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THE COMMON BOARD
King Magnus, perhaps a little by surprise, sought to
bind Swein Estridson to subjection as his vassal, he did
not only offer him a cloak, but added thereto a bowl of
mead. Swein did not put on the cloak, and probably did
not taste the mead either; he feared the latter no less
than the former.
that a gift could do, food and drink could also bring
about; it could mean honour or dishonour, could bind and
loose, give good fortune and act as a cheek upon luck.
drank to each other, as the saying went in the olden
days; just as one drank wedding to a woman and thus drew
her into one's own circle, so also one drank to one's
neighbor, in such wise as to reach him, obtain him, and
draw him into one's frith. Therefore, an answer such as
this: “I have enjoyed his hospitality,” is
sufficient to justify a man in a flat refusal to join in
an action against his quondam host, and the argument may
perhaps force a man to take sides with the party opposed
to that where his place would naturally be. Though it be
but a single mouthful, it may, in a fateful moment,
suffice to give a decisive turn to the future.
Magnus was once sitting at meat on board his ship. A man
came across the deck and up into the high poop where the
king sat, broke off a piece of the bread and ate. The
king looked at him, and asked his name. “I am called
Thorfin.” “Are you Earl Thorfin?” – “Yes, so
men call me in the west.” -- “True it is, Earl, I
had in mind, if ever we should meet, to take care that
you should say nothing to anyone of our meeting; but
after what has happened now, it would not become me to
have you killed.” And there were no inconsiderable
matters outstanding between the two: Thorfin had played
an ugly joke upon the king's plans of sovereignty,
killed his kinsman Rognvald, the tool of the king's
political plans on the islands of the west, and very
ungently swept the king's retainers off the board.
has the same power as a gift to reveal the heart's
thought and rede. Out of the ale arise honour and
dishonour, it can raise a man in his self-esteem, and
let loose all the ill spirits of an affront in him. The
king honours his guest by drinking to him in his good
brew and letting the horn be carried to his place, and
guests honour one another by drinking together from the
cup; throughout the whole of the Middle Ages and right
down to our own times, men have continued to respect the
cup of honour. He who would avoid offending the bridal
pair must needs drink of their “cup of honor”, as it
is still called among modern peasants. When equals are
seated side by side at table, they watch jealously to
see that their advances are fully appreciated, and
regard it as a dire insult if the one they drink to fail
to “do right”, -- refuses to accept the drink, or
shows the lukewarmness of his feelings by only drinking
half; and a chieftain exhibits the greatest
punctiliousness in the matter of what is handed to him
and who offers himself as a drink-fellow. King Harald
regarded it as a disgrace t sit and be drunk to by King
Magnus' half-brother Thorir, and gave vent to his
feelings in a scornful verse with an allusion to his
common people's fear of being ill-used in drinking
together is so violent as to show that the instinct has
its roots deep down in human dignity itself. When
Swedish peasants in, thought not of, the century of
enlightenment, jump up and grasp their knives because
they cannot get their respective thirsts to keep pace,
they are hardly in a position to explain their
indignation, save perhaps by an old proverb -- the
explanation of which again lies centuries before their
own time – to the effect that he who fails a man in
drinking will fail him in other things.
final termination of all differences is the sharing of
food and drink. A reconciliation did not hold good until
it had been confirmed by a common meal. In the year 577,
Gunnthram and Childebert ate and drank together, and
parted in friendly feeling after having honoured each
other with rich gifts. Adam of Bremen's heathen
contemporaries in the North feasted eight days together
when they agreed upon alliance, and the Icelandic sagas
tell often enough of how former coolness was turned to
its opposite by the parties exchanging gifts, vowing
mutual friendship and inviting each other to a feast.
bargain for a wife was prepared with caution and craft.
Where the bargain itself falls into several minor
agreements: suit, betrothal, wedding and leading home,
each separate item has also to be confirmed by an
“ale”. When peasants in Norway after the provisional
agreement, first assemble at an “ale feast to talk the
matter out”, at the house of the bride's parents,
where further details are arranged and the betrothal
confirmed, then at a corresponding feast with the
bridegroom's family, and only then proceed to the
wedding, they are in all probability only doing what
ancient custom demanded.
the bridal bargain comes the gift bargain, and demands
its confirmation at table. Here, we read of the
transaction's being effected per cibum et polum,
by food and drink, in the receiver's house, and this per
has the same force as the “by” which declares that a
deal or a payment as been effected in and through the vadium,
or pledge, which the party concerned has tendered.
Perhaps the solemnity of a meal among our southern
kinsmen has falled somewhat into the background, which
may have some connection with the fanciful cult of
symbolic gifts which grew so such an extent in German
law; but in the North it lasted even more stubbornly
than the faith in the pledge itself. Without a cup to
soften the parting with the pig just sold, and confirm
the joy at the shining dollars paid, it is hardly
possible, among the peasantry, to buy or sell at all,
and if a man have a weak stomach or a weak head to look
after, he must excuse himself by an assurance of his
sincerity: “The bargain stands, for all that.”
reckon up all the legal transactions which called for a
“cup” in conclusion of the bargain would mean giving
a list of all the transactions that could take place in
Germanic society, and the demand lies deeper than in a
misty impulse to do what is right. The law looks again
and again to the convivial wind-up as a legal criterion.
Icelandic law does not accord legality to a wedding,
unless six persons at least had eaten, drunk and
bargained the two clans into alliance, the Swedes are
content to register habit and custom, saying for
instance: kin shall be asked to a wedding as far as the
third degree, i.e. as far as normal relationship
goes. Or again, as in the Norwegian Bjarkeyajar rétt,
ale might be made the arbitrator, so that a son could be
declared born in lawful wedlock when his mother was
brought for lawful bride money (mundr) and a cask
of ale had been purchased for the wedding, and drunk in
the presence of two brides-men and two brides-women, a
male and a female servant.
is still something vulnerable about this old means of
compact, which could so force human beings together that
their slightest action under its influence became a fact
in law and right. When the sharing of food could thus in
course of time become a sign of compact, it was because
it had once been established in experience. The legality
of the action arose from the fact that both parties felt
the change in them, and thus experienced the rightness
of the new state; it was demanded that the great bowls,
those on which important decisions depended, should be
emptied to the last drop, in order that the will to hold
by the bargain might be firmly secured. And men knew
that an incautious mouthful might deprive a man of his
self-control, or at any rate allow some other influence
to affect his will and paralyse his power of further
progress. The refusal comes with a force of its own:
“my errand is of another sort than to eat food,”
when a man comes knocking up the master of the house to
demand a settlement. “If I could but get the
stiff-necked clerk to eat with me, I should know how to
manage him easily enough” – this approximately was
the thought of the crafty Merovingian, Chilperich, when,
on his meeting with Gregory, he sought to persuade him
to take some refreshment; but on this point, Gregory was
as good a Teuton as the king, and knew how to take care
of himself. “Let us first straighten out what is
amiss; then we can afterwards drink our settlement
fast,” or, as the matter might also be put, with
Gregory's not uncommon two-legged logic: “Our eating
shall be to do God's will, not suffering ourselves to be
tempted by the lust of the flesh, to the forgetting of
His commandments; therefore, before I eat, you must
promise not to trespass against the rules of the
man surrendered himself completely to his opponent the
moment he handed him the cup and drank with him; on
those two hands reached out toward each other with the
vessel, there balanced a future which the least
uncertainty could upset, to the misfortune of two human
beings. After the death of the Lombard king Authari, his
queen, Theodolind, was asked by the people to accept the
dignity herself, and choose a husband with a strong hand
to rule the kingdom. With the advice of wise men, she
chose Duke Agilulf of Turin, and hastily invited him to
a meeting. The two met at Laumellum, and after they had
spoken together a while, she had wine brought, drank
first herself and handed Agilulf the rest. When he had
taken the cup and would kiss her hand, she said with a
smile and a blush that it was not fitting he should kiss
her hand who was to kiss her lips. She bade him stand up
and spoke to him of wedding and rulership.
Paulus Diaconus. And here, we should be poor readers if
we failed to understand that the little scene has a
tension of its own, great enough to give rise to a
tragedy. Theodolind has, with the cup, offered her own
honour, and given it into his hand, to do with as he
pleases; she has bound herself as Brynhild bound herself
to Sigurd by her vow to possess him who rode the flame;
hesitation on Agilulf's part to accept the vow and make
it a reality would fling her into unluck and force her
the future consists in wedding or in the new acquisition
of property, the act of drinking together is a giving
and receiving both the joy of the new state and the
power to enjoy it. The two parties drank njótsminni,
a cup that could make the purchaser njótr, one
who should enjoy the luck of the thing; and the modern
formula for lídkøb – as the bargain cup is
called in Danish – still contains a brief idea of all
the effects which the purchase cup produces on buyer and
seller as well as on the thing transferred; though I do
not mean to imply that the ritual is handed down from
earliest times. The seller testifies his contentment
with the price, guarantees that the article is full and
whole and shall be handed over to be the other's
property entirely and for ever, without reserve, without
flaw, with the luck in it; and the other party assures
himself that the deal is finally concluded and the
receiver satisfied, guaranteeing on his part that the
receiver shall have the full use and value of the money.
