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The sights of Monte Carloare burned into the minds of every racing fan. Whether it is the features of the race track, such as Casino Square or the tunnel, or the glamour of the harbour front the decades of racing through the streets of the tiny principality have left a mark on the very fabric of Formula 1.Monacois the only time during the season where the star of the show is the setting rather than the drivers.
In the past I had been to Monaco while on holidays but never during the Grand Prix weekend. The sheer volume of people during the Grand Prix weekend is obviously much greater than on a normal weekend but it never proved a hindrance with most restaurants not overrun with customers and short wait times.
The only issue over the course of the weekend was the train strike throughout Francewhich made it very difficult to get intoMonaco. With theCannesfilm festival on the same week maybe it was inevitable that the train staff would take this week as their target to air their grievances but it made it exceptionally difficult to travel within the region. To put this into perspective it took me eight hours to get to my apartment following qualifying!
The challenge of racing around the tight and twisty confines of the streets is well known to race fans but until you see the action up close it very difficult to appreciate just how difficult a task the drivers actually face.
The TV camera does a tremendous job of flattening the road surface and making Monaco appear to lack much by means of elevation changes but in reality it is very different. The drive from Sainte Devote towards the Casino features a very steep drag up the hill while it's all the way down hill towards the tunnel.
The road changes throughout the circuit were also surprising with the crown of the road very pronounced in some places, while almost non existent at other points of the track. The entrance towards Mirabeau was the most startling of these. With the racing line taking drivers away from the bump in the road they are forced to cross the crown twice in quick succession including as they enter the braking zone. This makes it very easy to lock up the inside front wheel before pitching the car towards the apex and the rain gully that runs down the inside of the track.
Apart from the differences between the track as it appears on television and in actually the biggest surprise from the weekend was just how amazing a Formula 1 car is to witness at such close proximity.
Standing trackside for F1 or any racing series is always a thrill butMonacoreally showed me the talent that the drivers have and just how aggressive they can be. As they hustle a car between the metal barriers with every mistake ready to be pounced on you get a great understanding of who has the most confidence in their car….and themselves.
The Swimming Pool was my first port of call on Thursday during the opening moments of FP1 and Nico Rosberg was the first driver that I saw coming towards me. The flash of his yellow helmet had been and gone in an instant, almost before it even registered with me.
As the session progressed and the track was cleaned you could see the drivers attacking more and more. They pinched an inch here and there, whether it was brushing against the guardrail on entry or bouncing over the kerbing at the apex, the line through the corner changed immensely and it was the same everywhere.
One of the advantages of being accredited atMonacowas the access granted by it. You are able to go to numerous places which are, by and large, off limits during the weekend. The tunnel is the prime example of this and the first place that many head to during the weekend. Usually on a race weekend you are filled with hustle and bustle with a packed paddock and fans filling the grandstand. The tunnel however is very different. You are isolated, you are alone.
It's just you, the track and the best drivers in the world. It's a great feeling but even this was different to what I expected. The noise was tremendous but it was the ground shaking that took me by surprise. As the car came to pass the sound reverberated off the walls and the sheer power of the Formula 1 cars made the ground shake. It was truly amazing to witness this sensation.
The loneliness of the tunnel is in stark contrast to the paddock. Located in the harbour space is obviously a limited quantity and the motor-homes are packed on top of one another with little to no space between them.
Whereas the paddocks I have visited in the past have generally been quite open and with enough space to roamMonacowas in stark contrast. There was barely room to swing a car and it reminded me of the Qatar MotoGP paddock where teams operate as a fly away basis and work out of shells in the paddock.
The limited space was such that the Red Bull "floater-home" is located outside the cordoned off paddock with the majority of fans congregating on the jetty walkway outside of it and the paddock entrance as they seek a glimpse of the drivers and celebrities.
The celebs play an integral role inMonacoand with theCannesfilm festival taking place on the same week the paddock was awash with movie stars with Cuba Gooding Jr and Will Smith both present during the weekend as well as a host of their peers.
All in all Monaco lived up to my expectations in many ways and exceeding them in many others. I've spent a lifetime hearing about the atmosphere of this race but also have been used to seeing it not really translate to the screen.
Being there in person however I was able to witness this atmosphere and feel a part of it and it truly is a one of a kind race….and one that I cant wait to get back to in the future!

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Monday, March 23, 2009
And thats why I love You...Posted by Vinodh at 8:18 AM
Your glorious eyes, in the orange face, with silken voice and the innocent look!!! When you caught me staring un-guilt, that Smiling look with the head tilt, You're my angel - my heart felt.. The glance from the corner of your eye Sent me flying all-high!!! Chocolate - I'd never ask a bite, and seldom do others take it right!! And, when I asked - craving, you halved it without saving At first sight - My eyes popped, My jaws dropped, My pulse raced, I was jolt - with your thunderbolt!! --- And These are the reasons - Unreal!! The actual, reason - Now I reveal... I love you - Coz, I love you!!! Love cant be reasoned, You just fall unseasoned!!! --Vinodh
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- Siddharth said...
Seems u have become a professional writer/poet. Truly amazed....
- 11:39 AM, March 23, 2009
- Kavitha said...
its really ur best one. but who is that lucky girl??
Sollidu pls :D
- 7:27 AM, May 18, 2010
- Arun said...
Excellent one... That too the twist at the end. Rocks!
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For my card, I tried to create some of the feeling in the inspiration examples. I used an uneven gray stenciled background, soft green vellum and shimmery silver leaves, bright flowers, and embroidery floss details.
