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Thursday, March 10, 2011

A call to action!

Did that title get your attention? ;-)
I have really struggled A GREAT DEAL since this summer when all the new Immigration Points Systems were put into place in Denmark. I loved the idea of "earning points" for the things we do in our daily lives here as a way to support our application for permanent residency after the 4 year mark. However I did not love the idea of using the points to KEEP FOLKS OUT of DK... especially the ones who married a Dane and are told they are not welcomed to live her.

Mads and I have had many conversations about this and what can be done.... like TRULY DONE. Not just waiting for the election and hoping a new party takes control and not just complaining with other people who feel the same way we do. But a REAL CALL TO ACTION.

I just finished a unit with one of my classes on the Cambodian Genocide and their culminating writing task was their personal understanding of the "roots of genocide" and how small things that we overlook or condone can end up (as history has shown us time and time again)  in the exclusion.... deportation.... extermination of millions of people.

No, Denmark is NOT on the brink of a genocide.

But when I look at what experts (AND MY STUDENTS) have identified as the fundamental "roots" that have grown into genocide after genocide in the 20th and 21st centuries, I see more similarities than I am comfortable with.
Check out this lesson we did in class...
and see if what is coming from certain politicians' mouths in Denmark gives you a reason to pause...
a reason to worry...
and a reason to act.

I cannot ever become matter how many of THESE I get:

But I am committed to making a positive contribution to the community in which I live... and for right now, that community is Herning, Denmark. I live here. I love Denmark. I speak (more and more) Danish. I learn all I can about this country that I call home. I honor the Danish traditions and customs while at the same time honoring my own.

And most importantly, I recognize that the awful people who are saying the awful things do NOT represent the Danish people as a whole.

So my hope is that as I pause...and then find some way to act to make a positive change in MY community of Herning, Denmark, that other foreigners as well as Danes who are as outraged as my Viking is will do the same.

Until we say no more, we are in essence not only allowing, but condoning the name-calling... Dr. Angelou reminds me that we must speak up.

Anonymous said...

Amen... as always extremists do not usually represent the majority. But we do need the majority to speak up.

onlyinDK said...

As far as I remember, you were actually quite excited about the point system.

I actually gaped in shocked when I found out how happy you were about it - not knowing that there were MANY PEOPLE out there who wouldn't be able to get it when they weren't lucky enough to hold a job like you or to have a life like you.

MoMo 2.0 said...

Only in DK:
That is why in this blog today, it says:
I loved the idea of "earning points" for the things we do in our daily lives here as a way to support our application for permanent residency after the 4 year mark. However I did not love the idea of using the points to KEEP FOLKS OUT of DK... especially the ones who married a Dane and are told they are not welcomed to live her.

I STILL welcome the idea of a person seeking permanent residency to "prove" what he has done to meet the requirements of the integration contract. And the point system is a way to do that.

That point system for permanent residency is not at all the same thing as points to keep people OUT OF DK in the first place.

and I am not LUCKY to have my job and my life... I have worked to CREATE BOTH from the moment I arrived here and I think it is my DUTY AS A HUMAN BEING to work to create the life I want.

onlyinDK said...

Do you know why I say LUCKY instead?

Because there are a lot of other (coloured) foreigners out there who tried their might to find a job but denied simply because of their colour, their names and many more.

Finding a job here isn't about NOT being lazy. You are LUCKY because you are from US and you're white. I say that again. I'm lucky that I get a decent job here. My friend from Kenya? NOT SO LUCKY, because despite the Danish university degree he has, he hasn't found any in the past 3 years, and now tell me how he could get a permanent residency?

What about women who just want to come to Denmark to be with their husbands and kids? Who just want to be housewives? Now it's suddenly impossible to do that, if you want security in the form of permanent residency.

Is it no longer a choice to be a housewife in Denmark? What's wrong with that if she doesn't cost a kommune a cent?

This is why I was shocked to find YOU excited about the rules JUST BECAUSE You were able to get it.

It doesn't matter that others couldn't get the residency, as long as YOU CAN. That's how I see you.

Anonymous said...

Did the tattoo give extra points in the point system calculation? Just curious whether it helps show your connection to DK.

DreaminginDanish said...

I know of many who have worked very hard to get a job, are incredibly well qualified and still were not "lucky" enough to get one. Opportunity is not just created, sometimes other factors conspire with you to make it happen. I, for one, feel very lucky because I know there has been a mountain of blessings involved in my ability to live the life I live in THIS particular country as a woman of color.

Also, I think you misunderstand this point system. Of course a point system is always made to exclude a group of people. You don't create a point system to let people in. Instead, you let them in. That was old Denmark, one none of us who just moved here within the last 9 or 10 years ever really experienced. Folks can argue amongst themselves as to whether the open door system was any good, I don't really care to get into that one. I do know that a stringent point system, such as this one, has one purpose only and the number of approved applications (in the single digits) since its implementation tells that story quite obviously. It's nothing to be happy for. It will limit Denmark's ability to keep up with the world and it will keep loved ones apart or force them to move. DK will be left with the bottom of the barrel. Aside from that, this incessant discussion of racist policy and these caricatures of politicians who issue one insanely discriminatory statement after another, distract from the dire economic realities that will eventually roll DK into its grave.
I would put money on the fact that this "system" has no legs. It will not exist one generation from now. And that's just math, not based on my disheartening experiences here or my distaste for many of the "values" that I feel they are attempting to shove down my throat.

Tina M Cella said...

I don't know if the point system is the way to do it, but I DO believe that to earn permanent residencecy you need to show that you have integrated (please note that I did not say assimilated)into Danish society. I welome ALL foreigners of ALL colours to come live in Denmark as long as they respect that this is DENMARK and therefore the culture is Danish, the laws are Danish and this will never change. People should hold on to their culture as much as possible, but they also have to respect and integrate into the way of living in Denmark. If they do not wish to then I don't understand what they are doing here

As for equal opportunities I don't deny that some etnic groups get discriminated against. But it definitely doesn't help to give up and let rage and resentfullness win. I have lived in a couple of different countries and it hasn't always been easy to find a job and footing, but I kept trying and eventually suceeded. I was DETERMINED to focus on the positive things in the country I was living in, instead of all the negativity.

MoMo 2.0 said...

Well said, Tina!

And "Only in DK", I am really unsure why continue to read my blog when all it does is "upset" you... I don't write these posts hoping that all of you will come out of the woodwork again, hoping to spur on some great debate. So if you are looking for one, you came to the wrong place.

But I will clarify one last thing.... I don't "like the points for P.R. because they were written for a person like me..."
I like it because I have worked tirelessly the last 3 years to do what I think a new resident in any foreign country SHOULD do and it was pretty affirming when I saw the new point system and realized that I was on the right track to earning the points necessary...

not because I am white, but because I am involved in my community, serving in groups with Danes and with foreigners, passed my Danish exam, use the language in my daily life, have a job, etc., etc, know, all the things I (and all others here for Fam Reun) vowed that I would do when I signed that Integration contract.

onlyindk said...

