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Dear Minnesota Historical Society: Wake Up!

Minnesota state leaders have ignored the fact that this Minnesota Senate mural “The Discoverers and Civilizers Led to the Source of the Mississippi River” is racist.

I recently came across a Minnesota Historical Society webpage titled: Reconciling History, focused on art in the Minnesota State Capitol.

The site gives the impression that the Historical Society is wrestling with the problematic issues of historical Capitol art and its embedded racism (my word, not theirs). Yet, the website uses language that seems to keep the Historical Society above the fray, as if it were possible to be neutral about whether or not the art is offensive. As I read its website, the Historical Society’s solution to interpreting Capitol art seems to be simply adding more voices, not taking a position on whether or not the art is racist.

Here’s how the website starts out:

Throughout the United States today, people are having conversations about our relationship with the past. From Confederate statues to artwork in museums and public spaces, communities are struggling to reconcile a historical narrative that leaves so many stories untold.

The Historical Society’s website fails to define what it means by “Reconciling History.” The phrase itself is nonsensical.

Merriam Webster offers several definitions of reconciling. The first is “to restore to friendship or harmony.” Using this definition, “reconciling history” is meaningless. The real challenge is to reconcile people, in our case descendants of white settlers with indigenous peoples.. Even then, the term “reconcile” is inadequate, because it assumes there was a trusting relationship to be restored when that was never the case. Anyway, the Historical Society’s website doesn’t appear to attempt this type of reconciling.

The second definition of reconciling is “to make consistent or congruous, reconcile an ideal with reality.” Using this definition, “reconciling history” is rather meaningless, too. It’s impossible to have a “consistent” and “congruous” history for all people. The Historical Society’s website makes no attempt to reconcile “an ideal with reality.”

The third definition of reconciling is “to cause to submit to or accept something unpleasant.”  Based on this definition, the Historical Society’s website is an abject failure. It avoids discussing unpleasant history.

The Historical Society’s website leaves me wondering whether it used the term “reconciling history” because it sounds good without thinking through what it means.

The Historical Society’s website states that it took “A critical look at the capitol’s artwork.” It did not. Examining the process the Historical Society and state leaders used to review Capitol art will lay bear why the term “reconciling history” is empty.

The State’s Review of Capitol Art Completely Ignored Racist Senate Mural

As part of the recent major Capitol renovation, the powers-that-be created an Art Subcommittee to review the historical art. The Historical Society helped staff the subcommittee. Their work ignored a deeply troubling mural in the Minnesota Senate Chambers, shown at the top of this blog. The mural’s title alone — “The Discoverers and Civilizers Led to the Source of the Mississippi” — drips with Manifest Destiny.

The painting shows angelic beings guiding the divine process of “Civilization” of native peoples. It depicts Ojibwe people in historically inaccurate and offensive ways (the woman is half naked and sexualized.) The priest holds out a cross, and behind him a man restrains two attack dogs. The message is clear: Convert or die.

The Art Subcommittee’s 67-page report makes scant mention of this giant mural. Page 25 offers the lone reference to the painting:

Concerns were also expressed about other paintings depicting American Indians. Among them were “The Battle of New Ulm,” “Eighth Minnesota at the Battle of Ta-Ha-Kouty (Killdeer Mountain)” and the “Discoverers and Civilizers Led to the Source of the Mississippi” mural. In every case, while the removal of the paintings from the Capitol was the recommended option, interpretation to reflect American Indian perspective was viewed as highly important if these paintings are to remain in the Capitol.

  • The report provides no critique of the painting or analysis of its symbolism, no mention of the forced conversion and the denial of freedom of religion. A number of people (including Healing Minnesota Stories) brought this critique to the subcommittee’s attention multiple times, both through written comments and verbal testimony. All the report says is that the paintings caused “concerns.” My hypothesis: They ignored any critique because to acknowledge the symbolism would have required the mural’s removal.
  • The Historical Society’s website on “Reconciling History,” a page devoted to critiquing Capitol art, ignores this mural, too. The Historical Society also seems to be ducking an issue for which it has no good response.

The Battle of Ta-Ha-Kouty

The Historical Society missed an opportunity to talk about history when it removed this painting, The Battle of Ta-Ha-Kouty, with no ceremony or explanation.

The Minnesota Historical Society’s “Reconciling History” website says that two paintings were removed from the Capitol: the Attack on New Ulm and The 8th Minnesota Infantry in the Battle of Ta-Ha-Kouty.

Comments: The website doesn’t mention why these painting are problematic, just that they are gone.

How do you “reconcile history” if you can’t tell the truth? Click on the Historical Society link for the painting (above); it takes you to a page with information on the painting’s dimensions, the fact that it’s oil on canvas, and a few other irrelevant facts.

Dig a little more and you might find the Historical Society’s “Education Resource Portal” for the painting, with a few more details:

The Battle of Ta-Ha-Kouty (or Battle of Killdeer Mountain) took place July 28-29, 1864 between Brigadier General Alfred Sully’s forces, including Minnesota soldiers, and American Indians from the Sioux nation, including Lakota, Yanktonai, and Santee. Sully’s expedition into Dakota Territory was part of a larger U.S. effort to continue pushing the Sioux farther west and to make land available to gold miners. After the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, the U.S. government sent military forces to the Dakotas to punish the Sioux nation for the war, including many who were not involved in the war at all. U.S. forces overpowered the Sioux, killed more than 100 people, and destroyed the camp. Five U.S. soldiers died.

It’s a soft narrative and fails to clearly state the depravity of what happened. U.S. forces traveled more than 300 miles outside Minnesota, killing many innocent people who had nothing to do with the Dakota-U.S. War. It was more massacre than battle; U.S. forces had vastly superior weapons. One driving force behind the attack was simply money: Government leaders wanted to open up land for white settler’s gold mining. According to 0ne North Dakota historical website:”Lt. David Kingsbury of the 8th Minnesota Infantry would later recount that at least one infant was found alive in the abandoned village and subsequently shot.”

This battle received a place of honor in the Capitol for more than a century. While the Historical Society recently removed this painting, it did so with no explanation or ceremony. By removing the painting, the Historical Society tacitly acknowledged there was a problem. So why so silent? Was the Historical Society afraid of offending funders or legislators by drawing too much attention to this decision? Was it overcome with shame? Who knows.

In doing the right thing, however, the Historical Society missed a great opportunity to reflect on, well, history.

