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London Saturday Journal..., Volume 1
INFORMATION ON SPECTACLES *.
pulverized diamond, into slabs or pieces, of the diameter required.
Those pieces in which bubbles, waves, or blemishes appear, are Spectacles and side-saddles, we are quaintly informed, thrown aside by the optician who is tenacious of his fair fame, became common in England in the reign of Richard the Second.
as their imperfections become more apparent in every afterThe ancients, however, knew the power of burning-glasses, and stage of their progress; and when polished, centred, and shaped one cunning rogue, we are told, discovered a new way to pay old for the spectacle-frame, they are really improper to be used at debts by means of a round stone or glass, used in lighting of all; nevertheless, the needy, or dishonest, rather than lose a fires, with which he melted the bond, written, as usual in those fraction of their gains, often persist in working up such imperdays, on wax. Their burning-glasses were spheres, either solid fect material, and, harping upon their being pebble-real pebble
-palm them upon the uninitiated as genuine articles. Pebor full of water, their foci were consequently very short and bles have the following important advantages : they are of equal confined. A long interval occurred before spectacles were con- density, and exceedingly hard, firm, and clear ; their surfaces structed, and three hundred years elapsed between the invention are not liable to become misty or scratched (which circumstance of spectacles and telescopes.
alone often compels a change of glasses) : they are of a pure, Our eyes should have our nicest and most tender care, since cool nature, and show this contrast to glass (which is, on the it is by them we are faniliarized with objects of the most ex
contrary, produced by the action of artificial heat) in the touch
of the finger or tongue to their surfaces. They are, in consequisite interest and beauty, abounding on the earth we inhabit,
quence of these properties, calculated to suit the sight for a and in the starry firmament above us :
longer period than glass ; but they need not be thrown aside " My soul, while Nature's beauties feast mine eyes,
when, from the indications already referred to, we find an To Naturo's God contemplative shall rise."-DODSLEY.
increase of magnifying power is required, as they can be reThe faculty of sight should be estimated and regarded by us worked readily enough to meet the acquirement of the eyes, and with more than ordinary care, when we reflect that it is the
at an expense of scarcely more than that of a new pair of glasses, medium through which the most exalted and gratifying impres- ascertaining the focus of concave or convex pebbles, are the
or about one-third of their original cost. The directions for sions are received ; and our watchful regard to its healthy pre
same as described for concave or convex glasses. servation and agreeable exercise is the more required from the The use of wire, gauze, crape, and muslin, as substitutes for consideration, that while to its admirable organization and glass, should be avoided, because it is a fallacy to assert that delicate sense of perception we stand so much indebted, those they are cooler and more agreeable to the eye. There is ahun. very qualities render it extremely sensitive to injudicious treat
dant space for the circulation of air in the region of the eye if ment.
the spectacle-frame adapts itself pleasantly to the wearer's face ; The eyes, when in a sound and healthy state, instinctively look on things around us, a transparent medium is preferable
while the eye and common sense may answer together that, to adjust themselves at a distance of twelve inches from a book or
to a hazy and indistinct one. We do not choose bars and paper, when they are observing the same. This distance is gratings, or coarse curtains, in preference to glass, for the win. found to be most natural and agreeable ; for when we extend it dows of apartments; but if the light is sometimes too intense, to sixteen, twenty, or thirty inches, the crystalline lens is we place a shade to soften its dazzling effects. Such precisely stimulated to keep a distant and clear perception, until, as the is the reason why tinted glass spectacles, for defending the eyes distance increases, the object become less and less perceptible. from rain, dust, and wind, are recommended. When we are compelled to extend this natural distance, expe- ties, within a given time, than those worked by hand. They
Lenses worked by machinery are produced in greater quantirience difficulty in reading small characters, or find it necessary
are passed through the different stages of grinding and polishto get more light on what we are observing, we may safely con- ing without having the keen eye of the workman carefully watchclude that artificial assistance is needed, and that, judiciously ing their progress, and adjusting the inequalities in their surfaces applied, the tendency to decay will be mildly arrested.
or edges, which will always appear more or less in the working. The design of spectacles is to supply the loss of power which
The price at which competition demands those lenses shall be is experienced by the eyes at different periods of life, and ducer cannot afford to throw aside such as are faulty, and the
rendered, operates against the wearer of spectacles; for the proarising from various causes. These productions of art are con
wholesale agent and retail dispenser cannot expect to have, at structed with a close observance to, and act upon, the same
the low price charged, lenses which will bear a critical examiprinciples as those by which the process of vision is regulated. nation; and thus all which can possibly be used are thrust into
Spectacles ought not to do more than maintain or preserve frames of one kind or other, from the common iron or horn to us the capability of seeing at the natural distance. This is, sold by the poor hawkers at sixpence, eightpence, and one shilin fact, all they are intended to effect. When the crystalline ling per pair, to the more expensive frames ; while many faulty lens of the eye, losing its convexity, fails to converge the rays glasses, after being dubbed with some ear-tickling appellation, of light, and bring them to their natural focus on the retina, an
and imbibing extraordinary "light-modifying and refractive virartificial lens, of suitable convexity, supplies to it this capability, tues," by passing into the hands of the hawker of a higher class,
are palmed upon the unfortunate spectacle purchasers who are and compensates for its gradual diminution of capacity. Thus simple enough to give credence to the wondrous tale. lenses for assisting the sight are fashioned upon the optical prin
The eyes in which no malformation or disease exists, but ciples so apparent in the mechanism of the eye itself, which, which simply partake of constitutional decay, or, from too conit will be observed, is neither round nor flat, but of that nicely | tinued application to sedentary and studious pursuits, are be. moulded convexity which is indispensable for the performance ginning to feel a want of assistance, should have spectacles of of its functions. If lenses were either spheres or planes, they sixty-inch focus, which is an exceedingly slight magnifying likewise would be ineffective for the purpose proposed.
power; and if these are found to be insufficient to afford ab There is not any material in existence, beside pebble and image of the letters of a book, &c., held in the hand at the
agreeable and natural perception (not an enlarged or magnified glass, which is calculated for spectacle purposes. The pretended distance of twelve or fourteen inches from the eye), then apply "improvements, ." "pellucid lenses," "refractive transparencies," those of the next power, viz. forty-eight inches' focus. If these
patent amber," "crystal preservers,"' &c., are new-fangled again are unequal to supply the loss of power or incapacity of terms, coined to entrap the uninitiated. Glass for optical uses the eye to converge the light to a point at the instant it reaches s heavy, homogeneous, and free from streaks and veins. More the retina, then lenses of thirty-six inches focus are to be had expensive chemical substances are employed in its manufacture recourse to; and when these fail to afford agreeable vision, than are used in making common glass.
thirty, twenty-eight, twenty-four, twenty, must be progressively Brazil pebbles, or crystallized quartz, are imported to this adopted, thus gradually descending the scale, until the eyes recountry in rough blocks; these are cut or slit, by the aid of power, as spectacles carefully suited to the sight are capable so
ceive such compensation for their progressive decay and loss of * From a lively tract, called " Spectacle Secrets," by George Cox, effectually to supply. London, 1838.
The period at which the sight begins to fail does not at all
depend on age, but varies in different persons according to the formation of the eyes, the treatment they have received, and
THE PROFESSOR OF SIGNS. the constitutional capability; therefore, the age of the person King James VI., on removing to London, was waited upon requiring spectacles gives but a vague general idea to the opti- by the Spanish Ambassador, a man of erudition, who had a cian as to what is required, unless other particulars are stated ; crotchet in his head that every country should have a Professor such as whether glasses have been used before ; the distance at which writing and printing are seen pleasantly without assist
of Signs, to teach him, and the like of him, to understand one ance: the focus of those last used, or sending even but a broken
another. piece of the same.
The Spanish ambassador was lamenting one day, before the The near-sighted, or those who require concave spectacles, king, this great desideratum throughout all Europe, when the should use those of the slightest power; No. 0, or No. 1, will king, who was a queerish sort of man, said to him, " Why, I generally be sufficient at first, but this, by the aid of the trial- have a Professor of Signs in the northernmost college of my bor, can readily be determined by the wearer himself. There is dominions, viz., at Aberdeen ; but it is a great way off, perhaps such an immense benefit experienced by the short-sighted from spectacles which suit their sight, that to argue for their adop- six hundred miles."—"Were it ten thousand leagues off, I shall tion of them would be quite superfluous. Without spectacles
see him," said the ambassador, "and I am determined to set out they are excluded from observing beautiful landscapes, recog- in two or three days." The king saw he had committed himself, nising individuals, or viewing to advantage any of the crowd of and wrote, or caused to be written to the University of Aberinteresting objects around them ; but by adopting them they deen, stating the case, and desiring the professors to put him off are placed on a par with the long-sighted in such circumstances,
some way, or make the best of him. The ambassador arrived, while the sharp and microscopic character of their sight without spectacles, gives them many advantages over those possessing which of them had the honour to be the Professor of Signs ?
was received with great solemnity, but soon began to inquire ordinary vision.
