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At once deeply observed and intriguingly elusive, THE AFFAIR explores the emotional effects of an extramarital relationship. Noah is a New York City schoolteacher and novelist who is happily married, but resents his dependence on his wealthy father-in-law. Alison is a young waitress trying to piece her life and marriage back together in the wake of a tragedy. The provocative drama unfolds when Alison and Noah meet in Montauk at the end of Long Island.
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Mingle Media TV and our Red Carpet Report team were on hand for Showtime's The Affair FYC event at Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills for members of the Television Academy.
After the screening and panel discussion there was a by a dessert reception with panelists, featuring Sweet’tauk Lemonade.
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About The Affair
At once deeply observed and intriguingly elusive, THE AFFAIR explores the emotional effects of an extramarital relationship. Noah is a New York City schoolteacher and novelist who is happily married, but resents his dependence on his wealthy father-in-law. Alison is a young waitress trying to piece her life and marriage back together in the wake of a tragedy. The provocative drama unfolds when Alison and Noah meet in Montauk at the end of Long Island.
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Interview with Pamela Druckerman
The author of 'Lust In Translation,' talks about infidelity and the best place to have an affair
You travelled all over the world talking to people about extramarital affairs, and discovered that each culture has its own unwritten rules for these relationships. What's the North American script?
Americans tend to believe that the most important value in a marriage is honesty, and that couples should be completely honest with each other at all times. One consequence is that affairs are so taboo that sometimes people treat them as more serious relationships than they actually are.
What's the best country to live in if you're hell-bent on having an affair?
Togo, probably, if you're a man. For sheer statistical likelihood of cheating, Togo tops the list, though the figures do include men who are polygamous. In terms of having a quality affair, and also if you're a woman, I would say France is the place.
And the worst place to live?
I would say North America, because there's this idea that the revelation of an affair entails trauma.
Exeter School Cemetery (Exeter Historical Cemetery 35).
Originally the Exeter School Cemetery, these are the graves of residents of the Ladd School. During the middle of the first half of the 20th century, the Exeter School was used mainly as living quarters for young children and wayward girls, while the dormitories were filled well beyond capacity. Adopting a purpose more characteristic of a custodial or penal institution, the Exeter School’s policy became focused more on detaining people indefinitely as a means of segregating them from free society. A bald-faced perversion of justice, this newly emerging practice was enacted upon individuals who committed petty crimes, or no crimes at all. Directed especially toward women accused of immoral practices such as prostitution, sodomy, extramarital intercourse, and ‘illegitimate’ pregnancy, a court commitment to Exeter was in countless cases leveraged as a means of eliminating the bloodline of entire families. Because compulsory sterilization was illegal in Rhode Island, most women sentenced under such pretenses were confined to Exeter until menopause, or natural death, while a select few were sterilized nevertheless by willing surgeons who found ways to obviate the law. In this way, until the end of World War II, the Exeter School’s paramount function was that of a eugenics-era concentration camp. (from Wikipedia)
(excerpt from theladdschool.blogspot.com/2013/11/monuments-or-memories-... ):
Oftentimes their remains were unclaimed by friends or relatives, unable to have supported their loved ones in life and too sick or indigent themselves to bury them in death; and so they were buried by the State instead, in pauper's cemeteries located on or near the grounds of those asylums in which the deceased lived their final days.
The graves of those laid to rest in this way usually were marked by a small numbered pillar or headstone made of wood, metal or concrete, and the identities of the buried were recorded in ledgers at the institutions. Sometimes when the families of the dead were no longer in dire straits they would attempt to locate their passed on loved ones to have their bodies disinterred and removed to a private cemetery or family plot. Unfortunately, over time the records which had given each of the dead a name were lost; and so as the cemeteries fell into disuse, and the memories of those buried in their anonymous graves slowly vanished.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States. Founded after the American Revolution as the seat of government of the newly independent country, Washington was named after George Washington, first President of the United States and Founding Father. As the seat of the United States federal government and several international organizations, Washington is an important world political capital. The city is also one of the most visited cities in the world, with more than 20 million tourists annually.
The signing of the Residence Act on July 16, 1790, approved the creation of a capital district located along the Potomac River on the country's East Coast. The U.S. Constitution provided for a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress, and the District is therefore not a part of any state. The states of Maryland and Virginia each donated land to form the federal district, which included the pre-existing settlements of Georgetown and Alexandria. The City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital. In 1846, Congress returned the land originally ceded by Virginia; in 1871, it created a single municipal government for the remaining portion of the District.
Washington had an estimated population of 702,455 as of July 2018, making it the 20th most populous city in the United States. Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the city's daytime population to more than one million during the workweek. Washington's metropolitan area, the country's sixth largest, had a 2017 estimated population of 6.2 million residents.
All three branches of the U.S. federal government are centered in the District: Congress (legislative), president (executive), and the U.S. Supreme Court (judicial). Washington is home to many national monuments, and museums, primarily situated on or around the National Mall. The city hosts 177 foreign embassies as well as the headquarters of many international organizations, trade unions, non-profit, lobbying groups, and professional associations, including the World Bank Group, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organization of American States, AARP, the National Geographic Society, the Human Rights Campaign, the International Finance Corporation, and the American Red Cross.
A locally elected mayor and a 13‑member council have governed the District since 1973. However, Congress maintains supreme authority over the city and may overturn local laws. D.C. residents elect a non-voting, at-large congressional delegate to the House of Representatives, but the District has no representation in the Senate. The District receives three electoral votes in presidential elections as permitted by the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1961.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr._Memorial
The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial is located in West Potomac Park next to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. It covers four acres and includes the Stone of Hope, a granite statue of Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King carved by sculptor Lei Yixin. The inspiration for the memorial design is a line from King's "I Have A Dream" speech: "Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope." The memorial opened to the public on August 22, 2011, after more than two decades of planning, fund-raising, and construction.
This national memorial is the 395th unit in the United States National Park Service. The monumental memorial is located at the northwest corner of the Tidal Basin near the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, on a sightline linking the Lincoln Memorial to the northwest and the Jefferson Memorial to the southeast. The official address of the monument, 1964 Independence Avenue, S.W., commemorates the year the Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law.
A ceremony dedicating the memorial was scheduled for Sunday, August 28, 2011, the 48th anniversary of the "I Have a Dream" speech that Martin Luther King Jr. delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963 but was postponed until October 16 (the 16th anniversary of the 1995 Million Man March on the National Mall) due to Hurricane Irene.
Although this is not the first memorial to an African American in Washington, D.C., King is the first African American honored with a memorial on or near the National Mall and only the fourth non-President to be memorialized in such a way. The King Memorial is administered by the National Park Service (NPS).
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Christian minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. King is best known for advancing civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, inspired by his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi.
King led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and later became the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). As president of the SCLC, he then led an unsuccessful 1962 struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia, and helped organize the nonviolent 1963 protests in Birmingham, Alabama. He helped organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
On October 14, 1964, King won the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance. In 1965, he helped organize the Selma to Montgomery marches. In his final years, he expanded his focus to include opposition towards poverty, capitalism, and the Vietnam War. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover considered him a radical and made him an object of the FBI's COINTELPRO from 1963 on. FBI agents investigated him for possible communist ties, recorded his extramarital liaisons and reported on them to government officials, and, in 1964, mailed King a threatening anonymous letter, which he interpreted as an attempt to make him commit suicide.
Before his death, King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D.C., to be called the Poor People's Campaign, when he was assassinated on April 4 in Memphis, Tennessee. His death was followed by riots in many U.S. cities. Allegations that James Earl Ray, the man convicted of killing King, had been framed or acted in concert with government agents persisted for decades after the shooting.
King was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. Martin Luther King Jr. Day was established as a holiday in cities and states throughout the United States beginning in 1971; the holiday was enacted at the federal level by legislation signed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986. Hundreds of streets in the U.S. have been renamed in his honor, and a county in Washington was rededicated for him. The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was dedicated in 2011.
