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Jean-Paul Marat
|Jean-Paul Marat
24 May 1743
Boudry, Principality of Neuchâtel, Prussia (now part of Switzerland)
|13 July 1793
(aged 50)
Paris, France
|Cause of death
|Alma mater
|University of St. Andrews, MD
|Journalist, politician, physician, scientist
|Political party
|Jacobin Club (1789–1790)
Cordeliers Club (1790–1793)
|Simonne Evrard
|Jean Mara,
Louise Cabrol
Jean-Paul Marat (French: [ʒɑ̃pɔl maʁa]; 24 May 1743 – 13 July 1793) was a French political theorist, physician, and scientist[1] who became best known for his role as a radical journalist and politician during the French Revolution. His journalism became renowned for its fierce tone, uncompromising stance toward the new leaders and institutions of the revolution, and advocacy of basic human rights for the poorest members of society.
Marat was one of the most radical voices of the French Revolution. He became a vigorous defender of the sans-culottes, publishing his views in pamphlets, placards and newspapers, notably his periodical L'Ami du peuple (Friend of the People), which helped make him their unofficial link with the radical, republican Jacobin group that came to power after June 1793.
Marat was assassinated by Charlotte Corday, a Girondist sympathizer, while taking a medicinal bath for his debilitating skin condition. In his death, Marat became an icon to the Jacobins as a revolutionary martyr, as portrayed in Jacques-Louis David's famous painting, The Death of Marat. For this assassination, Corday was executed four days later, on 17 July 1793.
Life, education and political involvement[edit]
Jean-Paul Marat was born in Boudry in the Prussian Principality of Neuchâtel, now part of Switzerland, on 24 May 1743.[2] He was the second of nine children born to Jean Mara (Giovanni Mara), a native of Cagliari, Sardinia, and Louise Cabrol, a French Huguenot from Castres. His father was a Mercedarian "commendator" and religious refugee who converted to Calvinism in Geneva. At the age of sixteen, Marat left home in search of new opportunities, aware of the limited opportunities for outsiders. His highly educated father had been turned down for several college (secondary) teaching posts. His first stop was with the wealthy Nairac family in Bordeaux. After two years there he moved on to Paris where he studied medicine without gaining any formal qualifications. Moving to London in 1765, for fear of being "drawn into dissipation", he set himself up informally as a doctor, befriended the Royal Academician artist Angelica Kauffman, and began to mix with Italian artists and architects in the coffee houses around Soho. Highly ambitious, but without patronage or qualifications, he set about inserting himself into the intellectual scene with works on philosophy ("A philosophical Essay on Man", published 1773) and political theory ("Chains of Slavery", published 1774).[3] Voltaire's sharp critique of "De l'Homme" (an augmented translation, published 1775–76), partly in defence of his protégé Helvétius reinforced Marat's growing sense of a widening gulf between the philosophes, grouped around Voltaire on one hand, and their 'opponents', loosely grouped around Rousseau on the other.[3]
Around 1770, Marat moved to Newcastle upon Tyne. His first political work, Chains of Slavery, inspired by the extra-parliamentary activities of the disenfranchised MP, and later Mayor, John Wilkes, was most probably compiled in the central library here. By Marat's own colourful account, he lived on black coffee for three months, during its composition, sleeping only two hours a night – and then slept soundly for thirteen days in a row.[4] He gave it the subtitle, "A work in which the clandestine and villainous attempts of Princes to ruin Liberty are pointed out, and the dreadful scenes of Despotism disclosed". It earned him honorary membership of the patriotic societies of Berwick-upon-Tweed, Carlisle and Newcastle. The Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society Library[5] possesses a copy, and Tyne and Wear Archives Service holds three presented to the various Newcastle guilds.
A published essay on curing a friend of gleets (gonorrhoea) probably helped to secure his medical referees for an MD from the University of St Andrews in June 1775. On his return to London, he published Enquiry into the Nature, Cause, and Cure of a Singular Disease of the Eyes.
In 1776, Marat moved to Paris following a brief stopover in Geneva to visit his family. Here his growing reputation as a highly effective doctor, along with the patronage of the Marquis de l'Aubespine, the husband of one of his patients, secured his appointment, in June 1777, as physician to the bodyguard of the comte d'Artois, Louis XVI's youngest brother who was to become king Charles X in 1824. The position paid 2,000 livres a year plus allowances.
Marat was soon in great demand as a court doctor among the aristocracy and he used his new-found wealth to set up a laboratory in the marquise de l'Aubespine's house. Soon he was publishing works on fire and heat, electricity and light. In his Mémoires, his later enemy Brissot admitted Marat's growing influence in Parisian scientific circles. When Marat presented his scientific researches to the Académie des Sciences, they were not approved for official publication. In particular, the Academicians were appalled by his temerity in disagreeing with (the hitherto uncriticised) Newton. Benjamin Franklin visited him on several occasions and Goethe described his rejection by the Academy as a glaring example of scientific despotism. In 1782, Marat published his "favourite work", a Plan de législation criminelle. It was a polemic for penal reform, inspired by Rousseau and Cesare Beccaria, which had been entered into a competition announced by the Berne economic society in February 1777 and backed by Frederick the Great and Voltaire. Marat's entry contained many radical ideas, including the argument that society should provide fundamental (natural) needs such as food and shelter if it expected all its citizens to follow its (civil) laws, that the king was no more than the "first magistrate" of his people, that there should be a common death penalty regardless of class, and that each town should have a dedicated "avocat des pauvres" and set up independent criminal tribunals with twelve-man juries to ensure a fair trial.