Treaty of Traverse des Sioux and the Father Hennepin

According to the Historical Society’s “Reconciling History” website:

During the restoration of the Minnesota State Capitol, Minnesotans took a more critical look at the artwork that was commissioned to adorn the building for its opening in 1905. Much of that attention focused on two paintings that had been commissioned by capitol architect Cass Gilbert to hang in the Governor’s Reception Room: The Treaty of Traverse des Sioux and Father Hennepin Discovering the Falls of Saint Anthony.

The singular achievement of the Capitol art review was removing these two paintings to the little visited third floor hallway.

Native American leaders wanted these paintings moved out of the Capitol, and certainly out of a place of honor in the Governor’s Reception Room. But an untold part of the story is that Gov. Mark Dayton deserves credit for this change, too. Dayton was open minded enough to ask for recommendations and be willing to follow them. By contrast, Minnesota House and Senate leaders sent clear behind-the-scenes messages that they would not entertain recommendations about changing art in their chambers. The Senate leaders quietly killed any possibility of removing the mural The Discoverers and Civilizers Led to the Source of the Mississippi.

“Its Original Splendor”?

The Historical Society’s “Reconciling History” asks the following question:

“How can Minnesotans reconcile the multi-year effort to restore the building to its original splendor and return the restored paintings that so many find offensive to their place of prominence in the Governor’s Reception Room?”

Comment: The problem is that the Capitol’s “original splendor” really wasn’t all that splendid. It’s not possible to somehow magically balance the building’s “original splendor” with some ugly truths. Reconciling isn’t about trying to make everyone happy. It’s about telling some hard truths and dealing with them honestly.

In spite of using the term reconciliation, the Minnesota Historical Society and state leaders don’t seem up to the task.

Just look in the Senate Chambers.

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Correlative analysis of overall survival with clinical characteristics in 127 patients with mantle cell lymphoma: a multi-institutional cohort in Taiwan

Wang YH, et al. Int J Hematol 2020.

Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is a B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma often with extranodal involvement at diagnosis, and yet how this feature correlates with survival awaits elucidation. To address this issue, a correlative analysis between clinical features of 127 MCL patients and their overall survival (OS) was conducted. In this cohort, the median age at MCL diagnosis was 62 years and 81% were males. Eighty-four percent of patients were Ann Arbor stage 4, and 15% were blastoid variants. In patients

with gastrointestinal MCL, approximately 40% had gastric involvement. In treatment, CHOP-based induction chemotherapy was given to 61.1% of patients. One-third of patients undertook autologous stem cell transplant (SCT), and 4.7% had allogeneic SCT. The median OS was 82 months and well-stratified in MIPI risk groups. In the multivariate analysis for OS, blastoid variants and gastric involvement were both independent risk factors whereas auto-SCT had a protective effect. Overall, this study corroborated with the current understandings and international therapeutic standards for MCL. Auto-SCT associated with a better OS while allo-SCT remained an option for blastoid variants and those who failed Auto-SCT. Interestingly, patients with gastric involvement tended to have worse survival, a finding that spawns more studies to investigate the mechanism.

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For the Pumpkin Spice Latte Lover in All of Us…

It’s here, ladies. The annual orange invasion is upon us…

’tis the season for pumpkin-flavored EVERYTHING.

Out come the “do you even have to ask?!” Starbucks orders, the “look at my infinity scarf and UGG boots!”-latte drinking attire, and (most importantly) daily #PSL Instagram posts.

There’s no denying that a crisp autumn morning feels incomplete without a pumpkin spice latte. Like an extension of fall itself, you NEED that PSL! Your whole world teeters off-balance until you utter those magic words, and a barista comes to the rescue. Then, you inhale the spicy aroma…relish the steam on your face…and take that first sip.

Yeah. That. First. Sip.

Hello, glorious deliciousness! Hello, pure perfection! You aren’t even aware of anything else at this point.

But – about halfway through slurping whip cream at record pace – you casually wonder just how wholesome this sweet temptation really is. Can’t be that sugar-dense and empty calorie-loaded, can it? After all, pumpkin is a vegetable.

Well…you might want to rethink the PSL obsession. Or, at least, how frequently you indulge. There are 330 calories, 14 grams of fat, and 37 grams of sugar in 1 tall latte. Not gonna lie: that’s quite the “tall order” (pun intended!) to consume on a regular basis.

But, if you just can’t resist this fall favorite, try my lighter version of the Starbucks PSL we all know and love.

It maxes out at only 155 calories, uses all-natural ingredients, and tastes (almost) as yummy as the original.

  •  Ingredients:
  1. 1 cup Black Coffee (brewed)
  2. 1/4 cup Pumpkin Puree (organic)
  3. 1 cup Rice Milk
  4. 1 tsp. Pumpkin Pie Spice
  5. 1/2 tsp. Cinnamon
  6. 1/4 tsp. Nutmeg
  7. 3 packets Stevia

psl ingredients

  • Preparation:
  1. Pour all these ingredients together into a blender.
  2. Pulse the blender until this mixture is smooth and thoroughly combined.
  3. Transfer the latte into your favorite mug and warm it in the microwave.
  4. Sprinkle a few dashes of cinnamon or nutmeg on top.

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Category Relaxation
Why Cooking Can Act as a Stress Reliever
Due to our fast-paced routines, we are constantly looking for positive ways to better handle stress. While there are all sorts of techniques that you can try, some of the best are more commonplace than you might expect. One overlooked activity that can help you keep your peace of mind is cooking. Let’s explore the reasons why cooking can act as a stress reliever.

It Acts as a Creative Outlet

In your search for constructive relaxation methods, you’ve probably come across the idea that getting creative is helpful. People often suggest things like painting or learning to play instruments to ease your mind. Cooking works in the same way. As you try out new recipes, modify familiar dishes, and devise wholly new ones, you can get away from the constant nagging thoughts that center around your difficulties. You can put special care into the flavors and presentation to reap a sense of satisfaction once you’ve prepared a delicious meal.

It Brings Up Positive Associations

Food is a large part of our social interactions, so making delicious dishes can bring up lots of positive associations for you. In one aspect, certain dishes and their aromas may remind you of when someone in your family cooked for you in your childhood. In moments when everything around you seems to be in disarray, making a certain meal yourself can create a warm feeling. You can also use cooking as a way to bond with family or friends in the present. Different people can be in charge of various steps in a recipe and you can all talk and enjoy one another’s company as you carry them out. If you think back, this may be exactly what your parents or grandparents did with you.

