Podcasts about proserpine

65 -Evènementiel et culture du 24 au 31/3/2025 (détails dans podcast)Conférences :« Placer le sommeil au cœur de sa santé au travail » le 24/3 à 18h45 à la CCI de Tarbes (organisée par l'ASMT)« Pourquoi les artères se bouchent ? Comment l'éviter ? »par Jean-Pierre MOLINIER le 27/3 à 18h au STAPS« L'intelligence artificielle – Comment va-t-elle bouleverser notre futur ? »par Gérard POUET le 27 mars à 19h30 au Campus St Pierre (Lions Club Bigorre-Isaby)« Les anciennes mines des Pyrénées » par Louis de PAZZIS le 28/3 à 16h au Musée de Marbre Bagnères de Bigorre« Era balada d'Arras, une danse en quête des Pyrénées » par Jean-Louis LAVIT, le 28/3 à 18h au Tiers-Lieu d'Azun à Aucun« Pierre DUMAS, grand reporter, homme politique et résistant » par Jean-François SOULET le 29/3 à 15h , salle multiculturelle Baudéan4°édition Festi'Vino, salon du vin du 28 au 30/3, Halle Marcadieu Tarbes3° édition Tarbes Comedy Club les 28 et 29/3 : le 28 à 20h30 Petit Théâtre Maurice Sarrazin et le 29/3 à 20h30 au Théâtre des Nouveautés12° édition Festival Art'Terre du 28/3 au 5/04 à Vic en Bigorre (programmation non connue)Festival « Du Flocon à la vague » du 28 au 30/3 à St Lary Fête du court métrage du 19 au 25 mars voir lien La programmation 2025Fête du court métrage à la Maison du Parc National et de la Vallée de Luz St Sauveur Fête du court-métrage | Maison du Parc National et de la valléeFestival Ciné-latino -du 21 au 30/3, Maison du Parc National Luz St Sauveur Festival ciné-latino | Maison du Parc National et de la valléeTARBox course fitness caritative le 28/3 à 19h30, stade Maurice Trélut TarbesSPECTACLESSaison culturelle Bagnères de Bigorre : « Peer Gynt » le 27/3 à 20h30, Halle aux grainsSaison culturelle Lourdes : « Bubble et d'autres mots que vous n'avez pas encore goûtés » le 27/3 à 20h30 Palais des Congrès Parvis : www.parvis.net« Rira bien qui rira- tentative de conférence sur le lire par PROSERPINE », « Nouvelles voies baroques », « Antichambre »PARI :« Manger un phoque » du 26 au 30/3Cartel Bigourdan : « Los tres puntos et les Idiots » le 29/3 à 20h30 à l'Alamzic Bagnères de BigorreCAC Séméac : « Nougaro via Alsina » le 29/3 à 20h30Séméac – Eglise N-D de l'Assomption : « Concert Orgue et violoncelle » le 30/3 à 17hSalle fêtes Thermes-Magnoac: La Mandolinata de Tarbes le 30/3 à 15hThéâtre : « Viva » Loquace Cie le 28/3 à 14h, Maison du Savoir St Laurent de Neste et le 29/3 à 20h30 au Petit Théâtre de la Gare Argeles Gazost« Le voyage de Zingua » le 29/3 à 17h, Tiers-Lieux en Bigorre, Bagnères« Riri, Fifi et Loulou et la Bouchère sans dents » le 28/3 à 20h au Café-Théâtre Le Off Lannemezan« Rires et délires » le 29/3 à 15h, salle des fêtes de Madiran« Nouvelles étranges et d'étranges étrangers » Lecture à voix haute par Cie Hipotengo le 30/3 à 17h, rédidence des Thermes Bagnères de BigorreCinéma : Atelier UTL le 28/3 à 15 au Palais Lourdes, voir podcast pour les autres séancesExpositions (toutes les expositions dans podcast)Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

65 -Evènementiel et culture du 17 au 24/3/2025 (détails dans podcast)« Printemps des Poètes » : lecture théâtralisée avec Claire BENOIT le 21/3 à 17h à la médiathèque de Cauterets« Printemps des Poètes » du 12 au 29/3 à la Médiathèque Simone Veil Bagnères de Bigorre- Le 20/3 de 18h à 20h, sélections thématiques, poèmes à picorer, ateliers d'écritureConférences :« Les premiers explorateurs des Monts Pyrénées » par Gérard RAYNAUD le 19/3 à 20h30 à la Chapelle des Pénitents Monléon-MagnoacAppel d'Air « Emilien FROSSARD, aux sources du pyrénéisme » par Bertrand GIBERT le 20/3 à 18h au Palais des Congrès de Lourdes"Le terrorisme aujourd'hui" par Philippe ROUBY le 21/3 à 20h à l'Espace Jeanne Larroque -UTL« Entre l'image et la musique dans le cinéma » par Peggy SAUL le 22/3 à 14h30 à la médiathèque de Lourdes,« Placer le sommeil au cœur de sa santé au travail » le 24/3 à 18h45 à la CCI de Tarbes (organisée par l'ASMT) Fête du court métrage du 19 au 25 mars voir lien www.lafeteducourt.comFête du court métrage à la Maison du Parc National et de la Vallée de Luz St Sauveur Fête du court-métrage | Maison du Parc National et de la valléeFestival Ciné-latino -du 21 au 30/3, Maison du Parc National Luz St Sauveur Festival ciné-latino | Maison du Parc National et de la valléePRINT'ANERES,fête des plantes et du vivant le 22/3 a/c de 9h30 à Anères (détail podcast)3° Festival Swing'Az les 21 et 20/3 à Aucon et Arrens-Marsous (le 22/3= détails podcast3° « Le Printemps des Zen'ergies » les 22 et 23/3, Parc des Expositions Halls 3 et 4« Roller Derby » étape championnat France N2 les 22 et 23/3 Gymnase de BastillacTournoi d'escrime « Sabre d'or » les 22 et 23/3, Maison de l'Escrime Tarbes (compétition internationale cadets)« Brocante des Halles » le 23/3 de 9h à 18h Trie/BaïseVisite flash « De toutes les nations » le 19/3 à 15h, Musée de la Déportation et de la RésistanceSPECTACLESSaison culturelle Bagnères de Bigorre : « Les derniers géants » le 22/3 à 20h30, Halle aux grainsParvis : www.parvis.net« La louve», « KA-IN », « Rira bien qui rira- tentative de conférence sur le lire par PROSERPINE », « Dominique FILS-AIME »PARI : Apéro-lecture « l'humanité tout ça tout ça « le 21/3 à 18h30« Les coulisses » de « Manger un phoque » le 22/3 à 14h« Nuit des Princes » le 22/3 : à 18h30 lecture, 19h30 verre de l'amitié et à 20h30 concert avec ZIMA, cabaret tziganeLa Gespe : LE BRAZ le 18/3 à 20h30 au PARICAC Séméac : « Harmony Cabaret » le 22/3 à 21h au Centre Léo LagrangeEspace Robert Hossein Lourdes : concours danse « Danse 4 Blue » le 22/3 à 20h30 (Ligue contre le cancer)Salle fêtes Mazerolle : « Roméo et Juliette » Cie Ombres et Couleurs le 22/3 à 19hEglise St Vincent Bagnères : Concert KUMBALA et Chanteurs Montagnards le 22/3 à 20h30Eglise St Barthélémy Salles-Adour : concert Les Voix d'Alaric et les Copains d'Abord le23/3 à 17hEglise de Vielle-Adour : concert « L'autre Chahut le 23/3 à 17hCinéma : Atelier UTL le 20/3 à 15h15 au Parvis, « Hans ZIMMER et friends : le diamant du désert » au CGR le 20/3 à 20h, opéra au cinéma « Roméo et Juliette » au CGR le 20/3 à 20h15 etc…Expositions (toutes les expositions dans podcast)Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

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Todays show is up a running and its another cracker , in this episode we chat about how much tackle is to much, Storage in the boat can be a nightmare so we chat about different types of tackle storage . If you are like us you take hundreds of lures fishing and only use a few we discuss which lures would we not leave behind. Boat safety raises its head again so we chat about where our safety gear is placed in case of an emergency , is it easy to grab or not. Nick Wells new owner of Barra World in Proserpine joins us to chat about his plans for the shop , Nick loves his impoundment fishing so what better place to base yourself. The shop is the go to place if fishing Prossie and the North so we find out all about the Prossie area. Dont forget to stick your head in the shop and say giiday. Sit back grab a coldie and enjoy 3 hours of laughs , tips and tricks with the boys from the NQ Fishing Show  

