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IMHO, OSHA’s reputation would be better served by vetting their PR photos through their own safety professionals.
In my own institution we had similar problems in the past but after we pestered our PR department about it they became more careful about publishing photos that depicted unsafe acts and a lot more willing to check with us when in doubt.
Wayne Wood | Associate Director, University Safety (EHS) – Directeur Adjoint, Direction de la pr=E9vention (SSE), Services universitaires | McGill University | 3610 McTavish Street, 4th floor | Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 1Y2 | Tel: (514) 398-2391 | Fax: (514) 398-8047
Great – I will add this one to my poster for the spring. Appreciate the help!!
Also – if you want some fun – look at the Solandra publicity shots with Obama – the workers are in hard hats, safety glasses, gloves, and tyvex suits. He is in a suit – that’s it.
I was just checking out the new OSHA fact sheets on lab safety and noticed that they have photos with people not wearing proper PPE! For example, for the cryogens and dry ice fact sheet (http://www.osha.gov/Publications/laboratory/OSHAquickfacts-lab-safety-cryogens-dryice.pdf) they show a person with no eye/face protection even though the fact sheet says:
Always use a face shield in conjunction with safety glasses or goggles.
You would think they wouldn't make that mistake......
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Recently I overheard a conversation where a person was musing on what sort of legacy he might leave behind. He questioned the depth, endurance or even desirability of legacies, suggesting that our contact with others, and the influence we exert is likely fleeting at most. I have to disagree. For teachers, leaving a legacy is inevitable, and as a consequence we have a duty to strive to make our influence as positive as possible.
Henry Adams, an American historian and academic once stated that "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." Because of this fact, teachers need to consistently bring enthusiasm and passion for learning to the classroom. Students respond to, and feed off the energy and attitude of the adults they encounter. This response becomes even more important as students reach the upper grades.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in his book Talented Teenagers: The Roots of Success and Failure notes: "teenagers are often singularly uninspired by the lives of most of the adults they know. Often their parents and teachers are not interested in their jobs. They spend long hours in drudgery for the sake of earning a living, and wait for their weekend free time, which is in turn filled with activities that are passive, uninteresting and fleeting. The majority of teens worry about this situation... and wonder how they can avoid a similar fate"
Csikszentmihalyi further suggests that it is little wonder that teens are captivated by examples of star athletes and entertainers who seem to enjoy what they are doing and achieve fame and fortune along the way. What is more surprising is the ability of some teachers to find a permanent place in some students' memories.
" What intrigues students about these teachers is their enthusiasm for subjects that seemed boring and purposeless in other classes. Memorable teachers challenge students to expect more than just recognition or a paycheck from the work they choose". Students remember best those teachers who model commitment and enthusiasm, demonstrate an ethic of care, and who genuinely like what they do and who they work with. These teachers leave a real legacy as role models. While the odds for most teens to grow up to be rockstar celebrities are slim, the existence and influence of great teachers can be proof that everyone can grow up to be an interesting and vital adult!
Child pyschologist and educator Haim Ginott wrote “I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive
element in my classroom. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my
daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make
life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of
inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations,
it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or
de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat
people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought
to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.” How we treat students inevitably shapes the people they become. That is our real legacy. It's an awesome responsibility and tremendous opportunity, and our best chance to prove that education matters! | <urn:uuid:1a53cce8-98c0-4a36-b3b5-89600552e5a2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://educationmatters2.blogspot.com/2013/02/a-teachers-legacy-making-positive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00127-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965882 | 677 | 2.4375 | 2 |
LaserOrigami (LO) of three-dimensional (3D) AISI 304 stainless steel components, namely, the Origami spoons, is hereby investigated. The shaping process of the Origami spoons is performed by a High Power Diode Laser (HPDL). Setting of the laser operational parameters, namely, laser power, number of passes and scanning speed were experimentally investigated. In addition, the most effective sequence of laser scanning patterns is sought, being this choice strictly related to the extent and uniformiy of the plastic deformation and, above all, to the visual apperance of the bent workpiece. Numerical modelling of the forming process was performed by the Finite Element Method (FEM), developing a coupled temperature−displacement model. The experimental findings showed the wings of the Origami spoons can be shaped by HPDL with a great deal of accuracy. In addition, the numerical model can simulate the forming process with good precision and generalization capability, thus providing a reliable estimate of temperature distributions and nodal displacements.
- Laser forming
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Monet's GardenMay 19-October 21, 2012 This exhibition has passed. You can still experience Monet's Garden with our NYBG in Bloom App. Learn more.
About Monet's Garden
Claude Monet created some of the world’s most beloved artworks. But did you know one of the things Monet considered among his greatest masterpieces was not a painting? It was Giverny, the artist’s idyllic home in the French countryside, about 50 miles from Paris. Monet was an avid gardener who once reflected that perhaps flowers were the reason he became a painter. This exhibition explores this legacy, transforming the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory into a floral masterpiece of diverse plants, bold colors, and dramatic design.
At Giverny, Monet carefully tended and transformed what was once a provincial kitchen garden into a floral fantasia, and constructed the pond where he grew the water lilies that graced many of his most famous paintings. Starting in July, water lilies--many of them the varieties he grew--are featured in the Conservatory Courtyard Pools.
About the Curator
Professor Paul Hayes Tucker of the University of Massachusetts Boston is the world’s leading Claude Monet scholar and an expert on Impressionism, and has authored many books on both topics.
and the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust
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Boulder's Parks and Recreation Department has hired a contractor to remove 121 ash trees from public streets over the next several months because the trees are infested with the emerald ash borer, an invasive species of beetle.
Forestry staff discovered the beetle inside city limits in September 2013, and since then, the EAB — which attacks North American ash trees not protected by pesticide injections — has been detected all over the city, according to a news release.
Boulder has about 6,000 of the trees on public property and 78,000 on private property, all of which are at risk of infestation. City staff are evaluating trees on public property annually, and the trees currently scheduled for removal are beginning to show signs of decline.
In an effort to sustain a health tree canopy, the urban forestry division has planted more than 1,500 new trees since 2014, including 438 replacement trees, none of which are ash.
Residents should expect more tree removals in the future, and said removals might require temporary lane closures or traffic detours.
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mobilize informed opinion are therefore fundamental to our under- standing of constituency politics, and for this reason closer attention must be paid to the character and composition of what may be termed the 'ruling elite', that is, a 'cohesive power-wielding group, which is consistently able to sway others to its opinions'. For under its aegis the Liberal ascendancy in Anglesey was forged and fashioned as the centre-point of political power. Precisely who were the leading personalities in Anglesey, what occupation they followed and to which denomination they belonged, on what issues they provided local initiative and with what success, will be the keynotes of this study in relation to the life of Richard Davies. But to understand the man it is essential that we consider, first of all, his family background and the radical-dissenting milieu in which he was nurtured. He was born in 1818, the third son of Richard Davies (1778-1849), a shopkeeper of independent yeoman stock in the small, bustling market town of Llangefni in the heart of Anglesey. Like his older brothers, John and Robert, he enjoyed an assured, comfortable middle-class upbringing, and after a period in the local National School he was apparently sent-as was the developing social fashion -to a private establishment at Chester. Richard Davies snr., the father of this remarkable family, was an upright, independently- minded, God-fearing Methodist with strong radical convictions and a superb nose for business.9 As a trustee of Capel Dinas, the first Methodist chapel at Llangefni (erected in 1806), and later deacon and advocate of Sunday Schools, his name was closely identified with the phenomenal advance of Calvinistic Methodism in the county at the turn of the century.10 On a personal level, Davies was regarded as a stern, authoritative character; more especially, he had the grit to disregard the autocratic whims of the Rev. John Elias, the 'Methodist Pope'. According to one source, he had opposed Elias on the question of Catholic Emancipation in the Anglesey Presbytery in 182911-no mean feat in view of the strength of local anti-Catholic feeling at that time." 7 The definition used by Anthony Giddens in his preface to Elites and Power in British Society (Cambridge, 1974), p. xiii. 8 Born in 1807 and 1816 respectively; there were also three sisters. Information on Richard Davies, snr. has been gleaned from Y Drysorfa, 1849, p. 361; Parch. John Pritchard, Methodistiaeth Mon (Amlwch 1888), pp. 179, 212-13, 251 'Asiedydd', 'Hanes Dechreuad Methodistiaeth yn Llangefni', Y Llusern, 1891, pp. 112-13, and A. Lax, Mynydd-y-Gof, or The History of a Welsh C. Methodist Family (London, 1905), p. 44. See D. A. Pretty, Two Centuries of Anglesey Schools, 1700-1902 (Llangefni, 1977), pp. 35-43. 11 W. P. Wheldon, 'Charles Pierce of Bryn-y-M6r, Bangor', Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes Methodistiaid Calfinaidd Cymru (Hydref 1958), XLIII, 67. 11 E. A. Williams, Hanes M6n yn y Bedwaredd Ganrif ar Bymtheg (Llangefni, 1927), pp. 78-79.
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How To Make A 360° Panorama – Tutorial Contents
- INTRO. What Will You Need?
- 1. Types of Panoramas
- 2. How To Take Photos For a Panorama With No Special Equipment
- 3. Shooting Panoramas with Tripod, Panorama Head, and Fisheye Lens
- 4. Image Stitching Steps
- 5. Panoramic Image Projections
- 6. Panorama Editing Guidelines
- 7. Making It Interactive: Panorama Viewers & Multiresolution
In this part, I am going to give you some advice and things to pay attention to when creating your panorama. The goal is not to teach you how to play with the settings in your software, the manipulations being different from one piece of software to another. I invite you to refer to the online tutorials of the panorama software you will choose in the last tutorial of this series.
The aim is more to provide some general guidelines of how a panorama should be to ensure a great viewing experience. So what’s important for a successful panorama?
First thing about the horizon: its position.
In the case of a partial panorama, it doesn’t really matter since it is nothing more than a mosaic picture, the horizon can be anywhere.
In the case of a cylindrical panorama, it will depend on what you will do with this panorama. If you will use it as a simple photo, it is exactly like for partial panoramas, it can be anywhere. If you plan to turn it into an interactive format, the horizon absolutely has to be centered vertically! Otherwise, it will appear totally curved, which does not look very natural…
For a spherical panorama, it will automatically be centered vertically (if it’s not, your panorama has a big problem!) since the whole sphere is covered.
Second property of the horizon: its straightness.
This is a very important point. You always have to make sure your horizon is perfectly straight. It may sound obvious, but you would be surprised by how easy it is to find yourself with a curved or wavy horizon after the stitching. As a result, before rendering the final image, you must go to the panorama editor in your panorama software, and straighten your horizon if needed.
This is highly related to the straightness of the horizon, your vertical lines have to be vertical. Some pieces of software like Autopano have a vertical line tool in their panorama editor, making it easy to correct leaning buildings or street lamps.
I can’t stress it enough, your panorama must be level!
But also remember that in a spherical projection, the zenith and the nadir are totally distorted and the vertical lines will never be vertical anyway. You want to adjust this in the central area of your panorama only.
The example above is a little extreme, but it illustrates the wavy horizon issue. Even if your panorama seems straight and the verticals seem vertical, I still advise you to take a closer look to make sure they are. You might be surprised :).
Contrast and Color
If your software did its job correctly, the exposure and colors should be perfectly harmonized. However, pay attention to any underexposure or overexposure issue, that should be settled before rendering the panorama. Check your software help section to see how you can adjust exposure/colors if needed.
After the rendering, when you have your full resolution picture, you can choose to open it in Photoshop or your favorite software, for some more post-production if you see any more things to improve on your image.
As a general rule, interactive panoramas look better with an emphasized contrast and vivid colors. Of course, you don’t want to overdo it and make your image look totally fake, but increasing the contrast and the saturation slightly does provide a better viewing experience. A dull image will be less impressive.
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16 pp. 13 b/w illustrations. One in the publisher's series "Art-Documents", a general encyclopedia of the fine arts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries featuring painters, sculptors, print makers, architects and decorators. This issue identified as Cahier No. 14 - 1962-1963, IIe Série. École de Paris No. 36. Biography of American born painter Peter Orlando, contents include a preface, artist biography, bibliography, collections, exhibition history, contemporary press commentaries and more. Internally clean without marks or additions. Light age toning at the extremities. Printed wraps are lightly dust soiled and shelf worn with light age toning to the extremities. (.50 g. / .11 lb.). Posted shipping charges will be reduced due to item weight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bookseller Inventory # 009917
Title: Peter Orlando 1921 : Les Cahiers ...
Publisher: Éditions Pierre Cailler
Publication Date: 1962
Binding: Stapled Wraps
Book Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition
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The legalization of aerial fireworks has had an impact on the economy of Utah. Instead of people buying fireworks from Wyoming, they can buy them here. The tax money can go to Utah instead of to another state.
Yes, there should be restrictions on how big the fireworks can be and on where people can do them, but they shouldn't make them illegal again. Having fireworks all the month of July makes it so even more fireworks are bought and more tax money is brought into Utah.
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Listen to the audio version of Richard Kezima's story.
Many Americans gather with family and friends on Thanksgiving to express all they are thankful for that year. That tradition will have new meaning for one man as he recalls those who helped him on Thanksgiving Day in 2007 – the day he came back to life.
After a big, family Thanksgiving dinner, Richard Kezima, 61, of Lexington, Mass., headed to a nearby park for a game a touch football. Kezima, his sons and some friends were enjoying this Thanksgiving tradition when tragedy struck.
"I was having fun, feeling great, everything was terrific," says Kezima. "Then, the next thing I know I'm being wheeled into Mass General."
Kezima says he doesn't remember much of what happened, but friends who were there say he just collapsed on the field. One of his teammates - a state trooper - immediately began CPR. That man's wife, who sells portable defibrillators, ran to her car to get one of the devices, which she then used to revive Kezima while they waited for an ambulance.
The ambulance took Kezima to a local hospital, but it was quickly decided he needed immediate surgery. He was sent to Massachusetts General Hospital where Heart Center surgeons performed a five-vessel bypass procedure that night.
Bruce Rosengard, MD, a cardiac surgeon with the MGH Heart Center who treated Kezima, says he was extremely lucky after suffering sudden cardiac death, which is caused by an abrupt loss of heart function.
"A quick response is extremely important in these situations since you have only four to six minutes before someone in cardiac arrest begins to lose brain function due to a lack of blood and oxygen," said Rosengard. "Richard Kezima may have died if his friends had not been able to help him."
The holiday heart attack
According to the American Heart Association, about 310,000 people a year die of coronary heart disease without being hospitalized or admitted to an emergency room. Most of these are sudden deaths caused by cardiac arrest. Unfortunately, heart attacks and cardiac arrest are not uncommon during the festive holiday season.
"The data suggests that there is a noticeable uptick in heart attack deaths during the holiday season, especially around Christmas and New Year's," says Randall Zusman, MD, director of the hypertension program at the MGH Heart Center. "The cause of this increase is not certain, but it could be related to excessive physical activity, overeating (especially the ingestion of increased amounts of salt), excessive alcohol intake, or possibly the psychological stresses that inevitably accompany the holiday season."
Some tips for staying heart healthy during the holidays include:
"It is most important to not ignore the symptoms – chest pain, difficulty breathing, palpitations, and nausea. These are all signs of a heart attack, and getting the appropriate care quickly is the best thing you can do. Don't hesitate to be in contact with your doctor if you have any concerns that the symptoms you are experiencing are heart related." says Zusman.
A Happy Holiday
Thanks to his friend's swift action and his general good health, Kezima's recovery went well and he was able to resume many of his normal activities within five months of the surgery, including shoveling his neighbor's driveways.
"Last winter I was shoveling snow again and lifting weights, but I was cautious about overdoing it," he said. "I have a lot of energy and was afraid I wouldn't know when to stop, but Dr. Rosengard said during my last visit that having so much energy was great news.
"I couldn't be more thankful to hear this," he says.
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The Catechism of the Catholic Church has a wonderful section on prayer including different types of prayer which you can read by clicking here. Here is one excerpt from the Catechism: CCC #2744, "Prayer is a vital necessity. Proof from the contrary is no less convincing: if we do not allow the Spirit to lead us, we fall back into the slavery of sin. How can the Holy Spirit be our life if our heart is far from him? Nothing is equal to prayer; for what is impossible it makes possible, what is difficult, easy.... For it is impossible, utterly impossible, for the man who prays eagerly and invokes God ceaselessly ever to sin.Those who pray are certainly saved; those who do not pray are certainly damned."
Prayer Encyclopedia: Well, it doesn't really call itself an encyclopedia, but it is the most comprehensive website I've seen about prayer and it's put together by a Catholic pastor: click here
The Rosary is a method of vocal and mental prayer (meditation) recommended by the Blessed Mother that can lead to the highest forms of prayer (i.e. contemplation). I've written a book on how to pray the rosary as a pathway to contemplation click here for information and also you can learn how to say the rosary online click here.
The Most Holy Virgin in these last times in which we live has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the Rosary to such an extent that there is no problem, no matter how difficult it is, whether temporal or above all spiritual, in the personal life of each one of us, of our families
that cannot be solved by the Rosary. There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary.
Sister Lucia, Fatima seer
If you say the Rosary faithfully unto death, I do assure you that, in spite of the gravity of your sins, you will receive a never-fading crown of glory (1 St. Peter 5:4).
Saint Louis de Montfort
The Rosary is THE weapon.
Saint Pio of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio)
Lectio Divina is another method of prayer that is recommended. For an overview and more links to the left click here.
Some Other Methods of Prayer:
The following includes a simple method of prayer (mental prayer or meditation) that will help you know God and love him better, if you take the time to do it each day:
|Steps to Getting Closer to God
by John Cojanis
"... If you really want to know God you must spend some time with Him. St. James tells us 'draw nearer to God and He will draw nearer to you.' So, take the necessary steps today: 1. Get right with God -- confess your sin and turn away from the things you are doing wrong. 2. Recommit your life to Jesus: for example, say this prayer 'Lord, Jesus, I recommit my life to you -- I ask forgiveness of my sins -- I ask that you would come into my life -- be my Lord. Lead me and guide me all the days of my life. I thank you Jesus. Amen.' 3. Set aside a specific time each day to spend with God. For some people mornings are best, with others its evenings. To begin each day try to spend at least 15-30 minutes praying and reading your Bible. Read a little, then think about what you have read and then talk to God about it from your heart -- then read some more etc. As your schedule permits increase your time with God. 4. Get involved in prayer groups, bible studies, and other church activities. Read good Christian material."
To see St. Ignatius' method of meditation click here.
|A Short Method of Meditation
by St. Francis de Sales
(from the "Introduction to a Devout Life" which is online here)
"IT may be, my daughter, that you do not know how to practise mental prayer, for unfortunately it is a thing much neglected now-adays. I will therefore give you a short and easy method for using it, until such time as you may read sundry books written on the subject, and above all till practice teaches you how to use it more perfectly. And first of all, the Preparation, which consists of two points: first, placing yourself in the Presence of God; and second, asking His Aid. And in order to place your self in the Presence of God, I will suggest four chief considerations which you can use at first.
First, a lively earnest realisation that His Presence is universal; that is to say, that He is everywhere, and in all, and that there is no place, nothing in the world, devoid of His Most Holy Presence, so that, even as birds on the wing meet the air continually, we, let us go where we will, meet with that Presence always and everywhere. It is a truth which all are ready to grant, but all are not equally alive to its importance. A blind man when in the presence of his prince will preserve a reverential demeanour if told that the king is there, although unable to see him; but practically, what men do not see they easily forget, and so readily lapse into carelessness and irreverence. Just so, my child, we do not see our God, and although faith warns us that He is present, not beholding Him with our mortal eyes, we are too apt to forget Him, and act as though He were afar: for, while knowing perfectly that He is everywhere, if we do not think about it, it is much as though we knew it not. And therefore, before beginning to pray, it is needful always to rouse the soul to a stedfast remembrance and thought of the Presence of God. This is what David meant when he exclaimed, If I climb up to Heaven, Thou art there, and if I go down to hell, Thou art there also! 2525 Ps. cxxxix. 7. And in like manner Jacob, who, beholding the ladder which went up to Heaven, cried out, Surely the Lord is in this place and I knew it not 2626 Gen. xxviii. 16. meaning thereby that he had not thought of it; for assuredly he could not fail to know that God was everywhere and in all things. Therefore, when you make ready to pray, you must say with your whole heart, God is indeed here.
The second way of placing yourself in this Sacred Presence is to call to mind that God is not only present in the place where you are, but that He is very specially present in your heart and mind, which He kindles and inspires with His Holy Presence, abiding there as Heart of your heart, Spirit of your spirit. Just as the soul animates the whole body, and every member thereof, but abides especially in the heart, so God, while present everywhere, yet makes His special abode with our spirit. Therefore David calls Him the Strength of my heart; 2727 Ps. lxxiii. 26. and S. Paul said that in Him we live and move and have our being. 2828 Acts xvii. 28. Dwell upon this thought until you have kindled a great reverence within your heart for God Who is so closely present to you.
The third way is to dwell upon the thought of our Lord, Who in His Ascended Humanity looks down upon all men, but most particularly on all Christians, because they are His children; above all, on those who pray, over whose doings He keeps watch. Nor is this any mere imagination, it is very truth, and although we see Him not, He is looking down upon us. It was given to S. Stephen in the hour of martyrdom thus to behold Him, and we may well say with the Bride of the Canticles, He looketh forth at the windows, shewing Himself through the lattice. 2929 Cant. ii. 9.
The fourth way is simply to exercise your ordinary imagination, picturing the Saviour to yourself in His Sacred Humanity as if He were beside you just as we are wont to think of our friends, and fancy that we see or hear them at our side. But when the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar is there, then this Presence is no longer imaginary, but most real; and the sacred species are but as a veil from behind which the Present Saviour beholds and considers us, although we cannot see Him as He is.
Make use of one or other of these methods for placing yourself in the Presence of God before you begin to pray;do not try to use them all at once, but take one at a time, and that briefly and simply.
Here's a prayer method by St. Alphonsus Liguori similar to the one above but more structured:
A Method of Mental Prayer
by St. Alphonsus Liguori
"It is certain that without the divine assistance we can do nothing good for our souls. God also has declared that graces are granted to those only who ask for them: Ask, and it shall be given you. (Matt. 7:7) Seek, and it shall be given you; therefore, as says St. Teresa, he who seeks not does not receive. Hence it is a common opinion of the holy Fathers, with St. Thomas, that without prayer it is impossible to persevere in the grace of God, and to save one's self. But he who prays is sure of the help of God; we have his word for it, which cannot fail, repeated so often in the sacred Gospels:
All things whatsoever you ask when you pray, believe that you shall receive, and they shall come to you. (Mark 11:2)
Every one that asks receives. (Luke 11:10)
Amen, amen, I say unto you, if you ask the Father anything in My name, He will give it you. (John 16:23)
God grants everything that we ask him for in the name of Jesus Christ.
If, then, we wish to he saved, we must pray, and pray with humility and confidence, and above all with perseverance.
Manner of Making Mental Prayer
By St. Alphonsus Liguori
[My comments in brackets.]
I. In the PREPARATION the following acts may be made:
My God, I believe that You are here present, and I adore You with all my heart. I deserve at this moment to be burning in hell for my sins [but I trust in your Mercy and Love and realize you love me so much that you sent your Son to die for me on the cross so I might be saved]; O my God, I am sorry for having offended You; pardon me. Eternal Father, grant me light in this meditation, that I may profit by it.
Then say a Hail Mary to the divine Mother, and a Glory be to the Father, etc., in honor of St. Joseph, of your guardian angel, and of your holy patron.
II. Then read the MEDITATION [such as from the Scripture or other spiritual reading]; yet whilst reading we should stop at those passages in which the soul finds that it is receiving nourishment; and we should try to produce acts of humility, of thanksgiving, especially of contrition and love, of resignation and self-offering. We should say:
O Lord! dispose of me as You please; help me to know all that You require of me: I wish to please You in all things.
We should especially apply ourselves to making petitions, in asking God to grant us holy perseverance, his love, light, and strength, that we mostly need in order to do his holy will, and to pray always.
III. The CONCLUSION is made thus: We make the resolution to avoid some particular sin into which we fall the most often. We should finish by saying an Our Father and, a Hail Mary, and never forget, in meditation, to recommend to God the souls in Purgatory, and all poor sinners.
From St. Alphonsus de Liguori, The Incarnation Birth and Infancy of Jesus Christ, Rev Eugene Grimm Trans., Redemptorist Fathers Brooklyn Publishers (1927) p. 445. Imprimatur +Patrick Cardinal Hayes, 1927.
Method of Making Mental Prayer
by St. Alphonsus Liguori
"We must observe that Saint Alphonsus makes the practice of mental prayer simple, clear, easy, and not less fruitful. Owing to the method which he teaches, this exercise, indispensable to him who wishes to sanctify himself, is really put within the reach of all. He wishes that every one should learn how to meditate. He earnestly recommends that for this purpose special instructions should he given to the people." Rev. E. Grimm.
"Mental prayer consists of three parts; the preparation, the meditation, and the conclusion. The preparation consists of three acts: one of faith in the presence of God; of humility, with a short act of contrition; and of prayer to be enlightened. saying as follows, for the first: My God; I believe that you art present with me, and I adore you with all the affection of my soul. For the second: O Lord by my sins I deserve to be now in hell. I repent, O Infinite Goodness! with my whole heart, of having offended you. [Jesus, I trust in you.] For the third: My God for the love of Jesus and Mary, give me light in this prayer, that I may profit by it. Then say a Hail Mary to the Most Blessed Virgin, that she may obtain light for us; and a Glory be to the Father, to St. Joseph, to your guardian angel, and to your patron saint, for the same end. These acts should be made with attention, but briefly; and then you go on directly to the meditation.
In the meditation you can always make use of some book, at least at the beginning, and stop where you find yourself mostly touched. St. Francis de Sales says that in this we should do as the bees, which settle on a flower as long they find any honey in it, and then pass on to another. It should also be observed, that the fruits to be gained by meditation are three in number: to make affections, to pray, and to make resolutions; and in these consists the profit to be derived from mental prayer. After you have meditated on some eternal truth, and God has spoken to your heart, you must also speak to God; and first, by forming affections, be they acts of faith, of thanksgiving, of humility, or of hope; but above all, repeat the acts of love and contrition. St. Thomas says, that every act of love merits for us the grace of God and paradise:
"Every act of love merits eternal life." Each act of contrition obtains the same thing. Acts of love are such as these: My God; I love you above all things! I love you with all my heart! I desire to do your will in all things. I rejoice that you are infinitely happy! and the like. For an act of contrition it is enough to say: O Infinite Goodness, I repent of having offended you!
In the second place, you must pray; ask God to enlighten you, to give you humility or other virtues, to grant you a good death and eternal salvation; but above all, his love and holy perseverance. And when the soul is in great aridity, it is sufficient to repeat:
My God, help me! Lord, have mercy on me! My Jesus, have mercy! and if you do nothing but this, your prayer will succeed exceedingly well.
In the third place, before finishing your prayer, you must form a particular resolution; as, for instance, to avoid some occasion of sin, to bear with an annoyance from some person, to correct some fault, and the like.
Finally, in the conclusion, three acts are to be made: in the 1st, we must thank God for the inspirations we have received; in the 2d, we must make a determination to observe the resolutions we have made; in the 3d, we must ask God, for the love of Jesus and Mary, to help us to keep our resolution. The prayer concludes by the recommendation of the souls in purgatory, the prelates of the Church, sinners, and all our relatives and friends, for which we may say an Our Father and a Hail Mary. St. Francis of Sales exhorts us to choose some thought which may have struck us more especially in our prayer, that we may remember it during the rest of the day."
From St. Alphonsus de Liguori, Preparation for Death, Rev Eugene Grimm Trans., Redemptorist Fathers Brooklyn Publishers (1926) p. 445. Imprimatur +Patrick Cardinal Hayes, 1926.
Problems, Promises, Perseverance
including St. Teresa of Avila's Method of Prayer
Here are some insights on prayer based on notes from a talk given by
Fr. Donald Kinney, OCD, of the Carmelite House of Studies, Mt. Angel, OR.
St. Teresa of Avilas Method of Mental Prayer
(St. Teresa didn't actually put together this method as it appears here. It was put together by scholars based it on various of her writings and includes some insights from Fr. Donald who teaches the Carmelite seminarians.)
St. Teresa of Avila was a Doctor of the Church, Carmelite nun and reformer of the Carmelite order. She has a lot to teach us about prayer having reached the summit of prayer in her life. She says mental prayer is not a way of thinking but includes both thinking and loving, and most of all is about loving. In it we think about God with our minds, love God with our hearts and speak to God.
Step 1. Preparation The remote preparation for prayer is the life we lead all day. The proximate preparation is the time immediately before prayer, the time to take our minds off other things and put it on God. During prayer time we seek to put our focus completely on the Lord. Its best to have a specific time and place to pray rather than just when we feel like it or after we get everything else done. To pray it is good to find a quiet place and close the door. St. Teresa would often read a little bit of spiritual reading, especially from the Bible.
Step 2. Consideration One way is to read some verses from Scripture or spiritual reading and think about them. Choose 3 or 4 lines (especially from Scripture), something that speaks to your heart to meditate upon it (as in ponder and dwell upon it). Take these few verses and read them over and over and meditate on them (or take one verse and just dwell on it and let it sink into the depths of your being). St. Teresa liked to focus on the humanity of Christ. She strove to picture Christ within her and right there with her. She thought of Jesus being alone especially in the agony in the Garden and strove to be his companion there. One idea is to think of a scene from the gospel that has been particularly meaning to you and think or meditate on that.
Step 3. Conversation Then take time to talk to Jesus about what was read. Speak and listen to him. For example, ask Jesus how he felt when he was alone in the Garden of Gethsemane. Tell him you will keep him company. St. Teresa says we can talk to Jesus as we would talk to a friend.
Step 4. Conclusion While speaking to the Lord God, you can say many things. For example, thank Him for his many blessings; ask him to help you pray better; intercede for others; or ask for help with problems. Ask him to remain with you. Traditionally we say they are four types of prayer: praise, thanksgiving, intercession (where we pray for others) and petition (where we ask God to supply for our particular needs). Conclude with an Our Father and/or Hail Mary.
Things that can keep us from prayer
We have many attachments that can keep us from a life of prayer. What are our attachments? What keeps us from really giving ourselves completely to God and putting him first? What keeps us from taking time to spend with God in prayer?
St. Teresa of Avila was very social and spent time talking often in the parlor with guests for her first years in the convent which later she felt was a waste of time. Today we have the telephone, TV, internet that might take up a lot of our time. But a very important thing to remember when we find ourselves making excuses that we don't have time to pray is that we make time for what is important to us. St. Teresa, for a while, was attached to her illness and was not going to pray because she didnt feel good physically. We need to look at our attachments and see what is keeping us from regular prayer.
At first when we become a Christian, Catholic, a member of a religious denomination or group, we are often very fervent and excited. You might say that is our honeymoon period where God grants us a lot of consolations and shows us how much he loves us. Then later when things quiet down a bit from our initial happiness and excitement for finding a new way of life in which we feel really blessed, we might enter into a stage where we dont put God first as well as we once did. We might start taking him for granted in a way, just like we might with our earthly marriages or friends. We can even get to the point that we are not putting God first in our lives anymore. Perhaps weve quietly taken back control of our life or never really handed it over completely to God. Prayer helps us to empty ourselves of what is not of God or God and to remain that way.
St. Clare talked about the prayer of pure gazing. Our meditation may turn into contemplative prayer. We might find ourselves just looking at Christ on the cross and realize we are just looking at Him as he is looking at us and we dont have to say anything. At times we can be together with God in a way that goes beyond words. St. Teresa considered contemplation a gift from God not something brought about through a method. While contemplation is the highest form of prayer because it is given by God, St. Teresa didn't advise we just sit there and do nothing. She said to pray as we could pray. So we meditate when we can and when God was granting us this gift of contemplation then we yield to it as a higher form of prayer.
Problems in Prayer:
How can I keep my mind on prayer?
Distractions: Everyone has distractions. Dont let that bother you. Just begin again. One suggestion is that before beginning prayer, if you tend to get distracted with things to remember, take a piece of paper and pen with you when you pray and write down things that come to mind that you feel you need to remember after prayer. This way you can put some of your distractions out of your mind and not have to try to remember them while you pray.
Jesus draws us to prayer and helps us with our problems. We can decide that we are going to stay with him for 10-15 minutes or longer in prayer. Distractions are problems with knowing God. Aridity is a problem with loving God. Prayer is a decision, just as love is a decision. Sometimes if we don't feel like doing something, just making ourselves do the behavior will bring feelings with it later.
St. Frances de Sales says that staying and placing ourselves in Gods presence are two different things. We always make an effort to be with him. What happens to us when we pray? That is up to God. We dont go seeking signs and wonders (as the devil will be happy to provide them). The Lord is always revealing himself to us.
St. Teresa had a sense of Gods presence throughout the day but not always or necessarily during her prayer times. She never heard Jesus speak out loud to her but she said he was within her guiding her.
We go to prayer and struggle, yet when we leave prayer, something is different in us. Like Moses who went up to the mountain and returned with a glowing face after meeting with God
We too will have more of a glow about us that others will see after we pray. Well see ourselves and others more in the light of Christ. We will grow in virtue (which St. Teresa says is the sign that our prayer is authentic). God will help us to see blessings in our problems. Jesus said, "I will give you rest when we come to him in prayer. Our very burdensome lives are changed to happy lives in Christ.
St. Teresa said that bodily strength is not necessary for prayer, only love and a making prayer a habit. She said that we might pray and not notice anything happening but then all at once we will see that progress has been made and what has been happening while we prayed. If you preserve in the midst of temptations, you will conquer in the end with the grace of God. St. Teresa advises to have a very determined determination to be faithful to God in prayer and you can hope to reach the summit as she did.
Prayer is essential for having a "personal relationship" with Jesus. There wouldn't be much of a relationship if we never communicated and prayer is how we communicate with God. Pope John Paul II said: "How to pray? This is a simple matter. I would say: Pray any way you like, so long as you do pray." St. Teresa of Avila tells us to speak to Jesus as we would speak to a friend. Make God the number one priority in your life by putting him first in all things especially by obeying his commandments and setting aside a time to pray each day. | <urn:uuid:dd0caa56-0fcc-48c2-a972-892a1821a45c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.catholicspiritualdirection.org/prayer.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00338-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966756 | 5,428 | 1.984375 | 2 |
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Top 10 Australian scholarships for international students in 2021
• Australia Awards
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The Laboon performed as a true asset of the National Command Authorities when it delivered Tomahawk missiles on time and on target. That was the measuring stick for success-not the fact that no female sailors were relieved for pregnancy or that we had zero fraternization complaints. Measure a ship's success or failure by the ability to perform missions-not on the moot point that the ship has a mixed-gender crew.
The Sullivans (DDG-68) was indeed the first destroyer built from the ground up as a mixed-gender ship, but it did not solve the Navy's problems with fraternization or sexual harassment. It offers no new insight that several ships have not practiced already. Good leadership by the commanding officer, wardroom, and chief's mess is vital for any ship. The female-at-sea issue is nothing new. The fact that The Sullivans commissioned with female crew members is neither noteworthy nor relevant. The battles had been fought and their lessons learned.
Samuel P. Ginder-Commander Roncolato and Lieutenant Commander Davis are on target when they point out that gender integration on board combat ships involves extraordinarily complex challenges. Theirs is neither academic conjecture nor social-policy tinkering. Their lessons were learned over two and a half years with the crew of a new destroyer, The Sullivans (DDG-68).
They ask and answer two questions that are at the heart of the matter. First, "Are we mature enough as a society to have gender-integrated combatants?" To this they answer, "No, not yet."
I tend to agree. The United States, as a society, largely is not ready for gender integrated combatants. Why? Because Americans still view the warrior as male. That doesn't mean that we reject the notion of women going in harm's way to support their men. In the U.S. mind-set, women have a distinct role to play in field hospitals, logistical support operations, and staff functions. When it comes to pulling the trigger, we back away.
The authors also ask, "Do our young people have the self-discipline to serve together in a close, stressful environment without behaving in a way destined to have a profound impact on combat readiness?" They answer, "Frequently, no."
They found that young U.S. men and women often have neither the self-discipline nor the maturity to work together in this close environment without establishing unduly familiar and inappropriate relationships. As they point out, these intimate personal relationships on combatants tear at the effectiveness of a combat team just as ferociously as poor training, poor leadership, or lack of logistical support.
This is not a weakness in society. It is the way things are and always have been between young men and women. It's too much to expect that our young people will exhibit the self-discipline required for their coexistence on board without detrimental effects on combat readiness. That's more self-discipline than recently shown by their seniors in public life.
Politicians and social engineers may believe that they can create a new mankind to conform to the perfect society that they envision. They haven't done very well so far, and probably will fare no better in the next century.
In an assertion not supported by their facts, the authors state that integration of women in combatants is inevitable and right, and that it can work. What makes gender integration inevitable? It's not the inevitable result of some physical reality like the rising of the sun. Nor is it driven by military requirements. It's about social agendas in Congress.
Is it really the right thing to do? That's a debate that must be wrested from the hands of the activists and those with agendas far different from the requirements of military preparedness.
The destructive consequences are evident on board The Sullivans. These are not academic musings. These are real world experiences from a ship of the line that is trying under strong leadership to make gender integration work. The authors conclude that our society isn't mature enough to produce the young men and women with the self-discipline to serve together in a close, stressful environment without the inevitable attachments that destroy combat effectiveness.
This may be a bitter pill to swallow, but if an idea is bad or if we aren't ready for it, we should abandon it. Whether gender integration on board combatants is the right thing to do is a debate that must be joined seriously without the encumbrance of false assumptions, politically correct mind-sets, or ad hominem arguments. Whatever conclusion that debate might lead us to, we should follow. Let's face it, shipmates-all change is not progress and everything new is not necessarily for the better.
"Retaining the JOs: Looking Up or Going Down?"
(See S. R. Kennedy, pp. 26-29, June 1997; S. B. Dietz, E. J. Brown, pp. 19-20, August 1997; E. C. Picken, p. 8, February 1998 Proceedings)
"Don't Call It Rightsizing"
(See B. Warfield, pp. 77-78, December 1997; E. Kotkiewicz, p. 10, February 1998 Proceedings)
Lieutenant Commander William J. Davis, Jr., U.S. Navy-Mr. Picken's comments on why junior officers (JOs) might be leaving the Navy are condescending. The point of his commentary appears to be that the JOs don't really know why they are leaving, despite their voiced opinion that the "lack of leadership from above" is a main reason for dissatisfaction. The "lack of leadership" intimated by previous articles is a true area of concern.
The reason why the Navy should be concerned is exemplified by Commander Warfield's article. There is a serious problem with spare parts and aircraft availability. It appears to juniors that senior leaders feel what Commander Warfield describes is an acceptable manner of conducting business-when it actually is dangerous and unacceptable.
I also suppose that Mr. Picken never had to look a second class petty officer in the face after telling him or her that, despite the petty officer's 12- to 14-hour days on the flight deck in the heat of the Arabian Gulf, the Navy does not have enough flight-deck pay billets allotted to the squadron. This month the petty officer will have to go without flight-deck pay. Mr. Picken also probably did not have to explain to spouses why their husbands and wives were gone for more than 200 days the year prior to a six-month deployment when senior leaders continually beat the drum of quality of life.
These glimpses into some of the "leadership challenges" (the euphemism of choice for senior leaders describing problems caused by inept management that lesser individuals in the fleet must handle daily) that the JOs must face force any right-minded individual to ponder, "Who is running the store?"
The culture of the Navy (and I am part of that culture) can be summed up in two quotes-"We can do more with less" and "Don't tell your seniors if there is a problem, even if you offer a solution, because you might be perceived as the problem." The Navy always has been a culture full of "can-do" individualism. To say we cannot do something is unheard of, no matter what the reason. The most common response to problems pointed out by JOs is to "suck it up" or "quit whining." This is why our senior leaders are seen as absent.
The Navy has some serious problems with quality of life, under manning, spare parts, and so on. We need someone who is willing to admit there are problems.
So, Mr. Picken, the JO who must deal with the problems generated by absent senior leadership is more than qualified to state his or her reasons for leaving the Navy. If the reason is that they feel senior leadership is lacking, then let us not tell them to suck it up or that they don't know what they are talking about. Let us make a concerted effort to investigate the validity of their statements and see if the Navy must indeed change the culture of its senior leaders. Until we can change our "can do at all costs" culture, the exodus will continue.
Captain Diane J. Diekman, U.S. Navy-My compliments to Commander Warfield. His message needs to be heard and listened to in Congress and at the NavAir and CNO level. I am a maintenance officer and a former aircraft intermediate maintenance department (AMID) officer, and I've seen what he describes. It is a poor way to do business. We need officers like him who are willing to stand up and protest.
(See W. K. Fogerty and T. Somes, pp. 64-67, February 1998 Proceedings)
Captain David LX Woods, U.S. Naval Reserve (Retired)-This article, urging the Naval Reserve to jettison most officer and enlisted TARs along with virtually all Naval Reserve physical plant (centers, air stations, and facilities), is the finest piece of commentary on the Naval Reserve ever published anywhere.
I've had an opportunity to observe the Naval Reserve firsthand from both sides for 40 years-via naval service starting with a 1949 enlistment as a seaman recruit to several post-1987 recalls, extending through 1989. During active duty, I worked for Admirals Arleigh Burke, Jim Thach, and Chick Hayward. Moreover, I've been active in leadership roles with several active reserve military associations-11 years on the executive committee of the Naval Reserve Association, plus six years on the executive committee of the Reserve Officers Association.
My one regret is that none of us drilling reservists saw the truth and value of these authors' organizational suggestions years ago. I suspect we were simply too busy trying to meet our missions, or we may have been too conscious of the deep fear within the Naval Reserve of the regular Navy.
As a group, only a dedicated handful of TAR officers or enlisted personnel have ever joined-let alone supported reserve associations.
So if the Naval Reserve faces the inevitable question of reducing itself to less than effective size, or eliminating our large infrastructure of reserve centers, facilities, air stations, and TAR personnel, the choice is clear.
While many close friends may brand me a traitor, I've never been able to accept the concept of a "separate" Naval Reserve force. A Naval Reserve can only exist if it supports the Navy-and by Navy, I mean the fleet.
The (nearly forgotten) greatest hero of the Naval Reserve has to be the late Vice Admiral Damon "Hutch" Cooper, famed combat aviator. Admiral Cooper, who served briefly as the first Chief of Naval Reserve, was removed from office promptly after falling on his sword, testifying before Congress that the Department of Defense- and Navy Department sponsored manpower cuts would decimate the Naval Reserve he was leading and make the reserve useless in wartime emergency.
What more can any Naval Reservist ask of any regular Navy leader? So if the Naval Reserve cannot trust a Navy led by the Burkes, Thaches, Haywards, Coopers, Kidds, Macks, Watkinses, Holloways, Boordas, and Fettermans-perhaps we'd better just scrap the Naval Reserve once and for all.
I know from my 40 years that I always have found a lot more solid reserve support within the Department of the Navy (particularly the fleet) than from the majority of our erstwhile TAR community.
In Norwegian waters above the Arctic Circle during Teamwork '84, Rear Admiral Bob Rogers never asked me if I was a reservist. He just shook my hand and said, "Welcome aboard the USS Mount Whitney! Glad to have you with us. You know what to do, now go do it."
Bravo Zulu, Captain Fogerty and Professor Somes. Now I'll try to get some associations to agree with you.
"They've Shut Down the Fraternity!"
(See Y. I. Sos, p. 125, March 1998 Proceedings)
Captain Jerry B. Houston, U.S. Navy (Retired)-At first blush, Lieutenant Commander Sos's article elicits sincere head nods-everybody wants to have fun. Even the killing profession requires comic relief-and our profession (even when adorned in political correctness) remains a killing profession. The ability and willingness to kill-swiftly and efficiently earns us our daily bread.
The goal, Commander Sos, isn't to retire at 20 for 40%. Your duty, the obligation for which you're paid, remains to be sure that whatever you're tasked to do, you can do. That also entails standing tall and telling your boss-and even his boss-when the job can't be done, whenever it can't be done, and why it can't be done. Obviously, this requires expertise and guts.
Commander Sos doesn't like a zero defects environment; it's not fun. Impromptu low-level flying and ship fly-bys were commonplace and dangerous, but they sure were fun.
But, Commander Sos, there's all the fun in the world in naval aviation. One of the better carrier commanding officers put it best: "Don't give me a reason to court-martial you."
You and your peers earn a living assessing risks. The problem, it seems, comes from fearing the risks more than wanting the fun. Complaining because your senior officers won't give you a license to steal doesn't earn any "brass balls" award from this corner. Li
"Leave Our Flight Jackets Alone!"
(See M. J. Frattasio, p. 62, November 1997; C. E. Wortham, p. 22, February 1998 Proceedings)
Machinist's Mate Second Class Frank F. Haun, U.S. Naval Reserve (Retired)-I saw red after reading Ensign Wortham's comments. What is wrong with our Navy today is that "they" just keep killing naval tradition.
When I enlisted, there was a lot of pride and tradition. Ensign Wortham's remarks about Petty Officer Frattasio's contribution are arrogant. He should get a little sea time under his belt before he mouths off about tradition.
"Honor Is a Seamless Garment"
(See R. J. Phillips, pp. 43-46, February 1998 Proceedings)
Lieutenant Commander Robert Gillett, U.S. Naval Reserve-Captain Phillips makes an appeal for a more definitive approach to core values. I have an observation from a more abstract view. The model can be refined as a process rather than three independent virtues. The core of the core values is courage. Courage can exist with or without either honor or commitment. It is evidenced by willingness to confront and risk personal harm in order to accomplish an objective.
Commitment takes courage a step further. Commitment endures in spite of difficulties and injuries sustained. It takes courage to make a commitment. Commitment is courage over the long run.
Finally, honor is the virtue that seals a commitment. Honor is what brings us to fulfill our commitments, whether they be in personal relationships or financial or other obligations. Honor is a seamless garment in its breadth across all areas of life, and seamless in its depth because it presupposes courage and commitment.
Captain Phillips's assertion that honor is a seamless garment thus may be extended to include the other two core values-and, in fact, best applies when these other core values form the fabric into which honor is woven.
(See S. T. Connaughton, pp. 59-61, December 1997 Proceedings)
George D. Saunders-Commander Connaughton's message is a clear and timely warning that our sealift capabilities are not what they should be. And unless aggressive action is taken, we could find ourselves in a military operation lasting several months rather than several weeks.
Commander Connaughton reviewed the status of the Ready Reserve Fleet (RRF) and the large, medium-speed roll-on/roll-off (LSMR) programs. That these conversion and construction programs are behind schedule is true-but not fatal.
It generally is not recognized that these 17 ships incorporate certain new design features and structural arrangements that are the product of lessons learned over many years. Both the shipyards and the Military Sealift Command (MSC) jointly-and sometimes not so jointly-worked their way through many problems to produce this new waterborne military capability. Other sealift assets must be brought into existence around this core, and made available when needed to meet contingency operations and warfighting requirements.
Far more serious is the decline of the U.S. merchant marine. This is a big problem, and temporary solutions will not do. One such solution is the Maritime Security Program, covering 47 ships in the foreign commerce of the United States to be made available to the government in the event of a national emergency. While this effort is laudable, it does more to point out the seriousness of the problem than it does to solve it. Financial support for an industry that is vital to our national security and world power position is more than justified, and in fact is downright mandatory if we are to maintain adequate sealift capability. It is cheap insurance compared to the price we might pay in view of the lethal potential and destructive power of the weapons we could face in a future conflict. The best and probably the least-complicated solution is to restore the capital construction fund program, through which shipowners can set aside funds for new ship construction that will not be taxed. It would be mandatory that the ships be built in U.S. yards, within certain time limits.
The services are familiar with existing commercial transportation equipment and infrastructure-ships, terminals, and containers of all types. Private-sector ship operators and container leasing companies are, for the most part, well aware of the needs of the United States Transportation Command. The National Defense Transportation Association does a creditable job in cross-deck training at the executive level.
Not too much more should be expected of containers and intermodal shipping. There will continue to be improvements and refinements in container hardware and management systems that will produce greater efficiencies-but nothing really dramatic. Military-owned (and leased) containers always have been built to International Standards Organization (ISO) requirements, making them compatible with private-sector containerships and intermodal transportation.
The success of the containership in commercial trade is well known. But the containership in military operations is a different matter. Only small numbers of the world's containership fleet are fitted with cranes, and none of them is currently under U.S. flag. To be deployed in a sustainment operation, a containership would have to be offloaded in an undamaged port nearest the operating forces' staging area. The containers would then be moved overland by truck or rail to their in-theater destinations. Should port facilities not be available (for political or geographical reasons), the only alternative would be to offload the ship over the shore, which would require portable cranes. There are ten crane ships in the MSC fleet, one of which is active; the other nine are in reserve. Pontoon causeways or lighters would bring the containers to the beach, where they would be mounted on chassis for final delivery.
In addition to existing sealift assets both the MSC inventory and the Maritime Administration reserve fleet-we must have additional sealift tonnage as a safety factor, in view of the many things that can go wrong in littoral warfare.
At least 50 ships should be designed and built for charter to civilian commercial operators on long-term contracts. They should be built as merchant hulls insofar as possible, with weight and space reservations for the installation of military equipment and modules when the ship is needed for government service. These 50 or more ships should be built over the next ten years-five or six ships a year, to preclude block obsolescence. They should be combination roll-on/roll-off containerships on the order of the Atlantic Container Line fleet. The military equipment and modules would be located strategically, relative to each ship's operating area.
When a build-and-charter ship is withdrawn from its commercial operator for government service, it should be replaced immediately with a ship of approximately the same size and capacity. The replacement ship could come from the charter market or possibly from the Maritime Administration reserve fleet. The replacement ship may not be as suitable as the ship taken away, but it will keep the operator in business until either a better ship is found or the withdrawn ship is returned.
Building the U.S. mariner pool is probably the most important problem facing us. Commander Connaughton seems to have come up with the only workable solution-permitting U.S.-citizen mariners to work on foreign-flag ships, a program that could and should be implemented within a year. Every effort should be made to create such a program. It should probably be under the administrative control of the U.S. Coast Guard.
The tax incentive in exchange for an agreement to be immediately available in an emergency for service on a U.S.-flag ship will almost certainly be a key element in the program. This is no more than fair, considering that foreign-flag wages are lower than U.S.-ship wage scales. Properly managed, and without needless administrative intrusion, the program should work well and should go a long way toward correcting a serious problem.
