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Last night I saw a film. As I recall it was a horror film…
Of course it was a horror film! Last night Steve and I scoped out the new remake of the Evil Dead. The original films hold a very special place in my heart, as does Bruce Campbell. Because seriously, how is Bruce Campbell not in every lady’s heart? I’ve got a couple of wee spoilers ahead, but really, it’s a remake, so it’s not like I’m telling you anything you don’t already know.
I thought the remake was pretty decent. I liked it. It wasn’t great, though. Honestly I don’t remember if the original is great, or if a comfy gauze of nostalgia has made it that way in my memory. My problem with the remake was that it wasn’t as good as the sum of its parts. The gore was fantastic. The scenes were fantastic. I loved Mia and the premise of her detoxing in the cabin as a viable reason why they couldn’t leave when shit started to get weird. But it the whole movie felt inorganic, that things happened only because they were in a horror movie. Grandpa the dog? You know he’s going to be the first one dead, because he is a dog, and this is a horror film. I appreciated that they used a SUPER FAKE dog puppet for the dead dog. You know some dumbass (and you knew who it was going to be, too) is going to read from the Necronomicon, because this is a horror film, and shit won’t get real unless they do.
That said, I loved being able to notice items around the cabin and know exactly how they would be used for evil (i.e. carving knife). I loved the adoring nods to the original film. And the gore. Oh god, the gore. It was awesome…except for all the needles. For some reason, this was worse for me than Audition. The fucking needle went into his cheek and snapped off there and he had to pull it out…I actually got a little sweaty in the theater watching that, and maybe feel kinda woozy just typing about it. GAAAAH. It’s certainly the strongest physical reaction I’ve ever had to a horror movie.
I dug it, but none of the characters but Mia mattered to me, and that cheapened the experience. The effects are amazing, the ground trodden is familiar but not beaten to death. It’s absolutely worth watching, especially if you enjoyed the original.


Are you a fan of combining different foods and drinks, hoping for a unique and delicious flavor? Well, one combination that may have caught your attention is the pairing of Sprite and bananas. But have you ever wondered what happens if you drink Sprite and eat a banana together? In this article, we’ll dive into the potential effects of consuming these two popular items simultaneously. From digestive issues to nutrient absorption, let’s uncover the truth about this curious combination.
What Happens If You Drink Sprite and Eat a Banana?
There’s no doubt that both Sprite and bananas are popular choices when it comes to quenching your thirst and satisfying your hunger. However, you may be wondering what happens if you consume these two together. Is it safe? Will there be any negative effects?
In this article, we will delve into the potential effects of drinking Sprite and eating a banana at the same time. From digestive issues to nutrient absorption, we will uncover the truth behind this combination. So, let’s get started!
The Nutritional Content of Sprite and Bananas
Before we dive into the potential effects of combining Sprite and bananas, it’s essential to understand the nutritional content of both of these foods.
Let’s start with Sprite. This carbonated drink is primarily made up of carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup, citric acid, natural flavors, and caffeine. It also contains artificial sweeteners such as aspartame and acesulfame potassium.
On the other hand, a medium-sized banana contains around 105 calories, 27 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of protein, and almost no fat. It also provides essential nutrients such as fiber, vitamin C, and potassium.
From a nutritional standpoint, bananas are undoubtedly the healthier option between the two. But what happens when you combine them with Sprite?
One of the potential consequences of drinking Sprite and eating a banana together is digestive problems. This is because Sprite is highly acidic, with a pH level of around 2.5. Consuming acidic drinks can irritate the lining of your stomach, leading to stomach pain, bloating, and even nausea.
Furthermore, bananas contain resistant starch, which is a type of carbohydrate that resists digestion in the small intestine. Instead, it reaches the large intestine where it ferments, producing gases that can lead to bloating and flatulence.
When these two are combined, the acidic nature of Sprite can increase the fermentation process, causing even more gas and discomfort. So, if you have a sensitive stomach, it’s best to avoid this combination altogether.
Another potential effect of consuming Sprite and bananas together is impaired nutrient absorption. Bananas are an excellent source of several essential nutrients, including potassium, which plays a vital role in regulating blood pressure and muscle function.
However, the citric acid in Sprite can reduce the absorption of potassium and other minerals like magnesium and calcium. This can lead to deficiencies in these essential nutrients, which can cause a range of health issues, including muscle weakness and high blood pressure.
Moreover, the artificial sweeteners in Sprite, such as aspartame and acesulfame potassium, can also interfere with your gut bacteria, thus hindering the absorption of nutrients from your food.
Drinking Sprite and eating a banana together can also result in a sugar overload. While bananas are a naturally sweet fruit, they are also a good source of fiber, which helps slow down the absorption of sugar into your bloodstream.
However, when paired with Sprite, which is high in sugar and contains no fiber, your body may experience a sudden spike in your blood sugar levels. This can lead to a temporary energy boost, followed by a crash that leaves you feeling fatigued and craving more sugar.
In the long run, consuming too much sugar can increase your risk of developing health issues such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease.
Since bananas are low in fat and contain essential nutrients, many people consider them to be a healthy snack option. However, when paired with Sprite, which is high in calories and sugar, this combination can quickly turn into a weight gain culprit.
A can of Sprite contains around 140 calories and 38 grams of sugar, which is almost the same amount of sugar found in two medium-sized bananas. Consuming this much sugar in one sitting can lead to weight gain, especially if you’re not burning off those excess calories through physical activity.
To put things into perspective, an extra intake of 3500 calories can lead to a one-pound weight gain. So, if you regularly consume Sprite and bananas together without balancing it with a healthy diet and adequate exercise, you may see the number on the scale creep up.
Lastly, there have been cases reported of individuals experiencing allergic reactions after consuming Sprite and bananas together. While both foods are generally safe and unlikely to cause an allergic reaction, it’s possible for some people to have an allergy to one of the ingredients in either of these foods.
The most common allergy associated with Sprite is a sensitivity to artificial sweeteners, particularly aspartame. On the other hand, bananas can cause allergies in individuals who are allergic to latex or have a cross-reaction to birch tree pollen.
If you experience symptoms such as hives, swelling, and difficulty breathing after consuming Sprite and bananas together, it’s crucial to seek medical attention immediately.
In conclusion, while Sprite and bananas are both popular food choices, consuming them together may not be the best idea. From digestive issues to impaired nutrient absorption and weight gain, drinking Sprite and eating a banana together can have several potential adverse effects.
If you’re looking for a refreshing drink to pair with your banana, consider opting for water or a natural fruit juice instead. Water is always the best choice for hydration, while fruit juices provide essential nutrients without the added artificial ingredients found in Sprite.
Ultimately, it’s essential to listen to your body and pay attention to how certain foods make you feel. If you experience any discomfort or negative effects, it’s best to avoid that combination and opt for healthier alternatives.
In conclusion, consuming Sprite and bananas together may have potential effects on the body. While it may seem harmless, combining these two foods can lead to digestive issues such as bloating and discomfort. Additionally, the high sugar content in Sprite may interfere with the absorption of nutrients from the banana, affecting its overall nutritional value. It is important to be mindful of what we eat and how we combine foods to ensure optimal digestion and nutrient absorption. As with any dietary choices, moderation is key and consulting a healthcare professional is always recommended for any concerns regarding individual health and nutrition.


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A History of Carmarthenshire
Lloyd, Sir John E., (Ed.). 2 vols., Cardiff, London Carmarthenshire Society (1935, 1939).
With the kind permission of the publishers sundry extracts from this book have been extracted by Gareth Hicks.
Agriculture --- The eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
By G Dyfnallt Owen
The travellers, who continued to visit Carmarthenshire in ever increasing numbers during the 18th century, were not content to repeat the eulogistic phraseology of their predecessors as to the amazing fertility of the county and the pleasant scenes of agricultural activity which they witnessed. They were persons who were not only deeply interested in all that they saw around them, the scenery and rural craftmanship, feminine headdress and the statistics of prices, but they made a commendable and often successful attempt to come into contact with the inhabitants of the countryside, and to study their modes of living, their everyday habits, and their idiosyncrasies, with sympathy and insight. They were, fortunately, more observant and inquisitive than the superficial visitors of the preceding century, and were capable of writing pictorial descriptions of the conditions of life and labour which they investigated with a lucidity which has not yet been surpassed. It is due to their copious notes and lengthy descriptions that a comprehensive account of rural life in Carmarthenshire can be given without any question arising as to its accuracy and reliability.