Let's say that you - like any other foreigners - were lucky enough to get cleaning job in Denmark (and believe me, there are many of them!)

Would you still have time to volunteer on the side?
Would you not get home all tired from the physical jobs from morning to the evening?

There have been so many criticism about the point system that I found it so shocking that you thought it was the right way to integration. Do you know how many people out of 500 to get permanent residency under the current point system? 5.

Why is it so difficult for you to see that the point system is created to put a stop for immigrants from getting the residency permit. Look at other surrounding countries, no similar rules applied in Sweden and Norway.

I find it amusing that you think you're above other immigrants because you do ALL THOSE STUFF and blame others who fail to get it for NOT TRYING HARD ENOUGH

Someday maybe you'd realise that no matter how much you try, work hard, you'd still get kicked out the country just because of a simple mistake like renewing residency like what happen to Loren Neufeldt.

I really would want to see if you end up getting permanent residency anyway.

DreaminginDanish said...

I don't know about "Only in DK", but if I'm included in the "all of you". I can say that I come back and comment in hopes that other readers will consider my perspective and put it into their basket of other opinions they might have read on other blogs, politiken, berlinske, or CPH Post. Especially those that don't read Danish.
I comment knowing that you personally will probably not consider my point of view seriously.

My view said...

It's become such a hostile place. I remember it 15-years or so ago, just as refugees were beginning to be granted asylum. It was apparent at the time that they were unwelcome. Since then, it has escalated to a point in which the country is in a moral panic about foreigners. I have never, in all my travels, encountered anything approaching the levels of fear and intolerance coming from the people, the media and the politicians.

I figure that my spouse and I will be able to get out of here within in 2-years. I am so looking forward to that day.

dee_rogers said...

Well said Tina. I hope the Danish people will hold on to their culture and their laws and not sucuumb to this criticism. I wish the United States was stronger in that regard. Foreigners move here and some choose to integrate while holding on to things near & dear to them....while others spend all their time trying to change our lives and our laws and expect our country to to "fit" for them. I often wonder if their home country was so wonderful why they have chosen to leave. I do not believe in discrimation of any sort, but I also do not think others from outside the country should dictate how we live.

dee_rogers said...

I don't understand how Only in DK thinks that someone with a housekeeping job works harder than you do - Kelli. They obviously don't know you very well. You work with students is never done at the end of the day and there is very little time for rest. They need to "get a life." MOM

Tina M Cella said...

I only have one last thing to say: DK needs to change some of their laws, no doubt about it. And the retotic has become ugly over the last couple of years. Butif you hate it so much here, why did you come? Why do you choose to stay? The world is full of other countries where you could go

Aubrey said...

Sorry Mom, I usually agree with you but on this one I have to disagree. U can't say that one person works harder than another when you don't know them, who they are, what they stand for, where they are going, what they have been through , or what they are trying to do. I worked in housekeeping as my first job in DK and it is very very hard work. I also did my part to integrate and follow the rules. I got up at 3 in the morning to bike to work in all weather to get there by 4 then worked until 6 am biked back home, got dressed and biked to school 30 minutes away. After a day of school i biked back home did some studying and then went to my next jobs that would last until 10 at night, come back home, eat, study then get to bed at 12 or 1 to wake up again at 3 to do it all over again the next day. Yet I still found time on the weekend to speak and learn danish, spend time with my danish friends and family and form a connection. Not only that I owned a cleaning company after graduating from university there. I was working all day and night and weekends. If someone quit , mostly danes, because they would rather earn govt money then work and do the job right then I would have to go in and work til 3 in the morning....along with having a child and working with an expat group in Aarhus and keeping my customer happy and sane. The people who did a good job cleaning and stayed were foreigners who worked many many job, went to school, had kids, and were also a part of the community and spoke danish.
So that part is were I disagree about people not integrating because I have seen that most do and try and get the shaft in the end.
Just because someone has a different job does't mean they work any harder or less than another person at another job. In cleaning you are constantly on your feet, getting critiqued, getting sore, bending over, constantly in motion, and constantly getting bitched at by the customer and your boss. And yet you still want more jobs because you want to be a part of society. Same as a business owner plus.
I did everything that was expected and you will never ever be Danish and they know that and will never let you forget.

Anonymous said...

I would like to say to all the comments who do NOT agree with this post:

If you don't like it here, then why stay AND complain? It seems like if YOU hate it so much, then you should leave. Why are you still here when you find so MUCH to complain about? You COULD go somewhere else, where you will find nothing to complain about.

DreaminginDanish said...

I don't hate it. I came here because I love my husband and he was too scared, at the time, to uproot himself and move to NYC.

I will say that I feel a responsibility, for whatever reason, to help these folks figure out what year they are living in.
Multiculturalism is a train moving at the speed of light with no brakes, it is THE REALITY. There is no way around it. They are preparing their children for failure by fiercely protecting their bubble instead of figuring out a way to best prepare for the rolling and rapidly shifting results of globalization.
I would like my kids to be able to come back to DK on visits and not look at me saying "Mom, what age are these people living in?". Better yet, I would like them to be able to visit DK, period. I would like to know that they won't be descriminated against for having a mom with a different colored passport.

agger said...

Kelli, I have no doubt whatsoever that you work hard.

Still, that does not mean you're not fortunate for being American, English-speaking, middle class, non-Muslim and white.

This means you're not discriminated against in the same way many other foreigners are, and it means there's a lot of prejudice these people have to fight that you don't have to fight. For this reason, your effort has been able to build you a life here, while others have not succeeded even though they put up a similar and even greater effort - because of the prejudice I mentioned.

You should recognize that you're privileged and that your fortunes can partly be explained by this privilege. You get to teach, while several Iraqis and Iranis drive around in taxis, PhD in engineering or no PhD engineering. Because in a time of unemployment, the few available are all to often given to white Danes.

And Tina: No, people who live here and don't like it should NOT just leave or shut up. They should stay and speak up. If we won't listen to criticism, how will we ever improve?

Anonymous said...

It makes me very sad that you are American and believe so much in censorship. Especially since you've been in the school system! Have you banned books also?

If people aren't being attacked, threatened, or verbally abused, and you choose not to publish the comment, that is censorship and you should be ashamed to call yourself American.

Actually you being in denmark works out better for America. Please get citizenship as a dane as soon as possible. You fit right in there.

Anonymous said...

Dreaming in Danish,Only in denmark, Agger, and Aubrey thank you for speaking up.

It needs to be heard and I wish I had known what I do now before I moved here.

Kelli you're getting there and I'm glad you are speaking up too but, you don't quite get how hard it is here for people who don't have your education, skin color, hair color, spouse, physical ability, or money.It does make a difference.


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In September 2003, the European Commission approved the TIERMES 2003-2006 LIFE Project, headed by Santiago Martínez Caballero and which focuses on the research strategies, preservation and enhancing the usability and value of the Tiermes archaeological site and its setting.

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The first references to Tiermes are to be found in classical sources, even though they are very few in number and not very clear. They are also written much later than the events described.

