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Venture Capitalist Video Parody: VCs Get All the Sushi?
by Cyndy Sandor
Written by Cyndy Sandor
Are VCs buying up all the Ferraris and eating all the sushi? That's the stereotype. This parody video, created by a VC firm, nails it. Brilliant.
Is life as rosy as you think for venture capitalists? Is "vulture" capitalist even a fair or accurate cutdown? Emotions run hot on the topic out here. In Silicon Valley, the VC megabanks that risk millions on startups are often reviled — for a variety of reasons.
Check out this parody video created by some VCs at Foundry.
Toss a stick and you'll easily hit a bitter startup vet who says the price of taking venture capital Series A funding is tantamount to career and even eventual startup suicide. Out here, the average startup guy is pretty danged wary of the so-called vultures.
The fear is that a greedy VC will promise the moon but, in the end, just offer draconian terms in exchange for too much cash and too little equity at the end. And anyway, how much is getting screamed at in board meetings really worth? Another common fear — one not at all unfounded — is that young CEOs sometimes lose their jobs to some "entrepreneur in residence" the VC thinks could do the job better. Yikes!
Yet not everyone gets stiffed. These are stereotypes — and with all stereotypes, you get a grain of truth and miss the big pic. Venture firm Accel Partners, for instance, owns a handy dandy chunk of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) right now — it is an enormous stockholder at this point. Facebook likely isn't too sad about that — and Zuckerberg, 28, does still have his (corporate) head.
VCs played a critical role in building up the tech biz. Without the first VCs, firms like Intel and Apple would've been unlikely to get off the ground. You can see how ownership of FB shook out in this infographic.
It's absurd to say all VCs — or all lawyers and cable companies, for that matter — are bad people. Raising money is tough — and so is investing in winners. The Foundry Group, an early stage investment company, poke a little fun at the stereotype they live with in this parody video at top. It's brilliant, I say, because it rings so true. It sure shows the good, the bad and the ugly — VC-wise.
On its posted video, reps from Foundry wrote:
Foundry Group, a venture capital firm investing in seed and early stage US-based technology companies, launched this documentary film illustrating through complex metaphors and stunning montages the secret lives of venture capitalists including information rarely seen or understood…until now.
The film entitled "I'm a VC" is an in-depth, hard-hitting, and emotionally charged look into the lives of four veteran venture capitalists trying to make the world a better place. Starring Foundry Group Managing Directors Seth Levine, Ryan McIntyre, Brad Feld, and Jason Mendelson, the film gives insight into the VC ecosystem that the public has never seen before. VCs deal with many difficult issues on a regular basis that few know about, including what to eat for lunch, competing with friends and family for deal flow, and feeling insecure about their choice of college education…
Not all VCs are out to shake you down. Nothing is that binary. I mean, there are VCs, angel investors and private equity firms who only invest in companies in line with social causes and still others who vow to help and train — rather than dilute and drown — young founding members of a startup team in favor of their own entrepreneurs in residence. Accel, for instance, has a great reputation for the latter as Mark Zuckerberg, 28, learned for himself. He still owns a majority stake in Facebook.
Here's another Cinderella story to that point: Apple chair and CEO Steve Wozniak, in his book iWOZ: How I Invented the Personal Computer and Had Fun Doing It, said he and Steve Jobs were near giving up on funding their tiny Apple startup in 1975 when 30-something Intel retiree and nascent VC Mike Markkula came in to save the day. Markkula gave the two Steves the money they needed to build Wozniak's Apple ][ and distribute it, advising the young partners on a host of matters and helping them staff up.
Before that, they'd been rejected well over a dozen times.
Disclosure: The editorial director of this site, Gina Smith, co-wrote iWOZ (W.W. Norton 2007), a memoir penned by Steve Wozniak with journalist Smith. Smith profits financially from that book's sales.
Why are we telling you this? Our site has the toughest ethics requirements in the business — here they are.
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Juniors Andrew Carter, Tim Hotchkiss and senior Steven Vermillion sing "Billy the Deceased Chicken" during the shutdown. Photo by Abigail Roberts.
Upland's frigid temperatures on Jan. 30 and 31 prompted class cancellations and office closures Taylor has not experienced since 2015.
The University experienced temperatures of eleven below zero last week which caused a campus shutdown only one day into Spring semester. Amid the campus deep freeze, the Taylor community collaborated to keep roads cleared, shuttles in operation and necessary offices open to ensure student safety.
While students spent the cold days resting inside their residence halls, many campus personnel worked around the clock during the two frigid days.
"It really does take an entire University to come together . . . to make these couple of days successful because without somebody in that chain of doing their part, it probably would not work," Chief of Police Jeff Wallace said.
Even Vice President for Student Development Skip Trudeau was just as willing to shovel snow as a facility worker. Wallace said the campus-wide effort was a testament to the Taylor community.
The police department, facility services and food services remained open during the cold days. In addition, residence life, the provost and the president's office were constantly in communication before, during and after the winter weather impacted Taylor.
Wallace explained that Taylor considers numerous factors to instigate a campus-wide shut down during winter weather.
The University also relies heavily upon the advisories of the National Weather Service and Grant County Sheriff's Department.
Amid shutdown, campus personnel must prepare backup water supplies and generators in the chance that power may fail. Additionally, campus personnel ensured students could access food despite cold temperatures.
According to Provost Michael Hammond, while buildings like the Kesler Student Activities Center, Zondervan Library and LaRita Boren Center remained open during the day then closed early to ensure safe travel home for staff members.
During the campus shutdown shuttles were available for student use to get to the Dining Commons and residence halls safely.
Taylor relied on effective communication and people who worked behind the scenes to get through the cold weather.
Overall, Wallace said students were appreciative of measures campus police, facility services and administration took to keep campus safe on Wednesday and Thursday. Campus personnel do not foresee future closures due to winter weather.
"Everybody was very understanding during an inconvenient time and willing to do whatever it takes to get through it together and I think that is what makes our community special," Wallace said.