Mingle Media TV and our Red Carpet Report team were on hand for Showtime's The Affair FYC event at Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills for members of the Television Academy.
After the screening and panel discussion there was a by a dessert reception with panelists, featuring Sweet’tauk Lemonade.
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About The Affair
At once deeply observed and intriguingly elusive, THE AFFAIR explores the emotional effects of an extramarital relationship. Noah is a New York City schoolteacher and novelist who is happily married, but resents his dependence on his wealthy father-in-law. Alison is a young waitress trying to piece her life and marriage back together in the wake of a tragedy. The provocative drama unfolds when Alison and Noah meet in Montauk at the end of Long Island.
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I will leave the title as is - which is how Véra has it labelled on the box - but the actual title of this painting is "Lucretia Borgia Reigns in the Vatican in the Absence of Pope Alexander VI" (ca. 1910) by English neoclassical artist Frank Cadogan Cowper.
Lucretia (or Lucrezia) Borgia (1480 - 1519) was an Italian noblewoman of the Borgia family who led a fast-paced life. She was the illegitimate daughter of Pope Alexander VI, one of many illegitimate children of the infamous pope. Very well-educated, and by all accounts extremely beautiful, she was married three times in her short life, and had several extramarital affairs on top of that. She also reigned as the governor of Spoleto, and is admired by historians for her abilities in administration.
She is also portrayed as a femme fatale in many literary works, owing to rumors about her and her family's involvement in various politically motivated murders, illegitimate children, alleged incest, rampant bribery, and a general soap opera of the Italian Renaissance's rich and powerful.
In this painting, Cowper re-imagines an incident in 1501 when Lucrezia took the place of the pope at a meeting. You can see two noblemen parting her dress so a Franciscan friar can kiss her shoe. Cadogan visited the meeting-room in the Vatican, which is still intact today, to make his painting.
I found the puzzle enjoyable enough, but I submit this photo as Exhibit A of why I don't like this kind of cut. Maria calls it a "poodle" cut, or maybe it's a doodle cut, as it looks like some bored kid took a white pen and savaged the print with curlicues. Color-line cutting achieves such a more beautiful finished look. Nevertheless, I am happy to have one example of this Véra series having quite a few Royal, Apollo and Art Modèrne already.
The other thing that is interesting about this puzzle is that it has a repeat pattern - not just repeated twice, top and bottom, reversed, but also left and right quadrants, so there are four basically identical pieces. I say "basically" because, toward the end when I was working on the upper curves, I came across three pieces which looked as if they should fit, but just didn't quite make it. I thought maybe they were poorly made replacements, but further inspection suggested they were original; eventually (and tricky, because the repeat pattern mimics the mirrored architecture!) I had to swap out the three pieces on one side with their twins on the other side.
So, the puzzle is complete and original, with one broken edge piece due to a thin connection. I still can't figure out how it was cut, though. They had to first cut it into four sections, and then stack-cut it from there. I will flip it over so we can have a better look. Are all Véra Rex puzzles (or, the larger ones) cut in repeat sections like this one? I will see what Denis Charvériat has to say in his book Établissements Véra.. Maybe it was a cost-saving measure and Rex was considered the economy line.
Completed in 17 hr., 23 mins. with no prior knowledge of the image. 1,455 total pieces: 43.0 secs./piece; 83.7 pcs./hr. Difficulty rating: 4.3/10.
Mingle Media TV and our Red Carpet Report team were on hand for Showtime's The Affair FYC event at Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills for members of the Television Academy.
After the screening and panel discussion there was a by a dessert reception with panelists, featuring Sweet’tauk Lemonade.
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About The Affair
At once deeply observed and intriguingly elusive, THE AFFAIR explores the emotional effects of an extramarital relationship. Noah is a New York City schoolteacher and novelist who is happily married, but resents his dependence on his wealthy father-in-law. Alison is a young waitress trying to piece her life and marriage back together in the wake of a tragedy. The provocative drama unfolds when Alison and Noah meet in Montauk at the end of Long Island.
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Exeter School Cemetery (Exeter Historical Cemetery 35).
Originally the Exeter School Cemetery, these are the graves of residents of the Ladd School. During the middle of the first half of the 20th century, the Exeter School was used mainly as living quarters for young children and wayward girls, while the dormitories were filled well beyond capacity. Adopting a purpose more characteristic of a custodial or penal institution, the Exeter School’s policy became focused more on detaining people indefinitely as a means of segregating them from free society. A bald-faced perversion of justice, this newly emerging practice was enacted upon individuals who committed petty crimes, or no crimes at all. Directed especially toward women accused of immoral practices such as prostitution, sodomy, extramarital intercourse, and ‘illegitimate’ pregnancy, a court commitment to Exeter was in countless cases leveraged as a means of eliminating the bloodline of entire families. Because compulsory sterilization was illegal in Rhode Island, most women sentenced under such pretenses were confined to Exeter until menopause, or natural death, while a select few were sterilized nevertheless by willing surgeons who found ways to obviate the law. In this way, until the end of World War II, the Exeter School’s paramount function was that of a eugenics-era concentration camp. (from Wikipedia)
(excerpt from theladdschool.blogspot.com/2013/11/monuments-or-memories-... ):
Oftentimes their remains were unclaimed by friends or relatives, unable to have supported their loved ones in life and too sick or indigent themselves to bury them in death; and so they were buried by the State instead, in pauper's cemeteries located on or near the grounds of those asylums in which the deceased lived their final days.
The graves of those laid to rest in this way usually were marked by a small numbered pillar or headstone made of wood, metal or concrete, and the identities of the buried were recorded in ledgers at the institutions. Sometimes when the families of the dead were no longer in dire straits they would attempt to locate their passed on loved ones to have their bodies disinterred and removed to a private cemetery or family plot. Unfortunately, over time the records which had given each of the dead a name were lost; and so as the cemeteries fell into disuse, and the memories of those buried in their anonymous graves slowly vanished.
French postcard by Papier Guilleminot, series 771, Th 72. Photo: Stebbing, Paris.
Amélie Diéterle (1871-1941) was one the most beloved actresses and singers of the Belle Epoque, who inspired poets and painters such as Mallarmé and Rodin. Between 1909 and 1913 she acted in some 25 short films at Pathé Frères, mostly Rigadin comedies directed by Georges Monca.
Amélie Diéterle was born in Strasbourg as the first child of the maid Dorothée Catherine Dieterle and French officer Louis Alexis Laurent. Her father stayed in a garrison near Munich in 1870 and Strasbourg in 1871, and it was not until 1892 that he recognised her as his child when he officially married his wife, but Amélie kept her mother's name as stage name. The family moved to Dijon, where in 1885 Diéterle entered the local conservatoire. In 1888 tragedy struck, when her brother Ernest drowned in one of the sand pits on the outskirts of town. In 1890, the family moved to Paris, where Amélie received the first prize for singing and solfège at the Dijon Conservatoire. In 1891, she joined the Théatre des Variétés, where she stayed until 1925. In 1898 she went on tour to Moscow and to St Petersburg, where she sang Breton, Provençal and Dutch songs. During her trip, she also visited Brussels and Berlin. Her patron was the theatre owner Paul Gallimard, later she became his mistress too. He left his wife and children, among whom the famous future editor Gaston, and installed Amélie in an apartment at the chic Boulevard des Malesherbes.
In 1901, Diéterle bought land in Croissy-sur-Seine, on which, in keeping with the fashion of the time, she built a beautiful villa with the look of an English cottage, named Villa Omphale, after one of her great roles, Omphale in Les Travaux d'Hercule by de Flers & Cavaillet, performed at the Bouffes-Parisiens. The success of this play and subsequent spectacles earned her laurels too and she became Officier d'académie. Specialised in song and dance, In 1904, Diéterle went to Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil for a successful four-month Latin-American tour.
