wenger said at the post-match news conference.
But Wenger revealed after the dramatic clash that Giroud "decided to stay" at the Emirates and he is "really loved" at the club.
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live, Ornstein said: "It's very unlikely Arsenal will sign him now. He is focused and happy in the dressing room because we won the game".
Giroud had scored 12 Premier League goals in just 11 starts last season, but Lacazette was selected for Arsenal's opener and netted inside two minutes.
Craig Shakespeare's side boasted numerous players, and characteristics, that saw them shock the world to win the title in 2015/16.
Manu Vatuvei has shown his new United Kingdom fans exactly what he is capable of after scoring his first Super League try at home for the Salford Red Devils in his first ever game at the club's venue.
Or Jesus to save your season at Man City? He's not going to come back and hurt you.
'Previously in the Premier League we've not got off to the best of starts, so it meant a lot for us to get a good start and get three points today. "We had 27 attempts and they had three on target and three goals, but it's something we have to work on".
Liverpool attacker Philippe Coutinho is also linked to the La Liga giants but it is thought that Barcelona are prepared to claim both players.


Beyonce’s ‘Lemonade’ Led Global Album Sales in 2016
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Pregnant Beyonce has been given another reason to smile — her album Lemonade was the world’s biggest seller in 2016. The acclaimed release picked up 2.5 million sales globally, 100,000 more than second placed Adele’s 25, according to newly-released figures from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).
The experts’ ninth annual Global Music Report also reveals Drake, whose album Views was the third international bestseller, was the top-selling artist worldwide last year. His hit “One Dance” also topped the 2016 digital songs list with 12.5 million sales — 800,000 more than second placed Justin Bieber’s “Love Yourself.” Last year’s top 10 global albums, according to IFPI are: 1. Beyonce, Lemonade (2.5 million) 2. Adele, 25 (2.4 million) 3. Drake, Views (2.3 million) 4. Metallica, Hardwired… to Self-Destruct (2.1 million) 5. David Bowie, Blackstar (1.9 million) 6. The Rolling Stones, Blue & Lonesome (1.8 million) 7. Bruno Mars, 24k Magic (1.7 million) 8. Twenty One Pilots, Blurryface (1.5 million) 9. Coldplay, A Head Full of Dreams (1.4 million) 10. Pentatonix, A Pentatonix Christmas (1.4 million)
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As a homebuyer, you have a lot of decisions to make. What neighborhood should your family move to? Which home should you buy? And what features should it have?
Equally important, however, is the mortgage you choose. Before shaking hands on a deal, ask your lender these questions first:
What mortgage should I get?
A good mortgage lender should explain all the options available to you and recommend the one that best suits your circumstances. In general, mortgages can be classified as:
- Fixed-rate: Your interest rate never changes, meaning your mortgage bill remains the same from the very first to the very last payment.
- Variable-rate: This mortgage has a lower interest rate than a fixed-rate one, but it may increase or decrease depending on how the real estate market performs.
- Interest-only: You’ll pay only the interest at first, but you’ll have to make a lump-sum “balloon payment” for the entire balance at a specified time.
- Negative amortization: With this option, your lender agrees to defer a portion of your interest for a period of time.
What is the annual percentage rate?
Your mortgage will come with two different rates. The first is the standard interest rate, which tells you how much you’ll pay on top of the principal amount you borrowed. The annual percentage rate (APR), on the other hand, factors in the standard interest rate, tax-deductible discount points, and lender fees. While the APR will be higher than your standard interest rate, it’s a more accurate reflection of the true costs of borrowing money.
How big a down payment is required?
Ideally, you should have at least a 20% down payment set aside. Having a sizable down payment increases your chances of getting approved for a mortgage and it will save you money in the long run (the less money you borrow, the less interest you’ll have to pay). That said, you can get a mortgage with just a 3% down payment if you have a good credit score, but you’ll have to take out private mortgage insurance. You’ll have to pay this additional cost until you reach the ideal 80-20 loan-to-value ratio.
What are the associated costs?
When you apply for a mortgage, you might be surprised to find a list of services not directly related to financing your home. These items are part of the lender’s due diligence, in which they verify your creditworthiness and the viability of the property you wish to buy. These might include fees for things like credit reports, appraisals, title search, escrow costs, and the like. Ask your mortgage lender about these related costs before signing anything to avoid sticker shock. Request a loan estimate form after completing your mortgage application—it should include an itemized list of all these fees.
How soon can I get my loan approved?
Homes for sale in Sandy Springs, GA are in high demand, and who clinches the property often comes down to who gets financing first. After all, you must indicate a closing date on the purchase contract and your mortgage should be approved by then. It typically takes 43 days to get a home loan approved, but you can secure pre-approval first to boost your chances of scoring your dream home as you finalize your mortgage.
How much will my total monthly payment be?
Knowing your monthly mortgage bill makes it easier to budget your household’s finances. At the bare minimum, it will include your principal and interest payments. However, most lenders will require you to set up an escrow account where you will make monthly contributions towards your property taxes, homeowners insurance, and private mortgage insurance. If your neighborhood collects a homeowners association fee, factor that into the final tally as well. Use the acronym PITIA to help you remember what comprises your monthly housing payments: Principal, Interest, Taxes, Insurance, Association fees.
Are there prepayment penalties?
Thinking of paying a little more than your stated monthly mortgage bill? Your lender might penalize you for doing so. The earlier you pay off your mortgage, the lower the interest payments your lender collects, so they apply a prepayment penalty to make up for the loss. Occasionally making extra payments won’t trigger the penalty, but consistently doing so will. Before signing on for a mortgage, ask your lender if they levy such a penalty. If you’re really keen on putting any extra cash towards your mortgage, choose a home loan that has no prepayment penalty instead.

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Fundamental Considerations When Borrowing A Home Loan
The process of buying a home demands a lot and as such you need to be ready for all the preparations that come about with it. Another the thing you look at is the location of the neighborhood where the house is located among other several factors. Due to the multiple number considerations and the heavy financial needs that a house requires, most banks and financial lending institutions have come up with home equity loans which assist the buyer to acquire a home.
Mortgages have contributed to increased number of people owning homes in the country because of the financial help it has brought. A mortgage is a long term loan which you pay for at an agreed interest rate to your lender over a period, most home loans are long term. Since a mortgage is a financial burden that you will bear for a long period of time, it is important for you to make a good appropriate decision before deciding to take it. A mortgage with a high-interest rate is likely to be cumbersome for you when paying it, therefore when hunting for a mortgage lender, it is vital to go for those who charge less. Some lenders are better financially placed in offering funds for loans than others, as a borrower, it is good to check for one that is licensed, legally operating and financially liquid.
A positive credit worthiness report is paramount if you are to get a mortgage, as a borrower, you should thus ensure it is accurate and free from any errors that might prejudice you being given the loan. Some lenders have more favorable rates than others, and therefore you should do your research to see which is the best option for you. Different financial institutions have different terms of mortgage repayment, and you should get information about each of them and make a decision on the most favorable one, it is vital that you get some information on issues such as the fees, the principal and the interest payments and the like.