The standards of the International Ship Management Organization should be adopted by foreign-flag owners employing U.S. merchant mariners. This agreement sets standards for crew training, watch keeping, and other areas in the ISO 9000-series quality standards.
It is difficult to judge war and the logistics and transportation that will be needed. But we know we will need adequate sealift-and more importantly, we know what we must do to get it.
"There's Value in Diversity"
(See M. Tainter, pp. 38-40, February 1998 Proceedings)
C. Stephan Conrad-This is a very realistic approach to the problems and strengths of creating a diversified workforce. I am a B757/B767 captain for a U.S.-based major airline, and have formerly served as a check airman and FAA designated examiner on the MD80 and check airman on the A300 Airbus. I also am a former base chief pilot at this airline. Here, in my 18-plus years, I have evaluated and flown with many former, retired, and reserve naval aviators. These pilots are some of the best-trained and most-disciplined aviators I've ever had the privilege to know.
I had hoped to become a naval aviator, in part because of my love of airplanes and the military and having grown up with great admiration and respect for my father, who served on board the USS Iowa (BB-61) and the USS Bremerton (CA-130) in the post-World War II years. My hope never materialized because of the surplus of naval aviators in 1976 and 1977. So I chose the second-best career. Three characteristics of all the naval aviators I fly with are their leadership, organizational, and communication skills.
Diversity in the workplace, be it in the services or the civilian sector, is here. We can capitalize on its strengths, and most important - as Chief Tainter points out - the similarities rather than the differences among our cultural, racial, and ethnic backgrounds. I equate it to what I see in the cockpit. It doesn't matter where you came from or how you were trained initially-but that the mission is completed successfully, effectively, competently, and toward common goals, while at the same time realizing and appreciating that we each have a uniqueness in how we accomplish these goals. Focus on the similarities we use to create a common bond-don't emphasize the differences.
If I allowed myself to concentrate on the differences in my crew, I would never leave the gate. Thank you for such an insightful essay. It helped me to understand what real diversity should be.
"A Tangled Webb"
(See P. A. Roush, pp. 42-45, August 1997; R. Hegemann, C. van Someren, R. Kuntz, V. M. Hudson, L. Marano, L. Stovall, pp. 12-22, September 1997; J. D. Lynch, D. E. Phillips, P. S. Edwards, T. M. Kastner, G. W. Anderson, pp. 10-15, October 1997; D. C. Fuquea, K. H. Moeller, M. T. Owens, pp. 21-24, November 1997; T. C. Greenwood, J. M. van Tol, pp. 2425, December 1997; E. Donnelly, J. A. Pidgeon, pp. 25-26, January 1998; T. M. Murray, p. 13 February 1998; P. A. Roush, R. C. Bowdoin, pp. 26-28, March 1998 Proceedings)
Elaine Donnelly, President, Center for Military Readiness-Professor Roush's March letter took issue with portions of my January letter, which discussed statements he had made to me and other members of the 1992 Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces. Once again, Professor Roush has substituted personal attack for rational discourse, and disclosed his apparent obsession with former Navy Secretary James Webb.
Readers have been told that I had described falsely a conversation between Professor Roush and members of the commission during our two-day visit to the Naval Academy in April 1992. The panel he references occurred on the first day, but my reference was to a follow-up meeting (noted in the staff report) on the second day when, as I recall, Professor Roush spoke to us from behind a desk that appeared to be his.
Professor Roush contends that it was not he who compared James Webb to David Duke, former head of the Ku Klux Klan, but instead a student, quoted by an approving teacher. The verbatim transcript of the 9 June 1992 hearing of the full commission quotes Professor Roush saying otherwise. In particular, he made the claim that it was not he, but I, who had made the analogy in question. Which version are we to believe?
Contrary to Professor Roush's insinuation, there never was any question that James Webb, a former Navy Secretary and notable author, was welcome to testify before the commission at any time. He chose not to do so.
Professor Roush also complains about questions I asked following his testimony before the commission, even though they were related to one of the primary points stated at the beginning of his presentation, and reprised more recently in Proceedings. Had he asked, I would have been happy to repeat or provide a copy of the brief statement I had read-an excerpt from the 1981 Supreme Court decision upholding women's exemption from draft registration. The answer to my question should have been easy for any self-styled "expert" on bigotry.
Professor Roush also claims to be an expert on the motivations and actions of other people, even when he has no firsthand knowledge of what happened and why. His revisionist account of a conversation I had with two midshipmen at the Academy is quite amazing, given that he was not there and clearly missed the point. People in uniform must follow lawful orders, but as stated in the Navy's own core values, superiors are expected to "Be willing to make honest recommendations and accept those of junior personnel," and to "Encourage new ideas and deliver the bad news, even when it is unpopular."
"Leave a Legacy"
(See J. Snell, pp. 36-37, February 1998 Proceedings)
Master Chief Carl L. Berrier, U.S. Navy (Retired)-Congratulations to Senior Chief John Snell on winning the Naval Institute's Enlisted Essay Contest. His challenge to chiefs on leadership could not have been put better.
Chiefs always have had the responsibility for leadership. The course of leadership changes over time to meet the goal. As liaison with the USS Yorktown (CG-48) and currently with the USS Normandy (CG-60) for the Richmond Council of the Navy League, I have seen nothing but top-rate chiefs. I am positive that if there is a needed course change for leadership it can-and will-be accomplished by our Navy chiefs.
"Semper Paratus in the 21st Century"
(See C. B. Frank, pp. 26-29. December 1997 Proceedings)
Master Chief William R. Wells II, U.S. Coast Guard (Retired)Lieutenant Commander Frank has made many correct and thoughtful assumptions that reflect his experience and insight into the capabilities-or lack thereof-of the Coast Guard's aging fleet. True, better hardware would help, but it is not the only solution to his rather gloomy picture. No one has dared to approach the potentially more destructive causes of the Coast Guard's current and future hardware and organizational difficulties.
Software-that matter between the ears-holds the key to the problem. Neither Commander Frank nor any others address the Coast Guard's steady loss of cohesiveness. As Commander Frank noted, the Coast Guard has lost nearly 50% of its sea-going fleet since 1950. Although the majority of these cutters were used for the long-dead ocean station patrols, they provided platforms on which junior officers cut their teeth at sea. The loss of this fleet and its culture have prompted many discussions of whether the Coast Guard is a seagoing service or a "maritime service." At-sea experience in the Coast Guard has become widely diluted, because during the same 195097 period the Coast Guard's officer corps increased by more than 275%, and it will may increase in the future if attempts to remove the permanent ceiling for commissioned officers-as was attempted in 1992-are successful. Indeed, it is now possible for a person-a possible decision and policy maker-to reach the grade of admiral with little or no sea experience. A cursory review of today's admirals shows that fewer than half have the permanent cutterman pin, which designates five or more years of sea experience. This is not an enviable statistic for the "world's premier maritime service."
Sea experience is not the only factor. This is demonstrated in the shortcomings of the 270-foot Bear (WMEC-901)-class cutters, illustrated by Commander Frank. The slow speed of this class of cutters stands in sharp contrast to the quest for speed 100 years earlier. The cutters constructed during the 1890s were both warships and patrol vessels, and could reach speeds of 17 knots-speed was a requirement. An old Coast Guard adage holds that its cutters are designed around their towing bits-and this has created a vessel that can neither tow nor shoot. In essence, the Coast Guard has constructed ships that have gained either no or very little-speed advantage over their 100year-old counterparts. It is likely that the 1890s cutters could outgun and outfight their 1990s successors.
The usual refrain is that the Coast Guard is a multimission service and must allot its short funding in the widest possible scope. This was substantiated by a now out-of-date General Accounting Office report, which said it was more cost efficient to build multipurpose vessels. There is some reasoning in this, but are the cutters actually "multipurpose"? Even the Cold War-engineered 378-foot Hamilton (WHEC-715) class, once hailed as an innovation, has been regulated to the function of being only a platform to extend the legs of a helicopter. It no longer carries an effective gun system, nor can it perform any antisubmarine warfare mission. At best, it could detect mines or other targets only by running into them.
Commander Frank warned that if "new assets and new operational concepts are not employed, the Coast Guard will go the way of wooden ships, sailing ships, radarless ships, and battleships." This dire prediction depends upon the Coast Guard being able to convince Congress that it needs a large expenditure for better, faster, and technologically improved vessels on which to base better, faster, and technologically improved concepts. The missing ingredients include the will, desire, and collective experience of the Coast Guard in actually asking for the funding. There have been few questions on this topic raised in the annual appropriation hearings-and then largely from the special interest groups that need the Coast Guard's civil services to operate their merchant fleets. It does not appear that the Coast Guard has any of these risk-taking qualities. It would be a large gamble that would require a Coast Guard leadership endowed with daring and possessing the willingness to accept the risks involved. These are the same risks undertaken in the past by men who did not put their vision statements on paper but acted on them. They had the resolve to push for the particulars that made their Coast Guard a true maritime service. The question remains: Does the Coast Guard have the leadership with the will to rebuild the seagoing core of its organizational culture?
If Commander Frank wishes to help develop a 21st century fleet to assist in "low-threat" sea control, he may first attempt to convince the Coast Guard that ships, and the men and women who serve on them, are not integrated deep-water systems but extensions of the service's culture.
Naval Institute's Constitution up for Change
Colonel John C. Scharfen, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired)-What a pleasant surprise to find the 1998 official ballot of our U.S. Naval Institute in our mail drop. On the ballot is an opportunity to vote for a change in the Naval Institute's constitution, which would provide for a change in the elected representation of a retired and an enlisted representative on the Board of Directors.
In the "Nobody asked me, but . . . pages of the April 1989 Proceedings, I recommended such changes. But my recommendations met scant enthusiasm. After that, I would decline to vote, noting on my ballot that my nonparticipation was to protest the undemocratic composition of the elected members of the Board.
It took us almost a decade to get there, but we all should be encouraged that there are great prospects for a Naval Institute that can have a Board of Directors that is more representative of its membership. Congratulations!
"Connecting Land & Sea"
(See D. M. Verzera, pp. 60-63, January 1998 Proceedings)
Lieutenant Commander Steven S. Aronson, U.S. Naval Reserve-Lieutenant Colonel Verzera's case could be strengthened by using innovative tactics balancing the capabilities of air-cushioned and traditional landing craft units.
Let us replace the traditional role of the LCAC with the primary mission of the MCAC to provide force multiplication. We can use the V-22/antiaircraft artillery/MCAC triad to establish quickly a relatively secure area to bring our supplies into effective utility landing craft (LCU) range. LCUs will deliver most of the equipment and supplies. We will achieve relative security quickly, as the MCACs will defend the operational area flanks, harass coastal enemy reinforcement attempts, and provide critical point supplies. We must use our energetic thoroughbreds to fight and our stout reliable mules to carry the supplies.
"Courts Can't Enforce Recruiters' Health-Care Promises"
(See T. Philpott, p. 90, February 1998 Proceedings)
Commander M. J. Stewart, U.S. Coast Guard (Retired)-Mr. Philpott states that one of U.S. District Court Judge Patrick M. Duffy's added arguments was "Retirees are uninjured by loss of free military health care because they can still use military-sponsored health care programs such as Champus and Tricare Prime or, if over 65, Medicare."
I retired in 1975 with almost 34 years of service. In 1997, health-care expenses for me and my wife were $4,932.39. This was an average health-care year for us. Simple mathematics reveals that $4,932.39 times 22 years equals $108,518.58-and we're not dead yet. When, in 1950, we made the decision to make the military our career, we were promised free lifetime health care. That was a large factor in making that commitment. We kept our part of the commitment and expected the government to keep its part. It hasn't. | <urn:uuid:a1a76047-6632-4466-8d7c-0a7cc2b0eccd> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.usni.org/print/8663 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721355.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00014-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963 | 7,599 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Pope Francis met 600 young passengers from the ‘Children’s Train’ on Monday. Under the initiative, organised by the ‘Courtyard of the Gentiles, 200 children from underprivileged backgrounds from Bari and Trani came to the Vatican railway station on a special train where the joined hundreds of youngsters from other parts of Italy. They were welcomed by Cardinal Giuseppe Bertello, president of the Governorate of Vatican City State, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture and Michele Mario Elia, director of Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane SpA, the Italian rail company.
This year the trip was for children of detainees in the Italian penitentiaries of Roma, Civitavecchia, Latina, Bari and Trani. The theme of the daywas ‘Flight’.
since it offered the children a chance to ‘fly away’ from their daily reality, the confines of the prison wall and forced separation from their families. The children greeted Pope Francis in the Paul VI Hall with hundreds of multicoloured kites.
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Fluid buildup in lungs can be deadly for skiers, mountain climbers, regardless of fitness
SUNDAY, Sept. 9 (HealthDay News) -- An international database on high altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) -- a life-threatening buildup of fluid in the lungs that can occur at high altitudes -- has been launched at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
HAPE, also known as mountain sickness, can occur at altitudes as low as 2,500 meters and can affect people of all ages and fitness levels. Little is known about the condition, and there's no way to predict who is likely to be stricken by it. HAPE affects about one in 50 mountain climbers, skiers and others who venture up mountains. Some studies have suggested a genetic basis.
Treatment options are limited. Sufferers must descend from high altitude and seek immediate medical attention.
This new database, operated in conjunction with researchers from Austria, Bolivia, Britain and the United States, was created to boost research and knowledge about HAPE and possibly develop a way of identifying people susceptible to the condition.
If they can be identified, those at risk could take precautions such as climbing more slowly or taking drugs to prevent HAPE.
People who've suffered HAPE are encouraged to register with the database, which will be available to researchers worldwide. Individual details about registrants won't be given out without their consent.
MedlinePlus has more about altitude sickness.
-- Robert Preidt
SOURCE: University of Edinburgh, news release, August 2007
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The Library in the Torture Center
In Cordóba, the second largest city in Argentina, there is a library of forbidden books. Thirty years ago one risked harassment if caught handling any of the hundreds of books now lining the walls of the library. As in the novel The Name of the Rose, one might even have risked being killed. The library is housed in an abandoned prison and concentration camp known as D2, where, during the latest dictatorial military regime, people were tortured and killed. It is situated right next to the Cathedral just a stone’s throw from the San Martin Square, which constitutes the city center. Every day thousands of pedestrians pass by the rather bland building unaware of the fact that it has recently been used as a notorious prison.
Today the D2 functions as a museum. Artefacts from the epoch have been either saved or recreated in an ambitious attempt to reflect the years of dictatorship. Photographs on the walls depict some of the nearly one thousand prisoners who were kept within its walls. Most of these were tortured; very few survived. For many years this historical period was not remembered. Nobody talked about these events. The dictatorship became a blank space in the school syllabus; amnesty laws protected the regime that in fact was responsible for the disappearance of thirty thousand people. However, as from 2003 this state of affairs has changed remarkably. In 2005 the laws regulating amnesty were changed and the military regime was brought to trial. Hundreds of military have now been imprisoned and many more await their verdicts from courts of law all over Argentina. This makes Argentina a unique country on the continent—no other country in South America has in this firm manner tried to come to grips with its bloodstained history. The concepts verdad, justicia y memoria (truth, justice, and memory) have been the cornerstones of this process. Besides the legal proceedings, the Government has also chosen to open up the former concentration camps to the public in order to reveal what had formerly been concealed.
Anthropologists, architects, and cultural workers, about a dozen people, work at the D2. They organize tours in several languages, exhibitions, and lectures. The former prison cells are left in tact—so are the torture chambers. On the walls there are moving inscriptions left by the prisoners such as: “Pedro, te amo.”
One room especially draws my attention. Unlike the others it is not depressingly grey or bare. Instead it is full of color and of books. This is The Library of Forbidden Books—a library that since 2007 collects and systematizes the books formerly banned by the military regime. Here one can find almost everything: fiction and non-fiction, children’s books, newspapers and magazines, encyclopedias and more. Today the library functions as a dynamic meeting place. Moreover, one tries to tell the history of the book—its provenance—how it came to survive the raids and the book burnings. These are often the stories of the relationships between people and their books. If there was anything the regime despised more than the common people it was the literature of the people. To exterminate people did not suffice; their worlds of thought must be also be extinguished. So-called ‘dangerous’ and ‘anti-patriotic’ symbols, pictures, discourses, and traditions were thus targeted.
In 1976, Luciano Benjamin Menendez, general and head of military operations in Córdoba, organized an enormous book burning at the upper secondary school Manuel Belgrano. On the school premises a mountain of books was amassed and set fire to. Books by Karl Marx, Pablo Neruda, Sigmund Freud, the Cuban resistance poet José Martí, and many books by other writers were burned to cinder. The message was clear: books are dangerous. To be found carrying a used copy of the Communist Manifesto, full of dog’s ears and under-linings, was deemed as threatening as carrying a sharply loaded pistol. However, despite the fact that the ‘wrong’ book could transport you to the D2, many people would still hang on to their books. It was unheard of for the educated middle classes to throw away books—let alone to burn them. So the books were either hidden away, buried underground, or camouflaged in the shelves.
In 1971 when my father was imprisoned during what is now known as ‘the soft dictatorship’—to distinguish it from the period of violence that began in 1976—he had been warned as to what was about to happen. Despite the warning he could not bear to rid himself of his books on the class war, on materialism, and on revolution. Instead he organised a decoy: he put a copy of the war strategist von Clausewitz’ classic On War on his bedside table. So, when the soldiers searched for ideologically incriminating evidence in his home they first set eyes on the military classic. On seeing my father’s bedside reading they would nod contentedly amongst themselves and wholly bypass Lenin’s complete works towering triumphantly above in the bookshelf. Thanks to such stubborn and highly inventive lovers of literature many books survived this period.
A quick scan of the titles in the Library of Forbidden Books shows the enormous span of the censored books—a span that surprises me. The military regime certainly seemed to have suffered from intellectual paranoia. For example, one of the junta’s leaders, Emilio Massera, in a renowned article from 1977, complained about the crisis pertaining to morals and mores. According to Massera, three people were held responsible for the crisis: Karl Marx, who in Capital “questions the stability of a private economy”; Sigmund Freud for having “attacked the holy and intimate sphere of the individual” in his The Interpretation of Dreams; and last but not least, Albert Einstein is held accountable for having caused a crisis in connection to “the static and dead structure” of the material world in relation to his own relativity theory.
Quite expectedly, Marxist literature was the main target of the military regime. General Cristina Nicolaides was so convinced that communism was a serious contemporary threat that he even believed that it had threatened humankind throughout history since 500 years B.C. The great fear of collective theories even led to the banning of modern mathematics at the universities; set theory—this mysterious capacity the elements have of forming larger collectives—was disapproved of. How subversive!
Despite these comical and bizarre examples of an irrational censorship, there was still a sort of logic behind military censorship. A logic that the Catholic Church actively supported in its Holy Trinity consisting of God, the Family, and the Fatherland. Books that in any way questioned these cornerstones of conservatism were forbidden. Against this backdrop it is not at all strange that the controversial Charles Bukowski with his questionable morals did not fit the ideology of the military regime. His book Women can be found on a shelf in the Library of Forbidden Books. The same goes for Saint Exupéry’s The Little Prince—the children’s book about the little prince from planet B612 in which one learns that “all the important things are invisible to the eye.” Children’s books were certainly targeted by the militia. A correct ideological fostering of the young was deemed important. Schools were necessary but did not necessarily suffice. The libraries too should be in line with the prescribed cultural project. Books that refused to respect authorities or that questioned the unit of the family were not regarded as suitable for children. The popular writer of children’s books, Laura Devetach, was censored and forced to go in hiding as her books were thought of as being informed by an “unlimited imagination.” It was hereby implied that the imagination and dreams needed to be curbed and controlled. It is not hard to guess what the Argentinian military regime would have thought of Pippi Longstocking.
Since 1983 Argentina is once more a democracy. Books and the written word can now be freely exchanged. Writers are no longer forced underground and there are no more government officials signing documents to forbid undesirable books. Nevertheless, the period of dictatorial rule has made an indelible imprint on cultural life in the country. Censorship and harassment forced the publishing houses to close down and fewer people took to writing. The book market has still not fully recovered and the Argentinian people still do not read as much as before the rule of the military regime. The idea that books represent a potential threat has been deeply ingrained and is hard to overcome. Therefore, self-censorship has become one of the former regime’s main legacies. In order to overcome this legacy the Library of Forbidden Books has set itself a goal: to stimulate reading—especially among young people. Books should not be seen merely as artefacts in a museum that cannot be handled, but rather as entities to be read, passed around, and discussed. What was the aim of the censorship? What does it mean to us today? These are a few of the questions being asked at the library in an attempt to link our contemporary time to our history.
Every day school classes visit the library in order to read and discuss the books that only thirty-five years earlier could have led to the torture of somebody right here on the very spot where young people today cozily sit on cushions engaged in stretching the limits of their imaginations. In the final analysis reading has the power to become an antidote to totalitarian thinking in all its forms. Hence, the Argentinian military regime was once at least partly correct in assuming that books are dangerous. | <urn:uuid:22b16997-33a7-46d3-a1db-3fafa1f73f24> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pen.org/the-library-in-the-torture-center/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.977575 | 1,982 | 2.796875 | 3 |
By Chris Corpus and Hannah Combs
Her speech well rehearsed, she had just settled into a light doze when a touch of turbulence brought her back to attention. She glanced out the window and down through thousands of feet of clear sky, where a large, sinuous curve of shining water caught her eye.
“How long until we reach Seattle?” she asked a crew member.
“Still about another hour, Mrs. Roosevelt.”
A lake that big and so far from the coast? The mountains ringing it looked steep, too. It must be deep. She jotted down a reminder to mention it to her husband, the 32nd president of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Idaho’s version of Area 51 started out as the Farragut Naval Training Center, once the second-largest base in the world and now a 4,000-acre state park. The idea of training sailors 375 miles away from the ocean seemed preposterous to the public in 1942, but creating an under-the-radar Navy submarine research center was a strategic military decision, brought to the attention of President Roosevelt by his wife, Eleanor.
The first lady knew her husband’s desire to train sailors far from the prying eyes and bombers of the Axis powers. The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 created a need for speed in developing training facilities throughout the nation. By March 1942, FDR made a secret visit to the site with the governor of Idaho, and the presence of two railroads (Northern Pacific and Spokane International) along with a newly built US 95 sealed the deal.
But what about submarines? Perhaps the rumors started because of the 900 German prisoners of war who came to Farragut in late 1944. Because recruits were sequestered in their own camp, with strict adherence to secrecy, it is difficult to verify any submarine training that may have happened in the ’40s. Trained in secrecy — even at the Farragut reunion in 1985 — no sailor came forward with verifiable stories of German Kriegsmarine veterans helping train American submariners.
The Navy maintained a research base over the years at the water’s edge of the Farragut facility. The deep water and the consistent cold temperatures became a perfect laboratory for acoustic research and sonar development. Because of the top secret nature of the work, much of the testing happened under the cloak of darkness and after the summer recreation season. There is little doubt that the Navy used the “monster of the deep” as a diversion for their experiments with acoustic properties of ships, submarines, and torpedoes. Leaks about something big identified in the deepest parts of the lake helped to deflect and obscure the real mission at Bayview.
Military researchers’ advances in sonar detection at Bayview helped solve a major problem for the Navy during World War II. The original sonar would go out and bounce back off of fish. As such, sonar operators would hear fish “talking” and other unwanted noise. The researchers at Farragut developed a way to filter out any organic sounds — a major breakthrough at the time. They played a significant role in the “run silent, run deep” post-war program.
As service members at Bayview began to embrace their new Idaho home, they named some of the experimental ships — called “large scale vehicles” — after local fish. An early notable test vehicle, christened the Kamloops, arrived in 1967 from a shipyard in California. The 70-foot, 3.5-ton vehicle tested wake signatures, new sail designs, propeller noise, new propulsion concepts and active handling capabilities. The 90-foot LSV-I “Kokanee” became the next arrival to Bayview, serving as a precursor to the Seawolf class of Navy submarines. Its testing helped finesse design characteristics like flow, structural strength, vibration and underwater acoustics. All of the research submersibles were 1/4 scale models of the eventual full-sized submarines and ships. Cost effective, for sure, and easier to operate undetected on the lake. The Navy has always maintained that the vessels were unmanned.
At $3 billion dollars for the full-scale version, the Bayview testing vehicles were economical and helped birth an “exceptionally quiet, fast, well-armed submarine, well-equipped with advanced sensors.” A full-scale Seawolf is 343 feet long.
Another LSV, christened the “Cutthroat” by Athol Elementary School students, helped launch the Virginia class of fast attack submarines. At 110 feet long, it was the largest unmanned submarine at its time. The Navy designed it to be modular so that various parts of its hull could be switched in and out for various testing purposes with relative ease. Where the Kokanee’s propulsion put out 3,000 horsepower, the Cutthroat sped along with 6,000 horsepower.
The Kamloops, Kokanee and Cutthroat may have been part of an inventory of up to 10 vehicles at one time, but it is hard to be sure. Although the Navy became less secretive over the years, it has still held much close to the vest.
With a growing North Idaho population, it became harder for the Navy to bring in experimental equipment overland to launch at Bayview. News photos showed one transported submarine stuck along the highway — an unwelcome headline for the Navy. The Kokanee arrived by rail to Dover Bay, shrouded in secrecy. The Navy built a temporary shipyard at Dover as an easier way to deliver the experimental vehicles. They used the existing railroad spur from the Union Pacific main line from the lumber mill days, and the present Dover boat launch is courtesy of the Navy.
The small base supported every major submarine and sonar design for almost 70 years. The clear water, steep shores, flat muddy bottom and constant chilly water temperatures below 100 feet made for great test conditions. The Navy knew they had an accidental gem, and eventually developed the Acoustic Research Detachment at Bayview/Farragut.
In 2005 ARD Bayview received its first 1/4 scale model surface vessel to operate and test. Nicknamed Sea Jet, it was the precursor to the Zumwalt Class Destroyer, with a unique, radical hull design. Its most notable feature was a shrouded and totally submerged impeller drive design. This rudderless concept built by Rolls Royce could achieve speeds of 18 knots, and the hull design produced a much smaller wake. Its strange design rekindled stories of the fabled lake monster, the Pend Oreille Paddler.
Maybe more of the story of the Navy’s landlocked base will come to light in the future. Retired Admiral Edmund Giambastiani, head of the Navy’s submarine warfare group at one time, called Lake Pend Oreille “the U.S. Submarine force’s most important body of water.” Of course, we beachgoers like it for other reasons.
This article is the third and final installment of the “Mysteries of the Deep” series, brought to you by the Bonner County Historical Society. Research courtesy of the Bonner County History Museum. The beginning of this article has been fictionalized based on historic facts.
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North, Anna. “This Is What It Was like to Perform Abortions before Roe.” Vox, Vox, 24 May 2019, www.vox.com/2019/5/24/18630825/abortion-roe-v-wade-vs-jane-collective.
Background and Credibility:
Anna North is a writer who came from the New York Times and transferred into Vox. She covers gender issues, reproductive rights, workplace discrimination, LGBTQ rights, femininity, and more. She has also written three novels in the past.
In this article, North talks about the world pre- Roe v. Wade. According to Anna North, before Roe v. Wade, there was a “Jane”. This was a group of women in Chicago who provided abortions when it was illegal in most parts of the country. People who were seeking abortions could call the hotline and leave a message for “Jane”. Members of the council would meet her, counsel her, and perform the procedure themselves at a secret place. The Janes were receiving more attention recently in May 2019 as new restrictions for abortions were swarming in. North speaks to Judith Arcana, one of the original Janes, about what it was like to perform surgery on others when they were still illegal. She was an English teacher at the time with no medical practice. She was arrested in 1972 just a year before Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973 and all charges were dropped against the Janes. She asks Arcana if they would need something like “Jane” again, and Arcana predicted that there would be and that it is already happening within the country. Arcana had to learn on the job and had to do things she couldn’t do to her own body like give injections to the patients. She explained how during every counseling section she would have to explain that they are breaking the law and that they are taking a big risk. Many of them did not care and decided to go through the procedure anyway, and rightfully so. She explains that just because something is a law, does not mean she should have to respect it. Arcana uses the example of Jim Crow laws; she says she “studied laws around slavery and Jim Crow laws and the other horrors that are literally in the bones of this nation, that are deserving of no respect”. This is a good example of how laws are not always for the benefit of the people as they may seem.
I agree with her points in the article. She also interviews a former Jane, who provided abortions to people before Roe was accepted. This was written relatively early, in May 2019 so the relevance of the article is accurate to today’s time. She presents an accurate depiction of how hard it was to get an abortion during those times, and by bringing in someone who directly dealt with this kind of stress, it provides a second voice to back up what they’re saying. Arcana personally, had the same fright of thinking about being pregnant with no resources to help them. If there was one speculation or question, I had, it would ask for more people to talk to about it like someone who personally an abortion at that time had to provide an emotional impact for the readers.
“Now, I’ve got to tell you that a lot of women really didn’t want to hear anything political. They just [said], “Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do me and I’ll go home.” Who can blame them, you know?”
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Public Policy and Independent Higher Education.
Foster, Marilyn K.
The relationship of public policy and independent higher education is examined, and the antecedents of an intentional public policy are traced. A comprehensive public policy for the independent sector, which was issued in 1974 by the National Council of Independent Colleges and Universities (NCICU) is discussed in the context of social ideals and economic impact. In addition, issues identified in the 1974 statement, entitled "A National Policy for Private Higher Education," are compared with those stated in 1982 by the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU). The case for preserving a dual system of higher education is predicated on the social ideals of pluralism, diversity, and freedom of choice. There are also the quantitative considerations of economic impact on college communities and the minimization of state expenditures for higher education. Independent colleges have a particularly strong impact on small towns and rural areas, especially the church related colleges. Issues addressed by the policy statements include: tuition offset grants, federal incentive grants, student financial aid, income and tax laws that encourage philanthropic giving, federal regulation, support for academic research, and medical education. NAICU's policy statements also addressed state legislatures separate from the federal government. (SW)
Publication Type: Opinion Papers
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Insert Space (Panel Edit)
Insert Space is used to make space in an editor for new controls. This option has the advantage of being able to move both hidden and visible controls. It is ideal for creating space in an editor to add new controls without having to select every control below a certain point and move the controls down or over a given amount.
The parameters controlling the insertion of space are provided by a dialog which is opened when this option is selected
To insert space in an editor:
The Insert Space Dialog
This dialog is used to determine where space is to be inserted into the editor.
Insert space at X: controls right of pixel position X are moved to the right
Insert space at Y: controls below the pixel position Y are moved down
Amount of space to insert X: specifies the number of pixels to move the controls to the right
Amount of space to insert Y: specifies the number of pixels to move the controls down
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Apples have a long recorded history of consumption throughout civilization, most likely originating in the mountainous region between the Caspian and Black Seas. With over 7,500 varieties of apples grown worldwide, apples are one of the most popular fruits around the globe. About 2,500 known varieties of apples are grown in the United States alone. From over 100 types known to be produced commercially, 15 popular varieties account for 90% of annual U.S. production. In the U.S. we consume an estimated 17 pounds of fresh apples and 29 pounds of processed apples, for a total of approximately 46 pounds of apple products per year. One pound equals about 3 medium apples so we need to step up consumption to reach an apple a day!
In Colorado, local apples are most commonly available from mid-August through mid-October, with storage lasting until June. Having apple orchards located in both the Eastern and Western parts of the state, Coloradans have access to apples and apple products at a variety of locations and markets.
Choose apples with the following characteristics:
*Bruised apples are good for making apple sauce and pies. Bruised or "less perfect" apples are called seconds and can often be purchased from a grower at a lower cost.
AAn apple continues to live and respire, even after it is picked. Although respiration cannot be halted completely, cooling apples postharvest can extend their shelf life. Bruising is the most common defect in apples; handle fruit with care to avoid soft spots. Always wash apples before eating or preparing and dry with a paper towel. Apples are threatened by over 40 types of insects; therefore many orchards practice Integrated Pest Management (IPM). Rinsing apples with fresh water also reduces the potential for foodborne illness.
Apples keep best when stored in the refrigerator fruit bin. At home, apples can last from 4-6 weeks in the refrigerator. Commercially, apples may be stored in a controlled atmosphere with an oxygen content lowered from 21% to 2.5% and the carbon dioxide content increased from 0.25% to 2-5%. With this type of storage, apples maintain their freshness for up to 12 months.
Select mature, firm apples. Wash well. Pare and core. Cut in rings or slices 1/8 to 1/4 inch thick, or cut in quarters or eighths. Submerge in 50/50 water and lemon juice solution for 10 minutes. Remove from solution and drain well. Arrange in a single layer on trays. Dry in dehydrator or oven set at 140ºF until soft, pliable, and leathery, with no moistness in center.
6 cups of sliced, peeled apples
1/4 c water
1/3 c sugar (adjust to taste)
Cinnamon to taste (optional)
Mix all ingredients in 2-quart microwave safe baking dish. Cover and microwave on high power 6 to 8 minutes. Using a food processor or blender, blend the cooked mixture to the desired consistency. Refrigerate any leftovers.
|Gala||Bright red with bands of yellow||Sweet Aromatic||Good||Very Good||Good|
|Jonathan||Light red stripes over yellow or deep red||Balanced flavor Tart-sweet||Very Good||Excellent||Very Good|
|Jonagold||Rich red||Sweet Tart Juicy||Very Good||Excellent||Very Good|
|Honey Crisp||Yellow with blush||Mildly Tart, Sweet Crisp||Excellent||Good||Good|
|Golden Delicious||Yellow-green, pink blush||Mild flavor Crisp||Excellent||Very Good||Very Good|
|Fuji||Red blush with green and yellow stripes||Sweet-tart Very crisp||Very Good||Good||Good|
|Braeburn||Yellow w/ red stripes or blush||Crisp, firm, tart||Fair||Good||Good|
|Granny Smith||Green, sometimes with rosy blush||Tart Crisp||Very Good||Very Good||Very Good|
"An apple a day keeps the doctor away."
Apples are a delicious, nutritious way to boost consumption of fruits and vegetables for a healthy diet. Apples are fat free and high in fiber. Apples contain natural fruit sugars, mainly fructose. The high fiber content of an apple allows sugars to be released slowly, maintaining healthy blood glucose levels and warding off hunger. Apples are a good source of Vitamin C and a variety of other disease fighting antioxidants.
Apples brown due to an enzyme called polyphenoloxidase. When an apple is cut, these compounds are released from the cell and cause a browning reaction on the fruit. The more Vitamin C the apple contains, the less the browning may occur. Dipping apple slices in a 50/50 water and lemon juice solution will help prevent extensive browning and can help maintain crispness.
Apple recipes and posters
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Devops means many things to many people. Even without a clear definition people instantly underst...
Devops means many things to many people. Even without a clear definition people instantly understand the problem space, while the solution space is much more complex and layered. In this talk on devops, different fields and practices will be presented, including how Devops is related to Agile and Lean, and the central roles that infrastructure as code, metrics and monitoring have. Many devops talks relate to the CAMS acronym : Culture, Automation, Measuring and Sharing. The S for Sharing is usually taken for granted and does not get much explanation, but in this talk it will be right in the centre. Without Sharing there is no Devops and successful adoption is impossible. | <urn:uuid:b8812a48-9c2c-4375-8be1-073af22dad44> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://sssslide.com/www.slideshare.net/jedi4ever/devops-with-the-s-for-sharing-14764362 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719646.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00127-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.876353 | 213 | 2.34375 | 2 |
I agree that the client is probably correct here. It is difficult to find information about how this method is supposed to work. From googling I see that some clients use the value returned by this method to determine if the column value should be formatted as a currency.
The JDBC Tutorial and Reference (JDBC 3.0) page 1073 mentions "...the common cases where DECIMAL and NUMERIC are used for currency values...", but I don't think this implies that isCurrency should always return true for these types.
Table 50.7 JDBC Types Mapped to Database-specific SQL Types (also in the JDBC Tutorial) mentions that Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server has a MONEY type that is mapped to java.sql.Types.DECIMAL, and that Microsoft Access has a CURRENCY type that is mapped to java.sql.Types.NUMERIC.
Seems reasonable to assume that the intention has been that isCurrency should return true for DECIMAL columns converted from MONEY and for NUMERIC columns converted from CURRENCY.
By this reasoning isCurrency should always return false in Derby where there are no currency types.
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(PRWEB) October 02, 2012
Nokia are always at the forefront of mobile innovation. These innovations range from the world’s first satellite call, social considerations, mobile firsts and more. All of these have been compiled into a series of eye-catching infographics that have been built – much like Nokia’s global network – to be able to be localised and understood in as many countries as possible.
Background Information – The Nokia Evolution: 1984 to Tomorrow... Infographic
Remember 1984? The year that the Space Shuttle Discovery’s had its maiden voyage and Nokia released the Mobira Talkman mobile phone. Nokia has played a key part in the mobile evolution of an over the shoulder device, with a limited calling function, to having your whole world in your pocket.
The Mobira was Nokia’s first truly mobile device; nicknamed the “Gorba” after Mikhail Gorbachev made a call with a Nokia device in 1987. Nokia’s evolution continued through the 1990’s with the ability to save more contacts on your phone (up to 99 contacts in 1992, and yes that was lot back then!).
In 2008, singers Prince, Madonna, and the late Michael Jackson all celebrated their 50th birthdays – This is the year that Nokia released the 5800 XpressMusic Symbian smartphone with a year of free music downloads.
Present day: Nasa announced the landing of the Mars rover Curiosity and Nokia announces a new approach to mobile photography with PureView technology. This technology allows the best photos to be captured during the day and at night time; when you may be in the club, at the park, or just sitting gazing up at the stars. So where will Nokia go next?
With their constant evolution through the last 20+ years, and the Lumia range being full of innovative features, it will be no surprise that this will continue with pride from the iconic Finnish mobile manufacture.
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In 1987, the year that Dirty Dancing came out, Nokia helped develop Global System for Mobile communication (more know commonly as GSM). Flash forward four years, Arnie’s second outing as a friendlier terminator in T2 coincides with the Finnish Prime Minister making the first GSM call using Nokia-Siemens equipment.
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Gavin Holvey, Priva General Manager UK & Ireland
London’s commercial landlords must invest now in building tech to ‘green’ their building stock, or risk being ‘unrentable’
A new report which claims that around 10% of London’s office space, has an EPC rating of F or G making it potentially unusable when new MEES regulations come into effect in 2023, should prompt swift action and investment in energy efficient building technology by commercial landlords, says Priva UK & Ireland.
The new analysis from leading commercial real estate company Colliers shows that approximately 20% of central London offices can be classed as A and B on the EPC rating scale, (Colliers calculates that the majority of buildings (57 %) fall into the D to G categories).
Priva UK, a leading manufacturer of building automation and building energy management technology, believes there is much work to be done to bring existing buildings up to a higher standard. Post 2023, any building that does not meet the minimum rating of E may be un-rentable under the MEES legislation.
“It is imperative that London’s commercial landlords and real-estate asset owners invest now in their existing building stock to bring the energy efficiency ratings up to scratch,” says Gavin Holvey, Priva General Manager UK & Ireland.
“The Colliers report says that while new Grade A+ schemes in Central London ‘rightly demand the highest rental levels’, there is a genuine appetite for sympathetically refurbished buildings which benefit from low carbon technologies and energy management tools. Such buildings will not only contribute to Net Zero emissions goals, they are likely to be much more affordable to the majority of tenants.”
Make more of existing buildings
“We must make so much more of the buildings we already have,” continues Gavin Holvey. “By upgrading building control systems and taking advantage of cloud-based energy management technologies, we can help to bring existing buildings closer to the operating performance of modern Grade A structures. A BMS system – in experienced hands – can deliver 40% savings on energy bills during the operational phase of the building.”
“It’s well known that building from scratch – or indeed demolition and total re-build – is highly carbon intensive. We take a view that we must all think smarter – and find new ways to embrace circular economy principles. Our technology has been used on many commercial retrofit projects in London and elsewhere in the UK’s cities. We have seen first-hand the impact that re-using and greening existing building stock can have on getting Scope 1 and Scope 3 Green House Gas Emissions under control.”
Priva’s suite of building control technologies makes it possible to upgrade existing buildings with legacy BMS systems by reusing existing cabling and sensors and field devices. This can be achieved with ease. Previously, in older buildings, burdened with outdated controls technology it was uneconomical to fully replace, owners and occupiers had no choice but ‘make do’. However, the ability to retrofit old systems with new controls makes a positive contribution to sustainability – such as energy outcomes and operational efficiencies
“Quite simply, the ‘invest in retrofit’ approach offers a commercial ‘win-win’ for London’s real-estate sector and UK plc more widely. Finding more sustainable approaches to managing the long-term impact of the built environment should be the focus of everyone in our sector,” concludes Gavin Holvey. | <urn:uuid:81273b9e-31a9-4375-91c0-a64797b22f58> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://buildingspecifier.com/landlords-must-go-green/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.945307 | 746 | 1.585938 | 2 |
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Almost 100 years ago, a young WWI soldier displayed exceptional bravery on the battlefield.
Today, a broad coalition is working to secure - at long last - the Medal of Honor for that soldier, Sergeant Henry Lincoln Johnson, who President Roosevelt called "one of the five bravest men who fought in WWI."
In this week's Skanner, Helen Silvis writes that newly-discovered documents may finally overcome the procedural issues that have so far frustrated the effort.
Oregon Senator Ron Wyden and New York Senator Charles Schumer, who are leading this effort at the federal level, will submit the new evidence to Army Secretary John McHugh as early as this week. From there, the request will move to the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and eventually to Congress. | <urn:uuid:20f90e0d-ac26-4c22-90f9-ab1acede2c2d> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.portlandoregon.gov/fish/article/348914? | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719468.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00529-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923151 | 178 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Facebook admits: Apps were given users' permission to go into their inboxes
Only the inbox owner had to consent to it, though... not the people they conversed with
Facebook has admitted that some apps had access to users’ private messages, thanks to a policy that allowed devs to request mailbox permissions.
The revelation came as current Facebook users found out whether they or their friends had used the "This Is Your Digital Life" app that allowed academic Aleksandr Kogan to collect data on users and their friends.
Users whose friends had been suckered in by the quiz were told that as a result, their public profile, Page likes, birthday and current city were “likely shared” with the app.
So far, so expected. But, the notification went on:
A small number of people who logged into “This Is Your Digital Life” also shared their own News Feed, timeline, posts and messages which may have included post and messages from you. They may also have shared your hometown.
That’s because, back in 2014 when the app was in use, developers using Facebook’s Graph API to get data off the platform could ask for
read_mailbox permission, allowing them access to a person’s inbox.
That was just one of a series of extended permissions granted to devs under v1.0 of the Graph API, which was first introduced in 2010.
Following pressure from privacy activists – but much to the disappointment of developers – Facebook shut that tap off for most permissions in April 2015, although the changelog shows that
read_mailbox wasn’t deprecated until 6 October 2015.
Facebook confirmed to The Register that this access had been requested by the app and that a small number of people had granted it permission.
“In 2014, Facebook’s platform policy allowed developers to request mailbox permissions but only if the person explicitly gave consent for this to happen,” a spokesborg told us.
“According to our records only a very small number of people explicitly opted into sharing this information. The feature was turned off in 2015.”
Facebook tried to downplay the significance of the eyebrow-raising revelation, saying it was at a time when mailboxes were “more of an inbox”, and claimed it was mainly used for apps offering a combined messaging service.
“At the time when people provided access to their mailboxes – when Facebook messages were more of an inbox and less of a real-time messaging service – this enabled things like desktop apps that combined Facebook messages with messages from other services like SMS so that a person could access their messages all in one place,” the spokesperson said.
Presumably the aim is to imply users were well aware of the permissions they were granting, but it’s not clear how those requests would have been phrased for each app.
We asked Facebook what form this would have taken – for instance if users could have been faced with a list of pre-ticked boxes, one of which gave permission for inbox-surfing – but got no response.
Although Facebook has indicated Kogan’s app did request mailbox permissions, Cambridge Analytica – which licensed the user data from Kogan – denied it received any content of any private messages from his firm, GSR.
GSR did not share the content of any private messages with Cambridge Analytica or SCL Elections. Neither company has ever handled such data.— Cambridge Analytica (@CamAnalytica) April 10, 2018
But this is about more than GSR, Cambridge and SCL Elections: for years, Facebook’s policy allowed all developers to request access to users’ inboxes.
That it was done with only one user's permission – the individuals "Friends" weren’t alerted to the fact messages they had every right to believe were private, were not – is yet more evidence of just how blasé Facebook has been about users’ privacy.
Meanwhile, the firm has yet to offer details of a full audit of all the apps that asked for similar amounts of information as Kogan's app did – although it has shut down some.
And it is only offering current users a simple way to find out if they were affected by the CA scandal; those who have since deactivated or deleted their accounts have yet to be notified. We've asked the firm how it plans to offer this information, but it has yet to respond.
Amid increased scrutiny, Facebook is trying to sell the idea that it’s sorry, that it has learned from its mistakes and that it is putting users first.
But it's going to be a tough sell: just last night, Mark Zuckerberg revealed that, when the firm first found out about GSR handing data over to Cambridge Analytica in 2015, it chose not to tell users because it felt that asking the firm to delete the data meant it was a “closed case”.
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One of my favorite lines from any movie is when Jeff Golblum, looking at the wrath of the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, offers this profound thought:
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.
I love this because it’s so applicable to my career coaching clients. This is the problem many people find themselves in with work. They’re told they have an ability—You’re really good with numbers…you should be an accountant!—but they never stop to think if it’s the right thing to do.
Talent is awesome. We all have it to a certain extent. Whatever your unique ability, it feels wonderful to be recognized for being good at something. But that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going to make a fulfilling career. In fact, for some people, it’s the work they find most challenging that really makes them feel alive.
If we simply do what we do because we CAN, we end up selling ourselves short. The truth is, you can do a lot of things. You can do far more than you realize. Don’t be confined by your current ability. If you’re naturally good with numbers but you secretly long to be a writer, push yourself to learn those skills. See how it feels to use a different part of yourself. Perhaps you’ll uncover a hidden talent. Or maybe the challenge will make you miss the ease and satisfaction of number crunching. Who knows?
My point is this: Don’t stay in a career that doesn’t make you happy just because you think it’s “the thing” you’re good at. Explore! Develop new skills, even if they feel completely foreign at first. If it’s something you really want to do, you’ll find a way to make it happen.
In my recent interview on Career Reality, I addressed a question that relates to this topic. The person felt she was struggling too much in her career. Though she enjoyed it, she found that people around her were exceling with greater ease. The career choice was not a natural fit for her, but she wanted to make it work.
My advice was not to give up. She may have to work twice as hard to get half as far, but if it’s the right thing for her, it’s worth it. Of course, only she can make that decision. And, as the host of the show pointed out, it could be helpful to do some assessments to see if there’s something that IS a natural fit that she hasn’t tapped into yet.
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Painting and Decorating
Who doesn't like a house which is well painted from the inside as well as from the outside and is decorated with taste? Even though it may sound like a tedious job, requiring a lot of work and expertise, doing up a room is a very easy job if done systematically. And instead of doing the whole house at once, doing it room by room would go a long way in ensuring that things don't go out of hand.
Preparing for painting and decorating
Before starting the painting and decorating , a careful planning has to be done. There are various factors to be considered like:
How and where to relocate the furniture and other items of the room: if the rooms are being done one at a time, the furniture can be shifted to another room for a few days, if you don't have a luxury of a garage. It is better to remove everything and then start painting as there are bound to be some splashes of colour here or there even though all precautions are taken. Else the furniture could be covered with newspapers or cloth to prevent them from getting coloured.
Colours to be used: It should go with the general ambience of the room, match with the upholstery, furniture, electrical fixtures etc. If being used for a child's nursery, the colours used should be bright and lively. You may also plan to paint some cartoon characters on the walls. The ceilings may also have some animation for the kids, which glows at night. But all this requires some time and effort, going to the local hardware store and finding out about the brands of colours available, matching colour swathes, the procedures to be used for painting, the technical details and the equipment to be used.
Cleaning up afterwards: once the painting and decorating is done, the floors need to be scrubbed to remove the unwanted splashes of paint that may have fallen. A proper solvent should be used for this purpose else it may spoil the texture of the floor.
Once the painting is done and the furniture is shifted back, the decorating of the room should be started, so that you have a general idea of what goes where. The decoration of the room will depend largely on the purpose the room serves.
Painting and Decorating Rooms
If the room is to be used as a nursery for a newborn, the colours should not be too bright. In case of a room for older kids or teenagers, the decoration should be such that they feel at home in their rooms. Maps, quotes and other such things can be put up on the walls for easy reference and to make the room more colourful.
The living room is a place where guests are entertained. Artefacts and mementoes, other collectors' items from around the world should be displayed here, either on the walls or in a display shelf.
Bedrooms should be painted and decorated with personal items such as photographs or memorabilia.
The garden should not be ignored while painting and decorating the house as the house should look inviting from the outside too. The first impression is formed from the outside. So the exteriors of the house should be well painted and the garden well maintained.
And then you can pride yourself in the compliments your house gets.
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5 Damning Errors Blues Guitarists Make
Every time you play Blues on stage you do your best but your solos do not sound great? Are your friends at the jam session telling you that all you need is ’just a bit more experience’? Do you wonder how great Blues player make their solo sound exciting?
What most “old cats” will tell you is that you should learn “how to break the rules” (but what rules anyway? ) or that you simply have to “let it go”. Forgive me for being blunt, but these are only good-sounding platitudes that are unlikely to be of any help to you. I have heard a lot of these from musicians who can’t or won’t explain you in detail what your musicianship is lacking. And hey, if your Blues solo do not sound great, this means that you are definitively missing something and you better discover it soon if you want to become a better player and leave your buddies with their jaw on the floor. Taking years to learn from trial-and-error and is not really an option you want to take.
Well, in my experience most Blues players that are not yet accomplished tend to do all the same 5 mistakes until someone warns them. Every single one of these mistakes can prevent your solo from sounding great, and you may not even have noticed them yet! Or worse, you know that you are doing one of the things I list below, but you think it’s ok because it sounds good to you, or it makes your life easier. Well, forgive me for saying that, but being a Blues player does not excuse you from studying your instrument. And now that I have captured your sympathy with this last statement, let’s have a look at some of the problems that may prevent you and many other Blues players from realizing their musical potential.
1 Starting your phrases only on downbeats
The curious thing about this issue is that it is absolutely obvious to any listener, while it’s very difficult to notice if you are the player. The problem here is that it’s more natural for most players to start their phrases only on downbeats, so unless you are paying conscious attention to it you are most likely doing it. Of course, after a bit of training there is no need to pay it constant attention. Since in general listeners care more about rhythm than pitch (if you go out of time everybody notices, if you play a wrong note many don’t notice) if all your phrases have the same rhythmic structure it sounds like you are just repeating yourself.