Ptolemaeus thus includes Tiermes among the cities belonging to the Celtiberian Arevaci tribe. Apianus indicated that it was one of the important towns in the Celtiberian wars (153-133 B.C.) and claimed that in 98 B.C., Consul Titus Didius conquered the city and forced its inhabitants to move to the plain and forbade them to build walls around the settlement.

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When peace came to the plateau halfway through the 1st century B.C., Tiermes was assigned to the Clunia Judicial District. The city grew in importance until it became a Roman town (Termes) some time during the 1st century A.D, perhaps under the Julius Claudius dynasty. The urban splendour of Tiermes spread during the high Roman empire, as can been seen from what is left of its public buildings (Forum, Macellum or market, Aqueducts, the so-called Castellum Aquae, Termas..)

When the crisis occurred in the 3rd century, walls were built around the city and its perimeter was reduced. During the low Roman empire, the city maintained a certain activity, and towards the 6th or 7th century, its enclosure included the centre of a Visigoth settlement, as can be seen from the burial grounds from that period found in the Forum, which was then abandoned, and the remains of a place of worship from that era where reusable decorative fragments have been found.

With the Islamic invasion, Tiermes must have been an unsafe and sparsely populated frontier area between Christians and Muslims in the Upper Duero.

From the 12th century A.D. and after the zone had been reconquered by the Christians, Tiermes did not recover its formal role as the capital of the area to the south of the River Duero. Tiermes was no longer important and became a simple village, with a church and monastery, depending on the area’s important population centre, the town of Caracena.

At the start of the 16th century, the Church of Tiermes became a chapel and the residual population settled in other more important farming and stockbreeding centres.

The only leading role that the old Tiermes conserved was with respect to religion, as its chapel was the main place of worship in the area and two pilgrimages dedicated to Our Lady of Tiermes (an original Romanesque image in the Cathedral Museum of El Burgo de Osma) were and still are held in May and October.

Research about Tiermes

Scholars and historians up to the 19th century.

The research into the Celtiberian and Roman site of Tiermes did not begin to be carried out in a scientific manner until Nicolás Rabal started his work there in 1888. Nonetheless, between the end of the 15th century, which was the time of the last recorded population living in Tiermes, and the end of the 19th, different authors in different types of studies (erudite, artistic, statistical, demographic, encyclopaedic) refer to the presence of an important town that is immediately identified with the Termes of the classical references (Titus Livius, Apianus, Diodorus Sículus, Florus, Salustius, Tacitus, Ptolomeus, Plinius, Nonnius Marcellus), an indigenous city conquered in 98 B.C. by Consul Titus Didius and then converted into a Roman town.

These authors (Ambrosio de Morales, Mariana, Flórez, Madoz, Loperráez, Lafuente, Masdeu, Ceán Bermúdez, Cortés y López, etc.) link the presence of extraordinary ruins to the existence of the ancient Roman city, where some buildings were visible, built on the site of the old town conquered by Rome.

Nonetheless, and at the same time, the place continued to be used as a place to extract building materials for the local towns (Montejo, Liceras, Carrascosa, Retortillo, etc.), which grew up during the Middle Ages and Tiermes continued to be plundered until the end of the 19th century. For example, the discovery of the silver trullae (ladles) in 1885 together with the remains of the low empire walls (and which today are in the Hispanic Society of America, New York) triggered a “frenzied treasure hunt” by the local population, with the resulting deterioration of the site. Even important archaeological remains were broken up to be reused as building materials (such as the funeral inscription of Pompeyus Placidus, which is currently on the façade of a house in Carrascosa).

19th century - 1930.

The start of scientific research into Tiermes began with the arrival of the notable historian, writer and Soria scholar, Nicolás Rabal. Following his trip to the site in 1887, he made an initial description of the place, added topographic, town planning and geographical data, and included the differences between a Celtiberia and a Roman town. This was the starting point for the first direct intervention in the settlement at the start of the 20th century.

Following a campaign by Count Romanones to unearth the remains of buildings in the area of the Forum and Termes in 1909, using rather unscientific excavation methods and which were more of an exploratory nature, Narciso Sentenach was entrusted in 1910 and 1911 to start more extensive work in the site. He worked in the Forum (area of the imperial temple) and they began to unearth the remains of large buildings, their construction items (columns, architraves, etc..), even interesting materials, such as bronze sculptures (local dignitary, horse sculpture, Apollo,..), which were proof for that researcher of the archaeological and historical importance of the old Termes. His publications focused on a descriptive and also interpretative study of the ruins, by increasing the historical points and paying great attention to identifying and differentiating the indigenous elements from the Roman ones.

In 1913, Ignacio Calvo continued the excavations in the same area, which added to the archaeological knowledge, and focused in greater depth on the Medieval phase of the site. The materials from the Romanones, Sentenach and Calvo excavations were taken to the National Archaeological Museum, where part of the excavated materials are on display.

Tiermes also caught the attention of Schulten, who was then carrying out research in Numancia. Even through the German archaeologist never organised a dig in Tiermes, he did visit the site and analysed and interpreted in his book the historical development and the archaeological remains of Tiermes.

With Blas Taracena, the then director of the Numantine Museum, a new phase of research started, as he performed a synthesis study using a greater scientific archaeological basis, and started a systematic analysis of the place. He organised different digs in Tiermes, during the 30s and 40s, whose results led to new conclusions regarding the evolutionary phases of the city, regarding the town planning distribution and characteristics of the main buildings, and highlighted, for the first time, the special features of the bed-rock excavating technique used in the design and execution of numerous Celtiberian and Roman constructions.

The original and wealth of examples of the stone-worked architecture and its extraordinary conservation in numerous Tiermes buildings have led to the city being called the “Spanish Pompeii”. Taracena also gathered information and opinions of other authors and also studied the territory, as a key element to understanding the historical development of the city.

In the 60s, the archaeologist from Soria, Teógenes Ortego, continued with the excavations. This provided further knowledge about Tiermes and new data for interpreting its development. He would be the first author to publish a guide to the archaeological site. Between 1940-1970 authors such as D´Ors, Nieto or García y Bellido wrote about specific aspects of Tiermes, and their publications focused the attention of national archaeological research to the site.

From the 70s onwards, the work in Tiermes is defined by the application of an archaeological methodology following the new lines of action of this discipline in Spain, and which is currently being developed according to the renewal that can be seen in European archaeology based on the new, mainly Anglo-Saxon and Italian currents of thought and methodologies.

It began with Juan Zozaya’s detailed excavation in the Forum area in 1971, and more directly with the systematic project started in 1975 for the Roman city with José Luis Argente Oliver, and for the Medieval settlement, with Carlos de la Casa and other researchers. The different studies and reports emerging from this new stage would provide a complete renewal of what we know about Tiermes, both with respect to the exploration of large archaeological zones and the interpretations of the development and evolution of Tiermes between the Bronze Age and the Medieval era.