Making sure you have the requirements for a home loan is advantageous in that it will keep you above other buyers who may want the same and this will ensure you get your home loan quicker.
One of the advantages of a home loan is that the interest is tax deductible and as such you will not pay tax for the interest you are paying. A mortgage enables you to buy a home which increases your stability, and it will give you a chance of getting even other loans from the banks. As you gradually pay the mortgage, your ownership stake in the house in also rising, this is beneficial in that you will finally become the owner of the house.


text: The sub-title- U.S. Moral Leadership and the Problem of Racial Minrities gives a clue to the thesis of this tract for the times. It is that unless America makes greater progress in solving its race problems she is in danger of forfeiting her right to moral leadership in the world. Mr. La Farge claims that the high moral stand taken by the American representatives in the Commission on Human Rights of the United Nations will be interpreted as insincere and hypocritical unless we take more radical steps immediately to correct the injustices under which Negroes and other minority groups must live. As a leading Catholic, La Farge writes for Catholics and stresses the part played by the Catholic Church through its parishes, institutions and inter-racial councils. But the book is a ringing call for immediate action to be taken by all faiths. Predominantly for the religious book market.


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Writings of T. Adolphus Trollope
“ I AM indebted to you for a knowledge of life in the old cathedral towns of England,—of the ecclesiastical side of society, so minute and authentic that it is like a personal experience.” Thus I replied to Anthony Trollope’s declaration that he lacked an essential quality of the novelist,— imagination. “ Ah,” he replied, “when you speak of careful observation and the honest and thorough report thereof, I am conscious of fidelity to the facts of life and character ; but,” he added, with that bluff heartiness so characteristic of the man, “my brother is more than an accurate observer : he is a scholar, a philosopher as well, with historical tastes and cosmopolitan sympathies, — a patient student. You should read his books ” ; — and he snatched a pencil, and wrote out the list for me.1 Only two of Thomas Adolphus Trollope’s volumes have been republished in this country,— one a novel of English life, in tenor and traits very like his brother’s, the other a brief memoir of a famous and fair Italian.2 This curious neglect on the part of American publishers induces us to briefly record this industrious and interesting author’s claims to grateful recognition, especially on the part of those who cherish fond recollections of Italian travel, and enjoy the sympathetic and intelligent illustration of Italian life and history.
In a literary point of view “ An Englishman in Italy,” in the last century, would be suggestive of a classical tour like that of Addison and Eustace, — a field of study and speculation quite apart from the people of the country, who, except for purposes of deprecatory contrast, would probably be ignored ; and, in our own times, the idea is rather identified with caricature than sympathy,— we associate these insular travellers with exclusiveness and prejudice. As a general rule, they know little and care less for the fellow-creatures among whom they sojourn, holding themselves aloof, incapable of genial relations, and owning no guide to foreign knowledge but Murray and the Times. Farce and romance have long made capital out of this obtuse and impervious nationality ; and it is the more refreshing, because of the general rule, to note a noble exception, — to see an Englishman, highly educated, studious, domestic, and patriotic, yet dwelling in Italy, not to despise and ignore, but to interpret and endear the country and people, — making his hospitable dwelling, with all its Italian trophies and traits, the favorite rendezvous for the best of his countrymen and the native society, — there discussing the principles and prospects of civic reform, doing honor to men of genius and aspiration, irrespective of race, — blending in his salon the scholarly talk of Landor with the fervid pleas of “Young Italy,” giving equal welcome to English radical, Piedmontese patriot, American humanitarian, and Tuscan dilettante, — and thus, as it were, recognizing the free and faithful spirit of modern progress and brotherhood amid the old armor, bridal chests, parchment tomes, quaintly carved chairs, and other mediaeval relics of a Florentine palazzo.
But this cosmopolitan candor, so rare as a social phenomenon among the English in Italy, is no less characteristic of Adolphus Trollope as a writer. As he entertained, in his pleasant, antique reception-room or garden-terrace, disciples of Cavour, of Mazzini, and of Gioberti, with men and women of varied genius and opposite convictions from England and the United States, extending kindly tolerance or catholic sympathy to all, so he sought, in the history of the past and the facts of the present in the land of his love and adoption, evidences of her vital worth and auspicious destiny. Long residence abroad liberalized, and long study enriched, a mind singularly just in its appreciation, and a heart naturally kind and expansive. All his friends recognize in Adolphus Trollope that rare union of rectitude and reflection which constitutes the genuine philosopher. Mrs. Browning aptly called him Aristides. Thus living in the atmosphere of broad social instincts, and sharing the literary faculty and facility of his family, this Englishman in Italy set himself deliberately to study the country of his sojourn, in her records, local memorials, and social life, and, having so studied, to reproduce and illustrate the knowledge thus gleaned, with the fidelity of an annalist and the tact of a raconteur. It was a noble and pleasant task, and has been nobly and pleasantly fulfilled. Let us note its chief results, and honor the industry, truth, and humane wisdom manifest therein.
The range of Mr. Trollope’s investigations may be appreciated by the fact that, while he is the author of “A History of Florence from the Earliest Independence of the Commune to the Fall of the Republic in 1531,” he has also given to the press the most clear and reliable account of the revolution of our own day, under the title of “Tuscany in 1849”; thus supplying the two chronicles of the past and the present which together reveal the origin, development, and character of the state and its people. In the Preface to the former work he suggests this vital connection between the ancient republic and the modern city. “ It contains,” he observes, “ such an exposition of the old Guelph community as sufficiently demonstrates the fitness of this culmination of the grand old city’s fortunes.” It is this liberal and comprehensive tone, this “looking before and after,” which, united to careful research and patient narration, renders the author so well equipped and inspired for his task. He has brought together the essential social and political facts of the past, and, associating them with local traits and transitions, enabled us to realize the rise, progress, and alternations of the Italian state, as it is next to impossible for the Anglo-Saxon reader to do while exploring the partial, prejudiced, and complicated annals of the native historians. This is a needful, a timely, and a gracious service, for which every intelligent and sympathetic traveller who has learned to love the Tuscan capital, and grown bewildered over the complex story of her civil strifes, will feel grateful, while his obligations are renewed by the moderate but candid statement of those later movements, which, culminating in a childlike triumph, were followed by a reaction whose hopelessness was more apparent than real, and has subsequently proved an auspicious trial and training for the discipline and privileges of constitutional liberty.