My solution to this works in 3 steps:
1. Improvise a solo starting all your phrases on upbeats. This is not easy to explain in written form so I recommend you watch the video on Blues guitar mistakes I made (see link later in article) to explain this exercise in an easy way. Few suggestions: keep your phrases simples, and don’t worry too much if you are sounding too repetitive: this is just the first step.
2. Again, improvise a solo, but this time start one phrase on a downbeat, the next on an upbeat and so on. The idea here is to get accustomed in switching between the two with ease, so again keep your phrases simples and don’t worry if it sounds all the same.
3. Finally, start your phrases freely on either the downbeat or the upbeat without following a rigid scheme. The idea now is to try to keep the listeners surprised and engaged: when they expect a downbeat give them an upbeat and vice versa. If you can master this simple exercise then you are on your way to become a great improviser!
2 Bending out of pitch
It may have happened to you that you hear someone improvising on stage and every now and then one or two notes sound out of tune. It’s clearly not the guitar being out of tune, otherwise the whole solo will sound bad. What I just described is the most common symptom of a player that bends out of tune. Every time you bend a string you should bend up to a very specific pitch, and not simply bend “up”.
Sure, in the Blues style we also have the “smear” bends i.e. bends of less than a semitone from the original pitch, but these bends are the exception not the rule, and should definitely not used as an excuse for not working on the intonation of your bends.
The easiest way to learn how to bend in tune is to use a tuner to check if you are hitting the target pitch precisely. Since the tuner is unforgiving you may not be able to do it the first time you try, but if you stick to it it will become second nature in little time.
3 Never playing the interval of a 4th
Most Blues player NEVER play the interval of a 4th because, if you are using mostly pentatonic patterns, to play this interval you need to perform a quite difficult movement called the “rolling motion”. This technique allows you to play two consecutive notes on the same fret but on different strings. Now the problem is that if you never play the interval of a 4th, then a listener can definitely tell that there is something missing even if they may not be able to name exactly what is wrong.
There are two things you need to do in order to solve this problem:
1. Learn how to perform the rolling motion correctly. Since it is not easy to learn it form a written article, I have prepared for you a free video on Blues guitar explaining the rolling motion.
2. Once you have learned the rolling motion, write some licks that use it. In general, if you don’t implement a new technique in your playing as soon as possible by writing some musical ideas with it, then you will forget this new technique soon.
4 Never moving from one position of the fretboard
The workhorse most Blues player rely on is the basic old pentatonic “box” pattern. It is a great pattern to get started, but somehow it seems that the majority of Blues players never move from this position for all the solo, and even between solos! But there is only so much you can do with a single pattern, and only so many licks you can play in it.
There is also the problem that if you don’t move from this position then your solo will never change register (i.e. it will never move away from the pitch you started the solo with). As we stated before, our ears do not really care too much about pitch, they care more about rhythm. They also care more about register than pitch, so if you never move from that position of the fretboard your solo will sound like it’s not “going anywhere”.
A quick fix for this problem is to use the same “box” pattern one octave (12 frets) apart. For instance, if you are playing in the key of A, the minor pentatonic “boxes” will be at fret 5 and at fret 17. If you alternate between these two positions your solo will already sound more interesting. This is only a quick fix, though: the real solution consists in learning your scale patterns in a way that allows you to move freely without thinking too much.
5 Always playing the same pentatonic/blues scale
The most popular scale to use on a Blues is the minor pentatonic/Blues scale (they are essentially the same scale). Now, I like my pentatonic scale as much as any other guy, but this does not stops me from noticing a number of problems with using this scale all the time. Two of them are:
1. The minor pentatonic/Blues scale is definitely overplayed, so much that many players think that this is the only possible option. Well, this is of course not true, there are a number of other scales that sound great on a Blues while still keeping the “Bluesy” flavour. You want to know what these other scales are, so that you can choose among them and be free to express yourself in original ways.
2. The minor pentatonic/Blues scale is actually not the correct scale for a Blues chord progression, and I don’t mean it in an “academic” way. Let me explain. No matter on what chord we are on the standard Blues progression, the minor pentatonic will always have at least one “wrong” note. Pro Blues players know that (either because they studied it or by ear) and avoid them. You may have heard that saying “it’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play”? Well, the meaning of it it’s that you need to avoid these “wrong notes” otherwise your solo won’t “glue” to the chord progression.
It would be easier with a video…
I agree! It is quite difficult to understand some of the points that I made above if you just read about them. For this reason here you can find a Video on Blues guitar mistakes that I prepared for you. In this video I go through the 5 mistakes above with examples and strategies to eliminate them. Have fun!
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This is a story of two groups of determined people with intersecting interests. Group one: a dozen leaders within United Power for Action and Justice who set out to prove their conviction, that homelessness is one symptom of a complex of issues that destabilizes individuals and communities. Group two: persons who are homeless and struggle daily to “fit in” to a landscape that is, more and more, structured to shut them out. In 2000, a cluster of leaders within United Power organized member institutions in the north and northwest suburbs of Chicago, and initiated a relationship with Congressman John Porter (R-10, retired 2002), Chair of the U.S. House of Representatives Labor - Health and Human Services (HHS) - Education Appropriations subcommittee. With Congressman Porter’s help, the group obtained $1.9 million in HHS grants to prove the efficacy of “supportive housing”
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CITIZENS AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATION INJECT LIFE INTO FORMER MILITARY TRAINING AREA
In Randers a close partnership between a public housing organisation, the municipality, Randers Production School and the Danish Nature Agency developed a vulnerable nature area, creating new learning environments and enhancing a nearby residential area. Local residents and voluntary organisations played a key role in the process, which was based on citizen involvement and co-creation.
The common, Nordre Fælled, used to be a military training area.In 2003 the Danish Nature Agency took over the 140 hectares of open landscape to develop it into a recreational area for local residents. Despite several initiatives, the area remained virtually unused and was plagued by vandalism, litter and abandoned mopeds.
In 2013 a local resident who wanted to use Nordre Fælled contacted the Town Office in Randers, which is responsible for social housing measures. The office quickly saw the possibility of a collaboration and entered into a partnership with Randers Production School, Randers Municipality and the Danish Nature Agency. The aim was to develop Nordre Fælled and establish common values by providing new, authentic learning environments for the Production School, establishing recreational areas for area residents, getting better use of the Danish Nature Agency’s area and by generally enhancing social housing measures in Randers Nordby. Initially, more than 500 locals took part in the process leading to the formation of Friends of Nordre Fælled, a voluntary association. Today, the area provides a wealth of attractive facilities, for example, fire pits, a small forest for children, mazes, hammocks and a Tarzan track. There is also a brand-new urban nature space, which serves as an entryway to the city’s nearby natural areas. Volunteer associations are responsible for programming activities and initiatives in the area. Friends of Nordre Fælled, which has been a major factor in the area’s success, contributes actively to the design, development and operation of the area, though not physically. The association also collaborates with other voluntary organisations to make the best use of the area. Members of Friends of Nordre Fælled and the local residents council are on the partnership’s working committee. The unique partnership is now five years old.
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The French virologist Luc Montagnier who won the Nobel Prize in 2008 for discovering the AIDS virus passed away on Feb. 8, 2022 in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine. He was 89. In January 2009, his work on electromagnetic waves produced by DNA in water was published in Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences. The homeopathic community was excited about the potential implications of this highly sensitive detection system to verify that electromagnetic signals of an original substance remain in water of a homeopathic dilution and produce dramatic biological effects.
“I can't say that homeopathy is right in everything. What I can say now is that the high dilutions are right,” said Montagnier in an interview published in the Dec. 24, 2010 issue of Science magazine. “High dilutions of something are not nothing. They are water structures which mimic the original molecules. We find that with DNA, we cannot work at the extremely high dilutions used in homeopathy; we cannot go further than a 10 18 dilution, or we lose the signal. But even at 10 18, you can calculate that there is not a single molecule of DNA left. And yet we detect a signal,” said Montagnier about his reproducible results.
He further explained these waves in the Science interview, “What we have found is that DNA produces structural changes in water, which persist at very high dilutions, and which lead to resonant electromagnetic signals that we can measure. Not all DNA produces signals that we can detect with our device. The high-intensity signals come from bacterial and viral DNA.”
In a Nov. 1, 2011 television interview with France 5, Montagnier said, “The great error would be, the childish thing would be to say: This phenomenon, we do not understand it so it does not exist. That is very unscientific. Let us be modest; Let us think that we still have many things to learn from nature, that there are other theories that are close to being realized, but are still not completely actualized, and that perhaps they will one day explain our big questions.” | <urn:uuid:0bc1d4b6-8326-4fcc-a2f9-0a7b22ebcce0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theaahp.org/articles/homeopathic-community-mourns-the-loss-of-researcher-luc-montagnier/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.9644 | 444 | 2.921875 | 3 |
If consumers take a look at how the Americans with Disabilities Act has improved mobility, it is hard to ignore the increase in autonomy, freedom, and quality of life impacted. It is also difficult to overlook the modifications merited due to the changing times; evolving interpretations of devices and diagnoses merit reconsideration and reinterpretation to maintain equality and autonomy for every American.
We’ve come a long way, baby… That cliché seems to aptly sum-up how the country has evolved in its views and accommodations of those with physical disabilities. Consumers are gaining entry to places, job-sites, and public areas that previously would have been challenging at-best, but often impractical to access. However, the law isn’t always as cut-and-dry as one may believe, with changes in aids, diagnosis, and demographics emerging. With the number of individuals using mobility devices rising, it makes sense to revisit the Americans with Disabilities Act, or ADA, of 1991 to see just how far the country has come.
Take a look at how the Americans with Disabilities Act has improved mobility:
The Americans with Disabilities Act improves access and protects the liberties of those with disabilities, preserving their autonomy, rights, and entry to public spaces. This Act also mandates specifications that allow easy access for wheelchairs, scooters, walkers, and other mobility aids and equipment which, previously, was not enforced by law. This assures citizens that they will have use and utility of rented homes, access to public restrooms, and the ability to use, enjoy, and traverse spaces that could pose obstacles for those using mobility aids or devices. The law does more than that however by providing a legal precedent for individuals living with disabilities, allowing them the same entry, access, and life of those that do not require accommodations.
Twenty years after the Americans with Disabilities Act was enacted, revisions were made to specifically address the needs of citizens that use modern mobility aids. With design changes and increased offerings in mobility solutions, the original accommodations asserted by this Act was modified to encompass and protect individuals that use scooters, wheelchairs, or other adaptive equipment, aids, and devices. For instance, the original legislation was enacted before items like seg-ways appeared on the scene; the Segway is used by many with mobility issues to improve access and increase mobility. In fact, the somewhat trendy Segway is being lauded as a personal assisted device, embraced widely by consumers and protected by the law.
Just as the need to expand on the rights of those with disabilities has evolved, so has the definition of a disability. Mental health issues plague millions of Americans in a daily struggle that can be debilitating and stigmatizing; therapeutic aids such as emotional support animals have been emerging more widely, which further complicates interpretation of the law. Just as potential landlords must comply with door width and access features, many businesses are faced with accepting support animals in their ‘no pets’ properties to comply with the ADA. A subject of wide-spread legal debate and litigation, there is still ambiguity in the laws that leaves room for confusion and conflict.
It would be impossible to list all of the people and protections afforded by the ADA; in essence, it preserves the right of access to anyone with a disability that could provide obstacles in accessibility. Furthermore, the ADA offers very specific protections for individuals with disabilities at work. Accessibility hurdles at work that could prevent someone with a disability in their job performance, like stairs, handicap-accessible bathrooms, and visual cues, are mandated and asserted by this very comprehensive piece of legislation.
Technology is making it easier for individuals with mobility impairments or disabilities to compete in today’s job market. From telecommute positions to meetings by Skype, technology is at the forefront of accessibility for all. This extends to mobility aids and the merchants offering these to their consumers; ask about high-tech features and devices to improve everyday living.
Improving access and quality of life for those with disabilities requires a community commitment; continued efforts to update and modify existing facilities, public places, and serving as a role-model for others falls to each and every American. The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1991 paved the way for individuals with impairments or limitations to access the same spaces and places as those without disabilities. This legislation calls to action area groups, organizations, municipalities, employers, and citizens in an effort of protecting the rights, improving the accessibility, and maintaining the autonomy of disabled Americans widely, including those that utilize mobility aids.
Preserve your autonomy, or the freedom of someone you love, with mobility aids and devices. The experts at Pacific Mobility are here to help you assess and evaluate your needs while offering options to suit your distinct lifestyle, living situation, and budget. They can offer insight and information pertaining to the ADA laws and guidelines that will preserve and protect your accessibility, as well as your rights.
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Health Careers - Letters of Recommendation
Ask for these letters in a way that makes it easy for the person to say no - so you won't be desperately getting letters late in the game. Say "I am thinking about who to ask for letters of evaluation to support my [medical or other health profession] application; I have these people in mind...and I was wondering if you would be willing to be a letter writer". This way it is easy for the person to say, "I think the people on your list are good, but I might not know you well enough". Get a clear answer and follow up with a thank you note/email - and hand "the Kit" off right away (see below).
Consider your request and the timing of it from the letter writer's point of view. Instructors and professors at UC Berkeley expect to be asked to write letters; it is part of their role here.
Asking in advance is necessary and allowing time for gentle reminders (by you) during the school year is critical. People are well-intentioned, but busy. Ask during the regular school year so that you can find the person during her office hours when you need to check on the status of your letter.
It is fine to ask for a letter even three years before you may need it; get it while you and your learning style are fresh in the mind of your letter writer, and your learning relationship is strongest with that person.
A few professors may say that you must acquire a certain grade in order to ask for a letter; generally this is not the case. In general, schools don't care which grade you got in the letter writer's class; they want some insight into you as a learner. Sometimes struggling back from a dismal early test puts you in constant contact with your instructor or professor, so you may actually have a richer relationship, which translates into a more meaningful letter. If you get a letter as a sophomore and then actually apply to health professional school the June after your senior year, you might get in touch with that letter writer and tell him/her that you have refined your career goals and ask that he/she consider rewriting that letter. If he has deleted you from his hard drive, you can request Interfolio to send him a hard copy, which will help him rewrite a letter about your focus and progress as a learner.
- knows you well
- has the title "professor"
- is a professor at the school granting your BAcc degree
- has earned the degree which you are seeking in your graduate work
- has academically evaluated you (i.e. given you a grade)
- has written letters of evaluation for other students and aided their entry into professional / graduate school
The profile above is the ideal. In this competitive business of getting into health professional school, you want to put your best self forward. For medical school, it is best to get two science and one non-science professor-written letters that offer genuine insight into you as a learner and a community member. A humanities or social sciences instructor is a "non-science" letter writer.
If needed, strategize with the GSI to have her draft a letter of evaluation, then forward it to the professor, using the term "we". "We saw Mr. Conner struggle before the midterm and we were impressed with his tenacity and capacity to master the material". Then, the letter is signed by two people on the same line at the bottom of the page. Sometimes GSIs are willing to provide some written insight or notes and the letter is written/finished and signed solely by the faculty member. You will need to give your kit to both the GSI and the professor and see how they want to do business.
As a general rule, it is better to have letters written by professors rather than GSIs. The reason for the "more senior the better" stance is that by virtue of experience the older person may be in a better position to evaluate the student and to compare the applicant to current and previous classes of students. GSIs often write fine letters and frequently write parts or all of letters which professors sign or co-sign. Having a GSI's letter co-signed by a professor adds to its strength, especially if the professor can add useful comments. It is better to have a strong letter from a GSI than a letter from a professor that says little or nothing. But you should resist the temptation to settle for the GSI letter even though it's often easier to get to know a GSI than a professor. Some schools specifically state that they will only accept letters from professors, not lecturers or graduate students. Other admissions officers have told the Career Center that they prefer letters that provide new insight on the applicant, and with this in mind may prefer the more specific letter, even if from a GSI. Letters from family physicians, friends, political figures and the like usually are discouraged and may, in fact, be detrimental.
Give each of your letter writers a "Kit" which includes:
- Your unofficial (CalCentral) transcript
- Your personal statement or statement of purpose (at least a draft)
- Your resume
- A cover note from you that reminds the faculty of the following: when you met, classes you took that may be of interest to the letter writer, challenges and interesting learning moments for you in the letter writer's course, the last time you interacted with the professor, and descriptions of other letter writers (e.g., my independent study history professor and my genetics course instructor are also writing letters to support my application), and what you especially hope she or he will comment on when writing the letter.
- Some letter writers appreciate reading our guidelines to help them address what health professional schools are looking for.
- A copy of any papers, publications, sketches, lab evaluations, or other items that will give the prof or boss or volunteer coordinator insight into your interests and abilities
- Make it easy for your letter writer to get the letter completed in a timely way.
- Provide your Interfolio information so the letter can be uploaded to Interfolio or provide the link for the letter writer to upload to the health professional school(s) or specific CAS (Centralized Application Service).
Be certain to open and close the note with thanks, and an acknowledgement that the letter writer's time is valuable, and that their efforts in writing this letter are important to your professional future.
If you are applying to more than three schools (and most of you applying to health professional school are in this category), or you think you want your letters held for other opportunities (like graduate school) in the future, you should plan to use Interfolio. Your letter writers will write one letter and upload to one place. Check out the tips for you and guidelines to help your letter writer.
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The Climate and Nature Summit - Everything You Need to Know About Climate And Nature and How to Make a Difference?
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DATE: Monday, 1st November 2021
TIME: 7pm to 8pm
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AimHi are incredible science communicators. This workshop will be a taster of the 4 part live and interactive world-leading AimHi Climate & Nature course. The course equips you with the motivation, resources and knowledge needed to drive individual, collective and systemic change. The workshop is a dynamic and empowering exploration of key climate concepts. It will help you to become a more confident teacher providing you with up to date information. You will leave feeling energised and inspired.
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Paul is a Geography Teacher who developed the world's first Climate Breakdown teaching materials available for free here http://bit.ly/teachclimatetruth The resources have been downloaded more than 7000 times across the world and engage young people with the broader societal debates. Paul has helped organise a number of online events including the Big Climate Teach-In accessible here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6Pzzt9d9yY. Paul's workshop will be a taster of the 4 part live and interactive AimHi Climate & Nature course. The course equips you with the motivation, resources and knowledge needed to drive individual, collective and systemic change. Find out more here https://www.aimhi.co/climate-course.
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Take an Imaginary Do-Over
Imagine everything you owned was lost in an insured catastrophe. Your debts were paid, and you had a lump of cash big enough that you were left — financially — in about the same position you're in now, but you had no possessions except the clothes on your back, a small box of your most precious mementos, and a USB drive with all your photos.
Go through the mental exercise of figuring out how you'd deploy that cash to best satisfy your needs and wants. (See also: The 4 Most Common Unnecessary "Needs")
Start with the little stuff:
For a lot of people, this is the most fun category, because a lot of people bought cheap crappy furniture so they wouldn't have to sit on the floor, and then found themselves stuck with it — because who can afford to replace perfectly good furniture just because it's cheap and crappy?
How much is stuff you wear every week? How much is special-purpose (swimwear, interview clothes)? How much is too big, too small, or just not quite right?
How many are for sports or hobbies you've abandoned? How many are duplicates because your spouse also had one, or because you couldn't find the one you had when you needed it?
Your Dishes, Pots, and Pans
How much of your kitchen and dining utensils only get used for two meals a year?
Then go on to the big stuff:
If all your vehicles were gone, what would you replace them with? If you can get by with one less vehicle, you can save a huge amount of money — it costs over $8,000 a year to operate a car.
If you've just lost all your stuff, you probably don't need as much room. If that means you could fit into a smaller house, an apartment instead of a house, or a smaller apartment, that could save you a huge amount of money. More importantly, it could go on saving you money for years to come — lower taxes, less maintenance expenses, lower insurance premiums, smaller monthly payments, etc.
I wrote a lot of posts back in 2007 and 2008 trying to convince people that houses were a poor investment. (For example, Renting Is Cheaper, Your Equity Was Always Imaginary, and What Your House Is Really Worth.)
That's not such a hard sell now as it was then. A lot more people are ready to think of their residence as a place to live, rather than imagining that it's an investment.
Some people enjoy going through this mental exercise. Imagining that you could wipe away all the errors you've made in accumulating stuff that you don't need is fun. But it's still a fantasy. The reality is tougher. Most of your stuff couldn't be sold for anything like its replacement cost. (And nobody's life is so bad that it'd be improved by going to jail for insurance fraud.)
But I think the mental exercise of imagining what you'd do is still worthwhile, because it's a way to understand what you really want.
If you understand what you really want, you can make progress toward it, even if you can't take the big leap of replacing all your stuff with cash. If you know you'd like to move to a smaller place, you can prepare by getting rid of clothes you no longer wear and hobby gear you no longer use. Over time, you can downsize your footprint enough that you'd fit in that smaller house. In the meantime, you get to enjoy a more relaxed, less cluttered house.
The reality of losing everything you own would suck. It would be very different from the fantasy of freedom it provides.
But you have something even better than the fantasy of freedom. You have actual freedom. Granted, if you have a lot of money invested in stuff that you couldn't possibly sell for what you paid for it — or worse, if you've got a car that's worth much less than what you owe on it, or if you're way underwater on a mortgage — there would be a cost to actualizing that freedom. But much of that cost could be recouped in fairly short order, if your imaginary do-over life were cheaper than the life you're living now.
Once you start imagining that life, you can start taking steps to prepare for it, and pretty soon after that, you can start taking steps to move toward it. Fantasies can come true in the best way.
As one of the early steps, I suggest that you create that thumb drive of your photos, because fantasies can also come true in the worst ways.
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Managing 24/7 global workforces presents a host of new challenges to human resource leaders. Certainly, the complexities of global HR require new strategies for communication and collaboration.
We live in a flattened world. Of course that's old news now, and Thomas L. Friedman's best seller (The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century) is no longer on everyone's must-read list. But as business grows increasingly global in nature, the scope of work for HR executives continues to evolve. What once was a mid-afternoon meeting is just as likely to be a midnight conference call taken at home in your bathrobe.
For companies operating with workforces distributed around the world, such scenarios are becoming increasingly common. They may mirror those of any organization that operates beyond daytime hours, but be compounded by time-zone differences.
It can mean trying to conduct a meeting via satellite on benefit changes with employees halfway around the globe who are normally off-shift at the time. Or it might involve dealing with an industrial accident at 11 p.m. New York time that has just occurred in Kuala Lumpur. In the process, HR leaders face a host of challenges.
"Having team members who are physically dispersed makes knowledge exchange and other forms of collaborative behavior much more difficult," says Tamara Erickson, president of the Concours Institute in Lowell, Mass., and co-author of Eight Ways to Build Collaborative Teams. "When organizations span multiple international locations, leaders must work much harder and be much more cognizant of taking steps to lay the groundwork for effective collaboration."
Certainly, the complexities of global HR require new strategies for communication and collaboration.
"The old models of 8 to 5 in an office don't fit anymore," says Julie Fasone Holder, corporate vice president of marketing and sales, human resources and public affairs for Midland, Mich.-based Dow Chemical. "Working across time zones requires creativity."
At Dow, HR managers have learned how to keep tabs on workers around the world from more than a decade of experience in worldwide operations, having adopted a global business structure in 1995 that now includes 43,000 people and production facilities in 40 countries. In the process, the company has found several practices to be successful, not the least of which is a heavy reliance on technology.
In cases where live interaction is seen as a key to communication, managers employ satellite broadcasts. Vice presidents often use global satellite technology to host two versions of the same meeting, one for Western time zones and one for those in Asia. And when time differences could cause inconveniences for some, participants are encouraged to take a flexible approach.
"Eighty-five percent of our employees have laptops that enable them to be in control of when and where they work, and many have IP phones that allow them to use their laptops as telephones," Holder says. "So when the need arises for a 6 a.m. teleconference, they can do it in their PJs at home."
When real-time interaction is not necessary, employees may access streaming videos on an on-demand basis. This allows personnel around the world to view key communications when it is convenient to them. The system is managed by an internal communication resources group, with HR developing content that is relayed using a Diamond TV system.
"Efficient use of technology is critical," Holder says. "Our intranet has become a robust source of information for employees around the globe. When they need information, they know where to find it."
Along with good communications, integration of internal processes and systems is necessary to promote seamless organizational functioning worldwide, according to S. "Paddy" Padmanabhan, executive director of human resources for Tata Consultancy Services in Mumbai, India.
"Separate processes for people dispersed across the globe can be time-consuming for HR personnel," he says. "And they tend to create inefficiencies and adversely affect employee satisfaction."
TCS, which employs more than 100,000 people from 67 nationalities located in more than 47 countries, relies on an internal portal that integrates multiple functions and processes on a single platform that can be accessed by employees worldwide.
The portal combines different applications based on different platforms including enterprise-resource planning, management- information systems, customer-relationship management, employee self-service and HR management.
Padmanabhan says the system is especially helpful in providing information for employees about HR policies and services.
"It has exhaustive information on our global HR policies and is the single window for all HR-related information," he says. "Every policy, process and initiative that impacts TCS employees globally is hosted within this site."
Employees can not only view policies and procedures of interest to them, but can also access personal information such as medical and leave records. In addition, the system helps keep workers informed and involved in companywide initiatives.
During a recent branding exercise dubbed "Experience Certainty," all steps of the campaign were communicated to the company's geographically dispersed employee base through the portal. Along with external ads targeted to customers and the media, a parallel campaign created internal branding and employee awareness.
A highlight was a five-day "ideastorm." During this online event, employees were challenged to suggest innovative ideas on four predefined themes: fun, innovation, delivery and induction. Employees from around the world participated via an online discussion board, and more than 12,000 ideas were posted. All suggestions were evaluated by HR and other managers, and a number are now being implemented.
Technology can also support ongoing interaction between upper management and employees at all levels.
At Neoris, a Miami-based business and IT consulting company with offices in eight countries, a program called "Ask Our Leaders" allows employees to post questions and comments to the managers in charge of national operations in their locations, as well as to the company's CEO.
The corporate communications department follows up on comments and ensures that employees receive an answer from the addressed leaders, according to Jairo Fernandez, chief human capital officer. The company also offers an online "idea box" system through which employees can post suggestions and new ideas. Suggestions that are implemented receive special recognition, and each year, the employee who submits the best idea is awarded a cash prize.
Web-based software for project and resource management can also be useful, especially in keeping track of time differences. For instance, software from Project Insight in Irvine, Calif., connects offices in multiple locations with real-time information. Users may designate the time zones in which different people and resources are located, and then, when they log in, all information is expressed in the user's time zone. This eliminates the need to constantly do mental calculations to convert times to those in other locations. It also helps ensure everyone is on the same schedule, according to Cynthia West, vice president.
"I have heard stories about a team working from a schedule that was two weeks old because the HR manager or project manager opened up the incorrect file, not the most updated file," she says. "This kind of software heads off such problems."
Despite the availability of ever-improving means of communicating over long distances, the value of traditional meetings or other personal interaction should not be overlooked.
"Face-to-face meetings are often needed to foster strong relationships, which we believe are required for the framework of success," says Teri Aulph, director of human resources for North American operations at HP Pelzer Automotive Systems, a supplier of automotive trim and acoustic components based in Troy, Mich.
"In order to leverage the talent and strengths of our organization, we know it takes everyone, and respecting our working relationships is paramount to success-driven performance. Strong organizational agility allows us to know who to go to for sustainable results."
In July 2007, the company held a "global summit" for managers in the German Alps that included a ropes course following a week of meetings.
"It was very challenging physically and we were put onto cross-cultural teams," Aulph says. "This enabled us to work together for a common goal and flattened the playing field, as it was new to almost all of us." She says the event solidified working relationships and helped break cultural barriers.
Provisions for dealing with on-site problems and providing HR services also seem to be important factors.
"For HR support that is bigger than transactional issues, it is important that there is live support available to provide coverage to the time zones within and outside of a region," says Michael Gretczko, a senior manager in Deloitte Consulting's human capital practice in New York. "A model that relies on HR staff in a single or limited location does not scale well to a global organization."
At a minimum, this may mean adjusting working hours in the headquarters location so that at least some HR staff are available for live communication with remote employees, at hours convenient to them.
At TCS, special teams travel to address HR-related issues in remote locations. It's not uncommon for employees of Indian origin to grapple with language barriers and unfamiliarity with local regulations when assigned to another nation, Padmanabhan says.
When a problem occurs, the company sends a team of HR personnel from India who have been trained in the language and customs of the location in question. They then work with local HR professionals in communicating with employees and resolving concerns.
According to Tom McMullen, Chicago-based U.S. reward leader for Hay Group, many companies operating in multiple time zones opt for a management structure with a site leader for a given function who takes care of emergency issues as they arise.
For example, a firm headquartered in the United States might have a research-and-development manager based in St. Louis with direct reports in Venezuela, and also a site manager located there who handles people-related issues.
"These could include safety, medical, operational and weather-related issues," he says. "The site manager is vested with the authority to make decisions within agreed upon parameters, such as when to shut a site down or when to send workers home."
McMullen also notes that, where possible, exposing individual managers firsthand to international operations is helpful. Expatriate assignments can sensitize HR executives and other managers to the issues and challenges of staff working overseas. Along with the obvious opportunity to gain knowledge of a distant location, such assignments can reveal what it's like to be at the receiving end of corporate communications.
He says that in his firm's work with what have been designated as Fortune magazine's "Most Admired Companies," the most successful organizations tend to make regular use of planned international and expatriate assignments.
"Building up this talent pool with international experience better equips these organizations to respond to the demands of the 24-hour organization," he says. (See sidebar.)
Other strategies focus on organizing workers so teams in different locations and different shifts can more readily concentrate efforts on the same goal.
At the most basic level, this might mean something as simple as dispersing the workload involved in after-hours communications, or in identifying solutions that are flexible in meeting needs of both the company and of individual employees.
"For global teams, perhaps everyone takes a turn staying up late versus it always being the folks in Asia," says Penny Stoker, vice president of human resources at AstraZeneca, an international pharmaceutical company with U.S. operations based in Wilmington, Del. "Or it can mean avoiding global meetings on Fridays, since, in the Middle East, this is the weekend, and in Asia, our Friday morning is already their Friday night."
Increasing awareness of this type could be a morale booster for personnel in overseas locations, McMullen believes. He frequently hears complaints from managers about the inconvenient timing of conference calls originating from their U.S headquarters.
"I've heard time and time again from people working in Asia for U.S. companies that they have their day job and their night job," he says. "The night job is participating in the U.S.-led conference calls that invariably happen in the evening, their time."
Holder notes that the need for flexibility might be more important in global operations than in more traditional settings.
"We understand that employees working on global teams may not keep regular office hours," Holder says. She cites the example of a manager who participates in an international call until midnight, who then should not feel obligated to be present at an 8 a.m. meeting the next day. Similarly, an employee who travels overseas and misses weekends with family may want to slip out to pick up his or her children after school and spend some time reconnecting.
"We have to be comfortable with this kind of flexibility and remember to evaluate on results, not face-time," she says.
Also important is the need to take note of the global calendar and respect important dates in other locations. To this end, Dow publishes a global holiday calendar for employees to ensure they are not planning global events on holidays in other parts of the world. Employees routinely check it before planning major meetings and scheduling communications such as the CEO's global broadcasts.
At the same time, more far-ranging approaches involve opportunities for experienced employees to share their insights with workers in remote locations.
At HP Pelzer, a global "team of champions" travels internationally to help implement best-in-class practices for improving efficiency.
"This global team is made up of employees from around the world who come together in smaller teams to target different regions," Aulph says. "They get together periodically to collect data, share information, [discuss] lessons learned and prepare for the next trip. This has been tremendously successful in bringing us closer together."
HR plays an integral role in appointing team members, according to Aulph. Selection is based on assessment of job knowledge, communication skills and implementation abilities, as well as a certain drive for results.
"These employees are functional experts who require little oversight [and] have a strong sense of purpose and strong work ethic," says Aulph. "They have to be able to convert knowledge and historical data into practice and future success, which is a unique skill."
For any organization, Aulph advises HR leaders to learn as much as possible about countries in which employees are located. Not only is this important from a compliance perspective in dealing with varying laws and policies, but in building credibility.
"Working across the top of a global organization requires us to step outside our local workplace," she says. "In addition, building strong relationships across the organization is probably one of the most important initiatives an HR professional can carry out in a global organization. In order to support and influence, you must be seen as a credible partner."
This may require some creative thinking.
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Florida architecture schools enable students to obtain the education they need to be successful in an architecture career. Architecture is the key to a modern, civilized society, bringing both function and form to everything we use throughout our daily lives. Architecture is everywhere you look, everywhere you go. Architects are responsible for designing and constructing the places where we live, work, and play in a way that takes into account aesthetic, functional, and social considerations.
Florida architecture schools offer the opportunity for students to gain valuable skills necessary for successfully landing a career in architecture. Skills like designing and constructing of a building space, an absolute must for all architects, are fundamentals taught throughout all Florida architecture school curriculum. Project planning, cost estimating, and construction administration are other vital skills necessary for successful architects. Florida architecture schools do not only teach architecture students how to create buildings, but also how to design the functionality, usability, the and overall look-and-feel of a structure in safe and economical manner.
Why should students study at a Florida architecture school? Because a career in architecture is a satisfying one, ideal for those with both creative and technical abilities. Architecture is especially suitable for people who think out of the box and are capable of understanding other people’s needs. Architects must be able to communicate their unique vision with others in a clear, convincing manner.
Architects are leaders involved in all aspects of a building project, fulfilling multiple roles in order to ensure the project’s success. Architects are involved in managing a client’s design and budgetary requirements, negotiating the limitations of a project’s site (building location), assessing the needs of a project’s users (i.e., what the client’s users are going to use a particular building for), and accommodating the limitations of building materials in order to make the entire project work out to the satisfaction of everyone involved.
Careers in architecture scale from the macro-level (urban designing, landscape architecture, etc.) all the way down to a micro-level (construction details, furnishing, etc.). As architects are involved in all phases of a construction project, there are a wide variety of roles they can adopt, involving skills such as communicating with clients, designing building plans, engineering actual constructing, managing construction staff, and supervising development. Architects can be involved in developing projects as small as a new lobby to projects as large an entire shopping mall.
When choosing an architecture school in Florida, a student must be sure to choose one that excels in his or her interests and field of emphasis. All Florida architecture schools demonstrate overall excellence but, due to the diverse nature of architecture itself, schools generally concentrate on specific subsets of the discipline such as historic preservation, landscape architecture, and urban design. Many architecture schools in Florida offer specialties in interests like computers, energy, preservation, and design. Do they have special offerings that take advantage of their particular geographic location in Florida? Are their facilities substantial enough to provide enrichment to the learning process in one’s chosen specialty (i.e., libraries and lab facilities). Do the school’s faculty members have any special interests, outstanding credentials, and/or notable accomplishments?
Students must check to see if the school’s architecture program is accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board. Do the degrees they confer fulfill the educational requirements for ARE registration exam eligibility? These are but a few of the most important questions students must ask when seeking out a suitable Florida architecture school for their individual fields of study.
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The term “preteen” refers to a child who is between the ages of nine and 12.
Music, entertainment, fashion trends and other conventions enjoyed by preteens are referred to as preteen or tween culture. The popularity of tween culture has declined significantly in recent years. Some have suggested that social media and a general lack of knowledge are to blame.
Between 2008 and 2012, I was immersed in the world of tweens. There were a number of artists that I was familiar with, such as Drake, Kesha, Chief Keef and Rihanna, to mention a few. The only TV show I remember from this era was “Adventure Time.” Vine and Instagram, as well as popular YouTubers like Tre Melvin, were also widely used. For example, Aeropostale and Justice were among the stores that sold t-shirts and patterned leggings.
I can remember my tween years perfectly, but those of today may have a difficult time identifying with this phase in life. The problem is not that tween culture does not exist. There are artists and entertainers with target audiences that are between the age of nine and 12, but their culture is not as popular.
When I was in that phase, the culture was everywhere. There were commercials, movies, and music videos that showed tween culture all the time.
As time passed, cultures combined. Preteen culture meshed with teen culture and teen culture meshed with adult culture. Social media seemed to be the melting pot for all.
Social media is a great place to experience pop culture, but it doesn’t really define age. Oftentimes, I see pages pop up on my social media platforms that would appeal to my parents or grandparents. I don’t see things that would appease my younger cousins. I feel that tween culture is not popular anymore.
With the popularity of online shopping before and after the pandemic, people do not frequent malls as much as they used to. Tweens are discouraged from shopping at stores that cater to their age group. Majority of the popular clothing stores appeal to older girls and women. The stores that I grew up shopping at either closed or lost popularity.
Music is also changing. Music streaming apps are now more popular than the radio. Kids today would rather listen to what is popular and not listen to what is age appropriate.
As the older generation, well Gen Z, we should embrace the Alpha generation. Communicating and interacting with them and showing that their interest is always important, even if it’s watching other kids on YouTube playing with toys or playing video games. | <urn:uuid:f8744439-5f12-4aa9-9e5b-ba2ae82c17ea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://yr.media/identity/generation-gen-alpha-z-tweens-preteens-kamaria-harris/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.980625 | 543 | 2.375 | 2 |
Breathing problems? Is this symptom due to seasonal allergies, or do you have an asthmatic condition? Shortness of breath, wheezing, and an allergy cough are all hallmarks of asthma, especially in the mornings and evenings. Asthma-related allergic rhinitis has long been successfully treated with acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine such as what Dr. Zhang offers her patients.
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Adobe Photoshop Complete Course | Lecture 36
6. Try to click alternately on the mask (the thumbnail) as seen above, and on the picture itself. It is hard to see if anything happens in the layer beam, but it works: The picture and mask get alternately active for editing.
Figure 41. The Layer mask is seen as a miniature image to the right of the picture thumbnail. Either the mask or the picture is active for editing.
Work in the mask
You have a picture that right now is completely coevered by a (black) mask. Let us work on the mask.
1. The picture looks empty; you see the chckered background, which indicates that there are no pixels here. Click in the mask miniature to activate it.
2. Select the brush tool (press b). Choose a soft brush in size 100 pixels.
3. Choose the default colors (press d) – here it will be white/black, siince the colors are reversed in a mask compared to the normal.
4. Paint some brush strokes in the empty picture surface. The picture appears! Why? Because you (as usual) paint with the foreground color, which here is white. The mask’s black areas are hidden. But where you paint with white, the areas become visible:
5. So the white brush breaks a â€hole†in the mask. You can also see that in the layer mask’s thumbnail in the layer beam:
6. Paint a little more, and notice the effect both in the picture and in the mask thumbnail.
7. You can always de-activate the mask by clicking on the mask thumbnail while you hold the Shift- key down. Try that:
8. The mask is re-activeted with a simple click in the thumbnail. Do that. Try to reverse the two colors (press x). Now paint with black – so you can close the mask, so it covers the whole picture. Can you see the system?
9. Try to choose a gray color and paint with that. It might be a little difficult to see, but it results in partial tansparency in the mask when you paint with that.
10. Finally paint with black, so the whole mask is closed (and you cannot see any picture). Save the picture as calme.psd, and leave the image file open in Photoshop.
Look through the layer mask
Now you will continue working with the mask. You do that by inserting a new picture, which will be blended into the existing.
1. Open the image file jaguar.jpg in Photoshop. Make copy of the picture with Control+a and Control+c.
2. Switch to the image file calme.psd, and insert the copy there (Control+Tab and Control+v).
3. Now you have two pictures each on their own layer in the same image file. Drag the new layer (Layer 1) down below Layer 0. Rename the two layers to calme and jaguar, like here:
4. It is still the car that is seen, since the black mask hides all picture data from the calme layer. But we can change that easily. Select the mask (but not the picture!) in the calme layer:
5. Choose the default colors (press d), and fill the whole mask with the foreground color white (press Alt+Backspace). The mask will be colored white:
6. This means that all the layer’s picture data are seen now, and therefore the car is no longer seen. Now select the brush tool (press b). Choose a soft brush in size 100.
7. Reverse fore- and background colors by pressing x. Now paint in the mask. Because you paint with black, you get to look down to the underlying layer:
8. Use the brush to make the whole car visible. Try to reverse the two colors again (press x) and paint with white. Then you can cover the car. You will need to reverse fore- and background colors repeatedly.
9. When the whole car becomes visible, you need to reduce the brush’s opacity to 50%:
10. With white as foreground color you can now cover part of the car with a thin â€water layerâ€, so it looks as if the car is on its way out of the sea.
11. Save the image file.
Figure 42. The mask makes the car come only partly out of the water.
I trust cigratte more than a girl.
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Most Important Health Habit for the Entire Family
Raising children is the most challenging and rewarding thing I’ve ever done. And, while my wife and I have very different parenting strategies, we both agree on one thing: Give the kids lots of sun exposure and never slather chemical sunscreen on them. Here are three reasons why:
1. Sunscreen blocks the production of melanin (pigment causing a protective tan to form) resulting in higher risk of skin cancer.
2. Sunscreen blocks the production of vitamin D. A deficiency of vitamin D weakens the immune system and increases the risk of heart disease and cancer. In children especially, vitamin D deficiency is also correlated with tooth decay and crooked teeth.
3. Many of the chemicals found in sunscreens are actually carcinogenic (cancer causing) and estrogenic. If you see any of the following ingredients, steer clear: Benzophenones (dixoybenzone, oxybenzone), PABA and PABA esters (ethyl dihydroxy propyl PAB, glyceryl PABA, p-aminobenzoic acid, padimate-O or octyl dimethyl PABA), Cinnamates (cinoxate, ethylhexyl p-methoxycinnamate, octocrylene, octyl methoxycinnamate), Salicylates (ethylhexyl salicylate, homosalate, octyl salicylate), Digalloyl trioleate, Menthyl anthranilate, and Avobenzone.
Contrary to what sunscreen manufacturers wish you to believe, sunshine is not a death ray. It is a healing ray. Here are four main benefits of sun exposure:
1. It boosts neuropeptides that boost our mood and regulate appetite.
2. It reduces risk of the deadly skin cancer melanoma and 16 other types of cancer.
3. It reduces the risk of osteoporosis and increases bone density courtesy of enhanced "mineralization."
4. It increases sex drive. Not that I want my kids libido to be rockin’ but this is good info for the Dad who needs to get his bedroom energy back.
Note that I am not suggesting that you or your kids should ever get sunburned. You can definitely get too much of a good thing. Use clothing to block the sun or go indoors if your skin is getting pink. There are also several natural sunscreens on the market The best I have found is a brand called UV Naturals. Not only does it protect your skin from excess sun exposure, it also helps your skin look and feel younger with "youthanizers." They include green tea extract, bees wax, vitamin E and grape seed oil. I tested it on my kids recently in Delray Beach, Florida. Worked perfectly.
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During their career, teachers face a lot of challenges but the most difficult of all is to motivate unmotivated students. There are different ways to motivate uninterested students but these methods prove to be effective only if you show patience and a lot of perseverance. Here are some tips which you can follow to encourage and inspire students to become motivated:
- If you find an unmotivated student, welcome him/her with a classroom atmosphere that focuses on effort instead of achieving something great. Encourage unmotivated students to participate in class activities and answer the questions whether right or wrong. Let them feel that classroom is a safe and interesting place and giving wrong answers is just okay.
- Being a teacher, try to find out causes of lack of interest and motivation. There may be some problems at home, in school or both which may be distracting for a student. Also see if student has some mental or physical issue that hinders his/her ability to stay motivated and focused.
- Take a lot of care of unmotivated students. Try to establish goo relationship with that student and ask him/her about goals and future plans. Share your experience and mistakes you encountered when you were a student. By telling your mistakes and how you dealt with them can motivate a student a lot.
- Do not criticize the student. Instead increase student’s self-esteem by rewarding positive and good behavior. Continue rewarding the unmotivated students for their good deeds. This will encourage them to behave positively.
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A few weeks before the Easter Rising a book of short stories by Padraig Pearse was published here in Dundalk, in this very building where The Democrat is published.
In 1916 this building was the home of William Tempest, printers and publishers, and of course it is still known as the Tempest building.
The book, An Mháthair agus scéalta eile, by Henry Godfrey Tempest, eldest son of William Tempest.
Earlier this year a copy of the book, signed by Pearse, sold at an auction for €3,750. When this came to the attention of Dundalgan Press, the precursor of the Tempest publishing house, they decided to investigate as there were no existing copies at their premises which is now on Coe’s Rd Dundalk.
“There was one copy, in a very poor condition in the National Library,” said Liam Gaynor of Dundalgan Press. So we went to the Folklore Department at UCD. Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh managed to find one in the university archive.
Another man who helped tremendously with the publication is Liam Mac Mathúna, emeritus professor of Irish at UCD, who is an authority on Padraig Pearse and has played a major role in the preservation of St Enda’s, the school founded by Pearse.
Liam Gaynor of Dundalgan Press is supervising the publication of the book. Over the past twelve years Liam has helped produce some magnificent publications at Dundalgan.
These included photographic collections of life in Dundalk during the 20th century.
These have proved to be a great historical record of the town. Many of these photographs came from collections that had been hidden away in boxes that nobody knew existed, but Liam managed to discover their owners, or was approached by them, and the results is a remarkable account of the industrial, social, and day-today living of the people of Dundalk from 1910 to 1980.
This of course carries on the Tempest tradition. Harry Tempest was an artist and an author, as well as a publisher.
He was involved in the Gaelic League, which was very strong in Dundalk at the turn of the 20th century.
“He was a friend of the artist Arthur Murnan and it was through him that he became acquainted with Padraig Pearse,” said Liam. “And I believe that’s how An Mhathair got published by Tempests.”
Of course all great publishers have a story about the one that got away and Tempest’s is no exception.
Back in the 1940s an unknown farmer from Inniskeen was down at the Egg Market here in Crowe Street - where my great-grandmother used to sell eggs from her farm - and he decided to call into Harry Tempest with the manuscript of the novel he had written, under his arm.
He gave it to Harry and went off. A few weeks later he called in.
“Well, what did you think of that,” said the farmer. “Did you feel the buzz?”
This was of course Paddy Kavanagh from Inniskeen.
But with great courtesy, Harry Tempest, declined the offer, and Kavanagh went off, no doubt to be consoled with the buzz of a Jameson.
He had more luck round the corner in Earl Street, where The Democrat then lived. The paper published his first poems.
The book was The Green Fool and harry Tempest’s reluctance to publish it is understandable. Too many people in it sounded remarkably like too many people who were still alive.
But that certainly was the one that got away.
Dundalgan Press are now in the process of re-issuing An Mhathair agus Scéalta Eile by Padraig Pearse in a special limited edition.
The book consists of six short stories written by Pearse in the Irish language and in the traditional gaelic script.
This limited facsimile numbered edition with subscription list is hand bound and presented in a handmade cloth bound slipcase.
It is priced at €100.
Twenty-six deluxe copies quarter bound in goat skin and alphabetised A-Z will be presented in a handmade cloth bound slipcase. Price €250.
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Michael Frogley—widely known as Frog—is a revered wheelchair basketball player and coach. After becoming paralyzed from the chest down in a car accident in 1986, he was introduced to wheelchair basketball while at a rehab centre in Ottawa.
He made Team Canada in 1989 and competed with the Canadian Men’s Wheelchair Basketball Team at the 1992 Paralympic Games in Barcelona, Spain, where Canada placed fourth.
He then served as the head coach of the Men’s National Team from 1996-2004. He guided Team Canada to Paralympic supremacy for the first time in program history with gold medals in 2000 AND 2004, as well as a Paralympic silver medal in 2008.
Frog also served as an assistant coach in 2006 as the Canadian men won their first World Championship title.
He coached men’s and women’s collegiate wheelchair basketball at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and the University of Illinois, leading his teams to a combined 12 national championship titles.
Frog served as inspiration to a participant in the third season of the documentary series Mind Set Go.
He has received several awards during his illustrious career- including being inducted into the Canadian Wheelchair Basketball Hall of Fame!
Frog has a Master of Science in Education from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, and he currently lives near Toronto with his wife, Mo, and three kids.
He is hard-working, and committed to empowering others to achieve their best on and off the court. We can all learn from his inspiring mindset.
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VW's use of Terminal ModeEnlarge Photo
New technology is exciting, but like most exciting things it's also fraught with peril -- and that's doubly true for developers. Think of all the tsoris caused by the great VHS vs. Beta battles of the 1980s, or the far more recent Blu-ray vs. HD DVD war, both of which cost manufacturers billions of dollars and left consumers holding heaps of obsolete devices. The next great battleground is shaping up to be your car's dashboard, but a new consortium of automakers hopes to nip conflict in the bud by setting early standards, which could save headaches -- and lives -- down the road.
Here's the problem: automakers and app developers are building apps for cars, but the way in which drivers interact with those apps varies from model to model. For some, smartphones serve as an interface; for others, apps are loaded directly onto the telematics system. It's confusing, clunky, and very, very inefficient. The Car Connectivity Consortium thinks that consumers need a simple, consistent way to interact with apps in their vehicles, and they're pushing hard to make Terminal Mode the standard. The Consortium's founding members include a number of heavyweights like GM, Honda, Hyundai, Toyota, and Volkswagen.
WHAT'S TERMINAL MODE?
First glimpsed around the time of the 2010 Geneva Motor Show, the current iteration of Terminal Mode creates a link between a smartphone and a car's telematics system, replicating the phone's interface on the in-dash screen. Think of Terminal Mode like a mobile version of a website: sites that have been optimized for mobile devices (like this one) streamline the user experience for smaller screens. The bells and whistles you'd ordinarily find in the margin of a webpage are ditched, making navigation simpler and easier. Terminal Mode works similarly, weeding out apps that don't meet safety standards (most games, for example) and enlarging fonts to make things legible from the driver's seat.
If there's one thing we hate, it's inefficiency. Innovation is great, but to see dozens of teams working on competing app delivery systems that essentially offer the same features? That's frustrating. Why not give those brilliant minds a set of parameters in which to work, so they can focus their attention on things like building smarter, more intuitive apps to make driving safer, more fun, and more efficient?
We also like the idea of crafting a consistent, comprehensible interface for drivers, letting them know what's what, no matter what car they're driving. Consistency of driver experience -- just like the consistent placement of the gas pedal and brake pedal -- is great for safety.
Finally, Terminal Mode points to a future in which we might use smartphones instead of keys or fobs to open and start vehicles. That means one less thing to keep up with, which sounds great to us.
We applaud thoughtful integration of smartphone apps into telematics systems, but we have to wonder what the Consortium plans to do when there's no phone to interact with -- either because the driver uses a feature phone, an unsupported smartphone (e.g. Apple doesn't appear to be onboard with the project yet), or doesn't travel with a phone at all? Are they left without entertainment systems? Or do OEM satnav and stereo systems get standardized, too? In other words: Terminal Mode depends on the driver to bring a portion of the equipment herself, so what happens when that equipment's a no-show?