It Helps You Focus on the Present

Too often, our minds are occupied with past events or things we must do in the future—this causes us to worry. Cooking helps you focus on the present, which is why it can act as a great stress reliever. Putting your attention into performing the tasks before you—such as cutting, mixing, and searing—lets you appreciate the here and now. You can take note of what you see, hear, smell, taste, and feel since individual actions are often relatively simple, especially as you become more experienced. Even washing assorted dishes and using sharpening stones to maintain your kitchen knives can have a therapeutic, calming effect when you approach them with an open mindset.

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Other Signs

Sometimes you'll feel a pain somewhere and know that it came from straining a muscle or other injury. Other times you notice a pain or burning sensation and it doesn't seem to have any origin. If the pain continues, look for other things that might help in your investigation. Watch for blisters, pain in other areas or even what you did right before the pain began. Pain is a way the body warns you there’s something wrong. Sometimes it isn’t serious, but other times you need to seek medical attention.

See if you have any blisters in that area or if any form soon after you begin to feel the pain. The first thing you always look for if you have a burning sensation under the skin on the back is some type of skin condition like the beginning of herpes zoster, which is shingles. Shingles start with a tingling or burning under the skin but then develops into blisters. The chicken pox virus causes the condition. It sometimes lays dormant in the nerves of the body for years and then becomes active when your immune system isn't strong. It does damage as it travels the nerves. Even when the blisters heal, it often leaves pain.

Take note whether the condition started with numbness, tingling or itching. Many times, it feels like tiny pin pricks but then changes to a burning sensation. The condition is paresthesia, and it can start when there's pressure on the nerve. The pressure is normally in the hands and feet but can occur in the back. If you move around to a different position and it feels better, it's probably transient paresthesia caused by pressure on the nerve. If you feel it and no amount of moving around changes the feeling, but it just comes and goes on its own, you might have chronic paresthesia from something more serious. Notalgia paraesthetica occurs when you damage the nerves close to the surface along the shoulders. Capsaicin cream helps stop the burning and pain by numbing the nerve transmitters.

Another disease that causes burning on the back and other areas is diabetes. Diabetes causes damage to many different areas but one of them is nerve tissue. If you notice an increase in thirst, frequent trips to the bathroom, skin rashes or infections elsewhere, blurred vision, a weight gain or loss, poor healing, drowsiness or exhaustion, they may be related to the condition on your back. Seek medical attention and tell the doctor all the symptoms.

Note whether the burning extends down your back to your legs. It might be sciatica. Sciatica comes from pressure on the main nerve down your back. Depending on your medical philosophy and doctor, you might get an adjustment or take muscle relaxers to counteract the pain.

Cerebrovascular Accident or Peripheral Artery Disease

See if there's any other symptom like a drooping face, personality change or change in your handwriting. These might mean a cerebrovascular accident where there was an absence of blood to the brain and it caused tissue damage. Peripheral artery disease also causes damage that might lead to your back burning.


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Dijon Lemon Dressing Recipe

Dijon Lemon Dressing

Happily serves 4

1/3 Cup lemon juice

1 TBSP Dijon mustard

2 Crushed garlic cloves

1/4 Cup flaxseed oil or Macadamia Nut oil

1/4 Cup extra virgin olive oil or avocado oil

Sea salt/pepper to taste

Grind Flaxseeds in a coffee grinder on medium speed until well ground, set aside.  (Keep extras in Freezer.). In a blender combine lemon juice, mustard, garlic, salt, and pepper and any of the additions you choose. Blend for 1 minute, then begin pouring oils very slowly through the feed hole in the lid of the blender. Blend until smooth.

1 tsp of curry powder

1 TBSP minced basil or rosemary

1 TBSP honey or Stevia

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What London’s Deadly 19th-Century Cholera Outbreaks Taught Us About Epidemics

“We can solve problems like this, but we have to listen to science, not superstition.”

Steven Johnson is the bestselling author of eleven books, including Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most and The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World. He’s also the host of American Innovations and the new Fighting Coronavirus podcast. Steven recently joined Rufus Griscom on the Next Big Idea podcast to tell the incredible story of London’s deadly cholera outbreaks, and how they have informed our response to COVID-19.

Steven: In the 1850s, London was the largest city the world had ever seen, at 2.5 million people. No one had ever built a city on that scale before, and it was being besieged by these outbreaks of epidemic disease. There were a number of diseases, but cholera was the most pronounced of them. London was going through what New York is going through now—every couple of years, there would be a wave of cholera outbreaks, and 10,000 people would die of this disease.

At the time, everybody thought that it was transported through the air—they thought it was the smells that were causing people to get sick. They were fighting what they thought was an airborne disease when in fact, cholera is caused by contaminated drinking water.

So in the middle of this outbreak, a doctor named John Snow goes out and does this heroic investigation, tracking down where people have died. And he creates a map that shows this intense concentration of death right around a pump in the center of Soho. Using that map, he slowly convinces the authorities that everybody’s getting sick because the bottom of this pump has been contaminated, and that cholera is, in fact, a waterborne disease, not an airborne disease.

“It strikes me as a real positive that we’re all turning to doctors and scientists with newfound deference and respect.”

That changes the whole understanding of what was causing people to get sick, and leads to the building of the London sewers. By 1866, cholera epidemics are gone from London for good, never to return. So in just 12 years, thanks in large part to John Snow’s investigation and a whole host of other interventions that were put in place, this deadly threat was effectively eliminated.

It really changed the way that cities were built—it enabled cities to get much larger in size without these threats of epidemic disease. It was a real milestone in the history of public health.

Rufus: You’ve also pointed out that what was distinctive about that moment is that the public suddenly had access to all this data, right? Twice a week they were releasing all this mortality data, which strikes me as being reminiscent of this moment, in which we are all armchair epidemiologists—we’re all consuming a huge amount of information about cases and patterns around the world. Do you see a parallel there?

Steven: Oh, absolutely. One of the things that was interesting in writing The Ghost Map was that I had always heard the story as a triumph of this lone genius hero, John Snow. And Snow is no doubt the hero of the story in many ways, but he had a lot of collaborators that were not emphasized enough. And the existence of those collaborators is really important to us now.

There was a guy named William Farr who, years before that, had decided to release these data-rich mortality reports for all of England. And he had this idea that if you could gather data—about who had died, what they died of, what their age was, what their sex was, what their address was—then you would be able to see patterns in that data that other people might miss.

