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Page 20 By Anna Redman A Greek Goddess, a determined American, church services and the Mother of Pharaohs are only some of the major components that came together to create the globally celebrated holiday of Mother’s Day. The vast commercialization which is associated with the modern day version of this holiday leads people to believe that it is nothing more than a Hallmark creation. In actual fact, countries worldwide celebrated the mothers among them long before Hallmark even existed. Egypt was one of the first countries to celebrate Mother’s Day. The Egyptians held an annual festival in honour of Isis, the Mother of Pharaohs. Legend has it that Isis gave birth to Horus, son of her dead brother. Her brother was killed at the hands of their envious brother Seth, who Horus would grow up to defeat. This defeat allowed him to reunite Egypt and become the first Pharaoh, thus making Isis the Mother of Pharaohs. Both Greece and Rome also celebrated mothers in early society. Their focus was on the major mother deity. In Greece she was referred to as Rhea, while in Rome she was known as Cybele. Both countries celebrated with games, crafts, flowers and honey cakes during the later portion of the month of March. The OSCAR - OUR 37 th YEAR History of Mother’s Day March is also the month of celebration in Britain. The initial celebration was actually in honour of the “Mother Church” and fell on the fourth Sunday of Lent. However, the celebration changed in the 1600s to include actual mothers. This celebration still took place during Lent and became a one day vacation from fasting and penance. Presently, this holiday is known as Mother’s Day, but following the change in the 1600s it came to be known as Mothering Day. Unlike the European celebrations, which were always about celebrating, Mother’s Day in America was prompted by grief. Julie Ward Howe was the instigator, and her motivation came from the Civil War. Howe was so distraught by the deaths this war has caused that she called on mothers to come forward and protest the pointlessness of their son’s death. Howe wished to designate a day for celebrating peace and motherhood, suggesting that the fourth of July could be converted. This suggestion was ignored with June 2 eventually being deemed Mother’s Day. Howe funded the majority of Mother’s Day celebrations and when her funding ceased so did Mother’s Day. However, Howe’s efforts were not in vain as Anna Jarvis of West Virginia continued the Mother’s Day mission. She began by petitioning her church to start a Mother’s Day in honour of her own mother, who had taught Sunday school there. When her application was approved May 10, 1908 became the first official Mother’s Day of the church. The white carnation was the favourite flower of Anna’s mother. This prompted its use in the first official Mother’s Day and its continued association with the holiday. Jarvis quit her job and took the Mother’s Day project on full time. In 1912 West Virginia celebrated the first state wide Mother’s Day with all of America celebrating in 1914. It was in 1914 that President Wilson signed a bill the deemed Mother’s Day a national holiday. While initially this bill signing appeared to be a success for Jarvis it later turned out to be quite the opposite. As a national holiday Mother’s Day came to be acquainted with the commercialization that holidays such as Christmas and Easter also know well. Jarvis felt that such commercialization defeated the point and spirit of Mother’s Day and is said to have regretted starting the tradition before her death in 1948. Regardless of Jarvis’ feelings on the holiday it is still celebrated today both in America and many other countries. Each country has its own time of year and festivities devoted to the holiday. America celebrates on the second Sunday in May with dinning out being one of the more popular traditions. Many other countries have adopted the American tradition such as Australia, Canada, and China. Pakistan and Saudi addition to my own. The HST system is designed to make industry more competitive in the export market by reducing their expenses. This was the Mulroney Conservatives’ rationale in replacing the old manufacturers’ Federal Sales Tax with the GST. The idea is that more export will bring wealth in to the province, to the benefit of all of us. Providing a tax incentive is perhaps fair. However, I would prefer a system where businesses are given tax breaks in direct relation to their exports. For trade within Ontario, they should pay some taxes along with everyone else. I spoke with David Salter, who works for my MPP, Yasir Naqui.He explained that the HST legislation is needed to keep businesses going during the current recession. I’m in favour of helping people out in difficult times, but recessions come and go. Prosperity will return but the transfer of taxes from businesses to consumers will be permanent. The state of the economy is being used an excuse. This has been done before: The Provincial Sales Tax originally applied only to sales of goods. When recession and recordhigh interest rates were causing the collapse of the housing market in 1982, the Province decided to create a special fund to give qualifying new home buyers interest-free loans. In order to raise the revenue, they extended the PST to most services. MAY 2010 Arabia also follow a similar tradition but celebrate annually on May 10th. European countries tend to celebrate in March near the Easter period, but still celebrate in an American manner. Other countries are more original. Thailand celebrates on August 12 to coincide with the birthday of their beloved queen, Sirikit Kitayakara. Ethiopia celebrates with a 3 day celebration following the end of the rainy season in mid-autumn. Yugoslavia and Serbia have a particularly creative celebration around Christmas. Their celebration occurs over three weeks and begins on the Sunday prior to Mother’s Day. The parents tie up their children until they promise to be good. The following week the children tie up their mother until she offers them various treats. On the final week the father is tied up until he promises expensive presents, normally their Christmas gifts. Mother’s Day is celebrated all over the world. People from various cultures, countries and customs dedicate an annual holiday to the celebration of mothers. Each year children and their families come together to shower their mother with love, affection and gifts. It may not have been the tradition that Anna Jarvis had in mind, but Mother’s Day has come to be a day enjoyed and celebrated by people everywhere. HST Opposition ... Cont’d from previous page When interest dropped and the und was cancelled, the new taxes didn’t go away. At least they exempted some essential services, which the present government now intends to tax. Advocates of the HST are predicting that we will enjoy lower prices when businesses no longer have to account for the PST on their inputs. I don’t believe this: Companies need to make a [profit, and tend to charge what the market will bear. The Mulroney Conservatives made the same claim for the GST, that all prices would come down with the removal of the old Federal Sales Tax from production costs. The McGuinty Liberals are pretending to honour the principle of not taxing necessities by exempting children’s clothing, car seats, feminine hygiene products and books. Yet, they will be adding provincial tax to such essentials as heating oil, gasoline, and electricity. Fuel is absolutely crucial in our winters: A person will die a lot quicker without heat than in the absence of food and water. When I asked Mr Salter of Yasir Naqui’s office, if he would agree with me that heating fuel is necessary, he replied he couldn’t say. I find this frightening. The $1000 ‘transition benefit’ for families with an income less than $160,000 is simple bribery. It’s a drop in the bucket compared with what people will be paying in new taxes over the long term.