Since Nokia is a founding member and major tech force behind Terminal Mode, and since Nokia is dumping its own Symbian operating system in favor of Windows, this could be a major boost to Windows mobile adoption. That's especially good for Windows, which is lagging far, far behind Apple, Android, and Blackberry in the mobile field. | <urn:uuid:a574153e-db1b-479a-aa00-4340049a811a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1057007_gm-honda-and-others-launch-car-connectivity-consortium-to-set-standards-for-in-car-apps | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00075-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934283 | 788 | 1.625 | 2 |
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. One that is engaged in buying and selling: a used-car dealer; a drug dealer.
- n. Games The one who distributes cards.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. One who deals things, especially automobiles; a middleman.
- n. One who peddles illicit drugs, especially to teenagers.
- n. A particular type of stock broker or trader.
- n. The person who deals the cards in a card game.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. One who deals; one who has to do, or has concern, with others; esp., a trader, a trafficker, a shopkeeper, a broker, or a merchant
- n. One who distributes cards to the players.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who deals; one who has to do or has concern with others; specifically, a trader; one whose business is to buy and sell, as a merchant, shopkeeper, or broker: as, a dealer in general merchandise or in stocks; a picture-dealer.
- n. In card-playing, the player who distributes the cards.
- n. In banking games, such as faro, the person who holds the cards which the players bet upon.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a firm engaged in trading
- n. a seller of illicit goods
- n. the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account
- n. the person who distributes the playing cards in a card game
- n. someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Not everyone approved of the designs, however, and Philadelphia coin dealer Samuel H. Chapman was one of the most vigorous in opposition.
Fort Worth coin dealer B. Max Mehl, a tireless promoter of the coin hobby throughout the first half of the 20th century, included the sale in his May 1950 Golden Jubilee Sale, featuring the Jerome Kern Collection and other properties.
A well-known coin dealer of his time, Haseltine, who was born in Philadelphia on September 6, 1838, served as a captain in the Civil War with the second regiment of the Pennsylvania Cavalry.
The Toledo Blade reported that after more than three years of liquidation, the agency is set to recoup more than the $50 million the state agency fronted former Toledo-area rare-coin dealer Tom Noe to manage the venture beginning in 1998.
Updated 10/19/2009 – The Township of Montville, New Jersey police department is investigating the October 11, 2009 auto burglary of coin dealer Julian Leidman.
Purchased by coin dealer Ed Johnson of Wooster, Ohio from a New York dealer in early 1940.
Anthony Swiatek, a former president of the ANA, represented the seller, and a Carson City coin dealer represented the buyer, who contacted me on his own initiative.
Charlie is an old school New England coin dealer; one of the last of the “smart and fair” guys (along with Warren Mills from RCNH and a few others) that used to include such now-retired luminaries as Ed Leventhal, Russ Vaughn, Chris Tracey and Jay Miller.
Henry Ahlborn was a Boston-area coin dealer who published coin premium lists.
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Creating New MouseWatchers for Display Regions
When working with multiple display regions in a single window, it can be difficult to get accurate mouse interaction. base.mouseWatcherNode, the default MouseWatcher in Panda3D, reports the mouse coordinates for the entire window. To get mouse coordinates relative to a specific display region the MouseWatcher needs to be restricted to that region with the setDisplayRegion() method.
myDR = base.win.makeDisplayRegion(0, 1, 0, 1) base.mouseWatcherNode.setDisplayRegion(myDR)
However, restricting the default MouseWatcher to a display region will prevent the mouse from being used outside of that region. For example, the image below shows two display regions, a 3D view in the top portion, and a menu in the bottom portion.
If base.mouseWatcherNode is restricted to the 3D view display region, the mouse won’t interact with the menu buttons.
One way to get around this problem is to create a new MouseWatcher to handle the 3D view display region. By doing so, the mouse can interact with other display regions, such as the one containing the menu, and the program can still get accurate mouse coordinates for the 3D view display region for things like Clicking on 3D Objects which is discussed later in the manual.
Creating a new MouseWatcher and tying it to a display region is a three step process. First, the new MouseWatcher has to be created.
myMouseWatcher = MouseWatcher() # Creates a new mouse watcher
In order for the new MouseWatcher to do its job, it needs to receive information about the mouse from the system. This information comes from the MouseAndKeyboard object. To get the information, our new MouseWatcher needs to be a child of MouseAndKeyboard. We know that base.mouseWatcherNode is already a child of MouseAndKeyboard, so we can use that to our advantage to make our new MouseWatcher a child of it as well.
base.mouseWatcher.getParent().attachNewNode(myMouseWatcher) # Gets MouseAndKeyboard, the parent of base.mouseWatcherNode # that passes mouse data into MouseWatchers, # and attaches myMouseWatcher to it.
Now that our MouseWatcher is getting mouse information from the system, we just need to set it to the display region we want it to monitor.
myMouseWatcher.setDisplayRegion(myDisplayRegion) # Restricts my MouseWatcher to my intended display region.
With that done, we can get accurate mouse coordinates within the display region from our new MouseWatcher.
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Rangoon, or Burmese Yangon, is actually not a particularly old city, although an initial settlement in the same place dates back about 2,500 years. But, even though the town itself is not old, it creates, more than any other Southeast Asian capital that I know,an impression of a town from the past. The reason: within the past 30 years, little has changed.
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Angels grab the attention of so many. They somehow make us feel closer to heaven, making that veil between earth and paradise seem a bit thinner. Within his writings, St. Paul makes it clear that angels must never take precedence over Christ; an important reminder for all. However, if we use angels as mentors, or guides, they can be helpful spiritual chaperones, leading us closer and closer to the Lord.
Many saints and theologians have put a great deal of time into studying and pondering angels. Unfortunately, no one is able to conduct interviews with angels, observe them in action, or analyze them under a microscope. We do know from the Bible, however, that they exist.
Through careful study of Scripture, and much contemplation by many early Catholic theologians (a few examples: St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Dionysius, St. Gregory the Great), it has become tradition to organize angels into three groups, with three divisions per group (nice Holy Trinity symbolism!), creating a total of nine hierarchies known as “choirs.“
First Triad: Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones
Tradition holds that this top level of angels is closest to God and that their main purpose is to praise, honor, and glorify Him.
Seraphim are typically believed to be the angels closest to God; spending their time giving Him constant praise. It was a seraph angel who touched the lips of Isaiah with an ember, purifying him from sin to prepare him for his ministry as a prophet for God. Saint Isaiah describes seraphim as having six wings: two to veil their faces, two for covering their feet, and two to hold them in flight.
Over the centuries, cherubim have become regarded as baby angels. However, they are actually described quite differently in the Bible. The cherubim in Genesis held a fiery sword. Ezekiel had a vision of four cherubim, each with features of an ox, man, lion, and eagle (these particular cherubim have become representations for the Gospel writers.) Numerous Scriptural references on cherubim describe them as serving as a throne for God.
The angelic label “thrones” can be found within Paul’s letter to the Colossians; where Paul stressed the supremacy of Christ over all creation, angels included:
For in him were created all things
in heaven and on earth,
the visible and the invisible,
whether thrones or dominions or
principalities or powers;
all things were created through
him and for him.
Second Triad: Dominions, Virtues, Powers
Dominion, virtue, and power angels are scarcely mentioned in the Bible; we have very little Scriptural evidence of what their purposes might be. Some have declared that they work somewhere in between heaven and earth, not right with God, but not too close to humans either. In Paul’s letter to the Christians of Ephesus, he stressed Christ’s superiority to these angels:
Which he wrought in Christ, raising him up from the dead, and setting him on the right hand in the heavenly places. Above all principality, and power, and virtue, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come. – Ephesians 1:20-21 (Douay-Rheims)
The First Letter of Peter reiterates this dominance:
Who is on the right hand of God, swallowing down death, that we might be made of heirs of life everlasting: being gone into heaven, the angels and powers and virtues being made subject to him. – 1 Peter 3:22 (Douay-Rheims)
Colossians 1: 16 (see above) includes a brief mentioning of powers and dominions as well.
Third Triad: Principalities, Archangels, Angels
This third level of angels brings in a bit more familiarity and Scriptural reference. It is claimed that this cluster of angels is closest to humans; that they exist to help and guide us during our time on earth.
Of the three hierarchies in this level, the principality angels are probably the most obscure; they are lightly touched-upon by Paul in his letters.
For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor present things, nor future things, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. – Romans 8:38-39
In his letter to the Ephesians, Paul almost gives the sense that some principality (and power) angels might be malevolent, causing dark struggles for humans on earth.
For our struggle is not with flesh and blood but with the principalities, with the powers, with the world rulers of this present darkness, with the evil spirits in the heavens. – Ephesians 6:12
Although the term “archangel” can be found in only two places within the Bible (Jude 9 and 1 Thess. 4:16), the title is widely used among Catholics. We hold that Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael are all archangels and have come directly to humans during special events in religious history.
Luke 1:19, 26
The choir called “angels” is the division nearest to human beings. There are multitudes of references to angels throughout Scripture. What Catholics have come to know as guardian angels are clumped within this particular choir.
Although the Catechism of the Catholic Church makes no mention of these choirs, it clearly acknowledges the existence of angels, describing their attributes as spiritual, serving, messengers, mighty, obedient to God, centered around Christ, ministering, protective, strengthening, evangelizing, and mysterious. While it is still thought-provoking to consider what some of the great saints before us deduced, it is important to keep in mind what Saint Paul made very clear: that Christ is above and has authority over all angels. Angels do not deserve our adoration or worship; however, they do rate our attention and friendship.
Catechism of the Catholic Church
Catholic Comparative New Testament, The
Catholicism for Dummies by Rev. John Trigilio and Rev. Kenneth Brighenti
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Part 18 out of 21
My heart, I cannot still it,
Nest that had song-birds in it;
And when the last shall go,
The dreary days, to fill it,
Instead of lark or linnet,
Shall whirl dead leaves and snow.
Had they been swallows only,
Without the passion stronger
That skyward longs and sings,--
Woe's me, I shall be lonely
When I can feel no longer
The impatience of their wings!
A moment, sweet delusion,
Like birds the brown leaves hover;
But it will not be long
Before their wild confusion
Fall wavering down to cover
The poet and his song.
THE PREGNANT COMMENT
Opening one day a book of mine,
I absent, Hester found a line
Praised with a pencil-mark, and this
She left transfigured with a kiss.
When next upon the page I chance,
Like Poussin's nymphs my pulses dance,
And whirl my fancy where it sees
Pan piping 'neath Arcadian trees,
Whose leaves no winter-scenes rehearse,
Still young and glad as Homer's verse.
'What mean,' I ask, 'these sudden joys?
This feeling fresher than a boy's?
What makes this line, familiar long,
New as the first bird's April song?
I could, with sense illumined thus,
Clear doubtful texts in AEeschylus!'
Laughing, one day she gave the key,
My riddle's open-sesame;
Then added, with a smile demure,
Whose downcast lids veiled triumph sure,
'If what I left there give you pain,
You--you--can take it off again;
'Twas for _my_ poet, not for him,
Your Doctor Donne there!'
Earth grew dim
And wavered in a golden mist,
As rose, not paper, leaves I kissed.
Donne, you forgive? I let you keep
Her precious comment, poet deep.
I sat and watched the walls of night
With cracks of sudden lightning glow,
And listened while with clumsy might
The thunder wallowed to and fro.
The rain fell softly now; the squall,
That to a torrent drove the trees,
Had whirled beyond us to let fall
Its tumult on the whitening seas.
But still the lightning crinkled keen,
Or fluttered fitful from behind
The leaden drifts, then only seen,
That rumbled eastward on the wind.
Still as gloom followed after glare,
While bated breath the pine-trees drew,
Tiny Salmoneus of the air,
His mimic bolts the firefly threw.
He thought, no doubt, 'Those flashes grand,
That light for leagues the shuddering sky,
Are made, a fool could understand,
By some superior kind of fly.
'He's of our race's elder branch,
His family-arms the same as ours.
Both born the twy-forked flame to launch,
Of kindred, if unequal, powers.'
And is man wiser? Man who takes
His consciousness the law to be
Of all beyond his ken, and makes
God but a bigger kind of Me?
SCIENCE AND POETRY
He who first stretched his nerves of subtile wire
Over the land and through the sea-depths still,
Thought only of the flame-winged messenger
As a dull drudge that should encircle earth
With sordid messages of Trade, and tame
Blithe Ariel to a bagman. But the Muse
Not long will be defrauded. From her foe
Her misused wand she snatches; at a touch,
The Age of Wonder is renewed again,
And to our disenchanted day restores
The Shoes of Swiftness that give odds to Thought,
The Cloak that makes invisible; and with these
I glide, an airy fire, from shore to shore,
Or from my Cambridge whisper to Cathay.
A NEW YEAR'S GREETING
The century numbers fourscore years;
You, fortressed in your teens,
To Time's alarums close your ears,
And, while he devastates your peers,
Conceive not what he means.
If e'er life's winter fleck with snow
Your hair's deep shadowed bowers,
That winsome head an art would know
To make it charm, and wear it so
As 'twere a wreath of flowers.
If to such fairies years must come,
May yours fall soft and slow
As, shaken by a bee's low hum,
The rose-leaves waver, sweetly dumb,
Down to their mates below!
I watched a moorland torrent run
Down through the rift itself had made,
Golden as honey in the sun,
Of darkest amber in the shade.
In this wild glen at last, methought,
The magic's secret I surprise;
Here Celia's guardian fairy caught
The changeful splendors of her eyes.
All else grows tame, the sky's one blue,
The one long languish of the rose,
But these, beyond prevision new,
Shall charm and startle to the close.
WITH A SEASHELL
Shell, whose lips, than mine more cold,
Might with Dian's ear make bold,
Seek my Lady's; if thou win
To that portal, shut from sin,
Where commissioned angels' swords
Startle back unholy words,
Thou a miracle shalt see
Wrought by it and wrought in thee;
Thou, the dumb one, shalt recover
Speech of poet, speech of lover.
If she deign to lift you there,
Murmur what I may not dare;
In that archway, pearly-pink
As the Dawn's untrodden brink,
Murmur, 'Excellent and good,
Beauty's best in every mood,
Never common, never tame,
Changeful fair as windwaved flame'--
Nay, I maunder; this she hears
Every day with mocking ears,
With a brow not sudden-stained
With the flush of bliss restrained,
With no tremor of the pulse
More than feels the dreaming dulse
In the midmost ocean's caves,
When a tempest heaps the waves.
Thou must woo her in a phrase
Mystic as the opal's blaze,
Which pure maids alone can see
When their lovers constant be.
I with thee a secret share,
Half a hope, and half a prayer,
Though no reach of mortal skill
Ever told it all, or will;
Say, 'He bids me--nothing more--
Tell you what you guessed before!'
I have a fancy: how shall I bring it
Home to all mortals wherever they be?
Say it or sing it? Shoe it or wing it,
So it may outrun or outfly ME,
Merest cocoon-web whence it broke free?
Only one secret can save from disaster,
Only one magic is that of the Master:
Set it to music; give it a tune,--
Tune the brook sings you, tune the breeze brings you,
Tune the wild columbines nod to in June!
This is the secret: so simple, you see!
Easy as loving, easy as kissing,
Easy as--well, let me ponder--as missing,
Known, since the world was, by scarce two or three.
IV. HUMOR AND SATIRE
FITZ ADAM'S STORY
The next whose fortune 'twas a tale to tell
Was one whom men, before they thought, loved well,
And after thinking wondered why they did,
For half he seemed to let them, half forbid,
And wrapped him so in humors, sheath on sheath,
'Twas hard to guess the mellow soul beneath:
But, once divined, you took him to your heart,
While he appeared to bear with you as part
Of life's impertinence, and once a year
Betrayed his true self by a smile or tear, 10
Or rather something sweetly shy and loath,
Withdrawn ere fully shown, and mixed of both.
A cynic? Not precisely: one who thrust
Against a heart too prone to love and trust,
Who so despised false sentiment he knew
Scarce in himself to part the false and true,
And strove to hide, by roughening-o'er the skin,
Those cobweb nerves he could not dull within.
Gentle by birth, but of a stem decayed,
He shunned life's rivalries and hated trade; 20
On a small patrimony and larger pride,
He lived uneaseful on the Other Side
(So he called Europe), only coming West
To give his Old-World appetite new zest;
Yet still the New World spooked it in his veins,
A ghost he could not lay with all his pains;
For never Pilgrims' offshoot scapes control
Of those old instincts that have shaped his soul.
A radical in thought, he puffed away
With shrewd contempt the dust of usage gray, 30
Yet loathed democracy as one who saw,
In what he longed to love, some vulgar flaw,
And, shocked through all his delicate reserves,
Remained a Tory by his taste and nerves,
His fancy's thrall, he drew all ergoes thence,
And thought himself the type of common sense;
Misliking women, not from cross or whim,
But that his mother shared too much in him,
And he half felt that what in them was grace
Made the unlucky weakness of his race. 40
What powers he had he hardly cared to know,
But sauntered through the world as through a show;
A critic fine in his haphazard way,
A sort of mild La Bruyere on half-pay.
For comic weaknesses he had an eye
Keen as an acid for an alkali,
Yet you could feel, through his sardonic tone,
He loved them all, unless they were his own.
You might have called him, with his humorous twist,
A kind of human entomologist; 50
As these bring home, from every walk they take,
Their hat-crowns stuck with bugs of curious make,
So he filled all the lining of his head
With characters impaled and ticketed,
And had a cabinet behind his eyes
For all they caught of mortal oddities.
He might have been a poet--many worse--
But that he had, or feigned, contempt of verse;
Called it tattooing language, and held rhymes
The young world's lullaby of ruder times. 60
Bitter in words, too indolent for gall,
He satirized himself the first of all,
In men and their affairs could find no law,
And was the ill logic that he thought he saw.
Scratching a match to light his pipe anew,
With eyes half shut some musing whiffs he drew
And thus began: 'I give you all my word,
I think this mock-Decameron absurd;
Boccaccio's garden! how bring that to pass
In our bleak clime save under double glass? 70
The moral east-wind of New England life
Would snip its gay luxuriance like a knife;
Mile-deep the glaciers brooded here, they say,
Through aeons numb; we feel their chill to-day.
These foreign plants are but half-hardy still,
Die on a south, and on a north wall chill.
Had we stayed Puritans! _They_ had some heat,
(Though whence derived I have my own conceit,)
But you have long ago raked up their fires;
Where they had faith, you've ten sham-Gothic spires. 80
Why more exotics? Try your native vines,
And in some thousand years you _may_ have wines;
Your present grapes are harsh, all pulps and skins,
And want traditions of ancestral bins
That saved for evenings round the polished board
Old lava fires, the sun-steeped hillside's hoard.
Without a Past, you lack that southern wall
O'er which the vines of Poesy should crawl;
Still they're your only hope: no midnight oil
Makes up for virtue wanting in the soil; 90
Manure them well and prune them; 'twon't be France,
Nor Spain, nor Italy, but there's your chance.
You have one story-teller worth a score
Of dead Boccaccios,--nay, add twenty more,--
A hawthorn asking spring's most dainty breath,
And him you're freezing pretty well to death.
However, since you say so, I will tease
My memory to a story by degrees,
Though you will cry, "Enough!" I'm wellnigh sure,
Ere I have dreamed through half my overture. 100
Stories were good for men who had no books,
(Fortunate race!) and built their nests like rooks
In lonely towers, to which the Jongleur brought
His pedler's-box of cheap and tawdry thought,
With here and there a fancy fit to see
Wrought in quaint grace in golden filigree,--
Some ring that with the Muse's finger yet
Is warm, like Aucassin and Nicolete;
The morning newspaper has spoilt his trade,
(For better or for worse, I leave unsaid,) 110
And stories now, to suit a public nice,
Must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.
'All tourists know Shebagog County: there
The summer idlers take their yearly stare,
Dress to see Nature In a well-bred way,
As 'twere Italian opera, or play,
Encore the sunrise (if they're out of bed).
And pat the Mighty Mother on the head:
These have I seen,--all things are good to see.--
And wondered much at their complacency. 120
This world's great show, that took in getting-up
Millions of years, they finish ere they sup;
Sights that God gleams through with soul-tingling force
They glance approvingly as things of course.
Say, "That's a grand rock," "This a pretty fall."
Not thinking, "Are we worthy?" What if all
The scornful landscape should turn round and say,
"This is a fool, and that a popinjay"?
I often wonder what the Mountain thinks
Of French boots creaking o'er his breathless brinks, 130
Or how the Sun would scare the chattering crowd,
If some fine day he chanced to think aloud.
I, who love Nature much as sinners can,
Love her where she most grandeur shows,--in man:
Here find I mountain, forest, cloud, and sun,
River and sea, and glows when day is done;
Nay, where she makes grotesques, and moulds in jest
The clown's cheap clay, I find unfading zest.
The natural instincts year by year retire,
As deer shrink northward from the settler's fire, 140
And he who loves the wild game-flavor more
Than city-feasts, where every man's a bore
To every other man, must seek it where
The steamer's throb and railway's iron blare
Have not yet startled with their punctual stir
The shy, wood-wandering brood of Character.
'There is a village, once the county town,
Through which the weekly mail rolled dustily down,
Where the courts sat, it may be, twice a year,
And the one tavern reeked with rustic cheer; 150
Cheeshogquesumscot erst, now Jethro hight,
Red-man and pale-face bore it equal spite.
The railway ruined it, the natives say,
That passed unwisely fifteen miles away,
And made a drain to which, with steady ooze,
Filtered away law, stage-coach, trade, and news.
The railway saved it: so at least think those
Who love old ways, old houses, old repose.
Of course the Tavern stayed: its genial host
Thought not of flitting more than did the post 160
On which high-hung the fading signboard creaks,
Inscribed, "The Eagle Inn, by Ezra Weeks."
'If in life's journey you should ever find
An inn medicinal for body and mind,
'Tis sure to be some drowsy-looking house
Whose easy landlord has a bustling spouse:
He, if he like you, will not long forego
Some bottle deep in cobwebbed dust laid low,
That, since the War we used to call the "Last,"
Has dozed and held its lang-syne memories fast: 170
From him exhales that Indian-summer air
Of hazy, lazy welcome everywhere,
While with her toil the napery is white,
The china dustless, the keen knife-blades bright,
Salt dry as sand, and bread that seems as though
'Twere rather sea-foam baked than vulgar dough.
'In our swift country, houses trim and white
Are pitched like tents, the lodging of a night;
Each on its bank of baked turf mounted high
Perches impatient o'er the roadside dry, 180
While the wronged landscape coldly stands aloof,
Refusing friendship with the upstart roof.
Not so the Eagle; on a grass-green swell
That toward the south with sweet concessions fell
It dwelt retired, and half had grown to be
As aboriginal as rock or tree.
It nestled close to earth, and seemed to brood
O'er homely thoughts in a half-conscious mood,
As by the peat that rather fades than burns
The smouldering grandam nods and knits by turns, 190
Happy, although her newest news were old
Ere the first hostile drum at Concord rolled.
If paint it e'er had known, it knew no more
Than yellow lichens spattered thickly o'er
That soft lead-gray, less dark beneath the eaves
Which the slow brush of wind and weather leaves.
The ample roof sloped backward to the ground,
And vassal lean-tos gathered thickly round,
Patched on, as sire or son had felt the need,
Like chance growths sprouting from the old roofs seed, 200
Just as about a yellow-pine-tree spring
Its rough-barked darlings in a filial ring.
But the great chimney was the central thought
Whose gravitation through the cluster wrought;
For 'tis not styles far-fetched from Greece or Rome,
But just the Fireside, that can make a home;
None of your spindling things of modern style,
Like pins stuck through to stay the card-built pile,
It rose broad-shouldered, kindly, debonair,
Its warm breath whitening in the October air, 210
While on its front a heart in outline showed
The place it filled in that serene abode.
'When first I chanced the Eagle to explore.
Ezra sat listless by the open door;
One chair careened him at an angle meet,
Another nursed his hugely slippered feet;
Upon a third reposed a shirt-sleeved arm,
And the whole man diffused tobacco's charm.
"Are you the landlord?" "Wahl, I guess I be,"
Watching the smoke he answered leisurely. 220
He was a stoutish man, and through the breast
Of his loose shirt there showed a brambly chest;
Streaked redly as a wind-foreboding morn,
His tanned cheeks curved to temples closely shorn;
Clean-shaved he was, save where a hedge of gray
Upon his brawny throat leaned every way
About an Adam's-apple, that beneath
Bulged like a boulder from a brambly heath.
The Western World's true child and nursling he,
Equipt with aptitudes enough for three: 230
No eye like his to value horse or cow,
Or gauge the contents of a stack or mow;
He could foretell the weather at a word,
He knew the haunt of every beast and bird,
Or where a two-pound trout was sure to lie,
Waiting the flutter of his homemade fly;
Nay, once in autumns five, he had the luck
To drop at fair-play range a ten-tined buck;
Of sportsmen true he favored every whim,
But never cockney found a guide in him; 240
A natural man, with all his instincts fresh,
Not buzzing helpless in Reflection's mesh,
Firm on its feet stood his broad-shouldered mind,
As bluffly honest as a northwest wind;
Hard-headed and soft-hearted, you'd scarce meet
A kindlier mixture of the shrewd and sweet;
Generous by birth, and ill at saying "No,"
Yet in a bargain he was all men's foe,
Would yield no inch of vantage in a trade,
And give away ere nightfall all he made. 250
"Can I have lodging here?" once more I said.
He blew a whiff, and, leaning back his head,
"You come a piece through Bailey's woods, I s'pose,
Acrost a bridge where a big swamp-oak grows?
It don't grow, neither; it's ben dead ten year,
Nor th' ain't a livin' creetur, fur nor near,
Can tell wut killed it; but I some misdoubt
'Twas borers, there's sech heaps on 'em about.
You didn' chance to run ag'inst my son,
A long, slab-sided youngster with a gun? 260
He'd oughto ben back more 'n an hour ago,
An' brought some birds to dress for supper--sho!
There he comes now. 'Say, Obed, wut ye got?
(He'll hev some upland plover like as not.)
Wal, them's real nice uns, an'll eat A 1,
Ef I can stop their bein' overdone;
Nothin' riles _me_ (I pledge my fastin' word)
Like cookin' out the natur' of a bird;
(Obed, you pick 'em out o' sight an' sound,
Your ma'am don't love no feathers cluttrin' round;) 270
Jes' scare 'em with the coals,--thet's _my_ idee."
Then, turning suddenly about on me,
"Wal, Square, I guess so. Callilate to stay?
I'll ask Mis' Weeks; 'bout _thet_ it's hern to say."
'Well, there I lingered all October through,
In that sweet atmosphere of hazy blue,
So leisurely, so soothing, so forgiving,
That sometimes makes New England fit for living.
I watched the landscape, erst so granite glum,
Bloom like the south side of a ripening plum, 280
And each rock-maple on the hillside make
His ten days' sunset doubled in the lake;
The very stone walls draggling up the hills
Seemed touched, and wavered in their roundhead wills.
Ah! there's a deal of sugar in the sun!
Tap me in Indian summer, I should run
A juice to make rock-candy of,--but then
We get such weather scarce one year in ten.
'There was a parlor in the house, a room
To make you shudder with its prudish gloom. 290
The furniture stood round with such an air,
There seemed an old maid's ghost in every chair,
Which looked as it had scuttled to its place
And pulled extempore a Sunday face,
Too smugly proper for a world of sin,
Like boys on whom the minister comes in.
The table, fronting you with icy stare,
Strove to look witless that its legs were bare,
While the black sofa with its horse-hair pall
Gloomed like a bier for Comfort's funeral. 300
Each piece appeared to do its chilly best
To seem an utter stranger to the rest,
As if acquaintanceship were deadly sin,
Like Britons meeting in a foreign inn.
Two portraits graced the wall in grimmest truth,
Mister and Mistress W. in their youth,--
New England youth, that seems a sort of pill,
Half wish-I-dared, half Edwards on the Will,
Bitter to swallow, and which leaves a trace
Of Calvinistic colic on the face. 310
Between them, o'er the mantel, hung in state
Solomon's temple, done in copperplate;
Invention pure, but meant, we may presume,
To give some Scripture sanction to the room.
Facing this last, two samplers you might see,
Each, with its urn and stiffly weeping tree,
Devoted to some memory long ago
More faded than their lines of worsted woe;
Cut paper decked their frames against the flies,
Though none e'er dared an entrance who were wise, 320
And bushed asparagus in fading green
Added its shiver to the franklin clean.
'When first arrived, I chilled a half-hour there,
Nor dared deflower with use a single chair;
I caught no cold, yet flying pains could find
For weeks in me,--a rheumatism of mind.
One thing alone imprisoned there had power
To hold me in the place that long half-hour:
A scutcheon this, a helm-surmounted shield,
Three griffins argent on a sable field; 330
A relic of the shipwrecked past was here,
And Ezra held some Old-World lumber dear.
Nay, do not smile; I love this kind of thing,
These cooped traditions with a broken wing,
This freehold nook in Fancy's pipe-blown ball,
This less than nothing that is more than all!
Have I not seen sweet natures kept alive
Amid the humdrum of your business hive,
Undowered spinsters shielded from all harms,
By airy incomes from a coat of arms?' 340
He paused a moment, and his features took
The flitting sweetness of that inward look
I hinted at before; but, scarcely seen,
It shrank for shelter 'neath his harder mien,
And, rapping his black pipe of ashes clear,
He went on with a self-derisive sneer:
'No doubt we make a part of God's design,
And break the forest-path for feet divine;
To furnish foothold for this grand prevision
Is good, and yet--to be the mere transition, 350
That, you will say, is also good, though I
Scarce like to feed the ogre By-and-By.
Raw edges rasp my nerves; my taste is wooed
By things that are, not going to be, good,
Though were I what I dreamed two lustres gone,
I'd stay to help the Consummation on,
Whether a new Rome than the old more fair,
Or a deadflat of rascal-ruled despair;
But _my_ skull somehow never closed the suture
That seems to knit yours firmly with the future, 360
So you'll excuse me if I'm sometimes fain
To tie the Past's warm nightcap o'er my brain;
I'm quite aware 'tis not in fashion here,
But then your northeast winds are _so_ severe!
'But to my story: though 'tis truly naught
But a few hints in Memory's sketchbook caught,
And which may claim a value on the score
Of calling back some scenery now no more.
Shall I confess? The tavern's only Lar
Seemed (be not shocked!) its homely-featured bar. 370
Here dozed a fire of beechen logs, that bred
Strange fancies in its embers golden-red,
And nursed the loggerhead whose hissing dip,
Timed by nice instinct, creamed the mug of flip
That made from mouth to mouth its genial round,
Nor left one nature wholly winter-bound;
Hence dropt the tinkling coal all mellow-ripe
For Uncle Reuben's talk-extinguished pipe;
Hence rayed the heat, as from an indoor sun,
That wooed forth many a shoot of rustic fun. 380
Here Ezra ruled as king by right divine;
No other face had such a wholesome shine,
No laugh like his so full of honest cheer;
Above the rest it crowed like Chanticleer.
'In this one room his dame you never saw,
Where reigned by custom old a Salic law;
Here coatless lolled he on his throne of oak,
And every tongue paused midway if he spoke.
Due mirth he loved, yet was his sway severe;
No blear-eyed driveller got his stagger here; 390
"Measure was happiness; who wanted more,
Must buy his ruin at the Deacon's store;"
None but his lodgers after ten could stay,
Nor after nine on eves of Sabbath-day.
He had his favorites and his pensioners,
The same that gypsy Nature owns for hers:
Loose-ended souls, whose skills bring scanty gold,
And whom the poor-house catches when they're old;
Rude country-minstrels, men who doctor kine,
Or graft, and, out of scions ten, save nine; 400
Creatures of genius they, but never meant
To keep step with the civic regiment,
These Ezra welcomed, feeling in his mind
Perhaps some motions of the vagrant kind;
These paid no money, yet for them he drew
Special Jamaica from a tap they knew,
And, for their feelings, chalked behind the door
With solemn face a visionary score.
This thawed to life in Uncle Reuben's throat
A torpid shoal of jest and anecdote, 410
Like those queer fish that doze the droughts away,
And wait for moisture, wrapped in sun-baked clay;
This warmed the one-eyed fiddler to his task,
Perched in the corner on an empty cask,
By whose shrill art rapt suddenly, some boor
Rattled a double-shuffle on the floor;
"Hull's Victory" was, indeed, the favorite air,
Though "Yankee Doodle" claimed its proper share.
''Twas there I caught from Uncle Reuben's lips,
In dribbling monologue 'twixt whiffs and sips, 420
The story I so long have tried to tell;
The humor coarse, the persons common,--well,
From Nature only do I love to paint,
Whether she send a satyr or a saint;
To me Sincerity's the one thing good,
Soiled though she be and lost to maidenhood.
Quompegan is a town some ten miles south
From Jethro, at Nagumscot river-mouth,
A seaport town, and makes its title good
With lumber and dried fish and eastern wood. 430
Here Deacon Bitters dwelt and kept the Store,
The richest man for many a mile of shore;
In little less than everything dealt he,
From meeting-houses to a chest of tea;
So dextrous therewithal a flint to skin,
He could make profit on a single pin;
In business strict, to bring the balance true
He had been known to bite a fig in two,
And change a board-nail for a shingle-nail.
All that he had he ready held for sale, 440
His house, his tomb, whate'er the law allows,
And he had gladly parted with his spouse.
His one ambition still to get and get,
He would arrest your very ghost for debt.
His store looked righteous, should the Parson come,
But in a dark back-room he peddled rum,
And eased Ma'am Conscience, if she e'er would scold,
By christening it with water ere he sold.
A small, dry man he was, who wore a queue,
And one white neckcloth all the week-days through,-- 450
On Monday white, by Saturday as dun
As that worn homeward by the prodigal son.
His frosted earlocks, striped with foxy brown,
Were braided up to hide a desert crown;
His coat was brownish, black perhaps of yore;
In summer-time a banyan loose he wore;
His trousers short, through many a season true,
Made no pretence to hide his stockings blue;
A waistcoat buff his chief adornment was,
Its porcelain buttons rimmed with dusky brass. 460
A deacon he, you saw it in each limb,
And well he knew to deacon-off a hymn,
Or lead the choir through all its wandering woes
With voice that gathered unction in his nose,
Wherein a constant snuffle you might hear,
As if with him 'twere winter all the year.
At pew-head sat he with decorous pains,
In sermon-time could foot his weekly gains,
Or, with closed eyes and heaven-abstracted air,
Could plan a new investment in long-prayer. 470
A pious man, and thrifty too, he made
The psalms and prophets partners in his trade,
And in his orthodoxy straitened more
As it enlarged the business at his store;
He honored Moses, but, when gain he planned,
Had his own notion of the Promised Land.
'Soon as the winter made the sledding good,
From far around the farmers hauled him wood,
For all the trade had gathered 'neath his thumb.
He paid in groceries and New England rum, 480
Making two profits with a conscience clear,--
Cheap all he bought, and all he paid with dear.
With his own mete-wand measuring every load,
Each somehow had diminished on the road;
An honest cord in Jethro still would fail
By a good foot upon the Deacon's scale,
And, more to abate the price, his gimlet eye
Would pierce to cat-sticks that none else could spy;
Yet none dared grumble, for no farmer yet
But New Year found him in the Deacon's debt. 490
'While the first snow was mealy under feet,
A team drawled creaking down Quompegan street.
Two cords of oak weighed down the grinding sled,
And cornstalk fodder rustled overhead;
The oxen's muzzles, as they shouldered through,
Were silver-fringed; the driver's own was blue
As the coarse frock that swung below his knee.
Behind his load for shelter waded he;
His mittened hands now on his chest he beat,
Now stamped the stiffened cowhides of his feet, 500
Hushed as a ghost's; his armpit scarce could hold
The walnut whipstock slippery-bright with cold.
What wonder if, the tavern as he past,
He looked and longed, and stayed his beasts at last,
Who patient stood and veiled themselves in steam
While he explored the bar-room's ruddy gleam?
'Before the fire, in want of thought profound,
There sat a brother-townsman weather-bound:
A sturdy churl, crisp-headed, bristly-eared,
Red as a pepper; 'twixt coarse brows and beard 510
His eyes lay ambushed, on the watch for fools,
Clear, gray, and glittering like two bay-edged pools;
A shifty creature, with a turn for fun,
Could swap a poor horse for a better one,--
He'd a high-stepper always in his stall;
Liked far and near, and dreaded therewithal.
To him the in-comer, "Perez, how d' ye do?"
"Jest as I'm mind to, Obed; how do you?"
Then, his eyes twinkling such swift gleams as run
Along the levelled barrel of a gun 520
Brought to his shoulder by a man you know
Will bring his game down, he continued, "So,
I s'pose you're haulin' wood? But you're too late;
The Deacon's off; Old Splitfoot couldn't wait;
He made a bee-line las' night in the storm
To where he won't need wood to keep him warm.
'Fore this he's treasurer of a fund to train
Young imps as missionaries; hopes to gain
That way a contract that he has in view
For fireproof pitchforks of a pattern new, 530
It must have tickled him, all drawbacks weighed,
To think he stuck the Old One in a trade;
His soul, to start with, wasn't worth a carrot.
And all he'd left 'ould hardly serve to swear at."
'By this time Obed had his wits thawed out,
And, looking at the other half in doubt,
Took off his fox-skin cap to scratch his head,
Donned it again, and drawled forth, "Mean he's dead?"
"Jesso; he's dead and t'other _d_ that follers
With folks that never love a thing but dollars. 540
He pulled up stakes last evening, fair and square,
And ever since there's been a row Down There.
The minute the old chap arrived, you see,
Comes the Boss-devil to him, and says he,
'What are you good at? Little enough, I fear;
We callilate to make folks useful here.'
'Well,' says old Bitters, 'I expect I can
Scale a fair load of wood with e'er a man.'
'Wood we don't deal in; but perhaps you'll suit,
Because we buy our brimstone by the foot: 550
Here, take this measurin'-rod, as smooth as sin,
And keep a reckonin' of what loads comes in.
You'll not want business, for we need a lot
To keep the Yankees that you send us hot;
At firin' up they're barely half as spry
As Spaniards or Italians, though they're dry;
At first we have to let the draught on stronger,
But, heat 'em through, they seem to hold it longer.'
'"Bitters he took the rod, and pretty soon
A teamster comes, whistling an ex-psalm tune. 560
A likelier chap you wouldn't ask to see,
No different, but his limp, from you or me"--
"No different, Perez! Don't your memory fail?
Why, where in thunder was his horns and tail?"
"They're only worn by some old-fashioned pokes;
They mostly aim at looking just like folks.
Sech things are scarce as queues and top-boots here;
'Twould spoil their usefulness to look too queer.
Ef you could always know 'em when they come,
They'd get no purchase on you: now be mum. 570
On come the teamster, smart as Davy Crockett,
Jinglin' the red-hot coppers in his pocket,
And clost behind, ('twas gold-dust, you'd ha' sworn,)
A load of sulphur yallower 'n seed-corn;
To see it wasted as it is Down There
Would make a Friction-Match Co. tear its hair!
'Hold on!' says Bitters, 'stop right where you be;
You can't go in athout a pass from me.'
'All right,' says t'other, 'only step round smart;
I must be home by noon-time with the cart.' 580
Bitters goes round it sharp-eyed as a rat,
Then with a scrap of paper on his hat
Pretends to cipher. 'By the public staff,
That load scarce rises twelve foot and a half.'
'There's fourteen foot and over,' says the driver,
'Worth twenty dollars, ef it's worth a stiver;
Good fourth-proof brimstone, that'll make 'em squirm,--
I leave it to the Headman of the Firm;
After we masure it, we always lay
Some on to allow for settlin' by the way. 590
Imp and full-grown, I've carted sulphur here,
And gi'n fair satisfaction, thirty year.'
With that they fell to quarrellin' so loud
That in five minutes they had drawed a crowd,
And afore long the Boss, who heard the row,
Comes elbowin' in with 'What's to pay here now?'
Both parties heard, the measurin'-rod he takes,
And of the load a careful survey makes.
'Sence I have bossed the business here,' says he,
'No fairer load was ever seen by me.' 600
Then, turnin' to the Deacon, 'You mean cus.
None of your old Quompegan tricks with us!
They won't do here: we're plain old-fashioned folks,
And don't quite understand that kind o' jokes.
I know this teamster, and his pa afore him,
And the hard-working Mrs. D. that bore him;
He wouldn't soil his conscience with a lie,
Though he might get the custom-house thereby.
Here, constable, take Bitters by the queue.
And clap him into furnace ninety-two, 610
And try this brimstone on him; if he's bright,
He'll find the masure honest afore night.
He isn't worth his fuel, and I'll bet
The parish oven has to take him yet!'"
'This is my tale, heard twenty years ago
From Uncle Reuben, as the logs burned low,
Touching the walls and ceiling with that bloom
That makes a rose's calyx of a room.
I could not give his language, wherethrough ran
The gamy flavor of the bookless man 620
Who shapes a word before the fancy cools,
As lonely Crusoe improvised his tools.
I liked the tale,--'twas like so many told
By Rutebeuf and his Brother Trouveres bold;
Nor were the hearers much unlike to theirs,
Men unsophisticate, rude-nerved as bears.
Ezra is gone and his large-hearted kind,
The landlords of the hospitable mind;
Good Warriner of Springfield was the last;
An inn is now a vision of the past; 630
One yet-surviving host my mind recalls,--
You'll find him if you go to Trenton Falls.'
THE ORIGIN OF DIDACTIC POETRY
When wise Minerva still was young
And just the least romantic,
Soon after from Jove's head she flung
That preternatural antic,
'Tis said, to keep from idleness
Or flirting, those twin curses,
She spent her leisure, more or less,
In writing po----, no, verses.
How nice they were! to rhyme with _far_
A kind _star_ did not tarry;
The metre, too, was regular
As schoolboy's dot and carry;
And full they were of pious plums,
For sucking Virtue's tender gums
Most tooth-enticing coral.
A clean, fair copy she prepares,
Makes sure of moods and tenses,
With her own hand,--for prudence spares
A man-(or woman-)-uensis;
Complete, and tied with ribbons proud,
She hinted soon how cosy a
Treat it would be to read them loud
After next day's Ambrosia.
The Gods thought not it would amuse
So much as Homer's Odyssees,
But could not very well refuse
The properest of Goddesses;
So all sat round in attitudes
Of various dejection,
As with a _hem!_ the queen of prudes
Began her grave prelection.
At the first pause Zeus said, 'Well sung!--
I mean--ask Phoebus,--_he_ knows.'
Says Phoebus, 'Zounds! a wolf's among
Fine! very fine! but I must go;
They stand in need of me there;
Excuse me!' snatched his stick, and so
Plunged down the gladdened ether.
With the next gap, Mars said, 'For me
Don't wait,--naught could be finer,
But I'm engaged at half past three,--
A fight in Asia Minor!'
Then Venus lisped, 'I'm sorely tried,
These duty-calls are vip'rous;
But I _must_ go; I have a bride
To see about in Cyprus.'
Then Bacchus,--'I must say good-by,
Although my peace it jeopards;
I meet a man at four, to try
A well-broke pair of leopards.'
His words woke Hermes. 'Ah!' he said,
'I _so_ love moral theses!'
Then winked at Hebe, who turned red,
And smoothed her apron's creases.
Just then Zeus snored,--the Eagle drew
His head the wing from under;
Zeus snored,--o'er startled Greece there flew
The many-volumed thunder.
Some augurs counted nine, some, ten;
Some said 'twas war, some, famine;
And all, that other-minded men
Would get a precious----.
Proud Pallas sighed, 'It will not do;
Against the Muse I've sinned, oh!'
And her torn rhymes sent flying through
Olympus's back window.
Then, packing up a peplus clean,
She took the shortest path thence,
And opened, with a mind serene,
A Sunday-school in Athens.
The verses? Some in ocean swilled,
Killed every fish that bit to 'em;
Some Galen caught, and, when distilled,
Found morphine the residuum;
But some that rotted on the earth
Sprang up again in copies,
And gave two strong narcotics birth,
Didactic verse and poppies.
Years after, when a poet asked
The Goddess's opinion,
As one whose soul its wings had tasked
In Art's clear-aired dominion,
'Discriminate,' she said, 'betimes;
The Muse is unforgiving;
Put all your beauty in your rhymes,
Your morals in your living.'
THE FLYING DUTCHMAN
Don't believe in the Flying Dutchman?
I've known the fellow for years;
My button I've wrenched from his clutch, man:
I shudder whenever he nears!
He's a Rip van Winkle skipper,
A Wandering Jew of the sea,
Who sails his bedevilled old clipper
In the wind's eye, straight as a bee.
Back topsails! you can't escape him;
The man-ropes stretch with his weight,
And the queerest old toggeries drape him,
The Lord knows how long out of date!
Like a long-disembodied idea,
(A kind of ghost plentiful now,)
He stands there; you fancy you see a
Coeval of Teniers or Douw.
He greets you; would have you take letters:
You scan the addresses with dread,
While he mutters his _donners_ and _wetters_,--
They're all from the dead to the dead!
You seem taking time for reflection,
But the heart fills your throat with a jam,
As you spell in each faded direction
An ominous ending in _dam_.
Am I tagging my rhymes to a legend?
That were changing green turtle to mock:
No, thank you! I've found out which wedge-end
Is meant for the head of a block.
The fellow I have in my mind's eye
Plays the old Skipper's part here on shore,
And sticks like a burr, till he finds I
Have got just the gauge of his bore.
This postman 'twist one ghost and t'other,
With last dates that smell of the mould,
I have met him (O man and brother,
Forgive me!) in azure and gold.
In the pulpit I've known of his preaching,
Out of hearing behind the time,
Some statement of Balaam's impeaching,
Giving Eve a due sense of her crime.
I have seen him some poor ancient thrashing
Into something (God save us!) more dry,
With the Water of Life itself washing
The life out of earth, sea, and sky.
O dread fellow-mortal, get newer
Despatches to carry, or none!
We're as quick as the Greek and the Jew were
At knowing a loaf from a stone.
Till the couriers of God fail in duty,
We sha'n't ask a mummy for news,
Nor sate the soul's hunger for beauty
With your drawings from casts of a Muse.
CREDIDIMUS JOVEM REGNARE
O days endeared to every Muse,
When nobody had any Views,
Nor, while the cloudscape of his mind
By every breeze was new designed,
Insisted all the world should see
Camels or whales where none there be!
O happy days, when men received
From sire to son what all believed,
And left the other world in bliss,
Too busy with bedevilling this! 10
Beset by doubts of every breed
In the last bastion of my creed,
With shot and shell for Sabbath-chime,
I watch the storming-party climb,
Panting (their prey in easy reach),
To pour triumphant through the breach
In walls that shed like snowflakes tons
Of missiles from old-fashioned guns,
But crumble 'neath the storm that pours
All day and night from bigger bores. 20
There, as I hopeless watch and wait
The last life-crushing coil of Fate,
Despair finds solace in the praise
Of those serene dawn-rosy days
Ere microscopes had made us heirs
To large estates of doubts and snares,
By proving that the title-deeds,
Once all-sufficient for men's needs,
Are palimpsests that scarce disguise
The tracings of still earlier lies, 30
Themselves as surely written o'er
An older fib erased before.
So from these days I fly to those
That in the landlocked Past repose,
Where no rude wind of doctrine shakes
From bloom-flushed boughs untimely flakes;
Where morning's eyes see nothing strange,
No crude perplexity of change,
And morrows trip along their ways
Secure as happy yesterdays. 40
Then there were rulers who could trace
Through heroes up to gods their race,
Pledged to fair fame and noble use
By veins from Odin filled or Zeus,
And under bonds to keep divine
The praise of a celestial line.
Then priests could pile the altar's sods,
With whom gods spake as they with gods,
And everywhere from haunted earth
Broke springs of wonder, that had birth 50
In depths divine beyond the ken
And fatal scrutiny of men;
Then hills and groves and streams and seas
Thrilled with immortal presences,
Not too ethereal for the scope
Of human passion's dream or hope.
Now Pan at last is surely dead,
And King No-Credit reigns instead,
Whose officers, morosely strict,
Poor Fancy's tenantry evict, 60
Chase the last Genius from the door,
And nothing dances any more.
Nothing? Ah, yes, our tables do,
Dramming the Old One's own tattoo,
And, if the oracles are dumb,
Have we not mediums! Why be glum?
Fly thither? Why, the very air
Is full of hindrance and despair!
Fly thither? But I cannot fly;
My doubts enmesh me if I try, 70
Each Liliputian, but, combined,
Potent a giant's limbs to bind.
This world and that are growing dark;
A huge interrogation mark,
The Devil's crook episcopal.
Still borne before him since the Fall,
Blackens with its ill-omened sign
The old blue heaven of faith benign.
Whence? Whither? Wherefore? How? Which? Why?
All ask at once, all wait reply. 80
Men feel old systems cracking under 'em;
Life saddens to a mere conundrum
Which once Religion solved, but she
Has lost--has Science found?--the key.
What was snow-bearded Odin, trow,
The mighty hunter long ago,
Whose horn and hounds the peasant hears
Still when the Northlights shake their spears?
Science hath answers twain, I've heard;
Choose which you will, nor hope a third; 90
Whichever box the truth be stowed in,
There's not a sliver left of Odin.
Either he was a pinchbrowed thing,
With scarcely wit a stone to fling,
A creature both in size and shape
Nearer than we are to the ape,
Who hung sublime with brat and spouse
By tail prehensile from the boughs,
And, happier than his maimed descendants,
The culture-curtailed _in_dependents, 100
Could pluck his cherries with both paws,
And stuff with both his big-boned jaws;
Or else the core his name enveloped
Was from a solar myth developed,
Which, hunted to its primal shoot,
Takes refuge in a Sanskrit root,
Thereby to instant death explaining
The little poetry remaining.
Try it with Zeus, 'tis just the same;
The thing evades, we hug a name; 110
Nay, scarcely that,--perhaps a vapor
Born of some atmospheric caper.
All Lempriere's fables blur together
In cloudy symbols of the weather,
And Aphrodite rose from frothy seas
But to illustrate such hypotheses.
With years enough behind his back,
Lincoln will take the selfsame track,
And prove, hulled fairly to the cob,
A mere vagary of Old Prob. 120
Give the right man a solar myth,
And he'll confute the sun therewith.
They make things admirably plain,
But one hard question _will_ remain:
If one hypothesis you lose,
Another in its place you choose,
But, your faith gone, O man and brother,
Whose shop shall furnish you another?