And in a sense, we’re all kind of living in Williams Farr’s world now. You’ve heard a lot recently about Farr’s Law, and Farr’s Law is the curve that we’re all talking about, that epidemics tend to crest and then subside. We’re all trying to figure out where the peak is and when we’re going to hit the apex. And it was William Farr, this guy in London in the early 1840s, who first saw that pattern.

So now here we are, 170 years later. And the presence of data is so different from the way it was back then—that kind of data analysis simply didn’t exist.

Rufus: I’m interested in how a crisis like this impacts how we view science. It strikes me as a real positive that we’re all turning to doctors and scientists with newfound deference and respect, particularly coming out of a series of years in which there’s been a sense that there’s nothing but opinions. That there are no scientific facts, just a bunch of people with different perspectives. Do you think that a moment like this increases our collective respect for science?

Steven: I sure hope so. I mean, if this doesn’t, what does? In some ways it is so much worse now than it was [when The Ghost Map came out,] because in 2007 there wasn’t as organized an anti-vaxxer movement, and the climate change denialism wasn’t as severe. Literally the last paragraphs of The Ghost Map are like, “Look, we can solve problems like this, but we have to listen to science, not superstition.”

“We can solve problems like this, but we have to listen to science, not superstition.”

One of the projects that I’m working on now is a big look at life expectancy. As a society we basically doubled life expectancy over the last hundred years, which is just an extraordinary achievement. And that incredible advance has been provided to us by this invisible shield of public health, medical science, clean drinking water, and all of these things that are so ubiquitous that we don’t think about them. All of these innovations had to be fought for, and what happens in an outbreak like this is that that shield becomes visible, and we see the holes that remain in it. We see the ways in which the shield isn’t strong enough to protect us from a particular emerging threat that we didn’t anticipate, so we have to make it even stronger.

But we see the heroism of all the first responders. We see the visionary quality of the epidemiologists who have been predicting this kind of pandemic for years. So I think it’s an opportunity for society to say, “Wow, these are the people who are keeping us alive.” And we owe all this extra life that we’ve gotten over the last hundred years to their work. Let’s make sure we continue to listen to them, and continue to value them.

Think about how the World Health Organization eliminated smallpox—I mean, that’s an insane achievement. Smallpox was an absolutely terrifying thing. It was a huge killer, and now it’s just gone. That should be celebrated the way we celebrate the Moon landing, or the 4th of July. It was something that we did globally, collectively, that was unimaginable just a hundred years before. Those are the things that we want to remind ourselves of. That is us at our finest hour.

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Earlier this week, TMZ released a video of Jared Leto and members of his band, Thirty Seconds to Mars, listening to Taylor Swift’s 1989 album. In the video, a few not-so-nice things are said. It ends with Jared Leto saying “F— her. I don’t give a f— about her. It’s whatever works best for us.”

The video is a minute and fifteen seconds long, and it’s clearly edited. According to TMZ, the video was recorded a few months ago in Los Angeles.

Taylor Swift’s fans quickly took to Twitter to express their unhappiness with Leto’s comments. Yesterday, he used the same platform to issue an apology.

It doesn’t look like Leto and his band were just hanging out in the recording studio talking trash for the fun of it. In the video, it appears that the band was listening to Swift’s 1989 for inspiration and research.

Many of the comments seem to come from a musician’s point of view, commenting on stylistic choices and production value, and the statements made address the music and not Swift personally—though it’s still not the nicest way to talk about a fellow musician’s work.

Still, we’re happy that Leto apologized, and in the process, proved you don’t mess with Swifties.

Meanwhile, Swift hasn’t publicly addressed the video or Jared Leto’s apology. She’s probably too busy shaking it off.

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This past month has been eventful.  My husband and I celebrated a big anniversary with a Hawaiian vacation that included our three adult children.  The vacation was glorious, but traveling as a family of five adults is a challenge (although I’ll take the challenges over not being together any day of the week).  Added in was a recurrence of bursitis in my left arm that was painful and frustrating.  Our two-week sojourn also included a stay in Los Angeles, a drive up the coast to attend my niece’s wedding and a mad dash back to LAX for the return flight home.  And upon our return, our youngest son is now living with us while he attends graduate school.  Oh, and just before our trip, a leak in our upstairs HVAC resulted in drenched duct work and damage to the ceiling drywall.

I’m not complaining!  Well, actually, I’ve done a ton of complaining to my husband.  Thankfully he has very broad shoulders and has kept his cool.  Staying cool in the face of my emotional storms is one of his super powers.  And in the midst of the chaos, well maybe after some of it has passed, I try to remind myself how lucky I am to have a partner with truly superhuman patience.  In fact, sweetie, if you’re reading this (and I know you are), thank you.

And this week is my birthday, so there’s that.  I always feel a little melancholy around this time.  Every birthday since my parents passed is another reminder of what I’ve missed sharing with them.  I was so fortunate to have the kind of parents many kids long for.  They weren’t perfect by any means, but they were perfect for me.  They were my first teachers, my protectors and my biggest cheerleaders.  They loved me unconditionally and completely and they showed me how to do the same with my children.

Is there a lesson in all that has happened this past month?  I’m not sure.  Since last week, there have been three more mass shootings with little outrage coming from our nation’s lawmakers.  The erratic weather patterns around the world further highlight the threat to our planet.  And unstable and dangerous dictators in foreign countries threaten our nation’s democracy and safety.

One of my super powers is my ability to remain positive and optimistic in the face of life’s difficulties.  Right now, my powers aren’t as strong as they usually are.  But I will offer this: all of the current challenges we face are proof of our humanity.  What distinguishes us from other life forms and from machines is our resilience in the face of pain and tragedy and our ability to learn and grow from our mistakes and the misdeeds of others.  I am hopeful that our common humanity will give us the strength we all need to work together to find solutions and to honor our differences.  I believe it is our ability to love that elevates us and allows us to see the humanity in each other.

And when I feel really down, I head out to my summer garden and revel in nature’s creations and take pride in my accomplishments there.  This year, my sunflowers haven’t worked out as I’d like.  But I’ve had a bumper crop of squash, peppers and cucumbers.  Tomatoes are still going strong and I’m anxiously awaiting some eggplants to ripen.  More lessons learned.

