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OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
Mexican navy sailing ship docks at VivoCity amid much fanfare
By Gaya Chandramohan
19 Jul 2017 05:47PM (Updated: 21 Jul 2017 08:31AM)
SINGAPORE: While the waters around Singapore see all sorts of ships coming and going, it is rare to see a sailing vessel like the Mexican Navy's Cuauhtémoc, which arrived at VivoCity’s port on Wednesday morning (Jul 19).
Booming Mexican music greeted the ship as it made its way to its docking point, with nearly 100 navy cadets standing on the yards of its three masts, putting on a spectacular display for those who had come to greet the Cuauhtémoc.
Commanded by Captain Rafael Antonio Lagunes Arteaga, the Armada Republic Mexicana (ARM) Cuauhtémoc – which began its journey from its home port, Acapulco Guerrero on Feb 6 – is on a nine-month long goodwill voyage around the region.
“Singapore is a very important port for us. It is also a big challenge as a sailor to travel in these waters because we come from a faraway country and don’t get a lot of opportunities to relieve such experiences. It has been very instructive for us,” said Capt Lagunes.
The ship, that doubles as a training vessel for the Mexican Navy, is also on a Centenary of the Constitution journey around the world to commemorate the 100 years since the United States of Mexico’s political constitution was put into effect.
While on the sail training trip, cadets from the Heroic Naval Military School are instructed in the art of sailing, where they master practical exercises such as climbing up the ship’s masts and yards. The cadets also learn the calls of the boatswain's whistle - an old-fashioned instrument used for giving orders to the crew and honouring senior officers and distinguished visitors.
Since her commissioning 35 years ago, the steel-hulled barque has been on three other circumnavigation trips, travelling more than 705,012 nautical miles and forging 34 generations of cadets for Mexico’s Heroic Navy Military School. On this trip, the vessel is set to call at 15 other ports in 12 different countries, including the Philippines, China, South Korea, Japan and India.
At each stop, the crew of nine senior officers, 44 officers, 43 cadets, 122 enlisted men and women, as well as invited officers from foreign navies will participate in cultural exchanges with local people.
Although styled as a goodwill voyage with no planned exercises with the Singapore Navy, Capt Lagunes said that the Mexican Navy is keen on strengthening the bonds of friendship between both navies as well as civilian authorities here.
“Between our governments, Mexico is very focused on the Pacific Ocean area and Singapore is one of the iconic members – so it is very important for us to be here,” he added.
The relatively young 234-strong Cuauhtémoc crew, who have an average age of 24, will also be playing host to cadets and crew members from the Singapore Navy for cocktails and meals, and will later visit a naval base and navy vessel here.
The ARM Cuauhtémoc will be open to the public from Jul 20 to 23, between 10am and 6pm at the Vivocity Promenade, before it leaves for Manila on Jul 24.
Source: www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/mexican-navy-saili...
The Šárka Valley denominates the part of the Litovice (here already Šárka) Brook between the Džbán swimming pool and the Vltava, deeply and sharply cut into solid Proterozoic rocks. The Šárka region includes also the open valley of the tributary from the airport, the valley of the Nebušice creek and the brook coming from Housle near Lysolaje. The area is characterized by relatively great differences of elevation from 180 m at the brook inlet into the Vltava to 364 m above sea level on the top of the Kozák Rock and the Žabák which soar above the surrounding plateau as knobs. The whole area is included in the Šárka natural monument and its most valuable parts have been declared small protected areas.
Šárka Valley
The Šárka Valley is the best preserved natural region northwest of Prague, which is due to its diversely articulated ground relief on resistant rocks appearing in numerous outcrops. Thanks to this also relatively large forest areas have been preserved, recently extended by tree planting, as well as xerothermal rocks and slopes. Also extensive wet meadows in the fluvial plain are significant. The area includes also the sites of important primeval settlements and pilgrimage places of later date, such as St. Mathew’s. Its popularity increased also by the Smetana’s symphonic poem of the same name forming part of the symphonic cycle My Country, as well as the former National Theatre stage below the Dívčí Skok (Girl’s Jump).
In the framework of Prague Šárka provides a magnificent section of the Kralupy-Zbraslav group of the Barrandian Proterozoic characterized here by extraordinary representation of silicites - lydites cropping out in the form of wildly cleft rock masses and forming the unique gorge of Džbán, the entrance gate to the Šárka Valley. Also Proterozoic shales and greywackes crop out in many places being overlain by almost horizontally bedden Cretaceous formations along the upper edge - Cenomanian sandstones covered by sandy marlites, best uncovered in the broader environs of Nebušice. Also the lower Ordovician formations crop out near the Džbán swimming pool and in the right-hand valley slope near Jenerálka. The Quaternary is represented by thick loess drifts, once exploited for brick manufacture, and boulder screes below lydite rocks. Near the Čertův Mlýn (Devil’s Mill) the right-hand slope is covered with open boulder scree, the only one in Prague territory. Also the fluvial plain sediments are well developed, interspersed locally with limestone incrustations. Remarkable is also the Housle clough cut in loesses, sandy marlites and sandstones underlain by proterozoic shaks affected by tropical weathering.
The area, situated in the margin of a the chernozem region, is characterized by the prevalence of brown soils of different nutrition value and rankers on rock outcrops and sheer slopes. On loesses there are typical brown earths in the valley and chernozems along the northern margin in the lower part.
The whole Šárka area forms part of the ancient settlement region where man has influenced vegetation development for seven thousand years. That is why the whole area has been covered with a mosaic of forests, bushes and open areas of different kind since time immemorial. With the exception of rocky steppes on inaccessible sites all surfaces have been influenced by the activities of man - herdsman, user of wood and farmer.
Initial woods were of xerothermal character and comprized oak and hornbeam woods, acid, partly dwarfed oak woods with relatively small areas of scree woods and fluvial plains. On sheer slopes facing the north also beeches could be found. Only very little has been preserved from these original woods, the biggest remainder being the Nebušice Grove. Untill last century the area had a prevalence of pastures and extensive orchards with varying quota of xerothermal elements. Important part was played by rocky steppes and thermophilous heaths on top of lydites. An entirely specific formation consists in the rocky steppes of the Džbán gorge the diversity of species and structure of which is due to its enrichment by primeval hillforts erected on these rocks.
At present the forest cover of the area is relatively large thanks to the trees planted at the end of last century with the prevalence of alien wood species, such as false acacia, austrian pine, red oak as well as spruce - an entirely unsuitable species for this dry area. In the course of the past decade the area is becoming spontaneously overgrown with trees and bushes, at present forming a continuous cover of surfaces entirely bare as late as the Second World War. Also some invasion elements have penetrated here such as touch-me-not (Impatiens glandulifera) in the Džbán. This development has resulted in considerable empoverishment of the initial floral wealth of the Šárka Valley.
The vertebrate fauna comprises the species occurring in the whole Prague area, although some animals which had not lived here for a long time, such as the wild boar, seem to be returning here. Woods and bushes provide ample nesting opportunity for a number of birds. Important are also minor insects and other invertebrates on rocky slopes and rocks as well as in moist valley meadows to bogs. Until recently some species, known in the environs of Prague only from this area, have been living here, such as the minor spring snail (Bythinella austriaca) on Jenerálka and in the Nebušice Creek.
The original woods, managed mostly as sprout woods were affected significantly by various interference, such as pasturing and litter raking, as a result of which they have lost the major part of their herb layer. At present newly planted woods prevail the composition of which differs considerably from original woods. They are managed as special-purpose suburban woods and are desolate in the parts of difficult access. The herb layer often is of ruderal character.
The Šárka area has been settled continuously since primeval times. Middle Paleolithic men dwelt along the Vltava and a younger Paleolithic settlement was ascertained e.g. in the brickworks on the Jenerálka. Since the Neolithic settlements of farming and pasturing types were continous. Important buildings dating from that time are the hillforts on the Šesták and Kozák Rocks as well as the Slavonic hillfort in the Šárka Valley of a later date, which covered a considerable area. In the lower part of the valley, the so-called Upper and Lower Šárka, as well as Lysolaje, the buildings form a continuous chain at present. Higher up in the valley there is a chain of flour mills (e.g. Devil’s Mill) and farms, such as Želivka or Vizerka. Below the Dívčí Skok (Girl’s Jump) a small swimming pool was built, above the valley entrance the Džbán dam with a reservoir and recreation facilities. Continuous urban construction has approached the valley from the south. There are no major industrial enterprises in the Šárka Valley or its adjacent valleys. Minor brickworks (Jenerálka, Dubový Mlýn) exploited loess drifts. Otherwise the area was influenced by adjacent communities.
In the past fruit orchards flourished here and the meadows were mown regularly. At present these activities have stopped mostly. The wide Šárka Brook is polluted considerably, as in its upstream part it flows through extensive neighbourhood units and intensively exploited agricultural areas. The pollution is contributed to also by the nearby airport. Šárka has become an important suburban recreation area in which some activities, particularly mountaineering, exceed the limits of its capacity. At present it is covered by a network of small protected areas in Šárka protecting the most valuable areas, primarily the rocky steppes and xerothermal slopes. Of no smaller value is its geomorphology including the instructive exposures of Proterozoic rocks. Although its living nature has suffered considerable losses, Šárka still is a rich and remarkable area requiring special nature protection.
Thursday morning, and all I had to do was get back to Kent. Hopefully before five so I could hand the hire car back, but getting back safe and sound would do, really.
I woke at six so I could be dressed for breakfast at half six when it started, and as usual when in a hotel, I had fruit followed by sausage and bacon sarnies. And lots of coffee.
Outside it had snowed. OK, it might only be an inch of the stuff, but that's more than an inch needed to cause chaos on the roads.
Back to the room to pack, one last look round and back to reception to check out, then out into the dawn to find that about a quarter of the cars were having snow and ice cleared off them before being able to be driven.
I joined them, scraping the soft snow then the ice. Bracing stuff at seven in the morning.
Now able to see out, I inched out of the car park and out to the exit and onto the untreated roads.
It was a picturesque scene, but not one I wanted to stop to snap. My first road south had only been gritted on one side, thankfully the side I was travelling down, but was still just compacted snow.
After negotiating two roundabouts, I was on the on ramp to the M6, and a 60 mile or so drive south. The motorway was clear of snow, but huge amounts of spray was thrown up, and the traffic was only doing 45mph, or the inside lane was, and that was quite fast and safe enough for me.
More snow fell as I neared Stoke, just to add to the danger of the journey, and then the rising sun glinted off the road, something which I had most of the drive home.
I went down the toll road, it costs eight quid, but is quick and easy. And safe too with so little traffic on it. I think for the first time, I didn't stop at the services, as it was only about half nine, and only three hours since breakfast.
And by the time I was on the old M6, there was just about no snow on the ground, and the road was beginning to dry out.
My phone played the tunes from my apple music store. Loudly. So the miles slipped by.
After posting some shots from Fotheringhay online, a friend, Simon, suggested others nearby that were worth a visit, and I also realised that I hadn't taken wide angle shots looking east and west, so I could drop in there, then go to the others suggested.
And stopping here was about the half way point in the journey so was a good break in the drive, and by then the clouds had thinned and a weak sin shone down.
Fotheringhay is as wonderful as always, it really is a fine church, easy to stop there first, where I had it to myself, and this time even climbed into the richly decorated pulpit to snap the details.
A short drive away was Apethorpe, where there was no monkey business. The village was built of all the same buttery yellow sandstone, looking fine in the weak sunshine.
Churches in this part of Northamptonshire are always open, Simon said.
Not at Apethorpe. So I made do with snapping the church and the village stocks and whipping post opposite.
A short drive up the hill was King's Cliffe. Another buttery yellow village and a fine church, which I guessed would be open.
Though it took some finding, as driving up the narrow high street I failed to find the church. I checked the sat nav and I had driven right past it, but being down a short lane it was partially hidden behind a row of houses.
The church was open, and was surrounded by hundreds of fine stone gravestones, some of designs I have not seen before, but it was the huge numbers of them that was impressive.
Inside the church was fine, if cold. I record what I could, but my compact camera's batter had died the day before, and I had no charger, so just with the nifty fifty and the wide angle, still did a good job of recording it.
There was time for one more church. Just.