And this runs, when Danes are bargaining: “Now I drink
the black-faced cow to you, healthy and sound it is in
every way, free of hidden faults, 100 dollars is the
price I am to have for it; the calving time will be as I
have stated; as it is, so you shall have it.” “Then
I drink to you the 30 dollars already paid, I wish you
the luck of the money; so much you shall have, that you
have had.” “We wish luck on both sides with this
deal,” says the witnesses.
can gather the Germanic bargain into one image, in the
Norwegian form for freeing a slave. The slave was given
his freedom – and therefore he himself was called frjálsgjaft
– and for the gift of freedom he paid his fee; but
until he had held his freedom's ale – eating and
drinking with the man who freed him – he was not
regarded socially as released from his position of
research has found endless difficulty in understanding
this superfluity of forms, worrying its brains with the
question as to what the glove did, since possessions
depended upon the skeyting, and what was the use of the
latter, sine the vadium was all sufficient, and men have
wrestled with the various symbols as a kind of puzzle,
that had to be made to work out by some clever
arrangement. The same difficulty applies to almost every
point in the life of the ancients; name-giving and its
confirmation, betrothal and wedding, bridal gift and
bridal ale, are all absolute powers, and yet they get on
so excellently well together as soon as they are
suffered to act outside our learned heads. We can never
arrive at any solution by limiting the effect of the
individual acts relatively to one another, simply
because their power of working together lies in the fact
that they are all perfect in themselves and therefore
each contains its counterpart. Faith in the single
action must then, as its balance, have so much
earnestness, that a breach of the proper sequence means
an affront on the part of him who caused the disturbance
and misfortune, since it was not a possibility upset,
but a real bargain that was broken and a spiritual
connection that was irregularly sundered.
antagonists can wash away the feud in a common drink,
because there is something strong in the horn, which
heals all disharmony and quenches all thirst for
revenge, and more than that; something which cherished a
new feeling. They quaff the goodwill directly. Therefore
the law must deny a man right to seek restitution from
his opponent when he has of his own free will shared
house and food with him. Like everything else in the
world, the drink has its peculiar luck, a concentrated
essence of the hamingja belonging to the house and its
family. If a bride, on her first stepping forward to the
door of her new home, or her first crossing of the
threshold, was offered a taste of the food and drink
there housed – as was the custom in later times – it
was in order that she might be initiated and received
into the spirit which ruled in that home, and become
minded of one mind with the house. In Sweden, and
possibly also elsewhere, it was not enough that bride
and bridegroom emptied the wedding cup together with
their kin in the bridal house; after the bride had been
handed over to her husband, the whole party moved off
together to the husband's house and there celebrated a
wedding. At the first place, the agreement was drunk
fast in all those concerned; at the second, the bridal
pair was initiated into its new existence.
It lies in the nature of the drink itself that it should bring with it forgetfulness of something and the better remembrance of other things; in its strongest brew, it assimilated the drinker with itself, and so effaced his past as to make him a new man; it brought that forgetfulness which may suffer facts to stand, but takes away their light and shade and reality. Thus it was with Sigurd, when the queen, in Gjuki's hall, handed him the horn; as soon as he had tasted the brew, he forgot Brynhild and all his promises to her, thinking only how splendid a woman was Gudrun and what fine men were her brothers. The contents of the horn are a cup of memory when it is to wake the soul, and a cup of forgetfulness when it is to shut off the past; the ale in both cases is the same, and the main ingredient in it is the unadulterated homely brew of a strong household beer. The story of Hedin's enchantment, when he slays his foster-brother Hogni's queen and carries off his daughter, needs no more than the simple and obvious explanation that he had once in the forest encountered a woman who gave him to drink from a “horn of ale”, and when he had drunk, he remembered nothing of the past, nothing of having accepted Hogni's hospitality, or become his foster-brother, he had only one thought, that the advice of the ale-bearer woman was the only thing worth having and following in the world.
In the Danish ballad of Bosmer's visit to Elfland, the reality still holds that the drink, in virtue of its origin, contained a certain honour and fate, certain memories and certain aims, which of themselves drove out all else. The symmetrical ballad style is here as if moulded to the theme; before he has tasted the elfin food, he knows that
“In Denmark I was bred and born,
And there my courtly clothes were shorn:
There is the maid I have chosen to wife,
And there I will live to the end of my life,”
and he feels that he has come an evil journey. But the moment he has drunk, the little words turn about:
“In Elfland I was bred and born,
And there my courtly clothes were shorn:
There is the maid I have chosen to wife,
And there I will live to the end of my life,”
It comes about with him, as with Sigurd, that as he
“Held the cup to his lips and drank,
Out of his mind the whole world sank,
Forgotten his father and mother,
Forgotten his sisters and brothers . . .”
Two little grains of Elfland corn dropped into the wine to enhance the effect – nothing extraordinary beyond this, and the grains themselves are, when all is said and done, nothing else and nothing more than an emphasising of the fact that the drink contains the natural product of Elfland.
The ale Sigurd and Hedin swallowed was in the true sense a witch-brew, for it was evil, and carried evil with it. Both come to their senses, and memory finds its way to their former being, but they cannot become their former selves again. They have no will to break, and they go forward unhesitatingly on the road the drink has set them, recognising that which has the foundation of a whole life. Sigurd's loyalty to his brothers-in-law is not loosened after his awakening, and Hedein's contrition at having wronged his foster-brother is not repentance in the modern sense; it can lead him to offer restitution, but when his offer is rejected, he has no chance but to assert himself. The only way for him to stave off nidinghood is by carrying through his present character and making it his honour, just as the owners of Tyrfing must accept the dark fate of the weapon as their own will. The strength, the tragic grandeur of these ancient heroes lie in their single-mindedness; they never try to be two men at a time, and thus they never know the inner discord that consumes modern men who despise themselves for what they are and hanker after what they cannot be – thus never attaining to tragedy.
The home-brewed ale was an elixir vitæ which imperceptibly created the minds day by day in peasant's homestead and king's court. In it frith was born.
If a man died alone in a strange land or on board a ship, it was natural to declare his board-fellow his heir, not because such fellowship was regarded as reflecting the character of family relationship, but because the sharing of food was the heart of the clan, and indeed of every circle whose unity was of the same sort as that of the circle of kin. Without a constantly repeated renewal of frith by the food, and especially by the drink which was permeated by the luck of the house itself, the bond would be loosened and the individual wither; and when we read that none could be declared incapable of managing his own affairs as long as he could drink ale and ride a horse – empty his cup and move among men without help from others – there was an equality between the two items which is no longer obvious. “To sit in the mead-seat” is an expression for being yet among the living, which owes nothing to poetic licence.
Meat and drink can, nay, must, be the sign which distinguishes life from death. When the outcast has been brought to a seat in a stranger's house and becomes a new man, with new life and new thoughts, the transformation has not taken place in any metaphysical sense, he has physically received a luck and taken it in. And when the child had tasted food, it was insured against being cast out, for the simple reason that it had imbibed a reality, and was thus become an unassailable value. It had tasted frith, and was therefore insured in honour, so that not even its parents had now any power over it. There is a story from Friesland of a woman of noble family who had her son's child carried out, in anger at his having only daughters born to him. When she learned that another woman had taken interest in the little creature and cared for it, she sent men with the strictest orders; the child was to be put out of the world; but the men arrived too late; the child lay, licking its lips contently after a meal – and they had to go back to their stern mistress with their errand unaccomplished.
On the other hand, exclusion from the sharing of food amounts to sentence of death upon the outlaw. When the state declares a niding óæll, as it is called in Iceland, one against whom every man's hand and store shall be closed, it means that he is shut out from all continuance in humanity; life is no longer allowed to flow into him.
