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Canto II presents Childe Harold's travels to Greece and Albania. Again, Harold is the point-of-view character but seldom becomes involved in the actual events of the story except to reflect on them. Stanzas 1 and 2 invoke the Greek goddess Athena as a new Muse this time, which becomes more poignant when Byron reflects on the state of Athens and Greece's physical past. He remembers when various religions were a part of Athenian culture, then mourns the dilapidation of the various Athenian structures (such as the Parthenon) to time and vandals. From the buildings, Byron turns to the ancient people of Athens in stanzas 7 and 8. He notes Socrates as Athens' "wisest son" and conveys the loss of ancient wisdom from everyday life. From mourning the ancients, the poet turns to mourning his own contemporary and friend, John Edleston, in stanza 9.
In stanzas 10-15 Byron describes and decries the "plunder" of Grecian artifacts by outsiders, particularly Lord Elgin of England. He asks in stanza 14 when some new Greek hero will arise to defend Greece's borders from invaders and vandals, but he sees no hope of such rescue in the near future and thus curses those who steal the ancient treasures from Greece.
Stanza 16 returns to Childe Harold. Stanzas 17-28 describe in detail the ship upon which Harold sails, as well as tracing his progress through the Mediterranean. In stanza 29 he comes to "Calypso's Islands" and reunites with his own Calypso in the form of "Florence," someone whom he loved once but whose charms he has now found to be deceptive. He holds himself stoically aloof from her proffered love (stanzas 30-35).
Stanza 36 returns to Harold's journey, now entering Albania (stanzas 37 ff.). He sees the beauty of Albania's landscape and, while unmoved by bloody battle (stanza 40), he finds himself strangely touched by the sight of the peak where legend holds the poet Sappho to have cast herself to her death for want of an unrequited love (stanza 41). The poet then describes the manmade beauties and history of Albania, and stanzas 50-52 turn to the greater grandeur of Nature itself.
However, stanza 53 is a meditation on the temporary nature of everything, complete with a warning to readers not to think themselves somehow more durable than the eroded and broken ruins of grand architecture from the classical world. In stanzas 54-66, Childe Harold disembarks and spends time among the Albanians, particularly enjoying the camaraderie and revels of the fighting men gathered around the bandit warlord Ali Pacha.
Harold returns to his ship in stanza 55 to be storm-tossed onto the shores of Suli, whose reputation bodes an ill reception for Harold. He discovers, however, that the people of Suli are generous in their hospitality to foreigners (stanza 68). Bandits prevent him from departing the way he had come, so Childe Harold and a band of men from Suli travel through the forest. When they make camp, Harold is treated to more Albanian revelry (stanza 72). Here Byron includes a translation and paraphrase of an actual warrior song.
The narrative resumes in stanza 73 with Childe Harold again in Greece, focusing on Greek independence from Turkey (and from other European marauders). He recalls past men of renown who have fought for Greek freedom from tyranny and concludes that their freedom will not come of itself, but must be won (stanzas 74-76). Stanzas 77-83 reflect on the state of Greece as an occupied land full of ancient legacies which are being exploited or destroyed by outsiders. Even as he is angered by the invaders, he acknowledges that generations of oppression have made the noble Greeks too prone to subservience to rise up of their own accord at present.
Nonetheless, in stanza 84 the poet calls for a revival of Greece's former glories and bemoans the ruins of what was once so grand about the country (stanzas 85-86). In stanzas 87-92, he turns to nature as the more enduring beauty of Greece and suggests that this still-present splendor stands as a reminder of what is at stake. Stanzas 88-89 describe ancient Greek battlefields, again returning to the theme of grief over the loss of past grandeur and over the present blight. Stanzas 93-94 again decry those who despoil Greece's treasures, claiming that the men who do so ruin the good name of England and will be cursed with the emptiness they leave behind in the Grecian landscape.
Stanzas 95-96 turn to more specific mourning of the loss of Byron's good friend John Edleston. In stanza 97 he claims to turn to revelry in order to forget his sorrows, but in stanza 98 he reflects that getting older has its own curse: the longer he lives, the more people he loses.
One theme of Canto II is Byron's frustration at the despoiling of ancient Greek treasures. An admirer of the Classical world, Byron was saddened by the dilapidated condition of the Greek ruins he visited and enraged at the vandalism he perceived that outsiders—particularly the British Lord Elgin—were committing in taking the architecture and statuary out of Greece for display in their home countries. To Byron, this looting of the ancient world was another form of oppression, as the forces of the present ravaged the civilizations of the past.
Byron seems to forget and then recall his protagonist, Harold, and bring him back into the narrative as point-of-view character. In the first several stanzas, Byron bewails the state of Athens as he saw it on his travels. The ideal city of his classical education was strewn with the damaged and worn out shells of formerly glorious buildings. For example, the Parthenon had been damaged in 1687 during the Venetian siege and was used as an ammunition storage area by the Turks. He wants to know where are the "men of might" (line 11) who might restore Athens and Greece to their former glory, but they are "sought in vain" (line 17) amid the ruins of this once great civilization.
Byron turns briefly from mourning the loss of the classical world to mourning a more personal loss, that of his recently deceased friend John Eldeston (stanza 9). He ties this personal tragedy to the more universal tragedy of Greece's lost glory in order to add poignancy to the desecration of Greek history, even as he elevates the loss of his former schoolmate to the level of grand tragedy by coupling it with the ruins of Greek temples.