The short, or near-sighted eyes, have the cornea, and often And being told that the Professor was absent in the Highlands the crystalline lens, more convex or arched out than in long- and his return uncertain, said the Ambassador, " I will wait sighted eyes. This formation causes the rays to converge to a his return, though it were twelve months." Seeing that this focus before they reach the retina, but by the application of a would not do, and that they had to entertain him at a great concave lens the difficulty is corrected, and the rays are carried expense all the while, they contrived a stratagem. There was on to the proper point for giving a perfect image on the retina. This character of sight is very frequent, and is more particu
one Geordie, a butcher, blind of an eye, a droll fellow, with larly remarkable among those whose mode of life restricts them much wit and roguery about him. He is got, told the story, to crowded cities, sedentary employments, and confined situa- and instructed to be the Professor of Signs, but not to speak on tions. Those whose infantine and youthful years have been pain of death. Geordie undertakes it. The ambassador is passed in the country, or where the eyes have had a free range now told the Professor of Signs would be at home next day, at of view, not circumscribed by the walls of the nursery, or li- which he rejoiced greatly. Geordie is gowned, wigged, and mited to the observation of objects near at hand, rarely require placed in a chair of state in a room of the college, all the concave spectacles. The spectacle-frames next demand our attention, as our
professors and the ambassador being in an adjoining room. The utmost care in judiciously selecting lenses of the proper focus ambassador is now shown into Geordie's room, and left to conor our sight will be neutralised if the frame or mounting in verse with him as well as he could. The ambassador holds up which they are placed does not apply comfortably to the one finger to Geordie, Geordie holds up two, the ambassador head, leaving the lenses they carry fair and parallel before the holds up three fingers, Geordie clenches his fist and looks stern. eres. If the front of a pair of spectacles is too short for the The ambassador then takes an orange from his pocket and holds wearer's face, he will look upon the edge of the lens, and a por: it up ; Geordie takes a piece of barley-cake from his pocket and tion of the exterior rim of the frame; if they are too long his ere will meet the opposite edge and inner curve of the rim. holds it up ; after which the ambassador bows profoundly to Spectacle-frames are fashioned to suit the variety of formation him and retires to the other professors, who anxiously inquired in different individuals, and therefore such should be applied as his opinion of their brother ? "He is a perfect miracle," said adapt themselves pleasantly to the temples, across the forehead the ambassador, " I would not give him for the wealth of the and before the eyes.
Indies! I first held up one finger, denoting that there is one The material of which they are composed should be gold, God ;. he held up two, signifying that these are the Father and silver, or enamelled blue steel. Tortoiseshell, also, when well made, is very light and pleasant to wear, particularly for Son; I held up three, meaning the Father, Son, and Holy
I ladies. There is no advantage in large size, or round-eye Ghost; he clenched his fist, to say that the three are one. spectacles, to compensate for their clumsy appearance and great then took out an orange, signifying the goodness of God, who weight; we get a sufficient expanse of observation with the gives his creatures not only the necessaries, but the luxuries of oval-shaped glasses without harassing the eye with an excess of life; upon which the wonderful man presented a piece of bread, light, which the large glasses admit.
Solid blue steel mountings are a decided improvement, and showing that it was the staff of life, and preferable to every are invaluable for persons who constantly require spectacles.
luxury." They are wrought from a plate of steel, and shaped as light and
The Professors were glad that matters had turned out so well; nniform as any other town-made elastic blue steel spectacles, so, having got quit of the ambassador, they next went to Geordie, with the advantage of being more durable, and eventually less to hear his version of the signs. "Well, Geordie, how have expensive ; for as they have no soldering in their composition, you come on, and what do you think of your man?"—" The it is scarcely possible to break them, and therefore they rarely rascal !" said Geordie, "what did he do first, think ye? He want repairing. Blue steel spectacles, in consequence of their held up one finger, as much as to say, you have only one eye ! bers are sold by the pretended cheap shops, at apparently low I held up two, meaning, that my one eye was as good as both prices which the wearer will find to be immensely beyond their his. Then the fellow held up three fingers to say there were real value. There are thirteen different qualities of the specta- three eyes between us, and then I was so mad, I steeked my cles termed blue steel. The chief part are country made, and neive, and would have come a whack on the side of his head, roughly put together, some being all iron, others having iron but for your sakes.
Then the rascal takes out an orange, as fronts and steel sides; others again bearing a tolerably close much as to say, your poor beggarly cold country cannot produce resemblance to the best town-made articles, which, unless the that! I showed him a whang of bear bannock, meaning I did na two are compared together, is likely to deceive a casual observer. It will be perceived that it is the workmanship and nice finish
of care a farthing for him or his trash either, so long's I hae this ! the best town-made spectacle-frames which necessarily increases but, by a' that's guid, (concluded Geordie) I'm angry yet that the price. Thus, a single pound of pig iron, which costs one penny, I did na thrash the hide of the scoundrel !" can be manufactured into watch-springs of the value of 2401. So much for signs, or two ways of telling a story.
acre,
THE APPROACH OF AGE.
INDUSTRY As oft as I hear the robin-redbreast chaunt it as cheerfully in Septem- Heat gotten by degrees, with motion and exercise, is more natural, and ber, the beginning of winter, as in March, the approach of the summer, stays longer by one, than what is gotten all at once by coming to the fire. why should not we (thinks I) give as cheerful entertainment to the hoary. Goods acquired by Industry prove commonly more lasting than lands by frosty hairs of our age's winter, as to the primroses of our youth's spring ? descent.- Fuller's Holy and Profane States. Why not to the declining sun in adversity, as (like Persians) to the rising Æleas, a king of Scythia, used to say that he thought himself no better sun of prosperity? I am sent to the ant, to learn industry ; to the dove, to than his horse-keeper when he was idle.--Plut. Moral. p. 394. learn innocency; to the serpent, to learn wisdom; and why not to this
SPRATS. bird, to learn equanimity and patience, and to keep the same tenor of my
Sprats ("* Clupea sprattus") abound on the Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, mind's quictness, as well at the approach of the calamities of winter as
Kentish, and other coasts, and afford during the whole of the winter, a of the spring of happiness ? and since the Roman's constancy is so com
cheap supply of food both to rich and poor. The largest quantities aro mended, who changed not his countenance with his changed fortunes,
taken when the nights are dark and foggy. From 400 to 500 stow.boats why should not I, with a Christian resolution, hold a steady course in all
are employed during the winter. Many thousand tons in some seasons wcathers, and though I be forced with cross winds to shift my sails and
are taken, and sold at 6d. and 8d. the bushel, depending on the supply and catch at side winds, yet skillfully to steer and keep on my course by the
demand, to farmers, who distribute about forty bushels of sprats over an Cape of Good Hope, till I arrive at the haven of eternal happiness ?
acre of land, and sometimes manure twenty acres at the cost of 203 an Waruick's Spare Minutes.
In the winter of 1829-30, sprats were particularly abundant; large WIT AND JUDGMENT.
loads, containing from 1,000 to 1,500 bushels, bought at 6d. a bushel, were Wit is brushwood, judgment tinder: the one gives the greatest flame,
sent up the Medway as far as Maidstone, to manure the hop grounds. the other yields the durablest heat; and both meeting make the best fire.
Notwithstanding the immense quantity consumed by the 1,500,000 inhab. -Sir T. Overbury.
itants of London and its neighbourhood, there is yet occasionally a surplus
to be disposed of at so low a price as to induce the farmers even so near COSTUME IN EDWARD Iu.'s REIGN.
the metropolis as Dartford, to use them for manure.-Yarrell's British Dress in the reign of Edward III, 1327, is thus described by Knyghton, Fishes. an historian of these times:-" As regards gentlemen, what could exhibit a more fantastical appearance than an English beau of the 14th century ?
ANTIQUITY OF EPitarus.
Many instances of epitaphs in prose and in verse, may be collected from He wore long-pointed shoes, fastened to his knees by gold or silver chains,
the old Greek poets and historians, who were yet but children compared a stocking of one colour on one leg and one of another colour on the other,
to the Chaldeans and Egyptians. But the most ancient precedent of short breeches which did not reach to the middle of his thighs; a coat one
epitaphs must be that recorded in the most ancient history, namely the half black the other half white or blue, a long beard, a silk hood, buttoned
Old Testament, 1 Sam. vi. 18; where it is recorded, that the great stone under his chin, embroidered with grotesque figures of animals, and orna
erected as a memorial unto Abel, by his father Adam, remained unto mented with gold, silver, or precious stones." The dress of ladies is thus
that day in being, and its name was called "the stone of Abel ;" and its described :-" The tournaments are attended by many ladies of the first
elegy was, " Here was shed the blood of the righteous Abel:" as it is also rank and greatest beauty dressed in party-coloured tunics. Their tippets
called 4,000 years after, Matt. xxiii. 35. And this is the origin of monuare very short, their caps remarkably small and wrapt about their heads
mental memorials and elegies.-- Athen, Oracle. with cords. Their girdles are ornamented with gold and silver, and they wear short swords, like daggers, before them, which hang across their
CHAIN OF BEINGS. stomachs. They are mounted on the finest horses with the richest furni- Bitumen and sulphur form the link between earth and metal, vitriols ture; and thus equipped they ride from place to place in quest of tour. unite metals with salts, crystallisations connect salt with stones, the naments, by which they dissipate their fortunes, and often ruin their repu- amianthes and lytophites form a kind of tie between stones and plants, tations."
the polypus unites plants to insects, the tube-worm secms to lead to shells EFFECTS OF WINE ACCOUNTED FOR.
and reptiles, the water-serpent and the eel form a passage from reptiles When Noah planted the first vine, and retired, Satan approached and
to fish, the anas nigra are a medium between fishes and birds, the bat and said—"I will nourish you, charming plant!" He quickly fetched three
the flying squirrel link birds to quadrupeds, and the monkey equally gives animals--a sheep, a lion, and hog--and killed them, one after another,
the hand to quadrupeds and to man. near the vine. The virtues of the blood of these three animals penetrated
CHINESE APHORISMS. it, and are still manifest in its growth. When a man drinks one goblet of He who toils with pain will eat with pleasure. No duns outside, nor wine, he is then agreeable, gentle, friendly-that is the nature of the lamb. no doctors within. Forbearance is a domestic jewel. Something is When he drinks two, he is like a lion, and says, " who is like me?"-he learned every time a book is opened. To stop the hand is the way to stop then talks of stupendous things. When he drinks more, his senses forsake the mouth. Who aims at excellence will be above mediocrity; whu aims bim; and, at length, he wallows in the mire. Need it be said, that he at mediocrity will fall below it. then resembles the hog?--Richardson.
