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In previous chapters we have considered both the unique character of human suffering and the special vitality of human engagement, with both life and the world. What is it about us, unique among the species, that enables our suffering to be (at least partially) redeemed? What is it about us, unique among the species, that enables us to strive upward against the downward pull of necessity or to meet the world and our fellow creatures fully and directly, actively and honestly, feelingly and truly? The name we give to this excellence is human dignity. In examining it, with the help of the following readings, we may find that it is what we value most about our selves.
The religious among us may locate the origin of our special dignity in our God-given origin and God-like being. The secular may locate the source of it within our selves, whether seen as an unintended product of blind evolution, as a mysterious gift of nature, or as the result of law and customin any case, a power that sets us apart from everything else that lives. All of us, however, can see it expressed in the myriad ways we manifest our embodied humanity in living our individuated and finite lives. Although they emphasize different aspects of human dignity, the readings below illuminate this virtue that celebrates our full humanity: not just reason or will, not just strength or beauty, but our integrated powers of body, mind, and soul that express themselves in all our activities, large and small.
Our first two readings offer different views, religious and secular, of the source and ground of human dignity. The excerpt from The Book of Genesis suggests that it is bestowed upon us by divine gift, and that it rests in our being in Gods image and likeness. The excerpts from Thomas Hobbes Leviathan and Immanuel Kants Fundamental Principals of the Metaphysics of Morals offer different philosophical accounts, the first suggesting that human dignity is not natural but a bestowal of society, the second suggesting that it is grounded in mans rational capacity to be moral.
The next two readings point to a primordial dignity that inheres in us as humans, by finding it in two inarticulate individuals: a corpse and an infant. An excerpt from The Iliad of Homer illuminates the need to respect the mortal remains of a human being. An excerpt from the Histories of Herodotus considers the inviolable quality of a baby.
In midlife, dignity inheres largely in behavior and character. Our fifth reading, consisting of excerpts from Willa Cathers My Ántonia, concerns a suicide, who retains his dignity despite taking his own life; this is appreciated even by those inclined to judge him for what he has done.
For most people, throughout most of history, the central and in many ways defining activity of life has been work. Our next four readings concern the dignity of labor. The special dignity of physical labor is expressed in Henry Wadsworth Longfellows The Village Blacksmith, and in the lyrics of the traditional song, John Henry, with Paul Kaplans contemporary parody, Henry the Accountant. Victorian critic John Ruskin can be seen to challenge these readings in an excerpt from Crown of Wild Olive. A final dignified laborer, however, completes this quartet in Isaac Bashevis Singers The Washwoman.
Our last three readings present supreme examples of human dignity at its finest, displayed in acts of generosity, devotion, courage, self-knowledge, self-command, and bold defense of human freedom and human dignity itself. The first appears in a lighthearted work of fiction: O. Henrys Two Thanksgiving-Day Gentlemen, in which two men suppress their own needs out of generosity to each other and out of devotion to a tradition they perceive to be larger than themselves. The nextfrom truth, not fiction, in an excerpt from his memoir To Build A Castleis an attempt by former Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky to identify the responsibilities that confront men and women living under tyrannies.
Our final reading is the story of one specific human being who resolves to live no more under the thumb of a tyrant. In this excerpt from his Autobiography, we learn that the self-liberation of former American slave Frederick R. Douglass must occur in mind and in body both, and by his own agency and effort. It results in a human being who has suffered and overcome suffering, and who stands resolved to suffer further, even to the point of death, if that is what it takes for him to live as a man, and not as a beast. It is a fitting end to our chapter on human dignity, and our volume about bioethics. It is a rich bioethics indeed that celebrates the birth into full humanity of such an individual.
Sample Reading
My Ántonia is a fictional memoir of a late-nineteenth century childhood on the great plains of Nebraska. It is narrated by Jim Burden, who came to the plains as a boy recently orphaned, to live with his grandparents. Jims grandparents are comfortably settled and provide well for him. But Jim arrives on the same train with the Shimerda family. The Shimerdas have come from Bohemia, nearly destitute, knowing little about America, and dangerously ignorant about what it takes to farm in the harsh environment of the great plains. Mr. Shimerda is a musician by training, and ill-equipped for his new life. A son, Marek, has been born physically and mentally handicapped. Nonetheless, Mrs. Shimerda has insisted on coming to America, placing her hopes in her eldest son, Ambrosch. The household also includes two daughters, Ántonia and Julka, and a cousin, Krajiek. The first excerpt begins as the Burdens prepare to visit the Shimerdas at their dugout home in winter. Once there, they find the family in distress. The Shimerdas are eating prairie dogs and their children are sleeping in a hole in the earth. Both practices sustain life effectively. Why is Jims grandmother so disturbed by them? Why is Mr. Shimerda dressed as he is, in the darkness of his hovel? Why does he seem at first to try to hide, though he has taken pains to be clean and neat? The second excerpt takes place at Christmas. The Burdens have delivered gifts to the Shimerdas, and Mr. Shimerda comes to their home for the first time, to thank them. The following week, Mrs. Shimerda visits with Jims friend Ántonia, in a very different spirit. Mr. Shimerda remains entirely dignified, even when utterly relaxed and passive, and even when he assumes a positionbowing before the treewhich looks strange to his hosts. In what does his dignity reside? The Burdens, even young Jim, can tell that Mr. Shimerda is failing in important ways, yet he commands their respect. What do they respect about him? Jim is annoyed because even misfortune could not humble Mrs. Shimerda. Is humility becoming, to one who is unfortunate? The third excerpt begins the morning after Mr. Shimerdas suicide is discovered, as the agitated Burden household struggles to understand how a man they liked and admired could have abandoned his beloved children in a hard world. The fourth excerpt includes a discussion about where Mr. Shimerda is to be buried; as a suicide, he is unwelcome in at least one of the local graveyards. The Burdens are displeased by this, and shocked, too, at his own familys plan for his body. The fifth and final excerpt describes the burial and the grave. Why is there a local to-do over where Mr. Shimerda is to be buried? Why does Grandfather correctly predict that the people of this country will not make a crossroads over a grave? What about Mr. Shimerda does Grandfather seem to acknowledge in his words at the graveside? ***
My Ántonia is a fictional memoir of a late-nineteenth century childhood on the great plains of Nebraska. It is narrated by Jim Burden, who came to the plains as a boy recently orphaned, to live with his grandparents.
Jims grandparents are comfortably settled and provide well for him. But Jim arrives on the same train with the Shimerda family. The Shimerdas have come from Bohemia, nearly destitute, knowing little about America, and dangerously ignorant about what it takes to farm in the harsh environment of the great plains.
Mr. Shimerda is a musician by training, and ill-equipped for his new life. A son, Marek, has been born physically and mentally handicapped. Nonetheless, Mrs. Shimerda has insisted on coming to America, placing her hopes in her eldest son, Ambrosch. The household also includes two daughters, Ántonia and Julka, and a cousin, Krajiek.
The first excerpt begins as the Burdens prepare to visit the Shimerdas at their dugout home in winter. Once there, they find the family in distress.
The Shimerdas are eating prairie dogs and their children are sleeping in a hole in the earth. Both practices sustain life effectively. Why is Jims grandmother so disturbed by them?
Why is Mr. Shimerda dressed as he is, in the darkness of his hovel? Why does he seem at first to try to hide, though he has taken pains to be clean and neat?
