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Chapter 4: American Transcendentalism
Orestes Augustus Brownson
Orestes Augustus Brownson
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OAB portrait by George Peter Alexander Healy (1813-1894)
Oil on canvas, 1863
Source: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Philosopher, reviewer, editor, minister, and essayist, Brownson was a nonconformist who questioned the existing social, religious, and political practices.
Primary Works
Selected writings. Ed. Patrick W. Carey. NY: Paulist Press, 1991. BX2350 .B742
The Boston quarterly review. Absorbed by: The United States magazine and democratic review; in 1844 Brownson began the publication of a new periodical under title: Brownson's quarterly review. Boston: Benjamin H. Greene, 1838-1842. LAC: v.1 (1838)-v.5 (1842)
The Works of Orestes A. Brownson. 20 vol. (1882-1887), Henry F. Brownson, Ed.
Selected Bibliography
Doudna, Martin K. Orestes A. Brownson, The Laboring Classes (1840) with Brownson's Defence of the Article on the Laboring Classes. Delmar, NY: Scholar's Facsims. & Rpts., 1978.
Gilhooley, Leonard. Contradiction and Dilemma: Orestes Brownson and the American Idea. Bronx, N.Y.: Fordham U.P, 1972.
Gilhooley, Leonard, and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. No Divided Allegiance: Essays in Brownson's Thought. NY: Fordham UP, 1980.
Lapati, Americo D. Orestes A. Brownson. NY: Twayne, 1965.
Marshall, Hugh. Orestes Brownson and the American Republic: An Historical Perspective. Wash., D.C.: Catholic U. of Amer. P., 1971.
Myerson, Joel. ed. The Transcendentalists: A Review of Research and Criticism. NY: Mod. Lang. Assn. of America, 1984.
Newman, Lanc. Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Rathbun, John W. and Monica M. Grecu. eds. American Literary Critics and Scholars, 1800-1850. Detroit: Gale, 1987.
Ryan, James E. "Orestes A. Brownson." in Mott, Wesley T. ed. The American Renaissance in New England: Fourth Series. Detroit: Gale, 2001.
Schlesinger, Arthur M. A pilgrim's progress: Orestes A. Brownson. Boston: Little, Brown, 1966. B908 .B64 S35
Swift, Lindsay. Brook Farm. Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1973.
A Student Project by Scott McElhinnie
Orestes Brownson was born a twin in 1803. He was trained in the Bible and religious matters to hold Congregationalist views. Printing was a large part of Brownson's formative years as he was apprenticed to and eventually became a journeyman printer. Teaching was a short term occupation for Brownson, choosing to move on to editing and writing for his own and other publications, most notably the Boston Quarterly Review and later the Brownson Quarterly Review. The Republican Party nominated Brownson unsuccessfully for the Senate in 1862 after he published his most influential and only surviving book, The American Republic in 1857. Brownson died in Detroit in 1875 and is memorialized at both Notre Dame and Fordham universities.
The role that Brownson played in Transcendentalism was great but limited. He was one of the original members of the Transcendental Club, but Dr. Hedge, another member, found Brownson "unbearable" and was "not afterward invited" to their meetings(Swift 7). Although not always favorable of Transcendentalists like Emerson, Brownson found that poets like Emerson produced "good" literature in that the spirit or "Moral Purpose" (DLB 59 pg 39) prompting the work was good. Brownson was able to give publicity to the lesser known Emerson through reviews and may have contributed to the advancement of Emerson's writings and fame. Brownson lambasted the Transcendentalists in The Spirit-Rappers. In both of the aforementioned journals, Brownson desired to keep them free from holding to much towards any single political party, social class, or religious doctrine, using only the ideal and unity of "Truth" as the only search a journal should find worth printing. Brownson wrote qualified praise of Brook Farm and its role, even showing up occasionally and grumbling, while being still a topic of conversation there (Swift 56).
Brownson was constantly true to the ideals of Individualism, Search for Truth, and Self-Reliance even though he split with and criticized the Transcendentalist movement later. Examples of this are the way that Brownson was forever changing his religious affiliation and whether his views within the religious party were conservative or more liberal. Brownson was a chosen Presbyterian but then quickly rejected the clergy/laity class distinctions and predestination in the church to then join Universalism that believed in a personal salvation through God's Grace, to then joining the Catholic faith which holds or constitutes both of these topics. Was this considered strange? Not to Brownson who felt that personal expressions only have value to the self and community at the time they are experienced. So, Brownson would not stay with a religion that no longer reflected his view presently.
A political belief went the same way with Brownson. While Brownson believed in the suffrage of All men on earth, he did not believe that the federal government had a right to tell the states what to do; Brownson was anti-abolition not on the grounds that slavery was right but that it was a greater evil to take away power from the states. [It should be noted that Brownson also felt that, after a fair review that earned slavery his "General Disapproval" (DLB 73 Pg.33), that the slave life was better than the "wage" life because the wage earner could be considered valueless when he lost his job while the slave had a value that could at least be placed into a more prosperous condition.] So who did Brownson vote for? Why, Lincoln, of course! Brownson even become an advisor to the president. Eventually, or predictably, Lincoln lost Brownson's favor to John Fremont, the "Pathfinder" and rugged individualist of the West. This shift of loyalties seems very Brownson and very true to at least one aspect of Transcendentalism.
Brownson was also noted for his forceful desire for Americans to produce literature that was worthy of the American Idea; literature that was unique to America and displayed the "Spirit of the Nation."(DLB59 pg.39) Brownson did not believe that writers should avoid base subjects, but they should treat base subjects in ways that did not lend sympathy to wrong conduct. Hawthorn's Scarlet Letter was criticized for this sympathy rather than its style because Hester does not repent, in the end, for having a lover. The criticism of Brownson on literature also includes his beliefs that a true poet was really "vatic" or led by God and the poet should be supported by the masses through great popularity. Good American literature should be anti-aristocratic according to Brownson and not be just a copy of European works. This also reflects the Individualism sentiments of the Transcendentalists.
Brownson's work was nationally and internationally known, from Poe to Lord Acton. Today, his work is overlooked considering how influential he was at the time. Much of his work is not available or has disappeared altogether. The most complete work was done by Arthur Schlesinger in Brownson's biography. Two symposiums on Brownson were held in 1976 and today he is esteemed as one of America's great thinkers.
Brownson has been found to be very sharp and clear in his thinking to those who have read his work and then criticized it at the time. Father Hecker wrote that Brownson was the "strongest, most purely human influence...we ever knew(Swift 96). The works of Brownson and their style also were thought to be brash and rough both in concept and in delivery. Brownson was an expert on so many broad topics like religion, politics, and philosophy that his intellect never has been questioned although his bearing may have been from time to time. His essay, the "Laboring Classes" especially, were often controversial in topic and nature. "Was Brownson going to be conservative or more liberal in his latest work?" always seemed to be the question. His more controversial writings suggested that private property be returned to the state at death and that the church should be absorbed into the state. Martin Van Buren claimed it was this essay, "Laboring Classes", that cost him the next election. Some response to an editor and writer who has been overlooked until recently!