Diéterle became the toast of the town in Paris, performing in high society, and also became the muse of painters such as Renoir, Vallotton, Toulouse-Lautrec and Roll. She had a massive art collection of Realist and Impressionist paintings. She was also one the most photographed artists, recorded by Paul Nadar, Paul Boyer, Leopold Reutlinger, Henri Manuel, and others, resulting in countless postcards with her portrait, often showcasing her taste in elegant costumes too. In 1908 she was again awarded, now as Officier de l'instruction publique, which, though raised critique on Diéterle, Gallimard and the awarding minster Doumergue. Another public success Diéterle had in Le Roi by De Flers & Caillavet, which was performed 530 times in two years (1908-9).
In 1909, Diéterle, who was passionate about cinema, started an additional career in film, acting in many comedies most often in the Rigadin comedies with Charles Prince, produced by Pathé Frères and directed by Georges Monca, such as Rigadin cambrioleur (1911) and Le ménage de Rigadin (1912). Rarely, she also acted in dramas, such as Le Luthier de Cremône (1909) by Albert Capellani, also with Jean Dax, about a hunchback, a highly talented violin player who sacrifices himself for the well-being of the woman (Diéterle) he secretly loves but who loves another man. This may well have been her film debut. Another drama was Le mort vivant (1911) by Michel Carré, also with Paul Numa. In addition to the Rigadin comedies, Diéterle also played e.g. Mimi Pinson in the Alfred de Musset adaptation Miss Pinson (1910) by Monca. All in all, Diéterle acted in 25 shorts between 1909 and 1913.
Meeting aviation pioneers Robert Martinet et Georges Legagneux in 1911, Diéterle made her first trip on a plane, accompanied by Gallimard and actors and actresses of the Théatre des Variétés. This was at a time when flying was a dangerous hazard and indeed Legagneux would crash during a flight show in 1914 while Martinet died with his plane during the First World War in 1917. During the First World War, Diéterle worked as a nurse. In 1917 she retook her work at the Théatre des Variétés. In the same year, she also performed in Spain, at the Teatro Reina Victoria in Madrid.
In 1919 Diéterle was involved in an affair around fake Rodin statues, made by his former assistants soon after his death. Although not proven guilty, Gallimard and Diéterle were accused of involvement. Moreover, the press spelt Gallimard and Diéterle's extramarital affair, so she separated from Gallimard and gradually retreated from the stage. In 1927, after the couple who guarded her villa had bestolen her in her absence, she had a new property built on the Route Nationale at Golf-Juan in the municipality of Vallauris in the Alpes-Maritimes department. The villa, in Greek style, was named "Omphale", just like her previous villa. In 1930, at Vallauris, Diéterle married André Louis Simon, financier and founder of the Monoprix in Nice. In 1933 she sold a large part of the art collection. During the Second World War, Amélie Diéterle retreated to an apartment in Cannes, where she died on 20 January 1941, at the age of 70, after a long illness.
Sources: French and Dutch Wikipedia, IMDb.
A rare view of the elusive private Ace Preston w/ LOU BOVA from The Fast NYC 2/16/08 as the Leicester Square Kid
In the late 1970's, as a stylist, Ace Preston gained underground fame for developing the guitar sounds known as 'Violent Rock' aka 'New York Thrash' under his band "The New York Clowns", which led to the 'Thrash Metal' sound of the early 1980's Heavy Metal scene, the 'Dark Metal' sound of the Goth Rock era and eventually the West Coast Grunge Movement.
He was called "The Gun" by David Peel.
In the past Ace Preston performed 'New York Rock' with 'The New Race' & 'The Sorcerers' before forming the dreaded 'DRESDEN5'.
A self taught 'lefty' guitarist at age four during the living 'Era of Jimi Hendrix', 1968, meant that he was playing 'lefty' guitar while Jimi Hendrix was alive.
In 1984, Ace Preston performed a private guitar session for Mario Escudero, known as the best flamenco guitarist of his generation.
Although 'left-handed', Ace Preston, was limited to Escudero's 'right-handed' guitar which he played upside down impressing Escudero.
During this time Ace Preston was challenged to play a classical guitar upside-down owned by Andrés Segovia, father of modern classical guitar, considered the greatest guitarist of all time.
Segovia passed away shortly afterwards, prior to donating that very guitar along with another to the New York Museum of Metropolitan Art where it presently remains on display.
Ace Preston's style of rapid strumming backed up by doubling on three levels of unheard of before distortion, overdrive, and thrust, was actually an accidental invention due to the limits of a lefty's finger dexterity progression in chord limitation while in the reversal nature of playing backwards and upside down on a right handed stringed guitar.
His style and sound would lay down the basic foundation for future copycats, primarily by another left-handed guitarist named Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, yet AP refused to be categorized as one who would become one of the greatest living guitarist of all time calling it bullshit and that there is no such thing in the arts, just the quest for uniqueness, discovery, and influence.
Even then in the face of fame, Ace Preston, would never take the guitar serious enough to make a career of it, being easily bored and distracted by the rock scene he labeled as contaminated with prima donnas and spoiled brats seeking attention, he opted instead to replace the guitar with a rifle when he joined the US Army Infantry in 1986 and temporary disappeared into absurdity.
According to some, Ace Preston, wanted to experience extensive firearms training. Many claimed he temporary enjoyed the lifestyle calling it an adventure although he hated the army, but the US Army was the best and only place for things like that, as opposed to the hyped up romance of enlisting with another outfit such as the French Foreign Legion.
Ironically, Jason Everman, the guitarist who played with Nirvana and Soundgarden, believed that a well-rounded man must be an artist, warrior, and philosopher, and had joined the US Army in 1994, the same year Ace Preston departed, and served in the 2nd Ranger Battalion and later Special Forces, with tours in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Everman was able to see and experience the prior trail of destruction AP left behind in his wake and later on in his wrath, after AP reenlisted in 2002 after confronting the terrorist attacks on Ground Zero NYC on 9/11/01 in which he was awarded the NYS Defense of Liberty Medal with WTC Device.
General Stanley A. McChrystal wrote Everman a letter of recommendation to attend Columbia University School of General Studies and major in philosophy.
Though credited with the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, McChrystal was also criticized for his alleged role in the cover-up of the Pat Tillman friendly fire incident.
Also following accurate negative remarks about Vice President Joe Biden and other administration officials by McChrystal in a Rolling Stone article, Barack Obama accepted his resignation as commander in Afghanistan.
Obama then named General David Petraeus as McChrystal's replacement. McChrystal would announce his retirement.
As a high level CIA official, Petraeus, would leak highly-sensitive names of covert operatives to forward his own agenda and impress his mistress.
On November 9, 2012, Petraeus resigned from his position as Director of the CIA, citing his extramarital affair with Paula Broadwell which was reportedly discovered in the course of an FBI investigation.
In January 2015, officials reported the FBI and Justice Department prosecutors had recommended bringing felony charges against Petraeus for allegedly providing classified information to his biographer by releasing the confidential names of special operatives thus ending Ace Preston's career.
Petraeus pleaded guilty to only one misdemeanor charge of mishandling classified information but had a wild pack of protestors attack while he was walking to Ace Preston's former alma mata John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Ace Preston noted from his manual "Attacking USA" 2002, in the assassins section of 'The Dallas Theory', that in 1939, J.D. Salinger, also attended Columbia University School of General Studies like Jason Everman.
Salinger wrote the 'Catcher in the Rye', the novel that Mark David Chapman was reading until the police arrived and arrested him on December 8, 1980 after he murdered John Lennon by shooting him five times hitting him four times in the back outside The Dakota apartment building in New York City. Chapman repeatedly said that the novel was his statement.