Stanzas 11-15 accuse Elgin of cultural robbery in no uncertain terms. To Byron, caught up in the cause of Greek political independence and seeking some foundation in the classical world he loved so dearly, Elgin became the face of despoliation and a regular target of Byron's poetic, prose, and verbal attacks. Elgin represented British indifference or apathy to the plight of the Greeks, as well as a form of cultural parasitism Byron despised. He had made his journey to experience cultures other than England's, not to see them stolen from their birthplace by British pirates. Harold's visit to Greece again declares the wonders and majesty of Greece's past while decrying her current desolation. Byron contrasts the present occupation of Greece by the Turks (and English treasure-hunters) with the past glories of Greek civilization in order to draw an even sharper contrast between the situation in his day and the situation as Byron thought it should be.
Byron also was frustrated with the modern Greeks, particularly in contrast to their classical forbears. In stanza 84 he seeks to rouse them, but later he is forced to mourn the loss of truly heroic men who would defend Greece against both political and cultural incursion. The Greeks Byron met on his journey were too docile, too used to being under the rule of outsiders, to ever truly revolt against Turkish authority or English vandalism.
The dozen stanzas describing Harold's sailing through the Mediterranean vaguely parallel Odysseus' journey sailing through the area in epic myth. Stanzas 29 and 30 specifically connect the Calypso of The Odyssey by Homer to the woman "Florence," actually Constance Spencer Smith, wife of the British minister at Stuttgart and with whom Byron had a torrid affair in 1810. Byron was infatuated by Constance's beauty and inflamed to passion by her status as seemingly unattainable (she was married, after all) and politically volatile (she had been arrested by Napoleon for unknown reasons and escaped with the help of another would-be suitor). When Byron learned of her "unfaithfulness" with yet another man, he broke off the relationship, paradoxically injured by the infidelity of his married lover. In this stanza, Byron cites his own situation, "check'd by every tie" (line 7), as his reason for not succumbing to her charms and remaining, just as Odysseus left the enthralling Calypso to continue his journey back home to his waiting wife and son. Harold's stand against Florence's charms in stanza 33 point to a man learning the dangers of love and seeking not to be captured by another's beauty. Stanzas 34 and 35 continue this theme by declaring that the sorrows of love are not worth the debasement a man must undergo to find it.
Again, much of the detail in the travelogue is autobiographical, such as when, in stanzas 36 through 72, Byron describes Harold's travels through Albania, particularly Harold's visit to the "court" of the warlord bandit Ali Pacha. In a series of stanzas he describes the festivities of Ali Pacha's mixed band of warriors, creating a parallel scene to the Spanish revelries of canto I. These men, too, are bloody in their demeanor and celebrate their lives violently, yet with great enthusiasm. Byron even includes a parallel description of Turkish women, who—in contrast to the brave Spanish females—are docile and content in their roles as mothers and home makers (stanza 61).
Of particular biographical interest are Byron's closing stanzas to this canto. Prior to adding these stanzas to Childe Harold, Byron had learned of the deaths of his mother, his dog, and three of his friends all in the space of two months. The most mourned of these losses is John Edleston, with whom Byron had shared an intimate relationship at school and for whom his affections had continued into manhood. Stanza 95 eulogizes Edleston in ambiguous terms (Byron had after college distanced himself from his beloved choirboy); he describes Edleston as "gone" (line 1) and yet "bound" to him (line 2), and the "youth" and "affection which do the binding are not clearly defined as either Byron's or Edleston's characteristics. The grief and pain are unambiguous, however, as Byron says, "What is my being? thou hast ceased to be!" (line 5).


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Olson, James S. Bathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer and History (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004). 302 pp, $16.95.
|In February 2006, the National Center for Health Statistics released fatality statistics on cancer between 2002 and 2003. Total annual deaths from cancer had declined for the first time since the NCHS had begun keeping statistics in 1930, while the death rate for breast cancer had been declining about 2% per year since 1990. Statistics like these mirror the final chapter in James S. Olson's Bathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer and History. Earlier detection, combined with improvements in treatment, means that breast cancer was no longer an automatic death sentence and women can actually live with cancer and enjoy a relatively good quality of life.
|Olson begins that same chapter, however, with Jill Ireland's death in 1990 after six years of battling breast cancer to remind readers of breast cancer's devastating toll despite the latest medical advances. Her tragic story, one of dozens Olson retells, is central to the book's significance and appeal. Bathsheba's Breast stands as an important addition to the thin literature on cancer history especially because the story it tells is so personal. I studied under Olson at Sam Houston State University where he is Distinguished Professor of History. He lost his left hand and forearm while writing the book and the empathy it engendered in him for the women whom he profiles helps to make Bathsheba's Breast accessible and instructive for both specialists and students.
|Olson constructs a unique narrative by telling the history of cancer through individual vignettes of patients and doctors, strung together with his underlying themes of gender, power, and change. For most of history, breast cancer's victims were powerless objects treated by authoritarian male doctors whose own understanding of the disease meant a rush to destructive surgery. Portraits of women like "Nabby" Adams and Klara Hitler put under the knife by men who eagerly performed the earliest mastectomies, or who were later proponents of William Halsted's radical mastectomy, make the gender divide unmistakable. Only 70 years after Hitler's death when feminism and the sexual revolution had begun to challenge that same divide could Rose Kushner write that women should make treatment decisions for themselves because, "Our lives are at stake, not a surgeon's." (174)
|Surgeons and researchers, however, are just as central to the story of cancer as the patients. Olson reveals an ongoing dynamic between predominantly male surgeons and scientists whose medical knowledge gave them the power to define and redefine the terms upon which the female patient would confront her disease. His vignettes also underline how for generations the medical establishment treated breast cancer as a local disease, only recently recognizing it as a systemic disorder. This evolving consensus has had immense implications for treatment practices and in turn how women have lived through, or died from, cancer. Olson, however, always keeps the doctors rooted in their own time and reveals them to be men (and recently women like Dr. Susan Love) struggling to master an incredibly confounding and complex disease, but who are nevertheless products of their cultural biases and priorities. The mastectomy, for instance, made sense only as long as medicine believed cancer could be confined locally. As evidence slowly grew over time that it moved through the bloodstream from the beginning, less disfiguring approaches like chemotherapy and estrogen treatments assumed priority. By the close of the twentieth century patient and doctor had begun to enter into a far more cooperative relationship that centered on her quality of life, not the surgeon's eagerness to operate.