During the greater part of the 18th century, there was no momentous event in the history of the shire's agriculture. Defoe, for instance, pays a graceful tribute to the civility of the rural classes whom he met, which he attributed partly to their commercial dealings with the outside world, but his description of the farming conditions in the county does not suggest that he found them more interesting or more satisfactory than in other parts of the kingdom. Neither did Pococke, who travelled through Carmarthenshire in 1730 and in later years, profess himself to be enraptured by an extraordinary sight of rural prosperity, and seemed to be more stimulated by the abundance of fish of all kinds which, apparently, teemed in the rivers Towy and Taf. It may thus be assumed that life in the rural districts was comparatively uneventful, apart from the excitement caused by parliamentary elections, which shook the rural community from time to time, and the confusion and loss which resulted from periodic inundations by the rivers of the county, in particular, the Towy.
There appeared to be no protection from the sporadic tendency of this river to flood the countryside in its vicinity. Many of the tourists testify to the calamity which befell the unfortunate farmers in its neighbourhood when it had overflown its banks. Malkin described the floods in rainy seasons as 'most impetuous and frequently produce serious mischief to the husbandry of the vale. Barber contributes a realistic picture of a flood which had disastrous results on the cultivation and livestock of the valley; 'the morning that we left Llandilo brought with it a scene of affliction to the neighbouring country; one of those deluging rains which often do so much mischief in mountainous countries fell with unparalleled violence during the night, when the vast accession of water, unable to discharge itself by the ordinary channels, swept away trees, fences, small buildings, cattle and poultry in its devious course. Several mills were destroyed, and many an industrious cottager, awakened by the flood eddying round his bed, saw himself at once dispossessed of the fruits of many years' hard savings.' Other travellers, like Lipscombe and Spence, also commiserate the helplessness of farmers in the face of the floods. The mischief caused by the floods cannot be overestimated, especially as the farmers were, to a very great extent, dependent upon their livestock and crops to liquidate the heavy charges upon their holdings.
Hunting was, of course, the privileged sport of the gentry, who took it seriously, and solved the problem of maintaining their hounds by throwing the responsibility of feeding and tending them upon the shoulders of their tenants. Ostensibly, the reason for entrusting the tenants with their care was to stimulate the interest of local people in the hunt, and it would appear that one traveller --- an English lady --- found little to amuse her in this custom, inasmuch as she declared that ' any person who keeps hounds quarters one or two of these voracious beasts upon every tenant,' and states it to be the result of the subservience of the tenants to the landlord, and a relic of the manorial custom of obedience to the lord which had not completely disappeared. Otters, as well as foxes, were hunted by the gentry, and the tenants were obliged to endure the considerable losses caused by the chase through their cornfields and meadows. But it must not be thought that the gentry were so engrossed in their multifarious amusements , and wrapped in the seclusion of their manors, as to be inattentive to public affairs. On one occasion they anticipated an intrigue on the part of certain persons in Carmarthenshire to monopolise the supply of salmon and raise its price by exporting it abroad; by prompt action they prevented a riot. Under their supervision also, the administration of law and the maintenance of order were duly carried out, although affected at times by the intrusion of bribery and corruption.
The richer classes of the farming community benefited by the absence of political and economic crises to prosecute their fortunes as assiduously as possible. Their industry and thrift were commented on by many travellers, and in some cases, they were able to aspire to, and attain, a status corresponding to the poorer class of gentry. It is recorded in 1802 that 'luxury has travelled into this county and has its votaries in the mountains. They contain more than one farmer, who, in imitation of their English brothers of the plough, keep their geldings for the chase and side saddle pads for the ladies of the dairy, who feather their caps for the finest of farmer's wives and daughters, whom we have seen at the rural assemblies, and acting the character of duchesses for that night only .'
But, these would be members of the hunt were rare, and the majority of the tenants were content with the cultivation of the soil. It was the custom that the womenfolk should undertake the disposal of the products of the field and dairy, while their men laboured behind the plough, although it was no uncommon sight to see a young girl directing the plough, and performing those manual farm duties usually associated with male servants. One traveller observed this particularly in Carmarthenshire; ' Labour seems to be equally divided between men and women, and it is as common to meet a woman driving a plough as it is to see Taffy at the milk pail'; and another remarked that 'the women join more in the labours of the field than in England.' A man holds the plow drawn by four horses but oftener by six oxen, and a girl drives them and sometimes rides upon one of them. The men more generally drive the carts and waines but the girls and women usually drive a horse, dragging a kind of sledge.
The dress of the womenfolk of the more opulent farmer also elicited complimentary observations. It was described as a garter blue or brown jacket, a petticoat and a black beaver hat. The jacket was edged with binding of different colours. They did not show much of their hair, but confined it with a short cap, rounded at the ears and tied under the chin. A simple form of mantle was thrown over their shoulders --- a square piece of white flannel, bordered with coloured binding. Both the farmers and their wives attended market on horseback, and it would appear that to walk on foot was an indubitable sign of poverty. Many tourists recorded their admiration of the easy manner in which the people, even old ladies, rode their horses, despite the fact that the latter were often mere ponies, pastured on the hill tops and hardly domesticated. They were inclined to be restive, and to take the bit between their teeth at the approach of strangers. It was the spectacle of one of these uneasy cavalcades that must have prompted a tourist to remark that ' none of their ponies would pass me, and their unexpected whirligig propensity occasioned several nymphs to lose the centre of gravity and some swains to become Welsh John Gilpins.'
The fare of this class of farmer was simple, but most nutritious. It usually consisted of home produce, such as milk, butter, cheese, oatcake, and barley-bread, but they were sufficiently prosperous to buy fresh meat at Carmarthen market. It would seem that this was not the case throughout the whole shire, and that the circumstances of the farmer were often conditioned by the nature of the land which he cultivated. Thus, whereas the rich soil of the Towy valley provided the local farmers with means to attain a high degree of material comfort, the hilly districts of north Carmarthenshire permitted no such luxuries in fare and clothing, so that the men of this region were forced to live chiefly on a course kind of black bread, which was disagreeable in taste.
(the book has a copy of an engraving titled ' Inside of a kitchen in Newcastle Emlyn, by Rowlandson 1800)
Around Laugharne, potatoes and buttermilk were additional provisions in the farmhouse, while salted bacon, salmon, and herrings were not uncommon dishes. At Llangadock, a particular kind of oaten bread was eaten, which reminded a Breton tourist of the 'galette' --- the principal fare of his countrymen --- in its shape and thinness.' The variety and wholesomeness of the food must have had an excellent effect upon the constitution and appearance of the farmers, for one English tourist paid a compliment to their demeanour, 'in short there are a healthiness, cleanliness and ease in the countenance of the Welsh peasant that indicate that they are much better fed and clothed than ours are'.
The houses, even of this relatively rich class of farmers, were not all that could be desired. They were usually more like small and ungainly cottages than buildings of stone, and were often made the object of trenchant criticism by travellers. This was partly due to the fact that there was very little building stone in Carmarthenshire, especially in the northern districts, although the farmers were not averse to pilfering stones from the ruins of neighbouring castles. But, generally, the houses were miserable, often consisting of walls of mud with thatched roofs, and curiously constructed chimneys. These one traveller described as 'openings in the roofs constructed of a kind of crate work, covered with straw, and bound round with a twisted rope of the same material. All the houses were whitewashed, sometimes even the slates of the best buildings. Whereas the latter consisted of two floors, the smaller homes possessed only one ground floor of baked mud. It was often the case that the negligence or apathy of a landlord aggravated the squalor and slovenliness of his tenants. Thus, on the Abermarlais estate, owned by Cornwallis Mead, where the mansion was old and shabby, the farm houses and cottages of the tenants 'were destitute of glass windows, instead of which neat chequered lattice work' was substituted, according to one observer, who goes on to add that ' the inhabitants of these wretched huts are better cloathed and have less unjoyous countenances than the tenants of better houses in England; their woollen cloathes are not so subject to hang in tatters as the slight stuffs and linen of the English'.