For those of us who remember the seventies, Warmington means Dad's Army, or rather Warmington on Sea did. THat there is a real Warmington was a surprise to me, and it lay just a couple of miles the other side of Fotheringhay.
The church is large, mostly Victorian after it fell out of use and became derelict, if the leaflet I read inside was accurate. But the renovation was excellent, none more so than the wooden vaulted roof with bosses dating to either the 15th or 16th centuries.
Another stunning item was the pulpit, which looks as though it is decorated with panels taken from the Rood Screen. Very effective.
Back to the car, I program the sat nav for home, and set off back to Fotheringhay and the A14 beyond.
No messing around now, just press on trying to make good time so to be home before dark, and time to go home, drop my bags, feed the cats before returning the car.
No real pleasure, but I made good time, despite encountering several bad drivers, who were clearly out only to ruin my mood.
Even the M25 was clear, I raced to the bridge, over the river and into Kent.
Nearly home.
I drive back down the A2, stopping at Medway services for a sandwich and a huge coffee on the company's credit card.
And that was that, just a blast down to Faversham, round onto the A2 and past Canterbury and to home, getting back at just after three, time to fill up the bird feeders, feed the cats, unpack and have a brew before going out at just gone four to return the car.
Jools would rescue me from the White Horse on her way home, so after being told the car was fine, walked to the pub and ordered two pints of Harvey's Best.
There was a guy from Essex and his American girlfriend, who were asking about all sorts of questions about Dover's history, and I was the right person to answer them.
I was told by a guide from the Castle I did a good job.
Yay me.
Jools arrived, so I went out and she took me home. Where the cats insisted they had not been fed.
Lies, all lies.
Dinner was teriyaki coated salmon, roasted sprouts and back, defrosted from before Christmas, and noodles.
Yummy.
Not much else to tell, just lighting the fire, so Scully and I would be toast warm watch the exciting Citeh v Spurs game, where Spurs were very Spursy indeed.
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From Woodnewton I cycled north accompanied by drifting red kites to one of the real goals of my journey, the church at Apethorpe. One of the pleasures of this part of the world is that, like much of south Cambridgeshire, east Norfolk and pretty much all of Suffolk, you are never more than a couple of miles from the next village, and I soon reached my first proper spire of the day, the church sitting beside the manor house, a war memorial forming a village cross in the street, and entered the church of St Leonard, Apethorpe.
This is an excellent church, full of interest, tightly set in its stone-walled churchyard which accentuates the height of the spire, the inner door wedged open. Best known for the Mildmay monument, which I'll come to in a moment, the most striking thing on entry, for me at least, are two tremendous windows in the south aisle, both by Christopher Whall. Each depicts three saints and commemorates two brothers of the Brassey family killed in the First World War. There is one Christopher Whall window in the whole of Suffolk. There are two here at Apethorpe.
Turning east, a faded doom painting surmounts the chancel arch, but beyond you step across the Reformation divide, for everything here was richly provided in the 17th and 18th Centuries. The chancel aisle is wider than the nave aisle, and here is the early 17th Century Mildmay memorial, one of the biggest monuments I've ever seen in an English country church. It towers some twenty feet into the air, the Mildmays asleep in bed in the middle and life-size sculptures of women representing virtues at each corner of the bed. Extraordinary. Nearby is a 15th Century memorial to a knight with a near-unvandalised Annunciation the Blessed Virgin above his head, and a sweet 19th Century memorial to a child showing him asleep in bed. But the most remarkable thing about this place is the early 17th Century English glass in the aisle east window. A most unusual date, of course, and a spectacular response to Caroline and Laudian piety, depicting Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection and the Day of Judgement. It must be one of the finest of its kind outside of an Oxford or Cambridge college chapel.
The east window of the chancel is also unusual, an 18th Century English representation of the Last Supper, and this period must have provided most of the money for refurnishing this place. Unfortunately, the Victorians put in big ugly pews in the nave, but the lady doing the flowers told me they are raising money to have them removed and replaced by simple wooden chairs as at Yarwell. All in all a wonderful church. Quite how Simon Jenkins only gave it one star is beyond me.
Simon Knott, 2016.
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Apethorpe is one of those churches that are pleasant but unexceptional architecturally but which have furnishings and sculptures that make your visit very rewarding.
The present church was built as late (for a mediaeval English parish church) as 1485: the year that Henry VII overthrew Richard III at Bosworth Field. There is a twelfth century voussoir on display that is the single indicator of a Norman church that preceded the present one.
The floor plan is exactly what one would expect of a church of this period: clerestoried nave, chancel, west tower and two aisles. There are dozens of such churches in Northamptonshire and literally thousands in England. The difference at Apethorpe, however, is that the church was built that way from the start whereas most developed that way piecemeal.
Apethorpe also, however, has a south chapel adjacent to the chancel. It was built in 1621 to house the monument to Sir Anthony (d.1617) and Lady Grace Mildmay (d.1620). Really, they should have built a bigger chapel because the monument is absurdly large for a local parish church. I guarantee you that when you arrive it will be the first thing you notice. It is held to be possibly the finest of its period and possibly made by Maximilien Colt. More about it anon.Sir Anthony’s father had a very interesting history - see the footnote below.
There was also a crypt underneath the Mildmay tomb that housed the tombs of Fane family, the Earls of Westmorland. A bizarre thing for a fifteenth century parish church to have, you might think. It was sealed in 1900.
I am neither expert nor aficionado of stained glass – most of which is dreadful mass-produced stuff of Victorian vintage. Apethorpe, however, has exceptional examples of this art form. The south chapel has an exceptionally rare example of glass from 1621. It is instructive to compare it with the majority of stained glass in churches on this website. The east window is almost exactly a hundred year more recent, signed and dated by John Rowell of High Wycombe in 1732. The glass is a painted scene of the Last Supper. As the Church Guide explains, the stained glass industry was at a low ebb at the time. The artists of the time had not mastered the art of fixing the colours – those of you who are familiar with traditional film photography will understand this well – and so the colours faded badly. Many panes here were removed altogether while others had to be restored in 1994 “at huge expense”.
When we visited we met the octogenarian villager Mike Lee who was at work regulating the church clock. He told us that Apethorpe’s is the oldest working church clock in England.
OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
A visit to the National Botanic Garden of Wales. Near Llanarthne in Carmarthenshire, Wales.
This garden aims to raise understanding and interest in plant breeding and genetics. The curving pathways in the Wallace Garden reflect the shape of the DNA double helix, and break the oval enclosure into a series of attractive themed beds. Planting blends the curious, the ornamental and the instructive. Here you’ll find examples of natural plant mutations, and every year there are fresh displays of food crops and garden plants that have been selectively bred by humans, like sweet peas and dahlias.
Along the south wall, plants refelct a geological timeline, from the first emergence of mosses and liverworts through horsetails to the tree ferns and conifers that dominate just before the evolution of flowering plants.
In the future we are hoping to use secure funding for this garden in order to demonstrate some of the scientific research the Garden is carrying out, particularly into the DNA of native Welsh plants.
This garden is named in honour of the Usk-born naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), whose own work on the theory of evolution by means of natural selection prompted Charles Darwin to publish his ‘On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection’. In 2008, we celebrated Wallace’s life with a specially commissioned play written by Gaynor Styles of Theatre Nanog and performed by Ioan Hefin (seen left) inside the Wallace Garden for both school groups and general visitors.
bust of Alfred Russel Wallace.
He was a Naturalist, biologist geographer, anthropologist and explorer.
Bust created by Anthony Smith with generous financial support of John Ellis and the Waterloo Foundation.
OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
As countries across Latin America work to improve transparency and accountability, public contracts—everything from infrastructure to public procurement—are a perpetual weakness. Open Contracting is a set of disclosure tools that use timely, publicly-accessible open data about contracts to increase competition, inform smarter decision-making, and foster public integrity. Paraguay has been a regional leader in embracing and implementing open contracting principles. How is its experience instructive for other countries? How can open contracting and other transparency tools help make Latin American governments more accountable and responsive? What are the economic benefits of open contracting? What are the obstacles to implementation and what other steps are needed to effectively identify, prosecute, and prevent corruption?
The Inter-American Dialogue and the Open Contracting Partnership are pleased to host an open discussion on the merits and challenges of open contracting and other public transparency initiatives, focusing on the Paraguayan example in regional context.
HCLS Chapters-of-Our-Lives Time Capsule installed in a beautiful circular bench in the lobby at HCLS Central Branch in Columbia, Maryland. A plaque displayed on the site that reads:
Within this bench rests a Time Capsule that captures the essence of Howard County Library System (HCLS) in 2015, our 75th Anniversary.
Its contents reflect our unwavering heritage as a 20th and 21st century educational institution with a mission to deliver equal opportunity in education for everyone through a curriculum that comprises Three Pillars: Self-Directed Education, Research Assistance & Instruction, and Instructive & Enlightening Experiences.
Symbolic of our timeless mission, this Time Capsule is a collection of three containers, all part of a 75-year plan:
To connect our past, present, and future, HCLS appointed 136 Howard County middle students to serve as Guardians. On October 24, 2015, they pledged to champion the HCLS legacy, keeping it safe for the next 25 years.
October 27, 2040 – The Class of 2015 will reconvene to pass on the role of Guardian to the next generation (Class of 2040). Together, the two generations will open and reseal the 2015 container, then fill the 2040 container.
October 24, 2065 – The Class of 2040 will gather to pass on the role of Guardian to the Class of 2065. Together, they will open and re-seal the 2015 and 2040 containers, then fill the 2065 container.
October 21, 2090 – The Class of 2065 will gather on the occasion of Howard County Library System’s sesquicentennial (150th) anniversary to open the Time Capsule.
Dedicated this 24th day of October, 2015 to the always forward-looking citizens of Howard County, MD.
OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
MAHAVATAR BABAJI CAVE
Mahāvatār Bābājī (literally; Great Avatar Dear Father) is the name given to an Indian saint and yogi by Lahiri Mahasaya and several of his disciples,[2] who reported meeting him between 1861 and 1935. Some of these meetings were described by Paramahansa Yogananda in his book Autobiography of a Yogi, including a first-hand report of Yogananda's own meeting with the yogi.[3]Another first hand account was given by Yukteswar Giri in his book The Holy Science.[4] According to Sri M's autobiography (Apprenticed to a Himalayan Master) Babaji, was Shiva. In the second last chapter of his book, he mentions Babaji changing his form to that of Shiva. All of these accounts, along with additional reported meetings, are described in various biographies.[5][6][7]According to Yogananda's autobiography, Babaji has resided for at least hundreds of years in the remote Himalayan regions of India, seen in person by only a small number of disciples and others.[3][8] The death less Master is more than 2000 years old. He belongs to a very powerful lineage of Siddha Boganthar and Rishi Agastya as his Gurus. He acquired this deathless, non perishable body through tough yogik kriyas.
Again, according to his autobiography, shortly before Yogananda left for America in 1920, Babaji came to his home in Calcutta, where the young monk sat deeply praying for divine assurance regarding the mission he was about to undertake. Babaji said to him: "Follow the behest of your guru and go to America. Fear not; you shall be protected. You are the one I have chosen to spread the message of Kriya Yoga in the West
There are very few accounts of Babaji's childhood. One source of information is the book Babaji and the 18 Siddha Kriya Yoga tradition by Marshal Govindan.[9]According to Govindan, Babaji was named Nagarajan (king of serpents) by his parents. [8] V.T. Neelakantan and S.A.A. Ramaiah founded on 17 October 1952, (they claim – at the request of Babaji) a new organization, "Kriya Babaji Sangah," dedicated to the teaching of Babaji's Kriya Yoga. They claim that in 1953 Mahavatar Babaji told them that he was born on 30 November 203 CE in a small coastal village now known as Parangipettai, Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu, India.[10] Babaji's Kriya Yoga Order of Acharyas Trust (Kriya Babaji Sangah) and their branch organizations claim his place and date of birth.[10] He was a disciple of Bogar and his birth name is Nagarajan.[9][10]
In Paramahansa Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi, many references are made to Mahavatar Babaji, including from Lahirī and Sri Yukteshwar.[3] In his book The Second Coming of Christ, Yogananda states that Jesus Christ went to India and conferred with Mahavatar Babaji.[8] This would make Babaji at least 2000 years old.[11] According to Govindan's book, Babaji Nagaraj's father was the priest of the village's temple. Babaji revealed only those details which he believed to be formative as well as potentially instructive to his disciples. Govindan mentioned one incident like this: "One time Nagaraj's mother had got one rare jackfruit for a family feast and put it aside. Babaji was only 4 years old at that time. He found the jackfruit when his mother was not around and ate it all. When his mother came to know about it, she flew in blind rage and stuffed a cloth inside Babaji's mouth, nearly suffocating him, but he survived. Later on he thanked God for showing him that she was to be loved without attachment or illusion. His Love for his mother became unconditional and detached."[9]
When Nagaraj was about 5 years old, someone kidnapped him and sold him as a slave in Calcutta (now Kolkata). His new owner however was a kind man and he freed Nagaraj shortly thereafter. Nagaraj then joined a small group of wandering sannyāsin due to their radiant faces and love for God. During the next few years, he wandered from place to place, studying holy scriptures like the Vedas, Upanishad, Mahabharata, Ramayana, Bhagavad Gita.