The following assessment criteria has been based on peer reviewed research and incorporated into the IPC's L1 to L3 Curriculum. To review a free sample of the curriculum please contact us.
Colors: All primary colors should be understood and identified. The student should be able to name primary colors with ease.
Counting: The student can count with one-on-one correspondence counting up to 10. The student can recognize individual numbers 1-10 and distinguish between empty and full. Some advanced L1 students can count to 15.
Listening: The student should be able to listen and take interest in stories. There should be a comprehension of instructions and a following of teacher or parent orders. The student should achieve an understanding of various sounds in daily life and be able to distinguish them. Repetition exercises to demonstrate a student's listening skills should be undertaken.
than 5 seconds or being able to conduct a specific movement when prompted. Students should be able to color without crossing the outer lines and use scissors, glue paste, pencils and other stationery appropriately.
• Being able to trace pictures well.
Phonics: Students should be able to identify sounds associated with the letters of the alphabet and begin to appreciate an understanding of how words are formed. Students should be prepared by the end of L1 to form three letter words and be able to write their name.
developed to be able to tell a story based on pictures.
Colors: Primary colors will be revised and an introduction to secondary colors as well as the process of blending colors will be explored and understood.
Counting: The student can count to 20 with ease. Advanced L2 students will count beyond 20. Students will understand tens and units and advanced students will be able to count in sets of tens. The concept of more or less will be explored in detail and students will be able to distinguish which double digit number is more or less or the same.
Listening: The student should be able to take an interest in fiction and non-fiction stories on a variety of topics. The student will listen and take action on simple teacher commands.
basis such as the use of a fork and spoon.
5 letter words can be segmented and blended.
*This is a minimum requirement only and by no means reflects or replaces more effective language immersion models practiced in many bilingual preschools.
sequences will be easily identifiable.
tasks in an individual capacity when promoted. The student will be aware of responsibilities in the school, home, local community and the world. An understanding of basic commerce, money and jobs will be achieved. The student will help at school and the home in clearing up toys, books and similar items after use. There will be an understanding of holidays, traditions and customs of the student's native culture and of other cultures.
Economics: Reinforcement of L2 social development indicators that focus on economics. By the end of L3 students will be able to understand and recognize the uses of money. Students will be familiar with the concept of employment such as common jobs, community helpers etc.
IPC® Thematic Unit: Who Am I?
Geography: L3 students will have an awareness of their own country's traditions, culture and foods. L3 students will also have an exposure and understanding of how people live in other countries such as their language, food, clothing and traditions. At least three countries should be identified on a map.
and describe shapes as well as compare and create them.
Listening: The L3 student will be able to listen and recollect sounds and storyline in sequence. Proof of sequential listening includes being able to repeat words, letters or sounds in the correct sequence.
Motor Development: The student will be able to demonstrate locomotor (walking, running, hopping, skipping) movements as well as non-locomotor (pulling, pushing, stretching, twisting) movements with ease. The student will be able to participate in team sports and kick a moving ball. The student will be able to walk and balance on a balancing beam. The student will balance on one foot for approximately 10 seconds.
Phonics: Understand and grasp phonemes and spoken words and syllables. Students will be able to identify spoken words separately and count the number of words in a short spoken sentence. Students will identify and segregate initial, medial and ending phonemes in some consonant-vowel-consonant words (CVC), not including CVC words ending in i,r, or x. High frequency words will be easily recollected from sight. Simple sight words that are expected to be learned by, the end of level 3 include: she, he, I, it, of. L3 students will be able to replace the beginning phonemes of simple words to form new words.
E.g. cat, hat, bat, sat etc.
that sentences are made up of distinct words and follow words in sentences from left to right. Some students will understand that capital letters are used to start new sentences and recognize basic punctuation such as periods and question marks.
promote the development of interaction skills. The importance and practice of caring for oneself will be developed further with an understanding of hygiene, an ability to identify hazards and know who to contact in an emergency. Students will know their address, phone number, name and name of parents and/or guardians.
Size and Measurement, Time and Money: L3 students will be able compare measurable attributes and categorize objects in accordance with size. Students will be able to compare atypical units of measurement such as fingers, crayons, blocks etc. By the end of L3 students will have identified days of the week and months of the year. A revision and understanding of units of money.


We provide vision tests required for driver license renewal in New York State.
The vision testing takes only a few minutes and is available on a walk in basis. The fee for the test is $15.
We need information off your current license so be sure to bring it along.
If you cannot pass the visual acuity test that NY State requires, you can schedule an appointment with the optometrist to get a prescription and eyeglasses or contact lenses so that you can drive safely.


Peel potatoes, cut in half.
Peel carrot and cut in 3-4 pieces.
Peel dudhi and dice in 1" cubes.
Add all these vegetables in pressure cooker, add one cup of water and pressure cook for about 15-20 minutes on medium heat or until done.
Meanwhile, chop onion, tomatoes, and bell pepper in 1/2" dice.
Mash all cooked vegetables with potato masher.
Heat oil in heavy bottom pan, add chopped onion and sauté onion until golden brown.
Mix in chopped tomatoes and sauté till oil separates.
Now its time to add chopped bell pepper and sauté until done.
Add green peas, pav bhaji masala, red chili powder and salt. Mix and cover for 3-4 minutes util peas are cooked. Mash with potato masher.
Add grated ginger and all mashed up vegetables, mix well.
Adjust salt, pavbhaji masala and chili powder.
Serve piping hot as usual with toasted pav, chopped ciltantro, chopped onion and lemon wedge.
You can use zucchini or any other summer squashes instead of dudhi.
Please use water as when needed, dudhi or summer squashes contain water and can make bhaji bit watery.
That looks so good! The pav bhaji I make is very heavy on cauliflower, with just one or two potatoes, like this one.
I have tried with more cauliflower too! But somehow I liked the dudhi/squash version more.