In April 1786, he resigned his court appointment and devoted his energies full-time to scientific research. He published a well-received translation of Newton's Opticks (1787), which was still in print until recently, and later a collection of essays on his experimental findings, including a study on the effect of light on soap bubbles in his Mémoires académiques, ou nouvelles découvertes sur la lumière ("Academic memoirs, or new discoveries on light", 1788).
As a guest of the Nairac family in the leading slave port of Bordeaux, Marat may have witnessed aspects of the trade, since Monsieur Nairac was a leading slave-merchant, and later an ennobled member of the National Assembly. But the metaphorical use of slavery imagery from political discourses at the time, including Marat's own, derived from a well-trodden English republican tradition. In 1792, soon after the uprisings in the Caribbean island and sugar colony of Saint-Domingue (later Haiti after its revolution), Marat wrote that those in St. Domingue are "a separate people" from France. He cited the new constitution (of 1791), "The basis of all free government is that no people can be legally subject to another people..." (from "The Friend of the People" 1792. See the excerpt in Dubois & Garrigus, editors, "Slave Revolution in the Caribbean, 1789–1804", pp. 111–112).
"Friend of the People"[edit]
On the eve of the French Revolution, Marat placed his career as a scientist and doctor behind him and took up his pen on behalf of the Third Estate. In 1788, when the Assembly of Notables advised Louis XVI to assemble of the Estates-General for the first time in 175 years, Marat devoted himself entirely to politics. In January 1789, he published his Offrande à la Patrie ("Offering to the Nation") which touched on some of the same points as the Abbé Sieyès' famous "Qu'est-ce que le Tiers État?" ("What is the Third Estate?"). This was followed by a "Supplément de l'Offrande" in March, followed in July by "La Constitution, ou Projet de déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen", intended to influence the drafting of France's new constitution, then being debated in the National Assembly.
On 12 September 1789, Marat began his own newspaper, entitled Publiciste parisien, before changing its name four days later to L'Ami du peuple ("The People's friend"). From this position, he often attacked the most influential and powerful groups in Paris, including the Commune, the Constituent Assembly, the ministers, and the Châtelet, (the ancien regime legislative body). In January 1790, he moved to the radical Cordeliers section, then under the leadership of the lawyer Danton, was nearly arrested for his aggressive attacks against Jacques Necker, Louis XVI's popular Finance Minister, and was forced to flee to London. In May, he returned to Paris to continue publication of L'Ami du peuple and briefly ran a second newspaper in June 1790 called "Le Junius français" named after the notorious English polemicist Junius. Marat faced the problem of counterfeiters distributing falsified versions of L'Ami du peuple, which led him to call for police intervention, which resulted in the suppression of the fraudulent issues, leaving Marat the continuing sole author of L'Ami de peuple.
During this period, Marat made regular attacks on the more conservative revolutionary leaders. In a pamphlet from 26 July 1790, entitled "C'en est fait de nous" ("We're done for!"), he warned against counter-revolutionaries, advising, "five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness."[6]
Between 1790 and 1792, Marat was often forced into hiding, sometimes in the Paris sewers, where he almost certainly aggravated his debilitating chronic skin disease (possibly dermatitis herpetiformis).[7] In January 1792, he married the 26-year-old Simonne Evrard[8] in a common-law ceremony on his return from exile in London, having previously expressed his love for her. She was the sister-in-law of his typographer, Jean-Antoine Corne, and had lent him money and sheltered him on several occasions.
Marat only emerged publicly on the 10 August Insurrection, when the Tuileries Palace was invaded and the royal family forced to shelter within the Legislative Assembly. The spark for this uprising was Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg's provocative proclamation, which called for the crushing of the Revolution and helped to inflame popular outrage in Paris.
The National Convention[edit]
Marat was elected to the National Convention in September 1792 as one of 26 Paris deputies although he belonged to no party. When France was declared a Republic on 22 September, Marat renamed his L'Ami du peuple as Le Journal de la République française ("Journal of the French Republic"). His stance during the trial of the deposed king Louis XVI was unique. He declared it unfair to accuse Louis of anything before his acceptance of the French Constitution of 1791, and, although implacably he said believing that the monarch's death would be good for the people, defended Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, the King's counsel, as a "sage et respectable vieillard" ("wise and respected old man").
On 21 January 1793, Louis XVI was guillotined, which caused political turmoil. From January to May, Marat fought bitterly with the Girondins, whom he believed to be covert enemies of republicanism. Marat's hatred of the Girondins became increasingly heated which led him to call for the use of violent tactics against them. The Girondins fought back and demanded that Marat be tried before the Revolutionary Tribunal. After attempting to avoid arrest for several days Marat was finally imprisoned. On 24 April, he was brought before the Tribunal on the charges that he had printed in his paper statements calling for widespread murder as well as the suspension of the Convention. Marat decisively defended his actions, stating that he had no evil intentions directed against the Convention. Marat was acquitted of all charges to the riotous celebrations of his supporters.
The fall of the Girondins on 2 June, helped by the actions of François Hanriot, the new leader of the National Guard, was one of Marat's last achievements. Forced to retire from the Convention as a result of his worsening skin disease, he continued to work from home, where he soaked in a medicinal bath. Now that the Montagnards no longer needed his support in the struggle against the Girondins, Robespierre and other leading Montagnards began to separate themselves from him, while the Convention largely ignored his letters.
