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David Hockney | |
We Two Boys Together Clinging (1961) | |
Born | Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England | 9 July 1937
Nationality | British |
Education | Bradford School of Art (1953–1958) Royal College of Art (1959–1962) |
Known for | Painting, Printmaking, Photography, Set design |
Movement | Pop art |
Awards | John Moores Painting Prize (1967) Companion of Honour (1997) Royal Academician Order of Merit (2012) |
David Hockney | |
We Two Boys Together Clinging (1961) | |
Born | Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England | 9 July 1937
Nationality | British |
Education | Bradford School of Art (1953–1958) Royal College of Art (1959–1962) |
Known for | Painting, Printmaking, Photography, Set design |
Movement | Pop art |
Awards | John Moores Painting Prize (1967) Companion of Honour (1997) Royal Academician Order of Merit (2012) |
David Hockney, OM CH RA (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer. He lives in Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, and Kensington, London.[1] Hockney maintains two residences in California, where he lived on and off for over 30 years: one in Nichols Canyon, Los Angeles, and an office and archives on Santa Monica Boulevard[2] in West Hollywood.[3][4]
An important contributor to the Pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century.[5][6]
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Hockney was born in Bradford, England, on 9 July 1937 to Laura and Kenneth Hockney (a conscientious objector in the Second World War), the fourth of five children.[7][8] He was educated at Wellington Primary School, Bradford Grammar School, Bradford College of Art and the Royal College of Art in London, where he met R. B. Kitaj.[7] While there, Hockney said he felt at home and took pride in his work. At the Royal College of Art, Hockney featured in the exhibition Young Contemporaries—alongside Peter Blake—that announced the arrival of British Pop art. He was associated with the movement, but his early works display expressionist elements,similar to some works by Francis Bacon. When the RCA said it would not let him graduate in 1962, Hockney drew the sketch The Diploma in protest. He had refused to write an essay required for the final examination, saying he should be assessed solely on his artworks. Recognising his talent and growing reputation, the RCA changed its regulations and awarded the diploma.
A visit to California, where he subsequently lived for many years, inspired him to make a series of paintings of swimming pools in the comparatively new acrylic medium rendered in a highly realistic style using vibrant colours. The artist moved to Los Angeles in 1964, returned to London in 1968, and from 1973 to 1975 lived in Paris. He moved to Los Angeles in 1978, at first renting the canyon house he lived in and later bought the property and expanded it to include his studio.[9] He also owned a 1,643-square-foot beach house at 21039 Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, which he sold in 1999 for around $1.5 million.
Hockney is openly gay,[10] and unlike Andy Warhol, whom he befriended, he openly explored the nature of gay love in his portraiture. Sometimes, as in We Two Boys Together Clinging (1961), named after a poem by Walt Whitman, the works refer to his love for men. Already in 1963, he painted two men together in the painting Domestic Scene, Los Angeles, one showering while the other washes his back.[11] In summer 1966, while teaching at UCLA he met Peter Schlesinger, an art student who posed for paintings and drawings.[12]
On the morning of 18 March 2013, Hockney's 23-year-old assistant, Dominic Elliott, died as a result of drugs, drinking acid and alcohol at Hockney's Bridlington studio. Elliott was a first- and second-team player for Bridlington rugby club. It was reported that Hockney's partner drove Elliott to Scarborough General Hospital where he later died.[13][14]
Hockney made prints, portraits of friends, and stage designs for the Royal Court Theatre, Glyndebourne, La Scala and the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. Born with synesthesia, he sees synesthetic colours in response to musical stimuli. This does not show up in his painting or photography artwork, but is a common underlying principle in his designs for stage sets for ballet and opera—where he bases background colours and lighting on the colours he sees while listening to the piece's music.
Hockney painted portraits at different periods in his career. From 1968, and for the next few years he painted friends, lovers, and relatives just under lifesize and in pictures that depicted good likenesses of his subjects. Hockney's own presence is often implied, since the lines of perspective converge to suggest the artist's point of view.[11] Hockney has repeatedly returned to the same subjects - his parents, artist Mo McDermott (Mo McDermott, 1976), various writers he has known, fashion designers Celia Birtwell and Ossie Clark (Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy, 1970–71), curator Henry Geldzahler, art dealer Nicholas Wilder,[15] George Lawson and his ballet dancer lover, Wayne Sleep.[11]
On arrival in California, Hockney changed from oil to acrylic paint, applying it as smooth flat and brilliant colour. In 1965, the print workshop Gemini G.E.L. approached him to create a series of lithographs with a Los Angeles theme. Hockney responded by creating a ready-made art collection.[16]
In the early 1980s, Hockney began to produce photo collages, which he called "joiners",[17] first using Polaroid prints and subsequently 35mm, commercially-processed color prints. Using Polaroid snaps or photolab-prints of a single subject, Hockney arranged a patchwork to make a composite image.[18] An early photomontage was of his mother. Because the photographs are taken from different perspectives and at slightly different times, the result is work that has an affinity with Cubism, one of Hockney's major aims—discussing the way human vision works. Some pieces are landscapes, such as Pearblossom Highway #2,[5][19] others portraits, such as Kasmin 1982,[20] and My Mother, Bolton Abbey, 1982.[21]
Creation of the "joiners" occurred accidentally. He noticed in the late sixties that photographers were using cameras with wide-angle lenses. He did not like these photographs because they looked somewhat distorted. While working on a painting of a living room and terrace in Los Angeles, he took Polaroid shots of the living room and glued them together, not intending for them to be a composition on their own. On looking at the final composition, he realized it created a narrative, as if the viewer moved through the room. He began to work more with photography after this discovery and stopped painting for a while to exclusively pursue this new technique. Frustrated with the limitations of photography and its 'one eyed' approach, however,[22] he returned to painting.
In 1976, at Atelier Crommelynck, Hockney created a portfolio of 20 etchings, The Blue Guitar: Etchings By David Hockney Who Was Inspired By Wallace Stevens Who Was Inspired By Pablo Picasso.[23] The etchings refer to themes in a poem by Wallace Stevens, "The Man With The Blue Guitar". It was published by Petersburg Press in October 1977. That year, Petersburg also published a book, in which the images were accompanied by the poem's text.[24]
Hockney was commissioned to design the cover and pages for the December 1985 issue of the French edition of Vogue. Consistent with his interest in cubism and admiration for Pablo Picasso, Hockney chose to paint Celia Birtwell (who appears in several of his works) from different views, as if the eye had scanned her face diagonally.
In December 1985, Hockney used the Quantel Paintbox, a computer program that allowed the artist to sketch directly onto the screen. Using the program was similar to drawing on the PET film for prints, with which he had much experience. The resulting work was featured in a BBC series that profiled a number of artists.
His artwork was used on the cover of the 1989 British Telecom telephone directory for Bradford.
Hockney returned more frequently to Yorkshire in the 1990s, usually every three months, to visit his mother[25] who died in 1999. He rarely stayed for more than two weeks until 1997,[25] when his friend Jonathan Silver who was terminally ill encouraged him to capture the local surroundings. He did this at first with paintings based on memory, some from his boyhood. Hockney returned to Yorkshire for longer and longer stays, and by 2005 was painting the countryside en plein air.[25] He set up residence and an immense redbrick seaside studio, a converted industrial workspace, in the seaside town of Bridlington, about 75 miles from where he was born.[26] The oil paintings he produced after 2005 were influenced by his intensive studies in watercolour (for over a year in 2003–2004).[27] He created paintings made of multiple smaller canvases—nine, 15 or more—placed together. To help him visualize work at that scale, he used digital photographic reproductions; each day's work was photographed, and Hockney generally took a photographic print home.[25]
In June 2007, Hockney's largest painting, Bigger Trees Near Warter, which measures 15 feet by 40 feet, was hung in the Royal Academy's largest gallery in its annual Summer Exhibition.[28] This work "is a monumental-scale view of a coppice in Hockney's native Yorkshire, between Bridlington and York. It was painted on 50 individual canvases, mostly working in situ, over five weeks last winter."[29] In 2008, he donated it to the Tate Gallery in London, saying: "I thought if I'm going to give something to the Tate I want to give them something really good. It's going to be here for a while. I don't want to give things I'm not too proud of ... I thought this was a good painting because it's of England ... it seems like a good thing to do."[30]
Since 2009, Hockney has painted hundreds of portraits, still lifes and landscapes using the Brushes iPhone[31] and iPad[32] application, often sending them to his friends.[32] His show Fleurs fraîches (Fresh flowers) was held at La Fondation Pierre Bergé in Paris. A Fresh-Flowers exhibit opened in 2011 at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, featuring more than 100 of his drawings on 25 iPads and 20 iPods.[33] In late 2011, Hockney revisited California to paint Yosemite National Park on his iPad.[34] For the season 2012–2013 in the Vienna State Opera he designed, on his iPad, a large scale picture (176 sqm) as part of the exhibition series Safety Curtain, conceived by museum in progress.
