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In this article we will discuss various aspects of banking and which style of banking is best in each category. When discussing each category we are not taking any other factor into consideration. When we talk about banks here I'm referring to banks that are nationwide. Community banks have some of the pros and cons that come from both banks and credit unions.
Physical Location
1st: Banks - The winners in this category are the nationwide banks. These have branches that dot the United States and you often won't have to worry trying to find one when traveling. You'll usually be able to find a branch near where you live.
2nd: Credit Unions - Second place are the credit unions. You'll almost always have several options of credit unions by your house. Unfortunately you'll often struggle to find your credit union when traveling. The great thing about credit unions though is that thousands of credit unions work together in what is called the Credit Union Service Center network. This allows members of other credit unions within the network to conduct business at participating branches.
3rd: Online Banks - Online banks come in third due to not actually having a physical location.
ATM Access
1st: Online Banks - I believe that online banks here are the winner. Online banks such as Ally Bank allows you to use any ATM nationwide and it will reimburse you any fees charged by other banks at the end of your statement period. Or when shopping you can get cash back with no withdrawal fee.
Tied for 2nd: Credit Unions and Banks - A lot of people with falsely assume that being with a credit unions means that it will be hard to find an ATM that won't charge them fees. Fortunately many of the credit union ATM cards are part of a Co-Op network which eliminates ATM fees for credit union members. These are located at places such as 7-Eleven, Costco and Walgreens all over the country.
With banks it usually isn't too hard to find an ATM in your network that won't charge you fees
Customer Service
1st: Credit Unions - For the majority of people, Credit Unions are the preferred financial institution in terms of customer service. You'll often find very helpful, friendly people who put you before them.
Tied for 2nd: Banks and Online Banks - There is a tie here and I will explain why:
People often complain about doing business with banks because they often find that the tellers are constantly trying to push the clients to take out loans, sign up for credit cards and various other products and services. The employees are often pushed harder to sell more products and services, and the level of customer service drops.
Online banks on the other hand are often a lot more helpful, but you'll always be talking to them over the phone. Most people prefer the relationship that can be established when banking at a credit union. On the other hand, if you like minimum interaction with people and want things to be as simple as possible, online banks are a great option.
Interest Rates
1st: Online Banks - If you want a higher interest rate on your bank accounts you should probably start looking online. Online banks such as Sallie Mae, Ally and ING offer better interest rates than banks or credit unions.
Tied for 2nd: Banks and Credit Unions - Credit unions are generally known to offer better interest rates than banks, and that's usually true. These days, however, interest rates on deposit accounts are so low that it doesn't really matter if you are with a bank or credit union.
Online Banking
1st: Online Banks - Is this any surprise? With no branches to worry about, online banks are able to focus on their online interface and make sure that it is as user friendly as possible.
2nd: Banks - Banks have quite a bit of money. It makes sense that they can afford to make a great online interface. Unfortunately that often isn't the case. Online banking here is good, but not what it should be.
3rd: Credit Unions - Online banking with credit unions often isn't as pleasing to the eyes as with the other two types of financial institutions, but we can expect in the future to see a lot of improvement. The question then is, do you want to wait that long?
Mobile Applications
1st: Banks - As mentioned with online banking, banks have a lot of resources that allow them to create quality stuff like mobile applications. Again, I feel like a lot of the main banks out there could do a lot better but overall, banks do a decent job.
Tied for 2nd: Credit Unions and Online Banks - In general, most credit unions don't have the best mobile apps, if they have any at all and it always surprises me that online banks don't do a better job with mobile apps.
1st: Credit Unions - Credit unions do a great job keeping fees to a bare minimum. It should be that way since their motto is "people helping people." Your safest bet is to ask the next time you go in about their fees in relation to maintaining your accounts.
2nd: Online banks - The people behind online banks promise low fees, and from what most people have found it is true. Online banks come it at number two because here you lack the privilege to go in, sit down and chat in person about your concerns. It just isn't the same over the phone.
3rd: Banks - Crossing the finish line in this category hours after the credit unions and online banks are your nationwide banks. Fees keep rising, and often times "free checking" is no where to be found! Keep an eye on your bank statements and watch out for any fees you might be incurring. While we're talking about bank statements, make sure you're getting them electronically. You'll probably get a fee if you want it to come in the mail!
I hope that this helps as a general guide for those who are unsure if who they are with now is what is best for them. Now it's time for you to think about what is most important for you! Keep in mind that while these three kinds of financial institutions are different in many ways, each branch you go into of any bank or financial institution will be different. Maybe you don't even want to deal with anyone and just want everything to be dealt with online.
Just make sure you do your part so that you have the peace of mind knowing what to expect from your financial institution of choice.


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Despite a heavy defeat against the MLS Generation Adidas team, there was some good news for Atlético Madrid B, as three players returned from long injury lay-offs.
A name almost forgotten is that of Roberto Batres. The offensive midfielder was loaned to Shanghai Shenhua in January as part of our strategic alliance with the Chinese outfit.
But in China, the 24-year old suffered a terrible knee injury that forced him to return to Madrid for surgery. In 2007, torn ligaments had also kept Batres sidelined for months, which ended up hindering his development.
We must admit we had forgotten Batres was still part of the set-up, but last night he finally returned to play for Atlético B.
Coach Antonio Rivas also welcomed back left-back Míchel and striker Collado, who returned from long injury lay-offs. The latter, on loan from Braga, has especially been missed up front.
Atlético B lined up without any regular starters against Generation Adidas, a team composed of the best U-20 players of the MLS.
The promotion team is on a tour through Spain and beat Real Madrid Castilla (2-1) and Rayo Vallecano B (1-0) earlier this week.
The match against our reserves was lost 4-1, with Atienza scoring a penalty kick for Atlético after he had scored in his own goal earlier in the match. You can find video highlights here.
Line-up: Andrés; Joseph, Benítez, Atienza, Míchel; Abel, Fer, Jiménez, Batres; Gallegos and Collado.
Subs: Cantero, Saúl, Roberto, Vítor, Miramón and César.

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Laserless Tattoo Removal Guide Review – Is This The Best Tattoo Removal Guide ?
When a perfect moment comes in your life, you wish to capture it forever. It feels ethereal, surreal and you want it to be a part of you. It can be a person who you want to get old with, an addiction that you are sure will accompany you till the grave or just plain and simple artistic expression.
And what better canvas to capture it than your own body. So you get a tattoo done. Big deal. It's what everyone's doing.
Maybe you are a rebel. Or maybe you just got high on a holiday and impulsively decided to do the ultimate faux pass.
But after a few years or maybe even a few days, that moment is no longer relevant to the current situation in your life. Its passé. Maybe that person moved on. That addiction has died down. You aren't a rebel anymore or maybe, it's affecting your career and job prospects.
Even watching the tattoo fills you with remorse and regret. You have to get rid of it.
So again, you do what everyone's doing. You find a laser tattoo removal clinic and undergo a painful, time-consuming and expensive process that will probably last for a few months and will most probably, leave a very visible scar in place of the tattoo.
Most people would be surprised to know that the tattoo removal industry is as big (if not bigger) as the tattoo making industry itself. And the demand is burgeoning. People in all age groups from 18 – 60 are looking to get that 'once-perfect' tattoo erased.
Even though it will probably take some doing, people are more willing than ever to get burnt, blistered and scarred to erase, what is at best, a regret now. Oh, the things that we do in the warp and woof of life.
If only they'd know that the seemingly harmless and completely safe laser light that's being advertised by all and sundry, has a whole list of side effects associated with it.
This is the side of the story that you don't hear that often. The one that's always buried away under nauseatingly fake advertising and false commitments of complete safety. But this is the bare truth.
- Removal is painful: Thought tattooing was painful? Wait till the laser touches your skin. Tattoo removal depends on the type of ink that was used to make the tattoo as well as the location on which the tattoo is made. The further away from the heart the tattoo is, the more difficult it will be to remove.
- There is always the risk of scars: No matter what they promise, laser tattoo removal comes with a real risk of scarring. At best, with a very experienced practitioner and careful aftercare, you can minimize the risk of scarring. But an experienced practitioner usually translates into more money per session.
- Not everyone is an expert: Owing to the sheer demand for tattoo removal, everyone from skin care clinics to tattoo artists are now offering removal services. Not all of them have the same skills and the experience to deal with different areas of your body. The skin may be more sensitive in some parts as compared to the others. Once again, this leaves you with a very big risk of scarring.