Marat was in his bathtub on 13 July, when a young woman from Caen, Charlotte Corday, appeared at his flat, claiming to have vital information on the activities of the escaped Girondins who had fled to Normandy. Despite his wife Simonne's protests, Marat asked for her to enter and gave her an audience by his bath, over which a board had been laid to serve as a writing desk. Their interview lasted around fifteen minutes. He asked her what was happening in Caen and she explained, reciting a list of the offending deputies. After he had finished writing out the list, Corday claimed that he told her, "Their heads will fall within a fortnight", a statement she later changed at her trial to, "Soon I shall have them all guillotined in Paris". This was unlikely since Marat did not have the power to have anyone guillotined. At that moment, Corday rose from her chair, drawing out from her corset a five-inch kitchen knife, which she had bought earlier that day, and brought it down hard into Marat's chest, where it pierced just under his right clavicle, opening the carotid artery, close to the heart. The massive bleeding was fatal within seconds. Slumping backwards, Marat cried out his last words to Simonne, "Aidez-moi, ma chère amie!" ("Help me, my dear friend!") and died.
Corday was a Girondin sympathiser who came from an impoverished royalist family – her brothers were émigrés who had left to join the exiled royal princes. From her own account, and those of witnesses, it is clear that she had been inspired by Girondin speeches to a hatred of the Montagnards and their excesses, symbolised most powerfully in the character of Marat.[9] The Book of Days claims the motive was to "avenge the death of her friend Barboroux". Marat's assassination contributed to the mounting suspicion which fed the Terror during which thousands of the Jacobins' adversaries – both royalists and Girondins – were executed on supposed charges of treason. Charlotte Corday was guillotined on 17 July 1793 for the murder. During her four-day trial, she had testified that she had carried out the assassination alone, saying "I killed one man to save 100,000".
Memory in the Revolution[edit]
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Marat's assassination led to his apotheosis. The painter Jacques-Louis David, a member of one of the two "Great Committees" (the Committee of General Security), was asked to organise a grand funeral. [10] David took up the task of immortalising Marat in the painting The Death of Marat, beautifying the skin that was discoloured and scabbed from his chronic skin disease in an attempt to create antique virtue. David, as a result of this work, has since been criticized as glorifying the Jacobin's death. The entire National Convention attended Marat's funeral and he was buried under a weeping willow, in the garden of the former Club des Cordeliers (former Couvent des Cordeliers). [11] After Marat's death, he was viewed by many as a martyr for the revolution, and was immortalized in various ways in order to preserve the values he stood for. His heart was embalmed separately and placed in an urn in an altar erected to his memory at the Cordeliers in order to inspire speeches that were similar in style to Marat's eloquent journalistic skills.[12] On his tomb, the inscription on a plaque read: "Unité, Indivisibilité de la République, Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité ou la mort". His remains were transferred to the Panthéon on 25 November 1793 and his near messianic role in the Revolution was confirmed with the elegy: Like Jesus, Marat loved ardently the people, and only them. Like Jesus, Marat hated kings, nobles, priests, rogues and, like Jesus, he never stopped fighting against these plagues of the people. The eulogy was given by the Marquis de Sade, delegate of the Section Piques and an ally of Marat's faction in the National Convention (there is evidence to suggest that shortly before his death Marat had fallen out with de Sade and was arranging for him to be arrested).[citation needed] By this stage de Sade was becoming appalled with the excesses of the Reign of Terror and was later removed from office and imprisoned for "moderatism" on the fifth of December.
On 19 November, the port city of Le Havre-de-Grâce changed its name to Le Havre-de-Marat and then Le Havre-Marat. When the Jacobins started their dechristianisation campaign to set up the Cult of Reason of Hébert and Chaumette and Cult of the Supreme Being of Robespierre, Marat was made a quasi-saint, and his bust often replaced crucifixes in the former churches of Paris.
By early 1795, Marat's memory had become tarnished. On 13 January 1795, Le Havre-Marat became simply Le Havre, the name it bears today. In February, his coffin was removed from the Panthéon and his busts and sculptures were destroyed. His final resting place is the cemetery of the church of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont.
A bronze sculpture of Marat was removed from Parc des Buttes Chaumont and was melted down, during the Nazi occupation of Paris.[13]
His memory lived on in the Soviet Union. Marat became a common name and the Russian battleship Petropavlovsk (Russian: Петропавловск) was renamed Marat in 1921. A street in the centre of Sevastopol was named after Marat (Russian: Улица Марата) on 3 January 1921, shortly after the Bolsheviks took over the city.[14]
Skin disease[edit]
Described during his time as a man "short in stature, deformed in person, and hideous in face,"[15] Marat has long been noted for physical irregularities. The nature of Marat's debilitating skin disease, in particular, has been an object of ongoing medical interest. Dr. Josef E. Jelinek noted that his skin disease was intensely itchy, blistering, began in the perianal region, and was associated with weight loss leading to emaciation. He was sick with it for the three years prior to his assassination, and spent most of this time in his bathtub. There were various minerals and medicines that were present in his bath while he soaked to help ease the pain caused by the disease. The bandana that is seen wrapped around his head was soaked in vinegar to reduce the severity of his discomfort.[16] Jelinek's diagnosis is dermatitis herpetiformis.[7]
After Marat's death, his wife may have sold his bathtub to her journalist neighbour, as it was included in an inventory of his possessions. The royalist de Saint-Hilaire bought the tub, taking it to Sarzeau, Morbihan in Brittany. His daughter, Capriole de Saint-Hilaire inherited it when he died in 1805 and she passed it on to the Sarzeau curé when she died in 1862. A journalist for Le Figaro tracked down the tub in 1885. The curé then discovered that selling the tub could earn money for the parish, yet the Musée Carnavalet turned it down due to its lack of provenance as well as the high price. The curé approached Madame Tussaud's waxworks, who agreed to purchase Marat's bathtub for 100,000 francs, but the curé's acceptance was lost in the mail. After rejecting other offers, including one from Phineas Barnum, the curé sold the tub for 5,000 francs to the Musée Grévin, where it remains today.[17] The tub was in the shape of an old-fashioned high-buttoned shoe and had a copper lining.[18]
Besides the works mentioned above, Marat also wrote:
- Recherches physiques sur l'électricité, &c. (1782)
- Recherches sur l'électricité médicale (1783)
- Notions élémentaires d'optique (1784)
- Lettres de l'observateur Bon Sens à M. de M sur la fatale catastrophe des infortunés Pilatre de Rozier et Ronzain, les aéronautes et l'aérostation (1785)
- Observations de M. l'amateur Avec à M. l'abbé Sans . . . &c., (1785)
- Éloge de Montesquieu (1785) (provincial Academy competition entry first published 1883 by M. de Bresetz)
- Les Charlatans modernes, ou lettres sur le charlatanisme académique (L'Ami du Peuple, 1791)
- Les Aventures du comte Potowski (unpublished manuscript first published in 1847 by Paul Lacroix)
- Lettres polonaises (unpublished manuscript first printed in English in 1905; recently translated into French but authenticity disputed)
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- ^ Isaac Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology - Second Revised Edition, 1982, p.334.