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Jesper Bagh
Global GxP Lead, World Wide Commercial Business, Pharma and Life Sciences
Welcome back. As we continue to build up your secure, resilient, and compliant environment, we now must cover another foundational and required step: the vendor assessments. It is a mandatory regulatory requirement to conduct these assessments, however, the physical audit is not mandatory.
The need for analytics, high-capacity storage, and increased computing power has expanded the need for data handling, analytics tools, and applications that only the cloud can support.
Also, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, pharmaceutical and life science organizations are looking into new methods for assessing a cloud vendor without physically visiting their datacenters.
In this article, we'll cover how the offerings we have at Microsoft serve as a resource for you to save time while conducting your vendor assessment, and why our openness to compliance sets us apart.
Vendor Compliance
When considering a vendor and compliance, it's important to understand that the cloud builds on the shared responsibility model that can help in guidance and understanding of the documents needed for compliance reporting.
Figure 1: The shared responsibility model
Regardless of the type of deployment, there are responsibilities that are always retained by Microsoft, including datacenter building access, physical hosts, and physical networks. The data, endpoints, account, and access management are always retained by the customer. This means that you need to have controls in place to protect the security of your data and identities. It's also important to have documented evidence ready at all times to show how you govern those assets.
Microsoft offers you the platform and tools to help build a secure, resilient, and available environment. These tools can also assist in building reports that demonstrate continuous compliance. We will be taking a closer look at some of these tools, like the Azure Cloud Adoption Framework and enterprise scale landing zone.
As mentioned in the previous blog post on GxP guidelines, physical security is a vital security layer to consider. Microsoft takes numerous measures to ensure that our infrastructure is secure. We also recently published a virtual tour around our datacenters that gives insight into the Azure physical security layer.
Remote vendor assessment
Conducting a vendor assessment is a requirement for using third-party vendors. A vendor audit is optional. To produce a vendor assessment remotely, you must assess how to build quality, security, and integrity into your services. You also need to document the competencies and training records of staff and reliability of the services offered.
It's necessary to have the appropriate controls and mitigations documented in the quality management system to help comply with regulatory expectations.
When factoring the level of depth of the assessment, organizations must consider their vendor management process and the associated risk documented for outsourcing or using cloud services.
According to regulations, there are three levels of assessing vendors:
Basic assessment: A review of available information from the vendor.
Postal audit: Questions sent to the vendor in which detailed information about the vendor's quality management system and business processes is requested.
On-site audit: A review of the vendor's procedural controls and process documentation performed by an appointed auditor.
Special areas of interest in the vendor assessment would be:
The security of our facilities (e.g., human access restrictions)
Controls to protect hardware and devices (e.g., controls for destroying hardware)
Controls for human access
Availability of services
While an on-site audit is not allowed for security concerns and logistical reasons, Microsoft has contracted with third parties to do that inspection for you, making it easier for you to access the information to do a vendor assessment.
The above areas needed in the vendor assessment are all included in the audit cycle of our services and are also made available on the Microsoft Trust Center in SOC1/SOC2 reports, as well as our ISO/IEC 27001 certification report.
The SOC reports include the following areas:
Privacy of personal information
To show full visibility, the audit report we make available also includes the findings for the controls that are being audited. Remember to look for the correct version (date covered by the report) and to check for the relevant bridge letter, if applicable.
The vendor assessments provide you with the evidence relevant to your controls of our quality standards and practices. Building solutions and using cloud relies on trust, which we hope is established with our openness to security, process and compliance. The openness and dedication to show that we have appropriate controls in place to secure and govern your foundational estate. A trust that should bring confidence that you can build your solutions on Microsoft Clouds.
Several of our customers have done remote vendor assessments (desk-audit) using our available reports discussed in the previous blog. These are available on the Microsoft Trust Center Website.
We hope that the above information helps you in building your assessment and starting to leverage the tools and services we offer to build a compliant service inside your business or in your partnership.
As you read this, the next question you may be thinking is: how do I build the technical part to support this secure, resilient, and compliant environment?
In a future post, we will look into building a foundation that has automation, good software development life cycle practices, standardization, and compliance at the core.
A valuable resource for building a qualified foundation is the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework. We will dive "into the how's" with some operational examples on using enterprise scale adoption of the framework in later blog posts. A teaser can be found here.
The need for a true enterprise scale foundation is important because it offers the availability and control points, as well as the ability to deliver the services as infrastructure as code.
It's important to familiarize yourself with infrastructure as code since it is needed to build compliance into the flow and to work with continuous validation across the cloud services that you wish to use or offer to your business.
The need for governance and control has never been greater. At Microsoft, we try to build our services with that need in mind. Our products have high-quality coverage to give you the insight and control to build out the policies to support your secure environment.
Governance is important now that we look at infrastructure as code and low-code/no-code principles. That's why we will also look at some examples of how you can establish good governance in your journey.
So, stick around as we continue to work our way through the next steps for GxP Cloud Compliance using Microsoft Cloud.
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Eric Bouvet began his photographic career in 1981 after studying art and graphic industries in Paris.
His interest in photography was sparked when, at the age of 8, he watched the first live television images of the Apollo 11 mission landing on the moon. It was then that he realized the importance of news and historic moments, not to mention capturing them on film.
Bouvet worked as a staff photographer at the French photo agency Gamma during the 1980s and launched his freelance career in 1990. He first won international recognition with his 1986 pictures of the rescue efforts in the aftermath of a volcano eruption in Omeyra, Colombia. Since then, Bouvet has covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Chechnya, Sudan, Somalia, the former Yugoslavia, Lebanon, Israel, Northern Ireland, Kurdistan, Surinam, Burundi, Libya, and Ukraine.
He has covered major international events including the funeral of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran, Tiananmen Square in China, the fall of the Berlin Wall, Prague's Velvet Revolution, the U.S. attack on Libya, the release of Nelson Mandela, the Olympic Games, and the migrant crisis in Europe.
He has also worked on many 'society' stories including life in Russian jails, young sailors on aircraft carriers, French police working in the Paris suburbs, France's last coal miners, and life at a pediatric clinic for children with cancer.
Since 2011, he's also worked on documentaries projects with large format camera, 4×5 and 8X10 : first one "Sex, Love…" second about "Peace" and still in 2016 "Chaos" and "the French."
His work has been published in many international magazines including Time, Life, Newsweek, Paris-Match, Stern, The New York Time's Magazine, and The Sunday Times Magazine. He has also led photographic campaigns of UN and various NGOs and charities including Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), International Red Cross (ICRC), Medecins du Monde (MDM), and Action Against Hunger (ACF).
For the past 20 years, he has given workshops in Arles and many European countries.
Along the way, Bouvet has received five World Press Awards, as well as two Visa d'Or Awards (Perpignan Photo Festival), the gold medal for the 150th anniversary of photography, the Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents, the Public award from Bayeux-Calvados, the Front Line Club award, and the Paris-Match Award.
Éric Bouvet couvre les événements les plus marquants de notre société depuis quatre décennies, il photographie les évènements majeurs, les conflits, les bouleversements climatiques et sociaux qui modulent et bouleversent notre société contemporaine.
Son métier de photographe pour la presse magazine internationale ainsi que la production de séries personnelles, lui permettent de documenter l'histoire(s) des hommes.
L'homme est au cœur de ses sujets, son approche photographique est au plus près, respectueuse et incisive, il est à la rencontre des personnes dont le destin est bouleversé, cela le mène aussi à approcher celles et ceux qui sont à la recherche d'apaisement et qui se construisent une vie en décalage.
Sa pratique de la photographie est au service de ses sujets, constamment en recherche pour donner corps à ses reportages et ses documentaires, Éric Bouvet ne se repose jamais sur ses acquis, il explore la photographie comme il explore le monde avec humilité et dignité pour que les hommes, source de ses préoccupations, soient fidèlement représentés.
Ses séries sont percutantes et ont trouvé un public attentif et concerné.
Son engagement dans la photographie et la richesse de ses témoignages sont récompensés par de nombreux prix : 5 World Press, 2 Visa d'or, le prix Paris Match, le prix du correspondant de guerre, le prix du Public de Bayeux, la médaille d'or du 150ème anniversaire de la photographie, le prix du Frontline Club.