|Bathsheba's Breast is perhaps not the ideal text for a study of disease within the field of world history. With the exception of Olson's tale of the Persian Queen Atosa's ancient encounter with breast cancer, his examples are drawn exclusively from Western, and primarily American, history. It is difficult to judge in that case to what degree the battle against breast cancer has varied between Western and non-Western cultures. Using it in conjunction with The Cambridge World History of Disease or Sheldon Watts' Disease and Medicine in World History, however, instructors could begin to establish a comparative setting for understanding how breast cancer has been treated as well as its impact on the changing social status of women outside the West. These works would enable a discussion of how the cultural construction of gender, identity, and authority set the terms for the treatment of disease and the part of the patient. For instance, by demonstrating that the Western empirical method initially led to a treatment of breast cancer that was particularly destructive of women's bodies and self-image, Olson's work makes an essential point about medicine as a battleground for male authority and female identity that instructors should discuss across cultural boundaries. Furthermore, considering how changes in Western attitudes about sexuality and beauty transformed the treatment of breast cancer would be an entry point for discussing those attitudes in a world historical context.
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Behind the collection: NYFW Designers share their spring inspiration
While New York Fashion Week might take place in during a single week (well, technically 8 days), the designers and their teams are working on the collections for several months leading up to the big presentations. Before the shows kick off this Thursday, we tapped some of our favorite designers to give us a sneak peek -- a look behind the curtain at the inspiration behind their latest creations.
"Iris" is the word for Marchesa (and you know Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig will gorgeously bring that to life!) while Monique Lhuillier gives us a glimpse with "ethereal modern romance" and Rebecca Minkoff was inspired by "1970s California surf culture."
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The Derryfield Restaurant will provide discounted lunch specials! Manchester School District employees are asked to check-in at the event for a chance to win a $50 gift card to Hannaford.
Fall 2013 Walking Works Program FitBit Winners!
In addition, five weekly prize drawings have been held and here are the winners of gift certificates at local sporting goods retailers: Briane Corey, Kelly Farragher-Paras, Kathy McHugh, Karen Rogers, and Terry Seavey.
Sign up begins October 11th: New Walking Works Challenge!
A new round of Walking Works begins on October 11th. New program participants are invited to sign up for Walking Works at www.walkingworks.com. If you participated in the summer 2013 program you do not need to sign up again. Just keep walking and continue to log your miles.
Visit our walking works webpage to view information about challenges and opportunity to win prizes: http://hr.mansd.org/wellness-matters/walking-works.
Summer 2013 Walking Works Program Winners
Walking Works Winners
Week 1: $25 (2) Sharon Grant and Jan Moore-Simmons
Week 2: $50 (2) Shawna Morley and Christina Colantuoni
Week 3: $75 (2) Ryan Burgess and Sheila Aubin
Week 4: $100 (2) Linda Durand and Paula Greenspan
Week 5: $125 (2) Ryan Turowski and Kristen Mazumdar
Week 6: $150 (2) Brenda McMillan and Evan Papajohn
Week 7: $l75 (2) Joseph Bowe and Rebecca Domin
Week 8: $200 (2) Jillian Corey and Nadire Lutas
Grand Prize - Random winner for 8 weeks of participation: $1,000 Laureen Bates
Grand Prize - Most Activity (590 Miles): $1,000 Jade Potts
Winners' Quotes:
"I have been walking every day with a group from school."
"While I was on vacation we played volleyball every day and walked everywhere. It was fun."
"I work out at the gym several times a week but when it's nice, I like to walk in the Manchester
parks. Walking around Dorr's Pond is a favorite."
"It's great to get a prize for something I love to do!"
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Friday, January 8, 2016
I'm still thinking about Tuesday's Genesis 18 reading. I covered the angels' arrival yesterday – but toward the close of this chapter we see Abraham bargaining with God:
And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? (Genesis 18:23-25)
Abraham had no books written to describe or explain God. What he had was a personal experience for decades, times he spoke with God and God made promises. One important promise had yet to be filled, but Abraham did not bargain over that – he and Sarah simply laughed.
The bargain was over Sodom. God was headed there:
And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know. (Genesis 18:20-21)
I don't believe it was just because Lot ended up in Sodom. Perhaps Abraham believed there were some just men in Sodom. He must not have believed it strongly, because Abraham's bargaining went from fifty to ten:
And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake. (Genesis 18:32)
I know the rest of the story. There were not ten men. Only one. Not even Lot's sons-in-laws believed what could happen. I understand that. There are several loved ones – family and friends – who leave me with Lot's feelings. They will not listen, but scoff and are offended by the message.
I fear there are some who hear the message, follow along for a while, but feel the pull of what had been home and – as Lot's wife – turn back to what was comfortable, what was known. Weighed against the unknown, it certainly tugged at her, though it was the wrong thing to do.
Pray for those now, that they will listen, ask questions, seek to know the why for our belief, our faith, in what we cannot see. That can place them in God's grace:
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: (Ephesians 2:8)
Always one of my favorite verses – along with:
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. (Romans 10:17)
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If words like downturn, stimulus, unemployment, and recession are working with winter doldrums to wear on you or someone you know, Ruff Ride by Shawn and Lynel Berryhill is a book for you.
While profound quotations may inspire us, funny quotes can change our moods from dour to cheery. Team the quotations with the most expressive pictures of dogs and you're on you're on the road to replacing fear and depression with smiles and giggles.
"I want either less frivolous spending or more that comes my way."
"If you can't lead…bully."