José Luis Argente Oliver headed the archaeological work in Tiermes, first of all with other archaeologists that worked in different areas of the settlement, and then single-handedly, until his premature death in 1998. He systematically studied the site and his interest in publishing his results for the general public can be seen from the numerous publications and his enhancing the usability and value of the architectural monuments that gradually were unearthed.

The turning point for Argente’s hard work came in 1986, when the authorities, who were well aware of the work that was being carried out and the monumental and archaeological importance of Tiermes, constructed the buildings for the Tiermes Monographic Museum as the focal point for onsite dissemination, and as the infrastructure needed for the work under way. It turned Tiermes into one of the Spanish archaeological sites endowed with the best infrastructures to back up the dissemination, protection and research work, tasks that explain the activity of any active archaeological enclave. A large part of the archaeological structures that are currently visible and, most of which can be visited by the public, are the result of the hard work of this researcher with endless stamina who has done so much to promote the province of Soria, from the vantage point of the Numancia Museum, and for the cultural enrichment of its inhabitants as the result of his work: the Aqueduct, the Forum, the walls, the Aqueduct House, the southern stone-worked complex, the stone-worked stands, the city streets, etc, were uncovered thanks to his tireless work.

During the 70s and 80, Argente was joined by Carlos de la Casa, who oversaw the excavation of the Medieval settlement, and worked in the burial ground next to the chapel, and Tiermes also began to be included in the Spanish Medieval archaeological bibliography thanks to his results. Hardly any importance had been given up to then to the imposing presence of the 12th-century Romanesque chapel in the centre of the archaeological site, which is proof of Tiermes becoming a small village depending on the town of Caracena in the Middle Ages. Special mention should also be made of the work of Manuela Doménech in the study of Medieval Tiermes, in the stone-worked burial ground near to the river, and the current director of the Numantine Museum, Elias Terés, in the Medieval settlement next to the chapel.

At that time, Tiermes also witnessed occasional digs by other researchers, such as Alfredo Jimeno (1975-1976) interested in the pre-Roman phases in the central area of the site; the professor of the Complutense University of Madrid Complutense de Madrid Víctor Fernández (1979-1980), in the walls, of José María Izquierdo (1981-1984), in the temple of the Forum, or E. Dohijo and J. Morales (1999) terminating Argente’s excavation after his death.

Tiermes, today

The current administrative support of the research in Tiermes is based on the directives laid down by the relevant authority in charge of the heritage, the Autonomous Government of Castilla y León, on the site having been declared of Cultural Interest in 1994, with the ensuing impact on the protection/research relations and the importance of the approval in 1996 of the Master Plan of the Site as the starting point for the long-term plan in the settlement.

With respect to the current archaeological investigation, headed by Santiago Martínez Caballero, and forming part of the Tiermes LIFE Project, and in accordance with the directives of the Autonomous Government of Castilla y León, it is focused on points, such as the Forum, where certain historical and archaeological aspects need to be clarified in order to initially disseminate a renewed presentation of the site to the general public, which will have a positive social impact on the extensive potential of the site; and secondly, from a strictly scientific point of view, to review and extract new conclusions regarding the historical development of the city, its territory and the complex archaeological relations of a Celtiberian city until it became a large Roman city, now that current Spanish and European archaeological thought envisages new approaches with respect to the assessment and interpretations of the archaeological data in this historical-cultural context.

The current team, which includes a large number of the people from Argente’s last teams, therefore wishes to highlight new aspects of this site, clearly based on the important work of the researchers over the last century, and backed by the use of new data and different methodological and epistemological approaches of current archaeological thought.

 Archaeological digs in Tiermes 1909-2004

• Conde Romanones: Forum, Termas 1909
• Narciso Sentenach: Forum 1910-1911
• Ignacio Calvo: Forum 1913
• Blas Taracena: Various zones, 30s – 40s
• Teógenes Ortego: Various zones, 60s-70s
• Juan Zozaya: Forum 1971
• José Luis Argente: Forum, Forum district, Walls, Aqueduct, Aqueduct House, Stone-worked complex, stone-worked stands, Carratiermes Celtiberian burial ground, Visigoth burial ground, 1975-1998
• Carlos de la Casa: Chapel burial ground 1975-1985
• Alfredo Jimeno: Forum district 1975-1976
• Elías Terés: Medieval settlement 1981-1982
• Manuela Doménech: Chapel burial ground 1981-1982
• Víctor Fernández: Walls 1979-1980
• José María Izquierdo: Forum 1981-1984
• Eusebio Gutierrez Dohijo & Javier Rodríguez: Foro 1999
• Santiago Martínez Caballero & Alberto Bescós Casa: aqueduct, forum 2000-2001
• Santiago Martínez Caballero & Alberto Bescós: forum 2002-2003

  Santiago Martínez Caballero & Alberto Bescós: LIFE Tiermes 2003-2006

Santiago Martínez Caballero

Arturo Aldecoa Ruiz

1. The Sun Gate

Passageway and access to the city from the south-west

This passageway carved through the rock is 2.5 metres wide and is located in the extreme south-east of the city. The original paving no longer exists, even though all the drainage channels can still be seen.  The channels were also carved in the rock and were used to drain off the water that filtered through the paving. The gate is halfway along the passageway and the traces of the hinges and supports are still visible in the rock.

2. Rock seating.

Public structure used to host different religious, commercial and recreational activities.

It is a large structure consisting of a long, irregular cavea, facing southwards and directly carved into the sandstone rock. The eastern ends opens onto the so-called Sun Gate, a long passageway that connects the open space in front of the cavea to the urban sector to the north.

The eastern end of the complex is flanked by a ramp, which is also excavated out of the rock and which was an exit from the city to the south. The complex is outside the area occupied by the hill terraces, next to two urban viae running south from the settlement.

The interpretation of the complex has always been problematic. S. Martínez and  J.  Santos recently interpreted the eastern rock seating, the Sun Gate and the flat area in front of it as parts making up a public space known as a campus/Forum pecuarium. It was built between the first century B.C. and the first century A.D.

3. Southern rock complex.

Architectural complex of private dwellings excavated out of the sandstone rock.

The houses of the Southern rock complex are the most interesting and best documented example of the rock architecture of Tiermes.  The two houses making up this urban complex provide the best example of how rock architecture was combined with typical Roman building techniques. Dating back to the first half of the 1st  century A.D., the houses are on the southern edge of the hill next to the surrounding plain. They used the rock wall that had previously protected the house built  there in the 1st century B.C.

The location of these buildings next to the excavated homes and on the rock of the southern sector of Tiermes make up a neighbourhood of dwelling areas, which also includes the House of the Aqueduct. Remains of marble paving and the paintings to decorate the walls exemplify the set of different solutions that were included in this building to normalise and decorate the spaces for private use.

4. Southern Thermal Baths.

Remains of the large building housing the Roman thermal baths.

The remains of a building identified as thermal baths are nearby. The corner of one of the rooms still stands and there is evidence of different sections, such as the caldarium and frigidarium, along with mosaic floors in some places.

The unearthed area has to be considered as the main sector, as one of the walls made out of sandstone further north is also considered to be part of the thermal baths.  Putlog holes and other construction elements can still be seen in the wall that undoubtedly formed part of the thermal bath complex.

