We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny. The most alarming spectacle today
is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it is
the spectacle of the Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty
oaths and witchhunts, beginning to call anybody
they don't like a Communist. -E.B. White, writer (11 Jul 1899-1985)
A few photos from Kaleden SE Hills, July 11th, 2016 Sorry to be late, tremendous PC problems (yes you guessed it ....Windows 10). Was a great hike, great views, great group. Cheers, Aart
Patrizzio! Greetings back from down under! Sorry we have been so silent, life seems
to get in the way of these sorts of things. We have been a bit busy - I
started a new job 2 months ago (no more commuting to Christchurch) at
Scion, the Forest Research Institute, and
Gemma has been working on a big genetics project. In between, we have
been trying to escape for weekends away to explore more of NZ. We should
be back in BC at Christmas, so hopefully you will be around and we can
come visit!
Sorry for the large files. I will learn Picasaweb soon! I just got my camera.... Pam Here are my pics, sending them by email lower resolution, instead of going through Flickr, otherwise too big. Thanks for a great day! Cheers, Aart Sorry to be late, tremendous PC problems (yes you guessed it ....Windows 10). Was a great hike, great views, great group. Cheers, Aart
Hello Bidding Maniacs! Just a quick reminder that Lady Dar and
Patrizzio will be hosting bridge tomorrow evening, anytime after 6:30
pm, so hope to see as many of you as possible. Let me know if you will
attend so that we can plan accordingly. Cheers, Three-No-Trump
Patrizzio!
Thanks Patrick for the invitation, but that evening I have a date with my wife, so I will be busy :-) Cheers, Mike Hi Patrick,Thanks you for hosting but I will not be there tomorrow night. Hope to see you soon.
Kathy Biking tomorrow. Colleen
Hello Patrick, I hope your body has recovered, and you must know that we are all very proud of you. Tomorrow I have to miss bridge again.Have fun, and we will catch up this weekend. Still planning to be at your house at 1 pm on Thursday. Cheers, Jos.
Dear Patrick, Anthea Bryan just made a donation in support of your event. You are now one step closer to your fundraising goal! Hi Patrizzio, It worked! Thanks for the tip. Hope you had a great ride. Great job fundraising for a very worthy cause! Have fun in at the Festival and thanks for reminding me about your connection to Will Valley. I will mention it to Julian. Cheers Anthea
In 1517, a monk named Martin Luther posted his 95 theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle church and started a revolution called the Protestant Reformation. In the early years of this movement, the pervasive power and wealth of the pope or the Holy Roman Emperor could have "nipped the Lutheran movement in the bud," except for the actions of the ruler of Islam:
"The Holy Roman Empire of the German nation had become the major
power in Central Europe before Charles, scion of the House of Habsburg,
was elected emperor at the age of nineteen. In addition to Austria and
Hungary, the Habsburgs had gained control over
the Low Countries and Spain through strategic marriages that made
Charles the grandson of Spain's rulers, Ferdinand and Isabella.
After
Charles was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 1519, he was so preoccupied
with Italy and Spain that he returned to Germany only
once during the next eleven years. At Worms in 1521 Charles presided
over the governing convention of the empire, called a diet, attended by
the rulers of German cities and territories. ... At the Diet of Worms,
which condemned [Martin] Luther, he and Emperor
Charles V met face-to-face for the only time. Soon thereafter Charles
ceded the rule of Austria to his younger brother, Archduke Ferdinand,
and made him the emperor's representative in Germany.
"It was a bad time for the emperor to be absent. The aggressive Ottoman rulers of the Islamic state in Turkey, known to Europeans simply as 'the Turks,' became a serious threat to Central Europe. A clever and ambitious new sultan, Suleyman, only four years older than Charles, had consolidated his rule of the Balkans by taking Belgrade. In 1522, a brutal six-month siege enabled Suleyman's army to overrun the citadel of the Knights of St. John at Rhodes, the last bastion of Christendom in the eastern Mediterranean. Then, four years later, after the king of France requested Suleyman's support against his archrivals Charles and Ferdinand, the Turkish sultan marched westward toward Austria and Germany.
In the summer of 1526, at Mohács on the plains of the Danube, Ottoman forces cut down King Louis of Hungary, the brother-in-law of Ferdinand and Charles, and his vastly outnumbered troops. Ten days later, Suleyman was in Buda taking possession of the royal palace and enjoying the view from high above the Danube. It would now be up to Austria to repel the Turks, while the fate of Germany hung in the balance.
"The Turkish threat gave Luther and the German Reformation breathing room. By 1526 large territories and important cities had become Lutheran and demanded the right to stay that way. When Ferdinand asked them for money and troops to stop the Turks, the Lutheran rulers realized they had leverage: their support could be exchanged for legal recognition of the reformation.
Emperor Charles (if he had returned to Germany) and Archduke Ferdinand, both loyal Catholics, could have nipped the Lutheran movement in the bud, but now it was too late. They needed Lutheran support and, in 1526, the diet of the empire voted to allow each city and territory temporarily to set its own religious policy, Lutheran or Catholic. Luther did not, however, celebrate the Turkish victory or its favorable impact on German Protestantism. While he doubted that the Hungarian king had died at Mohács, he presumed that if it was true, it was another portent of the Last Day.
The Turks did not overrun Germany and the Last Day did not arrive; but the Turkish threat and other pressures made Emperor Charles hesitant to attack the Lutherans and weaken his empire. It would take almost thirty years to settle the fate of the Lutheran movement but, during the critical decade of the 1520s, Martin Luther and the German Reformation owed their survival to the Islamic threat and to the neglect of Germany by Emperor Charles." Martin Luther: Visionary Reformer, Scott H. Hendrix, Yale University Press, 2015 Yale University
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| Luther at the Diet of Worms, by Anton von Werner, 1877 | | |
Hello to you all, Sadly, just in case you have not heard, I will not be coming out to Winnipeg and West Hawk this summer. The exceptionally high water in the Whiteshell means that it could be a risky situation for me having to climb in and out of boats from slippery perhaps unstable docks. Cheri was all set to spend the 2 weeks with me. I had hoped to gather folks for lunch in Winnipeg and also at the lake so I would get a chance to see everyone. Cheri and Ed are at the cottage now. Ed and Mali had opened the cottage this spring and had it all set for my visit and other family over the season. This is the first time I will not be at West Hawk since we built in the 1950s. Enjoy your summer. Trish
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| Suleiman in a portrait attributed to Titian c.1530 |
Hi Trish, We are sadened to hear that you will not take possession of your cottage this year. You probably know that Elke and I were evacuated in early May (for the third time in my life) for some ten days due to wildfires in the neighborhood and urged again in early June to leave because of flooding. We refused to bolt again and were able to save our floating dock from floating away with our son's fancy boat still tied up to the floating dock. Our approach road #312 to Ingolf was covered under more than three feet of water, and only the biggest CPR trucks were able to drive through the waters. Them are those "hazy, crazy, lazy days of summer with bretzels and beer ". Hopefully talk to you soon again. Kind regards, Elke&Hardy
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