CASH AND COURAGE.
SIR WILLIAM JONES AND THOMAS DAY.
None fight with true spirit who are overloaded with cash. A man One day, upon removing some books at the chambers of the former, a who had been fortunate at cards, was applied to, to act as a second large spider dropped upon the floor, upon which Sir William, with some in a duel, at a period when the scconds engaged as heartily as tho warmth, said, " Kill that spider, Day! kill that spider." "No," said principals. "I am not," said he, "the man for your purpose, just at Mr. Day, with coolness, " I will not kill that spider, Jones: I do not know present, but go and apply to him from whom I won a thousand guineas that I have a right to kill that spider. Suppose, when you are going in last night, and, I warrant you, he will fight like any devil ! "-Andres' your chaise to Westminster hall, a superior being, who perhaps may have Anec. p. 138. as much power over you as you have over this insect, should say to his
MAN'S INSIGNIFICANCE. companion, · Kill that lawyer! kill that lawyer !'how should you like Whoever shall represent to his fancy, as in a picture, that great imago that, Jones ? and I am sure that to most people, a lawyer is a more noxious of our mother Nature, portrayed in her full majesty and lustre, whoever animal than a spider."
in her face shall read so general and so constant a variety, whoever shall A JUST FLOGGING.
observe himself in that figure, and not himself, but a whole kingdom, no I had one just flogging. When I was about thirteen I went to a shoc- bigger than the least touch or prick of a pencil, in comparison of the maker, and begged him to take me as his apprentice. He being an honest whole, that man alone is able to value things according to their true estiman, immediately took me to Bowyer, (the master of the Blue-Coat School, mate and grandeur.-Montaigne's Essays. in which Coleridge was educated,) who got into a great rage, knocked
DEBT. ine down, and even pushed Crispin rudely out of the room. Bowyer asked me why I had made myself such a fool? To which I answered that I had
There can be no independence or calmness without freedom from debt,
which subjects one to indignities that harrow up the soul. Where tho a great desire to be a shoemaker, and that I hated the thought of being a
mind and temper are irritated in this way, what enjoyment can there bo clergyman. "Why so ?" said he. "Because, to tell you the truth, sir,' said I, " I am an infidel!" For this, without more ado, Bowyer flogged
in anything? And what ripe and perfect fruits can the imagination of
the understanding produce ? Even the charms of nature are thus clouded, me, wisely as I think; soundly, as I know. Any whining or sermonising and the airs of heaven cannot soothe us.-Autobiography of Sir E. would have gratified my vanity, and confirmed me in my absurdity; as it was, I was laughed at and got heartily ashamed of my folly.-Coleridge.
Brydges, Bart.
SLEEPING IN CHURCH. TO TAKE OFF IMPRESSIONS IN PLASTER OF PARIS OR
'Tis a shame when the church itself is a cæmeterium, where the living SULPHUR.
sleep above ground as the dead do beneath.-Fuller's Holy and Profane The plaster must be pulverized and sifted through a piece of very fine
States. gauze. First rub over the medal or engraved stone very softly with oil,
CURIOSITY. and having wiped it with cotton surround the edge of it with a slip of thin The curiosity of an honourable mind willingly rests there where the love lead; mix up the sifted plaster with water and stir it gently to prevent it of truth does not urge it further onward, and the love of its neighbour bids it throwing up air bubbles, then pour it over the medal, or whatever it may stop ; in other words, it willingly stops at the point where the interests of be, the impression of which is wanted, and suffer it to harden and dry; it is truth do not beckon it onward, and charity cries, Halt !--Omniana. easily detached, and forms a mould strongly marked. The process by sulphur is the same. Before these are used as moulds for impressions they London: WILLIAM SMITH, 113, Fleet Street. Edinburgh: FRASER must be oiled.
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SECOND ARTICLE.-MANNING AND FITTING OUT.
of the lieutenants (these being distinguished as commissioned THE BRITISH NAVY.
officers) joins, all hands are called, and his commission,
similar to the one we have described, is read aloud in presence · High o'er the poop the flattering winds unfurled
of the whole ship's company. The imperial flag that rules the watery world."-FALCONER.
The first lieutenant, (or commander, if the captain has made The formal ceremony performed of "Putting the ship in his election for one,) master, boatswain, gunner, and carpenter, commission," the officer next proceeds, in company with the are the persons on whom devolve the principal duties in fitting master attendant, to select and receive charge of a hulk. This out. Whilst the first two superintend the whole process, the is an old vessel fitted up for the habitation of the crew during master, and one of his mates, pay particular attention to the the time the ship is equipping. The principal object is to select stowage of ballast, water tanks, provisions, &c. in the holds ; for one sufficiently capacious to accommodate the officers and men, a judicious distribution of the weight has a great effect upon the and moored (situated) as near the dock-yard as possible, for the ship's motion at sea, and also upon her sailing qualities. The greater facility of boats passing to and fro.
boatswain superintends the rigging; the gunner, besides the The choice of the hulk approved, a pendant is hoisted, and rigging of the mainmast and main yard, is employed fitting the never struck (taken down) night or day. The ensign or colours tackling and breechers (ropes which secure and work the (a large oblong flag with a union-jack in the upper corner) cannon); and the carpenter takes care that the masts and yards is also hoisted every morning at eight o'clock, and displayed are free from defects, besides busying himself in preparing the until surset.
boats, and various other matters. The next step is to procure a clerk, if he is not already pro. If men are slow in entering, not much can be done in the way vided ; and should the captain have no one in view for this of rigging for some time, unless expedition is required, in which office, application is generally made to the admiral's secretary, who case, working parties are sent from the flag-ship, or other ships recommends one of several always on his list for employment. in port, to assist ; but in all cases it is desirable that the vessel
The clerk immediately makes out a demand for stationery, shall be fitted in every respect by her own crew: meanwhile there and having procured the signature of the commanding officer, is plenty of employment in getting on board the ballast, water he repairs to the superintendant of the dock-yard, who approves tanks, &c., stepping the masts, and other heavy jobs, at which it; he then draws from the store-keeper the necessary supply, the marines prove very useful. comprising various printed forms, which must be filled up, During war, vessels are manned by draughts from the guard. signed, and countersigned, after a regulated manner, before ships, or other ships paid off, and by pressing any seamen that stores or provisions of any description can be obtained. The can be laid hold of; in seasons of peace, the crews are all volunclerk also makes entries of the name, age, and description of every teers, who enter for the ship, or for general service. The term person who joins the ship; copies the port-admiral's orders, implied is three years, but once entered they can be detained, and has in fact a very busy time of it whilst in harbour. if the service requires it, for five years.
Due notice of the intention of putting the ship in commission There is seldom, under ordinary circumstances, a necessity has in the mean time been given to the commandant of the for hurrying a ship's equipment, and as unnecessary severity of division of royal marines; and as soon as the hulk is reported discipline and frequent corporal punishment are greatly discounready for their reception, the party of marines, or sea-soldiers, tenanced by the Board of Admiralty, captains are of course called jollies by the seamen, is marched from the barracks to anxious to procure men of good character, so that they may have boats and embarked on board. From thenceforth, like every the less occasion to exercise severity. For this reason ships are one serving under that awful symbol the pendant, the marines sometimes very slowly manned in the present day, and good are amenable to naval discipline ; directed at work and ordered men being frequently rejected for frivolous causes, or a fastidi. about by Daval officers : in fact their own officers have little to ousness on the part of the captain, they are the less inclined to do with them afloat, except inspecting the condition of their submit to this mortification, and when slighted repair to the appointments, with an occasional exercise.
merchant, and often, we fear, to foreign service. Very much also The purser is generally appointed early, but should he not depends upon the reputation which the captain and his comhave made his appearance, (or joined, as it is called,) a supply mander or first lieutenant enjoys amongst the seamen ; a hasty of provisions is obtained from the flag.ship. As soon as this or contemptuous expression, a character for harassing the men official appears, however, he speedily procures all that is necessary with trifling jobs, or any prejudice taken up, runs like wild-fire in his department, for his principal emoluments are derived amongst seamen ; for they congregate together and discuss these from the savings he can effect in the allowance made him for matters-the most interesting that can be to them; and cases of providing coals, candles, and other necessaries.