Hockney's first opera designs, for Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in England in 1975 and The Magic Flute (1978) were painted drops.[35] In 1981, he agreed to design sets and costumes for three 20th-century French works at the Metropolitan Opera House with the title Parade. The works were Parade, a ballet with music by Erik Satie; Les mamelles de Tirésias, an opera with libretto by Guillaume Apollinaire and music by Francis Poulenc, and L'enfant et les sortilèges, an opera with libretto by Colette and music by Maurice Ravel.[36] The set for L'enfant et les sortilèges is a permanent installation at the Spalding House branch of the Honolulu Museum of Art. He designed sets for Puccini's Turandot in 1991 at the Chicago Lyric Opera and a Richard Strauss Die Frau ohne Schatten in 1992 at the Royal Opera House in London.[35] In 1994, he designed costumes and scenery for twelve opera arias for the TV broadcast of Plácido Domingo's Operalia in Mexico City. Technical advances allowed him to become increasingly complex in model-making. At his studio he had a proscenium opening 6 feet (1.8 m) by 4 feet (1.2 m) in which he built sets in 1:8 scale. He also used a computerized setup that let him punch in and program lighting cues at will and synchronize them to a soundtrack of the music.[35]
Hockney had his first one-man show when he was 26 in 1963, and by 1970 the Whitechapel Gallery in London had organized the first of several major retrospectives, which subsequently travelled to three European institutions.[37] In 2004, he was included in the cross-generational Whitney Biennial, where his portraits appeared in a gallery with those of a younger artist he had inspired, Elizabeth Peyton.[3]
In October 2006, the National Portrait Gallery in London organized one of the largest ever displays of Hockney's portraiture work, including 150 paintings, drawings, prints, sketchbooks, and photocollages from over five decades. The collection ranged from his earliest self-portraits to work he completed in 2005. Hockney assisted in displaying the works and the exhibition, which ran until January 2007, was one of the gallery's most successful. In 2009, "David Hockney: Just Nature" attracted some 100,000 visitors at the Kunsthalle Würth in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany.[25]
From 21 January 2012 to 9 April 2012, the Royal Academy presented A Bigger Picture,[38] which included more than 150 works, many of which take entire walls in the gallery's brightly lit rooms. The exhibition is dedicated to landscapes, especially trees and tree tunnels.[39] Works include oil paintings and watercolours inspired by his native Yorkshire. Around 50 drawings were created on an iPad[40] and printed on paper. Hockney said, in a 2012 interview, "It's about big things. You can make paintings bigger. We're also making photographs bigger, videos bigger, all to do with drawing."[41] The exhibition moved to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain from 15 May to 30 September, and from there to the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany, between 27 October 2012 and 3 February 2013.[42]
From 26 October 2013 to 30 January 2014 David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition was presented at the de Young Museum, one of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, showing work since 2002 and including Photoshop portraits, multi-canvas oils, iPad landscapes and digital movies shot with multiple cameras.[43]
'Hockney, Printmaker', curated by Richard Lloyd, International Head of Prints at Christie's, was the first major exhibition to focus on Hockney's prolific career as a printmaker.[44] The exhibition ran from 5 February 2014 to 11 May 2014 at Dulwich Picture Gallery before going on tour to The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle.[45][46]
Many of Hockney's works are housed in Salts Mill, in Saltaire, near his home town of Bradford. Writer Christopher Isherwood's collection is considered the most important private collection of his work. In the 1990s, Isherwood's long-time partner Don Bachardy donated the collection to a foundation. His work is in numerous public and private collections worldwide, including:
In 1967, Hockney's painting, Peter Getting Out Of Nick's Pool, won the John Moores Painting Prize at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. Hockney was offered a knighthood in 1990 but declined, before accepting an Order of Merit in January 2012.[47][48] He was awarded The Royal Photographic Society's Progress medal in 1988[49] and the Special 150th Anniversary Medal and Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS) in recognition of a sustained, significant contribution to the art of photography in 2003.[50][51] He was made a Companion of Honour in 1997[52] and is a Royal Academician.[53] In 2012, Queen Elizabeth II appointed him to the Order of Merit, an honor restricted to 24 members at any one time for their contributions to the arts and sciences.[26]
He was a Distinguished Honoree of the National Arts Association, Los Angeles, in 1991 and received the First Annual Award of Achievement from the Archives of American Art, Los Angeles, in 1993. He was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the American Associates of the Royal Academy Trust, New York in 1992 and was given a Foreign Honorary Membership to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1997. In 2003, Hockney was awarded the Lorenzo de' Medici Lifetime Career Award of the Florence Biennale, Italy.[54]
Commissioned by The Other Art Fair, a November 2011 poll of 1,000 British painters and sculptors declared him Britain's most influential artist of all time.[55]
From 1963, Hockney has been represented by art dealer John Kasmin, as well as by Annely Juda Fine Art, London. On 21 June 2006, Hockney's painting, The Splash sold for £2.6 million.[56] His A Bigger Grand Canyon, a series of 60 paintings that combined to produce one enormous picture, was bought by the National Gallery of Australia for $4.6 million. Beverly Hills Housewife (1966–67), a 12-foot-long acrylic that depicts the collector Betty Freeman standing by her pool in a long hot-pink dress, sold for $7.9 million at Christie's in New York in 2008, the top lot of the sale and a record price for a Hockney.[3]
In the 2001 television programme and book, Secret Knowledge, Hockney posited that the Old Masters used camera obscura techniques that projected the image of the subject onto the surface of the painting. Hockney argues that this technique migrated gradually to Italy and most of Europe, and is the reason for the photographic style of painting we see in the Renaissance and later periods of art. He published his conclusions in the 2001 book "Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters," which was revised in 2006.[3]
Like his father, Hockney was a conscientious objector, and worked as a medical orderly in hospitals during his National Service, 1957–59.[57]
Hockney was a founder of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 1979.[9] He serves on the advisory board of the political magazine Standpoint,[58] and contributed original sketches for its launch edition, in June 2008.[59]
He is a staunch pro-tobacco campaigner and was invited to guest-edit the Today programme on 29 December 2009 to air his views on the subject.[60]
In October 2010, he and a hundred other artists signed an open letter to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Jeremy Hunt protesting against cutbacks in the arts.[61]
In 2005, Burberry creative director Christopher Bailey centred his entire spring/summer menswear collection around the artist and in 2012 fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, a close friend, named a checked jacket after Hockney[62] In 2011 British GQ named him one of the 50 Most Stylish Men in Britain and in March 2013 he was listed as one of the Fifty Best-dressed Over-50s by The Guardian.[63]
Hockney was the subject of Jack Hazan's film, A Bigger Splash (1974), named after one of Hockney's most famous swimming pool paintings from 1967.
Hockney was also the inspiration of artist Billy Pappas in the documentary film Waiting for Hockney (2008), which debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2008.[64]
Hockney appears as an artistic consultant in the documentary film Tim's Vermeer.
David Hockney: A Rake's Progress (2012) is a biography of Hockney covering the years 1937–75, by writer/photographer Christopher Simon Sykes.[65]
On 14 August 2012, Hockney was the subject of BBC Radio Four's The New Elizabethans, presented by James Naughtie.[66] In December 2012, The Sunday Times published for the first time works that it had commissioned Hockney to produce on a 1963 trip to Egypt and which had been shelved because of the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. Hockney had been paid in full but the works had never been previously published.[67]
In The Sopranos (S1/E3), Tony Soprano and his comare Irina Peltsin discuss her painting (of a swimming pool) that reminds her of David Hockey.
The 2012 album Mia Pharaoh, by American indie pop band Miniature Tigers, contains a song entitled "Afternoons with David Hockney".
In 2012, Hockney, worth an estimated $55.2 million (approx. £36.1 m) transferred paintings valued at $124.2 million (approx. £81.5 m) to the David Hockney Foundation, and gave an additional $1.2 million (approx. £0.79 m) in cash to help fund the foundation's operations. The artist plans to give away the paintings, through the foundation, to galleries including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Tate in London.[68]
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Even in 2013, limited understanding of the clinical symptoms of Peripheral Neuropathy by medical practitioners too often results in the failure to support, diagnose or even recognize the many symptoms and types of Peripheral Neuropathies which have been identified.
The continued frustration of patients who are left hanging with off the cuff dismissals or with a misdiagnosis and missed opportunities to stop the physical and psychological damage are unacceptable. While slow progress is being made, there is a great need for increased training of medical practitioners in the clinical recognition, diagnosis and treatment of the neuropathies as research slowly provides some better answers and greater challenges for the future.
Just recently a veteran wrote to me that when they submitted their claim to the VA on Peripheral Neuropathy, the reviewer wrote that "unless they had diabetes, they could not have peripheral neuropathy"! Okay, he was not a doctor, he just had power to deny help.
In 2001, when I went for my first VA supplied doctor he looked at my symptoms and then stated "I can find no reason for the veterans symptoms". Okay, he was retired and had no updated training in neurology since the 1960's.