Card details:
- Card stock is Papertrey Ink (PTI) soft stone (light gray), harvest gold (yellow), summer sunrise (yellow-orange), tropical teal, berry sorbet (deep pink), melon berry (light orange), silver shimmer, and the bitty dot print from PTI sheer basics patterned vellum. In real life, the berry sorbet and melon berry colors are more orangey.
- I colored the vellum on the back with Copic marker G24 for a green tint.
- Stencil is from PTI modern background collection, airbrushed unevenly with Copic marker T3.
- Dies are PTI turning a new leaf (vellum leaves), branching out (silver leaves), star gazer (button flower centers), stitching lines, and pencil blooms. I added an extra hole to the shorter stitching line to get an even number for my design.
- Embroidery floss is DMC #3818 (dark green), 954 (light green), 3705 (pink), 943 (teal), and 744 (yellow) using all six strands. I left my tails on top and separated the threads.


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Wi-Fi Voltage Meter - 0-1.2 VDC with High Gain Antenna
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Monnit Wi-Fi sensors can be easily programmed with Wi-Fi network security via a low cost USB programming cable, available here, and the free MoWi Setup Utility for Windows®PC's, keeping the user's Wi-Fi network secure. User defined transmission intervals (heartbeats) and sensor threshold settings ensure that sensor data is received when needed, based on the application. All sensor data is stored securely in the iMonnit Online Sensor Monitoring software and is viewable from any web enabled device. Email and SMS text messages can be configured through the online system to alert the user immediately when a defined parameter has been met or exceeded.
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We all have a chance to do something good. We have choices, regardless of circumstance. A person doesn't have to be one way or another simply because of his location; the fertile soil and the rocky ground can occur simply side-by-side. You pick the side you want to grow in, that is, are you a weed or wheat? Jesus acknowledged that they often will grow side-by-side in His "Parable of the Weeds", saying:
"And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, 'Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds?' He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' So the servants said to him, 'Then do you want us to go and gather them?' But he said, 'No, lest in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat along with them. Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.'" (Matthew 13:27-30 ESV)
Yes, I understand outside forces that prey on people. Sometimes that force can be a vacuum and suck you right in if you are too close. I know that in certain neighborhoods, a street gang through intimidation can suck young people right into the gang or kill them for their refusal. When it comes to violent gangs, death is coming anyway, at one time or another, perhaps the best thing to do is to refuse before you become marked guilty of some crime. Gang members will always meet with death; physically or mentally; they are the weak ones. The strong will always resist and keep their personal integrity. Yes, sometimes the choices can be very difficult, but there are always choices.
Two thieves were crucified with our Lord Jesus; each made a choice. One turned from his earthly deadness toward Christ and was received and forgiven. The other remained in his deadness and suffered separation from God, a sentence much worse than the crucifixion. I made a choice too; see Part 2.


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In the spring of 1942, workers completed a memorial to another man for whom Henry Ford had tremendous respect and admiration - agricultural chemist George Washington Carver. The small log structure the workers built was based on Carver's own memories of his Diamond Grove, Missouri plantation birthplace. Carver, who was born into slavery around 1860, visited Ford in July of 1942 and spent a few days in the cabin.
It would only be six months later that Carver would pass away.
Dr. Carver was well-known for his experiments with the peanut, sweet potatoes, soybeans. and pecans, and he advocated and taught crop rotation which helped the poor farmers, who previously farmed only cotton, to grow a variety of crops. In doing this, Carver vastly improved the economy of the southern states.
The Carver Memorial was a part of the group of buildings that recognized the progress of black Americans from slavery through world recognition.
Once again, I apologize for the lack of inside photos. I will have some posted as soon as I take them.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
George Washington Carver Cabin (formerly known as George Washington Carver Memorial and Carver Memorial)
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As corn prices continue to range near multi-year lows and the expectations for increases in interest rates start to perk up (taper anyone), the value of farmland may start to reverse their strong decade or longer advance. For example, assume we have a farmland owner in Northern Iowa who has 190+ bushel acre corn ground. Last year, his neighbor's quarter section sold for $12,000 per acre. Top cash rent ground in the area was going for close to $400 per acre. Over time, about 1/3 of revenues related to farmland is usually earned by the landlord.
In this case, 190+ bushel corn at $6 per bushel (2012 prices) would equal about $1,200 of revenue. $400 cash rent is 1/3 of this number, so the actual cash rent earned on the investment is about right.
Since the person purchasing the property could only earn less than a 1% return on their money in a risk-free investments (savings at the bank, US Treasury bills), they were OK with a 3-4% rate of return on their farmland purchase. Cash rents of $400 less real estate taxes of about $15 per acre resulted in net cash rent income of $385. This results in a 3.2% rate of return. Again, within the range the investor needs.
Now, let's go forward a few years. Corn prices have stayed in the $3.75 to $4.25 range while yields have increased to about 200 bushels per acre. This results in about $850 of gross income on average. Cash rents at 35% drops the cash return to the investor from a net of $385 to about $280. The elimination of "tapering" by the Federal Reserve has now increased long-term interest rates from an artificially low 2-3% to the more normal 5-6%. This results in our investor requiring a 5% rate of return on their farmland investment.
His farmland now has a value of $280 divided by 5% or $5,600. Therefore, a farmland investor using a rational analysis of income and yield would now drop their purchase price from $12,000 to $6,000. I am not stating this will happen, however, if this fact pattern (or similar facts) occur for enough years in a row, I can almost guarantee this will happen. The key question for farmers anticipating purchasing ground for $12,000 under current conditions is how stressful to their farm operation is this same farmland when revenues are lower and interest rates are higher?