5. Hornacinas or Niche House.

House excavated in rock with four niches or larders in its walls.

Moving westwards from the Rock Complex, there are the remains of other buildings using the terrace rock, of which only a part of them is visible.  One of them is the so-called Hornacinas or Niche House as it has four niches or larders in its walls. Several steps from the entrance staircase, which was covered to avoid accidents in contemporary agricultural work, still remain in the front.

6. Rock dwelling.

Rock dwelling known as “Pedro’s House”.

This building, also known as "Pedro's House", is on the southern rocky outcrop and has a central staircase that divides it into two.  There are doorways into the rooms on either side.

7. House of the Aqueduct.

Two large buildings near to one of the branches of the aqueduct and behind the rock dwellings.

House of the Aqueduct I

It is a large private house, the first one to be fully excavated in Tiermes, and its surface area occupies a whole block, with a total of 1800 m2.  It borders on to four streets excavated in the rock and is south facing. It is located next to the southern canal of the aqueduct, which is the northern edge of the house.

House of the Aqueduct II

This building has been only partly excavated and different rooms and basements can be seen. It is noted for having a work area, possibly a shop.

8. Collective dwelling area.

Large area excavated in rock, next to House of the Aqueduct I, around 32 x 28 metres.

There are many examples of beam putlogs, flights of stairs and the remains of eroded rooms. A street was carved through the sandstone rock to overcome the slope between the terraces

9. Neighbourhood houses.

Buildings carved high up out of the rock.

Only the inner wall of the building remains, which was a deep cut into the rock nearly 30 m high. The traces remain of different putlog lines for the slab floors. Up to six stories can be counted in the wall, which means that it was almost certainly a neighbourhood house or insula, carved out of the rock.

However, no further details are known as the ground plan of the building has not been excavated. It is believed that the three walls that are not conserved would have been built using wood frameworks and adobe bricks.

10. Defence remains.

Remains carved out of the rock close to the Western Gate, which have been rather eroded by the weather. They may have been used for defence purposes and were connected to the West Gate.

11. The West Gate.

It is an internal communication ramp of the Roman city and possibly reused an entrance to the pre-Roman urban complex. This gate was the way to the three terraces that make up the hill on which the city is built. It is another of the ways into the city and was also made out of the sandstone rock of the hill.

As can be observed in the entrance itself, it does seems that it would not have been used for vehicles, but rather for the exclusive use of passer-bys, due to the raised height of the lower step. It is a similar structure to the Sun Gate, but with a longer and steeper ramp, as it linked the three terraces of the hill on which the city is built.

The marks to place the wood jambs of a double door, which would cut off the city centre from the outside, are approximately in the centre of the first stretch of the gate.

12. Room with semicircular chevet.

Rectangular space with semicircular chevet, 10 metres long by 2 and 3 metres wide.

This room is still 1 metre high at the walls carved in the rock and a stone staircase is in its centre. It is on the northern channel of the aqueduct and its use is unknown.

13. Temple?

Remains of a structure, Temple?, on the top of the hill.

Only the traces remain of the foundations of a small building, along with some rabbets in the rock, that could be steps, at the highest part of the hill, which overlooks and dominates the surrounding area. At least three construction phases can be made out here.

14. Theatre cavea.

Public building with small seating area. A public building was erected on the north-western slope of the city in a recess in the rock.  Some worn steps that look as if they would have been used as seating in a theatre cavea can still be seen.  No conclusive information exists about this structure.

15. Roman Aqueduct.

Infrastructure to supply water to the city.

The city infrastructures included the one to supply running water to the city, which was an aqueduct filled with a wide range of transport and distribution solutions, characteristic of Roman aqueducts. The original part of its works dates back to the Tiberian era (14-37 A.D) and it is the most outstanding piece of engineering in Tiermes.  The Tiermes aqueduct had the typical elements to collect, transport and then distribute the water in the city.

The water collection point (caput aquae) is thought to have been located on the northern slope of the Sierrea de Pela mountains, at the source of River Pedro, 3.6 km to the north of Tiermes. There was a fork structure or castellum aquae next to the West Gate.  It no longer exists today, but it was the starting point for the two urban branches of the aqueduct, which are well know as they have been explored to a large extent.

The Tiermes aqueduct is an infrastructure built in order to meet the water supply needs for drinking and hygiene in a city that had undergone significant urban and, surely, demographic growth after the conquest, nearly a century earlier. The theoretical study indicates that, according to the river bed of the Pedro spring, the Tiermes aqueduct could supply up to a population of 20,000 inhabitants, as it supplied up to 70 litres of water per second.

However, the figure was much higher than the population that Tiermes must have had at its moment of greatest splendour.

16. Small ramp excavated in sandstone.

On the northern side of Tiermes, on the second terrace, a communication ramp was built between two terraces of the western sector of the urban complex, cared in the sandstone rock.  The entrance was covered during the Later Roman Empire by the defensive wall.

17. Later Roman Imperial Wall.

Stretch of wall.

The Roman walled perimeter of Tiermes was around three sides of the city, where access was easier. An important stretch has been found, approximately 200m in length, along which there are four cubes or tower foundations, and it is roughly 4 m thick.

Both the building method and the materials found date the construction of the wall to the second half of the 3rd century A.D., until we have more data to that effect.

18. Flavius Forum.

South and east portico.
South and east porticos of the Flavius Forum.

The lower level of the south and east porticos of the Flavius Forum, under the level of the square, are structured in an L-shape, open towards the outside by means of large pilasters, which lead on to a passageway or ambulatory which end in a set of tabernae built in the east and south walls of the artificial terrace that supports the market square.

19. Triangular market area.

Space adjoining the Flavius Forum identified as a provisional commercial area. The area immediately to the east of the Flavius Forum is made up a triangular market area, that uses part of a street from the Julius Claudius era. The lower level of the Forum and other buildings on the terrace over look the market area.

20. Flavius Forum.

As the city became more wealthy, it was able to build a new forum in the 70s A.D., which we have called the Flavius Forum due to its type of architecture and its chronology. It is a rectangular quadriportico, with short sides to the north and south, built on a large artificial terrace made out of emplecton, a type of  masonry in which the outer faces of the wall are  ashlar, the space between being filled with broken stone and  mortar. Cross layers of stone are interlaid as binders.

Only the foundations remain, but it was built as a duplex portico (double columnata) on the north and west sides, and simplex (just one) on the other two. Two large rectangular rooms in the centre of the two first sides stand out. The first, where the base of a large podium still remains, is built on the cella of the Augustan temple, which was demolished to build the new public space. Several tabernae are located to the south of this room.

Special mention should be made two that were merged into a single area between the 2nd  and 3rd centuries A.D., which is now paved with a multi-coloured mosaic with geometric and plant motifs.  On the north side of the quadriportico, the central room, which is more difficult to interpret, is flanked by other tabernae.  A large room with a central tank, to the West, and a large apsed room, to the east, are noteworthy.