The authors were inspired to put together this collection when their lazy dog got scared by his own fart. Seeing the humor in a situation allows us to find solutions to hopeless problems.
This is the perfect gift for anyone who feels overwhelmed by the times we live in.
Dog joy: the happiest dogs in the universe
This little gem is the product of the publishers of Bark magazine. Of the tens of thousands of pictures of smiling dogs that have been sent to them over the years, they have picked 500 of the best smilers. Some of the smiles are sweet, some are goofy. Some of them look like they are enjoying a punch line before the joke is even told.
Probably none of the dogs will ever win a fancy rosette or a big trophy, but their owners don't care because the dogs bring joy and happiness just by being in their lives. Many of the photos are accompanied by short profiles.
My personal favorite is two dogs discussing obedience school. One says, "Yeah, it's a great class, but I don't feel like I'm learning anything I'm going to use in the real world."
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South Delhi Girls
Rishte bhawan nahi, Indian aunties banati hain. Haina? Is it really a rishta if South Delhi Aunties don't bring some #Aafat to go along with it? Watch the South Delhi Aunties reject some pleb rishtas with Seema Pahwa! Don't forget to catch Seema in the new web series Aafat, only on MX Player!
South Delhi Aunties attended a PTA meeting at Rosewood High and this is how it went...
To the OG King of Sass. Karan Johar, we love you, okay? 😋
The South Delhi aunties met Sara Ali Khan at a wedding. Billi Maasi and Chanayi's mom had plenty to gossip about with her. Find out what Sara has to say about the gift aunties had for Taimur...
Shivoham, shivoham. The South Delhi Girls are here to help you get over your ex.
"Suneeta ek joke sunao? Coke nahi Suneeta!" Raise your hand if you love the South Delhi Girls!
South Delhi Girls Nayana and Chinayi met K. L. Rahul, the awesome Indian cricketer and they couldn't help but Shivoham!
South Delhi girls Nayana and Chinayi are obsessed with the Honor 9 Lite phone. Watch this fun video to know how it's making their lives easier! :D
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Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization
This is a fantastic account for both general and academic audiences. Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization is a synthesis of new evidence from human genetics and archaeology that can help us begin to address the growing and multiple crises we are now facing regarding crime, stress, pollution, and other issues. We are richer, live longer, have more stuff, and can do amazing things that would have been considered magic just hundreds of years ago. So why are we often miserable? This well-researched, interdisciplinary study explores our inheritance as the successful descendants of the Neolithic revolution through the origins of agriculture. "Although performing a seemingly trivial act, the first person to plant a seed set all of this in motion by tying our fortunes to those of the planted fields. Food became a fuel . . . for powering social change." This is really a book about the law of unforeseen consequences. Wells focuses this book on the near future, the next fifty or so years, and the distant future: Two million years from now. We are facing a global crisis that originated 10,000 years ago, when we turned from hunting and gathering to agriculture. "If The Journey of Man [Wells' first book] was about how humans populated the world, this book is about how we have adapted both psychologically and biologically to live in it during a period of enormous change. They form two bookends to a broad view of human history that takes us from the earliest days of our species to where we might be headed as we hurtle deeper into the twenty-first century." Accessible explanations of new evidence from global human DNA studies are among the highlights of this book, as are Wells' many experiences in his travels around the world. Spencer Wells has outstanding credentials. He is a biologist, geneticist, and anthropologist, graduating with his Ph.D. in Biology from Harvard, with additional postdoctoral work at Stanford and Oxford. He has been published in the major journals: Science, American Journal of Human Genetics, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He also did postdoctoral work with famed anthropological geneticist Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza. Wells assisted in establishing the role of Central Asia in the spread of humankind around the world. His book, The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey (2002), explained what genetics can tell us about the spread of humanity across the globe. He leads "The Genographic Project" for the National Geographic Society, where he is an Explorer-in-Residence. The Project has been both popular and controversial. Wells' 2003 companion documentary, "Journey of Man," is an important part of the introductory class this reviewer teaches in Archaeology. Students consistently connect with this movie and its message of the essential kinship of all people. Such a message is vital in a time of national stress and xenophobia. In this book, Wells suggests that with the adoption of agriculture, we chose the road to the control of nature rather than cooperation with nature. Although this decision to control our own food supply is what propelled us into the modern world, Wells demonstrates that such a dramatic shift in lifestyle had a downside that we're only now beginning to recognize. It's like the old saw: what's good about somebody is what's bad about somebody (and vice versa). The chapter "Mystery in the Map" looks at human origins, how and why we transitioned to agriculture, as well as agriculture's effect on our genetic makeup and population. Farmers were demonstrably less healthy than surrounding hunter-gatherers, yet farmers beat out the hunter-gatherers. We modified plants and animals when we domesticated them. But they also modified us. The chapter "Growing a New Culture" starts with aquaculture as one answer to the crisis of overfishing. It then goes on to examine the climate's effect on agricultural development in various centers around the globe, as we came up with new varieties of crops and domestic animals: "When our ancestors created agriculture around 10,000 years ago, they had no idea of what other changes they were setting in motion. . . . They were unaware of what, by changing their fundamental relationship with nature, they were unleashing on the world. Instead of relying on nature's plenty, they were creating it for themselves. By doing so they divorced themselves—and us—from millions of years of evolutionary history, charting a new course into the future without a map to guide them through the pitfalls that would appear over the subsequent ten millennia." In "Diseased," the author examines the consequences of our hunter-gatherer "thrifty genotype" and human domestication of animals and plants, which resulted in the development of diseases from diabetes to SARS. In "Demented," we learn about the connection between art and mental illness, and the effect of climate change on social sophistication, speech, and communication. Our innate ancient freedoms of movement and choice as hunter-gatherers were replaced by a pressure to change to adapt to the new kinds of work—and all this eventually led to the anxiety and depression millions feel today. That ancient desire for freedom and variety was counter to our cultural narrative of ever increasing specialization and elaboration—which we see as personal and cultural advancement. "In the process of creating a densely populated, agricultural way of life, we were forced to subsume our individual desires . . . to suit the . . . broader needs of society . . . to being a group of worker bees with looming deadlines to meet." Specialization means that while we have advanced in technology and our overall effect on the world, individually we feel more and more disconnected from making decisions about our own