- ^ Belfort Bax 2008, p.5.
- ^ a b de Cock, J. & Goetz, C., Œuvres de Jean-Paul Marat, 10 volumes, Éditions Pôle Nord, Brussels, 1995.
- ^ Les Chaines de l'Esclavage, 1793 (ed. Goetz et de Cock) p4167 (6). Numbers in brackets refer to the original version.
- ^ "Lit & Phil Home – Independent Library Newcastle". Litandphil.org.uk. Retrieved 9 January 2010.
- ^ Gregory Fremont-Barnes (2007). Encyclopedia of the age of political revolutions and new ideologies, 1760–1815: vol 1. Greenwood. pp. 1:450.
- ^ a b Jelinek, J.E. (1979). "Jean-Paul Marat: The differential diagnosis of his skin disease". American Journal of Dermatopathology. 1 (3): 251–2. doi:10.1097/00000372-197900130-00010. PMID 396805.
- ^ Belfort Bax 2008, p. 191.
- ^ Andress, 2005, p. 189.
- ^ Citizens, Simon Schama, Penguin 1989 p.742
- ^ Citizens, Simon Schama, Penguin 1989 p. 744
- ^ Andress, 2005, p. 191.
- ^ http://www.messynessychic.com/2016/01/07/where-the-statues-of-paris-were-sent-to-die/?utm_content=bufferb7325&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
- ^ (Russian) Streets of Sevastopol – Marat Street
- ^ Adolphus, John. Biographical Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Republic. London: R. Phillips, 1799. p 232.
- ^ Stanley Loomis, Paris in the Terror; J.B. Lippincott Company, 1964), 42.
- ^ Ransom, Teresa, Madame Tussaud: A Life and a Time, (2003) pp. 252–253.
- ^ Stanley Loomis, Paris in the Terror (J.B. Lippincott Company, 1964), 42.
- Andress, David (2005). The Terror: The Merciless War for Freedom in Revolutionary France, New York: SFG Books.
- Belfort Bax, Ernest (1901). Jean-Paul Marat; The People's Friend, A Biographical Sketch. Vogt Press; Read Books (2008). ISBN 978-1-4437-2362-6.
- Conner, Clifford D. Jean Paul Marat: scientist and revolutionary (1999)
- Furet, Francois, and Mona Ozouf, eds. A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution (1989) pp 244–51
- Gottschalk, Louis Reichenthal. Jean Paul Marat: a study in radicalism (University of Chicago Press, 1927)
- Schama, Simon. Citizens: A chronicle of the French Revolution (1989)
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- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Marat, Jean-Paul". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- Conner, Clifford D. Jean-Paul Marat: Tribune of the French Revolution (2012) excerpt and text search
- Conner, Clifford D. Jean Paul Marat: Scientist and Revolutionary (2nd ed. 2012) online review from H-FRANCE 2013; excerpt and text search
- Fishman, W. J. "Jean-Paul Marat", History Today (1971) 21#5 pp 329–337; his life before 1789
- Furet, François and Mona Ozouf, eds. A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution (1989), pp. 244–51
- Gottschalk, Louis R. Jean Paul Marat – Study In Radicalism (1927)
- Palmer, R.R. Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution (1941) excerpt and text search
- 1989–1995: Jean-Paul Marat, Œuvres Politiques (ten volumes 1789–1793 – Text: 6.600 p. – Guide: 2.200 p.)
- 2001: Marat en famille – La saga des Mara(t) (2 volumes) – New approach of Marat's family.
- 2006: Plume de Marat – Plumes sur Marat (2 volumes) : Bibliography (3.000 references of books and articles of and on Marat)
- The Correspondance de Marat has been edited with notes by C. Vellay (2006)
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In this curriculum, I have developed a unit focusing on the achievement of minorities African Americans. The curriculum discusses African Americans that have successfully contributed to their own culture and made positive changes in American and world societies. This curriculum will help build positive self-image and hope regarding intelligence in different races, genders, and socio-economic groups.