According to Marshall Govindan's book, at the age of eleven, he made a difficult journey on foot and by boat with a group of ascetics to Kataragama, Sri Lanka. Nagaraj met Siddha Bhogarnathar and became his disciple. Nagaraj performed intensive yogic sadhana for a long time with him. Bhogarnathar inspired Nagaraj to seek his initiation into Kriya Kundalini Pranayam from Siddha Agastya. Babaji became a disciple of Siddha Agastya. Nagaraj was initiated into the secrets of Kriya Kundalini Pranayama or "Vasi Yogam". Babaji made a long pilgrimage to Badrinath and spent eighteen months practising yogic kriyataught to him by Siddha Agastya and Bhogarnathar. Babaji attained self-realization shortly thereafter.[9]
It is claimed that these revelations were made by Babaji himself to S.A.A. Ramaiah, a young graduate student in geology at the University of Madras and V.T. Neelakantan, a famous journalist, and close student of Annie Besant, President of the Theosophical Society and mentor of Krishnamurti. Babaji was said to have appeared to each of them independently and then brought them together to work for his Mission in 1942
By Kailash Mansarovar Foundation Swami Bikash Giri www.sumeruparvat.com , www.naturalitem.com
13. Middle Man
by Cecily Tattersall
Cecily Tattersall is a British artist based in London. Her work was exhibited in Richard Demarco's collection at the launch of ‘Summerhall’, Edinburgh International Festival 2012, alongside an artist-in-resident position at the Leith School of Art. Cecily has now resumed her practice in the final year of an MFA at the Slade School of Fine Art.
Her research concerns the human form, using its capabilities and limits in the making process as well as depictions of it. Working through instructive situations of dance, occasion and sport she explores spaces known and unknown.
Lindt is proud to join
THE BIG EGG HUNT 2013
in support for Action For Children
Our fun family event starts in London, Covent Garden on Shrove Tuesday and promises to delight all; from the exciting egg-hunts and giant chocolate bunnies to the uniquely designed eggs by leading artists and celebrities, for all to awe at – and hopefully buy!
Most importantly it is a unique opportunity for us all to raise significant money to support vulnerable and neglected children in the UK.
Established in 1869, Action for Children is committed to helping the most vulnerable and neglected children in the UK. Working directly with more than 250,000 children, young people and their carers each year, we run over 600 services which tackle abuse, neglect, help young carers and provide fostering and adoption services.
Lindt believes in the magic of families, which is why the Lindt Gold Bunny is proud to join Action for Children in The Big Egg Hunt and support the great work they do to improve the lives of children & families in the UK.
Cadishead and Irlam Guardian January 1924
C.W.S. EXHIBITION FINE IRLAM PRODUCTIONS
The magnitude of the C.W.S enterprises is demonstrated at an exhibition of C.W.S. productions held at Eccles this week.
Goods manufactured at Irlam factories of the Society had a prominent place in the exhibition. In the centre of the platform is a large model of Eccles Cross, built up of packets of Irlam-made soap, and at the foot of this is a reproduction of Eddystone Lighthouse, correct to scale in size, and giving out correctly-timed beams of light. This also made of soap at Irlam.
Occupying the chief position on the floor of the hall is a stall from Irlam, in which the manufacture of toilet soaps by the French milling system is demonstrated. Other specialities from Irlam are displayed, including fancy coloured candles and tapers, washing powders, dyes, etc. The stall is prettily decorated and illuminated, one of the attractions for the children being a model aeroplane buzzing round overhead. In the other parts of the exhibition are boxes of lard, rendered at Irlam, and margarine and shredded suet from the Higher Irlam works.
Mr. W. Lee of the Irlam Soap Works, had charge of the exhibits from that establishment.
At a large stall, representing the Crumpsall confectionery works, the making of sweets is shown. Sugar is boiled to a heat of 300 degrees and after passing through cooling and pulling processes, the sweets are stamped out. The terms offered by the Co-operative Insurance Society for all insurances, were pointed out by the superintendent at its stall.
Other exhibits were grocery goods from the Trafford packing factory, drugs, medicines and polishes from Pelaw, biscuits and cakes from Crumpsall, paint and enamel from Rochdale, bulbs,seeds,fertilisers, etc, from Derby, jams,marmalades and pickles from Middleton, washing machines, bedsteads and wire mattresses from Keighley, fine suites and enamelled ware made at Dudley, drapery and underwear from quite a number of centres, and a host of other household requisites from all parts of the country. A visit to the exhibition cannot fail to be interesting and instructive.END.
OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
There was never any doubt I would go to Rob's funeral. Rob was born just two weeks before me, and in our many meetings, we found we had so much in common.
A drive to Ipswich should be something like only two and a half hours, but with the Dartford Crossing that could balloon to four or more.
My choice was to leave early, soon after Jools left for work, or wait to near nine once rush hour was over. If I was up early, I'd leave early, I said.
Which is what happened.
So, after coffee and Jools leaving, I loaded my camera stuff in the car, not bothering to program in a destination, as I knew the route to Suffolk so well.
Checking the internet I found the M2 was closed, so that meant taking the M20, which I like as it runs beside HS2, although over the years, vegetation growth now hides most of it, and with Eurostar cutting services due to Brexit, you're lucky to see a train on the line now.
I had a phone loaded with podcasts, so time flew by, even if travelling through the endless roadworks at 50mph seemed to take forever.
Dartford was jammed. But we inched forward, until as the bridge came in sight, traffic moved smoothly, and I followed the traffic down into the east bore of the tunnel.
Another glorious morning for travel, the sun shone from a clear blue sky, even if traffic was heavy, but I had time, so not pressing on like I usually do, making the drive a pleasant one.
Up through Essex, where most other traffic turned off at Stanstead, then up to the A11 junction, with it being not yet nine, I had several hours to fill before the ceremony.
I stopped at Cambridge services for breakfast, then programmed the first church in: Gazeley, which is just in Suffolk on the border with Cambridgeshire.
I took the next junction off, took two further turnings brought be to the village, which is divided by one of the widest village streets I have ever seen.
It was five past nine: would the church be open?
I parked on the opposite side of the road, grabbed my bag and camera, limped over, passing a warden putting new notices in the parish notice board. We exchange good mornings, and I walk to the porch.
The inner door was unlocked, and the heavy door swung after turning the metal ring handle.
I had made a list of four churches from Simon's list of the top 60 Suffolk churches, picking those on or near my route to Ipswich and which piqued my interest.
Here, it was the reset mediaeval glass.
Needless to say, I had the church to myself, the centuries hanging heavy inside as sunlight flooded in filling the Chancel with warm golden light.
Windows had several devotional dials carved in the surrounding stone, and a huge and "stunningly beautiful piscina, and beside it are sedilia that end in an arm rest carved in the shape of a beast" which caught my eye.
A display in the Chancel was of the decoration of the wooden roof above where panels contained carved beats, some actual and some mythical.
I photographed them all.
I programmed in the next church, a 45 minute drive away just on the outskirts of Ipswich, or so I thought.
The A14 was plagued by roadworks, then most trunk roads and motorways are this time of year, but it was a fine summer morning, I was eating a chocolate bar as I drove, and I wasn't in a hurry.
I turned off at Claydon, and soon lost in a maze of narrow lanes, which brought be to a dog leg in the road, with St Mary nestling in a clearing.
I pulled up, got out and found the air full of birdsong, and was greeted by a friendly spaniel being taken for a walk from the hamlet which the church serves.
There was never any doubt that this would be open, so I went through the fine brick porch, pushed another heavy wooden door and entered the coolness of the church.
I decided to come here for the font, which as you can read below has quite the story: wounded by enemy action no less!
There seems to be a hagioscope (squint) in a window of the south wall, makes one think or an anchorite, but of this there is little evidence.
Samuel and Thomasina Sayer now reside high on the north wall of the Chancel, a stone skull between them, moved here too because of bomb damage in the last war.
I drove a few miles to the next church: Flowton.
Not so much a village as a house on a crossroads. And the church.
Nothing so grand as a formal board outside, just a handwritten sign say "welcome to Flowton church". Again, I had little doubt it would be open.
And it was.
The lychgate still stands, but a fence around the churchyard is good, so serves little practical purpose, other than to be there and hold the signs for the church and forthcoming services.
Inside it is simple: octagonal font with the floor being of brick, so as rustic as can be.
I did read Simon's account (below) when back outside, so went back in to record the tomb of Captain William Boggas and his family, even if part of the stone is hidden by pews now.
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The landscape to the west of Ipswich rises to hills above the gentle valley of what will become the Belstead Brook before it empties itself into the River Orwell. The large villages of Somersham and Offton nestle below, but in the lonely lanes above are small, isolated settlements, and Flowton is one of them. I often cycle out this way from Ipswich through busy Bramford and then leave the modern world behind at Little Blakenham, up towards Nettlestead on a narrow and steep lane, down into Somersham and back up the other side to Flowton. It is unusual to pass a vehicle, or even see another human being, except in the valley bottom. In summer the only sound is of birdsong, the hedgerows alive in the deep heat. In winter the fields are dead, the crows in possession.
A hundred years ago these lanes were full of people, for in those days the villagers were enslaved to the land. But a farm that might support fifty workers then needs barely two now, and the countryside has emptied, villages reduced to half their size. Most of rural Suffolk is quieter now than at any time since before the Saxons arrived, and nature is returning to it.
In the early spring of 1644, a solemn procession came this way. The body of Captain William Boggas was brought back from the Midlands, where he had been killed in some skirmish or other, possibly in connection with the siege of Newark. The cart stumbled over the ruts and mud hollows, and it is easy to imagine the watching farmworkers pausing in a solemn gesture, standing upright for a brief moment, perhaps removing a hat, as it passed them by. But no sign of the cross, for this was Puritan Suffolk. Even the Church of England had been suppressed, and the local Priest replaced by a Minister chosen by, and possibly from within, the congregation.
William Boggas was laid to rest in the nave of the church, beside the body of his infant daughter who had died a year earlier. His heavily pregnant widow would have stood by on the cold brick floor, and the little church would have been full, for he was a landowner, and a Captain too.
The antiquarian David Davy came this way in a bad mood in May 1829, with his friend John Darby on their way to record the memorials and inscriptions of the church: ...we ascended a rather steep hill, on which we travelled thro' very indifferent roads to Flowton; here the kind of country I had anticipated for the whole of the present day's excursion was completely realised. A more flat, wet, unpleasant soil and country I have not often passed over, & we found some difficulty in getting along with safety & comfort.
But today it would be hard to arrive in Flowton in spring today and not be pleased to be there. By May, the trees in the hedgerows gather, and the early leaves send shadows dappling across the lane, for of course the roads have changed here since Darby and Davy came this way, but perhaps Flowton church hasn't much. James Bettley, revising the Buildings of England volumes for Suffolk, observed that it is a church with individuality in various details, which is about right. Much of what we see is of the early 14th Century, but there was money being spent here right on the eve of the Reformation. Peter Northeast and Simon Cotton transcribed a bequest of 1510 which pleasingly tells us the medieval dedication of the church, for Alice Plome asked that my body to be buried in the churchyard of the nativitie of our lady in fflowton. The same year, John Rever left a noble to painting the candlebeam, which is to say the beam which ran across the top of the rood loft and screen on which candles were placed. This is interesting because, as James Bettley points out, the large early 16th Century window on the south side of the nave was clearly intended to light the rood, and so was probably part of the same campaign. The candlebeam has not survived, and nor has any part of the rood screen. In 1526 John Rever (perhaps the son of the earlier man of the same name) left two nobles toward the making of a new rouff in the said church of ffloweton. The idiosyncratic tower top came in the 18th Century, and the weather vane with its elephants is of the early 21st Century, remembering a travelling circus that used to overwinter in the fields nearby.