The second excerpt takes place at Christmas. The Burdens have delivered gifts to the Shimerdas, and Mr. Shimerda comes to their home for the first time, to thank them. The following week, Mrs. Shimerda visits with Jims friend Ántonia, in a very different spirit.
Mr. Shimerda remains entirely dignified, even when utterly relaxed and passive, and even when he assumes a positionbowing before the treewhich looks strange to his hosts. In what does his dignity reside?
The Burdens, even young Jim, can tell that Mr. Shimerda is failing in important ways, yet he commands their respect. What do they respect about him?
Jim is annoyed because even misfortune could not humble Mrs. Shimerda. Is humility becoming, to one who is unfortunate?
The third excerpt begins the morning after Mr. Shimerdas suicide is discovered, as the agitated Burden household struggles to understand how a man they liked and admired could have abandoned his beloved children in a hard world.
The fourth excerpt includes a discussion about where Mr. Shimerda is to be buried; as a suicide, he is unwelcome in at least one of the local graveyards. The Burdens are displeased by this, and shocked, too, at his own familys plan for his body.
The fifth and final excerpt describes the burial and the grave.
Why is there a local to-do over where Mr. Shimerda is to be buried? Why does Grandfather correctly predict that the people of this country will not make a crossroads over a grave? What about Mr. Shimerda does Grandfather seem to acknowledge in his words at the graveside?
For several weeks after my sleigh-ride, we heard nothing from the Shimerdas. My sore throat kept me indoors, and grandmother had a cold which made the housework heavy for her. When Sunday came she was glad to have a day of rest. One night at supper Fuchs1 told us he had seen Mr. Shimerda out hunting.
Hes made himself a rabbit-skin cap, Jim, and a rabbit-skin collar that he buttons on outside his coat. They aint got but one overcoat among em over there, and they take turns wearing it. They seem awful scared of cold, and stick in that hole in the bank like badgers.
All but the crazy boy, Jake put in. He never wears the coat. Krajiek says hes turrible strong and can stand anything. I guess rabbits must be getting scarce in this locality. Ambrosch come along by the cornfield yesterday where I was at work and showed me three prairie dogs hed shot. He asked me if they was good to eat. I spit and made a face and took on, to scare him, but he just looked like he was smartern me and put em back in his sack and walked off.
Grandmother looked up in alarm and spoke to grandfather. Josiah, you dont suppose Krajiek would let them poor creatures eat prairie dogs, do you?
You had better go over and see our neighbours tomorrow, Emmaline, he replied gravely.
Fuchs put in a cheerful word and said prairie dogs were clean beasts and ought to be good for food, but their family connections were against them. I asked what he meant, and he grinned and said they belonged to the rat family.
When I went downstairs in the morning, I found grandmother and Jake packing a hamper basket in the kitchen.
Now, Jake, grandmother was saying, if you can find that old rooster that got his comb froze, just give his neck a twist, and well take him along. Theres no good reason why Mrs. Shimerda couldnt have got hens from her neighbours last fall and had a hen-house going by now. I reckon she was confused and didnt know where to begin. Ive come strange to a new country myself, but I never forgot hens are a good thing to have, no matter what you dont have.
Just as you say, mam, said Jake, but I hate to think of Krajiek getting a leg of that old rooster. He tramped out through the long cellar and dropped the heavy door behind him.
After breakfast grandmother and Jake and I bundled ourselves up and climbed into the cold front wagon-seat. As we approached the Shimerdas, we heard the frosty whine of the pump and saw Ántonia, her head tied up and her cotton dress blown about her, throwing all her weight on the pump-handle as it went up and down. She heard our wagon, looked back over her shoulder, and, catching up her pail of water, started at a run for the hole in the bank.
Jake helped grandmother to the ground, saying he would bring the provisions after he had blanketed his horses. We went slowly up the icy path toward the door sunk in the drawside. Blue puffs of smoke came from the stovepipe that stuck out through the grass and snow, but the wind whisked them roughly away.
Mrs. Shimerda opened the door before we knocked and seized grandmothers hand. She did not say How do! as usual, but at once began to cry, talking very fast in her own language, pointing to her feet which were tied up in rags, and looking about accusingly at everyone.
The old man was sitting on a stump behind the stove, crouching over as if he were trying to hide from us. Yulka was on the floor at his feet, her kitten in her lap. She peeped out at me and smiled, but, glancing up at her mother, hid again. Ántonia was washing pans and dishes in a dark corner. The crazy boy lay under the only window, stretched on a gunny-sack stuffed with straw. As soon as we entered, he threw a grain-sack over the crack at the bottom of the door. The air in the cave was stifling, and it was very dark, too. A lighted lantern, hung over the stove, threw out a feeble yellow glimmer.
Mrs. Shimerda snatched off the covers of two barrels behind the door, and made us look into them. In one there were some potatoes that had been frozen and were rotting, in the other was a little pile of flour. Grandmother murmured something in embarrassment, but the Bohemian woman laughed scornfully, a kind of whinny-laugh, and, catching up an empty coffee-pot from the shelf, shook it at us with a look positively vindictive.
Grandmother went on talking in her polite Virginia way, not admitting their stark need or her own remissness, until Jake arrived with the hamper, as if in direct answer to Mrs. Shimerdas reproaches. Then the poor woman broke down. She dropped on the floor beside her crazy son, hid her face on her knees, and sat crying bitterly. Grandmother paid no heed to her, but called Ántonia to come and help empty the basket. Tony left her corner reluctantly. I had never seen her crushed like this before.
You not mind my poor mamenka, Mrs. Burden. She is so sad, she whispered, as she wiped her wet hands on her skirt and took the things grandmother handed her.
The crazy boy, seeing the food, began to make soft, gurgling noises and stroked his stomach. Jake came in again, this time with a sack of potatoes. Grandmother looked about in perplexity.
Havent you got any sort of cave or cellar outside, Ántonia? This is no place to keep vegetables. How did your potatoes get frozen?
We get from Mr. Bushy, at the post-officewhat he throw out. We got no potatoes, Mrs. Burden, Tony admitted mournfully.
When Jake went out, Marek crawled along the floor and stuffed up the door-crack again. Then, quietly as a shadow, Mr. Shimerda came out from behind the stove. He stood brushing his hand over his smooth grey hair, as if he were trying to clear away a fog about his head. He was clean and neat as usual, with his green neckcloth and his coral pin. He took grandmothers arm and led her behind the stove, to the back of the room. In the rear wall was another little cave; a round hole, not much bigger than an oil barrel, scooped out in the black earth. When I got up on one of the stools and peered into it, I saw some quilts and a pile of straw. The old man held the lantern. Yulka, he said in a low, despairing voice, Yulka; my Ántonia!
Grandmother drew back. You mean they sleep in thereyour girls? He bowed his head.
Tony slipped under his arm. It is very cold on the floor, and this is warm like the badger hole. I like for sleep there, she insisted eagerly. My mamenka have nice bed, with pillows from our own geese in Bohemie. See, Jim? She pointed to the narrow bunk which Krajiek had built against the wall for himself before the Shimerdas came.
Grandmother sighed. Sure enough, where would you sleep, dear! I dont doubt youre warm there. Youll have a better house after while, Ántonia, and then you will forget these hard times.
