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By Ms. Jennifer Walsh (Army Medicine)March 18, 2011
VILSECK, Germany - The holiday season may be over, but the spirit of giving is still alive at the Warrior Transition Unit in Vilseck.
Volunteers consisting of Wounded Warriors, staff and spouses loaded up a bus with donations and spent the afternoon with children from the DD Plana Orphanage in Plana, Czech Republic, March 4.
"The children we met at the orphanage came from various disadvantaged backgrounds," said Capt. Marcelle Pasion, WTU nurse case manager who coordinated the trip. "We saw this as an opportunity for everyone who participated to experience social, emotional and physical growth with the various activities we shared with them."
This was especially true for the warriors.
"Many times they (warriors) get so bottled up with their healing there's a lot of outside things that can affect them," Pasion said. "By taking them out of that environment it helps them relax, to know everything is OK and to enjoy everything with the children."
According to Pasion, the WTU collected donations for a couple of months and what started out as three or four small boxes turned into huge boxes of donations for the kids whose ages range from 3 to 24.
"There are about 27 children there and they love everything from sports to Bath and Body Works to hip-hop to make-up," Pasion said. We got tremendous donations and I want to thank the people who gave...everybody gave something."
Donations included: clothes, shoes, toys, school supplies, sports equipment and even an electronic keyboard.
"I donated a keyboard because there are two kids that play piano," said Sgt. 1st Class Brett McHaney, WTU platoon sergeant. "It actually shows you the keys. The keys light up for the song you want to play."
There was a language barrier, but everyone found a way to communicate through the art of playing. Some helped the smaller children create works of art and others relied on the universal language of sports.
"They didn't know how to play basketball because they play a lot of soccer," McHaney said. "So we showed them what to do."
Although the day was about giving back, McHaney said he thinks the warriors also gained something from the trip.
"I think that with Wounded Warriors, things are always given. We give our time, we give our attention and I think it's good that they're learning how to do that back," he said. "This was an opportunity for them to give back and see how it affects the people who are receiving."
Capt. Ryan Putnam, the WTU commander, couldn't agree more.
"I think it's important for the warriors to keep engaged in service as they heal and transition because this is what our institution is about," Putnam said. "We are warriors, but we are also guardians of freedom who serve to maintain peace and we do this in a number of ways - primarily through community involvement and active participation in the lives of others who may be in need."
Overall, Pasion said the trip was a success and they were humbled by the children.
"It was unexpected to see the meaning of joy seen in their smiles, the appreciation of each child and the numerous hugs some of us received when we left," she said. "It was a wonderful experience and most of us would like to return."


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Definition of slavery in English:
noun[mass noun]
1The state of being a slave: thousands had been sold into slavery
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- The stronger ones would be sold into slavery or servitude.
- Few women suspect they will be sold into sexual slavery.
- But fears are growing that orphaned children are being trafficked by unscrupulous criminals and sold into slavery and prostitution.
1.1The practice or system of owning slaves: he was resolved to impose a number of reforms, including the abolition of slavery
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- The English developed a sugar plantation system that thrived until the abolition of slavery, when the system collapsed.
- It comes as a surprise to missionaries arriving fresh from the west of Ireland to hear that slavery has been practiced in Brazil right up to the present time.
- This is a nation that practiced slavery, genocide of the native peoples, Jim Crow apartheid and war mongering.
1.2A condition of having to work very hard without proper remuneration or appreciation: female domestic slavery
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- Women have been abducted by armed men, detained for a time in conditions of sexual slavery, raped and made to perform domestic chores.
- Thousands of North Korean men, women and children are forced to work and often perish under conditions of slavery.
- Experts say police corruption - in Italy and in the native countries of these women - makes it harder to battle sex slavery.
drudgery, toil, (hard) slog, hard labour, grind, sweated labour
Australian/New Zealand informal (hard) yakka
1.3Excessive dependence on or devotion to something: slavery to tradition
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- I grew up under the heavy yoke of religion and its mental slavery to fear, and the economic domination of the church in the name of God.
- No enslavement and no tyranny are as ruthless and as demanding as slavery to physical desires and passions.
- Their ever-shorter skirts and tight blouses might look rebellious, but their pack mentality guarantees their slavery to fashion.
Words that rhyme with slaveryAvery, bravery, knavery, quavery, Savery, savory, savoury, wavery
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SIKESTON - John A. Young issued building permits this week to Dr. H.M. Kendig for construction of two five-room houses in the Chamber of Commerce addition. One will be built at a cost of $750 and the other at $1,000. Dr. Kendig said the homes will be he ones he bought in Illinois.
SIKESTON - Henry S. Bussey, cemetery officer, was chosen president of the 1966-67 United Fund Drive at a meeting Tuesday at the Sikeston Junior High School. He succeeds Bill Scarbrough, who led a successful drive last year.
SIKESTON - Probate Judge John "Jack" Sides was elected president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce last night at the Country Club. Dr. Bill Dillon was elected second vice president.
EAST PRAIRIE - A fire destroyed the house of an East Prairie public safety officer early Saturday morning, according to the East Prairie Department of Public Safety. The East Prairie Volunteer Fire Department responded at 2:57 a.m. to an electrical fire at 406 Second St., the home of Harold Myers. The occupants weren't at home at the time of the blaze and no injuries were reported. The fire department fought the blaze for more than 5 and one-half hours.
SIKESTON - The Sikeston Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo draws 40,000 people each summer to Sikeston and half of those come from out-of-town and are a real boom for local merchants. The 1996 rodeo should prove to be just as successful, advised Jeff Sutton, entertainment co-chairman, as he announced the entertainers who will share the star billing along with top professional cowboys and cowgirls. John Anderson will open the event on Wednesday, followed by Clay Walker on Thursday, Joe Diffie on Friday and Chris LaDoux on Saturday.


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KABUL - Hizb-i-Islami chief Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal, calling for free and fair presidential and provincial council elections, on Thursday announced the party would fully participate in the 2014 ballots.
Addressing thousands of party workers, including women, at the Loya Jirgas tent in Kabul, the politician said the Hizb-i-Islami wanted elections without foreign interference.
Arghandiwal believed fair elections were possible only when the opinions of all political groups were incorporated in changes to the electoral law. He said his party would participate in the presidential and provincial council elections, asking workers to obtain voter cards.
The Hizb-i-Islami was against any move that could create problems in the country, he said, vowing to continue efforts for protecting Afghanistans sovereignty until his death.
He urged political forces to join hands for bringing peace and stability to the country. We are against war and want peace in Afghanistan, he said, while insisting on good relations with the whole world.
He feared the country could once again plunge into a deep political crisis after foreign troops withdrawal in 2014. But we have faith in our security forces that they will be able to defend the homeland without foreign assistance.
On economic development, Arghandiwal said the government should make efforts at attracting investments in the mining sector.
A senior member of the party, Mudir Sharif, asked the Ministry of Education to introduce a uniform education system in the country, asking parents to send their children to school.
The Hizbi-i-Islami split into two groups five years ago, with Arghandiwal heading one faction and former Prime Minister Gulbadin Hekmatyar the other. Hekmatyar has said his group would continue its armed resistance until all foreign troops withdrew from Afghanistan.
Addressing the gathering, AfghanistanHigh Peace Council chief Salahuddin Rabbani praised the Hizb-i-Islami led by Arghandiwal for cooperating with peace efforts.
Afghans hate war; it has been imposed on them, the top peace negotiator said, urging the people to work jointly for the countrys reconstruction so that the blood of mujahidin did not go in waste.


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CLARKTON -- A Gideon resident was killed in a two-vehicle collision Wednesday morning in New Madrid County.
