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Housewife Lisa explains how telemetics pay-as-you-drive car insurance works and saves her money while being able to keep an eye on her husband…
“I have three kids, two school runs, a part-time job - and no time.
“The most I ever drive is to school or to the shops and sometimes to work which adds up to about 10 miles a day.
“Now I threw a hissy fit when I found that I get charged the same for my insurance as my friend Sarah across the road who drives about 500 miles a week for work and stuff like that.
“But then I found out from my neighbour that there’s something called pay-how-you-drive. You’re insured all the time, but you’re only charged when you drive your car, and if you drive carefully then you get charged less.
“It’s all down to something called telematics, which is a little box hidden in the car which tells the insurance company when and how you’re driving. It’s the same idea as sending information from a mobile phone, but what it does is monitor if you go round corners too fast, or brake too hard, drive like a hooligan – you know what I mean. Doesn’t apply to me of course.
“I don’t have the foggiest idea how it all works, but the really good thing is that I can go online and log in to a website and see how my teenage son is driving if he takes my car. And as I have the reins on the household budget I can also see how much we’re wasting on pointless journeys like when my husband got his new car and was behaving more like a teenager than my teenagers…”
Coverbox is both a pay-as-you-drive and pay-how-you-drive car insurer, providing insurance through names such as The co-operative, Groupama, Allianz, Sabre and Markerstudy to suit a range of drivers’ requirements. Premiums are based on the distance and time of day of travel – varying rates being charged per mile depending upon peak or off-peak driving – and how drivers drive, with sensible drivers being rewarded with lower insurance costs for careful, considerate and reasonable driving. Drivers who avoid accident black-spots or high-risk locations such as roads past schools or busy rush-hour junctions are rewarded with reduced renewal premiums, and are charged according to their driving habits and approach rather than being charged according to how other drivers living in the same postcode behave behind the wheel: why should two drivers of similar cars, of similar status and similar age – one a well-behaved driver, the other a dangerously-driving neighbour - be charged the same insurance rate when one is many more times likely to be involved in an accident than the other? Coverbox uses telematics – an exchange of information between technology in the car to the insurer – to keep up with, and reward, drivers’ habits; Coverbox customers also benefit from free GPS theft tracking, and can monitor their vehicle usage through their very own personalised online “dashboard” which keeps them updated on vehicle usage and cost, and, potentially, substantial savings on their car insurance. www.coverbox.co.uk/
Vysehrad Cemetery is the graveyard attached to the Basilica of Saint Peter & Saint Paul in Vysehrad (notes at the end about the Vysehrad complex).
The complex is over a thousand years old, but the cemetery was only established in 1869, which explains the newness of the headstones. It's an active cemetery, though it seems pretty packed walking around. As noted below, this could basically be seen as the Czech pantheon, given the number of notable Czechs interred here from the arts, letters, and medicine.
Among those you'll find here (that non-Czechs may recognize, by name or contribution) are: Jan Neruda (a poet, and the man from whom Pablo Neruda took his pen name), Antonin Dvorak (composer of the New World Symphony), Josef & Karel Capek (brothers, Josef created the word "robot" and Karel used it in his play R.U.R., which introduced the word to the world), Karel Ancerl (conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Toronto Symphony Orchestra), Hana Maskova (1968 bronze medalist in Olympic figure skating), and Jan Evangelista Purkyne (who, in 1839, coined the term "protoplasm"). There are many others of note, and very ornate headstones -- hence this large set. I don't intend to slight anyone, so feel free to do some research on your own if you wish.
Vysehrad is a pretty neat place to visit in Prague, in my opinion -- especially if you want to relax away from tourists.
It has a combination of things that make it wonderful for me. Its history, its current use, its location (and views it affords), and what's left on site -- taken individually, warrant a visit in my world. Collectively? Winner.
We'll start with what Vysehrad was, which involves local beliefs and legends. The (unproven) thought is that this is the original site of Prague, founded by Duke Krok in...who knows what year? Duke Krok is a myth, though may have been real. And since he's a myth, his daughters, too, are mythical. One of them is Libuse, who has a "bath" here, and she can be found in some architecture around town. I recall seeing her on a building on Karlova.
Duke Kroc was the first duke of the Czech people. Princess Libuse, the youngest (and wisest) of his three daughters later became queen and married a ploughman named Premysl, founding the Premyslid dynasty (interesting...she's royalty, he's a commoner, yet the dynasty is named for him because he's a man...yea for sexism?). The three sisters had special powers (one a healer, one a magician, and Libuse could predict the future). She prophesied the founding of Prague in the 8th century. So believe the Czechs.
What does history tell us? Well, this fortress-castle has been here for a thousand years give or take. Precise origin dates are unknown (or I can't seem to find them). One of the buildings here -- St. Martin's Chapel -- is known to have been built sometime between 1060-1090, so we can say it's conservatively a thousand years old.
Part of the fun of the legend that could support its continuing existence is its location high on a bluff directly overlooking the Vltava River. It was a perfect place to build a defensive fortress, that eventually became a royal castle. As the city grew, and Prague Castle was built, Vysehrad's importance waned.
The two castles competed (kind of) for two centuries to be the most important in Prague. The heyday for Vysehrad was in the late 11th century (when St. Martin's Chapel was built). Vratislaus II, the first king of Bohemia (until him, all were dukes or duchesses) moved his seat of power here from Prague Castle, at which point the original Vysehrad fortress received a major upgrade: a new palatial home, a church, a chapter house.
Growth continued, but only for a short time. Vratislaus's son, Duke Sobeslav (I'm not sure why he was duke, if his dad was king) moved the royal seat right on back to Prague Castle.
The death knell for Vysehrad (as a royal residence) came when Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV (yeah, the same one for whom Charles Bridge is named) renovated Prague Castle to its current dimensions. Vysehrad was abandoned. However, Charles did renew the fortifications with new gates, a royal palace (though never official seat of government), and started repairing the basilica. This was early 14th century. About a hundred years later in 1420 at the start of the Hussite War, Vysehrad was rancasked. And again, a few decades later. Finally, Vysehrad was left to ruin...