The views held by Brownson about women and slavery were certainly his own. Brownson believed that women were equal to the men but never called for them to be allowed to vote even though he wrote extensively on suffrage. While Brownson fostered the written work of women like Margaret Fuller, Sarah Whitman, and Elizabeth Peabody in the Boston Quarterly Review, he rejected women writers of his era that were too "Mannish"(DLB 73 pg.35) like Georgiana Fullerton who wrote with too much "sighing, weeping." (DLB59pg.41) It is likewise a strange conclusion that Brownson reached regarding slavery considering his move to give all men suffrage and his early support of abolition. Brownson's nationalist leanings were strong, while supporting states rights and Catholic Democracy, he ran as a Republican for the Senate. The Republican party at the time was more anti-Catholic than not. Brownson encouraged Irish Democrats to drop the barriers of race and join in making the republic more whole-which was exactly what some of the Republican party was against in the first place. My source text states that Brownson is a hard man to "sum up" (DLB 73pg35) and so he also rejects easy classification. Brownson changed his mind and his loyalties too often to be put in any one category. I think that this would have made him very happy, to find that he was now respected for his own mind and writings rather than just being included in a canon based on his association with a movement like Transcendentalism.
Works Cited
"Brownson, Orestes Augustus." Dictionary of Literary Biographies. Vols. 5, 59,73 ed. 1982
Swift, Lindsay. Brook Farm. Secaucus, New Jersey: Citadel Press, 1973.
Compiled by Jack Hockel (29Dec2010)
The fundamental error of Liberalism - that political authority is derived from the people, not from God. was already beginning to prevail. Nor could the Constitution arrest "the democratic tendency," since the Constitution, reciting "We the people" as its very source and making no mention of God, could be amended (or expediently disregarded) by the "will of the people" as expressed by their "elected representatives, a creature to be manipulated at will.
Brownson concluded that only religion could preserve the Republic from moral decay and collapse, since only religion can sustain public morality. Brownson, being Catholic, saw what Washington and the other Founders did not: that because Protestantism in its ever-multiplying varieties is by its very nature subject to the popular will, the only religion that could provide a "religious principle" sufficient to sustain the Republic is Roman Catholicism, the Catholic understanding of the relation between reason and Revelation, or nature and the Creator,
The Church has full freedom to wield political influence through persuasion.
The cause of our civilization's decline is simply and only this: the State's defection from the true religion after centuries of Church-State comity, and the consequent emergence of governments severed from the Church and her moral guidance.
The Jeffersonian view, according to Brownson, is that government has no natural or divine foundation. It originates "in convention"; the source of its authority is purely human and the foundation of obedience is the enlightened (Lockean) self-interest of the individuals who consent to that authority. Thomas Jefferson worried mainly about "religious tyranny," the use of political authority to impose religious conformity. But his solution to that form of tyranny tended to be another, the imposition of the thoughtless indifferentism of Unitarianism.
Peter Lawler, Why Orestes Brownson Believed The U.S. Needed The Church, ZENIT 11/7/03.
Christopher Ferrara, The Church and the Libertarian, Remnant Press 2010.
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Chapter 9: The Hospital
The intense sunlight made the Zoroark open his eyes. He was feeling strangely...
He took a look around, only to see rocks covering the temple. He was still standing on top of the black cylinder, with the rocks that had collapsed from the ceiling all around him.
'These miracles are really starting to get on my nerves' he said to himself, getting up. He realized the sound of the river was gone. The two statues were under the rocks now, Chantalai reckoned. The only part of the chamber where no rock had fallen was the black cylinder, for some odd reason. He observed the rest of the cylinders were still intact, though partly covered by rocks. The template seemed to be cracked up in the middle under the weight and the force of the falling objects.
He once again forgot about the miracle and looked up; the sun shone brightly from above, rocks forming a climbable path towards freedom. The air was much more fresh now, Chantalai inhaling with happiness. He would later regret not investigating the unseeable object that saved him. Once he got out of the hole, he realized he was in another temple which had an open roof, letting the sunlight fall directly into the template underground, where he was a moment ago. He was amazed by the artwork on the walls of the square, simple temple: the two Pokemon, black and white, fought with each other with giant jolts of electricity thrown from the Black God and torrents of fire from the White God. On the opposite side of that wall, some kind of map unfolded, taking up the whole eastern wall. As Chantalai would find out later, this was the map of the world, the Outer World as it was named by the priests. Chantalai peered at the compass tied on his wrist, then felt the wind blowing through his cloak. He figured he was in a high place and looked around for some signs. From the exit of the temple (or, it's entrace), he could not see any trees, only clouds. He rushed outside, realizing he was on top of a hill covered by the clouds that travelled close to the ground, as it usually happened in the grasslands. That meant he was somewhere in the grasslands. His only thought was to go to Erca and warn Alinthea about the Baron's intentions. He would later come to study the temple.
He peered down the hill - it was pretty difficult to climb down, as the wind blew, reminding Chantalai of the river which was now blocked. What had happened to all that water, he wondered as he jumped down from rock to rock, his cloak racing with the wind. Once his feet were touching the soft and wet grass, he glanced at his compass again and headed inside the cloud towards the southwest. After a while running, the great shadow of Erca's walls hit him. Tired as he was of climbing, he walked up to the guards and fell on his knees. He left that image of himself behind as he walked invisible behind them, inside Erca with a slight smile on his face, well-hidden under the hood.
Chantalai headed straight to Conrad's shop, thinking Conrad would update him. They greeted each other in the shop's entrance; the Zangoose seemed a bit upset.
'Where've you been?! The whole city is looking for you!'
'Tell me what happened.'
'Lady Alinthea has been arrested by the Baron's forces, who claimed she was mentally challenged! This is the greatest insult the Baron has commited towards the Merchant King's family...'
The Zangoose was breathing heavily and his face was transformed from the anger. Chantalai did nothing to calm him down; he was angry as well. He had already taken the decision of lifting the whole hospital up in the air. Conrad suddenly continued speaking angrily, like he remembered something important.
'And the Baron has given the city an order to arrest you! What did you do when you were gone?!'
Chantalai explained what happened the last twelve hours as fast as he could. He had no time for this.
'Will they hurt Alinthea?'
'You can bet they will.'
'Oh, so now you care about what happens to her! You know what, I'm just gonna deal with this alone!' Chantalai exploded, his eyes burning from the anger. He turned around and exited the shop, putting his exhaustion aside.
Chantalai had climbed up a tower; he could now see the whole city. The cold was piercing through his dense fur, but he didn't seem to mind. He observed every corner of Erca; the red light of the planet Karnos was lighting the whole city up, as if it was dayling. These days of the month, Karnos was getting closer to the world, and thus bigger. But Chantalai was not admiring the stars today - he was searching for the building of the hospital. He detected a square, stone building on the West District of Erca which beared the symbol of the Dark Cult, a heart with two blades forming an X stuck on it.