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Quick Answer: What To Do In Green Mountain Vermont?
1 Can you drive up Green Mountain?
2 Where are the Green Mountains in Vermont?
3 Does Vermont Mean Green Mountain?
4 How old are the Green Mountains of Vermont?
5 Are Washington state forests open?
6 Does Vermont have mountains?
7 Is Killington part of the Green Mountains?
8 Are the Berkshires part of the Green Mountains?
9 What is Vermont best known for?
10 What does Vermont translate to?
11 What does Vermont mean in French?
12 Is Vermont a rich state?
13 What is the main industry in Vermont?
14 What was Vermont called before it became a state?
Can you drive up Green Mountain?
Green Mountain is the second-highest peak on the Kitsap Peninsula at 1,639 feet elevation. It has views of the Puget Sound, the Olympic Mountains, the Seattle skyline, and Mount Rainier. Vehicle access to this site is not available year-round.
Where are the Green Mountains in Vermont?
Green Mountains, near East Bethel, Vermont.
Does Vermont Mean Green Mountain?
The state's name comes from two French words vert ( green ) and mont ( mountain ), which explains Vermont's nickname, the " Green Mountain State." Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys defended their homeland from the British during the Revolutionary War. Vermont maple syrup is one of the state's most popular products.
How old are the Green Mountains of Vermont?
The geological history of the Green Mountains is one of a long period of continental collision going back about 400-500 million years. During this time, Vermont was separated from its now neighbor, New Hampshire, by an ocean as Vermont was on the very edge of the supercontinent of Rodinia.
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Are Washington state forests open?
Yacolt Burn and Elochoman State Forests are open.
Does Vermont have mountains?
The Green Mountains are a mountain range in the U.S. state of Vermont. All mountains in Vermont are often referred to as the "Green Mountains ".
Is Killington part of the Green Mountains?
Killington Peak is the second highest summit in the Green Mountains and in the U.S. state of Vermont.
Are the Berkshires part of the Green Mountains?
Geologically and physically, the Berkshires are the southern continuation of the Green Mountains of Vermont, distinct from them only by their lower average elevation and by virtue of what side of the border they fall on.
What is Vermont best known for?
Vermont is known for its forested natural beauty, majestic green mountains, scenic hiking trails, and destination-worthy skiing. The state is also famous for its picturesque wooden covered bridges, of which there are more than 100.
What does Vermont translate to?
Based on a review of the available evidence we can advance with some degree of confidence that the word Vermont is indeed a translation of Green Mountains, and that most likely it comes from the fertile mind of Thomas Young, a self-made scholar who probably knew some French.
What does Vermont mean in French?
The origin of the name " Vermont " is uncertain, but likely comes from the French Les Monts Verts, meaning "the Green Mountains". Thomas Young introduced it in 1777.
Is Vermont a rich state?
Considering that the report's title is " Rich States /Poor States," those findings certainly suggest that Vermont is one of the poorest states. At last count, Vermont's was $56,990 a year, some $1,200 higher than the national median and the 20th highest among the states.
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What is the main industry in Vermont?
Vermont is first in milk production in New England and leads the United States in the production of maple syrup. Specialty and gourmet foods have also become an important niche in Vermont agriculture. Vermont farming, because it has shaped the state's landscape, also is important to tourism.
What was Vermont called before it became a state?
Before statehood Vermont Republic
Admitted to the Union March 4, 1791 (14th)
Capital Montpelier
Largest city Burlington
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Shade in north-east Indian Tea plantations. I. The shade pattern. II. Foliar illumination and canopy characteristics.
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(I) The selection of suitable shade trees for use in Tea plantations (Camellia sinensis) is a major problem in NE India since the destruction of large areas of Albizzia chinensis by a canker disease in the late 1940's. Since then, a number of species have been planted, and this study reports a survey, made between 1962 and 1964, of the pattern of shading, and the intensity and spectral composition of the light, in a Tea plantation established in 1920 near the Tocklai Experimental Station, Assam, with shade trees planted at 7.5 x 7.5-m spacing in 1950. The site was selected for the uniformity of the shade trees (mean height 12 m), of which 50% were A. odoratissima and the remainder 10 other leguminous species. The pattern of shading was also investigated beneath 12 shade-tree species, all 5 years old, in order to study light patterns under both pure stands and mixtures of shade trees, by superimposing data for the various species on the basic pattern obtained for A. odoratissima. It is concluded that most of the light reaching a Tea bush is unmodified sunlight, either from large gaps in the canopy between trees or from sunflecks. The methods used make it possible to characterize the intensity and composition of nearly all the light on the surface of a bush in both clear and uniformly overcast conditions, and form a suitable basis for crop physiology studies. A brief historical review of the use of shade trees in India and other Tea-growing countries is given, and the reasons for the 'shade problem' and apparent contradictions betweeen results of natural and artificial shade experiments are discussed. [Cf. FA 28, 2288] (II) Reports investigations of light penetration into five distinct foliage patterns of Tea bushes, and discusses the effect of the foliage pattern on the distribution of light.
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From Dan Reid, President COSC, and the board of directors.
To the membership of Chief Okemos Sportsman's Club.
Subject: All ranges are temporarily closed.
I hope this finds you safe and well,
It is with sincere displeasure that I must inform everyone that the ranges are closed effective March 28, 2020 until 9am April 14, 2020 or until such time as Governor Whitmer's executive order 2020-21 is expired or there is no longer a "stay home" order affecting travel and use of public and private facilities in the state.
This was a decision made at an emergency meeting of the board of directors today and was not taken lightly. The meeting was held due to the lack of response from the AG and Governor's offices for guidance on the subject. All public ranges are closed as well as many private ones.
Some of the key points in closing the ranges were,
Compliance with Executive Order 2020-21. "This order must be construed broadly to prohibit in-person work that is not necessary to sustain or protect life."
Hygiene guidelines. Apparently, the Coronavirus endures in cooler temperatures and on metal objects. Like the lock to get in, firearms, ammunition, certain range facilities, etc. We have no employees to decontaminate surfaces at the ranges.
Putting other members at risk in shared facilities.
I'm certain that many of you are reading this with concern to the second amendment. We also share that earnestness. I, for one, am offended by the outright suspension of the right to peaceably assemble guaranteed by the first amendment as well. Throughout this whole process we have endured and continue to, things that are evolving rapidly. As an American citizen I am very watchful of government intervention of our rights.
As such, I have repeatedly contacted the Attorney General's office to seek clarification as to close or remain open for just the ranges. I have not had a simple yes or no answer and have not found one that will satisfy it. Including looking at the FAQ for the state "that is updated almost hourly" and has not changed in three days. My request has been forwarded by the AG office to the Governor's office for a decision. Since we are a gun range, I'm not optimistic in a timely or satisfactory reply. Since we have not been able to get a response up or down, we, the executive board, have elected to close the ranges.
In addition to the ranges closing until April 14 at 9am, the board has voted to cancel or postpone all other operations on the COSC grounds until April 14th or such time as the stay home order is lifted.
There will be no scheduled membership or board meeting in April.
The NRA Basic Shotgun class is cancelled.
Wheezers and geezers remains suspended.
RSO class suspended.
All trap shooting suspended.
Cowboy action suspended.
All hunters education classes.
April is when the club awakens from its hibernation with many activities firing back up. Hopefully everything will be up and running again on the 14th. Currently scheduled are a defensive pistol course on April 18th and a black powder shoot April 25th that may occur if the conditions allow it.
We look forward to the end of this emergency and the full restitution of our rights as Americans.
Those caught attempting to use the ranges during the closure may be subject to disciplinary action described in the by-laws.
Be watchful, be wary, be safe,
Dan Reid
President COSC
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f_chdrive

The f_chdrive function changes the current drive.