21. Mosaic building.

There is an important structure with three rooms with mosaics to the north of the Flavius Forum. The rectangular central room, paved with white tessera, depicts a central emblem using dark blue and red tessera. The two circular side rooms have white tessera floors. The building was either part of the thermal area of an urban domus or of public baths.

22. Julius Claudius Forum.

Commercial, religious and administrative centre of the Roman centre. It is between the Romanesque chapel, the Flavius Forum and the late antiquity wall. From an overall point of view, the area between these three buildings seems to be identified with the main public centre of the city, which must have been set up during the high-imperial era, even though the exact perimeter is currently unknown. Only the southern sector has been excavated.

Therefore, we have only unearthed some of the buildings, and sometimes only part of them, that make it up and which look over a square, which is located to the north and remains practically unexplored. We have identified the following elements in the sector to the south of the Forum square:

a) South portico (26-37 A.D.). It closed the square to the south, by means of a terraced structure which offset the differences in level, and a public building was built on it.

b) Monumentum to Tiberius (June 26 A.D..- June 27 A.D.).A monument dedicated to the Emperor Tiberius Caesar Augustus was located somewhere in the square.  Only the base with its honorary inscription remains, but it was recovered outside its original setting.

c) Claudius Sacellum (41-54 A.D.). Apsed chapel, located next to the Nero Temple of the Forum. About 5 m wide and 9 m long, it faces northwards and overlooks the square.  It was used for some type of public worship.

d) Nero temple of the Forum (54-68 A.D.). Last building erected this part of the Forum, this large classic structure closed the main part of the south side. The building was constructed on a square artificial platform, measuring 16.4 m wide and 18.4 long, standing directly on the sandstone.

22bis. Forum district.

Private residential district next to the Forum.

The latest digs in this zone have unearthed part of a residential district next to the Forum, where there are different buildings from different chronological and cultural eras. Structures were initially noted from the late Celtiberian period, between the 1st century B.C. and the Augustan period, where the city had already been conquered and different native lifestyles began to coexist with the Roman customs.

Two blocks, Insula I and II, and bordered by streets, have been identified from this period. Street II includes drainage channels dug out in the rock.  Street III still has the paving from the 1st  century B. C. in limestone, with pavements and stones to cross the stream. The current distribution of buildings and streets dates back to the two first centuries of that era, on the previous original layout. The ground plan and internal distribution of the different buildings are adapted to the irregular layout of the blocks.

Special mention should be made of the presence of numerous underground rock rooms, some of which have access steps also carved out of rock, together with channels to drain off the water that filtered through the rock. The well-conserved paving in Street I dates back to that period.

23. Romanesque Chapel.

Dedicated to Santa Maria de Tiermes, it is a rectangular chapel with an apsed chevet, consisting of a single nave and a porticated gallery on the south side. The architectural remains of the Middle Ages that have survived to the present in Tiermes are mainly in the Romanesque chapel, built in the 12th century.

The ground plan is a single nave with a semicircular apse in the chevet and a porticated gallery added to the southern side.  The main doorway is on the south façade and is framed by simple single-arched archivolts on two columns with carved capitals depicting Adam and Eve with the serpent on the left and two quadrupeds and an individual with a turban on the right.

The porticated gallery consists of five openings on the longest side, with the central one being the entrance.   It has single arches on double columns, supported on a podium and separated by buttresses.  The twelve capitals of the gallery feature magnificent iconography, both in terms of quality and in variety of themes.

Special mention should be made of the mythological iconography, depicting two knights fighting, a boar hunt, and a motif of a basket or bees-hive, which is finely carved and a wonderful example of the outstanding trepan work from the Silos Monastery, among others. There are three decapitated sculptures inside the portico and within a niche.

They are holding notices that say in Latin "Give and you will receive. Domingo Martin made me. 1182”. We do not know whether the text refers to the sculptures, portico or to the chapel.

The chapel, where mass is held during the summer, organises pilgrimages twice a year: on the third Sunday of May and on 12th October, which continue a tradition passed down through the ages for a good harvest and in thanksgiving.

24. Medieval necropolis of the chapel.

The early medieval necropolis is located around the Our Lady of Tiermes Chapel, with more than 200 tombs, 129 of which have been exhumed.  The excavated area has a high density of burial sites, most of which are mainly slab tombs.  There are also sarcophagus and ossuary tombs.

The timeline of the necropolis is approximately from the 11th to the 15th centuries. There is a Roman road that is part of the Tiermes urban network, next to the Forum area, running past the necropolis.

Only two burials from the late antiquity period (6th to 7th centuries A.D) have been exhumed.  The Visigoth necropolis is nearby and decorative remains from a possible place of worship from the same period have been found there.

25. Parking.

There is a car park at the end of the road from the Museum to the site.

26. Carratiermes Celtiberian necropolis.

It is an iron-age Celtiberian necropolis (6th century B.C. to  1st century A.D.). The Carratiermes incineration Celtiberian necropolis is on a gentle slope running down to a river, less than one kilometre from the Tiermes oppidum and Roman urbs, in a place known as Carratiermes as a King’s Highway ran through it.

The 645 tombs excavated so far (10 or 15% of the estimated total of the necropolis) date from the 6th century A.D. ( early Celtiberian era) to the 1st century A.D. (at the height of the Romans).

The remains of a Bronze Age village are under its structures. The necropolis is spatially spread out horizontally.  There are areas of concentration, empty areas and groups of tombs that form burial mounds. There are no defined paths, but there are steles on different tombs.  It has been noted that different grave goods are laid out north-south, possibly using the stars.

Three phases can be seen in the necropolis: early celtiberian, high Celtiberian and late celtiberian.  Different funeral structures have been documented: shallow tombs, tombs covered by sandstone stones, tombs marked by stone steles, and rabbets in the natural conglomerate.  The grave goods include bronze items (early Celtiberiean), weapons, prestigious items and ceramic articles (high and late Celtiberian stages).

27. Late medieval necropolois by the river.

Late medieval rock necropolis.

The late medieval rock necropolis, with 50 tombs from between the 9th and 11th centuries A.D., is located 500 metres from the Chapel, next to the River Tiermes and a roadway that is known as the "King's Highway" (start of the Roman Tiermes-Segontia road), which 200 metres further on runs past the Carratiermes Celtiberian necropolis.

There are two groups of three steles carved in the rock by the tombs. The Roman Tiermes necropolis may be located near to this area and the two sets of rock steles found here may belong to it. A possible oratory carved in the neighbouring quarry surrounded by numerous medieval tombs was also found here.

28. Roman quarries.

Different quarries, places where blocks of stone were quarried to build the different structures, surround the city. Some carved blocks that were not quarried can still be seen.

There are Roman inscriptions on some of the walls, with names of people and numerous engravings of different themes and over a wide time period (from very early periods to the present).

29. Tiermes Museum.

Opened in 1986, it houses an attractive exhibition of the archaeological findings in Tiermes, its history and its monuments.