Peat and turf were the common kinds of fuel used in these houses, especially in north Carmarthenshire, where the still extensive commons offered an inexhaustible supply of both; the farmers devoted a specific period in the year to the turf harvest, digging and stacking it, and conveying it to their farms on carts or sledges. The smell was disagreeable to a sensitive tourist who wrote that ' its smell in some places is painfully oppressive to strangers of delicate nerves.' In the south-west of the shire, however, culm was used --- a fuel which excited the curiosity of almost every traveller who passed that way. According to one of them ; 'a singular custom for a country abounding in coals attracted our notice in this and other parts of the county of Carmarthen, and furnishes a lesson of economy to other counties, that of making and using as their principal fuel what are termed hovilles, that is, balls composed of a mixture of sludge or clay and culm or small coal dust, in a proportion of two of the former to one of the latter, which, after being exposed to the air and dried, make an excellent fire, producing a clear and lasting light.' He considered it to be an old custom which was 'doubtless the production of necessity after the decay of the woods, and previous to the discovery of coal in any great abundance.'
The indoor and outdoor activities of the farmers allowed them very little time to seek distraction from the routine of agricultural operations. When they were not occupied in the fields, both sexes had multifarious duties to perform within the house. Their industry, especially that of the women, was proverbial. During the long winter nights, they applied themselves to the manufacture of baskets and floor matting, which they showed great ingenuity in making out of rushes, 'equal in appearance', wrote one observer, ' to the fine matting imported from India'. Another, enquiring the way to Carmarthen of a farmer's wife, who was churning at the door, remarked with astonishment that she took up her knitting as she directed him on the way, in order to lose no valuable time. This phenomenon of tireless activity was not uncommon in this tourist's experience, for he added that ' such instances of persevering activity were frequent throughout the principality, but more particularly from hence westward, where not a female was to be seen unemployed in knitting, however she might be otherwise at work, in carrying loads or driving cattle.
The poorest class of farmers and the labourers, who depended upon the cultivation of a small parcel of ground for their sustenance and who assisted their wealthier neighbours in the capacity of farm servants, led a precarious existence. They comprised the majority of the rural community, and their numbers increased at a rapid rate during the latter half of the 18th century. One tourist went so far as to declare that the population of the agricultural area around Carmarthen had doubled in thirty years, and it is probable that the greater part of them pertained to the class living on the margin of security. They were to be found scattered throughout the villages of the shire, leading a most miserable life, often supplementing their starvation wages with parish relief, and often quitting the land to swell the hordes of unemployed and destitute who swarmed in the streets of Carmarthen and other towns. Their dwellings were pitiable hovels, and when one considers the expense of building a mud hut amounted to the sum of £10, one can imagine the type of home inhabited by these unfortunate people. In the neighbourhood of Laugharne and St Clears, they were able to cover their hovels with a thin stone which they transported from Pen Arthur near Cilmaenllwyd, although many of the cottages, according to one tourist, 'were all of mud and thatched, the chimneys of which, that is, the part of them above the roof, are composed merely of sticks interlaced like basket-work, but I presume that they were plaistered within, tho' in many places we could see through them.'
There were two prescribed methods by which the labourers and farmers could stave off starvation and also the alternative of abandoning the land and seeking work in the towns. The first was by obtaining work either on the farms of the more prosperous members of the community, or on public works undertaken by the parish. Wages were extremely low, and the manual work hard. The former varied a great deal, and each farmer paid according to his estimate of the value of the service rendered. In certain parts of the country, the daily wage was ninepence, but, generally speaking, the farmers preferred to pay small sums of money annually, supplemented by free board and payments in kind. For instance, in one contract with a labourer, the latter was allowed clothes and a place to keep half a dozen sheep, while another received flannel for one shift and sufficient land to sow a bushel of potatoes. Sometimes, in periods of distress, the parish interfered with the monetary arrangements between farmer and labourer, and decided what the minimum wage should be, or agreed that the labourers should be divided by lot between the local farmers to work for a certain sum daily, but as the majority of the members of the Vestry were composed of well-to-do farmers, it is doubtful whether the labourers received the best of the bargain.
Neither was the lot of the labourer much improved if he chanced to enter the service of the gentry. It was reputed that ' wages in this county are astonishingly low, Lord Dinefor not paying his labourers either in the Garden or Farm more than seven shillings a week, which is the general custom of the county, without any perquisite of beer or anything whatever, but small as the sum may appear to the proprietor, it is not so much gain as might be supposed, as the labour they do in comparison with the English labourer, who is better fed, nearly makes up for the additional sum he is paid.'
It is not surprising, therefore, that the standard of living of the rural labouring classes was low. They were poorly dressed, and went without shoes and stockings, and one tourist remarked that ' the men are distinguished by their broad hats and bare feet; as for the difference of sex, it could hardly be perceived in them if it was not for the criterion of the breeches.' Most of the women wore a coloured handkerchief under their hats, ' as if they were afflicted with the mumps or the toothache,' wrote one amused observer. Their fare was as poor as their dress, and extremely frugal. It consisted of oatcake and cheese, while those who lived near the estuary of the Towy were very partial to cockles.
The second method of making both end meet was the cultivation of small allotments of land surrounding the homes, or the manufacture of small woollen articles during the winter evenings, to be disposed of in the local markets. A very descriptive and informative picture of the labourer at home is given by Arthur Young in his trip through the shire in 1776. 'The poor people spin a great deal of wool and weave it into flannel for their own wear; no linen is worn by them, flannel supplying the place .... The poor live on barley bread, cheese and butter; not one in ten have either pigs or cows, fare very poorly and rarely touch meat. Their little gardens they plant with cabbages, carrots, leeks, and potatoes.' Around Llandilo, the labourers had a more prosperous look; ' among the poor, there is a little spinning and weaving of flannel, but few of them wear linen; they manage to buy some wool, spin and send it to the weavers, who earn 1/- to 1/3 a day. Some spin hemp and flax for canvas sacking. Many in the mountains knit stockings, which are bought up in small fairs, and carried to Worcester, etc. They live on barley or oaten bread and cheese. Most get meat once a week; very few keep cows, but some have pigs fed on acorns.'
The labourers were often obliged to resort to other means to maintain their domestic establishment. It was the custom in Carmarthenshire, as well as in other shires, for many of them to migrate to the English border counties to participate in the harvest, and to return home with their earnings at the beginning of winter. Later, when the industrialisation of Glamorgan was far advanced, many labourers left the shire to find employment in the coal pits and iron works. 'There are great numbers' wrote Iolo Morganwg, 'that go out of this county periodically; they are everywhere met with in Glamorgan, and half the hands employed in Collieries, Copper works and Iron works --- and more than half the curates-- are from Carmarthenshire.' The rural exodus had commenced.
Cereals and live stock were still the predominant products of the rural areas, and great quantities of them continued to be exported from the shire. Vaughan's dream of equilibrium between pastoral and arable farming had materialised, and it was rarely --- except in the mountainous districts---that grassland and ploughland exceeded one another very noticeably in acreage. Most of the tourists wax eulogistically over the climate and fertility of the shire, but the main crops were still barley and oats. The soil was not considered to be favourable to the growth of wheat, although Iolo Morganwg opined that it was most appropriate for this cultivation, and attributed the neglect to the ignorance and conservatism of the farmers. When confronted by the argument that any attempt to grow wheat would be nullified by a peculiar blast, due to the inclemency of the weather, he expostulated 'I am angry; what a stupid county!' and added that the soil and disposition of the surface of the shire were eminently suitable for wheat. Most other travellers, however, agree that wheat growing within the shire was likely to meet with very little success.