FRESULT f_chdrive (
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Parameters

path

Specifies the logical drive number to be set as the current drive.

Return Values

FR_OK,
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The <tt>f_chdrive</tt> function changes only the current drive. The initial value of the current drive number is 0. In Unix style drive prefix configuration, this function will not be needed because <tt>f_chdir</tt> function changes also the current drive. Note that the current drive is retained in a static variable, so that it also affects other tasks that using the file functions.

QuickInfo

Available when <tt>FF_FS_RPATH >= 1</tt>.

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I made my first $1,000,000 in online sales while I was a full-time bible college student. I had my first $10,000 day back in 1996. I'm nothing special (for an exhaustive list of my flaws just ask my mother). But those results are not typical.
Sadly, less than 10% of businesses (including not-for-profits) ever break the million dollar barrier. For female-owned businesses it's only 2%.
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While I was a student, I learnt something that changed my life. How does God get you to profit? Does he make you stress more and work harder? No! In fact, He redeems you from all that stress and leads you out of those futile efforts. Isaiah 48:17 says He teaches you.
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Sellers Hall, built in 1682 and one of the oldest extant buildings in America, is an important, historic treasure. It serves as a symbol of the change in the community of Upper Darby Township and its 69th Street neighborhood during the past three centuries. Sellers Hall is a microcosm of U.S. History; It was built as a farmhouse and the homestead of the Samuel Sellers Family, whose members through the centuries have been leaders in manufacturing, technical innovation, politics and Abolitionism.
In 1926, John McClatchy purchased the original Sellers land, a large section of the eastern third of Upper Darby Township. He donated a square block, which included Sellers Hall, to the Archdiocese of Philadelphia for the establishment of Saint Alice's Parish. McClatchy developed the 69 St. Shopping Center and surrounding area with hundreds of row houses. The area also included the 69th St. Transportation Center, built in 1907, converting the Township into a "bedroom community" supplying Philadelphia with workers.
Today, Sellers Hall stands amidst another great change in Upper Darby Township. A large percentage of the population in the surrounding area is newly arrived immigrants from Asia, Africa and Central and South America. Also, African Americans have made their homes in this area. Cultural diversity has made the neighborhood come alive with ethnic restaurants and entertainment. A much-needed use of the Hall is to become a welcoming place for neighborhood people to learn the history of their newly adopted Township and country.


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Bachelet condemns violence at Venezuelan borders
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GENEVA (24 February 2019) — The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Sunday condemned violent scenes at various points along Venezuela's borders with Colombia and Brazil, as well as within Venezuela itself. In particular, she condemned the excessive use of force used by the Venezuelan security forces, as well the involvement of pro-government elements, which have resulted in at least four confirmed deaths and more than 300 injuries on Friday and Saturday.
"People have been shot and killed, others have reportedly received wounds from which they will never completely recover, including losing eyes," said Bachelet. "These are disgraceful scenes. The Venezuelan government must stop its forces from using excessive force against unarmed protesters and ordinary citizens."
Bachelet said she had received reports of numerous and, in some cases prolonged, violent incidents, at different points along the borders with Colombia and Brazil, as the Venezuelan security forces tried to halt the aid supplies coming into Venezuela through closed border points.
The UN Human Rights Office also received several reports pointing at the involvement of armed pro-government elements in the violent attacks on protestors, and Bachelet urged the Government "to rein in these groups and arrest those among them who have used force against protestors. The use of proxy forces has a long and sinister history in the region," she added. "And it is very alarming to see them operating openly in this way in Venezuela. The Government can, and must, stop them from exacerbating an already highly inflammable situation."
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WisBusiness: New research tool offers improved method for studying microbes
by Allen | Feb 11, 2020 | NEWSROOM, Tech Council News
UW-Madison scientists have created a tool to improve the efficiency of microbial research, a quickly growing field that could lead to new medical therapies.
Interest in microbial interactions has risen in recent decades as clinical studies have illuminated the complex relationships between human health and colonies of microbes within the body. More than 100 trillion bacteria live in the human gut alone, and these microbes are involved with numerous diseases including inflammatory disorders, cancers, depression and diabetes.
The tool's lead inventors, Ophelia Venturelli and Philip Romero, are both researchers in the university's biochemistry department and have applied for a patent on their invention. In the meantime, WARF is looking for commercial partners to aid in the development process.
Late last year, their team was announced as winners of the WARF Innovation Award, which came with a $10,000 cash prize.
WARF says the research tool could "add a key technology" to the research industry. Sequencing tools were valued at $885 million in 2018 and are expected to hit $2 billion by 2023, according to the info sheet. Plus, WARF says human microbiome-based drugs are expected to be worth $9.3 billion in 2024.
Read the full story here.


Hola cariño! My name is Alexandra, I'm all the way from Venezuela and have been living in the Netherlands for three years already.
I started pole dancing when I saw a video of Alethea Austin and just felt in love with her flow and how beautiful and strong she looks on the pole. Back then I wasn't very flexible or strong and even though we are born dancing Salsa and Merengue in the Caribbean, I never considered dancing as a discipline before. But what I discovered with pole dancing is that your background isn't important. It doesn't matter how fit you are or how experienced dancer you are. Pole dancing is for everyone!
Now, I have more than three years doing this awesome sport. Just give it a try and you'll discover how much fun it is to see what your body is capable of. You might fall in love with it as I did.