Mr. Shimerda made grandmother sit down on the only chair and pointed his wife to a stool beside her. Standing before them with his hand on Ántonias shoulder, he talked in a low tone, and his daughter translated. He wanted us to know that they were not beggars in the old country; he made good wages, and his family were respected there. He left Bohemia with more than a thousand dollars in savings, after their passage money was paid. He had in some way lost on exchange in New York, and the railway fare to Nebraska was more than they had expected. By the time they paid Krajiek for the land, and bought his horses and oxen and some old farm machinery, they had very little money left. He wished grandmother to know, however, that he still had some money. If they could get through until spring came, they would buy a cow and chickens and plant a garden, and would then do very well. Ambrosch and Ántonia were both old enough to work in the fields, and they were willing to work. But the snow and the bitter weather had disheartened them all.
Ántonia explained that her father meant to build a new house for them in the spring; he and Ambrosch had already split the logs for it, but the logs were all buried in the snow, along the creek where they had been felled.
While grandmother encouraged and gave them advice, I sat down on the floor with Yulka and let her show me her kitten. Marek slid cautiously toward us and began to exhibit his webbed fingers. I knew he wanted to make his queer noises for meto bark like a dog or whinny like a horsebut he did not dare in the presence of his elders. Marek was always trying to be agreeable, poor fellow, as if he had it on his mind that he must make up for his deficiencies.
The Burden household has sent Christmas gifts to the Shimerdas. On Christmas Day, Mr. Shimerda comes to thank them. Soon after Christmas, his wife and daughter pay a visit of their own.
At about four oclock a visitor appeared: Mr. Shimerda, wearing his rabbit-skin cap and collar, and new mittens his wife had knitted. He had come to thank us for the presents, and for all grandmothers kindness to his family. Jake and Otto joined us from the basement and we sat about the stove, enjoying the deepening grey of the winter afternoon and the atmosphere of comfort and security in my grandfathers house. This feeling seemed completely to take possession of Mr. Shimerda. I suppose, in the crowded clutter of their cave, the old man had come to believe that peace and order had vanished from the earth, or existed only in the old world he had left so far behind. He sat still and passive, his head resting against the back of the wooden rocking-chair, his hands relaxed upon the arms. His face had a look of weariness and pleasure, like that of sick people when they feel relief from pain. Grandmother insisted on his drinking a glass of Virginia apple-brandy after his long walk in the cold, and when a faint flush came up in his cheeks, his features might have been cut out of a shell, they were so transparent. He said almost nothing, and smiled rarely; but as he rested there we all had a sense of his utter content.
As it grew dark, I asked whether I might light the Christmas tree before the lamp was brought. When the candle-ends sent up their conical yellow flames, all the coloured figures from Austria stood out clear and full of meaning against the green boughs. Mr. Shimerda rose, crossed himself, and quietly knelt down before the tree, his head sunk forward. His long body formed a letter S. I saw grandmother look apprehensively at grandfather. He was rather narrow in religious matters, and sometimes spoke out and hurt peoples feelings. There had been nothing strange about the tree before, but now, with some one kneeling before itimages, candles . . . Grandfather merely put his finger-tips to his brow and bowed his venerable head, thus Protestantizing the atmosphere.
We persuaded our guest to stay for supper with us. He needed little urging. As we sat down to the table, it occurred to me that he liked to look at us, and that our faces were open books to him. When his deep-seeing eyes rested on me, I felt as if he were looking far ahead into the future for me, down the road I would have to travel.
At nine oclock Mr. Shimerda lighted one of our lanterns and put on his overcoat and fur collar. He stood in the little entry hall, the lantern and his fur cap under his arm, shaking hands with us. When he took grandmothers hand, he bent over it as he always did, and said slowly, Good wo-man! He made the sign of the cross over me, put on his cap and went off in the dark. As we turned back to the sitting-room, grandfather looked at me searchingly. The prayers of all good people are good, he said quietly.
The week following Christmas brought in a thaw, and by New Years Day all the world about us was a broth of grey slush, and the guttered slope between the windmill and the barn was running black water. The soft black earth stood out in patches along the roadsides. I resumed all my chores, carried in the cobs and wood and water, and spent the afternoons at the barn, watching Jake shell corn with a hand-sheller.
One morning, during this interval of fine weather, Ántonia and her mother rode over on one of their shaggy old horses to pay us a visit. It was the first time Mrs. Shimerda had been to our house, and she ran about examining our carpets and curtains and furniture, all the while commenting upon them to her daughter in an envious, complaining tone. In the kitchen she caught up an iron pot that stood on the back of the stove and said: You got many, Shimerdas no got. I thought it weak-minded of grandmother to give the pot to her.
After dinner, when she was helping to wash the dishes, she said, tossing her head: You got many things for cook. If I got all things like you, I make much better.
She was a conceited, boastful old thing, and even misfortune could not humble her. I was so annoyed that I felt coldly even toward Ántonia and listened unsympathetically when she told me her father was not well.
My papa sad for the old country. He not look good. He never make music any more. At home he play violin all the time; for weddings and for dance. Here never. When I beg him for play, he shake his head no. Some days he take his violin out of his box and make with his fingers on the strings, like this, but never he make the music. He dont like this kawn-tree.
People who dont like this country ought to stay at home, I said severely. We dont make them come here.
He not want to come, nev-er! she burst out. My mamenka make him come. All the time she say: America big country; much money, much land for my boys, much husband for my girls. My papa, he cry for leave his old friends what make music with him. He love very much the man what play the long horn like thisshe indicated a slide trombone. They go to school together and are friends from boys. But my mama, she want Ambrosch for be rich, with many cattle.
Your mama, I said angrily, wants other peoples things.
Your grandfather is rich, she retorted fiercely. Why he not help my papa? Ambrosch be rich, too, after while, and he pay back. He is very smart boy. For Ambrosch my mama come here.
Ambrosch was considered the important person in the family. Mrs. Shimerda and Ántonia always deferred to him, though he was often surly with them and contemptuous toward his father. Ambrosch and his mother had everything their own way. Though Ántonia loved her father more than she did anyone else, she stood in awe of her elder brother.
After I watched Ántonia and her mother go over the hill on their miserable horse, carrying our iron pot with them, I turned to grandmother, who had taken up her darning, and said I hoped that snooping old woman wouldnt come to see us any more.
Grandmother chuckled and drove her bright needle across a hole in Ottos sock. Shes not old, Jim, though I expect she seems old to you. No, I wouldnt mourn if she never came again. But, you see, a body never knows what traits poverty might bring out in em. It makes a woman grasping to see her children want for things. Now read me a chapter in The Prince of the House of David. Lets forget the Bohemians.
On the morning of the twenty-second I wakened with a start. Before I opened my eyes, I seemed to know that something had happened. I heard excited voices in the kitchengrandmothers was so shrill that I knew she must be almost beside herself. I looked forward to any new crisis with delight. What could it be, I wondered, as I hurried into my clothes. Perhaps the barn had burned; perhaps the cattle had frozen to death; perhaps a neighbour was lost in the storm.
Down in the kitchen grandfather was standing before the stove with his hands behind him. Jake and Otto had taken off their boots and were rubbing their woollen socks. Their clothes and boots were steaming, and they both looked exhausted. On the bench behind the stove lay a man, covered up with a blanket. Grandmother motioned me to the dining-room. I obeyed reluctantly. I watched her as she came and went, carrying dishes. Her lips were tightly compressed and she kept whispering to herself: Oh, dear Saviour! Lord, Thou knowest!
Presently grandfather came in and spoke to me: Jimmy, we will not have prayers this morning, because we have a great deal to do. Old Mr. Shimerda is dead, and his family are in great distress. Ambrosch came over here in the middle of the night, and Jake and Otto went back with him. The boys have had a hard night, and you must not bother them with questions. That is Ambrosch, asleep on the bench. Come in to breakfast, boys.