The “History of Florence” is remarkable for the skilful method whereby the author has arranged, in luminous sequence, a long and confused series of political events. He has confined his narrative to the essential points of an intricate subject, omitting what is of mere casual or local interest, and aiming to elucidate the civic growth of the little city on the banks of the Arno. It is an admirable illustration of the conservative principles of free municipal institutions in the Middle Ages, notwithstanding their limited sway and frequent perversion. There is no attempt at rhetorical display, but great precision and authenticity of statement, and a conscientious citation of authorities ; the style often lapses into colloquial freedom, not inappropriate to the familiar discussion of some of the curious details involved in the theme ; and there are episodes of judicious and philosophical comment, with apt historical parallels, not a few ot which come home to our recent national experience. The author’s previous studies in Italian history, and intimate familiarity with the scene of his chronicle, give him a grasp and an insight which render his treatment at once thorough, sensible, and facile. But it is upon the more special subjects of Italian history that Mr. Trollope has expended his time and talents to the best advantage, — subjects chosen with singular judgment and imbued with fresh local and personal interest.
The scope and method of these historical studies are such as at once to embody and illustrate what is normally characteristic in time, place, and individual, while completeness of treatment is secured, and a person and period made suggestive of a comprehensive historical subject. Thus in “The Girlhood of Catharine de’ Medici ” we have the key to her mature and relentless bigotry, the logical origin of the massacre of St. Bartholomew, while, at the same time, the discipline of a convent and the intrigues of a ruling family in the Middle Ages are elaborately unfolded. Grouped around and associated with so remarkable an historical woman, they have a definite significance to the modern reader, otherwise unattainable; the Palazzo Medici, the Convents of St. Mark, Santa Lucia, and Murate, become scenes of personal interest; the Cardinal Clement and Alessandro, in their relation to the young Catharine, grow more real in their subtlety, family ambitions, and unscrupulous tyranny ; and the surroundings, superstition, fanaticism, and domestic despotism which attended the forlorn girl until she became the wife of Henry of France, explain her subsequent career and execrated memory. Incidentally the life of mediaeval Tuscany is also revealed with authentic emphasis. In “Paul the Pope and Paul the Friar,” all the singular circumstances whereby a priest of Rome became the instrument of striking the first effectual blow at her absolute spiritual dominion are narrated with precision and tact. The prolonged quarrel between the Vatican and the Republic of Venice, the ecclesiastical and civic power, then opened the way to human freedom, and Sarpi is truly exhibited as the pioneer reformer. His liberal studies, foreign friends, and independent and intrepid mind rendered him admirably fitted for the task he undertook, and the Papal government only added infamy to despotism by the baffled attempt to assassinate him. It is difficult to imagine a better introduction to the subsequent history of free thought and spiritual emancipation, which culminated in the Reformation, than this biographical sketch, where a great historical development is made clear and dramatic by the carefully told story of the lives of the two chief actors and agents therein.
There is a power in the state, unofficial, but essential, and therefore more intimately blended with its welfare and identified with its fortunes than pope, emperor, or prince, — and that is the Banker. Even in modern times the life of such a financier as Lafitte is part of the social and political history of France ; but in mediaeval times, when “the sinews of war” and the wages of corruption so often turned the scale of ambition and success, the rich bankers of the Italian cities were among the most efficient of their social forces and fame. In writing the memoirs of Filippo Strozzi, Mr. Trollope struck the key-note of local associations in the Tuscan capital. The least observant or retrospective stranger is impressed with the sight of the massive walls and grated windows of the Strozzi Palace, and is attracted by such a monument of the past to the story of its founder. A standard drama and novel were long since made to illustrate those annals,3 but it was reserved for an Englishman in Italy to record, in a well - digested and authentic narrative, the career of Filippo, whose immense wealth, marriage to a Medici, family ambition, scholarship, political and social distinction, enterprise, and luxury, and especially his financial relations with both rulers and ruled, make him one of those central figures of an historic group that serve as expositors of the time. He was indeed, by his accomplishments and his profligacy, his intrigues and associations, his alliances and enmities, his domestic and his political life, a representative man, whose character and career aptly embody and illustrate a most stirring era of European and Italian history. He escorted Catharine de’ Medici on her bridal journey from Florence, talked philosophy at Medicean banquets, was closeted with popes and kings, was the boon companion of reigning dukes, a courtier to princes and people, a magnificent entertainer, a fugitive, exile, prisoner, sceptic, scholar, and suicide, — typifying in his life the luxury and lawlessness, the culture and the crime, the splendor and the degradation, the manners and morals, of his country and his age,— and hence a most instructive biographical study, which Mr. Trollope has treated with equal fulness, insight, and authenticity.
But the most felicitous of the series is the “ Decade of Italian Women.” The idea of this work is worthy of a philosopher, and its execution, of a humane scholar. It has long been an accepted theory, that, to understand the talent and pervasive spirit of an age or country, we must look to the influence and character of the women. A subtile social atmosphere exhales from their presence and power in the state and the family; and the dominant elements of faith, as well as the tone of manners and the tendencies of character, find in the best endowed and most auspiciously situated of the sex, an embodiment and inspiration which are the most authentic, because the most instinctive, test and trait of the life of the time. Shakespeare has, with exquisite insight and memorable skill, illustrated this representative function of woman by creating types of female character which, while they modify and mould persons and events, preserve intact their essential quality' of sex, and yet represent none the less the spirit and manners of their respective epochs. Scott has done the same thing in an historical direction, that Shakespeare realized in a psychological way. We regard it, therefore, as a most judicious experiment to indicate the characteristics of mediaeval Italy by delineating her representative women. They inevitably lead us to the heart of things, — to the palace, the convent, the court, the vigil of battle, and the triumph of art. — to the loves of warrior, statesman, and priest, — to the inmost domestic shrine, — to the festival and the funeral; and all this we behold, not objectively, but through our vivid interest in a noble, persecuted, saintly, impassioned, or gifted woman, and thus partake, as it were, of the life of the age, realize its inspiration, recognize its meaning, in a manner and to a degree impossible to be derived from the formal narrative of events, without a central figure or a consecutive life which serves as a nucleus and a link, giving vital unity and personal significance to the whole.