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In our day and age, military jobs and careers are abundant and provide numerous opportunities both during service and afterwards! Provided you are a valuable asset for your country, you will climb ranks and achieve any position and status you wish.? Every military prospect should consider military careers that lead to high paying civilian jobs if finances are important. Of course, the other consideration is what military career will bring happiness and fulfillment of purpose.
Moreover, upon retiring you have multiple opportunities still open for you due to the time served.
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Want a high paying career after you serve in the military? Then chose your military school wisely. Don't allow recruiters convince you a school or trade based on the needs of the military. Here are 7 high paying military jobs that pay big bucks in the civilian world. Do your homework! It's your life!
Serving in the military is something not everyone is capable of. It requires a certain character, a certain type of psychological structure to fill in the shoes of someone in the military. So, if you feel like you fit the profile or that you have a certain skill or talent that you wish to put to use for your country then perhaps a military career is indeed for you.
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Why waste another minute of your youth, strength and mental sharpness when you can use them to their highest potential for a good and noble cause?
If you are interested in sifting through information to determine how reliable and significant something is, then this is definitely for you! Fortunately, this is a job that can do even after you put your uniform to rest! Therefore, you will find that even upon retirement, your skills will be in demand at government agencies and in private business. For example, you can find military-friendly companies interested in this kind of work.
Managing supply chains, as well as tracking inventory and transporting supplies efficiently is something very important in the military. As such, such military career choices carry over their importance in the civilian world as well. Outside the military, working as a manager in a world where commerce is expanding globally can be very fruitful with your background.
Managing projects or contracts, developing timelines and supervising staff and budgets as a military career can open quite some big doors afterwards. Your military training transfers well to the aerospace arena where jobs will swarm around you like bees to honey!
Multiple combat tours, experience in flying in extreme situations as a fellow army pilot can make you extremely attractive to airlines. Who wouldn?t want an ex-army pilot to fly a commercial airplane safely around the world?
Military careers have very structured chains of command, which are quite similar to the ones in the law enforcement field. For this reason, vets often transition to the FBI after their career comes to a finish.
Planning and coordinating all security activities, safeguarding people?s physical integrity and that of various assets is something very important in the military. Fortunately, the skills needed for such a position are just as valuable in the outside world. This means you can supervise afterwards the security staff and create security standards for safety.
A job in the military oftentimes includes construction. After all, the military builds a lot of things: bridges, roads and so on. Civilian construction companies are known for the inability to deliver on time every now and then, and clearly someone with a military background possesses the structure and discipline to not only complete works on time, but do it in an organized manner.
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I'm fluent in German and I would like to become a translator or interpreter for the us army, navy, marines or air force. what are the steps to get there, where do I start.
I'm only 17, End of my junior year, and 3 years of JROTC, and I just recently talked to a local Marine recruiter. He shedded a lot of light on college opportunities going AD and reserves in the Marines. The only problem I have is that I don't have a major job that i want to be doing for the rest of my life. All my interests don't really lead to a four year degree, which is what i want. the only thing i am worried about is getting out of the military and having training and education in something that doesn't really transfer really well into the civilian world.


Hi, all! I'm TwitchingHades, Hades for short.
I love anime, and Pokemon, but I guess that much should be obvious. I also love animating! I'm currently an animation major in college, about to start my junior year so I've got some experience under my belt.
So, (for those of you without the authority to recruit people) wish me luck on becoming part of the team!
TwitchingHades wrote: If someone has a link to a picture of one/all of the main characters, that would be very helpful, to make sure I'm drawing the right person.
On Pixiv I found these keyframes of Red, but that's about it.
Though, I have drawn Red and the other characters in the RGB arc plenty of times since I was younger, and I'm also fairly good at adapting my style so I could make references for you if you want? (Even though I never do anything here) I don't know about colors, though.
Oh my gosh, this is perfect. The last update we received was the fact that they didn't have enough animators.
I've already put in a walk cycle for Red, but it would be awesome if you could make some references, that way I know for sure who I will (hopefully) be animating in the future.
TwitchingHades wrote: I've already put in a walk cycle for Red, but it would be awesome if you could make some references, that way I know for sure who I will (hopefully) be animating in the future.
Yeah, it's supposed to be based off of Pokemon Special/Adventures. I'll try to start working on the references soon, probably sometime tomorrow. I'll just be drawing the main trio in the RGB arc, I hope that's alright.
The main trio is Red, Green (guy who looks like Gary), and Blue... Well, I think so anyway. To be honest, I haven't read PokeSpe in a while.
These are just sketches by the way.
Hello, I again apologize for my own hiatus. I won't let that happen again without further warning. Welcome to the forums and I hope ( really hope) you're still active. The animator audition is great as I'm really in need of keyframers/animators/compilers. I hope you check back soon and again welcome to the project!


Dominick Procopio is moving to Massachusetts when he's done in Louisiana.
The Grosse Pointe native and Shreveport Mudbugs (NAHL) defenseman has committed to UMass-Lowell for the upcoming 2018-19 season.
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Along with Phil the groundhog alot of us are trying to get outside and enjoy the winter weather. Here are some pictures to warm you up for a winter adventure.
Phil emerged from his hole and didn't see his shadow, so according to the groundhog winter is ended. Tell that to the thousands that were just buried under tons of snow.
That is the question that Zlatan Ibrahimovic thinks to himself as the ball comes at him during the soccer match against Lazio at the San Siro Stadium in Milan.
These guys load of a van on their way to the Zubieta, in northern Spain. They will wear big bells called Joaldunak to ward off evil spirits and give prosperity for a year to the people living in nearby towns.
Great thought for the day, don't stop and stay still keep moving ahead.
Vostok is located in the Antarctica; it is a sub glacial lake and is hidden 13,000 feet beneath the ice sheet. It has been isolated from the world for millions of y ears. In 1970 with the aid of airborne radar British scientists began to suspect that there was something hidden under the ice. Now they know a lake lies underneath the snow and Vostok holds the coldest temperature on earth record. It was -128F in July 1983.
An Indonesian farmer flings his rice seedlings while he plants his fields.
In the Capuchin Catacombs in Palermo southern Italy you will find some of the best preserved human remains. This is a two year old named Rosalia Lombardo, she looks like an old doll instead of the human corpse that she is.
A board tells the world what this café owner thinks in northern Australia about the latest cyclone.