The curriculum unit focuses on the accomplishments of African American achievers during February's black history month. The unit is to explore and familiarize fifth grade students with the history and knowledge of African American achievers. Exposing the students to achievers who share with them race, ethnic or gender profiles will allow them to explore themselves and be challenged, thus starting to create their own ideas of achievements they want to fulfill. The unit will use Robert Sternberg's Triachic Theory when exploring famous African Americans and their accomplishments. The unit will explore African Americans who are gifted in the three aspects of Sternberg's Triachic Theory. These three aspects are practical thinking, creative thinking, and analytical thinking. The unit will explore African Americans who have succeeded in using all or one of the thinking processes. The African American chosen to exemplify someone who succeeded in creative process will be Clementine Hunter. Clementine Hunter contributed to society with her beautiful Black American Folk art. The African American chosen to exemplify someone who succeeded in analytical process will be Benjamin Banneker. Benjamin Banneker was an inventor, scientist, and writer who contributed the design of the development of Washington D.C. and the Farmers Scientific Almanac. Finally, the African American who exemplifies someone who succeeded in practical processes will be Jackie Robinson. Jackie Robinson was a famous Black baseball player, businessman, and great orator who contributed morals, ethics, patience and tolerance when encountering success. These three African American display great significance to both African Americans and all culture and races. These Africans Americans will be used for exemplifying positive role models for achievement in the unit.
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On the challenges in the 4-3 loss to Nashville:
On what allowed the third period comeback:
On whether Nashville is a difficult team to come from behind against:
On particular aspects of the penalty kill that need to be addressed:
November 2 postgame quotes: Matt Greene
On the challenges in the 4-3 loss to Nashville:
You can't get down two-nothing against these guys. The PK let us down. I think we had a chance to make a difference in the first period there, and we didn't on the PK. That's it. You can't play behind two-nothing in this league.
On what allowed the third period comeback:
It's easy to play with desperation when you're down by two. Again, you can't spot a team two goals.
On whether Nashville is a difficult team to come from behind against:
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On particular aspects of the penalty kill that need to be addressed:
Me. Just me, personally. I've got to be better, and that's it.
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Hawk Mountain Sanctuary will host its annual Spring Equinox Celebration from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, March 20, in and around the Hawk Mountain Visitor Center.
The event is held on the Saturday closest to the spring equinox and designed build excitement for the arrival of the spring season.
Throughout the day, the Sanctuary will offer free trail admission for children ages 12 and under, complimentary hot chocolate and shade-grown coffee, a wildlife art exhibit by Dave Hughes, and a booksigning by local children's book author Kathy Miller. Trail fees will apply for adults ($5) and seniors ($4).
The day will begin with an 11 am session of Raptors Up Close!, a live owl program held in the downstairs gallery. During the program an educator will use a live owl to show visitors the various adaptations that put birds of prey at the top of the food chain and visitors will have the opportunity to have close looks at a live raptor.
At noon, naturalist Dave Hughes will lead a Signs of Spring Scramble. This guided hike will take participants through the Hawk Mountain forest and those interested are urged to sign up in advance at the bookstore counter. Participation is limited and a trail fee will apply for adults and seniors.
At 1 pm, author Kathy Miller will present Chippy Chipmunk takes the Big Screen!, a program that uses close-up images, sounds and hands-on activities to teach participants unique facts about this common mammal of the Hawk Mountain forest. Miller will be on hand throughout the day to sign copies of her book.
The day will conclude with a final live raptor program at 2 pm, and throughout the day, all visitors are encouraged to take part in the Spring Chipmunk Count. During this wildlife monitoring project, visitors are asked to record on the trail map where chipmunk activity is spotted, then report findings upon returning to the Visitor Center. Trail fees will apply for adults and seniors.
Those who wish to visit Hawk Mountain's scenic overlooks with younger children need not travel far. The closest lookout is just 300 yards from the Visitor Center, and a golf cart is available for those with limited mobility. Hikers should stay on the trails at all times, dress for weather and trail conditions, and wear sturdy shoes or boots.
Hawk Mountain Sanctuary is located just three miles south of New Ringgold on Route 895, or 7 miles north of the I-78/Route 61 Cabela's intersection. Turn onto Hawk Mountain Road to Visitor Center parking lot at the top of the Mountain.
Open year-round, Hawk Mountain Sanctuary is the world's first refuge for birds of prey and an international center for raptor conservation. Its eight miles of trails and half a dozen scenic overlooks are open to the public for a modest trail fee. An average of 18,000 hawks, eagles and falcons are recorded each autumn as they migrate past Hawk Mountain.


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By special request... time for some nu funk goodness, fried hard and crunchy as the title suggests. In addition, the title was inspired by a recent insatiable craving for a shrimp and oyster po'boy sandwich... I cobbled a few hard hitting new classics together as a demonstration whilst drinking IPA's with a friend. The usual suspects are duly represented in the playlist. Whatever you do, play this one very loud. I assure you, you will need a neck brace when you're done. Enjoy...(NOTE: this mix contains non-vinyl sources.)
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Hoover, Ala. - LSU Coach Les Miles declined to comment at SEC Media Days on two questions about LSU's use of recruiting videos purchased from Willie Lyles.
When asked when he first knew of Lyles, who is part of an NCAA investigation for the same matter at Oregon, Miles said he couldn't comment.
"I'm kind of prohibited from commenting on Willie Lyles," he said. "The only thing I can tell you is we look for film and video anywhere we can find it. Those people that provide those services, we need to cover a broad area, and we want to evaluate our guys from a bunch of different spots."
Later Miles was asked given the ESPN.com report of the low quality of the video and the fact it had been turned over to the NCAA, does he think it will pass muster. Miles again declined to comment other than to say "all I can tell you is we're going to cooperate fully with the NCAA."