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French Navy to Receive an Additional Light Patrol Vessel PLG for Antilles

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French Navy to Receive an Additional Light Patrol Vessel PLG for Antilles
On September 24 2017, French Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly announced that a PLG (Patrouilleur Léger Guyanais or French Guyana-based Light Patrol Vessel) will be ordered in the coming weeks for delivery "as soon as possible" by 2019. The patrol vessel will be based in the French Antilles likely homeported in Martinique where the French Navy (Marine Nationale) has a permanent naval base.
French Navy Guyana-based Light Patrol Vessel PLG La Confiance is Now on Active Duty French Navy PLG light patrol vessel La Confiance in combined anti-drug training with US Coast Guard Cutter Winslow Griesser. French Navy picture.
The move follows the recent hurricanes Irma and Maria which destroyed large portions of the Caribbeans. "In an area marked by violent cyclonic episodes, but also by the upsurge in illicit trafficking, this acquisition will increase the state's response capacities in the region, in order to better respond to humanitarian crises as well as to carry out control operations against trafficking" the ministry statement said.

As part of the "Horizon Marine 2025" modernization plan of the French Navy, two PLG patrol vessel were ordered in January 2015 to replace, from 2017, the existing P400 patrol vessels based in Guyana. This new class of vessels is designed for the environmental, nautical and operational peculiarities of the Guyanese theater and more generally of the Caribbean zone. With excellent sea keaping on the high seas as well as in the shallow waters of the Guyanese territories, they have means of force projection and coercion.
French Navy Guyana-based Light Patrol Vessel PLG La Confiance is Now on Active Duty La Confiance PLG light patrol vessel arriving in Fort-de-France, Martinique. Picture: E.Mocquillon © Marine nationale
These ships are dedicated to sovereignty missions and to protect French interests in the Antilles (French West Indies) and Guiana maritime area. One of the missions for the two PLGs will be securing the waters around the Guiana Space Center where the European Space Agency (ESA), the French space agency CNES (National Centre for Space Studies), and the commercial Arianespace company conduct regular launches from Kourou. Other missions will include the fight against illicit trafficking (fisheries police, narcotics trafficking), the protection of life and property at sea and fight against pollution.

Displacing 750 tonnes, the PLGs are able to accomodate 14 people (special forces for example) in addition to 24 crew members. With a length of 60 m and a width of 9.50 m, a draft less than 3.2 meters, the vessel are able to operate in shallow waters including the Kourou river. The patrol vessels can reach speeds of 21 knots with an endurance of 12 days at 12 knots.

Contacted by Navy Recognition in 2015, a DGA official gave the following additional details:
» PLG have two shaft lines, the propelling power will be about 6 MW, capable of crossing at least 3500 NM at 12 knots.
» The weapon stations for secondary weapons will be able to receive a choice of small caliber machine guns of 12.7 mm or 7.62 mm. PLG is also equipped with water cannon.
(A Nexter Narwhal 20mm RWS is fitted at the bow).
» The two on-board RHIBs will be identical. They will have an aluminum hull and a length of about eight meters.
» PLG will have several sensor systems (radars, projectors, optronic system) enabling it to intervene at any time, day or night.

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Cliff House from Ocean Beach

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These Weidner 1 variants all use a photo © 1902 ("Cliff house" #18431 6/02/1902) by Goeggel & Weidner. Weidner's lighthearted trompe l'oeil extension of the posteriors of the foreground couple over the image border is unusual. Weidner Catalog shows two additional variants, with the earliest postmarked SF 9/02/1902.

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It's another nice day at Ocean Beach. Wait, those people look familiar; aha, they're the same people as above. But wait... Cliff House doesn't look the same at all. The Victorian Cliff House #3 (Britton & Rey 521) survived the 1906 earthquake and fire without major damage, but it burned to the ground on 9/07/1907 (Britton & Rey 1030, Britton & Rey 1031). Cliff House #4 (Cardinell-Vincent 400) opened on the same site in 1909. Here the postcard artist has replaced Cliff House #3 in the pre-fire image with #4. The scale is wrong: Cliff House #4 should be shown as much smaller, as seen in a later Unknown publisher card.

This animated GIF displays all the postcards shown above for comparison.

Cliff House from Sutro Baths shows a similar modification of a view from the other side. You would think they could just take a new picture instead...

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Well Magoo, You've Done It Again

That's probably not an appropriate title because Mr. Magoo was a buffoon and was always doing hairbrained things.  And I'm really impressed with myself on this one.  I've been sewing for a while and I've made a lot of quilts.  Until about 8 years ago, I always tied my quilts.  This means having to stretch the quilt out on tables and sewing the top to the bottom with embroidery floss and then you have to leave each tie with about an inch of floss remaining free.  This is a fine method, but I've always wanted to make "real" quilts that are actually quilted.

My mother bought the Handiquilter which we thought would be the answer to all of our quilting needs.  This was an early model of the Hanidquilter. They've come a long way.  But the version we had left me constantly saying THERE HAS TO BE A BETTER WAY!!  I quilted 2 large wedding quilts with the Handiquilter, and did  a lot of swearing, and I did a few baby quilts, but I finally gave in and told my mother to just sell it.  It was not for us.

My mother now sends her quilts out to be quilted.  The woman does a great job, but it really rachets up the price and it's just not something I will do.  For years, I heard about the "quilt as you go" method and thanks to the power of youtube, I learned just enough to get me into trouble!  But it lets me quilt on my regular machine, thanks to the quilting foot my mother gave me for Christmas.  The first thing I did on my machine was a baby quilt that I did not quilt as I went.  This made for a cumbersome afternoon.  And probably more swearing. And I learned very quickly that I have to get used to this machine quilting instead of the Handiquilter method.  It's exactly the opposite.  With the Handiquilter, you move the machine over the fabric.  With the regular sewing machine, you move the fabric around under the presser foot.

So, here is attempt number 2 at quilting on my machine.  AND quilting as I went.  I think it came out nicely.  My favorite part is this color!  I was like "ew, teal, yuck" but I had that material leftover, so I wanted to use it.  And I thought it might be nice with white.  Wow, I had no idea!!  If I had anything of a teal or aqua variety in my house, I'd keep it.  But I really don't, and I need to get these crafts out of my house, so I put it up on my etsy.  But here's your personal sneak preview.

PS: my second favorite part is the way the aqua thread shows up on the white.

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  1. Yes, I looooove those colors! I think it turned out great :)

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  3. BEAUTIFUL!!!! Makes me long for my sewing machine and the totes full of fabric in the basement waiting for me to figure out how and when to fill my sewing/quilting passion again.

  4. It's beautiful! Geez, what talent!

  5. Wow! Great job! Learning to quilt is definitely on my someday list.

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    your quilting is very beautiful
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Peking Opera is very different from its Western counterpart, and you may want to listen to a sample to decide if you will survive for three hours. Some operas include acrobatic stunts, other focus more on singing, and sometimes a tourist-oriented mash-up is performed that includes the best bits from various works. Interest for this art-form is low from tourists and Shanghainese alike, so getting a ticket is not a problem. Show listings and staff are in Chinese and Mandarin only. It costs around ¥80.