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Smolny in 1995

The last gig I wrote about was the project in Bank Saint-Petersburg, which earned me money for our trip to Poland.

Later in 1995, my employment situation continued to be the same as I described in the above post. I was a full-time researcher at the university, working in the Operations Research Laboratory, and Boris was my boss, which was wrong on all possible accounts. The university jobs were still paying very little for both of us, but the way we thought about it back then, it was unimaginable to leave a university position. It was academia; we were researches, and even if we aren’t paid anything, we could not drop these badges of honor.

And still, we needed money. Maybe, some people can be happy being poor together with their loved ones, but it was never our case. We were on a hunting trail all the time.

The next gig came one more time from Dr. Conrad, and that was my last encounter with him. The gig was huge – working with the city government. Dr. Conrad, as usual, wanted to sell something to somebody. That time, this “something” was a document flow system that would allow all the city government departments to process the letters from the public more efficiently. My job would be to interview the city government employees from all departments, analyze their needs, the existing processes bottleneck, and produce a report explaining why the proposed system was the best possible solution. Then I had to make a presentation to the whole bunch of officials.

As usual, this all happened at the most inconvenient time, when I was in the University boarding house with the kids. Once again, I had to figure out how to go to the interview without a babysitter, and once again, there were helping hands, and I went, and once again, Dr. Conrad said: I know you can write. And then the project started.

If my grandchildren are reading this story twenty years from now, the word “Smolny” won’t mean anything to them. But for us, it was not just “the city government,” it was Smolny!

The wiki entry is short and lacks details. In reality, after the October Revolution, Smolny became a place where the Party Committee of the city of Leningrad was located. Formally speaking it was neither the legislative nor the executive power, but in reality, it was the power

After the last Russian Revolution of August 1991, the Communist Party was dissolved, or we thought so. Smolny became a place where the government of Saint Petersburg, the Mayor, and the city departments were located, presumably all new and independent. And it was because of that contract, that I learned about the reality.

I remember that I had no idea about the dress code back then, and Boris was trying to instruct me to dress appropriately when I go to Smolny, I was clueless, and was keeping telling him that I will dress the way I feel comfortable. I do not remember how he convinced me that it was inappropriate, but I searched in the piles of my humanitarian aid and produced some slacks and two white blouses with lacy collars. That became my Smolny uniform.

In Smolny, I was introduced to the head of the city department of information technology and his second-in-command. I know that I often forget the names of the people I worked with. In this case, I remember the names, but I choose not to mention them. Since then, I haven’t heard their names in the media, which makes me think that they didn’t do much harm in the subsequent years.

They were friendly and supportive. The temporary pass was issued for me, and because of that, I was able to use some of the employee’s privileges. And here is what I learned.

Nothing changed since the Communist Party presumably left Smolny. Virtually nobody left. That was executive power, so people were not elected, and there was no legal way to prevent people from slowly returning to their positions. Remember what I told about “the deficit” in the Soviet Union? Also, some people, including communists of even modest rank, had access to the exclusive distribution of consumer goods? Well, the same thing was happening in Russia, in 1995, even before Putin. Not before, since that was when I happened to be in very close proximity to him.

To name just a few privileges, the food in the cafeteria was of the restaurant quality and cost a fraction of the price (and that was one of the privileges I could use as well). There were also plenty of pastries, prepackaged meals, etc. which one could bring home, also of the restaurant quality and for a fraction of a price.

When I was going to Smolny, I had to take a subway, and then a trolleybus, and then walk. Depending on the rank, Smolny employees were either driven to and from work in cars (not the taxies, the cars belonged to Smolny and were used exclusively for the employees’ transportation), or in minivans, either directly home or being dropped by a subway station.

Not only people worked precisely in the same positions as “before the revolution,” but even the departments were located in the same rooms as the former departments and bureaus of the Communist Party Committee.

I am going to pause now because this post is becoming way too long. More to follow.

My historical posts are being published in random order. Please refer to the page Hettie’s timeline to find where exactly each post belongs, and what was before and after.

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  1. лет пятнадцать назад я была в Смольном “по работе”. И тогда ситуация с общепитом сохранялась – ресторанное качество при низкой цене. А уж в советское время… подруга пристроила нас с ней на преддипломную практику в обком. Мы обедали в ДПП (дом политпросвета) и в обкоме за копейки как в ресторане.
    Муж моей тети, долгие годы работая в Смольном, даже банку для сметаны имел именную. И огромную квартиру на Фурштадтской, полученную “в порядке очереди” в старом фонде после капремонта.

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I wanted to create a sculpture almost anyone, regardless of their background, could look at and instantly recognize that it is about the idea of struggling to break free. This sculpture is about the struggle for achievement of freedom through the creative process.

Although for me, this feeling sprang from a particular personal situation, I was conscious that it was a universal desire with almost everyone; that need to escape from some situation – be it an internal struggle or an adversarial circumstance, and to be free from it.

Elements of the sculpture trade beside the tools that are cast into the sculpture are calipers both for their use in measuring and their reference to Protagoras’ words “Man is the measure of all things.

Also cast into the sculpture is an anatomical man, traditionally used as a reference by sculptors. Many of the heads and figures on the wall, some in the round and some in relief, are shown partially sculpted, revealing the process of creation.

Something else I have done with the sculpture is that I have created a one man show of my work. I have always admired Rodin’s Gates of Hell. I similarly thought I would incorporate many sculptures into the wall where it was suitable.

Like T.S. Eliot and other artists, I have put many personal elements in my work. My friend Philip, a sculptor who died of AIDS, created a work that I included in Freedom because he often expressed his wish to have it in a public space. He did not live long enough to accomplish this himself. My cat, who lived with me for 20 years, my mother, father, and my self portrait are in the work. It is obvious which face is mine because there is a ballooned phrase coming from my mouth with the word “freedom”, written backwards, making it clear that the face was sculpted in a mirror. I see the whole Wall sculpture as a kind of illusion akin to Alice’s Through the Looking Glass.

The sculpture contains an original Duane Hanson — a bronze cast of my own hands that Duane cast for me as a gift.

Much of what I did with this sculpture has to do with taking traditional forms and combining them in non-traditional ways, forming a postmodern sensibility. For example, I dropped a wax cast of my father’s bust from two or three feet in height so that it broke into large pieces. I cast those into the wall in a fractured manner over another face, an old work I found in a vat of clay purchased from a sculptor who had long ago died.