prepares to run around it's train at Rhymney on a sunny Saturday 19th March 2005. 37425 and 37411 were also in use this day.
Central having arrived from Rhymney on 27th March 2004.
In final post and summary of 2015 I mentioned how good it is to see some regular class 37 hauled trains returning to the national network both in Cumbria and Anglia. For many of the younger (but not too young) generation the last days of the 37/4's are associated with the North Wales Coast route. I myself was 'too late' to enjoy the 'tractors' on this scenic railway but did not miss out sampling these fine machines in South Wales on the Rhymney Valley line where the class maintained some work until 2006.
For several years three class 37/4's were required each day from Cardiff Canton to operate peak weekday commuter services; 3 trains from Rhymney to Cardiff Central (and Radyr) in the morning and return in the evening. Saturdays were were the fun really started with class 37's booked to work all trains from Cardiff to Rymney with an hourly departure in each direction. The line up the valley is steep in places and the regular stops meant the locos often put on a good show.
Early in 2005 with the end of loco haulage on the line drawing nearer Arriva Trains Wales sponsored the re-painting of two class 37's to mark the event. 37411 was out-shopped from Toton in BR green as 'Caerphilly Castle/Castell Caerffily' while 37425 emerged in BR Large Logo blue as 'Pride of the Valleys/Balchder y Cymoedd'. Even more exceptionally when the curtain was finally coming down on the class 37's in South Wales a 'gala' event was organised on the Rhymney valley line on Sunday 4th December 2005 (the line not usually seeing a Sunday service) with additional locomotives drafted in enabling hourly trains to be top and tailed on the line. Locos in use represented the classes which had been used on the line over the years and were 33207, 37411, 37419, 37425, 47854, 50031 and 50049.
Society' works the 17:01 Cardiff - Rymney on 21 October 2006.
This should have been the end for class 37's in the Welsh valleys, but early in 2006, due to cited overcrowding one return trip was re-introduced Monday to Friday between Rhymney and Cardiff. There would be no return to the Saturday bonanzas and with far less ceremony the final class 37 to reach Rhymney was 37410 with the 17:01 Cardiff- Rhymney on Friday 8th December 2006. The train returned to Cardiff the following Monday and, for the final time, that was the end of class 37 hauled passenger trains in the South Wales valleys.