Chantalai was now hiding in the bushes outside the building's side. He hadn't understood how time passed as he walked through the city. Once again, he observed the building patiently while he was on his four, like a predator. Silence had fallen, and suddenly he realized he was able to hear someone breathing nearby - it was a massive Pokemon. The Zoroark jerked his head behind him, recognizing the Salamence, who was hiding in the darkness.
Chantalai got up and approached him. Richard seemed sad; he looked him in the eye.
'You won't be able to get Alinthea all by yourself.' He said austerly. Chantalai ignored his remark.
'How about you and I work together, then?'
'I don't know about this...'
'I've already spent an hour evaluating the hospital. I can't get in from the front, but it's easy if you get me there by air, while I shield you from sight with my illusions.'
Richard nodded slowly, seeming convinced. Chantalai hopped on his back, careful not to be hit by the dragon's huge wings; he remembered the flight Hermes had given him in the battle of the Eastern Frontier.
The Salamence kicked the ground and they found themselves midair in no time; Chantalai had already manipulated the sky, making them invisible. He took a moment to admire Erca from above, he could not believe he was flying. He tried not to look down as they charged down the square yard of the hospital.
Richard landed softly on the ground, still invisible. Chantalai jumped from his back, instanly evaluating the place. Guards everywhere - they were wearing these light armours. An Aggron, two Bisharps and two Mawiles were patrolling the area, two Bisharps in each entrance and exit. Making them around ten guards, not taking into account the ones that were inside the building. Chantalai motioned Richard to leave, as the illusion was tiring his mind.
'Wait for my signal'
Once the Salamence was out of his reach, the illusion broke, Chantalai's image appearing for a mere second in the middle of the hospital's yard. The guards saw him, apparently, and headed over to where he was. Chantalai thought of dealing with them right now, but on his second thoughts, he decided not to raise any alarm. He slid invisible, like a ghost, towards the entrance of the building.
'Did you see that?'
'Something was here, and it looked like what Baron is searching!'
'I'll get a promotion if I catch him, for sure!'
Chantalai almost laughed. He continued his way, the two Bisharps in front of him completly unaware of the fraud in front of their eyes. The Zoroark slipped between them.
Screams reached his ears as he entered the hospital. He walked through the hall with ease, climbed up the stairs and headed over to a doctor's office, thinking he would get some information about where Alinthea was. The doctor, a female Gardevoir with a tattoo of the black heart and the blades carved on her chest, raised her head from her desk to see a door opening by itself. She walked around the desk, Chantalai enjoying the terrified expression on her face. He broke the illusion and jumped on her, grabbing her neck and holding her down againist her desk.
'Tell me where Alinthea is, and you might live.'
The Gardevoir remained silent; her eyes glowed blue for a second, Chantalai feeling a weak, unseen force pushing him away. His red eyes sparked with anger when he realized she was using her psychic powers. With a menacing whisper, he gripped around her neck with both of his hands so she wouldn't scream.
'These tricks won't help you here. Get it?'
Her eyes had opened wide in terror as she was looking at Chantalai's expression. He, on the other hand, wouldn't be so violent if it wasn't for Alinthea. Seeing she wouldn't speak, Chantalai's face transformed into a Spiritomb, which opened its mouth wide and released darkness. A high pitched, terrifying scream was heard, only in the doctor's head.
He left her neck go. She couldn't speak from the shock, only cower in fear from the shock.
Well done,
he thought sarcastically to himself.
'This is for the prisoners,' he said coldly, sticking his claws right through her torso, exactly where the Dark Cult's tattoo was. Blood was spilled everywhere; Chantalai heard footsteps outside. He instanly grabbed the Gardevoir and placed her behind the door, him transforming into her in a second. A Bisharp walked in and before he could say anything, Chantalai mimicked a female voice.
'Knock the door before entering, dummy!'
'Uhh, yes, ma'am. May I ask what happened to your voice?'
'Just drank something weird my grandma sent me.. what're you doing here anyway?'
The Bisharp looked apaled for some reason. Chantalai wondered if he would meet the same fate as the Gardevoir behind the door did.
'Alinthea's refusing to speak. What do we do?'
'Refusing to speak'? About what?
Chantalai nodded to himself under the illusion. The sooner he killed the guard, the less he would have to fight afterwards. He approached him, the Gardevoir illusion staying put. The Bisharp knew something was wrong and he backed off.
'You do nothing. You die.'
He said coldly, again, with the same tone of a killer. The image of the hoodied invader froze the Bisharp to the ground for a second. Chantalai stuck his claws inside the Bisharp's eyes, like his father had taught him. With his other hand, he grabbed his steel neck to prevent him from screaming; he kicked his knee, the force making the Bisharp kneel, the Zoroark took his claws from his head and slid them in the Bisharp's chest, still gripping his neck.
Chantalai's enemy was dead within seconds. He forced his claws out by kicking the Bisharp away, lifted the dead body with difficulty as it was heavy due to the steel, and placed it behind the door with the Gardevoir.
Any more?
He thought mockingly to himself as he walked out of the office, leaving a blood pool behind him. Chantalai perked up his ears, listening to the whole hospital. Screams, Pokemon begging and dying breaths could be heard from around the corridors. After a while of staying on the spot, he detected the voice he was seeking: Alinthea.
Chantalai bursted into the room by breaking the steel door, entirely. Like a madman, he charged at the Gallade who was in front of Alinthea. The Ninetails was sitting on the floor and watched as Chantalai pounced on the doctor, slamming him down. A nasty sound was heard as the Gallade's neck was snapped. Chantalai finished him off by ripping his chest open with his already bloodied claws. He then faced Alinthea and kneeled in front of her; her expression was slightly apaled. It seemed as if she hadn't gone through any pain.
'Are you alright, Lady Alinthea?'
She nodded quietly, then eyed the dead Gallade behind Chantalai.
'Did you really have to do that?'
She said austerly, but she smiled right after. Chantalai took off his hood and smiled back.
'Somebody has to do the dirty work.'
'Oh.. and why is that somebody you?'
'My father was serving the Frontier as a spy, and so am I. I participated in the battle of the Eastern Frontier.'
'Isn't that nice?'
Chantalai detected admiration in her voice. She got up to her feet and approached him. He could feel the warmth under her fur; he looked her straight in the eye.
'Let's go, my saviour!'
Alinthea said, giggling as she walked past him. The tips of three of her tails gently touched Chantalai's face, who was staring at her exiting the room; he was briefly stunned. Then he bolted outside and walked next to her.
'Where is Richard?'
She was calm, and she calmed Chantalai down, too. He put his hood back on.
'Outside. I have to warn you, Lady, we might face some combat when we exit the building. Do you maybe want to stay here while...'
'No, of course not! I wouldn't leave you alone!' She said with another giggle. Chantalai thought her voice was sounding like a melody in his ears.
'Do you know how to fight?'
'Boys used to fear me, you know...'
Chantalai didn't lose his smile. He glanced at Alinthea, unsure of whether she was being serious or not, but once their eyes met, he knew she was simply teasing him. He took his eyes from the Ninetails, now looking at his right sleeve, which was painted with blood. He would have to clean it up later.