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The Berkshire Concert Choir will host four summer sings in the sanctuary of Zion Lutheran Church, 74 First St., at 7:30 p.m. Mondays, July 14 and 28, and Thursdays, Aug. 21 and 28.
These evenings will be regular rehearsals for the Berkshire Concert Choir in advance of a November performance of Baroque music including Vivaldi's Gloria and J. S. Bach's Cantata No. 68 and Cantata No. 72.
Singers are invited to rehearse with Berkshire Concert Choir, meet the members and conductor Paula Nuss, and possibly join the choir. Music will be provided for guest singers.
While admission is free, donations of non-perishable food items or cash will be accepted and forwarded to local food pantries.
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CORNER BROOK Bill Barry, chief executive officer of Barry Group Incorporated, is expected to announce he will walk away from his familyŌĆÖs fishing business to pursue a career in politics Wednesday.
The Corner Brook businessman, whose family has been involved in the fishery since the mid-1850s, said last week that he was seriously considering a run for the leadership of the provincial Progressive Conservative party.
He has said he will leave the running of Barry Group Inc. to his family if he were to become involved in politics.
Barry, 61, has scheduled a news conference for the Greenwood Inn and Suites in Corner Brook for Wednesday afternoon, at which time he is expected to officially throw his hat in the ring.
The leadership became up for grabs when former premier Kathy Dunderdale unexpectedly announced her resignation last week. Tom Marshall, the Tory legislature member for Humber East, has assumed the role of interim premier until the PC party can find a new permanent leader.
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Because of the new statutory requirement at N.J.S.A. 26:2H-12.26, the department is proposing a new rule that states that long-term care facilities must acquire and maintain a defibrillator, make it available to trained direct-care staff, and develop a written protocol on testing and maintaining the defibrillator and training direct-care staff members in its use. In cases of sudden cardiac arrest, a defibrillator is used to help restore a patientÆs normal heart rhythm.Ā
The proposed new rule further addresses the training requirement by requiring a long-term care facility to arrange and pay for training in cardio-pulmonary resuscitation and the use of the defibrillator for enough direct-care staff to ensure that at least one such staff person from each shift holds a current certification from the American Red Cross, American Heart Association, or other training program approved by the Department.
The proposed new rule would also require the facility to notify the appropriate first aid, ambulance or rescue squad or other emergency medical services provider of the type of defibrillator and its location.
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Several charges for impaired driver | Buckley police reports April 17-23
SEVERAL CHARGES: Police stopped a vehicle for speeding at 1:16 a.m April 23 on state Route 410 at Lower Cemetery Road. The driver was found to be impaired and operating the vehicle with a suspended license. He also had been ordered to have an ignition interlock device in his car, which was not present. The driver was booked into jail and his vehicle was impounded.
TWO CHARGED: At 3:35 p.m. April 23, police contacted a pair of 19-year-old males from Bonney Lake who were in a vehicle parked at Davis Place and Davis Street. Both were found to be in possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. Each was arrested and will be receiving a criminal citation in the mail, issued by Buckley Municipal Court.
CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE: A 14-year-old Glacier Middle School student was found to be in possession of a controlled substance the afternoon of April 22.
PROTECTION ORDER: A 33-year-old man was served with a temporary protection order and notice of a court hearing April 22 at a Vine Street address. He also was ordered to vacate the residence, which he did.
PORCH FIRE: Police were dispatched at 2:08 a.m. April 21 to the 900 block of Mason Avenue, the scene of a reported structure fire. Officers found the porch of the residence was on fire, but was being extinguished by the homeowner. It was determined the fire originated with the burned-out bottom of a can used for cigarette butts.
TEEN IN TROUBLE: A 16-year-old driver found himself in trouble after being stopped for speeding at 2:41 a.m. April 20 on state Route 410 near Upper Cemetery Road. After performing some voluntary tests, the teen was placed under arrest for driving under the influence. Police also found vegetation that tested positive for marijuana so the teenager also was arrested for possession.
MINOR IN POSSESSION: An 18-year-old male from Black Diamond was arrested for being a minor in possession of alcohol after the car he was riding in was stopped for speeding shortly before 3 a.m. April 20. He was issued a criminal citation, given a court date and released.
ENUMCLAW ASSIST: A Buckley officer was dispatched at 1:58 a.m April 17 to an Enumclaw address to assist with a domestic situation that had turned physical. The suspect had already fled on foot and the Buckley officer searched the area without success. The suspect was located a short time later by Enumclaw police and taken into custody.
ARREST WARRANT: Officers stopped a vehicle at 11 p.m. April 17 at Naches Street and Jefferson Avenue, based on an arrest warrant association with the vehicle. The driver, a 53-year-old Buckley man, was found to be the subject of the warrant. He was taken into custody and later booked into the Enumclaw jail without incident.
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Tuesday: Bowling Green Hot Rods (Chris Kirsch, 8-6, 2.58) at Great Lakes Loons (Zachary Bird, 5-13, 3.93), 7:05 p.m.
Wednesday: Bowling Green (German Marquez, 3-5, 3.55) at Great Lakes (Victor Arano, 4-6, 4.03), 7:05 p.m.
Thursday: Bowling Green (D.J. Slaton, 0-2, 6.23) at Great Lakes (Greg Harris, 7-6, 4.54), 7:05 p.m.