Yet in the same year an expert Neurologist at a large University in Southern Florida, after looking or ignoring the extensive three decades long medical history of known symptoms of neuropathy; armed with a diagnosis and a referral by my treating physician who diagnosed neuropathy based on these symptoms; and armed with an abnormal EMG/Nerve Conduct Test conducted in the same office; without comment to the patient, writes in the patients' medical record "patient is claiming to have something he does not have" and this man is teaching Neurology at the University! You let me know if this is inexcusable for a medical professional.
So why would I be upset and fighting back? Within three years I was totally disabled because of the lack of diagnosis and treatment. In 2004 IVIg treatment was begun for CIDP with a total positive response. Then began the battle with Medicare as they stated IVIg was medically unnecessary!
There have been some improvement in the understanding of neuropathy, yet much remains to be done in providing doctors with the tools necessary for diagnosis and better treatment options. (See Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System, Volume 17, Supplement 2, May 2012, "Proceedings of The Neuropathy Association's Neuropathy Summit-Physicians Conference").
These problems were highlighted in 2012 by the Veterans Affairs Administration. The VA published a recent notice on Peripheral Neuropathy noting that PN from Agent Orange exposure, does not necessarily resolve as claimed by the VA for decades. This failure to understand the progressive nature, symptoms or the disease was used to deny help to many veterans for decades. Today the situation is made worse by the current VA claim that PN is just a disease accompanied by numbness, tingling and motor weakness and worse assumes medicine could diagnose the symptoms back in the 1960′s and 1970′s at 10% disabling!
Medicine has difficulty diagnosing the disease in 2013 let alone decades earlier. This rather elementary VA description of the symptoms highlights the problem of poor attitudes about PN that plague the medical system leading to frustrated patients attempting to find a diagnosis, help and support for this illness. As some medical experts have noted, patients need more than what is NOT wrong. (See: Neurology Today, March 15, 2012 "How to Diagnose Peripheral Neuropathy? No simple Answers" by Mark Moran).
The VA's repeated demand that veterans back in the 1960′s and 1970′s prove that the veteran had PN symptoms at a 10% disabling level a year after exposure to Agent Orange, ignores the problems that plagues veterans and others patients who suffer from Peripheral Neuropathy. These are the problems of diagnosing or even recognizing the symptoms of PN in the year 2013. I have often wondered why some VA staff working on these issues seem unwilling to read what their own government has published about PN.
Here is what the National Institute of Neurological Disorders states about the symptoms of Peripheral Neuropathy, which takes you a little beyond the three word description from the VA:
"What are the symptoms of peripheral nerve damage?
"Symptoms are related to the type of affected nerve and may be seen over a period of days, weeks, or years. Muscle weakness is the most common symptom of motor nerve damage. Other symptoms may include painful cramps and fasciculation's (uncontrolled muscle twitching visible under the skin), muscle loss, bone degeneration, and changes in the skin, hair, and nails. These more general degenerative changes also can result from sensory or autonomic nerve fiber loss.
"Sensory nerve damage causes a more complex range of symptoms because sensory nerves have a wider, more highly specialized range of functions. Larger sensory fibers enclosed in myelin (a fatty protein that coats and insulates many nerves) register vibration, light touch, and position sense. Damage to large sensory fibers lessens the ability to feel vibrations and touch, resulting in a general sense of numbness, especially in the hands and feet. People may feel as if they are wearing gloves and stockings even when they are not. Many patients cannot recognize by touch alone the shapes of small objects or distinguish between different shapes. This damage to sensory fibers may contribute to the loss of reflexes (as can motor nerve damage). Loss of position sense often makes people unable to coordinate complex movements like walking or fastening buttons, or to maintain their balance when their eyes are shut. Neuropathic pain is difficult to control and can seriously affect emotional well-being and overall quality of life. Neuropathic pain is often worse at night, seriously disrupting sleep and adding to the emotional burden of sensory nerve damage.
"Smaller sensory fibers without myelin sheaths transmit pain and temperature sensations. Damage to these fibers can interfere with the ability to feel pain or changes in temperature. People may fail to sense that they have been injured from a cut or that a wound is becoming infected. Others may not detect pains that warn of impending heart attack or other acute conditions. (Loss of pain sensation is a particularly serious problem for people with diabetes, contributing to the high rate of lower limb amputations among this population.) Pain receptors in the skin can also become over sensitized, so that people may feel severe pain (neuropathic) from stimuli that are normally painless (for example, some may experience pain from bed sheets draped lightly over the body).
"Symptoms of autonomic nerve damage are diverse and depend upon which organs or glands are affected. Autonomic nerve dysfunction can become life threatening and may require emergency medical care in cases when breathing becomes impaired or when the heart begins beating irregularly. Common symptoms of autonomic nerve damage include an inability to sweat normally, which may lead to heat intolerance; a loss of bladder control, which may cause infection or incontinence; and an inability to control muscles that expand or contract blood vessels to maintain safe blood pressure levels. A loss of control over blood pressure can cause dizziness, lightheadedness, or even fainting when a person moves suddenly from a seated to a standing position (a condition known as postural or orthostatic hypotension).
"Gastrointestinal symptoms frequently accompany autonomic neuropathy. Nerves controlling intestinal muscle contractions often malfunction, leading to diarrhea, constipation, or incontinence. Many people also have problems eating or swallowing if certain autonomic nerves are affected."
(See: Peripheral Neuropathy Fact Sheet)
Thus for patients with Peripheral Neuropathy, here from a patients perspective during 43 years' of failed diagnosis and treatment are the known remitting and relapsing symptoms of a progressive Peripheral Neuropathy:
I had digestive problems of bloating, alternating diarrhea and constipation; had overflow urinary incontinence. Breathing was difficult as chest muscles felt tight, severe painful muscle cramps in the chest and back by the shoulder blades (often accompanied by sensations of electrical current coming from the shoulder blades) driving me to my knees (years later testing noted restrictive pulmonary disease); unexplained tachycardia (what I now know as non-cardiac tachycardia) with doctors telling me I was having a heart attack, only to be told I was not having a heart attack; I could not sleep for the pain; walking was difficult due to the numbness/pain/weakness or my legs constantly felt like heavy cement; felt exhausted during the day and this chronic fatigue prevented the complete fulfillment of my military duties and the PT test requirements; was unable to hold things in my hands, with difficulty turning pages or write with a pen; impotence; sometimes if clothing or bed sheets touched me it felt very painful so I built a frame over me at night to keep the bed sheets from touching me; had painful muscle cramps in the legs; could not tolerate hot weather and broke out in severe upper body night sweats; had electric shocks, pins, needles, tingling sensations, which caused significant neuropathic pain yet there was no observable reason for these symptoms; body felt numb and painful at the same time; the more I tried to walk, the more my body became numb from the waist down; vision problems even with glasses; had balance problems; severe bone pain in the feet; feelings as if screw drivers were being driven out from inside my fingers; problems walking without help at times or knowing where my feet were located; because of the lack of sleep, mental sharpness suffered making performance of my duties difficult which is an understatement of gross proportions. (SOURCES which support the above symptoms as related to Peripheral Neuropathy are in the writings of Norman Latov MD, PhD, Director of the Neuropathy Center at Cornell University, and from Louis Weimer, M.D. Clinical Autonomic Laboratory, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York City, and from Roy Freeman, MD, Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School and from a book by Didier Cros, Editor, Peripheral Neuropathy: A Practical Approach to Diagnosis and Management, 2001 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.)
If you have any question regarding the symptoms of Peripheral Neuropathy, please send an e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com and we will find you a professional answer. Granted many of the symptoms listed above may be symptoms of diseases other than Peripheral Neuropathy. So you need a qualified Neuromuscular Neurologist to determine a diagnosis. But if the physician is dismissive of your medical history, understand that in diagnosing a Peripheral Neuropathy, your medical history and symptoms are critical for the doctor to know and understand at face value if they are to provide you with a diagnosis and possible treatment.
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I was hoping some of you could provide some advice in how to wage the North African campaign as the Axis or Allies. As far as I've read, logistics should be a huge issue in Africa. And while the infrastructure is low, in the games I've played supplies have rarely been an issue. I tried holding as the UK with a "modest" 12 divisions but was quickly crushed as he deployed a good 30 divisions. Only after I deployed more of the British Army was the front restored. He had improved Libya's infrastructure a bit (perhaps 10-20%) but it was still rather bad.
I read on the forums that 5 divisions should be enough for North Africa. What tactics/strategies (units to moves) in that theatre? I tried making lighter armour units with 1 M Armour, 1 MOT 1 SP ART to reduce logistical difficulties but it wasnt needed it appears...
Linked to the 1st question, how important is infrastructure? I've generally awarded it a high value, trying to make "highways" through Poland or China when I play major Axis powers. Does it make sense for a British player to improve Africa or East Asia? Should a Japanese player work on improving infrastructure? (especially when I'm trying to move through China to India?)