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The Plumbing Factory Brass Band and Henry Meredith, Director, present Playing favourites: Top Ten tunes, on Wednesday evening, May 22 at 7:30.

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Casual Cash Games are tables that are setup for players who play one cash table at a time. These tables are excellent for players that are new to the game of poker, new to playing online or someone looking to avoid the annoyances of playing against “multitablers.”

When playing in a Casual Cash Game, you will be prohibited from opening any other cash game tables. You may multitable tournaments at your convenience.

Casual cash games come with several distinct advantages over regular cash tables. They include:

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  • Less opportunity to be seated with pro players or sharks as most prefer to multitable to maximize profits.
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Imagine if you will a poker world where players actually spoke to one another at the table rather than listen to music, surf the web, update their Twitter or chat with their friends online between hands.

That world will become a reality on April 29 at the California State Poker Championship at the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles. That day the $350 NL Triple Stack Social Experiment Event will bring the game back to the way it was back before all the changes associated with the evolution of modern poker.

What’s the Social Experiment?

If you check out the structure sheet for the event over at Commerce Casino’s website, the Social Experiment Event is listed as “an attempt to create social interaction amongst players.”

To this end, all cell phones, headphones, sunglasses and hoodies will be banned during play. There are exceptions for those with special needs or where a device or item is medically necessary.

If anyone breaks the rules, there will be escalating penalties starting at 3 hands. After Level 8, all violators will be subject to a minimum one orbit penalty.

Savage is looking to promote a social environment during this event, meaning that people hold actual conversations involving spoken words rather than tapping a screen.

Of course, if you just can’t stand talking to folks, Savage says that complimentary earplugs are available:

Was he joking? I’d love to see someone actually request them to see. If you play and see someone get earplugs, please tweet us a photo – just away from the table as we don’t want you to get a penalty.

Back In The Day…

This type of event is an interesting experiment, and it’s a bit funny that it’s being called an experiment considering it isn’t all that long ago that the poker world wasn’t dominated by technology.

Thinking back to when I started playing poker live in casinos in 2006, I don’t remember very many people wearing headphones and hardly anyone did anything with their phones.

I remember several pros showing off their brand new 3G iPhones at the 2008 WSOP. During one of the mixed events, there was a discussion about whether the iPhone would be banned from tournament play. Others wanted PokerStars or Full Tilt to make a real money iPhone app to play online poker.

Hoodies and sunglasses were the big “antisocial” items in many of the rooms I played and players often were ridiculed for wearing either. Few things are funnier than someone wearing a hoodie and sunglasses playing $2-$4 Limit Hold’em.

It wasn’t long after I started playing that smartphones and headphones started to be regular accessories at the tables along with those wanting to dress like Phil Laak. It became the new normal and there are probably some of you that can’t imagine the game without these “anti-social” devices.

Nice Experiment But Will Never Become More Than a Novelty

Not surprisingly, there are those that vehemently oppose this tournament format. Personally, it is one that I would love to try out.

President of partypoker LIVE John Duthie is among the supporters and called the initiative #goodforthegame. However, as Savage replied below, chances are this event will be little more than a novelty.

Besides the fact that electronic devices, sunglasses and hoodies are a part of the game, the reality is that some are just not social poker players. Some of us prefer to play the game while listening to music or otherwise occupying ourselves.

In addition, there’s only so much you can talk about before you start getting bored or start annoying other players. What do you do at that point? Sit quietly and stare awkwardly at them? Looking at the screen of your phone or tablet is less creepy.

I’d love to see more of these events offered as a novelty event akin to the Colossus at the WSOP. A one-time event that’s fun to play but not something you’d want every day.

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A peaceful heart leads to a healthy body; jealousy is like cancer in the bones. PR 14:30. There is joy for those who deal justly with others and always do what is right. PS 106:3. When we live at peace with others we will keep our joy and a healthier life. Stress, anxiety, jealousy and envy can cause illness and rob us of our peace. We must always look to God in our times of difficulty and always trust Him implicitly. Do not focus on your lack but be content with what you have. Our joy, fulfillment  peace and happiness comes from the heart of God as we trust Him and learn to follow His direction for our lives. Our lives are our witness. Our actions are heard before our words, so lets live lives that will bring Glory to God and fill our lives with His peace. Praise Him today that He is always there for you, ready to take your hand in the midst of strife to guide you through without losing your peace and joy.

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Top 5 on PSP: Fighting

The PSP has been selling quite well recently and I figured some new PSP owners may not know what great games the system has to offer. With that in mind, every day this week we'll feature a new genre and list the top 5 games (according to metareviews), so no matter what you're into, you'll have some idea of what games you should own. Today the focus is on Fighting games, a genre that used to be one of the biggest things in gaming, but has lost some popularity with time. I'm still a big fighting game fan though, so I had to make this list.

Top 5 Fighting games on PSP

  1. Tekken: Dark Ressurrection
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  3. Street Fighter Alpha 3 MAX
  4. Def Jam Fight for NY: The Takeover
  5. Guilty Gear Judgement

This list doesn't include import games like Bleach or Naruto, so my personal list of best fighting games would be different. But what do you think about these 5 games? What fighting games aren't on this list that you think every PSP owner should have?

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Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max kicks into the scene

It's official: Capcom's acclaimed brawler Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max has been released. Boasting over thirty characters to kick butt with, this title still has what it takes to satisfy those violent tendencies we all deal with (or most of us anyway). Like wine and women, it only gets better with age.

After six years, Street Fighter can still deliver like a punch to the face. Check out Gamespot's full review of it here. By the looks of it, fighting fans have a lot love about this arcade port.

Street Fighter Alpha Max 3 preview

There’s somewhat of a dearth of quality fighting games on the PSP. Well, there’s honestly a lack of most everything on our goshdarned little console (except racing games – we got plenty of those) but we’re happy to report that IGN’s happy to report that the forthcoming Street Fighter Alpha Max 3 is coming along very nicely. According to the preview, there’s a ton of features to play around with in the game, and even with the presence of multiple characters onscreen, slowdown is next to non-existent.

We’ll most likely have a review roundup posted when the game launches next month. Until then, you can entertain yourself with The Con. Yeah, we’d rather just count rice grains too.

Capcom addresses sore thumbs with SF D-pad cover

Anyone who's ever played Street Fighter 2 or any of its many iterations across the console landscape will tell you that the nth hour of fighting will bring about either A.) sheer animosity for that buddy who constantly wins by pulling the same cheap move over and over again, or B.) a severe case of thumb pain that may or may not come with a throbbing blister. Thankfully, Capcom has been more than aware of this and is pledging to release a limited-edition D-pad cover for the PSP with the Japanese release of Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max (better known as Street Fighter Zero 3 Double Upper to our friends in the Land of the Rising Sun).

Billed by Capcom as the "Official Support Pad", fighting game fans should note that these will be doled out in limited quantities, so you should keep tabs on your favorite import sites when the game is released in Japan this January 19.

Unfortunately, there's still no solution as of yet in regard to dealing with that cheating friend of yours.

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