...Until the Austrians came along. Austria-Hungary gained Czech lands as a prize of the Thirty Years' War, remodeling it as a baroque fortress, to use as a training center for their troops.
The main building that dominated Vysehrad (to this day) is the Basilica of St. Peter & St. Paul. It's pretty big. Hard to miss, for sure. Like St. Martin's Chapel, it was also (originally) built in the 11th century. Unlike little St. Martin's, though, the big fella was remodeled in the late 1300s and, again, by the Austrians in 1885 & 1887. It's now a neo-Gothic church. Also dating to this baroque renovation are the Tabor and Leopold gates.
So...what do you get when come to Vysehrad now? A city park, really. It's free to come and go (though I think going inside the church may cost a little money).
The bastion walls are fantastic to take a walk around and enjoy panoramic views of every part of the city, the river, the bridges, just to reflect on the here and now, and the past. The bastions are big enough, and long enough, that you can take some time to just do that alone. There are also benches if you want to relax and enjoy the view.
Inside the fortress walls, you'll find mostly wooded land (thanks to its having been abandoned) with the aforementioned church and chapel, plus some other historic recreations, a few trails, and...well, all around, pleasant places to be. There are a handful of statues around the grounds, including Good King Wenceslaus, and Princess Libuse.
Being as that it's a church -- and a large one -- there's also a church cemetery attached directly to the side and back of it. Creatively, it's called "Vysehrad Cemetery."
As far as cemeteries go, I've been to many, and this one has some of the most interesting headstones I've seen. Not only that, as far as Czechs go, this could almost be their Pantheon. While royalty are buried elsewhere (Prague Castle, for starters), the literati all seem to be buried here -- except Kafka. He's in the New Jewish Cemetery. And, not every famous Czech is buried here, of course, but quite a few prominent ones from arts and letters are taking their dirt naps here. At the end of the day, this is a big, beautiful public park, well worth a visit, and the locals love it. This seems to be one of the places they come to celebrate New Year's Eve. I love that it's not overrun by tourists, though hope that anyone who has read this can make it there and see for yourself.
Why would Darth Revan’s wife hide his mask from him and why was she afraid that if he put the mask on yet again that he would fall to the dark side of the force.
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Mrs. John Bigelow was born Jane Tunis Poultney in Baltimore, Maryland in January, 1829. The Poultneys were a prominent and wealthy Quaker family, and Jane's father had amassed a fortune in banking, but in 1837 he was charged and convicted of manipulations which had closed The Bank of Maryland and led to a financial panic wherein thousands of people lost their life savings. The angry citizens of Baltimore rioted for seven straight nights, burning and looting the homes of those who were felt by the crowds to be responsible. Evan Poultney had published a pamphlet denying any guilt and explaining his side of the story, which was twice contradicted by his banking partners, but his story was evidently believed to some extent by the people of Baltimore, and later examinations of the evidence have suggested he may well have been completely innocent of wrongdoing, a pawn of his manipulative partners. Unlike his partners, Poultney did not flee the city when the riots started, and when the angry mob showed up at his family home, he spoke honestly and was able to convince them not to destroy the place. Still, as one of the the bank's officers, Evan Poultney was found guilty and sentenced to pay back enormous amounts of money, leaving his family somewhat disgraced and their fortunes significantly diminished. Poultney died a short time later. His widow and daughter soon moved to New York to live with a relative.
At a dancing party on Long Island the young and already popular Miss Poultney, a favorite of the wife of the city's then mayor, was introduced to 30 year old John Bigelow, a tall, intellectual and handsome attorney and writer who was easily rising in New York at the time. Not prone to being overly romantic, Bigelow first wooed his new love interest with the gift of two gallons of turtle soup left over from a cruise he had taken. Apparently the gift was well received. The couple was married within a matter of four months. John Bigelow wrote of his bride, "She was a woman of notable beauty and social charm. Her family deemed our courtship rather brief, but there seemed to be no occasion, on my part at least, for prolonging it." And later, years after her death (obviously still not relying on oversentimentality),
"What I owed to her, besides the children who have been the principal joy and comfort of my life, I could not, nor would I if I could, express in words. It is due to her memory, however, if I say anything, to express my conviction that without her my career in the world would not only have been very different from what it was, but far less satisfactory to myself and to others."
By all accounts, Jane Poultney Bigelow (always known to friends and family as "Jenny") was greatly devoted to her husband and children and they to her, yet she always remained quite independent. She was highly intelligent, known as a talented raconteuse, and had a unique, eccentric personality. One newspaper described her as "a force in Parisian life, who enjoyed the attention and esteem of a woman, vivacious, witty, and intellectually vigorous". When her husband was posted to Berlin, it was reported that Mrs. Bigelow’s staunch insistence on the superior quality of American pork (which was banned in Germany), led Bismarck to describe her as one of the brightest women he had ever met, and forced eight Royal auditors to admit that American pork was ‘good enough for anybody’. Oscar Browning, the author and educator who befriended the couple in Berlin, called Mrs. Bigelow an unconventional, warm hearted, delightful woman whose kindness he would never forget, and he noted that she was regarded as "quite the leader of foreign society" who was courted by the most distinguished people in Berlin. To Mrs. Henry Adams, she was "our erratic friend," to Julia Ward Howe, she was "the great woman," and her husband once described her behavior at a dinner with Charles Dickens as "audacious," but most people generally seemed to find her charming, brilliant and funny, if occasionally trying. Society writers noted that despite her independent nature and unusual habits, Mrs. Bigelow was not only tolerated but actively courted by Society and was welcomed into the oldest homes of both America and Europe. In New York, Paris and Berlin, Mrs. Bigelow was always considered a favorite hostess, particularly among folks from the literary or artistic worlds. She occasionally wrote some prose of her own and published a few works under the name Jenny P. Bigelow. When Oscar Wilde visited New York, Mrs. Bigelow was one of the chosen few to host a dinner party in his honor, and the New York times later reported that Wilde was seen riding in a carriage with Mrs. Bigelow at West Point. Wilde later dedicated a poem "to my friend Mrs. John Bigelow. Walt Whitman, Wilkie Collins, and William Thackeray were all entertained and charmed by her. A brief article from 1877 described her thus, "Mrs. John Bigelow, who would have been a leading lady at the White House if Tllden had come in, entertained the Grand Duke in her private box. She is a most gifted woman, speaks fluently in several languages, and has that gracious empressement of manner so peculiarly the characteristic of foreigners. Her dress of pale green satin was cut decollete with short sleeves, relieved by point lace; her Jewels were numerous and of great size and luster. Among other guests of note in her box, in addition to the royal party, were Aritarclile Bey, the Turkish minister; Baron Blanc, Mr. Borges, M. Bodisco, the Russian consul general;
Count and Countess Pollom, and Dr. Charles Young of England."