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Democrats have written to President Barack Obama expressing concern that Japan's possible entry into ongoing trade talks among Pacific nations threatens the U.S. auto industry.
The Democrats say that Japan has a long history of erecting barriers against U.S. auto imports and that is unlikely to change if Japan joins the 11-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations aimed at establishing free trade principles. Instead, they say Japanese auto exports to the United States could increase if the U.S. eliminates its current car tariffs.
The administration hopes to wrap up the negotiations by the end of this year. During last month's visit to Washington, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe signed a joint statement with Obama saying they would continue talks on Japan's "possible interest" in joining the TPP negotiations.


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When Ray Barfield was a second-year resident at Eggleston Children's Hospital in Atlanta, he learned how parents and doctors alike can lose sight of what's most important when a child is terminally ill.
Barfield was part of a team at the hospital — affiliated with Emory University School of Medicine — treating the 3-year-old son of an Emory pediatrician and faculty member. The child was in the intensive care unit, suffering from a relapse of neuroblastoma, an aggressive childhood cancer that is nearly always fatal when it recurs.
Barfield watched as other doctors, especially the boy's mother, proposed increasingly invasive treatments — even some that had proved ineffective against neuroblastoma. Meanwhile, the child was sullen, stuck in a sterile room, connected by uncomfortable leads and tubes to monitors, intravenous fluid bags, and other equipment. All the while he was running out of time.
"We were just desperate to treat this child," Barfield says. "He was in pain because of what we were doing, and no one was dealing with the fact that he was going to die. Almost no one survives a relapse of neuroblastoma."
Finally, the boy's mother — a mentor to Barfield — realized that medical intervention wasn't working. She took her son home, where he could spend his final hours with loved ones in familiar surroundings, his pain controlled by morphine.
"At home, his grouchiness went away," says Barfield, who is affiliated with the Institute on Care at the End of Life (ICEOL) at Duke Divinity School. "He had two or three good days with his family, and then he died peacefully."
It was a defining experience for Barfield, who last fall joined the faculty of the Divinity School and the Duke University School of Medicine and is developing a new model of pediatric care. Cooperating with physicians, nurses, faculty, and administrators from across the university, Barfield is working to help practitioners and families make better choices for children who are chronically or terminally ill.
In some cases, that means guiding families and physicians to the difficult conclusion that the time for hospitals, medicines, and surgeries is over. Sometimes a child is going to die, Barfield says. Accepting that can mean the difference between a death in which the child is comfortable at home, surrounded by family, friends, and spiritual support, or a death in a chaotic hospital environment, distracted by painful medical treatments.
His work also aims at involving congregations before a terminally ill child is just hours or days away from death. That way the church can provide much needed support, offering something as simple as prayer or as complex as helping the family choose the kind of care they want for their child.
Barfield's work complements the ongoing efforts of ICEOL, which will soon release The Unbroken Circle: A Toolkit for Congregations Around Illness, End of Life, and Grief.
This new resource for clergy, lay leaders, and health care providers will help them address end-of-life care in congregations, says director Richard Payne, a physician with many years experience caring for terminally ill patients.
"The model that Ray is creating and the toolkit we've developed for congregations make a powerful combination," Payne says. "We're giving children and families a better opportunity to find the support they need from the church, as well as from medical practitioners."
An associate professor of pediatrics and Christian philosophy, Barfield grew up wanting to become a doctor. But in college, he discovered philosophy and literature and decided to become a philosopher/novelist.
He deferred graduate study in philosophy at Columbia University for a year of travel in Europe with a backpack full of books and his guitar.
"During that time I occasionally stayed with the father of a friend — a professor of obstetrics and gynecology in Tübingen, Germany," says Barfield. "Those encounters reintroduced me to the thrill of medicine."
During a six-week stay on a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, he decided to do both medicine and philosophy, starting with medicine.
"Now I practice medicine on one side of Duke's campus, do Christian philosophy on the other side, and scribble novels secretly from 5 to 7 a.m. at home."
Barfield began his work at Duke last semester with a flurry of one-on-one meetings across the university. In six weeks he sat down with more than 40 doctors, professors, nurses, administrators, chaplains, and others whose work intersects with the care of chronically or terminally ill children.
His goal was simultaneously simple and profound: to sow the seeds for a culture of care that focuses on the whole child rather than simply attacking disease.
"Physicians are devoted, committed, good people," Barfield says. "But often they haven't been given the tools to think about whole people."
This manifests in many ways, he says. Sometimes children are given treatments without enough, or any, attention to relieving their pain. Overwhelmed by a huge number of patients, doctors may visit a child's hospital room without really being present with the patient and family. And both physicians and parents often fail to see when a different kind of care, such as hospice, is needed.
"We become myopic in the hospital," he says. "We think in terms of treating organ systems instead of how people experience illness. The way you achieve a good end of life is thinking about how to live well."
Barfield, whose clinical work focuses on Duke Children's Hospital & Health Center, has convened a variety of working groups to begin addressing some of the most important issues in improving the quality of care for children. Their topics include symptom management and reducing suffering, bereavement and end-of-life care, building bridges to hospice and churches, best practices in controlling suffering, improving communication among and between caregivers and families, and engaging parents to learn from their experiences.
A key to pursuing change is to work with those who spend the most time with patients, especially nurses, chaplains, and social workers.
"People often target culture change at the top of a system," Barfield says. "But care begins at the bedside. That's the place to start. That's where there is energy and more impetus for change."
Anthony Galanos, an associate professor of medicine in the division of geriatric medicine in the Duke University Medical Center, says Barfield's approach is promising.
Galanos, who already had been working to establish a care service for chronically and terminally ill children at Duke, is now a close collaborator with Barfield.
"A pediatric quality of life program not only will make more practitioners aware of suffering, but also of living — and what the practice of medicine can mean for all practitioners, from the respiratory therapist to the nurse to the doc to the housekeeper," Galanos says. "We all need a culture, a set of guidelines, to help us be the best we can be at caring for children."
Tonya Armstrong, an adjunct assistant professor with ICEOL, adds that the pediatric quality of life program focuses on maintaining hope in constructive ways even while recognizing when a child is dying.
"Parents and caregivers really don't want to reckon with the possibility that the child could die," Armstrong says. "But there are still ways to engage in a conversation around hope. We don't conflate hope and optimism. We ask 'What is it that you hope for in the child's final days?'"
Barfield models the practices that he hopes other physicians in the Duke system will embrace. He especially tries to encourage interns and other newer doctors to reflect more on how they can care for patients and be present with them — even though they have many patients and little free time. After he completes his rounds each week, Barfield makes a point of holding "teaching sessions" about engaging each patient and family. He also invites younger doctors to join him for some conversations with patients and their families.
"The new physicians are struggling with a lot, and there's not as much room in their lives to think about the profound nature of working with sick, dying children," he says. "But we can keep that conversation going."
Barfield has spent a great deal of time considering what it means to work with dying children. Before coming to Duke Divinity School, he spent eight years working in oncology and bone marrow transplantation at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.
One patient in particular left a deep impression on Barfield.
Ali Mills was a 12-year-old girl with a big smile and a deep faith in God when Barfield met her at the hospital in 2004. She had survived neuroblastoma as a 5-year-old, and her family thought she had beaten the disease.
When the cancer returned, Ali underwent a bone-marrow transplant at St. Jude, and she eventually became Barfield's patient.
Ali's treatment went on for months, and Barfield found he was spending more and more time with her and her mother, Nancy.
Sometimes he would just come by to chat. Sometimes he would sing to Ali, who got a kick out of hearing Barfield sing the theme song to the SpongeBob SquarePants cartoon. Other times the conversation was more serious, focusing on the spiritual. Ali's church eventually arranged for her to be baptized in her hospital room.
"Typically, doctors don't serve as deep witnesses for their patients," Barfield says. "They write orders, put out fires, and get ready for the next day. In 15 years as a physician I had never really witnessed suffering. For the first time I got a direct experience of what it's like to suffer — not for the week that I'm on service, but week after week after week."
Ali died shortly after her 13th birthday, her body damaged beyond repair first by the cancer itself and then by chemotherapy and other harsh treatments. Barfield spoke at her funeral in Memphis. Her photo, perpetually grinning and youthful, sits on his office bookshelf, a reminder of what she taught him.
Through this and other experiences at St. Jude, Barfield refined his thinking about how medical practitioners can work with families, clergy, and others to best support their patients. There he began to formulate the questions and ideas that he's now exploring at Duke.
Barfield sees involvement of the church as natural.
"For centuries this was the church's domain: frailty, illness, fear, and grief," Barfield says. "In recent years the church has relinquished much of that to the hospitals."
That conviction comes from his own faith life as well as his experience in the medical world. The son of a Presbyterian minister, Barfield has great respect for theological inquiry. His wife, Karen, is an Episcopal priest.
The opportunity to work with the Institute on Care at the End of Life, whose work crosses disciplinary boundaries and focuses on the intersection of spirituality and medicine, especially attracted him to Duke.
"The institute is working on tools to help clergy in training and in the field to take a greater role in helping people — even those with terminal illness — live well in hopeful communities," Barfield says. "We can't just rely on the hospital at the end of life. It's about a continuum, with the hospital, hospice, home health care, and congregations. That's how you ensure a good end to life."