According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, at 10:25 a.m., four miles southeast of Clarkton, an accident occurred as the one-ton truck driven by Clyde D. Dempsey, 51, of Kennett and the pickup truck operated by Carl K. Berry, 37, of Gideon met at an unmarked intersection at New Madrid County Road 285/284. Berry was partially ejected from his vehicle and was pronounced dead at the scene by Dunklin County Coroner Jack Adkins. Berry's body was taken to Landess Funeral Home in Malden.
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PARKERSBURG - West Virginia is one of only nine states without charter schools, according to a national survey on charter school laws.
A report released today by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, a charter schools advocacy group, ranks 42 states on the quality and accessibility of their charter school programs. West Virginia, Alabama, Kentucky, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont and Washington do not have laws allowing for charter schools and were left unranked in the report.
"After 20 years of lessons learned and positive results in the national charter school movement, it is time for West Virginia to enact a strong charter school law that provides more high-quality public school options to its students, particularly those who are struggling in their current school," Todd Ziebarth, lead author of the report and vice president for state advocacy and support for the NAPCS said in a release.
West Virginia has tried to move toward charter school legislation, but has consistently met with resistance from state teachers unions and legislators. Former Gov. Joe Manchin introduced charter schools legislation in 2009 and again in 2010, but both times saw bills die in committee or saw them voted down in the state Legislature.
In today's report, Ohio's charter school law fell from 27 to 28 out of 42 states. Maine's law ranked first and Mississippi's charter school law remains last.
Each state was scored on how well it supported charter school quality and growth based on the 20 components from the alliance's model charter school law, which included comprehensive monitoring and data collection, equitable access to funding and facilities and no caps.
"In 2011, Ohio enacted legislation that impacted charter schools in several ways, most notably by partially lifting the state's caps on charter school growth and providing charter schools better access to empty school district buildings. However, its ranking dropped from number 27 to number 28 because it was surpassed by states that made more substantial changes to their charter laws," Ziebarth said. "Potential areas of improvement include removing all caps on charter school growth, beefing up its requirements for charter application, review, and decision-making processes and performance-based contracting, and ensuring equitable operational funding and equitable access to capital funding and facilities."
The alliance is a national nonprofit organization committed to advancing the charter school movement. The alliance's complete report can be downloaded at www.publiccharters.org.


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Tonight, the Yreka Lady Miners volleyball program hosts Weed at the big gym at the high school.
The freshman game begins at 4 p.m. and the junior varsity contest is set for 5:00 p.m. The varsity game is scheduled for 6:30 p.m.
The Miners varsity volleyball team is 11-5 for the year.
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Definition of visa in English:
An endorsement on a passport indicating that the holder is allowed to enter, leave, or stay for a specified period of time in a country.
Example sentences
- He said he has only worked in Europe with business visas, which allow stays of 90 days.
- British passport holders don't require visas if staying less than 60 days.
- I would like to think they are currently New Zealand citizens or holders of permanent residence visas.
Mid 19th century: via French from Latin visa, past participle (neuter plural) of videre 'to see'.
view from Middle English:
View goes back to Latin videre 'to see'. Review (Late Middle English), first recorded as a noun denoting a formal inspection of military or naval forces, is literally a re-viewing. Video [1930s] is the Latin for 'I see' just as audio is the Latin for 'I hear'. Visa (mid 19th century), evidence that your right to enter a country has been checked, is a shortening of Latin charta visa literally 'seen paper'.
Words that rhyme with visaappeaser, Caesar, easer, Ebenezer, El Giza, freezer, geezer, geyser, Louisa, Pisa, seizer, squeezer, teaser, Teresa, Theresa, wheezer
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By John B. SnyderMay 26, 2009
WATERVLIET ARSENAL, N.Y. (26 May 2009) Aca,!aEURc After nine reductions in force at the U.S. Army Watervliet Arsenal since the early 1990s, it should not surprise anyone to see the community spirit of the Arsenal workforce to have declined in equal measure. But as the Troy Record's front page headline highlighted today, "Arsenal back in step," the Arsenal has rekindled the spirit.
Not since the late 1980s, has the Arsenal participated in a major parade for Veterans' Day or Memorial Day. For those who have worked at the Arsenal for more than 20 years, remember a time when the Arsenal was huge in local community events. And so does the community.
But through the years, as production requirements declined, so did its numbers of personnel. The Arsenal workforce peaked with nearly 10,000 workers during World War II, down to a little over 3,000 in the early 1980s, and as few as 400 workers by 2001. Many Arsenal 'old timers' believe that as the workforce numbers declined, so did the Arsenal's commitment to the community.
A decline, however, does not necessarily mean an abandonment of community spirit.
From a conversation last January between Mike Bush, chief steward for the National Federation of Federal Employees Union Local 2109, and John Snyder, Arsenal public affairs officer, began the awakening of the Arsenal's parade spirit.
Bush, a colorful character who is never short for a story, told Snyder about the "good old days" when the Arsenal had a significant presence in the community. He remembered when the Arsenal conducted parades and had open houses where thousands of the community would come and learn about the Arsenal.
So Bush put Snyder to a challenge. "If you (Snyder) coordinate the Arsenal's participation in a community event, the Union will be its biggest supporter. The spirit is here but we just need to wake it up," Bush proclaimed.
Snyder then turned to Arsenal Commander Col. Scott N. Fletcher for his commander's intent. Having just come off of a successful Arsenal Community Covenant Signing Ceremony in November 2008, which was hosted by four local mayors, Fletcher told Snyder to look toward established military-type events, such as Memorial Day.
Leveraging a planned event certainly provides an easier entry point, but that was not Fletcher's sole reason for looking at Memorial Day.
Whatever the Arsenal could do to bring more community awareness to the sacrifices of our nation's servicemen and women was simply the right thing to do, if the Arsenal did anything at all, said Fletcher.
An obvious choice then was to go back to the city that has been nested with Arsenal operations for nearly 200 years Aca,!aEURc the City of Watervliet.
Watervliet Mayor Michael Manning immediately offered the Arsenal a position in the city's upcoming Memorial Day Parade, as well as invited Fletcher to provide the city's Memorial Day Address.
Building an Arsenal presence in a parade after more than 20 years was no small challenge. After all, there were no plans, no historical records, no after action reviews, and maybe most importantly, no general consensus to support this endeavor.
Even when an organization has a good, active Community Relations Program, selling the "why this event is important to the command" is sometimes a tough sell to the leadership and to the workforce. The first questions usually are, "What do we get out of it, how much will it cost, and how do you measure the effects'" All good questions.
So, trying to energize the Arsenal workforce to support a parade was akin to changing organizational culture. Workers who had less than 20 years at the Arsenal had not experienced community relations events. And those workers who have been at the Arsenal for more than 20 years have survived without participating in community relations. So, an internal "sales" job was required to inspire the young and old to support.
To help generate buy-in from the Arsenal workforce, a parade committee was formed initially with representatives from the U.S. Army's BenAfAt Laboratories, NFFE Local 2109, Arsenal Business & Technology Partnership, and the Arsenal museum. It would be this core of planners who, through viral messaging, excited the workforce to support.
Success was originally defined as placing one float in the parade, enlisting the workforce to march in the parade, and for Fletcher to attend the Memorial Day Ceremony.
What actually occurred was the Arsenal provided two floats, two groups of period actors who represented the Civil War and World War II time periods, 10 vintage-era military vehicles, and most importantly, about 60 members of the Arsenal workforce who marched in the parade. Fletcher not only marched but he was also the keynote speaker at the city's Memorial Day Ceremony.