- You will need multiple sessions: If you have a small 'tramp stamp', then getting rid of it may be easy. But if you went all the way and got a 'full lower back' tattoo, then chances are that you will need at least 15-20 sessions with at least an 8 week gap in between each session to remove it completely. Think about the cost, the time, the pain and the money.
What if I told you that you can now remove your tattoo in an easier, safer, painless and non-invasive manner?
What if you could remove every tattoo on your body without leaving a single scar behind?
I am talking about laser less tattoo removal.
Yes. You have been fed the usual BS to instill the paranoia and to drive a multi-million dollar industry that thrives on it.
The fact is that laserless tattoo removal is completely possible. All you need, is the right guidance and the right information to accomplish this on your own. And that's what 'The Laserless Tattoo Removal Guide' gives you.
Before you dismiss this off as yet another marketing gimmick, take a look at some of the real results achieved by people like you and me, who decided to make a better choice than confine themselves to the pain and scar technique.
Within just 5 weeks, people have completely removed the most elaborate and colorful tattoos without leaving a trace behind on their skin. The method is so effective, that you can also expedite and use it to get rid of tattoos in just days.
Have an important meeting or a career defining job interview, where you don't want to be looked upon like an impulsive non-team player who's high risk for the company?
Use the Laserless Tattoo Removal Guide and get cleaned by the time you reach for the interview.
The Laserless Tattoo Removal Guide is the most comprehensive information about tattoo removal that has been deliberately hidden from you for years. Here's what you will get access to.
- An in-depth blueprint of the tattoo in your body: When you tattooed the two Chinese alphabets thinking that they meant 'Victory' and recently discovered that they meant 'Dog and Pig', little did you know that you are dealing with a complex inking art that inserts an ink (usually edible or temporary) into the dermis, altering the natural pigments that give your skin its color. The Laserless Tattoo Removal Guide explains to you everything you need to know about the tattoo. What type of ink is usually used? Which layers of the skin does the ink affect? Where in these layers is the ink hidden? By the time you finish reading this module, you will be a self-certified tattoo expert.
- Herbs that will flush out the ink safely: Did you know that ancient Asian medicine uses herbs to remove the tattoo ink in a safe and effective way from the body? In many remote parts of the world, where tattoos are an irreplaceable part of culture and tradition, they've never heard of laser treatments. Yet, they frequently remove their old tattoos. You will learn about herbs and ingredients which are easily accessible, even in your neighborhood drugstore. These herbs allow you to break down the ink and eventually let your lymphatic system flush it out of the body.
- Learn which methods are dangerous: If you have ever contemplated relying on the free information that is floating online purported by supposed tattoo removal experts, then you MUST read this module. There are methods that are not effective and there are some methods which are dangerous for your skin and health.
- Step by step methods by which you can remove any tattoo from your body: Last but not the least and the most important part of the book, is the step by step method using which you can remove almost any tattoo from your body. This is irrespective of the color, the size, the location or the design. It is like having a personal guide to take you through the entire tattoo removal process.
- The Fast Removal Process: As we said before, when there's little time at hand, you can use these techniques to quickly get rid of even the most visible tattoos. And if you only have a day or two to spare, you can use it to learn how to mask the tattoo by almost 90%. Oh yes, the Laserless Tattoo Removal Guide shows you how to do that as well.
For starters, it will save you a shitload/lots of money. If that isn't enough then here are some of the perks of using the Laserless Tattoo Removal Guide
- Empowers you: Unlike putting you in front of a blazing hot laser and then doing it repeatedly for months until your tattoo gets hidden under an even uglier scar, the Laserless Tattoo Removal Guide empowers you with knowledge. It tells you all that you need to know about it, including the tools and the techniques you can use to safely erase the tattoo. Then it leaves the decision to you. You are in control of your body.
- All-Natural: There are no synthetic chemicals being pumped into your body here. It shows you a completely natural way to remove the tattoo ink from your system without relying on chemicals, peels, creams or pills.
- Painless: The last thing you have to go through to remove ink from your body is pain. And we are talking about relentless scarring and blistering here. With the Laserless Tattoo Removal Guide, you will get rid of your tattoos painlessly.
- Fast: You do not have to spend months trying to remove a tattoo. The Laserless Tattoo Removal Guide reveals to you methods that conceal a visible tattoo in just hours.
- Safe: You do not have to worry about hyper-pigmentation, hypo-pigmentation, allergic breakouts or permanent scars. The Laserless Tattoo Removal Guide is a completely safe and proven method.
- 60 day money back guarantee: The Laserless Tattoo Removal Guide comes with a 100% iron-clad money back guarantee. If you are unable to get rid of your tattoo with it, you get your money back. No questions asked.
- The Bonus Package: And if it wasn't a value for money proposition already, you get access to a bonus package that includes 5 amazing e-books on Skin Care, Tattooing, Anti-aging, Self-Motivation and Miracle Cures. These e-books alone have a combined value of $158.
- Life Time Free Updates: Once subscribed to the Laserless Tattoo Removal Guide club, you get free lifetime updates to any new techniques or advancements that we find. And mind you, the Laserless Tattoo Removal Guide is updated periodically with newer, more effective techniques too.
The Laserless Tattoo Removal Guidewill change the way you look at tattoos. In fact, you will be so confident that you may well go and get multiple ones done from here on. No more tattoo regrets and remorse. Get access to it right now.


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These are GREAT ideas!!! A movement is required!! Where do we start!?!
"Hurray! Hurray! Finally, after a year of impatient waiting, it's tax season!!!! I can't believe it's finally here! O joy of joys, O happy of happies! Could life possibly get any better?!?!"
That is the first time in human history that those words have been placed in that order. Nobody's ever said what I just wrote. And you know why? Because taxes pay for useful yet boring things – roads, sewers, trash collection, tree maintenance, etc. – and it's just hard to get excited about those things. If every taxpayer received a Nerf gun from the government, or if Congress decided to buy a giant pool of Jell-o that all of us could swim in, I think we'd be happier about the process of paying taxes. (Note: please ignore the hygiene issues associated with a giant pool of Jell-O that everyone is allowed to swim in. It would be awesome, and that's all there is to say about it.)
Anyway, it's occurred to me that there are several things you or your company could buy that would drastically improve the morale of everyone you work with. And before you go dismissing these ideas as impractical, please remember that everything you're about to read would qualify as tax-deductible. Take that, government!
A Giant Slide!
I shouldn't even have to describe the amazingness of this one, so I'll limit myself to a dramatization: "Hey Carl, you want me to hold the elevator?" "No thanks, Alice, I think I'll take the slide down." (Carl then proceeds to hop on a giant blanket and shout, "Wheeeeeeee!" as he spirals 20 stories down to the atrium, where Alice is waiting for him because she took the more direct path. But her victory will never erase the quiet sadness she'll feel at her choice of transportation.)
Pogo Sticks For Everyone!
Some companies have standing meetings to keep people focused. Others have walking programs to encourage wellness. So why not combine the two? Other than the occasional multi-pogostick pileup, I see literally no downside to this one.
Miniature Pies!
After working up a mild sweat on the pogo stick, nothing would boost morale quite like returning to your desk to find your favorite pie waiting for you. Apple pie, cherry pie, pot pie, shepherd's pie, Moon Pie – whatever your heart desires. This one also has the benefit of being something people might actually do, since it would only cost about $7 a person and would easily earn you more than $7 of their loyalty. Do this one!!!!
A Petting Zoo!
Animals cheer everyone up. Whenever I'm frustrated I just pet my puppy, and all is well. So why not bring that kind of instant, tangible happiness to everyone at work? But don't limit yourself to cats and dogs. Emus, alligators, ostriches, harp seals, ducklings – so cute! – and anything else you can think of that isn't illegal to obtain. Do you have any idea how much fun it would be next year for your accountant to be able to say, "Oh yeah, the ostrich was a business expense…yep…no I'm serious, I'm actually keynoting an accounting conference next month to talk about it…yeah, it was either me or some other guy lecturing about deferred depreciation, so it was basically a slam dunk."
A Dedicated "Angry Room"
I've made this one up, so let me explain. First, soundproof an empty office, reinforce the walls, and black out the windows if there are any. Next, stock the room with as many things as you can think of that can be thrown, hit, or smashed – baseballs, drum kits, old typewriters, punching bags, and you get the idea. Finally, let people go in there whenever they need to blow off some steam and just go to town. They won't disturb anyone else, and five minutes in the Angry Room will make 99% of your colleagues feel significantly better. The more I think about this, the more incredible the idea sounds. Plus it's cleaner than a petting zoo, so it's got that going for it.