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Styx: Master of Shadows Review
Styx: Master of Shadows is a new fantasy based stealth game developed by Cyanide Studios for Microsoft Windows, Playstation 4 and Xbox One, the game takes place in the universe of 'Of Orcs and Men' (the game's sequel) and inside the ominous Tower of Akenash. Players take control of the first goblin, Styx, as he tries to steal the heart of The World Tree in order to earn himself a small fortune and in the hopes of discovering his origins as the first goblin. Styx is described as being a master of stealth, thievery and murder… How original. Read more


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Malcolm X Was Right About America
by Chris Hedges
Malcolm X, who was assassinated on February 21, 1965, recognized a half century ago that capitalism is a dying social system. "As the nations of the world free themselves, then capitalism has less victims, less to suck, and it becomes weaker and weaker," said Malcolm. "It's only a matter of time in my opinion before it will collapse completely."
Rebellion in Ferguson: A Rising Heat in the Suburbs
by Chris Hedges
Veteran journalist Chris Hedges explores the "ebb and flow" of the Black liberation movement with veteran organizer Larry Hamm, of Newark, New Jersey's People's Organization for Progress. Newly Black towns like Ferguson, Missouri, may become the focus of Black revolt. "Because of demographic changes these rebellions will occur in places that did not rebel previously."
Cornel West and the Fight to Save the Black Prophetic Tradition
by Chris Hedges
African Americans have historically been the most progressive U.S. constituency because of the Black prophetic tradition, best personified today by Dr. Cornel West. This tradition has also saved the United States from itself. "America without the black prophetic tradition, from Frederick Douglass to Fannie Lou Hamer, means an American authoritarian regime, American fascism."
America's Disappeared
by Chris Hedges
When three guys go missing in the ghetto, it's an ordinary event. The criminal justice system is a body-snatcher. "In America, when you are poor, you can instantly disappear into the subterranean rabbit holes of our vast jail and prison complex."
Rise Up or Die
by Chris Hedges
As more and more of the nation is transformed into "sacrifice zones" like Detroit and Camden, New Jersey, with civil liberties stripped bare, the biosphere pushed to the point of no return, and the corporate security estate triumphant, "it is time to employ the harsh language of open rebellion and class warfare."
The Persecution of Lynne Stewart
by Chris Hedges
Lynne Stewart has served three years for the crime of zealously defending her client. Suffering stage 4 cancer, she sometimes sheds "a few tears at the love and intensity of those who have written to state their support." Family and friends ask that she be allowed compassionate release, but "the Federal Bureau of Prisons rarely even bothers to submit compassionate release requests to the courts."
The Shame of America's Gulag
by Chris Hedges
The barbarity of solitary confinement was reintroduced into the U.S. prison system following the Black Freedom and anti-imperialist movements of the Sixties, part of the "seamless evolution of political and social incapacitation of poor people of color." At root "is the predatory nature of corporate capitalism itself.
Preventive Detention and the Death of the Democratic State
by Chris Hedges
The author, a journalist and plaintiff in a suit contesting the constitutionality of President Obama's preventive detention law, asks: "Could I be seen by the security and surveillance state, because I challenge the official narrative, as a collaborator with the enemy?" The answer is: Yes – and so could you.


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We could talk here about everything but the thing is we aint doing it, and you can project all your theories here but it won't help if we don't start today. And the numbers are so stupid: 50, 60 or 70 years with oil? What is that kind of a number. I alone have more chances to live longer than these numbers! As if we and our generation are telling generations that come after us that the oil was ours and not theirs. they aren't living today so they have no rights for oil.
we as humans are so selfish, especially our governments who don't do anything because it costs money, but we can still lose trillions of dollars to nothing when economy increases and we are still here, so it's all a big lie that they tell us.
They only think about right now and maybe a little bit about tomorrow, but one decade is a total mystery to them. And we the people are so stupid to believe them and don't force them into new economic and environmental systems that could secure the world from running out of oil or humans who destroy it.