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This definitive biography of one of the most significant figures in American history is long overdue. A look at both the inner and the outer life of the famed abolitionist and orator, this well-written portrait draws on new information to provide the most well-rounded examination of Douglass yet. It won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for History.
The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.
As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress, and he would go on to become one of the major literary figures of his time. He wrote three versions of his autobiography over the course of his lifetime and published his own newspaper. His very existence gave the lie to slave owners: with dignity and great intelligence he bore witness to the brutality of slavery.
Initially mentored by William Lloyd Garrison, Douglass spoke widely, often to large crowds, using his own story to condemn slavery. He broke with Garrison to become a political abolitionist, a Republican, and eventually a Lincoln supporter. By the Civil War and during Reconstruction, Douglass became the most famed and widely travelled orator in the nation. He denounced the premature end of Reconstruction and the emerging Jim Crow era. In his unique and eloquent voice, written and spoken, Douglass was a fierce critic of the United States as well as a radical patriot. He sometimes argued politically with younger African-Americans, but he never forsook either the Republican party or the cause of black civil and political rights.
In this remarkable biography, David Blight has drawn on new information held in a private collection that few other historian have consulted, as well as recently discovered issues of Douglass's newspapers. Blight tells the fascinating story of Douglass's two marriages and his complex extended family. Douglass was not only an astonishing man of words, but a thinker steeped in Biblical story and theology. There has not been a major biography of Douglass in a quarter century. David Blight's Frederick Douglass affords this important American the distinguished biography he deserves.
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David W. Blight is the Sterling Professor of History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. He is the author or editor of a dozen books, including American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era; and Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory; and annotated editions of Douglass's first two autobiographies. He has worked on Douglass much of his professional life, and been awarded the Bancroft Prize, the Abraham Lincoln Prize, and the Frederick Douglass Prize, among others.
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darthdeverell
David W. Blight's Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom represents a remarkable work of research that not only captures the events of Douglass's life, but brings to life the eras in which he lived. Through Douglass, Blight tells the story of nineteenth-century America, its triumphs and failures, and situates Douglass and his confidants within a literary tradition including Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Charles Dickens, and Goethe. Blight "seeks Douglass's complexity in all its forms, but never sidesteps his essential radicalism in a search for heroes we can hold dear and in common" (pg. xvi).Blight writes, "Few Americans ever more publicly and vividly remade themselves over and over quite like Douglass, and few had deeper reasons to try" (pg. 16). In terms of these changes, Blight examines Douglass's politics, writing, "Two contradictory themes run through all of Douglass's rhetoric regarding the Republicans. He demanded adherence to abolitionist principles; the free-soil position, therefore, offered him little immediate satisfaction, even as it provided hope of thwarting slavery's future. But simultaneously, he found it impossible to resist the appeal of a broad coalition that could discredit slavery" (pg. 274). In acknowledging the radicalism of Douglass, Blight writes, "During the 1850s, as Douglass moved toward at least open support of violent means, the two abolitionists spent many hours and days in each other's company. As Douglass came within John Brown's orbit of religious fervor and theories of violent resistance, Douglass listened even as he was sometimes repelled" (pg. 281). As the Civil War began, "Douglass seized the moment with a fervor as great as any other in his career. To him the central meaning of secession and the coming of the war was that it raised at least the possibility of 'armed abolition,' of mingling the cause of the slave and the rights of free black people with the life of the nation" (pg. 340). To that end, "Douglass advocated a gallant rush of black men into uniform; they were now shining symbols, liberating warriors who alone made suffering meaningful. Transforming this conflict into a black peoples' war demanded such great leaps of faith, even as sober history in retrospect tells us that sweet reason, moral truth, and blood sacrifice by themselves have never defeated racism" (pg. 395-396).Blight concludes, "Douglass was the prose poet of America's and perhaps of a universal body politic; he searched for the human soul, envisioned through slavery and freedom in all their meanings… The problem of the twenty-first century is still some agonizingly enduring combination of legacies bleeding forward from slavery and color lines. Freedom in its infinite meanings remains humanity's most universal aspiration. Douglass's life, and especially his words, may forever serve as our watch-warnings in our unending search for the beautiful, needful thing" (pg. 764). The work encourages readers to engage with Douglass's legacy and the nation's failure to fully atone for the sins of slavery. All Americans should read this, though my only criticism is Blight's use of "Rochesterites" to refer to the citizens of Rochester, NY, when the preferred nomenclature is "Rochesterian" (pg. 342).
stevesmits
A magnificent biography about a magnifient man! One of the many insights gleaned from Blight's deep portrait of Douglass is how amazingly prescient Douglass's understanding of racism in white America was in his time and, lamentedly, extending still to ours. One simply cannot properly understand America today without knowing about the history of slavery and the long tail of overt racism that lingers after slavery's demise.
lisapeet
Finished this thanks to a second library checkout and some recent time on a plane. And it was absolutely worth those 912 pages for the comprehensive overview not only of Douglass's fascinating life but of the period and the very fraught courses of abolition and reconstruction (both of which are commonly defined to sound like contained processes, and both of which were anything but). Blight paints a thorough picture of the politics of the day—not simple, to say the least, but really worth taking the complex, deep dive. I'd venture to say that there's really no way to drive home the nationwide (and beyond) horror of slavery and the multiple ways it was embedded in the culture, economy, and political and personal life of the day without going into that kind of depth, and even if Blight waxed a little purple here and there, it was overall a very nuanced, empirical examination of a hugely knotty movement. I came out of this enormously well informed about so many facets of abolition—just the factions within the Abolitionist movement alone were eye-opening—and I highly recommend this. Plus for once I'm right on the literary prize trend—this just won a Pulitzer and a Bancroft (and a Christopher) prize.I finally finished [Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom] thanks to a second library checkout and some recent time on a plane. And it was absolutely worth those 912 pages for the comprehensive overview not only of Douglass's fascinating life but of the period and the very fraught courses of abolition and reconstruction (both of which are commonly defined to sound like contained processes, and both of which were anything but). Blight paints a thorough picture of the politics of the day—not simple, to say the least, but really worth taking the complex, deep dive. I'd venture to say that there's really no way to drive home the nationwide (and beyond) horror of slavery and the multiple ways it was embedded in the culture, economy, and political and personal life of the day without going into that kind of depth, and even if Blight waxed a little purple here and there, it was overall a very nuanced, empirical examination of a hugely knotty movement. I came out of this enormously well informed about so many facets of abolition—just the factions within the Abolitionist movement alone were eye-opening—and I highly recommend this. Plus for once I'm right on the literary prize trend—this just won a Pulitzer and a Bancroft (and a Christopher) prize.nb: I would very much like to see someone take on a biographical novel about his German friend/supporter/colleague/(OK, let's just say it) groupie Ottilie Assing—what a fabulous character, ripe for some good fictionalizing.
armstrtb
Phenomenal. A thorough composite of Frederick Douglass's life. Been telling people about it all week
william turnier
I was very enthusiastic about the prospect of reading this book. Unfortunately, once Douglass was a freedman and became established, the author very heavily "borrowed " from the wording of talks and writings of Frederick Douglass to such a heavy extent that the narrative bogged down. Moreover, the reader was not of the quality one would hope for. That made it even harder to persevere.
The story of Douglass' life is amazing and sad. He was born into slavery and escaped to freedom. He then went on to become an accomplished author and speaker. He was a outspoken critic of slavery and a champion of the freedmen. His personal life was marked with more tragedy than one would expect in a period in which death for young children was all too common. His children, although born into a middle class environment, did not go on to college and all but one struggled to become self sufficient.
Bloated but blessed rendition of the life of a true son of liberty.
jthierer_1
This one had a ton of details, but I'm not sure it ever really pulled them together into a fully coherent narrative. The book quotes liberally from Douglass' writings and speeches, but sometimes fails to use those quotes as a jumping off point for deeper exploration of the man's thoughts and feelings about a particular moment in history. I also docked a few points for the multiple references to Republicans co-opting Douglass's rhetoric in the modern era. I'm all for an exploration of the man's legacy and how it echoes to today...but this was a bit too partisan for my taste.
fristar7406
I went thru this book like a 9 yr old thru Christmas gifts on Christmas day. It read so well and easily. M.Blight takes us on this thoroughly researched life and analyses the society surrounding the character. Therefore we can understand a little more but more importantly we can feel the era, the context in which his life took place. Contrary to some other biographers M.Blight doesn't fall in the 'context trap' when other authors can go in to deep, then we lose contact with the main subject and the tempo is lost as well. Definitely not here. Up there with the best Biographies!!!
scottjpearson
Why should one read this almost 900-page biography of this American hero? Douglass penned several autobiographies of his own. Why is this work needed and important enough to be read in its entirety?
First, the writing and depth of research are marvelous. Blight considers and presents detailed arguments about the finer points of Douglass' life. Each chapter is replete with scores of endnotes for further reading.
Second, the topic is timely, especially to America. Race is still an issue that haunts us. The nineteenth century – Douglass' century – was haunted by slavery. The twentieth century was haunted by racial inequity. The twenty-first century saw its first black president followed by an openly racist president. Douglass' struggle continues. It continued immediately through Booker Washington and W.E.B. DuBois, and it follows us to this day. Douglass' yearning for freedom connects with the Hebrew prophets and connects today with all of those who question whether today's social order is just and fair – whether America is living up to her grand ideals.
Third, this book is well-put together. Receiving the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for History, it has been exceptionally well-received by critics. It contains a pantheon of camera-pictures, artistic renderings, and daguerrotypes. Although we do not have any recordings of Douglass' voice (as the phonograph was coming into existence just before Douglass' death), copious presentations of the well-groomed Douglass alongside majestic texts of his speeches enliven the reader's imagination to hear this great man contemplate a new American order in booming oratory. All of these elements conspire to bring Douglass alive again – and so to bring his struggle to speak freedom into existence to the fore.
I write this review on the day after Congressman Elijah Cummings' death. Both Cummings and Douglass were born in Maryland. Both struggled for justice for their people and led journeys that expanded freedom's call for all humans. Save for Lincoln, no one represented freedom's call from slavery like Douglass did. His story, at least in my circles, is not told in all its grandiosity and particular splendor. This book communicates that in a way that allows us to see its common human struggle in contemporary life, all the way to Cummings' struggle.
I also write in the context of the American South, where many freely intertwine American conservatism and evangelical Christianity. Often, it is claimed, liberalism is God-less and denigrates the writ of Christian Scripture. To that accusation, a great liberal voice – the deep, liberal, Republican voice of Frederick Douglass – answers. Liberalism – that is, the call for universal human freedom in its many forms – is historically grounded in the call of the ancient Hebrew prophets. Indeed, as the title of this book intimates, Douglass' life represents a prophetic call. Though never a minister, he earned the title as "the Moses of American blacks." Privileged white preachers who want to hold onto an old order need to remember that Scripture points us to the impassioned suffering of Jesus Christ for our freedom. Like many (all?) slaves, Douglass, unjustly whipped by tyrannical white men, shared such stripes, and by such stripes – by recognizing the holiness of their call for freedom – we as Americans and as humans are healed.
That's why more people should read about Frederick Douglass, and that's why this 900-page book deserves your time.
Cjean
Simply an absolute must read! A massive eulogy to perhaps the most important man in African American history! Powerful read! This book is a treasure!!
rivkat_2
A somewhat distant portrait of Douglass, who wrote a lot but very little about his internal state after slavery, and who spent most of his time away from his family. His first wife, a free woman who came with him when he escaped slavery, was a homemaker who had to put up with having other women—professional colleagues, with no evidence that Douglass had any closer relationship to them than working with them on his newspaper/other endeavors, but other women nonetheless—traveling with him or living in her home. His second wife, after her death, was scandalously a white woman. Douglass spent a lot of time retelling his experiences under slavery, rewriting them and occasionally softening the treatment of particular white people while never forgiving the institution itself. He also spent a lot of time scrambling for money and feuding with other abolitionists. I wish there'd been a few more extensive quotes—we get "power concedes nothing without a demand" but nothing from "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"