Having arrived thus far, we look about us involuntarily in search of some ceremonial. Even though the sources, as in almost every case of ordinary everyday things, are apt to fail us, we know that just as luck and honour exercised their vital functions through the medium of gifts, so also must the meal, and the intercourse after the meal, when the drink went round, have had its forms, through which the deep breath of frith was visible. A significant view of the life of a peasant homestead is afforded by a that little passage in the Frosta-thing's Law which decrees that “those vessels wherein the women drink to one another across the floor shall go to the daughters.” At the king's court, where the man was linked up into the chieftain's luck and permeated with his will, “by gift and ale” as the Beowulf says, the queen went her way through the hall at the drink hour horn in hand, and offered it all round the bench, after first letting her husband drink. Thus evidently the queen would go on working days and feast days, whether her mind urged her especially thereto or not. The men claimed such attendance as a right. “We think so well, King Garibald, of your daughter, that we would gladly have a foretaste now of the luck that awaits us; let her then, beloved, hand us a cup now, a she will later come to bear it to us;” thus, with innocent directness speak the little group of messengers from King Authari, as they rested on King Garibald's benches after having gained his consent to the maiden's marriage with their master. The actual spokesman was in reality Authari himself, who, out of curiosity, had disguised himself as one of his own retainers, and now took advantage of common custom to approach his betrothed. And since the forms observed in the king's body-guard were but an intensified image of the customs of the home, we may suppose that spiritual service formed part of the Germanic housewife's duty, was indeed her essential work as a weaver of frith. The saga writer can find no more direct expression for Brynhild's manliness than the fact that she will not allow any man to take his seat beside her, or hand ale to any to drink: her mind is set on war and not on marriage.
There is more detail in the ancient descriptions of feasting at table, especially on such occasions as involved a change in the life of those taking part. The feast begins outside the house, where a ceremonial drink awaits the guests as they arrive. The wedding customs of later times, in Norway, present this ritual in imposing forms. The men assemble at the bridegroom's homestead, there to clinch the fellowship by eating and drinking doughtily together. Then with shouts and cries they set off in a wild race to the bride's home, and having neared the place, send off two heralds in advance to ask a night's lodging. In answer to their request, they are given some bowls of ale, which are carried to the party in waiting, and not until this ale greeting has admitted them into the great community awaiting them, do they ride forward and dismount. This life study from the eighteenth century proves is venerable character by its agreement in every item with the scattered indications which have found their way into the Swedish district laws. According to these likewise, two of the bridegroom's party had, on arriving at the house of the bride, to ask the master of the house for frith for themselves and their companions; and after his had been mutually agreed and weapons laid aside, the first drink round takes place, as an introduction to the spokesman's formal demand for the bride.
Whether the cup of initiation were offered in the open air or within doors, the guest could not avoid it. As we learn in the Hymiskvida, the god, on his visit to Jotunheim, among his mother's people, was met on the floor of the hall by his gold-decked kinswoman with the ale horn in her hand. And the man who had been a guest in Olaf Kyrri's hall, calls to mind his welcome there in the same image: “The prince of battle greeted me welcome with friendly mind, when the feaster of ravens, the master of rings, he himself came forward to meet me with a golden horn to drink with me.” A Byzantine author, Priscos, from the sixth century, has in his recollections of a journey he made as ambassador to the court of Attila, described the trials which an educated man had to pass through for his country's sake. These barbarians had naturally the queerest customs, and the trouble was that one had to agree to their eccentricities if one wished to make any headway at all. He was invited one day to a private banquet with the queen, and was at once overwhelmed with a circumstantial Scythian ceremonial; each of those present rose on the entry of the Greeks and offered them a full cup, which they had to drink off, after which achievement they were rewarded with kisses and embraces from their dear hosts. To all appearances, Attila's court must have been more than half germanised, as it was in fact made up of Teuton grandees, and Priscos had, in this Scythian ritual of the board, a taste of what it meant to live in Gothic fashion.
There is no break between these old scenes from the south and north, on the one hand, and the simply grandiose forms of the Swedish and Norwegian peasantry on the other, when the host comes out on to the steps with “welcome” in his hand, carried, perhaps, in a vessel specially kept for the purpose. And the custom of Ditmarsk again, slips into the whole, almost as an exhaustive commentary on the old indications. We find here, that when the guest has shared the first meal with his hosts, the mistress of the house comes forward and greets him in solemn, traditional formula with fresh ale in a fresh, new bowl; after her come in the same manner sons and daughters, and finally, the serving people likewise show him their hospitable mind.
These ceremonials are more particularly aimed at the guest who does not himself form one of the circle, and has therefore first to be admitted to its life; but in the more general features, the forms obtaining at a banquet are merely an enhancement and adaptation of what is always required. The customs of the ceremonial feast teach us to what extent the forms of food-sharing dominated all intercourse between people generally.
Slowly and steadily our forefathers' life moves forward, we may even find the pace desperately slow. These people appear to us to be stuck fast, writhing in a web of forms. Hesitatingly, unwillingly, ever considering and estimated, they move, for every step is rendered a matter of grave moment from the effect which every act might have upon an immeasurable future. There is no way of breaking through the ceremonial; without these forms and fashions there is no possibility of any intercourse between human beings at all; again and again men have to go through them in order to reach other's thoughts. Even the most fleeing encounter presupposes in a certain degree alliance and compact, -- not for nothing did the custom demand so great a reserve on the part of host and guest, that they entertained and partook of entertainment for days together before they could bring out their errand. When a first acquaintance could have such pronounced effects as this, that the host was compelled to take up his guest's suit, and prosecute it as his own, despite his inclination; even, indeed, when this new interest was so opposed to his own former obligations that wit and luck were needed to avoid catastrophe – then circumspection and diplomacy must be a sure growth among the people.
Then we may perhaps be surprised to find that caution has an opposite with features no less marked.
Not enough that a host is in the power of his guest – after all, every man is more or less at the mercy of any passer-by. The guest is the stronger; he can force his way in by violence and snatch a man's friendship; he can manage by stealth to procure a mouthful of the luck of the house, and then the hamingja itself takes up his cause and forces it, by the action of the pulse, into is representatives in the flesh, driving them whither they would not. Once inside the door, he has no need to crouch and humbly hide his existence in the gloomiest corner, still less sneak about in borrowed clothes; boldly he holds forth his business in the light, and asks his hosts when they are really going to make an effort and gain him his rights. The guest's authority is so strong that when he throws himself on the mercy of the man he has wronged, he can insist on the bond of hospitality; it is a great shame to wrong a man who has placed himself in one's power – with these words he points his request.
There is a remarkable story of the young Lombard prince Albuin. In order to gain the distinction among aliens which was required to give a man full dignity in his own home, he set out resolutely with a chosen following to the court of Thurisind, king of the Gepidæ, whom he had rendered poorer by a son in a recent battle. As a guest of the highest birth, he was offered a seat in the empty place next to the king, and the meal proceeded in due form. Thurisind was silent for a long while, and all were careful not to utter their thoughts; but when the king broke out: “Gladly I look upon that seat, but it is hard to see that man sitting there,” the hall burst into uproar. The Gepidæ jeered at their guests, and called them mares with white socks, -- referring to the white bands they wore round their legs. The Lombards asked whether they had fought at Asfeld and seen the mares strike out with their hoofs, and the Gepidæ suddenly called to mind more than they could control. But the king dashed out into the midst of them, warning and threatening any who should dare to tempt the patience of God by striking down a guest in the house itself. The men calmed down, and the feast proceeded “with gladness”. Thurisind took down his son's weapons from the place where they hung, and set them upon Albuin himself.
Here, hospitality is seen in conflict with great and powerful feelings, and it gains the victory.
Caution was great, but hospitality was greater. The wayfarer was always certain of being received. Tacitus gives his readers the impression that the table is laid as soon as the mere shadow of a stranger falls through the doorway, and he is right when he states absolutely that none need wait for an invitation. “It is villainy to refuse shelter,” runs the popular saying in Norway; having tendered hospitality, the host is at once involved in the difficulties of the guest. Headlong we should call these Icelanders, who almost drag in the man pursued, when he comes one evening and knocks at the door as one in a hurry to find himself within doors; who, despite their own opinion of the man, risk their life and welfare to protect him, openly and secretly; who send him with a recommendation to their friends and kinsmen to look after. But Cæsar had already met men who were the equals of the Icelanders, and he has revealed his insight into their ideas of hospitality by saying simply: “These people consider it shameful to affront a guest. Whoever he may be, and whatsoever grounds may drive him to seek the hospitality of others, they protect him against wrong. He is sacred; all houses are open to him, and food is ready for him.”
Only by living through the contrasts to their extreme consequences can we partake of the harmony wherein this culture rests. All that a man is he must be wholly, within a luck or outside it – there is no tangent middle stage. When a man stands face to face with his nieghbour, one of two things must happen; either one casts words to him across a great, bottomless gulf, and the words then necessarily become weapons, or the two mingle mind, and the words become ready messengers of goodwill. The guest who has tasted of the fat of the house, is really within the soul, for a visitor who fails to let himself be entirely swallowed up by the luck of the house is unimaginable, since no home could tolerate such a dead spot within its organism.