Hard to measure the effects, but when U.S. Rep. Paul Tonko, New York Assembly Majority Leader Ron Canestrari, and Mayor Michael Manning all praised the Arsenal and its workforce, the effect had to be powerful.
Canestrari said, "The Arsenal and its employees are a central part of Watervliet...And things are going quite well. It's only appropriate that they're a part of this great parade."
Manning added, "I knew they were putting a couple of floats together, but this is beyond our expectations."
Maybe, the most powerful statement came from a 10-year boy who was standing on the sidelines who simply said, "The Arsenal is cool."


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SAN JOSE -- The Red Wings recently ended one of their worst slumps of the season. Now they'd like to make sure Evgeni Nabokov's struggles continue.
After ending a three-game losing streak, the Red Wings will likely get a chance to earn their third win this season against Nabokov and pin the star goaltender with his third straight defeat overall when they visit the San Jose Sharks on Saturday night.
Detroit (34-10-4) beat Vancouver 3-2 in a shootout on Thursday night to snap a 0-2-1 skid, which matched the longest losing streak of the season for the team with the NHL's best record.
"It's a good thing to happen," Detroit coach Mike Babcock said. "You have to go through some tough times in your season to know how to respond to a little adversity, otherwise it comes to playoff time and you're not prepared for it. It's a battle every night."
Now the Red Wings will face one of the league's top goalies in Nabokov, but they haven't had much trouble against him this season and the veteran is struggling through his worst stretch of 2007-08.
Nabokov was in goal for each of San Jose's two games against Detroit this season, posting a 4.47 goals-against average en route to losing both contests. He is 0-5-1 with a 4.50 GAA in his last seven starts versus the Red Wings, failing to beat them since March 23, 2004.
Nabokov, who will represent the Western Conference in next weekend's All-Star game, started each of the first 43 games for the Sharks (25-14-7) before getting a night off Sunday at Anaheim. After rookie Thomas Gracie lost his NHL debut to the Ducks, Nabokov surrendered five goals Tuesday in Phoenix during one of his worst starts of the season.
He struggled again in a 4-2 loss to Dallas on Thursday night, allowing all four of the Stars' goals on 31 shots. It has been the most difficult stretch of what has otherwise been an outstanding season for Nabokov, who is 25-14-6 with five shutouts and a 2.10 GAA.
Detroit, meanwhile, has gotten outstanding play in net against San Jose over the teams' last eight meetings. The Red Wings have not allowed more than two goals in any of those contests, including last year's playoffs when Detroit won the teams' conference semifinal series in six games.
Chris Osgood has started both of the Red Wings' games against the Sharks this season, posting a 1.50 GAA. Dominik Hasek had a 1.45 GAA as he started all six games versus San Jose in the 2007 playoffs. Osgood and Hasek have split time for Detroit this season.
The Red Wings lead the league with 2.12 goals allowed per game. The Sharks are close to that mark, allowing 2.28 goals a contest, but they have yielded four goals or more in three straight games for the first time this season.
All three of those losses have been against Pacific Division rivals and the Sharks' latest defeat was at home, where they are 9-10-4.
"We're struggling with our style of play at home," San Jose defenseman Craig Rivet said. "Right now, it's a bit lackadaisical."
Being undermanned on defense hasn't helped. Sharks defenseman Kyle McLaren underwent minor arthroscopic surgery this week on his injured left knee, and won't return to the lineup until next week at the earliest. Alexei Semenov and Sandis Ozolinsh have replaced McLaren the past three games.
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Montaigne, Essays
Cervantes, Don Quixote
Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler
Que scais-je? What can I know? So said the medal Montaigne had struck as the symbol of himself. He was the inventor of the empiric ego. He was the inventor of the word essai applied to a literary form. The title of his collection Essais did not mean then what we mean. In fact it still doesnt in French but rather assay or the noun of our verb to essay. For Montaigne existence was an experiment. The subject was experience; the instrument was the self defined in terms of the experiment. Expérience in French also means experiment.
Since Montaigne there has always existed and sometimes flourished one type of characteristically Gallic personality that makes a principle of the equivocation experience-experiment and in literature presents all its products as essays in Montaignes sense. Raymond Queneaus Nicolas chien dexpérience Nicholas, the Experimental Dog one of the most comic modern poems, not only depends on this equivocation but might well stand as a parable of the Montaignian spirit in France and of Montaigne himself. So Gertrude Stein on her deathbed: What is the answer? and after a few minutes, What is the question? a very French death.
There is no answer, no Quod erat demonstrandum at the end of a logical operation, but an attitude at the end of a lifelong, inconclusive experiment:
I have suffered rheumes, gowty defluxions, pantings of the heart, megreimes and other suchlike accidents, to grow old in me, and die their naturall death; all which have left me, when I halfe enured and framed my selfe to foster them. They are better conjured by curtesie, then by bragging or threats. We must gently obey and endure the lawes of our condition.
In the final essay, significantly titled On Experience, epistemology becomes not the reduction of psychology to logic but the basic concern of a kind of psychosomatic medicine, a matter of mind-body tone. This is the Stoic law of obedience to nature so reiterated by Marcus Aurelius but the slight difference in mood results in a fundamental difference in meaning.
Because he was afflicted with one of the most painful, in his day incurable but seldom fatal, diseases, kidney stone, the latter part of Montaignes life was a long medical experiment, and the Essays throughout are haunted by the spirit of Hippocrates and Aesculapius. Today such a description would mean that Montaigne would be a hypochondriac, fascinated by his own morbidity. He was quite the opposite. Paragraph after paragraph in On Experience are the first French prose poems, written in wry humor to the stone, in thankfulness that the touch of death, so sharp, yet so fleeting and easily sustained, has taught him wisdom. The rhythms of Montaigne at his most lyric survive in the prose poems of Léon-Paul Fargue, the greatest prose poet of the twentieth century and a very Montaigne reborn in the cafés of the Faubourg Saint-Germain between the wars.
Marcus Aurelius struggling on his throne and in his purple tent to achieve the unruffled acceptance of life was a moral hypochondriac tortured by scruple; the resulting virtue, a kind of anguished amiability. Montaigne, writing of the most gruesome subjects, radiates an active joy. His scruples are those of the chemical laboratory, never of the couch or confessional. The dilemmas that create the tensions in Marcus Aurelius are met by Montaigne with the simplest possible solutions of ethical activism, the commonplace relations of a country gentleman with common people, with Henri IV or the woodcutter on the estate.
Of course, it was the historical situation that made Montaigne possible. The viciousness of all parties in the Wars of Religion had canceled out all ideologies. Montaigne is a kind of passive Henri IV. Paris is worth a Mass by this, the French have always known, their greatest king meant not the crown, but a great city in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left and also much cattle.
We think of Montaigne as the begetter of the English secular sensibility at its most acute, and we trace his influence on Shakespeare and Bacon and Locke; but we must not forget that his great popularity in seventeenth-century England also helped to form the peculiarly English tradition of sweet-tempered spirituality. Hooker, Browne, Jeremy Taylor, even William Law and the Quaker Barclay learned from Montaigne to respond with an amiability new to the Christian Church to the old questions that burned men alive the older, and newer, answer that turns away wrath. When Barclay says when questioned about the sacrament of Holy Communion, I do not think that I ever broke bread or drank wine without being conscious of Christs body broken and his blood shed for me, he is returning an answer Montaignian in temper. It is this temper, forged in the most troubled period in European history before the twentieth century, that is Montaignes specific contribution to civilization, and it is the essence of civilization itself. In its own day it seemed utterly without influence, yet it made its way. Weariness stopped the Wars of Religion, but skeptical magnanimity healed their wounds. Who can be sure that it is, as it seems to be, ultimately failing in our own time?