Chantalai suddenly stopped, and with him stopped Alinthea.
'What is it?'
He motioned her to be quiet and perked up his ears while staring at the floor. He stayed like this for ten seconds; the patrol was coming right towards them, as the climbed up the stairs. Chantalai was tired, and he was aware that casting illusions in this state wouldn't work quite well. They had nowhere to hide.
'Lady, please wait here.'
He said with his nicest voice. He touched Alinthea for the first time by putting his clean hand on her shoulder. She stayed put, silently as Chantalai left without even looking at her. He thought he was going to be distracted by her image, thus losing focus on his illusions.
The Zoroark silently approached the stairs and looked down, seeing four dark figures coming upstairs. He suddenly realized he could smell them - two of them were Mawiles, and the other two were Bisharps. He evaluated his options, raising both of his hands and looking at them. Then he looked up the ceiling, a torch of some kind was hanging from there. He jumped on the wall and kept his body next to the flame. His enemies had almost reached the second floor the light went off.
Chantalai launched himself from the wall, the darkness covering him like a curtain. He landed on the two Bisharps in the front, slicing their necks with force and precision, always careful not to touch their head's razors. Chantalai immediately got up and slashed deep one of the Mawile's throat, making him scream, then he kicked the other in the gut and pounced on him as he backed off, throwing him down and killing him on the spot.
The Zoroark got up with a slight discomfort running down his spine.
I took four lives in three seconds... father would be pleased,
his thoughts were interrupted by Alinthea who walked over to the scene; she saw the bodies on the floors and let out a cute howl, Chantalai jerking his head towards her.
'Oh my'
'Excuse the mess, Lady.'
He bowed to her, smiling, even though he was surrounded by death and the blood was spread on the floor. She stared at him, Chantalai avoiding her eyes - he felt she did not approve of this. They started walking down the stairs, the two falling in a cold silence. He felt his insides harden; if Lady Alinthea did not like what he did, he was not going to stop doing it. Helping the Frontier was his father's job, and he would continue it as well - Alinthea was only a subject the Frontier was interested into. Alinthea broke the silence as they walked through the dark hall.
'Oh, Chantalai, Can you not refrain from taking lives so nonchalantly?'
'I have been given a task. It matters not how I will complete that task - only that I will see it is done. I'll kill anybody who stands in my way.'
Chantalai was looking at her firmly when saying this. His expression was indicating he fully believed what he was saying. He saw a sign of admiration in Alinthea's face, but she soon turned her head around, staying silent. The Zoroark kept looking at her.
'We will have to face some combat out there. We can't get out without being seen.'
The Ninetails nodded, without saying anything. Chantalai motioned her to stay put once again. He vanished from sight and walked outside the entrance, where the two Bisharps were standing guard with their heads turned towards the yard. The Zoroark paced silently in front of one guard and performed an uppercut that hit the Bisharp's jaw with force, the claws killing it instanly; he stuck his claws out and moved as fast as lightning towards the Bisharp before him, who was then turning his head. His claws went through the Bisharp's throat. Both of the guards fell on the floor, Chantalai motioning Alinthea again. She followed him outside, trying not to step on the blood pools.
Chantalai broke his invisibility, gasping as he did so. He was starting to get tired, both physically and mentally. He faced the guards with Alinthea standing behind him; they started shouting and charged towards them. A thick stream of fire was shot againist them from Alinthea, Chantalai looking at her, surprised with a slight smile. The fire melted a group of steel Pokemon on the spot. More guards were running towards them; Chantalai stared at their opponents, thinking they were too many to deal with. He opened his arms and mouth wide, the flaming cobra appearing from his mouth again, spitting green fire, hissing at the guards. Green flashes lighted the whole sky. The animation left some of them cowering in fear, some others launched ranged attacks againist it. Once they saw it could not be affected, they thought it was fake and charged againist Chantalai.
The hoodied Zoroark emptied his mind of any emotion and focused; raw darkness was formed in his hands, covering them entirely. The next moment, a thick wave of darkness was launched againist the guards who shouted as it hit them, blowing them back. A Manectric threw a thunder at Chantalai from the side, but he dodged it and impaled the guard with the darkness on his hands. He violently slashed another Manectric's face with both of his arms.
Suddenly, a dark, winged figure attacked him from above - a Golbat. Chantalai tried to get the Pokemon off his fur, but it was gripped tightly, leaving him exposed to the guard's attacks. A metallic sound was heard as something scratched his chestguard. He felt a stinging pain on his belly right after; he swung around, trying to free himself from the Golbat who was laughing. His illusion of a giant Gengar faded right away as he took another hit in the chest - just then, a burst of fire blasted the Golbat away. Chantalai fell on the ground, touching his belly. Hot blood was spilled on his fur and cloak from a big and deep wound. His vision blurred, and after some moments he passed out.
returned to conciousness after ten second, he looked around to see why he was still alive. The Salamence, Richard, had arrived and was smashing the guards around with incredible power. His claws were engulfed in blue and red fire, the sacred fire of the dragons, which burned his opponents lethally. Alinthea was right besides him, still shooting fire. A thunder was shot againist her, hitting her in the chest. She fell down, having fainted. Some kind of unknown power made Chantalai launch himself from the ground; he lifted Alinthea to his arms, and without giving it much thought, he focused his mind on a literally groundbreaking illusion. The ground shook, rocks flying everywhere. As the guards were falling down by the realistic quakes, the Zoroark carried the Ninetails over to the dragon and hopped on his back. The giant Pokemon nodded in recognition, then kicked the ground, launching into the night sky. The Golbat that had grabbed Chantalai and a Gliscor were chasing the Salamence, who turned his head around to eye them.
'Let me deal with them,' shouted Chantalai. He tried focusing his mind on an illusion, a Gengar with six long arms appearing behind the dragon. But as Richard was ascending, Chantalai needed to hold on tight to him and Alinthea to make sure she wouldn't fall; he lost focus and the Gengar faded.
'Hey, you wimps! Stop sending us fake images!'
I'll send them something real,
Chantalai thought, turning around; he launched another wave of darkness with a nasty sound. The daze hit the Goldbat and the Gliscor who were flying close, taking them down. Chantalai hung from the dragon's neck with one hand, and with the other he was holding Alinthea's arm. Finally, Richard stopped ascending. Chantalai laid on his belly, hugging Richard's neck. Alinthea was now concious, holding onto her bodyguard's torso behind Chantalai. The cold wind was whipping their faces as they flew outside the city, towards the grasslands.
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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ General Audiences ] Directed by Aaron Craven, Aaron Craven leads the cast of this feature film originally of Canada, with original script in English, whose premiere was scheduled for 2014. You can watch The Acting Teacher online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in English at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2014.
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Runtime: 10 minutes
Aaron Craven, Andrea Brooks, Darren Matheson, Guy Christie, Ryan Hesp, Patrick Gilmore, Josh Ramsay, Maddie Phillips, Natasha Burnett, Bethany Chan, Ian Hawkins, Meghan Kinsley, Alex Parra, Hannah Pederson, Michael Brian and Elizabeth Newman.