The method employed in harvesting the corn attracted the attention of many visitors, of whom one, appreciating the ingenuity of the farmers described it fully. 'Harvest is now beginning, a great deal of Corn of all kinds in this Country, but the weather for getting it in is indifferent....The Cradle Scythes....have been used here time immemorial, they mow all their oats and barley with them, and lay it smoother and evener for binding than it can possibly be done with a Sickle. All their Corn is bound in very small sheaves, and immediately piled into what they call field mows, a method of husbandry so much superior to all others that I cannot but wonder why it is not universal. Their method of making them is this; five or six sheaves are set up on their bottoms; against these more are laid, still as the circumference is increased more and more horizontally till at last they are so flat that others may be laid upon them without slipping off. At this time, the circumference is from ten to twelve yards. They are then carried up of the same size till about six feet high, the ears always being put inwards. The sheaves are then laid more perpendicular that they make a shelving roof, by decreasing every time the circumference (sic). When about the height of ten feet, it is composed of about six sheaves, which must be bound together by a small band made of a small part of each, twisted up and tucked into the band of the next; two sheaves are then put together and tyed at the straw end very fast while the Corn is left loose; this is inverted over the heads of the others, and made fast there by a fresh band ... Thus, the straw is made to form a complete covering to the corn, which by being thrown into the centre remains untouched by the severest rains, while it mellows itself and becomes fit to be put up in large quantities either in Ricke or Barn. They say in this Country that these mows will bear a month or six weeks rainy weather, without the least damage.' The instrument used in mowing the corn did not escape the eyes of the tourists, of whom one declared, ' I must again express my admiration at the implements of Carmarthenshire Husbandry; some fellows were mowing oats with the most awkward scythes , with great labour and violent distortions of the body. The cutting and laying the Swath in its proper place were distinct operations; instead of the simple curved stick at the end of the scythe, there is a piece of wood fixed with three teeth, three-quarters of the length of the scythe and parallel with it, upon which the Corn is lodged every stroke, and then deposited in the row.' The method of raking corn, and the implement used, were interesting objects of comment on the part of tourists. 'Their method of raking in this country,' wrote one English traveller,' is, I think, much superior to ours. The heads of their rakes are six feet long, with strong and long teeth; the handles, of about the same length, have a pin stuck into them about two feet from the end, which the right hand lays hold of, while the left guides it. Two or three or may be more people go in a row with these rakes trailing after them discharging what they pick up in equal rows which, if they keep together, they cannot fail of doing. By this means, the most part of the Corn is collected, and what the Rake misses is laid straight, so that a cross raking is sure to pick it up. In this manner is Land carefully managed, tho' a great deal of Corn is left in the Binding, it will be so completely got together that scarce enough will be left for the Pigs and Geese; and that too in half the time, and with half the trouble of our light Rakes.'
The surplus corn was put up for sale in the local markets and was conveyed there in a peculiar type of sledge, which was the common farming carriage in the shire. It was a simple contrivance, consisting of ' two rude poles between which the horse is placed; their ends trail on the ground, towards which extremity there are two or three cross bars; a few upright sticks from these complete the carriage.'
Lime remained the most popular and cheapest manure. In the words of one visitor, 'the Welsh seem to know the use and value of lime much better than the English.' Lime was commonly used on pasture and arable land alike, and it was assumed that it would be impossible to raise a crop of cereals without making constant use of it. Carmarthenshire was fortunate in its abundance of lime. There were kilns dotted all over the countryside, in the neighbourhood of the Sawdde river, at Llandebie, Llangadock, St Clears, Llandilo, so that it was within easy reach of most agriculturists. Those who lived in the most isolated districts transported it to their homes in paniers on horses, while the lowland farmers conveyed it in their rough and narrow wheeled carts. It was also reasonably cheap, costing three shillings a load at the kiln, and as three to ten loads were considered sufficient to every acre and were expected to produce three good crops, the farmers were lavish in their application to the soil. Lime laid on grass brought white clover, and increased the quality of the hay, and it was also spread on meadow land as a deterrent to rushes and noxious weeds.
Other crops grown were potatoes, flax, peas and clover. 'Potatoes', wrote a traveller, 'are pretty abundant near the thinly scattered and miserable cottages that are seen from the road, but few other culinary vegetables are to be found,' and it would seem that, as in Ireland, they formed the staple diet of the labourers. Flax was grown on certain hill sides in North-east Carmarthenshire, and the seed itself was imported from abroad. In 1782, flax seed was allowed to be conveyed to this country in neutral ships navigated by foreign mariners, but, although this stimulated the growth of flax, it never became a popular product on the Carmarthenshire countryside.
Cattle and sheep formed the primary categories of live stock in the shire. The latter received the commendation of numerous tourists, by reason of their numbers and the excellence of their wool. The greater proportion of them, of course, were confined to the mountainous pasture land of the shire in the north and north-east, and it was estimated that the tenant farmer at Ystradffin possessed from 1,500 to 2,000 sheep. Tens of thousands of them were computed to be browsing on the hills above Llandovery, and their special characteristic was the possession of long tails. It would also seem that the Black Mountains in 1785 were inhabited by shepherds only. The finest breed of sheep, however, and the best quality of wool were to be found in the neighbourhood of Kidwelly marshes. They were a cross of indigenous and Devon breeds, and in attempting to explain the superiority of this type, one traveller remarked, 'Without supposing something in the salt marsh herbage, it will be difficult to account for the superiority in the wool, as the great prerequisites to produce fine wool are here wanting; frequent crossing and housing in inclement weather. These sheep are left to the care of a common shepherd during the summer months and are wintered on the leys of the higher ground, without other fodder, except in snow, during winter. Besides, it is well known that the Spanish shepherds deal out salt freely to their fine woolled flocks, and it is highly probable this ingredient in their food may produce a considerable effect, both in the carcase and the wool.
Carmarthenshire cattle did not seem to possess much variety of colour, 'some herds being all red, others all black, but they are not universally small'. The greater majority of them, however, appear to have been black, which were a feature of the Dynevor estate. The farmers were much dependent upon their cattle to pay their rents and dues. As one visitor observed, 'the black cattle and horses bred on the hills fill all the fairs of the neighbouring districts, and contribute in a great measure to the support of the farmers.' This fact offers an explanation of the importance of the common of pasture, which farmers formerly enjoyed and which was being threatened by the enclosing activities of the landlords. Cattle were appreciated also for their usefulness in the fields. 'Every farmer,' wrote Arthur Young,' keeps cows and rears many calves; one of £30 will have fifteen cows and rear seven to eight calves for oxen to plough with. All calves are reared, and when three year old are worked for one or two years and then killed.'
Before the growth of modern marts and auctions, cattle were despatched by road to the famous and more frequented markets of England, especially in the county of Kent, and this gave rise to the profession of the drover, a famous figure in Welsh history and literature from the 16th to the end of the 19th century. In the 17th century, pigs had been driven from Carmarthenshire to be sold in England, but it was the renowned black cattle of Wales which brought prosperity and fame to the Welsh drovers. Many travellers, on their way to Carmarthenshire, met them driving their herds along the dusty roads, and causing what one would now call a traffic block. 'Droves of black cattle', wrote one, 'and horses began now to meet us on their way to England. It seems to be a profitable speculation to deal in these animals. The poor Welsh farmer depends more on his live stock to pay his rent than on the produce of the earth, which seldom furnishes more than a subsistence for himself and his family. Warner also mentions that his journey towards Carmarthenshire was retarded by these herds, which were transported across the Severn to be sold in the large towns of Somerset, Gloucester and Wiltshire. Carmarthenshire drovers usually made for Llandovery, where there was much rich meadow land for resting fields; passing through Felindre turnpike gates, they left the main track and joined the cattle track from Cardiganshire at Llandulas, and so on to Rhydspence on the borders of Radnor and Hereford. They could also take the road from Carmarthen to Llandovery and thence to Builth, if they wished to avoid the toll gates at Felindre.
In the early days of banking, merchants used to give cash to drovers to deliver to creditors. The drovers left the money at home, and paid the merchants' creditors out of the proceeds of the sale of the cattle. This led, in time, to the establishment of private banks by drovers, and early in the 18th century several banks were founded by members of the droving community. They were occasionally rich enough to lend money on interest, and there is an instance of one Thomas Phillips, in the parish of Penboyr, stipulating in his will that the sum of £80 should be paid to one Morris Morgan the drover, as a debt due to him. That the drovers were not always scrupulous in their financial dealings may be inferred from a statute passed in the reign of Anne, which provided that they should be entitled to be deemed bankrupt, if they could not free themselves from their obligations. Vicar Pritchard has also some trenchant criticism of the drover's lack of scruple, and exhorts him, in one of his poems, to be honest in his dealings, to fulfil his promises, to refrain from imbibing too freely, and to drop the habit of absconding with his employer's money to Ireland and the Low Countries.
Towards the last decades of the 18th century, there was a change in the attitude of the landlords of Carmarthenshire towards the amelioration of agricultural conditions and methods. This meant a reversal of the popular idea that land should be regarded as the basis of social status and local or national influence, and the means whereby that status was maintained. The foreign policy of England and the intense industrial development in many parts of the country put an end to this limited conception of the value of land, and led to a more profitable realisation of its utility. The constant wars which afflicted Europe during the 18th century, and into which the country was inevitably drawn by reason of its own interests, led to frequent fluctuations in the price of corn and other forms of country produce, and placed a premium on the cultivation of the soil. This encouragement to the exploitation of land was helped by the economic consequences of the Industrial Revolution, which concentrated a large proportion of the population in the ore and coal mining and the textile manufacturing areas, and led to a corresponding increase in the demand for the necessaries of life. Many of the farseeing English landowners had anticipated these events, and had adopted almost revolutionary methods of increasing the productivity of their land and the numbers of their live-stock. In this way land gained a greater importance as a source of supply for the market, so that its proprietors were no longer merely persons of local influence, but potential business men.