The west face of the tower still has its niches, which once contained the images of the saints who watched over the travellers passing by. Another thing curious about the tower is that it has no west doorway. Instead, the doorway is set into the south side of the tower. There must be a reason for this, for it exists nowhere else in Suffolk. Perhaps there was once another building to the west of the tower. Several churches in this area have towers to the south of their naves, and the entrance through a south doorway into a porch formed beneath the tower, but it is hard to see how that could have been the intention here.
The Victorians were kind to Flowton church. It has a delicious atmosphere, that of an archetypal English country church. The narrow green sleeve of the graveyard enfolds it, leading eastwards to a moat-like ditch. The south porch is simple, and you step through it into a sweetly ancient space. The brick floor is uneven but lovely, lending an organic quality to the font, a Purbeck marble survival of the late 13th Century which seems to grow out of it. The bricks spread eastwards, past Munro Cautley's pulpit of the 1920s, and up beyond the chancel arch into the chancel itself. On the south side of the sanctuary the piscina that formerly served the altar here still retains its original wooden credence shelf. On the opposite wall is a corbel of what is perhaps a green man, or merely a madly grinning devil.
But to reach all these you must step across the ledger stone of Captain William Boggas, a pool of dark slate in the soft sea of bricks. It reads Here lyes waiting for the second coming of Jesus Christ the body of William Boggas gent, deere to his Countrey, by whoes free choyce he was called to be Captayne of their vountaries raysed for their defence: pious towards God, meeke & juste towards men & being about 40 yeeres of age departed this life March 18: 1643. To the north of it lie two smaller ledgers, the easterly one to his young daughter, which records the date of her birth and her death in the next ensuing month. To the west of that is one to William, his son, who was born on April 11th 1644.
At first sight it might seem odd that his son could have been born in April 1644 if William senior had died in March 1643, but in those days of course the New Year was counted not from January 1st, but from March 25th, a quarter day usually referred to as Lady Day, in an echoing memory of the pre-Reformation Feast of the Annunciation. So William Boggas died one month before his son was born, not thirteen. It would be nice to think that William Junior would have led a similarly exciting and possibly even longer life than his father. But this was not to be, for he died at the age of just two years old in 1645. As he was given his father's name, we may assume that he was his father's first and only son.
A further point of interest is that both Williams' stones have space ready for further names. But there are none. There would be no more children for him, for how could there be? But William's wife does not appear to be buried or even remembered here. Did she move away? Did she marry again, and does she lie in some other similarly remote English graveyard? Actually, it is possible that she doesn't. Boggas's wife was probably Flowton girl Mary Branston, and she had been married before, to Robert Woodward of Dedham in Essex. Between the time of William Boggas's death in 1644 and the 1647 accounting of the Colony, Mary's daughter and nephews by her first marriage had been transported to the Virginia Colony in the modern United States. Is it possible that Mary went to join them?
And finally, one last visitor. Four months after the birth of the younger William, when the cement on his father's ledger stone was barely dry, the Puritan iconoclast William Dowsing visited this remote place. It was 22 August 1644. The day had been a busy one for Dowsing, for Flowton was one of seven churches he visited that day, and he would likely have already known them well, because he had a house at nearby Baylham. There was little for him to take issue with apart from the piscina in the chancel which was probably filled in and then restored by the Victorians two hundred years later.
Dowsing had arrived here in the late afternoon on what was probably a fine summer's day, since the travelling was so easy. I imagined the graveyard that day, full of dense greenery. He came on horseback, and he was not alone.With him came, as an assistant, a man called Jacob Caley. Caley, a Portman of Ipswich, was well-known to the people of Flowton. He was the government's official collector of taxes for this part of Suffolk. Probably, he was not a popular man. What the villagers couldn't know was that Caley was actually hiding away a goodly proportion of the money he collected. In 1662, two years after the Commonwealth ended, he was found guilty of the theft of three thousand pounds, about a million pounds in today's money. He had collected one hundred and eighteen pounds of this from the people of Flowton alone, and the late John Blatchly writing in Trevor Cooper's edition of the Dowsing Journals thought that the amount he was found guilty of stealing was probably understated, although of course we will never know.
I revisit this church every few months, and it always feels welcoming and well cared for, with fresh flowers on display, tidy ranks of books for sale, and a feeling that there is always someone popping in, every day. The signs by the lychgate say Welcome to Flowton Church, and on my most recent visit in November 2021 a car stopped behind me while I was taking a photograph of the elephants at the top of the tower. "Do go inside, the church is open", the driver urged cheerily, "we've even got a toilet!" As with Nettlestead across the valley, the church tried to stay open throughout the Church of England's Covid panic of 2020 and 2021, whatever much of the rest of the Church might have been doing. And there was no absurd cordoning off of areas or imposition of the one-way systems beloved by busybodies in many other English churches. Instead, a simple reminder to ask you to be careful, and when I came this way in the late summer of 2020 there were, at the back of the church, tall vases of rosemary, myrtle, thyme and other fragrant herbs. Beside them was a notice, which read Covid-19 causes anosmia (losing sense of smell). Here are some herbs to smell! which I thought was not only useful and instructive, but rather lovely.
Simon Knott, November 2021
"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."
---Anne Lamott
A few years ago, I was invited to a reading at Fr. Tom's Jesuit retreat house in Oakland to hear one of my favorite writers, Anne Lamott. I remember wishing that she had written "Operating Instructions: A Journal Through My Son's First Year" when my daughter had been that age. Oh well, it was funny and instructive at any age. And I loved "Bird by Bird" a must for any writer at any level, imho.
It was a thrill to meet her in such an intimate and relaxed setting. And I count Fr Tom as a special friend, a true mensch in every sense of the word.
This was the best shot of a wonderful day.
PS: Her recent piece on Salon, "My Son the Stranger", has a nice interaction with Fr. Tom at the end, btw...
You can find photos of another one of these old Masonic stoves on this Flickr album.
www.flickr.com/photos/21728045@N08/albums/72157623943892513
This box stove is one of only four known to have been made for area Lodges by the Patterson Iron Works on what is now Major Mackenzie Drive, west of Richmond Hill. This one is dated 1866 and cast in relief is the name 'Vaughan Lodge No. 54 and various Masonic symbols. Two other stoves can be found in Brooklin, Ontario and Richmond Hill, Ontario.
From 'The Liberal' Communit - Tuesday Jan. 4, 2005
A short history of the foundry that made the stove. 'Village founder enterprising' by Andrew Hind - Blast From The Past:
Driving along Major Mackenzie Drive between Bathurst and Dufferin streets, I had chance to view the land and remaining buildings that once comprised the industrial village of Patterson. It occurred to me while the history of this little factory town is fairly well known, the story of its founder is not.
That is odd, to say the least, for surely there would have been no Patterson if there there had been no Peter Patterson to create it.
Mr. Patterson was born in New Hampshire in 1825. A crucial turning point came in 1840, when a still teenaged Mr. Patterson invented a fanning mill, a machine designed to screen grain.
The timing could not have been better. The mid-19th. century was a time when innovative and practical ways to improve the grain milling process were sorely needed to meet the unrelenting demand of a growing world population.
Grist mills required new ways to speed up operations and Mr. Patterson offered just that.
He and brothers Alfred and Robert came to Canada to market the product. First they operated out of Waterloo, then Dundas. Finally, they arrived in Richmond Hill.
Here, Mr. Patterson purchased an old hotel at the corner of Yonge and Richmond streets and began a profitable business. But he wasn't just dealing with fanning mills any longer. He was also manufacturing farming implements. Lots and lots of farming implements.
In fact, the business was so profitable within a few years it had outgrown its original facilities. So, in 1855, Mr. Patterson bought the east half of Lot 21, Concession 2 (much of the land along Major Mackenzie between Bathurst and Dufferin) from John Arnold and decided to build a larger factory there.
To support it, he had to build a town from scratch. In short order, the community boasted a church, store, school, mills, a huge foundry and factory, lumber yards, warehouses and company offices, workers, homes and a two-mile plank walkway linking the village to Richmond Hill.
Naturally, the community was named after its founder.
The Patterson farm Implements Co. continued its meteoric rise. Soon it was using 400 tons of steel a year, employed four teams of horses to haul implements to a rail station at Maple and was considered among the largest implement manufacturers in Canada.
Unlike most successful industrialists of the era, however, no one questioned Mr. Patterson's integrity.
He was always considered honest and ethical, 'a gracious and hospitable man' according to documents from that time.
Nevertheless, he was a tireless worker and demanded excellence from employees. The workers were rewarded in ways few were in that period. They received fair wages and worked in a safe, clean, efficient, well-lit and well-ventilated environment.
In light of his importance and wealth, it should come as no surprise Mr. Patterson was soon propelled into politics. He served as reeve of Vaughan Township for four years (1868-1871), warden of York County in 1871, and represented West York in 1871 to 1883. He also served as president of the Richmond Hill Agricultural Society in 1884.
Business problems were on the horizon, however.
No railway deemed it worthwhile to run through Patterson, nor would any agree to distant markets, the Patterson Farm Implement Co. was at a disadvantage in relation to its competitors and would likely be doomed.
Reluctantly, Mr. Patterson accepted an invitation to move the business to Woodstock in 1886, where ready rail access was available.
Nevertheless, competition was fierce and in 1891, tired and aging, Mr. Patterson decided to sell to rivals Massey-Harris. He retired to his farm in Patterson and died there in 1904.
History buff Andrew Hind welcomes comments at maelstrom@sympatico.ca.
Masonic Key
"The Key," says Doctor Oliver (Landmarks I, page 180), "is one of the most important symbols of Freemasonry. It bears the appearance of a common metal instrument, confined to the performance of one simple act. But the well-instructed brother beholds in it the symbol which teaches him to keep a tongue of good report, and to abstain from the debasing vices of slander and defamation." Among the ancients the key was a symbol of silence and circumspection; and thus Sophocles alludes to it in the Oedipus Coloneus (line 105), where he makes the chorus speak of "the golden key which had come upon the tongue of the ministering Hierophant in the mysteries of Eleusis-Callimachus says that the Priestess of Ceres bore a key as the ensign of her mystic office. The key was in the Mysteries of Isis a hieroglyphic of the opening or disclosing of the heart and conscience, in the kingdom of death, for trial and Judgment.
In the old instructions of Freemasonry the key was an important symbol, and Doctor Oliver regrets that it has been abandoned in the modern system. In the ceremonies of the First Degree, in the eighteenth century allusion is made to a key by whose help the secrets of Freemasonry are to be obtained, which key "is said to hang and not to lie, because it is always to hang in a brother's defense and not to lie to his prejudge." It was said, too, to hang "by the thread of life at the entrance, " and was closely connected with the heart, because the tongue "ought to utter nothing but what the heart dictates." And, finally, this key is described as being "composed of no metal, but a tongue of good report." In the ceremonies of the Masters Degree in the Adonhiramite Rite, we find this catechism (in the Recueil Précieu:, page 87):
What do you conceal?
All the secrets which have been intrusted to me.
Where do you conceal them?
In the heart.
Have you a key to gain entrance there?
Yes, Right Worshipful.
Where do you keep it?
In a box of coral which opens and shuts only with ivory teeth.
Of what metal is it composed?
Of none. It is a tongue obedient to reason, which knows only how to speak well of those of whom it speaks in their absence as in their presence.