The following descriptions are taken from the book "Time and Travel" by H.R. Haweis, an English clergyman and writer who had socialized with the Bigelows in New York as well as Europe. Reverend Haweis was criticized by some New York newspapers for what he wrote about the late Mrs. Bigelow. Some of his stories are not terribly flattering and some feel a bit exaggerated to me, but it seems he actually admired the lady and probably never intended any insult.
"No one who ever met Mrs. John Bigelow of New York was likely to forget her. Even as she aged, she always retained the marks of that brilliant beauty that dazzled the court circles at Paris and Berlin during her early visits, where her unconventional sincerities alternately alarmed and amused the old world aristocracies, her wit and her personal fascination always saving her so as by fire, though it was said the Emperor never forgave her for sending her servants to the Imperial box at the opera, which he had placed at her disposal. And no one in any corner of the globe ever got the better of Mrs. John Bigelow; she remained to the day of her death a sort of social enigma and wonder. She delighted in extricating herself from almost impossible situations; and often when she had duped everyone into supposing her a negligible quantity, she would suddenly turn the tables on the company and then laugh in the most genial and forgiving manner at their discomfiture.
She first came over to England on the Duke of Sutherland's yacht. She went to Court and nearly slapped the Prince of Wales on the back. She chaffed the Prince Imperial, afterwards the Emperor Frederick, and rallied him on the old Berlin days when her beauty and singular bonhomie and unconventionality had made the solemn Germans sit up and stare with bewildered amusement at her ways and her wit. One day she would dress quite shabbily, the next in heavy velvet or satin, and always carried about a large carpetbag, opening it everywhere; string, pomatum, slippers, curios, handkerchiefs and I don't know not what besides fell out and were bundled back in again. Mrs. Bigelow was always late; she had no sense of time and forgot half her engagements, or pretended to. Mrs. Bigelow was a person not to be analyzed. She got the entree wherever she meant to; from the court to the kitchen, and was quite as much at home with a queen as with a cook. There was no one to whom she could not tell something about their own business which they did not know before; no one she could not advise pithily and often wisely. She read off people, took their measure, and giggled or cried with them. A mixed, stilted, prejudiced company were like a pack of children in her hands in a quarter of an hour. She did not wait to be chosen - she just chose which of the company she wanted to talk to, and it seemed at last as if everyone was just waiting for his or her turn to walk and talk with Mrs. John Bigelow. Genius, of course, is interesting, but it is (diplomatically) embarrassing; and it has been rumored that the American Embassy in London would have been open to John Bigelow had it not been for the eccentricities of this most fascinating but somewhat embarrassing lady."
The Reverend no doubt meant to slyly apply a slight tinge of scandal by mentioning Mrs. Bigelow's escort to London, the Duke of Sutherland. In fact the Bigelows had met the duke already, but during his first trip to New York in 1882, the duke arrived on his gorgeous yacht with a group of friends including Mrs. Blair, the duke's oft-discussed mistress. Society was in a quandary as to whether it was appropriate to have a dinner or party for a high ranking English nobleman who openly travelled with his mistress. Mrs. Bigelow not only entertained the Duke and his mistress, she became a good friend of Mrs. Blair. During some ensuing summer Mr. Bigelow planned to go to London to join his wife, who was already staying there in the home of the notorious Mrs. Blair. He wrote to his wife, pointing out that he could not possibly be seen visiting that house, as it just wouldn't be proper. I don't know how that turned out, but Mrs Bigelow didn't always do proper. She was evidently drawn to intelligent and artistic people, and she prized individuality. Mrs Bigelow seems to have gotten along with the somewhat cantankerous socialite Mrs Paran Stevens, who was said to be either loved of hated by New Yorkers. Another friend was the slightly notorious Mrs. Hicks-Lord, a.k.a. "the Duchess of Washington Square," the thrice widowed socialite who lived in a sort of treasure house and owned what was said to be the most valuable jewelry collection in the city. Mrs. Hicks-Lord's party guests were always diverse. She managed her own businesses and was unusually generous. The lifetime salary bequeathed to her maid reportedly made the former servant "the wealthiest colored woman in New York". Mrs. Bigelow was also friendly with another somewhat notorious woman, Mrs. Fortescue. The name was a pseudonym. Actually named Minnie O'Shea, Mrs. Fortescue was the mistress of Robert B. Roosevelt, an uncle of Teddy Roosevelt, a politician, businessman, writer, conservationist and sometime poet. Roosevelt had audaciously set up Mrs. Fortescue in a townhouse on the same block where his wife and family lived, and everyone in New York knew it. After his wife's death, Roosevelt did marry her and legally adopt their children. Another good friend of Mrs. Bigelow's was a great character by the name of Mrs. Ayer, the very wealthy widow of a patent medicine manufacturer from Chicago who moved to New York to establish herself, but was more or less rejected by Society. Mrs. Ayer was known "for her splendid toilets" and wore different colored wigs each day, depending on her mood. She was often covered in ostentatious jewels as well. Some New Yorkers mocked her, but Mrs. Bigelow found her fun and clever. The Bigelows took her to Washington and then to Europe to introduce her around. She was briefly engaged to a cousin of the Russian Tzar. Although she didn't marry, she found a new home in France, where she was more accepted, and she spent the rest of her life in a castle outside Paris. Of course this gave Mrs. Bigelow a place to stay when she was in France too. I found an article about the two friends attending church in Vichy one summer. The judgmental headline read "Two Conspicuous Women" and solely consisted of a critique of their allegedly "too-colorful" outfits.