The manner in which later times held, as a matter of course, the master of a house responsible for all that proceeded from his house is but a faint expression of the host's personal feeling of the guest's actions as deriving from his own will, or in other words, as those of a kinsman. He must protect the guest to the uttermost of his power, because the stranger's misfortune will drag the whole house with it to its fall.
Procopius tells of Thorisvind, King of the Gepidæ, who was once tempted by the emperor of Byzantium to hand over a foreign pretender, whom fate had driven to seek refuge among the tribe. As a widely travelled man, who had learned the strange ways of civilized nations, he was able to realise that the old-fashioned principles of morality would not serve in cases of political complications, and he endeavoured to make his people understand that an agreement paid for with something which one did not own was clear profit. But through the words of the alien historian there still runs audibly the people's refusal: “Far be it from us! Better that we should perish with our wives and children.” In face of the old-fashioned doctrinairism of the people, the king with all his enlightenment can make no headway – he is forced to settle matters privately with the other party, and attain his end by stealth, as progress often must when seeking its way in the world.
What we call form was reality itself. The intercourse of the ancients did not take place under certain forms, but in them, they lived life itself in the slowly circulating ale-bowl, they shared mind as they drank fellowship together, exchanged fleeting thoughts in the cup as they exchanged winged thoughts in their words; they tasted the honour and the memories of the house in its food, at the same time feasting their eyes with the heirlooms and trophies in the hall, and drawing in the atmosphere of the clan with their breaths. It was an experience unlike all else to handle weapons when they came to the hand so heavy with spirit as to force the owner to open his lips and say: “This byrnie Heorogar bore throughout a long life,” – “this sword belonged to my grandfather Jokul, and the ancient Vatsdolea men before him, and kept them in conquest.” It was a unique feeling to own a thing of value, when its nature was to such a degree fate, past, present and future, that the gift not only set the receiver's soul vibrating, but inspired him to a poem on the giver.
Ceremonial forms are the stream of life itself, not narrowing banks against which life grinds in its passage. They are solemn because they are necessary; they are necessary because they come into existence merely from the fact that men do not offer resistance to the need of life, to develop itself. To go with the sun, to grown and let grow with the moon, to carry out the ritual whereby kinship, whether with men or with nature, is strengthened and renewed, whereby the sun is held to its course and earth and heaven preserve their youth and strength, to effect honour and luck, to give the child its name-gift, to drink the cup of brotherhood – this is to live. It is forms which divide the living from the dead. One cannot forbid an outlaw of the woods to eat, and there is no idea of cutting him off from food, but real food, that which carries with it all gladness and thoughts, from this is he excluded. He is thrust out from forms, into the formless.


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Kemp: Oil Prices Surge As Hedge Funds Reduce Short Positions
(John Kemp is a Reuters' market analyst. The views expressed are his own.)
LONDON, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Hedge funds executed one of the fastest U-turns on record this month as managers turned from super-bearish to cautiously bullish about the outlook for oil prices.
Hedge funds and other money managers increased their net long position in the three main Brent and WTI futures and options contracts by 118 million barrels in the week to Aug. 16.
The record one-week increase in net longs came after hedge funds had already boosted their net long position by 48 million barrels the previous week.(http://tmsnrt.rs/2bwpDFa).
Most of the adjustment has come from the short side of the market, where hedge fund managers convinced that oil prices would fall further were wrong-footed by the sudden rally. Short positions were reduced by 114 million barrels (31 percent) between Aug. 2 and Aug. 16.
The furious race to buy back short positions sent prices higher. Front-month Brent futures prices jumped from $41.50 a barrel on Aug. 2 to $49.23 on Aug. 16 and continued rising to reach $50.88 on Aug. 19 for an increase of more than 20 percent.
The recoil in short positioning was particularly violent in the WTI contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Hedge funds had established a record short position of 220 million barrels in NYMEX WTI by Aug. 9, but this was followed by a record one-week 54 million barrel reduction in short positions by Aug. 16.
Hedge funds have established a large concentration of short positions in NYMEX WTI four times since the start of 2015 (http://tmsnrt.rs/2bwpH84).
Each time the accumulation of short positions has coincided with a downtrend in WTI prices, followed by an uptrend as the short positions have been liquidated (http://tmsnrt.rs/2bwp8v4).
In this instance, the fourth short-selling cycle shifted from the accumulation phase to the liquidation phase around the middle of August (http://tmsnrt.rs/2bwro58).
Some hedge fund managers seem to have positioned themselves to take advantage of an expected short-covering rally by establishing new long positions.
Nonetheless, the speed and scale of the rally appears to have caught many traders off guard, adding to the violence of the move.
Market chatter about a possible production freeze after next month's meeting of OPEC and non-OPEC oil ministers in Algeria fuelled a recoil that would probably have happened in any event.
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"Rampart Detectives Investigate the Shooting of a Sixteen Year-old"
Los Angeles: On November 23, 2001 at approximately 11:40 PM., Rampart Patrol Officers responded to a reported shooting at 7th Street and Grandview Avenue. Upon arrival, officers saw the victim down on the sidewalk suffering from a gunshot wound to his upper torso.
Los Angeles City Fire Department Paramedics responded and transported the victim to USC Medical Center, where he died as the result of his wound.
The investigation revealed witnesses heard gunshots and observed a group of males running southbound from McArthur Park. There was no further description of the suspects.
The motive for the shooting is unknown. The suspects and weapons are outstanding. The victim’s identity is being withheld pending notification of next of kin.
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Ablitt is our latest Seagull
Nathan Ablitt is one big step nearer fulfilling his dream of becoming a fully fledged Eastbourne Eagle.
He’s the latest name on the roster for the club’s National Development League (NDL) team, the Eastbourne Seagulls, powered by Save Thurrock Hammers.
Nathan, who lives in Hailsham, five minutes from Arlington Stadium, said it was something of a “no brainer’ when offered the chance to join the NDL team.
He signed for Eastbourne in August last year, having the previous month been part of an Eagles squad testing and practising at King’s Lynn in a behind-closed-doors session.
Ablitt said: “I am delighted to be part of the team.
“Growing up watching Eastbourne and then getting a chance to ride for them, it was a bit of a no brainer.
“Hopefully I can learn this year and progress so in coming years I can move up and become a full-time Eastbourne rider.”
Ablitt said he was looking to a “solid, consistent year” with no injuries to give himself the opportunity to progress and move up the ranks.
“If I can prove myself in the early part of the year, hopefully I will start getting some rides in the Championship towards the end of the season,” he said.
Ablitt said he was ready to race and had been training to get fit throughout the winter.
Ablitt, 17, expects to be picking up the threads of his college course at Bexhill in the next few days.
Eastbourne Director, Ian Jordan, said: “It will be great to see Nathan riding for the team he has always supported and that will resonate with all of our supporters and other young lads like Vinnie Joe Foord, whose turn will soon come too.
“Nathan will start at reserve on a 3 point average because he didn’t quite achieve enough matches in 2019 to achieve an average whilst riding for Kent in the NDL, before a severe concussion ultimately curtailed his season.
“The Covid-19 forced break may turn out to be a blessing in disguise in a way, as it has given Nathan time to fully heal and practise when he can, and he’ll be stepping up his practise and track time, before the competitive season starts.
“There will be no pressure on Nathan, we know that he is a fantastic long-term prospect, let’s not forget that he was the equal and comparable of two outstanding prospects in Dan Gilkes and Jordan Palin at MSDL and Youth level.
“We want him to aspire to that level and beyond again and believe he can but time, loyalty and patience are fundamental to youth development.
“The 35-point team building limit places an emphasis on top-end strength and powerful options at reserve.
“It’s hard to find a more potent reserve option than we hope Nathan can become before moving up the pecking order.”
“We’d like to thank Mildenhall, whom Nathan was due to join in 2020, for agreeing that Nathan would spend 2021 at his home Club where he is an asset.
“We are equally delighted to allow Jason Edwards, who is also an Eagles asset and an integral part of our Championship Team, to re-join Mildenhall for the 2021 NDL season to honour our commitment to both Jason and Mildenhall from 2020, that he could so.
“It will be of great benefit to Jason, Mildenhall and Eastbourne that Jason can continue his exceptional progress in the Sport in this way.”
The NDL Fixtures have been released today and can be see here.
Tickets are selling quickly for both the Newcastle Championship & NDL Double Header (Sat 22nd May – 5pm) and the Poole South Coast Derby Championship clash (Sat 29th May – 7.30pm) and supporters are advised to purchase as soon as they can to avoid disappointment.