Wales had always lagged behind England in industrial development and material comfort, and its efforts to follow its neighbour were due to successful experiments and ventures in industry and farming across the border. This is as true of Carmarthenshire as any other Welsh shire. It was, perhaps, fortunate that the town of Carmarthen was not only the administrative centre of English rule, but was a centre of commercial enterprise and organisation based on similar organisations in England. Any reforming movement in English rural economy or municipal industrial life was bound, sooner or later, to reach the shire by means of the land and sea communications which connected it with England, so that it is not surprising that the enlightened policy of some of the English landlords , not to speak of their more questionable methods, were soon emulated by the Carmarthenshire landlords. But it must be added that the attempts of the latter to improve the husbandry of the shire were greatly assisted by the existence of a growing industrial population within the shire itself and in the neighbouring county of Glamorgan. The needs of manual labourers and their prolific families were not such as any landlord who regarded his interests could afford to ignore.
It is not easy to trace the steps of this agrarian revolution in Carmarthenshire, but one may well attribute it to that condition of success --- a closer association with England. In 1776, Arthur Young had undertaken a tour in Wales and had visited the county, where he had elicited some items of information, and had incorporated them in an account of his tour which he published in his Annals of Agriculture. It is possible that many landlords were subscribers to the Annals of Agriculture and thus kept in contact with the latest suggestions and schemes for the development of the industry. This closer association with England was strengthened by the policy of the newly-formed Board of Agriculture, which in 1793 undertook a comprehensive survey of agricultural conditions in the shires of England and Wales with a view to recommending improvements. In Carmarthenshire, this work was allocated to one Charles Hassall, who was conversant with the shire, and twenty years later it was followed by a fuller and more detailed survey drawn up on behalf of the same Board by Gwallter Mechain. These two reports were the prelude of further surveys, in which the shire received as full a measure of attention and study as any other county in West Wales.
But no effort by the government, or any other extraneous authority, could in itself have roused the agricultural population of the shire to an appreciation of reforms. Indirect action had to be implemented by reforms and efforts undertaken from within; any project for the amelioration of farming had to come from those who had the power to effect it, and it was fortunate for the shire that it possessed a number of landlords who believed in the more novel methods employed by English landowners to improve their estates. It is interesting to note in this connection that tourists who visited the country were lavish in their praises of improvements effected by local landlords, but that they reserved their highest praise for those who were not natives of the shire. At this time a considerable number of estates were in the hands of Englishmen, , who had purchased them and retired to live on them, but who were, nevertheless, much concerned with their betterment. A certain Du Buisson , for example, had originally settled in the shire as the proprietor of an iron work, and had bought the estate of Glynhir, which he had made 'by great perseverance and profound agricultural knowledge, from cold mountain ground, as good land as any in the County'. In the neighbourhood of Llandilo, 'besides the mansions belonging to large estates, there are more gentlemen's houses on a small scale within five miles....than anywhere in South Wales, excepting some parts of Glamorganshire.' These, it would appear, were mostly occupied by retired English army captains and naval officers, who took a deep interest in agricultural matters. Their first venture was to establish an Agricultural Society to instil into their own tenants their progressive ideas, and that by the method of offering prizes and premiums. The Society for the Encouragement of Agriculture and Industry in the County of Carmarthen was founded in the year 1795, and its principal object was to encourage the introduction of an approved system of agriculture and to excite a spirit of industry and emulation among the poorer farmers and cottagers. Amongst its subscribers were men of position and means such as squires, parsons, solicitors, and substantial farmers, who each paid a guinea as a qualification for membership. Every parish which subscribed over two guineas had the right to send a delegate to the meetings of the society, which were held four times a year, twice at the Bear Inn at Llandilo, and twice at the Ivy Bush, Carmarthen. The society published its annual programme, containing particulars of competitions and prizes, for many years in Welsh, in order to attract the notice of the smaller farmers and labourers, but this custom seems to have been discontinued after 1802.
Premiums were annually offered for a variety of rural operations, such as breeding good bulls, raising clover seed, reclamation of waste land, enclosures, cultivation of best beds of turnips and cabbages, together with other vegetables, raising of buckwheat for manure, hoeing turnips, draining land, planting corn and vegetable crops in succession, and many others. Further prizes were intended to stimulate the planting and fencing of forest trees, the planting of willows for hurdles, and other trees for building purposes; here a distinction was made between the tenants and the landowners, inasmuch as the former had to obtain the permission of the latter to engage in this competition.
With regard to the cottagers, who formed an appreciable proportion of the farming community, their industry received a fillip through the offer of premiums to those who manufactured the greatest quantity and the best quality of cloth and flannel spun at home by wives and children, or who knitted the best and greatest number of stockings. Prizes were also bestowed upon those cottagers, whether day labourers or the widows of labourers, who maintained their families by their own labour and without parish assistance.
It will be seen that the activities of the society extended to all rural occupations, except those of the small craftsmen who had not yet been divorced from the countryside. The ideal of its promoters was the maintenance and further development of the old type of rural community, in which all who depended upon farming, landlords, freeholders, and tenants alike, should contribute something towards the prosperity of all. Despite the criticism of one tourist, who declared that 'with respect to the agricultural society of this county, it seems rather to aim at the fanciful refinements of an imaginary system than to direct the judgement and skill of gentlemen and farmers to practical purposes,' there is little doubt that the society contributed largely to the adjustment of farming methods to the economic changes of the industrial world and to the general rehabilitation of agriculture itself. One traveller, on a visit to the neighbourhood of Laugharne, was pleased, 'to observe a more rational husbandry than is generally seen in this part of the kingdom. The Kentish and Norfolk ploughs drawn with a pair of horses abreast in the lighter soils, and on the stiffer by two yoke of oxen, with collars substituted for the painful and absurd instrument, the yoke. Manuring and liming here go hand in hand, and the strength of the land is not suffered to be exhausted by a previous or contemporary crop of weeds'. And another tourist wrote in his diary that 'the country (around Llandilo) was fertile to a degree which we had not yet witnessed in Wales and the state of agriculture seemed very flourishing.'
It is to the credit of the landlords, however, that they did not remain satisfied with the promotion of an Agricultural Society. They were prepared to introduce on their own estates the changes in farming operations which they advocated at the meetings of the society. But to overcome the apathy of their tenants was not as simple a task as to gain converts at large by the distribution of prizes. It is possible that this reluctance of the tenants to accept the more novel maxims of husbandry has been exaggerated. Iolo Morganwg, at any rate, was much impressed by their readiness to profit by the successful methods and experiments of others; he writes that ' being intelligent, the people of this county are alive to new methods of progress in Agriculture and are not bigoted conservatives.'
The personal intervention of some prominent landlords in the propagation of improved methods of farming was often noticed by travellers interested in agriculture. During his wanderings in the vicinity of Carreg Cennen, Evans discovered two gentlemen engrossed in the management of their estates, of whom one displayed some ingenuity in making use of furze to feed his livestock. 'Among other deviations of the latter gentleman,' he says, 'from the irrational practices of his neighbours, one appeared particularly worthy of observation, as it may suggest a hint of improvement, even to the midland or eastern farmer; the cultivation of furze or whins, as food for horses and other cattle.' A field of ten acres 'was sown with furze seed the beginning of March, 1794, and cut in the autumn of 1796. Half the field he sold for £50, and the first half crop maintained sixteen horses thirteen weeks.....He now cuts it every year and keeps through the winter months his whole team, riding and other horses, and gives it mixed with hay to his horned cattle.' Here, indeed, was an experiment worthy of the name, inasmuch as the main problem which had confronted agricultural experts for many years had been the provision for cattle of suitable winter feed. Formerly, this difficulty had been met by killing and salting live stock, but fresh meat was indispensable to the carrying out of the manual labour which accompanied the Industrial Revolution. Means and ways had to be devised for maintaining cattle throughout the winter months, and due credit should be awarded to the obscure country squire of Evans' eulogy for contributing his share to the solution of the problem.