I'm not really sure why Reverend Haweis saw Mrs. Bigelow as "embarassing". She did not always suffer fools gladly, but I never found any hint of a feud between her and anyone in Europe. She seems to have been very well liked there. There were a few American women who didn't exactly love her though. One was Julia Kean Fish, the wealthy wife of Governor Hamilton Fish. John Bigelow and his political ally William Seward came out publicly against Fish when he was first suggested for the role of US Secretary of State, although they later admitted he did his job well. Mrs. Fish was described as irreproachable and dignified. One night the Fishes and Bigelows were leaving some event at the same time, and another guest offered to drive them all home in his carriage, so they all piled in. Apparently Mrs. Fish was very unhappy that she had to share a carriage with these other people, and she would not stop loudly complaining about her dress getting wrinkled because there were too many people in the carriage. Eventually Mrs. Bigelow had had enough and told Mrs. Fish she should just be grateful that they had a ride. She almost immediately apologized for her tone, though, so apparently she had really snapped at Mrs. Fish. On another similar occasion the two couples were leaving some event late at night and Mr. Bigelow called for a carriage. When the carriage arrived, the Fishes immediately jumped in. Mr. Bigelow explained that he had called for that carriage, but the Fishes would not exit. Mr. Bigelow held the horse's reins and wouldn't let go until a policeman showed up. The cop asked the Fishes to get out and the Bigelows went home. There doesn't appear to have been much shared social activity between the couples after that, but in Germany Mrs Bigelow became very friendly with the wife of Nicholas Fish, the couple's oldest son, who held a diplomatic post in Berlin at the same time Bigelow did. Unfortunately Nicholas Fish was a hopeless alcoholic who ended up dying violently in some dive bar in Manhattan, and there was bad blood between the various Fish family members afterward. Another American woman who seems to have been sort of an "enemy" to Mrs. Bigelow was Annie Adams Fields, the Boston wife of James Fields, the American publisher for Charles Dickens. Annie Fields seems to have hated Mrs. Bigelow from the moment they met in London. Mrs. Fields clearly adored Dickens, spent time at his home in England, and seemed to feel he could do no wrong. The Bigelows and the Fields both attended a small dinner party in the home of William Thackery in 1860, and Mrs. Dickens was a guest too. In her diary Mrs. Fields called Mrs. Bigelow "loud" and said she was the type that gave Americans a bad name. In her own diary Mrs Bigelow wrote of her new friendship with Thackeray's daughter. Eight years later when the Bigelows visited the Fields and Charles Dickens in Boston, it became obvious that Mrs Fields' feelings had not softened. On that night, in her diary, she expressed the opinion that "poor Mr. Bigelow" was unfitly married, and she refered to Mrs. Bigelow as "such an incubus". She and Dickens seem to have had fun trashing Mrs. Bigelow when she wasn't around. I'm not really sure why. If Mrs. Bigelow knew how much Mrs. Fields disliked her, which I suspect she did, she didn't mention it.
Another popular story about Mrs. Bigelow involved her meeting with "Ouida" the pseudonym used by the English novelist Maria Louise de la Ramée who presided over an elaborate villa outside Florence, Italy. The following is from an 1887 newspaper article.
"When Mrs. John Bigelow was in Florence she desired to see Ouida. With Mrs. Bigelow to desire to do a thing is but one step from doing it. She therefore drove to Ouida's villa, and presented herself in her usual emphatic way at the door. She was shown into a reception room, and in a loud voice said to the valet - "Will you tell Mddle. de la Ramee that Mrs. John Bigelow of New York would like to speak with her? Hardly had the message been given when a voice from the next room was heard in tones especially loud in reply - "Tell Mrs. John Bigelow of New York that I don't want to see her or any other American; I don't like them." Mrs. Bigelow rose and answered the invisible lady of the house with "You ought to be ashamed of yourself. Americans are the only fools that read your nasty books anyway." In another moment the two well-matched women were face to face, and within half an hour the novelist was urging her American caller to become a guest. "Do come and stay a month with me," she urged, "I should so enjoy studying your character." "It would do you good," was Mrs. Bigelow's quick response, "you don't seem to have known any decent women."
Mrs. Bigelow suffered a slow, painful death from Brights Disease, finally passing away in February of 1889. The New York Times reported her illness, but she sent a letter to the editor denying that there was anything wrong with her, perhaps unsurprisingly. The New York papers reporting on her funeral noted that it was thronged with people from all walks of life, including the Vice President, the Mayor, businessmen, artists, actors, socialites, military, professors, clergymen, animal rights activists and servants. Her social circle must have been enormous.
Mrs. Bigelow was buried in the Bigelow family plot in Peacedale Cemetery.
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I thought I'd add this. It's from a Rochester, NY newspaper and was written long after Mrs. Bigelow's death, but the writer clearly knew his subject and had an interesting take on her unusual personality.