The period of time embraced in these female biographies extends from the birth of St. Catherine of Siena, in 1347, to the death of the celebrated improvvisatrice Corilla, in 1800. With the career of each is identified a salient phase of Italian history, manners, or character; incident to the experience of all are special localities, political and social conditions, relations of art, of faith, of culture, of rule, and of morals, whereby we obtain the most desirable glimpses of the actual life and latent tendencies of Italy, considered as the focus of European civilization. We gaze upon a woman’s portrait, but beyond, beside, and around her are the warriors, statesmen, prelates, poets, and people of her time. Through her triumphs and trials, her renown or degradation, her love, ambition, sorrows, virtues, or sins, we feel, as well as see. the vital facts of her age and country. Nor is this all : each character is not only full of interest in itself, but is essentially typical and representative. Thus we have the fair saint of the Middle Ages, the energetic and sagacious ruler, the gracious reformer, the artist, the near kinswoman of prince or ecclesiastic, the poetess, the châtelaine, the nun, the profligate, the powerful, the beautiful, and the base, —all the forms and forces of womanly influence as modified by the life of the time and country. They move before us a grand procession, now awakening admiration and now pity, here ravishing in beauty or genius and there forlorn in disaster or disgrace, yet always bearing with them the strong individuality and attractive expression which, to the imagination, so easily transforms the heroines of history into the ideals of the drama, or the characters of romance. And yet in these delineations the author has indulged in no rhetorical embellishments : he has arrived simply, and sometimes sternly, at the clear statement of facts, and left them to convey their legitimate impression to the reader’s mind. The lives of many of these women have been written before, some of them elaborately ; but they are here grouped and contrasted as illustrative of national life, and hence gain a fresh charm and suggestiveness, especially as the fruits of research and the method of a disciplined raconteur are blent with the light and life of personal observation as to scenes and memorials, —the land where they once dwelt, its natural aspect and ancient trophies, being fondly familiar to the biographer. Eloquent memoirs of female sovereigns have become popular through the genial labors of Agnes Strickland and Mrs. Jameson, while Shakespeare’s women furnish a perpetual challenge to psychological critics ; but the “ Decade of Italian Women ” has a certain unity of aim and relative interest which makes it, as a literary record, analogous to a complete, though limited, gallery of family portraits, inasmuch as, however diverse the characters, they own a common bond of race and nationality, and are memorable exemplars thereof. First in the list is Catherine of Siena, the Saint, — an accurate mediaeval religious delineation which all who have visited the old city where her relics are preserved and her name reverenced will value. Then we have Catherine Sforza,—the fair representative of one of those powerful and princely families whose history is that of the state they rule. Next comes the noblest and most gifted woman of the Middle Ages, the friend of Michel Angelo, the ideal of a wife, and a lady of culture, genius, and patriotism,—Vittoria Colonna. The Bishop of Palermo’s illegitimate daughter — a famous poetess, Tullia d’ Arragona — precedes the learned, pure, intrepid Protestant, Olimpia Morata, who takes us to the court of Ferrara in its palmy days, to show how like a star that dwells apart” is a woman of rectitude and wisdom and faith amid the shallow, the sensual, and the bigoted. The renowned Paduan actress, Isabella Adrieni, gives us a striking illustration of the influence, traits, and triumphs of histrionic genius in Italy of old; while among the prone towers and gloomy arcades of Bologna we become intimate with the chaste and charming aspirations and skill of Elisabetta Sirani, whose pencil was the pride of the city, and whose character hallows her genius. Of La Corilla it is enough to say, that she was the original of Madame de Staël’s “ Corinne ” ; and no woman could have been more wisely selected to represent the fascination, subtlety, force of purpose, ambition, resources, passion, and external success of an unprincipled patrician Italian beauty of the Middle Ages than Bianca Capello.
With such a basis of research it is easy to infer how authentic, as a picture of life, would be the superstructure of romantic fiction by an author adequately equipped. Accordingly, the Italian novels of Thomas Adolphus Trollope are most accurate and detailed reflections of local characteristics ; they are full of special information ; and, while they enlighten the novice as to the domestic economy, habits, ways of thinking, costume, and social traditions of the people, they revive, with singular freshness, to the mind of one who has sojourned in Italy, every particular of his experience, — not only the corso, the opera, and the carnival, but the meals, the phraseology, the household arrangements, — all that is most individual in a district, with all that is most general as nationally representative. Indeed, not a fact or trait of modern Tuscan life seems to have escaped the author’s vigilant observation and patient record ; the life of the effete noble, the frugal citizen, the shrewd broker, the pampered ecclesiastic, the peasant, and the artist is revealed with the most precise and graphic detail. We are taken to the promenade and the caffè, to the piazza and the church, to the farm-house and the palazzo; and there we see and hear the actual everyday intercourse of the people. The Tuscan character is drawn to the life, without exaggeration, and even in its more evanescent, as well as normal traits ; its urbanity, gossip, thrift, geniality, sell-indulgence, and latent courage are admirably delineated ; its superior refinement, sobriety, love of show, and class peculiarities are truly given ; the old feudal manners that linger in modern civilization are accounted for and illustrated, especially in the relation of dependants “occupying every shade of gradation between a common servant and a bosom friend.” The author’s ecclesiastic portraits are as exact, according to our observation, as his brother’s. Each class of Italian priests is portrayed with discrimination, and no writer has better exemplified the paralyzing and perverting influence of Romanism upon the integrity of domestic life, and the purity and power of political aspirations. The women, too, are typical,— remarkably free from fanciful embellishment, eloquent of race, instinct with nature. Their limited culture, social prejudices, artless charms, frugal lives, naive or reticent characters, as modified by town and country, patrician or popular influences, we recognize at once as identical with what we have known in the households or social circles of Florence. Mr. Trollope, in all this, is a Flemish artist, and, as much of the interest of his pictures depends on their truthfulness, perhaps they are really appreciated only by those who have enjoyed adequate opportunities of becoming intimate with the original scenes, situations, and personages depicted. In the fidelity of his art he abstains from all attempts at brilliancy, and ignores the intense and highly dramatic, finding enough of wholesome interest in the real life around him, and well satisfied to reproduce it with candor and sympathy; now and then indulging in a philosophical suggestion or a judicious comment, and thus gradually, but securely, winning the grateful recognition of his reader.
“La Beata” as completely takes those familiar with its scene into the life and moral atmosphere of Florence, as does “ The Vicar of Wakefield ” into the rural life of England before the days of railways and cheap journalism. The streets, the dwellings, the people and incidents are so truly described, the perspective is so correct, and the foreground so elaborate, that, with the faithful local coloring and naive truth of the characters, we seem, as we read, to be lost in a retrospective dream, — the more so as there is an utter absence of the sensational and rhetorical in the style, which is that of direct and unpretending narrative. The heroine is a saintly model, though at the same time a thoroughly human girl, — such a one as the artistic, superstitious, frugal, and simple experience of her class and of the place could alone have fostered; the artist-hero is no less characteristic,— a selfish, clever, amiable, ambitious, and superficial Italian; while the old wax-candle manufacturer, with his domicile, daughter, and church relations, is a genuine Florentine of his kind. The life of the studio, then and there, is drawn from reality. The peculiar and traditional customs, social experience, church ceremonials, popular fêtes, home and heart life, have a minute fidelity which renders the picture vivid and winsome to one who well knows and wisely loves the Tuscan capital. An English family delineated without the least exaggeration, and with the striking contrasts such visitors always present to the native scene and people of Italy, adds to and emphasizes the salient traits of the story. Among the subjects described and illustrated with remarkable tact and truth is that most interesting charitable fraternity, the Misericordia, of which every stranger in Florence has caught impressive glimpses, but of whose social influence and real significance few are aware. Add to this the description of Camaldoli, with its famous pines, its Dantesque associations, and its remorseful convent, and we have a scope and detail in the scene and spirit of this little local romance which concentrate the points of interest in Florentine life and bring into view all that is most familiar and characteristic in the place and people. We see the gay boats on St. John’s eve from the bridges of the Arno, the procession of the black Madonna, the interior of the studios, the ceremonies, the saintly traffic and social subterfuge and naive manners, — the tradesman, painter, devotee, priest, — pride, piety, and passion,—whereof even the casual observation of a traveller’s sojourn had given us so curious or attractive an idea, that, thus expanded and defined, they seem like a personal experience. There is singular pathos in the character and career of La Beata, as there is in the expression of Santa Filomena for which she was the recognized and inspired model. The integrity of her sentiment is as Southern - European as is her lover’s falsehood and voluntary expiation. That absolute ignorance of the world and childlike trust, which we rarely meet except in Shakespeare’s women, is a moral fact of which the stranger in Italy, who has grown intimate with families of the middle class, is cognizant, and which he is apt to recall as one of those elemental and primitive phases of human nature which justify the most pure and plaintive creations of the poet. Herein the author has shown an insight as honest and suggestive as his keen and patient observation and candid record thereof.