I have hidden many things in the background for people who see the sculpture more than once to discover, such as a cast of coins – a nickel and two pennies, another nickel and two pennies, and two quarters and a penny. These represent not only the relationship between money and art, but the numerals 7-7-51, my birth date.

It is important to me that the public interact with the sculpture, not just intellectually and emotionally but physically. I have created a space in which I have written “stand here” so that people can place themselves inside the sculpture and become part of the composition.

In the end, this sculpture is a statement about the artist’s attempt to free himself from the constraints of mortality through a long lasting creative form.

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Success of Hindu Unity : ‘Illegal’ floors of Islamic university at Tirupati facing demolition…

Hindus must resist all types of Muslim Aggression in Hindusthan & Hindu pilgrimage places.

‘Illegal’ floors of Islamic university near Tirupati Devasthanam facing demolition.

‘Illegal’ floors of Islamic university facing demolition.

Despite permission accorded by the TUDA for a G+1 structure, the authorities built a G+6 building.

Remove Illegal Islamic Constructions from Hindu PilgrimigesThe Hindu Staff Reporter | Tirupati |  22 Nov 2013:: District Collector K. Ramgopal has instructed the revenue and police officials to demolish the unapproved floors of the building that houses the Heera International Islamic University in Thondavada village of Chandragiri mandal.

Shaik Nowheera, president of the Madarasa-Niswan Isha-Atul-Islam-Urdu and the Arabic Development Society Trust, had sought permission from the Tirupati Urban Development Authority (TUDA) in 2010 for the construction of a G+1 structure. She, however, ended up constructing up to G+6 floors, in spite of the notices issued by the Panchayat secretary of Thondavada on February 25 and May 28 last year.

Land row

The institute was in the eye of a storm a couple of months ago, when the BJP raised a hue and cry that the structure was coming up on tank ‘Poramboke’ land and in the land belonging to the now-dilapidated Thimmappa (Venkateswara) temple.

Tirupati under Threat of Islamic Menace

Basing on a report submitted by the Tirupati Divisional Panchayat Officer to the effect, Mr. Ramgopal gave the nod to the Panchayat Secretary, who is also the enforcing authority, for demolition of the floors constructed in violation of the norms.

He also directed the SP (Tirupati Urban) to arrange police ‘bandobust’ during the demolition.

BJP State spokesperson G. Bhanuprakash Reddy appreciated the order and said that the pertinent issues raised by the party stood vindicated by the Collector’s order. He appealed to the authorities to take the issue to the logical end by ensuring demolition at the earliest. Hindu Jana Jagruti Samstha spokesperson Akula Krishna Kishore and Adi Hindu Parirakshana Samithi president Kalluri Chengaiah, who held a joint demonstration at the TUDA office in the past, called it their ‘first victory’ and announced to continue their tirade. [Courtesy: The Hindu].

Dear Hindu Friends and devotees of Lord Venkateshwara Balaji, Tirupati.
Lord Venkateshwara Blessed on joint Efforts of Hindus & gave immense strength to Fight against Illegal Islamic University at Tirupati.
Now, Govt issued orders to Demolish illegal 5 floors of University. But, we want to raise this issue more strict and get Complete Demolition of this illegal structure.
1. Land belongs to Hindus Ancient Sri Thimappa (Venkateswara) Devalaya  and
2. There is special law in Tirupati preventing any other religion to propagate.
Swami Paripoornananda Ji and Dr. Ghazal Sreenivasare going to Tirupathi on November 30, 2013 to address the three issues:
1) Complete removal Islamic University structure and illegal occupation of the land
2) Approach TTD (Tirupathi Tirumala Devasthanam) to build Ancient Temple with honour or assign responsibility to GHHF (Global Hindu Heritage Foundation).
3) Stop the plans of constructing International Cricket Stadium at the foothills of Tirupathi.
In next step we have Planned Huge Hindu protest in TUDA Ground, Tirupati on 20th December 2013 at 10.30 AM to 2 PM against the illegal establishment of Islamic University near Tirupathi Devasthanam.
More than 10,000 Lord Balaji Devotees, Respected Swamijis and eminent Hindu personalities of Andhra Pradesh and other places will attend this congregation to protest Islamic University near Tirupati Balaji Temple.
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8 comments on “Success of Hindu Unity : ‘Illegal’ floors of Islamic university at Tirupati facing demolition…

  1. Dr.R.V.Reddy
    November 25, 2013

    It needs to be ensured that ALL floors of Islamic Univ. at Tirupati need to be demolished. Would Saudi Arabia allow any Hindu Temple be built anywhere in S.A? Let alone building a temple, no traveller to S.A. would be allowed even to keep a Hindu God’s photo in his pocket when he visits Saudi Arabia. Such is the tolerance of Islam / S.A. Yet it is claimed that Islam is a religion of PEACE !!
    Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh.

    • sushma
      March 24, 2014

      Dear Dr.R.V.Reddy,

      According to Islam, It is only the superior religion on the earth and all other religions are inferior to it. Saudi Arabia is a developed country with some or little spine to protect the interests of its citizens, Unlike Indian government which will do anything to appease the minorities only by flouting the interest of the majorities. Hindus arent safe in India. Not anymore these days.

      Sushma Dixit.

  2. raksha
    November 25, 2013

    the very foundation of the complex should be wiped out

  3. Tirupati darshan from chennai
    November 26, 2013

    Yes i agree with @ Mr.Dr.R.V.Reddy . All peoples are same…please give the way to all peoples. Thanks and regards

  4. umesh
    November 29, 2013

    Actually all non-hindu activities/groups/ should be strictly banned in the range of 100KM aounrd all sacred hindu places in india. such as Srisailam, Tirupati etc..
    I really dont understand why government and also officials bahave foolish to support muslims in india. Why only BJP should protect hindusim?
    why Congress doesnt take the responsibility to protect?
    There are several “islamic declared” countries in the world. Can any non-muslim temple work there peacefully?
    Can a hindu temple in Pakistan/bangla use loud speakers to pray the god?

    then why several lakhs of mosques in india are allowed to use loud speakers.
    we use them only during the festival day.
    But these aliens use them daily more than 5 times. And for more than 1 hour on every friday.