Retiring to his sun-gilded tower on his country estate, unguarded, his gates open to all factions, and surviving amidst the pillagings and burnings of religious war, it might seem that Montaigne the skeptic renounced all effectiveness and responsibility. The man who questioned the very existence of the Stoic ordered cosmos without and constantly questioned the evidences of a moral cosmos within to discover if they were delusions such a man might be said to represent in history the final resignation of Platos Guardian, the philosopher-aristocrat.
On the contrary, Montaigne was more like the indifferent Bodhisattva or Taoist sage devoted to government by inaction wuwei; the scholar-statesman who left high office for a thatched cabin amongst mountains and waterfalls and whose meditations were the most powerful force in Chinese civilization. A wistful tolerance so rare in that age, said Walter Pater, was the outstanding trait of Montaignes character. So rare in any age.
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One of the great classics of English prose is the John Florio translation read by Shakespeare, available in a Modern Library Giant and many other editions. The best accurate modern translation is by Donald M. Frame, Stanford University Press. There is an excellent selection translated by J.M. Cohen in Penguin Classics.
Many people, not all of them Spanish, are on record as believing that Don Quixote is the greatest prose fiction ever produced in the Western world. Certainly it is one of the few books a genuinely international critic would dare to group with The Dream of the Red Chamber or The Tale of Genji or The Mahabharata. It epitomizes the spiritual world of European man at mid-career as The Odyssey and The Iliad do at his beginnings and as The Brothers Karamazov does in his decline. It is so vast, so ecumenical, that it serves only inadequately as the epic of Spain a role better played by the more national Poem of the Cid. Don Quixote represents only a part of Spain, but a part that is far greater than the whole.
Much is made in schoolbooks of Cervantes intention to satirize and destroy the popular romances of chivalry. What he did in fact was to transubstantiate them. Don Quixote is the Quest romance of the Middle Ages raised in power and elevated to an entirely new plane of being. The Mediterranean countries never took kindly to the legend of the Grail, a myth spiritually closer to northern paganism than to Christianity. For all its pseudosacramentalism, the Grail legend is also far more Protestant than Catholic. The doctrine of the body and blood of Christ shared by all the Grail romances has nothing to do whatever with the Catholic dogmas of the Blessed Sacrament. The Quest of northern romance was a Quest of the Utterly Other true from the Mabinogion to Franz Kafka.
Don Quixote starts on his quest with his head full of phantasm. What he finds is his own identity, but he finds it in communion with others. He discovers what Don Quixote is really like by discovering that other people are like himself and that he is like them. The mystery that is slowly unveiled in the course of his complicated adventures is the mystery of the facts of life. His encounters are the opposite of the Gnostic trials and questions of the soul.
In the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the ghost of the dead man must answer the riddles of The Mystery with formulas of The Incomprehensible. In Don Quixote the living man advances, stage by stage, toward reality through the puzzles of fact. Sancho Panza and the facts themselves share the skepticism and ingenuity of Ulysses. These Sirens and Cyclopes are the subjective corruptions in Don Quixotes head. In both epics the same Mediterranean man of many devices and a thousand journeys seeks the same redemption. What is that redemption? It is merely life lived.
The comic delusions of Don Quixote the sheep and the windmills fall away as the narrative progresses, but they are far from mere foolishness. As we read we learn that they are not delusions at all, or if so, merely delusions of reference. They are misreadings of intent, misunderstandings of the powerful mana, the secret force, with which windmills and sheep and the commonplace life of the country inns and farmhouses of the Spanish highlands are surcharged. Sancho Panza always undercuts this mystery, as Don Quixote overshoots it. For Sancho the common is only commonplace; for Don Quixote it is continually revealed as being its own transcendence.
Possibly all great fictions deal with self-realization, with the integration of the personality. This is, in a special way, the subject of Don Quixote. Even more than in the wise reveries of Montaigne, Cervantes in this golden book gives us the purest expression of humanism not just its message, but its special wisdom that can be found only in adventure in the manifold, inexhaustibly eventful ways of men.
Such humane wisdom is hardly the Spanish temper we associate with San Juan de la Cruz, El Greco, Unamuno, or García Lorca. Black Spain the Spain of blood and sand, the dark night of the soul, the equation of love and death is often attributed to the heritage of Islam. Nothing could be less true. The notion of life itself as a kind of auto da fé arose in specific reaction against the sensuous humanism of the Caliphate of Córdoba.
Fully as much as The Song of Roland, The Poem of the Cid, or the Byzantine romance of Digenes Akrites, Don Quixote is a Border Epic, an artistic resolution of the culture clash of Islam and Christianity. Cervantes spent most of his life in fighting or in captivity with the Muslims who had so recently been his countrymen. Here, if ever captivity took captivity captive, Don Quixote is just such a romance as might have been written in Córdoba in its splendor, in Fatimid Cairo, or in the Baghdad of Haroun al Raschid for the immemorially civilized audience of The Arabian Nights.
There is a most important difference of tone. It is an evangelical difference. Don Quixote and Sancho Panza go their way through the windy barrens of La Mancha as Christ and his Apostles wandered through a very similar landscape, snapping the heads of wheat and chewing the green grain on a Sabbath morning, the Don learning, as they say, the hard way that the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. This is a moral that half of Spanish culture has consistently and bloodily refused to accept most surely a vision of real splendors surpassing any imagined ones and, says Cervantes, accessible only to the nobility of a Fool, the most noble fool in literature.
How urbane it all is, although Don Quixotes adventures are set amongst peasants and castles, squalor and brocade. The intelligence operating on this material is the intelligence of a citizen of no mean city that universal Mediterranean republic that goes back to Stone Age Jericho with its sand-swept streets, its efficient sewers, its adobe houses closed around their garden courts, its forums where men came to hear and talk about every new thing, its life of decency and order. Iberia answers the Visigoths.
Nothing shows better the all-encompassing humanity of Don Quixote than the immense literature to which it has given birth. There are as many interpretations of Cervantes hero as there are of man himself. Theosophists, Christian Scientists, Baptists, Roman Catholics, and the apostles of Service-with-a-Smile all find themselves in the Bible, and so too can they in Don Quixote. There are as many interpretations as interpreters, and most interpretations are very antagonistic indeed to my own.
It is this universality that makes the problem of the translator close to insoluble. The standard classic translations in English of Motteux and Shelton were done in the English Renaissance and to contemporary readers overflavor the narrative with grotesquerie. Modern translations, on the other hand, seem too commonplace. The best writing, grotesque or no, is still Motteuxs, and with it I guess we must be content.
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There are any number of editions of Don Quixote in paperback and hardcover. If the newcomer to the novel only had time and patience enough, he would be well advised to read and compare more than one translation, classic and modern.
There are, incidentally, a number of anthologies of the critical literature on Don Quixote that make fascinating reading, not least for their amazing disparity of interpretation. Were it not that my interpretation would then seem unduly flattering to myself, I would say that every man finds himself in Don Quixote, as Don Quixote finds himself in his adventures and as Sancho Panza is never lost.
[Don Quixote translations]
Sweetness and light may be a catch phrase used in our time only sarcastically, but it applies with the greatest accuracy to Izaak Waltons The Compleat Angler. Aestheticians have quarreled for years over the question Can a thoroughly bad man write thoroughly good books? The reason, of course, is that most writers are not very nice and the number who owe their artistic preeminence to their personal morality is very small indeed. Izaak Walton above all other writers in English owes his enormous popularity to his virtues as a man, and these virtues are what condition his style and give his work its fundamental meaning.