lives. Stress, powerlessness, information-overload—all of these result in our senses being constantly bombarded. Short-term stress can be good, but long-term is not so good. We believe ourselves to be expert multitaskers, but most of us are actually trained to function in a specialized role—teacher, truck driver, fast food worker—for eight or more hours a day. This specialization is not how we are hardwired, and it can lead to some psychologically dark places. The ancient people we came from were adaptable generalists. Since we cannot be what we are wired to be, the use of drugs has mutated to mediate our psychological states in order to keep us in line with our changed way of life. "People have always enjoyed altering their states of consciousness, with the help of substances ranging from alcohol to . . . but this is the first time in history that we are routinely drugging ourselves in order to appear normal." "Fast-Forward" discusses how we now anticipate disease and increasingly attempt to counter it using genetic manipulation. Whether you look at the positive potential of curing and preventing disease, or worry about the implications of "playing God," the law of unintended effects will always be with us. An accelerating trend is not only to medicate (if the boy is a little squirmy and rambunctious—as boys often are—then give him Ritalin), but also to undertake surgery (if the girl is not as pretty as her peers, fix her nose). Pleitropy is a term relating to the law of unintended consequences, namely the many effects of a gene on the phenotype (physical expression of the organism's genetics) apart from the actual function of the gene. Not only does this lead to increasing litigation (as in a case of a boy suffering from Down's syndrome, whose lawyer sued the boy's own mother for knowing about his defect and not aborting him), and higher costs of health care, but also affects the essence of what it means to be human. "Heated Argument" tackles climate change and the energy crisis. The last chapter, "Toward a New Mythos," examines our moral compass: How did we get to be a culture of corruption? In many cases, at the level of the individual, it can be to our individual advantage to be unethical, as noted in an example using game theory and the betrayals of prisoners informing on each other in order to serve less time. But that advantage eventually fails. Whereas the mythos of hunter-gatherers is sustainability and merging with the land on its terms, the mythos of agriculture is one of production and extraction (an analogy extended to throughout our culture, as in the energy sector) and control of the outcome on human terms. And if that doesn't work out, then one just moves on to new lands. But there aren't any new lands to go to anymore. The Neolithic revolution that brought agriculture to us taught us to plan for and acquire surplus; competition and conflict over surplus replaced our quest for the necessities of daily living. The old adage—take only what you need, as you need it—has been replaced by going out and catching everything you can before the other guy can beat you to it. The result of self-centered private and market-oriented fishing to corner "surplus" has been the decimation of fish populations through overfishing and waste. Wells makes one of his interesting side trips on the rise of Fundamentalism, both Islamic and Christian. Fundamentalism is essentially reactionary; it is a rejection and retreat from the main narrative of secularism and science (logos) developed since the Enlightenment. Fundamentalism rises when people feel left out of the future and sense that morality and ethics are taking a backseat. Logos is great for explanation but not as good as mythos is for finding meaning. Wells has an interesting take on logos and mythos in this case, in that he argues that fundamentalists favor applying a logos approach of rationality, science and technology, to a mythos end (the one true way of meaning and salvation). This is a common factor between fundamentalist Muslims and Christians: "Both movements, while rooted in their desire to return to what they see as a golden age of religious mythos, are making ever-greater use of the methods of logos in their mobilization." Trouble arises when each side is certain that God is on their side and not the other guy's—so the results indicate the validity of one's belief that God picked their side (even moreso if the other guy is dead). Not advocating either side, Wells just asks if this is not a good time to step back no matter where you stand, and look at one's underlying assumptions. Today's crises include Wall Street, the BP oil spill, and numerous government, religious, and political conflicts. Wells notes we are at a place where our culture has the possibility of destroying not only humanity, but also what it means to be human. Addressing these problems is not a matter of education, knowledge, and skill. The problems lie more in the realms of ethics and wisdom. Wanting more than you need is central to modern life, and it is the driving force of market capitalism, as in Gordon Gekko's "greed is good." Wells isn't just a doomsayer though. He offers some ideas on how we might begin to change—and that starts by changing our worldview. Notably, Joseph Campbell talked decades ago about the essential need for a new mythos, and Wells suggests something very simple as a starting point. As with the original Pandora's Box filled with disaster and evil, in the bottom of this box there is something that resembles hope. And this tiny hope begins with an innocuous, yet incredibly challenging premise to begin to put the brakes on the rush to hit the brick wall, rather than simply slamming into it. Counter to everything our culture and hundreds of generations have taught us, we must somehow learn to want less. If it all started with one person planting a seed, the answer can also start with each one of us. How do we learn to want less? Social engineering does not work. Utopia has turned out to be a harmful sort of mythos in the final analysis. Wells suggests that answers come not only from places like Washington, D.C., or Kyoto, but from the people who still practice our oldest way of life, such as the Hadzabe of Lake Eyasi in Tanzania. Wells is not parroting the romantic view of hunter-gatherers from the anthropology of the 1960s and 1970s, but he also does not believe in the "nasty, brutish and short" revival of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. He is most certainly not advocating a return to hunting and gathering as a way of life—there are too many of us for that now—but simply pointing out a balanced way to look at modern problems using an ancient yardstick developed by humanity's ancestors. Though no Pollyanna, Wells' inherent optimism and humanism is evident everywhere in this book. It does have a meandering style, more of an essay than an argument, which may rankle the more linear-minded at times. Pandora's Seed will not be a comfortable read for those invested in the status quo. But many of us know in our bones that we can't go on as we have been. It isn't working anymore. Our love affair with technology and materialism brings with it some very troubling diseases. ". . . Saving ourselves will mean accepting human nature, not suppressing it. It will mean reassessing our cultural emphasis on expansion, acquisition, and perfectibility. It will mean learning from peoples that retain a link back to the way we lived for virtually our entire evolutionary period." This is an important book for our times, to be ranked with such books as Jared Diamond's books Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel. If Spencer Wells continues producing books like this, he has the potential to become a pop anthropology guru like Margaret Mead, whose work engendered much good. The world needs to know not only how to want less, but also about the how to want the things that will take us into the next ten millennia. Reviewer Lance M. Foster is an anthropologist and artist, an enrolled member of the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska, and the author of The Indians of Iowa.