After Jake and Otto had swallowed their first cup of coffee, they began to talk excitedly, disregarding grandmothers warning glances. I held my tongue, but I listened with all my ears.
No, sir, Fuchs said in answer to a question from grandfather, nobody heard the gun go off. Ambrosch was out with the ox-team, trying to break a road, and the women-folks was shut up tight in their cave. When Ambrosch come in, it was dark and he didnt see nothing, but the oxen acted kind of queer. One of em ripped around and got away from himbolted clean out of the stable. His hands is blistered where the rope run through. He got a lantern and went back and found the old man, just as we seen him.
Poor soul, poor soul! grandmother groaned. Id like to think he never done it. He was always considerate and un-wishful to give trouble. How could he forget himself and bring this on us!
I dont think he was out of his head for a minute, Mrs. Burden, Fuchs declared. He done everything natural. You know he was always sort of fixy, and fixy he was to the last. He shaved after dinner, and washed hisself all over after the girls had done the dishes. Ántonia heated the water for him. Then he put on a clean shirt and clean socks, and after he was dressed he kissed her and the little one and took his gun and said he was going out to hunt rabbits. He must have gone right down to the barn and done it then. He layed down on that bunk-bed, close to the ox stalls, where he always slept. When we found him, everything was decent exceptFuchs wrinkled his brow and hesitatedexcept what he couldnt nowise foresee. His coat was hung on a peg, and his boots was under the bed. Hed took off that silk neckcloth he always wore, and folded it smooth and stuck his pin through it. He turned back his shirt at the neck and rolled up his sleeves.
I dont see how he could do it! grandmother kept saying.
Otto misunderstood her. Why, mam, it was simple enough; he pulled the trigger with his big toe. He layed over on his side and put the end of the barrel in his mouth, then he drew up one foot and felt for the trigger. He found it all right! . . .
. . . Grandmother told grandfather she meant to go over to the Shimerdas with him.
There is nothing you can do, he said doubtfully. The body cant be touched until we get the coroner here from Black Hawk, and that will be a matter of several days, this weather.
Well, I can take them some victuals, anyway, and say a word of comfort to them poor little girls. The oldest one was his darling, and was like a right hand to him. He might have thought of her. Hes left her alone in a hard world.
The Burden household discusses where Mr. Shimerda will be buried.
At supper the men ate like vikings, and the chocolate cake, which I had hoped would linger on until tomorrow in a mutilated condition, disappeared on the second round. They talked excitedly about where they should bury Mr. Shimerda; I gathered that the neighbours were all disturbed and shocked about something. It developed that Mrs. Shimerda and Ambrosch wanted the old man buried on the southwest corner of their own land; indeed, under the very stake that marked the corner. Grandfather had explained to Ambrosch that some day, when the country was put under fence and the roads were confined to section lines, two roads would cross exactly on that corner. But Ambrosch only said, It makes no matter.
Grandfather asked Jelinek2whether in the old country there was some superstition to the effect that a suicide must be buried at the cross-roads. Jelinek said he didnt know; he seemed to remember hearing there had once been such a custom in Bohemia. Mrs. Shimerda is made up her mind, he added. I try to persuade her, and say it looks bad for her to all the neighbours; but she say so it must be. There I will bury him, if I dig the grave myself, she say. I have to promise her I help Ambrosch make the grave tomorrow.
Grandfather smoothed his beard and looked judicial. I dont know whose wish should decide the matter, if not hers. But if she thinks she will live to see the people of this country ride over that old mans head, she is mistaken.
The coffin was put into the wagon. We drove slowly away, against the fine, icy snow which cut our faces like a sand-blast. When we reached the grave, it looked a very little spot in that snow-covered waste. The men took the coffin to the edge of the hole and lowered it with ropes. We stood about watching them, and the powdery snow lay without melting on the caps and shoulders of the men and the shawls of the women. Jelinek spoke in a persuasive tone to Mrs. Shimerda, and then turned to grandfather.
She says, Mr. Burden, she is very glad if you can make some prayer for him here in English, for the neighbours to understand.
Grandmother looked anxiously at grandfather. He took off his hat, and the other men did likewise. I thought his prayer remarkable. I still remember it. He began, Oh, great and just God, no man among us knows what the sleeper knows, nor is it for us to judge what lies between him and Thee. He prayed that if any man there had been remiss toward the stranger come to a far country, God would forgive him and soften his heart. He recalled the promises to the widow and the fatherless, and asked God to smooth the way before this widow and her children, and to incline the hearts of men to deal justly with her. In closing, he said we were leaving Mr. Shimerda at Thy judgment seat, which is also Thy mercy seat.
All the time he was praying, grandmother watched him through the black fingers of her glove, and when he said Amen, I thought she looked satisfied with him. She turned to Otto and whispered, Cant you start a hymn, Fuchs? It would seem less heathenish.
Fuchs glanced about to see if there was general approval of her suggestion, then began, Jesus, Lover of my Soul, and all the men and women took it up after him. Whenever I have heard the hymn since, it has made me remember that white waste and the little group of people; and the bluish air, full of fine, eddying snow, like long veils flying:
While the nearer waters roll,
While the tempest still is high.
. . . . . . . .
Years afterward, when the open-grazing days were over, and the red grass had been ploughed under and under until it had almost disappeared from the prairie; when all the fields were under fence, and the roads no longer ran about like wild things, but followed the surveyed section-lines, Mr. Shimerdas grave was still there, with a sagging wire fence around it, and an unpainted wooden cross. As grandfather had predicted, Mrs. Shimerda never saw the roads going over his head. The road from the north curved a little to the east just there, and the road from the west swung out a little to the south; so that the grave, with its tall red grass that was never mowed, was like a little island; and at twilight, under a new moon or the clear evening star, the dusty roads used to look like soft grey rivers flowing past it. I never came upon the place without emotion, and in all that country it was the spot most dear to me. I loved the dim superstition, the propitiatory intent, that had put the grave there; and still more I loved the spirit that could not carry out the sentencethe error from the surveyed lines, the clemency of the soft earth roads along which the home-coming wagons rattled after sunset. Never a tired driver passed the wooden cross, I am sure, without wishing well to the sleeper.~


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The Romney-Ryan plan is the wrong path for America
August 23, 2012Public Policy Polling reports, "PPP's newest poll of Virginia finds Barack Obama leading by 5 points, 50-45... Interestingly despite [Paul] Ryan's good numbers personally, only 38% of voters support the Ryan plan while 46% are opposed to it. We saw a similar trend in our Wisconsin polling over the weekend and it suggests that voters like Ryan personally but don't necessarily like what the stands for. Democrats need to try to shift the focus with Ryan from the man to the policies." Progressive Point: Our leaders are supposed to work for all of us, not just the wealthiest few. But Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan support massive transfers of wealth from working families to the already-rich. It's no wonder Romney picked Ryan to be his running mate -- Ryan's plan would let Romney pay a tax rate lower than 1% and end Medicare's guarantee of coverage that he'll never need. Yesterday, Ryan was again trying to pitch his "help the rich get richer" plans across the Commonwealth and raising big bucks from the same folks who would benefit from his 1% tax cuts. He's trying to explain why his plan to raise taxes on the middle class, end Medicare as we know it, and gut home front investments is the right plan for America. The Romney-Ryan plan is the wrong path for America: an America, and a Virginia, where hardworking families pay more so the richest few pay less. |
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whoa. that's all i have to say about the latest issue of est magazine. issue no. 4 of est just knocked my socks off. if i could pin it i would pin almost every single page. if you're a scandinavian design lover-freak like me, you gotta go look at est — like right now. and subscribe — it's free! est is just amazing. i'm still processing all the goodness, but had to post about it right this minute.