The point is, the world is what we make it. If you have a roof over your head, food to eat every day, and pants, then you're doing all right. That said, a giant slide would definitely make things a little better, so start lobbying for one. Have a wonderful April!
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Can we not combine the slide and the angry room. Have the angry people throw things at the happy people going down the slide, I think that would be fun for everyone and reduce the need for an additional room and get everyone outside for some fresh. 🙂
Actually Perceptive Software in KC not only built a 2-story twisty slide they also had a regulation dodge ball court with scoreboard, sound system and bleachers.
Jeff Havens for PRESIDENT!!
You've got our vote!
I would ALWAYS take the slide! Heard you speak in Cincinnati yesterday, very true and entertaining! Thanks.


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Inside 3D Printing is back in Düsseldorf from February 21-22, 2018. With thousands of visitors Inside 3D Printing has become one of the leading B2B conferences for 3D printing and additive manufacturing. Two days of packed programs and three conference tracks with more than 50 sessions ensure maximum knowledge transfer and networking.
The media hype has made 3D printing an omnipresent theme. Inside 3D Printing however makes additive manufacturing the center of attention and focuses on the latest commercial innovations, today's enormous efforts in research, the development of technologies and equipment, as well as the application and integration into a complete product realization process. All stakeholders of additive manufacturing are addressed by Inside 3D Printing.
One highlight for this year's program is the Keynote with Dr. Phil Reeves from Stratasys – 3D Printing – A global Perspective to Business Adoption and Value Creation.
In this keynote, Dr. Reeves will discuss how 3D printing is being used globally by companies to drive both top-line sales growth and to drive bottom-line business profitability. He will discuss the business drivers to 3D printing adoption, including low volume supply chain realignment, design optimization and increased functionality, resource efficiency manufacturing and product personalization.
Another highlight is the Keynote with Prof. Thierry Rayna from École Polytechnique – Beyond the Hype: How to Make 3D Printing Mainstream?
3D printing/Additive Manufacturing has been so hyped the past few years that it would be easy to forget that it is a 30-year old set of technologies—barely 10 years younger than the now ubiquitous PC. While 3D Printing has undoubtedly gained ground, and has arguably become a cornerstone of some industries, it still remains to this day a niche manufacturing technology.


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we got out-everythinged. To me, the only thing that came shining through in, let's face it, an absolutely dismal performance by the U.S. team, was the fact that we still have experienced players who show up in games where their country needs them.
Cobi Jones was added to the U.S. roster as a replacement for the injured Chris Klein and many people questioned Arena's decision to call him up. Whether you like Jones or not, the fact is that his experienced just saved our butts on two occasions for the U.S. where we could have (Jamaica) and should have (Panama) lost. Unfortunately, though, not all the experienced players showed up in Panama.
One glaring example of that was Eddie Pope's performance. He gave up on several plays and overall looked disinterested. I found that disturbing. Kasey Keller stopped yelling at him all together midway through the second half, almost as if he knew that it wasn't going to get any better -- and it didn't. The conditions worsened, the Panamanians fed off their crowd, the U.S. looked for excuses and Bruce Arena looked for substitutions. It was just down right bad.
After the Jamaica game, Arena was quoted as saying, "I thought our guys played great." Well, I didn't. They survived that game and got a well-deserved point, but they obviously did not learn anything from that game in view of their performance against Panama. In the game against Panama the U.S. got exposed and we showed that we really aren't as good as we think we are.
All this talk about how we're the big game on everybody else's schedule is a responsibility that we need to be ready for. In World Cup qualifiers you can take nothing for granted. You have to make your own luck; you can't expect it to happen.
Look, we are better than Panama, El Salvador and Jamaica. But we have to prove it every minute of every game, every time we play. As bad as this game was, it's over and the U.S. still leads the group with five points going into the next match vs. El Salvador in El Salvador. If our guys show up and expect to walk all over El Salvador simply because they were awful in Foxborough, Mass., that would be a huge mistake.
The United States got lucky. Arena got lucky and his team is also lucky to be in the position they are right now. But as a very famous and successful person once said, "I'd rather be lucky than good." And by the way, Bruce Arena is both. At some point we have to stop living on luck because we're better than that. But as a precaution, I would recommend that Bruce Arena doesn't sit down in El Salvador.
Dallas Burn at D.C. United, Saturday, 4 p.m. ET, ESPN2
I don't know what it is or why it is happening, but in the last three weeks the ESPN2 broadcasts haven't covered a team anywhere near the top of the table and this upcoming game is no exception. If Dallas was 600 miles east, they'd probably find themselves in a much more favorable position in the Eastern Conference, but they're not. Unfortunately for them they're in the Western Conference, which in my opinion is twice as strong right now as the East, even though Columbus is making a late charge.
D.C. United finds themselves in a pretty awkward spot. Even though so many believed that D.C. United would be the team to beat this year and the team to watch (with Freddy Adu), they are far from the form of a playoff team. And if New England ever gets their act together, D.C. United might be taking an early vacation. Actually, I don't think that's going to happen, because you have to think that United will make the playoffs. But they are potentially so much better than what they are showing.
Hopefully for Peter Nowak's team, he will have a healthy Alecko Eskandarian, because for some reason or another, when that guy is on the field they have had much more success both offensively and defensively.
As far as the Dallas Burn are concerned, I think their situation stinks. It's got to be frustrating to know that they would be in third place if they were in the East. If this league operated under a single table, the Dallas Burn would be thinking about the playoffs, not wondering whether or not they would be a part of it.
The guy to watch in this game for me is Eddie Johnson. He and Ronnie O'Brien are two guys that don't get enough recognition in this league, even though Ronnie O'Brien made the All-Star team. If the Burn have any success this week it will be riding on their performances. Since Ryan Nelsen's injury, United have struggled with fast forwards. This is a great opportunity for Eddie Johnson to show us what he's got.
Even though these teams aren't anywhere near the top of the table, there is still a lot riding on this game. This is an extremely pivotal game for both teams, both coaches, both organizations. I don't think there will be a lot of goals, but I think Dallas is going to come out on top. My prediction is 2-1.
Former U.S. international forward Eric Wynalda scored the first goal in MLS history, and is currently the analyst on RadioShack's Soccer Saturday on ESPN2. He can be reached at email@example.com. He will be inducted in the National Soccer Hall of Fame during the Oct. 9-11 weekend. The views and opinions expressed in this column are those of the author, and not necessarily those of Major League Soccer or its clubs.


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Conway Area Lions Support Memorial Hospital's Miranda Fund in Support of Diabetic Vision Services
October 07, 2017
NORTH CONWAY, NH – Conway Area Lions' President Linda Rafferty and other Lions' members recently presented a donation of $2,200 to the Miranda Leavitt Diabetes Fund, part of the Memorial Hospital Foundation. The funds will support a soon to be launched service that will help bring better eye health to diabetic patients in the community.
"We are pleased to apply the Lions' donation to the purchase of a retinal scanner to be used for diabetic eye exams," said Miranda Center's Justine Fierman, APRN-FNP, BC-ADM, MSN, CDE. "This will help us do a better job diagnosing diabetic retinopathy. When it begins, a person may have no symptoms at all or have just slight vision changes. This makes early detection of diabetic retinopathy so important because it often goes unnoticed until a person loses their vision. So many patients cannot afford or do not have access to this type of exam. Establishing this service at Memorial will be a great asset to our community."
More information on the retinal scanner and how it will help improve diabetic eye health will be announced in November, which is Diabetes Awareness Month.
The Miranda Leavitt Diabetes Fund was established in 2013 in honor of Miranda Leavitt, daughter of Rich and Brenda Leavitt, who established a fund to provide resources, education and awareness for people with diabetes in our community. Miranda passed away at the age of 22 from diabetes complications but left as her legacy her desire to help educate, assist and fund those who needed assistance managing their diabetes.
Brenda Leavitt stated: "We are grateful to the Conway Area Lions Club for their generous donation and work to raise money to support the Miranda Fund. We feel this is a wonderful alignment with the mission of the Lions Club which is to support eye health. Rich and I also feel so very blessed for the people in our community who continue to graciously support the fundraising efforts that we do for the Miranda Leavitt Diabetes Fund. I am so excited to be able to show all of the donors that we have something tangible to let everyone know their donation is so appreciated—so many people will have their needs met."