All of this shows that the key as a symbol was formerly equivalent to the modern symbol of the "instructive tongue," which, however, with almost the same interpretation, has now been transferred to the Second or Fellow-Craft's Degree. The key, however, is still preserved as a symbol of secrecy in the Royal Arch Degree; and it is also presented to us in the same sense in the ivory key of the Secret Master, or Fourth Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. In many of the German Lodges an ivory key is made a part of the Masonic clothing of each Brother, to remind him that he should lock up or conceal the secrets of Freemasonry in his heart. But among the ancients the key was also a symbol of power; and thus among the Greeks the title of Kxeiaouxos or key-bearer, was bestowed upon one holding high office; and with the Romans, the keys are given to the bride on the day of marriage, as a token that the authority of the house was bestowed upon her; and if afterward divorced, they were taken from her, as a symbol of the deprivation of her office, Among the Hebrews the key was used in the same sense. "As the robe and the baldric," says Lowth (Israel, part ii, section 4), "were the ensigns of power and authority, so likewise was the key the mark of office, either sacred or civil." Thus in Isaiah (xxii, 22), it is said: "The key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulders; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open" Our Savior expressed a similar idea when he said to Saint Peter, "I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven." It is in reference to this interpretation of the symbol, and not that of secrecy, that the key has been adopted as the official jewel of the Treasurer of a Lodge, because he has the purse, the source of power, under his command.
Source: Mackey's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry
This is instructive: this photo has more views than any other photo I've posted here, and it is no doubt because of the promise of seeing a girl pissing. Sorry to disappoint you bunch of sick f--ckers. =)
A visit to the National Botanic Garden of Wales. Near Llanarthne in Carmarthenshire, Wales.
This garden aims to raise understanding and interest in plant breeding and genetics. The curving pathways in the Wallace Garden reflect the shape of the DNA double helix, and break the oval enclosure into a series of attractive themed beds. Planting blends the curious, the ornamental and the instructive. Here you’ll find examples of natural plant mutations, and every year there are fresh displays of food crops and garden plants that have been selectively bred by humans, like sweet peas and dahlias.
Along the south wall, plants refelct a geological timeline, from the first emergence of mosses and liverworts through horsetails to the tree ferns and conifers that dominate just before the evolution of flowering plants.
In the future we are hoping to use secure funding for this garden in order to demonstrate some of the scientific research the Garden is carrying out, particularly into the DNA of native Welsh plants.
This garden is named in honour of the Usk-born naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), whose own work on the theory of evolution by means of natural selection prompted Charles Darwin to publish his ‘On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection’. In 2008, we celebrated Wallace’s life with a specially commissioned play written by Gaynor Styles of Theatre Nanog and performed by Ioan Hefin (seen left) inside the Wallace Garden for both school groups and general visitors.
Grade II listed.
Service Yard and Gateway of Middleton Hall, Llanarthney
Location
100m north of the Great Glass House of the National Botanic Gardens. Attached to the surviving service wing of Middleton Hall.
History
Middleton Hall was completed in 1795 for Sir William Paxton to the designs of S P Cockerell. To the north-west of the house was a service wing (now modernised and named Trawscoed) with this attached oval yard and gateway. With these exceptions the Hall was demolished in 1951.
Interior
Exterior
The yard, its gateway and the stable block are planned on one axis. The yard is an oval enclosure in roughly coursed stonework, about 2 metres in height, without its original coping. The yard gateway is an imposing design in the form of a round-headed gateway with a semicircular ashlar arch, with projecting keystone, large square impost moulding and string course and projecting plinth, all set within a section of wall raised to almost double height in coursed masonry with square coping.
Reason for Listing
Listed as a structure planned integrally with the listed Stables, and a surviving unaltered fragment of the work of S P Cockerell.
References
H Colvin, Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840 (1995), p.264;
N D Ludlow, Middleton Hall Assessment (DAT Project Record No. 31018, 1995), p.17
This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.
Notes:
100m north of the Great Glass House of the National Botanic Gardens. Attached to the surviving service wing of Middleton Hall.
Source: Cadw
Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence.
2963. This image of a rocket-laden Fairey Gannet moving to the catapult on HMAS MELBOURNE [II] in Jervis Bay, NSW, is filled with dynamic action, perhaps not all of it first evident to a layman..
Photo author Ron Marsh explains that Squadron electricians are putting 'pigtails' on the 60lb rockets [one guesses this means arming them] under the Gannets wings - but what becomes really interesting is both members of the deck crew and the pilots have their hands on their heads as the rockets are armed.
Apparently the air crew are being directed to keep their hands away from electrical switches as the rockets are armed. What very good discipline and training are evident there.
It is, Ron says, a safety measure that 'might have saved a lot of lives on USS FORRESTAL, the big American carrier ravaged by appalling fires and explosions in the Gulf of Tonkin on July 29, 1967, after a Zuni rocket mounted on a McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II aircraft was
accidently fired on the flightdeck by an electrical anomoly, dislodging and igniting a fuel drop tank on a nearby A-4 skyhawk [possibly that piloted by later presidential candidate John McCain].
In the appalling conflagration that followed, made deadly by nine bomb explosions, 134 of Forrestel's crew, mostly firemen, were killed, and 161 injured. With the armoured deck penetratged by the bomb explosions, the fire spread below and many planes and armaments were jettisoned, as well as 20 damaged ion the flight deck beyond repair.
Wikipedia's very instructive report on the USS Forrestal disaster is here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_USS_Forrestal_fire
It is interesting that HMAS MELBOURNE had such clearly defined procedures such as hands-on- heads to prevent unintended rocket ignitions six years earlier. As mentioned previously, however, the RAN did have experience with unintended rocket ignitions from Hawker Sea Fury aircraft from HMAS Sydney [III].
During exercises in 1950 there was a spate of unintended ignitions from Furies aloft, and at least one of these [maybe more] hit the New Zealand cruiser HMNZS BELLONA which was towing a target, without severe damage or casualties. At first that incident was put down to pilot error [the pilot, by the way, was a Kiwi], but it was later thought that the rockets may have been ignited by low frequency radio transmissions from the aircraft carrier.
Ron Marsh identifies a Petty Officer [AO] in the photo above as Maurie Tiffen.
Photo: Ronald L. Marsh of Brisbane, RAN 1957-1963, kindly sent on disc for the Unofficial RAN Centenary 1911-2011 Photostream.
A COMPENDIUM of links to some 350 images of HMAS MELBOURNE [II] on this Photostream begins at Pic 5444 and extends over seven entries. It starts here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/6707592179/in/photostream
Big AM portable radio with dial rule reverse painted, thick plastic grill speaker, two tones lleatherette coated wooden cabinet with vynil carring strap. At the top is the power-on slide switchIn and on the right side has antenna/ ground connectors. The chassis has six transistors: 3x AC 117 and 3x OC 74; powered by six flashlight batteries.
It still has the price tag attached, reduced from $ 655.00 to $ 595.00 Mexican pesos, equivalent to $ 48.00 USD back then. Also, it comes with its cardboard box for shipment, a little battered, and the instructive.
Masonic Square and Compasses.
The Square and Compasses (or, more correctly, a square and a set of compasses joined together) is the single most identifiable symbol of Freemasonry. Both the square and compasses are architect's tools and are used in Masonic ritual as emblems to teach symbolic lessons. Some Lodges and rituals explain these symbols as lessons in conduct: for example, Duncan's Masonic Monitor of 1866 explains them as: "The square, to square our actions; The compasses, to circumscribe and keep us within bounds with all mankind".
However, as Freemasonry is non-dogmatic, there is no general interpretation for these symbols (or any Masonic symbol) that is used by Freemasonry as a whole.
Square and Compasses:
Source: Mackey's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry
These two symbols have been so long and so universally combined — to teach us, as says an early instruction, "to square our actions and to keep them within due bounds," they are so seldom seen apart, but are so kept together, either as two Great Lights, or as a jewel worn once by the Master of the Lodge, now by the Past Master—that they have come at last to be recognized as the proper badge of a Master Mason, just as the Triple Tau is of a Royal Arch Mason or the Passion Cross of a Knight Templar.
So universally has this symbol been recognized, even by the profane world, as the peculiar characteristic of Freemasonry, that it has recently been made in the United States the subject of a legal decision. A manufacturer of flour having made, in 1873, an application to the Patent Office for permission to adopt the Square and Compasses as a trade-mark, the Commissioner of Patents, .J. M. Thatcher, refused the permission as the mark was a Masonic symbol.
If this emblem were something other than precisely what it is—either less known", less significant, or fully and universally understood—all this might readily be admitted. But, Considering its peculiar character and relation to the public, an anomalous question is presented. There can be no doubt that this device, so commonly worn and employed by Masons, has an established mystic significance, universally recognized as existing; whether comprehended by all or not, is not material to this issue. In view of the magnitude and extent of the Masonic organization, it is impossible to divest its symbols, or at least this particular symbol—perhaps the best known of all—of its ordinary signification, wherever displaced, either as an arbitrary character or otherwise.
It will be universally understood, or misunderstood, as having a Masonic significance; and, therefore, as a trade-mark, must constantly work deception. Nothing could be more mischievous than to create as a monopoly, and uphold by the poser of lacy anything so calculated. as applied to purposes of trade. to be misinterpreted, to mislead all classes, and to constantly foster suggestions of mystery in affairs of business (see Infringing upon Freemasonry, also Imitative Societies, and Clandestine).
In a religious work by John Davies, entitled Summa Totalis, or All in All and the Same Forever, printed in 1607, we find an allusion to the Square and Compasses by a profane in a really Masonic sense. The author, who proposes to describe mystically the form of the Deity, says in his dedication:
Yet I this forme of formelesse Deity,
Drewe by the Squire and Compasse of our Creed.
In Masonic symbolism the Square and Compasses refer to the Freemason's duty to the Craft and to himself; hence it is properly a symbol of brotherhood, and there significantly adopted as the badge or token of the Fraternity.
Berage, in his work on the higher Degrees, Les plus secrets Mystéres des Hauts Grades, or The Most Secret Mysteries of the High Grades, gives a new interpretation to the symbol. He says: "The Square and the Compasses represent the union of the Old and New Testaments. None of the high Degrees recognize this interpretation, although their symbolism of the two implements differs somewhat from that of Symbolic Freemasonry.
The Square is with them peculiarly appropriated to the lower Degrees, as founded on the Operative Art; while the Compasses, as an implement of higher character and uses, is attributed to the Decrees, which claim to have a more elevated and philosophical foundation. Thus they speak of the initiate, when he passes from the Blue Lodge to the Lodge of Perfection, as 'passing from the Square to the Compasses,' to indicate a progressive elevation in his studies. Yet even in the high Degrees, the square and compasses combined retain their primitive signification as a symbol of brotherhood and as a badge of the Order."
Square and Compass:
Source: The Builder October 1916
By Bro. B. C. Ward, Iowa
Worshipful Master and Brethren: Let us behold the glorious beauty that lies hidden beneath the symbolism of the Square and Compass; and first as to the Square. Geometry, the first and noblest of the sciences, is the basis on which the superstructure of Masonry has been erected. As you know, the word "Geometry" is derived from two Greek words which mean "to measure the earth," so that Geometry originated in measurement; and in those early days, when land first began to be measured, the Square, being a right angle, was the instrument used, so that in time the Square began to symbolize the Earth. And later it began to symbolize, Masonically, the earthly-in man, that is man's lower nature, and still later it began to symbolize man's duty in his earthly relations, or his moral obligations to his Fellowmen. The symbolism of the Square is as ancient as the Pyramids. The Egyptians used it in building the Pyramids. The base of every pyramid is a perfect square, and to the Egyptians the Square was their highest and most sacred emblem. Even the Chinese many, many centuries ago used the Square to represent Good, and Confucius in his writings speaks of the Square to represent a Just man.
As Masons we have adopted the 47th Problem of Euclid as the rule by which to determine or prove a perfect Square. Many of us remember with what interest we solved that problem in our school days. The Square has become our most significant Emblem. It rests upon the open Bible on this altar; it is one of the three great Lights; and it is the chief ornament of the Worshipful Master. There is a good reason why this distinction has been conferred upon the Square. There can be nothing truer than a perfect Square--a right angle. Hence the Square has become an emblem of Perfection.