One that will wash, I mean, and wear,
And wrap us warmly from despair? 130
While they are clearing up our puzzles,
And clapping prophylactic muzzles
On the Actaeon's hounds that sniff
Our devious track through But and If,
Would they'd explain away the Devil
And other facts that won't keep level,
But rise beneath our feet or fail,
A reeling ship's deck in a gale!
God vanished long ago, iwis,
A mere subjective synthesis; 140
A doll, stuffed out with hopes and fears,
Too homely for us pretty dears,
Who want one that conviction carries,
Last make of London or of Paris.
He gone, I felt a moment's spasm,
But calmed myself, with Protoplasm,
A finer name, and, what is more,
As enigmatic as before;
Greek, too, and sure to fill with ease
Minds caught in the Symplegades 150
Of soul and sense, life's two conditions,
Each baffled with its own omniscience.
The men who labor to revise
Our Bibles will, I hope, be wise,
And print it without foolish qualms
Instead of God in David's psalms:
Noll had been more effective far
Could he have shouted at Dunbar,
'Rise, Protoplasm!' No dourest Scot
Had waited for another shot. 160
And yet I frankly must confess
A secret unforgivingness,
And shudder at the saving chrism
Whose best New Birth is Pessimism;
My soul--I mean the bit of phosphorus
That fills the place of what that was for us--
Can't bid its inward bores defiance
With the new nursery-tales of science.
What profits me, though doubt by doubt,
As nail by nail, be driven out, 170
When every new one, like the last,
Still holds my coffin-lid as fast?
Would I find thought a moment's truce,
Give me the young world's Mother Goose
With life and joy in every limb,
The chimney-corner tales of Grimm!
Our dear and admirable Huxley
Cannot explain to me why ducks lay,
Or, rather, how into their eggs
Blunder potential wings and legs 180
With will to move them and decide
Whether in air or lymph to glide.
Who gets a hair's-breadth on by showing
That Something Else set all agoing?
Farther and farther back we push
From Moses and his burning bush;
Cry, 'Art Thou there?' Above, below,
All Nature mutters _yes_ and _no!_
'Tis the old answer: we're agreed
Being from Being must proceed, 190
Life be Life's source. I might as well
Obey the meeting-house's bell,
And listen while Old Hundred pours
Forth through the summer-opened doors,
From old and young. I hear it yet,
Swelled by bass-viol and clarinet,
While the gray minister, with face
Radiant, let loose his noble bass.
If Heaven it reached not, yet its roll
Waked all the echoes of the soul, 200
And in it many a life found wings
To soar away from sordid things.
Church gone and singers too, the song
Sings to me voiceless all night long,
Till my soul beckons me afar,
Glowing and trembling like a star.
Will any scientific touch
With my worn strings achieve as much?
I don't object, not I, to know
My sires were monkeys, if 'twas so; 210
I touch my ear's collusive tip
And own the poor-relationship.
That apes of various shapes and sizes
Contained their germs that all the prizes
Of senate, pulpit, camp, and bar win
May give us hopes that sweeten Darwin.
Who knows but from our loins may spring
(Long hence) some winged sweet-throated thing
As much superior to us
As we to Cynocephalus? 220
This is consoling, but, alas,
It wipes no dimness from the glass
Where I am flattening my poor nose,
In hope to see beyond my toes,
Though I accept my pedigree,
Yet where, pray tell me, is the key
That should unlock a private door
To the Great Mystery, such no more?
Each offers his, but one nor all
Are much persuasive with the wall 230
That rises now as long ago,
Between I wonder and I know,
Nor will vouchsafe a pin-hole peep
At the veiled Isis in its keep.
Where is no door, I but produce
My key to find it of no use.
Yet better keep it, after all,
Since Nature's economical,
And who can tell but some fine day
(If it occur to her) she may, 240
In her good-will to you and me,
_Make_ door and lock to match the key?
The world turns mild; democracy, they say,
Rounds the sharp knobs of character away,
And no great harm, unless at grave expense
Of what needs edge of proof, the moral sense;
For man or race is on the downward path
Whose fibre grows too soft for honest wrath,
And there's a subtle influence that springs
From words to modify our sense of things.
A plain distinction grows obscure of late:
Man, if he will, may pardon; but the State 10
Forgets its function if not fixed as Fate.
So thought our sires: a hundred years ago,
If men were knaves, why, people called them so,
And crime could see the prison-portal bend
Its brow severe at no long vista's end.
In those days for plain things plain words would serve;
Men had not learned to admire the graceful swerve
Wherewith the AEsthetic Nature's genial mood
Makes public duty slope to private good;
No muddled conscience raised the saving doubt; 20
A soldier proved unworthy was drummed out,
An officer cashiered, a civil servant
(No matter though his piety were fervent)
Disgracefully dismissed, and through the land
Each bore for life a stigma from the brand
Whose far-heard hiss made others more averse
To take the facile step from bad to worse.
The Ten Commandments had a meaning then,
Felt in their bones by least considerate men,
Because behind them Public Conscience stood, 30
And without wincing made their mandates good.
But now that 'Statesmanship' is just a way
To dodge the primal curse and make it pay,
Since office means a kind of patent drill
To force an entrance to the Nation's till,
And peculation something rather less
Risky than if you spelt it with an _s_;
Now that to steal by law is grown an art,
Whom rogues the sires, their milder sons call smart,
And 'slightly irregular' dilutes the shame 40
Of what had once a somewhat blunter name.
With generous curve we draw the moral line:
Our swindlers are permitted to resign;
Their guilt is wrapped in deferential names,
And twenty sympathize for one that blames.
Add national disgrace to private crime,
Confront mankind with brazen front sublime,
Steal but enough, the world is un-severe,--
Tweed is a statesman, Fisk a financier;
Invent a mine, and he--the Lord knows what; 50
Secure, at any rate, with what you've got.
The public servant who has stolen or lied,
If called on, may resign with honest pride:
As unjust favor put him in, why doubt
Disfavor as unjust has turned him out?
Even it indicted, what is that but fudge
To him who counted-in the elective judge?
Whitewashed, he quits the politician's strife
At ease in mind, with pockets filled for life;
His 'lady' glares with gems whose vulgar blaze 60
The poor man through his heightened taxes pays,
Himself content if one huge Kohinoor
Bulge from a shirt-front ampler than before,
But not too candid, lest it haply tend
To rouse suspicion of the People's Friend.
A public meeting, treated at his cost,
Resolves him back more virtue than he lost;
With character regilt he counts his gains;
What's gone was air, the solid good remains;
For what is good, except what friend and foe 70
Seem quite unanimous in thinking so,
The stocks and bonds which, in our age of loans,
Replace the stupid pagan's stocks and stones?
With choker white, wherein no cynic eye
Dares see idealized a hempen tie,
At parish-meetings he conducts in prayer,
And pays for missions to be sent elsewhere;
On 'Change respected, to his friends endeared,
Add but a Sunday-school class, he's revered,
And his too early tomb will not be dumb 80
To point a moral for our youth to come.
IN THE HALF-WAY HOUSE
At twenty we fancied the blest Middle Ages
A spirited cross of romantic and grand,
All templars and minstrels and ladies and pages,
And love and adventure in Outre-Mer land;
But ah, where the youth dreamed of building a minster,
The man takes a pew and sits reckoning his pelf,
And the Graces wear fronts, the Muse thins to a spinster,
When Middle-Age stares from one's glass at oneself!
Do you twit me with days when I had an Ideal,
And saw the sear future through spectacles green?
Then find me some charm, while I look round and see all
These fat friends of forty, shall keep me nineteen;
Should we go on pining for chaplets of laurel
Who've paid a perruquier for mending our thatch,
Or, our feet swathed in baize, with our Fate pick a quarrel,
If, instead of cheap bay-leaves, she sent a dear scratch?
We called it our Eden, that small patent-baker,
When life was half moonshine and half Mary Jane;
But the butcher, the baker, the candlestick-maker!--
Did Adam have duns and slip down a back-lane?
Nay, after the Fall did the modiste keep coming
With the last styles of fig-leaf to Madam Eve's bower?
Did Jubal, or whoever taught the girls thrumming,
Make the patriarchs deaf at a dollar the hour?
As I think what I was, I sigh _Desunt nonnulla!_
Years are creditors Sheridan's self could not bilk;
But then, as my boy says, 'What right has a fullah
To ask for the cream, when himself spilt the milk?'
Perhaps when you're older, my lad, you'll discover
The secret with which Auld Lang Syne there is gilt,--
Superstition of old man, maid, poet, and lover,--
That cream rises thickest on milk that was spilt!
We sailed for the moon, but, in sad disillusion,
Snug under Point Comfort are glad to make fast,
And strive (sans our glasses) to make a confusion
'Twixt our rind of green cheese and the moon of the past.
Ah, Might-have-been, Could-have-been, Would-have-been! rascals,
He's a genius or fool whom ye cheat at two-score,
And the man whose boy-promise was likened to Pascal's
Is thankful at forty they don't call him bore!
With what fumes of fame was each confident pate full!
How rates of insurance should rise on the Charles!
And which of us now would not feel wisely grateful,
If his rhymes sold as fast as the Emblems of Quarles?
E'en if won, what's the good of Life's medals and prizes?
The rapture's in what never was or is gone;
That we missed them makes Helens of plain Ann Elizys,
For the goose of To-day still is Memory's swan.
And yet who would change the old dream for new treasure?
Make not youth's sourest grapes the best wine of our life?
Need he reckon his date by the Almanac's measure
Who is twenty life-long in the eyes of his wife?
Ah, Fate, should I live to be nonagenarian,
Let me still take Hope's frail I.O.U.'s upon trust,
Still talk of a trip to the Islands Macarian,
And still climb the dream-tree for--ashes and dust!
AT THE BURNS CENTENNIAL
A hundred years! they're quickly fled,
With all their joy and sorrow;
Their dead leaves shed upon the dead,
Their fresh ones sprung by morrow!
And still the patient seasons bring
Their change of sun and shadow;
New birds still sing with every spring,
New violets spot the meadow.
A hundred years! and Nature's powers
No greater grown nor lessened! 10
They saw no flowers more sweet than ours,
No fairer new moon's crescent.
Would she but treat us poets so,
So from our winter free us,
And set our slow old sap aflow
To sprout in fresh ideas!
Alas, think I, what worth or parts
Have brought me here competing,
To speak what starts in myriad hearts
With Burns's memory beating! 20
Himself had loved a theme like this;
Must I be its entomber?
No pen save his but's sure to miss
Its pathos or its humor.
As I sat musing what to say,
And how my verse to number,
Some elf in play passed by that way,
And sank my lids in slumber;
And on my sleep a vision stole.
Which I will put in metre, 30
Of Burns's soul at the wicket-hole
Where sits the good Saint Peter.
The saint, methought, had left his post
That day to Holy Willie,
Who swore, 'Each ghost that comes shall toast
In brunstane, will he, nill he;
There's nane need hope with phrases fine
Their score to wipe a sin frae;
I'll chalk a sign, to save their tryin',--
A hand ([Illustration of a hand]) and "_Vide infra!_"' 40
Alas! no soil's too cold or dry
For spiritual small potatoes,
Scrimped natures, spry the trade to ply
Of _diaboli advocatus_;
Who lay bent pins in the penance-stool
Where Mercy plumps a cushion,
Who've just one rule for knave and fool,
It saves so much confusion!
So when Burns knocked, Will knit his brows,
His window gap made scanter, 50
And said, 'Go rouse the other house;
We lodge no Tam O'Shanter!'
'_We_ lodge!' laughed Burns. 'Now well I see
Death cannot kill old nature;
No human flea but thinks that he
May speak for his Creator!
'But, Willie, friend, don't turn me forth,
Auld Clootie needs no gauger;
And if on earth I had small worth,
You've let in worse I'se wager!' 60
'Na, nane has knockit at the yett
But found me hard as whunstane;
There's chances yet your bread to get
Wi Auld Nick, gaugin' brunstane.'
Meanwhile, the Unco' Guid had ta'en
Their place to watch the process,
Flattening in vain on many a pane
Their disembodied noses.
Remember, please, 'tis all a dream;
One can't control the fancies 70
Through sleep that stream with wayward gleam,
Like midnight's boreal dances.
Old Willie's tone grew sharp 's a knife:
'_In primis_, I indite ye,
For makin' strife wi' the water o' life,
And preferrin' _aqua vitae!_'
Then roared a voice with lusty din,
Like a skipper's when 'tis blowy,
'If _that's_ a sin, _I_'d ne'er got in,
As sure as my name's Noah!' 80
Baulked, Willie turned another leaf,--
'There's many here have heard ye,
To the pain and grief o' true belief,
Say hard things o' the clergy!'
Then rang a clear tone over all,--
'One plea for him allow me:
I once heard call from o'er me, "Saul,
Why persecutest thou me?"'
To the next charge vexed Willie turned,
And, sighing, wiped his glasses: 90
'I'm much concerned to find ye yearned
O'er-warmly tow'rd the lasses!'
Here David sighed; poor Willie's face
Lost all its self-possession:
'I leave this case to God's own grace;
It baffles _my_ discretion!'
Then sudden glory round me broke,
And low melodious surges
Of wings whose stroke to splendor woke
Creation's farthest verges; 100
A cross stretched, ladder-like, secure
From earth to heaven's own portal,
Whereby God's poor, with footing sure,
Climbed up to peace immortal.
I heard a voice serene and low
(With my heart I seemed to hear it,)
Fall soft and slow as snow on snow,
Like grace of the heavenly spirit;
As sweet as over new-born son
The croon of new-made mother, 110
The voice begun, 'Sore tempted one!'
Then, pausing, sighed, 'Our brother!
'If not a sparrow fall, unless
The Father sees and knows it,
Think! recks He less his form express,
The soul his own deposit?
If only dear to Him the strong,
That never trip nor wander,
Where were the throng whose morning song
Thrills his blue arches yonder? 120
'Do souls alone clear-eyed, strong-kneed,
To Him true service render,
And they who need his hand to lead,
Find they his heart untender?
Through all your various ranks and fates
He opens doors to duty,
And he that waits there at your gates
Was servant of his Beauty.
'The Earth must richer sap secrete,
(Could ye in time but know it!) 130
Must juice concrete with fiercer heat,
Ere she can make her poet;
Long generations go and come,
At last she bears a singer,
For ages dumb of senses numb
'Her cheaper broods in palaces
She raises under glasses,
But souls like these, heav'n's hostages,
Spring shelterless as grasses: 140
They share Earth's blessing and her bane,
The common sun and shower;
What makes your pain to them is gain,
Your weakness is their power.
'These larger hearts must feel the rolls
Of stormier-waved temptation;
These star-wide souls between their poles
Bear zones of tropic passion.
He loved much!--that is gospel good,
Howe'er the text you handle; 150
From common wood the cross was hewed,
By love turned priceless sandal.
'If scant his service at the kirk,
He _paters_ heard and _aves_
From choirs that lurk in hedge and birk,
From blackbird and from mavis;
The cowering mouse, poor unroofed thing,
In him found Mercy's angel;
The daisy's ring brought every spring
To him love's fresh evangel! 160
'Not he the threatening texts who deals
Is highest 'mong the preachers,
But he who feels the woes and weals
Of all God's wandering creatures.
He doth good work whose heart can find
The spirit 'neath the letter;
Who makes his kind of happier mind,
Leaves wiser men and better.
'They make Religion be abhorred
Who round with darkness gulf her, 170
And think no word can please the Lord
Unless it smell of sulphur,
Dear Poet-heart, that childlike guessed
The Father's loving kindness,
Come now to rest! Thou didst his hest,
If haply 'twas in blindness!'
Then leapt heaven's portals wide apart,
And at their golden thunder
With sudden start I woke, my heart
Still throbbing-full of wonder. 180
'Father,' I said, ''tis known to Thee
How Thou thy Saints preparest;
But this I see,--Saint Charity
Is still the first and fairest!'
Dear Bard and Brother! let who may
Against thy faults be railing,
(Though far, I pray, from us be they
That never had a failing!)
One toast I'll give, and that not long,
Which thou wouldst pledge if present, 190
To him whose song, in nature strong,
Makes man of prince and peasant!
IN AN ALBUM
The misspelt scrawl, upon the wall
By some Pompeian idler traced,
In ashes packed (ironic fact!)
Lies eighteen centuries uneffaced,
While many a page of bard and sage,
Deemed once mankind's immortal gain,
Lost from Time's ark, leaves no more mark
Than a keel's furrow through the main.
O Chance and Change! our buzz's range
Is scarcely wider than a fly's;
Then let us play at fame to-day,
To-morrow be unknown and wise;
And while the fair beg locks of hair,
And autographs, and Lord knows what,
Quick! let us scratch our moment's match,
Make our brief blaze, and be forgot!
Too pressed to wait, upon her slate
Fame writes a name or two in doubt;
Scarce written, these no longer please,
And her own finger rubs them out:
It may ensue, fair girl, that you
Years hence this yellowing leaf may see,
And put to task, your memory ask
In vain, 'This Lowell, who was he?'
AT THE COMMENCEMENT DINNER, 1866
IN ACKNOWLEDGING A TOAST TO THE SMITH PROFESSOR
I rise, Mr. Chairman, as both of us know,
With the impromptu I promised you three weeks ago,
Dragged up to my doom by your might and my mane,
To do what I vowed I'd do never again:
And I feel like your good honest dough when possest
By a stirring, impertinent devil of yeast.
'You must rise,' says the leaven. 'I can't,' says the dough;
'Just examine my bumps, and you'll see it's no go.'
'But you must,' the tormentor insists, ''tis all right;
You must rise when I bid you, and, what's more, be light.' 10
'Tis a dreadful oppression, this making men speak
What they're sure to be sorry for all the next week;
Some poor stick requesting, like Aaron's, to bud
Into eloquence, pathos, or wit in cold blood,
As if the dull brain that you vented your spite on
Could be got, like an ox, by mere poking, to Brighton.
They say it is wholesome to rise with the sun,
And I dare say it may be if not overdone;
(I think it was Thomson who made the remark
'Twas an excellent thing in its way--for a lark;) 20
But to rise after dinner and look down the meeting
On a distant (as Gray calls it) prospect of Eating,
With a stomach half full and a cerebrum hollow
As the tortoise-shell ere it was strung for Apollo,
Undercontract to raise anerithmon gelasma
With rhymes so hard hunted they gasp with the asthma,
And jokes not much younger than Jethro's phylacteries,
Is something I leave you yourselves to characterize.
I've a notion, I think, of a good dinner speech,
Tripping light as a sandpiper over the beach, 30
Swerving this way and that as the wave of the moment
Washes out its slight trace with a dash of whim's foam on 't,
And leaving on memory's rim just a sense
Something graceful had gone by, a live present tense;
Not poetry,--no, not quite that, but as good,
A kind of winged prose that could fly if it would.
'Tis a time for gay fancies as fleeting and vain
As the whisper of foam-beads on fresh-poured champagne,
Since dinners were not perhaps strictly designed
For manoeuvring the heavy dragoons of the mind. 40
When I hear your set speeches that start with a pop,
Then wander and maunder, too feeble to stop,
With a vague apprehension from popular rumor
There used to be something by mortals called humor,
Beginning again when you thought they were done,
Respectable, sensible, weighing a ton,
And as near to the present occasions of men
As a Fast Day discourse of the year eighteen ten,
I--well, I sit still, and my sentiments smother,
For am I not also a bore and a brother? 50
And a toast,--what should that, be? Light, airy, and free,
The foam-Aphrodite of Bacchus's sea,
A fancy-tinged bubble, an orbed rainbow-stain,
That floats for an instant 'twixt goblet and brain;
A breath-born perfection, half something, half naught,
And breaks if it strike the hard edge of a thought.
Do you ask me to make such? Ah no, not so simple;
Ask Apelles to paint you the ravishing dimple
Whose shifting enchantment lights Venus's cheek,
And the artist will tell you his skill is to seek; 60
Once fix it, 'tis naught, for the charm of it rises
From the sudden bopeeps of its smiling surprises.
I've tried to define it, but what mother's son
Could ever yet do what he knows should be done?
My rocket has burst, and I watch in the air
Its fast-fading heart's-blood drop back in despair;
Yet one chance is left me, and, if I am quick,
I can palm off, before you suspect me, the stick.
Now since I've succeeded--I pray do not frown--
To Ticknor's and Longfellow's classical gown, 70
And profess four strange languages, which, luckless elf,
I speak like a native (of Cambridge) myself,
Let me beg, Mr. President, leave to propose
A sentiment treading on nobody's toes,
And give, in such ale as with pump-handles _we_ brew,
Their memory who saved us from all talking Hebrew,--
A toast that to deluge with water is good,
For in Scripture they come in just after the flood:
I give you the men but for whom, as I guess, sir,
Modern languages ne'er could have had a professor, 80
The builders of Babel, to whose zeal the lungs
Of the children of men owe confusion of tongues;
And a name all-embracing I couple therewith,
Which is that of my founder--the late Mr. Smith.
An ass munched thistles, while a nightingale
From passion's fountain flooded all the vale.
'Hee-haw!' cried he, 'I hearken,' as who knew
For such ear-largess humble thanks were due.
'Friend,' said the winged pain, 'in vain you bray,
Who tunnels bring, not cisterns, for my lay;
None but his peers the poet rightly hear,
Nor mete we listeners by their length of ear.'
In life's small things be resolute and great
To keep thy muscle trained: know'st thou when Fate
Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee,
'I find thee worthy; do this deed for me'?
A camel-driver, angry with his drudge,
Beating him, called him hunchback; to the hind
Thus spake a dervish: 'Friend, the Eternal Judge
Dooms not his work, but ours, the crooked mind.'
Swiftly the politic goes: is it dark?--he borrows a lantern;
Slowly the statesman and sure, guiding his steps by the stars.
'Where lies the capital, pilgrim, seat of who governs the Faithful?'
'Thither my footsteps are bent: it is where Saadi is lodged.'
FOR A BELL AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY
I call as fly the irrevocable hours,
Futile as air or strong as fate to make
Your lives of sand or granite; awful powers,
Even as men choose, they either give or take.
FOR A MEMORIAL WINDOW TO SIR WALTER RALEIGH, SET UP IN ST. MARGARET'S,
WESTMINSTER, BY AMERICAN CONTRIBUTORS
The New World's sons, from England's breasts we drew
Such milk as bids remember whence we came;
Proud of her Past, wherefrom our Present grew,
This window we inscribe with Raleigh's name.
PROPOSED FOR A SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' MONUMENT IN BOSTON
To those who died for her on land and sea,
That she might have a country great and free,
Boston builds this: build ye her monument
In lives like theirs, at duty's summons spent.
B, taught by Pope to do his good by stealth,
'Twixt participle and noun no difference feeling,
In office placed to serve the Commonwealth,
Does himself all the good he can by stealing.
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There is a great deal of talk about a college’s sticker price versus net price. What does that mean? Sticker price is what a college or university reports as its total cost (tuition, room & board, books, fees, etc.), whereas net price is the cost to a student after factoring for financial aid and scholarships.
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Sticker price - financial aid and scholarships = net price
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Item description for VDM '90. VDM and Z - Formal Methods in Software Development: Third International Symposium of VDM Europe, Kiel, FRG, April 17-21, 1990, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) by Dines Bjorner...
The present volume is the third in a series of VDM Symposia Proceedings. VDM, the Vienna Development Method, is a formal method for software engineering, Z refers to Zermelo, a mathematician whose name is associated with set theory. Many computing science, programming and software engineering proceedings are published regularly. The ones by VDM Europe have the distinguished mark that they are concerned with bringing real theory to apply to real programming. In Europe, there is very much interest in methodology, semantics and techniques, that is, in understanding how we build and what it is that we are building. The papers of these proceedings basically fall into four major groups: Applications, Methodology, Formalisations, and Foundations. The Methodology group has been further subdivided into five areas: Specification Methodology, Design Methodology, Modularity, Object Orientedness, and Processes, Concurrency and Distributed Systems.
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MSc.EE, 1962, PhD.CS 1969; IBM 1962-1975 (R& D: Sweden, California USA, Switzerland, Austria); Prof. Techn.Univ. of Denmark 1976--...; Guest Profs.: Univ. of California at Berkeley, Kiel Univ., Natl.Univ. of Singapore; Founder & Scientific Director: Dansk Datamatik Center (1979 -- 1989); UN Director, UN Univ. Intl. Inst. f. Softw.Techn., Macau (1991-1997); Co-founder of (VDM now) Formal Methods Europe, 1987-...; Member of Academia Europaea; Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (AB); The Ths.Masaryk Gold Medal, Masaryk Univ., Brno, Czech Republic; The John von Neumann Medal, Hungarian Computer (JvN) Society; Knight of the Danish Flag
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The leaders of the world's leading industrial nations plus Russia will meet in July to discuss the fate of the world's poorest countries. To prepare for the G-8 meeting, a minivan of activists traveling through Africa is making sure that these countries do their job by eliminating extreme poverty on the continent and all over the world.
The statistics tell their own story. Each day, more than 50,000 people in the world, 30,000 of whom are children, will have died of poverty.
How to ease that poverty will be a central topic when leaders of the world's seven leading industrial nations and Russia meet for the so-called G-8 summit in Scotland July 6.
The international campaign Global Call to Action Against Poverty is urging the leaders to give more development assistance to poor countries, drop unfair international trade practices, and cancel the debts of poor countries.
The campaign's Africa coordinator, Njeri Mwangi-Kinyoho, explains why.
"If you look at the world poverty statistics, they are staggering, they are shocking: when you have over a billion people living in abject poverty, cannot afford food, cannot afford water, cannot afford sanitation, shelter; if you have over 100 million children not accessing basic primary education; when you have over 40 million people infected by HIV and AIDS; when you have over 58,000 people dying daily because they cannot afford food or because they are just too poor to do much for themselves. This level of poverty is a huge violence of basic human rights; it's a violation of our human rights," said Njeri Mwangi-Kinyoho.
To drive the message home, four activists are riding around Africa in a minivan, collecting letters, photographs, petitions, documents, and other feedback from Africans telling the leaders what it is like to be poor and making suggestions about how to end that poverty.
The minivan left South Africa in late March and is due to arrive in Kenya on May 1. It will then proceed to Uganda, return to Kenya, board a ship to sail to France, and visit Italy and England before arriving in Scotland to give the leaders what they have collected.
The aid group Action Aid International is coordinating the minivan trip as part of the larger Global Call to Action Against Poverty campaign.
"The Get on Board bus is a symbol for us which we wanted to use first to reach the most rural people and excluded people, secondly, to be able to reach them to pick the messages about the situation of poverty and how the international decisions and policies have affected their daily lives," said Action Aid International's regional director Asenath Omwega, explaining the trip's purpose.
Amongst other things, the G-8 leaders will be examining recommendations put forth by the Commission for Africa, a body set up by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who is also chairing the G-8 summit.
The commission urges donor countries to give Africa an extra $25 billion per year in development aid and to cancel the continent's debts.
It calls for donors to double their spending on infrastructure, such as roads, power stations and communications technology, in Africa.
The commission says rich nations must get rid of trade-distorting subsidies to their agricultural sectors, and lower tariffs and other non-tariff barriers to African products.
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The human body is made up of a variety of elements. The common elements are hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, calcium. There are various cells and tissues present in our body. The human body consists of two types of blood white blood cells and red blood cells. How are platelets involved in blood? Understand the basic food to increase platelet count? What are the basic criteria of platelets in our body?
Are you facing excess bleeding problems in your body? Platelets are the blood cells that will protect your body from bleeding. Platelets act as a protector and will protect your blood vessels from damage.
Have you ever experienced the size of a platelet? At school or college, we visited a Biology Laboratory. The size of the platelet is very small. You cannot observe this with your naked eyes. A microscope is required to look at the size of the platelet. The platelet is associated directly with the bone marrow. You can also observe this in your red as well as white blood cells. There are various types of food to increase platelet count in your body.
Types of platelets and food to increase platelet count
The type of platelets in medical history is known as thrombocytosis. There are two types of platelets one is primary and the other is secondary thrombocytosis.
- Primary platelets: – the exact reason for abnormal cells present in bone marrow is not known. The increased level of platelet count in body cells without knowing the reason Is a type of primary platelet.
- secondary platelets:- this platelet is similar to primary platelets but the condition is different. The disease is familiar with this type of platelet cancer, infection, anemia.
There are various types of food you need to eat to increase platelet count in your body.
What is meant by low platelet and which food increases it?
The entire fact has some meaning. In medical terms, low platelet is named as thrombocytopenia. To track low platelet for the first time common symptoms is bleeding from the nose, gums. Low platelets can have a severe problem. Some of the problems like cancer, kidney infection. Few platelets can lead to heart attack, strokes. Common symptoms are usually neglected by people. A doctor can guide you for this and never ignore the symptoms.
Best food to boost your blood platelet count
Medical conditions and diseases are correlated with each other. The low platelet count will cause various diseases. A healthy platelet count is always necessary. The normal and healthy platelet count lies between 160 – 450 billion/L. Foods that are rich in vitamins, minerals are the best food to consume. Below you will get the names of food best for blood platelet count in your body.
Rich in vitamin C
Foods that are rich in vitamin C will help to increase platelet count. Names of food rich in vitamin C are guava, strawberry, mango, grapes, peas, orange, kiwi. Some other foods are sweet yellow paper, mustard spinach, broccoli, and lemon.
Green leafy vegetables
The green leafy vegetable Spinach, fenugreek leaves, and kale. These vegetables are easy to buy and easy to cook. Green leafy vegetables are also used to cure fevers like dengue, typhoid.
Food rich in folate
Foods that are rich in folate are orange, kidney beans, Black Eyed Peas, peanuts, etc. People suffering from low platelet count can consume this food for high platelet count.
Foods rich in vitamin B12
Foods rich in vitamin B12 are quite common. Foods like egg, milk, cheese, ghee, poultry, etc are best to increase the low platelet count. Not only this food will also reduce the risk of the oral cavity, boost your immunity.
Coconut oil is one of the best health benefits of oil. This oil acts as a healing oil in our food. For low blood platelet count, you can take coconut oil along with the food to increase blood platelet.
Suffering from low platelet blood count? The raisins will help you to improve your low blood platelet count. The low blood platelet count is due to iron deficiency. Food rich in iron such as raisins can solve your problem.
Do you know that pumpkin is rich in vitamins? Food rich in vitamin C and vitamin A can increase your blood platelet level. Orange pumpkin will be good for your health and your immune system.
Have you ever taken the juice of wheatgrass? The juice of white grass will help to increase the blood platelet count. Not only this it is useful and a superfood with other benefits also. Wheatgrass can improve white blood cell count, hemoglobin, and red blood cell count in our bodies.
The use of carrot and beetroot juice is rich in minerals and iron. These two root juice will increase the blood platelet count in your body. If possible you can consume a raw salad of beetroot and carrot.
Non-vegetarian food like fish, meat is rich in protein. Protein-building food will improve your blood platelet count. Those who love eating non-vegetarian food can eat fish for vitamins and zinc. Chicken, beef, and crap can also be taken.
Suffering from low platelet count and still unaware of papaya benefits. Papaya is such a fruit that can increase your blood platelet count very easily. Research has found that papaya is the only fruit that helps to cure many diseases. This fruit is not so costly and a middle-class person can afford it.
Iron-rich fruit such as pomegranate will help with low blood platelet count. The choice is whether you take juice or salad. Some fruit doesn’t have any taste but you have to consume it.
Things to be noted down!
Food is an important fact for high blood platelet count. You should change your habits and points should be noted down.
The leafy vegetables rich in vitamins will improve your blood clot level. Consuming leafy and green vegetables regularly will produce protein in your body. This is the best method to stop your body from bleeding and to improve your platelet level.
The habit of eating fatty fish
Fish for non-vegetarians will increase blood platelet count. The fatty fish rich in vitamins will help in the formation of a red blood cell. Tuna, salmon are fatty fish and should be consumed. You can consume vitamin B12 supplements instead of cooked fish if you don’t prefer eating fish.
Say no to alcohol
Alcohol like beer, the wine will stop the production of a blood cell. It will damage your bone, red blood cells. Excess use of alcohol will destroy your bone marrow. Try to avoid alcohol and keep your blood platelet count up to mark.
Consume citrus food
Citrus food like lemon, grapes, oranges, or fresh juice will make your day. A huge amount of food rich in vitamin C will boost up your platelet count. Along with vitamin C, the intake of Iron-rich food is also important. Direct food or fruit consumption will keep the problem of constipation away. You can avoid the supplements and depends on direct fruit.
Supplement of chlorophyll
Have you ever heard about chlorophyll supplements? Chlorophyll supplement is good to increase blood platelet count. Chlorophyll supplements you get from vegetables, green leafy vegetables along wheatgrass.
Maintain diet chart
Low blood platelet count and still casual in your daily routine? Here you will get what to eat and what to avoid to maintain a healthy platelet.
Eat fresh avoid concentrated foods
Fresh fruits and vegetables always contain nutrients and folic acid. Easy to eat and long fruits and vegetables will function best. Try to avoid concentrated food like blueberries, ginger, garlic, onions, and a huge amount. Concentrated food will thin your blood and you will have to face problems.
Eat healthy fats avoid trans fat
Healthy fats like butter, avocados, seeds will give you energy and will not increase your calories. Saturated food will increase your blood pressure, heart disease with high calories.
Eat whole-grain avoid refined grain
Whole grain is important for complex carbohydrates. A properly balanced diet always requires complex carbohydrates not refined grains or sugar added food. Whole wheat bread, oats are a good source of carbohydrates. Avoid sugary food which will destroy your sugar level and lead to low blood platelet count.
Consume healthy fluid avoid alcohol
Healthy and hydrated fluid like water, juice of fresh vegetables or fruit, herbal teas will make your day wonderful. It will increase the blood platelet count. Alcohol will destroy your health. Be aware of the anticoagulant property present in alcohol. Take help from your doctor if you are not well versed in this topic.
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To support a world-class solar market, states should adopt a renewable energy policy based on four key components:
•Net metering policies should be as all inclusive as possible to allow all potential customer-generators to spin their meter backwards with a system that is appropriate for their energy needs.
•Interconnection procedures should outline how, when and what engineering aspects should be considered in order for you to plug a clean energy system into the grid.
•Utility rates should work in tandem with net metering as they represent the potential savings, on a dollar per kilowatt hour level, from generating energy onsite.
•Financial incentives, like rebates and tax credits, are the engine of market development.
As important as it is to drive a market with strong incentives, interconnection and net metering policies help to provide a smooth road for development. In the current landscape, it is much easier for a market to accelerate on the smooth, finished roads of states like Colorado, New Jersey and California where they have adopted best practices in net metering and interconnection.
There are three additional policy recommendations that states should consider to boost the market for renewable energy even higher. First, states can establish statewide standards for renewable energy equipment which would simplify local permitting. States should also provide training and education to familiarize local building and electrical inspectors with such equipment. Such statewide programs would help create consistent permitting requirements across jurisdictions.
Second, states can pass legislation that requires local governments to develop efficient permitting processes and reasonable review criteria for distributed renewable energy systems. This approach has been used with some success in both California and Wisconsin, among other states.
Third, states can pass laws banning private restrictions that prohibit or restrict solar and other distributed renewable energy systems on aesthetic grounds. Several states have passed such laws already with limited success. Therefore, states should also educate community associations about their obligations under the law and inform homeowners about their right to install distributed renewable systems with the proper government permits.
These three suggestions require only minor policy changes that could be implemented quickly by state and/or local officials. These slight changes could have a profound impact on the ability to safely and rapidly expand the use of onsite, renewable energy systems and may even help jump-start a robust domestic renewable energy market which benefits all Americans.
Model Rules for Net Metering and Connecting to the Grid
Applying the lessons from existing statewide net metering programs and interconnection procedures, the Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) has drafted model interconnection procedures and net metering rules for use by state utility commissions and other stakeholders. As states consider adopting or revising programs, these models provide an easy way to emulate effective policies and avoid wasteful mistakes.
Critically, these models are a result of negotiated compromises (between utilities, regulators and other stakeholders) and agreed-upon best practices—those proven to safeguard the grid and other ratepayers, while permitting distributed generation to flourish. To renegotiate the provisions within these models would reinvent the wheel and consume time and resources.
Ideally, a uniform national renewable energy policy would stem from federal leadership. The current discrepancy in the design and implementation of several dozen vastly different state programs has created an uneven playing field for renewable energy service providers and utilities alike, and is preventing distributed renewable energy technologies from reaching economies of scale. Uniform federal interconnection and net metering standards could create a level playing field and provide greater regulatory predictability than the existing patchwork of state policies.
IREC’s Connecting to the Grid Guide provides a comprehensive introduction to net metering and interconnection policies and technical issues. The sixth and most recent edition of this guide includes information on IREC’s updated model interconnection procedures, alternative billing arrangements for net metering, energy storage issues and several other emerging issues in the field.
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Investing in Funds: Playin’ the Fools Game?
Looking for Returns in All the Wrong Places
I sold one of my blogs for a small fortune in January. After escrow wired the funds to my bank account, my friends and family wanted to know what I would do with the money. Their choices included a Mini Cooper, a face-lift, dental work and a down payment on a house — not necessarily in that order. When I replied that I wanted to save the funds for my daughter’s college education, I was surprised when they all wanted to know which mutual fund I was going to choose.
This caught me off-guard. I never had an interest in investing in mutual funds. Granted, I’m often attracted to hard-working moneymakers, and a mutual fund generally fits that description. They allow individual investors to pool resources and to benefit from the same scale of services, information, clout, expertise and economies as large institutions. Mutual funds also provide immediate diversification with little effort and waste of time on the investor’s behalf.
But there are so many mutual funds out there, I’m afraid I’ll make the wrong choice. Plus, I know I’m not receiving all those benefits for free. I’m paying for a mutual fund manager to trade securities according to the fund’s prescribed criteria. That’s the fund manager’s job, but he could care less about my overall financial health.
I’ve always had a problem with this lack of interest because I have issues with handing over control in the first place. You see, I’ve always driven my own car rather than hire a chauffeur.
But recently I started to see why a person might hire a driver. When I drive, I don’t have time to do anything else because I need to concentrate on the road. What a waste, especially when I could use this time to make more money. That’s when I began to weigh the cost of a driver against the value I’ve place on my time.
So I considered whether a mutual fund might prove a good choice for my money. But as I read more about them, I learned that many funds really don’t offer the diversity I need. So I began to look for alternatives. I realized at that point a personal money manager might care about my goals, time horizon and risk tolerance more than a mutual fund manager would. My financial success also will reflect on the financial manager’s ability.
So what’s the best choice for me? Do I want to go directly to a mutual fund? Or do I pay a money manager? I decided that if I can let go of some of my control issues, a financial manager would be the wisest choice.
Outside my rational discourse, I have another reason to choose a financial manager over a mutual fund manager. My friends and family think I need a face-lift and dental work. Plus, they want to put me into one of the smallest cars on the face of the earth and pin me down with a home in a volatile housing market. If you think I’m going to invest in mutual funds because they unanimously suggested them, you mistakenly think I care about what my friends and family think about my money choices.
But, if they’d only start listening to me. …
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Gujarat state is situated in the western part of India. It is also called as ’Jewel of Western India’. Gandhinagar is the capital of Gujarat. Ahmedabad is the largest city of Gujarat. There are several reputed engineering institutions and colleges which are located in the state. Some of these are Indian Institute of Technology, Government Engineering College, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, and many others. As per census 2011, the literacy rate of Gujarat is 79.31%. Through this article, students can check a list of Top Engineering Colleges in Gujarat 2022.
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List of Engineering Institutions
At Sarvgyan.com, we have mentioned the list of top engineering colleges in Gujarat after gathering information from various sources. The list contains the government, private and government-aided, IITs, NITs and many other colleges. With the help of this list, students can choose the best-fit college for them as per their preference.
How we have rated the Institutions
We have rated the below-mentioned colleges/institutions after doing a survey & research. The factors through which we are rating these colleges are national importance, college infrastructure, quality of education, student’s preference, placement record, faculty ratio, etc.
The admission to B.Tech courses will be provided through the national level entrance exam, i.e. JEE Main. Through this exam, students will also get admission into B. Arch course. The admission to engineering courses will also be offered through state level entrance exam, i.e. GUJCET (Gujarat Common Entrance Test). To get admission in the PG level of engineering, students have to appear in the GATE entrance test.
Top Engineering Colleges in Ahmedabad 2022
B.Tech Admission in Gujarat 2022
Top Engineering Specializations
Various colleges & institutions of the state offer the different engineering specializations. Some of the trending specializations are Aeronautical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Electrical Engineering, etc.
|Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar||2008||Autonomous Institution|
|Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat||1961||Deemed University|
|Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar||2007||Private University|
|Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar||2001||Private University|
|Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara||1949||State University|
|Nirma University, Ahmedabad||2003||Deemed University|
|A.D. Patel Institute of Technology, Anand||2008||Gujarat Tech.University|
|Dharmsinh Desai University, Nadiad||1968||State University|
|Parul University, Vadodara||2015||Private University|
|Ahmedabad Institute of Technology, Ahmedabad||2004||Gujarat Tech. University|
|Vishwakarma Government Engineering College, Ahmedabad||1994||Gujarat Tech. University|
|CK Pithawalla College of Engineering and Technology, Surat||1998||Gujarat Tech. University|
|LD College of Engineering, Ahmedabad||1948||Gujarat Tech. University|
|Government Engineering College, Surat||2004||Gujarat Tech. University|
|Government Engineering College, Rajkot||2004||Gujarat Tech. University|
|Ganpat University, Mehsana||2005||Private University|
|Silver Oak College of Engineering & Technology, Ahmedabad||2009||Gujarat Tech. University|
|GH Patel College of Engineering and Technology, Anand||1996||Gujarat Tech. University|
|Government Engineering College, Bharuch||2004||Gujarat Tech. University|
|Government Engineering College, Bhavnagar||2004||Gujarat Tech. University|
|Government Engineering College, Patan||2004||Gujarat Tech. University|
|BITS Edu Campus, Vadodara||2004||Gujarat Tech. University|
|Lukhdhirji Engineering College, Rajkot||1951||Saurashtra University|
|L.J. Institute of Engineering & Technology, Ahmedabad||2007||Gujarat Tech. University|
|Birla Vishvakarma Mahavidyalaya, Anand||1948||Gujarat Tech. University|
|LDRP Institute of Technology and Research, Gandhinagar||2005||KSV University|
|Shantilal Shah Engineering College, Bhavnagar||1983||Gujarat Tech. University|
|Government Engineering College, Banaskantha||2009||Gujarat Tech. University|
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The atheist response to the text of the Bible is based primarily upon the young earth creationist interpretation, which is flawed. If I put myself objectively in the position of the atheist attempting to debunk the Bible I would start with Genesis Chapter 1. The Chapter passed the inspection of this former atheist.
The Hebrew verb consists of two different states. The perfect state indicates an action which is complete, whereas the imperfect state indicates a continuous or incomplete action.
At Genesis 1:1 the word bara, translated as created, is in the perfect state, which means that at this point the creation of the heavens and the Earth were completed. Later, as in verse 16 the Hebrew word asah, translated as made, is used, which is in the imperfect state, indicating continuous action. The heavens and Earth were created in verse 1 and an indeterminate time later they were being prepared for habitation, much the same as a bed is manufactured (complete) and made (continuous) afterwards.
What this means is that the creation was complete even before the six "days" of creation even began, in fact, later verses in the chapter reveal it was more than likely a long time in between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2.
Like the Bible writers I'm henotheistic.
Where does the bible say that it is okay to worship other gods? Isn't the first commandment to have no gods before Yahweh?
Henotheism (Greek εἷς θεός heis theos "one god") is the belief and worship of a single god while accepting the existence or possible existence of other deities that may also be worshiped.
The bible preaches monotheism. Only one god, only one god worshiped.
All other gods are false.
Sometimes I wonder if you really did ever read the book you claim to be in love with.
I've little doubt Milos, that if DH were still with us (which I suspect he no longer is), he would counter that that particular commandment doesn't preclude the possibility of other gods, but only insists that Yahweh be kept at the top of the list.
God created the sea creatures and birds, but he made all land creatures. The words seem to be interchangeable to me. If I was god, why not just say..look ladies and gents, you evolved. Why would all the revelations happen to be just what a bronze-age illiterate tribe would think?
The English word created and made, I suppose are interchangeable, but the Hebrew bara and asah are perfect and imperfect states respectively. The perfect state being complete and the imperfect indicating action in progress.
What translation and specifically what chapter and verse are you reading?
Same intent, different word. Also notice the past tense. God SAW that is WAS good, as in completed.
New St James Gen 1:21
So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
New St James Gen 1:25.
And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
I wondered what words the Hebrew Bible has. This link has the Hebrew text and English translation.
Anyone read Hebrew?
New World Translation Study Bible: Genesis 1:21: And God proceeded to create the great sea monsters and every living soul that moves about, which the waters swarmed forth according to their kinds, and every winged flying creature according to its kind. And God got to see that [it was] good.
Genesis 1:25: And God proceeded to make the wild beast of the earth according to its kind and the domestic animal according to its kind and every moving animal of the ground according to its kind. And God got to see that [it was] good.
James Washington Watts in A Distinctive Translation of Genesis, Grand Rapids, Michigan (1963), pp. 129, 130: “The fundamental characteristic of all imperfects is incompleteness. . . . The incompleteness of these imperfects, when they are in the indicative mood, appears either in a progressive form or a frequentative form. The context is relied upon to indicate one or the other, for the structure of the verb is the same in both cases.
“If the context indicates a single act or state, the force is progressive. The action is pictured in the process of development. In such case the primary idea of the verb in English is not sufficient to convey its full meaning. The addition of an auxiliary like ‘proceed’ or an adverb like ‘gradually’ is needed if the translator sees an occasion for bringing out the full force. When a narrative is unfolding rapidly and the sequence of events is more important than the vivid portrayal of progress in some particular event, the translator may depend solely upon conjunctive adverbs like ‘afterward’ to indicate both sequence and progress. Progress in this case is not brought out fully. There is merely movement from one action or state to another without definite portrayal of progress within the second. The use of this limited translation means that the translator sees no special reason for bringing out the idea of progress more fully at that point. The account in English would become tedious if he did. On the other hand, if the translator sees that the account is enriched by bringing out the full force of the verb, he is at liberty to do so.
“If the context indicates more than one occurrence of the act or state, the force is frequentative. Again the primary idea of the verb in English is not sufficient to convey the full meaning. The addition of an auxiliary like ‘continued’ or an adverb like ‘frequently’ is needed to reveal the full meaning of repetition or customary occurrence.”
The context is relied upon to indicate one or the other, for the structure of the verb is the same in both cases.
and here the context is past sense.
And God got to see that [it was] good.
Not "god Sees that it IS good", as in progressive....
Your interpretation "fix" is a stretch, like you are forcing a square peg in a round hole, making the creation myth fit the scientific evidence by finding loop-holes in translation. What, your god does not speak to translators so the get it right? All of your work is ahead ahead of you. You have got seas to part, arcs to build, wine to make, water walking to do, raising of the dead. Good luck in your quest to become a rational sheep.
Trust in the LORD with all your heart; and lean not unto your own understanding. Proverbs 3:5
So is the time between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2 13.7 billion years? Because if not I can't believe anything else written in that book.
I was thinking "Dinosaurs" but you put the point much better, Marc :)
Marc, Yeah, billions of years. This will become more apparent as I go through the first chapter of Genesis, but yeah.
I think that the skeptical perspective at this point would be that the existence of God would be conjectural. Also, at this point there isn't a conflict with any of the fields of study you have mentioned. And at this point only the first verse of the first chapter have been considered.
Fair enough. We can agree, I assume, that from a scientific perspective the supernatural can't be tested, from a logical perspective we can't prove a negative and from a philosophical perspective . . . well, lets not even go there.
The OP put me in the position of the objective atheist examining Genesis chapter 1. I would naturally be skeptical of the existence of the supernatural. Of Jehovah God. However, even as an atheist for the first 27 years of my life I didn't place a great deal of interest or - for the lack of a better word - faith? in science. Being, of the opinion that science was the imperfect observations of men. Much like Bible interpretation in that sense.
Please, reader, spare me the infinite praise of all things wonderful and science, I mean no offense.
What if the evidence produces itself in our continued examination of the Bible. That is where I would expect to develop an informed opinion on the subject.
Should we continue? If your claim of no God in the specific case of the Bible is correct it should manifest itself without dismissing God.
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Kyl, McCain in TC to ask tribes to give up rights
FROM THE READERS, April 5, 2012
President Ben Shelly's staff reports the meeting is closed to the Hopi and Navajo public.
Senate Bill 2109 - the "Navajo-Hopi Little Colorado River Water Rights Settlement Act of 2012" - was introduced by Kyl and McCain on Feb. 14 and is on a legislative fast track.
Grassroots Hopi and Navajo citizens groups say the bill will go a long way toward closing the door forever on western Navajo and Hopi food and water sovereignty, security, and self-reliance.
SB 2109 does ask the Navajo and Hopi peoples to waive their priority water rights to surface waters of the Little Colorado River "from time immemorial and thereafter, forever" in return for the shallow promise of uncertain federal appropriations to supply drinking water to a handful of reservation communities.
The bill - and the "settlement agreement" it ratifies - actually do not quantify Navajo and Hopi water rights, which has been the foundation approach of the other southwestern Indian water rights settlements to date.
Indian reserved rights to western Navajo and Hopi agricultural water are effectively cut out "forever" by SB 2109. The word "waiver" appears in the settlement agreement about 65 times, and the word "forever" appears 17 times.
Senators Kyl and McCain demand that the Navajo and Hopi people waive all their rights to legal protection of injury to surface and ground water supply and quality in the past and present, and discoverable in the future - yet the Navajo and Hopi peoples do not even know the full extent and nature of the rights they are being pressured to waive because the details of the settlement agreement are not being openly and candidly shared with the public.
"This is wrong," is the common reply of Navajo and Hopi citizens who learn of the withheld information.
Navajo and Hopi water and public health have already been damaged, sometimes severely, by past uranium and coal mining in and upstream of Navajo and Hopi communities.
Senators Kyl and McCain are trying now, through "waivers," to take away all rightful legal protections against the past and present known damages and real possibility of such contaminations or damages being discovered in the future.
The waivers are supported and co-written by the Navajo Nation's water lawyer, and are currently supported by the Navajo president and the Hopi president.
SB 2109 and the settlement agreement it ratifies deny the Navajo and Hopi people the resources and means to assess comprehensive long-term water needs of every community, village, and watershed. The Senate bill and agreement also deny the tribes title to additional quantifiable water rights and the full economic value of those rights.