Il y a une quinzaine d'année, Claire a osé changer de vie pour l'Italie ! Son coup de foudre pour la botte lui a donné de la suite dans les idées. À 38 ans, maman de deux enfants, elle abandonne une confortable carrière de chargée d'affaires en banque, pour créer son agence de voyage évènementielle en Italie. D'abord dédiée aux professionnels, elle va ensuite élargir son offre, sur demande, aux particuliers.Les inspirations allant bon train, il y a quelques mois, afin de partager pleinement sa passion, elle a lancé une application mobile intitulée « Grazie Gigi » ! Un carnet d'adresses confidentielles ciblées autour d'endroits de rêve qu'elle a testé pour nous au cours de ses événements et voyages : Venise, Rome, la Côte Amalfitaine ou encore la Sicile... Et ce n'est pas tout, cette appli c'est aussi un média qui partage des actus, des inspirations culturelles ou encore des rencontres à l'italienne... Alors forcément, je me suis empressée de la télécharger pour la tester. Et je me suis dit que ça pourrait bien intéresser les amoureux de l'Italie que vous êtes...Et puis, en ce mois de juin qui démarre tout juste, où l'on est en pleine prépa du break estival, on va en profiter pour glaner quelques conseils de voyage !Bell'ascolto !· L'univers de Claire :Découvrez ses agences réceptives en Italie :-pour les professionnels @quilaterra / www.agence-receptive-italie.com-pour les particuliers @segretissimo.italie / www.segretissimo.eu Et l'application mobile « Grazie Gigi » @graziegigi à télécharger : www.graziegigi.com · Les inspirations italiennes de Claire :La Galerie Borghèse sur la colline du Pincio, son endroit refuge à Rome & une œuvre en particulier « L'Enlèvement de Proserpine » sculptée par Bernini.Deux photographes qui captent la dolce vita italienne à travers leurs objectifs : Lavinia Cerneau & Mattia Aquila.Deux beaux livres consacrés à Venise : « Venise Invitation privée » par Servane Giol (illustré par Lavinia Cerneau), aux Ed. Flammarion & « Venise - Petit Atlas Hédoniste » par Lucie Tournebize (illustré par Guillaume Dutreix) aux Ed. du Chêne.Le peintre Davide Battistin qui immortalise la Sérénissime sur ses toiles, vendues par la Galerie Linea d'Acqua.Les romans de « La Saga des Florio ». Trois tomes signés Stefania Auci, aux Ed. Albin Michel qui racontent l'histoire de cette famille palermitaine, dont les descendants vivent toujours en Sicile.Le film « Palermo, Via Castellana Bandiera » réalisé par la cinéaste palermitaine Emma Dante.Le célèbre morceau « Brucia La Terra », de la cultissime B.O. du « Parrain » qui transporte Claire en Sicile dès les 1ères notes... & le bonus musical : La play list de « Grazie Gigi » sur Spotify : « Gigi à l'aperitivo » !La personnalité italienne que Claire aimerait nous faire découvrir est l'artiste Silvia Finiels qui réalise des lampes œuvres d'art, assemblant des pierres en verre, très anciennes, de Murano / Burano, à retrouver sur : @aventurinadesign / www.aventurinadesign.comConçu, réalisé et présenté par Claire PlantinetMontage Générique : François PraudMusique : Happy Clapping Cinematic Score / PaBlikMM / Envato ElementsCréation visuelle : Thomas JouffritPodcast hébergé par Ausha.Remerciements tout particuliers à Hugo pour son accueil à l'Hoxton Paris pour l'enregistrement de cet épisode et à Amandine Leymarie, de l'agence @lecarnet.com_ / www.le-carnet.com pour sa mise en relation.· Archives épisodes : © Extraits de « Voyage en Italie » de Lilicub, « Gigi l'amoroso » de Dalida, « Brucia La Terra » B.O. du « Parrain », Musique « Bella Gigi » par David Henry, Film « Palermo, Via Castellana Bandiera » d'Emma Dante (Istituto Luce Cinecittà, Jour2fête, Abc Distribution), Documentaire « Roma, Santa e Dannata » de Roberto D'Agostino et Marco Giusti.· Contattami, Scrivimi !Retrouvez allora sur Instagram @allora.lepodcast & Facebook @alloralepodcast !

Triboulet – he was a court jester in the Middle Ages. He slapped King Louis of France on the backside which didn't go down too well. He was given a chance to be forgiven if he could think of something cleverer. So, he says, “I'm sorry, I mistook you for the queen.” Idiot move, because he was sentenced to death. The King asked how would you like to die and Triboulet chose Old Age. The kind was left speechless and let him die of old age You know how they graft skin on burn victims? Well, there's not enough skin grafts so they have looked at other option. Doctors in Brazil have treated burn victims using fish skin. Thank you to Chrissy for this one – she sent a message on the Proserpine noticeboard about the Airlie Beach Toad Races: They started in 1974, held throughout the years at Airlie Beach Hotel, Club Croc, Wanderer's Paradise and Magnums. One of the Toad Masters, Nigel Ormerod, made a career out of it, travelling to place like Moranbah, Gold Coast and Brissy. He even went on the Footy Show. Had a vest made out of toad skins. In Switzerland, it is illegal to own just the one Guinea Pig because they are prone to loneliness See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tuesday, 15 August 2023   For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Diana, brought no small profit to the craftsmen. Acts 19:24   The words are better rendered, “For someone named Demetrius, a silversmith making silver shrines of Artemis, was bringing to the craftsmen no little business” (CG).   The previous verse noted that no small commotion about the Way arose. That now begins to be explained with the words, “For someone named Demetrius.” The name means Belonging to Demeter. But the name Démétér is the Greek goddess of agriculture and harvest. She also presided over divine law as well as the cycle of life and death. Thus, the name can also signify Belonging to the Earth Mother.   This person is next noted as “a silversmith.” The Greek word is argurokopos. It literally means a silver-beater or a silver-cutter. Vincent's Word Studies notes, “In the next verse he mentions the workmen the two words denoting, respectively, the artisans, who performed the more delicate work, and the laborers, who did the rougher work.”   He was involved in the shaping of silver for “making silver shrines of Artemis.” Many translations say Diana instead of Artemis. Diana is the Roman name for the Greek goddess Artemis, which is what the text reads. Abarim notes the obscurity of the name. It is rather uncertain what the root of it is. However, they tie it to artames, meaning safe and sound, as well as to artemia, meaning soundness or recovery. As such, they define the name as Healer or Security. Concerning this particular deity, Barnes notes –   “This was a celebrated goddess of the pagan, and one of the twelve superior deities. In the heavens she was Luna, or Meui (the moon); on earth, Diana; and in hell, Hecate. She was sometimes represented with a crescent on her head, a bow in her hand, and dressed in a hunting habit; at other times with a triple face, and with instruments of torture. She was commonly regarded as the goddess of hunting. She was also worshipped under the various names of Lucina, Proserpine, Trivia, etc. She was also represented with a great number of breasts, to denote her as being the fountain of blessings, or as distributing her benefits to each in their proper station. She was worshipped in Egypt, Athens, Cilicia, and among pagan nations generally; but the most celebrated place of her worship was Ephesus, a city especially dedicated to her.”   Concerning Demetrius' silversmith efforts, Luke next notes that his work “was bringing to the craftsmen no little business.” Like any such thing, there was profit to be made from peddling this particular religious idol. Of them, the Pulpit Commentary, citing Meyer, says –   “They were silver models of the famous temple of Diana at Ephesus, and were carried as charms on journeys and placed in people's houses to ensure to them the protection of the goddess.”   Life application: If you think about it, these goofy little idols are actually no different than buying rosaries and images of Mary along with the countless other idols sold to adherents of the Roman Catholic church. There are entire websites set up to sell innumerable idols to dupe adherents into believing they will somehow be closer to God.   But innumerable Christians from other denominations are caught up in various types of idolatry similar to this as well. Some have Feng Shui objects, some read the daily horoscopes, and others use the cross as a talisman rather than as an object of remembrance of what Christ did. Such idols get set up in our hearts and they only remove us from a close and personal walk with the Lord.   Let us be careful to hold to the word of God as our source of understanding the Lord, and then let us adhere to it by walking closely with the Lord, loving Him with our hearts and souls, and clinging to Him in good times and in bad. Faith in the Lord is what pleases the Lord. Anything else is just a distraction and a hindrance to a close and personal walk with Him.   Heavenly Father, help us to remove the idols in our hearts and in our homes from our lives. May we cling to You alone as our hope, our Source of protection, and our joy. Help us to be faithful to You, just as You are always faithful to us. To Your glory, we pray. Amen.

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2ème partie de l'entretien exclusif que nous a accordé Lucas Balbo à propos de son excellent livre « VHS Story : l'âge d'or de la vidéocassette en France » (édition Lucas Balbo & Metaluna Store). Il revient pour nous sur les éditeurs vidéo comme Scherzo, CGR, Proserpine, Fil à film, des éditeurs des films pornographiques, du marché de niche et de l'évolution du marché dans les années 1990.Pour se procurer le livre : http://artclips.free.fr/VHS_STORY.html

Proserpine and Midas

We discuss "The Garden of Proserpine" and the ways that it anticipates or instantiates Freud's idea of the death drive: all the repetitions in the poem. Then we turn to the poet most opposite in attitude: Hopkins, and talk briefly of "Pied Beauty" and "That Nature is a Heralcitean Fire." Discussion in Instress and the Duns-Scotian term haecicity that makes it possible, as opposed to Thomas Aquainas' universality. We'll finish considering Hopkins next class.

We have to abandon Fitzgerald because time is short, so mainly on to Modern Love, with some context, then Hopkins's "Binsey Poplars," Swinburne (and Buck Mulligan quoting The Triumph of Time in Ulysses), and an intro to "The Garden of Proserpine," via Spenser's "Garden of Adonis" in The Faerie Queene (which I discussed a little while ago here), and Milton's account of how Eden is even greater than the fair field of Enna where Persephone gathering flowers by gloomy Dis was gathered. 