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Cabela's CLUB Visa Family Outdoor Day
Nothing compares to watching a child catch their first fish, shoot their first bow or simply enjoy stories around a campfire surrounded by family and friends. Thanks to Cabela's CLUB Visa and the USAA's Trail Blazer Program, I was able to participate in the Family Outdoor Day July 7thin Lacy Washington where over 300 attendees participated in various outdoor activities while surrounded by the beautiful Western landscape.
|Zombie Hunting with Crosman Airsoft
|Getting some shooting instruction.
|Even I enjoyed the ringing of the gongs.
At each activity, participants found expert guidance and education, ensuring the development of safe habits, gun safety and ethics. The tiniest of children delighted in hunting paper zombies with Crosman airsoft guns. Marksmanship was tested at the 100 yard range with .22 rimfire with the goal of ringing the gong. All delighted in the sound of success.
Kids learned how to set a worm on a hook to successfully catch their first fish, or for one boy, "the biggest fish in the pond".
|A proud fisherman.
|Mother/daughter fishing success.
|Smiles for all...
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The sounds of shotguns pumping, followed by the command to "pull" signaled the beginning of trap shooting in this safe environment where everyone received coaching to be a more successful shot. Help was given to make sure that each participant was designated a well fitting shotgun, coaching with their follow through, and of course a pat on the back and congratulations with each improved shot. Some even drove their first car, well golf car, to navigate the course.
|First time at trap.
My personal mission is always to educate, empower and inspire others, with the goal of giving others the confidence to try out new outdoor activities. For this event, I was able to share my experiences with photos and personal testimony as well as provide some valuable information regarding selecting the right gear for their chosen outdoor pursuit.
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|Love the Barbie fishing pole!
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Smiling for the Camera Just Isn't Simple Anymore
In the world of medical imaging, picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) are computers or networks dedicated to the storage, retrieval, distribution and presentation of images. Typically PACS handles the gamut of medical imaging instruments, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRIs), which uses a powerful magnetic field, radio waves and a computer to produce detailed pictures of organs, soft tissues, bone and virtually all other internal body structures; positron emission tomography (PET) scans, which accurately image the cellular function of the human body, and computed tomography (CT) scans, which uses special x-ray equipment to produce multiple images or pictures of the inside of the body and a computer to join them together in cross-sectional views of the area being studied.
A PACS system usually includes a state-of-the-art radiology information system enabling images and data to be delivered to physicians anywhere in the world with access to a high speed broadband Internet connection. As the medium for medical imaging becomes more sophisticated, a PACS system is necessary to take full advantage of the higher level diagnostic studies. Essentially, because the technological advances in MR, CT and PET imaging are so great,
traditional "films" no longer suffice for an accurate patient study.
Translation: The radiology equipment in health care facilities has become so high-tech, doctors now need super-fancy machines to read the results. At least in theory, patients now get a quicker, more accurate diagnosis. Plus, a more precise diagnostic image means the need for less images overall. While concern about the over-utilization of high-end imaging equipment has resulted in recent legislation designed to ensure health care facilities are properly trained to utilize these highly energetic imaging systems, nothing really beats a good old fashioned 64 slice CT scan (the x-ray tube within this scanner completes a 360 degree rotation in 0.4 seconds creating 64, 0.5 mm slices) when the medical need is there.
On the environmental front, PACS means the elimination of film, a darkroom and hazardous chemicals. A typical medical X-ray film consists of a transparent base coated on at least one side with a laminar grain silver halide emulsion and a separate hydrophilic colloid layer containing a developing agent for silver halide in an amount corresponding to at least 0.5 moles per mole of the silver coated on that side of the base. In a vacuum, the elimination of this process altogether probably can't hurt the environment. In return, however, a PACS system does come with a lot of high-tech gadgets that consume a fair share of energy, such as diagnostic workstations, multiple-mega pixel color or grey scale LCD monitors, modality inputs, image gateway software, hard drive back up, external CD burner, and a massive image archive.
So is less more, or is it less, in this case? There's no clear answer on the medical technology front, but perhaps the closest analogy for comparison is the battle between the 35 mm camera and the digital camera. As just one example, the introduction of the digital camera caused in the methylene chloride release from Kodak's plant in Rochester, N.Y., to fall from 3,900 tons in 1987 to 272 tons in 2005. There is also less of a demand for cowhide and bones, the materials used to make the gelatin to hold film's photosensitive silver-halide crystals in suspension. And the silver used in photographic materials was said to be more toxic to water organisms than mercury, according to the Swedish Environmental Board. By 2006, 90 percent of all cameras sold in Sweden were digital, and more digital photography means that there is less developing of conventional silver-halide film. In fact, the SED claimed that silver levels dropped by more than half between 2001 and 2006 in the waters of the Stockholm archipelago.