this sort militate against the manning a particular ship, whilst As the officers appear, and their names are inserted on the men will enter freely for another. Indeed, experience shows that books, they enter on their various duties ; the lieutenants, mates, it is not the strictest disciplinarians who are unpopular, very and midshipmen, being attached to the parties which are sent far from it; because, under them, the seaman knows every one daily to the dock-yard and gun-wharf, to prepare the ship's must perform his duty, and the willing man is not obliged to do rigging, furniture, and armament. When the captain or either the work of the skulker. It may be very generally and certainly
[Bradbury and Evans, Printers, Whitefriars. )
assumed, that when men show a disinclination for a particular further his recovery. If wounded or maimed, casualties to ship, there is a prejudice existing against some party on board ; which his profession render him peculiarly liable, he has surgical the remedy the Dutch formerly adopted for this was to nominate assistance on the spot, for want of which, and the means of peranother captain, if the one first appointed failed to enlist his forming an operation in season, thousands of merchant seamen crew within a specified time. No doubt such a regulation perish miserably. Moreover, should disease overtake him, and induced officers to cultivate the respect and affection of their incapacitate him at any time whilst serving, he is invalided and
pensioned at from eight pence to nine pence per day, instead of To many it may seem surprising that seamen will enter at all becoming dependent on parish relief. His children are eligible in the Royal Navy, when they can always earn nearly double, for Greenwich school, where they receive an education that and sometimes treble, the wages in trading ships. Experience qualifies them for advancement in life to any station good shows, however, that they do, and the fact is indisputable that conduct can obtain. In case of death, his wife receives an upwards of twenty thousand are now serving in the fleet, all annuity, and when he has served twenty-one years, he can volunteers. There must be some reasons for this, and the fact claim a pension for life, either at sea or on shore, of from is there are various advantages present, contingent, and in pro- ten pence to fourteen pence per day, and more if he served spect, connected with the Queen's service, that operate upon the in petty officer's ratings. The seaman who resolves upon minds of men who bestow a thought on the matter. But as we entering the Royal Navy with a view to serving therein believe that three-fourths of our merchant seamen never heard twenty-one years, may therefore set casualty and fate at defiance; of, or at all events do not know enough of these advantages to he need take no further thought of provision for life. He may appreciate them, we shall be performing a kindness by describing save out of his pay (to say nothing of his chance of prize money) the most prominent, reserving more detailed observations upon scores, nay, hundreds of pounds, if provident, leaving himself " Impressment and Manning the Fleet" for a special article, in ample means for enjoyment besides, for every want is supplied which we purpose treating on the matter hereafter.
to him ; and, should he so desire, Greenwich Hospital at last The average wages of seamen in merchants' ships, may be receives him. The merchant seaman has nothing of this kind estimated roundly, at 45s. per month. In some trades they to depend on. It is true he subscribes to a fund, but unless he earn considerably more ; and an able seaman, who really de- makes some additional provision for old age, he will find but a serves the title, and has served his apprenticeship to the sea, scanty maintenance from what that affords; and should his may always calculate on obtaining 60s. per month.
constitution break down, or injury or disease incapacitate him, The best seamen in the Navy do not (until they attain to he has no resource for himself or family from which he can petty officer's ratings) receive more than 348. per month, but claim the means of support. their pay is calculated by the lunar, not (as in the merchant's Having detailed the advantages which the seaman enjoys in service) the calendar month, so that in this respect, they have an the royal navy, so far as regards his wages and entitlements, advantage of thirteen to twelve. But the man.of-war's man's pay the reader will be anxious to know how he fares ? The best is always accruing; he is subjected to no interruptions nor mulcts, information we can give him on this point is to append the his pay goes on in sickness or health, when captured or ship- following Table, which shows the provision made for his support, wrecked *, even when on leave of absence: in fact, he need never and the judicious manner in which his food is varied from day lose a day's wages, for when discharged from one ship, he can to day. immediately enter on board the flag ship, and obtain two or
The following scheme shows the proportion of provisions, with three weeks' leave for recreation on shore, depositing his chest,
salt-meat, for each man, for fourteen days. bedding, and a portion of his money, in safety, until his return. Again, he incurs no drawbacks, like the merchant seaman, for
Days of the week. damage or pillage of the cargo; neither is he obliged to hang about the docks for ten days after discharge, before he can claim a settlement of his wages, all which time the seaman is a Sunday.
Monday, prey to Jews, who advance him money on exorbitant terms :
Tuesday. in fact, notwithstanding the disparity of wages, if a balance is Wednesday.
Thursday. struck at the end of half-a-dozen years, it will be found that Friday.
$ the man-of-war's man had earned the most money, and main
Saturday. tained his family in the greatest comfort, owing to the regularity Sunday.
Monday: of his employment, and punctuality of his allotment.
Tuesday. But it is only in the matter of wages—and that we have shown Wednesday.
Thursday. is questionable—that the merchant seaman can claim an advan- Friday. tage; in every other respect, he is immeasurably deficient. The
Saturday, man-of-war's man enjoys good treatment, food, and lodging, Proportion for
34 55 14 days.
54 54 34 greater safety from the superior qualities of his ship, the skill of the officers to navigate her, and the strength of the crew : in sickness, skilful professional treatment, with a profuse use of the
Every individual of the crew receives the same allowance, not most costly medicines to alleviate his pain, and restoratives to
the slightest distinction being made, either in quality or quantity,
between the captain and the smallest boy on board the ship. * If a merchant vessel is captured or wrecked, the crew are not entitled
Formerly there existed what were called " Banyan days," to wages. In either case, but particularly the former, when the man is being three days in the week, not strictly of abstinence, but on generally detained in prison during the war, his allotment is stopped, and
which no dinner was cooked, the men making a cool and comhis family deprived of any help from him. The man-of-war's man is not liable to this, but his wages continue to accrue when he cannot
fortless meal on whatever they saved from the previous day. receive them, and his allotment is punctually paid, even should he be Banyan days have been abolished since the war, and the above detained in a French prison twenty years or more.
arrangement adopted, by which a hot dinner every day of beef
pint,
Vinegar,
plat.


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Matt Duchene Signs with Nashville Predators
COLUMBUS, OH - FEBRUARY 26: Matt Duchene #95 of the Columbus Blue Jackets lines up for a face off during the game against the Pittsburgh Penguins on February 26, 2019 at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio. (Photo by Kirk Irwin/Getty Images)
The Nashville Predators have signed unrestricted free agent forward Matt Duchene to a contract. Sportsnet's Chris Johnston reports that the contract will be seven-years at $56 million.
It sounds like Matt Duchene will join the #preds. Expect his contract to come in with an $8M AAV.
— Chris Johnston (@reporterchris) July 1, 2019
Nashville Predators Sign Matt Duchene
Over his 10-year NHL career, he spent time with the Colorado Avalanche, Ottawa Senators and Columbus Blue Jackets. Over that span, he scored 232 goals and 315 assists for 547 points in 727 games.
Last season in 73 games between the Ottawa and Columbus, Duchene scored 31 goals and added 39 assists for 70 points. His possession numbers were 51.9 percent Corsi and a relative Corsi of 7.
In 10 playoffs games, Duchene scored five goals and added five assists for 10 points.
Duchene was originally drafted by the Colorado Avalanche in the first round, third overall in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft.
What This Means for the Future
In Duchene, Nashville gets a versatile top-line talent. Duchene is capable of playing both centre or the wing. However, he is best utilized at centre due to his ability to win the draw. Duchene finished with a 55.3 faceoff win percentage last season which was good for 13th in the league for players who took over 1,000 faceoffs.
In today's NHL where the game is built on speed and skill, Duchene excels. Duchene has outstanding top-end speed and is regarded as one of the league's fastest skaters. He has a magnificent set of hands. Duchene is able to pull off dekes at top speed leading to highlight-reel goals. Duchene is also a very capable playmaker. He has shown throughout his career by hitting the 30 and 40 assist plateaus multiple times. Duchene also set a new career high in goals last season with 31 and tied a career high in points with 70.
There's been a lot of ups and downs for Duchene over the past few years. Dealing with a ton of trade rumours for years in Colorado to then dealing with the contract and trade situation in Ottawa to eventually finishing out the season in Columbus where the club got ousted in the second round by the Boston Bruins. Now with a new contract signed, Duchene can finally settle in. He doesn't have to worry about rumours or contract talks any longer. He can finally focus on playing hockey and try to win his first Stanley Cup.
COLUMBUS, OH – FEBRUARY 26: Matt Duchene #95 of the Columbus Blue Jackets lines up for a face off during the game against the Pittsburgh Penguins on February 26, 2019 at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio. (Photo by Kirk Irwin/Getty Images)
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Gustave Dore was probably the most famous illustrator who ever lived. He was born in 1832 in Strasbourg, France and began drawing at the age of five. He was entirely self-taught with an instinctual knack for light, form and composition. At the age of 15, he talked his way into the office of publisher, Charles Philipon to show him his sketches. At first Philipon found it amusing that such a young boy would be so brash, but once the drawings were laid out in front of him, he couldn't believe his eyes- He thought it must be a trick. Dore sat down at his desk and proceeded to knock out a few more sketches for him on the spot to prove that the work was indeed his. Young Dore was immediately signed to a contract, and within a year, he was the highest paid illustrator in France, exceeding the per page rate of Honore Daumier, France's most celebrated printmaker at the time.
Dore is primarily known as an illustrator today, but his first successes were in the field of cartooning. Thousands of his "grotesque caricatures" were published in various magazines in France in the 1850s and 1860s, as well as appearing in the prestigious British humor magazine, Punch. The cartoons in this article appeared in a book titled 200 Sketches Humorous and Grotesque which was published in London in 1867. (More on that amazing book in the near future…) Dore's style ranged from the wildest exaggeration to classically constructed human figures- and every variation between the two. In addition to drawing, he was also an accomplished painter, sculptor and engraver.