    There is no surprise if congress govergment issues a GO that all hindus should convert to islam to prove india’s “secularism”

  5. Raghu
    December 1, 2013

    What the hell of Govt and officials are doing? How dare they are to construct such illigal constructions? Are the govt officials are sleeping till 6th floor constructed? In Tirupati no other religion constructions should be allowed. All the people and all the political parties should come and remove these types of constuctions

  6. Girish Dhekane Dhekane
    January 7, 2014

    Dear sir/mam

    Pl send me comment on hindu jagrati such that i ll spread it all over india and world and show how hindu dharma is great.

    Girish Dhekane

  7. shah
    May 15, 2017

    why. hindu act like racist. no tolerance in religious. why are u afraid of islam.
    hindu people more terrorist then islam

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  • CONFIDENTIAL – applies to the most sensitive business information, which is intended strictly for use within Hirett. Unauthorized disclosure could seriously and adversely impact the company, stockholders, business partners, and/or its customers. Examples of confidential information include passwords, encryption keys, cardholder data, bank account information, et cetera.
  • SENSITIVE – Applies to less sensitive business information, which is intended for use within Hirett. Unauthorized disclosure could adversely impact the company, its stockholders, its business partners, and/or its customers. Examples of sensitive information include, internal market research, audit reports, et cetera.
  • PRIVATE – Applies to personal information, which is intended for use within Hirett. Unauthorized disclosure could adversely impact the company and/or its employees. Examples of private information include policies and procedures, procedure metrics, intellectual property, et cetera.
  • PUBLIC – Applies to all other information which does not clearly fit into any of the above three classifications. Unauthorized disclosure isn’t expected to seriously or adversely impact the company. Any release of this information must be authorized by the Hirett Public Relations Department.

 2. DATA ACCESS

All confidential or sensitive data must be protected via access controls to ensure that data is not improperly disclosed, modified, deleted or rendered unavailable. Logs must track all access to such data and identify who and when the data was accessed.

Employees who have been authorized to view information at a particular classification level will only be permitted to access information at that level or at a lower level on a need to know basis. All access to systems must be configured to deny all but what a particular user needs to access per their business role.

Access to systems or applications handling confidential, sensitive or private information must follow the data access request process. All requests require approval by the Information Security Department and a valid Authorization Request Form. Access to data exceeding the employee’s authorized role must also follow the data access request process and must include documented limits around such access (e.g. access source, access time limits, et cetera).

Why? These are the types of personal information Hirett collect to do its due diligence and fulfil legal requirements before making a transaction or signing up a new customer. This information can include, without limitation:
  • Government Identification Numbers, Such as Driver’s License, Passport, Visa / Residence Permit details.
  • Name, Address, Email Address, Mobile and Home Telephone Number, Age, Date of Birth, Gender, Citizenship, Occupation.
  • Transaction history.

  • Every user must use a unique user ID and a personal secret password for access to Hirett information systems and networks.
  • The use of non-authenticated (e.g. no password) user IDs, or user IDs not associated with a single identified user, are prohibited. Shared or group user IDs are prohibited.
  • Each user’s access privileges must be: authorized according to business needs, restricted to least privileges necessary to perform job responsibilities and assigned based on job classification and function. Access control systems must have a default “deny-all” setting.

  5. SYSTEMS

  • Each computer system shall have an automated or procedural access control process to authenticate all system users. The process must:
  • Identify each User through a unique User identifier (user ID).
  • Hirett employee user IDs will consist of the employee’s first initial followed by the last name.
  • Non-Hirett employee user IDs will consist of the name of the third-party company followed by underscore and followed by the first name of the employee.
  • If the chosen user ID is already being used, the digit ‘1’ should be added at the end. If the resulting user ID is also being used, increment the digit until a unique user ID is found.
  • Authenticate every user, system and application ID with a password.
  • Require all passwords to be at least 7 characters in length.
  • Require complex passwords, consisting of both numeric and alphabetic characters.
  • Require that new passwords cannot be the same as the 4 previously used passwords.
  • Lock out accounts after not more than 6 invalid logon
  • Require that once a user account is locked out it remains locked for 30 minutes or until the System Administrator resets the account.
  • Require system/session idle time out of 15 minutes.
  • Require passwords to be reset at least every 90 days. Note: Service level accounts (e.g. accounts that are not used interactively by users to login) may be exempt from this requirement with management approval. Administrative user IDs (e.g. root, system admin, database admin, et cetera) must comply.
  • Encrypt all passwords during transmission and storage on all system components (e.g. in scripts and databases, connection strings, inside compiled code, et cetera).
  • Remove or disable inactive users at least every 90 days.
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A custody evaluator in a Virginia child custody case is a qualified individual involved in the analysis of the parents and children involved in a child custody arrangement.

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The custody evaluator in your Virginia child custody case should be unbiased toward both parents and be seeking a decision that is in the best interest of your children. They will conduct interviews to determine living conditions as well as evaluate each parent’s lifestyle and ability to care for their children. The final report from the custody evaluator is in many cases the final say in a Virginia child custody case.

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Is my Spousal Support Award Modifiable?

Whether a spousal support award is modifiable depends on how it was ordered. In some cases, it is modifiable, which means that your husband can take you to court on a “material changes in circumstances,” and argue that support should be lowered and, vice versa, that you can take him to court and argue that support should be increased. Modifiable support means that if your spouse retires and earns less income, or if you fall on some sort of economic hardship while he gets a promotion, your spousal support can be adjusted to reflect those changes.

Non-modifiable support can’t be changed. If your support is non-modifiable, you will receive a specific sum of money for a certain period of time, or forever. Of course, “forever” doesn’t really mean forever—it means until either of you dies, until you (the recipient spouse) remarry, or until you (the recipient spouse) cohabitates in a relationship analogous to marriage for a period of one year or more. This is a fancy way of saying that, if you move in with someone and carry on a romantic relationship where you hold yourself out to the community as a couple for more than a year, your support could be terminated.

In most cases, spousal support is modifiable if the award was ordered by the judge, which means that either you or he can change the level and term of the spousal support awarded, so long as you can prove that there was a material chance of circumstances. Normally, a material change is just about anything that affects your finances—you got a new job, he lost a job, he retired, you remarried, or either of you got a raise or took a pay cut. The good news is that it’s possible for your support to be raised upward; the bad news is that your support can be lowered, and, either way, you’ll have to make an appearance in court (and probably pay an attorney) to have it raised or lowered.