But even digital cameras come with a price, and it's usually a computer, a photo printer, a need for more storage, additional batteries, and the ongoing "keeping up with the Joneses" battle over the mega pixels. So we may not use toxic film, but we take digital pictures without giving any thought to the possibility, again, that less may be more.
Technology will continue to advance and further complicate this discussion. Although a CT may cost in excess of $1 million, and a PACS system an additional $400,000, the digital camera industry is certainly not anemic given the place it has in everyday lives. Hospitals, doctors, professional photographers and everyday consumers should be mindful that every technological innovation comes with a price. In fact, it may not be possible to properly assess the pros and cons to these decisions in temporal proximity with the purchase. So until technology allows us to see into the future in order to assess the decisions of today, we can only be mindful that nothing is really ever black or white, unless we are talking about the niche market for photographers, and then both 35 mm film and digital cameras hold their own.
For additional resources, visit:
- http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/cancer/2008/05/30/facing-a-ct-scan-think-about-radiation/comments/
- http://www.hospitalmanagement.net/features/feature1356/
- http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080717164317.htm
- http://www.treehugger.com/files/2005/12/less_silver_pol.php
- http://www.enn.com


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Idaho burns. If you've lived in the Gem State for any amount of time, forest fires--or range fires--are facts of life. But following national trends, those yearly fire seasons have steadily increased in intensity. If you were anywhere in the Treasure Valley this past summer, that fact was big enough to almost blot out the sun.
"I was one of those who couldn't see the sun for a couple of weeks," said Randy Eardley, assistant chief of external affairs at the National Interagency Fire Center, based in Boise.
The center, or NIFC, works with the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and other state and local agencies to coordinate fire and disaster relief around the country. And like elsewhere this year, Idaho has "taken a beating," Eardley said.
"If we look at acres burned, that's 9.1 million acres [nationwide]. That's only the third time we've surpassed 9 million since the 1960s, and all three have happened since 2006," he said. "That's an indication that the fire seasons in the last decade, at least since 2000, have been, overall, seeing a lot larger fires. A lot more extreme fire behavior."
The cost of fighting those fires, though still approximate, is steep. According to Eardley, the Forest Service spent a nationwide total of $1.5 billion ("that's billion, with a 'b,'" he said) and the BLM spent $300 million.
"When you factor in all the other, smaller efforts at the state and local levels, I think we're approaching $2 billion," he added.
That's not unheard of, though.
"At least one other fire season topped $2 billion, but it's safe to say that 2012 was among the most severe," Eardley said.
That trend was definitely reflected in Idaho, where about 1.76 million acres burned during the 2012 season. That was almost 20 percent of the total acreage nationwide, and the biggest burn since 2007, when more than 3 million acres went up in smoke. (That year's fires surpassed 2000's total of about 1.8 million acres, making it the most acreage-intense fire season since the "Big Burn" of 1910.)
Forest managers and fire experts say the total cost of Idaho's most recent fire season is still being tallied, but suppression efforts alone are pegged at $214 million, according to an Idaho Department of Lands report presented to the Land Board on Nov. 20.
While it's a big number, $214 million doesn't tell the whole story.
More than one-third of the acreage burned in Idaho in 2012 can be attributed to just three fires: the Mustang Complex and Halstead Fire in the Salmon-Challis National Forest (340,659 acres and 181,798 acres, respectively), and the 146,832-acre Trinity Ridge Fire in the Boise National Forest.
"I would compare it to 2007, which was the worst year the Boise Forest has ever experienced, as far as acres burned," said Bob Shindelar, forest fire chief at the Boise National Forest.
According to Shindelar, the USFS spent $54 million on fire suppression in the forest this year and $45 million on just the Trinity Ridge blaze.
"But if you look at the losses of the value of the timber, the recreational opportunities, the tourism opportunities, it was much greater than the cost to put these fires out," he said, adding that while those figures hadn't been calculated for the Boise National Forest, it's clear that "the suppression costs themselves are only a fraction of the true cost of having these fires."
The Idaho Department of Lands has also not yet completed a full accounting of costs related to the 2012 season, and BLM data, too, is unavailable (the agency's fire information office did not return calls requesting comment), but, according to a 2010 report from the Western Forestry Leadership Coalition, the full economic impacts of forest fires "have historically escaped accounting by land management agencies, and may extend years beyond the wildlife event."
Pointing to just how complex it is to measure the long-term affects of a forest fire, the WFLC paper stated that the total price tag of a fire can be anywhere from two to 30 times more than the cost of putting it out. That means Idaho's latest fire season could actually amount to between $428 million and $6.4 billion, including everything from costs relating to long-term forest rehabilitation and lost tax revenue, to shorter term economic impacts like depressed tourism revenue and repairing or rebuilding damaged property.
"You'd need an economist," Shindelar said, "but I think the consequences are the same regardless of how big the fire is. There's the economic impacts to local economies and communities when there's closures ... then there's the other things we need to do on the forest: improving campgrounds or road maintenance. That stuff just doesn't get done."
While there's no debate that big fires cost big money, there is no small amount of disagreement about how best (or whether) to stop them from happening in the first place. And if current trends hold, they most certainly will increase even as the number of fires appears to be shrinking.
According to data from the NIFC, the 2012 fire season--measured from January through October--saw the second most acreage burned since 2000. The number of fires and acres burned per fire, however, beat previous records, but in different ways: 51,811 fires burned around the country during that time period, signaling the fewest number of blazes in 13 years. At the same time, though, each fire burned an average of 173.8 acres.
As in Idaho, the bulk of that acreage was due to a handful of mega-fires, which means we might be experiencing fewer fires, but their intensity and costs are rising.
There are myriad reasons for that, but a season's severity comes down to two simple factors: forest management and climate.