The Lions raised the money in their annual kayak raffle. Tickets were sold around Mt. Washington Valley throughout the summer months. Lions Clubs International is the world's largest service club organization.
In 1925, Helen Keller attended the Lions Clubs International Convention and challenged Lions to become "knights of the blind in the crusade against darkness," explained Linda Rafferty, president of Conway Area Lions Club. "The Lions accepted her challenge and our work ever since has included sight programs aimed at preventable blindness."
Community members interested in donating in support of the purchase of the retinal scanner and the Miranda Fund are encouraged to contact Rachel Damon, Memorial Hospital Development Manager, at 603-356-5461, x2269. For more information on the Miranda Center, including how to make a donation to the Miranda Fund, visit them online at www.memorialhospitalnh.org/diabetes.
About Memorial Hospital
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EU Matters - Issue 3/2016
At a European Parliament debate on 6 July, Commission First Vice President Frans Timmermans briefed the Parliament on the Commission's approach to its Work Programme for 2017 which will be unveiled on 25 October 2016. Vice President Timmermans again discussed the REFIT Platform which aims to make EU legislation and its implementation in Member States more effective and efficient. REFIT is a key element in the Commissions 'Better Regulation' agenda which aims to reduce regulatory burdens.
David Cameron nominated Sir Julian King as European Commissioner to replace Lord Jonathan Hill, former Commissioner for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union. Sir Julian is the UK ambassador to France. Lord Hill resigned following the result of the UK referendum on EU membership. Commission President Juncker has transferred Lord Hill's portfolio to Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis who already holds the portfolio for the Euro and Social Dialogue.
President Juncker will assign a new portfolio to Sir Julian this month and the European Parliament will ratify Sir Julian's appointment in September. It had previously been reported that David Cameron had requested that Sir Julian be assigned an environmental portfolio. Recent reports suggest that officials have approached three Commissioners to discuss ceding part of their respective portfolios to create a new portfolio for the UK Commissioner designate.
The Industry, Research and Energy Committee (ITRE) has agreed amendments on a draft regulation on energy efficiency labelling, including a new A to G scale label for household appliances to replace the current system within the next five years.
President Juncker has appointed Michel Barnier as the Commission's Chief Negotiator in charge of the Preparation and Conduct of the Negotiations with the United Kingdom under Article 50 of the TEU. Mr Barnier is a former French Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Agriculture, and former European Commissioner in charge of Regional Policy, Institutional Reforms and of Internal Market and Services. His appointment is effective from 1 October 2016.
Didier Seeuws has been appointed head of the EU Brexit Taskforce established by the European Council to negotiate the terms and conditions of the UK's withdrawal from the EU. Mr Seeuws was chief of staff to former European Council President Herman van Rompuy.
It is expected that the Brexit negotiations will be split into two streams. The Commission will manage the technical detail of the UK's exit from the EU under Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty and the Council's Taskforce managed by Mr Seeuws will work on the political nature of the UK's future relationship with the EU.
Commission President Juncker announced on 27 June that he would dissolve the Task Force for Strategic Issues related to the UK Referendum on 30 September 2016.
Slovakia holds the Presidency from July to December 2016. It is Slovakia's first time holding the Presidency and it is the second in the Presidency Trio which also includes the Netherlands and Malta. Slovakia's priorities for the Presidency are an economically strong Europe; a modern single market; sustainable migration and asylum policies; and a globally engaged Europe. Prime Minister Robert Fico said migration, along with Brexit, will be the predominant items on the agenda.
Four key files on migration will be dealt with during the Slovakian Presidency – the EU border and coastguard; the 'smart borders' package; the migrant return policy; and reform of the Dublin asylum system. Slovakia is opposed to the refugee relocation scheme contained within the reforms of the asylum scheme.
An informal summit about the future of the EU, without the UK, will be held in Bratislava on 16 September.
The UK was due to hold the Presidency of the Council of the EU in the second half of 2017 during which it would chair meetings of the Council. The UK has said it will not take the Presidency. Estonia will take up the Presidency in place of the UK.
The Commission has unveiled the 2017 Horizon 2020 work programme, the EU's programme for research and innovation. The work programme is aligned with the Commission's agenda on jobs, investment and growth. The 2016-17 work programme introduces open research data in all new Horizon 2020 calls and funding has been made available for research into labour market integration of migrants.
The European Commission has announced a €500 million support package for farmers in the EU who have been affected by price volatility. This package follows on from a previous support package provided in September 2015. The legislation to implement these new measures is expected in September 2016. The three main elements in this new package are:
- An EU-wide scheme to incentivise a reduction in milk production (€150 million)
- Conditional adjustment aid to be defined and implemented at Member State level out of a menu proposed by the Commission (€350 million that Member States will be allowed to match with national funds, thus potentially doubling the level of support being provided to farmers)
- A range of technical measures to provide flexibility (e.g. on voluntary coupled support), cash-flow relief (e.g. through an increase in the amount of the advances for both direct and area-based rural development payments) and reinforce the safety net instruments (by prolonging intervention and private storage aid for Skimmed Milk Powder).
It is reported that the European Commission will propose overhauled legislation on telecoms in September, including an EU wide internet speed target of 100 MBS per second by 2025. The report suggests that the Commission plans to require national governments to legally guarantee access to broadband services and to pay for broadband networks in areas where it is not already accessible.
The Commission has proposed the conclusion of the EU-Canada trade agreement CETA – the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement. As a 'mixed agreement' the deal will have to be ratified by national parliaments across the EU as well as the European Parliament and Council. The deal is due to be signed at the October 2016 EU-Canada summit meeting. The Commission has stated that, following a decision by Member States, it will be possible to provisionally apply CETA, although it would not fully enter into force until it has the consent of the European Parliament, a Council decision and has been ratified by national parliaments.
Following the latest round of negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership, negotiators have said that production of a consolidated text of the agreement, planned for the end of July 2016 is now more likely in September 2016. While progress has been made on elimination of tariffs and regulatory cooperation, EU negotiators are not satisfied with the level of access to public sector tenders in the US and US negotiators are unhappy with the EU offer on trade in services. The implications for TTIP of the UK exit from the EU are also being evaluated given that the UK is the biggest EU market for US services and accounts for 25% of US exports to the EU.
The European Commission has recommended new fiscal paths for Spain and Portugal following a Council decision that both countries had not taken effective action to correct excessive budget deficits and thereby breached rules of the Stability and Growth Pact. The Commission has granted extra time for both countries to bring their deficits below 3% of GDP – one extra year for Portugal and two years for Spain. The Commission also recommended that fines for breaching the EU deficit rules be cancelled for both countries. This decision needs to be approved by the Council. The Commission has the right to propose fines of up to 0.2% of GDP or to withhold payments from the EU budget. Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said "We're at a time in Europe when people are having their doubts about Europe and we have to be careful about how the rules and the implementation of these rules are perceived".
Hungary will hold a referendum in October 2016 on whether to accept mandatory EU quotas for relocation of asylum seekers. The referendum is in response to the Commission's 2015 proposal to relocate 120,000 asylum seekers. The referendum question will be "Do you want the European Union to be entitled to prescribe the mandatory settlement of non-Hungarian citizens in Hungary without the consent of parliament?" Hungary erected a fence along its border last year to try to stop the flow of asylum seekers.
Following a failed military coup in Turkey on 15 July, over 9,000 people have been detained including 3,000 judges. 10,000 civil servants have been suspended and 24,000 teachers and interior ministry employees and 9,000 police officers have been sacked. Arrest warrants have been issued for some journalists and several TV channels have been closed down. Almost 300 people were killed in the coup. EU leaders condemned the coup but have expressed concerns that the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan could introduce a more authoritarian regime in Turkey and that EU-Turkey relations could be damaged. President Erdoğan has described the coup as a 'gift from god' which he will use to reform Turkey. He has indicated plans to further concentrate powers in the office of the President. The Turkish government has said US based cleric Fethullah Gülen was behind the coup - a claim he has denied.
MEPs have underlined that the attempt to reintroduce the death penalty in Turkey will end accession talks for Turkey to join the EU. Commission President Juncker has said "I believe that Turkey, in its current state, is not in a position to become a member any time soon and not even over a longer period."
The EU is to open two further chapters in Serbia's accession talks – the chapters on EU legal codex, on judiciary and fundamental rights, and on justice, freedom and security. The decision came following Croatia lifting its veto over the opening of new chapters amid disputes over prosecution of war criminals. EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn said that when German and French leaders met counterparts from the Western Balkans they confirmed that EU expansion in the region was still their "strategic goal". He said "There should not be the slightest doubt about our strong commitment to welcoming Serbia in the EU family, where it belongs".