This is counter to the U.S. Supreme Court's 1908 Winter's Doctrine that explicitly safeguards the Navajo's and Hopi's reserved water rights - established by the Navajo-U.S. treaties of 1849 and 1868, and also by trust, reservation, and other legislation for the Hopi and Navajo tribes.
Along with water rights, treaty rights are waived by SB 2109 and the settlement agreement.
SB 2109 and the settlement agreement deny the Navajo and Hopi people the resources and means to "bank" or economically store their own surface waters in regional lakes or underground storage banks off the reservations. This lets down-stream interests get the waters for free.
Nor are the tribes allowed to fully protect and potentially recharge their reservation aquifers (like Phoenix and Tucson do) depleted and damaged by the mining and energy corporations that SB 2109 benefits.
SB 2109 and the settlement agreement require Navajo and Hopi to give Peabody Coal Mining Company and the Salt River Project and other owners of the Navajo Generating Station tens of thousands of acre-feet of Navajo and Hopi water (that is annually worth $30 million or more) every year without a penny of compensation from NGS and to force the extension of Peabody and NGS leases without Navajo and Hopi community input.
The senators are saying congressional appropriations for water development outlined in SB 2109 is to be withheld unless the two tribes waive everything. This is clearly coercive.
In other words, the senators are holding Navajo and Hopi water hostage, and forcing tribal waivers of much larger rights, values, and opportunities so that outside interests can greatly benefit.
Before he went into politics, Kyl was a lawyer for Salt River Project and the Navajo Generating Station.
Looking up this type of thing in Webster's Dictionary, it describes it as "extortion" or to obtain something from a person by intimidation or undue power.
An honest question is, why would any tribal leader or lawyer endorse this, unless they were grossly misinformed or supporting outside interests?
St. Michaels, Ariz.
Water bill should be killed
U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl's report on Senate bill 2109, "The Navajo-Hopi Little Colorado River Water Rights Settlement Act of 2012," is severely flawed simply because no Navajos were at the negotiation table to protect Navajo Nation water rights and interests and it contains language that will diminish Navajo and Hopi (and therefore all federally recognized tribes) tribal sovereignty.
In exchange for giving up our senior water rights we already possess, we must settle for another empty congressional promise of future water development and only if Congress decides it will fund any water projects.
Historically speaking, Congress has set precedent by giving out empty promises also known as "treaties" which are absolutely worthless most of the time.
There is no guarantee for water project funding for Navajo ($199 million) and Hopi ($113 million). And $102 million must be borrowed from other Colorado River projects and Arizona for the initial start-up for any and all Navajo-Hopi projects and paid back even if the projects fail.
At stake is the loss of our aboriginal and federal reserved water rights because under SB 2109, the Navajo and Hopi tribes must waive their aboriginal and federal reserved water rights; hold all other 33 parties to the "settlement" harmless for all damages to water rights and quality and they cannot ever pursue additional water rights.
Both tribes will forever lose federal "trust protection" and be subject to laws of the states and their respective counties.
U.S. senators Jon Kyl and John McCain are proven enemies of the Navajo and Hopi people with the forced "agreement." But then again, they gave both tribes Public Law 93-531 (the Navajo-Hopi Relocation At of 1974) and Public Law 104-301 (the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute Settlement Act of 1996), which were nothing more than an illegal and immoral land grab for the purposes of allowing Peabody Western Coal Co. to enlarge its operations, extend its lease, and reap billions more in profit for pennies on the Navajo dollar and resources.
The Navajo-Gallup Water Pipeline Project is included in this "settlement" yet there is no guarantee for funding for this project as well and concurrently, Hydro Resources Inc. wants to begin its in-situ leach uranium mining near Church Rock and Crownpoint using our sole source of pristine drinking water.
Under current U.S. law, the Department of the Interior (including the U.S. Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement) has a "trust responsibility" to protect the N and C-aquifers, but the "settlement" does away with this completely.
Navajo Nation water rights attorney Stanley Pollack wrote this water rights give-away, thereby placing future generations of Navajos at the mercy of outside interests who care nothing about our people.
Attorney General Harrison Tsosie has the responsibility to immediately remove Pollack and/or charge him with high treason against the nation. The Navajo Nation Council must reject S.2109 and "Kill the Bill" before it becomes U.S. law.
Church Rock, N.M.
Confluence project is hypocritical
I have been reading about the proposed development of a luxury resort, airport, and aerial tramway along the Grand Canyon's East Rim by the Navajo Nation government and am appalled that this would even be supported by our tribal government. The Grand Canyon is listed as a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization meaning it is of outstanding cultural or natural importance to humanity. It is a national landmark and has been called by many publications one of the Seven Wonders of the World. The canyon has a delicate ecosystem of plants and animals and has a geologic record that spans 2 billion years. I cannot imagine 100 years of life. Can you imagine 2 billion years of life?
The proponents of the feasibility study cite the need for tourism dollars as the reason for this development. They project that such a development would bring in $70 million in tourism revenue per year and result in 2,000 jobs.
I oppose this development. Why? Please reread the first paragraph and then consider the following:
"The jurisdictional issues between the National Park Service and the Navajo Nation would result in costly litigation. I understand there is already a dispute about where the reservation boundary is within the canyon.
"Navajo people in the Western Agency have lived through some of the worst experiences imposed by the federal government (e.g. Livestock Reduction Program and the Bennett Freeze). Why does the Navajo government foster that type of treatment of our own people by ignoring their rights? "We cannot just ignore the people who have homesite leases and grazing permits in that area. Is this development supported by the affected grazing permittee(s) and communities? "The cost to lay down the infrastructure alone is estimated to be around $60 million - where are we going to get that money? I'm sure The Fulcrum Group (also known as Confluence Partners), the development group proposing this development, isn't planning to just donate it. I foresee the group will expect tribal monies.
"The Fulcrum Group/Confluence Partners, based out of Scottsdale, has their eye on money. They do not understand and likely never will understand the importance of land and its connection with the people.
"Who is the Fulcrum Group? Why can't they develop elsewhere? Why was someone on their team indicted for embezzlement? Was a background check completed on the group?
"The safety of the tourists, an estimated 3 million visitors per year, would incur a huge liability on the Navajo Nation. Imagine if a massive flood occurred and thousands were injured.
"Jurisdiction over non-Navajos will be a problem. "The light, air, and noise pollution would be irreversible. "The bridges of communication and mutual respect that we have built with other Indian communities would be compromised. More than ever, the Southwest tribes need to work together and help one another. "The plants and animals would suffer. "We would be compromising our cultural beliefs." The last three items listed, to me, are the most important because they are immeasurable. From time immemorial we have coexisted with our tribal neighbors. We have learned to survive in the high deserts and have adapted to numerous changes that have occurred over the centuries. I think we have a moral responsibility and obligation to continue to build those bridges of communication and consider their concerns regarding this development. Just because we can build doesn't mean we should build. Our leadership needs to realize that our actions have far reaching effects that could be detrimental to the spiritual well being of our tribal neighbors. We cannot act brashly, arrogantly, and irresponsibly.
For many years, the Navajo people have fought for protection of our sacred areas, those areas that are deeply ingrained in our clan systems, our traditional stories, our value system, our ceremonies and songs. We have been going in circles with various outside entities to seek protection of our sacred mountains. Recently, we fought for the protection of Mount Taylor and the San Francisco Peaks. In our litigation, we consistently cite the importance of these sacred places for the continuation of our culture.
This area proposed for development fits in that category too. The confluence of the rivers is a sacred place and the Grand Canyon is a sacred place that we should protect. By allowing and building access to that area for millions of people to visit, we detract from its tranquility. We detract from its natural beauty. We disrupt the ecosystem. We, basically, shoot the legal footing we have gained over the decades regarding the protection of sacred sites. In my opinion, by building such a development, we desecrate a sacred site.
The reason I was compelled to write this letter is that this proposed monstrosity is being promoted by our own government. Our leadership is acting hypocritical. Our leadership is forgetting all the legal precedents our ancestors have fought for regarding sacred sites. Our leadership is ignoring our elders and traditional practitioners. It is forgetting that we need to respect other neighboring tribal communities. It is forgetting the significance and longevity of the canyon. I had to say something! I'm tired of the poor decision-making and shortsightedness of our leaders.
If this project is going to happen, let it happen without our help. We don't need to sell our souls for money. Commercialism and capitalism should never come before our spiritual well-being. I strongly object to this development and I strongly encourage our leadership to consider other means of job generation. True leadership would set in writing criteria for future development, clearly defining what type(s) of development we need (e.g. companies who do not need tribal monies, clean development free from environmental hazards, development that does not disturb our sacred sites). This list of criteria should be supported by the communities and chapters before any development is entertained. Do not invest any more time, energy, and money in this project.
Our failure to protect holy places
The failure of our tribal government to consider its own peoples cultural and religious needs will have frightening repercussions that will extend beyond our borders. Our failure to protect our holy places on our own lands will effectively undermine our participation in management processes for holy places that lie outside our borders. Diné tah, Tso Dzil, Dibe nstaa, Dookosliid, Sis najini to name but a few, these places are not within the administrative boundaries of the current Navajo Reservation. How will the states, counties, and federal government look at us if we do this project? We tell them what to do, we tell them what is holy, and we fight them over proper management of these places, yet we do not practice what we are preaching? We are destroying the foundations of laws and policy acts established to protect us as people, and to protect our cultural resources that are not within our reservation. Right now there is a land grab going on, states like Utah and Arizona are actively trying to take possession of federal property in order to do the very thing the Navajo Nation is doing, to exploit the natural resources. Where will it stop? We claim sovereignty but we are in fact wards of the federal government, our reservation is federal property. Do you think the states will stop at our boundaries? No they will look out onto our reservation, and see our amusement parks built on our holy places, they see our coal, they see our water, and they want it. They will trample us as they ignore our pleas to save our holy places, because we have pursued, hounded, and chased the holy people from the places they live where they watch over us. Where will it stop? After they done with our lands, what will we have left? The green water at the bottom of strip mines? The laughter of rich people as they throw pennies to us because we are washing their dishes and fixing their beds? Where? When?
Times not objective in Confluence coverage
It's a shame when you cannot count on your local paper for an objective view of the news but controversy sells advertisements. In recent articles pertaining to a potential project in Western Navajo, reporter Cindy Yurth has stoked needless fear in residents by citing sources that have since been linked to non-Diné associated with Papillon helicopters and their owners, the Halverson family, who are trying to protect their flight monopoly as well as their proposed mega-resort at Tusayan. Navajo would be a direct competitor.
An Internet search of www.savetheconfluence.com listed Ben Winton of Phoenix as the owner. A Google search of "Ben Winton" and "Papillon" brings Mr. Winton's LinkedIn private page up. Mr. Winton is a flight instructor and aviator. Advertisements along the bottom of the "grassroots" webpage show "Sponsors": Papillon helicopters, Quality Inn Grand Canyon (owned by Halverson), Grand Canyon Bus Tours (owned by Halverson), and high priced Las Vegas hotels.
The market-share that Papillon has aggressively been protecting, either acquiring for themselves, or keeping anyone else from attaining, has been working against the Navajo Nation since 2009. Working for Cameron Chapter to help them attain air-tour routes into the Grand Canyon we've had to fight off constant attempts by Papillon to secure rights to "Snoopy's Nose," aka the Confluence, in defiance of the desires of both Cameron and Gap/Bodaway chapters. Papillon worked with former Navajo Nation Parks & Recreation Director Ray Russell (fired for misusing tens of thousands of dollars from a special needs children's fund), former Resources Committee Chairman George Arthur, and former officials in the Shirley administration to try to circumvent the local people. We fought them off repeatedly to ensure that Gap/Bodaway wasn't bothered by helicopters, per the chapters' request, while Cameron seeks more business development.
Papillon continued to fight the will of both chapters. Papillon had tried to secure a monopoly over Western Navajo ensuring that Cameron would never have the same potential that brings over $8 million to the Hualapai Nation. They failed due to our continued work ensuring the chapters' will was secured. This is affirmation of Navajo sovereignty of our airspace, President Ben Shelly and delegates Phelps, Tsinigine, Benally and Smith all have been staunch supporters of the Navajo exemption and have repeatedly visited the chapters and advocated for the will of the chapters at the national level.
Not only will the nation have to fight off businesses eyeing the nation as a competitor but there exists federal agencies that view Navajo as less than sovereign. The treaties signed between the Navajo Nation and the states supersede any notions of subservience to any federal agency. The views presented by Yurth represent only her own and the bureaucrats at the National Park Service. Even now the Park Service attempts to control Navajo airspace with the Alexander Amendment to control tribal airspace near parks.
Ms. Yurth made her lack objectivity known during a ride to the Confluence site. She whined the entire trip that we would hurt "the greatest invention of the American system." When the writer explained to her that the park was made from land stolen from the First Nations she was indifferent. Even after telling her about the 48-year-long American government's Bennett Freeze she continued to press her point. The chairwoman of the Council's R&D Committee, who kindly had taken the day to listen to local issues, had to remind Ms. Yurth she is a guest on the nation and doesn't understand.
There exist foreign entities bent on telling the Navajo Nation how to live. A Sierra Club spokesperson has superciliously been telling the nation how to develop. They neglected to apologize for the Sierra Club's taking of over $28 million from Chesapeake Energy, a natural gas company responsible for dangerous hydrological "fracking" in ways that destroys groundwater supplies and wastes water by a 3:1 ratio for gas. While the Sierra Club was accepting millions from one energy company to thwart competition they continue to criticize how we try to stop the diaspora of generations of Diné from our homeland. The guys at the Sierra Club have jobs but what have they done to solve the need for 4,344 new jobs every year for Navajo?
Change is rough when you are used to the old ways. The Park Service and the Sierra Club like their Indians poor and quiet but those days are behind us. Neither group has once spoken out against the desecration of 30,000 river-rafting tourists each year at the Confluence for the last several decades. They've never shown any care for protecting what is holy to the Diné, Hopi, or Zuni.
Selective development of the area will begin the assertion of sovereignty for the Western border of Dine' bi Keyah and bring revenue to the nation to rival what comes from coal plants and coal mines. The proposed development will not touch any site considered holy by any First Nation but will protect, in plain site, those areas that are currently being defiled by the Grand Canyon River Guides Association, Grand Canyon Nation Park Service, and thousands of private rafters who play at the Confluence with the Park's approval.
It would be great if Yurth would acknowledge the hundreds of construction and permanent jobs, rehabilitation of the Bennett Freeze region, tax haul that would increase nation's revenue by 50 percent, miles of new power, sewer, telecommunications, and paved roads. The ancillary spillover to new businesses along the 27-mile new tourism corridor is potential for other Diné to open new restaurants, service stations, hotels; the project allows Navajo to capture a piece of the existing $900 million Grand Canyon market. The area proposed for jewelers to sell directly to the public allows for a centralized location for independent jewelers to continue their proud tradition and will be great for regional artisans and future craftsmen. It is better to create clean tourism jobs than pollute the earth or rely on the sha' mentality of the American government.
Editor's note: Our understanding of websites and advertising is that the ads are generated by automatic systems that track what an individual has been viewing and matches ad content to the viewer's preferences. So Gamble is seeing ads that show the type of pages he has been viewing. Also, we stand by Cindy Yurth's reporting and Gamble's version of the ride to the Confluence is a complete fabrication on his part.
A rebuttal to People of Confluence critic
I am a member of the People of the Confluence, a group dedicated to saving and preserving the Grand Canyon East from mass development and commercialization.
This letter is a rebuttal to Ivan K. Gamble's accusation that the creator of the www.savetheconfluence.com website is supported by Papillon Airways, Inc.
Gamble - a LeChee resident - charges the website as being supported and funded by Papillon ads.
Most websites floating around the Internet are not funded privately by large corporations and instead derive a source of income to keep domains running through the use of advertisements. These ads are random preference-generated ads that crawl on many websites.
Advertisements appear according to the website viewer's previous Internet history and searches in order to tailor to each user's viewing experience and preferences.
For example, if one such viewer were to search for power tools at Sears, the ads would adjust accordingly in order to expand upon the possibility of garnering a click on the ad. Thus any company which appears as a "sponsor" is in no way privately funding the website itself.
In fact, if Mr. Gamble were to click on any one of those Papillon advertisements that ran (or run) across the bottom of his screen he would in fact be funding the website personally.
The People of the Confluence rejected Papillon Airways' request and proposal to place a helipad at the Confluence in 2011 as helicopters are incredibly noisy and violate the peace and quiet of the Confluence needed for prayers.
Gamble's charges stem from anger directed at The People of the Confluence for rejecting plans to develop the rim top and the floor of Grand Canyon East.
Gamble, along with state lawmaker Albert Hale, Michael Nelson and Scottsdale business consultant Lamar Whitmer, belongs to Fulcrum Group LLC (also known as Confluence Partners LLC) which received an MOU for a feasibility study of the Confluence from President Ben Shelly on Feb. 21.
When the People of the Confluence learned the Navajo Nation president was ready to sign an MOU with the Confluence Partners in February or 2012, a copy of the MOU was requested. Our group was told the MOU was "one signature" away from approval by Shelly staffers and the final contract would be ready in May or June of 2012.
The stakeholders received a copy March 20, 2012.
The MOU revealed a new plan but perhaps the most troublesome fact of all is that only four people were assigned to communicate about its content. As a result, the People of the Confluence asked Winton (a family in-law) to build www.savetheconfluence.com in order to represent the voices of Bodaway stakeholders.
As an aviator and flight instructor, Winton is able to provide the People of the Confluence with resourceful insight into flight laws and regulations. He does not fly helicopters or planes in or around the Grand Canyon as a member of any particular flight corporation and instead garners his flight hours recreationally by flying in and around Deer Valley far from both the Grand Canyon and the Confluence.
Finally, Gamble's swipe at non-Navajo media outlets and reporters covering the Confluence is both baffling and silly.
His recommendation that only Navajo-speaking journalists cover the Confluence story brings forth accusations and questions regarding his own Navajo language skills. The community knows he does not speak Navajo fluently and has seen him searching for interpreters when conversations have slipped into esoteric Navajo at the Bodaway/Gap Chapter.
The People of the Confluence believe that accuracy, fairness and the courage to uncover stories that both impact and affect Navajo people is not only important, but deserved and expected.
To merely allow Navajo reporters and media outlets to cover a story with such brevity is an issue that begs the question: What is Ivan K. Gamble afraid of?
Could it be that he wants to keep the issue hidden away from people who care about the Grand Canyon National Park in order to keep his villainy localized and controlled?
Journalism is widespread, easily obtained and used to keep the masses in the know. Most of all, it is for everyone - not just for the few who may or may not need an interpreter to serve as a barrier to keep others who may wish to be informed in the dark.
Tuba City, Ariz.
Kinaalda story had inaccuracies
Yá'át'ééh shidine'é. Shí éí Tanya Yazzie yinishyé. Tódích'íi'nii dine'é éí nishlí. Kinyaa'áanii dine'é báshíshchíín. Naakaii Dine'é éí dashicheii. Táchii'nii dine'é éí dashinálí. ákótéego éí 'asdzání nishlí. Chandler, Ariz., 'eii díí shígahn.
My 13-year-old twin daughters were featured on the front page of the Navajo Times last week (March 22, 2012). I have to admit that I was very surprised the story made the front page. I wasn't expecting that.
There were a number of inaccuracies I found with this article. However, the two most important were that my daughter's clans were flipped for their chei and nálí.
And just as grievously, perhaps even more so, were the culturally insensitive remarks towards the end of the article regarding the O'odham in respect to their culture and language.
I am an archaeologist who works for the Gila River Indian Community and I was deeply distressed when I read this past Thursday's edition. I would like to clarify my statements, which have been misrepresented by the Navajo Times, and have caused me a great deal of anger and dismay on a personal and professional plane.
While I was giving this interview, it had been my fervent hope that the reporter would focus on the contrasts between my upbringing on the Navajo Reservation and that of my children, whom were all born and raised in the greater Phoenix valley, in the context of traditional Navajo culture.
While talking with Cindy Yurth, I was expressing my opinion that I felt that our youth were in danger of losing our culture and language, and that is was perhaps true for all Native American tribes including the O'odham.
I admitted to Cindy that we, as parents, have to take responsibility for this loss as my own children do not speak Navajo or do not know many of our Navajo traditions.
Cindy was correct in saying that I do have some regrets for not raising our children on the Navajo Reservation but the fact remains that I wanted my children to have an excellent education, more opportunities available to them, and the resources needed to help my son, who is autistic.
I was deeply disturbed to learn that my quote had been pieced together, and read out of context.
As such, I was baffled by the printed exclamation that the O'odham "look to us Navajos ...," which may have been confused by Cindy when I told her that some of my coworkers had been curious about the kinaaldás I've had for my girls.
My paternal grandparents who raised me taught me early on to respect people, their values, religion and cultures. These values were compounded when I took anthropology classes, which teach us to be aware of differences among people with varying cultural and traditional backgrounds.
I was telling Cindy that I worked with some really great people, whom I hold in great respect and highest regards. I would never knowingly insult, offend or malign another person's religion or heritage and for this, I am deeply sorry for any insult that may have been felt by my coworkers and any person of O'odham heritage who may have been offended by this misrepresentation.
I would like for this to be printed in the next edition of the Navajo Times along with a formal apology to the O'odham and anyone else whom may have been offended by this article. Ahéhee.
Editor's note: We stand behind Cindy Yurth's reporting, including the quotes attributed to Yazzie.
Nez misinformed on Kayenta
I would like to respond to the letter presented by William Nez entitled "Kayenta gossip is only gossip." I agree with Nez that "Kayenta is a place of misinformed people, a place where gossip outweighs the truth."
Nez however, is among the most misinformed because he spreads more gossip and lies through the use of the Navajo Times around the entire Navajo Nation for the benefit of a few on the Kayenta Township Commission. I'm the ex-commissioner who wasn't voted back in "now pushing the chapter to shut down the township."
First of all, to date I have never met with a chapter official. Secondly, I've always supported the concept of a township and will continue to do so. Normally, I wouldn't even bother to give these untruths an answer but I'm afraid that if I don't respond, people will think that the gossip is fact when it isn't.
Mr. Nez, you encourage everyone in Kayenta to stop the gossip and search for the truth. You say you're a political science major. Where do the voting rules say a Council delegate has to have a college degree? You certainly did a good job ripping our Council delegate apart. For your information, I think she does an excellent job representing our district.
Genevieve Gray, the owner of the Golden Sands restaurant, never said she paid all her rent or taxes. She even appeared before the Township Commission on March 12 and publicly announced, "I admit I didn't pay my rent and I've also said that I didn't pay taxes. I've never denied that."
You were misinformed by (the Division of) Economic Development also, "that all businesses on Navajoland pay rent yearly to operate."
Most of us pay monthly. Economic Development should have told you that most Navajo-owned businesses have been in arrears in rental payments at some time during their lease. Many of them are behind in their rental payments now.
The waitress at the Blue Coffee Pot also lied to you. There is no way that she showed you "seven years of receipts made each month (for) rental payments."
I was a commissioner when we couldn't get the Blue Coffee Pot to pay rent for over a decade. (That is a fact).
The reason the township now is "taking all the blame for all failed businesses" is that they have no heart. Once upon a time, all businesses on the reservation were run by non-Navajos and all BIA business policies and rules were made to control these businesses. Now there are Navajo-owned businesses and Navajo control, yet the same old rules still apply.
There are several businesses slated for shutdown in Kayenta and they are all Navajo-owned. You would think that the first Navajo local government would try to keep and develop its own Navajo-owned businesses and try to develop more. Even at the expense of technical assistance or immediate and continued attention when they start to miss payments. The current Township Commission has never met with the Kayenta Business Association. I feel at present that many of Kayenta's businesses want to move their leases back to the Navajo Nation and not the Kayenta Township.
Lastly, the remarks "prior commissioners who never did a thing for our community" and ex-commissioners "(are) pushing the chapter to shut down the township."
Such comments pass the line of gossip and are bold-faced lies. There are 21 Indian reservations in the state of Arizona and all of them are wards of the government including the Navajo Nation. The concept of a Native American "township" is a very new idea. The idea that an Indian community wants a home-rule government and the same community wants to pay for its services through local taxes. Tribal governments weren't created by us as much as we were forced to acquiesce to the BIA form of government. The federal government holds Indian lands in "trust" which means the federal government owns all of Navajoland, that's why we all have post office boxes and no residential addresses.
Recall is a democratic process that allows citizens to throw out the perceived liars and thieves without destroying the basic self-governance framework. I want to thank you for the suggestion of meeting with the local chapter officials. I think it is a civic duty for the citizens of each chapter to meet with their elected representative(s).
Old car was in an illegal dump
This is a response to the letter received from Lucia Williams in regards to abandon property ("Police stand by while men cut up car," March 29, 2012.)
Two individuals were looking for metal scraps and found this abandon old car in an illegal dump yard in the wash.
The officer did respond to the complaint in a reasonable time and assessed the situation. It appears to the officer the vehicle in question was old, rusted and appeared to be there for years, maybe 1970s.
It was located in an illegal dumpsite with other trash about 400 yards away from the nearest residence. The fence does not enclose the dump area or their residence but is an open area.
The metal parts were already loaded and secured when the officer arrived. The subjects were told to leave the area and left with whatever was loaded. The metal frame was loaded, the car shell was still there in wash.
It was considered abandoned property in a trash dump. EPA was requested but not available for the dumpsite at the time.
Given the circumstances, the officer did her work professionally.
Lt Tulley Jim
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New AI Group report reveals sobering outlook for GDP growth
New research released by the Australian Industry Group (Ai Group) estimates that Australia’s annual rate of growth over the next ten years is set to struggle to reach 3 percent.
The report: How Fast Can Australia Grow? Mark III is a systematic examination of the growth potential of the economy over the decade ahead. It is based on a careful analysis of developing trends in labour productivity and labour supply – the component parts of potential GDP.
The report estimates potential annual GDP growth at around 2.9 percent. If further inroads can be made into unemployment without stretching inflationary pressures, GDP growth could average 3 percent per year over the next decade.
Australian Industry Group (Ai Group) Chief Executive, Heather Ridout, said: “While a consistent pace of close to 3 percent is not to be sneezed at, for a country that around a decade ago was dubbed “the miracle economy” it is an outlook that will fall well short of expectations.
“It is a challenging outlook particularly for policy makers intent on expanding the growth capacity of the economy. It confirms the importance of seeking to address capacity constraints and it also establishes the considerable dimensions of this task.
“The findings of the report reinforce calls Ai Group has been making for the need to embark on a new reform agenda focused on improving productivity and participation.
“Annual growth of 3 percent a year for ten years would see a level of GDP about 34 percent higher or some $370 billion above the current level in real terms. If, by adding to productivity and workforce participation – policy makers could build another half a percent to average annual growth over the next decade - and this would be quite a stretch - GDP by 2017 would be over 41 percent higher than its current level. This would be around $73 billion above the level anticipated in How Fast Can Australia Grow? Mark III.
“Any such additional increases will significantly add to our ability to address challenges such as climate change and the ageing of the population.
“This analysis should form a key part of the contextual framework for the 2020 Summit, defining as it does the economic possibilities and the task before us,” Ridout said.
The key findings in How Fast Can Australia Grow? Mark III include:
- Over the next decade to 2017, Australia is on track to post average annual labour productivity growth in the broad order of 1.67 percent. That is somewhat higher than recent poor performances but well below the levels recorded in the 1990s. The productivity estimate incorporates a continuation of strong capital investment.
- Expansion of the workforce is decelerating as participation stabilises and hours of work retreat. Compared to labour hours growing by 1.77 percent over the past five years, the 10-year annual outlook is for growth around 1.25 percent.
- When combined, these labour productivity and labour supply growth estimates put GDP growth at around 2.9 percent. This is a further deterioration from the level of the 1990s.
- In contrast to some predictions that Australia has already reached the point where unemployment cannot fall further without triggering inflationary pressures, our analysis is more circumspect and we find that there is further scope to test our ability to reduce unemployment and underemployment before we see wage pressures fueling inflation. These further inroads could lift average GDP growth to 3 percent.
In 1995, one of Ai Group’s predecessor organisations, the MTIA, produced the initial report How Fast Can Australia Grow? looking at prospects to 2000. Five years later Ai Group released How Fast Can Australia Grow? Mark II. The second study dissected Australia’s growth potential over the opening ten years of the current century.
Both reports stack up very well against the statistical record. In the original How Fast Can Australia Grow, potential GDP for the period 1996 to 2000 was estimated at between 4.25 and 4.5%. Actual annual GDP growth was 4.2% over this period. In 2000 How Fast Can Australia Grow Mark II estimated that potential GDP had fallen to between 3.25 and 3.5 percent and was set to fall further over the decade to 2010. In the years 2001-2007, actual GDP growth has averaged just under 3.2%.
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Passing seven billion
By Jorge Silva
It was during my eternal search for unique moments to capture that I was witness to the most spectacular and magical event – the arrival of a new life.
The United Nations announced the pending birth of the planet’s inhabitant number 7,000,000 for October 31, and that gave me the chance to work on a series of photos that became the most emotional and satisfying of my career.
The moment a baby is born is doubtless one of the most intimate and special in the life of a woman and her family, and sharing that intimacy as a privileged observer was sensational. To live that experience without having become a father yet was even more moving.
All emotions came to the surface during the birthing. The most intense pain together with the most tender caresses and great joy, all played together during the demonstration of tireless work and strength of the medical staff. They were images of the efforts necessary to give birth, and the struggle for integral health.
Inside the maternity services in Caracas I focused my story on the contrasting visions of the public health system called Barrio Adentro (Into the Shantytowns) run by doctors from the Cuban mission in Guatire, in the slums of Caracas, and that of the Aquamater Clinic, a private hospital specializing in underwater birthing in Caracas’ wealthier east.
In Aquamater births take time. I followed their work throughout the entire process, sometimes for more than ten hours under dim light and the music of choice of the mother-to-be. I photographed prenatal courses and practice sessions submerged in water. I was awoken at 4 am one day as a couple prepared for the real thing.
In contrast with Aquamater, it only took a few minutes at the Guatire maternity ward to witness the first mother giving birth, followed by another and another. The work there was nonstop, 24 hours a day, in a dozen birthing rooms that seemed like the stages for a ballet of synchronized blue robes.
Venezuela, with its nearly 30 million inhabitants, has taken on the goal of reducing infant mortality to 10.43 per thousand before 2015. In 1990 the mortality rate for children under five was 31.30. In 2010 it had already dropped to 15.98.
The fact that the world’s population has reached seven billion, without taking into account when and how we’re all born, should make us all reflect on the multiple challenges that we face as human beings on Earth. Each day life expectancy grows longer, but so does the gap between rich and poor, the threats to the environment, and the challenges of providing enough food and potable water to the world’s population.
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Morphological pattern of the livers of different lines of broiler chickens during rearing
M. Gesek, J. Szarek, I. Otrocka-Domagała, I. Babinska, K. Pazdzior, M. Szweda, A. Andrzejewska, B. Szynakahttps://doi.org/10.17221/6652-VETMEDCitation:Gesek M., Szarek J., Otrocka-Domagała I., Babinska I., Pazdzior K., Szweda M., Andrzejewska A., Szynaka B. (2013): Morphological pattern of the livers of different lines of broiler chickens during rearing. Veterinarni Medicina, 58: 16-24.
The aim of this study was to analyse the microscopic and ultrastructural lesions of the livers of broiler chickens during fattening. Three genetic lines of broiler chickens (Ross 308, Cobb 500, Hubbard F15) were investigated. The liver samples were taken on the 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th, 31st, and 38th day of life from six healthy broiler chickens from each commercial broiler flock. The dominant microscopic lesions were associated with prolonged hypoxia and bile ductules, including: fatty, vacuolar and parenchymatous degeneration, necrosis of epithelial cells of bile ductules, necrosis of hepatocytes around the proliferating bile ductules, lymphoid cell infiltration around the bile ductules and blood vessels, proliferation of the bile ductules, proliferation of the connective tissue around bile ductules and stimulation of the lymph nodules. Ultrastructural evaluation revealed abnormalities involving mitochondria and rough endoplasmic reticulum. The mitochondria underwent swelling, polymorphism, proliferation and damage. The rough endoplasmic reticulum underwent defragmentation and acinar transformation. The cytoplasm of most hepatocytes showed vacuoles of varying size or lipid droplets and the presence of cytoplasmic myelin-like structures. This study shows that the livers of broiler chickens are the most predisposed to the occurrence of lesions on the 17th, 31st and 38th days of life.Keywords:
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Ray Charles isn't just a giant of American music. He is American music.
As a singer, songwriter, keyboardist, and bandleader, Charles has left an indelible stamp on rock, R&B, blues, jazz, and country, often by single-handedly redefining the boundaries between them.
Born in Albany, Georgia, in 1930, Charles studied music at a florida school for the blind before settling in Seattle in 1947. There he developed a jazzy style in the mode of Nat King Cole.
He also worked as an arranger, most notably on Guitar Slim's 1953 classic "The Things That I Used to Do," easily one of the most important blues tracks of all time.
Sometimes music comes to you like something in a dream. You hear it in your head before you even do it.
But Charles really hit his stride with 1955's "I've Got a Woman," whose raucous, gospel-inflected style was a bold departure from his earlier, smoother style. follow-up hits such as "What'd I Say" and "Hallelujah I Love Her So" cemented Charles's position as R&B's most important stylist. James Brown is the Godfather of Soul; Ray Charles is simply the father.
In the early '60s, Charles launched a second musical revolution: he demolished the wall between R&B and country music with such hits as "I Can't Stop Loving You" and "You Don't Know Me."
Charles is still going strong 50 years after "The Things That I Used to Do," thrilling audiences with one of the world's most recognizable and beloved voices. he also strives to improve the lives of hearing-impaired children through the Ray Charles Foundation.
R&B, jazz, country, blues, rock and roll-you've influenced them all.
The one thing that's kept my career going is the fact that I do all these different things. I'm not a blues singer in the same way you'd call B.B. King a blues singer. I'm a singer who sings the blues. Big difference! I don't call myself a jazz singer, but I can sing jazz. Anything I like, I can sing. I think the key to my longevity is the fact that I can do various types of music, and the people seem to love it.
Some of your records changed the course of musical history.
Well, sometimes music comes to you like something in a dream. You hear it in your head before you even do it. I hear music that way all the time. That's one of the main reasons I like a lot of these keyboards: You can get different sounds to fit the mood you're trying to create.
Does a keyboard sound ever steer you toward a particular mood?
No, everything I've done with music was entirely there in my head first. That's why, when I try out keyboards, I go through them very thoroughly. A lot of these keyboards might have 200 sounds, but most of them aren't worth a quarter. Out of those 200 sounds I might find ten that are truly exciting, and things that I would use. So I search around for things that are suitable for me. I ask, will this sound bring something to the table? Will it enhance what I'm trying to do-yes or no?
You're associated with two instrumental sounds in particular: acoustic and electric piano. So what are some of the other colors that work for you?
My Yamahas have great, great, organ sounds that are truly close to the real thing. They also have some Hawaiian guitar sounds that are very impressive when they're played right. But you have to know how to make the sounds come out the way you want them to come out. It's all in what you hear. I know I sound like a broken record, but I just have things built in my brain that I want to hear. It's got to satisfy me first. If a sound totally impresses me, then I'm happy.
Any observations about the physical feel of your Yamaha keyboards?
It's very close to a piano keyboard. The touch on a lot of synthesizer keyboards is much too soft for me. I'm used to playing hard on the piano-I like the keys to jump back at me. I can still play them when the feel is lighter, but that's not the point. The point is that I like to be happy while I'm doing it!
Yet you've said that you do most of your arranging work away from the keyboard.
That's right. I'm a piano player, but I don't necessarily have to be at the piano to write. I know the chord progressions. I know what I want the saxophones and trombones and trumpets to do. I know what I want from the bass. I used to have a fellow named hank Crawford who was my copyist, and we would sit up all night and write music, with no piano in sight. If you hear this stuff in your mind and know how to write music, it's easy.
You surprised a lot of people when you began incorporating country and western influences in the '60s.
I just wanted to do something like what I used to hear when I was growing up. When I was a kid I used to listen to country music down in Florida, because that's all the stations played. I'd hear Jimmy Dean and Ernest Tubb and folks like that, and my mom would sometimes let me stay up late so I could hear the Grand Ole Opry on Saturday. So I said to myself: "One of these days, I'm going to do some country music." I loved the songs and the stories that they tell. They're very plainspoken-you don't have to be an Einstein to figure out the lyrics.
Did your record label understand what you were trying to do?
They thought I was going to lose a lot of fans. But I said, "If I work this right, I'll gain more fans than I lose." And sure enough, it worked for me. We had hits like "I Can't Stop Loving You," "Born to Lose," and "You Don't Know Me." But I wasn't trying to be a country singer. I was trying to be a singer who was singing country music.
What inspires you to sing someone else's song?
It has to do something to me inside. It's like when I did "I Can't Stop Loving You" - when I heard those words, the first thing that hit me was that a lot of people would know that feeling. Lots of people want to say that to somebody they love. And I loved the melody, the way it was coming back at me. You know, I've been very fortunate in that I never really had a producer, in the sense of someone who told me what to sing and how to sing it. I didn't come up that way, thank God. I was lucky to be with record companies who would just say, "Ray, you go into the studio and do what you want with your music, and we'll pay the bill." You don't have that today. The record companies tell artists how to do things, what to do, and when to do it.
Do you think music would be healthier today if more artists had a chance to work the way you did?
I think so, but then I'm kind of old-fashioned. People tell me all the time, "Man, you're living in the past- it ain't that way no more." But I know I'd have a hard time if I were coming up in today's music business, because I've always been so strong-willed when it comes to my music. I never liked anyone telling me what to do!
Can you tell us a bit about the work you do with the Ray Charles Foundation?
The reason I have the foundation is because I lost some of my hearing a few years back. That scared me so bad! I knew I couldn't be a Helen Keller- I wouldn't be able to function if I lost my hearing. So I told myself, there's a lot of work being done for the eyesight, but I don't hear about nearly as much work being done for hearing. So that's what we try to do. We help underprivileged kids get cochlear implants. it's amazing to watch these kids who have never heard anything in their life get these implants, and a year or so later they can hear and talk. It gives you a great feeling. I love that, I really do.
It's no secret that some singers have borrowed heavily from your style. Does that bother you?
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Are you looking for an overview of the best Portugal facts? You came to the right place.
Portugal is an amazing country full of interesting facts.
Here is a compilation of the most interesting educational, and sometimes funny Portugal facts.
So definitely keep reading.
Official facts about Portugal
Official name and history
Portugal is the westernmost country of the European mainland and it is officially called the Portuguese Republic. It’s the oldest sovereign state in Europe. It has had the same borders since 1139. It is one of the cheapest countries to visit in Europe.
Portugal became the first global maritime power during the 15th & 16th centuries. Pioneering Portuguese explorers such as Henry the Navigator, Vasco da Gama, and Álvares Cabral discovered new lands and founded new colonies making Portugal a major economic, political, and military power.
At some point in history, it divided the world with Spain.
Over the years Portugal’s empire has slowly been broken up.
Brazil gained independence after the revolution of 1910 and the African colonies of Angola, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, Timor-Leste, Cape Verde, and Guinea-Bissau in 1974 and 75.
Macau was handed over to China in 1999 and East Timor was granted sovereignty in 2002.
Portugal is a founding member of NATO and an EU member.
The Portuguese flag has a green and a red stripe and the national coat of arms. The current design was adopted in 1911, one year after the Monarchy officially ended.
The green color symbolizes the hope of the nation and the red stands for those who died for defending it during the Portuguese revolution in 1910.
The coat of arms consists of the armillary sphere and the Portuguese shield.
The first is symbolized in the flag as it was an important navigational instrument, an indispensable tool for the Portuguese explorers who used it to navigate the unmapped oceans.
Without this tool, Portugal wouldn’t have been able to build a world empire.
The five blue shields at the center of the coat of arms have a Christian meaning. They represent the wounds of Christ and are associated with the Miracle of Orique.
This miracle tells the story of a divine messenger who appeared before Alfonso Henrique during the battle of Orique.
The messenger gave the count the confidence to continue the battle against his enemy although he was largely outnumbered, and as you can guess already, he won the battle in the end.
The seven yellow castles around the blue shields are traditionally explained as being the 7 castles that Alfonso II conquered from the Moorish enemies in the Algarve.
This may not be the correct explanation as the king is believed to have had eleven castles or even more.
Although the number cannot be explained with 100% certainty one is sure that it is somehow related to Alfonso II as his arms consisted of a golden castle on a red field.
The capital of Portugal is Lisbon. It is also the largest city in Portugal.
Lisbon is one of the oldest cities in the world and perhaps it may be the oldest city in Western Europe.
Although there seems to be evidence of older cities in Western Europe, Lisbon is certainly older than the more iconic capitals of London, Paris, and Rome.
If you are looking for a 3 day Lisbon itinerary, click here.
The official currency is the euro (€).
The official language of Portugal is Portuguese.
Except for Portugal, Portuguese is the official language of seven other countries: Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Principe.
In Brazil and São Tomé and Principe, the language is still the native language of the majority of the people. In other countries, the language is gradually becoming a second language for most inhabitants.
Portugal has a population of over 10 million people ( 10.262.048 in April 2019). 500,000 of them live in the capital, 2.8 million in the greater Lisbon Metropolitan area.
Portugal’s mainland is subdivided in 18 districts ( Lisbon, Leira, Santarém, Setúbal, Beja, Faro, Évora, Portalegre, Castelo Branco, Guarda, Coimbra, Aveiro, Viseu, Bragança, Vila Real, Porto, Braga and Viana do Castelo).
The Azores and Madeira form 2 autonomous regions.
Due to their distance, geographic context, and isolation they have their own organic laws, regional governments, and administration.
Portugal has only 1 land border and this is with Spain. The border was defined in 1927 making it one of the oldest borders in the world.
It has not changed since it was first mapped, but for over 200 years there has been a continuing dispute between Spain and Portugal over part of the border.
Regardless of whether it is 754 miles or 765 miles, this border remains the longest uninterrupted border within the European Union.
Portugal has a Mediterranean climate and the country is the ideal destination for sun lovers.
It has the largest number of sunny days, in the Southern part of the country you get to enjoy 3,000 sunny hours per year on average.
No other country in Europe does better, not even Spain, Italy, or Greece.
Although the entire country is said to have a Mediterranean climate, there are still major differences between the regions.
The Douro valley and the inland region in the Southern part of the country, including the Algarve, have very hot and dry summers.
The West Coast of the country and the Northern part with exception of the Douro valley have much milder temperatures during summer.
Spring starts early in Portugal. Nature already awakens late February and as early as March pleasant temperatures around 18-20°C can be enjoyed. As spring progresses the temperatures rise gradually.
You should bring some warm clothing because the temperatures drop sharply once the sun sets. Occasionally you might also get some rain.
Summers in Portugal are hot. The climate along the west coast is milder but the inland region and the south coast have average daytime temperatures around 30-35°C.
The days are long with about 10 hours of sunshine per day.
This is the best time for a beach vacation. The beaches in the Algarve can get crowded.
If you prefer a more peaceful beach holiday you can consider the shoulder season which has equally good weather but fewer tourists.
Autumn brings cooler temperatures.
The difference in seasons is not really noticeable in September but towards the end of the month precipitation increases and the temperatures lower to around 17-20°C.
Winter in Portugal is mild. The coaster regions have the best temperatures. We visited the Algarve in January and loved it. The Northern part of the country is colder. At nighttime temperatures can drop below 0°C.
85% of the Portuguese are Roman Catholics. However, it’s not an official religion since church and state are separated since the first Portuguese republic ( 1910-1926).
The North tends to be more religious than the South.
Portugal is divided into 2 time zones. The mainland and Madeira are in the UTC+1 zone at the time of writing in May. This is the same time zone as the UK and one hour behind Spain.
The Azores islands are in the UTC+0 zone.
Portugal observes daylight savings time so from November to March the mainland and Madeira are in the UTC time zone and the Azores will be in UTC-1.
Read also: The perfect Portugal itinerary.
Interesting facts about Portugal
Let’s start with some Lisbon facts.
Lisbon is one of the oldest cities in Europe
Lisbon has not always been the capital of Portugal. We have already mentioned how the capital was temporarily moved to Rio de Janeiro during the Napoleonic wars.
The royals fled the country to stay out of the hands of Napoleon and together with them the capital was moved to Rio de Janeiro.
However, there were also 2 cities that preceded Lisbon as the capital. Guimarães was the first capital of the country. It was so for a period of 32 years, from 1096 when the country was founded until 1128 when Coimbra was made the capital because of the Reconquista.
Lisbon became the capital of Portugal in 1255.
In 1755 Lisbon was almost completely destroyed by a major earthquake
This earthquake is also known as the Great Lisbon earthquake or the All Saints day earthquake since it occurred on November first. The earthquake caused a tsunami and heavy fires that almost lasted for a week.
Almost the entire city and surroundings were destroyed.
The disaster killed 40,000 to 50,000 people, which is almost 20% of the population that lived in the city at that time.
Before the earthquake, Portugal was a flowering kingdom but after the earthquake, the Portuguese economy struggled to recover. The government was quick to launch plans to reconstruct the city but could not prevent the country from losing much of its wealth and status.
The fact that the earthquake took place on a religious day, destroying many churches altogether, also had an impact on the deeply devout Roman Catholic devotees from whom some lost their faith.
Today the remains of the convent of Carmo can be visited as a reminder to this day.
The Tower the Belém was originally on an island in the Tagus
This tower was built in the 16th century as a tribute to Vasco da Gama. Originally, the tower was on an island in the Tagus, but due to an earthquake the course of the Tagus changed and the tower now borders the quay.
Over the course of the years, this tower has proven to be really multi-functional. He served simultaneously as a defense tower and as a ceremonial gateway. It also served as a prison and customs office, but now it is primarily a tourist attraction.
The Lisbon Aquarium is the largest indoor aquarium in Europe
The Lisbon Aquarium, called Oceanarium, is the largest indoor aquarium in Europe. It is a legacy of the expo of 1998 that at the time was dedicated to oceans to celebrate the 500-year jubilee of the discovery of the sea route to India. The aquarium was expanded in 2011 and now houses more than 15,000 different animals.
The highlight is the gigantic central tank where 4 ecosystems are mimicked: the three oceans and the Southern Polar Sea.
Lisbon is home to the world’s oldest bookshop and also to one of the smallest bookshops in the world
The Livraria Bertrand is the oldest bookstore chain in the world. The first store opened in 1732, so it has been open for more than 250 years.
The smallest bookshop can be found at the stairs that lead up to the castle, the Escadinhas de São Cristóvão. The bookshop is called Livraria Simão but is also often referred to as Livraria São Cristovão because of its location at the stairs.
The property used to be a tobacco shop and measures only 4 square meters. It can only fit one person but holds an impressive collection of more than 4.000 books, mostly second-hand books related to the heritage and history of Lisbon.
Lisbon is also home to one of the world’s most top-secret recipes
If you are visiting Lisbon you must definitely try the famous Pasteis de Nata, also called Pastéis de Belém.
These small stuffed pies with pudding are some of the most famous sweets in Portuguese cuisine.
They are sold in many cafés and confectioneries in Portugal but the original recipe is a well-kept secret that is only known by a small group of people.
The tarts were originally baked in a monastery and one of the monks sold the original recipe to a bakery in Belém when the monasteries were closed by the state.
That bakery, the Confeiteira Pastéis de Belém, has since then become famous.
They still use the original recipe to create these delicacies and according to them only the owners and 3 people working in the bakery know the exact ingredients.
One of the symbols of Lisbon is the raven
The coat of arms of Lisbon is a golden shield that has a black and silver-lined ship on it. At both ends of the ship, you will find ravens that are facing each other.
According to the legend, the 2 ravens protected the body of São Vicente, the patron saint of Lisbon, after he was martyred and until his followers could bury him.
Flocks of raven even continued to guard his shrine in Sagres in the Algarve and accompanied the ship when his remains were transported to Lisbon in 1173.
This legend caused a cult for ravens in the city. The city even had a large cage with ravens in the São Jorge Castle.
Over the years the birds gradually started to disappear in Lisbon and today they can only be found in the coat of arms of the city.
People from Lisbon are nicknamed Alfacinhas
The origin of the term Alfacinha has a few different theories.
The first reference to the term reaches back into history to a 19th-century book called “Viagens na Minha Terra” by famous Portuguese author and playwright Almeida Garrett, who called Lisboans Alfacinhas.
A popular theory is that the term was introduced by the Muslims in the 8th century. Lettuce was growing abundantly in the Lisbon area around that time and the Portuguese word for lettuce is “alface”.
Lettuce remained plentiful even during lean times, and the people of Lisbon would gather in the outskirts of the city to consume great quantities of it with fish.
It is not certain whether this is the real origin of the name, but it certainly sounds very credible.
One of the most popular attractions in Lisbon is a tram ride
I cannot think of many places where a tram ride is on every tourist’s bucket list.
However, that is the case in Lisbon where the iconic yellow old ‘Remodelado’ trams still run. Some of these trams date back to 1930 but they continue to serve valiantly and will probably have to keep doing this in the coming years.
The most popular route for tourists is tram 28 which takes you in about 50 minutes along all famous sights in Lisbon.
Lisbon is built on 8 hills instead of 7
Old writings about Lisbon always refer to 7 hills. Therefore Lisbon has become known as the “city of seven hills”. However, the truth is that Lisbon is built on 8 hills ( São Jorge, São Vicente, São Roque, Santo André, Santa Catarina, Chagas, Sant’Ana, and Graça).
The first reference to the 7 hills dates back to the 17th century.
One thinks that leaving out the 8th hill was not as much a mistake and was rather done on purpose.
The number 7 was much more symbolic to the deeply roman-catholic inhabitants. There’re 7 deadly sins, 7 wonders in the world and the 7 mountains that would make the city more like Rome that was built on just as many hills.
You will no doubt encounter the 8 hills during your visit to the capital.
Thanks to the many hills the city has some splendid vistas but oftentimes you will need to climb quite a bit to get there.
Sport Lisboa e Benfica is one of the world’s most widely supported football clubs
Sport Lisboa e Benfica is the pride of Lisbon. In 2006 the popularity of the football club was rewarded by the Guinness Book of World Records.
It was recognized as the “most widely supported football club” for its 160.398 paying members.
Since then the number of members has only continued to grow, in 2017 the club had 206.437 members.
Now that you know everything about Lisbon, let’s take a look at interesting facts about Porto.
Porto is also known as Oporto
Porto is the correct Portuguese word for Porto but the city is also known as Oporto.
This is because in Portuguese the name of the city includes a definite article: “o Porto”.