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The Tallulah Gorge is a gorge that is formed by the Tallulah River cutting through the Tallulah Dome rock formation. The gorge is approximately 2 miles (3 km) long and features rocky cliffs up to 1,000 feet (300 m) high. Through it, a series of falls known as Tallulah Falls drop a total of 150 metres (490 ft) in one mile (1.6 km). Tallulah Falls is actually composed of six separate falls: l'Eau d'Or 46 ft (14 m), Tempesta 76 ft (23 m), Hurricane the tallest at 96 feet (29 m), Oceana 50 ft (15 m), the smooth "sliding rock" at Bridal Veil 17 ft (5.2 m) and Lovers Leap 16 ft (4.9 m). The Tallulah Gorge is located next to the town of Tallulah Falls, Georgia. Tallulah Gorge State Park protects much of the gorge and its waterfalls. The gorge is considered to be one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Georgia.
Just above the falls is Tallulah Falls Lake, created in 1913 by a hydroelectric dam built by Georgia Railway and Power (now Georgia Power) in order to run Atlanta's streetcars. The dam still collects and redirects most of the water via a 6,666-foot (2,032 m) tunnel sluice or penstock (pipe) around the falls to an electricity generation station downstream that is 608 feet (185 m) lower than the lake, except for a few days each year. The days when water is released are very popular for recreation, such as kayaking and whitewater rafting.[1]
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Since the early 19th century, Tallulah Gorge and its waterfalls have been a tourist attraction. In 1882, Tallulah Falls Railway was built, increasing the accessibility of the area to tourists from Atlanta and south Georgia, and the gorge became North Georgia's first tourist attraction. Resort hotels and bars sprang up to serve the tourist trade, which, after the addition of the railway, swelled to as many as 2,000 people on Sunday alone. In 1883, tightrope walker Professor Bachman crossed the gorge as part of a publicity stunt for one hotel. On July 18, 1970, Karl Wallenda became the second man to walk across the gorge on a tightrope.
In the 1910s, Georgia Railway and Power began building dams on the river. The town of Burton, Georgia was purchased and flooded as Lake Burton in 1919. Many area residents opposed the dams, including the widow of Confederate general James Longstreet, Helen Dortch Longstreet, who led a campaign in 1911 to have Tallulah Gorge protected by the state. The Georgia Assembly was unable to raise the $1 million required to purchase the gorge. Although her campaign was not successful, it was one of the first conservation movements in Georgia. When the dam was completed in 1913, the roar of the Tallulah Falls (the roar could be heard for miles from the gorge) was quieted, and tourism dwindled. It was not until 1993 that the Tallulah Gorge State Park was created by Georgia governor Zell Miller in cooperation with Georgia Power.[2]
Although tourism promoters in the late 19th century described the word Tallulah as meaning "loud waters" in Cherokee, the most likely source of the word, it actually has no meaning in that language. The word tallulah means "leaping water" in Choctaw.
Hawthorne Pool inside Tallulah Gorge State Park
View of the Tallulah River at the bottom of the gorge
Tallulah Dome is a rock formation caused by the double folding of the Earth's crust during the formation of Pangaea, about 500 to 250 million years ago. The dome is made up of mostly quartzite along with schist.[1]
Because of the variation in sunlight, shade, and moisture caused by the steep cliffs, several different ecosystems exist in and around the canyon-like gorge [2]. The Persistent Trillium, an endangered species of trillium, grows in this river basin and only few other parts of the South Carolina / Georgia area.


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MS-13 Member Sentenced 240 Months for July 2009 Alexandria Murder
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – MS-13 member Alcides Umaña, 23 years old, resident of Arlington, was sentenced today to 240 months in prison for murdering a pimp during the robbery of the pimp and a prostitute in Alexandria, Va, on July 29, 2009.
Neil H. MacBride, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia; Shawn Henry, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI Washington Field Office; and Earl L. Cook, Alexandria Chief of Police, made the announcement.
"This senseless death demonstrates the violence and fear that gangs can spread in the community," said U.S. Attorney MacBride. "We are determined, along with the FBI, to put MS-13 out of business and believe that severe sentences like the one handed down today will aid that goal."
"The violence that criminal gangs threaten will not be tolerated," said FBI Assistant Director in Charge Henry. "Gangs attempting to instill fear will be dismantled, and they will not terrorize our communities."
On March 3, 2010, Umaña pled guilty to aiding and abetting the use of a firearm during a crime of violence resulting in the death of the pimp, Claros Luna, through the use of a handgun. According to court records, in July 2009, Luna transported women from Maryland to Virginia to engage in prostitution. Posing as potential customers, Umaña and two other MS-13 gang members - Adolfo Amaya Portillo and Eris Arguera - lured Claros Luna and the prostitute to Manor Road in Alexandria, Va., on July 29, 2009.
Once Luna and the prostitute arrived at Manor Road, the prostitute exited the vehicle and entered the apartment building at 704 Manor Road. Arguera, brandishing a handgun, met the prostitute in the lobby and directed her to the nearby vehicle where Luna sat waiting in the driver's seat. Arguera and the prostitute entered the rear driver's side door of the vehicle. Portillo, armed with a handgun, entered the front passenger door. Umaña, armed with a knife, entered the rear passenger-side door of the vehicle. Portillo demanded rent or extortion payments from Luna. Luna attempted to grab Portillo's handgun. Umaña then put his knife to Luna's throat. Portillo and Arguera fatally shot Luna three times. Portillo fired two of the three fatal shots – one to Luna's chest and a second contact wound to Luna's head. A third shot entered the left side of Luna's back and exited his chest. Portillo, Arguera, and Umaña then took the money that Luna and the prostitute had earned from the prostitution business that day.
This case was investigated by the Alexandria Police Department and FBI's Washington Field Office, with assistance from the Fairfax County and Arlington County Police Departments and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)'s Office of Investigations in Washington, D.C. Assistant United States Attorneys Ronald Walutes and Morris Parker prosecuted the case on behalf of the United States.
A copy of this press release may be found on the website of the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia at http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/vae. Related court documents and information may be found on the website of the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia at http://www.vaed.uscourts.gov or on http://pacer.uspci.uscourts.gov.# # #


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Anchorage, AK, USmember
Firefighter who is trying to become a good woodworker as well.
Recent comments
Re: The Editors Mailbox Has a New Home
Hey Matt,
Any chance you will ever do a vidio workshop on Kaidan-dansu?
Re: Help me choose what to build for a video workshop
Option 1 Matt. Thanks for asking.
Re: We're Giving Away Grooving Planes!
Hey look, they make grooves!
Re: UPDATE: Back to Basics: Fundamentals of Sharpening from Fox Chapel Publishing
Sharpening is not my favorite thing to do but at times it can be good mind numbing work. The reward is always awesome when you slide your number four through that finicky maple and it shaves perfectly. I am sure this will be a great read and thanks for the opportunity.
Re: Winner Chosen for Tablesaw Safety Tip Challenge
I always think in my head, don't get lazy. It may be only one cut but put the splitter and guard back on. I have a brother in law who paid the price of four fingers being sewn back on for lack of doing this.


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Article brought to you by: Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)Pope Francis: 'Our faith is not an ornament, but rather is something essential for the Christian life .'
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
January 16th, 2014 Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) "We
are one community, and living together our faith is not an ornament,
but rather is something essential for the Christian life ... for
testimony and for evangelization," Pope Francis said in his general
audience address earlier this week. The pontiff also said that the
church's mission to bring the Gospel to others as channels of God's
grace," among other spiritual directives. "Dear Brothers and Sisters," he said to the faithful in St. Peter's Square, "today we continue our catechesis on the sacrament of baptism by reflecting on how, through baptism, we become members of Christ's mystical body, the Church." Help fight world hunger by going here -- The Second Vatican Council, the Pontiff said, "expressed this truth, insisting that this sacrament incorporates us into the People of God; it makes us members of one People that walks throughout history. "In every generation, through baptism, we are reborn to the new life of grace and called to be witnesses of the Gospel before the world," the Pope continued. "Grace is transmitted through the baptismal fountain and the People of God walks in time, disseminating God's blessing." Therefore, "Baptism makes us 'missionary disciples' within the communion of the Church," he said, highlighting that "each one of us becomes a missionary disciple. "On the one hand, we never stop being disciples, learning, receiving; on the other, we are called to the mission, to share what we have received, what we live," the Pope observed, which is "the experience of love, of faith in the Trinity." "There is a close bond, then, between our rebirth in water and the Holy Spirit, our responsibility to live this new life within the Church, in our families and our parishes, and our mission to bring the Gospel to others as channels of God's grace." Saying that believers are "called to transmit to faith," Pope Francis explained that "no one is saved alone," and that "we are all called, despite our limitations, to proclaim to others the grace received in Baptism." Francis cited the Catholic Church in Japan as an example of how "small communities of the faithful" have survived "clandestinely for over two centuries thanks to the grace of baptism." He said that their example would "help us to appreciate more fully the profound mystical, communitarian and missionary dimensions of our baptism." Bringing his weekly address to a close, the Pope invited all present to "take their Baptism seriously, being disciples and missionaries of the Gospel, by word and example itself." Pope Francis calls for your 'prayer and action'... Article brought to you by: Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) |


