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Oral History Program Darlene Armstrong Allen Interviewed by Marci Farr 19 August 2010 Oral History Program Weber State University Stewart Library Ogden, Utah Darlene Armstrong Allen Interviewed by Marci Farr 19 August 2010 Copyright © 2010 by Weber State University, Stewart Library Mission Statement The Oral History Program of the Stewart Library was created to preserve the institutional history of Weber State University and the Davis, Ogden and Weber County communities. By conducting carefully researched, recorded, and transcribed interviews, the Oral History Program creates archival oral histories intended for the widest possible use. Interviews are conducted with the goal of eliciting from each participant a full and accurate account of events. The interviews are transcribed, edited for accuracy and clarity, and reviewed by the interviewees (as available), who are encouraged to augment or correct their spoken words. The reviewed and corrected transcripts are indexed, printed, and bound with photographs and illustrative materials as available. Archival copies are placed in Special Collections. The Stewart Library also houses the original recording so researchers can gain a sense of the interviewee's voice and intonations. Project Description The St. Benedict's School of Nursing was founded in 1947 by the Sisters of Mount Benedict. The school operated from April 1947 to 1968. Over the forty-one year period, the school had 605 students and 357 graduates. In 1966, the program became the basis for Weber State College's Practical Nursing Program. This oral history project was created to capture the memories of the graduates and to add to the history of nursing education in Ogden. The interviews focus on their training, religion, and experiences working with doctors, nurses, nuns, and patients at St. Benedict's Hospital. This project received funding from the Utah Humanities Council and the Utah Division of State History. ____________________________________ Oral history is a method of collecting historical information through recorded interviews between a narrator with firsthand knowledge of historically significant events and a well-informed interviewer, with the goal of preserving substantive additions to the historical record. Because it is primary material, oral history is not intended to present the final, verified, or complete narrative of events. It is a spoken account. It reflects personal opinion offered by the interviewee in response to questioning, and as such it is partisan, deeply involved, and irreplaceable. ____________________________________ Rights Management Special Collections All literary rights in the manuscript, including the right to publish, are reserved to the Stewart Library of Weber State University. No part of the manuscript may be published without the written permission of the University Librarian. Requests for permission to publish should be addressed to the Administration Office, Stewart Library, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, 84408. The request should include identification of the specific item and identification of the user. It is recommended that this oral history be cited as follows: Darlene Armstrong Allen, an oral history by Marci Farr, 19 August 2010, WSU Stewart Library Oral History Program, Special Collections, Stewart Library, Weber State University, Ogden, UT. iii Darlene Armstrong Allen Graduation Photo Class of 1962 Darlene Armstrong Allen August 19, 2010 1 Abstract: This is an oral history interview with Darlene Armstrong Allen, conducted by Marci Farr and Sarah Langsdon, on August 19, 2010. In this interview, Darlene discusses her recollections and experiences with the St. Benedict's School of Nursing. Marjorie Porter was also present during the interview. MF: This is Marci Farr. We are interviewing Darlene Armstrong Allen. She graduated from St. Benedict's School of Nursing in 1962. We are interviewing her at the Pineview Rehab Center in Ogden, Utah. Will you just tell us a little bit about your early life, your family, and where you were raised? DA: I was raised in Ogden and I was the oldest child. I have a younger sister and a younger brother. My family was a scouting family. My parents were involved in the boy scouting programs. I always knew I wanted to be a nurse. In all of my schooling, I always took all of the science classes; chemistry and biology, zoology, botany, all of these types of classes. I even took Latin. MF: Well there you go. You went to Ben Lomond, right? DA: I graduated from Ben Lomond in 1959. MF: Why did you decide St. Benedict's? DA: Well first of all I liked the hands on nursing. I had a lot of respiratory problems and health problems when I was growing up and our family doctor spent Christmas morning at my house giving me penicillin shots, and for most of my life I wanted to go in the medical field and he, our doctor, was the one that said, "You need to go." He recommended St. Benedict's. I have a hard time learning just 2 from a book. I learn better from hands on so this would give me a better opportunity to succeed. MF: So was this your first time away from home when you went to St. Benedict's? DA: Yes. I received the Bamburger scholarship at St. Benedict's which helped pay for my expenses while I was there. I liked the three years rather than four. That was another plus factor for them. MF: Tell us about the nurse's home. DA: I was very curious about the sisters. When I found out that they were just plain women and human beings like the rest of us it made it a lot easier. They would always answer any question. If I had a question or anybody had a question like, "What do you do with your hair in that habit?" they would tell us. It was a very friendly atmosphere and the sisters were always willing to help. Sister Berno was a great one for reflective thinking. If you would ask her to get something she would go through a half hour of, "You want what?" "A belt." "You want a belt?" "Yes Sister, I want a belt," until you were ready to scream and say "I won't wear one." MF: You mentioned Pam was your roommate. DA: Pam was—my first roommate quit and then I moved in with Pam and we were there for the rest of the three years together. She was much easier to room with than a husband. MF: At this time you couldn't marry, right, when you were in the program? DA: No you could not. MF: Could you be engaged? 3 DA: I was engaged and the night I came back with my diamond, I went to work and we had to shake the thermometers down and I put the ring in my pocket and shook the thermometer. I hit my scissors and all the mercury went over that ring. That is not who I married. MF: Talked about Dr. Swindler, he was probably your most intimidating doctor, do you think? DA: Yes, because you could hear his number thirteen's coming down the hall regardless and he always had a pipe. In lifting and things like this, if you were not doing it correctly he would swat you on the backside rather than tell you so that you would learn the proper way to do things. MF: When you had study time what did you usually do with your classmates, your roommate, or your friends? Did you study together? DA: We would study some things together but basically it was study alone, either in your room or in the library from 8 P.M. to ten the first year. The second year we had a ten o'clock curfew and they weren't so strict about classroom study or study after school because of work schedules on the floors. MF: So did you still have classes—for your first year did you still have classes continue for your three years that you were in there? DA: Yes. They weren't as intense and as long but we still had classes. During the summer we wouldn't have classes because we staffed the hospital for those two months and then we were off for a month. Some of our instructors were really good. Our clinical coordinators were fantastic. But a lot of times we would have passed it off in lab and when we were on an actual patient to do the procedure 4 you would go to get them and they would say, "Well, I am busy, I can't do it, just go ahead." And you would be scared to death because it was a real patient. MF: What were some of the rules you had to follow besides curfew? DA: Chapel at six in the morning, the library, or your room to study—in the evenings, basically it was good discipline training for the rest of your life. MF: What would you do if you had a night off? DA: Because I grew up in Ogden I would sometimes go home. It was interesting because I am LDS and when I graduated from high school I went to St. Ben's. I went home one night to go to Young Women's, when I went in and sat down with girls I had grown up with—they all slid away. When we got to class I was sitting here and all the girls came and picked up their chairs and moved them across the room. The teacher came in and she says, "Why are you here? We took you off all our church records." Because I was going to St. Benedict's. Then she proceeded to talk about the Catholics. I didn't know a lot about the Catholics but with the things that she was saying, she knew less. And that was the last time I ever associated with any of those girls. In fact, I was going to quit nurse's training. I went and talked to our stake president and also a friend of ours and our neighbor—and I said, "What do I do because I am totally annihilated now from these people? Do I quit and go to another school or what?" He said, "No. You can be one with them, not one of them. Those other girls will pay the price someday." MF: Absolutely. 