"Once more going the rounds of the press, the Chronicler finds the old story about how "the mother of Poultney Bigelow "the schoolmate of the German Emporer" once sent her servants to occupy the French Imperial box, which had been placed at her disposal for the evening by Napoleon III at the Opera in Paris. The story is old and hardly worth retelling, for everybody who is at all familiar of the current gossip of New York Society twenty odd years ago knows a dozen better stories about the unconventional and independent doings of "the mother of Poultney Bigelow, the schoolmate of the German Emporer.". The Chronicler is moved to refer to the old story solely to the astoundingly banal description selected by the story's latest narrator whose evident total incapability of the crime of "lese majesty" should make him an ideal German subject as best fitted to particularize one of the most conspicuous, celebrated and memorable social figures of her time as if the fact that one of her sons, in his boyhood, happened to be the playmate of a Hohenzollern youngster, who has succeeded to the German throne, was her principal, if not her sole distinction. The dominant trait of that brilliant, audacious and independent woman, at once social queen and social rebel, Mrs. John Bigelow, as Society knew her, was her utter contempt for snobbery, or anything that struck her as the savoring of snobbery. She ranked herself and those she met, in Europe and America, solely by virtue of their individuality, and she justly rated her own individuality high. She cared less than nothing for the rank, wealth, fashion, ceremonies and etiquette that the world over which she queened held venerable. She claimed and held pre-eminence over it solely by virtue of her own personality. She was a woman of blameless life and not a fool. Therefore she was entitled to meet any woman in the world on terms of at least equality, and therefore she was, by divine right, entitled to the respect and chivalric deference and the service of every man, be he emperor, statesman, warrior, her son or husband, acquaintance or passing stranger, whom chance brought near her throne of womanhood. There was something admirable in her theory, but there are not many women so circumstanced and personally qualified that they could practically live up to it as consistently, as comfortably, as absolutely immune from snubs, as did brilliant, forceful and dominating Mrs. John Bigelow.
Herein lies the probable explanation of those eccentric doings of hers that form the basis for those thousand and one tales, true and false, of which she was the heroine, that used to furnish New York Society with an unfailing fount of small talk. When the Emporer of France placed his opera box at the disposal of the wife of the American minister to France, he was merely honoring himself as a gentleman by a polite attention to a lady. He could not, of course, be accused of such a "gaucherie" as imagining that, by so doing, he was placing her under any obligation as to the use of the box, or otherwise. If, despite herself, she felt especially gratified by this attention by an emperor, all the more reason she should vindicate her theory to herself and the world, by sending her servants to occupy the box. In her later years she carried this theory very far. She seemed to be lying in wait for opportunities to practically protest against anything that appeared to her an assumption of artificial superiority - to turn and tend the most harmless "convenance". There were indications that her scorn of affectation may eventually have become something of an affectation of her own later in life. The social function at which a fresh toilet and the best gloves were especially in order was the social function at which Mrs. John Bigelow was most apt to appear at her dowdiest with no gloves at all or with gloves long past their prime. The more distinguished her hostess and the more brilliant and crowded the reception over which that hostess was presiding, the more likely was Mrs. John Bigelow to adopt some extraordinary means, such as insisting upon disarranging and rearranging that hostess's coiffure in the face of the assembled multitude, for reminding the hostess and the company that this "grand dame" was only a woman after all. The more distinguished the company she might invite to dine with her at her country house at Highland Falls, the more certain she was to "forget all about it" and regale her guests on cold boiled mutton. The time her friend, a distinguished General, Commandant of West Point, issued forth from his quarters with unusual pomp and circumstance, to preside over some notably important military ceremony of graduation week "on the plain" was the time that Mrs. John Bigelow would ask the officer to hold her horse for her while she stepped out of her phaeton to chat with some distinguished member of the Board of Visitors. What time her son, then a tactical officer at "The Point" was receiving the report of the cadet adjutant at evening parade, in all the bravery of full cavalry uniform and all the inflexibility of dignity required, according to the regulations and traditions of the army, by that occasion, was the time he had most to dread public proclamations by his mother that, in her view, this imposing military statue in army blue and cavalry yellow, was merely a quite unimpressive boy of hers and that she wanted him to drive home with her to supper or something of that kind.
The Chronicler has in mind how completely the "whirligig of time" has brought "in his revenge's" on this independent lady, who all her life was persistently and determinedly blind to reflected luster from any source and would have none of it for herself, but is now, it appears, deemed indescernible except by the doubly reflected luster of a very cheap, feeble and snobbish glory. Mrs. Bigelow was undoubtedly proud of her husband's ability and reputation, of his achievements in journalism, in literature, in diplomacy, in the high esteem in which he was held by all men. But she set them altogether aside from herself. She would not be thought of, and never was thought of as "the wife of the Honorable John Bigelow". Indeed it was rather the other way around. She was fond of her children and proud of their legitimate claims to distinction. But she would never submit to be distinguished by any distinction of theirs. The Chronicler shudders endeavoring to adequately imagine what would have happened to one who might have been so superfluous as to have referred to her in her presence as "the mother of the well-known writer Poultney Bigelow," or "the mother of that clever Miss Grace Bigelow, who translated Count Moltke's , "Letters from Russia," or even as "the mother of that gallant cavalry officer, Captain John Bigelow U.S.A. who, falling on the slope of San Juan Hill with four Mauser bullets in him, waved away his faithful colored troopers who paused to help him, crying to them "Never mind me! Go on. You're needed up there!"
And now, helpless and silent, she must leave unrebuked the poor snob who, dazzled by cheap glitter "made in Germany" past perception of her real claims, personal and family, to "memorableness" thinks to honor her to the world as "the mother of the man who used to know the German Emperor". In truth the force of snobbery could scarcely further go. It is enough to make Mrs. Bigelow turn in her grave."
A live demonstration of the rebuilt Colossus Mk II at Bletchley Park - a reconstruction of the world's first programmable digital electronic computer.
Colossus was designed to help staff at Bletchley Park decrypt messages sent between different parts of the German Army High Command. These had been encrypted using a Lorentz cipher machine - a device more complex than Enigma.