Millions have read Walton with joy who have never caught a fish since childhood, if at all. Indeed, he is not a terribly good guide to the art of fishing, and in America at least, most of the kinds of fish he talks about are left to small boys. The second half of The Compleat Angler was added in late editions and written by Charles Cotton as a guide to trout fishing in rough water. Those who want to know how to catch fish can learn most from Cottons additions. In fact, many people on first acquaintance skim through the main body of the book in considerable puzzlement and much prefer the later part. Then, as they keep the book about, and idle through it in the winter months, Izaak Walton overtakes them and captivates them for life.
We do not read The Compleat Angler for the fish, or for instruction in how to catch them. There are hundreds of more efficient books for such purposes, whether manuals or ichthyologies. We read Izaak Walton for a special quality of soul. Other books, mostly religious or mystical treatises, may describe such a quality and may even provide the reader with onerous instructions on how to obtain it. Walton simply embodies it unaware, and his example is possibly the most convincing argument that this is the only way it can be embodied.
It would be easy to claim that Izaak Walton is the most Chinese of all Western writers he and his companions wandering by flowing waters and reciting poems to each other. We know nothing of Lao Tse, or even if he existed. The book that goes by his name is certainly a compilation made over a long period of time; but it has a recurrent symbolism which, although extremely simple, is a revelation of a definite personality. Whoever wrote the little psalms of the Tao Te Ching believed that the long calm regard of moving water was one of the highest forms of prayer.
Westerners miss the point of the later Taoist saint who fished with a straight pin and a single filament of silk. Its not that he did not catch fish, but that he caught them with ease, because he was so perfectly attuned to the rhythms of water and of life. We read Izaak Walton for his tone, for his perfect attunement to the quiet streams and flowered meadows and bosky hills of the Thames valley long ago.
Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, in fact all the writers of Elizabethan and Jacobean comedy except Thomas Dekker, portray life in the English countryside as robust and comic enough but also as harsh, brutal, and unclean, for so they saw it. Not Walton. His landscapes are enameled like the meadows about the feet of Medieval saints. His innkeepers are both gentle and jovial. His barmaids are as wholesome as the ale they serve.
What a luminous world it is delicious fish, twenty inches long, caught in clear, sweet streams that now are gone or flow underground, laden with filth. England was unspoiled and unpolluted then, but the landscape of The Compleat Angler is so clean and bright because it is bathed in a light that comes from a lucid heart.
So he saw life, and he would have pictured it thus whatever he had written about. Had his subject been the most squalid modern slums of London and his judgments of the life there an arraignment and denunciation of their evils, his conclusion surely would have been There springs the dearest freshness deep down things.
Many sports are actually forms of contemplative activity. Fishing in quiet waters is especially so. Countless men who would burst out laughing if presented with a popular vulgarization of Zen Buddhism, and who would certainly find it utterly incomprehensible, practice the contemplative life by flowing water, rod in hand, at least for a few days each year. As the great mystics have said, they too know it is the illumination of these few days that gives meaning to the rest of their lives.
The Compleat Angler has often been compared to the Idylls of Theocritus. The ancient Greek may have written great poetry, but his pastorals are not meant to convince. Nobody has ever supposed that Sicilian shepherds and shepherdesses talked like that, however golden the age in which they lived. The Idylls are written literature; the diction is a courtly literary convention. The Compleat Angler is a country idyll made of talk. The rhythms of speech and turns of thought, however quaint to us three hundred and more years away, are completely convincing. We believe that this is the way gentlemen talked on an outing in those days learned, peaceable gentlemen in a time of troubles, whose speech had been formed by the gentler passages of the Book of Common Prayer: Hear what comfortable words . . .
It has been said of Izaak Walton that he was scarcely a literary man and that his style is a perfect example of complete naďveté. Maybe, although there is manuscript evidence to the contrary. But it is this quality that the greatest literary men have sought in pain and conflict and countless revisions in sleepless nights. Like the transparent narratives of those Chinese novels which do not seem to be written at all, Izaak Waltons style is completely lucid. Everything is there that should be there. Nothing is obscure or troubled. Once we have accepted the archaic diction, nothing stands between us and the subject except the personality of Izaak Walton, and that is as transparent as crystal, with an innate clarity achieved without effort. This may be called naďveté, but a better word is innocence.
It may sound outrageous to say that Izaak Walton wrote one of the Great Books and that about catching fish because he was a saint, because of an abiding sweetness of temper, but so it is. It is important to realize that he is not alone in English literature. He is in fact an unusual embodiment of a quietly powerful tradition, that of the contemplative layman Saint Thomas More, Nicholas Ferrer, William Law, Gilbert White. After the eighteenth century, this type is more commonly found in the sciences than in religion. And like Gilbert Whites The Natural History of Selbourne, The Compleat Angler is in a sense a scientific work, an outstanding example of the piety of science.
Kant, following Ptolemy, contemplated the starry heavens above and the moral law within. Izaak Walton contemplated fish and flowing water, the streams and banks of the beautiful landscape that is now deep in the slums of greater London. He was more the contemplative because he was the more unaware and the more modest in his methods.
Selections from Kenneth Rexroths Classics Revisited (copyright 1968 Kenneth Rexroth) and More Classics Revisited (copyright 1989 Kenneth Rexroth Trust). Reproduced by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
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down often appears as the second element of certain verb structures in English ( back down, clamp down, tone down, etc). For translations, see the relevant verb entry ( back, clamp, tone, etc).
- 1 1.1 (in downward direction)I ran all the way down to the bottomcorrí hasta abajothe path that goes down into the valleyel sendero que baja hasta el valleto help somebody downayudar a alguien a bajardon't look down!¡no mires (hacia or para) abajo!from the waist/neck downdesde la cintura/el cuello para abajojump down!¡salta!he flopped down exhaustedse dejó caer agotadodown, boy!¡abajo!wind the window down down with Smith/tyranny!¡abajo Smith/la tiranía!1.2 (downstairs)can you come down?¿puedes bajar?run down and fetch the hammerbaja rápido a buscarme el martillowe can walk downpodemos bajar andando
- 2 2.1 (of position) down in the basement/valleyabajo en el sótano/el valle500m/two floors down500m/dos pisos más abajofurther down on the same pagemás abajo en la misma páginadown here/there it was down at the bottom of the rucksackestaba en el fondo de la mochilathe sun/moon is downel sol/la luna se ha puestoExample sentences
Example sentences2.2 (downstairs) I'll be down right away
- She put the wine glass down on the ground and turned over to face him lying flat, her belly against his.
- Large pine trees were left standing but smaller silver birch and beech trees were chopped down.
- Mr Rogers said last spring he stopped an attempt by the council to chop the tree down and believed it was now safe.
enseguida bajo2.3 (lowered, pointing downward)bajadowith the blinds downcon las persianas bajadasface/head downboca abajoI had my foot down on the acceleratortenía el pie en or estaba pisando el acelerador2.4 (in position)the carpet isn't down yetaún no han puesto or colocado la alfombraI had newspaper downhabía puesto periódicos (en el suelo)2.5 (prostrate)the champ is down!¡el campeón ha caído en la lona!I was down with flu all last weekestuve con gripe toda la semana pasada
- She was heading down from the north and I was on a slightly earlier flight from London.
- He converted hundreds as he made his way down into the South Leinster border area.
- A few days ago I ran across an old friend who is now living down here with the new wife and child.