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Lil Wayne considers himself a "generous dude" when it comes to "catering" to his fans.
The rapper - who founded American record label Young Money Entertainment - released his latest musical offering Dedication 4, this week. Lil Wayne is proud of continually providing new music to his legion of followers.
"The reason why I'm recording mixtapes is because I've grown a whole fan base that just loves Wayne mixtapes," he said in an interview with Mixtape Daily.
"Me being the generous dude I am, I have to cater to those people, so that's why I do the mixtapes now."
Lil Wayne's label has signed artists Drake, Nicki Minaj and the hip-hop star himself. All three musicians are nominated for gongs at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) this week.
The 29-year-old star is proud of the success he has achieved throughout his career with both his own music and his fellow signed stars.
"The competitive person I am, it makes me feel great, awesome, excited and all that... but overall, it makes me feel undone," he explained last month when asked about his VMA nods.
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White House: American Seized In Iran Wasn't On CIA Payroll
December 13, 2013 The Obama administration reiterated its long-held position that Robert Levinson was not "a U.S. government employee when he went missing in Iran" in 2007. The assertion comes a day after The Associated Press reported that Levinson was on a rogue mission for the CIA.
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Obama Petitions FCC To Legalize Cellphone Unlocking
September 17, 2013 The administration sent a petition to the Federal Communications Commission asking it to come up with new rules to override a law scheduled to take effect in January. The law would make it a crime punishable by up to five years in prison to unlock your cellphone without permission from your carrier.
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Fix Is In For Congressional Obamacare Glitch
August 7, 2013 For employees on Capitol Hill, the new health law left some ambiguity as to who will be required to switch from federal worker insurance to health exchanges. For those who will have to switch, it's unclear what sort of employer contributions they can expect into the future.
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Will Obamacare Mean Fewer Jobs? Depends On Whom You Ask
July 30, 2013 Are employers already cutting hours and jobs to avoid pending requirements of the Affordable Care Act? As with so many of the issues surrounding Obamacare, the answers are all over the map.
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Obama Turns To Comedians To Promote Health Coverage
July 23, 2013 After being spurned by the NFL, the Obama administration is wooing Jennifer Hudson, Amy Poehler and other big names in entertainment for help in getting younger people to sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. It's a strategy used in the 2008 and 2012 elections.
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GOP Says, Why Not Delay That Health Care Law, Like, Forever?
July 10, 2013 The Obama administration's decision to delay an employer insurance requirement in the Affordable Care Act seems like a good idea to Republicans. So good, in fact, that GOP senators and congressmen are saying that the entire health care overhaul should be reconsidered.
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Caroline Kennedy To Be Ambassador To Japan? Talk Grows
April 1, 2013 The daughter of the nation's 35th president has been talked about as a potential envoy to Tokyo. Now, multiple news outlets say they've been told she's President Obama's choice and is being vetted for the job.
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March 4, 2013 President Obama plans to announce three Cabinet-level nominations Monday, including a new administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency, who could be on the hot seat in the looming battle over global warming.
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March 3, 2013 On Monday, President Obama will nominate Sylvia Mathews Burwell, currently head of the Walmart Foundation, as his next budget director, a White House official said.
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March 1, 2013 The Washington Post journalist says he never characterized the White House as threatening him over a story on sequestration.
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February 28, 2013 The veteran Washington Post reporter says a White House aide threatened him over a story about President Obama's role in sequestration.
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January 31, 2013 The former Nebraska senator faces the Senate Armed Services Committee. After some initial doubts, the conventional wisdom in Washington is that he's likely to be confirmed. But Hagel will face some sharp questions about his views on key issues.
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MIAMI (AP) -- Florida now has the highest percentage of 4-year-old children nationwide enrolled in a state prekindergarten program. But a new report is warning that funding and quality are so low the state may see little return on its investment.
A National Institute for Early Education Research report finds that 76 percent of 4-year-old children are enrolled in the state's voluntary pre-kindergarten program. Yet state funding per child enrolled is significantly lower than the nationwide average.
Florida's voluntary prekindergarten program also only meets three of 10 quality standards measurements, which include teacher preparation requirements and class size.
The director of the Officer of Early Learning says the program has shown positive results, with nearly 77 percent scoring as "kindergarten ready" on two assessments last school year.
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Several of Lulu's beloved Eames elephant cousins are going on a safari! Here's what the Eames Office had to say about it:
If you enjoyed the epic A Gathering of Elephants from a few years ago, Eames Demetrios, director of the Eames Office, has made another Elephant movie, this time animated on location in South Africa, at Mala Mala Game Reserve outside Kruger National Park.
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A heartwarming collection of true stories that weave a rich tapestry of the adoption experience from many different perspectives: birthmothers, adoptive parents and grandparents, and adopted children and adults. These inspiring stories reveal the challenges and joys of the lifelong adoption journey including: the pain of letting go of a child; the wonderment of meeting "your" perfect child halfway around the world; the challenges of adopting an older child already set in his ways; watching a child's potential flourish in a loving environment; sibling rivalry and eventual bonding; integrating a child's culture into a new multiracial family; finding peace in the search for identity, roots and unanswered questions; and feeling the happiness and love that comes from forming a family. While each story is unique, the emotions conveyed are universal: love, loss, hope and joy. The collection will appeal to everyone affected by adoption, regardless of their phase in the journey. Stunning black-and-white photos are included.


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Most of our wine consumption of wine is divided into two main groups: an aperitif to whet the appetite and stimulate the taste buds, and then the what we drink with a meal. From my experiences, most of my friends do not go beyond that. Although sweet desserts in all variety generally follow a meal, wines often do not. Possibly we are already sated, or simply we don't have the tradition to continue the wine experience after the main meal. If our sweet tooth desires usually crave something sweet to complete the meal, usually salty, why not wine as well? There are numerous after dinner wines, generally mid-sweat to sweet, that do about the same thing, although they satisfy the palate differently. I admit that my personal taste in wine does not often go for sweet wines—"stickies," as they are poetically called in England—but if I feel the urge, especially on a cold night, my choice would be for Port.
I doubt that there are as many drinkers of Port as there are consumers of table wines. Outside of England where Port is king, the wine is associated with stuffy old gentleman at their club discussing Conservative Party politics in front of their fireplace with their fine, aged Port in hand. If you have ever been invited to a gentleman's club in London, you will know that the image is not already false. But apart from this Victorian image of stuffiness, Port can be enjoyed by all and should be.
What we call Port is really Vinho do Porto, a fortified wine that got its name in the 17th century from the seaport in Portugal, Porto, on the mouth of the Douro River. It is in fact the oldest protected appellation of viticulture, the name guarded since 1756. The grapes used to make Port is often, but not exclusively, Touriga Nacional, which is also used to make fine table wine, now more than before. What is distinctive about Port as opposed to a table wine is that it is fortified with natural grape spirits (aguardente—meaning fiery water, which it certainly is), which stops fermentation, leaves residual sugar, and ups the alcohol level. Usually the alcohol content in most Port ranges between the 18% to 20%. After the process of fortification, the wine is aged in wood in the cave.