It was during this same period that President Ronald Reagan would be shot by another so-called mad man by the name of John Warnock Hinckley, Jr. on March 30, 1981 inspired by the film "Taxi Driver".
Based on his assassin theory, Ace Preston, stated that 'america breeds monsters out of Hollywood.. when art imitates life in a cruel vice versa circle... but when music is added to anything .. it enhances it.
Whenever you want to improve something you add music to it. Whether it is a film, dining, sports event, pubs, political gatherings, museums, plays, social events, and especially war'.
However his rifle became a replacement for a guitar during times of war, as his cameras to a pistol during his photo-journalism era.
In actuality he feared peace more than war and it was believed that he only became a great photographer because he had developed his eye while serving as a sniper.
Sex is the water of life. It sustains the human existence and brings colour to the life. But sex also brings huge responsibilities with it. The case of human beings is different from animals. In animals all the responsibilities related to sex fall on the shoulders of females; males do absolutely nothing but impregnate females. They have nothing else to shoulder — during pregnancy, at the time of delivery and during the growth of children. God has been extremely kind to women; in every part of their biological functions, they have been assured of men’s support. Ensuring male cooperation in an effective way necessitates family system, which does not only relieve women of the burden of looking after children alone but also provides children with a highly congenial atmosphere for growth. Furthermore, it protects women from unwanted intrusions into their modesty, exploitation and abuse, safeguards children against abuse and devastation in life and bestows upon men a life of comfort and peace. Family system also acts as an infallible barrier between human beings and life-threatening viruses, bacteria and protozoans, ensuring longevity and better quality of life. If Sex within marriage is a guarantee to health and security, sex outside marriage is an invitation to diseases, destruction and devastation. While Islam promotes sex between a man and a woman, within the boundaries of marriage, it prohibits sex outside marriage; all forms of extramarital relationships are not only sins in the eyes of God but also punishable crimes under Islamic legal system. Apart from extramarital relationships, Islam also prohibits homosexuality, anal sex with women, prostitution and any erotic depiction of human body.
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In episode 226 of Ye Hai Mohabbatein, aired on 3rd September 2014, Santosh asks Ishita to separate Romi and Sarika. Ishita becomes shocked on finding Raman beside her on the bed. Madhavi visits the Bhalla house, to check whether she succeeded in her plan against Param. Shagun boasts about her upcoming wedding, in front of her friends. Shagun’s friend receives Ashok’s wedding proposal. Shagun panics on learning that Sooraj is trying to get Ashok married. Santosh asks Ishita to separate Romi and Sarika. On overhearing Param’s telephonic conversation, Ishita suspects that he is having an extramarital affair. Is Param actually having an extramarital affair?
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Turn Your Back on Bush
Face it: Liberals have cuter asses.
And speaking of ass -- let`s impeach George W. Bush. Surely, if Bill Clinton could be impeached over an extramarital blowjob, Dubya can be impeached over crimes against humanity.
We can at least start with replacing Rumsfeld in Iraq -- here`s a handy petition:
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This fragment of a marble relief depicts a group of veiled woman at a banquet, probably a rare representation of the Vestal Virgins. It may once have belonged to a Claudian era altar (mid-1st century CE).
The Vestal Virgins were unmarried, virgin priestesses of the goddess Vesta, responsible for keeping the sacred flame alive in her temple, which represented the hearth of Vesta. The vestal virgins were chosen from high born families at the age of only 6 or 7. As children, they would have had little understanding of the enormous commitment they were making, beginning a life of extreme dedication and huge responsibility. Each vestal virgin‘s time in the cult lasted thirty years, with every ten years changing in their duties. The first ten years were to learn the ways of the college, with the next ten years performing the rituals of the house and finally, their last ten years were to train the new virgins. They were an exceptionally exclusive cult, only welcoming six virgins at a time. After being chosen the girls would leave their father’s house and move into the House of Vestal. As they were committed to the priesthood, they would make a vow of celibacy until their thirty years were up. After which they were free to leave and marry. Unlike other women in society, however, the Vestals could own property, vote and write a will. They could attend public events, and would have some of the best seats at public games, and they even had the power to free condemned prisoners or slaves. Such freedom contrasted with the punishment they received in if they neglected their duties.
They were by far the most influential women in Rome, having extremely higher rights compared to the common women. The only women able to vote and voice their political opinion on matters, own property and had freedom from their fathers/husbands. They were also able to attend events that were only for men, having VIP sections in all stadiums. They were seen as completely pure beings; considered truthful, blessed, and gentle souls. A testimony of a Vestal could be done without being under oath. They could also free a slave just by looking at them. And any individual that harmed Vestal women would be put to death, regardless of status. If they were to let the sacred fire burn out, however, then those responsible would be stripped and beaten by the chief priest as punishment. To let the fire burn out was to endanger Rome and disrespect the Gods. This was not the most extreme of punishments, as sexual transgression served a worse fate. As their title suggests, virginity was integral to being a Vestal Virgin. Whilst extramarital sex was frowned upon in Rome, those who indulged in it usually faced a fate no worse than the confiscation of property. For the Vestal Virgins the matter was much more serious. It was thought that they were tarnished and no longer fit to perform their duties. Their initial punishment for this was whipping or stoning to death until a crueller punishment was later devised by Tarquinius Priscus. As no blood was meant to be spilt from a Vestal Virgin, he decided they should be buried alive instead.
Although they had a larger amount of freedom in their society, the cult did follow very strict restrictions and punishments in place. If a virgin broke their celibacy vows, they would have disastrous repercussions, punishable by death by whipping or being buried alive in the underground chambers. This was also the case if they allowed the fire to go out.
This relief fragment of Luni marble was discovered in 1935, along the Via del Corso in Rome.
Ara Pacis Museum, Rome
Dir: Kar Wai Wong
Stars: Tony Chiu Wai Leung, Maggie Cheung, Ping Lam Siu, Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung
Two neighbors, a woman and a man, form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs.
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French postcard by S.I.P., no. 1323. Photo: Reutlinger.
Amélie Diéterle (1871-1941) was one the most beloved actresses and singers of the Belle Epoque, who inspired poets and painters such as Mallarmé and Rodin. Between 1909 and 1913 she acted in some 25 short films at Pathé Frères, mostly Rigadin comedies directed by Georges Monca.
Amélie Diéterle was born in Strasbourg as the first child of the maid Dorothée Catherine Dieterle and French officer Louis Alexis Laurent. Her father stayed in a garrison near Munich in 1870 and Strasbourg in 1871, and it was not until 1892 that he recognised her as his child when he officially married his wife, but Amélie kept her mother's name as stage name. The family moved to Dijon, where in 1885 Diéterle entered the local conservatoire. In 1888 tragedy struck, when her brother Ernest drowned in one of the sand pits on the outskirts of town. In 1890, the family moved to Paris, where Amélie received the first prize for singing and solfège at the Dijon Conservatoire. In 1891, she joined the Théatre des Variétés, where she stayed until 1925. In 1898 she went on tour to Moscow and to St Petersburg, where she sang Breton, Provençal and Dutch songs. During her trip, she also visited Brussels and Berlin. Her patron was the theatre owner Paul Gallimard, later she became his mistress too. He left his wife and children, among whom the famous future editor Gaston, and installed Amélie in an apartment at the chic Boulevard des Malesherbes.
In 1901, Diéterle bought land in Croissy-sur-Seine, on which, in keeping with the fashion of the time, she built a beautiful villa with the look of an English cottage, named Villa Omphale, after one of her great roles, Omphale in Les Travaux d'Hercule by de Flers & Cavaillet, performed at the Bouffes-Parisiens. The success of this play and subsequent spectacles earned her laurels too and she became Officier d'académie. Specialised in song and dance, In 1904, Diéterle went to Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil for a successful four-month Latin-American tour.