Short film, Comedy.
10-minute film (full movie) directed by Aaron Craven.
The original audio of The Acting Teacher has dialogues in Dolby Digital, it was produced in Canada.
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Screenplay written by Aaron Craven.
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This film was produced and / or financed by Mitch and Murray Films.
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I would love to be one shooting scuds all in U in the early Morn..
I'm told that I'm lucky that both my wife & I are morning people. Its not unusual that one or both of us often wake up horny, so its then our job to get the other "in the mood". With the wife, she loves her neck and earlobes kissed and licked while getting her pussy & clit gently fingered & massaged ... usually within 3-4 minutes her pussy is dripping its juices in anticipation, waiting on my hot, wet tongue. As soon as I feel her juices, I'll gently push her legs apart, slide down between her legs, lick & kiss the insides of her thighs, and then part those lovely love petals with my thumbs and dip my tongue deep into her hot box. She'll usually put one or both of her hands on my head, guiding my tongue around her pussy. She also has a g-spot, but its a fairly small spot. If I can find it fairly quickly, while licking her pussy & clit, within a minute or so she'll raise her hips off the bed, moaning and shaking through her first early morning orgasm. Once that takes place, she basically likes to take control, usually pushing me onto my back and mounting me rather roughly. Sometimes, however, she'll mount my face, instead, and slide her pussy back and forth on my face until she shakes through a second or third orgasm, and she'll press her spasming pussy hard onto my mouth & extended tongue so I can catch all of her flowing nectar.
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China Leading Index Plunges To Worst Since Feb 2009 Sending Yuan To Lower Trading Band Extreme
China's Leading Index has fallen to its lowest since Feb 2009 this evening, down 4 straight months from credit-driven 18 month highs. This economic weakness has exaggerated the already weak tone in Yuan trading this evening pushing CNY to its weakest in almost 7 months (against the USD), its furthest on record from the CNY Fix (10-month highs), and very close to the PBOC's upper +2% band for CNY trading. At 6.23, USDCNY is over 1000 pips weaker than the CNY fix. We suspect the weakness in Yuan is also driven by further corruption crackdowns as China will require VIP gamblers in Macau to undergo a record check.
Ron Paul On The Real Meaning Of The 1914 Christmas Truce
Submitted by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity,
One hundred years ago last week, on Christmas Eve, 1914, German and British soldiers emerged from the horrors of World War One trench warfare to greet each other, exchange food and gifts, and to wish each other a Merry Christmas. What we remember now as the "Christmas Truce" began with soldiers singing Christmas carols together from in the trenches. Eventually the two sides climbed out of the trenches and met in person. In the course of this two day truce, which lasted until December 26, 1914, the two sides also exchanged prisoners, buried their dead, and even played soccer with each other.
Obama's Golf Game Disrupts Soldiers' Wedding
Natalie Heimel and her fiancé, Edward Mallue Jr., a pair of captains in the Army, received two letters from President Obama in less than 24 hours as they prepared for their wedding ceremony at Kaneohe Klipper Golf Course in Hawaii. The first, a nicely worded regretful but congratulatory RSVP to their wedding invite… and the second, as Bloomberg reports, informing them that their wedding would have to be moved since President Obama wanted to play through.
Faith In Abenomics Falters: Foreign Investor Flows Collapse 94% In 2014
It appears, despite all the promises, all the lies, and all the constant propaganda, that foreign investors have finally seen right through Shinzo Abe's risible plan to revive the Japanese economy by crashing its currency (just like Russia?). As Bloomberg reports, after pumping record amounts of cash into Japanese shares last year, they've hardly added to holdings in 2014. Inflows are down 94 percent this year to 898 billion yen ($7.5 billion), on pace for the smallest annual amount since the 2008 global financial crisis.
Asian shares down on Greece worries
Asian shares traded lower as political uncertainty in Greece and a selloff in commodities weighed on investors' appetite.
The Zombiefication Of America
Submitted by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog,
Do you know people that seem like they have had their souls sucked out of them?
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Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi becomes the world's most valuable technology start-up just four years after it was founded.
2015 World GDP Expectations Just Collapsed
World GDP Growth Expectations for 2015 just dropped dramatically to their lowest since expectations began to be tracked. From 3.40% in early 2013, the consensus is expectating world economic growth at a mere 2.72% (a 20% decline in growth expectations). Of course, there is one thing that is not going down…


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The derivation of the word hoax, like the concept it describes, is slippery. The OED suggests a possible contraction of the magical 'hocus pocus', itself a corruption of the 'hoc est corpus' of the Latin mass, although this can't be pinned down. Transubstantiation is certainly a useful idea for considering the hoax, a deception that emphasises the blurred boundaries between metaphor, fact and fiction, accident and intent, author, narrator and subject, and, on occasion, words and things.
Literary hoaxes run the gamut of grey areas from misread satires, outright frauds, misappropriated material and works yet more mysterious: crypto-texts such as the Voynich manuscript, whose status remain undecided, may yet turn out to be hoaxes. Contested identity is more often than not at the heart of the literary hoax.
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The evidence of humanity's impact on the planet is so overwhelming, experts have recommended the declaration of a new geological time, the Anthropocene Epoch. Starting from 1950, this new age is defined by nuclear tests, plastic pollution and carbon dioxide emissions. Investing in many projects with environmental benefits, d'Arenberg actively seeks to reduce our carbon footprint on the earth.
The Characteristics
A super aromatic wine displaying an attractive concoction of flowery aromas, strawberry, raspberry, cherry ripe and pomegranate, finished with a dusting of finely ground white pepper that endures
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The new MOSFET is rated for 196 A of continuous drain current at a case temperature of 25°C, enabling the reduction of EV drive-train inverter losses by 78 percent based on EPA combined city/highway mileage standards. This efficiency improvement offers designers new options in terms of range, battery usage and vehicle design.
Recently Wolfspeed supplied Ford Motor Company – in a collaboration with the US Department of Energy (DoE) – with a full-SiC, 400A power module designed around the 900V, 10mΩ chip. The module, designed and produced by Wolfspeed, contains four MOSFETs connected in parallel to achieved a remarkable 2.5mΩ Rds(on). Wolfspeed engineers have since demonstrated the capability to use these chps to create an 800A, 1.25mΩ module. "With the commercial release of the 900V 10mΩ device, electric vehicles can now reap the benefits of SiC in all aspects of their power conversion" said John Palmour, CTO of Wolfspeed. "With the continued expansion of our Gen3 MOSFET portfolio in new package options, our devices can now support significant efficiency improvements in onboard chargers, offboard chargers, and now EV drive trains." Commercially qualified and rated for a maximum operating temperature of 175˚C, Wolfspeed's new chip offers high-reliability in harsh environments, like those found in vehicle drive-trains. The new 900V, 10mΩ MOSFET is currently available in bare die. Wolfspeed expects to release the associated discrete device in a 4L-TO247 package (C3M0010090K) in the coming weeks. This package has a Kelvin-source connection that allows engineers to create designs that maximize the benefits of SiC's superior speed and efficiency.