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for my first day back at work i tried to keep new york alive with my new marc jacobs nyc tee. i got it at the busiest, tightest store you've ever been to where they have tons of cheap marc stuff that make great souvenirs. i got my mom an umbrella and my sis an i love you necklace. even though i have to work and it's still wintery here i am glad to be home. that doesn't mean i'm not already planning my next new york visit. check out my awesome new bag and my soho manicure in essie aruba blue.
tee: marc by marc jacobs
jeans: denim of virtue
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hoops: h&m
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Carl Butcher has been the owner of C.L. Butcher Insurance Agency since 1984. Prior to owning C.L. Butcher, he graduated from the University of Tennessee with a degree in Accounting. He joined the U.S. Air Force, where he attained the rank of Captain and also received the USAF Commendation Metal. He went on to work as a Certified Public Accountant in Oak Ridge for 11 years. Since owning C.L. Butcher Insurance Agency, he has had many personal and professional achievements. He has been a Managing Partner of the insurance marketing firm, Iroquois of TN. He has also, not only, been a member of Professional Insurance Agents of TN (PIA), but he has also been the past PIA President and Treasurer. C.L. Butcher Insurance Agency was recognized as the PIA Agency of the Year in 1997.
Personally, Carl is the father to Leslie Butcher-Duncan, who resides in Fountain City and is the Commercial Lines Manager at C.L. Butcher, Rick Butcher, who is a Pilot in Columbus, O.H., and Melissa Butcher, who resides in Chapel Hill, N.C. Carl is a Deacon, Trustee, and former teacher at the First Baptist Church of Fountain City. Carl prides himself in placing community in the highest regards; he has coached softball and was the ASA Fast Pitch Commissioner for Knoxville for eight years. He also taught Junior Achievement classes at his Alma Mater, Central High School and Gresham Middle School. He was one of the Charter members of the Oak Ridge Breakfast Rotary Club and a co-founder of the Fountain City Business & Professional Association. He just received the Fountain City Man of the Year award for 2012.


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Varco Acquires Smith Fiberglass
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Varco International Inc. has acquired the assets of Smith Fiberglass Products, a division of A. O. Smith Corp. Smith Fiberglass Products produces premium composite pipe and fittings for application in oil and gas production, retail fuel distribution and chemical processing markets. Composite pipe is used to handle highly corrosive fluids for which conventional steel pipe is often unsuitable. Terms of the transaction, which was structured as an asset purchase, were not disclosed. Smith Fiberglass Products is headquartered in Little Rock, Ark., with plants in Little Rock, Wichita, Kan. and Harbin, China. The business employs about 400 worldwide.
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Diabetic-Compatible Eating for a Lifetime
This guest post was written by type 2 diabetic and chef Ward Alper. It originally appeared on his website, The Decadent Diabetic, and was republished on Information About Diabetes with permission.
What is the old adage? "Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he eats for life."
About two years ago, I started sharing recipes and thoughts about eating very well with diabetes. My intention is that each week's recipe be not only a recipe for a particular dish, but also a formula for thinking about what and how you eat.
I am happy if you like one of my recipes. I am happier still if one of my recipes gets you to think about a new way to prepare an old dish.
Sure, using substitutions for high-carbohydrate foods is one thing that you can do to help manage your diabetes. What's more important is to keep it interesting. It is NOT just a few pounds you are trying to lose here. Don't get me wrong; that is all well and good. My goal is to assist you to look at that flabby piece of meat or chicken or zucchini and say to yourself: "I saw a recipe to fix this a new, diabetic-compatible way. What if I tried…"
Turn One Recipe into Several
I have always liked cauliflower. When I saw a recipe for "mock mashed potatoes," I gave it a shot. That recipe was just fine. More importantly, it got me to look at cauliflower in the same way I look at potato. One recipe led me to create another and another to fit my dietary needs. It led me to two different types of cauliflower salad: an au gratin of cauliflower and a rice-like preparation for the cauliflower. From one recipe, I now have five new and really delicious recipes. How, I ask you, can I complain about not having potatoes when I now have so much more?
My first attempt at spaghetti squash was an utter disaster. We all hated it. The idea of using it as a pasta substitute got stuck in my head. I kept trying and trying, and now I use it all the time. Never again with spaghetti sauce, but with pesto, oil and garlic, butter and Parmesan cheese, sundried tomatoes, or anything else my cooking hands can come up with. I even came up with a scrumptious recipe for Almost Mac and Cheese. It almost looks like it, it almost tastes like it, and it just feels good going down.
My complaining about what I couldn't have took a nose dive.
Keep an Open Mind
If you don't like a recipe of mine, or an herb or spice I use, find a version that you do like. I like using French herbs. If you don't, try Italian herbs or Chinese herbs or Mexican herbs. There is a world of flavors to make the dullest piece of chicken taste incredible. And that is just the herbs. Start with one you have never used. See if you like it. Build from there.
It is so much better to say, "I've never tried that," than, "I don't like that," or even, "I dunno know, it's pretty weird." It is the automatic "I don'ts" that cause most of the problems. I always site pizza – that oozing, gooey blob that I once thought was yucky – and am so pleased to have found a way to eat it again.
Try New Things
The other thing I like to get my readers to do is look in the markets for new items that fit into their diets. One of my readers was upset because she missed drinking soda. I suggested iced-tea or coffee. I mentioned that I use a lemon-ginger tea. She was so thrilled to have some new choice of what she could drink. It is not that she didn't know about tea and coffee; it is just that she never thought of using them in that way. As for the lemon-ginger tea, she said usually she hated herbal teas but this one sounded so good.
This week's advice (teaching?) from the Decadent Diabetic is stolen from a Broadway show called "Mame."