5 DA: So I stayed at St. Benedict's. I never ever again, to this day, have any association with those girls. When I was at the TB sanitorium I just lived down the hill and my mom was going to take me back to school and my grandma home. When they got to the gate to enter the TB sanitarium grandma had a holy fit. She said, "You can't go in there. The TB bugs are standing on the gate and will jump in the car." And there were a lot of people who would not come to graduation because it was held at St. Joseph's and they would have to wear a covering on their head when they came. And so they didn't come. MF: That is too bad that they couldn't see the benefit of that. DA: Those were some of the trials some of the nurses went through. I learned a great appreciation for the Sisters and have a great love for them. MF: They are all like us and their Christ-like teachings, plus service. DA: I had to take care of Sister Edicta after surgery one time. She was the sister over the operating room. I walked in the room and had to do peri-care on her and she is a Sister. She finally looked at me and she says, "Miss Armstrong? I am a woman and you will take care of me as a woman." It took away all the barriers. I still had the respect for her but it made it much easier for me to take care of her. MF: When your probationary period was over what were some of the first duties that you had? DA: Giving bed baths. I had a patient who was a Negro. I had never really been around Negros. I walked in, told him who I was, and that I was going to give him a bed bath. You had white towels, white wash clothes. So I start bathing him and my wash cloth became black. I thought I was washing away this man's color. So 6 I get down to his feet—and he is just laying there enjoying this whole thing. I get down to his feet and I put his foot in the basin and I wash it and there is only four toes, I rinse it and there is only four toes, go around to the other side and there are only four toes on that side. So now I thought I have washed away his color and all Negros have four toes. MP: I thought you were afraid you had washed away two toes. DA: What had happened is during the war he had frost bite and had his middle toes amputated on both feet. He was really good about explaining it. But he told me, "If I had a black wash cloth and a black towel and I gave you a bed bath, I would have white on it." That was one of the biggest challenges when I was first caring for patients. MF: To get over that fear. MP: And you're young and naïve. DA: Yes. MF: That would be kind of terrifying. DA: He is a man I will always remember. MF: Were you required to attend Mass at all? DA: Just the special Masses at 5 A.M. It seemed like I always got placed on the last row in front of the Sisters and if I nodded off one would poke me and I would say, "I am awake Sister." MF: You talked about your capping ceremony which took place in the nurse's home. DA: My grandfather was sick. If I was off on weekends I would go out and help take care of him. He was excited because I was the first grandchild to go on to 7 school. One night when I was out there taking care of him—my capping is coming up—he said, "When you get your cap and you are a real nurse now, I am going to have the first baby and you are going to deliver it and we'll make history." And then he passed away. When my mom came to the nurse's home to tell me Sister Berno pulled me out of class. They had planned on taking me out of school and going to Willard where he lived. Sister Berno said, "No. You have nothing to do out there. All you will do is sit and moan and cry and weep with all of these other people. Here you have things to learn and to do. At the end of the day after class is over, if you want to go that is fine but you will stay here." At the time I thought, "You unfeeling woman, this is my grandfather." But as I got older and got smarter, I realized she had been very, very wise. Because I would have lost everything for class that day and there was nothing really that I could have done in Willard. MF: It saved you a make-up day. DA: She taught me some good lessons. MF: Did you ever have times where the Sisters would come and go for hikes or walks… DA: We had a lot of picnics in the backyard. The Sisters would go on hikes up waterfall, over in Mount Ogden Park and things like this. MP: Sleigh riding. DA: Sleigh riding, yes. Sister Boniface, one time, out in the backyard they were playing—was it volleyball? Anyway, she went running down the lawn and somebody got a hold of her veil. 8 MP: I thought that was Sister Rebecca. DA: No, it was Sister Boniface. It pulled her whole top off. Sister Boniface, I am sure she hated me because I would think at night, "Okay, I will do all the rest of my homework and then if I die during the middle of the night I will not have wasted my last hours doing Sister Boniface's work. If I don't die I'll get up at five o'clock in the morning and do my homework." Needless to say, I got up at five o'clock and did homework. MF: You mentioned you were on the floors for three months for different rotations. Which floor was your favorite during all those rotations? DA: I liked surgical floor because I was interested in surgery and you could see progress with patients. On the medical floor sometimes it was very depressing because some of these people didn't get better and they were in there for a long time. MF: They kind of came to the hospital to die. DA: They had serious problems and things like this. In pediatrics, I got too emotionally involved with my patients and as a result I didn't like this because I became more concerned about them than what I was supposed to be doing. In labor and delivery it was like sitting on a keg of dynamite and you didn't know how long the fuse was. I did work at Hill Field in labor and delivery and post partum after I was married. MF: Tell us about any traditions you remember at St. Benedict's. DA: My first one was eating chicken with a knife and a fork. At Christmas time we always had a Christmas program. Other than that I don't really remember. 9 MF: Graduation you said was at St. Joseph's church. DA: Yes. MF: Did that take place June? DA: In June. MF: Tell us a little bit about your ceremony. DA: The Knights of Columbus had their swords drawn and we walked in through them. As we walked up to where the actual graduation was up at the front of the church we had to kneel in front of the Bishop who came. But as far as being LDS we were not required to kiss his ring. We had to bend your head forward in reverence to him. MP: We had to kiss his ring. DA: I didn't. I was told you didn't have to. And then after you marched back out again but you carried your rose. MF: After you graduated from the school did you stay at St. Benedict's? DA: No. MF: What did you do? DA: I finished and the next day I started in the operating room at the old Dee Hospital. So my nursing career has basically always been with the old Dee and McKay and IHC. MF: We just did the Dee School of Nursing so that was fun to hear all those fun memories. So when did you retire from nursing? DA: I retired in 1995. I had had back surgery before and it was getting to the point where I could not carry heavy instrument trays and things like this and move all 10 the equipment and patients. I just couldn't do it anymore so I had to quit. But I had a grandson born. I retired in July and in January my grandson was born with a defective heart. He had Epstein's anomaly. So I basically learned a different kind of nursing because I'd go down to Primary's and stay with him and when they finally let him come home I tended him while his parents worked. He had a heart transplant when he was nine months old. We just learned a new different kind of nursing. MF: Absolutely. How do you think nursing has changed over the years? DA: The nurses today do not have the personal care and interest in the patient. It is a job with a paycheck. "When my shift is over I am going home." The Sisters instilled in us that the patient is number one. And if you have got time that you are not doing something for somebody else you are in a patient's room with a patient. Different places that I have worked, even on nights, every hour I made rounds on every patient. And the people that would be sitting at the desk would say, "What are you doing? Just sit here. They are asleep. If they are awake they will ring their button." I just couldn't do it. MF: That is how you were trained. DA: The Sisters really instilled in us… MF: You want to make sure your patient is appreciated. DA: We did. The patients were number one. When they started telling me I had clients instead of patients I said, "I am sorry. I will always have patients." MF: Well thank you for sharing your story with us. We appreciate that. Thank you. We are glad you were able to take time to be with us today.