Now a few words as to the Compass: Astronomy was the second great science promulgated among men. In the process of Man's evolution there came a time when he began to look up to the stars and wonder at the vaulted Heavens above him. When he began to study the stars, he found that the Square was not adapted to the measurement of the Heavens. He must have circular measure; he needed to draw a circle from a central point, and so the Compass was employed. By the use of the Compass man began to study the starry Heavens, and as the Square primarily symbolized the Earth, the Compass began to symbolize the Heavens, the celestial canopy, the study of which has led men to think of God, and adore Him as the Supreme Architect of the Universe. In later times the Compass began to symbolize the spiritual or higher nature of man, and it is a significant fact that the circumference of a circle, which is a line without end, has become an emblem of Eternity and symbolizes Divinity; so the Compass, and the circle drawn by the Compass, both point men Heavenward and Godward.
The Masonic teaching concerning the two points of the Compass is very interesting and instructive. The novitiate in Masonry, as he kneels at this altar, and asks for Light sees the Square, which symbolizes his lower nature, he may well note the position of the Compass. As he takes another step, and asks for more Light, the position of the Compass is changed somewhat, symbolizing that his spiritual nature can, in some measure, overcome his evil tendencies. As he takes another step in Masonry, and asks for further Light, and hears the significant words, "and God said let there be Light, and there was Light," he sees the Compass in new light; and for the first time he sees the meaning, thus unmistakably alluding to the sacred and eternal truth that as the Heavens are higher than the Earth, so the spiritual is higher than the material, and the spiritual in man must have its proper place, and should be above his lower nature, and dominate all his thoughts and actions. That eminent Philosopher, Edmund Burke, once said, "It is ordained that men of intemperate passions cannot be free. Their passions forge the chains which bind them, and make them slaves." Burke was right. Masonry, through the beautiful symbolism of the Compass, tells us how we can be free men, by permitting the spiritual within us to overcome our evil tendencies, and dominate all our thoughts and actions. Brethren, sometimes in the silent quiet hour, as we think of this conflict between our lower and higher natures, we sometimes say in the words of another, "Show me the way and let me bravely climb to where all conflicts with the flesh shall cease. Show me that way. Show me the way up to a higher plane where my body shall be servant of my Soul. Show me that way."
Brethren, if that prayer expresses desire of our hearts, let us take heed to the beautiful teachings of the Compass, which silently and persistently tells each one of us,
"You should not in the valley stay
While the great horizons stretch away
The very cliffs that wall you round
Are ladders up to higher ground.
And Heaven draws near as you ascend,
The Breeze invites, the Stars befriend.
All things are beckoning to the Best,
Then climb toward God and find sweet Rest."
OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
Zero 2000, Fuji Velvia 100, 8 seconds
Yeah, the trip was like this. :)
Growing up in the US, the only hammocks I ever came across were made of rope. I have never liked them. In Suriname, traditional hammocks are hand-woven from cotton, and are supremely comfortable. The hammocks we took along for our picnic were factory hammocks made of polyester, which are still better than no hammocks at all.
In this instructive photo, Monique and Rob demonstrate the safe and appropriate use of a hammock.
OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
Turn of the century lighthouse at Le Village historique acadien de la Nouvelle-Écosse, Pubmico, Nova Scotia. Processed with VSCOcam with lv03 preset.
I recently signed back up for Instagram. I used to think it was essentially the worst thing and entirely populated by selfies and terrible food photography, but as of late, I've noticed a lot more 'serious' amateurs and professionals using Instagram as an outlet, and it is one of the fastest growing social networks. I also felt like my smartphone photos sometimes felt a little place on Flickr. It's been an instructive experience, and shooting more with a smartphone has kind of led me down a weird path.
Basically, if I take 5-10 HDR snaps of some scenery with my phone and then go crazy with my Nikon as usual...often the iPhone shots are better, or at least nearly indistinguishable if it's a landscape. Working with the iPhone, where I don't want to do a ton of editing and consequently don't take a ton of shots, I tend to be more selective in both shooting and culling shots, and I find I'm the better for it. Not having to fuss with settings or get distracted by lens choices is also less distracting.
I've been noticing this for a while and I've been trying to carry it over into SLR photography, but I still find myself shooting the same way, posting a couple sometimes iffy shots on Flickr a day, etc. I think the difficulty (for me) of taking a shot that's actually properly exposed, etc. means I have a hard time letting go of SLR shots and just pushing delete, and the overall body of work is lessened as a result. I've been trying to introduce some constraints when shooting, namely trying to shoot less and think more, and trying to pack only, say, 2 lenses that I will definitely need and nothing more, but I'm still kind of stuck in old habits as far as shooting too much, too fast, and deleting too little.
There are two native species of lyrebird: the Superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae), also called "Weringerong", "Woorail", and "Bulln-bulln" in Aboriginal languages, and the Albert's lyrebird (Menura alberti). Both are ground-dwelling birds with strong legs and feet, short rounded wings and unique plumes of neutral-coloured tailfeathers. They are generally poor fliers and rarely take to the air except for periods of downhill gliding. These Australian songbirds are most notable for (1) their superb ability to mimic natural and artificial sounds from their environment, (2) the striking beauty of the male bird's huge tail when it is fanned out in display and (3) their courtship display.
Lyrebirds were thought to be Galliformes like the broadly similar looking partridge, junglefowl, and pheasants that Europeans were familiar with, and this was reflected in the early names the superb lyrebird had, including Native Pheasant. They were also called Peacock-wrens and Australian Birds-of-paradise. The idea that they were related to the pheasants was abandoned when the first chicks, which are altricial (born helpless requiring extensive parental care), were described.
Lyrebirds are ancient Australian animals: the Australian Museum has fossils of lyrebirds dating back to about 15 million years ago. The prehistoric Menura tyawanoides has been described from Early Miocene fossils found at the famous Riversleigh site.
The lyrebirds are large passerine birds, amongst the largest in the order. Superb Lyrebird females are 74–84 cm long, and the males are a larger 80–98 cm long—making them the third-largest passerine bird after the thick-billed raven and the common raven.
The male is the bearer of an elaborate tail. The tail has sixteen feathers, with the two outermost together forming the shape of a lyre. Next within are two guard plumes and twelve long, lace-like feathers, known as filamentaries. Seven years are required for the tail to fully develop. During courtship displays, the male inverts his tail over his head, fanning his feathers to form a silvery white canopy. Young males and females have brown tail feathers which are camouflaged against the forest floor.
The superb lyrebird is found in areas of rainforest in Victoria, New South Wales and south-east Queensland, as well as in Tasmania where it was introduced in the 19th century. Lyrebirds are shy and difficult to approach, which means that there is little information about its behaviour. When lyrebirds detect potential danger they will pause and scan their surroundings, then give an alarm call. Having done so, they will either flee the vicinity on foot, or seek cover and freeze.
Lyrebirds feed on the ground and as individuals. A range of invertebrate prey is taken, including insects such as cockroaches, beetles (both adults and larvae), earwigs, fly larvae, and the adults and larvae of moths. Other prey taken includes centipedes, spiders, and earthworms. Less commonly taken prey includes stick insects, bugs, amphipods, lizards, frogs and seeds. They find food by scratching with their feet through the leaf-litter.
Vocalizations and mimicry
A lyrebird's song is one of the more distinctive aspects of its behavioural biology. Lyrebirds sing throughout the year, but the peak of the breeding season, from June to August, is when they sing with the most intensity. The song of the superb lyrebird is a mixture of seven elements of its own song and any number of other mimicked songs and noises. The lyrebird's syrinx is the most complexly-muscled of the Passerines (songbirds), giving the lyrebird extraordinary ability, unmatched in vocal repertoire and mimicry. Lyrebirds render with great fidelity the individual songs of other birds and the chatter of flocks of birds, and also mimic other animals such as koalas and dingos. The lyrebird is capable of imitating almost any sound and they have been recorded mimicking human sounds such as a mill whistle, a cross-cut saw, chainsaws, car engines and car alarms, fire alarms, rifle-shots, camera shutters, dogs barking, crying babies, music, mobile phone ring tones, and even the human voice. However, while the mimicry of human noises is widely reported, the extent to which it happens is exaggerated and the phenomenon is quite unusual.
The superb lyrebird's mimicked calls are learned from the local environment, including from other superb lyrebirds. An instructive example of this is the population of superb lyrebirds in Tasmania, which have retained the calls of species not native to Tasmania in their repertoire, but have also added some local Tasmanian endemic bird noises. It takes young birds about a year to perfect their mimicked repertoire. The female lyrebirds are also mimics, and will sing on occasion but the females do so with less skill than the males.
Source: Wikipedia
The Šárka Valley denominates the part of the Litovice (here already Šárka) Brook between the Džbán swimming pool and the Vltava, deeply and sharply cut into solid Proterozoic rocks. The Šárka region includes also the open valley of the tributary from the airport, the valley of the Nebušice creek and the brook coming from Housle near Lysolaje. The area is characterized by relatively great differences of elevation from 180 m at the brook inlet into the Vltava to 364 m above sea level on the top of the Kozák Rock and the Žabák which soar above the surrounding plateau as knobs. The whole area is included in the Šárka natural monument and its most valuable parts have been declared small protected areas.
Šárka Valley
The Šárka Valley is the best preserved natural region northwest of Prague, which is due to its diversely articulated ground relief on resistant rocks appearing in numerous outcrops. Thanks to this also relatively large forest areas have been preserved, recently extended by tree planting, as well as xerothermal rocks and slopes. Also extensive wet meadows in the fluvial plain are significant. The area includes also the sites of important primeval settlements and pilgrimage places of later date, such as St. Mathew’s. Its popularity increased also by the Smetana’s symphonic poem of the same name forming part of the symphonic cycle My Country, as well as the former National Theatre stage below the Dívčí Skok (Girl’s Jump).
In the framework of Prague Šárka provides a magnificent section of the Kralupy-Zbraslav group of the Barrandian Proterozoic characterized here by extraordinary representation of silicites - lydites cropping out in the form of wildly cleft rock masses and forming the unique gorge of Džbán, the entrance gate to the Šárka Valley. Also Proterozoic shales and greywackes crop out in many places being overlain by almost horizontally bedden Cretaceous formations along the upper edge - Cenomanian sandstones covered by sandy marlites, best uncovered in the broader environs of Nebušice. Also the lower Ordovician formations crop out near the Džbán swimming pool and in the right-hand valley slope near Jenerálka. The Quaternary is represented by thick loess drifts, once exploited for brick manufacture, and boulder screes below lydite rocks. Near the Čertův Mlýn (Devil’s Mill) the right-hand slope is covered with open boulder scree, the only one in Prague territory. Also the fluvial plain sediments are well developed, interspersed locally with limestone incrustations. Remarkable is also the Housle clough cut in loesses, sandy marlites and sandstones underlain by proterozoic shaks affected by tropical weathering.
The area, situated in the margin of a the chernozem region, is characterized by the prevalence of brown soils of different nutrition value and rankers on rock outcrops and sheer slopes. On loesses there are typical brown earths in the valley and chernozems along the northern margin in the lower part.
The whole Šárka area forms part of the ancient settlement region where man has influenced vegetation development for seven thousand years. That is why the whole area has been covered with a mosaic of forests, bushes and open areas of different kind since time immemorial. With the exception of rocky steppes on inaccessible sites all surfaces have been influenced by the activities of man - herdsman, user of wood and farmer.
Initial woods were of xerothermal character and comprized oak and hornbeam woods, acid, partly dwarfed oak woods with relatively small areas of scree woods and fluvial plains. On sheer slopes facing the north also beeches could be found. Only very little has been preserved from these original woods, the biggest remainder being the Nebušice Grove. Untill last century the area had a prevalence of pastures and extensive orchards with varying quota of xerothermal elements. Important part was played by rocky steppes and thermophilous heaths on top of lydites. An entirely specific formation consists in the rocky steppes of the Džbán gorge the diversity of species and structure of which is due to its enrichment by primeval hillforts erected on these rocks.
At present the forest cover of the area is relatively large thanks to the trees planted at the end of last century with the prevalence of alien wood species, such as false acacia, austrian pine, red oak as well as spruce - an entirely unsuitable species for this dry area. In the course of the past decade the area is becoming spontaneously overgrown with trees and bushes, at present forming a continuous cover of surfaces entirely bare as late as the Second World War. Also some invasion elements have penetrated here such as touch-me-not (Impatiens glandulifera) in the Džbán. This development has resulted in considerable empoverishment of the initial floral wealth of the Šárka Valley.