Diéterle became the toast of the town in Paris, performing in high society, and also became the muse of painters such as Renoir, Vallotton, Toulouse-Lautrec and Roll. She herself had a massive art collection of Realist and Impressionist paintings. She was also one the most photographed artists, recorded by Paul Nadar, Paul Boyer, Leopold Reutlinger, Henri Manuel, and others, resulting in countless postcards with her portrait, often showcasing her taste in elegant costumes too. In 1908 she was again awarded, now as Officier de l'instruction publique, which, though raised critique on Diéterle, Gallimard and the awarding minster Doumergue. Another public success Diéterle had in Le Roi by De Flers & Caillavet, which was performed 530 times in a period of two years (1908-9).
In 1909, Diéterle, who was passionate about cinema, started an additional career in film, acting in many comedies most often in the Rigadin comedies with Charles Prince, produced by Pathé Frères and directed by Georges Monca, such as Rigadin cambrioleur (1911) and Le ménage de Rigadin (1912). Rarely, she also acted in dramas, such as Le Luthier de Cremône (1909) by Albert Capellani, also with Jean Dax, about a hunchback, a highly talented violin player who sacrifices himself for the well-being of the woman (Diéterle) he secretly loves but who loves another man. This may well have been her film debut. Another drama was Le mort vivant (1911) by Michel Carré, also with Paul Numa. In addition to the Rigadin comedies, Diéterle also played e.g. Mimi Pinson in the Alfred de Musset adaptation Miss Pinson (1910) by Monca. All in all, Diéterle acted in 25 shorts between 1909 and 1913.
Meeting aviation pioneers Robert Martinet et Georges Legagneux in 1911, Diéterle made her first trip on a plane, accompanied by Gallimard and actors and actresses of the Théatre des Variétés. This was at a time when flying was a dangerous hazard and indeed Legagneux would crash during a flight show in 1914 while Martinet died with his plane during the First World War in 1917. During the First World War, Diéterle worked as a nurse. In 1917 she retook her work at the Théatre des Variétés. In the same year, she also performed in Spain, at the Teatro Reina Victoria in Madrid.
In 1919 Diéterle was involved in an affair around fake Rodin statues, made by his former assistants soon after his death. Although not proven guilty, Gallimard and Diéterle were accused of involvement. Moreover, the press spelt Gallimard and Diéterle's extramarital affair, so she separated from Gallimard and gradually retreated from the stage. In 1927, after the couple who guarded her villa had bestolen her in her absence, she had a new property built on the Route Nationale at Golf-Juan in the municipality of Vallauris in the Alpes-Maritimes department. The villa, in Greek style, was named "Omphale", just like her previous villa. In 1930, at Vallauris, Diéterle married André Louis Simon, financier and founder of the Monoprix in Nice. In 1933 she sold a large part of the art collection. During the Second World War, Amélie Diéterle retreated to an apartment in Cannes, where she died on 20 January 1941, at the age of 70, after a long illness.
Sources: French and Dutch Wikipedia, IMDb.
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Ashley Madison - Life is Short. Have an Affair. Leader in married dating and extramarital affairs. www.ashleymadison.com
Maria, 19, was born in Faryab province in northern Afghanistan to a poor family. By the age of 11 she was already married, but her husband left soon afterwards to work in Iran and she was left alone with his family. ‘Three years later I was raped by my brother-in-law and I fell pregnant,’ she recalls. ‘My in-laws did not believe my innocence and I was charged with the “moral crime” of extramarital relations.
For this ‘moral crime’ Maria was sentenced to six years in prison. The brother-in-law was also sent to prison but he had money to pay off the court.
Christian Aid partner Afghan Women’s Education Centre, AWEC, provides legal support, education and income generation schemes to help the women seek justice and freedom, and to support themselves and their families while in prison and after they're released.
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Vintage Swedish postcard. Paul Heckscher, 1645.
Olof Theodor (Tore) Svennberg, born 28 February 1858 in Stockholm and died 8 May 1941 in Stockholm, was a Swedish actor, director and theatre manager, well remembered for his leads in Victor Sjöström's films Sons of Ingmar, The Monastery of Sendomir and The Phantom Carriage.
Tore Svennberg was the son of Josefina Adolfina Svennberg, and as a young man he worked as a travelling blacksmith and for a time was employed at the gasworks. He made his stage debut for Magda von Dolcke at the Ladugårdsland Theatre in Stockholm in 1877 as Landry in Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer's The Cricket. Thereafter he was engaged by various touring theatre companies such as Albergs, Novanders, Lindmarks and others. During 1888-1891 he was engaged by August Lindberg. In 1891 he embarked on a six-month study tour of Europe, where he studied German and Austrian acting in particular. After returning to Sweden, he started his own company, while making guest appearances in Sweden and the other Scandinavian countries. He mainly collaborated with Julia Håkansson. At times he was also employed at Albert Ranft's theatres, the longest period being 1905-1919, when he performed alternately at the Swedish Theatre and the Vasa Theatre.
At the Swedish Theatre he played in several Strindberg dramas such as Göran Persson in Gustav Vasa and the main role in Erik XIV in 1899, the lawyer in A Dream Play in 1907 and Edgar in The Dance of Death in 1919. He also interpreted many Ibsen roles: Helmer in A Doll's House in 1889, Hjalmar Ekdahl in Hedda Gabler in 1891 and Borkman in John Gabriel Borkman in 1897. In 1920, Svennberg moved to the Royal Dramatic Theatre, where he later became director from 1922 to 1928. He succeeded in attracting audiences by focussing on classics and foreign news.
In 1919, when he was well in his fifties, Svennberg debuted onscreen opposite Victor Sjöström as old Ingmar in Sjöström's film Ingmarssönerna/ Sons of Ingmar. He soon became one of Sjöström's favorite actors, with leads in the period drama Klostret i Sendomir/ The Monastery of Sendomir (1920), as a lord who explodes when he not only discovers his wife (Tora Teje) has an extramarital affair but also his son isn't his, and as George, the ghostly driver of the phantom carriage in Körkarlen/ The Phantom Carriage (1921), one of Sjöström's best and most famous films, with Sjöström himself in the lead, as the repenting drunkard David Holm. In Vem dömer/Mortal Clay (Sjöström, 1922) Svennberg had a supporting part as the mayor, while instead he had the male lead as the husband of Pauline Brunius in John Brunius' En vildfagel/ A WIld Bird (1921), about a woman who searches for the child she gave up at birth. After a long absence from the screen while still acting on stage at Dramaten, often in plays by his own hand, Svennberg returned when sound film set in. He acted in six more films between 1929 and 1940, the last one being Stål/Steel (1940), at the age of 82.
From 1905 Svennberg was married to the actress Karin Wiberg (1878-1950).
Sources: Swedish Wikipedia, IMDb.
Paolo Caliari, dit il Veronese (Vérone, 1528 environ - Venise, 1588) : "Vénus et Mercure présentent Eros et Astaros à Jupiter", huile sur toile (1560 environ).
Le tableau montre Mercure et Vénus accompagnés d'Eros s'approchant de Jupiter pour demander sa bénédiction pour leur fils Antéros. La composition, développée dans un sens horizontal, amène l'observateur à rechercher la figure de Jupiter trônant hors de son champ de vision : le dieu n'est visible qu'à genoux et est symbolisé par la figure d'un aigle. Ce que nous avons ici, ce sont les formes opposées de l'amour, Anteros représentant l'amour conjugal positif et légitime tandis qu'Eros représente l'amour sous forme de passion sensuelle ou extraconjugale.
Paolo Caliari detto il Veronese (Verona, 1528 circa - Venezia, 1588) : "Venus and Mercury present Eros and Astaros to Jupiter", oil on canvas (1560 circa).