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Blair County Drug and Alcohol Program, Inc. is recognizing Blair County community leaders for adopting policies for tobacco-free, outdoor play and recreation areas. An awards breakfast will be held at the Casino at Lakemont Park on Monday, March 18th, 2013, which is during the week the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids promotes Kick Butts Day ( March 20th, 2013).
Kick Butts Day is a national day of activism that empowers youth to stand out, speak up and seize control against Big Tobacco to raise awareness of the tobacco problem, encourage youth to stay tobacco-free and urge strong action to protect kids from tobacco.
The Young Lungs at Play initiative focuses on keeping tobacco smoke and tobacco users away from kids. This is a step in the right direction to show kids that healthy outside recreation and tobacco use should not mix. It is a step toward making smoking-"not the norm". It is a strategy to reduce exposure to second hand smoke. It also keeps the parks cleaner.
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Over 100 high schoolers traveled to Hattiesburg to face off in various categories, which focused on historical topics of the student's choice.
Senior Clayton Norquist finished first in the category of individual performance, while sophomore Manuella Portilla finished second in the exhibit category.
Senior Keirra Birch and sophomore Molly Jackson also competed in categories.
CHS social studies teacher Glena Weeks instructs all of the competitors and has been their guiding mentor throughout the research and preparation phases that took a couple months.
"I'm very proud of their performance considering this is the first year we took part in the event," said Weeks. "We had two out of four students qualify for the national competition in June — that's pretty good."
As top finishers at in the Mississippi NHD contest, Norquist and Portilla are now eligible to attend the Kenneth E. Behring National History Day Contest at the University of Maryland at College Park, just outside of Washington, D.C., beginning June 9.
This is where the best NHD projects from across the United States, American Samoa, Guam, International Schools and Department of Defense Schools in Europe all meet and compete.
"I was not expecting to make it all the way to the national competition," said Norquist, who was awarded for the song he wrote and performed in perspective of a soldier stationed at Valley Forge.
"I really hope to win a scholarship — I could really use it," added Norquist.
Portilla, who created a trifold exhibit about the importance of penicillin since its discovery, was also thrilled to be moving up to the nationals.
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While both students are looking forward to heading north this spring, Weeks remains mindful of the costs associated with the national event.
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CHS principal Steven Craddock, a history teacher at the school for 18 years, is also gratified by their success.
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"It's difficult to know why the workers who have traditionally been here aren't coming to the fields now," said Jason Resnick, general counsel for Western Growers.
An improving economy in Mexico, combined with a weaker economy in the U.S., could be reducing the flow of immigrant workers. What's more, Resnick said the Obama administration has deported 400,000 illegal immigrants since coming into office, which is more than twice as many as President George W. Bush deported in eight years.
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The survey found that farm labor positions needed by growers ranged in length from one month to a year or more, with 72% of those who responded indicating they need employees for six months or more.
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Thirty-eight growers provided economic estimates of losses caused by labor shortages. Seven said they did not anticipate any losses; eight growers said they anticipated losses between $40,000 and $100,000. Thirteen predicted losses between $101,000 and $500,000 and two respondents indicated losses could be more than $1 million.
Resnick said Western Growers and others lobbied many years for the AgJobs program, which included revisions to the guest worker program and a pathway to citizenship for workers already in agriculture. However, the Republican Party opposes the pathway to citizenship in the AgJobs bill, he said.
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Most of the media attention has been focused on the growers, but increasingly, members of the industry are looking to the retailers who bought the cantaloupes.
A common refrain we at The Packer hear from growers is that they are increasingly burdened by the costs of third-party audits mandated by customers, and, in some cases, larger firms selling to multiple retailers must contract with more than one food safety auditing company.
In the Burch Farms case, on-site audits did not include the 115 acres of cantaloupes grown this season. At Jensen Farms, the audit was done before the season was in full swing, so there was no true measure of the company's food safety performance.
More information on practices at Chamberlain Farms will likely be coming out soon.
How closely are buyers checking to see if suppliers are truly toeing the line when it comes to food safety? As in the case of Jensen Farms, it's evident that a piece of paper declaring a clean bill of health one week doesn't hold true throughout the season.
This will no doubt fuel grower unease as they write a check — or two or more — to third-party certifiers. But those audits are necessary, regardless of how many acres they ship from.
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Is any one else still finding this to be a problem in the Azera? And does it happen similarly in the Sonata?
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Is any one else still finding this to be a problem in the Azera? And does it happen similarly in the Sonata?
(I was planning on buying an Azera with gray leather and this is making me think black leather might be a better choice.)
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doveman7 Posts: 10Well, I have the 07 with the gray leather. After a year and 16,000 miles, it looks pretty much like new. I've used leather cleaner once. Unfortunately, I got bleach on one of the back floor mats (don't ask) the first week I owned the car and am sort of just living with it. I did buy a cheap set of black floor mats and am using them on top of the gray ones--mostly to hide the bleach spot (!) but they also have kept the carpet in pretty good shape. Anyone want to get rid of a passenger side back seat gray floormat?
cobrazera Posts: 352We have the light gray interior in our '06 Azera ( 18K miles ) and the leather is still like new. Any soiling seems to come off with no problem. Two crazy 60 lb. dogs often ride in the back, and I'm amazed at how it's held up.
The carpet is not high quality and stains easily, so for Michigan winter we use dark gray mats from WalMart to maintain the new look on the floor. -
allmet33 Posts: 3,557I currently have a 2006 Azera with the light tan interior. I had the very problem you mention. I even had a situation where the blue dye from my jeans rubbed onto the seats. Anyway, great way to remove stains and make the leather look brand new is get a Mr. Magic Eraser and clean the seats with that. When you're done, there will be a bit of residue left behind, just wipe down with a clean damp cloth and then apply your favorite leather conditioner when you're done.