The vertebrate fauna comprises the species occurring in the whole Prague area, although some animals which had not lived here for a long time, such as the wild boar, seem to be returning here. Woods and bushes provide ample nesting opportunity for a number of birds. Important are also minor insects and other invertebrates on rocky slopes and rocks as well as in moist valley meadows to bogs. Until recently some species, known in the environs of Prague only from this area, have been living here, such as the minor spring snail (Bythinella austriaca) on Jenerálka and in the Nebušice Creek.
The original woods, managed mostly as sprout woods were affected significantly by various interference, such as pasturing and litter raking, as a result of which they have lost the major part of their herb layer. At present newly planted woods prevail the composition of which differs considerably from original woods. They are managed as special-purpose suburban woods and are desolate in the parts of difficult access. The herb layer often is of ruderal character.
The Šárka area has been settled continuously since primeval times. Middle Paleolithic men dwelt along the Vltava and a younger Paleolithic settlement was ascertained e.g. in the brickworks on the Jenerálka. Since the Neolithic settlements of farming and pasturing types were continous. Important buildings dating from that time are the hillforts on the Šesták and Kozák Rocks as well as the Slavonic hillfort in the Šárka Valley of a later date, which covered a considerable area. In the lower part of the valley, the so-called Upper and Lower Šárka, as well as Lysolaje, the buildings form a continuous chain at present. Higher up in the valley there is a chain of flour mills (e.g. Devil’s Mill) and farms, such as Želivka or Vizerka. Below the Dívčí Skok (Girl’s Jump) a small swimming pool was built, above the valley entrance the Džbán dam with a reservoir and recreation facilities. Continuous urban construction has approached the valley from the south. There are no major industrial enterprises in the Šárka Valley or its adjacent valleys. Minor brickworks (Jenerálka, Dubový Mlýn) exploited loess drifts. Otherwise the area was influenced by adjacent communities.
In the past fruit orchards flourished here and the meadows were mown regularly. At present these activities have stopped mostly. The wide Šárka Brook is polluted considerably, as in its upstream part it flows through extensive neighbourhood units and intensively exploited agricultural areas. The pollution is contributed to also by the nearby airport. Šárka has become an important suburban recreation area in which some activities, particularly mountaineering, exceed the limits of its capacity. At present it is covered by a network of small protected areas in Šárka protecting the most valuable areas, primarily the rocky steppes and xerothermal slopes. Of no smaller value is its geomorphology including the instructive exposures of Proterozoic rocks. Although its living nature has suffered considerable losses, Šárka still is a rich and remarkable area requiring special nature protection.
If I Forsake My Lord, I Shall Crucify Him Afresh
"Then all the disciples forsook him and fled." [Matthew 26:56]
He never deserted them, but they in cowardly fear of their lives, fled from him in the very beginning of his sufferings. This is but one instructive instance of the frailty of all believers if left to themselves; they are but sheep at the best, and they flee when the wolf comes. They had all been warned of the danger, and had promised to die rather than leave their Master; and yet they were seized with sudden panic, and took to their heels. It may be, that I, at the opening of this day, have braced up my mind to bear a trial for the Lord’s sake, and I imagine myself to be certain to exhibit perfect fidelity; but let me be very jealous of myself, lest having the same evil heart of unbelief, I should depart from my Lord as the apostles did. It is one thing to promise, and quite another to perform. It would have been to their eternal honour to have stood at Jesus’ side right manfully; they fled from honour; may I be kept from imitating them! Where else could they have been so safe as near their Master, who could presently call for twelve legions of angels? [v53] They fled from their true safety. O God, let me not play the fool also. Divine grace can make the coward brave. The smoking flax can flame forth like fire on the altar when the Lord wills it. These very apostles who were timid as hares, grew to be bold as lions after the Spirit had descended upon them, and even so the Holy Spirit can make my recreant spirit brave to confess my Lord and witness for his truth. What anguish must have filled the Saviour as he saw his friends so faithless! This was one bitter ingredient in his cup; but that cup is drained dry; let me not put another drop in it. If I forsake my Lord, I shall crucify him afresh, and put him to an open shame. [Heb 6:6] Keep me, O blessed Spirit, from an end so shameful. Amen, Hallelujah ... God bless
OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
You can find photos of another one of these old Masonic stoves on this Flickr album.
www.flickr.com/photos/21728045@N08/albums/72157623943892513
This box stove is one of only four known to have been made for area Lodges by the Patterson Iron Works on what is now Major Mackenzie Drive, west of Richmond Hill. This one is dated 1866 and cast in relief is the name 'Vaughan Lodge No. 54 and various Masonic symbols. Two other stoves can be found in Brooklin, Ontario and Richmond Hill, Ontario.
From 'The Liberal' Communit - Tuesday Jan. 4, 2005
A short history of the foundry that made the stove. 'Village founder enterprising' by Andrew Hind - Blast From The Past:
Driving along Major Mackenzie Drive between Bathurst and Dufferin streets, I had chance to view the land and remaining buildings that once comprised the industrial village of Patterson. It occurred to me while the history of this little factory town is fairly well known, the story of its founder is not.
That is odd, to say the least, for surely there would have been no Patterson if there there had been no Peter Patterson to create it.
Mr. Patterson was born in New Hampshire in 1825. A crucial turning point came in 1840, when a still teenaged Mr. Patterson invented a fanning mill, a machine designed to screen grain.
The timing could not have been better. The mid-19th. century was a time when innovative and practical ways to improve the grain milling process were sorely needed to meet the unrelenting demand of a growing world population.
Grist mills required new ways to speed up operations and Mr. Patterson offered just that.
He and brothers Alfred and Robert came to Canada to market the product. First they operated out of Waterloo, then Dundas. Finally, they arrived in Richmond Hill.
Here, Mr. Patterson purchased an old hotel at the corner of Yonge and Richmond streets and began a profitable business. But he wasn't just dealing with fanning mills any longer. He was also manufacturing farming implements. Lots and lots of farming implements.
In fact, the business was so profitable within a few years it had outgrown its original facilities. So, in 1855, Mr. Patterson bought the east half of Lot 21, Concession 2 (much of the land along Major Mackenzie between Bathurst and Dufferin) from John Arnold and decided to build a larger factory there.
To support it, he had to build a town from scratch. In short order, the community boasted a church, store, school, mills, a huge foundry and factory, lumber yards, warehouses and company offices, workers, homes and a two-mile plank walkway linking the village to Richmond Hill.
Naturally, the community was named after its founder.
The Patterson farm Implements Co. continued its meteoric rise. Soon it was using 400 tons of steel a year, employed four teams of horses to haul implements to a rail station at Maple and was considered among the largest implement manufacturers in Canada.
Unlike most successful industrialists of the era, however, no one questioned Mr. Patterson's integrity.
He was always considered honest and ethical, 'a gracious and hospitable man' according to documents from that time.
Nevertheless, he was a tireless worker and demanded excellence from employees. The workers were rewarded in ways few were in that period. They received fair wages and worked in a safe, clean, efficient, well-lit and well-ventilated environment.
In light of his importance and wealth, it should come as no surprise Mr. Patterson was soon propelled into politics. He served as reeve of Vaughan Township for four years (1868-1871), warden of York County in 1871, and represented West York in 1871 to 1883. He also served as president of the Richmond Hill Agricultural Society in 1884.
Business problems were on the horizon, however.
No railway deemed it worthwhile to run through Patterson, nor would any agree to distant markets, the Patterson Farm Implement Co. was at a disadvantage in relation to its competitors and would likely be doomed.
Reluctantly, Mr. Patterson accepted an invitation to move the business to Woodstock in 1886, where ready rail access was available.
Nevertheless, competition was fierce and in 1891, tired and aging, Mr. Patterson decided to sell to rivals Massey-Harris. He retired to his farm in Patterson and died there in 1904.
History buff Andrew Hind welcomes comments at maelstrom@sympatico.ca.
Masonic Key
"The Key," says Doctor Oliver (Landmarks I, page 180), "is one of the most important symbols of Freemasonry. It bears the appearance of a common metal instrument, confined to the performance of one simple act. But the well-instructed brother beholds in it the symbol which teaches him to keep a tongue of good report, and to abstain from the debasing vices of slander and defamation." Among the ancients the key was a symbol of silence and circumspection; and thus Sophocles alludes to it in the Oedipus Coloneus (line 105), where he makes the chorus speak of "the golden key which had come upon the tongue of the ministering Hierophant in the mysteries of Eleusis-Callimachus says that the Priestess of Ceres bore a key as the ensign of her mystic office. The key was in the Mysteries of Isis a hieroglyphic of the opening or disclosing of the heart and conscience, in the kingdom of death, for trial and Judgment.
In the old instructions of Freemasonry the key was an important symbol, and Doctor Oliver regrets that it has been abandoned in the modern system. In the ceremonies of the First Degree, in the eighteenth century allusion is made to a key by whose help the secrets of Freemasonry are to be obtained, which key "is said to hang and not to lie, because it is always to hang in a brother's defense and not to lie to his prejudge." It was said, too, to hang "by the thread of life at the entrance, " and was closely connected with the heart, because the tongue "ought to utter nothing but what the heart dictates." And, finally, this key is described as being "composed of no metal, but a tongue of good report." In the ceremonies of the Masters Degree in the Adonhiramite Rite, we find this catechism (in the Recueil Précieu:, page 87):
What do you conceal?
All the secrets which have been intrusted to me.
Where do you conceal them?
In the heart.
Have you a key to gain entrance there?
Yes, Right Worshipful.
Where do you keep it?
In a box of coral which opens and shuts only with ivory teeth.
Of what metal is it composed?
Of none. It is a tongue obedient to reason, which knows only how to speak well of those of whom it speaks in their absence as in their presence.
All of this shows that the key as a symbol was formerly equivalent to the modern symbol of the "instructive tongue," which, however, with almost the same interpretation, has now been transferred to the Second or Fellow-Craft's Degree. The key, however, is still preserved as a symbol of secrecy in the Royal Arch Degree; and it is also presented to us in the same sense in the ivory key of the Secret Master, or Fourth Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. In many of the German Lodges an ivory key is made a part of the Masonic clothing of each Brother, to remind him that he should lock up or conceal the secrets of Freemasonry in his heart. But among the ancients the key was also a symbol of power; and thus among the Greeks the title of Kxeiaouxos or key-bearer, was bestowed upon one holding high office; and with the Romans, the keys are given to the bride on the day of marriage, as a token that the authority of the house was bestowed upon her; and if afterward divorced, they were taken from her, as a symbol of the deprivation of her office, Among the Hebrews the key was used in the same sense. "As the robe and the baldric," says Lowth (Israel, part ii, section 4), "were the ensigns of power and authority, so likewise was the key the mark of office, either sacred or civil." Thus in Isaiah (xxii, 22), it is said: "The key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulders; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open" Our Savior expressed a similar idea when he said to Saint Peter, "I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven." It is in reference to this interpretation of the symbol, and not that of secrecy, that the key has been adopted as the official jewel of the Treasurer of a Lodge, because he has the purse, the source of power, under his command.
Source: Mackey's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry
A birthday card for Art, made from an old iBook. Rearranging the keys was instructive; tweezers were required. :-)
It is in front of the church of St. Clement Danes on the Strand.
During the Second World War, Sir Arthur Travers Harris was known within the RAF as "Butcher Harris" because he organised the fire-bombing of civilian targets, burning alive between 500,000 and 600,000 civilians. He was created a baronet in 1953.
More information here: www.independent.co.uk/voices/firestorms-darken-our-past-t....
It is instructive to note that Article 25 of the 1907 Hague Regulations Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land prohibits the attack or bombardment, by whatever means, of towns, villages, dwellings, or buildings which are undefended.
Yet the Regulations deal with war on land (artillery bombings). They do not apply to air war (Harris's aerial bombings).
And, anyway, there is the problem of the definition of "undefended". What if a city is protected by one single cannon? What if some of its inhabitants have rifles? Is it "undefended" (in which case that city enjoys the protection of Article 25) or is it just "poorly defended"?
OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
Excerpts from Boris Chertok’s ‘Rockets and People’ Vol III page 342 – 344 about the early history of the Zenit-2 photo reconnaissance spacecraft:
“We also needed to develop a new command radio link from the ground [for the Zenit-2], as opposed to the very basic one we had used on the Vostoks. A new command radio link (KRL), code-named Kub (Cube), was developed per our specifications at NII-648, the director and chief designer of which at that time was Armen Sergeyevich Mnatsakanyan.”