Winner: The Loons capped their seven-game road trip Sunday with a 5-3 win over the South Bend Silver Hawks, finishing the road trip with a 4-3 record. Great Lakes improved to 24-25 in the second half. The win also gives the Loons an 18-5 record in day games this season.
Cordero: Josmar Cordero had two hits, including his ninth homer of the season, to lead the Loons' offense. He drove in three runs. Malcolm Holland also had two hits for Great Lakes, which had nine total hits.
Starter: Scott Barlow started and earned the win to improve to 6-5 this season. Barlow went five innings, allowing two hits, one run and four walks. He struck out three.
Relief: Mark Pope and Victor Araujo earned holds Sunday. Pope threw one shutout inning, while Araujo followed with two shutout innings. Matt Campbell gave up a run in the ninth.
Homestand: After an off-day Monday, the Loons return to Dow Diamond for a six-game homestand starting Tuesday against Bowling Green and ending with three games against West Michigan. The Loons have just nine home games left in the regular season.
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I love a good sale, and if something's discounted, that's just more money in my pocket for something else, but if a brand is often available at 30-50% off their regular price, then I definitely don't bother paying full price. It's like an upcoming sale; if you know it's going on sale, you wait a week until it does to buy it! I think it cheapens the brand in the customer's perspective; it's almost like saying your products aren't worth the real price you charge but half of that.


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Procrastination has surpassed baseball as America's pastime, and unfortunately, that can hit some young hunters hard this time of year.
Until a youngster is 16, he or she may legally hunt only with an older, properly licensed hunter, as long as the young hunter remains within hearing distance or direct line of sight of the older hunter.
After blowing out 16 candles, the youngster is required to buy a license and is legally allowed to hunt alone, but only after first having passed a hunter-education course.
That's true of anyone born on or after Sept. 1, 1969, according to Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries' Fred Kimmel.
"It used to be that you had to show a hunter-education card to buy a license," he said. "That is no longer required. Now you can buy a license without hunter-education, but it is restricted, meaning a person must hunt under supervision or, if hunting alone, must carry their hunter-education card to demonstrate they are hunter-education certified."
Two options are available for taking the hunter-education course. Students may attend a traditional classroom course that consists of 10 hours of instruction, usually taught over two or three days. Alternatively, students may take the home-study version available on-line or on CD. Hunters who choose the home-study version must also attend a mandatory six-hour field-day event during which they will shoot live ammunition.
Although there is no minimum age for attending a hunter-education course, youngsters under 10 cannot receive hunter-education certification.
There is no charge for the classroom course or CD version of the home-study course. There is, however, a $15 charge to take the on-line version of the home course.
Louisiana's hunter-education certification is recognized and accepted in all 50 states. That means a hunter who has been certified here and wants to hunt in, say, North Dakota would be legally allowed to purchase licenses there.
The Louisiana hunter-education program certifies roughly 18,000 hunters annually, according to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
To register for a class or to learn more, visit www.wlf.la.gov/hunting/hunter-education.
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The killer of a Jersey City man murdered in his Heights neighborhood home in 1990 has yet to be brought to justice, but a childhood friend is fighting to keep his story alive.
"Feb. 2 was the 24th anniversary, and he was 23 when he was taken, and it is like a tipping point — gone more years than he was here," Kelly Vetter said of aspiring artist James Stanaway, who was found dead in his Ogden Avenue apartment by a friend.
He had been beaten to death, police said at the time. Homicide investigators say the case is not forgotten.
"He was the best childhood friend I ever had," Vetter said. "I believe there is still someone alive who knows something and will do the right thing.
"My father, who was himself a Jersey City police officer, came to tell me (Stanaway) was found dead and he couldn't, for years, tell me what he had heard — the violence, the horror of the extent of Jimmy's injuries."
Vetter and Stanaway's families are originally from Duncan Avenue in Jersey City, but they met in fourth grade in Woodbridge. They were in the same homeroom every year through high school and were fast friends.
Stanaway moved back to Jersey City about a year before his death and was working in a clothing store in the Newport Centre Mall when the tragedy occurred.
"The stuff from his case has to be in a box somewhere and I hope they can see if there is a print or any blood because technology has changed so much," said Vetter. "Every time I go to (Stanaway's) grave I feel like, 'I'm sorry buddy. I just can't tell you it's done.'"
Vetter said she has sent letters to a score of newspapers over the years hoping to keep the case alive, but has never received a response.
Vetter, an artist, finds it ironic that Stanaway's grave in a Woodbridge cemetery is near a spot where "he and I would stand and look at the New York skyline, dreaming of making it in the art world. He loved New York, was always on the cutting edge of music, fashion, culture."
She and Stanaway "always looked out for each other. He was just fearless in a way," she said.
Now Stanaway shares a grave with his mother and Vetter "can't believe his mother went to that grave without even knowing who killed her son."
Prosecutors say the investigation into Stanaway's murder is ongoing.
"This is an active cold case investigation and I will not talk about it in the press," said Hudson County Assistant Prosecutor Michael D'Andrea. "No unsolved murder case is ever closed without an arrest and conviction."
Anyone with information about this case is asked to call the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office's Homicide Squad at (201) 915-1345.


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Lateralization produced by interaural intensitive disparities appears to be larger for high- vs low-frequency stimuli
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The purpose of this communication is to report the results of a study indicating that a given magnitude of interaural intensitive disparity (IID) produced a larger extent of laterality, as measured via an acoustic pointer, for stimuli centered at 4 kHz than for stimuli centered at 500 Hz. The data and their analysis, taken together, suggest that the findings reflect true across-frequency differences rather than being manifestations of response-related factors.