Oh yeah, the Magic Eraser works great on dash marks and finger smudges too!!! -
ms090870 Posts: 9I have an 07 azera with 11,000 miles on leather looks as good as the day I bought it. I also have 2 puppies that ride frequently and think it is GREAT to put their muddy little paws all over the seat. I suggest (I do this) getting some of the leather cleaner wipes and keeping them in the car. They work great!!
wobbly_ears Posts: 160I disagree. I have got a beige interior in my 07 & it looks great. No sign of aging, creasing etc. Hyundai has used really good quality leather & it shows. I can snap some pictures if you want proof.
But then again, I take care of my car. I have a no-eating & no-drinking policy in my car. And I clean the interior myself. I don't let some carwash guy to smear some chemical onto the leather. -
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allmet33 Posts: 3,557Hey Wobbly...
Trust me...I have learned that sometimes, saving a buck or two can cost you down the road. I do use quality products in regards to the upkeep of my car. Mequiars is truly at the top of my list. I use their mist detailer, car wash soap, leather conditioner and their NXT synthetic wax. I also use the Mother's clay bar and Eagle One wheel cleaner. Yes, I have learned my lesson when using cheaper products, you end up paying for it in other ways.
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While NASA estimated the meteor was only about the size of a bus and weighed an estimated 7,000 tons, the fireball it produced was dramatic. Video shot by startled residents of the city of Chelyabinsk showed its streaming contrails as it arced toward the horizon just after sunrise, looking like something from a world-ending science-fiction movie.
The largest recorded meteor strike in more than a century occurred hours before a 150-foot asteroid passed within about 17,000 miles (28,000 kilometers) of Earth. The European Space Agency said its experts had determined there was no connection between the asteroid and the Russian meteor — just cosmic coincidence.
The meteor above western Siberia entered the Earth's atmosphere about 9:20 a.m. local time (10:20 p.m. EST Thursday) at a hypersonic speed of at least 33,000 mph (54,000 kph) and shattered into pieces about 30-50 kilometers (18 to 32 miles) high, the Russian Academy of Sciences said. NASA estimated its speed at about 40,000 mph, said it exploded about 12 to 15 miles high, released 300 to 500 kilotons of energy and left a trail 300 miles long.
"There was panic. People had no idea what was happening," said Sergey Hametov of Chelyabinsk, about 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) east of Moscow in the Ural Mountains.
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The Interior Ministry said about 1,100 people sought medical care after the shock wave and 48 were hospitalized. Most of the injuries were caused by flying glass, officials said.
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The shock wave may have shattered windows, but "the atmosphere absorbed the vast majority of that energy," she said.
Emergency Situations Ministry spokesman Vladimir Purgin said many of the injured were cut as they flocked to windows to see what caused the intense flash of light, which momentarily was brighter than the sun.
There was no immediate word on any deaths or anyone struck by space fragments.
President Vladimir Putin summoned the nation's emergencies minister and ordered immediate repairs. "We need to think how to help the people and do it immediately," he said.
Some meteorite fragments fell in a reservoir outside the town of Chebarkul, the regional Interior Ministry office said. The crash left an eight-meter (26-foot) crater in the ice.
Lessons had just started at Chelyabinsk schools when the meteor exploded, and officials said 258 children were among those injured. Amateur video showed a teacher speaking to her class as a powerful shock wave hit the room.
Yekaterina Melikhova, a high school student whose nose was bloody and whose upper lip was covered with a bandage, said she was in her geography class when a bright light flashed outside.
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"I went to see what that flash in the sky was about," recalled resident Marat Lobkovsky. "And then the window glass shattered, bouncing back on me. My beard was cut open, but not deep. They patched me up. It's OK now."
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The many broken windows exposed residents to the bitter cold as temperatures in the city were expected to plummet to minus 20 Celsius (minus 4 Fahrenheit) overnight. The regional governor put out a call for any workers who knew how to repair windows.
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Death toll from derailed train in India now at 60
LUCKNOW, India (AP) - Officials say the death toll from a train derailment
in northern India has risen to 60 as more bodies are being pulled out of
the mangled coaches.
The senior army official in charge of rescue operations at the accident
site says volunteers and soldiers have pulled out 60 bodies from 12
coaches of the Kalka Mail, which went off the tracks Sunday afternoon.
Col. Amarjit Dhillon told the Associated Press on Monday that many more
bodies were trapped under the twisted coaches and soldiers were using gas
cutters to slice through the metal.
Rescue workers working through the night rescued many of the more than 100
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FATEHPUR, India (AP) - Rescuers searched for survivors in the wreckage of
a packed express train that derailed in northern India on Sunday
afternoon, killing at least 31 people, while officials said a second train
derailment hundreds of miles (kilometers) to the northeast appeared to
have been caused by a remote-controlled bomb.
Rescuers were working to reach the second derailment, which occurred late
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two railway incidents did not appear to be related.
In the first crash, the Kalka Mail train was on its way to Kalka, in the
foothills of the Himalayas, from Howrah, a station near Kolkata in eastern
India, when 12 coaches and the engine jumped the tracks at Malwan station,
near the town of Fatehpur in Uttar Pradesh state, senior railway official
A.K. Jain said.
The cause of the derailment was not immediately clear but it appeared that
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capital, Gauhati, Roy said.
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plunged into a pond and casualties are feared.
Roy did not blame any rebel group and no one has taken responsibility for
the attack so far. More than 30 groups in northeastern India have been
fighting for decades for independence or wide autonomy in the region,
about 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) east of New Delhi.
It was the third train accident in India in the last four days. A train
hit a bus at an unmanned railway crossing last Thursday, killing 35
In Fatehpur, the accident site was a pile of twisted metal. At least one
coach flew above the roof of another ahead of it and was dangling
precariously, television footage showed. Another coach was thrown away
from the rest of the train.
The toll was likely to rise as rescuers made their way through the coaches
and used gas cutters to cut through the mangled metal, Lal said. Rescue
efforts continued late into the night.
"We're trying to cut into the coaches and rescue those still trapped
inside," Lal said.
A senior railway official, H.C. Joshi, told CNN-IBN news channel that
rescuers were struggling to free at least five people pinned under the
wreckage of one of the worst-damaged coaches.
Medical personnel rushed to the area, about 75 miles (120 kilometers)
southeast of Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh state.
Army helicopters were ferrying the most seriously injured victims to
hospitals and 30 army engineers had joined the rescue efforts, Lal said.
TV stations showed local residents helping injured passengers away from
the train, several in makeshift stretchers, and breaking the windows of
coaches to help those trapped inside.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressed "deep sorrow and shock" at the
loss of lives. The Railways Ministry announced compensation of 500,000
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India's railroad network is one of the largest in the world and carries
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On Writing
Dean Wesley Smith wrote a terrific article on the benefits of writing quickly. He disputes the long held notion that slow writing equals quality and vice versa. I read his thoughts on the subject and it wasn't just a light bulb moment--for me it was a sunrise moment.