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Finnish poster art
I held a presentation of Finnish poster art at school today and I wanted to share the beauty with you! Most of the posters are from the 50's and the 60's and the last poster which is done by Albert Andersson, may not be Finnish. He is sort of a mystery and you can't find any information of him. :I But enjoy!


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In a decision released today, the Supreme Court of British Columbia clarified important elements of when it is appropriate to remove a trustee for cause. Madam Justice Gropper held that in considering an application to remove a trustee in cases where there is dissension among the trustees or between a trustee and the beneficiary, the court may consider which party is at fault for the hostility, although it is not an overriding factor. Howard Shapray and Abbas Sabur represented the beneficiary to a family trust in their successful application to remove one of the trustees for cause.
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extendible hash file
if any one know about extendible hash file .. then please can u direct me where i can find more information about extendible hash file.
and also example .. like how to put record in extendible hash file .
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A hash table is a data structure, not a file format.
At its most basic, a hash table is defined as having N buckets, B records per bucket and each record being a predefined length in bytes. (Hash tables, by themselves, don't handle variable length records.)
Given a record R, a hash function H(R) calculates a number from 0 to N-1. That record is assigned to an empty slot within the bucket H(R).
The trick is in defining a a good hash function that avoids putting records in the same bucket.
The are plenty of things you can extend on a hash table because it's such a fundamental data structure. You probably mean extensible in terms of capacity.
The problem is that, usually, the hash function is generally based on N, so if you increase N to N' you've effectively created a new hash function H'(R), and all your current records are mishashed according to H'(R).
The solution I've generally seen is, as far as I'm concerned, a cheat: you use a trie instead of a hash table. Now, instead of H(R) returning a number from 0 to N-1, it returns a number from 0 to 2^X - 1 where X is something arbitrarily large like 16.
Now looking up a record involves getting the first, say, 8 bits of H(R). You have a root table with 256 (2^8) buckets. If one of those buckets fill up, it can create a secondary table that will be based on the next 8 bits of H(R). If, after deletion, these tables are empty, the space can be reclaimed allowing the hash table to shrink.


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India IT companies cautious on growth, eye M&A
BANGALORE India's top IT firms expressed optimism about a gradual recovery on Wednesday but stopped short of flagging a sharp rebound in the near term on uncertainties about the strength of the global economic resurgence.
Indian outsourcers show signs of M&A appetite
BANGALORE Indian outsourcing companies are looking to step up deal momentum amid rising consolidation in the industry as they face the threat of their services getting commoditized. Companies such as Tata Consultancy , Infosys Technologies and Wipro have historically been conservative when it came to mergers and acquisitions and have shied away from large deals.
Indian IT firms back to their hiring ways
BANGALORE Indian IT service firms are looking to throw open their gates yet again to prospective employees as the gloom of the global recession lifts from the $60 billion industry and demand for outsourcing services improves.
Indian IT firms jump on cloud computing bandwagon
BANGALORE Indian IT firms may be forced to look beyond their bread-and-butter offshoring model, as a potential game changer in the form of "cloud computing," the hottest new buzzword in Silicon Valley, floats east.
India's Infosys to focus on small buys
BANGALORE Infosys Technologies Ltd , India's No. 2 software exporter, is focused on small acquisitions to boost growth and does not expect pricing to improve in the near term, a top executive said.
Indian IT firms eye continental Europe for growth
BANGALORE Indian IT firms are looking to offset their exposure to a recession-battered U.S. market by targeting high-growth geographies, and bidding for government projects on their home turf.
SAP says emerging markets stabilizing
BANGALORE German software giant SAP is seeing a stabilization of demand in emerging markets, including China and India, as its deal pipeline improves and companies loosen their purse strings for IT spending.
Quotes from the India Investment Summit
MUMBAI/BANGALORE Following are selected comments from speakers at the 2009 Reuters India Investment Summit that runs from Monday to Wednesday.
MphasiS sees pricing woes persisting
BANGALORE Indian software firm MphasiS Ltd expects pricing pressure to continue and does not see a significant increase in IT budgets in the near term, the firm's top executives said.
Indian techie logging out of downturn gloom
BANGALORE As pundits around the world talk of "green shoots" and a W-shaped recovery, a software engineer with a Bangalore-based IT firm is looking at her own personal economic indicator to find out if the gloom has evaporated.
Mahindra Satyam says not losing clients
BANGALORE Indian IT services firm Mahindra Satyam's customer attrition has stopped and it is not resorting to price cuts to bag new deals, a top company executive said.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. | December 5, 2013
At a recent Education and the Workforce Committee
on the effects of ObamaCare on the nation's education system,
witnesses highlighted
potential new costs and damaging consequences for schools, colleges, teachers, and students.
One higher education
testified the law's punitive mandates could force his institution to increase tuition by as much as 20 percent.
A public school superintendent
the law's requirements will pile more than $4.5 million on the local board of education, potentially costing his district 58 teaching positions.
Similar reports about the health care law's devastating impact continue to surface from school districts and universities nationwide:
New Jersey: New health law puts many N.J. college students in coverage limbo
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In New Jersey,
college students who enrolled this fall were among the first to experience unforeseen changes in the marketplace, with many seeing their annual health insurance costs triple
. At community colleges in Bergen and Passaic counties, students lost coverage altogether.
Ohio: Obamacare's part-timer consequence: Limited work hours at colleges, municipalities
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Bowling Green said about 20 adjunct faculty members lost hours, and the university had to hire more part-timers to pick up the load.
This also meant that other part-time staffers who were hired originally to lead projects or handle other academic functions could no longer take over a class or two if a vacancy suddenly arose.
Oregon: Oregon schools, get ready for the Cadillac tax
The Oregonian
The mandates of the Affordable Care Act, once so pleasantly abstract, are raising visceral questions about fairness and affordability
. How can Oregon school districts dodge the Cadillac tax in ways that are fair to teachers? How should they structure total compensation to keep the teaching profession attractive? Also, how can they offer good health insurance in ways that are fair to the taxpayers footing most of the bills?
Tennessee: Affordable Care Act could affect teachers' hours in the classroom
Classrooms could soon feel a pinch as a result of the Affordable Care Act
, [which] requires employers to cover health insurance costs for anybody who works more than 30 hours a week. That includes many substitute teachers. School board officials in Maury County say
budgets are tight, and there is never enough money to go around
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"Students struggle enough having one substitute teacher, but then now we're going to have to possibly split the substitute time between two substitute teachers. It just makes it tough on the students to learn," [Maury County School Board vice-chairman Tommy Dudley] said.
Texas: Austin Community College to trim some faculty members' hours to avoid health benefits
McClatchy Tribune
Austin Community College plans to reduce hours for some adjunct faculty members
… Under the Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare, ACC must offer health benefits to an employee who works an average of 30 hours or more per week…
Extending health benefits to all is "not a sustainable option."