The matches in May are likely to be the most restricted of the season in terms of Crowd limits imposed by Local Authority and National Restrictions. Entrance is via advance ticket only due to Covid-19 restrictions, please click on the related meeting image below to purchase.
Please note: existing 2020 Season and 10 Match Ticket Holders do not need to pre-book – please just turn up with your 2020 Season Ticket or 10 Match Pass and go to the dedicated ST/10 Match Turnstile (which will be clearly marked)
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U.S. stocks moved higher in afternoon trading Thursday after shaking off an early pullback as investors weigh the latest batch of corporate earnings reports and economic data.
A report showing that the U.S. economy grew sharply in the first quarter is among the latest data pointing to a diminishing impact from the pandemic. Other upbeat reports included data showing that more Americans were signing contracts to buy homes in March after two months of declines.
The S&P 500 index was up 0.5% as of 2:16 p.m. Eastern, with gains by communication and financial companies outweighing a slide in health care and technology stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 157 points, or 0.5%, to 33,975 and the Nasdaq added 0.1%.
Big risks to the market include rising inflation getting out of hand and any aspect of the virus pandemic worsening and throwing off the economic recovery, said Keith Buchanan, senior portfolio manager at Globalt Investments.
“Without one of those two, the macroeconomic direction seems clear,” he said.
Investors got a dose of big technology earnings overnight from the likes of Apple, Facebook, Qualcomm and others. Tech stocks drove much of the rally in 2020 and are still highly valued to investors, who are betting that the pandemic made a permanent shift in how Americans shopped and entertained themselves.


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In March 2022, this testimonial discovered the broker has a variety of compelling features . Pepperstone Comission…that make the broker stick out from the pack. In the UK, where no commission trading is popular, you will wish to make note of the broker’s industry-leading spreads which begin with 0.6 pips. Experienced investors and scalpers will take intend to take note of the broker Razor account which has 0.0 pips spreads.
is an online trading broker founded in 2010 as well as headquartered in Melbourne, Australia with worldwide workplaces in London, Cyprus, Nassau, Dusseldorf, Nairobi and also Dubai. They offer traders a wonderful choice of over 1,200 instruments to trade including CFDs on Forex, Commodities, Cryptocurrency, Stocks, Indices as well as ETFs, all via the MetaTrader 4/5, cTrader, WebTrader, TradingView and also mobile trading systems. They also offer spread wagering to UK customers.
is widely considered as among the most effective trading brokers refining approximately US $8.3 Billion of trades daily and also offering online trading to over 170+ countries. They supply investors globally with accessibility to trade across all markets with cutting edge innovation, inexpensive spreads, low-latency broadband execution and also award-winning customer support. The broker has won various honors throughout the years, consisting of foreign exchange broker excellence, customer support, ingenious technology and giving the very best feasible trading problems to clients.
includes an implementation only trading model that ensures straight accessibility to a deep pool of liquidity suppliers with no dealing workdesk or implementation adjustment. Having straight accessibility to a big liquidity pool helps to make sure the lowest feasible spreads as well as fast execution speeds for all levels of traders. This is fantastic if you are heading or making use of automated trading robots.
makes use of modern technology developed to support institutional trade circulation for those that trade large solitary ticket sizes. They can handle numerous fills to execute bigger orders on multiple levels right into a liquidity aggregator. Your orders are performed without requotes on a “market implementation” basis with positive as well as adverse slippage possible and also no broker treatment.
What this indicates is that there will not be any kind of dispute of interest between you the trader as well as the broker. It also implies that you can obtain your professions at the rate factors you want. Nothing can be more discouraging than sending out an order and also having it declined are put at a less favourable price.
Whilst they utilize the latest trading innovation, they are committed to staying up to day with the most recent advancements to more enhance their services where feasible. The vision for is to come to be the biggest broker on the planet by offering capitalists from all histories access to much easier and also fairer on the internet trading. After years of being with them, I can state with self-confidence that they have delivered on that particular from my point of view.
It’s not simply the affordable, that make the broker stand out yet the series of functions that supplies. These include 4 trading systems consisting of every prominent MetaTrader 4 and the fast-growing charting system TradingView. To aid you with your trading, trading software application is offered such as Smart Trader Equipment, Figaro Advanced Investor Tools as well as 3 social trading choices in Pelican, Myfxbook and MetaTrader Signals. Regardless of which platform you make use of, scalping, automation (consisting of professional advisors) and also mini as well as mini whole lot trading is permitted.
Various other noteworthy functions consist of over 60 currency pairs, crypto, shares, indices, ETF and product trading. acclaimed client service and also complimentary trading education and learning tools.
With such an outstanding range of features, is worthy of the multiple awards we have actually bestowed with the broker consisting of the best broker in the UK, the very best broker for MetaTrader 4 and the most effective standard account broker.
is very recommended for high-volume traders as they use the most affordable compensation (i.e. most affordable) of any kind of retail Foreign exchange broker on an international scale. The optimum degree will certainly suggest that a payment rate depends on 43% on a normal trading compensation. Additionally, a swap-free account, aka Islamic Account, is readily available for those unable to make or receive payments derived from interest rates.
this video I’m mosting likely to evaluate. Now, if you resemble me after that you’re always important when it comes to picking a broker. So, is a trustworthy Forex broker? This video will aid you discover! Prior to moving forward, you can use the link in the summary to open up an account with to trade with Absolutely no spreads. This evaluation will cover. As much of you may understand, I have divided my findings into five various classifications. 1. That is behind? 2. Is managed? 3. What can you trade with? 4. What are the costs and fees of? 5. Customer Support That is behind? was developed in Melbourne, Australia in 2010 by skilled investors who shared a common objective to boost on-line trading. is the trademark name of Markets Restricted. Let’s speak about’s Rules is a multi licensed foreign exchange broker. The Broker is regulated by the adhering to authorities: In the United Kingdom: is licensed as well as controlled by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in the UK. In Dubai: Pepperstone Comission
is controlled by the Dubai Financial Provider Authority (DFSA). In Australia: The broker is controlled by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) in Australia In Cyprus: The broker is managed by CySEC. Global: Markets Restricted is accredited and controlled by The Securities Payment of The Bahamas for global operations. is additionally regulated by BaFin, and CMA. Allow’s figure out the trading systems used by offers MetaTrader 4 and also 5 and also cTrader for Foreign exchange trading. MT4 as well as MT5 have industry basic features that brokers supply. likewise has a Social trading center with myfxbook and also DulpiTrade. Next off, what can we trade on? deals 60+ money couple with low spreads, 24+ CFD Cryptocurrencies, Stock CFDs from AU, United States, UK and also German shares, ETF CFDs, Index CFDs, and also Commodities. gives 2 kinds of make up the traders. 1. Razor Account 2. Requirement Account. The broker provides 1:500 leverage for Foreign exchange trading. Next, let’s transfer to’s costs and also commission’s preliminary minimum down payment is $200. Minimum withdrawal quantity is $20. There is no deposit and withdrawal cost except bank transfer. Criterion Account doesn’t have any payment yet spreads are high. One the hand, Razor account spreads begin with
no pip and also payment is $7 for a typical great deal. Last factor regarding’s client service, is their client support sufficient? is available to contact 24/7 utilizing several techniques, consisting of telephone, email & direct real-time conversation. In live conversation, first you will encounter a bot. If the robot is unable to address your concerns, you will certainly obtain choices to talk with a live agent. We have come to the end of the testimonial of! We can say that is a reputable Foreign exchange and also CFDs broker that provides traders a range of instruments to trade as well as an intuitive cTrader platform, and mobile app together with MT4 and MT5. The company has stayed in business for 12+ years as well as has a significant consumer base. Based on AtoZ Markets, the score is additionally high; with a 7-star rating out of 10. As a result, I can claim that it’s a secure broker for your trading. Have you patronized this broker? Or intend to start trading with this broker? Inspect our web link below in the remarks area to open a live trading account with and trade with No spreads. That’s all for the review. Have you already liked this video? If yes, provide us a.
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Spreads Are Also Lower Due To Rate Renovation Modern Technology.
Price Renovation Technology (PIT), is one more technique in which can produce a reduction in broker agent costs. When a volatile market exists, PIT operates in three significant actions to boost the advantage of large price movements.
A trader makes a Foreign exchange or CFD Profession via among the assigned systems; MT4 or cTrader.
Trade is then performed, whilst a much more good price movement is discovered.
PIT aims to fill up the price at a degree of better advantage to the investor.
is an Australian foreign exchange broker that also offers CFDs. It was established in 2010 as well as opened up a London office in 2015 to better offer its European clients. After Brexit, new customers signing up from the EU are served by’s German as well as Cyprus entities.