The EU opened two further chapters in accession talks with Montenegro on 30 June. Out of a total of 35 negotiating chapters, 24 chapters have now been opened for negotiations of which 2 chapters have already been provisionally closed.
The Northern Ireland Assembly has agreed that its full and alternate members on the Committee of the Regions will be Declan McAleer MLA and Colin McGrath MLA. The nominations will now be sent on to the European Commission by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office to be officially confirmed.
European Week of Regions and Cities takes place 10-13 October 2016. Formerly known as 'Open Days', this annual event focuses on regional and local development. This year's theme is 'Regions and cities for sustainable and inclusive economic growth'.
The Committee of the Regions is running a free online course on the EU budget and funding for regions and cities from 31 October to 9 December.
The House of Commons is in recess and will sit again on 5 September 2016. The Committee has launched a consultation exercise seeking views on its role and the EU scrutiny process given the implications of the outcome of the referendum. The Committee is seeking comments on:
- How should scrutiny adapt to Brexit? What should be subject to scrutiny, and what outcomes would be useful?
- Should any particular policy areas be subject to increased scrutiny?
- Are there areas where the Committee should offer a lighter touch?
- What are the pressing questions the Committee should ask in dealing with individual proposals?
- How can Committee material be made more accessible and useful to third parties?
Written submissions should be submitted by 30 September 2016.
The House of Lords is in recess and will sit again on 5 September 2106. Recently published reports by the EU Committee include Children in crisis: unaccompanied migrant children in the EU; and Scrutinising Brexit: the role of Parliament
A new committee was established on 28 June 2016 to consider items referred to it by the Assembly's Business Committee. The External Affairs and Additional Legislation Committee will consider implications for Wales of the EU referendum.
SCOTTISH PARLIAMENTThe European and External Relations Committee continues to consider the EU referendum and its implications for Scotland. The Committee met on 28 July to take evidence on economic matters and then heard from a range of witnesses on business and sectoral interests.
Climate Action, Environment:
Consultation on monitoring and reporting of fuel consumption and CO2 emissions from Heavy Duty Vehicles 20.07.2016 – 28.10.2016
Consultation on the revision of Regulation (EU) No 443/2009 and Regulation (EU) No 510/2011 setting CO2 emission performance standards for light duty vehicles. 20.07.2016 – 28.10.2016
Mid-term evaluation of the LIFE Programme 17.06.2016 – 09.09.2016
Employment and Social Affairs:
Open Public Consultation for the Mid-term Evaluation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) 18.05.2016 – 18.08.2016
Public consultation on the European Pillar of Social Rights 08.03.2016 – 31.12.2016
Internal Market:
Single Digital Gateway 26.07.2016 – 21.11.2016
Public consultation under the Start-up Initiative 31.03.2016 – 31.07.2016
Public consultation on Internal Market for Goods – Enforcement and Compliance 01.07.2016 – 31.10.2016
Consultation on the regulation of professions: proportionality and Member States' National Action Plans 27.05.2016 – 19.08.2016
Justice and Fundamental Rights, Consumers:
Public consultation for the Fitness Check of EU consumer and marketing law 12.05.2016 – 02.09.2016
Maritime Affairs and Fisheries:
Consultation on Fishing Opportunities for 2017 under the Common Fisheries Policy 15.06.2016 – 01.09.2016
Research and Technology, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Agriculture and Rural Development:
Public consultation on Horizon 2020 'Food Security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy' Work Programme 2018-2020 06.06.2016 – 28.08.2016
Review of Regulation (EC) No 1071/2009 on access to the occupation of road transport operator and Regulation (EC) No 1072/2009 on access to the international road haulage market 15.06.2016 – 15.09.2016
Youth, Sport:
Evaluation of the Youth policy cooperation in the EU - public consultation 18.07.2016 – 16.10.2016


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Some of this year's top penny stocks have come out of the little-known or followed fuel cell industry.
The sector garnered a great deal of attention in 2014's first quarter, thanks to lucrative contracts inked by Plug Power Inc. (Nasdaq: PLUG).
Here's a brief refresher.
The Latham, N.Y.-based company's shares spiked 68% to a 52-week high of $4.90 in January after securing a deal with FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) to develop hydrogen fuel cell extenders for 20 FedEx trucks. Shares were up a stratospheric 334.19% year over year by March, fueled by a sizable contract signed in late February with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT).
After rising as high as $11.20, PLUG shares fizzled as the stock took a breather and investors moved on to the next hot stock.
But by late April, PLUG stock was climbing again.
In a move aimed at accelerating its aggressive international growth strategy, PLUG announced on April 21 it had entered into a five-year agreement with Hyundai Hysco Co. Ltd. Under the joint venture partnership, PLUG will develop and sell hydrogen fuel cells in countries throughout Asia using Hysco's advanced stack and plate technology.
"This highly anticipated joint venture with Hysco will enable Plug Power to broaden its reach into the Asian market, putting us well on our way toward global market expansion," said Andy Marsh, chief executive officer (CEO) of Plug Power. "The positive impact on our bottom line from fuel cell sales in the region in 2015 and beyond will play a significant role in our achievement of profitability."
PLUG shares were mostly quiet over the month or so until they were back in the news this week.
PLUG Regains Top Penny Stock Status
PLUG shares surged 19% on Wednesday. Some 57.39 million shares changed hands, compared to the stock's average daily volume of 16.26 million. Option activity was also brisk, with traders purchasing a whopping 55,617 bullish calls on Wednesday, compared to the typical daily volume of 8,790 calls.
Driving shares was an announcement from PLUG that retail giants Walgreen Co. (NYSE: WAG) and Family Dollar Stores Inc. (NYSE: FDO) have expressed interest in replacing their lead-acid battery-powered forklifts with hydrogen fuel cells.
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Cabin crew job how to get it?
Each airline is unique and may, therefore, be looking for different traits in the flight attendant, airport service agent and lounge hostess candidate; that this is a physical appearance or a personality type. However, the universal role of the flight attendant (cabin crew) is the same regardless of the airline.


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Constant dripping hollows a stone.
Trying to "change" your life, your health or your finances can be overwhelming and unclear at the best of times.
This idea from Joshua Spodek takes a more logical approach, using the unique acronym SIDCHA to clarify the best course of action:
- Self-Imposed: that is, you have to choose to do it. Going to work so you don't lose your apartment doesn't count.
- Daily: if you don't do it regularly, you'll drop them. You don't have to do it daily, but daily makes it harder to forget.
- Challenging: easy things don't help you. Watching TV, listening to music, and reading don't qualify.
- Healthy: it has to improve your health or well-being. Smoking doesn't count.
- Activity: you have to physically do something. Thinking about things doesn't count. Writing does. Meditation does.
Rather than "easting healthy" or "drinking less", pick something tangible you can do every single day.
You can thank me later..
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Revolver Gallery
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About Revolver Gallery
Revolver Gallery has a one-artist program dedicated to the great pioneer of Pop Art, Andy Warhol. With hundreds of authenticated works available and a wealth of experience, Revolver Gallery boasts the largest gallery-owned collection of Warhol's in the world. Based in Los Angeles, the gallery has recently curated international travelling exhibitions that explore the development of Andy Warhol's artistic language and its greater effect on Western culture. Revolver Gallery prides itself on the promotion and preservation of Andy Warhol's legacy.
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Diane Marie Amann serves as commentator at AALS Annual Meeting
Woodruff Chair in International Law Diane Marie Amann served as the commentator for papers on "Human Rights in Times of Conflict" at the Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, as part of the "New Voices in Human Rights" program sponsored by the AALS Section on International Human Rights, during January.
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Office of Communications and Public Relations, "Diane Marie Amann serves as commentator at AALS Annual Meeting" (2013). Faculty Highlights. 453.


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Coverage starts 1 hour before bride gets dressed and ends after the last reception event or after the grand exit. Most couples need 9 to 10 hours. Included coverage is up to 12 hours.
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All of the images from your wedding and portrait session in an easy to access digital gallery. Every photo is hand edited by Jonathan Ivy and ready to be downloaded or printed from a web browser or phone with a print release for the couple.
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CSA Leadership Symposium
July 14-15, 2017
Chicago, Illinois
The AHIMA CSA Leadership Symposium is a two-day event that engages AHIMA and CSA leaders in strategic direction, envisioning the future, and leadership in the evolving HIM profession. Ann D'Arcy -James, our Past President, and I represented NHIMA. We participated in the interactive sessions that were developed to train CSA leadership in their roles.