“ Marietta ” is the genuine embodiment of that local attachment and ancestral pride so remarkable in the mediaeval Florentines, and still manifest in an exceptional class of their de-. scendants. The modern life of a decayed branch of the Tuscan nobility in the nineteenth century, the process and method of its decadence, the charm of “a local habitation and a name,” once identified with the vital power of the old republic, and the sad, effeminate, yet not unromantic sentiment incident to its passing away, through the prosperous encroachments of new men, with whom money is the power once only attached to birth, are most aptly described. The thrifty farmer of the Apennine, and his slow and handsome son, are capital types of the frugal and shrewd fattore and rustic proprietor of Tuscany; and his more astute and polished brother is equally typical of the old money-lender and goldsmith of the Ponte Vecchio. Simon Boccanera well represents the tasteful artificer of Florence, and the Gobbo the feudal devotee, whose political faith has been expanded by French ideas. In the bon vivant, the amateur musician, theamiable and easy Canonico Lunardi, what a true portrait of the priestly epicure, the self-indulgent but kindly churchman of the most urbane of Italian communities, and in the Canon of San Lorenzo, how faithful a picture of the elegant and unscrupulous aspirant and intriguer! The two girls of the story are veritable specimens, in looks, dress, talk, domestic aspect and aptitudes, not only of Italian maidenhood, but of that of the state and city of their birth, — such maidens as are only encountered on the banks of the Arno. This pleasant story takes us into one of those massive old Florentine palaces, with its lofty loggia overlooking mountain, river, olive orchard and vineyard, dome and tower,—its adjacent church with the family chapel and ancestral effigies, — its several floors let out as lodgings,— its heavy portal, storue staircase, faded frescos, barred windows, paved courtyard, moss-grown statues, and damp green garden. We recognize the familiar elements of the local life, — the frugal dinner, the wine flask, the coalbrazier, the antique lamp, the violin, the snuff-box, the ample coarse cloak, the frugality, bonhommie, shrewdness, proverbs, greetings, grace, cheerfulness, chat, rural and city traits, prejudices, pride, and pleasantness of Tuscan life and character. These all appear in suggestive contrast, and with accurate detail, woven into a tale which breathes the very atmosphere of the place.
“ Giulio Malatesta,” on the other hand, opens with distinctive glimpses of an old Italian university town ; initiates us into the prolonged and patient political conspiracies of Romagna and the ideal hopes of Gioberti’s disciples. Its hero is a student at Pisa, and one of the brave champions of Italy who led the Tuscan volunteers to patriotic martyrdom, in 1848, at Curtone. Nowhere have we read so graceful and graphic a picture of that noble episode in the history of Tuscany, which redeemed her character and proved the latent manliness of her children. There is a touching similarity between the description of the march of the Corpo Universitario from Pisa to the Mincio, — the fight at the mill, and the death of the generous and lovely boy, Enrico Palmieri, — and recent scenes in our own civil war, wherein appeared the same youthful enthusiasm and utter inexperience, the same hardships and fortitude, valor and faith. In striking contrast with these scenes of battle and self-sacrifice, including the tragic incidents attending the third anniversary of the Tuscan martyrs in the church of Santa Croce at Florence, three years later, are the episodes of fashionable and carnival life in that delightful capital. The Cascine and the Pergola are reproduced with all their gay life and license ; the Contessa Zenobia and her cavalier servente, so comical, yet true, are but slight exaggerations of what many of us have witnessed and wondered at. Provincial and conventual life in Italy is photographed in this story ; fresh forms and phases of the ecclesiastical element are incarnated from careful observation ; and the political feeling, faith, and transitions of the period are vividly illustrated. Carlo, the young noble, is a true portrait of the kindly, genial, but shallow and pleasure-seeking Florentine youth of the day, such as we have loitered with on the promenade and chatted beside at the Caffè Doney, — without convictions, playful, always half in love, with a little stock of philosophy and a lesser one of religion, yet alert to do a kindness,—full of tact, charming in manner, tasteful and tolerant, with no higher aim than being agreeable and ignoring care, — impatient of duty, fond of pastime, utterly incapable of giving pain or attempting hard work. His friend Giulio Malatesta, on the other hand, adequately personifies the earnest, thoughtful, and patriotic Italian, to whom Viva l’ Italia ! means something, — who is ready to suffer for his country, and who knows her poets by heart, believes in her unity, and has boundless faith in her future. Francesca Varini is described with an exactitude which defines her peculiar charms and traits to any reader who has fondly noted the modifications of female beauty and character incident to race and locality in Italy; and old Marta Varini is such a stoical, acute, and persistent woman as signalized the days of the Carbonari ; while Stella and Madalina are local heroines with characteristic national traits.
In “Beppo the Conscript ” we are transported to “ the narrow strip of territory shut in between the Apennines and the Adriatic, to the south of Bologna and the north of Ancona,” where European civilization once centred, Tasso sung and raved, and the Dukes of Urbino flourished. But not to revive their past glories are we beguiled to the decayed old city of Fano, and the umbrageous valleys that nestle amid the surrounding hills ; it is the normal, primitive, agricultural life and economy of the region, and the late political and social condition of the inhabitants, which this story illustrates. The means and methods of rural toil, — the “ wine, corn, and oil ” of Scriptural and Virgilian times ; the avarice, the pride, the love, the industry, and the superstition of the Contadini of the Romagna; a household of prosperous rustics, their ways and traits ; and the subtle and prevailing agency of priestcraft in its secret opposition to the new and liberal Italian government,— are all exhibited with a quiet zest and a graphic fidelity which take us into the heart of the people, and the arcana, as well as the spectacle, of daily life as there latent and manifest. The domestic, peasant, and provincial scenes and characters are drawn with fresh and natural colors and faithful outlines.