Ironically, I just finished writing a sequel to my book, Celia and the Fairies, where I'd unknowingly tested his theory (this was before I'd read his article). I'd been struggling with writing the manuscript so I decided to just write the thing already. Enough with the over-thinking it. I deliberately chose to write fast and furiously and not look back. I was comfortable doing this because I knew the manuscript would be fairly short by book standards. Knowing I might be making a mess of 120 pages was less scary than possibly screwing up 300 plus.
Once I turned off the analytical part of my brain, the creative side kicked into high gear and the pages flew. I had no idea if the story was any good, but after awhile I didn't care because I was almost giddy with the ease of it. When I was done, I gave it some time before I read it from start to finish. My biggest worry was that most of it would be complete rubbish, but you know what? Only about 10% of it needed work, and even that wasn't truly appalling. Just not there yet. And easily fixed, which isn't always the case.
This was a revelation for me. I'm a plodder, worrier, constant-tweaker. But knowing I don't have to be and that there are actual advantages to writing quickly, empowered me. (Thanks Dean Wesley Smith!) I can't imagine I'll ever be one of those writers who cranks out six books a year, but now I give myself permission to throw words out there and trust it will all work out. It may not, of course, but at least I'll have fun along the way.
I'm working on a novel now and it's humming along. When I'm not sure about a detail, I leave a blank and figure I'll fill it in later (I believe I first read about doing this in Stephen King's book On Writing--a really terrific book that every writer should read). So if a character says something about visiting their grandfather in another state and I haven't quite worked out which state that would be, I leave space. Doing this saves me an incredible amount of time. In the past, every time I stopped to research a minor detail I pulled myself out of the story, making it hard for me to get back into it.
So thanks, Stephen King! Of course I didn't need permission from Steve to leave blanks in my work-in-progress, but knowing the master does something a certain way is validating.
Every writer has their own methodology. Some need to work out the plot in advance. So far that's not been something I enjoy doing. Outlining fiction turns it into drudgery for me. I can imagine sitting down to write and thinking, okay, today I'll write the chapter where he finds out she lied about Tuesday night when she said she went to book club... Bleah, where's the fun in that? I don't want to know ahead of time. I want to experience the story along with the character. I want to find out where she was Tuesday along with him and feel what he feels. Writing fiction (for me) is largely about discovery.
That's not to say I don't have any control over the events in my books. Sometimes I'll write myself into a corner or stall out completely. When that happens I often thumb through The Writer's Journey by Christopher Vogler, a book that discusses the underlying mythic structure of stories. I don't necessarily follow the story structure as detailed in the book--I use the book as a way to brainstorm possible plot points. Something about reading how others have done it gives me ideas. Usually one idea will feel right and I'll be off and running again.
No two writing days are ever alike. Every book has its own unique challenges, joys, and frustrations. By necessity I'm always evolving as a writer. The only thing I know for sure is that I don't know anything for sure. Next month I may be writing a blog post on the joys of outlining. I don't think I will, but you never know.
25 comments:
- Ruth Harris said...
Fabulous post, Karen! Only 10% needed work? You're an inspiration (I'm the plodding write-rewrite- edit-cut repeat type).
How much of the story/plot do you know in advance? Or do you just wing it & find out what happens as you go along? - June 12, 2011 at 8:43 AM
- Karen McQuestion said...
Ruth, since your books are New York Times bestsellers, I'd say your method is working for you. :)
As for how much I know in advance,it varies. I usually have a foggy notion of how things are going to go, but nothing specific. And I'm often surprised along the way. I tend to have happy/hopeful endings so that's pretty much a given. - June 12, 2011 at 8:48 AM
- Ellen Fisher said...
Great post. My method is to sit down and write in a rush, then go back and look it over and edit, then sit down and write some more. I edit constantly (though not while I'm writing, because that makes me crazy). As a consequence, I never really have a "first draft" either-- it's pretty shiny and polished by the time I'm done writing it. But I'll still go back and edit it several times when I'm done, too.
Also, I don't outline in advance, so sometimes I have to go back and edit and write stuff in as plot developments come to me. It's kind of a messy way to write, but it works for me-- and that's really what matters! - June 12, 2011 at 9:33 AM
- Karen McQuestion said...
I agree, Ellen, whatever works! I find it funny when people ask how many times I revise a book before it's complete because I have absolutely no idea. It seems like a continuous process to me.
- June 12, 2011 at 9:40 AM
- David Ebright (aka JaxPop) said...
Hi, Karen. I'm at the midpoint of my 3rd book & this is the first time I've tried outlining & it seems to be a positive thing. I did my research & collected my notes for a couple of months before putting down a single word.
My 2nd book took a wild turn & created the idea for the 3rd - so that resulted in a major re-write of Reckless. Guess my cigar-chomping muse gave me a 2 for 1 deal in that case.
I do "edit" the last chapter before resuming work on a MS as sort of a warm up to get into the flow of the story.
Nice post. Enjoy your Sunday. - June 12, 2011 at 10:22 AM
- PV Lundqvist said...
I'm a big fan of Dean's as well! What I particularly like about his advice is how it shows there are different approaches to writing success.
So many times, fixating on perfection kills productivity. Such a stress avoidance thing. - June 12, 2011 at 10:27 AM
- Christopher Wills said...
I write fast as well which I learnt doing nanowrimo - 50,000 words in 30 days. Like you I assumed a lot of it would need a lot of work but it is amazing how when you force yourself to write quickly a lot of it is very good writing - it probably depends on your ability and experience. I have done nanowrimo free writing with no plot, only a genre and a direction, and I have done it with a fairly well plotted story and both turned out well. So I'm firmly in the write fast camp; otherwise how are you ever going to finish a novel....?
- June 12, 2011 at 10:34 AM
- Karen McQuestion said...
Hey David (aka JaxPop), interesting how one idea led to another. A gift from your muse!
PV Lundqvist, Dean is a very wise man. And so are you, based on this sentence: "So many times, fixating on perfection kills productivity." I wish I had written that. :)
Christopher Wills--good point about ability and experience. I'm not sure I could have done this ten years ago when my writing skills weren't as strong. All my practice pages (which I didn't think of practice pages as the time) have paid off. - June 12, 2011 at 10:44 AM
- Elisa said...
I really enjoyed this, Karen. (I LOVE talking about the process!) I've often said that revision can be the sandbox of writing, but it can also be the mudpit where you get stuck. In that case, you've reminded me to make mudpies!
(I'm going to get crackin' on my manuscript now... today's objective: have fun!)
:) - June 12, 2011 at 10:56 AM
- Ava Jae said...
Wow! 10%, that's amazing!
I usually plotted my WIPs until my last one which I completely pantsed. I was initially scared about getting stuck, but once I let that fear go I found it refreshing and exciting. The discovery was so much fun!