- 3 3.1 (of numbers, volume, intensity)with the volume down lowcon el volumen al mínimomy temperature is down to 38°Cla fiebre me ha bajado a 38°Cattendance/circulation is downla asistencia/circulación ha bajadosterling closed half a cent downal cierre la libra había bajado medio centavothey were two goals downiban perdiendo por dos goles3.2 (in league, table, hierarchy)still down at the bottom of the leaguetodavía en el último lugar de la clasificaciónfrom the president downdesde el presidente para abajo
- 4 4.1 (in, toward the south)to go/come down south/to Londonir/venir al sur/a Londrespeople down south/in Mexicola gente del sur/de México4.2 (at, to another place) (esp British)down on the farmen la granjahe's down at the barestá en el barI'm going down to Anne's/the libraryvoy a casa de Anne/a la biblioteca4.3 (away from university, major city) (esp British)they're sending a detective down from Scotland Yardvan a enviar un detective de Scotland Yardhe went down from Oxford in 1967terminó sus estudios en Oxford en 1967egresó de Oxford en 1967 (Latin America)
- 5 5.1 (dismantled, removed)the Christmas decorations should be down by nowya deberían haber quitado las decoraciones de Navidadthe room looks bare with the pictures downla habitación queda desnuda sin los cuadrosonce this wall is downuna vez que hayan derribado esta paredsee also→ burn down → cut down → fall down etc 5.2 (out of action)the telephone lines are downlas líneas de teléfono están cortadasthe system is down again (Computing)otra vez el sistema no funciona5.3 (deflated) one of your tires is downtienes un neumático desinflado
- 6 (in writing)did you get down what she said?¿tomaste nota de lo que dijo?he's down for tomorrow at ten
¿apuntaste or anotaste lo que dijo?está apuntado or anotado para mañana a las diezshe's down as unemployedconsta or figura como desempleada
- 8 (hostile)to be down on somebody [colloquial]my teacher's down on me at the momentla maestra me tiene ojerizala maestra la ha agarrado conmigo (Latin America) [colloquial]
- 9down to 9.1 (as far as) from the roof down to the foundationsdesde el tejado hasta los cimientosright down to the present dayhasta nuestros díasExample sentences
Example sentences9.2 (reduced to)when the liquid is down to half its volume
- Armstrong and Aldrin had to jump nearly a metre down from the bottom rung of the ladder to the Moon's surface.
- The objects from these sites were originally buried two to three feet down at the bottom of graves.
- We were kitted out with helmets and miners' torch and taken 40 metres down to the pit bottom in a cage.
cuando el líquido se haya reducido a la mitad de su volumenwe're down to our last tin of tomatoesnos queda solo una lata de tomates9.3 (dependent on) (British) it's all down to lucktodo es cuestión de suerte9.4 (to be done by) the rest is down to youel resto depende de tiit's down to the owner to take precautionses responsabilidad del propietario tomar precauciones
- Nine down and six to go, Carlow and Naas are on track for All Ireland League promotion.
- I think my body knows it's the halfway point of the week, with four shows down and four to go.
- There is one down and two to go for Inveraray after their intermediate championship victory at Oban yesterday.
- 1 1.1 (in downward direction) we ran down the slopecorrimos cuesta abajoto come down the stairsbajar por la escalerait fell down a holese cayó por un agujeroto tip something down the sinktirar algo por el fregaderoyou've spilled wine down your shirtte has manchado la camisa de vinoshe looked down the listrecorrió la lista con la mirada1.2 (at lower level) halfway down the hilla mitad de camino ladera abajoline 26, halfway down the pagelínea 26, hacia la mitad de la página
- 2 2.1 (along) we drove on down the coast/the Mississippiseguimos por la costa/a lo largo del Misisipías I strolled down the streetcuando paseaba por la calle2.2 (further along) the library is just down the streetla biblioteca está un poco más allá or más adelante15 miles down the roada 15 millas siguiendo la carreterathere's a butcher's 100 yards down the roadhay una carnicería unas 100 yardas más adelante2.3 (to, in) (British) [colloquial]I've got to go down the shopstengo que ir de comprasI saw her down the pub yesterdayayer la vi en el bar
- 1 (before noun) 1.1 (going downward) the down escalatorla escalera mecánica de bajada or para bajarExample sentences1.2 (British) (from London)the down train
el tren de LondresExample sentences
- Ascending a down escalator, I work at 140 watts.
- We walked across the terminal toward the down escalator.
- The jet in question was prepared for flight, so its flaps were already in the down position.
- The down train that forms the 9.30 was 9 minutes late.
- Currently 13 trains a day stop at Pewsey compared with three up trains going to Paddington and three down trains when Mr Nicholls first joined the NDRPA.
- All down trains of the Central and Western Railway leaving Mumbai today will be running on schedule.
- 2 (depressed) [colloquial] (predicative) to feel downandar deprimido or [colloquial] con un bajónestar con la depre [colloquial]Example sentences
- Hutt was usually ebullient but this time, he came to my office, and he was in a down mood.
- Have you been feeling down lately about your lack of knowledge of quantum computing?
- If I had been playing badly, I would have been a bit down, but I wasn't playing badly.
- 2 (in US football)Example sentences
- That weakness should not be too great of a negative since the Texans typically do not use a nose tackle on passing downs anyway.
- A defensive lineman sees about that much action in one series of four downs.
- The offense has four downs to score a touchdown; the defense must stop the offense or get a turnover.
transitive verb
- 1 1.1 (drink down)(drink)he downed it in one
beberse rápidamente
tomarse rápidamentese lo bebió or se lo tomó de un tragoExample sentences1.2 (knock down)
Example sentences1.3 (shoot down) 1.4 (put down)to down tools
- On the one side there were a group of 18 men downing drinks at the bar, seeking the confidence which only alcohol can provide.
- Still chewing, Faulkner downs his drink in a single gulp.
- She downed her drink and grabbed two flutes of champagne as she walked in his direction.
dejar de trabajar
- A military spokesman said the AH - 64 Apache helicopter was downed by ground fire in the morning.
- On August 12, 1944, his P - 51 Mustang was downed by ground fire in southern France.
- Up to 11 inches of rain fell in the southern part of the state yesterday, downing trees and knocking out power to thousands of people.
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down 2
- 1 (on bird)Example sentences
Example sentences
- This soft down is not a real feather, but works as a temporary covering.
- I bought a down comforter to put inside the duvet.
- 2(on face, body) vello (masculine)
pelusilla (feminine)(on upper lip) bozo (masculine)
pelusilla (feminine)Example sentences
- Every single women on the planet has 'down' on her face- in fact, it's what gives some women that 'perfect complexion' look.
- 3 (on plant, fruit)Example sentences
- Its leaves, which turn a deep crimson in autumn, are rounded and covered with down.
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down 3
noun downs plural
- (esp British) (Geography)colinas (feminine plural)Example sentences
- The hills and downs area seemed remote and edgy, in a way far from relaxing.
- He added the last bit with a glare that went around the whole car, taking note of everyone's expressions as they neared their target, their faces growing grimmer as the flat roads began to move into the rolling hills of the downs.
- From the village of Jevington climb steeply over the downs then descend to Alfriston, from where you climb again before turning south at Bostal Hill down to the Cuckmere Estuary.
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All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren
The Ring
Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory
Duncan Trice's wedding ring is the big symbol in the Cass Mastern story. Like many of the symbols in All the King's Men, the ring is a powerful symbol of judgment.
First and foremost, the ring represents the betrayal of Duncan Trice. It also represents a deeper betrayal of human beings when they are put into slavery. Remember that Cass wore the ring around his neck while he was fighting to free slaves.
Furthermore, the ring symbolizes Phebe's humanization in Annabelle's eyes. Remember the intense moment when Annabelle tells Cass about finding the ring?