In 1847, Dore decided he wanted to create a book of engravings based on a great literary work, Dante's Inferno. He visited the offices of Louis Hachette, the most successful publisher in Paris. Even though no book up to that point had sold for more than 15 Francs, Dore told Hachette that he wanted to produce a deluxe oversize book of engravings that would sell for 100 Francs. The publisher scoffed at the idea and assured him that no book would ever sell at that price. But Dore called his bluff, offering to pay the printing and binding expenses if Hachette would manufacture and distribute the book for him. Dore created 76 full page engravings for Inferno, and financed a print run of 100 large format books. Within two weeks, the first printing had sold out and Hachette was eager to eat his words and publish the book on Dore's terms.
With a team of the greatest available engravers working under his supervision, Dore went on to create iconic engravings for Don Quixote, Baron Munchausen, Fontaine's Fables, Milton's Paradise Lost and the Bible, among many others. In just three years, he produced over 2,000 engravings, and continued to maintain an incredible pace for another two decades. Although Dore's paintings and sculptures were exhibited in museums with great success, his most important legacy wasn't as a fine artist. Vincent Van Gogh called him… "an artist of the people". Dore was the first serious artist to use the power of modern technology, specifically engraving and electrotypes, to deliver his art directly to the masses. His Bible illustrations alone were published in almost 1,000 editions around the world. Just about every serious reader in the late 19th century had at least one volume in his library that included Dore illustrations, and his work continues in print to this day.
The influence of the imagery of Gustave Dore can be seen in classic movies like Intolerance, King Kong, Great Expectations and The Ten Commandments. Despite the fact that Dore's engravings are nothing more than lines etched in black and white, he achieved a remarkable sense of scale, depth and mass, as well as truly spectacular lighting effects. It's no wonder that the masters of epic filmmaking, D.W. Griffith, Cecil B. DeMille and David Lean referred to Dore's illustrations for their set designs. Stop-motion animators, Willis O'Brian and Ray Harryhausen have cited Dore as one of their main influences as well. Harryhausen was quoted in an interview as saying, "I've always wanted to do Dante's Inferno, because of Gustave Dore. He had done the first illustrated book of Dante's Inferno- A Trip Through Hell. I felt that would look terrific in animation, but when I got deeper into it, I thought, 'Will people be able to sit through an hour and half of tormented souls writhing in Hell?' Although these days they sit through over two hours of tormented souls!"
Set design for D.W. Griffith's "Intolerance" (1916). See Dore's depiction of Babylon below.
Animation Resources was fortunate to obtain an 1870 edition of the most monumental collection of Dore images ever published, The Dore Gallery. Referred to in the book trade as an "elephant folio" because of its huge size, this two volume set contains hundreds of high quality engravings from many of Dore's greatest works. Our scanning team has been carefully digitizing this amazing book, resulting in archival quality scans.
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Theory: 3D Design Inspiration- Kachina Dolls
When an artist who animates with drawings looks to reference for stylization techniques, he might look to modern UPA style cartoons. These can often give him ideas for interesting shapes or ways of handling the line. But these sorts of flat designs aren't much help to a puppet or CGI animator, because 3D characters need to be volumetric so they can inhabit three dimensional space. A flat UPA character won't translate. So where does a CGI or puppet character designer look for ideas about stylization?
Well… one great source is American Indian Kachina Dolls…
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Kachinas are very important spiritual symbols to the Hopi and Zuni tribes in North Eastern Arizona. They represent natural life forces that are able to provide protection, fertility or healing. There are hundreds of different Kachinas in the Hopi culture, each one with a specific personality and representational meaning. The Kachinas aren't thought of as gods, but rather as a shadow society, with family relationships and lives of their own. There are Kachinas that embody the wind, the sun, stars, thunderstorms, birds, animals and even ideas, like motherhood or fertility. The most important Kachinas are referred to by the Hopi as Wuya.
The Hopis and Zunis dress up as the Kachinas for planting and harvest festivals. They dance and sing in costume and give the children of the pueblo wooden dolls of the characters as gifts to protect them and teach them about the culture. (The Kachinas are looked upon by the children as a cultural equivalent of Santa Claus because of this custom.)
The Navajo tribe didn't have Kachinas in their culture, but the proximity of the Hopi and Navajo reservations created a sharing of ideas, and now many Navajos carve Kachina dolls too.
Here are some examples of the masks worn by the Kachina dancers…
The word "Kachina" can be used in several contexts… It can be used for the characters representing natural spirit powers, the costumed dancers at the festivals, the dolls given as gifts to the children, or to describe the crude souvenir dolls sold to tourists.
Souvenir Kachinas sold along Route 66 in the 50s and 60s
The simplest way to tell a souvenir Kachina doll from one given to the Hopi children is to look on the feet for a signature. Tourist Kachinas are almost always signed and have the name of the Kachina. Ones given by the Kachina to the Hopi children is never signed, because the children are told that the Kachinas themselves made it for them.
Senator Barry Goldwater had the world's most significant collection of antique Kachina Dolls, which he willed to the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona. The collection illustrates the progression that Kachina design went through from the 1890s all the way through the 1950s. If you are ever in the area, it's well worth a visit.
As you look through this gallery of Kachina dolls, take note of the wild stylization and the variations on a single character. Each Hopi artist has his or her own style and approach to carving the dolls and the designs have changed radically over the past century. Earlier examples are more like outer space creatures, while more recent ones have more realistic human proportions.
It's easy to get stuck in a stylistic rut, designing characters that look just like other character designs. Instead, step outside of the box for inspiration and you'll find that the possibilities in design for animation are limitless… and a lot of fun too!
Stephen Worth
This posting is part of a series of articles comprising an online exhibit entitled Theory.
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Animation: Reiniger's Prince Achmed
If you ask the average person what the first feature-length animated film was, just about everyone will answer Walt Disney's "Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs". But Disney's film wasn't the first animated feature by a longshot. Arguably, that honor belongs to Lotte Reiniger's "Adventures of Prince Achmed".
In 1923, Reiniger and her husband and business partner, Carl Koch began work on an ambitious project… a feature length silhouette puppet film based on "The One Thousand and One Nights". She worked with animator Bertold Bartosch and background artist Walter Ruttman for three years on the film. The paper cutouts were jointed using wires and delicately arranged on top of a lightbox, where it was photographed frame by frame. Reiniger continued to animate her distinctive silhouette films up into the mid-1970s. She passed away in 1981.
Animation Resources volunteer, Eric Graf was perusing a local library book sale when he spotted an amazing find… a portfolio of prints from Reiniger's landmark film. Published in Berlin in the year the film was released (1926), this group of images shows just how beautiful Reiniger's work was… and how unique. Eric picked up the book for the collection and brought it by today. Thanks, Eric!
Our reader, Michael generously translated the synopsis for us…
Once upon a time there was a wizard who could control all the powers and elements of the world. One day, he made a mighty flying steed out of pure will and thought. Then he took it to the caliph's palace and asked him to let him marry his daughter in exchange for the horse. The girl refused (she thought he was ugly), so the plan was dismissed, but her brother, Achmed, got angry and insulted the wizard. So the latter set up a trap for him: He offered him to have a ride on the horse to see how fast and strong it was. But as soon as he was in the saddle, the horse flew up into the sky and far away. Achmed managed at last to make it land on an island. There he found many beautiful women asking him to be their lover, but he denied as he wanted to find their queen, who – as he had heard – was a woman of exceptional beauty.
Achmed flew over the island on the magic horse and saw a lake shimmering in the night. While he was waiting there, a bird with beautiful feathers landed nearby and changed shape before his eyes: It transformed into Paribanu, the queen of the island, and she wanted to bathe there; around her were many gentle women. Achmed asked her to stay with him, but she was frightened and tried to flee; he, however, held on to her feathers and followed her through the thicket like the hunter follows the deer. He asked her to flee no longer and sat her onto the horse with him. Then they flew over numberless countries, until at last they found a lonely valley, where Achmed made a bed for her under a tree.
But in the meantime, the wizard was not idle, searching for his horse with magic webs, in which he caught the picture of the faraway valley. Then he transformed into a kangaroo, that strange jumping animal of the desert, and in the next moment he was with Achmed and Paribandu. He lured Achmed into a deep canyon, in which a horrible snake lived. While Achmed was fighting that snake, trying to save his life, the wizard kidnapped the girl and escaped with the flying horse.
In China he wanted to sell her as a slave. A very powerful emperor lived there; he had a hump-backed jester, who amused him with his pranks and his chimes. The emperor liked Paribandu and gave many sacks of treasures to the wizards for her. Big was the emperor, and fat. Beautiful he was not. When he approached Paribandu and wanted to make her his lover, she pushed him away, crying: "No, you monster!" That made the emperor angry, so he called his jester and told him: "Do with her what you want! You can kill her, but you may also take her as your wife if you want!" "Ah, marriage! We make marriage!" the hump-backed one called out and danced with joy.
Meanwhile, the wizard was flying back to the island on birds that he had made out of the sacks of gold from the emperor. On the island, Achmed was mourning the loss of his lover, but the wizard gave Achmed to those birds: They tore him away like vultures tear a corpse away. When they found a wasteland where the earth was gaping and spewing out horror, they layed him down shackled under a big rock.
A flaming abyss opened next to Prince Achmed. A hideous woman rose out of it and stepped towards him. Was she going to kill him? He walked up to her and told her who had brought him there, and that the great wizard's animals had kidnapped him. When she heard that, she shouted: "He is my enemy, let us fight him together!" She called the monsters that served her, for she was very powerful, as powerful as the wizard. She ordered them to dive into the core of the earth and fetch weapons with which they could fight the wizard. Now she was friendly to Achmed, took him by the hand and freed him. Look how they soared through magic might, walking through the air with ease, as if they were walking on level ground. The prince shouted: "O look, down there is Paribanu, dressed for a celebration. Oh, she is going to be married with that hunch-backed jester! Let's go down there quickly and save her!"