Is Pepperstone available in UK? Pepperstone Comission
is taken into consideration safe due to the fact that it’s controlled by 7 national regulatory authorities, including 3 top-tier financial authorities: the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), Germany’s BaFin as well as the Australian Securities and also Investments Payment (ASIC).
Disclaimer: CFDs are complicated tools as well as come with a high danger of losing cash quickly due to take advantage of. 74-89% of retail capitalist accounts shed money when trading CFDs. You must consider whether you recognize just how CFDs function as well as whether you can manage to take the high threat of losing your money.
are just one of the largest trading brokers supplying investors globally accessibility to trade throughout all markets using effective yet straightforward platforms with cutting side modern technology, low costs, low-latency broadband implementation and prize-winning customer support. I have had an account with them for years currently and have actually been really satisfied with the trading conditions and also support they have actually supplied. They are fantastic for day trading when you require low spreads and are among my top options for running automated approaches on the MetaTrader platforms.

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PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- For the twelfth consecutive year, on November 13, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) will host the Bacchanal! Wine Gala and Auction, featuring internationally distinguished winemakers and celebrity chefs. Bacchanal! 2010, Pinot on the Palette, will celebrate the best of Pinot Noir from around the world.
Since its inception in 1999, Bacchanal! has garnered a national reputation as a premier wine and auction event in the Philadelphia region and has raised $3 million to help fund PAFA's student scholarships and education programs.
Bacchanal! 2010 will include wine tastings, silent and live auctions of unique items and travel destinations, a gourmet dinner with celebrity chef Daniel Le Guenan, Executive Chef at the CuisinArt Resort & Spa in Rendezvous Bay, Anguilla. During Bacchanal! 2010, PAFA's prestigious Thomas Jefferson Award will be conveyed to honor four leading Pinot Noir producers from around the world: Michael Dhillon, Winemaker and Proprietor of Bindi Wines, Australia; Grace and Ken Evenstad, Proprietors of Domaine Serene Winery, Oregon; Jacques Lardiere, Winemaker & Technical Director for Maison Louis Jadot, France; and Larry Maguire, Proprietor of EnRoute Winery, Russian River Valley, California.
Throughout the week preceding Bacchanal! a series of exclusive gourmet winemaker dinners will take place in private homes, each pairing a distinguished Pinot Noir winemaker with a local celebrity chef. In addition, plans are underway for Bacchanal! 2010 to be preceded by a Pinot Noir symposium and wine tasting event.
PAFA is authorized to host Bacchanal! by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board and is generously supported by The Haverford Trust Company, this year's presenting sponsor. Bacchanal! is co-chaired by Timothy P. Speiss and June Marshall Smith.
For more information, please call 215-972-2037 or visit www.pafa.org/Bacchanal.
Founded in 1805, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is America's first school of fine arts and museum. PAFA is located at 128 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA.
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Bing gathering ideas from New Orleans
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing is in New Orleans gathering ideas on how to rebuild a devastated city.
The Associated Press reports:
DETROIT (AP) - Detroit Mayor Dave Bing is meeting with New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu to discuss that city's recovery more than five years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the 9th Ward and other parts of the Gulf Coast. Bing spokeswoman Karen Dumas says that both mayors were preparing to take a walking tour of parts of New Orleans on Monday, and that the city bears "a lot of similarities to Detroit." Bing is working to strengthen Detroit's most viable neighborhoods while formulating plans to deal with huge swaths of vacant land. He has said incentives will be used to encourage people to move into certain areas of Detroit, which has lost more than half its population since peaking at nearly 2 million in the 1950s. He plans to present a study April 1.
Michigan Radio traveled to New Orleans last year to learn some lessons as well. Rebuilding Detroit Schools: ATale of Two Cities looked at school reform in Detroit and New Orleans. The program explored successes and failures in New Orleans to see whether the lessons learned in New Orleans could offer some insights for education reform in Detroit.


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This year's flu season will be remembered as one of the worst on record, said Matteo Bassetti, director of the infectious diseases clinic at the San Martino clinic in Genoa. There has been a sharp increase in cases of respiratory infections and influenza viruses such as H1N1 and H3N2, Bassetti said. Furthermore, the prevalence of bacterial infections and pneumococcal pneumonia has increased. The director also stated that: “Unlike the problem of growth in influenza infections, Covid has not been a major problem in the past three months.”
Read also: Covid, flu and parties, no Bassetti: “rude people”
In particular, the words of the infectious disease specialist to Messaggero: “80% of hospital admissions between November and December were not directly related to Covid infection, but rather to people who went to hospital for other reasons and subsequently tested positive by swab.” In conclusion, Matteo Bassetti highlighted the increase in cases of influenza and lung infections, urging people (especially the elderly) to undergo booster vaccinations to reduce the health risks posed by the above-mentioned diseases.
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A few days ago I went out for a morning run with my new GPS watch and had an equipment malfunction. For some reason, the GPS signal would not pick up! I waited, stretched some, waited more, glanced at the watch screen with increasing irritation—and then waited more. Since I generally lack patience, after about five minutes of waiting I just decided I would just start running and hope that somewhere along the route the GPS would begin to work. To my disappointment, it never did! I ran for over thirty minutes with a frustrating screen that looked like this:
Consequentially, at the end of my trek, I had no idea how far I had run, what my route was, or how quick my pace was.
At home, post run, I thought about how similar this experience is to how I sometimes live out my days as a Christian. Then, this morning at church, this very concept was preached about and I knew I had to journal/blog these thoughts. There are some mornings where I am rushed, unfocused, or just plain lazy and fail to appropriately “link sensors” with God. At times, I am unwilling to wait on God and refuse to invest the additional time needed to connect my heart with His. Because of my impatient and undisciplined spirit, I decide instead, to just go ahead and run!
And run I do. Fast. Without a direction. Without clear objectives or goals.
The thing is, I can run and run, but if the GPS sensor isn’t linked to the source, it’s meaningless. It counts for nothing! There’s no record of the mileage, the pace, or the route. All my efforts done without being connected to the GPS are fruitless and useless. A complete waste!
For my life as a Christian to be effective, I must consistently be connected to God’s GPS for my life. I must remain “linked” and on those days where my mind, heart, and spirit seem to malfunction, on those days– I must put more concentrated effort on that connection!
My own efforts, plans, strengths, and capabilities will always result in wasted days, disappointment, and consistent failures. Today, I am reminded that it is through the link, through the connection of my heart to His, I am able to be the individual He has called me to be!
“I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.

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I was at my bro's yesterday, hangin' with the fam. At one point, my four year old nephew wanted to play "Rock Band."
He "played" his drum set. His grandma "played" guitar, and I played the plastic drill (there were no more instruments).
Imagining what we looked like, I decided to name our band Three Generations of Crazy.


text: Charles H., fifth son and sixth child of Henry and Polly U. divermore) Hutchens, was born in Canandaigua. He was a carriage builder and carpenter, and during the last twelve years of his residence in Canandaigua he was also engaged in the piano business. In 1905 he removed to Bradford, Pennsylvania, and one year later to Olean, New York, where he associated himself in business with his son, Henry W., under the firm name of C. H. Hutchens & Son. He affiliates with the Republican party and for years served as town committeeman. He is a member of the Baptist church. He married, at Geneva. New York, July 3, 1872. Alice Mary, daughter of William and Mary Corner, the former English and the latter Irish. Children : Nodiah E., see elsewhere; Claude L., born August 13, 1876; Henry W., born November 20, 1878.

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So it’s not going to be All Boilermaker All The Time after all. I am indulging in Non-Sequitur Thursday complete with pictures. First a little cheesecake for the discerning viewer (you know who you are):
We decided to watch Psycho, which we have on DVD. I think it starts a little slowly, but Janet Leigh does spend the first scene in a bra and half-slip. Some folks enjoy that sort of thing. Here is a more atmospheric shot for a little less prurient interest:
After Psycho, I suggested we continue the Alfred Hitchcock theme with Stranger on a Train. I recently acquired that DVD at a yard sale. Score! I would like to see again the remake, Throw Mama From the Train. I love that Danny DeVito.
I would have liked to get a picture of the carousel, a more dramatic setting than the titular train, but I could not find one. Full disclosure: I didn’t look very hard. Regular readers may notice that I am downloading pictures again. I still cannot download them on my own Facebook page. However I can download them from my husband Steven’s page. So I am sneakily logged onto his site. Don’t worry, I won’t cause any more mischief while I’m there.
I close with a picture of the master himself, Alfred Hitchcock. We could have continued our movie viewing with Rear Window, The Birds, Rope, North by Northwest, The Lady Vanishes, The 39 Steps, or To Catch a Thief. I guess we have quite a Hitchcock collection (no, no Vertigo! I may lose all cinemaphile cred by saying this, but that movie has always left me cold). And I thought of a good title while I was typing this. Happy Thursday, everyone.