MAY 2010 By Michael Preuss In the April edition of OSCAR, we could take a closer look at the OOS Neighbourhood Profile. It tells us nothing about crime rates. What if I tell you that one of our neighbours killed a Scottish general? He stabbed him, together with 7 other criminals. Infamous, bloody deed! If that ever happens again, the neighbourhood health outcome will drop drastically, respectively Canadian-Scottish relations. Doesn’t that sound like an Italian Opera – and in fact, the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi made one out of that story. He did so long ago, in the mid 19 th century. What a genius! How could he know about OOS crime rates? OK, the story is a little bit different: Verdi got it’s libretto for his opera MACBETH from two librettists, Piave and Maffei, in the 1840s. MACBETH was first staged in 1847 in Venice. As we all know, the plot of that opera is arranged around a cruel couple. OPERA LYRA OTTAWA staged MACBETH four times in late March and early April 2010, and I had a ticket for the March 31 performance. I like modern opera productions, intelligently enriched with videos and stuff like that (e.g. like Bill Viola’s Tristan did), but I don’t like modern productions which give you every second the sense that the whole production team brutally tries to convince you that an opera bears some meaning for us now (like Wotan with briefcase, Nabucco with military tanks, and stuff like that). The OLO MACBETH followed neither approach. The bad news for some opera friends (not for me, as I will explain later) – it was conventionally staged. I heard someone saying that night “utterly conventionally” (the stage design was rented from New Orleans Opera Association). The good news – the whole team was really blessed with theatrical aptitude, that means with a good sense for dramatic timing and an impressive presence of the whole cast on stage. Also the OOS resident, Rick Chataway, did a great job in stabbing Banquo with highly theatrical gestures in half-light scenery (he also acted in three other little roles). I know only a very few conventionally staged productions which do not degenerate to stiff trash. The OLO MACBETH did not at all. The OSCAR - OUR 37 th YEAR Every moment was full of theatrical drama and passion. Coherent changes of scenes made the plot of the Shakespearean drama shine through. Together with the wonderfully played and sung music, that made the ingredient for simply a great Verdi night. Greer Grimsley as Macbeth and Brenda Harris as Lady Macbeth gave stirring performances, both with significant vocal stamina. But for me the most convincing scene was the beginning of Act IV “Patria oppressa”. Scottish fugitives (i.e. the OLO Chorus) mourn their lost homeland. A feeling modern migrants all too often share with Verdi’s lameting score of that key scene. Shortly after that outburst of compassion in the pit, a future tenor star was born, as Luc Robert performed a stunning rendition of Macduff’s aria “Ah, la paterna mano”. And a few musical moments before Macbeth dies on stage, Harris was best at being Lady Macbeth the somnambulist, and Grimsley at Macbeth’s aria “Pietà, rispetto, amore” (here Verdi foreshadowes a similar scene of isolated Philip II. in Don Carlo). The bonus star for this very solid production goes to both stage director Joseph Bascetta (together with lighting designer Harry Frehner), and skliful chef d’orchestre Tyrone Paterson, who created dark and tragic sounds with his band. True Verdian Italianità, as heard in OLO’s MACBETH, is really rare these times. Even stellar conductor Leonard Slatkin had to pull back from La Traviata at the MET (see New York Times coverage Page 21 Breaking News: Neighbourhood Thriller – Scottish General Killed by OOS Resident Tell OSCAR Readers about your travel or your interests. Send text and photos to oscar@oldottawasouth.ca OOS resident, Rick Chataway stabbing Banquo. Photo courtesy of Opera Lyra <strong>Ottawa</strong> of that story). But guess what, you can find true Verdian Italianità here in <strong>Ottawa</strong>! I must be on to every dodge if I would not go to one of the next OLO productions. You becha!
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