Down they swooped like birds of prey, grabbing that noble girl. How they lay in each other's arms, Paribanu and Achmed!
But listen! The beating of wings, what does it mean? New dangers! Hosts of black creatures, horrible animals with flapping wings! "O Paribanu!" "These are the spirits of Wak-Wak, my home country. They will not tolerate my staying away from home, they will take me with them! O, the horror!" So the demons took to the air with their prey, and again Prince Achmed stood there alone, separated from his lover. He was furious, and in his anger he forced one of the birds to serve him. Racing after Paribanu, he saw the magic island from far away. The gate of Wak-Wak, and next to it endlessly high mountains. He flew into the gate, and through it.
Then, suddenly, the gates closed, and a voice told the Prince that he was not allowed to enter. "Have you heard of Aladin and his lamp," the voice said,
"only that lamp can be your salvation!" Achmed stopped short, trying to recall what he knw about that name: Aladdin! Aladdin!
What monster is this? Many-armed, abominable! Big as a mountain! And look, there is a man in its claws! The prince took his magic weapons to kill it. He shot arrow after arrow, until it dropped dead. He asked the man who he was. It was Aladin, the man he was looking for! He told Achmed his story: "I used to live a quiet life in the caliph's city. While I was working in my workshop one day, a stranger of noble appearance came in and asked me to follow him to a place where immense treasures could be found. He lead me to a cave and bade me descend to the depths of the earth. There, between shiny stones, I found the marvelous lamp. "Give it to me, scoundrel!" the stranger shouted; he was waiting at the cave's entrance. When I refused, he left me behind in darkness and desparation. But I, lighting the lamp, became the master of its spirits. They helped me escape. They served me and did whatever I ordered them to do. I gave them the order to build a palace, more beautiful than any palace I had seen before. And before the sun set, they had accomplished that feat. I went to the caliph's daughter and led her home with me as my wife. But in the evening, everything had disappeared – she, the lover, as well as the incredible palace and, with it, the lamp.
The stranger had done that, but who was he? The great wizard!
"So I got up and fled the caliph's wrath. Travelling over the sea in a tiny boat, i got into a storm. I was whirled around, I was almost smashed against rocks, then I was thrown on the coast. I saw a tree with fruit that could help me recover. But as I reached out for it, the tree rose to the height of a mountain and threw off branches and leaves: It was a monster! That was when you found me, Prince Achmed, and when you saved me!"
When Aladdin had finished his story, the witch appeared and told them that Paribanu was in danger. She said that the spirits of Wak-Wak were revolting against her and only Aladin's lamp could save her. "So you must fight the wizard!" both Aladdin and Achmed begged her, "wrench the lamp from his hands and kill him, the villain!" Already the witch got up and wove magic circles in order to catch the wizard. Not before long he was with them, angry and raging.
Now began a fight like the earth has never seen one, never before and never after it. In a lion's shape, the wizard jumped at the witch in order to pin her on the ground, but she turned into a snake. He, however, took the shape of a poisonous scorpion, which she countered by changing into a rooster. Many shapes they turned into, but neither of them was stronger than the other. Until at last, the witch tore the fire down from the skies, engulfing the wizard in flames. He, too, had power over the flames, and threw many a fire towards her, but finally, finally he got weak and burned. The villainous enemy was destroyed! Now the lamp belonged to them.
Victory, victory! Now they had to hurry to Paribanu's rescue. Numberless were the demons that attacked them. But numberless were also the good spirits that came streaming out of Aladdin's lamp to fight them. And so the black power of the demons was broken forever that day, they fled desperately to the recesses of the earth. They were free now, all of them: Paribanu and Achmed, Dinarsade and Aladdin!
Once more they summoned the lamp's spirits and bade them carry them to the palace they had built in one night and that the wizard had whisked away from the ground. Happily the spirits obliged. Look what made them so glad, while it was flying through the air, light as a cloud, but still artfully created, with numberless galleries and stairs and proud towers. In front of them the house landed like an animal that was meant to carry their burden. They entered the palace, and it flew up again to bring them back to the caliph's city. There, they were greeted with measureless joy. How long they had been away, and what adventures their eyes had seen!
But the caliph embraced them all as his children, Paribanu the beautiful, who was now the wife of Achmed, the noble son, and Aladdin, his lovely daughter Dinarsade's husband. The caliph lifted his hands and blessed them all.
THE PLATES
1. Achmed on the magic horse
2. At the caliph's court
3. The magic horse takes Achmed into the air with it…
4. …so the wizard is taken prisoner
5. Achmed with Paribanu's servants
6. Paribanu flying to the forest lake in her feathery costume
7. Her nightly bath
8. Achmed following Paribanu
9. The lovers in the mountains
10. Achmed and Paribanu
11. Achmed fighting with the snake in the canyon
12. The emperor of China's jester playing the chimes
13. Paribanu is sold to the emperor
14. The emperor pressing Paribanu
15. The wizard turns the sacks of gold into birds
16. The hunchback plays the flute for Paribanu
17. Achmed with the witch
18. Paribanu in her wedding attire
19. The wedding procession
20. Achmed shooting the monster
21. The monster threatening Aladdin
22. Aladdin tells Achmed his story
23. The wizard calls on Aladdin in his workshop
24. The wizard leads Aladdin past the caliph's palace
25. Dinarsade, the caliph's daughter, playing chess
26. Aladdin discovers the magic lamp in the cave
27. Aladdin greets Dinarsade
28. Aladdin at sea in the storm
29. The battle between the witch and the wizard
30. The wizard and the witch fighting in the shape of a vulture and a rooster
31. Aladdin fights the demons of Wak-Wak with his magic lamp
32. The homecoming
This important film is available at Amazon… The Adventures of Prince Achmed
This posting is part of the online Encyclopedia of Cartooning under the subject heading, Animation.
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A Burning Question
GSTAAD—Lenin Moreno is in trouble despite his very unchristian first name. For any of you unfamiliar with him, Señor Moreno is the president of Ecuador, a tiny South American country that I like very much because if you've met an Ecuadorean man, you've met them all: There are 16 million Ecuadoreans, and 8 million of them, the men, all look like identical twins. One of my closest friends on the tennis circuit back in the late '50s/early '60s was Guillermo Zuleta, an Ecuadorean, who was the color of copper and could run all day, all night, 48 hours straight as long as he was chasing a tennis ball. Those were not color-blind days, and I remember one time, while watching Guillermo playing a match, an Australian lady expressed outrage at the fact that Zuleta had a very pretty blond girlfriend pining away at the side. "What does she see in him?" "Well," I told her, "if you care to sneak into the locker-room shower after the match, I'll point it out—not that you can miss it."
Zuleta almost brought me to tears when he and his partner Guzman beat the big, bad Yankees at the Davis Cup, back when the Yankees were a superpower. (And the Davis Cup was the No. 1 prize in tennis.) They played in Quito, the capital, and the powers that be promised Zuleta's father a peanut concession outside the football stadium if he beat the hated gringos. I think he ran something like 250 miles in two singles and a doubles, and Ecuador won 3–2. When I asked Barry McKay, a top player, what had happened, he said it was like being in a bullring, with people throwing pennies and screaming their heads off as he looked up to hit an overhead. Although they were and are dirt-poor, the Ecuadoreans threw their last pennies onto the court in order to ensure victory. It's called patriotism, not nationalism.
"Would you slap Brad as hard as you would slap Harvey if both goosed you on the dance floor?"
I say all this because now president Lenin Moreno is in deep doo-doo. Les girls are Orlando Furiosos and want to make him a soprano. He said that women complain about sexual harassment only when harassed by someone ugly. He has apologized—as is the way nowadays—after expressing a certain truth. No dice. The girls are mad and they will not take it anymore. So, always in search of the truth for the dear old Speccie, I went up and down this alpine village and also visited the nightclub up at the Palace hotel looking to interview members of the fairer sex about Lenin's remarks. "Who the f— is Lenin?" was the first answer I got after asking a young woman drinking a martini at the Palace bar. Most of the women around Gstaad have never been accused of being intellectuals, yet the place draws them like you-know-what draws flies. But it could also be because of the mature men who frequent the Alps for the scenery. Some have even been known to ski, but not too fast.
The next lady I asked was more forthcoming: "Would you feel harassed if Brad Pitt stroked your backside uninvited?" "Actually, he can stroke it anytime," said the 50-year-old, "but why would he want an old bag like me?" I congratulated her for her candor and honesty, and then asked if she would react the same way if Harvey Weinstein did the same. "Not in a hundred f—ing years," came the answer.
This broadened my quest. I stopped women in the halls and in the nightclub and posed the following question: Would you slap Brad as hard as you would slap Harvey if both goosed you on the dance floor? Most women answered by telling me to go reproduce myself, but when I produced my notebook and pretended to write down their answer they asked whom I was doing this for. My reply was Screw magazine, now defunct, as is its owner, Al Goldstein.
Yet this poses a serious question. What Lenin Moreno said was out of line—or so my wife and daughter tell me—but what he meant, I am sure, is what has taken me all these words to say: Brad Pitt can get away with touching whereas Harvey Weinstein cannot. Is this true? I am not a woman so I cannot answer, but what I can definitely state is that if Helen of Troy was ugly, we Greeks would not have gone to war for ten years to get her back. Mind you, women know better. John Wilkes insisted that thirty minutes alone with a lady overcame his ugliness and he would prevail over any far better-looking rival. He was right. Women prefer brains and charm to looks. Men are dummkopfs and will take skin-deep beauty every time.