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"Lest We Forget, the Suffragette" is a satirical piece written for the Microcosm about the Women's Suffrage Movement. The piece begins with all of the women are trying to decide which man they will use as an escort for Prayer Day. After much deliberation and defeat, the women then resolve to go to the Prayer Day event together, leaving the men to go alone.
The 1909 Microcosm published a humorous piece, the "Debate on Co-Education: Spirited Riot in Harman Literary Meeting." This piece is about a debate amongst the ladies of the Harman Literary Society on whether co-education is better for women or if it is better for women to study at an all-girl's institution.
The 1909-10 student handbook, produced by the Christian
Associations contains parts of the constitution from the Young Women's
Christian Association (YWCA). Included in the handbook is the YWCA's
mission as well as information on membership, officers, and committees.
Officers included are, President Anna M. Bacon, Vice-president Magdalene Leinbach,
Secretary Clara Bell Smith, and Treasurer Blanche Dum. A brief
synopsis ofÂ the Pan-hellenic league, formed by sororities Pi Beta Phi
and Omega Chi, are mentioned in this years handbook. The Pan-Hellenic

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Back for a month now from a five-week stint around Europe, and working on getting some new projects underway:
- look out for a street sign project with collaborator Jerstin Crosby that I keep chuckling to myself about, photos (and a website) forthcoming.
- initiated a new collaboration with recent Portland-to-Pittsburgh transplant Tesar Freeman. Venue is 707 Penn gallery in downtown Pittsburgh this upcoming June 2012; theme is American history, loosely defined at the moment. Right now we're using Tumblr to banter about all sorts of ideas and imagery almost daily, and you're more than welcome to have a look (and follow us) here.
- right before leaving town, the 2011 Pittsburgh Biennial opened it's second wave at the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon and the Andy Warhol Museum. I took an organizational role in seeing the Justseeds installation through over at the Miller, with the help of Mary Tremonte and Bec Young (and quite a bit from the aforementioned Tesar Freeman in his capacity as exhibition coordinator at the Miller). Seventeen Justseeds folks participated in this project - we built an indoor landscape of fluorescent-lit billboards, and you can see some in-progress photos here and the finished work here. The Biennial at the Miller was curated by Astria Suparak.
- while in Europe, I worked with 13 Justseeds collaborators (and more friends and cohorts) on an installation for the 29th Graphics Biennial in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Justseeds won the Gran Prix in 2009, resulting in our 2011 invitation to do an installation at Alkatraz Gallery at Metelkova. There's a whole mess of images from the installation here. After Slovenia, I eventually ended up in Copenhagen, where Mary Tremonte and I (while graciously hosted by Bonnie Fortune and Brett Bloom) put on a Justseeds: Resourced Portfolio exhibit/presentation at YNKB, and also managed to slip out of town for presentations at schools in Odenske and Holbæk (thanks to Jakob Jakobson and Nis Rømer).
- other travel photos for the curious can be found here...
- and I'm back at editing video again, currently plugging away at a reworking of the scene in Old Yeller where Yeller and the Wolf battle to the death. Stay tuned.


Movie buff and Minnesota Vikings Visanthe Shiancoe recently attended a screening of the newest pop cultural phenomenon, Avatar, and we asked him to share his review with us…
“My, my, fellow friends and readers, what do we have here? Is that the offseason clock that has come up and brought me my favorite time of year? No, it’s not Super Bowl season, but movie viewing season, and for this resident movie buff it’s one of the best seasons of all! Some of you may ask, ‘Why is Visanthe Shiancoe and his magic dong reviewing movies for a website that talks too much about dongs?’ and that would be a very good question to ask, so let’s not do so. Instead, let’s remember that I brought you some very critical movie reviews last offseason and that if anything you should be aroused at the idea of me coming back and doing it again and again and again. All night long. And with the look of your ‘come-fuck-me’ eyes I can tell that you are, so let’s get right to it.
Once our season unfortunately ended I made it my head priority to get right back out into the theatres and see the biggest, most alluring and dominating film that movie goers have seen since an accidental locker room incident, Avatar! Now, I wouldn’t be a very good movie reviewer if I didn’t do some background work on the film to find out what it’s about. Before going in I understood it to be a story of emotion, passion, first time experiences, conflict, pressure, giving and taking and an appreciation for something larger, and everyone I had talked to absolutely was gushing about my naked body. Oh, and the film too. But what was my opinion of it?
I found it to be a huge god damn cock tease, that’s my opinion.
By now I assume that everyone in the world has seen this film, clothed and naked (twice), but just in case I will hand out an obligatory SPOILER alert, written in large text, at a part in the article before I start getting into spoilery type details, so I don’t want to hear one person bitching about not having a warning. And since we are now past that, let me ask one critical question; HOW DO THESE AVATAR PEOPLE FUCK, WHY DIDN’T I SEE ANY NIPPLY AND COCKY BITS, AND I COULD TOTALLY PLEASURE THAT 11 FOOT AMAZON NYMPHO. I mean, come on people, did no one else see this movie? What were they doing on the cutting room floor or in the editing room that convinced them that this final product which we ALL saw was somehow the best thing they could come up with? Really? I’m supposed to believe that? Was James Cameron hung in a locker room during editing? And I mean like David Carradine hung, not Visanthe Shiancoe hung. I ask because there is NO WAY he would have let this film leave the cutting floor without a boob flash or cock slip somewhere. He’s too smart for that. Just look at his other great film, Titanic. He had Kate Winslet sprawled out on a couch for like half of the eight hour movie, and he couldn’t squeeze one blue alien tit in there? I call bullshit.
Look, I know the story was bland and I know that this movie wasn’t supposed to be all about the story anyway. Hey, I saw Dances with Wolves and Pocahontas too, ok? They’re all pretty much the same thing, but even in those two some naughty parts made it through. Oh, you think just because Pocahontas was a Disney film that she didn’t flash her cooch in there or there wasn’t a mysterious bulge in John Smith’s pants half the time? Please. It’s not the story that bothered me. The graphics were supposed to be the big money maker for this film and while they stood up, they didn’t jump out for me. Think of all the missed opportunities! You could have shown an Avatar erection and have it jump out at the audience! BREATH TAKING! You could have shown a 3D money shot blow right at the camera and TOTALLY freak some people out! I was anticipating some great action like that the entire film but instead I was left with blurry running, blinding gun flashes, and nauseating tailspins. Yuck. Even when the camera was slow I couldn’t really get into the film because every time I saw the Avatar people standing around I kept thinking ‘Really? Where’s the penis? I mean, I can see right between his legs. And no way her hair always cover her Silver Dollars like that.’ I just couldn’t suspend disbelief.
I’m not asking for much here. In a movie like this I realize not everything is going to be real, but don’t insult me. Let’s give the people want they want and call it a blockbuster. How hard is that? Watchmen did it, why not Avatar? Would I still recommend someone to go see it? Sure. But prepare for a major case of blue balls when you leave the theatre because while the films builds things up it never quite … delivers. Regardless, Visanthe gives it one flaccid locker room dong, which would have been a full blown rager if they would have just sown some X-rated parts.
Oh well. You live and you learn, and then you always wear a towel in the locker room.”


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3SG are based at the Community Wellbeing Hub and work with local charities, community groups and social enterprises in Bath, Chew Valley, Keynsham, Midsomer Norton, Radstock and rural areas. 3SG are founding members of the Compassionate Community movement that encourages and enables individuals, volunteers, organisations and networks to work together, with the shared aim of supporting people in need and building strong local communities.
3SG run a Senior Leaders Network which meets on the last Thursday of the month. 3SG also provide 1-1 development support, facilitate partnership opportunities and run a range of events for charities in Bath and North East Somerset. View all 3SG Members here
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On “Married To Jonas” Kevin Jonas and his wife Danielle Jonas did a photo shoot for Social Life Magazine. The duo got to put on some amazing clothes and take some absolutely gorgeous photos! Watch the video below to let us know which of the scenes they had their photo taken in was your favorite!
Here’s what was shared along with the video below:
Kevin and Dani take cuteness to another level during their cover shoot for ‘Social Life Magazine.’ See this photogenic couple in action!
Have you been watching “Married To Jonas”? We can’t get enough!


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Canada decides how to safely deliver thousands of CRV7 rockets to Ukraine
Canada has called the delivery of thousands of decommissioned CRV7 rockets to Ukraine "a matter of days”
Canada is close to making a final decision on supplying Ukraine with decommissioned CRV7 rockets, which are based on the US Hydra 70. This was stated by Canadian Defense Minister Bill Blair at a briefing in Edmonton.