The excitement is brewing!  Opera Omaha is ending this season with The Marriage of Figaro, and we had a lovely conversation with Michael Adams and Mary Feminear, who play the Count and the Countess in this beloved opera.  Mary and Michael are married in real life as well as their characters onstage, and it made for a great interview.  Our conversation was cut short because of technical problems, and we hope to talk with them again in the future. Both of these Creatives are immensely experienced and talented and it was an honor to talk with them.  Don't miss this famous and timeless opera, which is Directed by Dean Anthony and Conducted by Steven White.   Performances are March 31st and April 2nd and ticket prices begin at $19. You can get your tickets to this beloved opera, The Marriage of Figaro at ticketomaha.com.    Opera Omaha also offers their Opera in Conversation, The Art of Comedy: "Comedic Tropes at Types" which will be held at the Blackstone Theatre March 21st at 6PM.  And for a talkback after the opera, Opera in Conversation:  "After The Curtain Call" on April 4th at the Benson Theatre at 6PM.  These events are free of charge. OPERA OMAHA CONTACT INFO: For Tickets:  ticketomaha.com Website: www.operaomaha.org  Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/operaomaha/ Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/operaomaha/ Twitter:https://twitter.com/operaomaha You Tube:  https://www.youtube.com/user/operaomaha Soprano Mary Feminear returns to Opera Omaha after last performing in Opera Under the Stars. This season Ms. Feminear will also perform the title role of Carlisle Floyd's Susannah with Wichita Grand Opera and Alice Ford in Verdi's Falstaff with Maryland Lyric Opera. Her previous performances include the Countess Almaviva with Maryland Lyric Opera, Micaëla in Bizet's Carmen and Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, where she was also a member of the Troupe des Jeunes Solistes, Ginevra in a workshop of Handel's Ariodante at the Opera Omaha One Festival, the soprano soloist in Mariana Sadovska's The Wreck at the Opera Omaha ONE Festival, and Amore in Cavalli's Il Giasone at the Château de Versailles. Other opera credits include the title role in Handel's Semele at Opera Omaha and Seattle Opera, Pamina in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte with Pacific MusicWorks, Proserpine in Charpentier's La Descente d'Orphee aux Enfers with Gotham Chamber Opera, and Polissena in Handel's Radamisto at Juilliard.   Baritone Michael Adams returns to Opera Omaha after last performing in Opera Under the Stars. This season, Mr. Adams will also sing the Count in Le nozze di Figaro with Madison Opera, Castro in La fanciulla del West with the Cleveland Orchestra, Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Opera Idaho, and Eugene Onegin with Vallejo Festival Orchestra. Last season, he made two company and role debuts: Sharpless in Madama Butterfly with Dallas Opera and Count in Le nozze di Figaro with Austin Opera. He also returned to the Deutsche Oper Berlin as the Count and Herald in Der Schatzgräber and Utah Opera for Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia. Other recent performances include Les pêcheurs de perles with Gran Teatre del Liceu; Eugene Onegin, Così fan tutte, and L'elisir d'amore with Seattle Opera; La bohème, Alcina, and Don Giovanni with Grand Théâtre de Genève; Die Zauberflöte, Silent Night, Alcina and The Little Prince with Washington National Opera; Manon with Des Moines Metro Opera, Pagliacci, Il barbiere di Siviglia, and La bohème with Utah Opera; and Show Boat at Glimmerglass Festival. ***** HOW TO LISTEN TO THE PLATTE RIVER BARD PODCAST Listen at https://platteriverbard.podbean.com or anywhere you get your podcasts. We are on Apple, Google, Pandora, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Podbean, Overcast, Listen Now, Castbox and anywhere you get your podcasts. You may also find us by just asking Alexa. Listen on your computer or any device on our website: https://www.platteriverbard.com. Find us on YouTube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCPDzMz8kHvsLcJRV-myurvA. Please find us and Subscribe!   Music provided by musopen.com: Public Domain Mark 1.0 Le Nozze di Figaro - No. 11 Cavatina 'Porgi, Amor' Overture to The marriage of Figaro, K. 492 https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Proposant une lecture bilingue, ce petit livre permet d'approfondir son français tout en s'initiant au latin, à l'histoire et à la mythologie. En librairie le 3 mars 2023 et sur https://www.lesbelleslettres.com/livre/9782377750481/proserpine-regina-infernorum-proserpine-reine-des-enfers Chérie et protégée par sa mère la divine Cérès, Proserpine est convoitée en secret par le dieu des morts, Pluton, qui parvient à soustraire la fillette à la protection maternelle au terme d'un stratagème et d'un rapt choquants. Aux Enfers, Proserpine apprend à aimer Pluton autant qu'à s'affirmer dans un monde divin violent pour devenir une souveraine redoutable. De la jeune fille en fleurs à la reine toute puissante, découvre l'itinéraire fascinant de celle qui a changé le monde en lui donnant les saisons.

'Hot Debrief' Episode 3 - Superintendent (Ret) Tony Waller OAM - Fire Rescue NSW and Surf Lifesaving NSW.Anthony (Tony) Waller OAM has been a Surf Lifesaver for 48 years starting in 1975, including 39 years as a rescue helicopter rescue swimmer and crewman and loves every day of it.  In addition, just a few months ago, Tony hung up his helmet after 41 years in Fire Rescue NSW, retiring as a Superintendent following an impressive career. In recognition of this outstanding service to the NSW Community, Tony was awarded an Order of Australia Medal in 2021.Named as a “Hero of the Surf” in 1994 after a run of dramatic rescues, Tony has pioneered developments in helicopter rescue operations specialising in aquatic rescue techniques.  Tony talks us through is unwavering focus on training, training, training to ensure that no matter what situation presents itself you can be as prepared as possible to undertake whatever the task is and give those in need of rescue the best possible chance of survival.Tony has dedicated over 30 years to the education of firefighters in both Rescue/ USAR and Officer Development, but it is within the sphere of Rescue and USAR that Tony's distinguished service and influence shines.  Commencing as a Primary Rescue Unit Trainer (PRUT) the early 1990's, He promoted to Station Officer and became a Senior Rescue / USAR Instructor for 10 years delivering training to hundreds of firefighters across Australia.Tony is a subject matter expert in many areas of technical rescue and has operational experience both Nationally and Internationally.  His resume is both impressive and expansive:•          Team Leader: Taskforce AUS 3 Christchurch Earthquake (2011)•          Operations Officer: NSW Taskforce 1, Cyclone Debbie, Proserpine (2017)•          Base Manager: Northern Rivers Floods 500-person Camp (2017)•          Operations Officer: AUS 2 United Nations USAR Reclassification (2018)•          Reconnaissance Team Leader AUS 2 United Nations Classification (2013)•          Previous delegate on UN's INSARAG Training Writing Team.•          Instructor: INSARAG Asia Pacific Regional Earthquake Response Exercise (Malaysia 2013, Nepal 2009)•          Instructor: USAR Coordination Cell Training Course Thai Govt. Agencies. (Mar 2019)•          Lead Coordinator: INSARAG Earthquake Response Exercise Chiang Mai Thailand (Dec 2019)Tony was also instrumental in the development and delivery of the first Swiftwater rescue training courses run by FRNSW in the early 2000's and was personally responsible for training numerous firefighters to technician level.  Tony was sent to Las Angeles County Fire Department by FRNSW Commissioner Ian McDougal as a recipient of a Firefighter development program in 1998.Tony was also heavily involved in competing in Road Crash Rescue contests both Nationally and Internationally.  He was a member of the Burwood team that was twice World Champions and also  won the World Best Medic Trophy in 1999, 2000, and 2002 and rewrote the manner in which patients of motor vehicle accidents were treated and extricated by medics.  The process taught today to our FF's was developed by Tony.So standby for a fantastic chat with a true rescue hero of our community.----------------Please check out our website: www.heart2heartwalk.org which contains links to handy links. If you need support: click on the Support Directory link on the main page.Follow the podcast on Instagram:  @h2hwalk.podcastFollow the podcast on Facebook: h2hwalk.podcastOur walk: www.heart2heartwalk.orgInstagram: @heart2heartwalk2023Facebook: Heart2HeartWalk2023Share this link to others:  https://linktr.ee/h2hwalk#H2hwalk #h2hwalkpodcast #triplezeroalliance #heart2heartwalk #firstresponderfamily #firstrespondermentalhealth#firstrespondersaustralia #firstresponder #firstresponderfamily #FirstResponderPTSD

1799 ജനുവരി 28 തിങ്കളാഴ്ച്ച. ഇൻഗ്ലണ്ടിലെ യാമത് (Yarmouth) പട്ടണത്തിൽ നിന്നും HMS പ്രോസർപ്പയിൻ (HMS Proserpine) എന്നൊരു ഫ്രിഗറ്റ് യാത്ര പുറപ്പട്ടു. പക്ഷെ ഈ കപ്പലിൽ യാത്രക്കാരോടൊപ്പം ഒരു VIP കൂടിയുണ്ടായിരുന്നു. തോമസ് ഗ്രെൻവിൽ (Thomas Grenville) എന്ന ബ്രിട്ടീഷ് പൊളിറ്റീഷ്യൻ ആയിരുന്നു അത്. സത്യത്തിൽ ഈ കപ്പലിന്റെ യാത്രയുടെ യഥാർത്ഥ ഉദ്യേശം തന്നെ ഗ്രെൻവില്ലിനെ ജർമനിയിലെ കുക്സ് ഹാഫൻ തുറമുഖത്തു എത്തിക്കുക എന്നതായിരുന്നു. ഇത് കൂടാതെ കപ്പലിൽ രണ്ടു സ്ത്രീകളും ഉണ്ടായിരുന്നു. അതിലൊരാൾ പൂർണ്ണഗർഭിണിയാണ്. മറ്റേയാളുടെ കയ്യിൽ ഒന്പത് മാസം പ്രായമുള്ള ഒരു കുഞ്ഞുമുണ്ട്. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/juliusmanuel/message

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Proserpine (Proserpina) is an opera with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully and a libretto by Philippe Quinault first performed at Saint-Germain-en-Laye on 3 February 1680.Purchase the music (without talk) at:Lully: Proserpine (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store)Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @CMDHedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you!Donate (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com

Hey Sound Sleepers! Tonight we listen to the myth about Ceres and her daughter Proserpina who was abducted by the ruler of the underworld and forced to become his wife.