The scene of the last-published domestic novel4 of the series is laid at Siena ; and, although the story is based upon one of those impassioned tragedies of love and jealousy which can only be found in the family chronicles of Italy, the still-life, social phases, and local traits of the romance are delineated with the same quiet simplicity and graphic truth which constitute the authenticity of the author’s previous delineations of modern Italian life. The grave, conservative, and old-fashioned Tuscan city reappears, with its mediaeval aspect and traditional customs. Convent education, the homes of the patrician and the citizen, the little gig of the fattore, with the small, wiry ponies of the region, the local antiquarian and doctor, the letter-carrier, familyservant, lady-superior, pharmacist, the noble and plebeian, the costumes, phrases, and natural language characteristic of that non-commercial and isolated Tuscan city before the days of railroads and annexation, are drawn with emphasis and significant detail. Shades and causes of character are finely discriminated; the old mediæval festa peculiar to Siena, with all its original features and social phenomena, is vividly enacted in the elaborate description of the “ Palio ” on the 15th of August; while the insalubrious and picturesque Maremma is portrayed, from the Etruscan crypts of the ravines to the desolate streets of Savona, by an artistic and philosophic hand. Incidentally the solidarity of families and the antagonism of contrade, dating from the Middle Ages, are defined in explanation of modern traits. We pace the bastions of the fortress built by Cosmo de’ Medici for “ the subjection of his newly conquered subjects ” ; we haunt the cabinet of a numismatic enthusiast, and the forlorn palace-chamber of a baffled and beautiful scion of the old, fierce Orsini race ; we overhear the peasants talk, and watch the exquisite gradations of color at sunset on the adjacent mountains, across the lonely plains, or gaze down upon St. Catherine’s house in the dyers’ quarter, and muse in deserted church, urban garden, and precipitous street, consciously alive the while to the aspect and atmosphere, not only of the Siena we have visited or imagined, but of mediaeval Tuscany, and its language and life of to-day, as they are incidentally reflected in the experience of a few distinctly individualized and harmoniously developed characters,— true to race, period, and locality, and far more complete and authentic, as a record and revelation, than dry annals on the one hand, or superficial travel-sketches on the other.
The justice which these writings display, in revealing the latent goodness in things evil, the instinctive and spiritual graces as well as the social perversions of the Italian character, is quite as refreshing as the correct observation of external traits and the true record of historical causes. A generous and intelligent sympathy imparts “a precious seeing to the eye” of the agreeable story-teller, who has thus patiently and fondly explored the past, delineated the present, and hailed the future of Italy, in a spirit of liberal wisdom and true humanity.
- A History of Florence, in four volumes; Paul the Pope and Paul the Friar; Filippo Strozzi; The Girlhood of Catharine de’ Medici; A Decade of Italian Women ; Tuscany in 1849; La Beata; Marietta; Giulio Malatesta ; Beppo the Conscript. London : Chapman and Hall. 18561865.↩
- Lindisfarn Chase. Harper and Brothers, 1863, Life if Vittoria Colonna. Sheldon & Co., 1859.↩
- Filippo Strozzi, Tragedia par G. B. Niccolini. Luisa Strozzi, Romanzo par G. Rossini.↩
- Gemma. A Novel in three volumes. London : Chapman and Hall. 1866.↩


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IN the same month he completed an ambitious fund-raising swim, Soham youngster Liam Fairhurst won £50,000 for a children s cancer charity on a new television show. In the first of new ITV show Million Pound Give-away, 11-year-old Liam, who finished trea
IN the same month he completed an ambitious fund-raising swim, Soham youngster Liam Fairhurst won £50,000 for a children's cancer charity on a new television show.
In the first of new ITV show Million Pound Give-away, 11-year-old Liam, who finished treatment for cancer a year ago, gave an emotional pitch to a panel of millionaires to secure funding for a new holiday home for children with cancer, run by the CLIC Sargent charity.
Liam's appearance on the show, which was filmed on December 13 and screened on Tuesday, preceded his ambitious swim on December 22. He swam 64 25-metre lengths of the pool at Cambridge's Next Generation gym.
"We raised £13,500 during the swim and with tax relief and the money from the show, the total comes to about £64,000," said Liam.
The £50,000, given by millionaire panellists on the ITV show, including novelist Jeffrey Archer and entrepreneur Duncan Bannatyne, will go towards funding a three-bedroom, fully-equipped, luxury caravan in Filey, Yorkshire.
Liam's efforts are in memory of his friend Jack Wilkinson, who lost his
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battle to bladder cancer in August 2006, age 12.
Mark Fairhurst, Liam's father, said: "Appearing on this show has been the icing on the cake for Liam, who has personally worked hard to raise over £13,000 for CLIC Sargent since his friend Jack lost his battle with cancer last year.
"Jack and Liam became very good friends while undergoing treatment at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge - being of a similar age they were able to support each through their long and difficult journey.
"Jack's death has been devastating for Liam and at least now he has something tangible in his memory."
Len Collingwood, holiday services manager at CLIC Sargent, said: "Holidays are a vital part of what we do and the difference they can make to a family's life is invaluable.
"We are so grateful to Liam, because of his courage and determination many more children with cancer and their families will benefit."
- Tickets are still on sale for Matt Shaw's The Meat Loaf Show benefit gig in aid of the CLIC Sargent charity, which is at The Junction, Cambridge.
The concert was postponed due to illness, but Matt Shaw and his band The Neverland Nemesis have confirmed they will perform on January 24.
It is hoped that the concert will also see appearances from footballer Lee Sharpe, Mylene Klass and Michelle Gayle, and the evening will be compered by Julian Bennett, fashion guru of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy UK.
Special ticket prices are available for advance bookings, including a student rate of £6.40 (with a valid NUS card), family of four tickets for £25, and a special rate of £5 to people who have already donated to the Liam's Mile campaign. Standard tickets are £8.50 in advance and £10 on the door. Tickets are available on 01223 511511.
INFO: For further information about CLIC Sargent please log on to www.clicsargent.org.uk or call 0845 120 44 42. For more information about Liam's fund-raising efforts for CLIC Sargent please log on to www.justgiving.com/liamsmile


There are probably few days less somber than 9/11. As a country, we were attacked and every year, we come together again to mourn as a whole. However, there are exceptions. People filled with such hatred, anger, or bias that they simply can’t see why we grieve for the thousands of lives lost that day.
Columbia University students came face to face with such a person yesterday as their 9/11 memorial was vandalized by an unidentified man. Aanand Shah, a ROTC cadet at the university, caught the whole incident on tape. He also confronted the man.
“Angered, I ran over and asked him what he was doing, and was laughed at with no proper response. I asked a nearby Public Safety officer what could be done, but he was well within his rights to protest, so I recorded the video.”
Shah recorded the man pulling up about 50 of the American flags and dumping them in the trash. But he wasn’t satisfied and returned to collect more. The concerned student and four other witnesses began replacing the flags. When others saw what was happening, they joined in as well.
Ari Boosalis is the president of the College Republican chapter at Columbia. He reports that he is not surprised at the incident because the campus has been known to shun American values ever since the election;
“September 11th is a day where all Americans no matter their race, creed, or political affiliation should come together to remember those who have fallen and risked their lives for our safety. This event is by no means political, but a day of remembrance and tribute, especially to the first responders who gave up their lives in order to save others.”