Open a new window, open a new door. Travel a new highway you never traveled before. Before you become a dull fellow eating the same food…
In the spirit of "Yuck, I don't like that," I am sharing one of my most delicious, elegant but simple desserts with you. It is vanilla and raspberry cream. The name has recently been changed leaving out the name of the main ingredient. Why, you ask? "Eweee, cheese in a dessert? Yuck!" Try it; you will be shocked at just how scrumptious it is. You can also make it in chocolate or just vanilla or anything else that you are willing to create.
Enjoy, be happy, be healthy and BE DECADENT!
Click here for Ward's Vanilla Raspberry Creme recipe!
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A cataract is a clouding, opacity, yellowing, or accumulation of fluid in the lens of the attention that consequences in a lack of vision and interferes along with your lifestyle. Most cataracts are related to aging, and by the point, you attain the age of 70 the majority will display some symptoms of cataracts. Age-related pictures of cataract vision may additionally occur in a single eye first however with time will typically be found in each. The lens is a clear a part of the attention that facilitates to recognition light, or a photo, at the tissue lining the again of the eye parts called the retina. The retina is covered with the receptor cells that transform mild debris into electrical impulses. A healthy lens is transparent because of the unique proteins that assist the layers repeat in an everyday pattern that causes the least interference and passes the mildest through.
The lens does some filtering of the ultraviolet radiation from the sun preventing UV from reaching excessive stages inside the retina. While the lens filters out UV in both the A and B bands, it filters truly all the UV radiation among 320 to 400 nan meters and the proteins accountable oxidize over the years. Free radicals also increase and the lens yellows and lose transparency as water starts off evolved collecting in-among the layers.
Eye surgery for glaucoma and other conditions can result in cataract formation. Certain fitness conditions like diabetes can also motive cataracts, once in a while very swiftly and in some instances also unexpectedly reversible. Unfortunately, they are commonly everlasting. Prescription steroid medicinal drugs used long term can bring about cataract improvement. Traumatic cataracts end result after extreme eye accidents however generally will now not development through the years like age-associated cataracts. Infants sometimes are born with cataracts or develop them in early life, These cataracts can be so small and sufficient off the road of sight that they do now not affect imaginative and prescient. While technically a cataract, I feel an opacity needs to purpose lifestyle interruptions earlier than they ought to be labeled as a cataract. Early stages of cataracts are high-quality defined by means of function rather than shape. If they do intrude along with your daily lifestyles, the lenses may need to be removed. Radiation publicity can result in vitamins for cataracts if the dose is high sufficient or accumulates over repeated exposure.
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The lens lies in the back of the colored iris and the student, the black opening you notice in the eye. The lens adjusts the attention's awareness like the diaphragm adjustable metal shutters on a camera, permitting us to look things actually both up close and far away. The lens is the product of normal water with small amounts of protein and different materials. Vitamin C and Glutathione have each been idea to postpone cataract formation. Now there are questions if pigments that also hold the retina healthful can also play a function in retaining the lens clean.
Smoking is the high-quality thing you can do in case you need to develop cataracts at a young age. Smoking also is associated with the alternative leading reasons of blindness, glaucoma and important retinal degeneration. Reducing your UV sun publicity by means of carrying best solar glasses that meet A.N.S.I. Requirements are beneficial. Sun put on that wraps and blocks solar publicity from the aspect is even extra useful. Although studies have given mixed consequences, time will likely undergo out a shielding impact of antioxidants at the lens tissue. Supplementation with vitamin C, diet E, and unique plant pigments in all likelihood might be shown to reduce what cataract vision looks like an improvement. Eating meals which are complex carbohydrates which include entire grains and less subtle foods with a decreased tendency to reason sharp rises and falls in blood sugar are related to a decreased threat of cataract formation. Leafy green leafy vegetables, fruit, and other meals with antioxidants are always the excellent source of dietary supplements.
An annual comprehensive dilated eye fitness tests are critical to monitor for cataracts and allow your optometrist to check for signs and symptoms of retinal degeneration, glaucoma, and different eye sicknesses. Early remedy and detection of eye sickness may additionally save your sight and existence! The maximum not unusual signs and symptoms of a cataract are cloudy or blurry imaginative and prescient and issues driving at night time because of halos and glare. Frequently, after years of sweet sixteen changes, patients growing cataracts will start to have rapid modifications in their eyeglass prescription as they grow to be greater nearsighted from the changes within the lens.
Cataracts do not require surgical procedure until they intrude along with your life-style. In uncommon instances, the lens can rupture inflicting critical problems. This is sort of remarkable today as eye medical doctors are widely reachable in all areas of the United States. A new eyeglasses prescription, brighter lighting, anti-glare sun shades, or magnifying lenses can all be used to help inside the interim period. Cataract surgery has an achievement charge over 95% these days and replaces the lens with a synthetic implant. Frequently your prescription for distance will be significantly decreased after surgery. Many sufferers discover they have got a best occasional need for glasses for distance. Some lens implants available these days offer some reading capacity additionally. Most of the time delaying cataract surgical procedure will no longer motive lengthy-term harm on your eye so that you must no longer feel a want to hurry into a surgical procedure. Cataract removal may additionally become essential while different eye illnesses in the attention are the gift. Retina degeneration or diabetic associated headaches want to be visualized nicely to be accompanied by complications that might night be seen with a cataract obstructing imaginative and prescient. Even if your eye health practitioner tells you have got a cataract, your cataract may by no means increase to the point where surgical treatment is required.
If you have got cataracts in each eye, the surgical operation can be necessary on one eye only for properly imaginative and prescient. If the surgical operation is needed on each eye it will be accomplished at separate instances several months aside. This is a far safer method ought to headaches occur, and lets in for refinement of the method if the first final results are slightly off. As with any surgical treatment, cataract surgical treatment does have a few dangers. Infection internal the eye is the maximum serious, however uncommon worry. Lenses can be displaced, purpose harm to other tissues in the eye, and the retina tissue within the back of the eye may have swelling or detach.