Au programme de l'actu des nouvelles technologies et de l'accessibilité cette semaine : Du côté des applications et du web Accessibilité : Apple dévoile de très nombreuses fonctionnalités à venir. Sur son AppStore, Apple propose un article : Des jeux accessibles à tous. Les premières beta des mises à jour des systèmes Apple, quoi de nouveau pour l'accessibilité ? iTunes 12.12.4 pour Windows corrige plusieurs failles de sécurité. Le reste de l'actu apprendre le braille en s'amusant. La société Artha propose un dispositif vibrant de navigation pour DV. Touch2See, un dispositif pour que les personnes aveugles puissent suivre les évènements sportifs - Questionnaire - email. Let's play dans le noir, Une chaîne Youtube qui présente des tests de jeux audios accessibles. Voici le son d'un trou noir… et c'est beau. Foire Aux Questions Cette semaine, une question de Stéphane à propos de l'application Microsoft Soundscape. Le coup de coeur de Philippe Chaine Youtube Batailles de France. Chaine Youtube Médiéval1 - Un voyage au Moyen Âge. Remerciements Cette semaine, nous remercions Bertrand, Claire et Proserpine pour nous avoir fait un don ou transmis des infos. Si vous souhaitez vous aussi faire un don c'est sur la page "Soutenir Oxytude et pour les infos,, passez par le formulaire de contact.

In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Eric Saylor - a Professor of Music History at Drake University, the He is the author of English Pastoral Music: From Arcadia to Utopia, 1900–1955. His articles and reviews have been published in the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, The Musical Quarterly, The Musical Times, Musik-Konzepte, The Journal of Musicological Research, Music and Letters, the Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, and Nineteenth-Century Music Review. Dr. Saylor is also the author of the Vaughan Williams entry in Oxford Bibliographies Online, contributed a chapter on Vaughan Williams's dramatic works to the Cambridge Companion to Ralph Vaughan Williams, and was a contributor to the second edition of the New Grove Dictionary of American Music. He just recently completed a Life and Works biography of Vaughan Willams for Oxford University Press's Master Musician. Today's podcast is entitled: RVW 150. This year, 2022, is the 150th anniversary of the birth of renowned English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. To mark this occasion, Opus One will present a monumental concert on Sun, May 22 (4pm) at St John Baptist de la Salle church in Shillington, PA, entitled “A Celebration of Vaughan Williams”. The highlight of the concert will be the American premiere of "The Garden of Proserpine", a rediscovered work composed in 1899, scored for solo soprano, chorus, and a 40 piece orchestra. Other programmed works include: 6 Choral Songs to be Sung in Time of War, 5 Mystical Songs, The Voice out of the Whirlwind, and several familiar hymn tunes. For this performance, Opus One will be joined by CW's Choraliers, under the direction of Sarah McGrory, and Gov. Mifflin's Governors, under the direction of Greg Hill. Maggie Riker will serve as the soprano soloist for Garden of Proserpine and your's truly will sing the baritone solos in 5 Mystical Songs, conducted by Peter Sunderman. Tickets for the in-person event may be purchased at the door.The concert will also be available to stream online from May 26 through June 12. Please visit our website for more information - www.OpusOneChamberChoir.com Host: Christopher HosterFeatured Music:En Bateau from 'Petite Suite' by Debussy (OCTAVO's theme)*Played by Geert Ruelens and Diana Cook Selections from A Celebration of Vaughan Williams (upcoming concert) For more information about Opus One: Berks Chamber Choir, visit: www.OpusOneChamberChoir.com

This month, Donald Macleod takes a fresh look at Ralph Vaughan Williams, one of the UK's most significant music figures, as part of Radio 3's 'Vaughan Williams Today' season, marking the 150th anniversary of his birth. Ralph Vaughan Williams is one of the UK's most significant musical figures. This month, Donald Macleod takes a fresh look at this much loved composer as part of Radio 3's 'Vaughan Williams Today' season, marking the 150th anniversary of his birth Donald will be telling Vaughan Williams' life story and exploring his music in fascinating detail over the course of four weeks and twenty programmes. Interleaved with Donald's in-depth narrative accounts, some of our leading authorities on Vaughan Williams will be joining him to share new perspectives. They'll be unpacking the overlooked and less well known aspects of a composer whose body of work and diverse interests have made such an enduring imprint on British cultural life. The first week of this landmark series will focus on Vaughan Williams' formative years, and his earliest works. It could be said that Vaughan Williams was pre-destined to be a leading figure in the musical life of Great Britain. He was born in 1872 with, in his own words, "a small silver spoon in his mouth" and his mother was part of the Wedgwood and Darwin dynasties. Charles Darwin was Vaughan Williams' great uncle. Raised, after his father's early death, in the matriarchal family home Leith Hill Place in Surrey, young Ralph was encouraged in the pursuit of knowledge from an early age. The values he was exposed to growing up are reflected in his social awareness later on. He wrote music for every kind of setting, from the concert hall to the village hall. We'll follow his development from his very first attempt at writing music, Robin's Nest, to the assurance of his London Symphony. Music Featured: The Lark Ascending (excerpt) A vision of aeroplanes (excerpt) The Robin's Nest Quintet in D major - I: Allegro moderato Bucolic Suite - II. Andante; IV. Finale Songs of Travel - 3. The Roadside Fire; 4. Youth and Love In the Fen Country Songs of Travel - 1. The vagabond Heroic elegy & Triumphal Epilogue - I: Andante sostenuto Folk Songs from the Eastern Counties - No 2; No 13; No 15 Norfolk Rhapsody No 1 in E minor Five mystical songs - The Call Toward the Unknown Region The Water Mill The last invocation A Sea Symphony - III: The Waves; I: A song for all Seas (excerpt) The Garden of Proserpine (excerpt) Five mystical songs - Love bade me welcome The Wasps - Overture On Wenlock Edge - I: On Wenlock Edge; III: Is my team ploughing? The sky above the roof L'amour de Moy Quant li louseignolz jolis String Quartet No 1 in G minor - I: Allegro moderato Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis - I: Largo sostenuto Phantasy Quintet - IV: Burlesca, alla moderato A London Symphony - Scherzo Linden Lea Serenade in A minor - IV: Romance Harnham Down On Wenlock Edge - Oh, when I was in love with you; Bredon Hill A Sea Symphony - II. On the Beach at Night Alone Presented by Donald Macleod Producer Johannah Smith For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0016rjd And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

SAINT-SAËNS: Proserpine (Ópera en cuatro actos) (Acto IV) (19.10). V. Gens (sop.), M.-A. Henry (sop.), F. Antoun (ten.), A. Foster-Williams (bar.), J. Teitgen (baj.), M. Vidal (ten), Coro de la Radio de Flandes, Orq. de la Radio de Munich. Dir.: U. Schrimer. Rhapsodie d’Auvergne, Op. 73 (10.27). R. Descharmes (p.), Orq. Sinf. de Malmö. Dir.: M. Soustrot. Escuchar audio

SAINT-SAËNS: Proserpine (Ópera en cuatro actos) (Actos II y III) (41.44). V. Gens (sop.), M.-A. Henry (sop.), F. Antoun (ten.), A. Foster-Williams (bar.), J. Teitgen (baj.), M. Vidal (ten), Coro de la Radio de Flandes, Orq. de la Radio de Munich. Dir.: U. Schrimer. Escuchar audio

SAINT-SAËNS: Proserpine (Ópera en cuatro actos) (Obertura y Acto I) (33.38). V. Gens (sop.), M.-A. Henry (sop.), F. Antoun (ten.), A. Foster-Williams (bar.), J. Teitgen (baj.), M. Vidal (ten), Coro de la Radio de Flandes, Orq. de la Radio de Munich. Dir.: U. Schrimer. Wedding cake, Op. 76 (6.03). W. Soerjadi (p.), Orq. Fil. de Cámara de la Radio de Holanda. Dir.: D. Porcelijn. Escuchar audio