Some of the many topics included were the future of HIM roles, global perspectives in healthcare, innovative CSA activities, HIM apprenticeship programs, CSA financial planning and membership engagement.
Being able to speak with members of other CSA's was another benefit to attending. The best practices shared were beneficial. They provided us with the motivation and inspiration to incorporate new ideas into our state association over the next year.
If attending these kinds of AHIMA sponsored events interests you consider joining our Board or connecting with a Board member to inquire about opportunities to participate in upcoming events.
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Science provides an empirical manner of answering attention-grabbing and necessary questions about the organic, physical and technological world. Exterior efforts to guide the course of science would only interfere with its free and unpredictable advance. Listed below are a three science questions to show how cooking can develop into an easy instrument to teach simple science principles which perhaps the science lab could make it seem like simply another experiment. My aim in this article has been to offer you an inkling of how I've arrived at my conclusion of Feng Shui as a scientific follow.
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Rising reputation of aromatherapy with main-stream society has prompted researchers to take a more in-depth take a look at this ancient remedy. Major advances in formal science have typically led to main advances in the empirical sciences. From this angle, the lie as Bush instructed it was perhaps much less a acutely aware effort to deceive than a seductive manipulation, for political aims, of broadly held beliefs in regards to the purity of science.
We invite all associates and supporters to have interaction with us and help us to proceed being Australia's leading scientific teaching and analysis hub. I feel in case you ask a physician or a dentist, they are going to most certainly tell you that there is an art, to the science that they observe. The connection solely started to swing each methods, with science contributing to technological development in addition to benefiting from it, in the nineteenth century as, for instance, natural chemistry both emerged from and found software within the German dye-making trade.
Science through the Enlightenment was dominated by scientific societies and academies , which had largely replaced universities as centres of scientific analysis and improvement. Also remember that utilizing harmful chemical compounds in a science fair venture isn't allowed. At the same time as government funding for biomedical science within the United States equals that of all different fields of research combined , illnesses stay uncured, pharmaceutical innovation has slowed to a crawl, and corporate investments are extraordinarily dangerous due to the staggering failure rates of recent drug trials.


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Latin name: Elephas
Other names: Barrus, Elefant, Elephans, Olifant, Oliphans
Persian and Indian soldiers build wooden towers on the back of elephants and fight from there.
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Elephants have no knee joints, so if they fall down they cannot get up again. To avoid falling, the elephant leans against a tree while it sleeps. To capture an elephant, a hunter can cut part way through a tree; when the elephant leans against it, the tree breaks and the elephant falls. Unable to rise, the beast cries out, and a large elephant tries to lift it up, but fails. In some accounts, twelve elephants next attempt to lift it, and also fail. Finally a small elephant comes and succeeds in raising the fallen one.
The idea that elephants have no knee joints may be a misunderstanding of, or a conflation with, an account of the elk in Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars, repeated by Pliny; see Sources below.
Male elephants are reluctant to mate, so when the female wants children, she and the male travel to the East, near Paradise, where the mandrake grows. The female elephant eats some mandrake, and then gives some to the male; they mate and the female immediately conceives. The female remains pregnant for two years, and can only give birth once. When it is time to give birth, the female wades into a pool up to her belly and gives birth there. If she gave birth on land, the elephant's enemy the dragon would devour the baby. To make sure the dragon cannot attack, the male elephant stands guard and tramples the dragon if it approaches the pool.
"The cures obtained from [the elephant] are few in number, the principal one being a salve made of ivory, ground up, which is applied to spots and lines on the face and for whitening the teeth. The blood is also to be drunk by those who suffer from haemorrhage" ( Druce, 1919). If the skin or bones of an elephant are burned, the smoke will drive out serpents.
The elephant's life span is three hundred years. They travel in herds, are afraid of mice, and courteously salute men in whatever way they can. They once lived in both in Africa and India, but now only live in India.
Persian and Indian soldiers build wooden towers on the back of elephants and fight from there.
The elephant and its mate represent Adam and Eve. When they were still without sin in the Garden of Eden, they did not mate, but when the dragon seduced them and Eve ate the fruit of the tree and gave some to Adam, they were forced to leave Paradise and enter the world, which was like a turbulent lake of pleasures and passions. The elephants mated and she conceived, and "gave birth on the waters of guilt." The big elephant represents the law, which could not raise up mankind from sin, nor could the twelve elephants, which represent the prophets. Christ is the small elephant who succeeded to raising the fallen. The burning skin and bones of the elephant represent the commandments of God, which allow nothing evil to enter the pure soul.
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Book of Maccabees (2nd century BCE): Elephants being used in battle are mentioned several times. In First Maccabees 6:34: And they showed the elephants the blood of grapes, and mulberries to provoke them to fight.
Julius Caesar (Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars, Book 6.27): There are also [animals] which are called elks [alces]. The shape of these, and the varied color of their skins, is much like roes, but in size they surpass them a little and are destitute of horns, and have legs without joints and ligatures; nor do they lie down for the purpose of rest, nor, if they have been thrown down by any accident, can they raise or lift themselves up. Trees serve as beds to them; they lean themselves against them, and thus reclining only slightly, they take their rest; when the huntsmen have discovered from the footsteps of these animals whither they are accustomed to betake themselves, they either undermine all the trees at the roots, or cut into them so far that the upper part of the trees may appear to be left standing. When they have leant upon them, according to their habit, they knock down by their weight the unsupported trees, and fall down themselves along with them. [The account following this one (6.28) compares the size of another beast to the elephant; this may be the source of the confusion of the elk and elephant.]
Lucan [1st century CE] (Pharsalia, book 9, verse 859-861): "Nor does the elephant in his giant bulk, Nor aught, find safety [from the serpent]; and ye need no fang / Nor poison, to compel the fatal end".
Pliny the Elder [1st century CE] (Natural History, Book 8, 1-13): The elephant is the closest of all animals to humans in intelligence. It understands the language of its own country, and can therefore understand and obey orders. Elephants are wise and just, remember their duties, enjoy affection, and respect religion. They know that their tusks are valuable, so when a tusk falls off they bury it. Elephants are gentle, and do no harm unless provoked. Females are more timid than males. Male elephants are used in battle, carrying castles full of armed soldiers on their backs. The slightest squeal of a pig will frighten them, and African elephants fear to look at Indian elephants. They hate mice and will refuse to eat fodder that has been touched by one. Their period of gestation is 2 years and [quoting Aristotle] they never bear more than one child at a time. They become adults at the age of 60 years, and live between 200 and 300 years. They love rivers but cannot swim. Elephants constantly feud with the large serpents of India, which can encircle an elephant in their coils. When this happens, the elephant is strangled and dies, but in falling crushes the serpent and kills it. Another way these large serpents kill elephants is by submerging themselves in a river and waiting for an elephant to come and drink; coiling around the elephant, the serpent bites its ear and drains all its blood. The elephant in dying falls on the serpent and kills it. The largest elephants are from India, though Ethiopian elephants rival them in size, being 30 feet high. (Book 8, 15): Pliny repeats the story from Julias Caesar about the elk that cannot bend its legs. (Book 11, 115): The breath of elephants attracts snakes out of their holes.