As Chairman John Kline
, "At a time when we need to recruit the best teachers, train today's workers for the jobs of the future, and support school leaders who are trying to do more with less, imposing a fundamentally flawed and costly law on our schools is not in the best interests of students, teachers, parents, or taxpayers." It's time the Obama administration recognized the havoc its government takeover of health care is wreaking on American families and joined congressional efforts to reverse the damaging law.
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Poverty matters blog + Indigenous peoples
Jonathan Glennie: Despite promises to leave no one behind, the UN drafting committee has little to say about halting threats to their survival
G Ananthapadmanabhan: The Bharatiya Janata party must balance pledge to protect welfare of indigenous groups with plan to ease business rules
Jonathan Glennie: I have detected a worrying lack of empathy towards poor people demanding their rights. But what would you do if your child was growing up stunted or you couldn't pay for your electricity?
Mattia Cabitza: Los pueblos indígenas en Perú se sienten traicionados por el gobierno de Ollanta Humala que, a pesar de sus promesas de diálogo, continúa con las políticas represivas de su predecesor
Mattia Cabitza: Indigenous people in Peru feel betrayed by Ollanta Humala's government, which, despite promising dialogue, is continuing with the aggressive policies of its predecessor
Vast swaths of Africa are being bought up by oligarchs, sheikhs and agribusiness corporations. But, as Fred Pearce explains in this extract from his book The Land Grabbers, centuries of history are being destroyed
Gavin O'Toole: El uso de leyes anti-terroristas del gobierno chileno contra los 'incendiarios' Mapuches provoca escándalo, mientras los ONG declaran que las prácticas de las arboricultoras comerciales son responsables por los incendios
Gavin O'Toole: The Chilean government's use of anti-terror laws against indigenous Mapuche 'arsonists' provokes outrage, as NGOs claim commercial forestry practices are to blame for fires
Stephen Corry: We need to think about whether development brings any benefits to those who are largely self-sufficient – like many of the world's 150 million tribal people
NGOs say Programme-for-Results Lending would allow countries to sidestep tough social and environmental safeguards that recipients of World Bank loans must normally meet
Mattia Cabitza: A new law recognising the land ownership rights of Peru's native inhabitants sets an important regional precedent
John Vidal: Development, by the west, creates considerable imbalances and a million problems. Indigenous people can solve these, says David Choquehuanca, Bolivia's foreign minister
Jonathan Glennie: The continent's dramatic successes have been overlooked, even if the region remains one of the world's most unequal
Jonathan Glennie: Living standards may be improving, but each generation will still need to fight for equality, dignity and justice
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Simon Davies (shin)Simon has just resumed full training and, unfortunately, is not quite there yet. We've had to protect the area of the operation from contact so, although he has been training with the other players, there has been no contact, which meant he was not really fit enough for the Wales international. We are hoping he will at least be available for the bench on Sunday, but it does depend a little bit on building contact into his training.
Thimothee Atouba (knee)Thimothee certainly made very quick progress with his knee - injured at West Brom - and he went away with Cameroon on the understanding they would assess him and make a decision over his fitness. We will obviously have a look at him when he comes back but the fact that he played is great news.
Philip IfilHe injured his ankle last week playing for the reserves, but it is much better today and he can walk completely comfortably on it. There is a little bit of ligament damage, so we will be taking it carefully over the next couple of days. Unfortunately, it does potentially conflict with England under-19 international duty.
Jamie Slabber (dislocated shoulder)Jamie is doing really well and is running now. He has got quite a way to go on his shoulder, but it is going to plan. We are trying to ensure that by the time his shoulder is better he doesn't have to have a long fitness rehab on top.
Dean Richards (ear infection)He has still got a problem with his ear and is trying different treatments, but each one needs to be tested individually.
Edson SilvaEddie hurt the joint between his shoulder and collar bone during the reserve game last week and it has caused some damage for which he is having treatment. He can't take part in full training, but he is running around and it is settling really well. We hope he will be back in full training next week.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Video Confirms Theory
If you've been following the the new "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales" movie, you may have noticed that the new handsome male lead Henry looks a lot like Will Turner, the former handsome male lead. Now, a new behind-the-scenes featurette confirms that Brenton Thwaites will play Will's son.
As reported by io9, Thwaites' character is named Henry Turner, which seems to suggest that he is the son of Orlando Bloom's Will Turner. In "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," the curse inflicted on Will allows him to return to land once every ten years; at the very end of the movie, Keira Knightly's Elizabeth Turner, the newly elected Pirate King, is seen meeting him on the beach once a decade.
RELATED: Pirates of the Caribbean 5 Synopsis Offers New Story Details
In the film's post-credits scene, Elizabeth leads a young boy down the beach as a ghostly Will Turner appears on the horizon. The credits called this boy "Young Will Turner," which more or less confirmed that the boy was Will's son, perhaps also named Will.
This connects back to the first trilogy of films in a big way and gives Thwaites' character a good reason for going on his pirate quest, despite not having a very pirate-like demeanor. We know for sure that Orlando Bloom will appear in the new film, so perhaps his son has set out to find his undead dad. Only time will tell if that is strong enough motivation to brave the menace of ghost sharks.
Starring Brenton Thwaites as Henry Turner and directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg from a script by Jeff Nathanson, the film also stars Geoffrey Rush as Hector Barbossa, , Kaya Scodelario as Carina Smyth, Kevin R. McNally as Joshamee Gibbs, Golshifteh Farahani as the sea-witch Shansa, David Wenham as Scarfield, Stephen Graham as Scrum and Orlando Bloom as Will Turner. "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales" arrives May 26.
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The New York Times Book Review has praised Alvarez's fiction as "powerful...beautifully captures the threshold experience of the new immigrant where the past is not yet a memory and the future remains an anxious dream." These same qualities characterize her poetry - from the "Making Up the Past" poems, which explore a life of exile as lived by a young girl, to "The Joe Poems," a series of wonderfully sensual and funny love poems celebrating a middle-aged romance. The collection culminates in the twenty-one-part title poem about the poet's return to her native Dominican Republic and the internal conflict and ultimate affirmation that journey occasioned. Bold innovation and invention, the interplay of sound, sense, and the rhythm of two languages, all characterize Julia Alvarez's art in transforming precious memory into unforgettable poetry.
Widely known for her novels, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies, Latina author Alvarez claims her authority as a poet with this collection. Tracing a lyrical journey through the landscape of immigrant life, these direct, reflective and often sensuous poems are grouped into five sections which, like the points of a star, indicate a circle. Alvarez begins with ``Bilingual Sestina,'' a meditation on leaving her native Dominican Republic for an alien land and strange language. She ends with the title poem ``The Other Side/El Otro Lado,'' a long, multipart narrative recounting her return to her homeland as a woman transformed-translated-by the years she has lived in America from native to guest. The speaker may claim ``There is nothing left to cry for,/ nothing left but the story/ of our family's grand adventure/ from one language to another,'' but this poetry resonates precisely because that story embodies larger questions about self-identity. A meticulous examination of self-evolution, Alvarez's assured collection reveals that change can take us across borders so slowly that only on reaching the other side can we see the distances we've come. (June)


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If you are unable to attend the AGM, please send me your proxy so I can act on your behalf. This is important as sometimes the number of people physically attending is just reaching quorum.