I think I'll be pantsing more novels in the future. It's intimidating, not knowing exactly what the future holds, but definitely worth the experience. :)
Great post! - June 12, 2011 at 11:16 AM
- Karen McQuestion said...
Elisa, I love talking about the process too. Next time we see each other in person we'll have a lot to discuss. By the way, congrats on hitting #18 on Kindle with FAKING IT. :) Every day it gets higher and higher...
Ava Jae, it may have been closer to 15%--it's hard to say for sure. But it wasn't nearly as bad as I feared it would be.
Thanks for stopping by and commenting. I'm glad you liked the post. - June 12, 2011 at 12:05 PM
- dark_opus said...
I think a writer has to find their favored methodology, get comfortable with its rhythms and flows, and then experiment on occasion to avoid being trapped in a rut. It's empowering to learn what works for other writers (and what doesn't). It can make experimenting an intriguing act of discovery versus a worrisome probe of some troubling unknown.
Thanks for sharing your journey and experiences with everyone, Karen. - June 12, 2011 at 1:46 PM
Your post brought a smile to my face. My first drafts are always written at break neck speed. I always leave blank spaces and fill them in later. I look at it as building the structure of a house. I can always go back and tweak it but the structure remains solid. However, I always outline. It makes the process move forward for me. Plus I have a terrible memory so having notes about what is supposed to happens helps me. Great post as usual and I, and my daughter, are looking foward to your sequel.
Sean McCartney
The Treasure Hunters Club - June 12, 2011 at 10:00 PM
- Karen McQuestion said...
dark opus (great name, by the way), thanks for adding your thoughts on the subject.
Sean, I like the "structure of a house" analogy." Well put! - June 13, 2011 at 9:39 AM
- kathie shoop said...
Hi Karen,
I'm a panster although I know my characters, and some high and low points...but how I'm getting to each point, is usually a mess at first, for me. I write fast and rough and it makes for too many to count rewrites! It sounds like even your messy drafts are pretty concise...I envy that. Thanks for the inspirational post. I liking talking craft! - June 13, 2011 at 1:49 PM
- Pale Rambler said...
Great POV on the process. I used to do the "write a little/edit a lot/write a little more/edit a whole lot more" until I was miserable and would give up. Although this first novel has taken over a year to draft, I tend to write quickly when I am able to sit down and write.
However, I am a sucker for outlining. Not that I follow it. I just like to have it to keep me grounded in the basic story. But now that I've discovered Scrivener, even the outline might go the way of the Dodo.
Keep up the great work!
Mark - June 13, 2011 at 3:23 PM
- Bill B said...
So much good information ... both in your post and in the comments. Now I know that I'm a -- well, not really a panster or a plotter, I guess a "planster". And that's OK ツ! I know a beta version of Scrivener has been available for Windows, and if you participated in NaNoWriMo and had your 50k words validated you could get a 50%-off coupon for when the product is released. Frankly, a lower-tech method works for me (not quite the 1946 Olympia typewriter one bestselling author uses, tho). Hey, go ahead and make your next post on the joys of outlining!
- June 14, 2011 at 2:05 AM
- Jon Olson said...
Glad to learn there's another constant rewriter. For me, it's like building with bricks. Each one has to set just right before you can put the next one up, or something like that.
Jon Olson
The Petoskey Stone - June 14, 2011 at 7:07 AM
- sewa mobil said...
Nice article, thanks for the information.
- June 14, 2011 at 10:39 AM
- Karen McQuestion said...
Pale Rambler--"I used to do the "write a little/edit a lot/write a little more/edit a whole lot more" until I was miserable..."--me too! Why do we do that to ourselves? It's counter productive.
Bill, I've been hearing about Scrivener for ages, but I'm not sure if it would be for me. I think I need my big mess to percolate in my head for it all to come together. And now you have me wondering which author uses a 1946 Olympia typewriter? - June 15, 2011 at 8:32 AM
- Tim McGregor said...
Great post, Karen. It's good to give yourself permission to let fly and sweep up later.
I intentionally use placeholders because of the research pitfall. I stop to look up one tiny detail and whoops, two hours later I'm chasing ridiculous details that have no little bearing on the detail at hand. And I've wasted a writing session.
I save my research for downtime in front of the TV or some other non-writing session time. - June 15, 2011 at 8:50 AM
- jaclement said...
Interesting post...I find it fascinating how many different ways of writing there are. For me, I can spend rare oddments of spare time thinking about the world in which my books are set (it's a fantasy / magic realism series) and about the characters' backstories; but if I try to plan the plot it simply doesn't work.
Partly this is because for me the plot has to arise naturally out of the characters' actions, rather than acting like a puppetmaster and making them follow a specific plot; but also because it doesn't matter whether I plan or not, as sometimes my characters simply WON'T play!
Has anyone else had that experience, where suddenly a character dies who was supposed to make it to the end, or someone who was supposed to die unexpectedly doesn't and ends up being instrumental to the plot going somewhere completely other than where you thought it was going?
My characters do that to me moderately often. It means that writing never gets predictable, though - and Karen, I write for the rush of finding out what happens next too.
Hopefully it comes through in the text, but as an author you can never really tell...
JAC - June 15, 2011 at 12:41 PM
- Karen McQuestion said...
kathie shoop,thanks for sharing your process. I like talking about craft as well.
Jon Olson, what are you doing here?Shouldn't you be working on your next novel? :)
sewa mobil--you are welcome!
Tim McGregor, I hear you about chasing ridiculous details and wasting a whole writing session. I've done it way too many times.
jaclement, I know exactly what you mean. Sometimes my plots take unexpected turns. In my novel, A Scattered Life, I originally thought the mother-in-law, Audrey, would be a minor character, but her role grew as the story evolved. I never saw it coming. - June 15, 2011 at 6:03 PM
- Christina said...
Christina - firstname.lastname@example.com - Of course poetry and even poetic prose are different than writing novels, but I've always written exceedingly quickly when inspired, leaving blanks when I know the rhythm needs a word or two but I don't know what they are yet! Also finding out what you're creating as you go along is a sign of true creativity, and keeps the work fresh.
- June 16, 2011 at 7:33 AM
- Karen McQuestion said...
Christina--keeping the work fresh is what it's all about for me. If the writer is bored with the writing, it shows through to the reader...
- June 16, 2011 at 9:13 AM


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Iraqi Fights Graft, Crime in Interior Ministry
January 14, 2010 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Missy Ryan and Muhanad Mohammed
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Outside the office of Aqeel al-Turaihi, inspector general at what is seen as a corrupt country's most corrupt government agency, hangs a 'Board of Honour' showing photos of slain colleagues. Since he began probing theft, human rights abuses and police infiltration by militias in Iraq's Interior Ministry in 2006, more than 40 members of Turaihi's team have been assassinated.
"We are targeted from two sides: by terrorists because we are part of a security agency and by unscrupulous officials because we fight corruption," he said.