Hollow Earth Theory   Well hello there passengers, and welcome to yet another exciting day aboard the MidnightTrain. Today we delve deep into the mysterious, creepy, possibly conspiratorial world that is our own. What do I mean by that? Well we are digging our way to the center of truth! Today, we learn about Hollow Earth… and for the flat earthers out there… you're gonna wanna hang out for a minute before you dip outta here… also fuck you.   (Cinematic trailer voice) In a World where there exists people who think the world is a flat piece of paper with trees growing out of it and a big guy who flips the piece of paper over to switch between day and night. One man wants to change that idea. His name… is Edmund Halley. Yes that Halley. The one known for the comet he discovered. But before we explore more about him and his findings, let's discuss what led us to this revolutionary hypothesis.   So besides idiots who believe the earth is flat, I mean stupid-endous personalities, there are other more interesting characters that believe the earth is completely hollow; or at least a large part of it. This is what we call the Hollow Earth Theory. Now where did this all come from? Well, nobody cares, Moody. That's the show folks!   Ok, ok, ok… fine. Since the early times many cultures, religions, and folklore believed that there was something below our feet. Whether it's the lovely and tropical Christian Hell, the Jungle-esque Greek Underworld, the balmy Nordic Svartálfaheim, or the temperate Jewish Sheol; there is a name for one simple idea. These cultures believed it to be where we either come from or where we go when we die. This may hold some truth, or not. Guess we will know more when the time comes.   The idea of a subterranean realm is also mentioned in Tibetan Buddhist belief. According to one story from Tibetan Buddhist tradition, there is an ancient city called Shamballa which is located inside the Earth. According to the Ancient Greeks, there were caverns under the surface which were entrances leading to the underworld, some of which were the caverns at Tainaron in Lakonia, at Troezen in Argolis, at Ephya in Thesprotia, at Herakleia in Pontos, and in Ermioni. In Thracian and Dacian legends, it is said that there are caverns occupied by an ancient god called Zalmoxis. In Mesopotamian religion there is a story of a man who, after traveling through the darkness of a tunnel in the mountain of "Mashu", entered a subterranean garden. Sounds lovely.  In Celtic mythology there is a legend of a cave called "Cruachan", also known as "Ireland's gate to Hell", a mythical and ancient cave from which according to legend strange creatures would emerge and be seen on the surface of the Earth.​​ They are said to be bald, taller than most with blue eyes and a big, bushy beard… fucking Moody. There are also stories of medieval knights and saints who went on pilgrimages to a cave located in Station Island, County Donegal in Ireland, where they made journeys inside the Earth into a place of purgatory. You guys know purgatory, that place or state of suffering inhabited by the souls of sinners who are shedding their sins before going to heaven. In County Down, Northern Ireland there is a myth which says tunnels lead to the land of the subterranean Tuatha Dé Danann, who are supposedly a group of people who are believed to have introduced Druidism to Ireland, and then they said fuck it and went back underground. In Hindu mythology, the underworld is referred to as Patala. In the Bengali version of the Hindu epic Ramayana, it has been depicted how Rama and Lakshmana were taken by the king of the underworld Ahiravan, brother of the demon king Ravana. Later on they were rescued by Hanuman. Got all that? The Angami Naga tribes of India claim that their ancestors emerged in ancient times from a subterranean land inside the Earth. The Taino from Cuba believe their ancestors emerged in ancient times from two caves in a mountain underground. Natives of the Trobriand Islands believe that their ancestors had come from a subterranean land through a cavern hole called "Obukula". Mexican folklore also tells of a cave in a mountain five miles south of Ojinaga, and that Mexico is possessed by devilish creatures who came from inside the Earth. Maybe THAT'S where the Chupacabra came from! In the middle ages, an ancient German myth held that some mountains located between Eisenach and Gotha hold a portal to the inner Earth. A Russian legend says the Samoyeds, an ancient Siberian tribe, traveled to a cavern city to live inside the Earth. Luckily, they had plenty of space rope to make it back out.  The Italian writer Dante describes a hollow earth in his well-known 14th-century work Inferno, in which the fall of Lucifer from heaven caused an enormous funnel to appear in a previously solid and spherical earth, as well as an enormous mountain opposite it, "Purgatory". There's that place, again. In Native American mythology, they believed that the ancestors of the Mandan people in ancient times emerged from a subterranean land through a cave at the north side of the Missouri River. There is also a tale about a tunnel in the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona near Cedar Creek which is said to lead inside the Earth to a land inhabited by a mysterious tribe. It is also the belief of the tribes of the Iroquois that their ancient ancestors emerged from a subterranean world inside the Earth. The elders of the Hopi people believe that a Sipapu entrance in the Grand Canyon exists which leads to the underworld. Brazilian Indians, who live alongside the Parima River in Brazil, claim that their forefathers emerged in ancient times from an underground land, and that many of their ancestors still remained inside the Earth. Ancestors of the Inca supposedly came from caves which are located east of Cuzco, Peru. So, this is something that has been floating around a shit ton of ancient mythos for a long ass time. Well, ya know… before that silly thing called SCIENCE. Moving on. Now to circle back to our friend Edmund. He was born in 1656, in Haggerston in Middlesex (not to be confused with uppersex or its ill-informed cousin the powerbottomsex). He was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist; because what else was there to do in the 1600's but be a know-it-all? He was known to work with Sir Isaac Newton among other notable (but not gonna note them here) proponents to science.  In 1692 he proffered the idea that the earth was indeed hollow and had a shell about 500 miles thick with two inner concentric (having a common center, as circles or spheres… hear that flat earthers??) shells and an inner core. He proposed that the atmospheres separated the shells and that they also had their own magnetic poles and that the shells moved at different speeds. This idea was used to elucidate(shed light upon… yes pun intended) anomalous(ih-nom-uh-luhs) compass readings. He conceptualized that the inner region had its own atmosphere and possibly luminous with plausible inhabitants. MOLE PEOPLE!! He also thought that escaping gases from the inner earth caused what is now known as the Northern Lights.   Now another early ambassador to this idea was Le Clerc Milfort. Jean-Antoine Le Clerc, or known by a simpler name, Louis Milfort. Monsieur Milfort was a higher ranking French military officer who offered his services during the late 1700's. He is most notably known for leading Creek Indian warriors during the American Revolutionary War as allies of the British. I guess having a common enemy here would make sense as to why he chose this group to lead. He emigrated in 1775 to what was then known as the British Colonies of North America. But we all know there is nothing Bri'ish about us.    Now why would a higher ranking French military Officer want to emigrate from his home to a place of turmoil? Great question Moody! I knew you were paying attention. Well, a little about this French saboteur.   He was known by many aliases, but we will just stick with Louis (Louie) for all intents and purposes. Louis was born in Thin-le-Moutier, near Mezieres, France. He served in the French Military from 1764 to 1774. Now this is according to his memoir that was dated in 1802. He left France after he ended up killing a servant of the king's household in a duel. Apparently, the king's servant loved the king. So much so that when Louis read aloud a poem that he had written that included the king, the servant jumped up, tore off his glove and slapped Louis across the face not once, but 4 fucking times! This is obviously something that Louis could not just let happen, so he challenged the servant to a duel. Not just any duel, mind you. He challenged him to a duel of what was then known as a “mort de coupes de papier.” The servant died an excruciating death and Louis fled. Here is the poem that started the feud.  There's a place in France Where the naked ladies dance There's a hole in the wall Where the men can see it all But the men don't care Cause they lost their underwear And the cops never shoot Cause they think it's kind of cute There a place in France Where the alligators dance If you give them a glance They could bite you in the pants There's a place on Mars Where the ladies smoke cigars Every puff she makes Is enough to kill the snakes When the snakes all die They put diamonds in their eye When the diamonds break The dancing makes them ache When the diamonds shine They really look so fine The king and the queen Have a rubber ding-a-ling All the girls in France Have ants in their pants Yes, this is 100% bullshit… but, you'll have that shit stuck in your head for days. Now as much as we tried to find ACTUAL information as to why there was duel and why it was with a servant of the king, we couldn't find much. But after digging up some more information on Louis we found out that he ended up going back to France to be a part of the Sacred Society of Sophisians.    This group is also known as the secret society of Napoleon's Sorcerers… This may have to be a bonus episode so stay tuned for more!   Now back to the “Core” of our episode. The Creek Indians who are originally from the Muscogee [məskóɡəlɡi](Thank wikipedia) area which is southeast united states which roughly translates to the areas around Tennessee, Alabama, western Georgia and Northern Florida. Louis adapted their customs and assimilated into their Tribe.  He even married the sister of the Chief.   Now after Louis and the rest of the people in the American Revolutionary War lost to the U.S. he decided to lead the Creek Tribe on an expedition in 1781 because, well, they had nothing else to do. On this expedition they were searching for caverns where allegedly the Creek Indians ancestors had emerged from. Maybe even the Origin of Bigfoot.   Yes, the Creek Indians had believed that their ancestors lived below the earth and lived in caverns along the Red River junction of the Mississippi River. Now during the expedition they did come across these caverns which they suspected could hold 20,000 of their family in. That's pretty much all they found. They didn't have video cameras back then otherwise, I'm pretty sure they would have found footage of bigfoot though.   Another advocate was Leonhard Euler, yes, you heard right. Buehler… Buehler… No Leonard Euler. A great 18th century mathematician; or not so great if you didn't enjoy math in school unlike moody who was the biggest nerd when it came to math.    Euler founded the study of graph theory and topology. No moody, not on-top-ology. Mind always in the gutter. Euler influenced many other discoveries such as analytic number theory, complex analysis, and the coolest subject ever; Infinitesimal Calculus. Which is Latin for BULLSHIT.   But anyways I digress. This guy knew his stuff BUT he did think with all his “infinite” wisdom that the earth was in fact hollow and had no inner shells but instead had a six hundred mile diameter sun in the center. The most intriguing and plausible theory he had within this whole idea was that you could enter into this interior from the northern and southern poles. Let's hold to that cool hypothesis for right now and move along with our next Interesting goon of the hollow earth community.   With Halley's spheres and Eulers's Holes came another great man with another great theory. Captain John Symmes! Yes you know Captain Symmes. HE was a hero in the war of 1812 after being sent with his Regiment to Canada and providing relief to American forces at the battle of Lundy's Lane. He was well known as a trader and lecturer after he left the army.    In 1818 Symmes announced his theory on Hollow Earth to the World! With his publication of his Circular No. 1.   “I declare the earth is hollow, and habitable within; containing a number of solid concentric spheres, one within the other, and that it is open at the poles 12 or 16 degrees; I pledge my life in support of this truth, and am ready to explore the hollow, if the world will support and aid me in the undertaking.”— John Cleves Symmes Jr., Symmes' Circular No. 1  While there were few people who would consider Symmes as the “Newton of the West”, most of the world was less than impressed. Although his theory wasn't as popular as one would expect, you gotta admire the confidence he had.   Symmes sent this declaration at a rather hefty cost to himself to “each notable foreign government, reigning prince, legislature, city, college, and philosophical societies, throughout the union, and to individual members of our National Legislature, as far as the five hundred copies would go.”15]   Symmes would then be followed by an exorbitant amount of ridicule for his proclamation, as many intellectuals were back then. This ridicule would later influence a rather bold move, Cotton. We'll touch on this later.    What was so special about his theory that got 98% of the world not on the edge of their seats? Well, to start he believed the Earth had five concentric spheres with where we live to be the largest  of the spheres. He also believed that the crust was 1000 miles thick with an arctic opening about 4000 miles wide and an antarctic opening around 6000 miles wide. He argued that because of the centrifugal force of the Earth's rotation that the poles would be flattened which would cause such a gradual gradation that you would travel into the Hollow Earth without even knowing you even did it.   Eventually he refined his theory because of such ridicule and criticism. Now his theory consists of just a single hollow sphere instead of five concentric spheres. So, now that we know all about symmes and his theory, why don't we talk about what he decided to do with his theory?    What do you think, Moody? You think he created a cult so he could be ostracized? Or do you think he gave up and realized he was silly? Hate to be the bearer of bad news here but he decided to take his theory and convince the U.S. congress to fund and organize an expedition to the south pole to enter the inner earth.    Good news and bad news folks. Good news, congress back then actually had some people with heads on their shoulders as opposed to those today and they said fuck that noise and denied funding for his expedition. Hamilton, Ohio even has a monument to him and his ideas. Fuckin' Ohio. Next up on our list of “what the fuck were they thinking?” We have Jeremiah Reynolds. He also delivered lectures on the "Hollow Earth" and argued for an expedition. I guess back in those days people just up and went to the far reaches of the earth just to prove a point. Reynolds said “look what I can do” and went on an expedition to Antarctica himself but missed joining the Great U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842, even though that venture was a result of his craziness, I MEAN “INTEREST”. He gained support from marine and scientific societies and, in 1828, successfully lobbied the House of Representatives to pass a resolution asking then-President John Quincy Adams to deploy a research vessel to the Pacific. The president, for his part, had first mentioned Reynolds in his November 4, 1826, diary entry, writing: “Mr Reynolds is a man who has been lecturing about the Country, in support of Captain John Cleves Symmes's theory that the Earth is a hollow Sphere, open at the Poles— His Lectures are said to have been well attended, and much approved as exhibitions of genius and of Science— But the Theory itself has been so much ridiculed, and is in truth so visionary, that Reynolds has now varied his purpose to the proposition of fitting out a voyage of circumnavigation to the Southern Ocean— He has obtained numerous signatures in Baltimore to a Memorial to Congress for this object, which he says will otherwise be very powerfully supported— It will however have no support in Congress. That day will come, but not yet nor in my time. May it be my fortune, and my praise to accelerate its approach.”  Adams' words proved prophetic. Though his administration opted to fund Reynolds' expedition, the voyage was waylaid by the 1828 presidential election, which found Adams roundly defeated by Andrew Jackson. The newly elected president canceled the expedition, leaving Reynolds to fund his trip through other sources. (The privately supported venture set sail in 1829 but ended in disaster, with the crew mutinying and leaving Reynolds' ass on shore.) Per Boston 1775, the U.S. Exploring Expedition only received the green light under the country's eighth president, Martin Van Buren. As Howard Dorre explains on his Plodding Through the Presidents blog, multiple media outlets (including Smithsonian, in an earlier version of this article) erroneously interpreted Adams' description of Reynolds' ideas as “visionary” as a sign of his support for the hollow earth theory. In fact, notes Bell in a separate Boston 1775 blog post, the term's connotations at the time were largely negative. In the words of 18th-century English writer Samuel Johnson, a visionary was “one whose imagination is disturbed.” The president, adds Dorre, only agreed to support the polar expedition “after Reynolds abandoned the hollow earth idea.”  I had always heard that he was a believer in mole people and hollow earth, turns out his words were just misinterpreted. Hmm… I wonder if there are any other books out there where the overall ideas and verbage could and have been misinterpreted causing insane amounts of disingenuous beliefs? Nah!   Though Symmes himself never wrote a book about his ideas, several authors published works discussing his ideas. McBride wrote Symmes' Theory of Concentric Spheres in 1826. It appears that Reynolds has an article that appeared as a separate booklet in 1827: Remarks of Symmes' Theory Which Appeared in the American Quarterly Review. In 1868, a professor W.F. Lyons published The Hollow Globe which put forth a Symmes-like Hollow Earth hypothesis, but failed to mention Symmes himself. Because fuck that guy, right? Symmes's son Americus then published The Symmes' Theory of Concentric Spheres in 1878 to set the record straight. I think the duel would have been a better idea. Sir John Leslie proposed a hollow Earth in his 1829 Elements of Natural Philosophy (pp. 449–53). In 1864, in Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne described a hollow Earth containing two rotating binary stars, named Pluto and Proserpine. Ok… fiction. We get it. William Fairfield Warren, in his book Paradise Found–The Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole, (1885) presented his belief that humanity originated on a continent in the Arctic called Hyperborea. This influenced some early Hollow Earth proponents. According to Marshall Gardner, both the Eskimo and Mongolian peoples had come from the interior of the Earth through an entrance at the North Pole. I wonder if they knew that.    