The Bletchley Park codebreakers were able to figure out the behaviour of the Lorentz machine two and a half years before they actually laid their hands on one, thanks to a horrendous mistake made by a German operator sending a message from Athens to Vienna on 30th August 1941. By the beginning of 1942, engineers at the Post Office Research Laboratories at Dollis Hill had produced a device called 'Tunny' that emulated the Lorentz machine's logic. Once cryptographers had worked out the Lorentz machine settings, these could be plugged into Tunny and the ciphertext could be fed in; if all was well, Tunny would produce the plaintext of the message as its output (in German, of course).
The problem was that working out the required Tunny settings by hand took weeks. A first semi-automated solution involved a machine nicknamed 'Heath Robinson' but this was later improved by Post Office electronics engineer Tommy Flowers, who designed and built the Mk I Colossus. This 1,500-valve machine was assembled in Bletchley Park F Block over Christmas 1943 and operated on its first message in January 1944, reducing the time to break the Lorentz cipher from weeks to hours.
This is an impact visualization of the new ZoomLens class developed for exercises of our recent DataViz workshop & now available in the latest toxiclibs core package. You can use it to deform the distribution of values around a given focal point within a number interval. The lens can both bundle or dilate space, which is helpful for improving the regional level of detail in certain data viz applications.
On the right hand side of the image the deformation curve is shown where a more vertical curvature refers to compressed regions and horizontal curvature equals dilation.
Taken in 2011.
A woman raises her hand to make a point as she and a friend cross the bridge over the Pike on Massachusetts Avenue.
Les valeurs personnelles (Personal Values) (1952)
René Magritte (1898–1967)
Oil on canvas
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Explaining guide of internat' [i.e. international] signals
[between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.24834
Call Number: LC-B2- 4261-4
Another shot from my sister's recital. During the intermission, my dad spent some time explaining how the harp works. I'm rather happy with this photo!
Last night went to the movies, and after that went to B & N to get some coffee, Mi Amor, picked a book and we were choosing baby girl names... at the end we didn't agree on any but had a very interesting conversation.
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Rhubarb cooking demonstration during the "Market Talk" at the MInneapolis Farmers Market in Minneapolis, MN on Saturday, June 11, 2011 from 10:30-11:30 am. I demonstrated how to prepare apple rhubarb compote and sweet n' sour rhubarb pickles, and handed out a rhubarb recipe packet.
Jon Magnuson, Executive Director of the nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute in Marquette Michigan th
906-2285494
magnusonx2@charter.net
EarthKeepers II (EK II) Project Coordinator Kyra Fillmore Ziomkowski explains creating 30 interfaith community gardens (2013-2014) across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan that include vegetables and native species plants that encourage and help pollinators like bees and butterflies.
The video was shot on April 5, 2013 at the Big Bay Point Lighthouse Bed and Breakfast in Big Bay, MI during a meeting of EK II representatives.
An Interfaith Energy Conservation and Community Garden Initiative Across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to Restore Native Plants and Protect the Great Lakes from Toxins like Airborne Mercury in cooperation with the EPA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, U.S. Forest Service, 10 faith traditions and Native American tribes such as Keweenaw Bay Indian Community
10 faiths: Roman Catholic" "Episcopal" "Jewish" "Lutheran" "Presbyterian" "United Methodist" "Bahá'í" "Unitarian Universalist" "American Friends" "Quaker" "Zen Buddhist" "
EK II website
Nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute
Marquette, MI
Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
Deborah Lamberty
Program Analyst
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Great Lakes National Program Office
Chicago, IL
Lamberty.Deborah@epa.gov
312-886-6681
Pastor Albert Valentine II
Manistique, MI
Manistique Presbyterian Church of the Redeemer
Gould City Community Presbyterian Church
Presbytery of Mackinac
Rev. Christine Bergquist
Bark River United Methodist Church
First UMC of Hermansville
United Methodist Church Marquette District
Rev. Elisabeth Zant
Eden Evangelical Lutheran Church
Munising, MI
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Northern Great Lakes Synod
Heidi Gould
Marquette, MI
Marquette Unitarian Universalist Congregation
Rev. Pete Andersen
Marquette, MI
ELCA
Helen Grossman
Temple Beth Sholom
Jewish Synagogue
Rev. Stephen Gauger
Calvary Lutheran Church
Rapid River, MI
ELCA
Jan Schultz, Botanist
U.S. Forest Service (USFS)
Eastern Region 9
EK II Technical Advisor for Community Gardens
Milwaukee, WI
USFS
www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/nativegardening
Pollinator photos by Nancy Parker Hill
Rev. David Van Kley, Senior Pastor
Rev. Amanda Kossow, Associate Pastor
Messiah Lutheran Church
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Marquette, Michigan
Rev. David Van Kley, Senior Pastor
Rev. Amanda Kossow, Associate Pastor
NMU EK II Student Team
Katelin Bingner
Tom Merkel
Adam Magnuson
EK II social sites
www.youtube.com/EarthKeepersII
www.facebook.com/EarthKeepersII
www.twitter.com/EarthKeeperTeam
pinterest.com/EarthKeepersII/Great-Lakes-Restoration-Init...
pinterest.com/EarthKeepersII/EarthKeepers-II-and-the-EPA-...
Lake Superior Zendo
Zen Buddhist Temple
Marquette, Michigan
Rev. Tesshin Paul Lehmberg
906 226-6407
plehmber@nmu.edu
Dr. Michael Grossman, representing Jewish Temple Beth Sholom in Ishpeming, MI
Helen Grossman, representing Jewish Temple Beth Sholom in Ishpeming, MI
906-475-4009 (hm)
906-475-4127 (wk)
www.templebethsholom-ishpeming.org
www.templebethsholom-ishpeming.org/tikkun
www.templebethsholom-ishpeming.org/aboutus
Wild Rice: 8 videos
www.learningfromtheearth.org/video-interviews/wild-rice-m...