Aelian (174-235 CE) (De Natura Animalium, Book viii, ch. 17): The elephant's mating is due solely to a desire to perpetuate their family. (Book xiii, ch. 9): Aelian says that the military elephant carries three fighting men on a cuirass, or even on its bare back, one fighting on the right, another on the left, while the third faces to the rear; and at the same time a fourth holds an axe with which he guides the beast just as the master of a ship, skilled in navigation, steers a ship with the helm. (Book xvii, ch. 29): Aelian relates that the king of the Indians, when waging war, is preceded by one hundred thousand war elephants; then there follow three thousand others of the largest and most powerful kind, which have been set apart to charge and overturn the enemy's walls, when the king gives the command; for they overturn them by the tremendous pressure of their bodies. (from Druce, 1919)
Ambrose (340-397 CE) (Hexameron, lib. vi, ch. 5) discusses the reasons why the Creator fashioned some animals with long, some with short necks. 'It is,' he says, 'because those animals which feed by grazing, such as the horse, ox, or camel, need long necks to enable them to reach the ground, whereas lions and tigers, which are flesh-eaters, have no need of long necks, as they seize their prey. The elephant has a projecting trunk, because since it is taller than every other animal, it cannot bend down to feed. Therefore it makes use of its trunk both to gather its food and to pour copious draughts of water down its throat; for that reason its trunk is hollow, enabling it to suck up whole ponds of water necessary to quench the thirst of so huge a beast. Its neck, it is true, is smaller than so bulky a body would lead us to expect, but if it were otherwise it would be more burdensome than useful.' Ambrose then repeats the popular tale that the elephant does not bend its knees, his view being that it has need of rigid legs like pillars in order to support so great a fabric of limbs. The result is that it cannot lie down, and he describes how tame elephants 'are propped up with great beams, so that when asleep they can to some extent recline without danger of falling. But wild elephants, which lean against trees when rubbing their sides or sleeping, not infrequently fall down by the tree giving way, and there they lie and perish, or betray themselves by trumpeting, so that the hunter comes up and kills them. And the hunters take advantage of this habit to cut a slit partly through the tree, so that it gives way under the elephant's weight, and so they are captured.' He then proceeds to draw a comparison between the elephant and an excessively high building which is likely to fall, and says that if we build them so because of their beauty or height, so ought we to approve these qualities in elephants, because they serve a great purpose in war. And then follows a vivid description of a battle in which elephants are employed. He styles them walking towers and explains how everything goes down before their onset. Like the high buildings mentioned, elephants are supported on very firm foundations, and it is owing to their legs being in proportion to their size that they are able to prolong their life to 300 years or more. 'So their joints are close-set, but in the case of men, if they stood long or ran very fast, or continually walked about, how soon would their knees and the soles of their feet ache! 'He compares their tusks to natural spear-points, and says that whatever they roll up in their trunk they break and whatever they trample under-foot they crush the life out of as if it were crushed by the fall of a building. After further observations about their habits, he concludes by pointing to elephants as an object lesson to us that nothing superfluous has been created; 'and yet this beast of so great size is subject to us, and obeys the commands of man.' (from Druce, 1919, p. 3)
Eustathius (fl. c. 450) (Hexameron, lib. ix, ch. 5) gives many details of the elephant's anatomy, especially its trunk and legs, maintaining with Ambrose that its legs could not support its weight if they had joints. He alludes to the use of elephants in war, calling them 'towers of flesh placed in the front of the battle-line, or like living mountains opposed to the enemy.' Further, that 'God ordained the elephant, so vast in size, to be subject to man, so that it might understand whatever it is taught, and submit when it is struck, showing clearly by this that all things have been subjected to us, because we have been made in the likeness of God and may not only observe his incalculable wisdom in the biggest of animals, but also in the smallest reflect on his wonders.' And after reciting various instances of natural phenomena in evidence, he concludes: 'one is not so greatly amazed at the vast size of the elephant as at the mouse which is such an object of fear to the elephant.' (from Druce, 1919, p. 4)
Cassiodorus (c. 485 - c. 585 CE) (Variarum, lib. x, ep. 30): The living elephant, when it is prostrate on the ground, as it often is when helping men to fell trees, cannot get up again unaided. This is because it has no joints in its feet; and accordingly you see numbers of them lying as if dead till men come to help them up again. Thus this creature, so terrible by its size, is really not equally endowed by Nature with the tiny ant. That the elephant surpasses all other animals in intelligence is proved by the adoration which it renders to Him whom it understands to be the Almighty Ruler of all. Moreover it pays to good princes a homage which it refuses to tyrants. It uses its proboscis, that nosed hand which Nature has given it to compensate for its very short neck, for the benefit of its master, accepting the presents which will be profitable to him. It always walks cautiously, mindful of that fatal fall [into the hunter's pit] which was the beginning of its captivity. At its master's bidding it exhales its breath, which is said to be a remedy for the human headache. When it comes to water it sucks up in its trunk a vast quantity, which at the word of command it squirts forth like a shower. If anyone have treated it with contempt, it pours forth such a stream of dirty water over him that one would think a river had entered his house. For this beast has a wonderfully long memory, both of injury and of kindness. Its eyes are small, but move solemnly. There is a sort of kingly dignity in its appearance, and while it recognises with pleasure all that is honourable, it seems to despise scurrilous jests. Its skin is furrowed by deep channels, like that of the victims of the foreign disease named after it, elephantiasis. It is on account of the impenetrability of this hide that the Persian Kings used the elephant in war.
Isidore of Seville [7th century CE] (Etymologies, Book 12, 2:14-16): The elephant takes its name from the Greek word for "mountain" (lophos) because its body is large like a mountain. This beast is useful to the military; Indians and Persians fight from wooden turrets placed on the backs of elephants, and shoot arrows from there. Elephants have a strong memory and intelligence, travel in herds, are afraid of mice, greet the sun with movements of their bodies, and live three hundred years. They give give birth, after a gestation period of two years, to a single child at a time. They give birth in secret and send their young to water or islands to protect them from their enemy the dragon, which kills elephants by binding them. Elephants once lived in Africa and India, but now only live in India.
Aberdeen Bestiary [c. 1200 CE]: "Whatever elephants wrap their trunks around, they break; whatever they trample underfoot is crushed to death as if by the fall of a great ruin. They never fight over female elephants, for they know nothing of adultery. They possess the quality of mercy. If by chance they see a man wandering in the desert, they offer to lead him to familiar paths. Or if they encounter herds of cattle huddled together, they make their way carefully and peacably lest their tusks kill any animal in their way. If by chance they fight in battle, they have no mean [intent to] the wounded. For they take the exhausted and the injured back into their midst."
British Library Harley MS 3244 [c. 1260 CE] ( Druce (p. 5-7) translation, with such adjustments as the texts of other Latin manuscripts may suggest): 'There is an animal, which is called "elephant," which possesses no desire for sexual intercourse. The Greeks imagine that it is called "elephant" from the great size of its body, because it resembles a mountain. For in Greek a mountain is called "Eliphio." But among the Indians it is called "barrus" from its trumpeting. So also its trumpeting (is called) "barritus" and its teeth "ebur." Its snout is called "promuscis," because it puts food into its mouth with it; and it is like a snake and is guarded by a rampart of ivory. No bigger animal is to be seen. [They say that these creatures were called Lucanian oxen by the ancient Romans; oxen because they knew no bigger animal, Lucanian because Pyrrhus used them first in Lucania in battle against the Romans; for this kind of animal is suitable for war.] For the Indians and Persians, stationed in wooden towers placed upon them, fight with darts, as if from a wall. They are possessed of a vigorous intelligence and memory. They move about in herds [they salute with such movements as they are capable of], are afraid of a mouse, and are disinclined to breed. They bring forth after two years (gestation), and they do not produce young more than once, and then not several but only one. They live 300 years. Now if the elephant wishes to beget children it goes to the East to paradise; and there is a tree there which is called Mandragora, and it goes with its female, who first takes of the fruit of the tree and gives it to her male. And she beguiles him until he eats, and immediately she conceives; and when the time for bringing forth has come, she goes into a pool so deep that the water comes up to the udders of the mother. But the (male) elephant guards her while giving birth because of the dragon which is the enemy of the elephant. Now if it should find a serpent it kills it, trampling it underfoot until it is dead. The elephant is a source of terror to bulls but fears the mouse. It has such a nature that if it has fallen down it cannot get up. Now it falls down when it leans against a tree to sleep, for it has no joints in its knees. Then the hunter makes a cut partly through the tree, so that the elephant when it has leant against it may fall down together with it. But as it falls, it cries out loudly, and at once a great elephant appears, but is not able to lift it up. Then both cry out, and there come twelve elephants, but they are not able to raise that which was fallen. Thereupon they all cry out, and immediately there comes a little elephant which places its mouth with its trunk under the big elephant and lifts it up. Now the little elephant has this nature that, where a fire is made of its hair and bones, no evil thing will come nor dragon. Now elephants break whatever they roll up in their trunks, and whatever they tread upon is crushed as it were by the fall of a vast building. They never fight about the females, for none of them have promiscuous intercourse. They have the good quality of gentleness. Indeed should they chance to see a man wandering in the desert, they offer themselves as an escort to the high road; or if they should fall in with a flock of sheep, they make the way clear for themselves gently and quietly with their trunks, lest they should kill with their tusk any animal that comes in the way. And when they happen to be engaged in battle with a band of enemies, they take no small care of the wounded, for they place the tired and wounded in the middle.'