Unfortunately, this incident is not isolated or unique to this year following the election. Last year Conservative Daily Post reported on a similar incident at Occidental College in Los Angeles.


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Lida Abdul: visual artist, Afghanistan (b. 1973, Kabul) Lida Abdul has been selected as a 2006 Prince Claus laureate for the compelling images and poetic language of her visual production. She expresses contemporary Afghani culture through a feminine aesthetic of rebuilding and reconstruction in the aftermath of war and destruction. Born in Kabul in 1973, she was forced to flee her country and lived in asylum centres for five years before moving to the USA where she studied art. Lida Abdul uses diverse media including video, film, photography, installation and live performance to explore and visualise globally relevant issues of ‘home’ and identity. Her works create spaces for the interrogation of inherited and acquired identities, look at the ravages of disaster and war, the transformation and resilience of the individual and society, and give voice to silenced histories and acts of endurance. Using the reality of modern conflict, she creates unusual images in works such as ‘My City has No Monuments’, the ‘Nomadic House’ series and ‘Painting the Ruins of Kabul’. In her work entitled ‘White House’, we see the ruins of a bombed village in an arid landscape, and follow a woman with a pot of paint and a brush, who whitewashes everything that is still standing. This is the artist’s “J’accuse”, the creation of a guilty landscape where the pearly white ruins shriek their indictment so eloquently: Stop the senseless destruction and obliteration of people and their culture!

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Rare Kestner Pier Mirror
This early rosewood mirror is hard to find,
especially in the larger scale. The mirror is original and has a lovely
scalloped wooden top and pediment with flanking white carved columns on each
side (one column on the right is slightly bent). The mirror is mounted on
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Measurements: 8-1/2" h. x 4" w.

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This study shows that independent of race/ethnicity, economically disadvantaged youth had a worse CVD risk profile. The pattern of SEP-CVD risk factor associations was more noteworthy and consistent for proximal behavioral (sedentary behavior and tobacco exposure) than for metabolic risk factors (elevated non–HDL-C, HbA1c
, sBP, and hs-CRP). This study’s findings add to existing literature that shows household socioeconomic circumstances (20
) and access (to material, information, social, and environmental resources) affect health outcomes through shaping health-related awareness and behaviors (dietary preferences, activity levels, and tobacco use) (21
In our data, socioeconomic disparities in behavioral-environmental risk factors (physical inactivity and tobacco exposure) were similar in both sexes and more strongly evident among adolescents but not young adults. This may be related to similarly high prevalence of behavioral and anthropometric risks across all income tertiles in young adults. For example, we observed large differences between SEP strata in the prevalence of central obesity in boys and tobacco exposure in both sexes, among the youngest age-groups, which tended to diminish with age. This highlights how age-related transitions and social context adjustments (e.g., adoption of detrimental health behaviors in response to different psychosocial, environmental [school, college, and early career], or socioeconomic stressors) may contribute to behavioral and anthropometric changes.
Our data further highlight that the pathways mediating SEP influences on risk factor emergence are nonlinear and complex (22
). The sociodemographic and economic exposures that cumulatively define SEP are interconnected (1
). In particular, socioeconomic disparities in the U.S. mirror race/ethnicity differences with worse CVD risk profiles noted among minority race/ethnicity youth (8
). In analyses accounting for PIR (), we found NHB and MA youth exhibited significantly higher odds of obesity, central obesity, sedentary behavior, elevated sBP, elevated non–HDL-C, and elevated HbA1c
but also lower likelihood of tobacco exposure—these patterns were broadly consistent with 1988–1994 NHANES estimates (8
). Also, in keeping with previous estimates, lowest PIR group youth of all races/ethnicities were significantly more likely to be sedentary and exposed to tobacco. These findings identify specific behavioral risks among youth that can be targeted with health promotion strategies and highlight that poverty is associated with health risks among all race/ethnic groups.
These analyses are, however, cross-sectional. Thus, temporal and causal inferences are limited, as are estimations of population-level cardiovascular benefits from alleviating poverty in lowest PIR tertiles. We transparently used sophisticated imputation and sensitivity analyses to address limitations of missing income data; sensitivity analyses treating missing PIR data as a separate category showed CVD risk factor prevalence estimates in this group were no different from those in referent highest PIR tertile. Furthermore, our NHANES-derived estimates of households below poverty were consistent with those of the U.S. Census Bureau (19
). Also, although PIR is a robust indicator of current resources, we recognize that this national-level threshold cannot account for regional cost-of-living differences and does not comprehensively represent the multiple domains of SEP, each of which provides a unique lens on how disadvantage affects health. The limited number of per-survey observations precluded examination of CVD risk profile trends over time. Lastly, we focused on overarching SEP-CVD risk relationships and could not account for individual variability in growth, maternal and paternal BMI, and intrauterine exposures.
This study’s strengths are the following: large, nationally representative, high-response rate sample; use of objective outcome measures; exposure (PIR) that integrates variations in household need and purchasing power over time; design-adjusted statistical methods; and stratification by age and sex to account for pubertal changes and/or socially patterned differences between sexes.
These findings showing greater preponderance of behavioral CVD risks among youths from lowest-income households provide two important inferences. First, viewed in the context of established trends, these data forewarn of recurring health and economic burdens. Second, this study offers insights into meaningful avenues for intervention, reinforcing that poor SEP hinders achievement of positive lifestyle choices. These implications are discussed separately.
The U.S. Census Bureau (19
) estimates that during the past decade, 16–19% of those <18 years lived below the federal poverty level (for a family of four, annual household income <$17,463 [year 2000] and <$21,834 [year 2008]). This estimate has not varied greatly (range 15–23%) during the past 4 decades (10
). Since the previous national-level reported data (8
) collected 2 decades ago, our findings show persistent socioeconomic and health disparities among U.S. youth.
Early life socioeconomic conditions indirectly affect life course (adult SEP and health risks) (24
) plus foretell low SEP over ensuing generations. Early life opportunities (e.g., education) shape future occupation, income, parity, personal (self-esteem and resilience) and social capital (relationships and networks), and investments in opportunities for the next generation (1
). Moreover, metabolic, vascular, and orthopedic consequences associated with CVD risk cumulatively translate into high health care costs and potentially less productive life years, further reducing prospects of escaping low SEP.
Health-related behaviors are established early, and CVD risks persist into adulthood (25
). Sedentary behaviors and tobacco exposure were common among adolescents but ominously twofold higher among young adults, suggesting that earlier intervention may circumvent future burdens. Also, national youth surveillance shows that previous declines in tobacco use are leveling off and positive weight-related behaviors have both been declining, emphasizing the need to reenergize prevention and promotion programs. However, the complexity of constraints faced by disadvantaged groups necessitate that CVD prevention policies address multiple levels (8
). For example, since poverty contributes to low awareness of health risks, food insecurity, and restricted choice (21
), regulations targeting price and content of foods and beverages are less meaningful without greater affordability of healthy alternatives. In a similar manner, neighborhood planning and safety are requisites for promoting physical activity. Lastly, to achieve population-level benefits, health promotion programs must reach low-income minority populations.