When the English arrived in the city, they had difficulties pronouncing the name correctly and added the ‘O’ to Porto.
This created the anglicized version ‘Oporto.’ Both names are in circulation.
Porto is the second-largest city in Portugal after Lisbon
Porto is the second city in Portugal. The city has 249.633 inhabitants, compared with 517.802 in Lisbon.
Porto’s historical center is a Unesco World Heritage site
It was declared a Unesco world heritage site in 1996. The decision was made based on the outstanding universal value of Porto’s cityscape, which is a testament to the development of a European city over the past 1000 years.
The name Portugal comes from Porto
In Ancient Roman times, before Porto was a city, the portside area the city now occupies had the Latin name Portus Cale (or ‘Port of Cale’).
The name Portugal probably originated from this Latin name.
Porto’s most famous drink is Port
Port is actually produced in the Douro valley which is about 1h30 minutes drive outside of Porto, but lovers of this drink will be happy to hear that there’re numerous wine cellars in the city where you can taste and buy port wines.
People from Porto are nicknamed Tripeiros or Trip Eaters
People living in Porto are nicknamed “Tripeiros” or “Tripe Eaters”. This nickname comes from the city’s signature dish ” tripas à moda do Porto” which is a stew with pig’s ear, cow’s stomach etc.
The prospect of eating tripe isn’t really appetizing and the dish doesn’t look so delicious either. It makes one wonder how this could become a signature dish.
The legend says that during the time of the discoveries in the 15th century the ships that later gained the victory over Ceuta in North Africa were built on the banks of the Douro river. The inhabitants of Porto supplied the shipbuilders with meat and they put themselves in second position eating what was left such as the tripe.
Once they heard the news that the fleet was successful in conquering the Ceuta they took enormous pride in this and the tripe dish was promoted to a signature dish.
Porto is the home one of the biggest football teams in Portugal, Futebol Clube do Porto (FCP)
The most popular sport in Portugal is football (soccer), the national team finished 3rd in the 1966 World Cup, 2nd in Euro 2004, and 4th in 2006 World Cup.
Porto is also called the city of bridges
Porto is often called the “City of Bridges”. The city has 6 iconic bridges. They’re very popular on Instagram and they’re extensively described in all the travel guides about Porto.
Each of the bridges has its own story. They were at their time of construction record holders for their span width and arch. Although they lost their titles they remain very popular with both locals and tourists, even to the point that one of them is no longer used but remains in place as an icon of the city.
More information and booking:
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The Francesinha sandwich is their iconic dish
The Francesinha sandwich, often simply called the “Frenchy”, is a Portuguese national sandwich that originated in Porto.
The Croque monsieur-like sandwich was created by returning Portuguese emigrants who had been to France and Belgium.
It’s made from white bread and it has ham, roast beef, and linguiça sausage on it. It’s covered with melted cheese and a special tomato beef sauce.
It’s usually served with a fried egg on top and french fries on the side.
Did you ever try it?
Speaking of pleasure food…
Porto has one of the most beautiful Mc Donald’s
This McDonald’s is located in the building of the former Café Imperial, a famous old coffee shop in art deco style.
When Mc Donald’s opened this branch in 1995, they restored the complete building and kept all the details as they were original.
This is without any doubt the most beautiful McDonald’s in the world.
The famous writer J.K Rowling used to live in Porto
J.K Rowling lived in Porto from 1991-1993. During these 2 years has taught English.
It is said that Porto provided her much inspiration for her Harry Potter series.
If you are a Harry Potter fan and you visit Porto, you must definitely visit Cafe Majestic, which she frequently visited to work on the Philosopher’s Stone.
Another place you should visit is the Lello bookstore. Its incredible twisted staircase is believed to have inspired her for the grand staircase at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Other inspiration may have come from the long black gowns worn by University of Porto students, the brush and broom store Escovaria de Belomonte, and the lion fountain outside the university, which is rumored to be the inspiration behind the ‘Griffin’.
More information and booking:
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More interesting facts about Portugal
Portugal has 15 UNESCO world heritage sites
14 of them are cultural sites and one of them is Natural.
- Alto Douro Wine Region (2001)
- Cultural Landscape of Sintra (1995)
- Monastery of Alcobaça (1989)
- Monastery of Batalha (1983)
- Monastery of the Hieronymites and Tower of Belém in Lisbon (1983)
- Historic Centre of Évora (1986)
- Historic Centre of Oporto, Luiz I Bridge and Monastery of Serra do Pilar (1996)
- University of Coimbra – Alta, and Sofia (2013)
- Historic Centre of Guimarães (2001)
- Convent of Christ in Tomar (1983)
- Garrison Border Town of Elvas and its Fortifications (2012)
- The landscape of the Pico Island Vineyard Culture (2004)
- Prehistoric Rock Art Sites in the Côa Valley and Siega Verde (1998,2010)
- Central Zone of the Town of Angra do Heroismo in the Azores (1983)
- Laurisilva of Madeira (1999)
How many did you already visit?
Portuguese Fado was classified as world cultural heritage by UNESCO
The word Fado comes from the Latin word for destiny.
This often melancholic-sounding music occupies a special place in the lives of many Portuguese.
It is so interwoven with the Portuguese culture that it is often seen as national music.
In 2011 Fado was added to the list of intangible cultural heritage assets of Portugal by UNESCO.
The unofficial symbol of Portugal is a rooster
The Barcelos rooster can be found in many forms in local and gift shops.
The origin of this symbol takes us back to Barcelo, a city in the Braga district, in the 15th century. According to the legend, a pilgrim was suspected of stealing silver from a farmer as he made his passage.
After being declared guilty, he proclaimed his innocence and said to the judge that had condemned him that his innocence would be proven by a dead rooster that would crow when he was hanged.
As the pilgrim had predicted, a roasted rooster in the judge’s house stood up and crowed at the moment that the pilgrim’s sentence was executed. The judge rushed to the place where the sentence was executed and noticed that the man luckily survived his sentence thanks to a poorly made knot in the rope.
The pilgrim was, naturally, released immediately after these facts.
There are different stories about what happened exactly but the rooster plays a crucial role in all of them and that is the reason why the Barcelos rooster is a common sight when you visit Portugal.
Football icon Cristiano Ronaldo is Portuguese
Cristiano Ronaldo, who is often considered to be the best football player in the world, is originally from Madeira.
One of the oldest universities in Europe is in Portugal
The University of Coimbra was established in 1290 in Lisbon and moved to Coimbra in 1537.
It’s the oldest university in Portugal and one of the oldest universities in Europe.
The university is located in some beautiful historic buildings such as the Royal Palace of Alcáçova and the Joanine Library.
Portugal has the biggest artificial reef in Europe
The reef was created at the request of the Portimão City Council with the intention of promoting underwater tourism in the region.
They called the project “Ocean Project Revival” and created an artificial reef by sinking 4 naval warships near Portimão in The Algarve.
The project’s name is based on the idea that the recycling of the ships as artificial reefs means that rather than disappearing, they are instead given a second life.
In Nazaré you can find some of the biggest waves in the world
Nazaré is an old fishing village situated about a 1h30 minutes drive from Lisbon. The giant waves naturally attract many surfers but the waves are so spectacular that they have even become a tourist attraction in themselves.
The waves are produced by the presence of an underwater canyon, the Nazaré North Canyon.
This canyon adjusts the direction and the speed of the waves but most importantly increases their size.
In 2017 Rodrigo Koxa set a new world record for the “Biggest Wave ever surfed” in Nazaré by riding a wave of 24 meters (80 feet).
Portugal is the largest producer of cork in the world
Portugal produces more than 50% of the world’s cork supply. It has about 1.6 million acres of cork forests. That makes it the biggest producer followed by Spain, Algeria, and Morocco.
It is a very sustainable business since you don’t kill the tree, you just take off the bark. This can be done every 9 years.
Everybody knows the wine cork but you can also find handbags, clothes, shoes or umbrellas made from cork. Cork is also more and more used in construction for floors or insulation purposes.
The Portuguese company Amorim produces more than 4 billion corks every year. That makes it the world’s largest producer of cork stoppers.
Codfish is considered the national dish in Portugal
Codfish, sometimes also known as bacalhau, is considered to be the Portuguese national food.
It’s prepared in many different ways. You can enjoy it fried, grilled, baked, and caned.
It is said that in Portugal alone more than 1000 recipes exist.
Portugal was the world’s first maritime power
They achieved this thanks to their guts and innovation.
Besides that, they didn’t believe that the earth was flat and they also had the best navigational tools in the 14th and 15th century.
This resulted in many discoveries and made Portugal extremely rich during this time. In 1488 Bartolomeu Dias made it around Cape of Good Hope.
The Portuguese were the first European people to arrive in Japan
But it didn’t stop in Brazil, in 1543 the Portuguese were the first Europeans to set foot in Japan.
They started trading and from that point onward both countries started influencing each other.
The Portuguese, for example, introduced Christianity in Japan and also influenced the Japanese gastronomy by introducing the Japanese to Tempura and refined sugar.
The Japanese were also very interested in Portuguese weapons. Conversely, Japan could export many products to Portugal like swords, silk, silver, etc.
Portugal also purchased Japanese as slaves until slavery was abolished in 1761.
The Portuguese pirate Bartholomew drew up the first Pirate code
The Pirate code was a code of conduct for pirates and contained rules for behavior, discipline, the distribution of stolen goods, etc.
Between 1926 and 1974 Portugal was governed by a military dictatorship
The Portuguese dictatorship is considered as one of the longest in Europe.
It was heavily criticized after World War II and the peaceful Carnation revolution finally ended the dictatorship on April 25, 1974.
Portugal was the 8th country in the world to allow same-sex marriage
In 2010 Portugal legalized same-sex marriage and since 2016 same-sex couples can also adopt children.
Ian Fleming got the inspiration for his book, Casino Royale in Estoril
His book Casino Royale was inspired by certain events that took place during his wartime career as a personal assistant of Admiral Godfrey the Director of Naval intelligence.
During a trip to Portugal, they visited the Casino in Estoril. Portugal had maintained a neutral status during the war and had attracted many spies as a result.
According to Fleming he had been playing to German spies that night but his Admiral has always denied this story.
His version of the facts is that he had made this story up to make it sound more spectacular and to cover up the huge losses he suffered that night.
He says that Fleming was playing with regular Portuguese businessmen.
Portugal has Europe’s oldest tea plantation
Gorreana tea operates since 1883 and can be found in São Miguel on the Azores.
Aristides de Sousa Mendes issued more than 10.000 visas during the Holocaust
Aristides was working as the Portuguese consul in Bordeaux during the second world war. By granting these visas he allowed the Jews safe passage to Portugal.
By doing so he ignored the orders of his superiors who were unofficially supporting the Hitler regime.
Portugal had a huge influence on world cuisine
Portugal’s cuisine may not be seen as refined today but the cuisine was at the origin of several famous dishes.
Portuguese Jesuit missionaries invented tempura (dish of battered, deep-fried vegetables and seafood) in Japan.
African’s popular spicy Piri-Piri sauce is not invented on that continent, the origins can be traced back to the Algarve, it is an invention from the Portuguese.
Portuguese also introduced chili pepper potatoes and tomatoes to India and Thailand, without which curry wouldn’t exist! Not to mention, they also brought coffee to Brazil and the ukulele to Hawaii.
Lastly, there’re the delicious “pastel de nata” or “pastel de Belém”, the famous Portuguese custard tarts which have conquered the world.
Variants on these tarts can be found worldwide.
Most notably are the green tea variants, a recipe created by Japanese chefs after they were introduced to the original pastel de nata. You can find these all over Asia.
Drugs were ‘decriminalized’ in Portugal in 2001
Today it is still illegal but as long as the amount of drugs you possess is no more than a personal 10 day supply it will be seen as an administrative offense and no longer a criminal offense.
Since this change in the law, the percentage of addicts has almost halved.
Portugal has one of the highest emigration rates in the EU
In 2017 more than 2.3 million Portuguese lived outside of Portugal.
This means that 1 in 5 Portuguese lives outside of Portugal.
Portugal is also known as the “country of tiles”
When foreigners refer to azulejos they’re talking about the glazed and nicely painted tiles that are used to decorate houses, palaces, and these days even metro stations. But In Portuguese, azulejo really just means tile.
When you are traveling in Portugal you will see these azulejos everywhere.
These tiles were first brought to Portugal by the Moorish invaders. Nowadays, they are a part of Portugal’s history and culture.
Keep your eyes open when you’re traveling through the country. Both modern and classic versions of the tiles can be found.
We list many beautiful spots in our Lisbon article, in Porto, there’s a beautiful piece in the São Bento train Station.
Fun facts about Portugal
Now that we covered the basics, let’s continue with some fun facts about Portugal.
Lisbon is home to the world’s only public tie mirror
Do you sometimes find it so difficult to tie your tie? This mirror will help you. You can find it on D. Pedro IV Square, also called Rossio square because it’s in the heart of the Rossio district.
When your tie is not correctly knotted the mirror will even give you a message to “Correct your tie’s knot”.
Make sure to pass by this square before you head to that fancy party.😏
The world’s largest omelet was made in Portugal
In 2012 55 people worked for more than 6 hours to make this gigantic omelet.
More than 145.000 eggs were used.
The omelet weighed more than 6.466 kilograms and was made in Santarém during the Immigrant Festival.
The first cross border zip line goes from Spain to Portugal
Do you feel like crossing the border in an original way? This zip line might be what you’re looking for. It is called Limitzero and can be found in The Algarve.
You will zip across the Guadiana river, you leave in Spain and arrive in Portugal.
The zip line crosses a distance of 720 meters and you can reach speeds between 70-80 km per hour.
The Museu dos Fosforos has the largest collection of matchbox designs on display in the world
We’re not talking about the popular car toys but the boxes that were used to sell matches. (Did you know that the car toy brand decided on the name matchbox because their original packaging was very similar to these boxes?)
The collection displays more than 43,000 matchboxes spread across 7 rooms and another 16.000 matchbox covers can be found assembled in scores of books.
You can find the museum in Tomar.
Weird facts about Portugal
Portugal holds the records for the shortest reigning monarchs in the world
Crown Prince Luís Filipe of Portugal was with 20 minutes technically the shortest reigning monarch in the world.
His father Dom Carlos was assassinated in 1908 which made him entitled to the throne but, unfortunately, he was also fatally wounded during the same attack and died only 20 minutes later.
Portugal has a few bone chapels
A Capela dos Ossos is a small chapel made out of human bones. Portugal has several of such chapels. The biggest one can be found in Évora.
Often you can find an inscription at the entrance such as “We, the bones that are here await yours.” reminding you of your humanity.
It sounds kind of creepy to us.
Portugal once had a dead Queen
In the 14th century Pedro, the son of King Alfonso IV, had a relationship with Inès De Castro, a lady-in-waiting.
The relationship made the king uneasy because Inès was not seen as qualified to become a queen.
Pedro’s lawful wife died in 1345 and this brought the two lovebirds even closer to each other, much against the will of the King.
He banished Inès from the court but when his son would not concede he ordered the assassination of Inès.
Pedro ascended the throne in 1357. According to a legend, he had Inès body exhumed at this point and she was crowned as the queen after her death.
They are both buried in the Alcobaça Monastery. More about this monastery further in this article.
Portugal has a church shaped like a UFO
The Basilica of the Holy Trinity in Fatima is a very large modern church in a UFO shape.
It can accommodate up to 8.600 worshippers.
It’s illegal to urinate in the ocean
In Portugal, according to local law, it’s illegal to pee in the ocean. Although it’s not clear how you can get caught.
Portugal has one of the most efficient ATM systems in the world
You cannot only use them for withdrawing cash, but you can also pay your income tax and social security, pay utility bills and buy concert tickets.
It’s one of the most efficient ATM systems in the world.
In Portugal, some first names are forbidden
The government has an 80-page guide on which baby names are allowed and which are forbidden.
Aiden, Ashley, Bruce, Charlotte, Dylan, and Jenny are all banned because foreign names are not permitted to be given to Portuguese babies.
Another rule is that babies must be given full names, nicknames or abbreviations are not allowed. Thomas or Catherine are fine but don’t think about calling your children Tom or Kate.
Other banned names include references to pop culture, so there’s no chance you’d get away with naming a baby Rihanna.
Let’s finish our list with the most famous Portugal landmarks
The Jeronimos Monastery in Lisbon
The Portuguese king has built this monumental and richly decorated building to show the country’s wealth to the world.
After all, the money flowed smoothly after Vasco da Gama set foot in the Dutch East Indies.
The associated church, which you can visit free of charge, is also dedicated to Vasco da Gama and is decorated as lavishly as the Monastery.
Vasco da Gama was also buried in this church.
The Belém tower
The Belém Tower was built in the 16th century as a tribute to Vasco da Gama. Originally, the tower was on an island in the Tagus, but due to an earthquake the course of the Tagus changed and the tower now borders the quay.
Over the course of the years, this tower has proven to be really multi-functional.
He served simultaneously as a defense tower and as a ceremonial gateway.
São Jorge castle
The Castle of São Jorge is the most famous castle in Lisbon.
The castle sits on a 110-meter-high hill, the highest in the city, and towers high above the city.
The castle started as a small fort in the 5th century but over the years it was regularly expanded and the castle now counts 11 towers.
The Benagil Sea Cave in the Algarve
This cave is one of the most famous and beautiful sea caves in the Algarve. It can only be reached by boat.
Dom Luis I Bridge in Porto
The (Dom) Luis I bridge is the icon of Porto. It was built between 1881 and 1886 and spans the River Douro between Porto and Gaia.
Locals have dropped the Dom from the name because King Luis I, after whom the bridge is named, never showed up for the inauguration.
The Luis I Bridge is a double-deck bridge. The lower level is reserved for cars and the upper level for trams. Pedestrians can use both levels.
Obidos castle in Obidos
The medieval castle of Obidos can be found in the Medieval city of Obidos about 1h drive from Lisbon.
The Alcobaca Monastery
The Alcobaca Monastery is about 1h30 minutes drive from Lisbon. It is one of the most beautiful monasteries in Portugal and since 1999 it’s also a UNESCO world heritage site.
The church and monastery were the first Gothic buildings in Portugal.
I came across some very interesting facts when making this article. I always enjoy learning about the places I visit so I hope these interesting and funny facts about Portugal will also make you understand the country better.
Portugal’s rich past was a common thread through many points. This is also what makes a visit to this country so worthwhile. Many of the monuments that date back to this period are very well preserved. They are just as impressive as they must have been in the past.
Do you know some other facts about Portugal? Feel free to share them in the comments!
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Death of the Father
An Anthropology of the End in Political Authority
Edited by John Borneman
256 pages, index
ISBN 978-1-57181-111-0 $120.00/£85.00 Hb Published (December 2003)
ISBN 978-1-57181-389-3 $34.95/£24.00 Pb Published (December 2004)
eISBN 978-0-85745-715-8 eBook
The death of authority figures like fathers or leaders can be experienced as either liberation or loss. In the twentieth century, the authority of the father and of the leader became closely intertwined; constraints and affective attachments intensified in ways that had major effects on the organization of regimes of authority. This comparative volume examines the resulting crisis in symbolic identification, the national traumas that had crystallized around four state political forms: Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and East European Communism. The defeat of Imperial and Fascist regimes in 1945 and the implosion of Communist regimes in 1989 were critical moments of rupture, of "death of the father." What was the experience of their ends, and what is the reconstruction of those ends in memory?
This volume represents is the beginning of a comparative social anthropology of caesurae: the end of traumatic political regimes, of their symbolic forms, political consequences, and probable futures.
John Borneman, Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University, specializes in political and legal anthropology. He has written widely on national identification and symbolic form in Germany and on the relation of culture to international order. His most recent work is on accountability and the use of retributive justice in preventing cycles of violence.
Related Link: For more information on John Borneman, you can also visit the author's website.
Subject: General Anthropology 20th Century History
LC: GN492.25 .D43 2004
BISAC: SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural; HIS037070 HISTORY/Modern/20th Century; HIS010000 HISTORY/Europe/General
BIC: JHMC Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; HBJD European history
Introduction: Theorizing Regime Ends
Chapter 1. From Future to Past: A Duce’s Trajectory
Maria Pia Di Bella
Chapter 2. Gottvater, Landesvater, Familienvater: Identification and Authority in Germany
Chapter 3. Two Deaths of Hirohito in Japan
Chapter 4. The Undead: Nicolae Ceaus¸escu and Paternalist Politics in Romanian Society and Culture
David A. Kideckel
Chapter 5. The Peaceful Death of Tito and the Violent End of Yugoslavia
Chapter 6. Doubtful Dead Fathers and Musical Corpses: What to Do with the Dead Stalin, Lenin, and Tsar Nicholas?
John S. Schoeberlein
Notes on Contributors to the Death of the Father Project
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EXCLUSIVE: The Dead Sea Story – A tragedy of biblical proportions
Unique global treasure may be gone in 30 years as water rapidly vanishes. Noam Bedein has a solution. Watch our interview below.
There is no other natural phenomenon on Earth like the Dead Sea. This body of briny water – more than 1,300 feet below sea level – has been a focal point in the Middle East since biblical times.
Today, it faces the real prospect that in a few decades it'll disappear entirely. The water is rapidly vanishing. The causes are many, but there is one NGO that’s working tirelessly to avoid such a tragic loss for humanity.
The Dead Sea Story, founded by Noam Bedein, an Israeli photojournalist, international speaker and environment visual arts activist, has since 2016, “focused on the magnificent, magical and endangered Dead Sea – the changes it is undergoing and the healing that is necessary.”
This is a magnificent, inspiring story. The whole world needs to know about it.
Noam Bedein joins us below in a 14 minute exclusive interview to talk about his life’s work.
For more than 30 years, the Israeli government has considered six different possible proposals to replenish the water in the Dead Sea.
“The most tangible solution … was a regional cooperation with Jordan and the World Bank,” Bedein says. “It was called the Dead Sea-Red Sea Canal. It has been on the table for the over 30 years and again in recent months.”
Of all the solutions, this was by far the most ambitious.
It would have involved building a pipeline from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea, and a massive desalinization plant that would have pumped fresh water to Jordan and the remaining briny waste into the Dead Sea.
“Jordan is considered one of the driest countries in the world today,” Bedein says, “and therefore [the canal would] provide an enormous amount of water for a population that is thirsty, [and] take [the remaining] water in order to preserve a water treasure.”
He’d added: “The World Bank promised $10 billion for this project because they saw it as a symbol of cooperation in the Middle East.”
Alas, nothing is quite so simple in the Middle East, especially between Israel and its immediate neighbors.
In a June 17 article in the Times of Israel, After years of delays, Jordan said to nix Red Sea-Dead Sea canal with Israel, PA The Times reported: “After years of no progress at all, Jordan has decided to cancel a joint project with Israel and the Palestinian Authority for a canal linking the Red Sea and the Dead Sea.
“Amman has decided to finally pull the plug on the joint pipeline, saying there was ‘no real Israeli desire’ for the plan to go ahead.”
The Times went on to say: “The Red Sea-Dead Sea canal project had long been delayed by bureaucratic hurdles, financing difficulties and environmentalist objections, compounded by Israel’s lack of a functioning government for two years.”
Echoing exactly what Bedein says in the interview below, the story notes: “The project was further harmed by diplomatic tensions between Israel and Jordan although newly installed Foreign Minister Yair Lapid appeared to court better ties on Monday, praising King Abdullah as ‘an important strategic ally’ and promising to work with him.”
Sigh! Whenever the politicians and bureaucrats get involved with a project as important and complex as this, you can bet they will tie it up in so much red tape that it will eventually be strangled.
“To be honest, right now there is no solution for the Dead Sea,” Noam Bedein says in the interview.
One of the reasons is, obviously, a long history of controversy. In August 2017, the Times of Israel published Experts say Red Sea-Dead Sea pipe dream isn’t worth its salt in which it reported:
“For the past 50 years, politicians from both Israel and Jordan have embraced plans for Dead Sea canals, utilizing them as a political tool to propose mega-infrastructure projects with questionable utility and little thought to environmental harm.
“After all, who wants to go on record in opposition to a ‘Peace Canal,’ which can bring badly needed water and hydroelectric power to Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian territories, all while saving the irreplaceable Dead Sea?
“Instead, experts say the proposal is a trumped-up water swap that may wreak havoc on the environment and will do little to save the Dead Sea, and is only being pursued for its public relations value and political expediency.”
The price tag for this mega-project? A cool $10 billion. Possibly as much as $30 billion, according to the NGO EcoPeace.
At the end of its lengthy analysis, the Times of Israel quotes one of the world’s first advocates for a Jewish state.
“ ‘The hydraulic engineers had achieved remarkable things,’ Theodor Herzl wrote in 1902. Herzl may not have dreamed that the canal would still be a political game piece, more than 100 years later, but he got a few things right.
‘Every drop of water that fell from the heavens,’ he predicted, ‘was exploited for the public good.’ ”
Not withstanding the negative press, Noam Bedein has a plan!
“Israel has pulled out [of the canal plan] because it was not economically worth it for Israel,” he said. “Israel does not need another source of water. And, because of the tensions, always happening in both countries, that's why things were never actually a ‘go’.”
For the past five years, Bedein has been exploring the Dead Sea by boat and documenting its beauty on his Instagram page Dead Sea Boat Excursion where he explains: “I've been exploring and documenting the World Wonder – The Dead Sea – the lowest place on Earth, solely by boat since April 2016. Join me!”
It is because of his thorough research and well-documented knowledge of the area that Bedein has come up with an inspired idea to save the endangered global treasure.
“We've taken upon ourselves … to advocate for the true, natural solution of the story,” Bedein says.
That would be to restore “the historical flow [from] the Sea of Galilee [through] the Jordan River, having the water flowing naturally to the Dead Sea in the long run,” he says.
It’s a simple, sustainable and sensible proposal.
A glance at the region from Google Earth reveals that the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel is connected to the Dead Sea via the Jordan River. For eons water has flowed from north to south along this natural waterway.
In recent decades however, this natural flow has been interrupted by industrial development and human consumption of water for populations on both sides of the Jordan River.
It can be seen, therefore, that man-made interference has interrupted the natural replenishment of the Dead Sea, resulting in a rapid decline of its water level — about 5 meters per year, Bedein says.
At this rate, experts have predicted, by about 2050 there could be no water at all left in the Dead Sea.
Restoring this natural flow has become the top priority of the Dead Sea Revival Project.
“The Dead Sea Revival Project (DSRP) aims to become a leading NGO for environmental education and activism,” says its web site. “We want to stimulate the growth of global support for ‘saving our water treasures’ by exciting the imagination of individuals and groups.”
One of the main vehicles for accomplishing this goal is evident in the virtual reality tour on the website Noam Bedein's Dead Sea Story in 360 VR
“I explore the salty exotic shores that can be reached only by boats and record the ecological phenomena appearing out of the sea due to the rapid drop of water levels,” Bedein narrates as he sails the Dead Sea.
“These salt formations were completely underwater when I started documenting in April 2016. Here's an entire new level from September 2017 that appeared out of the water.”
The water had dropped so much that new salt formations had emerged as if they had ARISEN from the deep!
Bedein’s passion is evident, and his skills at photography make this VR tour a thing of beauty.
“This is what I call ‘illusory beauty.’ On the one hand, discovering authentic natural phenomena, but on the other hand this beauty is the result of an environmental catastrophe – due to the lowest [water] levels in recorded history.”
In the past two years, Bedein has become an eyewitness to the dramatic environmental changes of this world wonder.
“It is this fascinating environmental contrast in which I aim to inspire people in Israel and around the world both interactively and by joining us on eco-sightseeing visits.”
In the interview, Bedein says having Israel supply more water to the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel and filling it up, then opening up the dams and having water flow through the Jordan River is “the most natural kind of way of revitalizing the Dead Sea.
“That's the ultimate and most natural solution today.”
His organization’s goal is to spread the word about both the crisis and the solution. “Our job is to get the word out and to spread the story in any ways possible. And we have been doing it,” Bedein said.
He has been documenting the water level decline for the past five years, and has shared his findings with the world through the Dead Sea Revival Project. If there is any hope to prevent a tragedy of biblical proportions it is likely to come from the efforts of Noam Bedein.
Watch and listen to him talk about his passion in the interview below.
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Ernest May Elementary and Think Kindness are combating bullying with kindness
Published on Mon, Nov 11, 2013 (12:38 p.m.)Las Vegas, NV. – On November 12, 2013 Ernest May Elementary School will be hosting an assembly with Brian Williams, a youth motivational speaker and founder of the non-profit organization, Think Kindness. Williams will be challenging the students to ’15 Days of Kindness’, putting the students at Ernest May in friendly competition with thousands of students across the nation to see who can make the biggest difference not just within their community, but around the world.
Think Kindness, a non-profit organization that inspires youth to change the world through seemingly simple acts of Kindness, realizes that in order to inspire youth, they need to make the campaign different, unique, and massive.
“We launch each challenge with a humorous and inspirational speech and at the end, we give the student body a challenge that will literally impact thousands of lives around the world. . . without spending a dime,” says Williams.
Ernest May Elementary is next on the list to receive the 15 Days of Kindness Challenge! These students will be on a mission to impact those in their day to day life using Kindness and then empowered further to impact children, just like them, all around the world!
They will do this by collecting as many pairs of gently used shoes as possible from their local community. All of the shoes received will go to needy families within the United States and also sent to orphans around the world.
According to Williams, there are over 300 million children in the world that can’t afford a pair of shoes. This becomes a shocking figure when compared to the 2.4 billion new shoes Americans purchase every year, with the old shoes either collecting dust in a closet or filling up a landfill. “We hope to re-purpose gently used shoes and find them a new home on the feet of someone in need. To those, its not just a pair of shoes, but the gift of hope for a brighter future,” says Williams.
Though the challenge of collecting shoes and the chance to win the name of “Kindness School in America” is what kicks starts the student excitement, the goal is to inspire and cultivate Kindness.
If you would like to be present for this motivational assembly please join us on November 12, 2013 at 9:30am at Ernest May Elementary School at 6350 W Washburn Rd, Las Vegas, NV 89130.
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OUTDOOR EXPLORERS: Getting A Chance To Go Downhill
Joe Stevens, Outdoor Explorer, Executive Director – West Virginia Ski Areas Association
When the temperature starts dropping in the mountains of West Virginia, the excitement begins for those involved in the West Virginia Winter Sports industry. When the temperatures drop below zero, the first sounds of snowguns can be heard as the operation folks start covering the hundreds of slopes and trails at Canaan Valley, Snowshoe Mountain, Winterplace and Oglebay resorts. A traditional season for skiing, snowboarding and snowtubing runs from Thanksgiving to the first of April.
The ski areas in West Virginia attract more than 800,000 visits each season, and this year, the members of the West Virginia Ski Areas Association are hoping for that number to grow. The association is conducting a new program this season that will allow any child in the 4th and 5th grade to ski or snowboard for FREE. All of West Virginia’s ski areas are accepting the association’s Ski Free 4th and 5th Grade Passport Program.
The Passport Program is designed to introduce 4th and 5th graders to the sports of skiing and snowboarding at West Virginia Ski Resorts. This is a great age for children to learn a new sport with ease and excel rapidly. Through the Passport Program and on-mountain experiences, the youngsters will enjoy getting outdoors on the slopes of the Mountain State.
The Passport may be used to obtain one child’s fist time ski/snowboard package (beginner lift, lesson and rental package) at a participating resort of choice and up to three additional junior lift tickets at participating resorts during the 2019-2020 season. Resort benefits are determined by each ski resort.
The Passport coupon may be presented by the 4th or 5th grader to obtain a complimentary one-day lift ticket when accompanied by a paying adult.
The cost of the Passport is $25 and can be obtained by visiting the West Virginia Ski Areas Association’s website.
Two aspects that separate West Virginia’s ski resorts from others in the region are snowmaking and ski/snowboard instructors.
The snowmakers at all of the state’s ski resorts can produce man-made snow whenever temperatures permit, creating excellent snow coverage for visiting skiers and snowboarders. When snowmaking conditions are at their best (in the low teens), over 20,000 tons of snow is being produced in West Virginia per hour, enough snow to cover 20 football fields with a foot of snow each hour.
Every resort in West Virginia is staffed with trained ski and snowboard instructors that will make newcomers’ first day on the slopes a memorable one. They are also willing to help experienced skiers and snowboarders improve their technique. All instructors are ready to help skiers and snowboarders of all ages and are trained to be patient and understand each rider’s ability without pushing them beyond their limits. West Virginia’s terrain is perfect for beginner and intermediate-level riders and is the perfect place to learn to ski and snowboard.Read more explorer blogs
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Tall standing cup and cover; silver-gilt; cup and cover highly embossed and represent a pine cone; knob represents spiral branch and surmounted by pine cone; stem in form of Bacchus holding cup and pine cone; stands on hexagonal base with radiating ribs; beneath are scroll brackets; lower part lobed; inscribed.
This object was collected by Anselm von Rothschild and bequeathed to the British Museum by Ferdinand Anselm Rothschild.
How big is it?
16.5 cm wide, 63.9 cm high, 14.9 cm deep, and it weighs 1.8 kg
Detailed Curatorial Notes
Text from Tait 1988:-
Origin: Nuremberg; c. 1600; mark of Hans Petzolt (master 1578, died 1633).
Marks: The two marks (the town-mark and the maker's punch-mark) occur once on the lip of the bowl and once on the cover (in the centre beneath the baluster-finial).
(i) Assay mark for Nuremberg, 1600-1700 (R3 3758/9).
(ii) A ram's head, the mark of Hans Petzolt (R3 4002).
(iii) Austrian stamps (R3 7884, introduced 1809-10; R3 7875 ('12.D'), introduced 1806-7) both occur on foot and
Provenance: Baron Anselm von Rothschild, Vienna, before 1866 (cat no. 218), by inheritance to his son Baron Ferdinand Rothschild (d. 1898).
Commentary: Hans Petzolt (1551-1633) is one of the most famous of the Nuremberg goldsmiths, overshadowed perhaps only by Wenzel Jamnitzer, whose mastery of sculptural effects in silver plate he brilliantly emulated and at times almost surpassed. Petzolt was born in St Joachimsthal, a town in the Erzgebirge, but his youthful formative years seem to be completely undocumented. When he was twenty-seven years old, in 1578, the City Council admitted him to the guild as master, having raised objections to his admission in the previous year. He clearly succeeded in establishing a very special relationship with the Council, because he received a regular supply of orders for the spectacular, tall presentation cups that the Council frequently gave to visiting dignitaries and honoured citizens as part of their formal ceremonies, and in the twenty years between 1595 and 1615 at least eighty-four such items were sold by him to the Council. During this time he was invited to Prague by the Emperor Rudolph II to work on a silver fountain - perhaps finishing the famous one supplied by Wenzel Jamnitzer in 1578. He was asked to return to Prague in 1616 by the Emperor Matthias. The size of the payments he received from the Imperial Court during these ten years indicates the grand scale of these prestigious commissions, though none of the details have survived.
His workshop must have been extensive because, despite the heavy losses of Renaissance silver plate, it has been calculated that there may be as many as forty of his marked pieces still in existence. No doubt presentation cups tended to enter illustrious family treasuries, and often there was neither the financial need nor the question of changing fashion to cause these family heirlooms to be melted down - unlike so much standard rich domestic silver which was either periodically refashioned or converted into coinage. In 1610, among the silver cups purchased by the Nuremberg City Council were some 'in Form eines Weintraubens' and perhaps the best-known example in Germany of Petzolt's cups in this form is the extraordinary Elbing City Treasure Cup (now in the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin; see Klaus Pechstein, ‘Goldschmiedewerke der Renaissance: Kataloge des Kunstgewerbemuseums Berlin, Band V’, Berlin, 1971, no. 106, with bibl.). This tall cup (H. 50 cm) has a stem formed by the figure of the crowned Emperor in armour, with a banner (in his right hand) and a shield resting on the ground (in his left hand); the cover, which again is an integral part of the 'bunch of grapes' bowl, has a corresponding subject as a finial - the figure of a crowned lion rampant holding a shield. The base, on which the Emperor is standing, is lower and wholly neo-Gothic in style. The cup, probably made before 1603, is now immensely impressive, though the idea of supporting the 'bunch of grapes' bowl and cover on a caryatid figure composed of the statuette of the Emperor might seem to show a rather curious disregard for the normal conventions of design, especially as the Emperor's head is lost beneath the openwork neo-Gothic foliage in the zone above.
Indeed, a possible explanation may be found in Petzolt's obvious temptation to repeat himself when faced with the pressure of an increasing number of prestigious commissions and an understandable desire to keep his rivals at bay. Petzolt's design of the Waddesdon version with a vigorously modelled, mature figure of Dionysus, or Bacchus as he was known to the Romans, is perhaps the ideal solution, for the cup is not only in the form of a bunch of grapes but is also thematically united by this use of the classical God of Wine. Although not yet finally proved, the ‘Traubenpokal’ appears to have been the invention of Hans Petzolt, since none of the examples by his contemporaries can be dated earlier - nor, indeed, linked to any specific documentation that might indicate that degree of originality.
Perhaps the most serious rival, however, is Hans Kellner of Nuremberg (master 1582, died 1609), whose version of the ‘Traubenpokal’ also had a stem composed of the caryatid figure of Bacchus (7.5 in high) - but a tall, young, Adonis type of Bacchus, standing next to a tree-stump on a rocky mound, with two frogs and the diminutive figure of Pan (on the right-hand side). This important piece, formerly in the Rothschild collection at 148 Piccadilly, London, and sold by order of Victor Rothschild in 1937 (Sotheby's, 28 April, lot 226, pl. XL), had been in Russia during the eighteenth century, for it also bears the tax mark of St Petersburg for 1735-6. It is now in The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, USA, having come from the William Randolph Hearst Collection (see Ann Gabhart, ‘Treasures and Rarities’, Baltimore, 1971, pp. 24-5, illus. with detail of the Bacchus caryatid figure, shown holding a lobed wine-cup on a stem and foot- perhaps original?). Despite the more anecdotal treatment of the stem, Hans Kellner's undoubtedly accomplished figure of the adolescent, almost effeminate, Bacchus contrasts with the greater realism and monumentality of Petzolt's interpretation of the ageing Bacchus, so reminiscent of Dionysus's tutor and drunken companion, Silenus.
Kellner's great skill in handling complicated freestanding sculptural groups is demonstrated by a superbly modelled table-centre in the form of St George slaying the Dragon, preserved in the Elector of Saxony's Schatzkammer, in the Grünes Gewölbe, Dresden. As so often with these spectacular items of Renaissance plate, the figures of this group could also be used as drinking vessels with detachable heads. His exceptional qualities were equally appreciated by the patrician families of Nuremberg, and his brilliantly designed and cast silver mounts for the Tucher family ‘Geschlechterbuch’ (family record) were completed in 1592; they are now on loan from the Tucher family and exhibited in the Stadtgeschichtliches Museum, Tucherschlösschen, in Nuremberg (see‘Wenzel Jamnitzer und die Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst 1500-1700’, exh. cat., Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 1985, pp. 257-8, no. 80).
More usually, the early extant examples of the ‘Traubenpokal’ have a stem formed of the trunk of a tree, sometimes with a vine entwined around it, with a bird or a little boy in it (for three examples, two of which were lent from the Graf-Luxburg-Museum, Aschach, see Catalogue, ‘Prunkstücke Deulscher Weinkutlur’, Mainfrankisches Museum, Würzburg, 1957, pp. 33-4, nos 4, 6 and 11, illus.; no. 4 by Nicolaus Jung (master 1595, died 1609) belongs to the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, and is particularly interesting because it can be closely dated c. 1600). The stem of the Nuremberg marked - but less precisely dated - example in the Moscow Kremlin (see G. A. Markowa, ‘Deutsche Silberkunst des XVI-XVIII jahrh, in der Rüstkammer des Moskauer Kreml’, Moscow, 1975, no. 31, col. pl.) combines a male figure (dressed in contemporary costume and wearing a hat) as the support for a tree-trunk, which is attached to his back, and at the top end carries the bowl of the cup in the form of a bunch of grapes. A very similar effect was achieved on a ‘Traubenpokal’ in the Grünes Gewölbe, Dresden, which bears the mark of the Nuremberg goldsmith Paulus Baier (master 1613, died 1659); he has introduced the figure of a grapepicker with a huge bin strapped on his back and supporting a tree-trunk. These charming, but rather more trivial, variations of the ‘Traubenpokal’ rarely seem well designed, and always lack that monumentality and truly sculptural quality that distinguishes Hans Petzolt's best work.
For that reason, reference should be made to the truly remarkable Diana ‘Traubenpokal’ that has survived in the Kremlin in Moscow since 1644, when it was acquired from the King of Denmark's collection. The silver-gilt bunch of grapes bowl and cover are supported by a graceful silver nude caryatid figure of Diana the huntress, holding a large bow in her left hand (see J. I. Smirnowa and B. Heitmann, ‘Gold und Silber aus dem Moskauer Kreml: Meisterwerke Hamburger Goldschmiedekunst’ Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, 1986, p. 108, no. 17, col. pl. on p. 14). It is the work of a Hamburg goldsmith, Carsten Mundt I, and was executed between 1628 and 1643. Significantly, the Diana figure stands on a simple, plain silver drum-shaped pedestal - almost gauche in its design and execution - and, below, the high, silver-gilt pedestal foot is embossed in the typical fashionable neo-Gothic (or Dürer revival) taste of Nuremberg in the early seventeenth century. The influence of Hans Petzolt's Nuremberg workshop spread rapidly to other centres, especially in the north, but because of the enormous destruction of silver plate it is rare to be able to demonstrate the links so vividly and precisely.
The hexagonal pedestal foot on the Waddesdon ‘Traubenpokal’ has several puzzling features that may not be consistent with an early seventeenth-century date. However, the hexagonal form of the high pedestal is also to be found on Hans Kellner's Bacchus ‘Traubenpokal’ (in The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore), which must predate his death in 1609, although it too exhibits some decorative and technical details that may indicate that the pedestal foot is no longer in its original state. The general form of Petzolt's high pedestal on the Waddesdon cup should therefore be compared with the one in a drawing of a significantly similar caryatid figure of St Christopher carrying the Christ Child (in the Heroz Anton Ulrich-Museum, Brunswick, inv. no. 2WB IV 44; see ‘Wenzel Jamnitzer’ 1985, p. 355, no. 323, where it is attributed to Christoph Jamnitzer (master 1592, died 1618) and is dated “um 1590”). Both are hexagonal with a slightly concave profile, attached projecting scrolling-brackets, and, finally, a gently spreading lobed foot that forms a sexfoil outline at the rim. Another hexagonal high pedestal, but without the subtle concave profile and lobed foot-rim, can be seen on the ‘Traubenpokal’ (H. 32 cm) lent by the Nuremberg City Council to the Germanisches Nationalmuseum (see ‘Wenzel Jamnitzer’ 1985, p. 269, no. 96); it is the work of the Nuremberg goldsmith Georg Rühl (master 1598, died 1625). The fashion for this new type of high hexagonal pedestal foot seems to be documented in Nuremberg in the very early seventeenth century. However, the distinctive type of radiating lobed and foliate ornament on the upper surface of the Waddesdon Bequest pedestal is not difficult to parallel in contemporary silver. Furthermore, the six projecting scrolling-brackets and the engraved decoration are typical of the over-ornate revivalism of the mid-nineteenth century, and the view of the interior of the pedestal foot provides ample confirmation of the modern technical features employed by the goldsmith who embellished the pedestal as it is presently constituted.
The serious doubts cast on the engraved decoration of this hexagonal foot must also extend to the boss inside the cover of this ‘Traubenpokal’. The cover was undoubtedly made with a small hole at the centre for the attachment of a finial, and the evidence of the assay scraping and the pair of marks (the town punch-mark and the maker's mark) are consistent with the hole having remained unaltered in the intervening period. There is little doubt that there would have been a disc or small roundel on the inside to help secure the finial in place, but it is unlikely to have been as large as the present domed boss, which covers much of the embossed central area. Furthermore the quality of the engraving, especially the technique of depicting the left foot of Bacchus thrusting forward in a realistically distorted and magnified form, seems inconsistent with the workshop practice of Hans Petzolt and his contemporaries in Nuremberg.
Finally, it should be noted that in the nineteenth and early twentieth century the ‘Traubenpokal’ was always described in German as an ‘Ananaspokal’, and in English as a pineapple cup or even as a pine-cone cup. Both of these terms are not infrequently used even today, but there is no justification for perpetuating the misnomers.
- Franz Schestag, ‘katalog der Kuntsammlung des Freiherrn Anselm von Rothschild in Wein’ Vienna, 1866, no. 218, with illus.
- Charles Hercules Read, ‘The Waddesdon Bequest: Catalogue of the Works of Art bequeathed to the British Museum by Baron Ferdinand Rothschild, M.P., 1898’, London, 1902, no. 103
- Marc Rosenberg, ‘Der Goldschmiede Merkzeichen’, 3rd edn, Frankfurt, vol. III, 1925, p. 126, R3 4003 (y)
- O.M. Dalton, ‘The Waddesdon Bequest’, 2nd edn (rev), British Museum, London, 1927, no. 103
- Hugh Tait, ‘The Waddesdon Bequest: The Legacy of Baron Ferdinand Rothschild to the British Museum’, London, 1981, p. 73, col. pl. XV
- Hugh Tait, 'Catalogue of the Waddesdon Bequest in the British Museum, II : The Silver Plate', British Museum, London, 1988, pl.VII, no. 42, figs. 221-230
- Dora Thornton, 'A Rothschild Renaissance: Treasures from the Waddesdon Bequest', British Museum, London, 2015, p.285.
- Read 1902: Read, Charles Hercules, The Waddesdon Bequest. Catalogue of the Works of Art Bequeathed to the British Museum by Baron Ferdinand Rothschild, M.P., 1898, London, BMP, 1902
- Dalton 1927: Dalton, Ormonde Maddock, The Waddesdon Bequest : jewels, plate, and other works of art bequeathed by Baron Ferdinand Rothschild., London, BMP, 1927
- Tait 1988: Tait, Hugh, Catalogue of the Waddesdon Bequest in the British Museum; II The Silver Plate, London, BMP, 1988
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Innovate, Manufacture, Compete: A Clean Energy Action Plan
The clean energy industry is gathering momentum around the world. Innovation and investment are helping to reduce the cost of solar, wind, and other emerging technologies. Countries and companies are working to harness the economic opportunity associated with these new products, and deployment of clean energy technologies is accelerating globally.
In the United States, however, the outlook is less positive. Although the global future of clean energy is bright, the U.S. position in this emerging sector is beset by uncertainty. America is no longer the clean energy superpower, and its position in innovation, manufacturing, and deployment is challenged as never before. Clean energy initiatives supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act have expired, and other policies require urgent attention.
The Pew Charitable Trusts believes that advanced clean energy technologies can strengthen America's economic and environmental future as well as its security. Pew's research in recent years indicates that clean energy helps create employment, manufacturing, and export opportunities while reducing the pollution and risks associated with current energy patterns and technologies. To reclaim a leadership position in the worldwide competition, the public and private sectors in the United States must work together to strengthen the clean energy industry.
In order to enhance public understanding of opportunities and U.S. competitiveness in the sector, the Pew Clean Energy Program has worked throughout 2012 to compile projections of future energy investment patterns as well as expert perspectives on the current status and future prospects of the industry. In both of these fact-finding endeavors, our focus is on clean energy generating capacity, including solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, and marine power. This project has not explored data or viewpoints on energy efficiency, energy storage, transmission, transportation, or "smart-grid" technologies.
To get a picture of current and future market trends in the United States and around the world, Pike Research, a part of Navigant Consulting, was commissioned to develop projections of how much clean generating capacity has been deployed in the United States and globally over two time periods: retrospectively from 2009 to 2011, and prospectively from 2012 to 2018. We also developed data on the revenue associated with deployments in each of these periods. The results are presented in Chapters 1 and 2 of this report.
The empirical data on current and future trends were complemented by a series of off-the-record roundtable discussions with industry and other experts on the current status, challenges, and opportunities associated with America's clean energy interests. Talks were organized around a range of topics and in various regions of the country to gather expert opinions on the condition of the U.S. clean energy industry and ideas for strengthening it. Roundtables were convened with esteemed local institutions that work with industry and other experts in communities. Each roundtable took place over half a day, with 10 to 20 expert participants. Discussions were held as follows:
- NEW YORK, NY—Finance roundtable convened in conjunction with Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
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- GOLDEN, CO—Innovation roundtable convened in conjunction with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
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The word “coup” in French literally means “blow” or “shock.” The latter meaning aptly describes the reaction of the world to the events in Turkey on the night of July 15-16 by elements of its military.
The circumstances of the coup attempt are still far from clear. What is clear is that its failure owes a great deal to the spontaneous reaction of ordinary people who flooded the streets to resist the military and the solidarity across the political spectrum. All four of the main political parties united in opposition to the attempt to overthrow the democratically elected government. According to the Turkish government, 246 people were killed amid resistance to the coup, 179 of them civilians, and 2,000 were wounded.
But after the shock has come a second blow as the government unleashed a purge that goes far beyond holding to account those involved in trying to overthrow it. It has hit most of the country’s major institutions– the judiciary, prosecutors’ office, police, the media, the civil service, schools, universities, trade unions and hospitals.
This second blow is weakening the democracy that Turkey’s population took to the streets to defend. Turkey’s international partners should act quickly to press Ankara to reverse course and ensure that people caught up in the purge are given due process and fair criminal trials and that the country’s institutions are strengthened rather than weakened.
More than 40,000 people have been dismissed from their posts, including the forced resignation of the heads of every university in the country. The justice system has been particularly hard hit with 2,167 judges and prosecutors jailed and 2,745 removed from their posts. Arrest warrants have been issued for almost 90 journalists since July 25. On July 27, the government closed down three news agencies, 16 television channels, 23 radio stations, 45 newspapers, 15 journals, and 29 publishing houses and distribution companies.
Equally troubling have been the steps to set aside checks on the exercise of executive power. The government has declared a state of emergency that permits the executive to rule by decree with minimal oversight from parliament and none from the constitutional court. It has told the Council of Europe that it is temporarily imposing extraordinary limitations on the European Convention of Human Rights (its duty to prevent and punish torture is unaffected).
The first emergency decree issued by the government, on July 23, underscored its ambition to act without restraint. It orders the closure without any due process of thousands of private educational institutions, hospitals, clinics, and associations. The decree allows the permanent discharge of judges, prosecutors, and civil servants without any investigation or possibility of legal challenge.