If your spousal support was ordered in a separation agreement, it is non-modifiable unless your agreement says otherwise. Unless you do something to terminate your award of permanent spousal support (die, remarry, or cohabitate), you will continue to receive the same level of support regardless of any major life changes. This is usually the preferred scenario. Though it can be attractive to know that you can possibly increase your level of support, there is something to be said for the security and stability of a non-modifiable order of support.

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A higher heating bill usually points to a specific part of your heating system, this is the heat pump. Trane describes a heat pump as: “a mechanical-compression cycle refrigeration system that can be reversed to either heat or cool a controlled space. Installation for this type of system typically consists of two parts: an indoor unit called an air handler and an outdoor unit similar to a central air conditioner, but referred to as a heat pump. A compressor circulates refrigerant that absorbs and releases heat as it travels between the indoor and outdoor units.” So basically, the heat pump extracts outside heat and moves it inside. The heat pump moves warm air and does not generate or make heat.

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The Flowers Are Out at Skylands Manor

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IMG_7787The flowers are out at Skylands Manor. Well, some of them, anyway.

It’s my fault, really. If I had bothered to check when the Macy’s Flower Show ended, we wouldn’t have been floundering for an Easter weekend family day trip that resulted in some last minute Googling. But I hadn’t and it did and several hours later we are strolling through the rusted out gates of Skylands Manor.

IMG_7813Spring is hedging the very edges of this northern New Jersey botanical estate. Daffodils can always be relied upon, sprouting early, the bright yellows and oranges that one expects from Easter weekend springtime.

There are other buds too, heathers and azaleas and buttercups in purples and pinks and yellows that make you dizzy with scent and stick out from an otherwise winter garden like a candle in the night darkness, welcoming you home – calling spring forth.

There is a castle at Skylands Manor, and though it was built two decades after my own home, it feels like the sort of place where one falls back in time, where the dusty, stony scent doesn’t change over the course of two hundred years, where marigolds and ivy creep up ancient towers – because Skylands Manor definitely has towers – creating the perfect ladder for an enthusiast suitor or escapee bride.

Skylands Manor is the writer’s paradise. It is sprawling, rolling hills, is it decrepit fountains, it is aged stone statues styled for Artemis and Diana and Aphrodite, arms missing, moss coloring their feet. It is tucked away corners where rakish lords can seduce adventurous ladies, great lawns, perfect for early morning duels, the hope of ballrooms and back patios, where one escapes the oppressive heat but finds a new type of heat in the arms of a lover.

Most people visit Skylands Manor for the flowers, for those buds of tulips and roses, peeking over the still winter-grey dirt. Most people visit Skylands Manor for the history, for the stories of architects and important owners.

Most people do not visit Skylands Manor to write out the first three chapters of a regency romance novel in their head, one based entirely around the emptied out fountain, where cupid rides a large fish, the off-season lips spouting no water, but plenty of inspiration.

Most people will not see two dozen lords and ladies in their minds eyes, lit by sconces and set against a backdrop of the minuet or ever-scandalous waltz. Most people do not plan salacious house parties, where young lovers meet in coves and accidentally run across each other in the fog, after an early morning swim.

IMG_7796And that is what makes us writers.

Writers are often not seeking inspiration when it comes to call. All I wanted for the day was a flower exhibit, not a series outline. The flush lights of the New Jersey Transit and the gritty floor at Penn Station would not have inspired the same sort of story that came about in the boggy undergrowth and cherry blossom fields of this grassy, aged estate. But that’s just how it works.

Inspiration, the ever elusive muse, shows itself when it feels like it. Writers oftentimes learn how to work around the muse, how to dig into the world of research and character development for new plot points or story arcs.

IMG_7834But sometimes, inspiration doesn’t bother to wait around. Sometimes, it comes with the fresh fields of daffodils and the lichen-covered miniature cupids and empty fountains and the Skylands Manor towers, dusted in ivy strands.

No, it wasn’t what I was expecting from the day. It was so, so much better. ♥

Are you a fan of raucous house parties at royal estates, just like Skylands Manor? Check out The Dacre Estate in A Duel of Hearts, Book 1 in The Royal Rakes Collection!

a-duel-of-heartsWhen Lady Mary Elizabeth Anne Paramour runs away from an unhappy engagement, her options are limited. Soon, she finds herself at the doorstep of a favored cousin’s temporary home, the estate of the most debauched lord known to the aristocracy, Nathaniel Arlington. The charming and handsome Lord Arlington’s perpetual house party is infamous across England, and fodder for instant disownment if Mary’s prudish mother, Countess Helena, ever finds out where she is.

But Mary, with a rebellious streak of her own that led to a lifelong interest in fencing, comes to realize that maybe not everything is as it seems. Over late-night sword fighting and whiskey, she begins to develop an unlikely friendship with the lord, who might just have more behind the rakish façade than he lets most people believe. But just as Mary thinks their unusual friendship might turn to more, she finds herself facing the unexpected, something that might just ruin her chance at happiness forever.

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  1. Hywela Lyn says:

    What beautiful pictures! I love old houses and Skylands Manor reminds me of an old mansion in Wales, where I used to keep my horses (in the stables not the actual mansion 🙂 ) It was a beautiful place with three ghosts. Places like that and Skylands just can’t help inspiring writers can they!

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EastEnders Comings And Goings: Suzette Llewellyn Arrives In Walford As Patrick’s New Love Interest

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EastEnders Spoilers: Sheree (Suzette Llewellyn)A familiar face is joining “EastEnders” this summer, and she’s going to play the role of Patrick Trueman’s (Rudolph Walker) new love interest.

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She added that her character is “bold, bright, and a lot of fun” and expressed excitement at how Sheree would settle into Walford.

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Viewers know Llewellyn for her role as Nanette Duval in “Holby City” and as Estelle Vere in “Doctors.” Apart from that, she also appeared in “Coronation Street” as consultant neurosurgeon Nina Morrison in 2013,2015, and 2017.

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She is also known as the kidnapper Margaret Smith in “Hollyoaks,” and played a role in “Thirteen.” She even guest starred in “EastEnders” and played the role of a court clerk in several episodes between 2015 and 2016.

Jon Sen, Executive Producer of “EastEnders” said, “I’m thrilled to announce that Suzette’s joining the show as Sheree – a force of nature with a big heart who’s never far away from trouble. Fans are in for a treat this summer!”

Llewellyn has starting filming her scenes and her first appearance in Albert Square will air over the summer. How will the Walford residents respond to Sheree’s arrival and will Denise and Kim accept that she’s now part of Patrick’s life?

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