Some prescription medicines predispose you to issues at some point of a surgical procedure to make certain to talk about all of your prescriptions together with your eye physician well earlier of eye surgical operation. Flow-max, a prescription used to treat benign prostate boom has been associated with Floppy Iris Syndrome all through surgical operation. Floppy Iris Syndrome can cause problems in the course of cataract surgery so you need to make sure to tell your eye medical doctor in case you are any prostate medicinal drugs. Before cataract surgical operation, your physician may also ask you to quickly forestall taking sure medicines that boom the risk of bleeding during surgical treatment. Over the counter tablets like aspirin and Advil may additionally fall into this category. After surgical treatment, you must keep your eye smooth, wash your arms earlier than touching your eye, and use the prescribed medicinal drugs to help limit the hazard of contamination. Serious contamination can bring about lack of imaginative and prescient. Cataract surgical operation slightly increases your hazard of retinal detachment. Other eye disorders, consisting of high myopia (nearsightedness), can, in addition, increase your risk of retinal detachment after cataract surgery. Retinal detachments generally announce their onset with a sudden increase in flashes (like quick lightening to the facet) or floaters. Floaters are little "cobwebs" or black spots that appear to glide about in your area of vision. If you notice a surprising boom in floaters or flashes, call your optometrist right away. A retinal detachment is a scientific emergency. If essential, visit an emergency service or health facility. Early treatment for retinal detachment often can prevent everlasting loss of imaginative and prescient.
For a quick period of time after the surgical procedure, your eye doctor may additionally ask you to apply numerous eye drops to assist restoration and reduce the danger of contamination. You will want to put on a watch defend or eyeglasses to help protect your eye. Avoid rubbing or pressing to your eye. Sunglasses can be had to defend your eyes from the brilliant glare we have in Fort Collins and Northern Colorado. When you're home, attempt to avoid bending over and lifting. You can stroll and do light family chores. In most cases, recovery could be complete within eight weeks. Most of the time you may fill your new glasses prescription 2-3 weeks after the surgical procedure. Your doctor will agenda exams to test in your progress. Problems after surgery are rare, however, they could occur. These troubles can consist of contamination, bleeding, inflammation, leakage of the incision, swelling within the back of the attention, and excessive pressure, With set off scientific attention, these troubles can commonly be dealt with correctly.
Months or years after cataract removal without surgery mobile increase can occur on the synthetic lens obscuring imaginative and prescient. This is often called after cataracts. A simple, quick laser method executed within the workplace speedy resolves this problem. Cataracts surgical procedure is one of the most a hit approaches performed these days. While you don't want to hurry into any surgery you may relaxation confident knowing if your vision does become elaborate you have an awesome remedy alternative available. Medicare will cover cataract surgical treatment when your eyesight has degraded to a chosen level. Many varieties of imaginative and prescient insurance, inclusive of Vision Service Plan, provide coverage of eye surgery cataract beneath a number of their guidelines. You will need to check along with your issuer to discover what is blanketed underneath your plan. Some types of lens implants are typically excluded.
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One of 22 newly named cardinals from around the world, Dolan was the only one representing an Archdiocese in the United States. One other American, the former archbishop of Baltimore, Edwin O'Brien, who heads the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, was also promoted.
Dolan's elevation means that New York will have a cardinal for the first time since 2009, when Edward Cardinal Egan stepped down.
Eighteen of the new cardinals including Dolan, 61, are under 80, young enough to be eligible to enter a secret conclave of cardinals that will choose the next pope after Benedict dies.
"Yes, I'm honored, humbled and grateful. But let's be frank. This is not about Timothy Dolan. This is an honor from the Holy Father to the archdiocese of New York," Dolan told a news conference after morning Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral.
"It's almost as if Pope Benedict XVI is putting the red hat of the cardinal on the top of the Empire State Building or upon the Statue of Liberty or home plate at Yankee Stadium or on the spires of this great St. Patrick's Cathedral," Dolan said.
The Archdiocese of New York, with some 2.6 million members, has been at the center of heated policy battles within the U.S. Roman Catholic community, particularly in the 1980s and '90s over the church's position on homosexuality and AIDS education.
By being named cardinal, Dolan follows in the footsteps of his predecessors, including Edward Cardinal Egan, John Cardinal O'Connor, Terence Cardinal Cooke and Francis Cardinal Spellman, all of whom were elevated to cardinal.
Dolan was named archbishop of New York in 2009 after serving as the archbishop of Milwaukee. (Additional reporting by Ellen Wulfhorst; Editing by Greg McCune)
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Freeing Dred Scott
St. Louis confronts an icon of slavery, 1857-2007
Where was Dred Scott Way? St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Jake Wagman pondered the question as he walked through downtown St. Louis in May 2007. "Famed broadcaster Jack Buck has his way, bowling great Dick Weber has his lane and comedian Dick Gregory has his place," Wagman wrote, as he stopped to consider the avenues of St. Louis history at a bench overlooking Mark McGwire Highway. "In a city that loves to name streets for its famous citizens," Wagman wrote, "it has taken well over a century for Dred Scott—whose struggles helped shape the nation—to get any consideration."Dred Scott did not intend to become famous.
On March 6, 1857, in the infamous Dred Scott v. Sandford decision, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that Dred, Harriet, and their daughters Eliza and Lizzie would remain slaves. In words painful though familiar, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney declared that all of American history regarded "the class of persons who had been imported as slaves [and] their descendants . . . so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect." Even when the Scotts were emancipated on May 26, 1857, they remained prisoners of the Dred Scott case, symbols of a moment when the noose of slavery tightened.