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The Prom It's a Pleasure is a well-produced color film that stars the 1961 Coca-Cola Junior Miss Pageant winner as the guide to a well-mannered prom night.
From the phone call asking Junior Miss for the date, to the drop-off at the end of the night, this film details prom etiquette for the curious and uncouth teenager. It also explains that the boy should call his date's mother before the dance to find out the color of her dress so he can match the corsage to it.
Wholesome sixties movies often dealt with American morals, and this prom night film is a classic example. At the high school dance itself, the film shows how to dance, how to ask someone to dance, ways to ask someone to dance, how to fill out a dance card, and how to navigate the refreshments, which consisted mostly of Coca-Cola, not surprisingly. In addition to all the prom do's and don'ts etiquette tips, this film features great footage of a typical sixties prom.


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Ways and Means: False Friends
Environmental progress is more than skin deep
by Carl Pope
In an era of virtual reality, we should be wary of virtual environmental progress. Consider what happened last year when the Sierra Club published its third annual sprawl report, citing state-by-state examples of smart growth and destructive sprawl. Subsequently, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) put out a press release declaring itself "a leader in promoting smart growth," and claiming that it "supports the use of innovative land-use techniques and preservation of meaningful open space and sensitive environmental areas." In addition, the association praised the Sierra Club's recognition of "the important role that builders and developers play in the creation of well-designed homes and communities to house the American people."
The food industry, too, seemed to undergo a conversion experience after lab tests revealed that Kraft Foods' Taco Bell-brand taco shells contained Starlink, a genetically engineered variety of corn that is approved only for animal feed because it contains a protein similar in structure to known human allergens. Kraft recalled its taco shells; Mission Foods, the largest U.S. maker of tortilla products, recalled all lines containing yellow corn to avoid the risk of contamination; and Starlink's licensing company, Aventis CropScience, agreed to buy its entire crop back at a premium price, pay for testing, and sell it to feedlots. Estimated cost of these steps: $100 million.
On the surface, these two episodes seem to signal dramatic environmental progress. The National Association of Home Builders, after all, has been one of the major instigators of sprawl; to have it embrace the Sierra Club's vision of smart growth is remarkable. So too was the quick industry response to the Starlink incident. Even with a lack of public outcry, and even though no adverse human impact was identified, companies responded almost overnight, and at substantial cost, to get the suspect corn out of the human food chain.
Should we rejoice at this newfound acceptance of our environmental values? Not, perhaps, before we look at the rest of the story. Shortly after the NAHB issued its press release embracing smart growth, it quietly sent a letter to its members with a very different message:
"We are facing a monumental challenge and we need your help immediately!" it exclaimed. "The Sierra Club is about to succeed in passing two radical no-growth initiatives in Colorado and Arizona. These measures would devastate housing in those states and set a dangerous national precedent . . . by creating strict urban growth boundaries, giving environmental extremists unprecedented access to the courts, and creating the first true 'ballot-box zoning' system in the country. . . . This election will set a precedent for the future of housing in America. If the Sierra Club wins, builders across the country will be threatened by similar no-growth initiatives for years to come."
The letter went on to solicit contributions to defeat the smart-growth proposals in those two states. (It also quoted, as evidence of radical environmentalism, the same Sierra Club study that the NAHB had publicly hailed only weeks earlier.) Despite their smart-growth rhetoric, the Home Builders successfully squashed both smart-growth ballot measures, making Colorado and Arizona safe for continued sprawl.
As for Starlink, industry's rapid action was hardly evidence of a new ethic of caution and responsibility on the part of agribusiness or government. After all, Starlink was detected only after the nonprofit group Genetically Engineered Food Alert commissioned its own testing and happened upon the contamination.
And while the government's role in ruling Starlink unfit for humans was critical, other varieties of genetically modified corn that have never been properly tested are licensed for human consumption. Ironically, the episode also served as a vindication of one of agribusiness's excuses for not labeling genetically engineered foods-that it is impossible to keep track of which foods have been modified. In practice, the system failed to trace a product that was only supposed to appear in animal feed.
The same haphazard pattern is repeated time and time again. Someone stumbles upon a problem-often too late to avoid serious consequences-and the system scurries to patch things up. We are still dependent on private vigilance and good luck to protect against new threats, like experimental corn in our tortillas. Novel chemicals are still routinely introduced into our communities and the environment without adequate scrutiny.
Old industrial facilities and processes are allowed to continue to pollute even when cleaner, safer substitutes are available. Developers are given permission to destroy functioning wetlands in exchange for leaving the hose on elsewhere. And industry resolutely refuses to recognize that environmental problems that are modest at one scale-say, the manure from 50 hogs-can be toxic hazards when magnified a thousandfold in a hog factory-feeding operation.
The Sierra Club has stopped hundreds of badly conceived highways, shopping centers, airports, and subdivisions, usually because of their individual impacts, not because we have broken the public subsidies that make "dumb growth" financially attractive to land speculators. Similarly, we've elected hundreds of fine candidates to political office, but we have failed to stop the blatant culture of bribery that is our campaign contribution system.
It is a victory of sorts that the NAHB feels it necessary to take green cover and the biotech industry costly action to forestall fundamental reform. Our challenge is to refuse to be satisfied with the quick fix, and to demand real-not virtual-progress.
Carl Pope is the executive director of the Sierra Club. He can be reached by e-mail at email@example.com.


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EPA has finalized three Federal regulations that apply to reciprocating internal combustion engines (RICE) used for emergency purposes at both major and area sources of Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAP) emissions. This website is dedicated to emergency RICE located at area sources of HAPs.
National Emission Standard for HAPs (Quad Z)
- Includes diesel and gas fired engines that were:
- Existing: Before June 12, 2006.
- New: On or after June 12, 2006.
New Source Performance Standards (Quad I) and (Quad J)
- Compression Ignition engines (Quad I) includes diesel fired engines that were:
- Manufactured after April 1, 2006 (July 1, 2006 for fire pump engines), or
- Modified or reconstructed after July 11, 2005.
- Spark Ignition engines (Quad J) includes gas fired engines that were:
- Manufactured on or after January 1, 2008.
Contact DES if your facility is not considered an area source.


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Investment needed—$2,500,000
While our students are at Cumberland school of Law, they are exposed not only to our nationally recognized Advocacy Program but also to courses which focus on corporate and transactional law, health care law, and environmental law, to name only a few. Their learning is enhanced by our international programs, our Public Interest Program, the Center for Children, Law and Ethics, and our Community Mediation Center.
We are seeking funds for our academic programs to ensure that our students graduate into the legal profession well-trained, well-rounded, globally minded and intellectually enriched.
Academic Program Goals
- Enhance Center for Children, Law & Ethics with funding for faculty stipend, research materials and student fellows
- Enhance Center for Community Mediation and Public Interest Program with funding to make pro bono service and program delivery possible
- Expand externships in judicial, litigation, corporate, government and public interest offices


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Make your vacation an unforgettable one at one of Kauai's finest properties. Kauai Luxury Escape was featured on HGTV's "House Hunters" and its renovation heralded by the network's "Where Are They Now" program as an example of extraordinary design set in one of the world's most spectacular tropical islands. Perhaps most striking is the property's breathtaking view of the coastline -- one that rivals nearly any other in the world. Enjoy morning coffee or a cocktail on the lanai to take in one of Mother Nature's most dramatic settings. Your stay is resplendent in luxury from the fine linens, sheets and towels to the exquisite furnishings, accessories and aesthetic appointments. While steps from one of the island's best and safest beaches where swimming and surfing are common, a sparkling swimming pool with grill is available. The property is walking distance to several great dining destinations where you can enjoy everything from Thai, Korean and Japanese to Mexican, fresh fish, vegetarian, gourmet pizza and even a first-rate dessert house. Kauai Luxury Escape is only 10 minutes from the airport so you don't have a long drive ahead of you after a marathon flight. Why settle for anything less than this slice of the good life in one of the most beautiful destinations in the world?
From our first email, David and Frank were quick to respond with any questions and made sure that we felt good about showing up to their beautiful rental on the ocean in Kauai! The home is a mere 5-10 minute drive from Lihue airport and was recently re-designed: it is gorgeous! You can be sure that it is one of the most beautiful units in the area, with brand new ..everything! The sound of the ocean below made our sleep so much more relaxing. This rental had every amenity that we have in our home (wifi, cable, new appliances, etc.) so we felt completely comfortable to sit out on the lanai with mai tai's and just enjoy the beautiful view. There are great restaurants within walking distance, and really great breakfast places nearby (a must for us). ...When looking for a rental, and you hope you end up with a place that has all of the design and comfort of something you might see in a magazine, but priced much lower, this is the one. In fact, we learned while we were in this rental that it is going to be featured on HGTV! We are still amazed at what a great deal this rental is and definitely plan to return!