“Independent of our order, the military had also ordered a new KRL for their space projects from NII-10, the director of which was Mikhail Pavlovich Petelin. After the first Zenit-2 was assembled and sent to the test facility for electrical tests, I received an unexpected phone call from Yevgeniy Ivanovich Panchenko at GURVO, who gave me a friendly “heads up,” letting me know that the military was categorically opposed to using Kub and demanded that Podsnezhnik (Snowdrop) radio systems—developed per their specifications at NII-10—be installed on the Zenits.”
“I responded that replacing the radio complex would require that the dates for the beginning of the Zenit flight test be pushed back by at least one year!”
“Over the course of two years, 13 Zenit-2 spacecrafts were launched. In 1964 the Zenit-2 complex was put into service with the Podsnezhnik radio link. I have to say that during two years, we and all those assisting us had made so many changes that the Zenit-2 that was put into service was quite different from the first Zenit-2, which was launched on 28 April 1962, but flew just three days instead of the planned seven. The early return to the ground was not the Americans’ fault, but the result of a large number of glitches in the operation of the primary photographic equipment, the photo-television system, and the attitude control system. Now that I’ve provided this long introduction, let’s get back to my instructive history of the launch of the first Zenit-2.”
OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
Theodora Ellen Bonwick (1876 - 1928) was an active member of the National Union of Women Teachers (NUWT). She was born in Shepherd’s Bush in West London on 27 December 1876. In 1896 she went to Stockwell College gaining her teacher’s certificate and a London University BA degree. Her first teaching posts were as an assistant mistress in London elementary schools. In 1912 she was appointed Headmistress of Enfield Road School for Girls in Hackney, moving from there in 1919 to take up the headship of York Road (later renamed York Way) Girls’ School near Kings Cross.
In 1905 she joined the Women’s Social and Political Union and became Secretary of the Hornsey branch, London. She was known as a popular speaker at open air meetings at Marble Arch and Highbury Corner but, unlike many of her fellow campaigners, she appears never to have been arrested and imprisoned.
She was also a member of the London Teachers Association (LTA), the Woman Teachers Franchise Union, WTFU (President, 1914), the London Lodge of Theosophists and, in 1915, the newly formed Association for Moral and Social Hygiene.
In February 1918 the London Unit of the NUWT (at that time the National Federation of Women Teachers) was formed by amalgamating the Federation’s London branch with the WTFU. Theodora was elected to the committee, but finding that membership of it was not compatible with her active role in the LTA, which favoured a more moderate approach to the issue of equal pay, she resigned from the committee. She did, however, retain her membership of the London Unit and in January 1919 was chosen to serve on an Election Committee concerned with the coming elections to the London County Council. Relations with some of her colleagues seem to have remained strained for several years, but by the later 1920s fences had been mended. She served on Central Council from 1925, and was elected Chairman of the London Unit to serve for the year 1928/9. Sadly, she was unable to take up the position because of ill health. On 28 September 1928 she collapsed on her way to a dinner organised by the NUWT to celebrate the extension of the franchise to all women over 21, and died five weeks later.
On educational issues Theodora held progressive and at times contentious views. As early as 1917 she was delivering lectures on sex education to colleagues. With the support of parents, Theodora introduced sex education into her own school in Hackney, but failed to convince the LCC that it should form part of the curriculum in its schools. She also wanted the subject to be included in the training of teachers.
She campaigned for the making of instructive and of entertaining films, organising systematic visits to cinemas in order to collect information about the nature of films that children were viewing. In 1928 she attended the second educational film conference at The Hague, where she was the sole British representative.
Even before that year increasing ill health appears to have curtailed her activities. After her collapse on 28 September 1928 she was admitted to the Woodland Nursing Home in Crouch End Hill, Hornsey, where she died on 10 November. After Theodora Bonwick’s death the NUWT established a Memorial Fund in her name, the object of which was to establish a school journey hostel for the study of history, geography and nature. A site was identified in Buckinghamshire and plans drawn up. The money collected was, however, insufficient to meet the high cost of the project and a meeting of subscribers took the decision to delay it, and to invest £1000 of the £1100 collected so far, using the annual interest to help finance school journeys. Schools were invited to apply for grants, and many were allocated small sums. The hostel plan was never carried out, but the fund continued to provide assistance to London children up to the 1950s. The Memorial Fund was administered by Beatrice Isaac, an active member of the NUWT, who followed Theodora as Headmistress of York Road School.
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It may be proposed that the "South" actually did not exist until after the Civil War.
Robert E. Lee did not go to war for the South but for his state . . .
The Confederacy and the joined experience transferred local loyalties onto a broader canvas, one now tattered but with a blue St. Andrew's cross.
~ After the War, by David Hardin
David Hardin's 'After the War' follows fates of Civil War legends
By John Sledge, January 15, 2012
The Civil War made many Americans famous, among them Robert E. Lee, Mary Todd Lincoln, Nathan Bedford Forrest, William Tecumseh Sherman, George Armstrong Custer and Mary Boykin Chesnut.
But while the wartime exploits and achievements of these men and women have become the stuff of legend, their postwar years constitute unfamiliar terrain to all but scholars and diligent readers of history.
This gap is partially addressed by a readable and instructive new book, “After the War: The Lives and Images of Major Civil War Figures After the Shooting Stopped” (Ivan R. Dee, $27.95) by David Hardin, a former newspaperman and Pulitzer Prize-winner now living in Huntsville. I say partially addressed because Hardin profiles just 11 figures, but his choices are sagacious and, as he notes in his foreword, present “a feast of irony.” Among those profiled, besides the above mentioned, are Winnie Davis (Jefferson Davis’ daughter), Ulysses S. Grant, Confederate generals John Bell Hood and Joseph E. Johnston, and Union general George H. Thomas (a native Virginian).
Hardin admits to little original research in this volume — these biographies have long been on record, after all, even if seldom consulted.
The strength of his book rather lies in its attention to underlying themes of the late 19th-century national story, such as Western expansion and Southern recovery, which these poignant lives illuminate.
Perhaps the most interesting sketch in the book is that of Sherman, who was locked in a long-running contest of wills with his wife, Ellen, over whether their son Tom would become a Roman Catholic priest. While his wife was a devout Catholic, Sherman was not, and he made his displeasure known whenever the matter of Tom and the church arose. When in 1878 Tom announced to his father that he was going to be a Jesuit priest, he told the General, “If you were a Catholic, instead of being chagrined, disappointed and pained at the step I am going to take, you would be proud, happy, and contented in it.” But Sherman’s reaction was “outrage and heartbreak,” and he boycotted Tom’s ordination. Tom’s subsequent life was anything but settled. He suffered increasing bouts of mental illness — a family trait that had plagued his father during the war — and an early 20th-century retracing of his father’s Georgia exploits created a strong public backlash in a region still keenly smarting from the war.
The life of Sherman’s wartime nemesis, Forrest, is also presented. Forrest rose from an unlettered soldier to one of the most feared and capable cavalry generals on either side of the contest. Renowned for his frank and knock’em-down demeanor, his post-Civil War existence was equally turbulent. In 1866 he killed one of his black workers, but it was ruled self-defense, and during widespread Reconstruction-era violence he assumed the reigns as the Grand Wizard of the first Ku Klux Klan. Though Forrest later claimed to have ordered the Klan’s breakup and blamed its worst outrages on “wild young men and bad men,” it had clearly served its purpose in reconstituting white rule. Before he died in 1877 at only 56, Forrest yearned for calm. “My life has been a battle from the start,” he said. “I have seen too much violence and I want to close my days at peace with all the world, as I am now at peace with my Maker.”
A less peaceful ending was in store for Custer, the flamboyant, golden-haired, Union cavalry leader who was cut down amid swirling dust and whistling arrows at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Custer’s death was attributed to his own foolhardiness by Sitting Bull and President Grant, among others, but it didn’t prevent him from becoming a national hero. His wife, Libbie, proving just as devoted in his death as in his life, vigorously guarded his memory and burnished his image through her popular books like “Boots and Saddles” (1885) and “Following the Guidon” (1890). Out of courtesy to her, most would-be naysayers held their peace, but she outlived them all, passing away in 1933 at the age of 90.
As Hardin’s book makes clear, surviving the Civil War was not the only trial these men and women had to face. “Often,” he writes, “they had to draw upon the courage that had got them through the war, but less to conquer than simply to endure.”
History is not a fairy tale, and the world keeps turning, for heroes and cowards alike.
Like the friction of a cord, the air friction causes a heat in which the passenger of a Mercury capsule must defy stifling heat showers ...
(Chocolate Jacques instructive chromos, picture-album "Race to the Stars", 1960's)
Henry Francis Lyte was born on 1 June 1793 at Ednam, near Kelso, Roxburghshire, the second son of Captain Thomas Lyte and Anna Maria Oliver. Thomas Lyte's military career necessitated frequent moves, and the family followed him to different locations in England, before settling in Ireland in 1797. When the couple separated in 1801 Henry stayed with his father and his brother Thomas, and was then sent to Portora Royal School, Enniskillen, in October 1803. Because he spent both the terms and the holidays at the school, he developed a close relationship with Dr Burrowes, the headmaster, who became a surrogate father to the boy, taking over his financial responsibilities and eventually becoming his guardian. While at Portora Lyte began to compose poetry.
Lyte entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1811, and distinguished himself academically by winning a university scholarship in 1813, and the chancellor's prize for English verse in three successive years. He graduated BA in February 1814 and was ordained deacon on 18 December 1814. His first curacy was in Taghmon, co. Wexford, where he stayed for eighteen months, but his frequent attacks of asthma led him to resign this post. He then travelled through France. After his return to England, Lyte was moved from one curacy to another before eventually being given a position at the chapel of ease in Marazion, Cornwall, on 24 June 1817. On 21 January 1818 he married Anne, daughter and eventual heir of the Revd W. Maxwell of Falkland, Co. Monaghan. It was while at Marazion that Lyte underwent a spiritual experience at the deathbed of a neighbouring clergyman, Abraham Swanne. Lyte claimed that this encounter altered his whole view of life: he emerged with a deeper faith, and preached with a new vitality.
In January 1820 the family left for Sway (near Lymington), Hampshire, to live in temporary retirement; it was here that Lyte produced many of his poems. Early in 1822 the family moved to a house near Dittisham, Devon. Lyte held no full-time position at Dittisham, but while there he was asked to do temporary duty at the chapel of ease at Lower Brixham. In May 1822 he was invited by the trustees of the chapel to remain at Brixham permanently. He refused, and went instead to Charleton, where he became curate on 6 July 1822. He stayed for almost two years, before moving back to Brixham in April 1824.
Lyte began by ministering in two churches, St Mary's Church, Brixham, and the new district church of Lower Brixham. On 13 July 1826 Lyte was instituted as the first incumbent of Lower Brixham. He published Poems, Chiefly Religious (1833), that contained some of his early hymns, notable for their scriptural emphasis. In 1834 his Spirit of the Psalms was published, which contained one of his best-known hymns, "Praise, my soul, the king of heaven".
During the 1840s Lyte spent increasing periods abroad. He spent the summer of 1847 at Berry Head, where he wrote his most famous hymn, "Abide with me". He left for the continent again on 1 October 1847. He died at the Hotel de la Pension Anglaise in Nice on 20 November and was buried in the grounds of the Anglican chapel in the old cemetery, Nice. A volume of Remains, consisting of poems, sermons, and letters, was published in 1850. It included "Abide with me", which was first sung (to his own tune) at his memorial service in Brixham in 1847. Though his poetic energies were directed at scripturally and evangelically minded audiences, his lyric gift was universally appreciated. The example of "Abide with me" is instructive: intensely personal and contemplative, yet nationally popular-even being sung (always, after its publication in 1861, to W. H. Monk's tune, "Eventide") on secular occasions such as at football matches, and especially, since 1927, at the English cup final. A memorial tablet to Lyte was placed in Westminster Abbey in 1947.
Location of plaque: Portora Royal School, Enniskillen
Date of unveiling: 1 June 2013