NEQUA or The Problem of the Ages, first serialized in a newspaper printed in Topeka, Kansas in 1900 and considered an early feminist utopian novel, mentions John Cleves Symmes' theory to explain its setting in a hollow Earth. An early 20th-century proponent of hollow Earth, William Reed, wrote Phantom of the Poles in 1906. He supported the idea of a hollow Earth, but without interior shells or inner sun. Ok, no sun. Got it. The spiritualist writer Walburga, Lady Paget in her book Colloquies with an unseen friend (1907) was an early writer to mention the hollow Earth hypothesis. She claimed that cities exist beneath a desert, which is where the people of Atlantis moved. Mmmk. Deserts and Atlantis. Check. She said an entrance to the subterranean kingdom will be discovered in the 21st century. Pretty broad brush she's painting with there. Next up we're gonna talk a little about Admiral Richard E. Byrd. According to Hollow Earth theorists, Byrd met an ancient race underground in the South Pole. According to Byrd's “diary,” the government ordered Byrd to remain silent for what he witnessed during his Arctic assignment:              March 11, 1947 “I have just attended a Staff Meeting at the Pentagon. I have stated fully my discovery and the message from the Master. All is duly recorded. The President has been advised. I am now detained for several hours (six hours, thirty- nine minutes, to be exact.) I am interviewed intently by Top Security Forces and a Medical Team. It was an ordeal!!!! I am placed under strict control via the National Security provisions of this United States of America. I am ORDERED TO REMAIN SILENT IN REGARD TO ALL THAT I HAVE LEARNED, ON THE BEHALF OF HUMANITY!!! Incredible! I am reminded that I am a Military Man and I must obey orders.” After many polar accomplishments, Byrd organized Operation Highjump in 1947. The objective: construct an American training and research facility in the South Pole. Highjump was a significant illustration of the state of the world and the cold war thinking at the time. The nuclear age had just begun, and the real fears were that the Soviet Union would attack the United States over the North Pole. The Navy had done a training exercise there in the summer of 1946 and felt it needed to do more. The northern winter was coming, and Highjump was a quickly planned exercise to move the whole thing to the South Pole. Politically, the orders were that the Navy should do all it could to establish a basis for a [land] claim in Antarctica. That was classified at the time.Now Operation High jump could probably be its own episode, or is at minimum a bonus. But we'll get some of the important details on how it pertains to this episode. Some say the American government sent their troops to the South Pole for any evidence of the rumored German Base 211. Nazis were fascinated with anything regarding the Aryan race. They traveled all over the world including Antarctica to learn more of alleged origins. The Germans did make their mark in the South Pole. However, what they have discovered doesn't compared to what Byrd recorded in his diary. the time. The nuclear age had just begun, and the real fears were that the Soviet Union would attack the United States over the North Pole. The Navy had done a training exerci but was that all it was   “For thousands of years, people all over the world have written legends about Agartha (sometimes called Agarta or Agarthi), the underground city. Agartha (sometimes Agartta, Agharti, Agarath, Agarta or Agarttha) is a legendary kingdom that is said to be located in the Earth's core. Agartha is frequently associated or confused with Shambhala which figures prominently in Vajrayana Buddhism and Tibetan Kalachakra teachings and revived in the West by Madame Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society. Theosophists in particular regard Agarthi as a vast complex of caves underneath Tibet inhabited by demi-gods, called asuras. Helena and Nicholas Roerich, whose teachings closely parallel theosophy, see Shambhala's existence as both spiritual and physical. Did Byrd find it? He claims to have met “The Master,” the city's leader, who told him of his concerns about the surface world: “Our interest rightly begins just after your Race exploded the first atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. It was that alarming time we sent our flying machines, the ‘Flugelrads' to your surface world to investigate what your Race had done…You see, we have never interfered before in your Race's wars and barbarity. But now we must, for you have learned to tamper with a certain power that is not for your Man, mainly that of atomic energy. Our emissaries have already delivered messages to the power of your World, and yet they do not heed.” Apparently, the government knew about Agartha before Byrd. Marshall Gardner wrote A Journey to the Earth's Interior in 1913 and published an expanded edition in 1920. He placed an interior sun in the Earth (ah ha! The Sun's back!) and built a working model of the Hollow Earth which he actually fucking patented (U.S. Patent 1,096,102). Gardner made no mention of Reed, but did criticize Symmes for his ideas. DUEL TIME! Around the same time, Vladimir Obruchev wrote a novel titled Plutonia, in which the Hollow Earth possessed an inner Sun and was inhabited by prehistoric species. The interior was connected with the surface by an opening in the Arctic. The explorer Ferdynand Ossendowski wrote a book in 1922 titled Beasts, Men and Gods. Ossendowski said he was told about a subterranean kingdom that exists inside the Earth. It was known to Buddhists as Agharti. George Papashvily in his Anything Can Happen (1940) claimed the discovery in the Caucasus mountains of a cavern containing human skeletons "with heads as big as bushel baskets" and an ancient tunnel leading to the center of the Earth. One man entered the tunnel and never returned. This dude was a sniper with the Imperial Russian Army during World War I Moody is going to love these next examples.  Novelist Lobsang Rampa in his book The Cave of the Ancients said an underground chamber system exists beneath the Himalayas of Tibet, filled with ancient machinery, records and treasure. Michael Grumley, a cryptozoologist, has linked Bigfoot and other hominid cryptids to ancient tunnel systems underground. According to the ancient astronaut writer Peter Kolosimo a robot was seen entering a tunnel below a monastery in Mongolia. Kolosimo also claimed a light was seen from underground in Azerbaijan. Kolosimo and other ancient astronaut writers such as Robert Charroux linked these activities to DUN DUN DUNNNN….UFOs. A book by a "Dr. Raymond Bernard" which appeared in 1964, The Hollow Earth, exemplifies the idea of UFOs coming from inside the Earth, and adds the idea that the Ring Nebula proves the existence of hollow worlds, as well as speculation on the fate of Atlantis and the origin of flying saucers. An article by Martin Gardner revealed that Walter Siegmeister used the pseudonym "Bernard", but not until the 1989 publishing of Walter Kafton-Minkel's Subterranean Worlds: 100,000 Years of Dragons, Dwarfs, the Dead, Lost Races & UFOs from Inside the Earth did the full story of Bernard/Siegmeister become well-known. Holy fucking book title, Batman!   The science fiction pulp magazine Amazing Stories promoted one such idea from 1945 to 1949 as "The Shaver Mystery". The magazine's editor, Ray Palmer, ran a series of stories by Richard Sharpe Shaver, claiming that a superior pre-historic race had built a honeycomb of caves in the Earth, and that their degenerate descendants, known as "Dero", live there TO THIS DAY, using the fantastic machines abandoned by the ancient races to torment those of us living on the surface. As one characteristic of this torment, Shaver described "voices" that purportedly came from no explainable source. Thousands of readers wrote to affirm that they, too, had heard the fiendish voices from inside the Earth. The writer David Hatcher Childress authored Lost Continents and the Hollow Earth(1998) in which he reprinted the stories of Palmer and defended the Hollow Earth idea based on alleged (cough… “alleged”) tunnel systems beneath South America and Central Asia. Hollow Earth proponents have claimed a number of different locations for the entrances which lead inside the Earth. Other than the North and South poles, entrances in locations which have been cited include: Paris in France, Staffordshire in England, Montreal in Canada, Hangchow in China, and The Amazon Rain Forest.   Ok, have you two gents heard of the Concave Hollow Earth Theory? It doesn't matter, we're still going to talk about this lunacy. Instead of saying that humans live on the outside surface of a hollow planet—sometimes called a "convex" Hollow Earth hypothesis—some whackamuffins have claimed humans live on the inside surface of a hollow spherical world, so that our universe itself lies in that world's interior. This has been called the "concave" Hollow Earth hypothesis or skycentrism. Cyrus Teed, a doctor from upstate New York, proposed such a concave Hollow Earth in 1869, calling his scheme "Cellular Cosmogony". He might as well have called it Goobery Kabooblenuts. See, I can make up words, too. Anyway, Teed founded a group called the Koreshan Unity based on this notion, which he called Koreshanity. Which sounds like insanity and would make far more sense. The main colony survives as a preserved Florida state historic site, at Estero, Florida, but all of Teed's followers have now died. Probably from eating Tide Pods. Teed's followers claimed to have experimentally verified the concavity of the Earth's curvature, through surveys of the Florida coastline making use of "rectilineator" equipment. Which sounds like something you use to clean out your colon.   Several 20th-century German writers, including Peter Bender, Johannes Lang, Karl Neupert, and Fritz Braut, published works advocating the Hollow Earth hypothesis, or Hohlweltlehre. It has even been reported, although apparently without historical documentation, that Adolf Hitler was influenced by concave Hollow Earth ideas and sent an expedition in an unsuccessful attempt to spy on the British fleet by pointing infrared cameras up at the sky. Oh boy. The Egyptian mathematician Mostafa “Admiral Akbar” Abdelkader wrote several scholarly papers working out a detailed mapping of the Concave Earth model In one chapter of his book On the Wild Side (1992), Martin Gardner discusses the Hollow Earth model articulated by Abdelkader. According to Gardner, this hypothesis posits that light rays travel in circular paths, and slow as they approach the center of the spherical star-filled cavern. No energy can reach the center of the cavern, which corresponds to no point a finite distance away from Earth in the widely accepted scientific cosmology. A drill, Gardner says, would lengthen as it traveled away from the cavern and eventually pass through the "point at infinity" corresponding to the center of the Earth in the widely accepted scientific cosmology. Supposedly no experiment can distinguish between the two cosmologies. Christ, my head hurts. Gardner notes that "most mathematicians believe that an inside-out universe, with properly adjusted physical laws, is empirically irrefutable". Gardner rejects the concave Hollow Earth hypothesis on the basis of Occam's razor. Occam's razor is the problem-solving principle that "entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity", sometimes inaccurately paraphrased as "the simplest explanation is usually the best one." Purportedly verifiable hypotheses of a Concave Hollow Earth need to be distinguished from a thought experiment which defines a coordinate transformation such that the interior of the Earth becomes "exterior" and the exterior becomes "interior". (For example, in spherical coordinates, let radius r go to R2/r where R is the Earth's radius; see inversive geometry.) The transformation entails corresponding changes to the forms of physical laws. This is not a hypothesis but an illustration of the fact that any description of the physical world can be equivalently expressed in more than one way.   Contrary evidence   Seismic The picture of the structure of the Earth that has been arrived at through the study of seismic waves[52] is quite different from a fully hollow Earth. The time it takes for seismic waves to travel through and around the Earth directly contradicts a fully hollow sphere. The evidence indicates the Earth is mostly filled with solid rock (mantle and crust), liquid nickel-iron alloy (outer core), and solid nickel-iron (inner core).[53]   Gravity Main articles: Schiehallion experiment and Cavendish experiment Another set of scientific arguments against a Hollow Earth or any hollow planet comes from gravity. Massive objects tend to clump together gravitationally, creating non-hollow spherical objects such as stars and planets. The solid spheroid is the best way in which to minimize the gravitational potential energy of a rotating physical object; having hollowness is unfavorable in the energetic sense. In addition, ordinary matter is not strong enough to support a hollow shape of planetary size against the force of gravity; a planet-sized hollow shell with the known, observed thickness of the Earth's crust would not be able to achieve hydrostatic equilibrium with its own mass and would collapse.   Based upon the size of the Earth and the force of gravity on its surface, the average density of the planet Earth is 5.515 g/cm3, and typical densities of surface rocks are only half that (about 2.75 g/cm3). If any significant portion of the Earth were hollow, the average density would be much lower than that of surface rocks. The only way for Earth to have the force of gravity that it does is for much more dense material to make up a large part of the interior. Nickel-iron alloy under the conditions expected in a non-hollow Earth would have densities ranging from about 10 to 13 g/cm3, which brings the average density of Earth to its observed value.   Direct observation Drilling holes does not provide direct evidence against the hypothesis. The deepest hole drilled to date is the Kola Superdeep Borehole,[54] with a true vertical drill-depth of more than 7.5 miles (12 kilometers). However, the distance to the center of the Earth is nearly 4,000 miles (6,400 kilometers). Oil wells with longer depths are not vertical wells; the total depths quoted are measured depth (MD) or equivalently, along-hole depth (AHD) as these wells are deviated to horizontal. Their true vertical depth (TVD) is typically less than 2.5 miles (4 kilometers).   Ok, then let's discuss what actual scientists, like ALL OF THEM, believe the earth is actually composed of. The inner core This solid metal ball has a radius of 1,220 kilometers (758 miles), or about three-quarters that of the moon. It's located some 6,400 to 5,180 kilometers (4,000 to 3,220 miles) beneath Earth's surface. Extremely dense, it's made mostly of iron and nickel. The inner core spins a bit faster than the rest of the planet. It's also intensely hot: Temperatures sizzle at 5,400° Celsius (9,800° Fahrenheit). That's almost as hot as the surface of the sun. Pressures here are immense: well over 3 million times greater than on Earth's surface. Some research suggests there may also be an inner, inner core. It would likely consist almost entirely of iron.   The outer core   This part of the core is also made from iron and nickel, just in liquid form. It sits some 5,180 to 2,880 kilometers (3,220 to 1,790 miles) below the surface. Heated largely by the radioactive decay of the elements uranium and thorium, this liquid churns in huge, turbulent currents. That motion generates electrical currents. They, in turn, generate Earth's magnetic field. For reasons somehow related to the outer core, Earth's magnetic field reverses about every 200,000 to 300,000 years. Scientists are still working to understand how that happens.   The mantle   At close to 3,000 kilometers (1,865 miles) thick, this is Earth's thickest layer. It starts a mere 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) beneath the surface. Made mostly of iron, magnesium and silicon, it is dense, hot and semi-solid (think caramel candy). Like the layer below it, this one also circulates. It just does so far more slowly. Near its upper edges, somewhere between about 100 and 200 kilometers (62 to 124 miles) underground, the mantle's temperature reaches the melting point of rock. Indeed, it forms a layer of partially melted rock known as the asthenosphere (As-THEEN-oh-sfeer). Geologists believe this weak, hot, slippery part of the mantle is what Earth's tectonic plates ride upon and slide across.   Diamonds are tiny pieces of the mantle we can actually touch. Most form at depths above 200 kilometers (124 miles). But rare “super-deep” diamonds may have formed as far down as 700 kilometers (435 miles) below the surface. These crystals are then brought to the surface in volcanic rock known as kimberlite.   The mantle's outermost zone is relatively cool and rigid. It behaves more like the crust above it. Together, this uppermost part of the mantle layer and the crust are known as the lithosphere. The crust   Earth's crust is like the shell of a hard-boiled egg. It is extremely thin, cold and brittle compared to what lies below it. The crust is made of relatively light elements, especially silica, aluminum and oxygen. It's also highly variable in its thickness. Under the oceans (and Hawaiian Islands), it may be as little as 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) thick. Beneath the continents, the crust may be 30 to 70 kilometers (18.6 to 43.5 miles) thick.   Along with the upper zone of the mantle, the crust is broken into big pieces, like a gigantic jigsaw puzzle. These are known as tectonic plates. These move slowly — at just 3 to 5 centimeters (1.2 to 2 inches) per year. What drives the motion of tectonic plates is still not fully understood. It may be related to heat-driven convection currents in the mantle below. Some scientists think it's caused by the tug from slabs of crust of different densities, something called “slab pull.” In time, these plates will converge, pull apart or slide past each other. Those actions cause most earthquakes and volcanoes. 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GUYS THIS STORY ABOUT A MAN AND HIS SON ESCAPING A CROCODILE IS PHENOMENAL! It happened this week in Proserpine and the chances of survival were EXTREMELY thin! Plus, Elly's convinced Picasso is overrated guys. It's not what they intended on talking about when they set out but it takes a few turns along the way! Magic Mike the 72-year-old entertainment reporter is back to his sparkling best and Feck Up Fridays provides the goods yet again when it comes to bloopers! And Snaplock, DOWN is back for the final time!Enjoy!