The great seducers were mostly ugly, men like Casanova, Talleyrand, Louis XIV, D'Annunzio, and so on. Power, of course, had something to do with it also. Errol Flynn and Gianni Agnelli were two very good-looking men who got lucky a lot, but most male lookers do not rank up high. That's because women want something more than looks, and when it's not brains, power will do nicely, thank you. So, this is for you ladies: Next time Brad Pitt comes around and acts inappropriately, slap him rather hard—if he makes a pass, that is. Harvey will not be coming around for some time, so forget about him.
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Lawmakers press for ICE reforms after fake school report
by Rafael Bernal - 12/04/19 6:00 AM ET
Calls for structural reform of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are growing in the wake of revelations that the agency created a fake school to lure foreign students to violate immigration laws.
House Democrats activists say the law enforcement agency's mission is too broad and its culture corrupt, but they've stopped short of calling for the outright abolition of ICE as demanded by some immigration activists.
"I think 'abolish ICE' is a buzzword. Because no matter what, we're always going to have to have some level of deportation force as well as an immigration processing institution," said Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), the vice chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC).
"And whether we need to separate those institutions into different entities with two different leadership styles and leadership heads, we can do that," added Gallego.
Rep. Linda Sánchez (D-Calif.) also said many Democrats are focused on reform, rather than abolition.
"The fact of the matter is we do need law enforcement to screen people at our ports of entry to make sure that there's not human trafficking going on, to keep contraband out of the country. So you can't ever abolish ICE. You could call it something else. I say reform ICE, let's put some guardrails in place so that they aren't embarking on these crazy schemes," said Sánchez, chairwoman of the CHC Immigration Taskforce.
Gallego added the agency "clearly needs to be redone because this organization has gone rogue and doesn't know how to prioritize real threats versus what I would say are actually assets that we could be bringing into our country."
The latest backlash against ICE was prompted by a sting operation starting in 2015, under former President Obama's administration, in which agents set up the University of Farmington in Michigan, an institution that sponsored student visas but offered no classes, only to arrest and deport the foreign nationals who registered.
It's unclear whether the foreign nationals believed the University of Farmington was a fake institution set up to shop out student visas, as ICE claims, or whether they were entrapped into unknowingly violating their visa terms.
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, an associate professor of law at the University of Denver who wrote "Migrating to Prison: America's Obsession With Locking Up Immigrants," said it's unclear whether ICE's actions constitute entrapment.
"The courts have given officers some pretty wide latitude when it comes to creative methods of identifying people who are violating the law and gathering evidence," García Hernández told The Hill.
García Hernández said any reforms to the immigration enforcement system should first focus on eliminating immigration imprisonment.
The controversy over the sting operations comes as aspects of ICE and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as a whole have come under scrutiny, even before President Trump started enacting his restrictive immigration agenda.
A commonly cited issue is the size of DHS, with more than 200,000 employees on its payroll, and the sometimes-contradictory missions conducted by its agencies.
In the case of ICE, the agency is divided into Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), which investigates, detains and deports foreign nationals for immigration violations, and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), which investigates criminal activity that transcends international borders.
Asked if she believed HSI and ERO belong under the same roof, Sánchez simply replied, "no."
Sánchez called for deep reform of an agency that's had a reputation for hard-edged enforcement tactics since its creation in 2003, in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Rep. Norma Torres, a fellow California Democrat critical of ICE's methods, said she's "been close" to calling for the abolition of ICE, "because of how they have performed in dealing with immigrants."
"If this university kicked off during the Obama administration that means nothing to me. The fact that ICE went and took advantage of a situation is what I find disgusting," said Torres.
But Torres said Trump's leadership has worsened the agency's behavior.
"This is a mean-spirited issue of this administration that is directing their employees to act a certain way, a racist way, a way that is inhumane," said Torres.
While Congress hasn't directly addressed the Farmington University case, ICE's leadership has faced congressional oversight from the House Oversight and Homeland Security Committees.
Hearings with top officials have so far centered on immigrant detention and a short-lived policy proposal to revoke deportation deferrals for critically ill foreign nationals seeking medical attention.
And the "abolish ICE" buzzword has lost potency on the left, where a recognition of immigration enforcement needs has taken hold.
"A pretty small percentage are calling to abolish ICE, most people are saying we need to restructure and reform it. And I think that's where the drive is. You hear that from the candidates. I hear that from progressive members of Congress," said Frank Sharry, executive director of America's Voice, a progressive immigration reform group.
Sharry added that the Farmington University incident was unlikely to reopen calls for abolition of the agency, as immigration enforcement agencies regularly rank among the least popular government institutions.
"They're well known as agencies that do bad things to innocent people, the idea of luring people to a school to learn English, and then prosecuting them for coming, it's just unbelievable," said Sharry.
But García Hernández said the agency's hardline tactics are politically aimed at an audience that's receptive to the methods.
"Instances like this situation in Michigan sour public opinion, or have to have the promise of souring public opinion. But the reality is that when it comes to the Trump administration, ICE has a lot of support within DHS, within the White House, and certainly within the political base that put the president into the White House," said García Hernández.
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Mastercard Foundation's partnership on ICON program is geared toward promoting food security – President, WOFAN
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The President of Women Farmers Advancement Network (WOFAN) has reiterated the commitment of the organization to promote food security through its recently launched ICON programme, which is an initiative in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation. She stated that the intervention program, which has provided farm implements, had contributed immensely to addressing the challenges associated with the poor yield the farmers have experienced.
As a result of these forward-thinking strategies, the farmers under the leadership of their traditional leader Sarki Ibrahim were able to fully recover from their economic challenges and expand their yield from growing only rice and groundnuts to including a variety of vegetables. The farmers also became savvier in using technology and have replicated this in their farming practice. As a result, farmers have increased their profits from N40,000 to N120,000.
Speaking on the farmers' progress, Sarki Ibrahim is grateful for the initiative by WOFAN, which has received immense community support, especially in terms of Women mobilization and scaling up their businesses. "We are extremely grateful to Mastercard Foundation and WOFAN for the inputs and technical support. This has improved our market access, and we can sell our produce at premium prices," says Sarki Ibrahim.
Another achievement of the Foundation and WOFAN partnership is establishing a makeshift centre for smallholder women farmers in Tofa community of Tofa LGA, Kano state. Here, they can pool resources to make groundnut oil for sale and parboil rice, all of which they accomplish using firewood. In time, WOFAN trained these women farmers to make and use briquettes in place of firewood to parboil their rice.
WOFAN, in partnership with Sonvisage Innovation Team, developed a solar-powered briquette stove for domestic cooking and parboiling business. It is also used to generate electricity as the sockets provided on the stove can charge phones while cooking; also, the stove is constructed with a cabinet where cooking utensils are kept.
Some women like Lubabatu Ado have taken to producing briquettes as a business. Again, solar power has provided a more eco-friendly way of soaking rice at night without using petrol or diesel. It also provides a source of income for people to start phone charging businesses. This has made the women's centre a place of business and a budding commercial hub in Tofa LGA of Kano state.
One of the beneficiaries, Mrs. Regina, who experienced the economic downturn, is grateful for Mastercard Foundation's intervention. "WOFAN gave us economic support by providing us with farming inputs and technical knowledge through the training on forward-thinking agricultural practices. This has helped my group be better informed on financial management, cooperative management and group dynamics to improve our business. We are very grateful for this training," she said.
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Did Edward Jenner's Son Die from a Vaccine Reaction?
Maybe people know that Edward Jenner first gave his new smallpox vaccine to James Phipps, the 8-year-old son of Jenner's gardener.
What they might now know is that two years later, in 1798, he also vaccinated his own son Robert F. Jenner, when he was eleven months old.
Did he die after getting vaccinated?
Did he suffer brain damage?
Of course not!
Edward Jenner vaccinated his youngest son, Robert.
He didn't even have a reaction and was later inoculated after being exposed to smallpox.
"My two eldest children were inoculated for the smallpox before I began to inoculate for the cow-pox. My youngest child was born about the time my experiments commenced, and was among the earliest I ever vaccinated. By referring to the first work I published on the subject in the spring of the year 1798, page 40, you will find his name, Robert F. Jenner, and you will observe it noticed that on his arm the vaccine lymph did not prove infectious. It advanced two or three days, and then died away."
Edward Jenner on the Life of Dr. Jenner
He died 56 years later.
Edward Jenner's other children didn't receive his smallpox vaccine. As they were all born before his experiments with cowpox, they had already received traditional smallpox inoculations.
"Edward is growing tall, and has long looked over my head. Catherine, now eleven years old, is a promising girl; and Robert, eight years old, is just a chip of the old block."
Edward Robert Jenner did die young, but it certainly wasn't an effect of his father's smallpox vaccine. He died of tuberculosis, which was a common killer at the time. He was 21 and had always had health problems, but again, he never received his father's new vaccine, so how could he be the "first child to suffer vaccine damage???"
This myth is easy to debunk. Jenner's son, Edward, that died young was never vaccinated!
What about the ethical implications of giving an experimental vaccine to your own child? A vaccine made with cow pus?
Remember, Jenner's smallpox vaccine was made with cowpox virus. It was replacing variolation, a procedure in which people were actually inoculated with smallpox virus. While much better than getting smallpox, variolation was still dangerous and some people died from the procedure.