" – and there lay the ring on the palm of her hand – […] – and I knew it was his ring but all I thought was, it is gold and it is lying in a gold hand. For Phebe's hand was gold – I had never noticed how her hand is the color of pure gold. Then I looked up and she was still staring at me, and her eyes were gold, too, and bright and hard like gold and I knew that she knew." (4.88)
Annabelle realizes that Phebe, who she legally owns (like she legally owns the ring), is precious and beautiful, and her moral superior in every way. What she can't live with is the fact that Phebe knows this too. This is why Annabelle can't "bear [Phebe's] eyes upon" her (4.151). Annabelle has a deep shame with no visible outlet and this leads her to further degrade herself by selling Phebe "downriver," delivering her into sexual bondage and severing her from her husband.
For Cass, this episode becomes humanizing. He accepts the burden Annabelle hoists upon him, and sees a way to redeem himself. Cass believes he has found a way to alleviate his pain – from betraying his friend and being a plantation owner himself – and do right by everyone involved.
Though he can't locate Phebe, Cass does effect rapid change in the community by radical means. He frees the slaves on his plantation, and pays them to continue working. His plan doesn't work in the long run, but people like Cass are important because they try to break down barriers of inequity when the odds against them seem insurmountable.
In addition to being symbol of judgment, and an agent of both humanization and dehumanization, the ring is a symbol of hope. Cass wears this heavy-duty symbol against his chest until his death. The ring slowly makes its way to Jack Burden so that its story can be told.


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Roger wins thriller
Roger continued his domination of Andy Roddick, this time winning a tough match, topping the former world No. 1 American, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 Wednesday to move into the semifinals at the Sony Ericsson Open.
13-time major titlist Roger was locked in a battle with Roddick for more than two hours, but despite 37 unforced errors, 20 more than his opponent, the Swiss pulled through. Roger had 42 winners, compared to 15 for Roddick.
"Here I had to adjust for a little bit to the night conditions, but I thought it was much easier than in Indian Wells where the ball is flying much more during the day, and during night it's way different."
Roger will next meet Serbian Novak Djokovic in the semifinals."I have a good record (7-2) against Novak, so I hope I can play well against him again," said our star.
Dear Roger:
So sorry you had a really bad day. But you made it to the SF so it wasn't all bad.
Ignore the overzealous people who are writing crazy things here. There are lots more of us who love you and have faith in you, always. Look after yo
we can be disappointed - especially after Roger was having an easy start going up 5:1 in less than 30 minutes. So yes we all expected an easy win.
But unfortunately things turned around - and if any of you have played any sport at all you woul
You don't deserve any explanation from me. I don't want to waste my time on some shameless idiot like you.
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China's Zhejiang University rolled out a cortical neuron-controlled prosthetic hand. A monkey named Jianhui can operate the mechanical prosthetic hand by its mind to grab food and drink to feed itself.
A micro-miniature sensor was implanted into Jianhui's brain by minimally invasive procedure to obtain its brain electrophysiological activities. The pattern extracted from the activities is decoded to determine what Jianhui is thinking about: change palm position/orientation, pinch grip, palm grip, hook grip, finger adduction or finger point. Thus the prosthetic hand can implement the attempted actions.
This brain-machine interface (BMI) technology research is funded by a rehabilitation project aiming to help disabled people suffering from paralyzing condition or amputee. Potentially BMI-based technologies can enable these disabled people to feed themselves and control their wheelchairs, by perceiving their mind with implanted micro sensors.
Zhejiang University's research, which is dedicated to complex finger actions, is quite complementary to that of University of Pittsburgh. Another monkey in the project of Prof Andrew B. Schwartz at UPitt can mind control prosthetic arm to move very precisely in 3D space and grab/release objects.
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Chris and Pam Maxey founded The Island School in 1998 with the goal of conserving the wild population of marine life by providing alternative food sources and jobs for the people of South Eleuthera. In addition to strong support from The Lawrenceville School, The Island School project depended on the generous donation of 18 acres of land gifted from the Cape Eleuthera Resort & Yacht Club. The Cape Eleuthera Development team based out of Grand Rapids, Michigan also helped us early on to establish our corporate structure and build a solid financial platform.
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The concept for The Island School evolved when Chris Maxey was a teacher at The Lawrenceville School in New Jersey. In 1996, Chris Maxey received the Joukowsky Fellowship from The Lawrenceville School allowing him to work towards his Masters in Marine Resource Management at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami. During this year-long sabbatical, Chris began his research work in sustainable aquaculture. He formed the Cape Eleuthera Marine Conservation Project (now the Cape Eleuthera Foundation) and began to set the framework to build a school and research station at Cape Eleuthera in The Bahamas.
In the fall of 1998, construction began to build a campus and on March 15, 1999, Pam and Chris Maxey welcomed 22 students and 6 faculty members from The Lawrenceville School to launch the first Island School semester. The Island School and The Lawrenceville School continue to work in collaboration on projects, but now students also come from over 250 schools across the U.S., Canada and The Bahamas.
Now, more than ten years into the journey, the organization has expanded to include a community middle school and resource center, the Deep Creek Middle School (DCMS) for local students, and the Cape Eleuthera Institute (CEI) that focuses on marine research and sustainable development initiatives. Our community at Cape Eleuthera is modeling a shift toward a more livable future. For all who come to live and learn at Cape Eleuthera, there is an opportunity to discover that people can make a difference – that we can begin to turn the tide and effect positive change in the way we live.


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By owning certain mining firms, investors can actually get their dividend payouts in the form of silver and gold bullion, an ideal situation for many investors. Below, we list several mining stocks an how much you would need to own to receive bullion as a payout (assuming gold prices of $1,717/oz and silver at $32.1/oz).
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Pakistan in turmoil: Top court orders arrest of PM in corruption case
Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered the arrest of the Prime Minister on Tuesday in connection with an alleged corruption scandal, ratcheting up pressure on a government locked in a showdown with a cleric who has a history of ties to the army.
The combination of the arrest order and a mass street protest in the capital Islamabad led by Muslim cleric Muhammad TahirulQadri raised fears among politicians that the military was working with the judiciary to force out a civilian leader.
"There is no doubt that Qadri's march and the Supreme Court's verdict were masterminded by the military establishment of Pakistan," Fawad Chaudhry, an aide to Prime Minister RajaPervez Ashraf, told Reuters. "The military can intervene at this moment as the Supreme Court has opened a way for it."
Thousands of followers of Qadri camped near the federal parliament cheered as television channels broadcast news of the Supreme Court's order to arrest Ashraf on charges of corruption, who took over in June after judges disqualified his predecessor. Pakistan's powerful army has a long history of coups and intervening in politics.
The Supreme Court order against Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf was related to a case involving private power stations set up to provide electricity to energy-starved Pakistan. The judges are investigating allegations that the bidding process was marred by corruption.
The ruling coalition led by the Pakistan Peoples' Party has weathered a series of crises with the judiciary and military over the last few years and hopes its parliamentary majority will help it survive until elections are called within a few months.
President Asif Ali Zardari hopes to lead the first civilian government that will complete its full term and hold elections. Any move to oust the PM would not automatically trigger the collapse of his coalition since lawmakers can simply elect another Prime Minister. But power struggles distract the government from tackling an array of problems - a Taliban insurgency, economic stagnation and growing sectarian tensions triggered by bomb attacks and tit-for-tat shootings.
The Supreme Court gave authorities 24 hours to arrest Ashrafand 16 others in connection with an alleged corruption scandal involving power plants while he served as water and power minister.
Government officials said they were baffled by the arrest order, which came hours after Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry said elections should go ahead as scheduled. "This was totally unexpected," an official in Ashraf's office said.
Qadri, who played a role in backing a military coup in 1999, threatened to remain camped out near the federal parliament with thousands of supporters until his demands for the resignation of the government were met.