Other landlords were not slow to take advantage of lessons learnt in England. 'Mr Rice (of Newton Hall) some years ago brought hither a Berkshire bailiff, by whose means he cultivated turnips and cabbages. I saw a field of each, which were good and well managed. He finds them of admirable use in feeding bullocks and fat and lean sheep......He succeeds turnips with barley and then clover and wheat, in the Norfolk husbandry, a perfect contrast to the fallow of this land from Carmarthen to Llandilo, which are all succeeded by wheat and then spring corn in succession until the land is tired.' In 1805, the Cambrian newspaper had occasion to draw the attention of its readers to a successful agricultural experiment on the part of a local landlord, Mr E W R Mansel. It stated; 'We feel great pleasure in communicating every instance of advancement in the interesting science of agriculture within the Principality; a meadow on the Stradey estate in Carmarthenshire, from the improved system introduced into that quarter by E W R Mansel, has now been mowed near ten days, being five weeks earlier this year than was ever before remembered and has produced an unprecedented crop; the forwardness of the barley and promising aspect of the wheat on the same estate are also remarkable, and reflect no small credit on the industry and spirit of that gentleman.'
In no other agricultural pursuit did the gentry take a more active interest than in that of Afforestation. During the middle ages, and even at the beginning of the 18th century, Carmarthenshire had immense tracts of woodland, upon which comparatively little impression had been made by the increase of the rural population. The waste and common land had been more than sufficient to meet the needs of this increase, so that the forests had been left alone. During this century, however, two economic factors had combined to threaten the existence of the woods. The first was the development of the coalmining area in South-east Carmarthenshire, which set up a demand for timber, and the establishment of iron and tin works and lead mines, which also exacted a heavy toll from neighbouring woods. It was only during the latter half of the century that charcoal was definitely abandoned for smelting purposes. In the second place, bark and timber became important articles of export from Carmarthen, the former being shipped to Ireland, and the latter to various ports in the kingdom, to be used for the construction of battle ships or trading vessels. The necessity of protecting her trade routes and meeting any challenge to her supremacy on the sea, especially during the Napoleonic Wars, forced the country to exploit her supply of timber to the full, and the woods of Carmarthenshire did not escape the destruction. The county was in some places completely denuded of its trees. Fenton observes that a tremendous amount of timber had been cut down during the last forty years of the 18th century, and that about 1780 there had been an extensive wooden tract near Llanybydder which had served as the refuge of highwaymen.
There were differing opinions as to whether the county was suitable for afforestation, but the gentry did not allow themselves to be troubled with the question of congenial climatic conditions. They realised that trees not only beautified their estates, but also enhanced the value of their land and did not hesitate to embark on an intensive policy of plantation. This was noticeably the case at Llandilo, where every estate bore witness to feverish afforestation, as was also the case in the neighbourhood of Llanstephan. Some of the plantations struck travellers as being more ornamental than useful, but there was a consensus of opinion among them that greater attention was paid to timber in Carmarthenshire than in England.
In 1807, the first Enclosure Act affecting Carmarthenshire was passed by Parliament, and from that year onwards enclosures rapidly increased in numbers. In 1795, the estimated amount of common land and wastes lying unenclosed in the shire was 170,666 acres, but by 1885, about 33,813 had been taken from them and apportioned between various claimants. These acts were sponsored by the landlords, who solicited and usually obtained the support of the local clergymen and influential or rich tenants. The lands ordered to be enclosed were, as a rule, the uncultivated and unenclosed common and waste lands, 'upon which no severalty rights attached [and] over which parishioners had long been accustomed to exercise their rights of common in lawful manner.' It was inevitably the poor, the cottager, and the occupier entitled to rights of common , who suffered most under these acts. Generally, the Lord of the Manor received one-fourteenth of the land to be enclosed, but the labouring poor and those of their number who had encroached on the wastes and had built habitations there were deprived of their immemorial rights to fuel and pasturage. In these circumstances, many of them had no alternative but to throw up their small holdings and to emigrate to the towns or the industrial valleys. Occasionally, as at Llansadwrn, a small proportion of land was left open to all proprietors and their tenants, so that they might get fuel, but in most cases any surplus enclosed land was sold to pay the expenses of the Enclosure Commissioners, who were sent down from London, armed with arbitrary powers, to divide the land.
A typical illustration of the method under which Enclosures Acts of Parliament were initiated and expedited within the shire is supplied by a contemporary newspaper. 'The Burgesses of the Borough of Llanelly are requested to meet at the Falcon Inn in Llanelly....for the purpose of signing their consent to a Bill for inclosing the Commons within the said Borough for which application is now making to Parliament. A meeting was held at the Falcon Inn to settle and sign the Bill now pending in Parliament for embanking, draining, dividing and inclosing the extensive marshes in the neighbourhood. Mr Brown, the solicitor, opened the business in a neat and appropriate speech and the meeting was ably conducted by the chairman, Mr Eaton, portreeve of Llanelly. A letter was read from Lord Cawdor, lord of the manor, in which his Lordship gave the measure his hearty concurrence and liberal support, and named Mr Hassall of Eastwood a commissioner for carrying the Act into execution. Mr Hopkins of Troserch was elected commissioner for the burgesses. Mr Hassall suggested some important amendments to the Bill, which were unanimously approved by the company; the blanks were filled up' and the meeting apparently ended in good humour. The Bill was passed in 1807, and 600 acres enclosed.

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To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Reggio Ricama Cultural Club there will be an exhibit of the best of their member's embroideries from the past 20 years from the 20th of November until the 8th of December 2010 at the Reggio Emilia Diocesan Museum. (Reggio nell'Emilia is between Bologna and Parma in the central northern part of Italy.)
To mark the occasion they have published their fourth book, Canusino Embroidery over 20 years of Reggio Ricama. I hope it will showcase the pieces in the exhibit but I won't know for sure until I get my hands on it, I'll be sure to let you know!
As the title of the book is in two languages, I am assuming that the book is too, though it doesn't say on their website.
You can see some examples of Reggio Ricama's needlework at a show in 2009 here.
Lots of the Reggio Ricama work has been showcased in Italian needlework magazines like Ricamo Italiano and RAKAM over the years. Pieces I would delight to see up close!
I told you a bit about Ars Canusina in this post here. It is a very textural and stylized embroidery with designs inspired from architectural details from the castle of the Great Countess Matilda of Canossa and the churches of the surrounding area. If you want some interesting reading (in English) on the Countess, David John Hay's thesis is available for download in pdf format here.
At the Reggio Ricama exhibition will also be about 50 pieces from the famous Loretta Caponi collection, though it is not specified if these pieces will be clothing or embroidery, I hope it's a bit of both. If you check out the show, will you write and tell me about it?

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Soft-Blend PDX Rose Tee
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Afternoon: 16:00 - 20:00 (summer schedule)
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This extraordinary fragment of marble is part of a bust intended to glorify the stigmata of St Catherine of Siena, whose cult was made official by Pope Urban VIII in 1630. The bust was seriously damaged in the 1783 earthquake and the surface has been calcified by exposition to the elements. The figure combines classical features - for example the smoothness of the face – with baroque seduction – the half-open mouth, almost speaking, the deep iris, the lock of hair caressing the cheekbone. There is realism in the expertly worked crown of thorns and in what remains of the veil and wimple. The details of this extremely well-balanced sculpture make the viewer regret the loss of the rest. The attribution to Gianlorenzo Bernini or one of his followers, although problematical, may be justified comparing this bust with some of his other works produced during the 1620s. Some similarity may be found with the bust of the Blessed Spirit (pre 1619) at the Spanish Embassy to the Holy See and the face of Daphne in the famous group at the Borghese Gallery (Rome).
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WASHINGTON — One of the teams that won an Air Force contract last month at a “Space Pitch Day” event claims to have the answer to one the Pentagon’s toughest problems: spotting and tracking advanced missiles that fly at high speeds in unpredictable trajectories.
Rhea Space Activity (RSA) and its partner Lunar Resources pitched to the Air Force a concept to deploy two spacecraft to manufacture a large mirror in space. The mirror would be installed, in orbit, into a telescope that would be used to detect hypersonic vehicles, said Shawn Usman, an astrophysicist and founder of RSA, a two-year old space startup that advises small businesses and recently decided to start developing its own projects for national security applications.
Defense officials have identified Chinese and Russian hypersonic air vehicles as looming threats that are likely to penetrate current anti-missile shield systems. Spotting and tracking hypersonic missiles is hard because they are 10 to 20 times dimmer than what the U.S. normally tracks by satellites in geostationary orbit. The Pentagon is studying options to defend against these weapons and has concluded that the best vantage point to detect and track them is from space, particularly from lower orbits.