His smallpox vaccine was a much safer option.
More on Edward Jenner's Son
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VAXOPEDIA – The Leicester Method and Smallpox Eradication
VAXOPEDIA – The Plano Smallpox Outbreak of 1895
Vaccination's Forgotten Origins
Robert Fitzhardinge Jenner (1797-1854)
An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae, a disease discovered in some of the western counties of England, particularly Gloucestershire and Known by the Name of Cow Pox
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Did Bill Gates Vaccinate His Own Kids?
The myth that Bill Gates didn't vaccinate his own kids was debunked nearly a year ago, but that doesn't keep anti-vaccine folks from bringing it up…
"A hoax website published an unfounded story claiming that a former doctor for Bill Gates said the philanthropist refused to vaccinate his own children. Gates and his wife, Melinda, have invested billions of dollars to research, develop and deliver vaccines around the world to help reduce child mortality."
Website falsely claims Bill Gates refused to vaccinate his own children
Not surprisingly, they don't mention the doctor's name.
Actually, they don't provide any evidence at all, which seems to be just fine with most folks who are anti-vaccine and who are simply looking for anything to help them justify their decision to leave their kids unvaccinated and unprotected.
Which closed door medical symposium were they at?
What about the idea that you aren't violating HIPAA or breaking doctor-patient confidentiality because you are talking to other doctors?
Fortunately, that's not how HIPAA works.
You can only talk to other providers if they are also involved in the treatment of your patient. You can't tell other doctors confidential details about your patients just because they are also doctors!
You could tell them things you read about them publicly though, including the fact that Bill and Melinda Gates understood the importance of vaccines long before they had their first child.
"Twenty-five years ago, we read an article that said hundreds of thousands of kids in poor countries were dying from diarrhea. That surprise helped crystallize our values. We believe in a world where innovation is for everyone—where no child dies from a disease it's possible to prevent. But what we saw was a world still shaped by inequity."
Bill & Melinda Gates on Our Annual Letter
Do you will still believe that Bill and Melinda Gates didn't vaccinate their kids?
"I'd like to start by telling you about my wife Melinda's Aunt Myra. We see her a few times a year. Aunt Myra worked for many years taking reservations for Delta Airlines. She lived in New Orleans until Hurricane Katrina, and then she moved to Dallas, Melinda's hometown. She loves to see our kids. When we all get together, she'll sit down on the floor and play games with them. Aunt Myra also has polio. She's in braces, and she has been ever since she was a little girl.
Our children only know what polio is because of their aunt. Otherwise, the disease would just be another historical fact they learn about in school."
What do you need to see to convince you?
"While the rich world is cutting down in tobacco use, it's growing in the poor world. AIDS and TB are really a phenomenon of the poor world. When I say the poor world of course I mean the majority of the world, anything outside the enclave that most of us here are privileged to live in and the kind of vaccines and things that we take for granted not only for ourselves, but also for our children."
Bill Gates at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2001
A pic of them getting vaccinated, like we did with Mark Zuckerberg?
"So many of us who are parents in the room go to our pediatricians; and we take for granted the vaccines for hepatitis A, hepatitis B, polio, measles, mumps, rubella. But things you don't even think about getting in this country are real scourges in the developing world. And so that's where we started with the foundation and from there we branched out into doing more work in AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. But I think it's important for you all to realize that at the core of what we do are children's issues."
Melinda French Gates at the Children's Hospital Foundation
A copy of their children's immunization records, or would you just think that they were forged?
"It still shocks me today to think about how many children go without basic vaccines that you and I take for granted. A few years ago, Bill and I read a newspaper article about diseases in the developing world. We learned that millions of children die from diseases we thought had been eradicated, diseases like pertussis, hepatitis B, tetanus, and yellow fever. Every year, nearly three quarters of a million people, most of them children, die of measles. Measles!
These children are dying not because we don't have vaccines to prevent these diseases. They're dying because the vaccines we have aren't reaching the people who need them."
Melinda French Gates at the 2007 World Economic Forum
How about a statement that their kids are fully vaccinated?
Be more skeptical.
Vaccines are safe, with few risks, and are necessary.
Of course Bill and Melinda Gates vaccinate their kids.
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Did CNN Rename Mumps?
It's a common anti-vaccine myth that we rename diseases to make them go away. It helps them explain the control, elimination, and eradication of diseases, since many of them don't believe that vaccines actually work.
Simply saying that your article is "Fact Checked" doesn't make it so…
Now imagine that "they" actually found evidence that we did rename vaccine-preventable diseases!
That would be something, wouldn't it…
Of course, they haven't.
The original CNN story about the USS Fort McHenry stated that the sailors and Marines had parotitis, which was "due to an outbreak of a viral infection similar to mumps."
Why didn't they just say that they had mumps?
Because that's not what they were told by the US Navy's Fifth Fleet.
"… a military medical team specializing in preventative medical care is expected to deploy in the coming days to make an assessment if further steps may be needed, according to the official."
US warship quarantined at sea due to virus outbreak
It may come as a surprise to some people, but many viruses and bacteria can cause parotitis. And until the outbreak was further investigated, they didn't know if it really was mumps or another condition.
Since then, the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) has stated that "based on clinical presentation and laboratory testing, these cases are currently classified as probable cases of mumps."
Still, a very small percentage of the sailors and Marines on board have gotten mumps. That's because vaccines work, even when they don't work perfectly well.
More on the Myth that CNN Renamed Mumps
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VAXOPEDIA – Did CNN Apologize for Using a Fake Measles Photo?
VAXOPEDIA – Do Your Kids Need a Mumps Booster Shot?
VAXOPEDIA – What to Do If Your Child Is Exposed to Mumps
VAXOPEDIA – Mumps Outbreaks
VAXOPEDIA – Waning Immunity
VAXOPEDIA – Military Vaccines
VAXOPEDIA – Does Your Child with Parotitis Have Mumps?
VAXOPEDIA – Is Mutating Mumps More Than the MMR Can Manage?
VAXOPEDIA – This Is the Modern Anti-Vaccine Movement
VAXOPEDIA – Grave Reminders of Life Before Vaccines
VAXOPEDIA – Why Didn't Everyone Die with Our 1980s Level of Vaccination Rates?
VAXOPEDIA – 100 Myths About Vaccines
VAXOPEDIA – Answers to Anti-Vaccine Talking Points
VAXOPEDIA – 50 Ways to Get Educated About Vaccines
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Did Bob Sears admit that he doesn't "waste my breath" talking about the benefits of vaccines?
Have you noticed the bias in the anti-vaccine movement?
His advocacy against vaccines??? And what about his "educational" writings?!?
It's hard to miss…
The Bias in the Anti-Vaccine Movement
Yes, that's it.
You really only get one side from anti-vaccine folks.
In addition to never mentioning the benefits of vaccines, they make you think that:
you don't have to worry about getting measles, chicken pox, and rubella, etc., anymore, because these diseases are rare, forgetting to mention that they are still relatively rare in many countries because most people are vaccinated and protected! When more folks skip or delay their vaccines, as they forget what these diseases are like and they listen to anti-vaccine propaganda, we get outbreaks, especially when they aren't vaccinated and they travel to places where the diseases are more common!
everyone else overlooks the risks, when in fact, the risks of getting vaccinated and protected are just small and all of the so-called vaccine-induced diseases and other things anti-vaccine folks blame on vaccines aren't real vaccine injuries
you don't have to worry about getting measles, pertussis, or pneumococcal disease, etc., because those diseases are all mild, neglecting to mention that some people do have complications and some die when they catch them
if you don't choose to vaccinate your kids on your own, someone is going to force you to get them vaccinated, overlooking that vaccine mandates don't actually force anyone to vaccinate their kids – they are just about whether or not intentionally unvaccinated kids should be able to attend school
your choice to skip or delay your child's vaccines won't affect anyone else, failing to mention that most outbreaks are started by someone who is intentionally not vaccinated
if there is a risk, there must be a choice, but with their slogan, they overstate the risks of vaccines, never mention the risks of having the disease, and don't mention the risk of your child getting other people sick, taking away their choice to keep their kids safe and healthy
you can always get vaccinated, but you can never get unvaccinated, neglecting to mention that you can indeed wait too long to vaccinate your kids
The biggest bias though, is not that these folks are against vaccines, but rather that everything they do and say scares parents and makes them feel that they should skip or delay their child's vaccines, leaving them unprotected and at risk.
Stop listening to them and stop spreading their anti-vaccine propaganda.
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VAXOPEDIA – Bob Sears on Ethan Lindenberger's Senate Testimony
VAXOPEDIA – Bob Sears on Hiding in the Herd
VAXOPEDIA – Dr. Bob Puts the Nail in the Coffin of the Herd Immunity Argument
VAXOPEDIA – Were More Than Half of the Kids with Severe or Fatal Influenza in California Last Year Vaccinated?
VAXOPEDIA – Did Dr. Bob Uncover a CDC Plot to Give Adult Flu Shots to Babies?
VAXOPEDIA – Fact Checking an Anti-Vaccine Measles Outbreak Quiz
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Bob Sears: Bald-faced liar, devious dissembler, or both?
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The Disneyland measles outbreak: "Dr. Bob" Sears says measles isn't that bad, and an antivaccine activist invokes the Brady Bunch fallacy
"Dr. Bob" Sears profiled: A cynical vaccine-averse pediatrician who accepts no blame for the results of his antivaccine message
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Antivaccine activists rally around "Dr. Bob" Sears. Hilarity ensues.
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