The fiery orator returned home from Canada less than a month ago to lead a call for electoral reforms to bar corrupt politicians from office that has made him an instant hit among Pakistanis disillusioned with the state. In a speech from behind a bullet-proof shield in front of parliament, Qadri praised the military and the judiciary, the country's two other power centres.
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On yesterdays safari we were enjoying the sights and sounds of the African bush, when, one of our rangers "Jeffery" said he had found some very fresh tracks of the male Lion!
So we decided to go and help out and maybe get lucky in seeing him!
After roughly 30min of looking for him we found him at the waterhole having a drink of water with a real full belly, moving very slowly away from the water we noticed he was walking along a track that had been used the evening before by the lionesses.
As we were following we noticed a large group of Vultures circling over head, and also some perched in the trees, possibly the indication of a kill nearby, and with the male Lion having his full belly, it was then a sure sign of something having died!
After following the Lion for some time we discovered the females and the now 17month old cubs busy eating a giraffe!
As some of the guests favourite animals was giraffes, the Lions were not that popular to them at that moment!
After an amazing sighting we left the lions to keep on feeding. This once again shows how life in the bush is tough and the death of one will feed another
Sebastiaan Jansen van Vuuren
Kapama Lodge
On one of our recent safaris, one of our rangers stumbled across another skulk of Black backed Jackal pups.
There were 6 young ones, roughly a few weeks old, busy running around being curious about their new surroundings close to the den, while the adults were lying around being lazy and making sure that the young ones don't go wondering off too far!
In the evenings when the adult pair went off scavenging for food, the young Jackals practice the same thing around the den, catching creatures ranging from insects and lizards to other small creatures.
The interesting part for us was how curious they were about the game drive vehicles! We would stop roughly 20m away from them and they would gradually get more and more curious, until they were literally standing next to the vehicle!
A fantastic sighting for all of us, as is normal when there is babies of any kind involved.
The Big 5 are an incredible group of animals to look for but there's so much more to nature than just seeking out the Big 5, and these little Jackals are a fine example of that!
Tim Verryenne
Head Ranger – Kapama Main
A couple of days ago on our afternoon safari we where watching a Brown Snake Eagle proudly perched at the top of a tree, when suddenly the distress calls of Impala could be heard in the distance. We went to investigate and found a bachelor herd of Impala snorting and staring intently at something lying in the long grass in front of them.
Then we saw it… a Leopard with a strangle hold on a big impala ram, still kicking and struggling to get away. A Leopard however, pound for pound, is arguably one of the strongest cats and we knew the Impala was doomed. The female leopard held her grip until the Impala stopped struggling, then stood proudly over her kill wile scanning the surroundings for other predators who may have, like us, got alerted by the alarm calls made by the herd of impala and will surely come to investigate.
Predators do steal each others kills and often the hard work and effort made by one predator is capitalised on by another bigger or stronger one. The Leopard then dragged the Impala kill to a nearby Marula tree and started to feed for a short while before moving off.
We went back the next morning and could't figure out for sure if she had been back to feed again. We did however found a male Leopard's tracks and lion tracks in the vicinity and by the end of the morning the vultures had reduced this kill to skin and bone.
Westley Lombard
Ranger – Kapama Lodge
elephants-vs-lions (VIDEO CLIP) This morning we had one of the most amazing and intense sightings I've witnessed in quite a wile. It started with a sighting of a breeding herd of elephants. After watching them for a wile we left to follow up on some fresh lion spoor in the vicinity. We eventually spotted a sub-adult lioness at the very top of a Marula tree with non other than the herd of elephants surrounding the tree, trying their best to get a hold of the poor lioness. Then suddenly, everything just went crazy as the whole herd of elephant started to chase after the whole pride of lions.
The lions scattered in all directions as the lioness in the tree also got a lucky break, got down the tree and ran for her life, with a young elephant bull almost on top of her. Luckily she avoided being stomped on, but only just escaped a gruesome death. Elephants are quite fast, but lions are much quicker and more agile and this counted in their favour. This fact however did not keep the elephants from repeatedly chasing after and trying to get hold of the lions. Wave after wave of attacks on the lions sent them scattering time and time again, barely leaving them time to catch their breath and to re-group.
We can only assume that the lions took a chance to maybe prey on one of the infants in the elephant herd who is approx. 3 weeks old, and this would most likely be the reason the elephants where so intent on catching, injuring or possibly killing the lions.
The three young lionesses are quite "ambitious" and have been known to previously stalk rhino, and surely it shows that they still have an awefull lot to learn about staying out of trouble, and in the bush, experience counts for everything…
Westley Lombard
Ranger – Kapama Main Lodge
As previously mentioned here, one of the questions we probably get the most from guests are, "are there any snakes around here?" The easy answer is normally "Yes!". However, snakes are very elusive and even though there are in excess of 30 species recorded in this area, most guests will probably leave without having seen one.
Last night conditions were perfect… very hot, humid and a chance of rain, and during our night drive we spotted a Red lipped Herald crossing the road. Red lipped snakes are only mildly venomous and are partial to hunting frogs, small reptiles and then also the occasional small rodent. They can grow to lengths of up to 1 meter but average out at about 70cm. Normally they are olive green or grey with tiny white speckles.
The head is usually black or at least darker than the body and the distinguishing factor is the red, white, orange or yellowish upper lip. The belly is normally white to mother of pearl cream coloured. Red lip Herald snakes are nocturnal by habit and fairly common and widespread from here to all the way to our Cape Province (hence the name "Herald" which is a very well known newspaper in the eastern Cape).
Although most people find snakes quite "unpopular", our sighting last night was fascinating and our guests enjoyed every moment of it!
Westley Lombard
Ranger – Kapama Main Lodge


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See the USA on your ReeeCumbent . . . somehow that doesn't rhyme like the 1950s car commercial that encouraged us to See the USA in your Chevrolet. Once I agreed to See the USA my wife quickly mentioned that I didn't have a ReeCumbent.
There are a lot of different recumbents out there. There are long ones, short ones, two wheel ones and ones with three wheels. One model had my feet positioned so high above the seat that when I pedaled down the street my bottom looked like two doughboys punching it out inside my pants. Note to self: forget that one. A tricycle was a lot of fun to zip around in but was so low that I needed two men and a small boy to get me out. Note to self: forget that one, too.
I settled on a short base, two wheel model made by Bacchetta: a Giro 20. It had good reviews, my butt wasn't totally exposed while pedaling, I could get off by myself, and I managed to stay upright without using training wheels.
Speaking of staying upright. Balancing on a 2 wheel recumbent takes practice. Your legs are parallel to the ground, thus there is no pendulum effect from your legs to help balance. Your feet are stuck out in front; pulling one off a pedal and putting it down when stopping is different. Another thing, you cannot stand up and use your body weight to get going or to pedal up hills; it is all leg power. Also, the model I selected has a small front wheel under the bike which makes the steering real twitchy when going slow. However, after a week or two of practice I started to feel like a professional, except when I fell over at a stop sign, when I didn't put one foot down fast enough.
Turns out, recumbents are really fun. The seat is comfortable, hands and shoulders don't take the brunt of supporting the upper body or get jarred from bumps in the road, and there is no cramp in the neck from constantly looking up. Another note to self: thank Tom for suggesting recumbents.
Besides basic accessories such as helmet, front and rear lights, and water bottles, I added shoe clips to hold my feet on the pedals. My life flashed before me when one foot bounced off a pedal going downhill at 30mph. After much research I added Arkel recumbent panniers to carry all my gear. A more complete list of all accessories is covered on my website: www.going_bent.com.
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