The detection of advanced hypersonic vehicles requires large aperture electro-optical and infrared (EO/IR) space sensors, Usman said, and the idea is to manufacture them in space. “The naturally occurring zero-G environment and ultra-high-vacuum in orbit provide ideal conditions to manufacture counter-hypersonic optical components that are impossible to make on Earth,” Usman told SpaceNews.
Lunar Resources is an in-space manufacturing company that helped RSA develop the concept for how to construct a very large EO/IR mirror in space.
Usman explained that one of the payloads would “spray paint” the optical coatings needed to make the EO/IR mirror on a small satellite dubbed Ruby Sky. The satellite would then have to demonstrate it can sense targets from orbit.
He noted that this type of in-space manufacturing technology was demonstrated in the 1990s on the NASA Wake Shield Facility (WSF), which flew as the primary payload on the Space Shuttle to test in-space manufacturing of semiconductor materials and thin-film coatings.
Lunar Resources is leveraging NASA technology for this project, Usman said.
Cameo Lance, a physicist at RSA, said the Ruby Sky experiment could bring about an entirely new way to build telescopes. “We’ve been building telescopes the same way for 70 years,” she said. The primary mirrors on telescopes are made on the ground, put in a rocket and flown to space.
“We’ve always been constrained by rockets’ fairing size for the primary mirror,” Lance said. Using in-space deposition to make the primary mirror in space means no longer being constrained by the fairing size. “That is a very novel concept that has never been done commercially or for the military,” she said.
If this experiment is successful, the primary mirror of a telescope will be larger than the satellite it’s housed in, Lance said, “We can make these primary mirrors large enough to detect these smaller signatures that current assets are not capable of detecting.”
“NASA made semiconductors in space. Now we’re making mirrors,” Lance said.
At the Space Pitch Day event, the Air Force awarded Lunar Resources a $750,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 2 contract, with RSA as a subcontractor, to get the project moving. Usman said he is hopeful Air Force sponsors from several organizations will provide more funding, and he also is talking to private investors.
The Air Force has introduced new processes in the SBIR program to encourage private investments. For example, companies can apply for up to a $1.5 million SBIR Phase 2 award only if the company can secure matching funds from a private investor. “It’s a way to do public-private investment for space,” Usman said.
RSA plans to apply for more SBIR awards. Usman said the company is confident that it can get Ruby Sky off the ground with a combination of private and government funds. The team has estimated that building the two spacecraft and demonstrating the concept in space could cost upwards of $20 million.


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True North Borknagar
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Intrepid black metallers Borknagar, in partnership with Century Media, mark their return with resplendent new album, True North. The Norwegians spent the better part of three years writing and rebuilding the lineup—Borknagar are now Øystein G. Brun (guitars), Simen “I.C.S. Vortex” Hestnæs (bass/vocals), Lars A. Nedland (keyboards/vocals), Bjørn Dugstad Rønnow (drums), and Jostein Thomassen (guitars)—to make their 11th studio album a reality. The reasons are plenty but the main driver for space between and change within Borknagar’s repertoire and membership was calibration. Chief songman Brun needed to refocus his labor of love after the assiduous Winter Thrice album cycle. Indeed, that’s exactly what he’s done on True North. While Winter Thrice was a celebration of time spent and bonds made, True North is the vanguard forward, clear-sighted, refined, and full of power. Truly, there’s no holding back now, but with year 25—the band’s silver anniversary—approaching next year, small wonder that Brun and Borknagar are still with us. Fortuitous, or part of the plan all along…
“Absolutely not,” Øystein G. Brun says [of the plan]. “Back in the day when I starting to play around with the ideas about the band I had no goal aside from making music I love myself. At that time, the whole concept of making money, doing big festivals and traveling around the world was so far off that I wasn’t even thinking along those lines. But that said, I have always had the belief that genuinely good music can move mountains.”
Metaphorically, Borknagar’s storied catalog of albums—starting with their coveted self-titled in 1996 through to 2016’s chart-smashing Winter Thrice—have moved mountains, starting with the Seven Mountains that surround Brun and crew’s hometown of Bergen, for if they hadn’t bravely traversed their proverbial peaks as young men and modern-day Vikings extreme metal history would’ve been far less eventful. And so, True North will continue the tradition of moving mountains with its sweeping dimensions of all things Borknagar. Intelligently crafted and panoramically gifted, the album will see the Norwegians reconnecting with their long past and forging ahead into new worlds. This starts with the many moods of 8-minute opener “Thunderous” and ends with the bare brilliance of the Nedland-led “Voices”, a contemporary folk song about our internal compass. When Brun called True North “the most diverse, powerful and grandiose album,” he wasn’t joking. He had the music to back it up.
“Yes, I stand behind my words,” says Brun. “In fact, I would argue that True North is more diverse than anything we have done before from an objective point of view. There is, in general, more variation and interesting dynamics going on throughout the album, from song to song. Even though we wanted to preserve a solid consistency throughout the album, we worked a lot to make each and every song stick out with its own personality and vibe.”
Written without longstanding vocalist Andreas “Vintersorg” Hedlund, veteran guitarist Jens F. Ryland, and drummer Baard Kolstad, True North is still defiantly Borknagar, largely because primary songwriter Brun remains at the helm. While the True North lineup shift may feel like the second coming of Quintessence, it’s not. Almost two decades separate the two albums, and Borknagar’s latest is a veritable showcase of musicians in their prime, aiming for the sun, the moon, and the stars. True North embodies the epic and valorous—as heard on “Up North”, “The Fire that Burns”, and “Mount Rapture”—but it also a portent of Borknagar’s next chapter. The promise of Hestnæs and Nedland as vocalists, Rønnow on drums, and Thomassen as Brun’s new sideman is unconditional, the beginnings of which can be experienced on “Wild Father’s Heart”, “Into the White,” and the aforementioned album closer “Voices.” Importantly, True North represents a unified—sonically, aesthetically, and personally—Borknagar.
“I guess it’s fair to still call me the primary songwriter,” Brun says. “Or the ‘grand old man,’ if you prefer that. But that said, yet another dimension to the production of True North was the fact that we worked much closer as a band with this album. For Winter Thrice, we worked more independently in our respective studios, sending files back and forth, but with True North we, for the most part, teamed up when recording various bits and pieces. A natural consequence of this was that we had a much more dynamic process, where various ideas entwined more. But of course, this is also because Lars wrote three songs and Simen one. Altogether, we had 12-13 songs written for this album, but in the end of the day we landed on nine songs.”
Thematically, True North continues where Winter Thrice left off. Unlike on past Borknagar albums, the lyrics aren’t as philosophical though. Rather, Brun and his team have opted for a more direct approach, leaving less room for fanciful interpretation. As for the title, True North, it was Hestnæs who came up with it. As usual, discussions around the title were had. Was True North the right title? Did it capture group’s new-found range and explorative spirit? How did it correlate to the nine songs Borknagar were offering? Even the cover, with the mighty Årbostadtinden mountain in the center, by photographer Thor Erik Dullum played into the overall direction (and meaning) of the title.
“It’s tough to wrap up a whole album in a few words,” says Brun. “But in the end of the day we felt True North captured the essence of the album. To me, an album title should hold various layers of meaning rather than being some sort of traffic sign. Actually, true north is a very basic term in the field of navigation/orientation. True north differs slightly from the grid and magnetic north as an example, which are somewhat relative depending on the scope and position of things. True north, on the other hand, is the constant in all this, sort of the baseline for all other directions. If you get completely lost at sea, you would need to find true north in order to pin out your orientation. I guess, that is the fundamental idea we want to flag with this album title.”
True North—like all predecessors through Empiricism—was recorded across several studios in Norway. Borknagar tracked Rønnow’s drums at Strand Studio in Oslo, while the foundational aspects of the album were laid down at Brun’s Crosound Studio in the Hordaland countryside. The keyboard and bass lines were cut at Nedland and Hestnæs’ private studios, respectively, for convenience purposes. But of the many key factors in recording True North under largely personal roofs—like Crosound Studio—was that Borknagar were able to control the quality of the final output without the crushing pressure of budget and time. For True North, the focus was getting studio guru Jens Bogren (Winter Thrice, Urd) audio in such a condition that the only job left was the mixing and mastering.