The first decree also extends police powers to detain some suspects for up to 30 days without being taken before a judge and seriously curtails the right to private communications with lawyers for those who are placed in pretrial detention, increasing the risk of ill-treatment and undermining the right to an effective defense. A second decree on July 27 permits prosecutors to restrict a detainee’s access to a lawyer for the first five days of police detention. Evidence is already emerging that military officials and others arrested in connection with the coup have been subject to torture or ill-treatment in custody.
What ties together much of this action is that it is targeted against people who are allegedly linked to a movement inspired by Fethullah Gulen, a US-based cleric the government has publicly blamed for the attempted coup. The movement, which runs a network of schools in Turkey and other countries, historically had close ties to the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).
Whatever the merits of the government’s claims about the movement’s role in the coup, which Gulen himself denies, the speed and scale of the dismissals make it clear that many of those affected by the purge are caught up in it not because there is clear evidence of their involvement in the coup but merely because of their perceived association with the Gulen movement.
The EU enlargement commissioner Johannes Hahn commented on July 18 that it appears that at least some of the lists the government used had been prepared before the attempted coup even took place.
While the government has the right to pursue criminal and employment proceedings against individuals who support its violent overthrow and particularly those responsible for killing civilians, democracy and the rule of law require those proceedings to be based on clear evidence, and a fair process, including a right of appeal.
The European Union and United States government, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights have all urged Turkey to ensure that its response to the attempted coup respects the rule of law. Unfortunately, the Turkish government seems intent on taking a different approach and removing checks on executive power. That was already evident before the attempted coup.
Since the government crackdown on demonstrators during protests in 2013, the government and in particular President Erdogan has sought to consolidate power and remove challenges to the authority of the ruling party.
In the past few years, journalists and media outlets — whether secularist, Gulenist, or pro-Kurdish — that were seen as critical of the government have come under sustained pressure, facing prosecution, dismissal, and closure or forced takeover in the case of TV stations and newspapers. The government should protect media freedom, allowing journalists to report and news organisations to operate freely.
The government has responded to concerns about Gulenist influence in the justice system not by reinforcing judicial independent but by consolidating its own control over the courts including by reassigning, dismissing and prosecuting judges and through legislation that brings the main judicial oversight body under greater government control.
The government has labelled the Gulen movement a terrorist organization. That, together with the governments influence over the courts, allows it to apply the full force of Turkey’s overbroad terrorism laws against suspected Gulenists. Reform of terrorism laws and strengthening judicial independence should be priorities.
A similar approach has been used in response to the rising popularity of the peaceful pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) after it won 13 percent of the vote in the June 2015 general election and seats in parliament. The government has sought to conflate the party with the armed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), lifting the parliamentary immunity for Peoples’ Democratic Party members and seeking to prosecute those who peacefully advocate the rights of Kurds as though they were members of a terrorist cell plotting violence.
Despite all of the challenges faced by Turkey in recent years, many of them self-inflicted, the popular and political response to the coup attempt was a reminder of the commitment to democracy among most people in Turkey today. It is vital for Washington and Turkey’s other international partners now to use all their influence to press Ankara to reverse course, to safeguards the rights of those caught up in the purge, and to strengthen rather than weaken the independence of the institutions that underpin it, including the courts, media, universities and parliament itself. The people who died defending it deserve nothing less.
*Benjamin Ward is deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Europe and Central Asia Division, supervises research on the EU region, the Western Balkans, and Turkey.
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5G at the top of the world
Etisalat on Monday announced the availability of 5G coverage at the world's tallest building, Emaar's iconic Burj Khalifa, showcasing the readiness of the 5G network and its compatibility with industry leading 5G smartphones.
Etisalat and Emaar came together to successfully make a 5G call from the Burj Khalifa, which is the latest in a series of live 5G video calls made across various locations in the UAE. The 5G call is a major step for Etisalat, as it proves the 5G network readiness and availability and its services in the country. The historic call, which was posted by Etisalat on its social media, showed two officials making the first 5G video call from the Burj Khalifa to the Etisalat headquarters in Abu Dhabi.
Etisalat's landmark announcement earlier in the year also gave subscribers an opportunity to be the first in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region to experience the new super-fast 5G network on 5G ready smartphones.
At around 20 times faster than 4G and with ultra-low latency, 5G technology will allow users to stream live 4K resolution video anywhere at any time, with virtually no lag. With 5G technology consumers will witness unprecedented network speed allowing users to enjoy uninterrupted 4K & HD videos, AR/VR services, cloud gaming from anywhere in UAE, advanced robotics, autonomous transport, 3D printing and wearable technologies. Etisalat aims to build 1,000 5G towers across the UAE during 2019 to enable 5G coverage.
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The following appeared in the July 1, 2009, edition of Wired magazine and concerns research by SMU Engineering Professor Marc Christensen.
Marc Christensen (above), inventor of Panoptes.
July 6, 2009
By David Hambling
Troops and unmanned aircraft could be the first to benefit from a new smart, ultra-slim camera technology which combines the images from many low-resolution sensors to create a high-resolution picture. Known as Panoptes, it promises lightweight, flat cameras with the power of a big lens in a device just five millimeters thick. It’s being developed by Marc Christensen, a professor at Southern Methodist University, with funding from Darpa. Planned applications include sensors for miniature drones and helmet-cams for soldiers.
A key feature of the system is that is made up of a large number of tiny imagers. These are small, simple cameras, each directed independently by a MEMS-controlled micro-mirror. Because there is no large lens, Pantoptes can be made flat, unlike other cameras.
A central processor combines the images into a single picture, producing a higher resolution than the individual imagers. The intelligence is in the way that the system identifies areas of interest and concentrates the sub-imagers on the relevant part of the scene. Christensen gives the example of the Panoptes system looking at a building in a field.
“After a first frame or two was collected, the system could identify that certain areas, like the open field, had nothing of interest, whereas other areas, like the license plate of a car parked outside or peering in the windows, had details that were not sufficiently resolved,” he tells (Wired's) Danger Room. “In the next frame, subimagers that had been interrogating the field would be steered to aid in the imaging of the license plate and windows, thereby extracting the additional information.”
As well as concentrating on areas of interest, the smart software will combine the overlapping images in a way that will give a clear image without the ‘noise’ associated with low-resolution imagers like camera phones. This sounds like it might require a tremendous amount of processing power. But it’s possible to achieve good frame rates — 30-60 per second — using a normal digital signal processor.
Read the full story.
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SGPT Full Form
The full form of SGPT is Serum Glutamic Pyruvic Transaminase. SGPT is an enzyme commonly found in cells in the heart and liver. SGPT is excreted into the bloodstream when the heart and liver are injured. Therefore the amount of SGPT in the blood increases with a liver disorder or heart injury. Some medications can also increase SGPT levels. SGPT is often designated as (ALT) Alanine Aminotransferase. The highest concentration of SGPT is found in the liver. The SGPT test measures the amount of GPT in the blood in our body. GPT (Glutamate Pyruvate Transaminase) substance is such an enzyme that is found in very small amounts in many tissues of our body but in most quantities, it is deposited in our liver.
Benefits of SGPT Testing
First, when you do the SGPT blood test, you can find out whether your liver is diseased or weak and give it its functional status.
The SGPT test helps you understand whether the SGPT level is stable or raised.
This is done to classify hepatic insufficiency, liver dysfunction, viral hepatitis, jaundice, and alcoholism.
If the patient has signs of jaundice, dark urine, nausea, vomiting, pain in the right upper part of the abdomen, then tests are done.
When is the SGPT test done?
GPT diagnoses a liver disease, especially cirrhosis and hepatitis caused by alcohol, drugs, or viruses, detects liver damage, and analyzes why jaundice was caused by a blood disorder or liver disease. It monitors the effects of cholesterol-lowering drugs and various other medicines that can damage the liver. SGPT may be ordered as a single test or as part of a requirement in conjunction with other tests, such as liver function tests, for individuals who are at increased risk for liver disease. Some examples include:
- Individuals with a history of known or potential exposure to the hepatitis virus
- people who drink heavily
- Individuals with a family history of liver disease
- Individuals who take drugs that can sometimes damage the liver
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The Cambridge Diabetes Education Programme was designed and tested by a multi-disciplinary, diabetes specialist team, consisting of nurses, dietitians, podiatrists, health care assistants, general practitioners and hospital consultants.
It is based on the UK, nationally recognised, diabetes framework of competencies for healthcare practitioners, to ensure that they have the right diabetes skills and knowledge to support patients living with diabetes.
CDEP's content is continually reviewed and further developed to ensure the learning opportunities offered are evidence-based, up-to-date and relevant to the target audience. CDEP's outcomes are routinely audited to ensure that we are meeting healthcare practitioners' needs.
In our last audit (Nov 2020 n= 41,137), an impressive 99.98% of our CDEP users reported that undertaking a CDEP topic, either confirms their high level of diabetes knowledge (15%) or alternatively, supports an improvement in their diabetes knowledge (85%).
For those reporting an improvement, the breakdown across our 3 outcomes domains is as follows:
Very informative and thorough. I enjoyed that different media was used, such as written information and video content.
An excellent subject, dealt with very well, looking at all aspects of people with diabetes and activities.
Very informative. Feel I taken away some useful tips from this module.
I found this course to be very thorough and highly informative.
The ‘bite sized’ nature of the learning and assessment and the element of self guided learning through the attached resources were very helpful in completing the modules.
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Sandy Hollow Tourist Park - Sandy Hollow NSW
Sandy Hollow is set in the Goulburn River Valley beneath the dramatic Giant's Leap landmark. The Tourist Park is central to the wonderful wineries of the Upper Hunter and adjacent to both the Wollemi and Goulburn River National Parks. The park consists of over 20 acres of gardens and bush hosting leisure facilities set in a tranquil and picturesque location. The resident owners are Chun and David. Bookings can be made at the Sandy Hollow Tourist Park by phoning 02 6547-4575 and please let the park know that you have seen their photos on Caravan Park Photos.
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Boris Landoni from Open Electronics writes about a new open source 3D Scanner made with Raspberry Pi:
This being said, we may move on to talk about our 3D scan approach, that consists in using a linear laser, that is, one capable of drawing a vertical line having a constant luminous intensity, and in shooting the images that have been determined by the light’s reflection on the object’s surface (that in this case is rotated) by means of a video camera; at each rotation degree (or fraction) corresponds a frame that is digitized and sent to a program capable of processing the surface of the scanned object. Usually, in these systems two lasers (tilted with respect to each other) are used, and the video camera is placed between the two. Our scanner is born out of an elaboration of the PiClop, an open project composed of a mechanics (whose parts to be 3D printed may be downloaded from thingiverse ) and of an electronics formed of the Raspberry Pi 2 board and its video camera; PiClop, as implied by the name, is a free interpretation, based on Ciclop’s Raspberry Pi 2 , a 3D commercial laser scanner and a video camera, supplied with a rotating plate.
Full details at Open Electronics project page.
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It’s beginning to look like there’s little reason to panic over H1N1:
New estimates suggest that the death rate compares to a moderate year of seasonal influenza, said Dr. Marc Lipsitch of Harvard University.
“It’s mildest in kids. That’s one of the really good pieces of news in this pandemic,” Lipsitch told a meeting of flu experts being held by the U.S. Institute of Medicine.
“Barring any changes in the virus, I think we can say we are in a category 1 pandemic. This has not become clear until fairly recently.”
The Pandemic Severity Index set by the U.S. government has five categories of pandemic, with a category 1 being comparable to a seasonal flu epidemic.
Seasonal flu has a death rate of less than 0.1 percent — but still manages to kill 250,000 to 500,000 people globally every year.
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Our Geography curriculum is designed to develop children’s curiosity and fascination about the world and its people that will remain with them for the rest of their lives.
Children investigate a range of places – both in Britain and abroad – to help develop their knowledge and understanding of the Earth’s physical and human processes. We also developing the children’s ability to apply geographical skills to enable to confidently communicate their findings and geographical understanding to a range of audiences.
Through high quality teaching, we develop the following essential characteristics of geographers:
- An excellent knowledge of where places are and what they are like, both in Britain and the wider world;
- A comprehensive understanding of the ways in which places are interdependent and interconnected;
- An extensive base of geographical knowledge and vocabulary;
- Fluency in complex, geographical enquiry and the ability to apply questioning skills, as well as effective presentation techniques;
- The ability to reach clear conclusions and explain their findings;
- Excellent fieldwork skills as well as other geographical aptitudes and techniques;
- The ability to express well-balanced opinions, rooted in very good knowledge and understanding about current issues in society and the environment;
- A genuine interest in the subject and a real sense of curiosity about the world and the people who live here.
Teachers are provided with an additional three planning days per year in addition to their PPA, to plan their curriculum. As part of this planning process, teachers need to plan the following:
- A knowledge organiser which outlines knowledge (including vocabulary) all children must master and apply in lessons;
- A cycle of lessons for each subject, which carefully plans for progression and depth concentrating on the geographical skills suited to the age group;
- A low stakes quiz which is tested regularly to support learners’ ability to block learning and increase space in the working memory.
Our Geography Curriculum is high quality, well thought out and is planned to demonstrate progression. If children are keeping up with the curriculum, they are deemed to be making good or better progress. In addition, we measure the impact of our curriculum through the following methods:
- A celebration of learning for each term which demonstrates progression across the school;
- Tracking of gains in each quiz;
- Pupil discussions about their learning to evidence children knowing more and remembering more.
Please click here to view our geography long term plan
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I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that this was our best wild salmon event yet. New York was fun, Houston was sunny, but Boston is our home, so you know that we had to do something big when it came time to plan, with our friends at Kwik’pak, our “For the Health of It” event at the Harvard Faculty Club in Cambridge.
I think Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian from the Harvard School of Public Health said it best: “Seafood is the single most important food one can consume for good health.” This is especially true with seafood like Wild Alaskan Yukon River Salmon, which beats out every other kind of fish in the USDA database when it comes to high levels of Omega-3 fatty acids. Kwik’pak and Oldways wanted to plan an event that would show off the wonderful benefits of this salmon in a variety of ways, including cooking demos, a Q&A session from the Yupik Eskimos who harvest the salmon, and what else? Lots of eating!
If you haven’t seen the inside of the Harvard Faculty Club, then you’re missing out on a chance to experience the real-life version of Hogwarts. Chandeliers, regal-looking chairs, paintings of celebrated scholars and people who are generally a lot smarter than you. It was a truly fun and beautiful venue.
We started things off with the Oldways bosses (did I mention they are both humanitarians and FABULOUS dressers to boot?) speaking about our collaboration with Kwik’pak, and how salmon is a perfect fit for the Oldways Traditional American Table
. They also introduced the good doctor Dary Mozaffarian
, who went on to give his presentation titled What Consumers Need to Know About Seafood, Omega-3s and Human Health.
Some things I took away from his talk
- Fish/Omega-3’s are the FIRST line of treatment for primary prevention of cardiac death
- Women who are pregnant can eat fish to improve the verbal IQ (among other things) of their unborn child. Mothers who are expecting should eat up to 12 oz a week of a variety of seafood
- There is no convincing evidence that mercury has had an effect on the general population
- Modest fish intake can substantially reduce heart disease death, the leading cause of death in both men and women
Dr. Mozaffarian knocked his presentation out of the park. For hours afterwards, all anyone could talk about was how informative and well-presented his talk was. I’m also inclined to call him the rock star of the event, though I haven’t decided whether he’s a Mick Jagger or more of a Paul McCartney. Must research.
The next person to stand behind the podium was Jack Schultheis, General Manager of Kwik’pak Fisheries
Jack gave a really moving speech about the importance of Yukon River Salmon to the Yupik people, and how he is focused on helping develop the economy in the Lower Yukon. “Our job is to ensure that our fishermen get the highest economic return for these valuable fish,” he said. Since arriving in Alaska in the early 1970s, Jack has been a fixture in the Alaskan fishing industry and it became very clear to everyone in the audience how passionate he really is about his job and about the people he works with.
Then it was time to get cookin’!
Jeff Tenner (r.), Executive Director of Culinary Operations at Legal Sea Foods, and Peter Doire (l.), Senior Chef,
were kind enough to come over to Harvard to show us how to cook Wild Yukon River Salmon in two different recipes: Brown Bag Salmon
and Salmon Ceviche
Amazing, right? The guys were very funny and the meals looked wonderful. So wonderful in fact, that after they were done cooking, we all had to have an “Eat Salmon and Mingle” break.
Bill from The Boston Foodie being a good food blogger and taking some sweet pics!
We served Yukon River Salmon with 4 Dipping Sauces, along with some Spanish Cava to drink. The Mango Salsa Sauce was the clear favorite of the evening.
Richard from The Passionate Foodie surveying the scene
And there’s me
on the left with my always camera-ready co-worker Erika
on the right!
After all that eating and chatting, it was time to take our seats again to hear Matilda Oktoyuk and Ellen and Humphrey Keyes, Yupik Eskimo fishermen
speak about their daily lives in Emmonak, Alaska. They really emphasized how important the salmon is to their survival in today’s modern world. Audience members quizzed them about what their lives are like in the off-season, how much vegetables cost in the Lower Yukon, and the South Beach Diet even came up at one point. What can I say? You never know what to expect at an Oldways event!
And then all of sudden, the event was over (much too quickly) and it was time to say goodbye to all of our new friends.
I would like to thank everyone who attended Friday’s event, you don’t know how much fun we had with all of you. We would also like to thank all of our speakers and especially the great people at Kwik’pak.
For even more information on “For the Health of It”, check out these great re-cap posts from attendees Tina from Carrots N Cake
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Celebrate Christmas with Duck & Goose in this large-format board book!
New York Times bestselling author and illustrator Tad Hills brings our favorite feathered friends out to celebrate Christmas in this sturdy, large-sized board book. Goose wants to make snow angels and go sledding—but Duck knows it's time for Christmas! Preschoolers won't be able to resist this board book filled with Christmas cheer. The large size makes this a perfect book for sharing during a storytime or lap time.
“Duck and Goose have taken their places alongside Frog and Toad and George and Martha as fine examples of friendship, curiosity and problem-solving.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Charming, funny, simple, and surprising. . . . Hills is master of the light comic touch.” —The Boston Globe
Tad Hills is the author and illustrator of the ALA Notable Book Duck & Goose--called "expressive and adorable" in a starred review from Kirkus Reviews--and Duck, Duck, Goose, both New York Times bestsellers. His Duck & Goose board books include the ALA Notable Book, What's Up Duck?, and the Indie bestseller, Duck & Goose Find a Pumpkin. He is also the author-illustrator of How Rocket Learned to Read, a New York Times bestseller and a Parents' Choice Award Winner. | <urn:uuid:96d57685-86bd-46b7-8699-73cfe7526dcf> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375871122 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720972.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00250-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92228 | 285 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Despite the human and financial toll of traffic fatalities annually in the United States – 43,000 deaths and 2.7 million injuries at a cost of about $230 billion – such accidents are often viewed as an inevitable, if tragic, byproduct of driving. Now a small but growing number of safety advocates and transportation researchers want to change that perception, partly by borrowing proven strategies from Europe and Australia. The goal, they say, is to reduce the number of traffic deaths – not by improving cars to limit the severity of crashes, but by targeting human behaviors that trigger collisions in the first place.
That strategy has worked well in the Netherlands, where over the past three decades, the annual number of traffic fatalities has declined by 75 percent from 3,200 to 800. Today, that country has one of the lowest per capita traffic fatality rates in the world.
"The perspective in our society is that quite some proportion of all car crashes are preventable," says Fred Wegman, director of the Netherlands Institute for Road Safety Research, "and there is no need to accept the death toll."
Mr. Wegman visited Washington, D.C., last month for the annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board as an independent adviser to the US government. Improving traffic safety is not easy, he says. "You are famously dependent on how the population perceives the problem, and whether you can interest politicians to take action."
Some methods used by the Netherlands to reduce road fatalities include changing road design to limit vehicle speeds, expanding automated enforcement and sobriety testing, and prohibiting the use of electronic devices while driving.
"Since the 1960s, safety campaigns in this country have focused predominantly on crash mitigation, such as seat belts and air bags," says Bob Chauncey, director of a new "traffic justice" initiative for the National Center for Bicycling and Walking, a nonprofit group in Bethesda, Md. "With the exception of MADD [Mothers Against Drunk Driving], we don't look at the root cause of the crash."
The US approach to road safety is limited in scope, says David Willis, a senior research scientist at the Texas Transportation Institute in College Station. Forty percent of all fatal crashes in the United States are due to speeding, he says. "But unlike almost every other civilized society in the world, we don't focus on driver behavior – we focus on vehicle design."
In the Netherlands, says Mr. Wegman, speed limits are very low: 25 m.p.h. in the city, and 60 m.p.h. on the freeway. Dutch roads are also designed to encourage safe driving. Traffic-calming strategies include extensive bicycle and pedestrian facilities, narrow streets with medians, and roundabouts instead of intersections with traffic signals. Roundabouts are traffic circles that force drivers to slow down to 15 m.p.h.
A strict police enforcement program, including random sobriety checks and cameras that automatically identify speeders, means "you have a very good chance of getting caught," says Wegman. The legal blood-alcohol limit in the Netherlands is 0.05 percent compared with 0.08 percent in the US.
Studies conducted in London showed a 40 percent reduction in crashes that resulted in injuries after the installation of automatic speed cameras. In Victoria, Australia, the number of fatal crashes involving drunken drivers declined by 25 percent after random sobriety checkpoints were set up.
In the US, 31 states have raised highway speed limits to 70 m.p.h. Only four states – California, Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey – and Washington, D.C., have passed laws against using hand-held cellphones while driving. Most states prohibit or restrict the use of automated speed enforcement, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety in Arlington, Va.
"People say, 'Driving is a personal matter, government leave me alone,' " says Steve Lind, director of the Washington State Traffic Safety Commission. Washington State law prohibits sobriety checkpoints and bans electronic speed enforcement except in school zones. But the benefits of these strategies are now well documented, Mr. Lind says. "We can't be afraid to get these tools in front of policymakers. It's up to the people to accept them."
Legislation, enforcement, and public awareness are the key elements for a successful traffic safety program, Wegman says. The Netherlands' ban on hand-held cellphones while driving, for example, would not be effective without the accompanying media campaign on distracted driving. "The position of the press is very important," says Wegman.
The "traffic justice" initiative in the US, which is fueled by local groups, aims to shift the national discussion from "car accidents" to "car crashes," says Mr. Chauncey. Americans accept limitations on personal freedoms in exchange for airplane safety, he says. "Now we expect just conduct from all players in the road transportation system: the planners, the engineers, the drivers, and the car companies."
Although roundabouts are becoming more popular in the US, cities and states continue to build roads that allow drivers to speed, traffic-justice proponents say.
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What Is Schizophrenia?
Schizophrenia is a debilitating mental condition — a brain disorder that causes its victims to severely lose touch with reality. When someone becomes schizophrenic, it involves a breakdown between their thought, emotion and behavior processes. This creates a jumbled perception, difficulty performing everyday activities and persistent delusions or hallucinations in many cases.
More than 3 million people in the U.S. live with this disorder, with equal representation across gender and race. Victims typically show symptoms for 1–2 years before getting diagnosed with schizophrenia. Nearly half of schizophrenia patients also have a substance use disorder — a diagnosable problem with drugs or alcohol — with one study showing rates of marijuana problems as high as 53%. Co-occurring substance problems can increase the severity of schizophrenia symptoms, increase rates of hospitalization, weaken a patient’s response to treatment and increase the likelihood of infectious illnesses, violence, victimization and homelessness. Only around 90,000 of Americans with schizophrenia or a similar mental illness are receiving treatment at any given time.
It’s nearly impossible to predict when someone will develop schizophrenia, and a proven cure is elusive. This makes schizophrenia a chaotic and highly difficult illness for the patient and their loved ones, as well as the doctors attempting to meet with these patients.
Types of Schizophrenia
Doctors have divided schizophrenia into 5 different types. Although they share major similarities, they each have distinguishing characteristics that call for different approaches in diagnosis and treatment.
The different types of schizophrenia are:
- Paranoid Schizophrenia – the patient feels suspicious and persecuted on a constant basis, with prominent hallucinations or delusions
- Disorganized Schizophrenia – the patient’s thought process is highly disorganized, impairing their speech, thought and even routine tasks
- Catatonic Schizophrenia – the patient show disturbances in their movement, assumes unusual positions, and is typically withdrawn and often silent
- Residual Schizophrenia – after a phase of heavy symptoms such as delusions, these patients show some improvement, but a diminished motivation and interest in life
- Undifferentiated Schizophrenia – when a patient has various and fluctuating symptoms of schizophrenia, but cannot easily be pinned down to one type
Is There Schizophrenia in Teens?
Onset of schizophrenia usually occurs in the 20s or 30s, but early symptoms can appear in the teenage years. It can be difficult to identify the disorder in its early stages, especially due to the fact that teens on average can exhibit certain behaviors that mimic the beginnings of schizophrenic disorder. These can include:
- A drop in school performance
- Withdrawal from friends or family
- Irritability or depression
- Lack of motivation
- Difficulty sleeping
- Odd or strange behavior
Studies show that 30–40% of teens who exhibit these signs will develop schizophrenia or another psychotic disorder. It’s tricky as a parent to properly address signs like these, because they are often nothing more than growing pains. But if something is indeed wrong, catching it early can go a long way towards minimizing problems later in life. Do your research and speak with a professional if your son or daughter is exhibiting worrisome behavior.
What Causes Schizophrenia?
Even with decades of research, doctors have yet to find a universal cause of schizophrenia. As with other mental disorders, it’s typically caused by some combination of genetic and environmental factors. It develops in 10% of people who have an immediate relative with the disorder (e.g. brother, sister, parent), compared with the 1% of the general population who develop it on their own. Studies show a difference in the central nervous system and brain structure of schizophrenics compared with others, but the search for specific causes — and eventually, methods of prevention — continues.
What Are the Effects of Schizophrenia?
As schizophrenia worsens in a patient, the effects will similarly worsen and spread into more aspects of their life. Every case is unique and materializes in different ways, but the general side effects tend to follow certain trends.
Effects on the Brain
Schizophrenia is, first and foremost, a condition of the brain. It will trigger very noticeable changes in how a patient perceives the world, works through problems and expresses themselves.
These effects can include, but are not limited to:
- Poor executive functioning (i.e. the ability to understand information and use it to make decisions)
- Trouble paying attention or focusing on one thing
- Problems with “working memory” (i.e. the ability to use information you just learned)
- Disorganized thinking
- Seeing, hearing, smelling, hearing or tasting imaginary things — also known as “hallucinations”
- Believing outlandish things to be true, such as their own celebrity or that someone is spying on them
Delusions are a trademark symptom of schizophrenia, and can be among the most troubling things for loved ones to observe in a patient. Delusions can make patients extremely difficult to be around and to get through to, and are one reason why schizophrenics often wind up in mental hospitals. In 2001, 54% of individuals in the U.S. admitted to psychiatric hospitals suffered from schizophrenia.
Delusions of persecution lead patients to sincerely feel oppressed or mistreated by doctors, family members, friends or the general public. There will be a constant feeling that someone is “out to get them” or sabotage their life. This overwhelming paranoia and dread can make the patient scared and hostile, and prevent them from comfortably interacting with others.
Delusions of grandeur, on the other hand, lead patients to believe they are a really big deal. Someone experiencing these delusions may claim to be royalty or a celebrity of some kind — perhaps even a god — and expect to be treated as such. These delusions may be the brain’s drastic response to lifelong feelings of depression or severely damaged self-esteem.
The 2 other common schizophrenic delusions are:
- Delusions of Reference – when an arbitrary event is believed to have a personal and meaningful significance (e.g. television commercial spokesperson seems to be talking directly to the patient)
- Delusions of Control – when one’s thoughts or actions are believed to be controlled or manipulated by external or alien forces (e.g. fears of personal thoughts being broadcast to others, feelings of thoughts being inserted or planted in their minds, and thoughts being stolen or withdrawn)
Effects on the Body
The intense mental conditions brought about by schizophrenia can put a victim’s body through additional turmoil. Schizophrenics will often lose control of their movements, sometimes even becoming catatonic, wherein they can’t move their body at all. In other cases, their movements will become random and “glitchy,” as if they are a malfunctioning machine.
Due to hallucinations — where a patient might hear voices yelling at them or giving them orders — many patients wind up hurting themselves in some fashion. They may even lash out at others.
Patients may experience some physical aging. Between the extreme mental toll of the illness and the inconsistent or altogether loss of sleep, the wear and tear on the body might become apparent.
Although there are patients with mild cases who are able to adequately manage their symptoms, the side effects of schizophrenia can often be overwhelming. In these cases, obligations such as school, work, social events and family matters are suddenly insurmountable hurdles. Teens battling schizophrenia will have trouble maintaining a job, staying on course with schoolwork or maintaining personal relationships. Only 10–20% of schizophrenia patients are able to hold down decent employment. They can also have problems with the law, have unstable housing situations and can be in and out of hospitals over the course of their life.
Until the symptoms subside, schizophrenia can dictate a patient’s general abilities and ease of living. Suicidal thoughts are common in schizophrenics, as they can quickly feel powerless against their disease — 10% of schizophrenia patients die by suicide, particularly young males.
Patients whose symptoms are a combination of schizophrenia — such as delusions and hallucinations — and mood disorder, such as depression or mania, are diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder. Because this is a mix of mental health conditions, it creates a unique problem to solve in each case. On a whole, these cases are not as well understood as specific health conditions. More than 24 different definitions for this disorder were developed in the years since doctors deemed it a separate problem from schizophrenia.
This illness is usually caused by a combination of factors, including genetics, a changes in brain structure and highly stressful or traumatic events. Psychoactive drugs, such as LSD, are also linked with the development of schizoaffective disorder. To be diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, a patient must have the following symptoms:
- A period during which a major mood disorder occurs at the same time that schizophrenia symptoms are present
- Two or more weeks of hallucinations or delusions in the absence of a major mood episode
- Symptoms of a major mood episode being present for the majority of the duration of the illness
- Drug or medication abuse is not the sole cause of these symptoms
While males develop schizoaffective disorder at an earlier age, men and women experience the disorder at the same rate. Around 0.3% of the U.S. population has schizoaffective disorder, and these people are often initially misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder or schizophrenia. Schizoaffective disorder is considered more treatable than general schizophrenia, with combined medication and therapy managing the illness effectively.
Does Schizophrenia Cause Substance Abuse?
In lieu of self-harming or suicidal thoughts, teens or adults with schizophrenia may pick up a substance habit to cope. Among schizophrenics, alcohol use disorder (or alcoholism) is the most common co-occurring disorder that doesn’t involve some form of nicotine addiction. Nicotine and cigarettes are even more popular, with schizophrenics becoming addicted — physically and psychologically dependent — to nicotine at 3 times the rate of the general population.
One study revealed that 47% of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia met the criteria for a substance use disorder at some point in their lives — a rate much higher than for the general population — with problems ranging from marijuana to prescription painkillers to teen heroin addiction. These problems may begin before the onset of schizophrenia symptoms, but experts believe that substance problems do not cause schizophrenia. If a patient abuses substances — returning to them often and in higher amounts — it can aggravate their schizophrenia. These people are also less likely to stick to their recommended treatment plan.
How Can I Tell if My Teen Has Schizophrenia?
Experts divide the symptoms of schizophrenia into two categories: positive and negative symptoms.
Positive Symptoms of Schizophrenia
These are disturbances “added” to the person — something that wasn’t there before. These can include:
- Disordered thinking and speech (jumping from topic to topic without reason, making up words and sounds)
- Movement disorders (agitated body movements, repeating certain movements over and over)
Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia
These are things “removed” from the person — abilities, feelings and thought processes. These can include:
- Extreme apathy
- Emotional unresponsiveness
- Lack of drive, initiative or planning
- Social withdrawal
- Reduced speech capabilities
- Limited movement
- Inability to feel joy
Historically in schizophrenic patients, positive symptoms peak for a time, but negative symptoms persist longer and are also harder to treat.
If you notice these signs adding up in your son or daughter, it’s important to address the issue. Bring them in for a doctor’s visit so that they can receive a proper assessment. If your teen is showing the early signs of schizophrenia, the situation will demand immediate care and possibly rehab.
Is Schizophrenia Treatable?
Schizophrenia presents a hefty challenge for doctors and families of patients. There’s no easy cure for the disorder, and when the symptoms are severe, patients can be practically inconsolable. If you are fortunate enough to catch the problem in your teen early, their schizophrenia can be easier to manage.
Medications are the most common avenue for initial treatment. Antipsychotic medications target the worst of schizophrenia symptoms, and can help reduce hallucinations and other breaks with reality. If and when these antipsychotics take effect, patients may be more open to formal therapies and psychosocial treatments — counseling sessions on how to deal with everyday challenges, such as socializing and taking care of oneself and how to healthily cope with their illness.
Though successful treatment is not guaranteed, statistics are promising. After a 10-year follow-up, 25% of schizophrenia patients are fully recovered, 25% are much improved and living independently and 25% are improved but require constant care.
Does My Child Need Treatment?
If you see signs of substance abuse in your child — whether or not they are accompanied by a mental illness like schizophrenia — you need to act now to prevent your child from further harm.
Even if you’re not certain that substance abuse is happening, your child is well worth a quick conversation with a substance abuse expert, such as those of us at TeenRehabCenter.org. We’re available — for free — to talk through anything you’ve noticed that may point to drug or alcohol use. If it turns out that addiction is present and your child’s doctor agrees, some form of rehab will probably be necessary.
Our compassionate professionals at TeenRehabCenter.org can help you separate your own fears from reality, and figure out how to help your child. There are no obligations associated with calling. Don’t delay — your child’s health is worth the call.
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Lourdes Wellness Center Offers New Class: Mind and Body Balance for Men
Lourdes Wellness Center is adding a new class to its list of comprehensive wellness programs, called “Mind and Body Balance for Men.”
The first five-week sessions of Mind and Body Balance for Men classes are being offered on Sundays, from Jan. 20 to Feb. 17, 8 to 9:15 a.m., and on Fridays, Jan. 25 to Feb. 22, 6:30 to 7:45 p.m. The cost of a five-week session is $55.
Instructor Terrance Bennett says the Mind and Body Balance for Men series is an important, as well as needed, class to give men a total body and mind workout. “Men often focus on cardio and/or weights, but strengthening the mind and some underutilized muscles through body balance is an equally important piece to overall health. It’s common to think that lifting weights or running on the treadmill will give us a healthy lifestyle. While that is partially true, overall health is based upon the balancing of mind, body, and spirit.”
Bennett says unlike traditional gym exercises, this class builds strength in muscles not often used, as well as focus. “It helps develop a deeper concentration of the mind. It is this clarity and focus that some professional athletes credit as giving them their success. This class also helps men learn to cope with their everyday stresses.”
In 1979, Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center became the first hospital in Southern New Jersey to develop and offer a wellness program to its employees and the community. The goal of the program was to help people become more aware of the choices that they could make to improve their lifestyle. Since then, Lourdes Wellness Center has continued to increase the number of program offerings, as well as the number of participants.
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Vichy France, formally French State, French État Français, (July 1940–September 1944), France under the regime of Marshal Philippe Pétain from the Nazi German defeat of France to the Allied liberation in World War II.
The Franco-German Armistice of June 22, 1940, divided France into two zones: one to be under German military occupation and one to be left to the French in full sovereignty, at least nominally. The unoccupied zone comprised the southeastern two-fifths of the country, from the Swiss frontier near Geneva to a point 12 miles (19 km) east of Tours and thence southwest to the Spanish frontier, 30 miles (48 km) from the Bay of Biscay.
Pierre Laval joined the government the day after the armistice was signed and became the main architect of the Vichy regime. It was he who on July 10, 1940, persuaded the National Assembly (summoned at Vichy to ratify the armistice) to grant Pétain authority to promulgate a new constitution (569 votes in favour, 80 against, 18 abstentions), so that Pétain was able, the next day, to assume in his own name full legislative and executive powers in the “French State.” The Vichy governments in fact survived for four years by never promulgating a new constitution. Their policy changed in tune with the fortunes of the war. When close collaboration with the Germans proved impracticable, a plot was formed at Vichy against Laval, who fell from power in December 1940 and was succeeded as premier by Pierre Étienne Flandin and then by Admiral Jean Darlan. Backed by Charles Maurras’s Action Française (a newspaper that advocated traditionalist, semiroyalist doctrines), Pétain and Darlan embarked on a period of attentisme (“wait and see”) in their dealings with Germany. Vichy became, at least superficially, a corporative state. The republican slogan of “Liberty, equality, fraternity” was replaced by “Work, family, fatherland.” A labour charter was passed, and there was much talk of a Pétainist “national revolution.”
In April 1942 Laval returned to power and contrived to convince the Germans that they could get more active collaboration from him. Germany was now engaged in massive war with the Soviet Union and with the United States and needed greater security in western Europe. But six months later the whole basis of Vichy’s position was transformed. U.S. and British forces landed in North Africa; the main units of the French fleet were scuttled by their crews at Toulon to prevent their falling into German hands; and on November 11, 1942, Germany occupied the whole of France and disbanded the “armistice army” of Vichy.
France: The Vichy government
Henceforth, Vichy had no assets with which to bargain, with the exception of the cult of loyalty to Pétain (which still kept some Frenchmen obedient to the armistice) and the cleverness of Laval. It became increasingly a tool of German policy and, by January 1944, included extreme collaborators such as the National Socialist Marcel Déat. Darlan was assassinated in December 1942 in Algiers.
Meanwhile, the Resistance movements against both Vichy and the Germans grew rapidly in strength and significance as large numbers of young men fled to the hills and open country to escape the German forced-labour laws. Living as outlaws in the countryside and aided by the country people and by supplies dropped by aircraft from Great Britain, they harassed German communications and transport in preparation for Allied landings. The six months preceding the Normandy Invasion were a period of civil war in France between the members of the Resistance and the German Gestapo (secret police) aided by Vichy militias. When the provisional government of Charles de Gaulle moved to France after the Allied invasion of Normandy, it took over from a fascist regime in utter collapse. In September 1944, after the liberation of Paris, the new government declared Pétain’s French State abolished, together with all its laws.
Laval fled to Germany and Austria but was captured and returned to France, where he was tried and executed (1945). Pétain, abducted to Germany, voluntarily returned to France for trial and was convicted; his death sentence, however, was commuted by de Gaulle to solitary confinement for life, and he died in prison (1951). | <urn:uuid:0cbf3cee-ec8d-43d9-be8e-c362b63ba750> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.britannica.com/event/Vichy-France | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718278.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00240-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975782 | 953 | 3.84375 | 4 |
With heart failure, the heart is unable to pump the right amount of blood throughout the body. This causes blood to back up in the veins. Depending on which part of the heart is affected, this can lead to a buildup of excess fluid in the lungs, feet, and elsewhere. Heart failure can worsen with time, which may lead to the use of many treatments. Because of this, doctors are aggressive in treating heart failure to try to prevent it from worsening.
Blood Flow through the Heart
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The leading causes of heart failure are:
Other common causes include:
Other less common causes include:
Heart failure is more common in older adults, men, and people of African American descent.
Factors that increase your chances of getting heart failure include:
You will be asked about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done.
Your bodily fluids may be tested. This can be done with:
Your heart may be examined. This can be done with:
Heart failure may be caused by another condition. Treating this condition should improve your heart failure or prevent it from getting worse.
The following lifestyle changes can help treat the symptoms of heart failure and slow down its progression:
Your doctor will most likely prescribe a combination of medications, such as:
You may also be given medications to:
Your doctor may advise you to take supplements, such as coenzyme Q10. Follow your doctor's advice regarding taking any supplements.
If heart failure worsens, you may need medical devices to help your heart pump blood properly.
Note: Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen and naproxen can worsen your condition. Talk to your doctor about other medications you may be able to take.
The best way to prevent heart failure is to reduce your risk of:
Take these steps to reduce your risk:
American College of Cardiology
American Heart Association
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
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Congestive heart failure and congenital defects. American Heart Association website. Available at: http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/CongenitalHeartDefects/TheImpactofCongenitalHeartDefects/Congestive-Heart-Failure_UCM_307111_Article.jsp#.WEWiT02QwdU. Updated January 24, 2011. Accessed September 29, 2014.
Explore heart failure. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute website. Available at: https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/hf. Accessed March 27, 2014. Accessed September 29, 2014.
Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction. EBSCO DynaMed Plus website. Available at: http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T114099/Heart-failure-with-reduced-ejection-fraction. Updated November 22, 2016. Accessed December 5, 2016.
Hunt, SA, Abraham, WT, Chin, MH, et al. ACC/AHA 2005 Guideline Update for the diagnosis and management of chronic heart failure in the adult: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. Circulation . 2005;112(12):e154-e235.
Lifestyle changes for heart failure. American Heart Association website. Available at: http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/HeartFailure/PreventionTreatmentofHeartFailure/Lifestyle-Changes-for-Heart-Failure_UCM_306341_Article.jsp#.WEWi1k2QwdU. Updated September 20, 2012. Accessed September 29, 2014.
Paterna S, Parrinello G, Cannizzaro S, et al. Medium term effects of different dosage of diuretic, sodium, and fluid administration on neurohormonal and clinical outcome in patients with recently compensated heart failure. Am J Cardiol. 2009;103(1):93-102.
Physical changes to report. American Heart Association website. Available at: http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/HeartFailure/PreventionTreatmentofHeartFailure/Physical-Changes-to-Report_UCM_306356_Article.jsp. Updated June 30, 2014. Accessed September 29, 2014.
4/16/2009 DynaMed Plus Systematic Literature Surveillance http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T114099/Heart-failure-with-reduced-ejection-fraction: Nilsson BB, Westheim A, Risberg MA. Effects of group-based high-intensity aerobic interval training in patients with chronic heart failure. Am J Cardiol. 2008;102(10):1361-1365.
7/6/2009 DynaMed Plus Systematic Literature Surveillance http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T114476/Antihypertensive-medication-selection-and-management: Levitan EB, Wolk A, Mittleman MA. Consistency with the DASH diet and incidence of heart failure. Arch Intern Med. 2009;169:851-857.
8/31/2009 DynaMed Plus Systematic Literature Surveillance http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed: Djoussé L, Driver JA, Gaziano JM. http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T474271/Heart-failure-screening-and-prevention. JAMA. 2009;302(4):394-400.
11/25/2013 DynaMed Plus Systematic Literature Surveillance. http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T566763/Heart-failure-alternative-treatments: Madmani ME, Yusuf Solaiman A, Tamr Agha K, et al. Coenzyme Q10 for heart failure. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2014;(6):CD008684.
4/2/2014 DynaMed Plus Systematic Literature Surveillance http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T905359/Choosing-Wisely: Updated July 23, 2015.
Last reviewed September 2016 by Michael J. Fucci, DO, FACC
Please be aware that this information is provided to supplement the care provided by your physician. It is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. CALL YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
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Bluegrass. Popular instrumental/vocal music, originating in the south-eastern US during the years following the Second World War. It is considered a genre of country music but also shares its traditions and modern audience with folk music.
Bluegrass. Popular instrumental/vocal music, originating in the south-eastern US during the years following the Second World War. It is considered a genre of country music but also shares its traditions and modern audience with folk music. The term "bluegrass" came into use in the mid-1950s and was coined after Bill Monroe's pioneering band, the Blue Grass Boys (named for the Kentucky regional grass species). Bluegrass is played by small groups of singers who accompany themselves on acoustic instruments - variously, fiddle, banjo, mandolin, guitar, dobro, and double bass. Instrumental facility is typically virtuosic; lead and harmony singing, high-pitched.
Bluegrass, like country music, was first heard in Canada via recordings, radio broadcasts and concert performances by US musicians. By the mid-1950s it was played by Canadians in the eastern and central regions of the country (eg, by Montreal mandolinist Ron Scott who, with Bobby Hill and the Rank Band, recorded "When the Bees Are in the Hive" for Sparton in 1957); and by Toronto's York County Boys (including, at times, Al Cherny), who made the LP Blue Grass Jamboree for Arc in 1959.
Other early Canadian bluegrass groups and musicians included Vic Mullen's Birch Mountain Boys (who comprised Angus Walker and, unusual in bluegrass, two black musicians, Harry Cromwell and Brent Williams) and brothers Bill, Larry, and Ken Boutilier in Halifax; the Bluegrass Mountaineers in St John's; the Southern Ramblers and Bob Fuller and the Mountain Strings in Montreal; and Humphrey and the Dumptrucks in Saskatoon - all active during the 1960s.
Bluegrass enjoyed particular popularity in Canada during the 1970s and the early 1980s. Bands of note in this period included Cody, Cross Country Grass, the Dixie Flyers, Grassworks, the Humber River Valley Boys, Station Road, Streets & Hills, and Whiskey Jack in southern Ontario; Bluegrass 4 and Mountain Meadow in Moncton; Ladies' Choice Bluegrass Band in Halifax; and the White River Bluegrass Band in Montreal. The progressive "newgrass" style that flourished in the late 1970s was represented in Canada by Big Redd Ford of Aurora, Ont.
Among the bands to emerge during the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s were Acoustic Horizon (Newcastle, NB); Barley Wik (Victoria, BC); the Blackwell Bluegrass Project (Ont); Bluegrass Diamonds (NB); Endless Train (Man); the Foggy Hogtown Boys (Toronto); Foxtail (Ont); Hard Ryde (Ont); Hometown Bluegrass (Ont); Hungry Hill (northwestern Canada); Jerusalem Ridge (Edmonton); Knee Deep (Sask); Leavin' Train (Ottawa); Lone Tree Road (Sask); McDonald Bluegrass (Callander, Ont); New Cumberland (Ont); Northern Sons (Ottawa); the Rocky Mountain Bluegrass Boys (Abbotsford, BC); and Trad'badour (Quebec).
Individuals to enjoy renown for their skills have included the banjo players Frank Doody, Denis LePage, John Saunders, Chris Stevens, David Talbot, and Buddy Weston; the mandolinists Duck Donald and Randy Hill; the guitarists Smiley Bates, Doug DeBoer, Richard Gulley, and Slavek Hanzlick; the dobro guitarists Guy Carpenter, Amon Savoie, Gordon DeVries, and Chris Barkley; the fiddlers Roly LaPierre, Claude LePrieur, Gordon Stobbe, and J.J. Guy; and the multi-instrumentalists Vic Mullen (banjo, fiddle); Eddy Poirier (guitar, fiddle); and Raymond Legere (mandolin, fiddle, guitar). Legere and the harmonica player Mike Stevens also have worked with groups in the US.
Festivals, Organizations, Publications, Awards
Bluegrass has remained an avocation for most Canadian players and many of their recordings have been self-produced, although the record labels Banff, Boot, London, Marathon, Rodeo, Snocan, and Woodshed were active in the field. Bluegrass has been largely promoted by clubs of fans and musicians. Festivals, generally held in rural settings, proliferated during the 1970s and 1980s, and have included the long-running Nova Scotia Bluegrass & Oldtime Music Festival (established in 1972 in Hardwoodlands County and latterly based at Ardoise and Kempt Shore), Bluegrass Canada (1973-98, Carlisle, Ont), and the Blueberry Bluegrass and Country Music Society Festival (1985-, Stony Plain, Alta), among others in Denbigh, Tottenham, Trout Creek, Palmer Rapids, and Woodstock, Ont; Chetwynd, Coombs, McKenzie, and Sooke River, BC; Boggy Creek, Man; Memramcook Valley, NB; Haines Junction, Yukon; and elsewhere. Bluegrass is also heard at many Canadian folk, gospel, country, and roots music festivals.
Additional bluegrass organizations and festivals have emerged in virtually all parts of Canada, including the Yukon Bluegrass Music Society; BC Bluegrass; the Victoria Bluegrass Association; the Foothills Bluegrass Music Society (1987- ) and the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society (Alta); the Northern Lights Bluegrass and Old Tyme Music Society (Sask); the Manitoba Old Tyme & Bluegrass Society; the Thames Valley Bluegrass Music Association; the Ottawa Valley Bluegrass Music Association (Ont); the PEI Bluegrass & Old Time Society (1985- ); and Nova Scotia's South Shore Bluegrass Music Association (1985- ).
Canadian publications devoted to bluegrass have included the Toronto Area Bluegrass Committee newsletter Bluegrass Breakdown (Toronto 1968-80); the bi-monthly Canadian Bluegrass Review (Waterdown, Ont, 1978-87); and Bluegrass Canada (Kamloops, BC, 1989-2000). The musicologist Neil V. Rosenberg (a member of Crooked Stovepipe in St John's) wrote the comprehensive Bluegrass: A History (Urbana, Ill, 1985).
The Canadian Bluegrass Review organized the Canadian National Bluegrass Awards in 1979, dividing them into central and eastern divisions in 1985. With the publication's demise, the central division continued under the aegis of the Northern Bluegrass Committee in Burlington, Ont (sponsoring the Central Canadian Bluegrass Awards), and the eastern division under the auspices of the Downeast Bluegrass and Oldtime Music Society in Lantz, NS (sponsoring the Eastern Canada Bluegrass Awards). The East Coast Music Awards has also presented awards for bluegrass, and in 2002 introduced a showcase stage for bluegrass performers.
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Our mission is to become a worldwide reference for education in the field for all professionals involved in the process to dissemintate knowledge & skills of Acute Cardiovascular Care
Our mission is to promote excellence in clinical diagnosis, research, technical development, and education in cardiovascular imaging in Europe.
Our mission: To promote excellence in research, practice, education and policy in cardiovascular health, primary and secondary prevention.
Our goal is to reduce the burden in cardiovascular disease in Europe through percutaneous cardiovascular interventions.
Our Mission is "to improve the quality of life of the population by reducing the impact of cardiac rhythm disturbances and reduce sudden cardiac death"
To improve quality of life and logevity, through better prevention, diagnosis and treatment of heart failure, including the establishment of networks for its management, education and research.
Working Groups goals is to stimulate and disseminate scientific knowledge in different fields of cardiology.
ESC Councils goal is to share knowledge among medical professionals practising in specific cardiology domains.
OUR MISSION: TO REDUCE THE BURDEN OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
The European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI) endorsed the WIN initiative during its July 2011 Board meeting.
WIN stands for Women in Innovation, a worldwide initiative chaired by Roxanna Mehran (New York) and Alaide Chieffo (Milan), involving a large number of interventional cardiologists as well as industry members.
The objective of this group is to improve the cardiovascular management of women by:
Indeed, women are generally well informed of the risk of breast cancer but not sufficiently of the incidence of coronary artery disease.
In order to fulfill its objective, WIN also aims to:
It is a well-known fact that cardiovascular mortality is still abnormally high in women, which amply warrants the development of the WIN initiative.
The endorsement of WIN by EAPCI has been followed by concrete actions:
Among other numerous projects, a WIN award in recognition of an outstanding initiative is currently being considered. Watch this space!
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