Invitation to the Annual General Meeting of the Bicycle Transport Alliance Inc.
Tuesday 18th March 2014 5:30 pm for a 6:00 pm start,
City West Lotteries House, 2 Delhi St, West Perth WA.
1. Acceptance of Minutes from previous AGM
2. Convenor's report
3. Treasurer's report
4. Fixing of membership fees for next year
5. General business
6. Election of officers and board members
Preceded and/or followed by refreshments.
MINUTES of previous 2014 AGM, held on Tuesday 18 March 2013
PLACE: 2 Delhi Street, West Perth, 6005
OPENED: 1755 hours
PRESENT: Quorum present. Heinrich Benz, Robert Hunt, Roland Parrotte, Alice Benz, Geraldine Box, Michael Boswell, William Greenhill, Peter Fallon, Peter Bartlett, Greg Elliott. Proxies from Andrew Priest, Alex Gardner, Adrian Glamorgan, Mick Murphy, James Flynn, Scott Pryer, Greg Elliott, Eddy Campbell, Rodney Lorrimer.
Treasurer Peter Bartlett chaired the meeting in the absence of Steven McKiernan, who told the board in an email in February that he was resigning immediately.
MINUTES OF LAST AGM: – on 20 March 2012 circulated earlier.
Moved Alice Benz, seconded Peter Fallon that they be accepted. Passed unanimously.
BOARD REPORT: (Full report attached)
The board put in a big effort on cycling funding. The State Transport Minister announced $30 million for cycling over this term of government. Last year the minister announced $50 million over five years, compared with $10 million over the previous five years. The BTA board's push for funding helped because it got to the notice of the government.
The BTA co-ordinated the Bike Safety Forums with the RAC.
The BTA boosted the response to the WA Bike Network plan. The government expected about 200 submissions and got 500. The BTA put its feedback in early and posted it on the website. A lot of other people and groups grabbed bits of it so that a lot of respondents repeated the BTA's ideas.
The Guildford Road Bridge upstream side has been concreted – after three or four years lobbying.
TREASURER'S REPORT: (Full report was circulated earlier and is attached)
The BTA is relying more on grants. It got a small grant from Westcycle.
Cash reserves are running down. It lost a few members when Australian Cyclist magazine folded because they liked it.
If the BTA did not raise enough money it would keep going for about two years. Overheads had been cut as much as possible.
Heinrich Benz commented that the board was trying to organise another magazine but nothing had come out of it.
He said the two years forecast was pretty optimistic unless the BTA could get organisational funding to run the organisation. A grant from the RAC had paid for him to work three days a week. It would be moving into the Westcycle office in Leederville about May.
Moved Alice Benz, seconded Michael Boswell, that the Treasurer's report be accepted. Passed unanimously.
Moved Alice Benz, seconded Peter Fallon, that the fees stay the same. Passed unanimously.
Alice Benz: I think we need to focus on a membership drive and form a secondary group to look at ways of promoting the BTA and what we can offer members instead of Australian cyclist. I am happy to head this.
Michael Boswell: People do not see our political work.
Roland Parrotte: Can the BTA keep asking government authorities when the Bike Plan is being implemented.
Heinrich Benz: I am on the WABN Implementation Committee. My job will be to tell the new Transport Minister that we need more money.
Roland Parrotte: City of Perth. As far as I know, there is representative for cycling. I do not believe that there is a City of Perth Bike Plan Implementation Committee. There should be a BTA member on it.
Treasurer Peter Bartlett, Secretary Robert Hunt, Alice Benz and Andrew Priest all renominated.
Elected unopposed were: Peter Bartlett, Robert Hunt, Alice Benz, Andrew Priest, Michael Boswell and Geraldine Box.
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When you get yourself under complete control, you can be your own boss.
We all have moments when we allow others to cause us to react emotionally, especially in anger. Often we regret our response later, and we vow we will never allow ourselves to behave in this fashion again. The next time you feel the anger rising, remind yourself that no one can make you angry or emotional without your consent — indeed, your active participation is required. Those who have learned to manage themselves are the individuals who are destined to be leaders. They are chosen to manage others because they have demonstrated that they can manage themselves. They are people of character.


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I'd like to escape to the Forest of Chou. But this is a complicated place, full of Wildgirls, and ChouChous, WildBeasts and Demons, Dreamers and Magis. The War against HATE and FEAR is great! This Forest can offer FREEDOM to LOVE, Freedom of being JUDGED, and FREEDOM to PLAY. But there is a WAR! The Main Weapon is Battle for our MEMORIES. Those who try to Control our INFORMATION or DISINFORMATION, with Negativity and Hate. We need the Keeper of our NARRATIVES. The keeper of your Stories. Our VERITAS! Our Magi of TRUTH is our greatest strength.
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Death toll of Spanair crash continues to rise while some injured passengers remain in critical condition.21 August 2008
MADRID -- More than 150 people died Wednesday when a Spanair plane, headed for Gran Canaria, veered off the Madrid-Barajas airport runway during takeoff, Spanish Transport Minister Magdalena Alvarez confirmed.
Alvarez said late Wednesday that the death toll had risen to 153. Nineteen passengers were hospitalised with severe injuries, including life-threatening burns. The flight had 164 passengers and nine crew members on board.
According to rescue services and witnesses, the Spanair type MD-82 aircraft never achieved flight, but hurtled off the end of the runway, where it broke apart and burst into flames.
"I saw how the airplane was torn into many pieces," said a driver who witnessed the crash from a nearby highway. "Then there were huge explosions. At first, I thought the plane was getting ready to land. But then it tipped to the side and bored into the earth with its right wing."
The flight with numbers JK 5022 and LH 2554 was due to take off at 1 pm (1100 GMT) for Gran Canaria. According to a report from El Pais, the first takeoff was delayed due to a technical problem. The crash occurred around 2:45 pm (1245 GMT) during the second attempt to depart.
A huge cloud of smoke rose from the accident site. Fire and rescue services sent a helicopter to douse the flames in the McDonnel-Douglas aircraft and its surrounding.
Rescue workers painted a picture of horror.
"There was nothing left that resembled an airplane," a police officer said. "It's how I imagine hell."
A colleague added that everything was black and burnt. "The bodies were so hot, that we burnt our fingers when we moved them."
Another rescue worker said it was a miracle that anyone survived the inferno. "The bodies in the wreckage were like charcoal and maimed," he said.
The bodies were transported with hearses to a hall at the Madrid convention centre, the same place that bodies were taken four years ago after terrorist attacks killed 191 people on trains during commuter rush hour in Madrid.
Family and friends waiting for the flight to arrive in Gran Canaria waited for hours to hear the fate of their spouses, parents, siblings or children.
"My sons, my daughter," sobbed one woman.
Following the incident, the Madrid airport was immediately closed to all traffic. Takeoffs and landings resumed on a limited basis later in the afternoon.
[dpa / Expatica]
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