Birch – 2 videos
www.learningfromtheearth.org/video-interviews/paper-birch...
Photos (click on each name or topic to see the respective photo galleries):
www.learningfromtheearth.org/photo-gallery
www.picasaweb.google.com/Yoopernewsman/JonReport?authuser...
www.picasaweb.google.com/100329402090002004302/JonReport?...
“Albert Einstein speculated once that if bees disappeared off the surface of the earth, then humans would have only four years of life left.”
the late Todd Warner, KBIC Natural Resource Director
Links:
Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project website:
Cedar Tree Institute: Zaagkii Project
www.cedartreeinstitute.org/2010/07/wings-seeds-zaagkii-pr...
www.cedartreeinstitute.org/2009/01/wings-seeds-the-zaagki...
Zaagkii Project Videos on youtube (also uploaded to dozens of internet sites):
KBIC Pollinator Preservation
www.indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/ictarchives/2008/0...
Zaagkii Project Indigenous Plants Help Give New Face to Sand Point on Keweenaw Bay www.indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/ictarchives/2008/0...
Zaagkii Project 2010: U.S. Forest Service & Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Native Plants Greenhouse
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hoq5xXHDF4E
United States Forest Service sponsored Zaagkii Project featured on Pollinator Live
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P3DPfxx7Jw
2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #9: Teens Painting Mason Bee Houses in Northern Michigan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIIV6jrlT20
2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #8: Marquette, Michigan Teens Build Mason Bee Houses
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3MBfV7ION8
Zaagkii Project Butterfly Houses: Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, U.S. Forest Service
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGQScEI9x7Q
2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #6: "The Butterfly Lady" Susan Payant teaches teens about Monarchs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlIgsuTFSuM
2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #5: Terracotta half-life, Marquette, MI band supports environment projects
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqlFCHwW30o
2009 Zaagkii Video #4: Michigan teens meet 150,000 swarming honeybees with beekeeper Jim Hayward
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2B4MEzM7w4
2009 Zaagkii Video #3: Michigan teens give away mason bee houses, honor supporters
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqfWeEgDxTY
2009 Zaagkii Project #2: Historic KBIC native plants greenhouse, USFS protects pollinators
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg8H5nhvzzc
2009 Zaagkii Project #1: Students make bee houses, plant native species plants
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8jqJAQyXwE
Zaagkii Project Butterfly Houses: Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, U.S. Forest Service:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGQScEI9x7Q
Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project: Northern Michigan teens, KBIC tribal youth protect pollinators
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoPJOXHt7pI
Zaagkii Project – Northern Michigan University:
www.webb.nmu.edu/Centers/NativeAmericanStudies/SiteSectio...
Native Village stories: Beautiful Layout by Owner Gina Boltz:
Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project: A Project by Ojibwe Students from the Keweenah Bay Indian Community
www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...
NMU Students Join Pollinator Protection Initiative
www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...
KBIC Tribal youth protect pollinators
www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...
Teens Help with Sweet Nature Project
www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...
USFS Success Stories:
Restoring Native Plants on the Enchanted Island
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=6274
Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Native Plant Greenhouse & Workshop
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5499
Intertribal Nursery Council Annual Meeting a Success
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=6276
New Greenhouse for KBIC Restoration
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5336
Zaagkii Wings & Seeds - An Update
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5076
Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=4025
News Stories:
U.P. teens build butterfly houses, grow 26,000 indigenous plants
www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/519835.html?...
Effort to protect pollinators launched
www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/512810.html
Marquette Monthly (Sept. 2009):
www.mmnow.com/mm_archive_folder/09/0909/feature.html
As bees die, Keweena Bay Indian Community adults, teens actively protect pollinators
www.nativetimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view...
Michigan Teens Build Butterfly Houses and Plant 26,000 Native Plants through the Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project
www.treehugger.com/culture/michigan-teens-build-butterfly...
Examples of numerous Gather.com articles with lots of photos/videos:
Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project: Northern Michigan teens and KBIC tribal youth are protecting pollinators by building butterfly houses and planting native plants
www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977550233
Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project: Protecting Pollinators
www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977428640
2009 Zaagkii Project #2: Keweenaw Bay Indian Community in 2010 to build first Native American native species plants greenhouse on tribal property in U.S.
www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978040745
2009 Zaagkii Project #1: Northern Michigan Teens Protect Pollinators with U.S. Forest Service, Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, NMU Center for Native American Studies: Build mason bee houses, butterfly houses, distribute thousands of native species plants
www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978040729
Zaagkii Project Internet sites – blogs, photos, videos etc.:
ZaagkiiProject on flickr
www.flickr.com/photos/zaagkiiproject
www.flickr.com/people/zaagkiiproject
Zaagkii on youtube:
Zaagkii on bliptv:
Zaagkii on word press:
www.zaagkiiproject.wordpress.com
Zaagkii on Blogger:
www.zaagkiiproject.blogspot.com
Zaagkii on Photobucket:
www.photobucket.com/ZaagkiiProjectWingsSeeds
www.photobucket.com/ZaagkiiProjectWingsSeeds/?start=all
Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project website:
Cedar Tree Institute: Zaagkii Project
cedartreeinstitute.org/2010/07/wings-seeds-zaagkii-project
cedartreeinstitute.org/2009/01/wings-seeds-the-zaagkii-pr...
Zaagkii Project Videos on youtube (also uploaded to dozens of internet sites):
KBIC Pollinator Preservation
indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/ictarchives/2008/08/15...
Zaagkii Project Indigenous Plants Help Give New Face to Sand Point on Keweenaw Bay indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/ictarchives/2008/09/03...