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SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain (CNN) -- The crumpled wreckage of eight train cars sent careering onto their sides when a train derailed in northwestern Spain has now been removed from the tracks, but the grim task of identifying the dead continued Friday.
Investigations into the cause of the crash are still under way, but suggestions that the train was traveling too fast have come to the fore.
The crash on the outskirts of Santiago de Compostela, a city popular with tourists and Christian pilgrims, late Wednesday shocked the Galician region and the nation.
A spokeswoman for the Galician regional government told CNN that at least 78 people are confirmed dead but that the number could rise to 80. Of the dead, 72 have been identified, she said.
A spokeswoman for the department of health in the Galicia region said 81 people are still being treated in hospitals, 31 of them in a critical condition. Of those 31, three are children.
Those hospitalized include 31 from Galicia, 38 from other Spanish regions and eight from Argentina, Colombia, Peru, the United States and Britain. The nationalities of four others have not been established.
An American woman named as Ana-Maria Cordoba from Arlington, Virginia, is among the dead. And at least five other U.S. citizens were injured, Deputy State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said.
The unidentified remains will be sent for DNA testing in Madrid, police Superintendent Antonio del Amo said at a news conference Friday. The process could take days or even weeks, he said.
Conflicting accounts have emerged in the past two days over the number of people killed and injured. Del Amo explained the confusion by pointing out that the operation was very complex and involved a difficult accident scene.
Galicia police Chief Jaime Iglesias on Friday confirmed that the train driver is under police detention because of "a crime."
When asked the follow-up question, "What crime?" he responded: "Well ... in connection to the accident, in connection with his recklessness, in connection with causing the accident."
Investigators were expected to ask the train driver more questions Friday.
Maria Pardo Rios, a spokeswoman for the Galicia regional supreme court, said Thursday that the driver was under formal investigation. "He is not being charged by a judge at the moment -- it is all at a police level," she said.
Spanish news agency Efe and national daily El Pais cited sources within the investigation as saying that the driver had said the train was traveling about 190 kilometers per hour, and that the limit on a curve was 80 kilometers per hour (50 mph).
National daily newspaper El Mundo published a front page picture of a man said to be the driver, his face bloodied, making a cell phone call after the crash.
Rafael Catala, secretary of state for transport and housing, told Spanish radio network Cadena SER that the "tragedy appears to be linked to the train going too fast," but that the reasons for that are not yet known.
The express passenger service was nearing the end of a six-hour trip from Madrid to the town of Ferrol in northwest Spain when it derailed at 8:41 p.m. Wednesday, the state railway said.
'We cry for the victims'
Workers were using a large crane to remove the train's two engines, one at the front and the other at the rear, from the track Friday morning.
Security footage revealed how the train hurtled round a bend before its cars derailed and slammed on their sides into a concrete support structure for a bridge. The impact also overturned the front engine.
Flames burst out of one train car as another car was snapped in half after the crash. Rescue crews and fellow passengers pulled bodies through broken windows and pried open doors as stunned survivors looked on.
Spain's King Juan Carlos and his wife, Queen Sofia, visited a hospital in Santiago de Compostela on Thursday evening to meet some of those who were injured.
"All Spaniards, we are united at this time. ... Really all Spaniards join in the pain of the families of the dead," he said. "We hope that the wounded will recover, little by little."
The royal family canceled all events scheduled for the day out of respect for the day of mourning, the royal household told CNN.
Alberto Nunez Feijoo, head of the regional government in Galicia, declared seven days of mourning in the region for victims of the tragedy.
In a speech, he said "all of the community cries about the tragedy that we are living, we cry for the victims, we cry for the unease and sadness of the families."
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy viewed the scene of devastation and visited some of the hospitalized crash victims Thursday.
Rajoy, who is from Santiago de Compostela, said two investigations are under way. "We want to establish what happened," he said.
The prime minister declared three days of national mourning to honor the victims of the crash.
The crash came on the eve of a public holiday to celebrate a saint's day, when more people than usual may have been traveling in the region. Planned festivities in Santiago de Compostela and across Galicia were canceled after the crash.
Victim: 'Everything went dark'
One victim, speaking from a hospital bed with his arm in a sling, told CNN affiliate Atlas that it seemed like the train was going fast.
"But we didn't know what was the maximum speed, so I thought it was normal," he said, "And suddenly there was a curve, the suitcases fell, and everything went dark. And I hit my head a ton of times, and 10 seconds later I was wedged between seats, and I had people's legs on top of me."
As he waited for rescuers to pull him from the wreckage, he heard other passengers yelling.
"I heard little children screaming. ... I also heard two girls that yelled out, one supporting the other," he said.
Through the darkness, passenger Stephen Ward saw a little circle of light -- the door of the train.
Rescuers came through it and helped the 18-year-old from Bountiful, Utah, get out.
He waited for hours while victims with more serious injuries were taken to the hospital. As he watched rescue crews carry the dead and wounded, he cried and sang church hymns to calm himself down.
A photo taken at the scene shows him leaning on a police officer as he walks beside the tracks, with blood oozing down his face and splattered on his crisp, white shirt.
The Mormon missionary walked past dead bodies on the ground. He told London's Daily Telegraph that it looked like a scene from hell.
U.S. citizen among those killed
When the train crashed, Ana-Maria Cordoba was on the way with her husband and their daughter to visit her son, who had been on a pilgrimage in Spain, the Catholic Diocese of Arlington told CNN.
Cordoba, who worked for the diocese, was killed, spokesman Michael Donahue said.
Her husband and daughter are hospitalized in stable condition, the diocese said.
CNN's Houston affiliate KHOU named a couple from the Texas city, Robert and Myrta Fariza, as also being among the injured Americans.
According to an image it published of a note apparently posted on the door of their home, Myrta Fariza is in critical condition. Her husband was also injured but is "recovering well," it said.
Interim charge d'affaires Luis G. Moreno at the U.S. Embassy in Madrid said it was in touch "with families of some injured American citizens."
A British citizen was also among the injured, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague said.
The state rail company, RENFE, stated that 218 passengers were on the manifest. It's not clear how many crew and staff were aboard the train.
-- CNN's Al Goodman reported from Santiago de Compostela and Laura Perez Maestro from Galicia. CNN's Laura Smith-Spark wrote in London. CNN's Jonathan Helman, Catherine E. Shoichet, Elwyn Lopez, Patrick Sung, Eric Marrapodi, Jill Dougherty, Nelson Quinones, Marysabel Huston-Crespo, Mariano Castillo and David Valenzuela contributed to this report.
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Ubisoft has released a new Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon gameplay video.
The latest movie features creative director Dean Evans showing us how to take over a garrison in style.
Ubisoft has also announced that Far Cry 3 Blood Dragonis, the soundtrack for the retro-future themed digital game, will be available on iTunes from May 1 priced at £7.99.
Those who place PC digital pre-orders from Ubisoft's online store will get the soundtrack free of charge.
Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon will launch on May 1. Get our hands-on impressions in this Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon preview.