"To me, size does not mean impact, necessarily," said Penelope Morgan, a professor of forest ecology at the University of Idaho. "Some of those fires were burning in places where there hadn't been fires in a long time, and where many plants and animals and ecosystem functions--and, indeed, values that people have--were in the long-term favored by fires. And in some places, less so."
Morgan breaks down these places into three basic categories:
Cold weather forests, like those in north-central Idaho and the panhandle, tend to act more characteristically, with smaller and more climate-limited fires. They don't burn until the weather conditions exist to allow them, and when they do, they seldom spiral into enormous infernos. According to the Idaho Department of Lands, only 182 fires burned 4,674 acres in that region this year, meeting the 20-year average for fire occurrence and coming in at just more than half the average for acreage burned.
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"Let us pray…" When we hear those words our response is conditional, expected and routine. We know to bow our head, close our eyes and tune our hearts to God and His Will. Our prayer then follows a typical type of pattern; concern for self, concern for others, praise of God, or request for something.
While studying this final prayer of Habakkuk I found myself thinking about some of the "great" prayers in the Bible.
- Hannah's Prayer of Praise - 1 Samuel 2:1-10. When Hannah received the child she begged God for, her first instinct is to praise the One who provided. She wants to thank Him for His greatness and His deliverance. Too often we pray before receiving, but then forget to pray after God answers.
- David's prayer for deliverance - Psalm 3. This prayer provides a concise portrait of crying out to God in the midst of great stress. David's words are no less relevant to our modern workplace and lifestyle as they were to his battles.
- Jonah's Prayer for Salvation - Jonah 2:2-9. We may never be swallowed by a great fish, but we can still experience the shame and regret that Jonah felt after he ran from God. The prophet's plea to the Father provides a rising scaffolding for our own prayers of repentance. And remember that God heard and answered this humble, honest prayer.
- The Lord's Prayer - Matthew 6:9-13. This prayer is the true classic. Most of us have said this prayer and could likely recite it right now. But there's much more to this model that Jesus gave us than rote recitation. This is a prayer with real power: God's kingdom coming, God's will being done, all that we need for the day. It's truly power packed.
Then there is today's prayer - Habakkuk 3:1-19. Habakkuk prayed because he was overwhelmed by God's splendor. "I stand in awe of Your deeds" (Hab. 3:2). He had seen a vision of the greatness of God, recorded for us in verses 3–15, and this vision left him weak and helpless (v. 16). All he could do was cry out to God. "Let us pray…" Pastor Jeff


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Success of the Marriage lies in Appreciating the Differences
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Do you feel like you're doing all the right things for the purposes of search engine optimization but your efforts are coming up short? Maybe you've tried to promote your website through social media, but that's not generating enough traffic either?
As you may already know, one of the most powerful elements of a successful SEO campaign is to acquire as many quality backlinks as possible. These help with your search engine rankings and they're worth more when they come from higher ranked pages on the 'net. It may take forever for you to acquire these backlinks organically, so that's why you may want to consider a service like BacklinkBuild.
Over the course of this review, we'll take a look at the different packages offered by BacklinkBuild and whether they are worth your hard-earned time and money.
Loading Up with PR5+ Backlinks
The primary product featured on the BacklinkBuild homepage is the sale of over 45 one-way backlinks coming from PR5+ websites.
These can work wonders in getting your website ranked for your chosen keywords and keyword phrases, especially since BacklinkBuild allows you to choose your anchor text. In fact, you can choose as many anchors as you'd like. These links are all do-follow and permanent.
While it may sound like BacklinkBuild will be placing these seemingly organic links inside websites in its network, you'll notice the fine print in the footer of the page. In addition to manual text link placement, BacklinkBuild also uses "dofollow blog commenting." Blog comments have some SEO weight, but they're not as valuable as regular in-text links.
The price for "over 45" PR5+ backlinks is $295, down from their regular price of $465. That works out to about $6.50 per link.
The Social Bookmarking Phenomenon
If you didn't know any better, you would assume that the PR5+ backlink package described above was the only package that BacklinkBuild had to offer. However, you'll find three other options at the bottom of the page. One of these is the social bookmarking package.
With this, BacklinkBuild will submit your website to over 1,000 social bookmarking websites for SEO and traffic purposes. We assume that they'll be using services like Reddit and StumbleUpon. You could certainly do this on your own, but it could be very time-consuming to do so.
The social bookmarking service from BacklinkBuild is $119.
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As difficult as it may be to acquire a good number of regular backlinks from regular websites, it is even more difficult to get these links from coveted GOV and EDU domains. These TLDs are heavily regulated, so only certain people and organizations can register for them.
Unlike the regular backlink package where the links are permanent, the EDU text link package from BacklinkBuild does not guarantee that these links are permanent; they're only guaranteed to stay "live" for 30 days. BacklinkBuild does say that "most links are permanent," but it's a roll of the dice after 30 days.
Not surprisingly, the EDU link package is more expensive. There are four packages, ranging in price from $119 for the basic to $980 to the corporate. These work out to between $14 and $17 per link.
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The main PR5+ package may, as mentioned, make use of dofollow blog commenting to give you the 45 backlinks. The relevant link package, however, is more akin to a PayPerPost system.
For $189, BacklinkBuild will produce "unique articles optimized for SEO and containing anchored text links to your website." The articles will then be published on PR3+ blogs on a permanent basis.
However, there does not seem to be explicit mention that you'll get 12 unique articles for your 12 included text links. It's very well possible that BacklinkBuild will only write two articles with six links each, isn't it?
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Remember when Google cracked down on any site that sold paid text links? Remember how John got the smack down for running contests to acquire links back to his blog with a specific anchor text? Well, it may be possible that BacklinkBuild's efforts could land you in the naughty books of Google, but it is also possible that Google won't notice and assume that these inbound links are completely legitimate.
Such is the risk and reward of paid links. Proceed at your own discretion.