Taryn is a mother of three, living in remote Queensland. She has travelled thousands of kms to birth and no one birth was the same. Induction, epidural, venthouse extraction, natural, shoulder dystocia, 4th degree tear, caesarean. Taryn fell pregnant whilst living on a remote cattle station in the Gulf of Carpentaria. Living remotely the closest ‘quick access' medical facility was 65 kms away, in a clinic, in Croydon. Although 65 kms sounds accessible flooding was an issue and it was not a fulltime facility. This facility was fly in, fly out and a doctor was only available once a fortnight. During Taryn's first pregnancy, on the advice of friends in the medical field, she sought care with a private obstetrician in Brisbane at Mater Mothers. This obstetrician had experience working with rural women and so the advice Taryn received was relevant and showed consideration of her circumstances. For Taryn to reach Brisbane she needed to travel 2500 kms from home. This drive took days, requiring numerous overnight stops, and so Taryn only saw her care providers at the beginning and the end of her pregnancy. It is an official/legislated requirement that remote birthing women relocate prior to birth. They are required to leave home during the ‘possible birthing window' and so Taryn relocated 6 weeks prior to her due date and began the process of waiting for her scheduled induction. She shares that although the drive was long and hard, being late in her third trimester, that it was not as difficult as the trip home. On the return trip travelling with a newly born infant, who was learning to feed, was difficult. After this first, positive birth experience, Taryn felt like a birth expert and so for her second pregnancy she chose to birth closer to home at a small, public hospital. This time Taryn would relocate to her parent's house, only 1000 kms away in Proserpine. Both her grandfather and her father had been born in this small, rural maternity unit and so going in she felt good about this change of plan. Again, Taryn relocated. Arriving in town 6 weeks prior to her due date allowed Taryn to begin care with her hospital and rather than working with an obstetric specialist in this system she experienced midwife led care. Taryn went into labour naturally. Everything seemed to be going well but when things reached the pointy end and her son was crowning, his head would move in and out. A new doctor diagnosed that her baby was stuck (shoulder dystocia) and with hands on assistance her baby was born, although Taryn sustained a high order injury and needed to be transferred to Mackay. Having experienced two very different births, and dealing with some trauma around her second birth, when Taryn found out she was pregnant for a third time she sought an elective caesarean. She found the remote post-partum healing from a caesarean a lot easier than her birth related injury from her son's birth. Every one of Taryn's birth experiences was different. She is a strong, independent and resilient person who took her remote care circumstances in her stride – but she also shares that having one good friend, who understands and who can listen to/hear you, makes all the difference in remote pregnancy, postpartum and motherhood.