In March 2007, Dred Scott made national news again. On its 150th anniversary, the decision was protested in ceremonies and performances, repudiated by Missouri justices, and mourned at a gathering of Scott descendents. And in May 2007, a ceremony less noted but more momentous occurred on Fourth Street, just outside the Old Courthouse in St. Louis. The approval came in time: on the 150th anniversary of the Scott family's emancipation, descendents and city council members celebrated together as the street was renamed Dred Scott Way.
Fig. 1. Following his loss in the U.S. Supreme Court and his family's emancipation by Taylor Blow, Dred Scott entered the visual record dignified but without joy. Dred Scott, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, June 27, 1857. Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society.
Fig. 2. Harriet Scott rebuked the Leslie's reporter for suggesting a national tour for her husband. "She'd always been able to yarn her own livin, thank God," Harriet argued. Harriet Scott, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, June 27, 1857. Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society.
The Dred Scott case is universally known. High school students are taught how to properly disparage it and to understand its role in causing the Civil War. Legal theorist Derrick Bell has called the Dred Scott case "the most frequently overturned decision in history," given its subsequent denunciations by many courts. Yet repudiating the case did not always mean freeing the participants from its burden. For over a century, the Scotts themselves were little noted by the political and legal theorists who debated the Dred Scott case. The details of their lives were forgotten even in St. Louis, where they struck out for freedom. But one hundred fifty years later, the Scott family has been recovered, thanks to the actions of their descendents, African American leaders, activists, and historians, all determined to see Dred Scott and his family remembered in St. Louis and the nation.
The man known as Dred Scott—a name he adopted later—was born into slavery around 1799 in Virginia. By adolescence, he was held by the Blow family, who moved him with their other possessions into Alabama and then Missouri. After the death of the family patriarch Peter Blow, Scott was sold to Dr. John Emerson, a U.S. Army surgeon, who in 1833 transferred from Jefferson Barracks in St. Louis to the Rock Island Arsenal in Illinois and then to Fort Snelling in what is now Minnesota. These moves made the case: Scott had been brought into a state and then a federal territory where slavery was prohibited.
Dred Scott did not intend to become famous. When he and Harriet Robinson Scott (a Pennsylvania-born slave he had met and married at Fort Snelling) filed for freedom in 1846—each signing Missouri court documents with an "X," the only remnant in their own hands—they did not see their petitions as test cases. For decades, the legal precedent in Missouri directed judges to set slaves free who could prove, with white witnesses, that they had been brought to reside in free territories or states. The first jury to hear the Scotts' case was told to ignore some of their key evidence and so the Scotts lost; after a new trial was granted, the second jury found for them in 1850.
Yet in 1852, on appeal, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled in Scott v. Emerson for Dr. Emerson's widow—despite the fact that she no longer resided in Missouri. Newly elected with a proslavery mandate, the justices could not have been clearer about their reasoning: "Times now are not as they were when the former decisions on this subject were made," the majority opinion read. When the Scotts' lawyers refiled in federal court, it was Irene Emerson's brother, the fur trader and railroad executive John F. A. Sanford, who became the defendant. As the case made its way to the Supreme Court, a clerk misspelled Sanford's name, hence the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sandford.
Fig. 3. Young women of keen ability entering their childbearing years, Dred and Harriet Scott's daughters Eliza and Lizzie would have commanded a high price in the slave market, trading as it did in sexual violence and calculating reproduction as an investment factor. They could only return to St. Louis once their freedom was secured. Eliza and Lizzie Scott, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, June 27, 1857. Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society.
When the decision was made, a few newspaper reporters sought out Dred Scott, finding his alley address in St. Louis. Their legwork affords the faintest glimpse of the man whose name the infamous decision immortalized. The reporters revealed Dred Scott had been married once before, but the marriage was disrupted when his wife was sold. The couple had had two sons, though both were dead. The articles also attested to the Scotts' long struggle to keep the family together, first by offering to purchase their own freedom from Irene Emerson and only then by petitioning for manumission. But the reporters performed their greatest service in allowing Dred Scott himself to speak. The prolonged nature of the case had provided him "a 'heap o' trouble,' he [Scott] says, and if he had known that 'it was gwine to last so long,' he would not have brought it." In the final sentence, the reporter said Scott believed "he could make thousands of dollars, if allowed, by traveling over the country and telling who he is."
The briefest words from Dred Scott add to the haunting power of his only known image. A month after Taylor Blow purchased the Scotts in order to free them, a correspondent for Leslie's Illustrated coaxed the family into the local photography studio. The resulting daguerreotypes served as the basis for engravings on the front cover of the newsmagazine (figs. 1-3). The family appeared dignified but without joy, their frustrations displayed in slow exposure. Speaking with Harriet Scott, and raising the possibility of her husband touring the nation with his story, the Leslie's reporter elicited a rebuke: "Why don't white man 'tend to his business, and let dat nigger 'lone?" the dialect depiction read. Harriet Scott was adamant that her husband would stay home and that "she'd always been able to yarn her own livin, thank God." No more would be heard: Dred Scott died on September 17, 1858, after less than sixteen months of freedom. He was buried in St. Louis's Wesleyan cemetery, with expenses paid by Henry T. Blow. Dred Scott's story would have to be told by others.