St Antony of Padua [12th-13th century CE] (Sermons): Penitents are compared to elephants. And rightly are penitents set forth by elephants, in whom exists the virtue of clemency; for, if they see a man wandering through the deserts, they afford him their guidance till he reaches a road that he knows; or, if they meet with herds of cattle, they make a way for themselves with their kind trunk. The oldest leads the troop ; he that is next in age urges forward those that follow. When they are about to cross a river, they put the smallest elephants in front, lest the larger ones should wear away the path through its bed, and should make the river deeper by pressing down the shallows. The virtue of clemency in just men, is like this. They bring back an erring brother into the way; among cattle, that is, among simple folk, they make, as it were, by the kind and pleasant trunk of their deeds, a way, by which they may pass through unhurt; by example and word, they are the leaders of others; and, when about to pass through the river of this life to their country, they send the smaller ones before them; because they are pitiful and compassionate to beginners, who have not yet attained to the full strength of holiness. ( Neale translation)
Albertus Magnus [1193-1280 CE] (De Animalibus, lib. xxii, tract. 2): Albertus gives an interesting description and explanation of the jointless legs. He says that elephants' legs are large and almost the same size from top to bottom. like pillars; and although their foot is really divided, yet nature has joined their toes together in order that the foot may be made stronger thereby; and from this cause too they are said not to have joints in their legs below the knees. But they really have joints, though they are not supple but stiff, and therefore they are thought not to have them by the ignorant; for if they had not got joints in their legs, they could not walk in the ordinary way. (from Druce, 1919)
Westminster bestiary [c. 1285 CE]: In addition to the standard legend has at the end: 'Alexander frightened these beasts away from his camp by the grunting of swine. The dragon drinks the blood of the elephant for the purpose of cooling his burning intestines.' ( Druce, p. 8)
Bartholomaeus Anglicus [13th century CE] (De proprietatibus rerum, book 18): Between elephants and dragons is everlasting fighting, for the dragon with his tail bindeth and spanneth the elephant, and the elephant with his foot and with his nose throweth down the dragon, and the dragon bindeth and spanneth the elephant's legs, and maketh him fall, but the dragon buyeth it full sore: for while he slayeth the elephant, the elephant falleth upon him and slayeth him. Also the elephant seeing the dragon upon a tree, busieth him to break the tree to smite the dragon, and the dragon leapeth upon the elephant, and busieth him to bite him between the nostrils, and assaileth the elephant's eyen, and maketh him blind sometime, and leapeth upon him sometime behind, and biteth him and sucketh his blood. And at the last after long fighting the elephant waxeth feeble for great blindness, in so much that he falleth upon the dragon, and slayeth in his dying the dragon that him slayeth. The cause why the dragon desireth his blood, is coldness of the elephant's blood, by the which the dragon desireth to cool himself. ... Among beasts the elephant is most of virtue, so that unneth among men is so great readiness found. For in the new moon they come together in great companies, and bathe and wash them in a river, and lowte each to other, and turn so again to their own places, and they make the young go tofore in the turning again; and keep them busily and teach them to do in the same wise: and when they be sick, they gather good herbs, and ere they use the herbs they heave up the head, and look up toward heaven, and pray for help of God in a certain religion. And they be good of wit, and learn well: and are easy to teach, insomuch that they be taught to know the king and to worship him, and busy to do him reverence and to bend the knees in worship of him. If elephants see a man coming against them that is out of the way in the wilderness, for they would not affray him, they will draw themselves somewhat out of the way, and then they stint, and pass little and little tofore him, and teach him the way. And if a dragon come against him, they fight with the dragon and defend the man, and put them forth to defend the man strongly and mightily: and do so namely when they have young foals, for they dread that the man seeketh their foals. And therefore they purpose first to deliver them of the man, that they may more securely feed their children and keep them the more warily.... Elephants be best in chivalry when they be tame: for they bear towers of tree, and throw down sheltrons, and overturn men of arms, and that is wonderful; for they dread not men of arms ranged in battle, and dread and flee the voice of the least sound of a swine. When they be taken, they be made tame and mild with barley: and a cave or a ditch is made under the earth, as it were a pitfall in the elephant's way, and unawares he falleth therein. And then one of the hunters cometh to him and beateth and smiteth him, and pricketh him full sore. And then another hunter cometh and smiteth the first hunter, and doth him away, and defendeth the elephant, and giveth him barley to eat, and when he hath eaten thrice or four times, then he loveth him that defended him, and is afterward mild and obedient to him. I have read in Physiologus' book that the elephant is a beast that passeth all other four-footed beasts in quantity, in wit, and in mind. For among other doings elephants lie never down in sleeping; but when they be weary they lean to a tree and so rest somewhat. And men lie in wait to espy their resting places privily, for to cut the tree in the other side: and the elephant cometh and is not aware of the fraud, and leaneth to the tree and breaketh it with the weight of his body, and falleth down with the breaking, and lieth there. And when he seeth he may not help himself in falling he crieth and roareth in a wonder manner: and by his noise and crying come suddenly many young elephants, and rear up the old little and little with all their strength and might: and while they arear him with wonder affection and love, they bend themselves with all their might and strength. ... Also there is another thing said that is full wonderful: among the Ethiopians in some countries elephants be hunted in this wise: there go in the desert two maidens all naked and bare, with open hair of the head: and one of them beareth a vessel, and the other a sword. And these maidens begin to sing alone: and the beast hath liking when he heareth their song, and cometh to them, and licketh their teats, and falleth asleep anon for liking of the song, and then the one maid sticketh him in the throat or in the side with a sword, and the other taketh his blood in a vessel, and with that blood the people of the same country dye cloth, and done colour it therewith. [Compare the account of the unicorn.] ( Steele edition of 1905)
Sir John Mandeville [14th century CE] (Travels, chapter 21): And [the king of the isle called Calonak] hath also into a 14,000 elephants or more that he maketh for to be brought up amongst his villains by all his towns. For in case that he had any war against any other king about him, then [he] maketh certain men of arms for to go up into the castles of tree made for the war, that craftily be set upon the elephants' backs, for to fight against their enemies. And so do other kings there-about. For the manner of war is not there as it is here or in other countries, ne the ordinance of war neither. And men clepe the elephants WARKES. ( Macmillan edition of 1900)
The early drawings of the elephant are highly inaccurate; other than that the beast had a long nose and tusks, the illustrators knew little of it. Most pictures show the elephant with two tusks pointing either up or down; some show four tusks, two up and two down. Later illustrations are more accurate, after elephants had been brought to western Europe as gifts for royalty. An accurately carved elephant is found on a misericord in Exeter Cathedral, England, probably from the third quarter of the 13th century.
The most commonly illustrated themes are the dragon attacking the elephant, generally with the elephant wrapped in the dragons coils; the female elephant giving birth in water, with the male standing guard and the dragon nearby; and the elephant with a "castle" on its back, full of armored soldiers. All elements of the elephant birth sequence are shown in British Library, Sloane MS 278 (f. 48v), where there are three adult elephants, a baby, a human-shaped mandrake in the foreground, and a threatening dragon to one side. The Queen Mary Psalter (British Library, Royal MS 2 B. vii, f. 100v), shows an elephant fighting with a unicorn.
"The heraldic treatise of Sir William Comings, Marchemont Herald of Scotland and Lyon King of Arms, dated 1494 [British Library Harley MS 6149] ... gives the symbolic interpretation, which is applied to the knight who first bore the device: 'The eliphant yat is callit barro be yaim of ynd for his cry is callit barritus of wham ye teith ar ywoir & for gueulle has growing ande amang al ye othir bestes he is ye maistir of body and of vertu. Ande yairfor yai of medee and of perse puttis upon yaim toures de bost in ye whilkis thai fecht ande ar of gud understanding ande of gude memour and ganges togidder in gret cumpany when yai gang in forestes ande in wateres. And ganges faner in secret places and lewis yair fans in ye place whar thai fane at yai be nader tane nader dragonys and bores thair fans two yeres or yai fane thaim. And liffes iiic yheres as sais ysodre. And signifies he yat first bur thame in armes has voce & name terrible & wes of strang figour in his face gret of body & of vertu berand gret birdinges and man of gret mynd and understanding. And in his dedes in wattir and in land starklie cumpaingnit with follres of his estate. And his generacioun wes born ii yheres & vas of lang lif and his generacioun wes langlestande ande worthy of memour and yis may suffice of bestis to say. And gif it war demandit of yaim yat ar nocht heir men may get ye significacioun in ye buk yat spekes of propirteis ye whilk may be gottin in mony places.' " - Druce, 1919, p. 68-69


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