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[dance-world]

Harry Ondrak-Wright - photo by David Hay

[dwellordream]

“Among the Germanic warriors of the early Middle Ages, the ceremonial bestowal of shield and spear ushered free boys into manhood. Peasant, monastic, and bourgeois conceptions of masculinity were never tied quite so closely to martial prowess, but aristocratic men continued to define themselves as bellatores (“those who make war”) from the emergence of the knight in the eleventh century well into the early modern period. The twelfth century chivalric poet and troubadour Betran de Born thus derided the manhood of those untrained in the use of lance and sword, while other knights shamed comrades into joining crusades by sending them presents of wool and distaffs.”

“The normative prohibitions and binary symbolism of medieval arms and armor were not transparent reflections of social realities, however. Women operated the stonethrower that struck and killed Simon de Montfort the Elder, the leader of the Albigensian Crusade, at the siege of Toulouse in 1218, for example. While greater upper-body strength may have given men an advantage when using certain close-combat weapons, modern archaeologists have now unearthed enough swords and spears from unmistakably female graves to show that men did not have a monopoly even on these. Women are known to have manufactured everything from bows and arrows to suits of mail, and some continued to use this equipment even as it grew heavier (and armor in particular became more common) in the high and later Middle Ages.”

- David Hay, “Arms and Armor.” in Margaret Schaus’ Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia

[nofatclips]

Breathless by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds from the album The Lyre of Orpheus - Video directed by Ben Dawkins

[allthecanadianpolitics]

$1.7M in severance paid to former NB Power CEO David Hay

Hay did not file objection to having amount released

After nearly eight years of keeping the amount secret, NB Power is acknowledging it had to pay its former president David Hay the equivalent of four years pay — just over $1.7 million — following his sudden departure from the utility in January 2010.  

"We have come to the conclusion that we will grant disclosure to this information,"  NB Power's Chief Legal Officer Wanda Harrison wrote in a letter to CBC News last month following a right to information request made about Hay's settlement package in July.

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[tunafishjournal]

Union

To seek beauty is to seek truth;

Sacred are the heart’s needs,

Bound for the summit

Not the nadir of satisfaction,

Unshaped by tenderness.

In this dying land of tea and crumpets

And too much cheap wine,

I seek it in the trees

In the depthless eyes of the storm-free sky,

In the streams and rivers that transcribe

The clouds meaning,

Yes it’s obvious there,

But I see it also

In Saturday night takeaways,

In bursting bin-bags

Abandoned in dark alleyways

Reeking of piss;

I see it on brick-buildings

By train lines, plastered in shit graffiti,

Like T-Bone 2k6.

Of the train itself navigating,

The detritus landscapes

Of homeless men and women

Coated in each season’s distaste,

And the grime of each human failure

Embedded in scars

Never healed,

Even here in the midst of avoidable tragedy

Is the holiness of the heart displayed–

Be it in the soft stroke of a loyal dog

Better fed than its owner,

Or the gentle sigh and nod of disbelief,

As two parallel lives intersect,

Communion is found and therefore

Human truth’s beating heart is pierced,

Silence is broken by dawn’s drunken serenade,

Death is denied only through its embrace;

Beauty lurks even in the deepest grief,

Godless arm in arm we stand

In our cathedral of stars,

Harmonising in bodily syllables

With the nightingale’s song.

- David Hay, TFJ Issue One: Celebrations

[ntmarketscom]

Mauldin Economics. Outside the Box: Future Bull - by John Mauldin #Bull

Mauldin Economics. Outside the Box: Future Bull – by John Mauldin #Bull

Outside the Box: Future Bull By John Mauldin

In a conversation this morning, I remarked how rapidly things change. It was less than 20 years ago that cutting-edge tech for listening to music was the cassette tape. We blew right past CDs, and now we all consume music from the cloud on our phones. Boom. Almost overnight.

A lot has changed about the global economy and politics, too. Things that…

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[ntmarketscom]

Mauldin Economics. Outside the Box: Gave & Gave …and Hay - by John Mauldin #davidhay #bondyields

  This week John brings us Gave & Gave… and Hay by David Hay of Evergreen Capital Management, Why Are Bond Yields So Low?  by Louis Gave, and The Problem with Piketty by Charles Gave.

 Outside the Box: Gave & Gave … and Hay

By John Mauldin My good friend David Hay, Chief Investment Officer at Evergreen Capital Managementin Bellevue, WA, has saved me the trouble of writing an introduction to the…

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[politicsbaby]

Where the hell did this Greens leadership challenge chaos come from? Anyone know if it's a happening thing? Because I think that Colin Craig stands more of a chance at winning leadership from Russel Norman than David Hay does to be brutally honest.