Zaagkii Project 2010: U.S. Forest Service & Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Native Plants Greenhouse
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hoq5xXHDF4E
United States Forest Service sponsored Zaagkii Project featured on Pollinator Live
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P3DPfxx7Jw
2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #9: Teens Painting Mason Bee Houses in Northern Michigan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIIV6jrlT20
2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #8: Marquette, Michigan Teens Build Mason Bee Houses
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3MBfV7ION8
Zaagkii Project Butterfly Houses: Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, U.S. Forest Service
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGQScEI9x7Q
2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #6: "The Butterfly Lady" Susan Payant teaches teens about Monarchs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlIgsuTFSuM
2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #5: Terracotta half-life, Marquette, MI band supports environment projects
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqlFCHwW30o
2009 Zaagkii Video #4: Michigan teens meet 150,000 swarming honeybees with beekeeper Jim Hayward
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2B4MEzM7w4
2009 Zaagkii Video #3: Michigan teens give away mason bee houses, honor supporters
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqfWeEgDxTY
2009 Zaagkii Project #2: Historic KBIC native plants greenhouse, USFS protects pollinators
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg8H5nhvzzc
2009 Zaagkii Project #1: Students make bee houses, plant native species plants
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8jqJAQyXwE
Zaagkii Project Butterfly Houses: Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, U.S. Forest Service:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGQScEI9x7Q
Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project: Northern Michigan teens, KBIC tribal youth protect pollinators
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoPJOXHt7pI
Zaagkii Project – Northern Michigan University:
webb.nmu.edu/Centers/NativeAmericanStudies/SiteSections/A...
Native Village stories: Beautiful Layout by Owner Gina Boltz:
Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project: A Project by Ojibwe Students from the Keweenah Bay Indian Community
www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...
NMU Students Join Pollinator Protection Initiative
www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...
KBIC Tribal youth protect pollinators
www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...
Teens Help with Sweet Nature Project
www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...
USFS Success Stories:
Restoring Native Plants on the Enchanted Island
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=6274
Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Native Plant Greenhouse & Workshop
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5499
Intertribal Nursery Council Annual Meeting a Success
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=6276
New Greenhouse for KBIC Restoration
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5336
Zaagkii Wings & Seeds - An Update
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5076
Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=4025
News Stories:
U.P. teens build butterfly houses, grow 26,000 indigenous plants
www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/519835.html?...
Effort to protect pollinators launched
www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/512810.html
Marquette Monthly (Sept. 2009):
mmnow.com/mm_archive_folder/09/0909/feature.html
As bees die, Keweena Bay Indian Community adults, teens actively protect pollinators
nativetimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=art...
Michigan Teens Build Butterfly Houses and Plant 26,000 Native Plants through the Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project
www.treehugger.com/culture/michigan-teens-build-butterfly...
Examples of numerous Gather.com articles with lots of photos/videos:
Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project: Northern Michigan teens and KBIC tribal youth are protecting pollinators by building butterfly houses and planting native plants
www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977550233
Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project: Protecting Pollinators
www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977428640
2009 Zaagkii Project #2: Keweenaw Bay Indian Community in 2010 to build first Native American native species plants greenhouse on tribal property in U.S.
www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978040745
2009 Zaagkii Project #1: Northern Michigan Teens Protect Pollinators with U.S. Forest Service, Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, NMU Center for Native American Studies: Build mason bee houses, butterfly houses, distribute thousands of native species plants
www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978040729
Zaagkii Project Internet sites – blogs, photos, videos etc.:
ZaagkiiProject on flickr
www.flickr.com/photos/zaagkiiproject
www.flickr.com/people/zaagkiiproject
Zaagkii on youtube:
Zaagkii on bliptv:
Zaagkii on word press:
Zaagkii on Blogger:
Zaagkii on Photobucket:
The Pres: Rehab? Public statement? Young lady, our numbers on that day for that show have been better than they have been in years!! We've received so many calls and emails and twitters and tweets and likes about that show, we can't handle the volume!! Even the re-runs are doing great!! And that Diyani Hughes, she's a pretty hot number isn't she? Are you dating her young man? Not that it's any of my business, but that would help the ratings even more!!!!
After the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy in January 1893, the United States was considering annexing Hawaii.
In the late 1890s, American political cartoons illustrated manifest destiny, or America's geopolitical and colonial expansion. The United States considered annexing Hawaii, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines.
Cartoons portrayed the territories as children with dark skin, grass skirts, nappy hair, and bare feet. Uncle Sam personified the United States, their supposed warden.
Political cartoons expressed, shaped, reinforced, and reflected social, political, and racial conditions of a society. Therefore, newspapers used cartoons as propaganda to shape public opinion. As mirrors to public knowledge, cartoons showed what the public knew.
- Alice Kim
“It is said that Queen Lil is really not eager to return to the throne.”
Hawaiian Situation Explained
Evening world, Dec. 14, 1893, Image 1
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1893-12-14/ed-...
Hawaii Digital Newspaper Project
Cambodia suffers from one of the highest rates of child malnutrition in the region and one of the lowest rates of pre-school attendance. In rural areas, few children have access to medical care, adequate nutrition and pre-school education.
However, CCAF’s ‘Village Based Pre-School Programme’ helps to provide Cambodian children living in rural areas with the right to access basic education, free on-site doctor check-ups, nutrition programmes and, in 2009, fruit and vegetable plots were set up at each school.
CCAF’s ‘Village Based Pre-School Programme’ has:
• Established 16 pre-schools,
• Employed 16 local teachers, and
• Provided 413 children with pre-school education
Yet, CCAF is unable to continue this programme without any additional funding which means the pre-school programme may have to close in 2012. As a result, 413 children and their families will be affected and 16 pre-school teachers will be unemployed.
Yet, CCAF is unable to continue this programme without any additional funding which means the pre-school programme may have to close in 2012. As a result, 413 children and their families will be affected and 16 pre-school teachers will be unemployed.
Please help CCAF by making a donation through paypal at - www.paypal-marketing.co.uk/sendmoney/index.htm
To the following email address - jessica.sercombe@gmail.com
For further information and contact details, please go to www.ccaf-khmer.org/.