Port can be rather complex, but in essence there are two styles that are generally marketed (I exclude Ruby Port which is very young and often wimpy): Tawny Port and Vintage Port. The first lives up to its name. It mellows in storage, oxidizes a bit, and when finished gives a golden-red color from which the name Tawny comes. It is often very smooth on the tongue, lively on the taste buds, and delicious with certain cheeses. The sweetness is a bit subdued because the wine has been aged in wood—the bottle will tell you how long, but often 10 years as a minimum; the longer the aging, the higher the price, and the more mellow the taste.
Vintage Port, on the other hand, is altogether another story. For most wine drinkers, vintage simply means the year when the grapes were harvested, indicated as such on the bottle. For Port, vintage implies not only the year, but also an extra quality. What is important to note is that the Port producer himself will announce a Port as "Vintage Port." Samples are sent to a control board who approve or not, and if the quality is high enough, a vintage is officially "declared" for that producer, but not necessarily for others. Usually this happens only a few times per decade if the quality is high enough to meet the standards. When you buy Vintage Port, so named on the bottle with the year, you are in fact being guaranteed that the quality is high.
Although Port goes well with certain cheeses and fruity desserts, I don't particularly find it necessary to pair it with any food. A small glass of fine Port..that's all you need—is enough to finish a satisfying meal with a warm, delicious feeling that goes to one's heart rather than the stomach.
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Pippa Middleton has revealed she found her rise to fame because of the royal family and her derriere a bit "startling." The Duchess of Cambridge's younger sister has opened up for the first time about her new-found celebrity status in her new party-planning book, Celebrate, admitting that she is struggling to "make sense" of becoming famous because of her bottom.
The 29-year-old sister of Britain's future Queen, whose bum became one of the highlights of last year's Royal Wedding, confesses in the book: "It is a bit startling to achieve global recognition before the age of 30 on account of your sister, your brother-in-law and your bottom."
Pippa Middleton catapulted to fame after she played a maid of honor at the Royal Wedding of her sister Kate with Prince William in 2011 thanks to a figure-hugging white dress that accentuated her bottom.
In a new party planning book, titled Celebrate: A Year Of British Festivities For Families And Friends, she has revealed that she is trying to concentrate on the advantages her association with the Royal Family brings.
She writes: "One day I might be able to make sense of this. In the meantime I think it's fair to say that it has its upside and its downside. I certainly have opportunities many can only dream of – but in most ways I'm a typical girl in her 20s trying to forge a career and represent herself in what can sometimes seem rather strange circumstances."
She adds: "I am by nature an optimist so I tend to concentrate on the advantages. One of the most attractive has been the chance to publish [this book] Celebrate."
The brunette beauty is gearing up for the launch of her new book that goes on sale at the end of this month.
In an extract published in You magazine, Pippa continues: "I know many of you will pick up the book out of nothing more than curiosity. [But] I can assure you that it feels even stranger to me than it probably does to you to have seen so much written about me when I have done so little to paint a picture of myself."
She adds: "This is my first chance to do that and I've enjoyed every minute of it. The book is designed to be a comprehensive guide to home entertaining, based on my experience in my family's business Party Pieces and work for London-based events company Table Talk."
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I think you uninformed left wingers have been celebrating the new pot law well in advance. Obama and you have been blaming the mess on Bush for 4 years. Now you have a much larger mess that can only be attributed to Obama and his cast of pathelogical liars. Get some fresh air.
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Plains Grain & Agronomy, LLC would like to announce the sale of our fuel business. This includes all aspects of PGAg's fuel and oil products. City View Fuels, LLC of Enderlin has purchased the business effective March 1, 2013. So beginning March 1, 2013 you will need to contact a new supplier for these products and services.
Until City View Fuels completes their new location they will be operating through PGAg's cardtrol site. Your PGAg fuel card will be valid but the billing will come from City View Fuels after March 1, 2013.
City View Fuels will provide heating fuel and bulk fuel delivery and quotes for transport delivered fuels. They will also have oil and grease supplies.
Fuel assistance customers please contact the county office you reside in to change your supplier.
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We are The Science Show and we need to talk about mental health. This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and its an important issue that will affect almost all of us in some form or another during our lives. Whilst students have shown ourselves to be more open, honest and frank about many things, including sex and mental health, we still find ourselves silenced by unnecessary stigma attached to these important problems.
Here we will be looking at the more scientific areas of mental health disorders. For more information on the more general aspects, please listen to the show 6-7pm on 13/05/2013 or if you missed it find the podcast here.
Introduction to Neurochemstry
The brain is the most complicated machine on Earth. Leading scientists have been searching for years as to the wonders of the thing that gives us consciousness. Yet even with thousands of scientific publications each year, we seem to still be only scratching the surface of least understood part of the human body.


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The Southern Commercial Convention--A European Steamship Line to be Established.
The Commercial Convention, which has been in session here, adjourned to-day after having appointed an Executive Committee to procure a charter and subscriptions for the "Norfolk and Liverpool Steamship Company." Several railroad Presidents who were present inaugurated a movement to consolidate the various railroad lines leading from Norfolk to Nashville and Memphis, and gave assurances that the roads are now in readiness to transport whatever may be offered.


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Welcome to our C.I.S Program
For more information about this class, please contact us.
Paragon C.I.S. (Center for Instructor Study) is a comprehensive Instructor certification program for those individuals who seek the very highest level of Instructor training. The Instructor Candidates who join us have researched their certification options. Their goal is to excel in their teaching abilities when returning home. Mediocrity is not a part of their standards. Their reputation, and the service provided to their students, matter greatly to these individuals.
An Instructor certification program has obligations to its Candidates. Those obligations are to teach competency, to prepare the Candidate for the many questions, issues, problems and challenges his/her students will bring. That puts the burden squarely on the certification program to teach accordingly, to prepare each Candidate with outstanding safety, communication and teaching skills. The Paragon C.I.S. certification program does precisely that.
Paragon Instructors excel in their work because they are given the proper training tools and methods. Our Instructors excel in their work because they are patient, compassionate and passionate about their teaching. Paragon Instructors know their clients expect to leave with new information and knowledge - useful answers to her questions - and a higher skill level. This is why a Paragon certification class must be, and is more comprehensive.
Teaching requires many skills but none more than important than understanding that we are not in the shooting business - we are in the people business. Your students will bring you their problems and trust you to not only resolve those problems but expect you to care about them while doing it. More than hoping to be successful in the shooting box, they expect to be. So the Instructor must, without question, a) know how to prepare in advance and b) know what he/she is doing, start to finish. Endless missing compounded by poor communications; unanswered questions; confusion; lack of preparation; safety violations; misunderstandings - these are the marks of incompetency and why the Paragon certification class is more comprehensive, more thorough and more successful.
It would be fair to say our program is an advanced program. This doesn't mean the training is for working with advanced students only. Quite the opposite, Paragon training prepares you to work with all students from E to M class. Trap, Skeet, Sporting Clays, Wing Shooting and Gentlemen's Coaching, the Professional Associate class places a major emphasis on how to successfully interact with people of both genders, all ages and all skill levels - the art and science of teaching. we teach competence. That's our promise to every Candidate - and we keep that promise.
We believe it is not the advanced but the "entry-level" Instructor who should complete the most time in the certification process, and receive the most training. Which is why C.I.S. offers a 6 1/2 day Professional Associate class and not 2 or 3 day.
Thank you for your interest in our C.I.S. program.