The painting shows Mercury and Venus accompanied by Eros approaching Jupiter to seek his blessing for their son Anteros. The composition, developed in a horizontal sense, induces the observer to sek the figure of Jupiter enthroned outside his field of vision: the god is visible only from the knees down and is symbolised by the figure of an eagle. What we have here are the opposing forms of love, Anteros representing the positive and legitimate conjugal love while Eros stands for love in the shape of sensual or extramarital passion.
"The erect penis is a common motif throughtout the Bhutanese countryside. Many explanations are heard. Perhaps the most common is that they scare away evil spirits." (Carpenter, Blessings of Bhutan) For sure, these house decorations always get the attention of visiting westerners.
Carpenter notes that, " This is a country where sexuality often operates in an easygoing environment. Extramarital sex is common. Marriage is often an informal arrangement, especially for rural people. Both men and women are free to divorce whenever they want to."
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In an effort to improve public morals and restock the Roman upper classes depleted by the Civil War, Augustus in 18 BC passed his marriage laws. One of them was the “lex Iulia de adultery” (Julian Law on Adultery). Adultery, or extramarital sexual activity of a married woman (NB: not man), had previously been considered a private matter, but now gained the status of a crime that had to be prosecuted in court.
If convicted, both the woman and her lover faced relegation – to different places, for obvious reasons. If the husband had profited from his wife’ s relationship or even simply tolerated it, he was subject to prosecution as well. The mystery of Ovid ’s exile has exercised readers since late antiquity and spawned a multitude of theories, many of them fantastic. Among the more plausible ones, there are two main lines of approach: the sexual and the political. Ovid at least had not shied from joking in the Amores that adultery was one of Rome's hallowed traditions. But with the execution or exile of Julia's lovers the situation changed. The contents of his works contrary to the new ethical standards professed by Augustus may have really been at the origin of his misfortunes.
The exact nature of the punishment for Ovid’s wrong was made known to the people in an edict issued by the emperor himself. The words of the edict, though harsh and threatening, were again specially formulated to fit Ovid’s fate, calling him “relegatus” instead of “exul”. The Romans made a remarkable difference between “relegation” and “exilium”. Both required that the condemned leaves the city while staying inside the limes of Roman territory at a specified distance from Rome. They differed in that “exilium” brought with it the loss of citizenship and the subsequent confiscation of property, while “relegation” allowed the condemned to keep both, as Ovid himself notes thankfully on several occasions.
Source Steven J. Green, “Ovid’s Fasti”
Marble statue
216 x 80 x 45 cm
1st half 1st century AD
From Aquileia, “Museo Archeologico Nazionale”
Exhibition: “Ovidio: Loves, Myths & Other Stories”
Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome
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" Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." - Genesis 2:16–17
( According to Genesis, sin originated when Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. This sin was passed on to their children and is still inherited by us today. Many theologists explain, forbidden fruit is not literal fruit, it is symbolic terms. It refers to illicit sex that is extramarital sex and premarital sex which degrades human values and relationship mostly. )
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The painting depicts a young Dutch blonde girl standing at an open window, in profile, reading a letter. A red drapery hangs over the top of the window glass, which has opened inward and which, in its lower right quadrant, reflects her. A tasseled ochre drapery in the foreground right, partially closed, masks a quarter of the room in which she stands. The color of the drape reflects the green of the woman's gown and the shades of the fruit tilted in a bowl on the red-draped table. On the table beside the bowl, a peach is cut in half, revealing its pit.
Norbert Schneider indicates that the open window is on one level intended to represent "the woman's longing to extend her domestic sphere" beyond the constraints of her home and society, while the fruit "is a symbol of extramarital relations." He concludes that the letter is a love letter either planning or continuing her illicit relationship. This conclusion, he says, is supported by the fact that x-rays of the canvas have shown that at one point Vermeer had featured a Cupid in the painting. This putto once hung in the upper right of the piece before, for whatever reason, somebody closed the wall over it. This overpainting, which is now being reversed by restorators, seems to have taken place in the 18th century.
The draperies, hanging in the right foreground, are not an uncommon element for Vermeer, appearing in seven of his paintings. Even more common, the repoussoir appears in 25, with Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window, one of three which feature a rug-covered table or balustrade between the figure and the viewer. It was the last painting in which Vermeer featured this device.
This painting and Officer and Laughing Girl represent the earliest known examples of the pointillé (not to be confused with pointillism) for which Vermeer became known. John Michael Montias in Vermeer and His Milieu (1991) points out the "tiny white globules" that can be seen in the brighter parts of both paintings, including the still life elements of both and the blond hair specifically in this work. This use of light may support speculation among art historians that Vermeer used a mechanical optical device, such as a double concave lens mounted in a camera obscura, to help him achieve realistic light patterns in his paintings.
Vermeer completed the painting in approximately 1657–59. In 1742, Augustus III of Poland, Elector of Saxony, purchased the painting under the mistaken belief that it had been painted by Rembrandt. In 1826, it was mis-attributed again, to Pieter de Hooch. It was so labeled when French art critic Théophile Thoré-Bürger came upon it, recognizing it as one of the rare works of the Dutch painter and restoring its proper attribution in 1860.
Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window was among the paintings rescued from destruction during the bombing of Dresden in World War II. The painting was stored, with other works of art, in a tunnel in Saxony; when the Red Army encountered them, they took them. The Soviets portrayed this as an act of rescue; some others as an act of plunder. Either way, after the death of Joseph Stalin, the Soviets decided in 1955 to return the art to Germany, "for the purpose of strengthening and furthering the progress of friendship between the Soviet and German peoples." Aggrieved at the thought of losing hundreds of paintings, art historians and museum curators in the Soviet Union suggested that "in acknowledgment for saving and returning the world-famous treasures of the Dresden Gallery" the Germans should perhaps donate to them Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window and Sleeping Venus by Giorgione. The Germans did not take to the idea, and the painting was returned. Well-preserved, it is on display at the Gemäldegalerie in Dresden.
83 x 64,5 cm
Did Puppet Petraeus Resign due to a extra-marital affair or for refusing to play ball with Obama?
According to Mark Knoller of CBS News, the "Senate Intelligence Committee says Petraeus will not testify at next week’s closed hearing on the events in Benghazi." After the intelligence community was thrown under the bus by Obama, CIA Director Petraeus strongly stated that no order was given to stand down during the assassination of US Ambassador Chris Stevens, Sean Smith and two ex-Navy Seals and CIA operatives Glen Doherty and Ty Woods.
Petraeus submitted his resignation to President Obama citing an extra-marital affair as his reason for leaving the post.
Either Petraeus is refusing to cover for Obama or resigning to avoid testifying under oath about Benghazi.
Congressional hearings on the Benghazi attack and subsequent cover-up of details by administration officials are scheduled to resume on November 15.
San Francisco is one of the biggest small cities in the world. With a total area of forty nine square miles and less than a million inhabitants, its city hall dome is almost a foot taller than the United States Capitol Building and it is considered one of the finest examples of classical architecture in the country.
During the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the City Hall crumbled into rubble. On April 15, 1913 Mayor "Sunny Jim" Rolph broke ground on San Francisco's sixth City Hall. It took three years and $3.5 million to build. In 1989, a major earthquake struck again. This time, the City Hall remained standing, but it was deemed seismically unsafe. The city completed a $293 million upgrade and seismic retrofit in 1998.
The resurrected city hall was officially re-opened on January 5, 1999. While it restored the building to its original beauty, the project wasn't just a cosmetic restoration. To isolate it from the shock of the next "big one," engineers installed 530 lead-rubber isolators that act like huge shock absorbers, making City Hall the world's largest base-isolated building. Every feature of the building, from the rotunda with its imposing staircase and Mongolian mahogany-paneled the supervisor's chambers was restored to the original design.
Many news-worthy events occurred in City Hall, but one of the oddest happened in the summer of 1923. President Warren G. Harding was in Alaska when he received a message that caused a hasty return to Washington. Upon reaching San Francisco, he became ill and died on August 2, 1923. The official cause of death is unknown because his wife refused to allow an autopsy. Some say it was a heart attack, a stroke or pneumonia, but one of the most colorful theories is that his wife was fed up with his extramarital affairs and poisoned him. Whatever the cause of his death, Harding's body lay in state in City Hall.