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Celebration. It's hardly a word you would associate with cancer. Yet, if one were to drive past the Houghton High School track Friday afternoon, celebration would most like be the word you would use to describe what's going on.
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"All of the speakers were good, but they didn't have quite the show and pizzazz as they did on the last day," said Morris, who — along with his family — returns home today.
Romney's speech — and its dramatics — struck a chord with Morris.
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Savery Picks Up A Bat
Rick Ankiel resurrected his career when he stepped off the mound and grabbed a bat.
Joe Savery could do the same.
Phillies assistant general manager Chuck LaMar said yesterday that Savery will see some time this season as a hitter with Triple-A Lehigh Valley. He also said the Phillies are considering bringing him to the instructional league to hit.
Savery, the team's first-round pick in the 2007 First-Year Player Draft, is 1-10 with a 5.09 ERA in 24 games (16 starts) with the IronPigs. He moved to the bullpen earlier this season, but returned to the rotation because of various injuries and roster moves.
Savery played college baseball at Rice, where he hit .360 with 18 doubles, four home runs and 54 RBIs in 64 games as a senior. He has hit .273 (6-for-22) with one double, one home run and two RBIs this season in limited at-bats with Lehigh Valley.
"We still think of him — and I still think he thinks of himself — as a potential Major League starter," LaMar said. "He has struggled as a pitcher and he has shown some promise as a hitter. We knew he had the ability at home plate, but we wanted to let him pitch and let him get to the Triple-A level and see where pitching takes him. So we'll give him the opportunity to hit in a couple games this year, and hopefully, we'll bring him to instructional league and let him continue to swing a bat."
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W-T-F I can understand a first round pick assuming a diminished role such as a reliever but going from pitcher to position player? A really, really bad pick.
Do moves like this usually happen when the team gives up on you being a pitcher?
I've heard more frequent stories of moving from catcher to pitcher, but not often from starter to reliever to position player.
From LaMar's quote it seems he might still be a good(?) starter, but want to be safe and try to have him develop as a hitter in case he continues to struggle or has hit his peak?
Aren't they giving up too early? Savery was 16-6 with 2 complete games in 150 innings last year. Say it ain't so, Joe.
I guess we have to rely on the same screw ups to decide that Savory's performance last year was an outlier as we do now to decide he should look into being a position player. Are these the same scew ups who picked him in the first round to begin with? If so many position players who were mediocre in the minors excel when they get to the majors, why not try the same thing with a pitcher? Cut against the grain, give him a shot. Bring him up in September.
It was a bad pick when it happened, and an even worse one now. Until Montgomery and company stop kowtowing to the commissioner's office in regards to the draft, we are going to continue to see picks like this flame out. Next up on the flame out list will be Anthony Hewitt.
Savery's decision is made worse by the fact that Porcello was on the board, as was Matt Harvey. While both wanted large bonuses, those bonuses were commensurate with their individual talents. Consider that Porcello would have been drafted this year out of UNC and consider that he already has a season and a half of MLB service.
It is consistently mediocre signings of mid range veterans rather than investing in legit young talent that has thinned us out in recent years.
When the Phils originally drafted Joe Savery, I wondered which way they would develop him, since he was a star position player as well as pitcher. They chose to develop him as a starter, which was their prerogative.
But suddenly this year they started viewing him as a relief pitcher, and NOW they want to make him an everyday player? I don't think the Phils would change him to an everyday player on a whim, or just because of his performance this year. There must be something else going on. Maybe Savery himself is the one who asked for the change. Maybe he'd rather hit evry game than pitch every fifth day.
I think he can be a great hitter someday. We'll have to see what Baseball America thinks of him as a prospect now…
I guess the question becomes would the Phillies have drafted him in the first round as a position player?
pherris, maybe not in the first round. But the fact is that the kid can pitch and hit at a high level, which indicates that he is, simply put, "a baseball player." And scouts are always high on draft candidates that can be labeled as such.


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The 71-year-old wife of 2004 Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, and the widow of Pennsylvania Sen. John Heinz, told The Associated Press that the cost of mammography is far lower than the physical and personal tolls women ages 40 to 60 face if their cancer goes undetected early and they later have to be treated with aggressive chemotherapy.
"Chemotherapy is serious. It also costs a lot of money. It's very painful. And it's very destructive of people's — most people's — lives for a while, anyway. So why put people through that instead of just having a test that's done, and it's done?" Heinz told the AP during an interview this week. "So that's why I was so upset about that decision of this panel."
She recalled nurses in a hospital where she was receiving a magnetic resonance imaging procedure, or MRI, being "so livid" when they heard the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommend last month that women start receiving mammograms at age 50, rather than the long-standing practice of 40. "They said, 'We've taken all these years to teach women to do preventive mammograms, and now look at this,'" Heinz said.
President Barack Obama's administration later backed off the recommendation amid criticism from many medical and women's groups. It said the government's policies "remain unchanged."
Kerry helped launch Obama on the national political stage by giving the then-Illinois senator the keynote speaking role at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.
Heinz said she found out in late September that she had cancer in her left breast after having her annual mammogram. In early October, she underwent lumpectomies on both breasts at a Washington hospital after doctors also discovered what they thought was a benign growth on her right breast.
Doctors also inserted titanium clips in the tissue of both breasts during the operations, and next month she will receive five days of targeted radiation aimed at improving her odds of a successful treatment to 95 percent. Heinz said she is undecided about follow-up medicinal treatments that could raise her survival odds to 99 percent, given her age and the potential side effects.


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Promo gear? What's that? ;0
I have a promo version of TR2
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