Nights Black Agents > The Dracula Dossier 2: Knowledge and MemoryGoing along with Osprey's deal, Mr. Durin is tasked with infiltrating the H.M.S. Proserpine to rescue none other than Lucy Westera. (Apparently she isn't as dead as the Dossier would lead you to believe.) A plan is concocted, equipment is acquired, transportation is arranged and the entire thing goes off without a single hitch…until someone rolls a 1.

Rosanna Carteri is, for me, an example of a "lost art" in opera. She possesses the emotion, the attention to word and phrase, the beauty of voice, and all the elements that I honestly feel are so rare in these days. I am not intending to denigrate anyone, but you "cognoscenti" by now (with slight prejudice from me)  might understand what I mean. I hope you enjoy this soprano as I do  (71 min.) Rosanna Carteri (born 14 December 1930) was an Italian soprano primarily active in the 1950s through the mid-1960s. Rosanna Carteri was born in Verona but was raised in Padua. She studied with Cusinati and started singing in concert at the age of twelve. She won a RAI singing contest in 1948 which led to her operatic debut at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome as Elsa in Lohengrin in 1949, aged only 19. She made her La Scala debut in 1951. Other debuts were at the Salzburg Festival as Desdemona in Otello in 1952 under the direction of Wilhelm Furtwängler, San Francisco as Mimi in La Bohème in 1954, the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Marguerite in Faust in 1955, the Arena di Verona as Mimi in 1958, Covent Garden as Tosca in 1960, Opéra de Paris in 1961 as Violetta in La Traviata. Carteri made a few recordings for Cetra early in her career, in such operas as Guglielmo Tell, La Bohème and Suor Angelica. She recorded La Traviata for RCA Victor with Cesare Valletti and Leonard Warren under the direction of Pierre Monteux. She participated in several television productions for RAI such as Le nozze di Figaro, La Traviata, Otello, and Falstaff. Carteri also participated in the creation of some contemporary works such as Ifegenia by Ildebrando Pizzetti in 1950, Proserpine e le straniero by Juan José Castro in 1952, Calzare d'argento again by Pizzetti in 1961 and Il mercante di Venizia by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco also in 1961. Retirement Carteri decided to retire from singing in the mid-1960s while still only in her thirties to devote herself to her family.

First class on Ovid -- Milton's versions of Ovidian creation (from Chaos and pure matter, not ab nihilo) and of Proserpine gathering flowers.  Ovid's mythic consistency compared to Plato's theory of the consistency or coherence of truth.  Brief account of the parable of the cave in the Republic,

Rosanna Carteri, one of the most emotional divas in my experience, is heard in material from Adriana, Lodoletta,Turandot, Mme.Butterfly (w.Carlo Bergonzi), Suor Angelica, La Traviata, La Boheme (w.Giuseppe Taddei). Bio to follow   (69 min.) Rosanna Carteri (born December 14, 1930) was an Italian soprano primarily active in the 1950s through the mid-1960s. Rosanna Carteri was born in Verona and studied with Cusinati and started singing in concert at the age of twelve. She won a RAI singing contest in 1948 which led to her operatic debut at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome as Elsa in Lohengrin in 1949, aged only 19. She made her La Scala debut in 1951. Other debuts were at the Salzburg Festival as Desdemona in Otello in 1952 under the direction of Wilhelm Furtwängler, San Francisco as Mimi in La Bohème in 1954, the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Marguerite in Faust in 1955, the Arena di Verona as Mimi in 1958, Covent Garden as Tosca in 1960, Opéra de Paris in 1961 as Violetta in La Traviata. Carteri made a few recordings for Cetra early in her career, such as Matilde in Guglielmo Tell, opposite Giuseppe Taddei, La Bohème with Ferruccio Tagliavini and Suor Angelica. She also recorded La Traviata for RCA Victor with Cesare Valletti and Leonard Warren under the direction of Pierre Monteux. She participated in several television productions for RAI such as Le nozze di Figaro, La Traviata, Otello and Falstaff. Carteri also participated in the creation of some contemporary works such as Ifegenia by Ildebrando Pizzetti in 1950, Proserpine e le straniero by Juan Jose Castro in 1952, Calzare d'argento again by Pizzetti in 1961 and Il mercante di Venizia by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco also in 1961. Rosanna Carteri decided to retire from singing in the mid-1960s while still only in her thirties to devote herself to her family.