“We [Borknagar] teamed up here several times,” says Brun. “Locked ourselves in for a couple of days and did nothing but recording and producing. It was intense. Of natural causes, I did most of the engineering and producing, as all material went through my studio in order to prepare files. For every step, I processed the mixes so that we were able to lean back and get an impression of where all this was heading production-wise. So, guess I was in the forefront in terms of engineering and producing, but in the end of the day it was really all about teamwork. [As for Jens], he is the very best in what he does, quite simply. There are a lot of great mixers out there, but in my opinion, Jens is just a head above everyone else when it comes to mixing metal. His way of understanding our music and how he approaches the material given is close to god-like. And that’s coming from a hardcore atheist.”
As for what Brun wants Borknagar’s ardent fans to think after hearing True North, the cards are not in his hands. Rather, true to the band’s mandate, he wants the hordes of free thinkers to arrive at their own conclusions while on Borknagar’s newest musical adventure. Indeed, Brun offers, “listen and let your mind fly!” But for those in need of a little guidance, it’s true north of Winter Thrice, Empiricism, and The Olden Domain, an encapsulation of 25 years of work in a single, forward-moving entity. It’s the start of something new, the next stage yet it’s patently familiar. And as for the near term, Borknagar are preparing their indomitable vessel for a jaunt across Europe in late 2019, with possible ventures into the Americas throughout 2020.
The time to wonder at and find direction in the sonic spectacle that is Borknagar’s True North is now!
Øystein G. Brun, guitars
Lars «Lazare» Nedland, keyboatds, vocals
ICS Vortex, bass, lead vocals
Bjørn Dugstad Rønnow, drums
Jostein Thomassen, guitars
In 1994, the death-metal guitarist Øystein G. Brun started to work on a musical vision, a vision of musical boldness. Having always been fond of melodious atmospherics, he recruited like-minded musicians from Enslaved, Gorgoroth, Arcturus, Immortal, and Ulver with the goal of rupturing the peripheries of what was deemed “traditional” black metal. Thus, the brilliant and sophisticated anomaly that is BORKNAGAR was born.
In 1996, after the release of their first self-titled album on Malicious Records, the band signed with Century Media and released The Olden Domain in 1997. Very much to fans and critics alike and earning them a 1998 European tour supporting In Flames.
In August 1998 they went back to the studio to record The Archaic Course which featured the new members, Jens F. Ryland on guitar and Simen Hestnæs a.k.a. I.C.S. Vortex on vocals (later to become bassist and backing vocalist for Dimmu Borgir). Following an incredible performance at the 1998 Wacken Open Air Festival, drummer Grim and bassist Kai Lie exited the band before they embarked on their 1998 tour with Cradle of Filth, Napalm Death and Krisiun, bringing in Justin Greaves on drums and assigning Vortex to additional duties on bass. In May of 1999, BORKNAGAR (joined by ex-Cradle Of Filth and ex- Dimmu Borgir drummer Nick Barker) pillaged through North America on the now legendary Kings Of Terror Tour with Emperor, Witchery, Peccatum & Divine Empire, adding yet another epic chapter in the band’s career.
BORKNAGAR entered Sweden’s famed Abyss Studios in January 2000 to record the material that would become their fourth album Quintessence, adding to their ranks drummer Asgeir Mickelson and Solefald’s keyboardist Lars A. Nedland. Quintessence was one of the year’s most creatively inspiring extreme metal releases and was nominated for the Norwegian national Alarm prize. Simen Hestnæs relinquished ties to the band to concentrate on his duties with Dimmu Borgir, and the Swede Vintersorg joined the band. Erik Tyr Tiwaz (session and touring bassist for Emperor and Satyricon) was invited to contribute his unique talents while Lars continued to diligently divide his time between Solefald and BORKNAGAR.
In October 2001, one of BORKNAGAR`s best selling records, Empiricism, was released. The album was nominated for two prestigious awards in Norway, the National Grammy Award and again the Alarm prize. In 2004 BORKNAGAR finished the 6th album EPIC. Prior to the recording of the album Jens F. Ryland and Erik Tyr Tiwaz decided to leave the band due to personal reasons. The album turned out to be one of the most ambitious albums the band had done, an album where the horizon and the sky was barely the limit. The album entered the national charts in Norway and received a great response worldwide. In 2006, BORKNAGAR did the last record Origin for their long-time label Century Media Records. This album was recorded entirely acoustic and contrary to the predecessor, this album was all about getting back to the very basics in BORKNAGARs musical universe. The album marked an end of a musical journey. As a musical testimony of the years that passed, Century Media Records released a “best of” CD with a suitable title For the Elements 1996-2006 in 2008.
In 2008, as the deal with Century Media Records was fulfilled, BORKNAGAR signed a deal with Norway’s INDIE RECORDINGS. Jens F. Ryland and Erik Tyr Tiwaz rejoined the ranks of BORKNAGAR. Shortly after, due to different musical ideas and goals, long time drummer Asgeir Mickelson decided to leave the band. A few months after his departure, drummer David Kinkade (ex- Malevolent Creation, Arsis, Divine Empire) joined the band fulltime.
In 2010, Borknagar released Universal featuring a guest appearance by I.C.S. Vortex on the track “My Domain”. The album was highly acclaimed worldwide and earned the band very good reviews in important magazines like Metal Hammer, Rock Hard and Scream Magazine. Soon after, Borknagar and Erik Tiwaz mutually parted ways and it was announced that I.C.S. Vortex would return to the band for live dates. I.C.S is now a full time member of the band, handling bass and vocals aside with Vintersorg.
In early 2011, Borknagar reunited with their long partners in crime and signed a 3 album deal with Century Media Records. URD was recorded during the same year, mixed by Jens Bogren in Fascination Street studios and released in 2012. Drummer Dave Kinkade left before the release to join with Max Cavalera and Soulfly. URD proceeded to receive positive feedback and the majority of the band was finding motivation to do more concerts. The young and talented Baard Kolstad was brought in on drums to headline Infernofestival in 2012 and the spark was lit. Vintersorg responded to the ambition by suggesting to relieve him from the live duties and bring in a stand-in. The best candidate for the job was Pål Mathiesen, aka Athera with Susperia/ Shady Blue with Chrome Division.
In 2013 Athera had his debut at Brutal Assault festival in Czech in front of 12 000 people. The band continued into a 10 day European tour in March 2014, the first tour since 1999. After the tour and some festivals the band withdrew to record the 10th studio album.
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Less than nine months after delivering 12 extruders to a global manufacturer of medical devices, Boston Matthews is delighted to announce a further 8 machines have been delivered to the same company and an additional 4 more scheduled for despatch next week. The company is a global manufacturer of medical devices and these specific machines are used to manufacture devices that are used in the treatment of Covid-19 patients in over 120 countries around the World.
Once again due to the sensitive nature of the machinery the timetable for completion was paramount and we are very pleased to once again to have fulfilled the objective fully and ahead of schedule.
Boston Matthews Managing Director Simon Brookes stated "Once again to complete an order for multiple machines during these strange times, ahead of schedule and without disrupting our commitments to all of our customers is a credit to our dedicated team and their hard work. Well done everyone.”

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Jamie leaves stressed-out Kate to sort the wedding
Not only is her dress designer John Galliano in rehab but her fiance is on tour, leaving Moss to plan her day single-handedly.
‘Kate has been doing most of the organising herself as Jamie is touring as much as possible before their wedding this summer,’ a source said.
Kate Moss is having to organise most of her wedding to Jamie Hince on her own while her fiance tours with his band The Kills
‘He’s booked solid. Kate is a little miffed that she’s been left to do all of the hard work.’
On top of that Kate has yet to book her long-time friend and hairdresser James Brown for the big day.
‘I haven’t spoken to her for ages, I don’t know whether I’ll do her hair,’ Brown told pals last week.
‘She’s been very busy, she’s been away a lot so I don’t really know much about the wedding or the dress.’
Kate earlier this week in Paris where her smoking on the catwalk caused controversy
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TEHRAN (Reuters) -- Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Musavi has said that the condition of the country's prisons showed that Iran needed a "deep change," his website reported.
"What happens in Iran's prisons these days clearly shows the necessity of a deep change in the country," the Ghalamnews quoted Musavi as saying.
"Could America harm Iran...as much as these events in prisons have damaged the [1979 Islamic] revolution and the country?" he asked.
Musavi wrote on his website on August 9 that he had been told by senior officials that some young men and women detained in jail after postelection protests had been raped.
Iran's police chief had previously acknowledged that some detainees had been tortured.
"Based on parliament's investigations, detainees have not been raped or sexually abused in Iran's Kahrizak and Evin prisons. Such claims are totally baseless," Iran's state television quoted the conservative speaker of Iran's parliament, Ali Larijani, as saying on August 12.