When Dred Scott died, the New York Times noted his passage with a column-length obituary. "Few men who have achieved greatness have won it so effectually as this black champion," the editors declared, and certainly "the adverse decision [Scott] encountered here will . . . meet with reversal" as Scott "carried his case to the Supreme Court above." Despite the constant invocation of his name and his court case before and during the Civil War, Dred Scott's grave remained unmarked, even after Taylor Blow arranged for reinterment at Calvary Cemetery on November 27, 1867. In line with the growing segregationist sentiment, Scott's remains were placed near the center of two plots, so no white St. Louisans need spend eternity shoulder to shoulder with any African American, no matter how famous. When Harriet Scott died on June 17, 1876, she was buried in the Greenwood Cemetery, and her grave too was unmarked.
Fig. 4. On the thirtieth anniversary of the Dred Scott decision, the St. Louis Globe reengraved the daguerreotypes of Dred, Harriet, and Eliza Scott and added an image of John Madison, one of Dred and Harriet Scott's two surviving grandsons. Yet the reporter interviewed only Thomas C. Reynolds, a former secessionist governor of Missouri who recalled no specifics about the Scotts. Dred, Harriet, and Eliza Scott and John Madison, St. Louis Globe, January 10, 1886. Courtesy of 19th Century U.S. Newspapers, a Gale Digital Collection, a part of Cengate Learning. Click to enlarge
Fig. 5. Nathan B. Young Jr. sought to tell proud stories of African American history in St. Louis, and he devoted two pages to Dred Scott and his descendants, explaining how Scott understood both what slavery had done to him and what his court case might do to the nation. "Who Was Dred Scott?" portrait of Dred Scott descendants, Your St. Louis and Mine (1937). Courtesy of St. Louis University Archives, Nathan B. Young Collection. Click to enlarge
Despite their anonymity in burial, the Scotts remained notable to a small number of white St. Louisans. In 1882, Mary L. Barnum, whose husband had owned the hotel where Dred Scott had worked, commissioned Scott's portrait for the Missouri Historical Society. For the dedication of the portrait, the Historical Society turned to James Milton Turner, a St. Louis County freedman who had been the Grant administration's ambassador to Liberia. The dedication of this portrait, Turner argued, demonstrated "the strict impartiality of all true history," integrating the story of how "the Negro has been with us . . . from the very beginning of the history of our State, and, indeed, of the nation itself." Turner hoped this commemoration would be "another olive branch from the strong, gracefully extended to the weak." Dred Scott became Turner's symbol of opportunity, opening a space for racial justice.
In 1886, the St. Louis Daily Globe marked the thirtieth anniversary of the Dred Scott case by reengraving the daguerreotype images of Dred, Harriet, and Lizzie Scott and adding an image of John Madison, one of two surviving grandsons (fig. 4). Yet no quotes from Scott descendents accompanied the images. Instead, the reporter questioned Thomas C. Reynolds, a former secessionist governor of Missouri who in 1857 had been U.S. district attorney in St. Louis. "Scott was a very respected negro," Reynolds observed, but he then said he had little memory of the actual people—including Scott—involved in Scott's court case.
"What Became of Dred Scott?" the Globe-Democrat asked when Scott's portrait was given a place of honor at the 1904 World's Fair. By then, white memories of the Scott family had so eroded that all kinds of falsehoods were put forward: Dred Scott living past the Civil War; Dred Scott cooking for the Prince of Wales on his visit to St. Louis, two years after Scott's death. These fictions colored the historical record—despite the accurate information present in the newspaper's own past articles.
Continuing down the path of misinformation, Mary Louise Dalton, librarian of the Missouri Historical Society further altered the picture. Scott was a "no-account nigger," she told Harper's correspondent and amateur historian Frederick Trevor Hill, who then labeled Scott "a shiftless, incapable specimen." (Even attempts to dignify the Scotts were tainted by caricature and distortion. Walter B. Stevens, the dean of the era's St. Louis historians, depicted Dred Scott as "the St. Louis slave who looked like an African king.") By 1935, Dred Scott was "shiftless and unreliable, and therefore frequently unemployed and without means to support his family." So read Scott's entry in the Dictionary of American Biography. Insofar as the entry says anything else about Scott, it characterizes him as merely a placeholder for the actions of others—bought by others, sold by others, freedom filed for by others, court case fought by others. Scott was an "ignorant and illiterate Negro," the entry stated, who "comprehended little of [his case's] significance, but signed his mark to the petition in the suit." The memory of Dred and Harriet Scott had reached its nadir.
Fig. 6. The genealogist Jesuit, Father Edward Dowling, rediscovered Scott's gravesite in time for the centennial of the Dred Scott case. "We have in mind putting up only a simple monument," he told the newspapers. "Then if someone some day wants to put up a better monument it will at least be known where Dred Scott lies." Father Dowling indicates Dred Scott's grave to John A. Madison, the Scotts' great-grandson, and his family. St. Louis Globe-Democrat, February 10, 1957. Courtesy of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat Archives of the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
While white memories denigrated the Scott family, Nathan B. Young Jr. joined those African Americans searching out more truthful tales. The son of a prominent African American educator, Young had grown up in the circle of Booker T. Washington, graduated Yale Law School in 1918, and moved to St. Louis in 1927. In 1937, he published Your St. Louis and Mine, a compendium of African American history and culture in the city, that prominently featured Dred Scott and his descendants (fig. 5). Declaring that history had "paid little attention to Dred Scott as a man and pictured him as a puppet, as a simpleton," Young insisted that Scott understood both what slavery had done to him and what his court case might do to the nation. This Dred Scott—the self-aware abolitionist—would become a hero of black activists and urban reformers.
During a 1954 conspiracy trial, Marcus A. Murphy, one-time Communist Party candidate for lieutenant governor in Missouri, declared, "I can at least speak to you as a human being." It was "ninety-seven years ago," Murphy said, when "another Negro stood in federal court to hear . . . that he was not a human being and had no rights which a white man was bound to respect"—repeating Taney's exact phrase. That year the Brown v. Board of Education decision repudiated formal segregation, and Rosa Parks refused to move from her bus seat. The time had come for Dred Scott's resurrection.