Assailants have tried several times to kill Turaihi himself, an amateur poet and one-time activist against dictator Saddam Hussein, including a bomb attack on his convoy two years ago. The most recent threat on his life was less than a month ago.
Yet, Turaihi said, big strides had been made in combating malfeasance in the ministry, a vast bureaucracy that includes more than 300,000 police and about 200,000 other employees.
"There has been a big improvement. When we talk about the problems that might exist in the ministry, we need to note that we're watching them closely and working hard to correct them."
As Iraq battles a stubborn insurgency and takes on greater responsibility for security from U.S. troops, it must face not just corruption but allegations police or soldiers take bribes from militants or even collude in bloody attacks on civilians.
In a new report, parliament's security and defense committee charges security forces were at least indirectly responsible in recent attacks on state buildings that have added a new element of uncertainty before national elections in March.
Seven or eight members of security forces remain in police custody after those attacks, committee member Falah Zaidan said.
Ammar Tu'ma, another lawmaker on the committee, said security forces were infiltrated.
"There are elements complicit with terrorists in implementing these explosions," he said.
While officials deny any systemic wrongdoing among uniformed Iraqis, they acknowledge shortcomings in keeping Iraqis safe and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has vowed dire consequences for those taking part in such attacks.
In the bloody years after Saddam's ooverthrow, when U.S. officials disbanded security forces and rebuilt them anew, the Interior Ministry was widely believed to be in the grip of Shi'ite militias that went after adversaries with impunity and targeted Iraqis from the once-dominant Sunni minority.
Turaihi said most criminal elements were 'cleansed' from the ministry.
"There was a time when the ministry may not have been so professional and its loyalties might have been weak, but those loyalties have now come together under a national banner."
Critics are skeptical about how zealous Turaihi and other anti-corruption officials in Iraq have been in that fight.
Zaidan said Turaihi, whose 2,600 inspectors oversee a ministry of 500,000 employees, and his Defense Ministry counterpart were not up to snuff and may need to be replaced.
While graft is sure to be a hot issue in the March 7 national polls, Iraq's record on going after iniquitous officials, especially those from senior levels, is poor.
Iraq is still ranked as one of the world's most corrupt countries even as it stands on the verge of signing energy deals that could bring a flood of new oil revenue.
The Interior Ministry has been especially problematic. An independent panel reported there were more Interior employees convicted of corruption in 2008 than any other ministry.
The same year, senior officials shut down 135 suspected corruption cases across the government, and another 1,552 were abandoned because suspects were covered by an amnesty law that has been morphed to become a corruption shield.
Turaihi said he did not support a full cancellation of the controversial article that allows ministers to protect subordinates, but said it should be used only to protect prosecution of 'unintentional' crimes.
(Additional reporting by Waleed Ibrahim, Suadad al-Salhy and Khalid al-Ansary; Editing by Angus MacSwan)


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David's last words. (1-7) David's mighty men. (8-39)
Verses 1-7 These words of David are very worthy of regard. Let those who have had long experience of God's goodness, and the pleasantness of heavenly wisdom, when they come to finish their course, bear their testimony to the truth of the promise. David avows his Divine inspiration, that the Spirit of God spake by him. He, and other holy men, spake and wrote as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. In many things he had his own neglect and wrong conduct to blame. But David comforted himself that the Lord had made with him an everlasting covenant. By this he principally intended the covenant of mercy and peace, which the Lord made with him as a sinner, who believed in the promised Saviour, who embraced the promised blessing, who yielded up himself to the Lord, to be his redeemed servant. Believers shall for ever enjoy covenant blessings; and God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, shall be for ever glorified in their salvation. Thus pardon, righteousness, grace, and eternal life, are secured as the gift of God through Jesus Christ. There is an infinite fulness of grace and all blessings treasured up in Christ, for those who seek his salvation. This covenant was all David's salvation, he so well knew the holy law of God and the extent of his own sinfulness, that he perceived what was needful for his own case in this salvation. It was therefore all his desire. In comparison, all earthly objects lost their attractions; he was willing to give them up, or to die and leave them, that he might enjoy full happiness, ( Psalms 73:24-28 ) . Still the power of evil, and the weakness of his faith, hope, and love, were his grief and burden. Doubtless he would have allowed that his own slackness and want of care were the cause; but the hope that he should soon be made perfect in glory, encouraged him in his dying moments.
Verses 8-39 David once earnestly longed for the water at the well of Bethlehem. It seems to be an instance of weakness. He was thirsty; with the water of that well he had often refreshed himself when a youth, and it was without due thought that he desired it. Were his valiant men so forward to expose themselves, upon the least hint of their prince's mind, and so eager to please him, and shall not we long to approve ourselves to our Lord Jesus, by ready compliance with his will, as shown us by his word, Spirit, and providence? But David poured out the water as a drink-offering to the Lord. Thus he would cross his own foolish fancy, and punish himself for indulging it, and show that he had sober thoughts to correct his rash ones, and knew how to deny himself. Did David look upon that water as very precious which was got at the hazard of these men's blood, and shall not we much more value those benefits for purchasing which our blessed Saviour shed his blood? Let all beware of neglecting so great salvation.
2 Samuel 23:1-7 . DAVID PROFESSES HIS FAITH IN GOD'S PROMISES.
1. Now these be the last words of David--Various opinions are entertained as to the precise meaning of this statement, which, it is obvious, proceeded from the compiler or collector of the sacred canon. Some think that, as there is no division of chapters in the Hebrew Scriptures, this introduction was intended to show that what follows is no part of the king's poetical compositions; while still others consider it the last of his utterances as an inspired writer.
raised up on high--from an obscure family and condition to a throne.
the anointed of the God of Jacob--chosen to be king by the special appointment of that God, to whom, by virtue of an ancient covenant, the people or Israel owed all their peculiar destiny and distinguished privileges.
the sweet psalmist of Israel--that is, delightful, highly esteemed.
2. The Spirit of the Lord spake by me--Nothing can more clearly show that all that is excellent in spirit, beautiful in language, or grand in prophetic imagery, which the Psalms of David contain, were owing, not to his superiority in natural talents or acquired knowledge, but to the suggestion and dictates of God's Spirit.
3. the Rock of Israel--This metaphor, which is commonly applied by the sacred writers to the Almighty, was very expressive to the minds of the Hebrew people. Their national fortresses, in which they sought security in war, were built on high and inaccessible rocks.
spake to me--either preceptively, giving the following counsels respecting the character of an upright ruler in Israel, or prophetically, concerning David and his royal dynasty, and the great Messiah, of whom many think this is a prophecy, rendering the words, "he that ruleth"--"there shall be a ruler over men."
4. as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain--Little patches of grass are seen rapidly springing up in Palestine after rain; and even where the ground has been long parched and bare, within a few days or hours after the enriching showers begin to fall, the face of the earth is so renewed that it is covered over with a pure fresh mantle of green.
5. Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure--"the light of the morning," that is, the beginning of David's kingdom, was unlike the clear brilliant dawn of an Eastern day but was overcast by many black and threatening clouds; neither he nor his family had been like the tender grass springing up from the ground and flourishing by the united influences of the sun and rain; but rather like the grass that withereth and is prematurely cut down. The meaning is: although David's house had not flourished in an uninterrupted course of worldly prosperity and greatness, according to his hopes; although great crimes and calamities had beclouded his family history; some of the most promising branches of the royal tree had been cut down in his lifetime and many of his successors should suffer in like manner for their personal sins; although many reverses and revolutions may overtake his race and his kingdom, yet it was to him a subject of the highest joy and thankfulness that God will inviolably maintain His covenant with his family, until the advent of his greatest Son, the Messiah, who was the special object of his desire, and the author of his salvation.
6. But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns--that is, the wicked enemies and persecutors of this kingdom of righteousness. They resemble those prickly, thorny plants which are twisted together, whose spires point in every direction, and which are so sharp and strong that they cannot be touched or approached without danger; but hard instruments and violent means must be taken to destroy or uproot them. So God will remove or destroy all who are opposed to this kingdom.
2 Samuel 23:8-39 . A CATALOGUE OF HIS MIGHTY MEN.
8. These be the names of the mighty men whom David had--This verse should be translated thus: He who sits in the seat of the Tachmonite (that is, of Jashobeam the Hachmonite), who was chief among the captains, the same is Adino the Eznite; he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time. The text is corrupt in this passage; the number eight hundred should be three hundred [DAVIDSON, Hermeneutics]. Under Joab he was chief or president of the council of war. The first or highest order was composed of him and his two colleagues, Eleazar and Shammah. Eleazar seems to have been left to fight the Philistines alone; and on his achieving the victory, they returned to the spoil. In like manner Shammah was left to stand alone in his glory, when the Lord, by him, wrought a great victory. It is not very easy to determine whether the exploits that are afterwards described were performed by the first or the second three.
15, 16. the well of Beth-lehem--An ancient cistern, with four or five holes in the solid rock, at about ten minutes distance to the north of the eastern corner of the hill of Beth-lehem, is pointed out by the natives as Bir-Daoud; that is, David's well. Dr. ROBINSON doubts the identity of the well; but others think that there are no good grounds for doing so. Certainly, considering this to be the ancient well, Beth-lehem must have once extended ten minutes further to the north, and must have lain in times of old, not as now, on the summit, but on the northern rise of the hill; for the well is by or ( 1 Chronicles 11:7 ) at the gate. I find in the description of travellers, that the common opinion is, that David's captains had come from the southeast, in order to obtain, at the risk of their lives, the so-much-longed-for water; while it is supposed that David himself was then in the great cave that is not far to the southeast of Beth-lehem; which cave is generally held to have been that of Adullam. But ( Joshua 15:35 ) Adullam lay "in the valley"; that is, in the undulating plain at the western base of the mountains of Judea and consequently to the southwest of Beth-lehem. Be this as it may, David's men had in any case to break through the host of the Philistines, in order to reach the well; and the position of Bir-Daoud agrees well with this [VAN DE VELDE].
19-39. the first three--The mighty men or champions in David's military staff were divided into three classes--the highest, Jashobeam, Eleazar, and Shammah; the second class, Abishai, Benaiah, and Asahel; and the third class, the thirty, of which Asahel was the chief. There are thirty-one mentioned in the list, including Asahel; and these added to the two superior orders make thirty-seven. Two of them, we know, were already dead; namely, Asahel [ 2 Samuel 3:30 ] and Uriah [ 2 Samuel 11:17 ]; and if the dead, at the drawing up of the list, amounted to seven, then we might suppose a legion of honor, consisting of the definite number thirty, where the vacancies, when they occurred, were replaced by fresh appointments.


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High times in Kabul
June 18, 2009 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Colin Freeze
Afghan farmer looks at anti-narcotics poster in Talbozag village June 14, 2009. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani |
Kabul — Sayyed Mohammed, 28, has hollow eyes, a fist full of coins, and a $4-a-day heroin habit.
"I'm addicted," he tells me in an open air drug market in Kabul, both of us ankle-deep in rubble and ruin.
"I was treated two times in Pakistan, but for one month, I've been readdicted."
Part of the reason he's back on drugs, he says, is because they are so cheap. "Each dosage costs 100 Afgani," he explained – the equivalent of $2.
In Afghanistan, opium, and its derivative, heroin, have long tended to be seen as export commodities. Addiction? Largely a foreign problem.
But the nation is slowly realizing the chickens have come home to roost. In rural regions such as Kandahar, the complaints centre on insurgents taxing the opium crops, funding insurgency to the tune of tens of millions of dollars a year.
In urban areas such as Kabul, where the Taliban and poppies are less visible, the complaints centre on the corrupting power of drug money, evidenced in the "poppy palaces" that have popped up around town.
Families speak of young men who are getting high instead of getting jobs.
Ground zero for this is Kabul's Russian Cultural Centre, a sprawling complex shelled heavily during the civil wars of the 1990s. Faded murals still show industrious workers cast in the Soviet Realist mould, but today's denizens have succumbed to a culture of hopelessness and despair.
Dozens of addicts call the centre home, including Mr. Mohammed, who was reflective before he wandered off to exchange his coins for more drugs.
"Heroin has given a bad name to Afghanistan," he said. He added he was more concerned about teenagers than himself. "The problem is that they are jobless," he said. "I tell them, 'It is not going to reduce your problems, it is going to add to your problems.' "
Afghanistan grows more opium than the world can use, forcing rivals such as Myanmar and Laos have cut back because their poppies can no longer compete.
"For a number of years now, Afghan opium production has exceeded [world] demand," wrote the United Nation's office on drugs and crime last year.
"The bottom should have fallen out of the opium market," it said. "It has not."
Prices, however, have fallen somewhat, and this may also have helped spread addiction in Afghanistan "It's an increasing problem, day by day," said Jamal Nazir, a social worker at a Kabul rehab clinic.
Many of his patients arrive from the Russian Cultural Centre, he said, including teenagers. "I have special sympathies because they are the energy of Afghanistan."
Families shuffled in and out of the rehab centre before Friday prayers. The visitors came from every strata, from poor farmers to the local gentry.
"My wife's brother, he is addicted," said Dr. Shah Mahmoud. "Our youths go out of Afghanistan, for work to Iran or neighboring countries, and get addicted."
He complained of "high authorities," getting involved in the drug trade and with mafia groups.
Afghanistan's culture of impunity has to end, he said.
"We blame the government for this problem," he said. "The government should arrest and hand over to the law those people who are involved in this criminal business."