Many people have been married here, but one of the most famous marriages was Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe.
In 1978, former city supervisor Dan White assassinated Mayor Moscone and city supervisor Harvey Milk. A long political history that led up the assassination. Harvey Milk was the first openly gay elected official in San Francisco and much has been written about the importance of his election and his death.
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Exeter School Cemetery (Exeter Historical Cemetery 35).
Originally the Exeter School Cemetery, these are the graves of residents of the Ladd School. During the middle of the first half of the 20th century, the Exeter School was used mainly as living quarters for young children and wayward girls, while the dormitories were filled well beyond capacity. Adopting a purpose more characteristic of a custodial or penal institution, the Exeter School’s policy became focused more on detaining people indefinitely as a means of segregating them from free society. A bald-faced perversion of justice, this newly emerging practice was enacted upon individuals who committed petty crimes, or no crimes at all. Directed especially toward women accused of immoral practices such as prostitution, sodomy, extramarital intercourse, and ‘illegitimate’ pregnancy, a court commitment to Exeter was in countless cases leveraged as a means of eliminating the bloodline of entire families. Because compulsory sterilization was illegal in Rhode Island, most women sentenced under such pretenses were confined to Exeter until menopause, or natural death, while a select few were sterilized nevertheless by willing surgeons who found ways to obviate the law. In this way, until the end of World War II, the Exeter School’s paramount function was that of a eugenics-era concentration camp. (from Wikipedia)
(excerpt from theladdschool.blogspot.com/2013/11/monuments-or-memories-... ):
Oftentimes their remains were unclaimed by friends or relatives, unable to have supported their loved ones in life and too sick or indigent themselves to bury them in death; and so they were buried by the State instead, in pauper's cemeteries located on or near the grounds of those asylums in which the deceased lived their final days.
The graves of those laid to rest in this way usually were marked by a small numbered pillar or headstone made of wood, metal or concrete, and the identities of the buried were recorded in ledgers at the institutions. Sometimes when the families of the dead were no longer in dire straits they would attempt to locate their passed on loved ones to have their bodies disinterred and removed to a private cemetery or family plot. Unfortunately, over time the records which had given each of the dead a name were lost; and so as the cemeteries fell into disuse, and the memories of those buried in their anonymous graves slowly vanished.
Just couldn't resist.
It's hard to know whether to laugh or weep about the following.
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Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when Bush's daddy made war on him, a good guy when Cheney did business with him and a bad guy when Bush needed a "we can't find Bin Laden" diversion.
Trade with Cuba is wrong because the country is communist, but trade with China and Vietnam is vital to a spirit of international harmony.
A woman can't be trusted with decisions about her own body, but multinational corporations can make decisions affecting all mankind without regulation.
Jesus loves you, and shares your hatred of homosexuals and Hillary Clinton.
The best way to improve military morale is to praise the troops in speeches while slashing veterans' benefits and combat pay.
If condoms are kept out of schools, adolescents won't have sex.
Providing health care to all Iraqis is sound policy. Providing health care to all Americans is socialism.
HMOs and insurance companies have the best interests of the public at heart.
Global warming and tobacco's link to cancer are junk science, but creationism should be taught in schools.
A president lying about an extramarital affair is an impeachable offense.
A president lying to enlist support for a war in which thousands die is solid defense policy.
Government should limit itself to the powers named in the Constitution, which include banning gay marriages and censoring the Internet.
The public has a right to know about Hillary's cattle trades, but George Bush's cocaine conviction is none of our business.
Being a drug addict is a moral failing and a crime, unless you're a conservative radio host. Then it's an illness, and you need our prayers for your recovery.
You support states' rights, which means Attorney General Gonzalez can tell states what local voter initiatives they have the right to adopt.
What Bill Clinton did in the 1960s is of vital national interest, but what Bush did in the '80s is irrelevant.
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About The Affair
At once deeply observed and intriguingly elusive, THE AFFAIR explores the emotional effects of an extramarital relationship. Noah is a New York City schoolteacher and novelist who is happily married, but resents his dependence on his wealthy father-in-law. Alison is a young waitress trying to piece her life and marriage back together in the wake of a tragedy. The provocative drama unfolds when Alison and Noah meet in Montauk at the end of Long Island.
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Caminando con Jesús | ¿Cómo resistir la tentación extramarital? Ella tiene remedios.
Nuestro primer amor es algo que nunca podremos olvidar y, aunque duele cuando nos separamos, los hermosos recuerdos permanecen con nosotros. Años más tarde, ella se encuentra de nuevo con su primer amor y, antes de que se dé cuenta, cae en una trampa de seducción y su vida se sume en el caos… Las palabras de Dios la guían a resistir la tentación y escapar de la trampa, y una vez más, ella recupera la tranquilidad en su vida.
Se encuentran el uno al otro en la calle, ¡realmente es él!
Li estaba parada a un lado de la avenida tratando de tomar un taxi para ir de compras en una tarde tranquila, soleada y luminosa, pero todos los que pasaban ya estaban ocupados. Esperaba ansiosamente cuando, justo en ese momento, una camioneta SUV de lujo frenó repentinamente y se detuvo frente a ella.
La ventanilla del coche se abrió y Li vio una cara que conocía muy bien, la cual le sonrió. Li estaba asombrada: ¡era Tao, su primer novio! Ella dijo emocionada: “Wow, ¿eres realmente tú? Nunca hubiera pensado que me encontraría contigo aquí”.
“Lo sé, ¡qué coincidencia! ¿A dónde vas? Te llevaré”. Li se subió al coche y hablaron de todo, charlando todo el trayecto. Cuando llegaron a la tienda, intercambiaron sus datos de contacto.
Li y Tao habían estado juntos en la escuela intermedia, rompiendo su relación después de graduarse. Era muy inesperado que se encontraran de nuevo después de tantos años.
Li revive su primer amor pero solo quiere seguir siendo una buena amiga
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Su primer amor expresa sus deseos y ella cae en una trampa de emociones
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Lo que parecía ser el “verdadero amor” resultó ser una trampa
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Li entiende la verdad y resiste la tentación
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Fuente del artículo: https : / / www.jesucristo-es.org/como-resistir-la-tentacion.html
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The Postcard
A postcard published by J. Salmon of Sevenoaks bearing an early image of Mars Hill in Lynmouth. The village was described by Thomas Gainsborough, who honeymooned there, as "...the most delightful place for a landscape painter this country can boast".
The card was posted on Friday the 22nd. September 1922 to an address in Lucknow Avenue Nottingham.
The Lynmouth Flood
Thirty years later the same scene was far from idyllic - on the 15th. and 16th. August 1952, a storm of tropical intensity broke over south-west England, depositing 229 mm (9 inches) of rain within 24 hours on an already waterlogged Exmoor. Debris-laden floodwaters cascaded down the northern escarpment of the moor, converging upon the village.
The River Lyn running through the village had been culverted to gain land for business premises; this culvert soon choked with flood debris, and the river overflowed to a great height as it ran through the village. Much of the debris was boulders and trees.
Overnight, over 100 buildings were destroyed or seriously damaged, and 38 cars were washed out to sea. 34 people died, and a further 420 were made homeless.
After the disaster, the village was rebuilt, and the river diverted around it.
J. Salmon Ltd.
Alas, J. Salmon no longer produce postcards. Having churned out small coloured rectangles of card from its factory in Kent for more than 100 years, the company stopped publishing postcards in 2017.
The fifth-generation brothers who still ran the company sent a letter to their clients in the autumn of 2017, advising them that the presses would cease printing at the end of 2017, with their remaining stock being sold off throughout the following year.