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In The Bleachers Podcast: Steven Salzberg of "Get Football Out Of Our Universities" Fame Joins Us
On today's podcast we've got Steven Salzberg a professor of Computer Science and Genetics at the University of Maryland on the podcast.
Why you ask?
Well because Professor Salzberg penned an article entitled "Get Football Out Of Our Universities" for Forbes Magazine last weekand needless to say the piece touched off some strong sentiments in our community. Inspired by some statements regarding science fairs and the Super Bowl, Salzberg took the opportunity to explain why he'd like to see the university communities in America jettison the game we all love into an independent or "loosely affiliated" sport within the grand scheme of things. Salzberg and I hit on several major points from his article as well as taking this opportunity to expound on the ideas he touched on in Forbes.
The reason behind his article is clear and while we're on two separate sides of the issue we do see eye to eye on several things including education of players for later in life and the idea that university presidents, chancellors and the like shouldn't be anywhere near the football program.
Other interesting portions of the conversation are the discussion of donations and why he targeted football specifically. Would donations continue to pour in should football programs be removed from the actual universities themselves? He thinks so, I'm not so certain.
On the football specific argument it is interesting that Salzberg notes all student athletes are in not in an ideal scenario to maximize their education opportunity but uses football because of the sports massive sphere of influence and the dollars associated with the game.
All in all it is a great discussion and no matter what side you fall on the idea is one that should be kicked around. Personally, as I state during the show, I feel that football and the student athlete community as a whole are part of the diversity and wealth of experiences that truly enrich the college experience for the participants and non-athlete students alike.
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From the mind of Aaron Sorkin, creator of The West Wing and screenwriter of The Social Network and Moneyball, comes The Newsroom, a behind-the-scenes look at the people who make a nightly cable-news program. Focusing on a network anchor (played by Jeff Daniels), his new executive producer (Emily Mortimer), the newsroom staff (John Gallagher, Jr., Alison Pill, Thomas Sadoski, Olivia Munn, Dev Patel) and their boss (Sam Waterston), the series tracks their quixotic mission to do the news well in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles-not to mention their own personal entanglements.
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Diferent Batch Distillation Column Configurations by Haydn I. Furlonge
The configuration of a column is defined by the number of column sections, the position of the feed charge and the points from which products are withdrawn. There are four main types of column configurations. The conventional column is more commonly known as the regular column. It has been around for many centuries, and as far as the author is aware, it is the one used exclusively in current industrial practice. Unconventional columns were proposed by Robinson and Gilliland in 1950. These include the inverted, middle vessel and multivessel columns. The diferent column configurations are defined below:
Middle vessel column: the feed may be charged to a vessel located between two column sections and the products may be withdrawn simultaneously from the reflux drum (lightest first) and the reboiler drum (heaviest first), as shown in Figure c.
Multivessel column: comprises more than one column section ; the feed may be distributed among the reflux drum, side vessels and reboiler drum, and the products may either be collected in these vessels or be withdrawn into accumulators, as shown in Figure d. This column is also referred to as a multi-effect column since multiple products are produced simultaneously.


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Reports of the budget battle in Bethlehem have focused on the political and personal conflict between the mayor and the City Council. Apparently lost in this story is the devastating blow that the mayor has dealt to the city's Health Bureau.
While claiming the need for budget cuts, which is understandable, the city has given up grants from the state, prompted the resignation of two outstanding public servants (the director and the medical director) and in the process, deprived the citizens of Bethlehem of a host of direct services as well as protection against future epidemics and other health threats.


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Keep in mind....this article has nothing to do with having or not having a place for foot ferries. It's about a walkway, folks. A freakin WALKWAY! Ten million dollars. Hello? What does that come out to? About $25,000 a foot, and that's IF this estimate is correct, and it rarely is. But hey, who's counting? It's just money.
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Young Vito Indicted, & Formally Charged With Slim Dunkin Murder
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Vito, who's real name is Vinson Hardimon, was charged with murder, felony murder, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during commission of a felony.
Vito was considered a suspect early in the case, police officially claim that he shot and killed 24-year-old Dunkin, whose real name was Mario Hamilton, at a recording studio in Atlanta, Georgia. A trial date hasn't been set yet.


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Sunidhi Chauhan the sensational Bollywood singer is earlier reported that she is dating aspiring music director Hitesh Sonik, is now heard that she is all set to marry composer Hitesh Sonik. Music director Hitesh Sonik has scored music for films like Pyaar ka Punchnama, My Friend Pinto and Stanley ka Dabba among others. Sunidhi who saw her first marriage a failure has almost always been a private person.
When asked her she turned bit annoyed but confirmed the news finally, it is true and Sunidi and Sonik will be getting married very soon but the date yet to be fixed . Hitesh has been a music setter first and is now a music director. Sources report that the couple have been dating since over a year and will mostly tie the knot next month in Mumbai.
A source claim that, Sunidi has always been very secretive and care taker about her personal life. Although she was earlier entered wedlock with Bobby Khan, brother of choreographer and director Ahmed Khan, she has spoken a bit about it in the media.Sunidhi gradually got popularized in the music charts as one of the top singers of the country.
She met Hitesh on a work a two of years back, and the two seen something goodness in each-other and have been dating since over a year. It was only last month they came up with a revelation that would be getting married. Looking at the news suggests that suitable date is being set for an April wedding however Sunidhi refused to tell more.
From the Hitesh what we hear is that he was her big fan and he is very happy to be turning as her husband now. He has known the young singer for 15 years. She was teenage girl when she won the Meri Awaz Suno music contest on television.
That is when they became friends. Slowly, over the years as she grew into a fabulous singer, their friendship flourished into love. Hitesh is the grand-nephew of the noted music composer Sonik of the Sonik-Omi pair of the 1960s and 1970s. Sunidhi Chauhan a singer who is now finally getting a musician Hitesh Sonik as both to have melodious life.


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Making the Team
This is a level 3 number and measurement activity from the Figure It Out theme series.
AO elaboration and other teaching resources
AO elaboration and other teaching resources
solve money problems using mental strategies
solve problems involving calculations with time
Activity One
This activity gives students an excellent opportunity to use their mental strategies for addition and multiplication. Mika suggests two such strategies on page 14. You could ask the students to suggest others. For example, to work out how much Mika earns from helping his neighbour with the fence, the students might round the $3.25 down to $3, do the calculation, and then add on the $0.25 × 8. The students could record the amounts Mika earns in a table like the one below. If preferred, the calculation column could be replaced with a strategy column:
Ask the students to estimate how much Mika has earned altogether before they calculate the exact answer. (See the discussion of estimates in the notes for Garage Sale, pages 15–16.)
Activity Two
This problem has a number of elements in it: time spent at rugby practice, time spent on homework, the ratio of homework to practice, and the amount of homework still to be completed.
Students are often confused by problems of this kind; they find it hard to know where to begin, how to pull the details together, and how to judge whether their answer is sensible. Finding the total amount of time already spent on homework (125 minutes) and at rugby practices (110 minutes) is a good first move. The students are likely to find it easiest to work entirely in minutes rather than to try and deal with hours and minutes. "25 minutes on homework for every 20 minutes at practice" can be equally well expressed as "12.5 minutes of homework for every 10 minutes of practice". Mika spends 11 multiples of 10 minutes on his rugby (110), so he must spend 11 multiples of 12.5 (137.5) on his homework. He has already done 125 minutes, so this will mean he has another 12.5 minutes to do.