The Canadian Ministry of Defense is currently assessing how safe it is to transport the CRV7 and how best to do so.
To recap, Canada has revealed details of new defense assistance, including training for Ukrainian pilots
"The safety assessment process will take several days. We are working now to make sure that this ammunition can be safely transported. Once we have everything figured out, it will be just a matter of a few days. We will do everything we can to get this resource to Ukraine as quickly as possible," Blair said.
In February, Canadian opposition MPs from the Conservative Party came up with an initiative to supply Ukraine with a significant amount of aviation ammunition. So far, Canada has been disposing of CRV7s, a process that began in the summer of 2021. Canadian journalists claimed that currently only 8,000 CRV7s are in good condition and have combat parts, while the rest have either been destroyed or dismantled.
“Instead of making Canadians pay millions of dollars to decommission these weapons, common sense Conservatives are calling on the Trudeau government to give these weapons to Ukraine who can use them in the defense of their sovereignty,” Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said at the time.
Because the CRV7 is based on the Hydra 70, it can be launched from the same blocks. These blocks with the original American rockets are already integrated under the wing of Ukrainian helicopters. In addition, the CRV7 can be used to make ground-launched mini-MRLSs.
Overall, the CRV7 is considered to be a fairly successful unguided rocket. Due to a more powerful engine and other changes, its range and accuracy are greater than those of the original Hydra 70.


Rezoning obtained for residential development at Drury East
Mon May 9th 2022
Sue Simons and Kate Storer have successfully obtained rezoning of land for residential development at Drury East.
Sue Simons and Kate Storer have successfully obtained rezoning of 184 hectares of land for residential development at Drury East.
Plan Change 49 to the Auckland Unitary Plan was requested by Fulton Hogan Land Development Limited (FHLD) and has been approved alongside PC48 (Drury Centre) and PC50 (Waihoehoe Precinct) which together, represent a comprehensive scheme for the development of a major new Metropolitan Centre at Drury East.
FHLD worked constructively with the other Drury East developers, Kiwi Property and Oyster Capital, to develop an integrated scheme for the three plan change areas. PC49 enables a range of housing typologies to be constructed in close proximity to the new Drury Centre, adopting a concentric zoning pattern which concentrates zones that enable greater height and density closest to Drury Centre and the new Drury Central train station.
Many of the expert team were shared across the three plan change areas, and the three teams worked closely together. This collaborative approach is unusual and represented a major opportunity to ensure coherent outcomes across the entire Drury East area.
Notwithstanding the identification of Drury as a priority growth area by Auckland Council and central government, the three plan changes met with strong opposition from Auckland Council (as submitter) and Auckland Transport on the basis that insufficient funding is available for key infrastructure requirements.
That position was at odds with the Drury East Developers’ evidence, which demonstrated their commitment to fund and deliver the necessary infrastructure. The Independent Hearings Panel endorsed the position taken by the Drury East Developers and approved the plan changes with only very minor amendment.
The first resource consent applications have already been lodged for the development and FHLD hopes to begin earthworks next year.
Sue Simons said:
“We are very pleased to have obtained this important outcome which will unlock Drury East for development in accordance with the Drury-Opāheke Structure Plan.
The Drury East plan changes were highly contentious thanks to the Council’s dogmatic opposition to the development of Drury. It is unfortunate that Council chose to invest its resources in such litigation rather than engaging with the developers in a constructive manner.
Ultimately, the Panel’s decision was comprehensive and well-reasoned and we are very happy with the result.”
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Press Release - Bill the Butcher Inc. (BILB-OTC: BB)
Bill the Butcher represents a retail model that is the return of the neighborhood butcher shop. We have positioned the business to take advantage of the megatrend, which is a return to healthy eating with meats being local meats from farmers and ranchers that do not contain antibiotics, hormones or steroids. We have six stores open in the greater Seattle area, and a seventh store under construction, with our eight and nine stores already under lease... - Ms. J’Amy Owens (Interview published June 24, 2011) BILB
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BILB | 7/22/2011 10:46:57 AM
SEATTLE, Jul 22, 2011 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX News Network) --
Bill the Butcher (OTCBB:BILB), the return of the neighborhood butcher shop, announced third quarter results.
As a result of the above, our net loss and basic and diluted loss per common share for the quarter was $719,000 and $(0.03) per share, respectively.
-- Six stores currently in operation in greater Seattle area -- Signed leases and began construction for stores 7 and 8 -- Sites selected and leases negotiated for stores 9 and 10 -- Bill the Butcher has completed most improvements on a new commissary which will improve whole animal purchasing, and increase margins 8% to 12%, and allow internet commerce -- 108,097 Individual customer transactions to date -- 3,500 Facebook and Twitter Fans/Followers -- Average sales ticket total of $29
"In only our seventh quarter of operations we are pleased in G&A expense and thrilled about our store performance. With over 100,000 customer transactions and thousands following us on social media it is the embrace of the customer to our mission and cause that is most gratifying to me," stated Bill the Butcher CEO, J'Amy Owens.
Seattle-based Bill the Butcher, Inc. sells organic, grass fed and natural meats through corporate-owned neighborhood butcher shops. The Company works directly with local ranchers and farmers, who follow sustainable and organic practices, to deliver the highest quality meat that is healthiest for consumers while being good for the environment. Founded in 2009, Bill the Butcher is publicly traded under the symbol (OTCBB:BILB). Learn more at http://www.billthebutcher.com.
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meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and
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limited to, statements related to our expansion plans and the
development, build-out, and operation of our new commissary.
Forward-looking statements reflect management's current
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June 8th, 2015
The University of Nottingham is rolling out new support and information for its researchers so they can make research papers open access, allowing peer-reviewed findings to reach new audiences. Law lecturer Dr Mattia Fosci explains how.
Open access makes research available online at no cost to the viewer and with few restrictions on re-use. New evidence suggests open access publishing has many advantages. It increases efficiency and innovation both inside and outside academia, supports the generation of ideas and can lead to new research collaborations.
Open access also expands the visibility of research, helps demonstrate its cultural, social, environmental and economic impacts, and from now on will be a requirement for outputs returned in the REF.
Research funders’ open access policies
To acknowledge the benefits of open access for research and innovation, policies to promote its use have been adopted in recent years by funders such as Research Councils UK, the National Institute for Health Research, the Wellcome Trust, the European Commission and others.
Moreover, to be eligible for submission in the post-2014 Research Excellence Framework, papers accepted for publication after 1 April 2016 will have to be made open access using the Green route.
Nottingham takes the Green route
Changes to the University’s 2009 Open Access Policy, approved in early 2014, require researchers at Nottingham to now archive their publications in the University’s institutional repository, Nottingham ePrints. This is the so-called ‘Green’ route, one of two open access pathways researchers can take.
Researchers may also apply for financial and technical support to make their articles open access on the journal’s own website (the ‘Gold’ route) if their research is funded by RCUK or a member of the Charities Open Access Fund.
All new research articles must now be deposited in Nottingham ePrints upon acceptance for publication and made available in full at the end of the journal’s embargo period. If a funder requires publication before the end of the embargo, authors will need to investigate all methods to making their article open access compliant.
Help to comply with requirements
“This new approach to academic publishing represents quite a culture change,” says Caroline Williams, Director of Libraries, Research and Learning Resources at The University of Nottingham. “We’re working with our researchers to help them integrate new approaches to publishing and making their papers publicly available.”
In order to make open access publishing easier, the University will launch an updated version of the Nottingham ePrints web portal and new open access webpages. In the coming weeks and months, information will be posted online and circulated among academic staff, and training will be provided by a new Library Research Support team.
For more information please visit our open access webpages or contact the Library Research Support Team: email@example.com
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Search is on for missing Tinicum woman Debra Miller (With Video)
TINICUM – A search is currently under way for township resident Debra Miller who went missing last week.
“We’ve assembled our friends and family to see if we can find her,” said Mickey Sullivan, Miller’s brother. “We don’t really know anything and if anyone can help us we’d appreciate it.”
Sullivan said he has not heard from his 38-year-old sister since Saturday of last week. Sullivan said this is out of character for Miller.
Tinicum Police Chief Steve Edmiston said the search would include wooded areas in the township such as the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge.
“We have no reason to believe there was foul play,” Edmiston said. “We’re just eliminating some factors. We’re not sure where she went.”
Sullivan described his sister as being about 5 feet, 8 inches tall with a medium build. She has brown hair and brown eyes.
Edmiston urged anyone with information about Miller’s whereabouts to call the Tinicum Police Department at 610-521-3830 or dial 911.
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