The firm’s story began in 1880, when the original J. Salmon acquired a printing business on Sevenoaks high street, and produced a collection of twelve black and white scenes of the town.
In 1912, the business broke through into the big time by commissioning the artist Alfred Robert Quinton (1853 - 1934), who produced 2,300 scenes of British life for them up until his death.
From Redruth to King’s Lynn, his softly coloured, highly detailed watercolours of rosy milkmaids, bucolic pumphouses and picturesque harbour towns earned him a place in the hearts of the public, despite references to Alfred's 'chocolate-box art' by some art critics.
J. Salmon also produced photographs and cheery oils of seaside imagery captioned with a garrulous enthusiasm: “Eat More Chips!”, “Sun, Sand & Sea”, “We’re Going Camping!”
It commissioned the comic artist Reg Maurice (who often worked under the pseudonym Vera Paterson), to produce pictures of comically bulbous children with cutesy captions, alongside the usual stock images of British towns.
It was this century’s changing habits – and technology – that did for Salmon. Co-managing director Charles Salmon noted:
“People are going for shorter breaks,
not for a fortnight, so you’re back home
before your postcards have arrived."
He barely needed to say that Instagram and Facebook had made their product all but redundant, almost wiping out the entire industry in a decade.
Michelle Abadie, co-director of the John Hinde Collection, said:
“When I heard the news, I was
actually surprised they still existed."
John Hinde was once J Salmon’s biggest rival; it sold 50-60 million postcards a year at its peak in the 1960's, but it, too, shuttered four years previously. The licensing for its rich archive of images was sold off, and repurposed in art books.
However, in one sense, the death of the postcard is overstated. Like vinyl records, our fetish for the physical objects we left behind is already making its presence felt.
Michelle Abadie points out:
“If you go into Waterstones now, they
sell lots of postcards of book covers.
The idea itself isn’t dead – as a
decorative object, people still want
them.”
A Boxing Surprise
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, on the 22nd. September 1922, in a bout for boxing's world light heavyweight championship, held in Paris between title holder Georges Carpentier of France and Louis Mbarick Fall (who fought under the name "Battling Siki") of Senegal, Siki was supposed to lose on purpose in return for not being injured by Carpentier.
However when Carpentier knocked Siki down in the fifth round, Siki knocked Carpentier out in the sixth round and (after a disqualification by the referee that was reversed by the ringside judges), Siki became the new world champion.
Babe Ruth's Daughter
Also on that day, the existence of Dorothy Ruth, the one-year-old daughter of Babe Ruth, became public knowledge for the first time following weeks of sightings of Babe and wife Helen with the child around the New York hotel where they lived.
Helen claimed that it had been kept a secret from the public because the baby had been ill since birth, but the truth was that the child was the product of one of Babe's extramarital affairs.
On the 17th. August 1948, an estimated 25,000 people filed past the coffin of Babe Ruth lying in state for the first of two days at Yankee Stadium. Babe had died of cancer at the age of 53 in NYC the day before.
Babe Ruth's funeral was held on the 19th. August at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan. 75,000 people stood in the rain to watch the funeral procession of twenty-five automobiles wind its way to the Gate of Heaven Cemetery.
George Herman 'Babe' Ruth Jr., who was born on the 6th. February 1895 in Pigtown, Maryland, was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball (MLB) spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935.
Nicknamed "The Bambino" and "The Sultan of Swat", he began his MLB career as a left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, but achieved his greatest fame as a slugging outfielder for the New York Yankees.
Ruth established many MLB batting (and some pitching) records, including career home runs (714), runs batted in (RBIs) (2,213), bases on balls (2,062), slugging percentage (.690), and on-base plus slugging (OPS) (1.164); the latter two still stand as of 2018.
Ruth is regarded as one of the greatest sports heroes in American culture, and is considered by many to be the greatest baseball player of all time.
In 1936, Ruth was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame as one of its "first five" inaugural members.
The Postcard
A postcard bearing no publisher's name that was printed in England. The card was posted in Blackpool on Wednesday the 5th. June 1963 to:
P. D. G. Robinson,
19 Park Avenue,
Thackley,
Bradford,
Yorks.
The message on the divided back was as follows:
"Dear All,
Hope you got home
safe and sound.
The weather's not
quite so good, but
nothing to grumble
about.
G. & G. Baxter".
The Significance of Black Cats
There are more black cats than any other color because the black gene is most dominant for felines.
Over the centuries, these dark, handsome, and friendly felines have been associated with cultural and historical myths, superstitions, and tales that make them either revered or feared.
Here are conflicting superstitions relating to black cats:
-- Black Cats Are Witches in Disguise
If you're spooked when you see a black cat, it’s probably from medieval folklore that continues to shroud the reputation of these dignified kitties. Black cats have long been associated with witches and witchcraft.
It's said that the story began when a black cat was seen running into a house thought to be inhabited by a witch. During the Middle Ages, black cats became equated with black magic.
Roaming nocturnal black cats were thought to be witches in disguise, witches' pets, or animal-shaped demons sent by witches to spy on humans.
From the early 13th. century in Europe through the 17th.-century Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts, black cats were killed. Black cats have evolved into icons of anything related to witchcraft, especially during the Halloween season.
-- Black Cats Are Bad Luck
A black cat is also associated by some people with bad luck, and even death. This fear of black cats appears to stem from medieval times, when an animal with dark feathers or fur, including crows and ravens, signaled death.
In 16th.-century Italy, it was believed that death was imminent if a black cat would lay on someone's sickbed. In modern-day North America, negative connotations continue to haunt black cats: It’s considered bad luck if a black cat crosses your path, and good luck if a white cat crosses your path.
Another family member is bound to die if you spot a black cat during a funeral procession. And it's a bad omen if you see a black cat walking away from you.
Fortunately, all these ideas are just superstition.
-- Black Cats Are Good Luck
Black cats are also believed to bring good luck in many ways. In ancient Egypt, black cats were held in the highest esteem because they resembled Bastet, the cat-headed Egyptian goddess of home, fertility, and protection from disease.
Black cats are considered good luck in other parts of the globe as well. In Asia and the U.K., you're going to be lucky in life if you own a black cat. When British good luck postcards feature a cat, the cat is always black.
In Japan, you'll have luck in finding love if you spot a black cat.
In parts of England, a bride will have luck in her marriage if she receives a black cat as a gift.
In Europe, sailors will have a safe journey if they bring along a black cat on the ship.
In Scotland, you'll have coming prosperity if a black cat appears at your doorway or on your porch.
In France, something magical is about to happen if you see a black cat.
In other cultures around the world, it’s a sign of good luck if you dream about a black cat, see one walking towards you, or if you happen to find a stray white hair on its fur.
The Profumo Scandal
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, on the 5th. June 1963, revelations of an extramarital affair between British Secretary of State for War John Profumo and Christine Keeler, and Profumo's subsequent admission that he had lied about the affair to his fellow MPs in the House of Commons, led to Profumo's resignation.
President Kennedy
Also on that day, U.S. President Kennedy announced during a speech at the United States Air Force Academy that the United States government would team with private industry to quickly develop:
"The prototype of a commercially
successful supersonic transport
superior to that being built in any
other country".
This was a clear reference to the British-French Concorde and the Soviet Tupolev Tu-144. His statement gave rise to the Boeing 2707 ("SST") project.
The Beatles
Also on the 5th. June 1963, the Number One chart hit in the UK was 'From me to You' by The Beatles.
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At once deeply observed and intriguingly elusive, THE AFFAIR explores the emotional effects of an extramarital relationship. Noah is a New York City schoolteacher and novelist who is happily married, but resents his dependence on his wealthy father-in-law. Alison is a young waitress trying to piece her life and marriage back together in the wake of a tragedy. The provocative drama unfolds when Alison and Noah meet in Montauk at the end of Long Island.
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