It was a genealogist, the Jesuit Father Edward Dowling, who rediscovered Scott's gravesite in time for the centennial of the Dred Scott case in 1957 (fig. 6). Dowling spoke of a modest effort to mark the resting place. "We have in mind putting up only a simple monument," he told the newspapers. "Then if someone some day wants to put up a better monument it will at least be known where Dred Scott lies." On March 6, 1957, Scott's descendants and Father Dowling joined the president of the St. Louis University Law School Student Bar Association to lay a wreath on the still-unmarked grave, following ceremonies in the Old Courthouse. When the granddaughter of Taylor Blow came forward to pay for a gravestone, one commentator, local socialist and journalist Frank P. O'Hare, worried about the symbolism. "A hundred years has not erased the ideology of the slave owners," O'Hare charged, as forces still aligned to prevent "a monument for a slave to overtop the monument for the master." Yet as O'Hare was writing, change was coming, with federal troops desegregating Little Rock High School.
In 1977, the originators of Negro History Week (now known as Black History Month) placed the first memorial to the Dred Scott case at St. Louis's Old Courthouse. Scott's great-grandson, John A. Madison, introduced his fellow Scott relatives. While working as a mail handler, Madison had studied for a law degree, preparing to argue cases, as one reporter put it, in the "courts in which Dred Scott couldn't even sue." Madison, who had embraced his family history as national history, also provided the invocation and created the bold program illustration, "Breaking the Chains of Slavery" (fig. 7)
Fig. 7. Great-grandson John A. Madison Jr. provided the invocation and designed the bold program illustration for the ceremony to commemorate the Scotts' efforts at the Old Courthouse, a ceremony organized in cooperation with Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History. "Breaking the Chains of Slavery," National Historic Marker Ceremony at the Old Courthouse, June 24, 1977. Courtesy of St. Louis University Archives, Nathan B. Young Collection, as well as Lynne M. Jackson and the Dred Scott Heritage Foundation.
Fig. 8. After Jack Buck, after Dick Gregory, after Mark McGwire, Dred Scott finally got his Way, right in front of the courthouse where his case was heard more than one hundred and fifty years before. John A. Madison Jr. and other Dred Scott descendants dedicate Dred Scott Way, May 26, 2007. Courtesy of Lynne M. Jackson and the Dred Scott Heritage Foundation.
In 2000 Dred and Harriet Scott's petitions for freedom were retrieved from storage and placed on display at the main branch of the St. Louis Public Library, their "X"s speaking across history. Despite the resurgent interest in the Scotts and hundreds of other Missouri freedom petitions, only in 2006 was the true resting place of Harriet Scott finally rediscovered. A new plaque on the Old Courthouse emphasized the actions of Dred and Harriet in their own legal proceedings, and in time for the 150th anniversary of the famed court case, three novels about Dred Scott were published, two of which imagine the case from Scott's perspective.
The effort to recover the experience of Dred and Harriet Scott continues today: Dred and Harriet Scott's great-great-granddaughter, Lynn Jackson Madison, has founded the Dred Scott Heritage Foundation to promote anniversary events and raise money for a life-size statue of Scott at the Old Court House, the place where his case was first heard. To remember Dred, Harriet, Eliza, and Lizzie Scott is to open the door that the Dred Scott case closed and to acknowledge the universal humanity of those long held beyond the pale of citizenship or of memory. Their actions revealed injustice and hastened the end of slavery in the United States—an accomplishment well worth celebrating along Dred Scott Way (fig. 8).
Further Reading:
I thank the organizers of "The Dred Scott Case and its Legacy: Race, Law, and Equality," a March 2007 conference at the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, where an earlier version of this essay was presented. For comments and suggestions, thanks also to Bonnie Stepenoff, Jill Lepore, Ken Winn, Bob Moore, Dennis Northcutt, Molly Kodner, Sophia Lee, Caroline Sherman, Katherine Foshko, Gretchen Heefner, Theresa Runstedtler, Jenifer Van Vleck, Helen Veit, and Edward Gray.
For the Dred Scott case, the classic sources remain Walter Ehrlich, They Have No Rights: Dred Scott's Struggle for Freedom (Westport, Conn., 1979) and Don Edward Fehrenbacher, The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics (New York, 1978). For a quick summary, see Christyn Elley, "Missouri's Dred Scott Case, 1846-1857."
Also see Kenneth C. Kaufman, Dred Scott's Advocate: A Biography of Roswell M. Field (Columbia, Mo., 1996); Paul Finkelman, "The Dred Scott Case, Slavery and the Politics of Law," Hamline Law Review 20 (Fall 1996): 1-42; Barbara Bennett Woodhouse, "Dred Scott's Daughters: Nineteenth Century Urban Girls at the Intersection of Race and Patriarchy," Buffalo Law Review 48 (Fall 2000): 669-701; and Mark A. Graber, Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil (New York, 2006), among others.
On the Scott family themselves, the authority is Lea VanderVelde. See her article Lea VanderVelde and Sandhya Subramanian, "Mrs. Dred Scott," The Yale Law Journal 106.4 (January 1997): 1033-1122, and keep track of her forthcoming work.
Recent events and commemorations are chronicled in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch news and editorial pages. Jake Wagman's Post-Dispatch article "Dred Scott may join famous names on St. Louis streets," quoted in the first paragraph of this essay, appeared on May 18, 2007. See also the exhibits and programs at the following organization's Websites: Washington University in St. Louis Libraries, the Dred Scott Heritage Foundation, the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, and the Missouri Historical Society.


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