For the students who have difficulty understanding ratios, a double number line can be used. For more on these, see Book 7: Teaching Fractions, Decimals, and Percentages, Numeracy Professional Development Projects 2003, (Wellington: Ministry of Education, 2003). This material is available
online at http://www.nzmaths.co.nz/numeracy-development-projects-books
This activity may well provoke some discussion on the amount and regularity of homework. Is Mika's dad expecting too much when he says that Mika must do 25 minutes' homework for every 20 minutes of sports practice, or is this amount too small? A survey of the class could be done to see how much time the students spend on sports and cultural practices, compared with the time they spend on homework.
This activity could form part of a unit on Rights, Rules, and Responsibilities.
Have the students imagine that, in co-operation with a group of friends, they are going to paint a community building in the local area over one weekend. They consider a plan to complete the task effectively, identifying possible conflict situations and taking account of these in their planning.
Suggested achievement objectives are:
Social Studies
• how and why people make and implement rules and laws (Social Organisation, level 3)
• how and why people manage resources (Resources and Economic Activities, level 3)
• how and why people exercise their rights and meet their responsibilities (Social Organisation, level 4).
Answers to Activities
Activity One
The amount Mika earned was $117.50.
Activity Two
12.5 min. (Mika's practice takes 60 + 25 + 25 = 60 + 50 = 110 min., so he has to do 137.5 minutes of homework this week. He has already done 30 + 25 + 15 + 35 + 20 = 125 min. 137.5 – 125 = 12.5 min.)


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The Baltimore Ravens will host free skin cancer screenings before Thursday's scheduled NFL game against Cleveland.
At M&T Bank Stadium, tents will be set up from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. on AAA RavensWalk, where licensed dermatologists will conduct the screenings.
Fans who participate may enter a raffle to win an autographed piece of Ravens memorabilia. Fans may also pick up guides on screenings and may play GoalPost Avenue, an interactive online football game.
The team is conducting the effort in connection with Melanoma Exposed, an educational campaign to encourage screenings for skin cancer.


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Very clean and well laid out with a charming atmosphere. Friendly staff with convenient parking on the street
Very clean and well laid out with a charming atmosphere. Friendly staff with convenient parking on the street
During a recent trip to visit family in Central Ohio, I visited the Sherman House Museum in Lancaster, a suburb southwest of Columbus. I live in Charleston, South Carolina, so my standard for historical home tours is very high. Still, without exaggeration the Sherman House tour was the best I have ever taken of an historical home within the USA... More
Recently we took four grandsons (ages 7-11) to the home of Gen. William T. Sherman in Lancaster, Ohio. What a wonderful surprise for us! The guide was very knowledgeable and was skilled in involving young boys in learning and enjoying history. The home is filled with Civil War period antiques, many from the Sherman family. We grandparents were particularly interested... More
What a gem! John Dye was an excellent tour guide - it was just the two of us and he spent so much time explaining everything. He really knows the history of the General - and the area. What a pleasure.
The guides are very informative. I learned a lot about the entire Sherman family, and the local history of Lancaster Ohio. They have a lot of antique furniture and objects. It was a great peek into life during an earlier historical era.
Although not open from December-March, this historical house has a lot to offer. A realistic view in the life of a great and probably misunderstood Civil War hero/general.
The childhood home of General William Tecumseh Sherman is located in downtown Lancaster, Ohio, a mere 30 minutes from downtown Columbus. Historic downtown Lancaster offers several gems, including The Decorative Arts Center, The Glass Museum, The Georgian, and the Sherman House. The displays within the Sherman House detail the life and career of Lancaster's most famous son, including his march... More
The group before us had four people but it was only myself and my bride so our tour was private and we got to ask lots of questions and kid around with the docents. The tour lasted over an hour as it was the last one of the day and we were very interested in the house and the man.... More
Very interesting--we got a personal tour from Jim--he was really knowledable! It took about 45 minutes but I have a feeling he could have made it last longer if we'd wanted. The house is really well maintained.
Standing on the front porch one can imagine what it was like to have lived in Lancaster in the 1800's. The area is filled with history.
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Most associate hacking with negative connotations, but this year, Random Hacks of Kindness has been using their hacking powers for good, focusing on crisis management, waste reduction and neighborhood sharing. Random Hacks of Kindness, formed in 2009 through a partnership between Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, HP, NASA and the WorldBank, has a simple mission: "Hacking for Humanity."
Thousands of hackers have recently been working together for a huge hacking session in more than 19 cities. Out of the 75 solutions RHOK has developed, three were chosen as the most outstanding applications.
The SMS Person Finder allows any of the 4.5 billion people worldwide with a phone in their pocket to interface, search and report to the Google Person Finder database, increasing the accessibility of Person Finder to a global level.
Hey Cycle is a geographically diverse email alert system for the popular neighborhood exchange network, Freecycle. Hey Cycle allows users to receive alerts about the items they are looking for rather than having to repeatedly check the site. RHOK says "it's a 3-way win for people and the planet.
- People want to get rid of good working items as to not throw them away and fill up landfills.
- People who need free things.
- The planet who does not want any more garbage in landfills or CO2 emissions from materials used to mine, produce, ship and receive new products.
FoodMovr connects people who need food with those who have it. Soup Kitchens and Food Banks can register here to make use of all that food that goes to waste at restaurants and catered events. FoodMovr connects through a Google account and over mobile phones.


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Dr. Heinz Schaden, mayor of Salzburg, Austria, sailed on the Costa Concondia for a week of rest and quiet. We know how the story ends, but Peter recently spoke with the mayor to learn about the chaos on board, cases of crew misdirection, and his thoughts on how much of this tragedy could have been prevented.
Peter Greenberg: I'm sure you're glad to be home.
Dr. Heinz Schaden: I'm really glad to be home. I was lucky to escape unharmed which is not the case unfortunately for quite a few. Also, those passengers that I'm in contact with now that managed to escape, some of them still suffer from psychological wounds. Luckily, I'm in fine condition.
PG: You went on the ship just as a vacationing passenger, correct?
HS: Yes, I planned week of vacation far away from phones. I wanted some quiet, but it ended quite differently.
PG: Tell me what happened. Give me your play by play of where you were on the ship when you first heard, or felt something and what happened after that?
HS: It was 9:30 pm and I was in my cabin, packing my stuff because it was going to dock in Italy the next morning and all of a sudden everything flew because the ship hit the coast. It was quiet for a few seconds. Then it was like a gigantic earthquake. The ship was shaking and everything flew away. After a few moments, when it got quiet again the lights went out. It was pitch dark which was not reassuring for the passengers.
I opened my cabin doors and found my cabin neighbors in the hall. They were family with young children. As you can imagine, they were very shaken and didn't know what was going on. After a while we got a message on the intercom which said that there was a generator problem. At that point I noticed that the ship was tilting to the side and that we were taking in water and still the information came over the intercom that said, "Don't worry. Stay where you are. It's just a minor technical problem that we have and lights will be on very soon."
I am still furious about this. None of the lives should have been lost. If the passengers were told to go to your cabins and grab your life vest and go to the deck 4, which is where the boats are, then no life would have been lost. The ship's improper communication and direction is why some of the passengers drowned in their cabin with their life vests on.
After a while, passengers realized that something in seriously wrong and made up their mind to go to the deck where the boats are. There was no officer there to give instructions or tell the people what was really happening. But people could see something serious was happening, because the ship was sinking slowly and steadily. It was already so late that some of the boats could not be lowered to the water anymore. Only then evacuation began which was about an hour and a half after the collision.