This study reports the most recent youth CVD risk factor distributions across SEP strata and isolates relationships between income disparities and health behaviors. These results are hypothesis generating—to reduce health and sociodemographic disparities nationally, policies that attenuate the effects of socioeconomic stressors must be judiciously tested to evaluate if they enhance the effectiveness of health promotion strategies. Finally, since our data predate the current economic downturn that may impose greater disparities, it will be imperative to continue surveillance of disparities among children and youth.

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Entrepreneur launches $20 million business start-up support fund
An influential New Zealand beauty brand’s creator has established a $20 million fund to support the growth of other regional company owners.
The first zero-waste beauty product in the world, Ethique, was created in 2012 by Brianne West at her kitchen table.
However, she claimed that a shortage of readily available financing was making it more difficult for business owners to launch their ventures.
West established Nous Labs, a company that offers funding and coaching for businesses with an environmental and social focus that are in their early phases of development, to help with this.
According to West, more must be done to allow startups to mature or the domestic sector would lose out on significant prospects.
Startup survival rates have decreased by 45 percent over the last six years, according to Stats NZ data.
However, West noted that it was particularly challenging for companies that sought to address social or environmental problems.
“Only around 5% of social enterprise startups survive through their first decade. Businesses which are mission-driven often face additional barriers in reaching the next stage of their lifecycle and lack the support and infrastructure needed for long term viability,” she said.
Because they frequently offered a new concept to the market that required a bigger investment or more significant R&D costs at an early stage, she added, social companies were even more challenging to launch than a typical corporation.
In order to carefully target this set of social enterprise entrepreneurs, Nous Labs has begun with $20 million.
The fund aimed to assist brand launches at a very early level and subsequently expand domestic products for global distribution.
The company is now providing an early-stage business help package worth $140,000 to those that fit this brief.
As long as they can identify a social or sustainability problem they are aiming to remedy and specifics of how that will be achieved, the fund is accessible to everyone from tertiary students to established enterprises, she said.
When launching a small firm, West is aware of the difference that early help can make. She claimed that winning the EY Young Entrepreneur of the Year award while still in college helped Ethique expand more quickly.
Thousands of stores in more than 25 countries now get products from Ethique’s line of regenerative beauty products.
“Having entered a competition that helped me reach mentors and access support while I was studying at university, I recognise the need to help bring socially focused entrepreneurs through the initial stage of their startup development.”

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Plasmids are essentially superhuman abilities in a bottle. Used and abused by the denizens of BioShock's undersea city of Rapture, plasmids are contained within syringes and were the ultimate product of a booming genetic modification industry based on an incredibly adaptive stem-cell compound extracted from a species of deep-ocean sea slug. The production and use of plasmids crossed several moral and ethical boundaries, although this meant nothing to the citizens of Rapture, who emigrated to the city precisely to avoid regulations and guidelines which would have prevented the plasmid industry from thriving in the first place. Plasmids essentially re-wrote the user's genetic code, modifying their DNA to allow them to use phenomenal new abilities like telekinesis, pyrokinesis, cryokinesis, aerokinesis, the remote control of machines, enhanced strength, and much more.
Plasmids are created by making use of ADAM, a compound composed of adaptive stem-cells found within a certain species of sea-slug discovered by Rapture's citizens. Initial creation of the plasmid industry was so incredibly successful that it let to severe shortages of ADAM, and a diabolical plan was enacted to significantly improve yields of the compound: Young girls, no more than 12 years old, had sea-slugs embedded within their digestive tracts. These Little Sisters had effectively become ADAM factories, and produced massive quantities of the compound for use in the then booming plasmid industry.
There are many variations of plasmids in BioShock. There are over 70 throughout the entire game, including upgrades, which increase the effectiveness of many of the base plasmids. Some of the most widely used plasmids are:
Gives the player the power of pyrokinesis. The player's hand becomes charred and blackened, and fire springs from the fingertips. Players can cause small explosions on targets, essentially setting enemies on fire or causing flammable materials to ignite. As the player upgrades this plasmid, the damage incurred over time is increased and the effect on the player's hand is more pronounced.
Gives the player the power of cryokinesis. The player's hand becomes covered in a sheen of ice. Players can project ice shards which freeze enemies solid on contact, but doesn't kill them. As the player upgrades the plasmid, spikes of ice will pierce the player's hand, and enemies will remain frozen for longer periods, giving the player more time to smash them to pieces before they thaw.
Gives the player the ability to project powerful bolts of lightning from their hand. The veins within the player's hand glow blue, and arcs of electricity flow across the palm and fingertips. The bolt can stun enemies briefly at first, and kill them outright after the plasmid has been upgraded. Additionally, the player can use the plasmid to instantly kill any number of enemies standing in water.
Gives the player the ability to move objects with their mind. Similar in use to the Gravity Gun in Half-Life 2, the player can pick up objects and throw them with considerable force, as well as catch thrown grenades and toss them back towards the enemy. Telekinesis does not alter the player's appearance.
One of the most unique abilities in the game, Insect Swarm turns the player's hand and arm into a hive of deadly, deadly bees, which the player can then "fire" at various enemies to both distract and damage them. As the player upgrades this ability, the bees will cause more damage and the player's arm will change more and more into a disfigured, crusted hive, forming more holes in the skin and causing more bees to crawl along the limb.
The Cyclone Trap plasmid creates a swirling trap of wind at the targeting reticule's location. Depending on the strength of the ability, the Splicer caught in the trap will be vaulted suddenly into the air. The more powerful the trap, the higher they'll be tossed, and the most powerful version of this ability will send attackers 40 feet into the air, usually killing them instantly when they return to earth.
Enrage causes a hostile or neutral NPC to instantly become hostile to any other NPCs around them, including the player. Thus this ability is useful to toss into a group of enemies and stand back and watch as they kill each other, leaving the player with only a few opponents to deal with, or perhaps a single weakened Big Daddy after the effects wear off. Like other status-effect plasmids, when this ability is selected the player's hand becomes slimey and grows several blisters, surrounding an orifice on the palm which expells a ball of pheremones that the player then throws.
Hypnotize Big Daddy
Instantly forces any Big Daddy to be your body gaurd. The length of time in which the Big Daddy will protect you depends on the level of the plasmid.
The Security Bullseye plasmid marks any NPC, hostile or not, as a security threat to any security cameras, security bots, or turrets. This enables the player to indirectly attack enemies while maintaining relative safety.
This creates a fake persona of yourself to distract enemies. The Target Dummy is an area effect ability, causing all enemies within a certain radius of the dummy to attack it instead of the player, which can be a very useful distraction for getting out of difficult situations.
A new plasmid made available through a patch for the PC and Xbox 360 versions of Bioshock, Sonic Boom acts very much like Telekinesis in that it gives the player the ability to create a powerful gust of wind, effectively knocking away enemies and incoming projectiles with relative ease.